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Putin Calling the Shots Without Listening to Military: Think Tank
Newsweek ^ | Sept. 28, 2023 | Ellie Cook

Posted on 09/28/2023 12:15:33 PM PDT by canuck_conservative

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To: popdonnelly

Ukraine is fortunate to have such a stupid enemy


81 posted on 09/28/2023 3:09:35 PM PDT by canuck_conservative (there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors)
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To: canuck_conservative
So why can't giant Russia defeat tiny Ukraine

They are grinding the Ukrainian military into hamburger-- more 400,000 Ukrainians are DEAD.

Russian has liberate more than 40,000 square miles of land, all the major land they wanted to liberate. They have liberated the ethnic Russian part of Eastern Ukraine. They have built a land bridge from Russia to Crimea. The Russians now control almost the entire Black Seas coastline. And, they possess land that comprised 70-80% of Ukraine's GDP. They never planned on going any further.

The objective, you dunce, is to destroy the Ukrainian military to the point they can, if they must, take Odessa and/or Kiev. Ukraine is very close to being defenseless.

You're so filled with ethnic hatred toward Russians, you're dumber than a box of rocks.

82 posted on 09/28/2023 3:20:07 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: MeganC

—”Okay, so why do you think Ruzzia didn’t win this war in ten days... “

“A Frenchman s self-assurance stems from his belief that he is mentally and physically irresistibly fascinating to both men and women. An Englishman s self-assurance is founded on his being a citizen of the best organized state in the world and on the fact that, as an Englishman, he always knows what to do, and that whatever he does as an Englishman is unquestionably correct. An Italian is self-assured because he is excitable and easily forgets. A Russian is self-assured simply because he knows nothing and does not want to know anything, since he does not believe in the possibility of knowing anything fully.”
War and Peace
Tolstoy and he knew a thing or two about Russians.


83 posted on 09/28/2023 3:32:00 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: Kazan
more 400,000 Ukrainians are DEAD

in 18 months? LOL yeah right

more obvious Russian propaganda ... and you're one to talk about hating

Russia hasn't "liberated" anything, it's merely in temporary possession, just like Nazi Germany "controlled" France in 1943, and was gone a year later

but if you Russian shills feel a need to repeat such desperate lies, it's just one more subtle sign that Russia must be losing


84 posted on 09/28/2023 3:34:38 PM PDT by canuck_conservative (there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors)
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To: Sunsong

Why stop with a chess has-been? Why not drag out a Hollywood has-been like Sean Penn?

Garry Whoever is admitting this is not a Ukraine/Russia war, it is the standard USA/CIA Regime-Change-For-Fun-And-Profit operation.

He is just too dumb to realize it or too dishonest to admit it, or both.


85 posted on 09/28/2023 3:36:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: JonPreston

“The RAND institute? Stop.”

Hopefully Russia cleans up the Canadian Nazi problem, after dealing with Ukraine’s.


86 posted on 09/28/2023 3:39:33 PM PDT by BobL (I own an F150 so that I can tow my boat all day Saturday and look Manly)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Garry is russian. And he is exactly right - get Ukraine everything they need to defeat putin/russia


87 posted on 09/28/2023 3:47:22 PM PDT by Sunsong
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To: Sunsong

Duh!

So being a Russian makes you a military expert?


88 posted on 09/28/2023 3:55:01 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: canuck_conservative

Here’s the best answer so far - Gangsters vs. real Generals -

Yeah, the Uke Generals and NATO Generals. They are the pros! It’s just a shame we did’t have that type of General in WWII.
There is so much more diversity now.


89 posted on 09/28/2023 4:13:37 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Thank you for sharing that!


90 posted on 09/28/2023 7:13:48 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

As I noted, the same is true here. Just not as bad yet. And the fact that JB and Trudeau behave like tyrants in partially free countries doesn’t mean Putin isn’t an even worse tyrant and also a threat.


91 posted on 09/29/2023 5:47:43 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: canuck_conservative
It's probably closer to 500,000 dead.

That's how a country starts out with a 600,000 man army and ends up short on troops.

92 posted on 09/29/2023 4:21:36 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: fireman15

“Nearly the 80% of Ukrainians believe Zelensky is responsible for the massive amount of government corruption in their country.”

There was corruption long before him and there will be corruption long after him.


93 posted on 09/29/2023 4:41:09 PM PDT by x
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To: canuck_conservative

People have trouble believing that the military can be incompetent even without politicians interfering.


94 posted on 09/29/2023 4:44:38 PM PDT by x
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To: x
There was corruption long before him and there will be corruption long after him.

How terrible, poor Zelensky is getting a bum rap from his ungrateful citizens! Of course, if he had not portrayed himself as a reformer who was going to take care of corruption they might not judge him so unfairly.

95 posted on 09/29/2023 11:09:18 PM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You'e Welcome.)
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