Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Sergey Galkin was born in 1987, he enlisted into the Russian army in 2013. After watching you can understand why morale is really poor within Russian units.

It is easier to subdue a country like Ukraine where you don't have mountainous regions that modern armour and indeed aircraft find difficult to operate in.

What they do have is forests and you could revert back to WWII where you had partisans operating in Ukraine, Belarus, etc.

Of course they will have lost some of those forests in the interveening years.

As example the two high profile wars where the US ultimately had to give in were in Afghanistan (very mountainous harsh terrain and little infrastructure with very dedicated enemy) and Vietnam (mountainous, jungle with not much infrastructure and very very dedicated well led enemy).

For all their technology and firepower it is hard to hit an enemy when you can't find them.

The one area where the Ukrainians can cause Russia problems is in the cities much like what the Chechens did.

Anyone know what has been happening in Cyprus ?

It is majorily involved in the money merry-go-round that involves Putin's wallet and the oligarchs/Putins inner circle.

Have they shut down their operations in the country or did they chicken out like with the bank bailout ?

Likewise those Swiss fookers are up to their necks in moving around their funds, and no small wonder his other half and the kids are hiding out there.

I wonder has anyone thought about nabbing them ?

Right so this is your response to my pointing out that Russia has broken an international agreement on several occasions, which was in response to your point about a Ukrainian President in 2004 saying that NATO wasn't in their plans (no agreement, no contractual obligation here).

What on earth are you rambling on about?

Invading countries is hungry work

Attacking Russian soil in any way would only give Russia more of an "excuse". It's unlikely Putin will use chemical weapons, rather manufacture an incident where chemical weapons are used by the Ukrainians. NATO can't get involved militarily unfortunately, that's WW3.

Interesting possible insight into this

China’s president Xi Jinping is “unsettled” by the Russian invasion of Ukraine because “his own intelligence doesn’t appear to have told him what was going to happen,” according to CIA director Bill Burns.

Speaking to the US senate intelligence committee today, Burns said Xi was concerned about the “reputational damage” that China could suffer by association with the “ugliness” of Russia’s aggression in Ukraine.

President Xi is probably a little bit unsettled as he watches the way in which President Putin has driven Americans and Europeans more closely together and strengthen the Transatlantic alliance in ways that would have been a little bit hard to imagine before the invasion began.

They bombed a hospital. You have your doubts any civilians were killed. Oh its terrible is it. Spare us the lies and crocodile tears.

WHO have confirmed 18 attacks on medical facilities.

18.

But no doubt you will be also along to deflect excuse or deny them too soon. All in the name of critical thinking aka russian propaganda. We still await your critical thinking ever being deployed on a critical way to Russia. You know those you are defending who started this war in the first step of its escalation and threaten to use WMDs. Not holding our breath.

No matter how low Russia go we can expect you to be there, critically thinking up your excuses.

I thought you lot would have copped on by now.

Shameful.