Russia

You're living in a different world. He's hell-bent on taking over Ukraine. Why didn't he mobilize the whole nation and declare war? Why haven't you ever addressed this? What's he waiting for since you guys think he wants to annex entire countries past Ukraine? 

Then he'll have a million men or more and he'll take out the Ukrainians? I don't think Putin wants all-out war with Ukraine to rule it in the end, his main goals seem to be what he said on TV before the invasion. His army has set a goal to take Donbas and Lugansk. Now if you say he wants a friendly government to Russia inside Ukraine, then I'm with you there, but I don't see a war plan for the full takeover here at all. It would require a full declaration of war. You guys totally ignore that..  

Ukraine has mobilized the entire country for war. Russia hasn't. It's impressive that the Russians are gaining a foothold in the east despite all odds. In April, Ukraine probably had a 3-1 advantage on the ground. They had 300,000 men/women before the war started and probably doubled that in the months following the war. Hard to receive accurate numbers from the Ukraine army though. Ukraine's losses aren't accurate since Russia only has 200,000 soldiers. So how could the Russians push them back if only 8000 were killed? It's not surprising Ukraine lies about a lot of stuff. 

They wouldn't be fighting for the country they faced up to some realities that Russia would never accept them joining Nato and trying to take back Donbas and Lugansk by military ways was never going to work. Completely ignore that Putin tried to reason with the west before he invaded and he got threatened instead. Diplomacy like this is what caused this war and now threatens a third world war. It's all rhetoric from your kind till it's all too late and Russia decides the west is gone too far and major war breaks out across Europe with everyone behind the computer talking tough right now will be killed. They don't even know that Russia decides the fate of this planet here since they seem so blind to the fact that these weapons are killing Russian soldiers in another country, which would be considered an act of war by most nations!!! 

People in another thread think it's the 1940s, so they poke the bear with a stick and there are no consequences. If Russia strikes back at a Nato installation everyone will be **** their pants and worried, right? Let's hope the new missile systems avoid hitting Russia. West don't think that far ahead. So you end up with Putin invading 

Widely regarded as heroes with nazi tattoos??? That shows where you're coming from. I wouldn't call hiding deep underground impressive. Why didn't the Neo Nazis fight back instead of hiding? There is no helping you actually believe Azov are war heroes you're the same people be supporting the SS in Germany, lived there back then.   

Ukraine was never a country until 1991. Part of the Soviet Union ( Russia) for most of its history in the 20th century. The only reason it's a war is that the younger generation has forgotten their history and wants to rebuild the state on some crazy ideology based on Banderism. Zelensky can't control it because he let it fester too long, and now the neo nazis are running things. Despite banning left and right parties' opposition, he allowed one nationalist/neo nazi party to stay. So in this conspiracy theory, can't call out neo/nazis around the world? I just see that Russia has a point that there's a lot of white nationalism going on in Ukraine and is very dangerous. When has Moscow had a white nationalism/neo nazi flag march? I could go on google and pull down images that show neo nazis marching through the city center of Kyiv. Because they hate the Russians so much, they ignore all the bad here, 

Western intelligence hasn't been good, partly because they wanted to keep the war going. I think some of the intelligence is deliberate misdirection. 

Anyhow. In April and May, the UK MOD and US DOD said Ukraine won the east, supplies were depleted, Russian forces were demoralized, refusing to fight, and morale was low. and they have no cruise missiles left ( march story), the stories are endless, of course, none of this is true. A demoralized army doesn't win battles. There are even stories that Putin, as depicted on television, is not real and is already deceased. Seen some real crap stories about Russia that dont make sense. 

Back in March, I read these stories. Here's one from April 4.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/putin-running-out-missiles-jets-26627647

Anyone who knows anything about Russia knows it has own military industrial complex so they can make and import missiles parts on the fly from its allies like Iran and China and others. 

Now that we're in June, when do the Russians start running out of jets tanks, and missiles? There are more stories like this on US and UK official websites, but I didn't save them to show how ridiculous it all gets. Just for laughs, maybe I should.  

Comparing Hells Angels to Azovs / Neo Nazis. Do not enter their bars and say that!!

BTGs weren't held back, they were on top of where people lived, And many redeployed weeks before the surrender. 

