WrriterNig:
⚡️ 🇺🇦 Ukraine is preparing up to 9 mechanized brigades for a counteroffensive - 🇨🇿Czech President Petr Pavel.

"In total, this is 9,000 -72,000 troops, 900 armored personnel carriers, and 315 tanks," he added.

Russia has already deployed 1600 tanks to face their 315 tanks with 700 aircraft and helicopters in support, maybe after this encounter they one the sides will have to come to term with reality

LordAdam16:


The recent Chinese diplomatic blitzkrieg has been unabashedly exceptional.

I'm not sure how they sold rapprochement to the Arabs. I mean the East not pushing the green revolution as maniacally as the West made that an easy choice. Just spitballing here, could be something more exciting.

Nonetheless, I'm unsure of the cards they have to play to get the Europeans to resolve the Ukraine crisis. It does seem to me that they'd make a superficial "good faith" offer, and when the Europeans predictably refuse, they'll use their refusal as a casus belli to thumb the scale in favor of Russia.

Which of course sets the stage for European involvement should Taiwan devolve into a hot conflict. But by then they'd have a grateful Russia + Iran on their flank. They have the numbers and means to bleed Taiwan as slowly or quickly as desired, Russia et al will provide the resources to keep the economy humming when the collective West imposes sanctions.

A back-to-back Russia-China victory in proxy wars with the US ends the unilateral global Western dominance that has lasted 2000 years.

Xi will be elevated to the ranks of Chinese demigods like Emperor Qin if he can pull this off.

Everyone will start taking the Eastern bloc far more seriously and it'll set off a political megaton nuclear bomb in Washington DC.

Living systems that stop growing start dying. Western civilization will remain indomitable for centuries to come. But their sphere of influence will shrink by the decade, while the rest of the world will become more prosperous and assertive.

As an aside, I must warn that this is by no means set in stone. A smorgasbord of chance events can derail this trajectory.

The Soviet Union also had this opportunity post WW2. All they had to do was win over China and India, transform their economies, and set off a millennia-lasting civilization. It was literally served on a platter. The resources, wealth, human capital, backdrop of the most advanced ancient civilizations. Everything they ever needed to make it work like a well-lubricated machine. And they royally f*cked it up.

Maybe modern China will have better luck. They only got themselves, Russia, and Iran committed to the cause (NK and Syria are lightweights). The vast majority of the planet are non-aligned. AI, Robotics, Space, Demography, Resource Limits, Climate Change. F*cking tide levels and rainfall patterns figuratively and literally sank epoch-changing civilizations in Mesopotamia. That's small chops compared to AI or the myriad of other modern challenges. So good luck to them. They'll need it.

-Lord

So you see this thing weh I see via China way? Omo, I just hope China can pull this off.

okeysoninv:
Patriot air defense system shot it down. you can now cry .

Patriot that can't even shoot down ordinary Houthi scud missiles? Even the Ukrainians have said they never shot anything down. The joke is on you dear angry prophet.

Tiopii:



Russia first attacked with hundred of thousands of their force, after Ukraine successful counter offensive where they reclaimed Kherson and Kharkiv, Russia did another mobilization of bout 300k, that's the official figures but there are suggestions that they are alot more. Russia is still doing covert mobilization as they are still sharing mobilization letters.

Russia is even recalling soldiers in peace keeping missions and posting them to Ukraine .

You're supposed to say Russia haven't used 99.9% of their force, 90% is too small

so all the soldiers that Russia mobilized are Ukrainians and Polish citizens na. like say you no dey think

Really?

The Russians first attacked with 109, 000 soldiers, not hundreds of thousands as you claimed. Kharkov was never defended by Russia. Kherson wasn't completely taken by AFU, 60% of the city is still on Russian hand, and the damn Russians don't mind giving away some ground to save their soldiers life especially where it is practically impossible to defend such grounds for the time being. Unlike Ukraine who have expended thousands of lives just to hold Bakhmuth. So get your facts right.

Of the 300,000 soldiers Russia mobalized, not a single one of them have been pushed to the main fronts. More than half of that are still undergoing training. Draft letters are still ongoing because the official figures have not even been reached yet. Don't kid yourself. If 30% of Russian real forces are in Ukraine, this war would have been over. What Russia is doing over in Ukraine is like a police job. Initially, the foolish west think they have Russia cornered in Ukraine, unfortunately for them, they've turned out to be the ones who are cornered. Out of shame, they can't get out nor admit the Russians have won. On the other hand, the Russians have all it takes to play the waiting game. In the end, Ukraine will end up being destroyed or partitioned to pieces. None of my business though.

WriterrNig:
⚡️🇷🇺 Prigozhin said that the operation of the ☠ Wagner group had fulfilled its task in Bakhmut.

According to him, the goal of the Bakhmut meat grinder was not to take the city, but to grind the units of the Armed Forces of 🇺🇦 Ukraine. He said that 95% of the territory of Bakhmut is now under the control of 🇷🇺 Russian forces, and the remaining 5%, according to him, "do not play any role".

