Whatever happened to the rumours of Parkinsons disease? There were videos - 3+ years ago of classic symptoms - trembling hands - gripping table tops to conceal that etc. Whatever - all these guys must be loaded with weird meds 24x7. Then when their MDs get the word - poof! - that's the end - like Rurik says happened to Andropov.
You are not really addressing what is most strange about this very strange war, that is, that the Russian top leadership seem to have been doing everything they could, at least most of the time, not only not to win but to actually lose the war. Why the mindless grind at deeply entrenched Ukrainian defenses where they are strongest with horrific casualties. And when they somehow opened a new front in Kharkiv province and found it virtually undefended, the strange decision to stop the advance. And why were the front line generals starved of supplies sitting unused in bases before the great Ukrainian offensive? And why when the frustrated and desperate general (Popov) there went and just took the needed supplies and so stopped the Ukrainians, why was he first sacked, and now sits in prison - for what - theft i.e., taking the supplies he was not getting and stopping the Ukrainian attack? And why have the bridges across the Dnieper never been bombed? Why was the Kursk area totally undefended despite repeated warnings at all levels for weeks before? One could go on all day with such examples.
Russia seems to want a way out of the war but NATO won't let them sue for peace. NATO is a doomsday cult, continuing to escalate rather than accept either defeat or peace. Interesting times.
All things point to the war as theatre. It will have to end in a negotiated resolution. Show of force between NATO and Russia has not been needed at any point as they know the capabilities of each other.
From the outside (almost, here in Finland we are now NATO vassals as well) looking in the war is a childish pretext waiting for the adults to put an end to but between the adults so there is no one to put them in line.
Military armaments are made to be reordered, that can only happen if they are expended. Finland ordered F35 fighters that will be redundant before they arrive, you can get a thousand drones for the same price as the lifecycle cost of a F35, war is a scam, all humanity is one species.
The biggest con about modern warfare is that myth that the leaders are not vulnerable so the pawns must fight each other. I can safely say that it would have cost less to eliminate Biden, Zelensky and Putin though covert or overt means than the cost of the war in just ammunition, leaving out the much greater collateral losses.
Everything follows from the cardinal error of the war, which was how Putin held that Ukrainians and Russians are one people and, rather than follow that thought to its logical conclusion: that therefore he didn't need to invade, he instead invaded, thereby ensuring that his assumption would become wrong.
Russia had all of the cards but they played the single card that was always going to end in disaster for them.
After years of hundreds of deaths a day, accumulating from both sides of a conflict between "one people", so that the patriot's sense of loss is doubled, is anyone who actually likes Russia going to admit that if Putin had wanted Ukrainians to be part of Russia's sphere all he had to do was make being part of Russia's sphere sufficiently attractive, simply by making Russia a great place to live and a successful society?
And everything else was always a distraction by and for idiots from the fact that he couldn't be motivated to do this, not when he could instead go on jollies around the world, playing the anti-Western macho man and LARPing as the leader of a genuine superpower.
Literally all he needed to do was focus on making Russia a really great place to visit and live.
Oh, and for those who don't agree/find this too upsetting, consider how easily the US and/or EU could gut Russian society and its future: they need only offer a Green Card or equivalent to any Russian with a university degree. A policy that could be put in place tomorrow.
Here's what is stranger - there's this weird pipeline across Ukraine, starting at Sumy - in transit from the Russian natural gas fields - going to the western border of Ukraine. Russia pays Ukraine millions of dollars for the use of this pipeline, and it has been neither hit nor attacked (like say the Nordstream pipelines) despite the fact that it is in an active war zone and has been for 32 months. Such amazing luck... There's also the fact that the US buys about a third of the uranium required for its civilian nuclear electric power plants, from Russia - that's worth about a billion dollars annually to Moscow. So perhaps this war is not what it is advertised to be... perhaps it has a lot more to do with depopulation - if you can't get them with the "vaccines", there's always war.
If whomever you think is in charge of this shadowy scheme wanted to depopulate Ukraine, they could simply have granted working visas to Ukrainians. Also, are people still promising that the vaccine is going to kill billions any day now?
Format for this piece, alternating text to video to news-screenshot to text to comment etc, looks like a (involuntary ???) tribute to Simplicius, and to his winning formula.
can see in the map that from KrasnyOktbriansk to Obukhovka is about a 30 km line distance recovered in one day or two of sudden Russian counterattack, coming from the western side of the salient, which is ironically where Ukros blew all the river bridges and were expected to overrun the supposedly isolated Russian garrison.
I also cannot help but presume you have a English native speaker editor, as your English is too good for a foreigner.
Russian tanks roll into Ukraine. Russian missiles fire into Ukraine. But we are supposed to be shocked and horrified that the Ukrainians dare to hit back....... You've got this exactly the wrong way round. It is Russia which chose to make war, it is Russia which chose to invade a sovereign neighbour, it is Russia which is responsible for the violence and bloodshed.
Will Putin grow a spine, or is it already too late.
It is too late for a 72 year old botoxed man. He just wants to die in a warm Kremlin bed at this point.
