This will escalate into a full blown war, I've read about the "peace proposal" made by the ukraine/NATO crew, it's a pure waste of ink and paper, it was obviously crafted in a way that can't be accepted by russia "Look we tried... Now russia refused!". From the point of view of any outside observer paying any attention to the content, it's just pathetic, and vile https://poal.co/s/geopolitics/574695
september 24th, start of ww3.
https://stateofthenation.co/?p=131394
Someone will launch a nuclear bomb, the other side will reply, to scare the masses into a one world government.
As a friend of mine said long before before the russian invasion was even on the radars "there's going to be at least one idiot who's going to push the button"
I believe it's only a matter of time before history proves him right
Russia really doesnt have to push the button.
Did You Know About Russia’s Dead Hand System?
https://www.defencexp.com/what-is-russias-dead-hand-system/
But a senile man could be the one to push it! If he remembers what the codes are!
What do you think of the Russians suddenly withdrawing and "regrouping" over the last week or so? They conceded massive amounts of territory, much of which they fought and lost men to secure in the first place. Those positions were abandoned, and a lot of gear left behind. Something's up.
Could be a lot of things. I want to think that this is a brilliant strategy by the Russians, but this is a little obvious: Russians beating the piss out of Ukies for months now, really fucking up their command structure and taking territory. Then, a sudden, poorly explained retreat en masse. This almost smells like and invitation to counterattack. And if your opponent sets something like this up, counterattacking might be the worst thing you can do. All that territory you have to retake- dotted with mines and shit. Maybe some snipers operating in certain areas, taking pot shots as the Ukies rush in to retake the lost territory.
The key to this strategy is knowing that your opponent is of choleric temper, or desperate. The Ukies really, REALLY need a "real victory" that they can wave in front of the world. Seizing upon the Russian retreat might be this "victory" they see as low-hanging fruit... only to send their men into ambush after ambush.
Again, I'm speculating. But based on the combat footage I've seen so far, the Ukies should lose this war. The only thing Ukies have going for them: those fucking drones that drop those "dart" grenades. There are like a hundred or more videos of these fucking things killing or maiming unsuspecting Russian infantry. The Russians appear to be VERY vulnerable to these- they're tiny drones, I think a lot of them are even just civilian drones that they equip with the bomb. Then they fly it waaaaay up, and stalk the Russians until they see an infantryman stationary. There's even a video of a drone killing a Russian soldier like this WHILE HE'S SQUATTING DOWN, PANTS DOWN, TAKING A SHIT. Fucking bomb went off right next to him, probably killed him.
The Russians don't seem to have come up with reliable countermeasures for these drone strikes. The drones are very small, practically silent, and fly at very high altitudes. Of course, a single round from pretty much any weapon would render the drone a useless pile of plastic.... but first, you have to spot it. Then, you have the difficult task of shooting something that's like 300 yards above you, and is lining up to drop a fucking killing device upon you.
If you want to see footage like this, as well as actual combat footage, and horrific atrocities committed (mostly by Ukies, by a long shot), I found it on the "combat" section of WatchPeopleDie. Unfortunately, the comments section read like reddit, but the content is there. There's a lot to be learned from these combat videos. I've been trying to find instances of Russians torturing captive Ukies, but I've seen maybe only one or two videos like this. I've seen dozens of videos of Ukies doing horrifying shit to captured Russians, including fucking castrating them. One of the harder videos to watch involved Ukies shooting the legs of a whole bunch of Russian conscripts as a form of torture for interrogation. The worst shit I've seen out of the Russians so far is possibly them murdering a handful of civilians by accident (that video of a couple of Ukie civies finding a car with a bunch of dead civies, and then suddenly the video ends as gunfire errupts); this is odd, as Russians tend to be quite brutal towards PoWs.
This is a truly confusing mess. What I know for certain: all of the (((people))) who despise me for being a straight White man have thrown in their lot with the Ukies. I know about what's been happening in the Donbas region for like 14 years now. Seems to me that the Russians are liberating eastern Ukraine, where they speak Russian, where they voted to separate from Ukie government. If people like Soros, the Clintons, all of Hollywood, anyone in the Biden administration support Ukraine... well, there's probably a good reason for me to not support the Ukrainian government. I support the Ukie people who have been subjected to genocide for close to two decades now. I support the Russian effort to liberate those people.
They conceded massive amounts of territory
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Now let's see how they're going to hold this territory.
Zaporizhzhia has to have a port, right? Can a ship make it from the Black Sea up there?
The naval element of this war hasn't been discussed much. Ukraine doesn't really have a navy to speak of- the Russians do. I'm not expecting like ship-to-ship combat, just the ability to move materials/men through the waterways is a massive advantage.
Mr. 0K, why do the Russians have such poor tank combat tactics? I've studied this for quite some time, and it seems to me that the Russians deploy tanks as if they're invincible. They don't abide by the typical "combined arms" doctrines very often, and it always leads to the same result: a few Russian tanks/armored vehicles get ambushed with rockets, and the crew is killed as they try to exit the wreck with small arms fire. Battle of Grozny has a fantastic example of this, where Chechen fighters were able to destroy like 112 of 120 tanks in just one regiment using RPGs, mostly.
The average Russian conscript doesn't impress me in how they seem to be trained and equipped. I don't expect conscripts to be really motivated when they're sent into what they view as foreign territory to fight an enemy who will absolutely torture them to death if they are captured. But on the other hand, those Alpha group guys... they're pretty fucking scary. The Ukrainians seem to agree with this notion, as pretty much every time an Alpha group unit shows up, the Ukrainians fucking bail. Usually, they're gone before the Alpha guys show up- likely they were tipped off somehow.
I've watched a shitload of combat footage from this war. The major pattern, big picture: Ukrainians are using foreign weaponry to ambush Russian conscript units, whom they then capture, torture, and murder. Alpha group unit is on the way to reinforce, arrive to find no resistance except for some booby traps. And those fucking "Dart" bombs. FUCK THOSE THINGS. There are hundreds of videos of drones dropping these things on unsuspecting Russian soldiers. Even a video of one being dropped on a Russian soldier while he's squatting down to take a shit. What a terror weapon- you can't see it, won't hear it, and when it hits you won't have a clue what did it to you.
Oh, and if you're into combat footage, I suggest you check out the video of the Ukrainian soldier who wouldn't leave behind his wounded friend. It's pretty brutal to watch, I won't spoil what happens, but even though I don't support the Ukrainian government, I have a lot of respect for brave, loyal warriors, even if they're my enemy.
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