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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
Posted on 3/1/26 at 5:47 am to Coeur du Tigre
Posted on 3/1/26 at 5:47 am to Coeur du Tigre
5406 individual Russian troops died on published video in February. That's a crazy number.
The loss of Starlink had a profound effect on Russian operations, enabled Ukraine to retake territory in some areas, and brought the conflict back to close to a state of stalemate.
Russia still has the overall initiative, they will adapt to the loss of Starlink, and they have a spring offensive planned that will undoubtedly result in the capture of additional Ukrainian territory.
But the pace of Russian advance has been dramatically slowed. From a Ukrainian perspective, the situation is stabilizing.
The loss of Starlink had a profound effect on Russian operations, enabled Ukraine to retake territory in some areas, and brought the conflict back to close to a state of stalemate.
Russia still has the overall initiative, they will adapt to the loss of Starlink, and they have a spring offensive planned that will undoubtedly result in the capture of additional Ukrainian territory.
But the pace of Russian advance has been dramatically slowed. From a Ukrainian perspective, the situation is stabilizing.
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Posted on 3/1/26 at 6:33 am to GOP_Tiger
Posted on 3/1/26 at 12:21 pm to Coeur du Tigre
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If tweet fails to load, click here. Ukraine has survived the winter, and Russia has yet again wasted its attempts to destroy Ukrainian civil infrastructure.
Posted on 3/1/26 at 3:03 pm to GOP_Tiger
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5406 individual Russian troops died on published video in February.
Have you checked with Texag on this to verify it's correct before posting?
Posted on 3/1/26 at 3:13 pm to Coeur du Tigre
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I never thought Putin would be so stupid as to actually trigger an Article 5 response. But as he is and has been isolated from much of the military reality in this war, stupidity abounds.
If it comes to an open fight with the FSB over Russian hearts and minds due to full conscription in St. Petersburg and Moscow, plus the economy and the goring of the siloviki, both sides will resort to major frickery. In that circumstance, Putin wagging the dog in the Baltics has to be considered a possibility.
The thinking would be a short cross-border incursion with a quick withdrawal would serve his purposes of enforcing his position as leader of the motherland against NATO without the long-term entanglements. Did I mention stupidity?.
The Poles would not wait for the NATO decision but interpret and declare this as a direct attack on their sovereignty and cross the border with both Lithuania and Ukraine.
I'm no Jake Sullivan fan, but this was exactly what he was worried about. But the Russia he was concerned with is not what we see today. Polish air power and ground forces streaming into Ukraine would be a 'Lafayette, We Are Here' moment and no one would stop at the Russian border.
At that point, Putin would be finished.
Putin moved a bunch of his tactical nukes to Belarus about 3 years ago... and everyone assumed that was directed at Poland.
Posted on 3/1/26 at 3:44 pm to Lee B
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If tweet fails to load, click here. Maybe that explains Putin’s reversal on American security guarantees.
Posted on 3/1/26 at 5:20 pm to CitizenK
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The noose tightens around Venezuela, Cuba about fold as well as Iran.
Trump will try his hardest to rescue Russia.
FIFY
Posted on 3/1/26 at 5:20 pm to WeeWee
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This could be a breakthrough on the diplomatic front if true. Wonder if Ukraine's counteroffensive is straining Russia more than is being reported> IMO there is no way Russia allows the USA to protect Ukraine like we protect Israel if his military isn't about to crap out on him.
It could be that his army is about to crack. Vagner nearly marched to Moscow and there wasn't much for resistance even then. Putin put his foot deep into the honey pot at great cost to Russia's future.
Posted on 3/1/26 at 5:23 pm to WeeWee
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This could be a breakthrough on the diplomatic front if true. Wonder if Ukraine's counteroffensive is straining Russia more than is being reported> IMO there is no way Russia allows the USA to protect Ukraine like we protect Israel if his military isn't about to crap out on him.
Unless he believes the US would renege on the security guarantees... which I would believe if Trump is still in office.
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Posted on 3/1/26 at 5:25 pm to Tigris
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We guaranteed Ukraine's security in the 1994 Bucharest Memorandum. Why would our security guarantee mean anything now?
exactly!
Posted on 3/1/26 at 5:30 pm to Lee B
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Trump will try his hardest to rescue Russia.
As he destroys Iran who helps Russia.
You people are deranged.
Posted on 3/1/26 at 9:48 pm to texag7
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If tweet fails to load, click here. Another example of big of a POS the Russian government is.
Posted on 3/1/26 at 9:52 pm to Lee B
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FIFY
Wrong. Go protest for the Islamic Republic already.
Russia and China lost face in Venezuela and MONEY. Russia has had Cuba as a thorn in our side for 65 years. It actually can be used to block shipments to a from the Gulf Coast. That is reality.
Russia lost face last summer when its S300's were of no defense against F35's of Israel. the last few days S400's haven't done anything. I don't know who owes who money but that money is lost to Russia. We are also making some economic development moves in a nation formerly allied with Russia.
Europe is finally paying its way, a YUGE success of Trump. All the ranting about not supporting NATO was over that.
Try harder Bubba
Posted on 3/1/26 at 11:38 pm to CitizenK
Posted on 3/1/26 at 11:54 pm to Coeur du Tigre
Third video is definitely Bavovna of the Week ©. Fuel oil dock at Black Sea oil port of Novorossiysk.
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Posted on 3/2/26 at 12:05 am to Coeur du Tigre
Posted on 3/2/26 at 12:39 am to Coeur du Tigre
Hungarians want to kick Viktor Orban out of power. Is he planning a coup to stop them?
Very good article from a former member of the Hungarian Parliament.
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That [Orban] seems to be preparing a coup is increasingly understood in Budapest and in the region. He has already set the stage, by conjuring up an imagined threat from Ukraine. On February 7, he stated that “Ukraine is our enemy”. Then this week, as the gap in the polls between his party and the new Tisza party widened, he went further, ordering the army to key energy infrastructure facilities. It seems that Orbán could be intending to blame Ukraine for some form of incident, despite zero evidence for such an outrageous claim.
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The Fidesz propaganda machine can magnify any incident, including a manufactured one, into a national trauma within a few hours. In such a situation, the danger of them staging or deliberately exploiting a “security crisis” before the April elections is very real, whether in Transcarpathia or somewhere along the Hungarian-Ukrainian border.
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Orbán is also converting every EU decision into a backdrop for his own re-election campaign. Some in the EU still talk about his vetoes as if they were just bargaining chips: he will go along for a little more money or a few favours. The picture is darker than that. Each Orbán veto over the EU serves three purposes at once:
It sends a message to his core voters that he “defends Hungary against Europe”; It maintains a phony “war or peace” narrative, smearing the opposition as somehow ”favouring war.” And it placates Moscow and Washington by making Orbán the single person who can paralyse the decisions of a 27-member union.
For Putin, every Hungarian veto in Brussels is a treasure, because it buys him time, divides the EU, and sends the message that there is someone within Europe who is working to undermine European defence. For Trump, Orbán is both a model and a wedge: a model for how to turn an EU member state into a one-party state, and a wedge to divide the EU on sanctions, defence, and the rule of law. The Hungarian prime minister is also living proof that it’s possible to hollow out a democracy from within while maintaining the barest trappings of elections.
Very good article from a former member of the Hungarian Parliament.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 8:01 am to Coeur du Tigre
Posted on 3/2/26 at 10:33 am to Coeur du Tigre
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