Whatever happened to the rumours of Parkinsons disease? There were videos - 3+ years ago of classic symptoms - trembling hands - gripping table tops to conceal that etc. Whatever - all these guys must be loaded with weird meds 24x7. Then when their MDs get the word - poof! - that's the end - like Rurik says happened to Andropov.
You are not really addressing what is most strange about this very strange war, that is, that the Russian top leadership seem to have been doing everything they could, at least most of the time, not only not to win but to actually lose the war. Why the mindless grind at deeply entrenched Ukrainian defenses where they are strongest with horrific casualties. And when they somehow opened a new front in Kharkiv province and found it virtually undefended, the strange decision to stop the advance. And why were the front line generals starved of supplies sitting unused in bases before the great Ukrainian offensive? And why when the frustrated and desperate general (Popov) there went and just took the needed supplies and so stopped the Ukrainians, why was he first sacked, and now sits in prison - for what - theft i.e., taking the supplies he was not getting and stopping the Ukrainian attack? And why have the bridges across the Dnieper never been bombed? Why was the Kursk area totally undefended despite repeated warnings at all levels for weeks before? One could go on all day with such examples.
Russia seems to want a way out of the war but NATO won't let them sue for peace. NATO is a doomsday cult, continuing to escalate rather than accept either defeat or peace. Interesting times.
All things point to the war as theatre. It will have to end in a negotiated resolution. Show of force between NATO and Russia has not been needed at any point as they know the capabilities of each other.
From the outside (almost, here in Finland we are now NATO vassals as well) looking in the war is a childish pretext waiting for the adults to put an end to but between the adults so there is no one to put them in line.
Military armaments are made to be reordered, that can only happen if they are expended. Finland ordered F35 fighters that will be redundant before they arrive, you can get a thousand drones for the same price as the lifecycle cost of a F35, war is a scam, all humanity is one species.
The biggest con about modern warfare is that myth that the leaders are not vulnerable so the pawns must fight each other. I can safely say that it would have cost less to eliminate Biden, Zelensky and Putin though covert or overt means than the cost of the war in just ammunition, leaving out the much greater collateral losses.
Everything follows from the cardinal error of the war, which was how Putin held that Ukrainians and Russians are one people and, rather than follow that thought to its logical conclusion: that therefore he didn't need to invade, he instead invaded, thereby ensuring that his assumption would become wrong.
Russia had all of the cards but they played the single card that was always going to end in disaster for them.
After years of hundreds of deaths a day, accumulating from both sides of a conflict between "one people", so that the patriot's sense of loss is doubled, is anyone who actually likes Russia going to admit that if Putin had wanted Ukrainians to be part of Russia's sphere all he had to do was make being part of Russia's sphere sufficiently attractive, simply by making Russia a great place to live and a successful society?
And everything else was always a distraction by and for idiots from the fact that he couldn't be motivated to do this, not when he could instead go on jollies around the world, playing the anti-Western macho man and LARPing as the leader of a genuine superpower.
Literally all he needed to do was focus on making Russia a really great place to visit and live.
Oh, and for those who don't agree/find this too upsetting, consider how easily the US and/or EU could gut Russian society and its future: they need only offer a Green Card or equivalent to any Russian with a university degree. A policy that could be put in place tomorrow.
Here's what is stranger - there's this weird pipeline across Ukraine, starting at Sumy - in transit from the Russian natural gas fields - going to the western border of Ukraine. Russia pays Ukraine millions of dollars for the use of this pipeline, and it has been neither hit nor attacked (like say the Nordstream pipelines) despite the fact that it is in an active war zone and has been for 32 months. Such amazing luck... There's also the fact that the US buys about a third of the uranium required for its civilian nuclear electric power plants, from Russia - that's worth about a billion dollars annually to Moscow. So perhaps this war is not what it is advertised to be... perhaps it has a lot more to do with depopulation - if you can't get them with the "vaccines", there's always war.
If whomever you think is in charge of this shadowy scheme wanted to depopulate Ukraine, they could simply have granted working visas to Ukrainians. Also, are people still promising that the vaccine is going to kill billions any day now?
Not Ukraine - Russia...
They could do the same for Russia.
Format for this piece, alternating text to video to news-screenshot to text to comment etc, looks like a (involuntary ???) tribute to Simplicius, and to his winning formula.
Content stimulates thought, but it also omits the most recent updates, to show how Russia recovered a big chunk of AFU salient in Kursk oblast https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/11sep2024_Ukraine_Kursk_Map.jpg
can see in the map that from KrasnyOktbriansk to Obukhovka is about a 30 km line distance recovered in one day or two of sudden Russian counterattack, coming from the western side of the salient, which is ironically where Ukros blew all the river bridges and were expected to overrun the supposedly isolated Russian garrison.
I also cannot help but presume you have a English native speaker editor, as your English is too good for a foreigner.
Russian tanks roll into Ukraine. Russian missiles fire into Ukraine. But we are supposed to be shocked and horrified that the Ukrainians dare to hit back....... You've got this exactly the wrong way round. It is Russia which chose to make war, it is Russia which chose to invade a sovereign neighbour, it is Russia which is responsible for the violence and bloodshed.