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[–] Uglyhead 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Putler finally forced his paid and Kompromated puppets in the American government to pull support from Ukraine.

Now he can take what all he wants. Good job Qult45. Well done.

Edit: member when the DNC was hacked by two Russian government backed groups for years and all the dirt came pouring out everywhere right before the US elections? Member when those same groups had hacked into the RNC for many many years, yet none of the piles of dirt leaked? That’s called Kompromat. And it’s leveraged even to this very day.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Reminder that Israel spends more yearly on influencing american elections then russia has spent in total.

[–] Uglyhead 0 points 11 months ago

Whataboutisms abound

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] utopianfiat 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because it's not a conspiracy theory - there was an impeachment trial about this.

[–] timelighter 2 points 11 months ago

No there wasn't.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The need to cannibalize a destroyed Russian vehicle to help protect Ukraine’s dwindling supply of equipment underscores Kyiv’s current challenges on the battlefield as it prepares for another year of pitched combat.

It is that tactic that provides Russia the advantage as it pushes to secure Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, Moscow’s primary war aim after its defeat in 2022 around Kharkiv, Kherson and the capital, Kyiv.

“The Russian advantage at this stage is not decisive, but the war is not a stalemate,” said Michael Kofman, a senior fellow in the Russia and Eurasia program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, who recently visited Ukraine.

At the end of 2023, members of a Ukrainian artillery crew from the 10th Brigade sat inside a bunker nestled into a bare tree line in the country’s east, their Soviet-era 122-millimeter howitzer draped in camouflage netting and leafless branches.

Even the tranche of United States-supplied cluster munitions, controversial because they harm civilians long after a war’s end, has lost some of its potency on the battlefield.

It is a tactic replicated across the front by Moscow’s infantry, with little sign of stopping despite a high attrition rate common for a force attacking dug-in positions.


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[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

“The Russian advantage at this stage is not decisive, but the war is not a stalemate,” said Michael Kofman

Oh hello Kofman, welcome to the real world.

[–] Badeendje 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

There is no end to what can be achieved with an infinite amount of expendable contractniki.