Posted on 09/13/2022 4:27:33 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
For Russia, the numbers are catastrophic.
From Wednesday to Sunday, Vladimir Putin’s military forces saw at least 338 pieces of important military hardware – from fighter jets to tanks to trucks – destroyed, damaged or captured, according to numbers from the open source intelligence website Oryx, as Ukraine’s forces have bolted through Russian-held territory in an offensive that has stunned the Russians in its speed and breadth.
Ukraine’s top military commander claimed on Sunday that more than 3,000 square kilometers (1,158 square miles) of territory had been retaken by his country’s forces since the beginning of September. And for more perspective, just “since Wednesday, Ukraine has recaptured territory at least twice the size of Greater London,” the British Defense Ministry said Monday.
Ukrainian reports say Putin’s troops are fleeing east to the Russian border in whatever transport they can find, even taking cars from the civilian population in the areas they had captured since the start of the war in February.
In their wake they leave hundreds of pieces of the Russian war machine, which since Putin’s so-called “special military operation” commenced, has not come close to living up to its pre-war billing as one of the world’s great powers.
These Russian losses are the accumulation of a multitude of existing problems that are now colliding head-on with a Ukrainian military that has been patient, methodical and infused with billions of dollars of the Western military equipment that Russia cannot match.
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The rot is deep. And this foolhardy war of Putin’s is having the result of destroying the totten army. Russia as a state will not survive
Of course they are.
Next headline from CNN and the rest of the Western/EU/UK/US/NATO propaganda media will be that the Ukies are headed to the Kremlin....
Hope this isn’t a giant ambush.
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Russian elite troops are being crushed by the Ukrainians. 3rd Guards Spetsnaz Brigade also suffered significant losses... This album contains 76 photos, some of them (about 3) were killed in Syria, but the rest were liquidated in Ukraine. 💀Deadsnaz
I don’t believe a word coming from any side in this disaster and that includes the mainstream American press and the American government.
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Superpower.
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“Next headline from CNN and the rest of the Western/EU/UK/US/NATO propaganda media will be that the Ukies are headed to the Kremlin....”
Only people saying that is putards..
Actually, its you knuckleheads.
How about go back and count how many threads you knuckleheads have dumped on and within FR within the past 72+ hours.....
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It’s scary how many ‘conservatives ‘ have been turned into Democrats over this Ukraine thing. Free Republic is infiltrated, it’s apparently just a democrat propaganda mouthpiece now. Real conservatives are a resistance movement in their own territory.
The rats could very well dominate the November elections.
Yeah, I do find it strange that conservatives support Nazis or elements of Nazism especially after we fought a war in Europe to end/defeat Nazis’/Nazism........
Translation = "I can't think of any lie, or spin, with even a trace of plausibility, that makes Putin look good, so I will close my eyes, stick my fingers in my ears and make the world go away."
“I can’t think of any lie, or spin, with even a trace of plausibility, that makes Putin look good..”
There are no “good guys” in this cluster****. Putin is a criminal thug. So is Zelenski. The only difference between them is scale.
A pox on both of them.
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Please do show me a post claimin Ukraine is going to take the Kremlin other than that meme joke
Vast majority of conservative support Ukraine. Only a few cranks dont
Think of all the morons who believed Putin when he said in 2014 that he could take Kiev in “two weeks” if he wanted to.
Those idiots probably look at all the retreats since mid-March and convince themselves that Russian propaganda about ‘feints’, ‘goodwill gestures’ and ‘regrouping’ is the real explanation for Russia’s lack of progress and reversals.
Can you imagine how those fools will feel when they finally realize that Russia, with an economy smaller than Italy and army of rotting Soviet junk, isn’t a great power?
HAHAHA. They were never conservatives.
Which is why you should not support the supremacist nationalism of the of Putin. The Russians here are the ones who are acting like real Nazis and invading another country for the sake of Russian national supremacy, not a bunch of stupid Ukrainian nationalists who like to wave old German Nazi flags to annoy the Russians but never threatened to conquer other people. Deeds, not flags, mark the true Nazis.
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