Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Tucker Carlson could have went down in history as the one who tried to strangle, poke his eyes out, kick Vladimir Putin in the bo11ix. Native russians would have celebrated Tucker. An outsider with no retribution on russian districts.

Instead we're left with Tucker who was amazed by shopping trollies.

Would tend to agree

The Russians have taken Avdiivka and it only took them (checks notes)... 2 years, and (checks notes again) massive casualties.

Sounds about right.

To the winners go the spoils, and the Russians have inherited a pockmarked moonscape, interrupted only by the odd shard off a blackened building edifice rising out of the ground.

Please recheck notes, this one stared 10 years ago. Fantastic progress by Russia 🙄

Navalny's Spokesperson - update earlier

https://twitter.com/Kira_Yarmysh/status/1758801430125695199

Alexey Navalny was murdered. His death occurred on February 16 at 2:17 p.m. local time, according to the official message to Alexey’s mother.

An employee of the colony said that the body of Navalny is now in Salekhard. It was picked up by investigators from the IC. Now they are conducting "investigations" with him.

We demand that Alexey Navalny's body be handed over to his family immediately.

Only an hour ago, the lawyers were informed that the investigation had been concluded and that something criminal had not been established.

They literally lie every time, driving us around in circles and covering their tracks.

I know why he's saying this but being realistic even if Poland wasn't in NATO, Russia wouldn't even dream of invading.

They floundered against the regular Ukrainian army which, at the start of the war, was a $4 or $5bn army. That's completely putting aside the headache of occupation, resistance, etc had it come to that.

Poland's army is incomparably bigger and stronger than Ukraines was at the start of the war. A lot of their tech is way more advanced than Russias.

The idea that Russia is this almightly juggernought that will roll through the baltics and Poland is utterly absurd.

As for Avdiivka, the fact it took Russia that long, and at such enormous human cost, to obtain a single town in Ukraine. I mean, really. How could anyone, with any sort of straight face, try and spin that as a positive for Russia or the success of their invasion.

Putin is Hitler circa 1944/45 holding on for a miracle that won't come. The jig was up about two months into the invasion when Ukraine didn't fold and the population made it clear they saw Russia as nothing but a barbaric invader.

It's Putin's operation Barbarossa. He kicked the door, the structure did not come crashing down.

It's a complete disaster for Russia on every possible level. After two years of war, horrific casulties, economy creaking under pressure, brain-drain, etc, they're still nowhere remotely close to defeating the conventional Ukrainian army, let alone ready to face a major insurgency.

Have heard it from respected public news sources accessible to anyone so yes, about as reliable as can be

"The West needs to get its act together"

Aside from less weapons due to hold ups in funding from USA ( all on trump, he runs the gop ). You also have a not so fixable issue now coming home to roost for Ukraine. Shortage of manpower. A problem Russia does not have.

Much of Ukraines troops on frontline have been at this for two years solid and without breaks/recycling. They cannot keep going forever.

Back to finance / weapons. GOP have said they have no intention of bringing this to the floor .. not before they and the house go on two weeks recess soon.

So i think with this and with the manpower issues we are reaching a major turning point unfortunately in favour of Putin

If Russia were to attack Poland in a conventional way and NATO A5 invoked, the process would be simple enough. Remove Russian troops from Polish territory by either destroying them and their equipment or forcing them to retreat, then stay put to fend off any regrouped attacks or until a peace treaty is signed. There would be no need to go to Moscow in 3 days.

It's all moot, anyway. Russia already has all of its resources committed to Ukraine. The idea they could start a fresh invasion of any other country in the time Putin has left on this planet is stretching credulity.

"Shortage of manpower. A problem Russia does not have."

How do you know putin is not having a manpower shortage? Seen recent news that Nepal has requested its citizens recruited to fight for putin to be returned due their mistreatment and there have been other reports of an uptick in attacks on recruitment offices throughout putins empire recently. There are also the reports of massive numbers of putin's troops being killed by the armed forces of Ukraine trying to defend their country from putin's terrorists: