Official Russia vs Ukraine War Thread

Because he runs a competent intelligence community, unlike Putin and his navel-gazers.

washingtonpost.com

The Post examined the lead-up to the Ukraine war. Here’s what we learned.

A Washington Post examination of the road to war in Ukraine, and Western efforts to unite to thwart the Kremlin’s plans, draws on extensive interviews with more than three dozen senior U.S., Ukrainian, European and NATO offic...

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LOL!!

Why didn’t they stop Russia from getting the 25% of Ukraine that they set out to get, and now control. Oh that’s right, because they couldn’t. Too bad there weren’t 81 million Ghost of Kievs flying around over there- LOLOLOL!

Maybe $70B (from just the US) isn’t enough. WE ALL NEED TO START SENDING OUR OWN MONEY, TOO!! If we all simply send one year’s salary, surely that’ll put Ukraine over the top!

(Meanwhile, Zelenskyy and his wife will be doing another photo shoot for Vogue.) LOL!

That's a lot of LOLs. Maybe they should update your software.

Biden didn't stop the invasion because he wasn't sending the US to war against a nuclear nation over Ukraine. It's not a difficult concept and it's been covered extensively since February.

Close. Brandon didn’t stop the invasion because a) he couldn’t*, and b) the military industrial complex wanted the invasion.

*Among several reasons: Russia ensured Chinese support before invading. China owns the U.S. We all have seen it in recent years. They can shut down our economy if they wanted to. Our politicians literally will not speak a negative word about China in public, Hollywood changes movies for China, major athletes disregard all their supposed SJW principles for China, Wall St depends on cheap Chinese labor and growth opportunity for their profits, etc.

Anybody that uses the name Brandon can’t be taken seriously. Maybe Truth Social is more your speed

You should have gone with "Brandon didn't stop the invasion because Trump is the actually commander in chief. He's just waiting for Q to release the kraken."

counter offensive is about to capture 10k Russian soldiers.

A reverse Stalingrad.

Remember March, when the Russian army got decimated around Kyiv, chased out of Sumy and - the biggest humiliation of them all - got slapped around and ran away from Kharkiv, a city of majority Russian speakers just a few miles from the Russian border who now want nothing to do with the miserable failure that is Putin's Russia? That's pretty successful.

Anyway, it's weird that everyone was like, "Russia controls 20% of Ukraine!!!" (including previously occupied Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk territories) in June and then Russia got smacked around some more this week and chased out of thousands of square kilometers of formerly occupied territory, and now they're all "Russia controls 25% of Ukraine!!!" These guys are not good at math.

This is over and Russia is whipped. now it's just about how many more Russians die today?

What gets me is just how damn stupid were these Russians to think this was going to work. Hell they did everything wrong they came off looking totally clueless on anything about fighting. Hey guys lets drive our tanks down the road in a long convoy. nobody will notice us......hahahaha~~~ Talking about STOO-PEED there it was.

Before this is over there will be over 100,000 dead Russia's and they would have gained.......nothing. Thousands of weapons/equipment destroyed, hell....ships were sunk

Russians are now surrending and running away, a total and complete laughing stock. Now if somebody would take out Putin, cool!

Loving it....

looks like UKR created a diversion in the South to draw RU reinforcements to that area....then launched an offensive in the North, in the lightly defended areas up there.

Lordy I love some Ukrainian military smarts. Apparently lots of prisoners taken, which is always a giant positive.

If UKR can maintain their newly regained lands and use it to cut off RU supplies even more...this is starting to look good.

This is over, nothing Russia can do now to turn this butt kicking around, why Putin hasn't thrown in the towel, what is he thinking?

putin can't surrender....dictators don't have that gene. It makes them look weak, which is unacceptable for a dictator. It's a problem. That's why they get shot in the back of their head or flee at the last second.

But if the military starts melting away into the hills then Putin's rule has a clock on it. Angry guys with guns and money may step up and let him know in some unmistakable way that it's time to declare both a victory over the UKR Nazis and a major Putin health crisis and have him go away somewhere.

Interesting idea that we're seeing the final death rattle of the core of two empires...

The Russian federation may not survive this catastrophic war of choice by Putin. Nations allied to RU, like Belarus and Kazakhstan may just spin off.

The United Kingdom may come apart under King Charles. Without Liz holding it together, after Brexit alienated Scotland and NI, it may very well spin apart.

Both self-owns. RU with the war, the UK with Brexit.

Is the US next to destruct by its own hand, with trumpism?

The more I read the more it sounds like this is the major moment in the war, at least since the RU advance on Kyiv was broken.

Good thread here...it takes for granted that the RU army is in an unorganized retreat. We don't 100% know that is true.

The argument is that if UKR can this week do a competent job destroying a disorganized retreating RU army, then RU would have a very difficult time to push back, given low morale, lost equipment and sadly thousands more dead and wounded.

Winter will come and RU will have lost so many fortified positions it cannot hold any sort of a line anymore in that area. And to send in reinforcements would invite more UKR offensives in those suddenly less defended areas.

2500 square km of regained occupied territory in one region sounds like a lot.

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@TheStudyofWar
#Kharkiv Update:
#Ukrainian forces have captured an estimated 2,500 square kilometers in Kharkiv Oblast in the Kharkiv area counteroffensive as of September 9.