Kalibr cruise missile Beyond big BOOM! noises and fires and all, Russia’s missiles that have been launched against Ukraine since Monday are not having the impact the Yard Punk was hoping for. The best the Russian armed forces are capable of is bursts of rage and remaining open to committing any crime possible, but its actions are ultimately self-defeating.
How deep Putin’s pockets are will determine how much longer this war will continue. The Russian army is a hollow shell with no more men or modern materiel to fight a war where they have lost the initiative on the battlefield. Soon it will be winter and the Russian army will be like Napoleon’s Grande Armee in 1812 or Hitler’s Wehrmacht in 1941, freezing and starving in the cold…how effective a fighting force could they be by this December or January? With their logistics already in a shambles, how will the reluctant conscripts in the trenches be fed, clothed, and supplied? Drop another span on the Kersh bridge causeway and Putin’s army will really be screwed…
We are getting more than our money's worth on your site TC! Thanks. (P.S. That does not mean I am sending a tip, but will share, and spread your words).
You set the headline as a general, not as a mother of a civilian victim. That's an easy slip of mind for us who are seeing this war on the screen. Russians have just recently discovered the war is not only on TV. 700.000 thousand Russians are said to have left the country. Relatively few come here to Sweden, but it reminds me of the time when we received American men avoiding being sent to Vietnam. One man and his wife were living here a few blocks away, reparing an old house from the 1860ies as I was also doing. I got involved in his refurbishment, to complete the panels of walls and ceiling in the room where his wife had hanged herself.
Timothy Snyder had a hopeful piece about our thinking of the war yesterday:
One of your knowledgeable commenters( sorry I can’t remember who) relayed that Putin was a “numbers guy” and predicted a pivotal event would happen on his b-day….looks like Zelenskyy beat him to it, give or take a few hours.
Thank you for the details. Although I don't understand all of the military stuff, I do get enough of it to better understand the thoughts of the Russian Bully. Better weapons, please hurry to help those people who are living in fear.
I don’t understand why the oligarchs are putting up with this militaristic, economic blight? To appease a tyrant’s ego? There will be no “kissing and making up” with Ukrainians after this...
How deep Putin’s pockets are will determine how much longer this war will continue. The Russian army is a hollow shell with no more men or modern materiel to fight a war where they have lost the initiative on the battlefield. Soon it will be winter and the Russian army will be like Napoleon’s Grande Armee in 1812 or Hitler’s Wehrmacht in 1941, freezing and starving in the cold…how effective a fighting force could they be by this December or January? With their logistics already in a shambles, how will the reluctant conscripts in the trenches be fed, clothed, and supplied? Drop another span on the Kersh bridge causeway and Putin’s army will really be screwed…
Loving it TC. Please keep sending these beams of light shining down through the dark clouds.
We are getting more than our money's worth on your site TC! Thanks. (P.S. That does not mean I am sending a tip, but will share, and spread your words).
You set the headline as a general, not as a mother of a civilian victim. That's an easy slip of mind for us who are seeing this war on the screen. Russians have just recently discovered the war is not only on TV. 700.000 thousand Russians are said to have left the country. Relatively few come here to Sweden, but it reminds me of the time when we received American men avoiding being sent to Vietnam. One man and his wife were living here a few blocks away, reparing an old house from the 1860ies as I was also doing. I got involved in his refurbishment, to complete the panels of walls and ceiling in the room where his wife had hanged herself.
Timothy Snyder had a hopeful piece about our thinking of the war yesterday:
https://snyder.substack.com/p/how-to-think-about-the-war-in-ukraine?utm_source=email#details
One of your knowledgeable commenters( sorry I can’t remember who) relayed that Putin was a “numbers guy” and predicted a pivotal event would happen on his b-day….looks like Zelenskyy beat him to it, give or take a few hours.
Thank you for the details. Although I don't understand all of the military stuff, I do get enough of it to better understand the thoughts of the Russian Bully. Better weapons, please hurry to help those people who are living in fear.
Thanks for churning out the clear prose to keep us all up to date and educated on the situation!
I don’t understand why the oligarchs are putting up with this militaristic, economic blight? To appease a tyrant’s ego? There will be no “kissing and making up” with Ukrainians after this...