Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Putin promises any new recruits will be sent to the Finnish border. Where they will do absolutely nothing.

Ye definitely won't be sent to Ukraine. Join now. Get your money. Save that Lada for grandpa. I repeat ye definitely will not be sent to Ukraine. Of course your platoon leaders have the final say. But join. No definitely won’t be sent to Ukraine to die. You'll have a peaceful time on the Finnish border. Ye seen our wagnerites throwing sledgehammers at the Finnish consulate. You'll be just scaring the Finnish on the border.

I repeat definitely won’t be sent to Ukraine. Join and do your service now. Don't be thinking of revolution either. You're going for a handy time to the Finnish border. Definitely not Ukraine..

It won't be dragging on for 4 more years, putin hasn't got the manpower or the equipment and weapons to keep this up all the while losing thousands of soldiers a month in Ukraine,the Ukrainans are equipped, trained and motivated, unlike the poor unfortunates being pressganged into fighting for Putin who have feck all equipment, training or motivation to fight to the death in Ukraine,

Some believe they will pull off some miracle not seen since the days of William Wallace ,

But that's not going to happen with the Ukrainans,

Summer beers Crimea 2023 .

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They are using pretty much recently produced shells and missles which would suggest stocks are running low , even the mass missles attacks are slowing down,to a few a day ,they don't have an infinite supply of weapons,men and vehicles to keep fighting a war long term ,

They have lost over 8000 vehicles and a significant number of all of their tanks,and aircraft fleets , while ukraine is increasing their numbers of vehicles, tanks and aircraft,to bigger than pre invasion figures,

It's completely unheard of ,

But yet some are holding out for a Russian victory for whatever reason

Point out the pro Russian statements I have made, thanks.

someone does

You haven't asked me, but I'll answer anyway. Ukraine will have Crimea back under its sovereign control by April 30th.

I'm confident, because Russia is running quickly out of warfighting materials and even faster out of men interested in fighting for the fascist Putin and his cronies.

Would you make that a wager?

E20 to a Ukraine charity/military if you win.

E20 to the Irish guide dog charity if I lose.

I am more than happy to lose to either, but I would like to be proven correct.

No one is interested in a piece summit, as it's well known to be horde code for 'we get to keep this big piece here, while we lick our wounds and gear up for another go where will come back and attempt to take the remaining piece.'

Welcome! Karelia is lovely this time of the year. Not too sure about the Murmansk oblast.

Red lines have a way of becoming grey lines when you're losing............

And I hope that most, if not all our Ukrainian visitors will choose to go back to their country when this is over and help rebuild it into a prosperous state of their own choosing.

Being none of your predictions have worked out for you so far .....

I'm always confident,

Crimea summer 23

Redline like strikes on Russia, strikes on Crimea, sinking Russia ships ,

Yada yada yada,

I saw something on you tube about "the" modern factory in the UK churning out 155 shells, and it's theoretically capable of knocking out 4 or 5 hundred thousand shells a year,

Obviously it doesn't do that now , itd have to move to 24/ 7 production , so probably quadroupling it's work force , and that'd take a lot of time ,

But that works out at 80 to 100 shells a day ... That's their current theoretical max that'd take 6 months or a year to get to ...

And the Ukrainians are using up to 4 or 5 thousand shells a day ..

And have had Russian sabotage on their munitions industry for years now ...

Pretty much everything I've said has come to pass.

Who's holding out for a Russian victory?

A Russian civil war/breaking apart would be on a scale of multitude worse for the world than the horror story in Ukraine.

We want the Reds defeated, their army's offensive capacity gone for a generation.

The largest country in the world turning in to a Somali style ark of instability across 3000 miles is not the answer to this.

Give the Ukrainian forces the means to kill every Russian soldier in Ukraine, work on having an internal coup against Putin. Insist that the price of Russia being let back in is restitution and remediation of and for its crimes.

Limit their forces capabilities, cut off the mindset that drives this savagery, anyone who was KGB or Communist party of old to not be allowed in senior roles.

Great post, poor Russia is a victim of US Capitalist running dogs.

Solidarity dude.👊

Also include the South Koreans are sending something like 250,000 rounds of 155 artillery shells,they have fairly large stocks and the defense industry to produce more shells and other military equipment,

So it's not like there will be a sudden drop of Ukrainan ammunition

Like the retreat of Ukrainan forces a week or two later and they rolled into Kherson despite your predictions of WW1 trench warfare that would cost the Ukrainians dearly

This is a complex issue especially if there is a Russian embassy in situ. What does a Russian citizen as a refugee or under whatever status they are living under in Ireland and want to live in peace IS APPROACHED by a Russian staff member / undercover RU agent to DO SOMETHING for them and the Russian agent says in the next breath “ we know where your parents/aunts / uncles / brothers /sisters / grand mothers, etc live in Russia. What does the Russian who wants to live in peace in Ireland and clearly rejects everything Russian DO?

and if they refuse to ‘help’ their own lives might be at risk. The embassy/agent could use them as an example of what can happen.

so because of the above , I could not thrust EVEN ONE RUSSIAN. It’s an awful thing to have to say but IMHO it’s reality

As soon as you mention the likes of internment here for Russian citizens, you see several posters getting agitated.

According to them (the Russians) they are making a military budget for the next 3 years. Which will have to be markedly increased if their forces are to show any improvement in the field. Gone will be the days of Families having to support their sons with protection gear, winter clothing etc. But the biggest impediment to this will be the innate Russian disease of corruption. Where that increased budget actually benefits the soldier on the front lines is something else. Then you have the actual budget itself where the cash will come from..when you consider Russia's dwindling income from its traditional oil / gas sales. Thats not to say that they will be starved of cash ( unfortunately) but it will mean a choice between supporting the Russian people or the military, and with Russia increasingly falling on hard economic times, that will call for some hard choices to be made. Three years is a very long time in a situation like this. Winter and Spring 2023 will tell the tale, I'd say.