Are u enjoying ur 4th of july bbq with everything on the grill more expensive? gas prices more expensive? Enjoying your inflation? Are you sure u are not sanctioning yourself?
Russia's currency is strongest it has been in 7 years, last I looked recently.
How much did the war in Aghanistan cost US taxpayers? Seems Russia decided to budget this war in ukraine, like they expect to win but as cheaply as possible, as little as possible n apparently their soldiers lives are still viewed cheaply, soviet mind-set they haven't gotten rid of, which I disapprove of..
Fighting with ca 200,000 men, well less than ukraine, means they weren't in too much of a hurry, they did try a stupid shock campaign with few troops to kiev then shrugged when that didn't work. I'd not want to be a soldier in the Russian army, their mindset is basically
They could have fought with several times more men, the ukr forces would have been encircled a lot faster n contained, the front-line would have become too big n the war would have been over a lot faster. But that proper preparation, which would have been moi choice, would have been soooo more expensive to do.
I have to conclude that ukraine is nothing but a daily quest hub to Russia..
It took Russia 8-9 years to conquer Chechnya with worse losses than it has taken in Ukraine and Chechnya is a hell of a lot smaller than Ukraine.
You put a lot of faith in a military that was running out of troop transports so was transporting soldiers and equipment in dump trucks to the front.
Dude u shouldn't ur war info from tabloids n propaganda.
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Now u are complaining about the strength of the currency I think the economy is fine, u should worry about yours?
Slaughtering civilians, au contraire, has been a daily quest for ukrainian orcs, how else do u think 15.000 people died in the Donbass the last 8 years?
Ah, yes, ur selective concern isn't crocodile tears at all?..
“There you stand, the good man doing nothing. And while evil triumphs, and your rigid pacifism crumbles to blood stained dust, the only victory afforded to you is that you stuck true to your guns.”
Don't bother arguing, just report any posts you think that are breaking the forum rules (and thread rules specifically regarding whataboutism that was forbidden a while ago by a mod).
Guys, guys, do u even realize how u look when u post such nonsense? Besides pulling numbrrs from who knows where. You are basically accusing one guy trying to defeat his opponent by...cutting his own throat..
Mariupol is in the Donbass region, it is populated by ethnic Russians, u are basically saying the donbass militia tried to kill their own families, relatives, friends, brethren the past 8 years n now that they are helping Russian army to do it. And also that Russian army wants to defeat Ukraine by...targeting areas populated by ethnic Russians...
I made a point before about western media (not related to Ukr conflict) n that westerners instead of being citizens have become consumers. So, when ukrainian orcs commit warcrimes the past 8 years, ignore it since that isn't part of the western good-guy self-image. Narcissism is a helluva drug...
Another Russian ammo dump goes up in smoke. An awful lot of cigarettes have been dropped in them of late.
Ukrainian flag raised over Snake Island again. The Russians ran away so fast they left millions of dollars of gear behind - radar systems, pantsir air defence, Tornado MRLS and more. They'd only just moved it there as well, so hasty was their running away.
The Gerkin is still not happy with the way the Russians are going - basically all the Ukrainian defenders got away and fell back to new defensive positions to join up with fresh Ukrainian troops. Its rather gloomy for the Russians from his perspective. And given he was the FSB officer that started the whole separatist thing, he knows a lot more than random forum commentators.
Ukrainians, "we lost the last two major cities in the donbass, but we took s tiny island with seagulls on it after Russians stopped being interested in it, clearly we are winning!"
As for girkin, he is famous for complaining that Ru forces are a slow big beast. I complained too first post today, but doesn't change outcome of war.
Russia is known for slow grinding wars. It's just the way they do things.