Russia-Ukraine War (Threadbanned in op)

Ugh, that guy. AfD MPs are walking laxatives at the best of times, but Bystron is one of the worst. I am not surprised at all at this development.

Rapacious parasites. Blatant, too.

I have proof that Putin definitely intends to take Kharkiv 😎

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-69025424

I feel this is key to everything. Sure, Ukraine should be trying to retake the territories the Russians are sitting on. But I suspect the key to Ukrainian victory is out-lasting the Russian war effort. Russia has one ace in their hand in this conflict, and by that I don’t mean their nukes (which frankly I still believe are more rust now than useful weaponry). Their ace is the Soviet Union and their preparations of a Europe-wide WWIII.

Putin’s Russia has inherited an arsenal that was supposed to go up against NATO on multiple fronts and have been using it all against one target. Trouble is, that kit should have been used by the 80’s, and is finite. Much of it came from a Soviet Union which had the benefit of a large industrial base, much of it happened to be in….well….Ukriane. So now the Russian Federation is doing its level best to beat the clock and hope to force the Ukrainians into some kind of “Peace” “Treaty” before they run out of useful kit.

This point might come this year, it might come in 5 years, but it will come eventually and Russia and their cheerleaders will do their damnedest between now and then to prop up the fiction that Russia can’t be beaten and that concessions to them are the only open. But that isn’t true, Russia can be defeated and their greatest foe is time.

In the old thread I posted links to the Institute for the Study of War .. as well worth dipping into daily.

This was yesterdays:

Some snippets:

Russian President Vladimir Putin emphatically downplayed the threat of Ukrainian counterattacks along the entire frontline, further indicating that he assesses that Ukraine cannot and will not be able to liberate territory seized by Russian forces and that this will allow Russian forces to pursue creeping advances indefinitely. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to publicly prioritize the further mobilization of the Russian defense industrial base (DIB) while also attempting to assuage possible domestic fears about the negative effects of increased Russian defense spending. 

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-may-15-2024

Putin and his sanitary zone .. he has been on about this for a while .. Potentially a DMZ

Another thing for the Russian invaders to worry about