Russian warship, go f**k yourself!

There's lots of mental gymnastics needed to keep up with Russia's capabilities. One minute they are a spent corrupt force running out of weapons and ammunition and men, next they are still a massive threat to the EU and will march all the way to Germany or further if we don't supply Ukraine with even more weapons.

Same with these other capabilities . Reading on here you'd be led to believe sending weapons and money to Ukraine somehow weakens really Russia's ability for cyber attacks, propaganda etc. Ukraine aren't killing the people who do this, so very hard to see how that is actually affected.

Putin is simultaneously a tactical genius and a fool. Go figure...

Wasn't able to load video , but saw a video of a dozen Ukrainian tanks and vehicles storming a Russian position, soldiers jumped off and rushed the trenches. Meanwhile every Ukrainian vehicle was picked off one by one and all totally destroyed by drones, missiles and landmines. Apparently they achieved their aims but twas costly

Both sides are fairly evenly matched now. We only see the pro Ukrainian side on tv. It will just come down to who can keep going the longest.

Blair Bush war in Iraq cost hundreds of thousands of civilian lives.

The world forgets and moves on.

If Putin loses power who replaces him? And why won't they use any of the infrastructure Putin has put in place?

They aren't a military threat now because they are getting their holes kicked in Ukraine. But they are still a cyber threat, nuclear threat, food threat, etc, etc

Sure they did, and in your opinion, that justifies what Putin is doing now in Ukraine and elsewhere in the world? And whatever respect for the Geneva Conventions Western / US military have. Putin's murderous hordes, have absolutely have none. They're no better than ISIS.

Read my post again. I asked you a question, in your opinion, do you think that what Bush / Blair etc. did, justifies what Putin has done and is doing now in Ukraine ? Straight Yes or NO, will do fine.

That's the big question all right, what will happen if / when Putin goes. I think that the preferred option is that he remains' in power, but will be militarily powerless, and will no longer have the ability to threaten never mind attack his neighbours, or anyone else either. But his cloak of invincibility has been stripped from him by Prigozhin's antics, and just like in the Jungle, its survival of the fittest. I'd say that even now ( and actually before now, from the time the Silovicki and Oligarchs stared to lose financially) his successor (s) is been discussed. All is not well in Putin's world, but it still has some time to go to play out. The infrastructure part, I do not understand. So far the most heavily hit infrastructure has been in Ukraine, not Russia.

You take it wrong then.

The infrastructure to maintain his power and ability for cyber attacks, to trick whole populations into voting for trump, Brexit etc.

He built on the structures that were there from the communist era before him and it would seem to be burying one's head in the sand to think all of this won't happen again with his successor.

As it stands if this all ended today, Russia are less of a threat on paper due to less tanks, vehicles and air defence. But over 5-10 more years they will surely just build more, and then since they have learned something from their experience in Ukraine they will surely start to become a similar or worse risk than before.

How does Putin actually get castrated to be militarily powerless while not losing power in Russia?

If it comes to that Ukraine have lost.

yes they have better quality but but Russia has the numbers. A war of attrition plays right into Putins hands.

Can Ukraine get it back into a war of Manoeuvre again?

I don’t know. Very hard to do so when defensive lines get set like that.

The problem Russia has is its now or never if their hegemonic dreams are to be realised. Why? Because the population is rapidly ageing with the birthrate collapsing and will be made even worse with 200k+ casualties in the past 18 months of so.

By the time they start rebuilding their military in 10 or so years time it might bizarrely be in their interests to form an alliance with NATO as everyone looks east to China.

It's not playing into Russian hands either. It's costly and they can't stop Moscow being bombed. A long as Ukraine keeps the US on side they can stay fighting

For what Putin has done in Ukraine, maybe in 2 generations time ( or more, much more) they will neither be forgiven, or forgotten, and this will go for much of the west too. They have made many powerful enemy's in the worlds of business and high finance. Even after the War, they will be blocked and hindered at each and every turn. The road to Russian re-habilitation is going to be an extremely long and twisty one.