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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
Posted on 4/10/26 at 1:58 pm to VolSquatch
Posted on 4/10/26 at 1:58 pm to VolSquatch
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foremost military power in the world
He should get back to us when they have a Navy, Air Force, Space Force, and have a MIC capable of designing and building a 6th-gen fighter. They are very seasoned at fighting the Russians, but that's not even really a good comparison to going against the US military.
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Posted on 4/10/26 at 4:20 pm to Leopold
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This is the closest to having actual peace talks since the war began but it's still sus. With the Ukrainians lead in drone technology now openly dominating the battlefield - even the Russians state they are destroying their logistics and can't even get their soldiers to the front lines - and the threat of his allies in Hungary and the US threatening to lose power, Putin has got to be looking for options.
FTR, USMC Vet friend who was in Trump's 2016 campaign called these peace talks last Friday. Just saying.
Posted on 4/10/26 at 10:23 pm to CitizenK
The wind is blowing in the Ukraine direction as Russia struggles to man up.
ISW Russian problems
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Key Takeaways
The Kremlin unilaterally declared a short-term, theater-wide ceasefire over the Orthodox Easter holiday.
Russian forces are prioritizing offensive operations in the Hulyaipole direction over defending against Ukrainian counterattacks in the Oleksandrivka direction but are not making significant advances west of Hulyaipole despite this prioritization.
Russian forces are reportedly pulling from their strategic reserves to reinforce their efforts in Ukraine, but do not appear to be using these reserves to reinforce their identified priority effort in Donetsk Oblast.
The Kremlin continues to intensify the throttling of Telegram.
Ukrainian forces advanced in the Kupyansk, Slovyansk, Pokrovsk, and Hulyaipole directions.
Russian forces launched 128 long-range strike drones against Ukraine.
ISW Russian problems
Posted on 4/10/26 at 11:07 pm to doubleb
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The wind is blowing in the Ukraine direction as Russia struggles to man up.
I have often said in the past that this is a war of attrition so this is not a personal attack but:
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'Wars are not won without people,' Budanov says of Ukraine's mobilization crisis
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Speaking in an interview with Ukrinform published on April 10, Budanov said Ukrainian society faces a "huge, enormous problem" in reconciling its public support for victory with reluctance to serve.
"On the one hand, everyone says we must fight until victory — and on the other hand, everyone is running away from mobilization. And all of this is happening at the same time. This is a huge, enormous problem," he said.
Budanov stressed that Ukraine's war effort ultimately depends on manpower, dismissing the idea that technology alone can secure victory.
"Wars are not won without people. Without people, wars are lost, that does happen. But winning without people — that simply doesn't exist," he said.
Kyiv independent
I'm going to stress this part:
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dismissing the idea that technology alone can secure victory.
Drones alone will not win this war for either side.
Posted on 4/10/26 at 11:16 pm to DMAN1968
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Drones alone will not win this war for either side.
No doubt, but they are effectively causing a lot of issues with Rusdian advances and along with their longer ranged strikes they are putting the Rusdian economy in a lot of stress.
Russia like Ukraine is having manpower issues and economic issues.
Four years ago no one gave Ukraine much of a chance, but since the initial invasion took a lot of Ukraine Russia has done very little to vanquish Ukraine.
Posted on 4/11/26 at 2:19 am to doubleb
Tomorrow's the day. The discussion now is not if the opposition wins, but by how much.
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America First! No more American tax dollars sents to Eurotrash shitholes!
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Posted on 4/11/26 at 8:06 am to doubleb
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Russia like Ukraine is having manpower issues
Implying their manpower issues are comparable is cope
Posted on 4/11/26 at 9:43 am to Coeur du Tigre
I always love when eurotards talk about any elected leader who is right of Fidel Castro "rigging elections" but then inevitably they end up losing eventually. Must not be too good at rigging them
Posted on 4/11/26 at 10:53 am to VolSquatch
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I always love when eurotards talk about any elected leader who is right of Fidel Castro "rigging elections" but then inevitably they end up losing eventually. Must not be too good at rigging them
On the vast majority of issues, far right Eurotrash are the same as Dems in the USA.
Poland has the same stance on immigration and societal gender issues that Hungary has but isn't as corrupt as Hungary. Trump doesn't do anything without a reason and the vast majority of the time his reasoning isn't obvious to the clueless media and its lackeys or even the public
Posted on 4/11/26 at 11:11 am to VolSquatch
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Implying their manpower issues are comparable is cope
Ignoring Russia’s manpower issues is self-serving.
The onus is on Russia is to do something to change the tide of the war. Over a million men in action with your infrastructure being ravaged can’t go on for years and not cause issues.
Russia will have to bring more might to bear in order to force Ukraine to surrender, and right now and in the short term they can not.
Posted on 4/11/26 at 12:37 pm to doubleb
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Ignoring Russia’s manpower issues is self-serving.
