Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Nordstream ? Ha

To the general public , and most national leaders it doesnt matter ,

There's a new report out every other day pointing the finger in a different direction , most people who have an intrest have already rightly or wrongly made up their minds long ago ,

Its effective use of dis-information ,

The same person who swore it was the Americans with help from the swedes and norweigans , cant then be believable when he states it was a couple of ukrainian on a yacht,

Twitter won't allow this tweet to be imbedded? I wonder why?

Merry Kremlin "journalists" ask Putin how far he intends to continue expanding the borders of Russia.

Putin responds "I can fully answer only privately...but it depends on our potential".

https://twitter.com/JayinKyiv/status/1668657010789822466?s=20

I think it's more that we know that the Ukrainian offensive has started and, in the instant gratification internet culture that we inhabit, we demand 'BIG NEWS NOW!' i.e. something huge and decisive. We press refresh continously.

Whereas the actual military campaign itself is more likely to be a slow burn, akin to last year's Kherson offensive. Thus the people who demand 'BIG NEWS NOW!' are fixated on micro-events ('a Leopard lost here!', 'a fake image there!') that are strategically irrelevant and make foolish macro pronouncements on the direction of the entire war.

The strategic picture is that Russia is losing this war - militarily, diplomatically, economically and politically. And has been doing so before the first boot landed on Ukrainian soil. The course of events of the remainder of this year may hasten that loss - or they may go on losing for years. But micro tactical events are just that - micro.

It is because it is has an age-related restriction.

And this is what has been long suspected, although I don't know what kind of effective operations Russia could launch against motivated and organised European armies in the short term - and I mean at least 10 years when I say that. They've not got the tactics, or the weapons or the people. On the last point, although Russia are hyped up on the number of people they have, they have 'only' 147 million, whereas the EU has over 700 million, so if you get a combined task force from even a fraction of those countries to battle any kind of Russian incursion in a conventional military sense, Russia has no advantage in any aspect. I say 'conventional' because obviously people will talk about the nuclear stockpile aspect when you talk about open military confrontation with Russia, but of course if Russia were to use this capability, they run the very real risk of creating a world that is in no way worth inheriting, and I believe they only use it as a last gasp to prevent their own country from military takeover from a foreign power.

Their only real options for territorial expansion beyond whatever they could possibly take in Ukraine are a soft takeover in Belarus and also pushing into Georgia and Kazakhstan. A wilder speculation beyond this would be Russia seeking to create a military alliance with China that would set out to conquer the world. I stress that this is a wild speculation - there are still questions over China's ability to take over Taiwan, never mind their ability to mount large scale military operations thousands of miles away.

Possibly.

Or he could be worried how much the fair deal scheme will claw back.

Here is Putin himself saying on TV in 2008 that Russia that has no claim to Crimea, that Crimea is Ukrainian, and Crimea is not a disputed territory.

And people still believe a word he says. btw the tread in the tweet also debunks the myth that NATO expansion and that NATO and the West are actually at fault for the war in Ukraine.

An insight into Wagner

Another overnight attack on civilians, this time Odessa. Sickening. This is just going to go on and on as long as Putin is in power

I seem to remember you talking about Putins doubles so have a lot of people on here not just me ,

So have you seen him in public at all in the last near month ,

No .

Didn't think so

Not true at all .

But the second most important person in Ukraine only second to Zelensky himself hasn't been seen in public or in a live broadcast in how many weeks 6 ?

Zelensky has done a world tour in the time and nobody has seen Zaluzhni anywhere ,

Secret bunker, doing secret things doesn't add up

Stark accounts starting to appear in the media as the reality of the grimness of the situation facing the Ukranian forces is getting harder to withhold from the public. This from the Washington Post.