re: As of Today, Russia has lost 62% of the territory it captured during this war.

Your admitting Russia has taken over parts of Ukraine but at the same time down playing Russia. Where do you get the idea it’s easy to take over another country?

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Where do you get the idea it’s easy to take over another country?

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China took us over pretty easy. We have politicians eager to sell more and more.

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China took us over pretty easy.

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they bought their influence. $$ is behind it all. People get theirs and sell you out.

American society calls it "racist" to condemn China for anything.

keep wagging that dog

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When Russia returns all of its forces back to it's internationally recognized (aka the pre-2014) borders.

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A liberal, I see.

1. Wikipedia is not an appropriate source for this. Not only does it have a bad reputation in general, but that article is "protected" which means the US govt has told Wikipedia to let them or a "trusted expert" do the write-up. So it's propaganda by our government. That aside, these tallies on land mean nothing.

2. I will keep saying this, I guess, until people finally figure it out: Russia is kicking the shite out of Ukraine. This is not controversial and it should not trigger anyone. This is the expected result.

Every analyst on the planet predicted this. What they did not predict was Russia going in light, as they did. Typical Russian doctrinal approach is to be overwhelming at the outset and they completely abandoned that. Russia made a major mistake. They thought a fellow Slavic nation would come to its senses, rather than bow down to people like Victoria Nuland. Russia was wrong.

Nevertheless, Russia is beating Ukraine like a drum. I would argue that Russia is still very restrained, however.

3. Russian doctrine does not value territory as a primary objective. Every time I see people pre-occupied with territory, I know this person isn't serious about this stuff.

4. Here is some insight into Russian doctrine: hit the enemy where they are weak and use this like a snowball effect; use firepower to initiate maneuver, and to use maneuver to maximize firepower; focus on destroying the enemy not on territory; stay inside the enemy's OODA loop; emphasize planning and battlefield preparation; retain the initiative and exploit success continuously.

I think what we're seeing in Ukraine is the modern Russian equivalent of Attack in Depth.


So, again: They focus on the enemy fighting force, not the terrain.

The Ukrainian fighting force is getting crushed right now.

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As of Today, Russia has lost 62% of the territory it captured during this war.

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Russia's main objective is to totally defeat the Ukrainian military and present regime that has been killing ethnic Russians for the past 8-9 years in the eastern part of Ukraine.

Humanitarian assistance.

Goober.

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the U.S. government has provided nearly $15.7 billion in humanitarian assistance since the start of the 11-year Syrian crisis

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That’s a drop in the bucket compared to what we’ve given Ukraine in less than a year.

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That’s a drop in the bucket compared to what we’ve given Ukraine in less than a year.

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Its not military aid. He's a fricking moron.

We give humanitarian aide to a lot of nations.