| > How can a nuclear armed country with a 100 million population advantage possibly lose this war? Do these people assume Russia would never mobilise its population? Or would never use its nuclear weapons? Their military is terribly corrupt, how else can you explain Russia rolling out the T62 already?, they are meant to have plenty of T72's but that clearly wasn't the truth. > Up until now Russia has been waging this war with its arms tied behind its back and now that the West has artificially prolonged this war with its endless shipment of weapons and intelligence, Russia has been forced to escalate. Ah yes, Russias famous hypersonic missiles, spetsnaz, VDV and T90 hand tied behind their back. Russias be throwing everything and the kitchen sink at Ukraine, but it just doesn't seem to work, they aren't holding back _this is all they have_. > The United States was responsible for instigating this war in the first place, by giving false confidence to Ukraine and encouraging them to play hard ball with Russia with regards to NATO membership etc. Now they are drip feeding Ukraine with weapons, just enough to keep the conflict going, ostensibly to make Russia lick its wounds and retreat in humiliation?. The only person responsible for the current ongoing Ukrainian genocide is Russia, Russia alone made the decision to invade and Russia alone made the decision to commit war crimes. > Not sure if its a deliberate policy but the US is in effect destroying Ukraine & giving it a slow, painful death. Military aid to Ukraine is the only thing that stands between Ukraine and the end of its people and country. Ironically it seems like it was really good that Russia only kinda invaded in 2014 cause since then Ukraine has been strengthening their military and training for this day. I suspect is Russia kept on rolling forward in 2014 then Ukraine would be a Russian puppet state like Belarus. > Zelensky has huge responsibility for this war as well. His refusal to take serious Putin's threat of war, despite months of warning with solid intelligence, right up until the cruise missiles started landing, should be evidence enough of his incompetence & that he is well above his head. Now he is trying to make up for his incompetence by needlessly sacrificing tens of thousand of his own citizens lives. Zelensky believed the Russians where better people then to invade, he was Cleary wrong. > I genuinely find it quite repulsing how he is constantly on TV, be it Oscars, sporting events, begging for arms & aid 24/7. He has been begging for tanks, fighter jets, helicopters & even submarines. He basically wants to command the US military minus the personnel. How delusional can one get? Many find him courageous but I really think he is a narcissist who really thinks his playing a role in a movie. The US has found just the right person who is willing to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian. He is on TV asking for weapons to help his country stop a active genocide he's doing exactly what he should be doing. |
A month or so before the war even started, as I was talking to my dad (who used to be a low-level officer back in his days and, unfortunately, currently lives in Russia), he quickly pointed out that Russia is about to embarass themselves big time, as the military is extremely corrupt there. All those tanks that have been presented to higher ups as maintained and functional for decades? As the tradition goes, some local military higher ups just pocketed the money and were relaying the "everything is well and maintained" to higher higher-ups from the outside. That's not just tanks, that's quite literally every single piece of equipment, as long as there was a way to pocket the money by not maintaining the equipment.
My dad had stories from his own military days, where his platoon had been given orders to "dress up the vehicles" to make it look like they are all good and operational when higher ups from outside of the region were visiting. In reality, they all were rusted up and wouldn't survive a 50 mile drive. I kept hearing those stories since I was a child, and the current performance of Russian military in Ukraine certainly affirms them.