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@Godfrey De Bouillon I'm anxious to hear how you respond to the Wests new bizarre claim that the tanks Russia has destroyed were just a bunch of "farm equipment" despite multiple videos showing tanks and armored vehicles clearly being destroyed. From the videos I've seen so far its mostly been light armored vehicles and perhaps a few tanks that were destroyed, but none of the western tanks and IFVs that were supplied to the Ukrainians. And yes there's at least one video showing a KA-52 helicopter firing a missile at what looked to be a piece of farming machinery. On and on it goes, and the pro Ukranians will believe anything they are told, no matter how bizarre, no matter how provably false. The same could be said about all the pro-Russian supporters who believe people like Alexander and the Duran and the Russian MOD that the Ukrainian offensive is a failure even before its been fully launched. I remember last year Alexander declared the Kherson offensive to be a total failure after the first week or two when there was relative little progress being made and then look at how that turned out? I know Alexander is a pro-Russian hack and he needs to keep the pro-Russian propaganda going, but you'd think by now he'd have learned his lesson and allow things to actually happen before declaring victory for the Russians yet again. Maybe the Ukrainian offensive will only make marginal gains at the cost of heavy losses or maybe it will make a major breakthrough and send Russian forces running in disarray. Why not wait and see rather than declaring success or failure of this operation when its barely even begun?
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@Blatneyev The Kiev retreat was a 'temporary setback'. Then the Kharkiv offensive was a 'temporary setback'. Now losing such a major city in a region that Putin just annexed a few short weeks ago is just another 'temporary setback'? I wonder how many more temporary setbacks can the Russians afford before we consider it a serious problem?
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What will you be saying if the Russians don't respond with an effective counterattack and the Ukrainians keep what they've taken or they decide to advance further and take even more territory back?
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@mikeyom1 Ukrainian offensive was suppose to be a failure and now they're making decent progress. Lets see what happens in the coming weeks.
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Bakhmut guys, its gonna fall anyday now. I promise! 😂🤣😅😆🤣😂 - Alexander
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@Cool Clear Water Because attacking civilian infrastructure always works to break a people's will to fight right? 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 Also if Germany can be completely devastated at the end of WWII and still come back to become the most wealthiest nation in Europe, I'm pretty sure Ukraine can come back from much less death and destruction.
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Russians should be paying Alexander huge bonus checks for the amount of effort he puts into finding new excuses to try and explain away every new Russian loss/setback. I hope the Ukrainians can keep taking more of their land back just to see what new crap Alexander can come up with to explain those losses too. 🙂🙂😊😉🙂🙂
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Go back and watch the Duran's videos about this war from several months ago and see what Alexander said back then and compare that to what actually happened and then you'll see how he's been wrong on nearly every prediction he's ever made about the war and how it would turn out.
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Apparently the Russians aren't nearly advanced as everyone thought they were just as we've seen this entire war. The mighty Russian bear really is more a myth than reality these days.
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Alexander didn't have a problem declaring the Ukrainian offensive a failure like a week ago when it just started in his other video on the Duran channel.
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It simply beggars belief that the Ukrainian leadership is so indifferent to the plight of their own men, neither can I grasp the mentality of those men who sacrifice themselves for such a leadership. How come you don't have the same concern for all the tens of thousands of Russians who have been killed and wounded during the disastrous Bakhmut offensive? Why aren't you criticising Putin and his generals for throwing away all of their lives needlessly? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
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He's probably had many sleepless nights recently having had to work overtime to come up with even remotely plausible excuses as to why the Russians lost so much ground so quickly.
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@Moggridge One could call this one successful at this stage, or say in a few weeks the ground is retaken and the troops eliminated. Then it would have been a failure. Alexander should've taken this advice when he called the Ukrainian offensive a failure from almost the day that it began instead of waiting a while for more info to come out. But that's what he always does which is why he's rarely right about anything that's military related. A bit like the Battle Of The Bulge that so many cite: initially a success, ultimately a failure. Well if you look at this war in its entirety, the Russian invasion was initially looking to become a huge success and the longer its gone on, the worse its gotten for them.
