No major cities taken since the invasion began. 20,000 Russian troops dead. Black Sea flagship sunk. Assault on Kyiv and Kharkiv repelled. Finland and Sweden joining NATO. Russia has been humiliated.
Russia loses its eighth general and 34th colonel in Ukraine in the latest hammer blow to Putin's botched invasion.
Russian military TNT contains nothing but blocks of wood.
Do you actually believe this rubbish? Are you so indoctrinated that you lose any and all ability to question the truth or relevance of anything that you post? You play too much PlayStation and read too little and too narrowly.
The Moskva sinking has exactly zero relevance to the outcome in this war. What does have relevance is the capture/sinking and neutralisation of the entire Ukrainian Navy in the opening days of the war. Missed your comments on that. You will have been posting some irrelevant and unattributed you-tube video in a poor attempt at appearing informed.
No major cities taken? All you are doing is repeating the ill informed projection that passes for analysis from "paid to not understand" experts. The troops outside Kiev, as even some of those "experts" now seem to have cottoned, far from "failing to take Kiev" have in fact "succeeded" in their main aim of pinning large numbers of Ukrainian soldiers and "shaping the battlefield" for phase two. A much larger invasion force would be required to take cities. Everyone knows this. The Russians certainly know this. Why would you still believe, given the above, that their intention was taking Kiev and Kharkov at this stage?
Ukraine has no navy left, no air force left, minimal air defence still intact, no manoeuvrability (lack of fuel and air cover), have lost an area the size of the UK already, something between 60 to 100,000 of their elite formations in a cauldron in Donbass without chance of relief or reinforcement, Black Sea access likely to be completely cut off shortly and you get a hard on because a Russian ship sank. It has no relevance to the outcome which is a done deal already.
All of the above has been discussed and analysed at length by experts who understand Russian military doctrine, war and geopolitics. Scott Ritter, Col. Douglas MacGregor, Andrei Martyanov and many others all understand perfectly well the reality on the ground.
The dead Colonels and Generals claim that you repeat and believe to be an example of the "botched invasion", even if true, is the repeated projection of supposed experts. Russians generals and colonels lead on the battlefield not sat back in an armchair somewhere.
Your 20,000 Russian dead figure is obvious bollocks. Finland and Sweden will get a visit from Russian missiles the moment they place NATO missiles on their territory. Going to do something isn't the same as doing something. Russian TNT contains only blocks of wood which you have discovered via your usual evidence of an unattributed youtube video shows how dumb and gullible you are.
NATO arms and mercs? are being destroyed with missiles the moment they enter Ukraine. All Ukraine have left is one off raids and propaganda. A NATO trained and armed army of 600,000 about to be entirely neutralised and disarmed by a hugely outnumbered attacking force. Phase 2 about to begin. It is delusional to believe that "Russia has been humiliated" as David continues to believe. You need to face up to some uncomfortable truths. Reality on the ground will no longer be able to be shut out with comforting lies.
Reality is that hypersonic missile tech, integrated air defence systems way in advance of NATO junk and Electronic Warfare systems have re-invented modern warfare and NATO are not even in the game. What they going to do? Send an aircraft carrier group? Send some more weapons that the Russians will obliterate with missiles before they get anywhere near the battlefield? All of this is and has been understood for some years now by any serious and independent analysts/experts. I wrote of these developments and their consequences some years back on this thread. David mocked the hypersonic claims by deploying some Gif's, as I recall, and regarding it as Russian disinformation or something. It was true then and it is even more so now, as the gap has widened, but this is one of those "uncomfortable truths" so David ignores the implications.
All of the above with a military budget over the last 20 years or so of around 6/7% of the US alone. How corrupt must the US MIC be to outspend Russia by 15/16 times and still be generations behind in all the tech that has literally changed warfare and how it is waged.
You understand too little and are too closed to uncomfortable truths to take seriously, David, on anything with regard to geopolitics.
