Ok I’m gonna change format here and make some my own analysis and prediction….
The Putin/Russina effort to ‘Roll Over’ the Ukraine I NEVER believed….
I’m no expert…
But I like to think I’m not bad in common sense….
The Ukraine is the only second to Russia is size in Europe….
The military was never fronted as being strong and THAT has been proven
Putin hangs his hat on his nukes , which he CANNOT use…
Things are so are telling for the Putin effort….
He has had troops disable their own vehicles instead of fighting….
He has had conscript’s surrender to the Ukrainain’s…
Putin has ‘purged’ military and secret police of those who might question his policies
He has had offensive operations picked apart by the Ukrainians…
He’s last numerous military leadership in the fight…
He has had territory taken?
Retaken in offensive moves by the Ukrainians ….
On a stratgeic level ?
What win?
I have pointed out…
If you actually look at a map?
Russian forces are fighting to ‘control’ a bit LESS than 25% of the Ukraine…
They have NOT taken Kyiv or Kharkiv, the two main cities , which where objectives in the beginning of the ‘war’….
Russia has aways had a leg up in the area’s thgat sepertists operated in with Russian assistance…
Even with that?
It is reported that upwards of 40,000 Russian trops could have lost the lives…
That is NO victory…
But the worst part for the Russian President I believe is in the future…
A history of corruption was the Ukraine before all of this….
Vice President Biden was well aware of it…
That was then…
Ukraian President Zelensky has prove to be a vbery good user of the media to get the West to come to his countries financial and military aid…
The Ukraine coming out of this conflict will be MUCH stronger economically and more ominous for Russia?
Militarily ….
Most people do not know that back in the 1990’s?
The Ukraine WAS the keeper of over 1,000 nuclear weapons and ballistic missles of the old Soviet Union…
It is no coincidence that AFTER the weapons where shipped back to Russia in a deal for their independence?
The Russian’s started messing with them….
The Ukraine has or will be receiving over Forty BILLION dollars for the US alone….
More money is coming in from outher Western countries…
The Ukraine is receiving THOUSANDS of TONS of Western Weapons…
Their miliatry will contiue to get tarining in America and Europe on WESTERN munitions and weapons systems…
The US is packing up any US Afgahnaistan conflict left over weapons, vechicles and even aircraft it can find and shipping it…America is joined by Canada and even Australia and other nations…
If you haven’t gotten my drift?
The Ukraine RIGHT NOW and going forward is being re-armed and has fighters that are battle tested…
They have gone the offense and are taking back gains the Russian cannot hold…
Ukrainan President once remarked to a reporter …
He wanted the Ukraine to resmble Isreal.…
He wasn’t talking about the relgion folks…
He was talking about military might….
THAT certainly wasn’t what Putin bargined for…
But IS likely to get…..
And I haven’t even explored the damage Putin is inflicting on his country, its economy and its people….
Here’s regular daily update…
A coming war trial….
Efforts to withdraw from Russina oil imports is never going to be total for the West…
So the Ukraine is actually closing off some of it going to Europe…
Maybe for its own use as a ‘spoil of war’?
War is not pretty…..
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine nears the end of its 11th week, Ukrainian officials and fighters say Russia’s assault on the embattled Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol has intensified since the last civilians seeking shelter there were evacuated. Gruesome images have emerged of wounded fighters within the complex pleading for rescue.
“If there is hell on earth, it is right there,” said Petro Andryushchenko, an aide to the Mariupol mayor, on Wednesday.
European Union diplomats, meanwhile, failed to reach agreement on how to phase out imports of Russian oil, as talks ended with Hungary remaining a holdout. The proposal from the European Commission — to institute a phaseout and thereby slash a key source of funding for the Kremlin — has been stuck for days.
Here’s what else to know
Keith?
In this post I agree with you and give more reasons why ur Right…..