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@odinbiflindi Kherson and Kharkiv were how many months ago? What have the Ukrainians done lately except throw their best brigades into a meat grinder. Why don't you mention that Russia's WWI style of fighting is costing them countless thousands of men for relative little gains? And I always find it funny how Alexander is so happy when the Russians make any kind of progress and says its the beginning of the end for the Ukrainians and then on the flipside when the Russians were losing so much territory and towns/cities during Ukrainian counterattacks he tries to play it down as not being very serious.
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@kingtachalla6181 Source for what? How the Russians are fighting on the battlefield right now? All you need to do is go on subreddits that are covering the war and are posting new videos everyday and see for yourself the tactics the Russians are using these days and how few armored vehicles there are to support their attacks in and around Bakhmut now.
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The Germans had much superior artillery firepower and it was well-positioned to both destroy the various forts, and to cut supply lines. They did. Using assault tactics developed in the Argonne, the Germans systematically reduced the forts and caused much greater casualties than the French did. It was, in effect, a meat grinder. You do realize that the Germans only took slightly fewer losses than the French during the whole Verdun campaign right? You make it sound like the Germans were trading 10 to 1 in their favor or something when the real number was pretty close so if the Germans were trying to bleed the French dry they failed when they took almost as many casualties as their enemy. Alexander is correct; Bahkmut was a trap the Ukrainians fell face-first into, and bought time to raise an entire new arm and build extensive fortifications to repel Ukrainian offensives. If that's what you and Alexander want to believe to try and justify all the Russian losses in men and equipment go right ahead, but the truth is the supposed 2nd best military in the world threw away thousands of men and countless amounts of equipment to take one small devastated city when at the beginning of the war they were taking kilometers per day with far fewer losses. Congrats to the Russians on their 'success' and I truly hope they continue to attack and have more of these kinds of successes that keep grinding their forces down into dust.
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The Russian military doesn't lie HAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHA 🤣😂😅😆😅😂🤣😅🤣
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Yet he didn't mention anything about Wagner and what they're doing right now.
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This could very well be another egg on the face of Alexander yet again when last year he claimed that the Kherson offensive was an utter failure after the first week or two when there was relative little progress being made and that the Ukrainians were taking heavy casualties. Then he had to completely change the narrative when the Russians fully pulled out of Kherson city over the Dnipro river. I wonder if and when the Ukrainians actually start their main offensive and if they make major gains what Alexander will have to say then??
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@abyrahman6610 That's my point. Some pro-Russian supporters claimed that the Russians 'gave back' Kherson city rather than being forced to retreat and avoid heavy casualties the same as they were forced to retreat during the Kharkiv offensive. The same goes for the Kiev front where the mass retreat there was characterized as a 'goodwill gesture' rather than retreating because they were in a bad position. People like Alexander will always try and put a good propaganda spin on every Russian setback rather than simply stating the truth because that's his job and that's how he gets paid.
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Why do people like you and Alexander celebrate this as some great victory? I mean its obvious why you'd do it, but still its insane to me that all the pro-Russian hacks make it sound like they just took Kiev or something when all they took was a small city that's been turned into a pile of ruble. It took the supposed 2nd best military in the world nearly a year to accomplish this while suffering tens of thousands of losses and countless equipment losses. Congrats on that 'victory' Russia. We can only hope they can have more of these kinds of great victories.
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Regarding the divergence of viewpoints, it is simply one side understands the reality. The other side appears detached from reality. LOLOLOLOLOLOL!! Did we already forget when Alexander declared that the Kherson offensive was a 'total failure' that gained nothing and that the Kharkiv offensive was only going to make moderate gains at best and that the Russians were going to counterattack and retake all that they lost? That's what he said back in the beginning of September along with 'Bakhmut is falling anyday now bros' and 2 months later its still in Ukrainian hands. So if you want to understand the reality of what's actually happening in Ukraine, Alexander and the Duran should be the last place you should look for the facts from when they've been wrong so many times since the beginning of the invasion.
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What Alexander and the Duran put out isn't 'the truth'. Its the 'truth' as they see it which is often very far from reality.
