Comments by "Spring Bloom" (@springbloom5940) on "Kim Iversen"
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The reason Kharkiv was lightly defended, is because its strategic value is greatly exaggerated. Remember, that before Russia took it, Ukrainian forces pushed all the way to the Russian border, in the same spot. Russia simply doesn't value this area enough to to put up a fight over it, at this time and so did what they did before and backoff, preserving their own forces. In a few weeks environmental conditions will collapse a wide, fully open, undefendable front, down to a handful of roads, that supplies and reinforcements will have to funnel into, making them easy to find and fix. This is how they took it in the spring. Now, Russia will fall back to their rear defensive lines and pound those positions and routes all winter and degrade the Ukrainian forces, just like they did before. Russia can play this whack-a-mole game for a very long time, but Ukraine desperately needs something to show, before winter. Id expect for Ukraine to vacate these positions before winter sets in and just focus on denying it to Russian reoccupation.
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So much to address, here...
First, Ukraine had the largest armor force in Europe and second in the region, only to Russia. They outnumbered Russia's deployed armor, by almost 5:1. The reason Ukraine is in such desperate need of tanks now, is because Russia was able to destroy 50% of their deployable armor in the first 72hrs, because Ukraine had it all staged for a massive offensive against Donetsk. Ukraine started heavy bombardment of Marinka, over a month before the invasion.
The reason they invaded from the north, was a gambit to attempt a forced negotiation. It almost worked, but US and UK convinced Kiev that Russia couldn't maintain an invasion for more than another couple weeks; this is where the 'Russia is out of ammo' bs started.
The reason they are pushing into central Ukraine and taking more territory, is because their ultimate goal is to negotiate a DMZ in the occupied territory and withdraw back to Donbas.
The reason our leaders keep recklessly escalating, is because they're compulsive gamblers, playing with OPM. They keep doubling down because they still think Putin is bluffing. They're so self absorbed and disconnected from the common reality, that they think they'll be exempt from the consequences, like they always are in everything else.
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@petersmith5140
Watch the clouds and orientation to the fuel trails. The drone is maneuvering. What seems more likely:
A) because of a bent prop, with no shuddering, loss of altitude, smoke, flames, or other evidence of critical failure, the USAF made the only possible decision to intentionally nosedive into the sea right in the Russian navy's lap.
B) during the engagement, the decision is made to attempt evasive maneuvering to thwart the fuel attack, the operator lost control and crashed it
The dissemination declassification scrubbed information that is commonly declassified; altitude and direction/heading, pitch, etc, as this information is typically given or implied in media briefings. Presumably, the Russians know exactly and in greatest detail what happened. So, apparently its you they don't want to know where this happened, which way the drone was flying and how it was flying.
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See, here's the thing... of everything Russia is accused of and Im sure they've done some heinous shit, there's little to no direct evidence. Yet, its an accepted fact. The Ukrainians on the other hand, not only record, but boast their warcrimes. Like a week ago with the wounded, unarmed Russian soldier desperately tossing away grenades that Ukrainian drones were repeatedly dropping on him; returning home, rearming and going back out to drop on him again and again. They were really proud of that video, until brought yo their attention it was a warcrime. Then, they changed it to courageous Ukrainian soldier tossing away grenades like Rambo; despite it clearly being a Russian soldier. Like a week before Zelensky cracked down on the media talking to soldiers, the proud Ukrainian soldier showing off to the pretty reporter, with the biz Z he made from parts of dead Russian soldiers he dragged up, "for the Russian satellites". He thought she would be impressed. Wrap your mind around that.
As for the character of Ukrainian heros, earlier today, DW News yanked down a video after people noticed proud Ukrainian heros riding a tank flying a Parteialder.
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