Yeah true, manpower seems to be Ukraine’s biggest shortcoming these days and being faced with a new Russian offensive will just make that even worse.

I wonder if a new Russian offensive could risk solidifying more western support for Ukraine again though. Maybe would have been better to stay on the defensive until Ukraine was in even worse shape? Can’t wait around forever I guess though, have to seize the initiative at some point.

Regrettably, no one scrutinized the photo closely enough to notice the egregious error

The only regrettable thing is that there’s a nazi that hasn’t been turned into a fine mist by an artillery shell yet.

Yeah I stopped watching LTT after the allegations came out, I was getting tired of his shtick anyway. But watching people try to make games run on unusual hardware is fun. I find that Steve at GamersNexus gives similar info but in a more thorough and professional way and usually seems willing to cover Chinese hardware news without trying to dunk on evil CCP every time.

Has anyone else noticed NAFO types calling Russians (and sometimes just anyone who isn’t foaming at the mouth calling for endless war) “Muscovites” over the last few months? It seems to have replaced “orcs” in the lexicon of the people I regularly encounter online, and they use it like a racial slur. It kind of seems the NAFO types are having a hard time coming up with a catchy slur they can use against Russians specifically that isn’t a slur against Slavs in general.

From the tone of the post and the choice of words (“foreign but otherwise normal name” really?) I’m going to guess you’re a white westerner?

The dissonance on display here is crazy. Russia is suffering massive casualties wantonly throwing away lives and having trouble recruiting. However bad it is for Ukraine, Russia is doing worse. Source: trust me bro. So many lines of cope needed to dilute the main story, which is that Ukraine is snatching up toothless old men, barely training them, and then throwing them into assault platoons that get devastated. And even the soldiers themselves are getting sick of the waste of life and speaking out.

There was another article you posted a couple days ago where one officer involved in one of these so called offensives was interviewed and said that they were fighting a battle of attrition. As the assaulting force. Which just really gives away the game. The ones carelessly throwing away lives for minimal gain is Ukraine. Someday when the true casualty figures come out that even western press admit Ukraine is covering up, I have a feeling they’re going to be absolutely shocking.

From this, and another article just posted and linked in this one, we’ve got a major USA media outlet confirming:

• Ukraine is forcibly abducting and coercing people into service, including people with disabilities.
• Ukraine is sending these people into suicidal attacks where they get devastated by Russian artillery and drones.
• Ukraine is lying about its battlefield accomplishments and covering up its losses.

So, in other words, all things “tankies” have been talking about for months. Is NYT Russian propaganda now too?

Well that didn’t take long

“We can’t talk about war fatigue right now because if we do and give in, then Putin wins and that will mean a catastrophe to everybody. That will mean more conflicts, more wars, more scarcity of food supply, all the different worries that come along with it."

lol. lmao

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Bomb, but at what cost? 🇨🇳

More sanctions on EU agreed by EU leaders

Fixed that for you.

These assault groups are made up of “zeks” [prisoners, recruited in Russia to be sent to war] trained by the Wagner [Group]. Their officers have no regard for them: the wounded are not evacuated, the dead are abandoned," Yan Yatsychen said.

Is there actually any reason to believe Russia is really using these tactics, or is this still just your regularly scheduled “muh asiatic hordes” bullshit? I’ve also been seeing a bunch of claims lately that Korean artillery shells are defective and constantly misfiring.

Ah yes, because the United States of America and its invincible military might is the sole reason China isn’t invading a new country every few years. Very astute observation.

From what I’ve been seeing, a “show” is probably all this is. The article mentions Hungary being a sticking point, but would Slovakia and Poland be willing to entertain this either? I’m pretty far from the EU so I don’t really have my finger on the pulse but I was under the impression that both of them were getting a bit fed up with Ukraine too.

Lest we forget, it is a children’s cartoon from the US. Having the 12 year old hero of your animated show unambiguously take a human life or even be clearly planning to do so as the finale is not something the network would have approved even if the lib-as-fuck writers wanted it.

Stepping away from it just a little bit it feels really bizarre just how much the average USA citizen’s ideology is tied to popular media. Fictional books and movies are constantly used as analogies and evidence to explain real events in the real world. I used to do it all the time too.

If you push people on it they’ll say that they know that Harry Potter or The Avengers is not real, of course. But in all other ways they behave as if the biggest movies and fictional books of the 20th century stand on equal footing with (if not above) real actual history in the arena of understanding and shaping the present and future.

Idealism is a hell of a thing.

They see a boot, they might get too riled up thinking about licking it.