Not comparable =/= Russia has no issues
Posted on 4/11/26 at 12:39 pm to VolSquatch
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I always love when eurotards talk about any elected leader who is right of Fidel Castro "rigging elections" but then inevitably they end up losing eventually. Must not be too good at rigging them
We had an example here recently of Stalin rigging elections but when it didn't work he just used force, and that was offered as proof that he always rigged elections... so?
And he did rig elections, after he stopped getting the desired result with plausible deniability and just putting thumbs on the scale, he completely eliminated the possibility of the opposition running.
Orban has rigged the Hungarian electorate in his favor, but time has caught up to him as things have shifted and he's lost popularity. So now he'd have to go full Putin and get a result that no one believes, which would cause a rebellion.
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Posted on 4/11/26 at 12:54 pm to doubleb
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Ignoring Russia’s manpower issues is self-serving.
The onus is on Russia is to do something to change the tide of the war. Over a million men in action with your infrastructure being ravaged can’t go on for years and not cause issues.
Russia will have to bring more might to bear in order to force Ukraine to surrender, and right now and in the short term they can not.
Russia has the bodies... but as those bodies pile up they create a domestic political problem because of it. They went through this in Afghanistan in the 80s, hosted by the Afghan Socialist government in power and fighting a CIA-backed Mujahedin-led Civil War, with much lower casualties and drawing from the entire Soviet Empire's population... and it helped topple the Soviet government for a leader who had nothing to do with that decision
Putin' gambit is that unlike the “weak Democracies of the West,” whose electorates punish their leaders for wars, he doesn't answer to the Russian public and they just have to put up with it. Quite an experiment he has going on here to find that limit.
Posted on 4/11/26 at 12:59 pm to VolSquatch
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Not comparable =/= Russia has no issues
Like I said, self-serving.
Posted on 4/11/26 at 1:03 pm to Lee B
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We had an example here recently of Stalin rigging elections but when it didn't work he just used force, and that was offered as proof that he always rigged elections... so?
A statement was made that the governments of Eastern Europe were ALL elected democratically. That was disproven. Then you pointed out Hungary had a democratic election and I pointed out that the government that took control was put in by tanks.
You initial post was wrong.
Posted on 4/11/26 at 1:06 pm to Lee B
MSN: Ukraine just made the Abrams M1 tank unstoppable… now even US wants this upgrade
When Ukraine received M-1 Abrams tanks from the U.S. and Australia, nobody could have seen what would come next. There have been upgrades aplenty, and Ukraine has made the M-1 unstoppable. Turtle tanks? More like an unrelenting force through upgrades that have turned the M-1 into a beast that Russia can’t handle. Ukraine’s upgraded tanks are out of this world, and even the U.S. will be sniffing around for the upgrades, which counter drones in a way never seen before. Ukraine’s transformation of the M-1 Abrams into a turtle tank that can actually operate as both a tank and a defensive force against drones is nothing short of remarkable, and you’ll be finding out just how useful these tanks have been in the southern counteroffensive soon.
When Ukraine received M-1 Abrams tanks from the U.S. and Australia, nobody could have seen what would come next. There have been upgrades aplenty, and Ukraine has made the M-1 unstoppable. Turtle tanks? More like an unrelenting force through upgrades that have turned the M-1 into a beast that Russia can’t handle. Ukraine’s upgraded tanks are out of this world, and even the U.S. will be sniffing around for the upgrades, which counter drones in a way never seen before. Ukraine’s transformation of the M-1 Abrams into a turtle tank that can actually operate as both a tank and a defensive force against drones is nothing short of remarkable, and you’ll be finding out just how useful these tanks have been in the southern counteroffensive soon.
Posted on 4/11/26 at 1:17 pm to doubleb
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A statement was made that the governments of Eastern Europe were ALL elected democratically. That was disproven. Then you pointed out Hungary had a democratic election and I pointed out that the government that took control was put in by tanks.
You initial post was wrong.
And I admitted I had made an incorrect statement... and I never said "all," I said "mostly," and that was an incorrect statement. I admitted that...
The point of all of that, and the historical fact, is that Marxism/Communism had been an active political force in Europe since the mid-1800s when it emerged, because the economies and governments created an angry underclass. As WWII ended and we realized our new enemy was the Soviets, we had to undermine the appeal of that in Western Europe to create a security buffer zone to stop the Soviets from getting to the Atlantic coast of Europe. We did that by allowing the expansion of Social spending in Western European countries, so the Communist parties had no pitch to make to the public. We didn't do that in Eastern Europe... we didn't care, on one level, but we'd also ceded those countries in a sense to the Russians for liberating them... we didn't want to fight another hot war over them. Eastern Germany was a different deal, they wanted the population to understand they were captured (and moved lots of them to other countries)... but the more legitimate a population felt their Soviet identity was, the less resistance and the better. Look at the countries where they outright forced it... like Hungary and Poland, where they did have resistance for the rest of the Soviet era, necessitating violent crackdowns, which in turn fed more resistance.
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