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Basically (to my mind) the only thing that will save the Russian Army in Ukraine is the Russian version of 1796 Napoleon showing up to straighten out a force in even worse shape than the Army of Italy ever was. And as Putin would never allow someone that competent to get a position of such power…

I mean it effectively does. The Russians would have had to collapse Germany 1918 style in order for that to happen. Thereupon, if by some miracle Putin’s regime didn’t collapse, they’d be spent.

People just do not get how much of a wreck Russia is. Yes it has the size, the manpower and the natural resources to be a problem, but it is so crippled by corruption that it can’t use them. Communism ran their economy and society into the ground, dramatically worsening an already existing...

By failing to protect Ukraine from naked Russian aggression, you telegraph weakness. That is the cold calculus of geopolitics.

Ah Russia. Managing to lose a whole bunch of warships against a country that didn't really have a navy in the first place. Peter the Great must be rolling in his grave for what has become of the Navy he founded.

Most likely by moving as many goal posts as possible.

Is Mr “Kyiv will fall any day now” accusing us of cope? Fuck’s sake, man, you’re deluded.

Most likely not. It would challenge his narrative too much, and in the struggle against “the GAE” that cannot be permitted. Pitiable what politics can reduce a man to.

Well good for them, they’re wrong. This is not a different cultural attitude, this is the delusion of a fallen empire that still thinks it’s the top dog in its neck of the words. Russia is fighting like it’s still the USSR or even the Old Empire; but it isn’t. Russia simply does not have the...

Ukraine, even if diminished, has ensured its survival. Zelensky will have earned his statue next to the Ukrainian Parliament building by my estimation. A more unlikely Churchill figure you could never find. Because even if, in the worst case scenario, Ukraine folds and Russia keeps all its...

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Call it masochism of a variety.

Oh no, who let you in?

Wasn’t it that Biden changed the timetable of the pullout, and that really pissed off the Tribal Chiefs?

Imperial Russia at least still had a military that wasn’t completely crippled by corruption and even in its disasters it acquitted itself well. The Japanese noted the Russians as being very brave in the Russo-Japanese War, and the Imperial Russian Army all but destroyed Austria-Hungary in the...

Oh no doubt it was there. But communism sent it into overdrive by the sounds of it.

Doesn’t matter how old it is, any tank is going to ruin your day at point blank range. Shows how shit Russian doctrine is if one of their more advanced tanks was not only unsupported but effectively bumped into enemy armour.

I’d normally say they wouldn’t be that mad. But in terms of foolish decisions they have often surprised me of late.

Also, from Zelensky’s position, I‘d have no problem with Soros pouring his billions into my country’s war effort. In all honesty, I’d be a fucking idiot if I turned him away.

“I am against current thing.” Yes, it’s that shallow.