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U.S. war plans for Ukraine don’t foresee retaking lost territory Long article, extract: In conversations with lawmakers, administration officials have emphasized that only about half of the requested $61 billion is targeted at the current battlefield, while the rest is directed toward helping Ukrai...

I don't remember that being noted, where was that? Recent example, though it started last year: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/biden-ukraine-russia-war-negotiations-rcna131581 President Joe Biden has long said he will support Ukraine in its goal of expelling Russia from its territory f...

Any 'peace' between Ukraine and Russia is going to be a temporary ceasefire at best, nobody believes that Putin is going to be satisfied with merely part of Ukraine and as we've seen already it will only be a matter of time before he or whoever comes after him makes a play for the rest of it. The R...

That's about as true as you two competing to say just how fucked Ukraine is. Well I don't waste time by posting articles or video of this or that minor Russian victory or Ukrainian humiliation because its not informative or indicative of the true position of the conflict, which is the kind of stuff...

The same can be said of the Russians, both sides are suffering the same problems to one degree or another- When you're talking about logistics, degree is all that matters and the Russians are much, much better off in every single metric, as the article notes. I say fuck the Republicans holding Ukra...

I'm not sure the Houthis truly comprehend the size and power of the US military, Naval or otherwise. I'm also wondering if they're going to wind up in the "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" category. The US-backed Saudis bombed and starved Yemen for like a decade and it didn't destroy...

Another negative article amongst a wave of them: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/13/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war.html The Ukrainian soldier stared at the Russian tank. It was destroyed over a year ago in the country’s east and now sat far from the front line. He shrugged and cut into its rusted h...

Because I am quoting readily availabe news. All the footage is online, and I am not going to start a youtube channel or whatever. I simply do not have the time to do so. It's no excuse to say this is "readily available". Readily available where , claimed by who ? You have plenty of time t...

So where are you getting YOUR Intel, Vympel? Who's supplying the information to your news sources? OSINT? Russia's Equivalent? American or European Sources, who are relying on Ukrainian sources? Please look at what I've posted in this thread and tell me what countries they're from. Unlike LaCroix, ...

I can't say I'm knowledgeable about the exact range and capabilities of Ukranian artillery and I do know enough to be skeptical of 'lol Russian military is so incompetent they missiled their own city' stories, but listing a handful of tweets by (apparently? If these are supposed to be noteworthy ac...

It is true. I mean all of NATO is in a state of total war, with the entirety of the manufacturing, logistics and construction sectors turned over to support the front. Our economy is in freefall, our reserves of Forex burnt and we've had to ban petrol exports, but we're hanging in there. Or maybe o...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war.html Extract: Russia Retakes Some Land Hard Won by Ukraine During Counteroffensive Russia’s recent progress around the southern village of Robotyne is a sobering development for Ukraine amid dwindling Western military aid. Russia has...

After the Ukrainians managed to destroy 3 Su-34s via patriot sam , there are reports that russia is discussing pulling all.air.power out of crimea - between them being destroyed on airfields and now not able to enter the Kherson region, they.aren't doing anything.good there. Also, all marine vessel...

I'm sure the Ukrainians feel way more secure knowing that token NATO forces are off in other countries hundreds of kilometers away from the front, protecting countries which are not under attack and who have the benefit of the USA's nuclear umbrella. So brave of the Germans to risk their troops like...

This is intellectually dishonest of you, come on. You will claim that the information available allows YOU to draw YOUR conclusion, but does not allow my own. That's right, because my conclusion is a different class from yours. It's simple - 1. J posts an article of a Ukrainian soldier relating jus...

I'm interested in why there is a lot of Ukraine dooming going on now. Their situation is dire, and by all rights they should lose this in the end, but that was even more true on day one of the full scale invasion in Feb '22. Russia is weaker now than at any time since the start of the war, while Uk...

Minsk agreements included an immediate and comprehensive ceasefire, which was ignored by the pro-Russian separatist terrorists and the little green men (Russian soldiers) fighting alongside them. It included the restoration of full control of the state border by the government of Ukraine, which nev...

Russia persued the Minsk agreementsfor 8 years? They completely ignored it. LOL what? How did the Russians ignore Minsk II? That would be the peace treaty they imposed on Ukraine by force? Why would they not want to implement that? Are you even aware that western leaders have openly gloated that th...

Given Russia's genocidal intend That's the silliest exaggeration about this war I've ever heard, and can be dismissed out of hand for the obvious inflammatory nonsense it is. Like yeah ok, Russia pursued the Minsk II agreements with the intent of federalizing Ukraine and prevent its NATO entry for ...

Ukraine has been asking for long-range missiles since the beginning. The USA is working on that: The US isn't working on that, no. These missiles are being developed for the US, not for Ukraine. And 150km doesn't given them any capability they didn't already basically have with Tochka-U (all expend...

There are times when I'm not sure if Western military & political leaders are really this dumb or the Russians pulled off one of the greatest disinformation campaigns in ages. Everyone was convinced the Ukrainians would somehow punch through multiple defensive lines with fully entrenched forces...

Vympel, you continue to use anecdotes to refute my accusation of anecdotal evidence. I'm sure the next anecdote will be the convincing one, though. I dunno man, I think if the NYT is (see above) doing articles on how Ukrainian recruitment is a nightmare and its recruiters are resorting to widesprea...

You subtly shifting your argument from it's systematic pressganging to we have seen incidents of pressgangs capturing draft eligible men. How do you define systematic? Do you think these soldiers walking around Ukrainain cities bundling unwilling civilians into vehicles to drag them to the front is...

Right. And if we to believe all videos, Russian soldiers have also mass defected to Ukranians, are engaging in violent strikes against conscription offices wholesale and Russia conscription has collapsed utterly due to evasion. The videos showing incidents does not equate to wholesale pressgangs. T...

Errr. Citing social media reports is the very definition of ancedotal.. Yes, but the more significant part of the article is the reports of recruitment crashing because of Zelensky sacking corrupt recruitment officials. As a seperate point, characterising Ukrainian military press gangs as merely 's...