THE UKRAINIAN ARMY HAS BEEN DEFEATED. WHAT’S LEFT IS MOP-UP

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  1. Monash

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    And in another news update Ukraine has officially been supplied with JDAM ER kits for its air force. Limited numbers have apparently already been used but many more are now being sent. These kits are highly accurate and will compliment HIMARS as Ukraine's long range strike system.

    Expect more things to start going 'boom' farther behind Russian's lines than before. (Can the last Russian to leave Ukrainian territory please please settle the account at reception. Thank you.)
     
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    Those weapons gonna make mop-up more difficult -- more green teenage Ukrainian lads fed into the meat grinder - don't need accuracy when you have a 10-1 artillery advantage. Front line life expentancy for these Lads is 4 hours .. .. you can keep feeding them into the grinder as long as supplies last .. not gonna turn Crimea back into Ukrainian Territory.
     
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    Just a quick update from Oxyx. The website is reporting that as of today total visually confirmed Russian tank losses (from all causes) have surpassed 1800 vehicles of all types with T-64s making up only a tiny proportion of those losses (117). Confirmed Ukrainian tank losses still stand at less than 500 (472). Close to a 4:1 kill rate. Granted some tanks lost during Ukrainian offensive ops into Russian territory or as a result of Russian advances might be harder to detect/confirm and have therefore not been included but still not too shabby.

    If the current loss rate continues unabated the Russians should hit the 2000 mark in about 6-8 weeks, perhaps sooner if Ukraine launches a significant offensive before then.
     
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    Watch Russian Tanks Run Into the Same Trap Near Vuhledar, Ukraine | WSJ
     
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    Russian commanders losing confidence in Putin
     
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    Have you informed NATO?

    NATO warns Bakhmut could fall within days

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    'NATO’s Secretary General says the city of Bakhmut could fall to the Russian Wagner Group within days'

    Are there two Wagner Groups? Or is this Wagner Group the same one you claimed was being beaten in Bakhmut?

    'Wagner owner Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose troops have spearheaded the fight in Bakhmut, said they have taken full control of all districts east of the Bakhmutka River that crosses the city. The city’s center lies west of the river.'

    'The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank that closely monitors the fighting, said Russian forces were likely in control in the areas cited by Prigozhin following a Ukrainian withdrawal.'

    I assume that this is the same Prigozhin you were referring to?

    'NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the Bakhmut could fall "in the coming days". Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg told reporters on Wednesday that the embattled frontline town of Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, could come under Russian control.'

    'Ukrainian fighters are already surrounded on three sides and Russia is shelling the road out of town. President Zelensky told CNN yesterday that if Russia isn’t stopped at Bakhmut they can move west from there.'

    Zelensky continues: “We understand that after Bakhmut they could go further. They could go to Kramatorsk, they could go to Sloviansk, it would be open road for the Russians after Bakhmut to other towns in Ukraine, in the Donetsk direction,”
     
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    Maybe if the Ukrainians can hold out long enough for the Russians to waste up to 50k worth of cannon fodder in Bakmut, then that would still be a win for the Ukrainians if they lose the city.
     
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    I think you've misspelled the name. It should be Oryx. Apparently it's in the same lineage as Bellingcat, a British company specializing in western propaganda and deception.
     
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    It is very easy to start the war, but it is very difficult to predict who will win, just look on the last 100 years of the world history.
    No doubt Russia has a big advantage - historically Russian had no problem to sacrifice thousands of soldiers and civilians just to prove their leader is right. Russian population is about 140 million, Ukraine about 40 million, and Putin is ready to sacrifice 10 Russian soldiers for one Ukraine soldier - so the future does not look bright for Ukraine.

    Just look what happened in the Winter War, when Russia attacked Finland:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War

    Finland: 70,000 total casualties
    Russia: 321,000–381,000 total casualties

    According to ChatGPT:
    Population of Finland in 1939 was approximately 3.7 million people.
    Population of Russia in 1939 was approximately 168.5 million people.
     
