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Much like their other pro-Russian posts, that little question was designed to seed doubt in supporting Ukraine. That's the entire objective of posts like that, and I fully expect them to return to try it again in a couple of days.

If the Kremlin aren't paying them for this, they are missing a trick I feel.

Also putin's forces killing and injuring innocent civilians in their poorly targeted long range attacks with missiles and suicide drones and the continued chewing up of his military by Ukraine's armed forces is becoming routine so not being as amplified in the media from what I can see. I don't think this is nothing as putin will see his options in Ukraine become more and more limited with each day he allows his army get destroyed.

Russia has no chance against NATO but it now has a chance against Ukraine. Thanks to a deliberate policy of starving Ukraine of weaponry.

Many of the armies of western Europe are so run down and depleted that they are only fit to fight short wars.

China will have taken alot of reassurance that in any standoff with America over Taiwan that Western Europe will still be talking about a tiny million artillery shells for Ukraine being a few more years away.

2 weeks artillery shells in an offensice and the Eu are flumoxxed.

Ukraine are being asked to attack deeply fortified positions with no sir superiority. A shortage of artillery and only a fraction of the missiles and rockets needed.

A Russian win is now holding what they have.

Much of Western Europe's leadership will accept that but it will be a long term mistake and embolden every bad actor out there.

Political leaders can also use Hungary as an excuse, for not equipping Ukraine properly, there are no Hungarian leaders or Ministers of Defense outside of Budapest.

No one is stopping the transfer of weapons from individual countries but the leadership of those countries.

Fu78 Hungary but let's not pretend that this one blocking move is enough to curtail aid. It curtails one path of aid, that's all.

The defence spending of Western Europe remains at levels barely fit for purpose after years of cuts.

Hungary are an excuse.

It's not looking great for him at all

The hypocrisy is so thick you would walk on it

Even though what Russians see and hear is tightly controlled, in this day and age, it's impossible to seal off the country 100% from what's happening. Som for sure Russians know what's happening to a greater or lesser degree. And the daily living is telling them in no uncertain terms that something very bad is happening. Falling value of the Ruble, food shortages, and with President Putin having to go on State TV and apologize for the shortage of eggs. Not a normal society at all.Even before Putin's invasion in Feb 2022, Russia has one of the largest Nr of expatriates' living outside Russia at 3 million. I'm not saying that all of these Russians were living abroad because of Putin's misdeeds, but you can be sure that a good % were. Now you can add a further 2.5- 3 million who have left since the war started. Russians leaving (or trying to) has gotten so bad, that Putin has taken the really extreme step of confiscating passports of everyone of Military age, including serving personnel, even FSB members (one of them from Putin's personal contingent fled, taking valuable information with him) So that will give you an idea about how Russians feel about Putin and his Russia. As for the ones who cannot leave, Putin's iron grip ensures that if you have anti-Putin feelings, you keep them to yourself, or discuss only with family or lifelong trusted friends, or else! It's a society where teachers in children's schools encourage the kids to talk about what their parents are saying at home, and this has led to the parents being arrested after saying something bad about the war, or the economy. Having said that, there's no doubt that there is a hard core of Putin supporters as well (but far from the Putin inspired poll figures up in the 80-90's %.) Bottom line is that there's an anti-war sentiment that is growing, which is why Putin has had to resort to these desperate measures. Its growing mainly in the Republics where up to now, Putin has drawn most of his conscripts from to date, and who have the largest Nr of dead to show for it, but now he is having to take conscripts from St. Petersburg, and Moscow. And in St. Petersburg, posters have appeared with an innocuous heading but with QR codes which when translated say " A Russia without Putin". This is a serious grassroots escalation in the anti-Putin propaganda. I would not like to be any person caught sticking these up.

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thats a lot of people...whole towns in russia must be missing men

Killed or casualties?

I've seen plenty of women serving in the military, for any one front line soldier, like the proverbial iceberg, where only 1/10th showing above the surface, with the remaining 9/10ths hidden. And so, it is with the military too. There's much more in support than on the front lines at any given time. The majority of jobs that women would be called on to do, would not involve them in anything dangerous or life threatening any more that what every Ukrainian is facing from Russian bombing.

Imagine that.......

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It is possibly a deliberate mechanism so that the wealthy and already educated can avoid it.

What are the numbers anyway? Those seem very low. There a probably more male students 18-20 in Ireland than in Ukraine by those figures. Are those numbers you pasted from a particular city or region?

So, it seems like suggestions that the Gaza tunnels were as extensive as the London Underground are not too far off the mark.... But logistically speaking, they had to be like they are finding now. 3'000 missiles launched on the 7th plus another 7'000 launched in the following days means a very sophisticated set up, and without the IDF knowing about it? Even with Satellite imagery? Had to be underground. But anyway........apart from that....🤣

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Candidate 1: Vladimir Putin

Candidate 2: Cladimir Vutin

Candidate 3: Pladimir Cutin