Ukrainian War Developments
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My thoughts:
A very efficient campaign from Russia. A feigned attack from LPR/DPR, followed by an invasion via Crimea and Belarus against no opposition. No IEDs, no destruction of bridges, not even barricades (LOL). Ukraine was completely unprepared.
The most interesting aspect was the electronic warfare. Social media was bombarded with reports of heavy losses of Ukrainian soldiers, defections and general confusion. Some of it was true but a lot was propaganda to reduce morale in the Ukrainian army.
Unlike NATOs carpet bombing of Serbia, Iraq and Afghanistan, bombings so far seem to be very surgical with very little collateral damage.
No way does the regime leave Kiev. How will they escape? They are totally cut off. No martial law or curfew until it was too late, so the Ukrainian authorities have to deal with civilian unrest and flight as well. I hope this is over before it becomes a humanitarian crisis.
I don't think the Ukrainians have the bottle to keep this up much longer. I guess the Anglos didn't post enough Ukrainian flags on twitter.
A very efficient campaign from Russia. A feigned attack from LPR/DPR, followed by an invasion via Crimea and Belarus against no opposition. No IEDs, no destruction of bridges, not even barricades (LOL). Ukraine was completely unprepared.
The most interesting aspect was the electronic warfare. Social media was bombarded with reports of heavy losses of Ukrainian soldiers, defections and general confusion. Some of it was true but a lot was propaganda to reduce morale in the Ukrainian army.
Unlike NATOs carpet bombing of Serbia, Iraq and Afghanistan, bombings so far seem to be very surgical with very little collateral damage.
No way does the regime leave Kiev. How will they escape? They are totally cut off. No martial law or curfew until it was too late, so the Ukrainian authorities have to deal with civilian unrest and flight as well. I hope this is over before it becomes a humanitarian crisis.
I don't think the Ukrainians have the bottle to keep this up much longer. I guess the Anglos didn't post enough Ukrainian flags on twitter.
Lol yeah right..Dems are salivating on this very trying and unfortunate circumstances for all the civilians on all sides dragged into this geopolitical conflict. The Democrats have their 911 moment and will milk every ounce from this Russian "Special Operation" a.k.a. Invasion just as the Republicans did when the war cry to attack Iraq was defeaning that virtually drowned out every democratic politicians to be cowed and voted to attack, INVADE a Sovereign Country that's Iraq in 2003. A country that has never attacked the U.S. or posed any existential threat to the continental U.S.ofA.
I wonder what the probability is of the EU trying to sabotage US sanctions on Russia...
There will be a lot of sanctions announced tomorrow, but after the dust settles, maybe Germany and others will start to subvert them indirectly... If the economic cost to Europe is high enough, it's possible.
It's a long shot... but if it happens, this whole move will completely backfire on the US.
There will be a lot of sanctions announced tomorrow, but after the dust settles, maybe Germany and others will start to subvert them indirectly... If the economic cost to Europe is high enough, it's possible.
It's a long shot... but if it happens, this whole move will completely backfire on the US.
Goes to show you how empty, vacuous, and morally bankrupt western politics and politicians are at the moment. They are nothing but a bunch of virtue signaling mother flowers with zero principles.
Hua Chunying nothing. Phead128 is the real spokesperson for Chinese policies, not Hua Chunying. She might think she is the go to person, but nothing can be further from the truth.
One thing we haven't discussed is how this will impact the Indo-Pacific strategy.
A topic for when the dust settles or when we get a definitve outcome of where the war is going. Kyiv hasn't fallen yet so things are still in play.
Let's try to keep things on topic and focus on updates on the ground. This site's threads easily get off-topic real fast.
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