He said that he doesn’t care about being in the history books as the one who took Bakhmut, he cares about serving his own people — RIA

This is something most of us sane thinking folks have always known. The Russians were never hell bent on capturing Bakhmuth, they just used it to kill as many Ukro soldiers as they could because Cocaine laden Elensky was hell bent on holding on to the city at all cost even when western military advisers told him to leave.

WriterrNig:
⚡️🇷🇺 Yevgeny Prigozhin says they have a new agreement with Russia Ministry Of Defence, ☠ Wagner will get all the supplies they need and more, they will have a complete tactical carte blanche on the Bakhmut front, and General Surovikin will be the new liaison between Wagner and RU MOD.

The way Prigozhin and Russia played Ukraine in Bakhmuth is worse than how the CIA played the American people over 9/11.

WriterrNig:
⚡️The 🇺🇸 United States asked 🇹🇷 Turkey for access to the S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems acquired from 🇷🇺 Russia for their study, said Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.

"The United States asked for access to the S-400 in order to study them. But for us it was unacceptable, it contradicted our independent policy. We refused," he said in an interview with the Habertürk TV channel.

This is why they hate Erdogan.

Badassniggga:


LoL why would you need to study the weapons of those you claim is low tech and obsolete? Is it that you don't trust in your own weapons or what? Americans Sha

Of course, not. They want to study it because long ago, Turkey discovered that the S-400 can track and keep tabs on the US F-22 and F-35 stealth fighters, does effectively rendering them obsolete. That was why they abandoned the overrated flying coffin I. Favour of the S-400.

Historically, the Russians are masters of missile technology.

Appleyard:


Really?

The Russians first attacked with 109, 000 soldiers, not hundreds of thousands as you claimed. Kharkov was never defended by Russia. Kherson wasn't completely taken by AFU, 60% of the city is still on Russian hand, and the damn Russians don't mind giving away some ground to save their soldiers life especially where it is practically impossible to defend such grounds for the time being. Unlike Ukraine who have expended thousands of lives just to hold Bakhmuth. So get your facts right.

Of the 300,000 soldiers Russia mobalized, not a single one of them have been pushed to the main fronts. More than half of that are still undergoing training. Draft letters are still ongoing because the official figures have not even been reached yet. Don't kid yourself. If 30% of Russian real forces are in Ukraine, this war would have been over. What Russia is doing over in Ukraine is like a police job. Initially, the foolish west think they have Russia cornered in Ukraine, unfortunately for them, they've turned out to be the ones who are cornered. Out of shame, they can't get out nor admit the Russians have won. On the other hand, the Russians have all it takes to play the waiting game. In the end, Ukraine will end up being destroyed or partitioned to pieces. None of my business though.

100%

Appleyard:


Really?

The Russians first attacked with 109, 000 soldiers, not hundreds of thousands as you claimed. Kharkov was never defended by Russia. Kherson wasn't completely taken by AFU, 60% of the city is still on Russian hand, and the damn Russians don't mind giving away some ground to save their soldiers life especially where it is practically impossible to defend such grounds for the time being. Unlike Ukraine who have expended thousands of lives just to hold Bakhmuth. So get your facts right.

Of the 300,000 soldiers Russia mobalized, not a single one of them have been pushed to the main fronts. More than half of that are still undergoing training. Draft letters are still ongoing because the official figures have not even been reached yet. Don't kid yourself. If 30% of Russian real forces are in Ukraine, this war would have been over. What Russia is doing over in Ukraine is like a police job. Initially, the foolish west think they have Russia cornered in Ukraine, unfortunately for them, they've turned out to be the ones who are cornered. Out of shame, they can't get out nor admit the Russians have won. On the other hand, the Russians have all it takes to play the waiting game. In the end, Ukraine will end up being destroyed or partitioned to pieces. None of my business though.

You don't understand how bad the war has gotten for Russia.

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/16777

This is a link just to have an insight of the problems Russians in Russia are in as a result of the war. The war is affecting Home, then understand you'd why Russia lying about how the war is going. They are struggling but have invested too much.


"A renowned Russian businessman and entertainer has published an extraordinary video, bemoaning that something is going very wrong with Vladimir Putin’s “special operation” in Ukraine."

Speaking on May 6, Andrey Kovalev, co-chairman of the Moscow Council of Entrepreneurs and founder of the All-Russian Movement of Entrepreneurs, lists some of the many military failures suffered by Russia over the last year before complaining about his country’s tanking economy. The video is there

The "partial" mobilization came out Sept, by October Russia's ministry of defence claimed most of the conscripts has reported to camp. so since October, till now you believe they are still training when the mobilization was done in an emergency as a result of Ukraine's successful counter attacks.

Here is another link how badly trained those 300K+ were trained and went sent to the war
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2023/01/12/Russian-soldier-jailed-for-five-years-for-refusing-to-fight-in-Ukraine-

Russia has committed the 300K+ in Ukraine already, why do you think Ukraine is going on the counter now? So according to you, the first 100K+ (You want to invade a country with over 40M population o) are still the ones fighting until now? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Here is another link of Russians conscripts complaining about inadequate training and are already fighting
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/03/09/sent-there-to-be-meat