Comments by "Vaska Tumir" (@vaska1999) on "SMO coming to an end, conflict paradigm shift. Lavrov, Russian diplomacy success" video.

  1. I fear that Putin may drag his heels yet again, wasting both time and men on some futile (and frankly dangerous) negotiations with Kiev. Russia needs this to end with Ukraine's unconditional surrender if Putin and his team are at all serious about Russia's security interests and the need to have Ukraine neutral, if not friendly to Moscow. You need to force Kiev to capitulate and accept Russia's own peace terms, which must include the placing of Russian military bases all across what remains of Ukraine. The US is still in Germany, 77 years after the end of WW2, and Russia will need to be in Ukraine for at least the next 100 years.
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  2. ​ @ltravail  Yes, it is -- factual.
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  3. I hope you're right.
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  4. Probably so, but what prevented Russia from hitting hard the Ukrainian communications and other infrastructure that does constitute a legitimate military target?!
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  5. Yeah, after first postponing them. They were originally scheduled to take place in August, if memory serves me.
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  6.  @drmodestoesq  Unwilling, but by no means incapable. It's a mistake to confuse the two.
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  7. I hope you're right. But it does worry me that Shoigu specified last week how very few of the 300,000 would ever get close enough to the battle front to be able to see it with binoculars!
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  8.  @irashishonkova8626  It was trumpeted in the Western press late May onwards. They only stopped talking about it in August itself, as a matter of fact.
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  9. If Summy is 85% Catholic, there's no way it can also be 65-70% Russian.
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  10. Russia clearly didn't war game this at all seriously. What were the Russians expecting the collective West would do once it walked into Donbass?! What were their intelligence services doing, if nobody in Kremlin foresaw the energy war and the economic attack on Germany and the rest of Europe, launched by the US and the European political elites?! Was all of that really unforeseeable? And is Russia really sparing its own forces by this slow, incremental, stop-and-go, half-arsed way of waging a war? Or is it actually sacrificing MORE soldiers and more resources by this approach? (If I sound somewhat exasperated, it's because I share the exasperation of many Russians at how irrationally they're fighting this war in/with a NATO-proxy Ukraine.)
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