It is difficult to grow when it seems that Ukraine is lying like a fixed organ donor on the operating table, and region after region is cut off from it. Not the best time to analyze existential threats.

Putin's plan seems to be working well. I admire the quality of the planning of this operation by Russia, although there are some difficulties with the implementation. Threatening to take Kyiv from the north, Russia fettered a large grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which seems to be very lacking now in the Donbass. There are rumors that the DPR is preparing to receive and accommodate 30-50 thousand captured soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine after the recently started battle in the Donbass. The chances of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this battle do not look very optimistic - to die, surrender or try to retreat to the West in an organized manner, leaving their well-fortified positions, these are essentially all the options. I do not see any prerequisites for counter-attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine under continuous artillery and rocket fire. I think the Armed Forces of Ukraine may begin to retreat to the cities and try to draw Russia into urban battles, like in Mariupol, hiding behind civilians - but this is a tactic of terrorists, not a regular army. And Russia has a short conversation with terrorists.

One death is an irreparable loss. Thousands of deaths is a reasonable measured risk in this context. Putin today gave the order not to storm the bunker near Azovstal in order to save the lives of special forces soldiers. He ordered Shoigu to simply block it so that the fly would not fly by.

I hope you understand that all Western military assistance to Ukraine is a loan that will have to be repaid in the future. Including those weapons that the Russians are blowing up with Calibers in Lviv.

I think Russia's military maneuver in northern Ukraine was mostly a distraction, plus to take control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and prevent provocations from Ukraine with radioactive contamination of the area. It could have been executed more successfully and prevented a provocation in Bucha, but it turned out the way it did.

Russia is conducting this operation with inadequately small forces. I think Putin managed to surprise Western intelligence, who hardly expected that this was even possible in principle.

Patrick Lancaster certainly cannot be denied courage. A front-line reporter is a dangerous job, sometimes he is at a distance of less than 100 meters from the line of fire.

Too bad, his last stream with Scott Ritter is very educational.

Your way of thinking in slogans is very amusing, the style of a rural gopnik has been detected. Ахмат - сила! Allah Akbar!

I have two friends who are ethnic Ukrainians (one supports the operation, the other does not support and does not want to discuss this topic) and another friend has a wife from Donbass, her parents have long been accustomed to living under the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Another friend of mine is an ethnic Tatar. Other friends are Russian. I meet with them, we drink vodka and there is no hatred between us - this is my objective reality.

If your reality is different, you are probably a racist.

Apparently people in the Donbass do not want to learn their native Russian as a foreign language.

The facts of the oppression of the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine are too numerous and documented for your allegation to cancel them - even if you are completely right.

Good question. I think for the United States the armed conflict between Ukraine and Russia is not only very beneficial, but also vital. The US economy is not in the best condition after the pandemic, the Fed's quantitative easing program was very adventurous and irresponsible. Someone had to pay for it, and Europe was chosen as the victim. To do this, you just need to quarrel Russia and Germany, whose strong alliance looks dangerous for the United States, and Ukraine serves as an instrument for this. To which the United States is actively supplying weapons, getting rid of old trash at a market price and loading its military-industrial complex with orders - and this is a powerful incentive for the entire economy. Europe also profitably got rid of its old weapons, which are expensive to store and dispose of, but cannot load their military-industrial complex due to a shortage of energy in Europe, because the military industry is very energy-intensive.

It is also beneficial for Russia - to dispose of artillery shells with an expiration date during the operation, to test new types of weapons in combat conditions, to load their military industry with work and orders. In general, this operation seems to be beneficial to everyone, except for Ukraine itself.

You are confusing an crypto-anarchist with a protesting punk. I support Putin because I can, his actions seem to me quite reasonable and in the interests of Russia. My anarchy is that I make decisions on my own who I support, regardless of the pressure of public opinion - based on my own analysis of data and internal motives.

Today, soldiers of the Akhmat special forces, together the people's militia of the LPR, occupied the settlements of Kremennaya and Staraya Krasnyanka. Massive artillery preparation continues, more than a thousand rockets and shells were fired at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine per day.

Also, in my opinion, the successful test launch of the Sarmat rocket deserves attention.

Yeah, I know. I live in the city where I was born and I like everything here in general. The Russian people in general are usually completely apolitical and well decentralized, Putin does not tell me how to live directly, and his policies generally suit me well. It is always possible to do something better, but it is not necessary for this to gather in a crowd and arrange a rally about it. Here Ukraine jumped on the Maidan, and it brought a lot of happiness to it? I am a crypto-anarchist and I try not to get into politics without a good reason, so there are more important things.

