I recall maybe 95%? of MSM stories at the start of the war about Ukraine crash courses to get secretaries trained, various regular people learning how to fire missiles etc. I don't recall much of anything about highly trained troops.
As I said before, if you only listen to the MSM, you don't know anything about this conflict.
The US and NATO spent 8 years building up the UAF. If you are unaware of this, well, you are just unaware. Also, there is plenty of video of Ukrainians being picked up by press gangs. Just look for it.
Thats a way to look at Putin. Having lived in Russia pre Putin when the place was in a total free fall and basically run by the Mafia when western countries and former Soviet officials were robbing the country blind I see a guy who saved the nation . He's the strong leader the Russian like, want and really need. I just see the pendulum swinging back. Pendulums swing.
It's easy to look back at history from a comfy chair with no perspective.
It's even easier to post limp platitudes than say something substantive.
I wouldn't say limp platitudes. If you know nothing of the condition Russia was in in the mid to late 90's, and most Americans dont have the slightest idea of what it was like then, you might assume that all Putin is is a monster when in fact, he saved the country .The people in Russia largely respect and admire him for that and are in large part willing to follow him down the road to rebuilding Russia. Not all of them but when we talk about the "opposition" in Russia its a pathetically small movement. For the most part the people of Russia do feel their country was picked apart without their consent after the fall of the Soviet Union and many of them do want it back. A good manager like Putin steps in and they get some of that. Russia is in it for the long haul in Ukraine and Ukraine will collapse eventually and join some sort of union with Russia and probably Belarus.
Right, like Hitler saved Germany.
You have no idea what Putins Army is doing. Youre watching the western Media filtered through Ukraine and the CIA and what they want you to believe. Lap it up. Ukraine is in the middle of a failing offensive. A year. Maybe two left but they could collapse at any time in the next 6 months.Right, like Hitler saved Germany.
Putin is a good manager? That is easily one of the most ridiculous things I have ever read here. He certainly managed his Army's equipment needs didn't he?
You can try to rationalize your Machiavellian blah blah however you wish, but none of the rest of us have any duty ro accept that swill.
You dont have to accept anything but you'll still be complaining about it 5 years from now when everything i just said will be on the ground fact. Putins already been shown that as long as he stays out of non NATO countries, he can do what he wants. No one that can beat him wants to even try.
Right. Just like your previous boasts about how the Russian invasion of Ukraine would go. Russia just plowed right over them right?
Without a massive influx of western arms they would have been plowed over a year ago. We'll get tired of propping them up soon enough. Their military has been largely wiped out. Matter of time. The Russians will just win it by attrition .Right. Just like your previous boasts about how the Russian invasion of Ukraine would go. Russia just plowed right over them right?
Do you honestly and sincerely think the Ukranians will win this war. Win as in kicking the Russians out of their territory? Or even win with a negotiateded settlement giving up something major? I dont think the Ukranians CAN win. They can hold out for a while but they dont have the long-term capability of pulling it off.
