The Russians will win, but will it advance them as a country?
They are paying a hell of a price for this “victory”
I here every day that they are losing.
Many young men will lose their life because of the goals of some old decrepit man. (Putin).
Don't think I need to repeat the stories about three Russian soldiers sharing one weapon during WW2.
First soldier had the weapon. When he got shot, the second soldier that was behind him picked it up and kept trying to advance the line. When he was shot, the third soldier who was behind him picked it up and kept trying to advance the line.
That was WW2. Don't see how it's different today. Same mentality. That doesn't win wars. If Russia had really been the military superpower we in this country had been lead to believe for decades (I'm pushing 60) there's no way Ukraine would've lasted this long.
Putin and Russia f'd up bad. Xi is watching this from China laughing at Putin while simultaneously learning all the lessons he can so he doesn't repeat the same mistake Putin did, when Xi orders the invasion of Taiwan.
Let's be honest: that's coming. I don't understand why it hasn't happened yet but when it does, the choke hold that China will have on the world's computer chip supply and everything computer chips are in today is going to devastate the global economy even more than it has been.
Big chip plants being built in AZ won'tbe putting out a single usable chip for at least two to three more years. Even then, China has control over the majority of raw materials needed to make them because the dumbass greenies in this country are in control and hey, no oil, no minerals, no energy, no water "save the planet" stupidity that has no real basis in science is running the show.
Back to Russia: the fact Ukraine hasn't outright surrendered by now tells us all we need to know about how weak and ineffective the Russian military really is. Were they not sitting on nukes, they'd be as easily stoppable as the Iraq Republican Guard was in 1991, and they were nothing but cannon fodder for our guys. I know this to be true because a dear friend was there picking them off until our guys were ordered to stop. It was a slaughter. The ONLY reason we left any of the Iraqi Republican Guard live was to be a presence against Iran. Balance of power. Russia would be no different if they didn't have the nuke card to play. It would be a slaughter if the US went up against Russia head to head on the traditional field of battle. Anyone who doesn't know that is either kidding themselves listening to propaganda, stupid, or both .
That's how I see it anyway, and between Putin, Zelensky, Biden, Xi and the rest, there are NO good guys in this, period. NONE. When you invade another sovereign nation under false pretenses though, that makes you the bad guy.
Invaded because of Nazi's .. right. Whatever happened to it being common sense around here that the first person to use the term Nazi in an argument was automatically determined to be too f'nd stupid to even have a conversation with? Back in the good old days here on FR, everyone would look at that person, determine they were a complete loser and shun them. What happened to FR that people actually buy into the "Russia went in to Ukraine because of Nazi's" bullshit??
That people actually somehow think Putin's defending Christianity and Christian values here is just beyond me. Putin's an opportunist. Putin is all Putin. Nothing more.