I am glad that Ukraine felt its national spirit during the operation - this means that it will remain an independent sovereign state. You just have to change the national idea from "kill the Russians" to something more appropriate in a decent European civilized society, where Ukraine itself is so eager. It seems Ukrainian refugees in Europe are no longer very welcome.

There is a sufficient amount of documentary evidence of discrimination against the Russian language and its speakers in the Donbass.

Yes, I was amused by this flight of fantasy of Ukrainian propaganda. I also need your asphalt, street lamp and toilet.
Yes.

Good question. I think that Russia launched a preemptive strike not only in the Donbass, but also from the north and south - mainly in order to quickly push the Ukrainian army 100-150 km away from the border with Russia, and thus deprive the Armed Forces of Ukraine of shooting at Russian territory from stationary positions. The longest-range Ukrainian rocket Tochka-U has a maximum flight range of 120 km.
I think Ukraine itself was preparing to attack the Donbass in early March, for which it concentrated a powerful strike force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the eastern direction along the entire line of contact. If Russia had not launched a preemptive strike, Ukraine would have crushed the people's militia of Donbass with a powerful assault and NATO would have closed the sky over Ukraine. Russia would have to fight in extremely unfavorable conditions for itself. The operation is well prepared, and extremely forced.

It seems you live in an illusory information bubble, having little contact with reality. Stores in Ukraine massively refused to serve Russian-speaking customers. In the bars of Ukraine, Russian speech could easily become a strong argument for a fight. Ukrainians are bilingual people and their attempt to ban the Russian language is absurd, because it impoverishes them and linguistically the Ukrainian language is not a self-sufficient dialect of Russian.

The amount of aggression from staunch pacifists in this topic is surprising. You yourself seemed to want to make war with Russia, what are you actually complaining about? Just a month and a half of the operation and Ukraine is already tired?

Your empty allegations do not hurt me. The operation in Ukraine did not start this war in the Donbass, it is now ending it there. Yesterday, Zaporozhye separated from Ukraine at a gathering of elders. This is our land, they speak Russian here. A Russian school has already started working in Mariupol.

Ukraine's desire to hate Russia looks suicidal, Russia is simply putting things in order in the region.

Similarly, now Turkey is conducting a special operation in Northern Iraq against the PKK.

You're funny.

I am a free Russian man, healthy and able to shoot from a Kalashnikov. Geographically, several thousand kilometers from Ukraine in the Southern Urals, I am sitting in a comfortable chair behind a large monitor, in a warm apartment with fast Internet, electricity and gas, there is a lot of food in the refrigerator, my iPhone works fine, bank cards are not blocked, money transfers work. My farm mines cryptocurrencies and bitcoin has made me free from the economic turmoil of sanctions. People around also do not look very worried, they go to work and do their usual routine. There is a revival in the military registration and enlistment offices, but only those who served military service and with combat experience are taken as volunteers.

That's right, in Russia there is no hatred for the people of Ukraine. Russians and Ukrainians are too closely intertwined cultural and family roots to cultivate hatred for each other, it's like a form of schizophrenia. I am sad how some Ukrainians hate Russians, hatred is a self-destructive emotion.

Across Ukraine, the number of schools that teach Russian is rapidly declining, and since 2018, Ukraine has completely stopped publishing textbooks in Russian. Modern Ukrainian school textbooks are some kind of obscurantism, and from an early age children are cultivated anti-Russian propaganda, representing Russians as wild orcs, with whom the best thing to do is to kill. It began under Yushchenko in 2004, and in 17 years a whole generation of narrow-minded nationalist fanatics has grown up, of which now all this Nazi nonsense will have to be knocked out of their heads.

You are mistaken by projecting your complexes on me, and I will explain why. In Russia, one can criticize Putin quite freely if it is essential and desirable when drinking vodka with friends in one's kitchen, not in a public space. For example, Putin promised not to raise the retirement age, and then the retirement age in Russia nevertheless increased - this is a good reason for criticizing Putin among the people. Putin did not keep his word in an important aspect for many people, Putin is an asshole. At the same time, he got the country in ruins after the collapse of the USSR, default and gangster privatization, and created a "vertical of power" management system that really works. In foreign policy, I have little to criticize Putin for, although he could have been more successful in the field of diplomacy. At the same time, he looks and acts like a guy who has a strategic plan and follows it, and says basically the right things.

