đ˝ď¸Russian soldiers voluntarily surrendered with their BMP-2 somewhere in #Kherson Oblast.#UkraineRussiaWar pic.twitter.com/1SO50L9LK7â MilitaryLand.net (@Militarylandnet) October 5, 2022
George W. Bush tells Russian Radio Pranksters Posing as Ukraine President to “Destroy” Putin’s Troops:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVIklgrEUq0
How unpatriotic of them to want to live and not want to die trying to slaughter their fellow slavs for Putin’s glory.
Weren’t you the big vaccine guy? They must have given you another assigned topic.
How do they know that it’s not run by former-KGB Geshtapniks?
Dangerous if you ask me.
All your mobilization are belong to us!!!
Like anyone believes the bs propaganda coming out of Ukraine. One thing I know for certain though is that it’s going to be a mighty cold winter in Berlin lol, you must enjoy being a cuck. Like Churchill once said, “the Germans are either at your throat or at your feet”. Right now they are at the US’s feet, and look like a punk vassal country. I look forward to your government being overthrown in the not too distant future, along with a few other EU governments. I give it 2-3 years before both NATO and the EU fracture. I doubt most Germans are as stupid as you.
Meanwhile in Germany, theyâre calling
1-800-Got-Firewood?
LMAO!!! Oh, how funny!
Sure and Germans aren’t going to be facing blackouts, job loss and freeze this winter.
Hey I’ve got an idea on how to fight the propaganda campaign, let’s attack the messenger.
1) Don’t accept information from any media source. Since most of them are liberal we can just say they are all always unreliable.
2) Attack the personality and motivations of the posters. Any claim, however wild, will be almost impossible to disprove. Any attempt by the poster to deny the claim will look defensive and will sidetrack the original point of the post.
I thought this was the Bee.
Aren’t they supposed to do a TikTok surrender video?
How much does it pay? US dollars I assume.
Prigozhinâs coup beginsâŚ
Other then the obvious mistakes that Putin has made, his biggist and most costly was the Arrest Warrant he put out on George Soros and then didn’t follow through with it. The NWO ruling elite cannot have a leader of any country coming after one of thiner own.
Putin and those around him conceived of the Russo-Ukrainian War in existential terms from the very beginning. It is unlikely, however, that most Russians understood this. Instead, they likely viewed the war the same way Americans viewed the war in Iraq and Ukraine - as a justified military enterprise that was nevertheless merely a technocratic task for the professional military; hardly a matter of life and death for the nation. I highly doubt that any American ever believed that the fate of the nation hinged on the war in Afghanistan (Americans have not fought an existential war since 1865), and judging by the recruitment crisis plaguing the American military, it does not seem like anyone perceives a genuine foreign existential threat.
What has happened in the months since February 24 is rather remarkable. The existential war for the Russian nation has been incarnated and made real for Russian citizens. Sanctions and anti-Russian propaganda - demonizing the entire nation as âorcsâ - has rallied even initially skeptical Russians behind the war, and Putinâs approval rating has soared. A core western assumption, that Russians would turn on the government, has reversed. Videos showing the torture of Russian POWs by frothing Ukrainians, of Ukrainian soldiers calling Russian mothers to mockingly tell them their sons are dead, of Russian children killed by shelling in Donetsk, have served to validate Putinâs implicit claim that Ukraine is a demon possessed state that must be exorcised with high explosives. Amidst all of this - helpfully, from the perspective of Alexander Dugin and his neophytes - American pseudo-intellectual âBlue Checksâ have publicly drooled over the prospect of âdecolonizing and demilitarizingâ Russia, which plainly entails the dismemberment of the Russian state and the partitioning of its territory. The government of Ukraine (in now deleted tweets) publicly claimed that Russians are prone to barbarism because they are a mongrel race with Asiatic blood mixing.
Simultaneously, Putin has moved towards - and ultimately achieved - his project of formal annexation of Ukraineâs old eastern rim. This has also legally transformed the war into an existential struggle. Further Ukrainian advances in the east are now, in the eyes of the Russian state, an assault on sovereign Russian territory and an attempt to destroy the integrity of the Russian state. Recent polling shows that a supermajority of Russians support defending these new territories at any cost.
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A political consensus for higher mobilization and greater intensity has been achieved. Now all that remains is the implementation of this consensus in the material world of fist and boot, bullet and shell, blood and iron.
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Putin, very simply, could not have conducted a large scale mobilization at the onset of the war. He possessed neither a coercive mechanism nor the manifest threat to generate mass political support. Few Russians would have believed that there was some existential threat lurking in the shadow - they needed to be shown, and the west has not disappointed. Likewise, few Russians would likely have supported the obliteration of Ukrainian infrastructure and urban utilities in the opening days of the war. But now, the only vocal criticism of Putin within Russia is on the side of further escalation. The problem with Putin, from the Russian perspective, is that he has not gone far enough. In other words - mass politics have already moved ahead of the government, making mobilization and escalation politically trivial. Above all, we must remember that Clausewitzâs maxim remains true. The military situation is merely a subset of the political situation, and military mobilization is also political mobilization - a manifestation of societyâs political participation in the state.
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The other is the interpretation that I have advocated, that Russia is massing for a winter escalation and offensive, and is currently engaged in a calculated trade wherein they give up space in exchange for time and Ukrainian casualties. Russia continues to retreat where positions are either operationally compromised or faced with overwhelming Ukrainian numbers, but they are very careful to extract forces out of operational danger. In Lyman, where Ukraine threatened to encircle the garrison, Russia committed mobile reserves to unblock the village and secure the withdrawal of the garrison. Ukraineâs âencirclementâ evaporated, and the Ukrainian interior ministry was bizarrely compelled to tweet (and then delete) video of destroyed civilian vehicles as âproofâ that the Russian forces had been annihilated.
Russia will likely continue to pull back over the coming weeks, withdrawing units intact under their artillery and air umbrella, grinding down Ukrainian heavy equipment stocks and wearing away their manpower. Meanwhile, new equipment continues to congregate in Belgorod, Zaporizhia, and Crimea. My expectation remains the same: episodic Russian withdrawal until the front stabilizes roughly at the end of October, followed by an operational pause until the ground freezes, followed by escalation and a winter offensive by Russia once they have finished amassing sufficient units.