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@BlacKnightm93r This is exactly why Russia uses volume of fire, you can saturate a area, of where the enemy is or where the enemy will be based on probability. This is exactly why Russia is losing when it has to expend so much more ammunition to accomplish the same task that Ukraine can do with a fraction of the shells used, but hey you keep thinking that's the way to go when most Russian shells are hitting empty ground. That's pretty much why in WWI major offensives were preceded by days if not weeks of bombardment and yet at the end of all that shelling enemy troops still survived to come out and fire back at advancing soldiers. Volume of fire will always be more important in a war like this compared to pure accuracy. Accuracy really only comes into play when hitting static defenses or logistical supply hubs with minimal ammunition Russians don't have the widespread capability to land accurate shells on target which is why they go for volume to compensate, but again keep believing that throwing thousands of shells down range everyday is the way to go when Russia already has a ton of logistics issues.
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Ukraine definitely took significant losses fighting in Bakhmut, but the Russians took even more losses in winning Bakhmut. If you want to call taking all those losses in men and equipment for this pile of rubble a victory than go ahead. Ukraine will happily take these trades all day.
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Its funny as hell to see Alexander saying that Bakhmut was about to fall to the Russians for almost an entire year and then finally having that come true and thinking all the Russian troop and equipment losses was worth it. The way that he talks about Bakhmut, you'd think that the Russians had destroyed the entire eastern Ukrainian army similar to the Soviets destroying the German Army Group Center in WWII or maybe the allies closing the Falaise Pocket and killing and capturing a good portion of Germany's western army in WWII. Instead for all the Russian efforts here they simply 'win' a small city that has little value outside of political and propaganda uses. Good job to the Russians I guess.
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Well its certainly not helping that the Russians are giving back Kherson without even putting up a fight. Annex the territory and give back a major portion of it just a few weeks later. How nice of them.
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Pretty much what's happening in Bakhmut these days with the Wagner mercenaries throwing themselves at Ukrainian defenses and taking heavy losses for minor gains. Also if I were the Ukrainians I wouldn't even bother fighting in Kherson when they eventually get there. Just surround the city and shell all attempts to keep the defenders in the city resupplied and wait it out.
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@richard carlyon Peace talks should only start when Putin moves his army OUT of Ukraine. You don't reward a bully by giving him territory that he's taken from another country.
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@edwardmatalka The Ukrainian assault reminded me of the German thrust in the so-called Battle of the Bulge: no aircover, low fuel, moderate levels of ammo, and little manpower. I don’t believe the Ukrainians can maintain an effective counterattack. Militarily, this doesn’t amount to all that much. The direction of the Ukrainian attack is towards major road and rail networks and if they can capture a place like Kupyansk, that significantly affects the ability of the Russians to move men, supplies and equipment around the battlefield. Regaining territory is nice, but if they can continue to take back major road and rail hubs then that will hurt the Russians far more since they rely so much on rail. Between that and the Ukrainians continuing to hit Russian supply lines, its going to be difficult for Russian forces to get around and launch successful ground attacks especially when they're in range of Ukrainian artillery which has proven to be pretty accurate. And while the Ukrainians don't have much in airpower, as we've seen neither do the Russians who have been very careful with their aircraft rather than having them being able to gain air superiority over Ukrainian skies so they too have been attacking in the Donbas with little air support and relying mostly on artillery and missile strikes. Politically, the EU and U.S. neocons can use this offensive to silence critics and push for escalation. I don't get this idea that Ukraine has to show success on the offensive to give confidence to western countries to keep supporting them. By now if countries are in then they're in and if they're out then they're out. War is usually a marathon and there's going to be successes and setbacks and it makes no sense to reduce support just because of a few setbacks. Maybe if the UA forces were completely collapsing and in full retreat then sure it might make sense to stop sending in more equipment and supplies but this isn't the case and won't ever be the case as long as the west provides support to the Ukrainians who seem more than willing to fight for as long as it takes to get Russian forces out of their nation. The USA faced this issue during the Civil War, our bloodiest conflict, actually a War of Secession. Putin needs to understand that it’s time to take the gloves off. If he could 'take the gloves off' wouldn't Putin already have done so and called for mobilization already? Seems like he really doesn't want to do that because it would be a clear admission that he was wrong and miscalculated and that the 'special operation' isn't going well. A supposed relatively quick and small operation that now requires the men and resources of most of Russia? Who knows maybe that's the line that pushes Russian people into finally going against Putin and wanting him gone.
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Does the Russians taking Bakhmut at this point even matter outside of propaganda purposes? Its one small town in a very large country and ultimately won't make much difference in the war's outcome.
