Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Not sure if this was picked up in this thread. But it seems 20 army recruitment offices were attacked or attempted attacks yesterday in Russia. And get this.

All done by pensioners.

Definitely coordinated among the number.

I hope so. We're in August now and I can't see a major breakthrough happening this year. Russia will keep flooding the front line with reserve's until winter set's in and Ukraine will probably stop attacking for another year.

A sobering thought that the war rumbles on for at least another year. I hope we don't get mass missile strikes on their energy infrastructure during the winter month's and late as usual their allies send more air defence systems. The time to send them is now.

There's always a very simple way to end the war - Russia can stop the invasion and withdraw their troops. It's not good for Putin, but their reasons for starting the war were completely bogus, so they can end the war by declaring "mission accomplished".

A negotiation suggests Russia should gain something out of this - they shouldn't. They lost this war the moment they started it, but it'll take them some time to accept the fact. And any negotiation will have to come with guarantees for Ukraine, because Russia can not be trusted to hold on to any agreements.

And it is up to Ukraine to decide if they want to negotiate or not. At the moment neither side seems to be interested in negotiations, so that's not going to happen (for now at least).

..this is all just repeating the obvious, but maybe a reminder is necessary?

Agreed but it's not a stalemate in terms of both sides being spent. They're like boxers standing in the center of the ring throwing everything at it.

Unfortunately for Ukraine Russia don't value soldiers lives. So Ukraine makes small gains and takes a small village but Russia throws waves at it to take it back or stop the advance.

So Ukraine either settles for no counter or they're forced into a war of attrition.

Zelenskyy doesn't have the moral or legal authority to concede any land to the invading scum. Who would be the next for a bit of land grabbing on the back of slaughter? There is a distinct possibility of a type of civil war if he tried it, of course he knows this.

Also the idea that Putttin will take a slice and be content with that is hilarious.

Russia will continue to attack and try destroy Ukraine by every means possible before more than likely going for Kyiv again. Citing Mormons or Nazis or whatever scutter the drunken masses will liberally ingest.

Ukraine have no choice, they need to drive them out or they will never know "peace", unfortunately unless something radical happens it could take years.

"Saros and his Ilk..."

You were already doing well creating a typical Kremlin-sponsored "Stop the War!" post, but you just had to top it all off with that nice little bit of "Globalists" antisemetism to sweep the legs from under your own post.

There is no stalemate. The Russian's have been attempting to break through and failing (their northern push was defeated after a few days and is back to the previous lines) and the AFU are making a gradual advance across exteemly difficult conditions without air support, but they are advancing. Coupled with the huge logisitical headache of having several critical bridges taken out, the Russians are playing a zero-sum game of trying their best to hold on as much as possible...knowing that they have a finite amount of useful troops and useful equipment.

Sueing for peace now is only for the benefit of Russia, because it is them who cannot afford to continue this indefinatly. A peace deal with Russia should of course eventually happen, but the terms must be different to what Russia-fans expect. A complete a total withdrawal to the 1991 borders is an absolute requirement, as it should be, but thereafter the Russians will have to negotiate the price they must pay to re-enter the civilised world.

The days were Russia can level a demand that a country cannot join NATO or the EU are over. They can never do that again. The poster-child of Finlandisatrion, well....Finland, has gone to show that appeasing the Russians has a shelf-life and that giving them the finger and joining the defensive alliance is something you can do. The Russian Bear is now all roar, with no teeth.

They still pose a threat, not least to Ukraine while they still occupy a chunk of it. They will need to be somehow demilitarised. But this needs to be done carefully, the demilitarisation of Germany post WW1 set the stage for WWII. Germany had to be paritioned the second time around, which did create the prosperous NATO-membered West-Germany, but also generated the volitile and militaristic East Germany. These lessons from history need to be taken on board when attemping to de-fang a defeated Russian Federation.

I'd be more inclined to think that Zelensky would not be the one looking for a peace deal, under any circumstances until the last Russian has left Ukraine.

Ah now, think that poster is filling the top 20 places with multiple comments.

Interesting if we get this confirmed by couple more sources.

Berserk Wagner

"obviously they don’t have 2 billion tanks "

Said as much there tbf.

Beau had a chat on this exact point that might be interesting here from 6 days ago, pointing out the why and how of people knowing pretty damn accurately how much battlefield inventory there is:

Argues that the media accounts, especially those followed by journalists are 'mostly accurate' with the caveat that in war nobody is neutral.

In case anyone wasn't aware, Oliver Stone is yet another sympathiser.

Saw a few posts about this recently