 The Azov and Ukrainian marines hid underground and hid until they ran out of food, water, and medicine. there was barely any resistance at all. Your kind of outlook fought bare-fisted to the end, and fought street to street. That's funny, but knowing you're delusional about other things, it's not surprising. 

Running out of cruise missiles because of Ukraine shouldnt Russia have depleted the supplies since the war started in Feb?

 June now. 

This is too much for you, this newspaper headline is 2 months old and it's still fighting

 Of course, the context doesn't make any sense but that what the report was saying Russia was running out of cruise missiles two months ago. When is this going to happen here? You running out of cruise missiles in March and early April then your stock levels are drastically low at that time. 

I've been reading these reports online for months and nothing's changed, so this is just one report, countless others. No sign at all Russia is running out of missiles. If the newspaper shock headline is correct, they should be no cruise missile strikes at all here.

Looks like ISW got itself in trouble listening to Ukraine bullshit stories about laying a trap for Russian forces inside Severodonetsk. Backtracking is great, the comments from the idiots are gold.

ISW knows they got lied to, but they're using language to avoid telling the truth about what they found out.

The Ukrainian flag supporters comments are gold

If you believe everything that they say on the other side, Russia should have run out of missiles in March. But for some reason it didn't end," Borisov said to Interfax. 

What exactly am I apologizing for? The Russians are making fun of western statements about their missile inventory, and a specific month was even given.  

It's been a rough couple of weeks for ISW, but glad a lot of people see through the bullshit now. Took long enough!!!!!

Comedy gold again.

There's no evidence in the last 100 years of history Russia would be defeated in a quick war, so I think it'll be a tough fight.

Since 1945, the US army hasn't really fought a high-tech army. When they encountered peasant armies the superior US army looked flat. They left Saigon in a hurry and gave up to the Viet Cong, and in the Korean War, the Chinese peasant army drove them out of North Korea. 

Since Saddam's army ran off, the American army is pretty much untested for decades. Fighting poor Arabs in the middle east isn't really testing your army for battles. It's hard for the other side to hit back successfully when your uniform is a piece of cloth and the only real weapon you have is an AK-47 and RPG. Hollywood war movies isn't the reality of how prepared Nato would be here!!

What is ignored about Ukraine. Their armed forces are huge, they have more tanks, missiles, and anti-aircraft systems than most EU countries The morale was high in the first weeks and months of the war, and it's a large country that is very urban, there aren't long stretches of open wasteland. Just travel 50km to 70km and you'll see villages, towns, and cities everywhere. Not really surprising that there's a hard fight from one area to the next. Ukraine has been building up its defenses since 2014. It's not like there's been peace either. In spite of the entire Nato watching its back, Russia seems to have been able to move its forces into advantageous positions now. Yes, there is no evidence to claim Nato would beat Russia. 

Russia's red line was over Ukraine and got ignored by the west. What happens next the war will end, war won by the Russian side or treaty Ukraine gives up land.. It's a future without complications though. 

There's a lot of uncertainty here since the west has declared an unofficial war on Russia. Putin has every right to declare war on the west since they're arming a foreign power to kill Russians. Since Putin has some control left over his anger and rage nothing resembling WW3 started yet . Looking at those clowns at G7 they could drag us into WW3.

Brics is 3.7 billion people and growing- the G7/west is 700 million. Since the crisis, Putin has outplayed the west. They tried to crash the Russian economy, but the ruble actually grew. Rapid inflation and talk of an imminent recession is what is going on inside the EU. I actually brought this point up in ano her thread months ago and was disbelieved now we seeing it the inflation and economies in the EU worried about a recession and energy and cost of living.. 

 West has driven emerging nations to side with Russia and China. They thought all the actions were good , but backfired on them massively.. 

Punched through a gap that wasn't well defended. Keep going, they kept going. There's a stall now around Izyum. Russians have reacted and brought in reinforcements. In a few days, this offensive will stall. They had to go on counteroffensive to justify all these billons send to them by US military complex. Everything will grind to a halt soon, just like Kherson. Ukraine is losing a lot of youth on a massive scale. Russia hasnt even used its main army here full of contract soldiers and DNR and LPR fighters. Russia views this fight as a special operation and not a full-scale conflict. Even with all the nonsense in west Russia has brought its full capabilities to the battle. Total war by Russia be WW2 scale of destruction..