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@yfelwulf Attacking with under trained and under equipped troops? Yeah any ground these mobilized troops might gain is going to be at a heavy price, but that's just the Russian way and they don't care about their troops. Where have we heard that before?
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The losses of the Ukrainian military are totally unproportional to the very small gains they have made. Ukraine has lost hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Western provided equipment and thousands, some claim even tens of thousands of men in exchange for the control of a few, uninhabited and strategically unimportant villages. Do you have any links to these claims or are they just 'trust me bro' facts? There's no question that the Ukrainians have taken casualties during this offensive, but they have yet to commit all their reserves so its not like they've expended all their forces. Also you're missing out on the big picture which is if the Ukrainians can get within missile range of the Azov sea and can cut off the land bridge to Crimea, then it will have already been a successful offensive as long as the losses aren't too high.
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Alexander is a 'genius'?!?!?! If you mean at dropping top notch pro-Russian propaganda then sure he's great at that.😅🤣🤣😅😆🤣 He's pretty much been wrong on every prediction he's made on the war in Ukraine so far and yet THAT'S considered 'genius'? LOL Remember Bakhmut was suppose to be surrounded and on the verge of falling right after the Kharkiv offensive and yet its still in Ukrainian hands after all this time. That's the kind of genius analysis and predictions that you get from this guy.
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@abyrahman6610 The Russians pulled out of Kherson city and surrounding areas because the alternative was to stay and get destroyed. Do you really think they wanted to give the city up after annexing that region? At least they were smart enough to retreat and save their forces than stand and get annihilated.
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@albertwesker9385 Yes those T-54s and 55s that the Russians are transporting to Ukraine will lead the final push to Russian victory!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍
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@shanemedlin9400 I find his reporting to be pretty even-handed, and I think this is a weak sauce attempt to insult someone who is actually quite a distinguished gentleman. Alexander giving 'even-handed' reports???!?!?! HAAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHAH 🤣😂😅😆😅🤣😂😅😆😅🤣😂 Look through EVERY SINGLE ONE of his videos and find me even one where he criticises Putin and the Russians in a negative manner in any significant way or thinks that they ever did anything wrong? I've watched a ton of his videos from here as well as from the Duran and I've NEVER EVER seen him ever go hard and be seriously critical of the Russians or even admit that they've had a number of major mistakes during this war. Even when the Russians suffer major defeats he finds a way to put a positive spin on it and even when the Ukrainians have successes he finds a way to downplay it and says its 'not a big deal'. Alexander has said a number of times that he thought the Kharkiv and Kherson gains were 'not a big loss' to the Russians. Do you truly believe that if it were the Russians that carried out those attacks and gained all that same territory that he wouldn't be over the moon happy and saying it was the beginning of the end for the Ukrainians? Cmon now. When you report on an event in two entirely completely different ways depending on which side you support then you know that source is biased. Alexander REFUSED to acknowledge that the Kharkiv and Kherson offensives were pretty successful against the Russians. I seriously doubt that if it were the Russians who launched those same offensives that he wouldn't be saying those were brilliantly planned and executed attacks by Russian high command that completely took the Ukrainians by surprise and caused them to retreat in disarray and that it wasn't a massive blow to Ukrainian morale etc.
