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ISW Update June 8 [quote]Key Takeaways: The Russian military command is reportedly transferring an unspecified number of forces to the Ukrainian-Russian border area near Kharkiv Oblast, but it is unclear if the Russian military command plans to immediately commit these redeployed forces to com...
[quote] that’s factually true[/quote] OK, so what "good" stuff hasn't Russia put on the battle field...
ISW Update [quote]Key Takeaways: Russian President Vladimir Putin articulated a theory of victory in Ukraine on June 7 that assumes that Russian forces will be able to continue gradual creeping advances indefinitely, prevent Ukraine from conducting successful operationally significant countero...
[quote]Anybody got a ilnk to the quote where Putin makes that statement?[/quote Best I can put together [quote]*Note: Putin absurdly claimed on June 5 that Ukrainian forces suffer 50,000 casualties per month and that half of these are wounded in action (WIA) and the other half is killed in actio...
ISW Update [quote]Key Takeaways: Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to repackage longstanding, tired threats about direct confrontation with the West by claiming that Russian will provide long-range strike capabilities to unspecified actors for strikes against the West. Putin's threat aim...
[quote]‘No stability’ Economics have factored into the equation for Maria, a 34-year-old lawyer in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk who has a 6-year-old son. “I really want a second child,” she said—but prices are rising, while real incomes aren’t growing. Medical checkups just to prepare for a pre...
[link=(https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/putin-russia-population-birthrate-war-904d74a7)]Putin’s Existential Problem: Not Enough Russians Russia’s population has been in decline for years, and the war in Ukraine has made matters worse (WSJ)[/link] [quote]Vladimir Putin has portrayed himself as a ...
Random tweets [quote]The SSU informed about the suspicion that putin's assistant Volodymyr Medinskyi and the rector of the Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the russian federation Anatolii Torkunov are falsifying the history of Ukraine. According to the investigation, both figur...
ISW Update June 5 [quote]Key Takeaways: US officials continue to attempt to clarify US policy regarding Ukraine's ability to strike a limited subset of Russian military targets within Russia with US-provided weapons, but public communications about US policy remain unclear. Western-provided...
ISW Update [quote]Key Takeaways: Select Russian military commentators continue to complain about superior Ukrainian drone and electronic warfare (EW) capabilities on the battlefield, continuing to highlight the rapid and constant tactical and technological innovation cycles that are shaping th...
[quote]There are numerous sources that talks were close, and then shortly after Ukraine spoke to the west and got their long term backing they collapsed.[/quote] Russia was also publicly stating they wouldn't accept the deal because Ukraine wanted security guarantees [link=(https://www.reuter...
[quote]Reports of S-300 systems being placed between homes in residential neighborhoods in Sevastopol[/quote] I said something to this effect back when pictures of Ukraine placing air defense in Kyiv. Where can you place air defenses in a city that wouldn't impact civilians? It's kind of a catc...
[quote]Russia has stated x100 times and for decades that they do not want NATO on their border[/quote] I'm a little shocked no one else has brought this up yet NATO countries that border Russia and when they entered the alliance Poland - 1999 Lithuania - 2004 Latvia - 2004 Estonia - 2004...
ISW Update [quote]Key Takeaways: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with US and Singaporean officials and highlighted the upcoming Global Peace Summit during the International Institute for Strategic Studies' (IISS) Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on June 2. The provision of Wester...
[quote]Looks like high 70’s to 80’s.[/quote] As an engineer, that's pretty standard entry level engineering salary....
Random tweets [quote]The AFU may have hit the S-300/400 with HIMARS MLRS in Belgorod region Footage of hit Russian launchers of surface-to-air missile systems, which the occupiers used to strike Kharkiv and the region, has appeared online. Pro-Kremlin media claim that the strike was carried...
[quote]You’re no different than the people who called me a traitor and terrorist supporter for being against the War in Iraq and the Patriot Act[/quote] But you're still a warmongering larper :doublebird:...
ISW Update [quote]Key Takeaways: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with US and Singaporean officials and highlighted the upcoming Global Peace Summit during the International Institute for Strategic Studies' (IISS) Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on June 2. The provision of Wester...
[quote]I demand that the people who demand that other peoples children should die for their war I demand it be you and your children and/or grandchildren go out and die in those Ukrainian fields.[/quote] [quote]If they say that people should go die for their wars, then they themselves should b...
[quote]then yes I demand that the people who demand that other peoples children should die for their war[/quote] [quote] demand it be you and your children and/or grandchildren go out and die in those Ukrainian fields.[/quote] So when you sending your kids to volunteer you warmongering larper...