Russia-Ukraine War (Threadbanned in op)

A total farce,Goebbels is alive and well it seems.

The only thing he might do is call for full mobilisation. Say we're being invaded and we need to protect the motherland. It's a possibility and just silly as Russia started this war.

Not to mention that the Russian commanders' preferred tactic of "bomb the beejayzuz out of them first" is unlikely to be widely supported by the local civilian population.

either way, you'd hate to be one of his lookalikes these days….. as once he goes, their days are probably numbered too…..

Swan Lake must scare the bejesus out of them!!

Gerasimov might want to avoid windows

The biggest news here is that command of this “counter terrorism” operation was yanked away from the military and … given to the FSB

Just think about that for a minute, imagine if Mexican army invaded New Mexico and Trump instead of letting Army and Air Force deal with it told the FBI to handle it, insanity

Sounds like Putin is looking for a "off ramp" give him a vertical one.

”Ordinary Russians”

There's going to be some scarcity of toilets

He makes an interesting point which I also saw on BBC: attacks on Russian soil actually more likely to get Russian population behind the war rather than turn them against it. Just basic human psychology.

Still, Ukraine has nothing to lose at this stage, a morale boost was much needed and at the moment this is certainly providing one. The key thing is not to let their troops become encircled and trapped, but I imagine they have plans to prevent that

Who, exactly, is going to stop Ukraine from taking territory in Russia? It's not going to be Russian farmers with pitchforks, and the Rosgvardia won't be much better. If Russia is intent on doing whatever it takes, then that means taking elite troops and elite materials from other parts of the front and recommitting them to this pocket of Russian territory that Ukraine has carved out.

The Russians can't really do maneuver warfare. They did a bit of it at the start of the invasion, with some notorious calamities and have been stuck relying on attrition via numerical advantage ever since. I can only assume that one reason behind Ukraine trying to rapidly expand their area of control is that they want to pull the Russians this way and that, keeping the battlespace open, and fighting the Russians on the run. The Russians had reconfigured themselves for a dug-in war, but this new front has put a bit of a spanner in those works, and Putin doesn't like it.

Is the Russian army really this sh1t or is there a chance they're holding back in case of NATO getting directly involved?

Nukes were mentioned earlier and it made me think of a youtube video I saw a while back, it was about nuclear weapons/technology in general and the host was talking about the behind the scenes regulations/safety procedures that are required to maintain nuclear arsenals. A bit off topic he said that this is why he thinks Russia's nuclear capabilities are overstated as they are such a basket case and with rampant corruption. I know it's just a youtube channel, but it's the kind of thing that wouldn't surprise me.

We're into uncharted territory and this is what scares people.

Western and Russian people have been fed the propaganda of Russia strong for decades and to see Ukraine (a country that Russia depended on for it's military personnel and hardware manufacturing) invade Russia just turns their thoughts upside down.

Ukrainians figured out how the blanket dumb bombing won't work when it's putin attacking Russian infrastructure and towns. He doesn't really want to go there yet as he knows it means he lied to people that he was a good leader. It means he led to these events. Everytime he throws someone out a window means it's getting closer to him following the same fate.

Thats a lovely ballistic missile mate.

Be a shame if anything were to happen to it.

People in Moscow and Petersburg or Ekaterinburg know Ukraine will make no attempt to occupy territory deep in Russia and probably don't really care much what's happening in Kursk, no more than they care about the hundreds of thousands of soldiers killed or injured so far. Russia is very much a society of "keep your head down, don't get involved, just go on as if nothing is happening", and so huge that panic won't spread. There'll be neither patriotic fervour not fear