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@godfreydebouillon8807 I just disagree with so much of what you said. The videos I saw were CLEARLY tanks, and though I fully admit I cannot distinguish various tanks by mere sight recognition, the Russian claim is that they were Leopard 2s, the Western media claim (unanimously) is that it was "farm equipment", and to support their assertion they present the single most difficult video to discern what it is being destroyed, while refusing to present any other video (again this cherry picking is unanimous) I have no doubt that the Ukrainians are losing men and equipment as their offensive is starting up just now and anyone who says otherwise is simply being dishonest. On the otherhand if there really was a loss of a Leopard or a Bradley it would be shown on every Telegram and news media outlet out there right away. There are drones flying around the battlefield almost 24/7 and you don't think that one of those drones wouldn't have taken a video or photo of a western tank loss when it happens? Cmon now. We've already seen some French AMX 10 RCs either knocked out or abandoned so its not like you can hide equipment losses when they happen. However, General Zaluzhny himself gave an interview, to The Economist, that Alexander read word for word, and he ALSO stated that the Kherson offensive was largely a failure, that the losses were enormous for the little gained, and that defending it was costly. Russia CHOSE to leave, they were not driven away. Ukraine was shelling the very dam that was just destroyed, and the Russian lines were right downstream. Can you link me to this Economist interview that you're talking about? I'd really like to read it. As for the Russians leaving that's just plain coping and putting a positive spin on a bad situation. If the Russians didn't want to keep Kherson city they wouldn't have moved in VDV forces and equipment to reinforce the area to try and stop the Ukrainians from taking it. Putin annexed the region just a few weeks before and you're telling me that he would just give back one of the few major cities that his army has taken during this entire war without a fight? Please. The fact is the Ukrainians degraded Russian logistics to the point that they could no longer properly supply their forces in that area and after being cut off by land and and with the Dnipro at their backs their only option was retreat or face destruction. So yes the Russians made the correct decision to retreat, but don't make it sound like they WANTED to retreat rather than being forced to. That would be as delusional as saying the Russians willingly retreated from the Kiev front rather than being forced to after being placed in a difficult position where they could no longer advance forward and were having major problems with keeping their forces supplied on that front. You fully admit that Western media universally claimed, with absolute certainty, over a year ago, that Russia was at the very end of their supplies of artillery, rockets, missiles and ammo, correct? No one with a sane rational mind would look at the data and say that the Russians were 'running out' of weapons and ammunition. However anyone with a sane rational mind would also look at the facts and acknowledge that the Russian army have taken massive losses to the point where they're reduced to using early Cold War equipment to continue the fight. Can you ever imagine a world where the US army took so many tank losses in a war that they would be forced to pull out M60 tanks to bring to a 21st century battlefield to replace all their losses? It would NEVER HAPPEN and yet here we're seeing this exact thing happening with the Russian army. How INSANE is that? A supposed modern 21st century army losing so many armored vehicles that they're forced to pull out tanks from the mid-20th century and you see nothing concerning with that? Really? Do you understand what a MAJOR problem it is to assert that the 2nd most powerful military on earth, with by far the most munitions stockpiles "is all out of ammo" and then it's proven that claim was literally made-up? Again there's a difference between 'running out' and running low. Remember last summer when the Russians were firing up to 60,000 artillery shells a day and how people like Alexander were saying how Russia's overwhelming firepower couldn't be matched? Well where's that 60k shells a day now? Even during the entire campaign of trying to capture Bakhmut that they clearly badly wanted why didn't they expend more shells to support the attacks and reduce their own losses other than the fact that they couldn't? Look at all the Iskander and other precision guided missiles the Russians fired at the beginning of the war. They haven't been able to fire anywhere near that many ever since. Only short spurts of these weapons that are their most modern and effective ones and I seriously doubt the Russians are holding back. The fact is the Russians will NEVER completely run out of ammunition, but its clear that they certainly don't have the reserves of ammunition as they use to have which is why they've been forced to significantly reduce their artillery and missile usage even when they need it most now.
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He'll likely spin it as Kherson no longer being militarily important or something just like he did when the Russians gave up Izyum without a fight.
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@Sayavita Quite striking to compare the US military retreat from Afghanistan and the one that the Russians just completed in Kherson. Gotta hand it to you pro-Russian folks. Always finding the silver lining in every Russian defeat and stupid mistake. If it were the Ukrainians retreating from Kherson and the Russians retaking the city somehow I doubt you'd be singing the praises as to how swift and orderly the Ukrainian retreat was.
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As long as western tanks and IFVs are getting there eventually then that's what matters most. Compare that to almost a year ago when the idea of the west sending such vehicles was completely out of the question.
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@tonidimitrova6078 Russia was made aware of the fact that no matter how the Ukraine war ends, they will be fought by NATO to the last European... and maybe to the last American That's what Russia gets for starting a senseless, stupid war that no one wanted except Putin and his marry band of morons. Only way to fix Russia is to send all of them to the gallows.
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That's assuming that Russia has an airforce that can do anything worth a damn beyond lobbing missiles from a far distance away.
