i see some of the ukrainian footage as like watching funniest home video
fun to watch, even if some of it is staged, but not especially revealing
But overall, i think you wouldn't go to all the trouble of pushing down through fucking chernobyl and taking all those losses in order to surround chicken kiev, just to pull back again as they seem to be doing now. So I reckon which ever way you slice it the Russians have made one big strategic fuck-up somewhere along the line and have had to change plans. Maybe they're going to try to slowly grind their way westward now, blatting everything to rubble like they did in mariupol, but I don't think time is on their side. The Ukrainians with the wests belated support will slowly become better armed. Maybe the Russkis new strategy is to try and just consolidate the big mouthed donbass region and hope ukraine concedes it as a compromise in peace talks, saving a bit of face for Putin who'll claim this was what he wanted all along, but again I think the ukrainians will see this as weakness and could just continue to bleed the russians and again ,take advantage of their centre not being threatened to power-up their troops. I can't see them conceding it, myself unless things turn a lot worse for them. I heard one MI guy say it's not just the weapons, it's the training time need to use them effectively, especially some of the high tech systems, if the west isn't planning to intervene directly. that's my 2p to add to every other armchair general's two bits
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 4 Apr 2022, 15:19,
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I think you're right
Possibly they wanted to hold kiev hostage by surrounding/ occupying it while demanding the black sea coast/eastern regions become Russian.
That would have been great for Russian; secure a warm water port, neutralise ukraine, show how badass they are.
......lol.
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