re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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Roughly 700,000 Russian troops in three zones are getting ready to roll across the border and unleash hell on Ukraine. Putin is expected to give a major speech soon, detailing how the Washington deep state has been controlling Ukraine for its own nefarious purposes.

Potentially 3.5 billion people will hear the speech, rumored to touch on Joe and Hunter's corrupt activities, NATO malice, evidence of bioweapons research, possibly even a clandestine Pentagon nuclear weapons program in Ukraine.

We've already witnessed just how far the U.S. is willing to go with its anti-Russia, anti-EU agenda, when it brazenly sabotaged a $12bn joint Russian-German pipeline, so a clandestine Pentagon nuke program is within the realm of possibility.

The US/UK/NATO thought it was great sport to exploit Ukraine and turn it into a threat against Russia, with the objective of regime change and dismemberment, but they are only achieving the destruction of Ukraine, and by extension the destruction of NATO.

NATO's reputation and credibility are forever shot, and its capabilities exposed as a paper tiger.

Ukraine is Darwinism on the state level... I dub it FAFO Darwinism.

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Sounds like the target audience is the American right wing. I wonder when (if ever) the right wing will perceive that it is being used by Russia to aid Russia's empire building aspirations.

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Western allies will not be able to supply Ukraine with two full battalions of Leopard 2 tanks as they previously promised, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said on Feb. 15, according to Bloomberg.

Only Germany and Portugal promised to send the A6 version of Leopard 2 battle tanks, with 14 pledged by Berlin and three by the Portuguese government, Pistorius told reporters after a meeting of NATO ministers in Brussels. "We will not reach the size of a battalion," he said.

A standard Ukrainian battalion consists of 31 tanks.

Meanwhile, Poland, along with Norway, Canada, Spain, and Finland, managed to put together a battalion of the older A4 model of Leopards, Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said, cited by Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.

However, according to Pistorius, many of these tanks are in poor condition and need repairs before they can be sent.

The battalion of Leopard 2A4 tanks will only arrive in Ukraine at the end of April, the minister added.

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So, if we want to get picky, Ben Wallace said that 97% of Russia's army is in Ukraine (and he probably as also including Russian border regions), but the WSJ used the word military instead, and while the Russian navy and air force do indeed forces in Ukraine, those numbers are much lower than 95%.

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The Kremlin continues to withdraw forces and military equipment from its northwesternmost borders with NATO to support the Russian war in Ukraine. The Head of the Norwegian Intelligence Service Nils Andreas Stensønes told The Barents Observer that Russian ground forces on the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia have been reduced to one-fifth of their initial strength numbers before the invasion of Ukraine.[55] Stensønes assessed that approximately three Russian battalion tactical groups (approximately 3,000 servicemen) stationed on the Kola Peninsula participated in the Russian invasion, of which up to half of their assigned personnel died in combat. Stensønes assessed that the Russian Northern Fleet has lost up to 100 tanks and armored personnel vehicles.[56] The Kremlin’s decision to deploy troops away from Russia’s borders closest to NATO supports ISW’s longtime assessment that the Kremlin is not concerned about a NATO conventional military threat against Russia.

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Roughly 700,000 Russian troops in three zones are getting ready to roll across the border and unleash hell on Ukraine. Putin is expected to give a major speech soon, detailing how the Washington deep state has been controlling Ukraine for its own nefarious purposes.

Potentially 3.5 billion people will hear the speech, rumored to touch on Joe and Hunter's corrupt activities, NATO malice, evidence of bioweapons research, possibly even a clandestine Pentagon nuclear weapons program in Ukraine.

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“As for France’s tepid contribution to the war effort, officials argue that, as continental Europe’s premier military power, Paris has other security responsibilities, namely defending Europe’s southern flank, and must retain some capacity.”

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