Russia - threadbanned users in OP

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.

I see the ruble has been sliding, 10% in the last week. Considering it's a totalitarian country with unbridled capital controls, and vast resource income, it's an interesting turn.