Russia - threadbanned users in OP

I wouldn't be surprised if these successful strikes against Russian formations are based on US satellite or signals intel fresh out of the oven. Artillery needs to be directed by a spotter on the ground, in the air, or else very precise knowledge of the target's location. Unless it's true that the Sovxxx Russians are using insecure communications and the Ukrainians are doing the triangulation themselves.

The Chechens are putting a lot forward for the Russians. Things are not all roses for Kadyrov in Chechnya. There are still a lot of folks that want him removed/killed.

If you were Mujahedeen in the Caucasus, now would be a pretty sweet time to kick up a fuss.

America was actively in an antagonistic war with Russia when they were interfering with central and south America. They were fighting proxy wars against each other for decades. NATO has never been at war with Russia or instigated proxy wars between them.

Flip that argument over, why should Romania and Poland have to have Russian aggression right up to their borders after a takeover of Ukraine? Are their security concerns of less relevance than old, decrepit Russia? Russia is a lost power, it has no right to dictate how surrounding countries organise their own defence. They also have NATO in Latvia, Poland and Estonia already. So any idea that they are only pre-empting NATO aggression is a false premise for this war. It's partly a desire to return to the USSR glory days, partly to avoid the embarrassment of a democratic, capitalist economy outperforming Russia and causing other parts of the federation to look west rather than to Moscow. It's also partly to secure the recently discovered natural resources off the coast of Ukraine.

Would love to see that prick with a bullet or 50 through his skull. Would be nice if the Americans had some intelligence on him so he could get what’s coming to him soon

People also willfully ignore the fact that Hitler was not the architect of the death camps that defined the nazis extremely brutality. That gem was the brainchild of that other utter sh1t Himmler. In fact the entire Nazi machine was the extremely unfortunate coincidence of some of the most evil people in history co-existing in the same country and with similar political views. Hitler, himmler and goebels all brought unique elements of evil to the mechanics of the nazi movement. Putin doesn't have that around him. He's far more isolationist and even more dictatorial than Hitler.

I'm not arguing whether Hitler was worse or better. I'm merely pointing out that their MO is similar. Too similar to ignore and pass off as lazy analysis. As I said in my other post, Hitlers level of evil was expanded due to company he kept. A true perfect storm.

I suspect that tens of millions of Russians probably oppose the war, especially those aged under 30, but given that they are living in a dictatorship and a police state, it's very difficult to air their opinion publicly.

And those who do live in fear of consequences that may have a drastic effect on their lives.

That’s basically the plot of Oliver Stones JFK

I believe the explanation went something like:

Russia's most modern cryptographic communications equipment is both not widely available but more crucially operates using 4G mobile networks. Russia has been actively targeting 4G mobile network infrastructure as it moves through Ukraine; ergo lack of 4G coverage and no secure communications in certain areas.

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Russians have a tendency to disengage from politics they remind me a little of the Chinese in that regard. They philosophize but they don't politicize.

Your point might have some merit in a country with a working civil society, but that is just not the case in Russia. For most of the country's history, the type of political discourse and the resulting protest culture we have here in the west just didn't exist in Russia, any groups that did speak up usually ended up dealing with the business end of a sabre or later a gun. The only short periods where this type of protest was possible was during periods of weakness in the central regime (1905, 1917-1922, 1990s, to name a few) and those periods often coincided with massive economical hardship, so there is no real positive association with protesting either. This may come across as arrogant, but the Russian people have been beaten into submission to a certain degree by centuries of strong oppressive central governments. They will not rise up en masse until their backs are well and truly against the wall.