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@roberttyrrell2250 Russia will never completely run out of ammo, but its pretty clear that they're running low on some ammunition like precision guided missiles. Also it isn't even about running out of ammo, its about not being able to get all those ammo and supplies to the frontline units because of HIMARS/MLRS and in the future longer range guided missiles that the US has just approved of giving to Ukraine. Also the Russians are also running low on tanks and other armored vehicles which is why they're bringing back Cold War era armor to use on the frontlines.
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@roberttyrrell2250 Again you watch too much TV. Those missile systems need electricity. Putin keeps taking out the grid. Port generators make great heat signature targets, not very mobile. Well apparently the Ukrainian army is still functioning and fighting despite all the strikes to the electric grid. In fact its good for Ukraine that Russia keeps wasting its munitions on civilian infrastructure so that UA forces don't get hit quite as often. Remember the Battle Of Britain when the Germans started bombing civilian targets? Yeah how did that turn out? The MSM keeps saying Russia's running out of ammo, missiles etc. Its furthest from the truth.. Russia is in full overdrive weapons production 24/7. No one said that Russia was running completely out, but its interesting how the '2nd strongest military' is asking the likes of North Korea for help these days. Also this isn't WWII where you can turn industry on with a flip of a switch and start pumping out ammo of every type with relative ease. Why do you think the number of strikes with Iskander missiles has dropped off dramatically since the beginning of the war? It can't possibly be that in some categories of munitions that the Russians are indeed running low which is why they're now seen much less than at the beginning of the war. The point is anything requires more advanced computer chips isn't going to be as nearly easy to replace with all the sanctions imposed on them. Western Govts have terrified its ppl 90 yrs, claiming Russia has a massive military, showing us pic's details. So is it true or not? There's such a thing called OVERESTIMATION. Namely the west believed that the Russians were far more advanced and capable than they really were and now they've been completely exposed as being an overrated fighting force that if it weren't for the sheer size of its armed forces it would've been curb stomped long ago with how poorly they've been fighting. There are some Russian units that have fought well and with skill, but the majority of their forces are garbage and their level of technology is at least a couple of generations behind the west in most areas. In a real war the US alone without the rest of NATO could destroy the Russian army without breaking a sweat several times over.
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@roberttyrrell2250 Dude I'm only responsible for what I typed. Not what you add to my statements, Or think I typed. You're the one who stated that Russia wasn't running short on ammo and I was saying that at least for some weapons systems that they were and that was fact. Also I know the pro-Russian folks need the Ukrainians to be Nazis to justify this war and for invading them, but at the end of the day Putin miscalculated and underestimated the will of the Ukrainians and how well they could fight and now they're paying for it bigtime. In WWII the Ukrainians sent millions of men to serve with the USSR and now we know that it was all a mistake.
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Bakhmut is going to fall to the Russians anyday now. Alexander assured us several weeks ago that this supposed super duper important objective was going to fall soon.
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@JimCOsd55 I think you mean many pro-Russian hacks like Alexander prayed that losing Bakhmut would shake western resolve in continuing their support of Ukraine. In reality it isn't happening for a long time yet if not ever.
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@anceldesingano8687 How is Bakhmut not a disaster when you've expended tens of thousands of men and countless amounts of armored vehicles and other equipment over the course of almost a year to capture a small city that they now have no use for? Congrats on capturing Bakhmut so now what? The Russians would've been better served to NOT attack and simply keep all their men behind lines and training and saving their tanks and other equipment in reserve to use against the current Ukrainian offensive. I guess when you don't give a damn about the lives of your men who are fighting for you then what does it matter if they get wasted? That has always been the Russian way throughout their history where the lives of their people don't matter and are completely expendable.
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@jfmolli Here's the difference: one's attacking its own with its own, the other's is a statement of duty towards the oppressed, whom it sees as its own that needs help. Yet another is using the situation as a proxy for its wider agenda, even long before any armed conflict began. Always find it interesting how people leave out the part where the Russians sent men and equipment into another nation to start an insurgency and then when that insurgency was on the brink of being defeated they then dropped all pretenses that they weren't meddling in another country's affairs and sent in their own army to stop the Ukrainians from putting down the Donbas insurgent force. The Russians did the same thing in the Crimea months earlier and it was a shame that the Ukrainians weren't better trained and equipped to stop that attack otherwise they might've been able to keep Crimea and not be forced to try and retake it now.
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