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    I see the fascists are still fighting hard to defeat civilians in their homes far away from the frontlines:

    Ukraine war: 'First time in history' UN Security Council permanent member threatens nuclear plant
     
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    Or maybe we shouldn't be hypocrites and condemn colonialism in all its forms, i.e Israel, America, the British empire, all took sovereign land and profited 100% from it, never paying reparations. If Putin was American you would all be wetting your pants at what a god he is.
     
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    Just for **** and giggles, what do the pro-Russians here expect or want the Uke's to do to end this war ?
    Stop shooting and give up more of their country ?
    Does Russia even have a proposition on what it would take for them to stop shooting ?
    What about reparations ?
     
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    Not that any Russian proposal could be accepted anyway. They've demonstrated repeatedly that they will simply violate any agreement under false pretenses and proceed to try and conquer more territory. In this case, they engaged in false flag ops and disinformation campaigns to set the stage for this invasion, falsely accusing Ukraine of violating the Minsk Agreement and concocting tales of Ukrainian Nazis committing genocide and preparing to invade Russia based on nothing more than some old photos of a handful of neo-Nazi types holding flags and saluting.
     
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    Well, there is that. I was just curious if the pro-Russian posters here had any kind of exit plan.

    Apparently not.
     
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    If you ask @Destroyer of illusions , there is nothing short of total conquest that will appease mighty Russia, I'm sure. All of Ukraine, all of Europe, and at least a few US states as well :lol:
     
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    We can't compare casualty rates from 1939.. because they don't compare :) estimates are roughly 50-50 overall .. with russia losing at a much higher rate in the initial phases of the war - Ukraine now losing at a slightly higher rate in the trench war. where artillery rules .. russia a 10-1 artillery advantage. everyone is calling it a "Meat Grinder" .. but terminator style .. these guys talk about evading these drones .. which you don't want to try to shoot at .. cause hard to knock down.. and if you miss .. they gonna blow you up .. zoom in on you and suicide themselves .. this is on both sides .. the clone wars have begun ... this is just the beginning .. and everyone knows it .. a huge race with tons of competitors already .. small nations can now defend themselves against larger .. game changing technology .. the manufacturers having a field day .. Israel choked though .. they have some really good stuff for the testing .. Drones - AA .. same with China .. would not be surprized if china weazles its way in.

    I say these drone technologies should be banned like bioweapons - just too dangerous to humanity - and will not be long before Gov't using this technology on its citizens. This is not war as we have ever known it .. not just one but numerous game changing technologies on display .. and as stated previous we have just seen some of it.

    Of the 40 million in ukraine .. 10 million have left ... lots do not want to fight. Then you have the mercs and foreign fighters .. Vlad seems to be doing better job of mobilizing those .. the Prisoner Idea .. sorry but .. pretty smart - has the Islamists in the fight as well as opposed to teenage Ukrainian lads .. and 40+crowd .. off to the trenches with life expectancy of 4 hours.
     
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    All they do is visually ID, geolocate & catalogue photos of destroyed or captured vehicles. And that's after trying to eliminate any duplicates collected in the process. And if you bothered to check the site also looks at other subjects. Not just the war. So go ahead then, PROVE it's all fake data or show me where all of Russia's tanks have gone. That or go way stop posting uniformed BS. Any or all of those options are acceptable. Pick one.
     
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    If Putin's regime falls it will be interesting to see how many Putinist accounts just disappear after they close the propaganda troll farms down.
     
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    Need I remind you again Mr Bloom? Or you can ask ChatGPT who freed the jews from Auschwitz again. You talk a lot of **** about the people that defeated the Nazis in WW2 and for some strange reason, you are supporting the side that has actual nazi battalions in their army. Maybe ask ChatGPT about your dilemma?
     
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    Excellent point. But in this instance, it is Putin against western colonialism and globalism.
     
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    Except it's Russia that is invading and stealing land from another country, engaging in colonialism.

    As for globalism, one of these things is not like the other.
     
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    I wonder why Israeli volunteers choose to fight with Ukraine and not Russia in this conflict?

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    So strange.
     
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