mchughcb wrote:str8shutr wrote:Well, finally the Ukrainians have got some lethal airpower:
https://www.betootaadvocate.com/uncategorized/zelensky-touched-by-kiwi-pms-offer-to-send-over-air-forces-doorless-cessna-206-and-two-revolvers-to-shoot-from-it/
They'll have the Rooskis booted out in no time.
Always good for a laugh. In all seriousness I hunt with one of the last official kiwi fighter pilots. After the F111 were returned he left the airforce and immigrated to Australia. NZ could defend itself but given its so far from anywhere I guess its a moot point.
womble wrote:Well he’s of good reputable character too then
Lazarus wrote:Hear, hear.
Xi has played Putin like an expendable pawn in his game of geopolitical chess.
Sun Tzu's mantra of getting your enemies to destroy themselves, played perfectly, and a historic adversary brings about their own ruin.
Leaving all those resources, just over the border, as ripe fruit.
womble wrote:The steam roller has gained 850 sq km’s since December.
Less than 0.1 percent of Ukraine.
The west can do this indefinitely.
This is just a rerun of the Finnish war. The winter war. Same tactics, just keep throwing bodies at it until we get what we want.
And it took Russia years to recognise and honour their fallen. Every few years they’d update it, yeah ok we did lose more, we lied. There’s no doubt Russian casualties will be of the charts.
But inevitably you have to start sending kids from the more well of Russians. You run out of mongs from the outer provinces. Families who live in Moscow sending their kids. No chance. They’ll just send them abroad.
All the meanwhile what is Russia achieving. Disarming Ukraine, far from it. NATO keeps gaining new members ramping up its capabilities. Probably don’t even need US support to contain Russia now. Great to have that support but the need to rely on it is dissipating fast. Russia hasn’t changed and will always be a threat to its neighbours.
It’s hurting the Russian middle and upper classes. Young people are leaving in droves. Industries are leaving in droves. The long game doesn’t look great for Russia.
They sustained the winter war for about a year I think. The Finn’s did cede some territory. Took Russia a long time to get back in favour with the world. The price was too high. This is no different.
If they have taken charge and asserted control quickly, like they did with Belarus, no problems. But they didn’t. And they lost all their best, all their special forces straight of the bat. And they’re in a real pickle now. Relying on mercinaries to fill that gap. And keep digging themselves into a deeper hole. There’s no win in sight. There’s no conceivable end goal. It’s just madness and probably will be solved with poison as is their custom.
mchughcb wrote:Lazarus wrote:Hear, hear.
Xi has played Putin like an expendable pawn in his game of geopolitical chess.
Sun Tzu's mantra of getting your enemies to destroy themselves, played perfectly, and a historic adversary brings about their own ruin.
Leaving all those resources, just over the border, as ripe fruit.
Really? 5000 nukes into China. China isn't invading Russia any time soon.
womble wrote:I’m not watching your perverted video of innocent peaceful people being slaughtered
Have a nice day
Lazarus wrote:Russia is so confident in their "steamroller" they have to use the nuke card, again.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-26/ ... /102395632
S O K A R wrote:Lazarus wrote:Russia is so confident in their "steamroller" they have to use the nuke card, again.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-26/ ... /102395632
I'm not sure continuation of a previously conceived plan counts as "fresh threats" of using nuclear weapons....
S O K A R wrote:Lazarus wrote:Russia is so confident in their "steamroller" they have to use the nuke card, again.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-26/ ... /102395632
I'm not sure continuation of a previously conceived plan counts as "fresh threats" of using nuclear weapons....
Lazarus wrote:Prigozhin, so it's either an officially sanctioned message or he's about to get clumsy around windows.
My money is on the former.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/ ... in-bakhmut