re: Russia on verge of biggest gain in Ukraine since summer

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I’m frail because I don’t think

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That about sums it up.

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Says the person who buys into fearmongering over Russian tsunami-nukes...

But now that I think about it, Moscow has stated those things so I’m sure you bought it lock, stock and barrel. After all, anything Moscow says is total truth to NC_Tigah.

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Since TTBOMK Moscow's only statement is they possess the weapon, I suppose its existence is what you're calling to question.

So here's a non-Moscow assessment of the weapon and its capability. This has been posted before of course. But since you've chosen to be exceedingly stupid here, I'll post it in picture form to aid with your comprehension.


Welcome to 5yrs ago

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Three more days and they will be in Kiev, world's greatest army

We’ve been hearing this since April.

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Where the hell has CT been all this time

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after capturing Ukraine?

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Well that clearly isn't happening. Russia has a hell of a mess on its hands. Their goal to gain a teritorial buffer strip along their western border seems to be in the toilet.

The confounding variable is air superiority, or lack of it. Without it, I think Russia gains what they can in the Donbass and southern Dnieper/Canal region and calls it a day.

The question in the aftermath is what NATO does.

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Well that clearly isn't happening. Russia has a hell of a mess on its hands.

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Well let’s say they did easily capture Ukraine. What was their long term goal? I’m still confused about their motivation for the invasion.

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I’m still confused about their motivation for the invasion.

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So are others on this board.

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• Russia views NATO as its enemy (with some justification)

• Invasions of Russia by enemies have been extremely costly to Russia. Each came through Ukraine which took time, and allowed Russia to defend itself.

• The WWII German invasion cost the USSR 23 million lives. That's about 10,000-fold US deaths at Pearl Harbor. Sort of a perspective-setter.

• Now NATO wants into Ukraine, and Ukraine wants to play pattycake with NATO.

• Russia considers NATO in Ukraine a threat to its national security.

• Nonetheless, Biden and Zelensky renewed very public Ukraine-to-NATO discussions.

• Rather than allow Ukraine-to-NATO, Russia invaded, likely with hopes of securing a wide swath of eastern Ukraine as a vassal buffer between Ukraine-NATO and Russia. That didn't work out. So no we have a stalemate with Russia far short of its objectives, but occupying extensive Ukrainian territory nonetheless.