The writing is apparently on the wall for Ukraine, without a full-blown effort from the U.S. and Europe.
From The Saker at thesaker.is:
So, after lots of speculation, we now know that the Kremlin has decided to mobilize about 300,000 soldiers from a total mobilizational potential of 25,000,000 soldiers. That’s just a little over 1% of Russia’s mobilizational potential. We are talking only about those soldiers who have an official status of “reserves” and all of them will have to undergo a special training before being sent to the Ukraine. A few comments about this decision:
- It will take Russia a few months to gather and retrain (refresher courses) these forces and they will not be immediately available to protect the Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhie and Kherson regions during the upcoming referendum on to whether to join Russia or not. The 3rd volunteer army corps is already deployed in the south and could greatly assist in this.
- Putin and Shoigu gave several reasons for this decision, including the very long line of contact, the direct involvement of NATO personnel who are now running the Ukronazi regime in Kiev and the threats by the West to dismantle Russia.
- Shoigu indicated that the UAF lost about 50% of its personnel (over 100,000 soldiers out of a total potential of about 200,000). He also added that most of the Ukrainian weapons systems, which were of Soviet origin, was mostly destroyed. Russian KIAs are just under 6,000 soldiers.
Dougal Cable said:
It seems Russian trolls are hard at work, and with success in some areas. Some people are suckers for disinformation.
Waikanae watchers said:
What objective analysis can you offer to back up that claim? Our goal since 2020 has been to balance hysteria by the Mainstream Media with parts of the stories they deliberately ignore.
Antigone said:
Very appreciative of your efforts Waikanae Watch to present another side to NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine. The western leaders couldn’t care less about Ukraine lives. Boris Johnson during his visit to Kiev in April apparently scuttled a proposed peace treaty between Russia and Ukraine because Washington and the EU want to continue the war in the hope to destablise Russia and take over its resources.
The collapsing American empire is like a cornered wounded animal and the world is living through a very dangerous time.
cunning5tunt said:
“The collapsing American empire is like a cornered wounded animal”
Absolutely and they are the only nation to ever use nuclear weapons on three different countries on the indigenous population there.
The US is also suspected of supplying the Saudi rulers with low yield neutron bombs to use on Yemen.
Whilst the MSM jump up and down about ‘Putin’ ‘Putin’ ‘Putin’ using nuclear weapons let us not forget the above and who the aggressor is in this conflict because this is not happening on the US, UK, or NZ border it is happening on the Russian border.
Antigone said:
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/joe-bidens-last-stand/
Good article by James Howard Kunstler on Ukraine and in particular the business dealings there of the Biden family
cunning5tunt said:
Are we not allowed to get both sides of a story? We only get one side from the mainstream media and government. Do you know where else that happens? North Korea.
If you can’t handle seeing two sides of the story and forming your own objective opinion based on the facts presented, then maybe it is best that you let the adults do the thinking and keep your petty class room politics to yourself?
Nova said:
When the words disinformation and misinformation are used you just know that this is code for I don’t like the truth.
The Ukraine has long been a place used for money laundering and obtaining all kind of things illegal and immoral. The current situation is because vested interests are being exposed.
Russia and China have seen that Western wokeism has weakened all the countries that have taken up this trend with gusto. Try ruling over the majority with the gay, trans and greenwash agenda in Russia or China and see how far you get. I do not in any way endorse a populace being brutalised by social credit scores etc, but a good proportion of Westerners have lost their minds and refuse to grow a backbone over crap that would have not been tolerated even 10 years ago.
For those who might want to tweak Russia’s nose, they might want to think twice because in the event of total war no-one will care what your damn pronouns are or if your soy latte is unobtainable.
Simulation of war between US and Russia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jy3JU-ORpo
The living would envy the dead.