re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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Isn’t what’s happening in Ukraine proof of the retaliatory strength Trump and Obama had? It why Obama never was seen as likely to use it and why Biden only really did after war already started even after having gave to face with Putin at end of 2021 (if he stayed awake. Maybe Musk should give Biden one of the StayWoke shirts he found at Twitter HQ).

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Mainstream MAGA??? What % of MAGA voters do you consider to be mainstream compared to Biden voters?

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No different than after Russia involvement in Georgia became a 2008 election issue supporting almost 8 years of a Russian reset including making fun of concern about Russia, approving sale of uranium mine, caught on hot mic sending back channel message to Putin, weak sanctions for Ukraine invasions and Malaysian Air shoot down, looking other way at re-borderization in Georgia, treaty with Russia’s partner on crime Iran and paying them billions in cash, and giving stand down order stopping any retaliation for cyber attacks; and then supporting in 2016 turning them back into the evil empire and attempting to tie political opponent to a them after losing 2016 election.

Or not believing Russia or its state media unless it’s about them pushing that if Republicans had won both houses Russia would have used them as allies.

Or the party of peace constantly getting into wars.

I wonder how many Democrats would be so gung ho about spending so much money for war without their elites pushing fake Russia Trump collision.

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Just kind of goes to show you how much these soldiers are truly in the shite like no other we have seen around the world in a long time. This is a very dirty and personal war.

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Reports of poorly staffed, provisioned, and supplied Russian mobilized personnel are dividing the Russian information space, exposing the tension between milblogger mobilization narratives, Wagner Group narratives, and actual Russian efforts to alleviate morale issues.

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Russian milblogger responses split between calling for compassion for the mobilized personnel and punishment only for leadership, and punishment for the entire unit.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin falsely presented a meeting with 18 hand-picked women holding influential positions in the Russian political sphere as an open discussion with the mothers of mobilized personnel on November 25, two days before Russian Mother’s Day.[8]

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An investigation by Forbes’ Ukrainian service revealed the extent of the financial strains that the war in Ukraine has imposed on Russia’s annual budget. Forbes found that Russia has spent $82 billion dollars on the first nine months of the war in Ukraine, amounting to one quarter of its entire 2021 annual budget of $340 billion.[15] The investigation emphasized the impact that mobilization had on military-related expenditures since October and observed that providing for the 300,000 mobilized cost an additional $1.8 billion per month in addition to the increased costs of providing ammunition, equipment, and salaries to mobilized recruits, which in total amounted to a $2.7 billion increase following mobilization. ISW has previously reported on the detrimental effects of mobilization and the Kremlin’s overall war effort on the Russian federal budget.[16] In addition to the massive impact the first nine months of the war have had on the federal budget, ISW has also observed that local Russian administrations on the regional level have disproportionately borne the brunt of mobilization in a way that will continue to have reverberating social and financial impacts into 2023.[17]

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The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) may have increased the frequency of prisoner of war (POW) exchanges in an attempt to soothe discontent in the information space regarding its prior failures to negotiate the return of Russian POWs.

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A Ukrainian official confirmed that Ukrainian forces killed Iranian advisors in Russian-occupied Crimea in October and stressed that Ukraine would target any Iranian military presence on Ukrainian territory.

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Russian leadership may be distributing a document among Russian servicemembers stating that Russia needs to mobilize five million personnel to win the war in Ukraine, an impossible task for the Russian Federation.

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Key Takeaways

Reports of a group of understaffed and ill-supplied mobilized personnel are dividing the Russian information space.

President Vladimir Putin falsely presented a meeting with hand-picked women as an open discussion with mothers of mobilized personnel.

An investigation by Forbes’ Ukrainian service revealed that the war in Ukraine has had a serious financial impact on the Russian Federation’s annual budget.

The Russian MoD may have increased the frequency of POW exchanges to soothe discontent in the Russian information space.

A Ukrainian official confirmed that Ukrainian forces killed Iranian military advisors in Russian-occupied Crimea and threatened to target Iranian military presence on Ukrainian territory.

Russian military leadership may be circulating a document stating that Russia needs to mobilize five million personnel to win the war in Ukraine, which Russia cannot do.

Russian forces conducted limited counterattacks to regain lost positions northwest of Svatove and Russian sources claimed that Ukrainian forces continued counteroffensive operations toward Kreminna.

Russian forces continued to conduct offensive operations in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka areas, and influential Russian figures may be setting informational conditions to deflect blame for a lack of progress in the Bakhmut area.

Russian forces continued to establish defenses south of the Dnipro River in Kherson Oblast and around critical ground lines of communication (GLOCs) connecting Crimea to southern Kherson Oblast.

Russian sources and officials continue attempts to shape the narrative around a likely second partial mobilization while denying the potential for general mobilization.

Russian officials are continuing efforts to stimulate demographic change in occupied areas of Ukraine by deporting Ukrainian residents and replacing them with imported Russian citizens.

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So you're saying that you believe, and would have supported, Trump retaliating against Russia even stronger than Biden has?

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Some of you have become so obsessed with being an outsider that it's become difficult to speak with you... I mean "mainstream" within MAGA. In the same way that I might use "mainstream libertarian" to mean the majority libertarian position, not to mean that libertarians are mainstream.

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I have no idea what all of this babbling is about. Are you under the impression that I support Obama or something?

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It's just that all this is awkward and difficult, because Poland and Lithuania are so far from the front lines, and this kind of repair system leaves those guns out of action for a very long time while also putting yet another strain on Ukrainian logistics.

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And he apparently knows for a fact that Russia prefers Trump and was hoping for a red wave.

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Can you provide a link?

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