From 2014 to 2021, the status of the Russian language in Ukraine has degraded from regional to actually banned in the public space. Actually, this was one of the main reasons for the armed separatist conflict in Ukraine, it is strange that you do not know this. It is interesting that Russian-speaking residents of Donbass often speak Ukrainian language better, because they study the literary version at school than residents of Western Ukraine with their native surzhik. I am sure that demilitarization and denazification during the current operation will benefit them, ennoble and raise their level of civilization to an acceptable level in a decent society.

I am a Russian Hero, my war is here. And I need your microwave and Nutella.  

Russia's claims to Ukraine are quite specific and justified. People with Nazi tattoos are jumping and screaming "kill a Russian" and it's legal - what the hell is going on? A gang of drug addicts with a swastika in the center of Europe threatens Russia with a dirty nuclear bomb - do not confuse freedom and impunity.
A general with extensive combat experience, determined and tough. It also seemed to me that the quality of coordination improved with his appointment. I think now there is artillery preparation and reconnaissance in force, with the clarification of the state of air defense. It is interesting that the special forces seem to be storming the bunker near Azovstal.

I'm not sure I understand exactly what you want me to do. Russia is conducting this operation with a peacetime army, without general mobilization, and even rotates, as I have already mentioned a little higher.

Why are you yourself with a keyboard, and not with an AK-47 in defense of Ukraine? A deserter?  

Nazism is not orange juice. If the West is ready to quarrel with Russia over a gang of terrorists in the center of Europe, this is more of a problem for the West. Russia does not cultivate hatred towards other nationalities, I think now several million citizens of Ukraine live and work in Russia. And I did not notice that they somehow actively protested against the operation in Ukraine, arranging protest rallies in Russian cities or something like that.

I'm not saying that being an actor is bad, I'm saying that it's bad to be an incompetent politician in the role of president. Look at the situation Zelensky brought Ukraine to, although he came to power on promises to end the war in the Donbass, and all that was necessary was to fulfill the Minsk agreements. It seems I have already said that Putin's first offer is the best for partners, then the conditions of his offers only get worse. It seems that now we are talking about large territorial concessions, including, possibly, access to the sea.

Meanwhile, it looks like the battle for Donbass has begun with increased activity on all fronts.

А чё случилось то, плохо подготовились и за полтора месяца уже устали воевать?

Вообще говоря, думаю всем выгодно избавиться от старья по спекулятивным ценам и загрузить работой и новыми заказами свой ВПК, ну кроме Украины пожалуй. Это охуеть как выгодно и мега-стимул для развития экономики.
Говорят дескать проблемы с логистикой.

I'm not a big fan of conspiracy theories, maybe some of them are not groundless.

In your opinion, today's appeal of the commander of Azov about the presence of civilians near Azovstal is a confession to a war crime - given the humanitarian corridor opened by Russia yesterday and the ceasefire regime? If the civilians did not come out yesterday, then Azov is holding them hostage like a human shield? Doesn't that make the Nazis of Azov just a gang of terrorists?

Думаю щас этап размягчения и разведка боем, прогрев артиллерии. Остатки ПВО есть только у Киева, во Львов ракетами хорошо прилетело. Группировка ВСУ на Донбассе лишена снабжения и возможности маневрировать, скоро поди начнут в плен массово сдаваться - если не вхлам упоротые.

Ну пиздец блять, охуеть ты долбоёб.

За полгода вся Европа будет полностью демилитаризирована с таким темпом утилизации поставляемого на Украину вооружения. ВПК в Европе уже не вывозит тележку, отрасль то энергоёмкая.

This is a weak argument - a reference to a month old newspaper article when you ignore the latest statement at the chemical defense briefing, with serious allegations, documented evidence and confirmed facts.  Here are the slides from this briefing.

Good question. I think the logic "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" works here. At present, the status of Donbass in the eyes of Russia is the independent people's republics of the DPR and LPR, with which, at their request and on their initiative, treaties of friendship and mutual military support have been signed. Until February 21, 2022, this was an internal affair of Ukraine, in fact a civil war and genocide of the Russian-speaking population of Donbass, who were forbidden to speak their native language, and when they did not agree with this, they began to shoot, kill and did it for 8 years right in the center of Europe. And the Grad attacks on Donetsk on February 22 were already the aggression of the Armed Forces of Ukraine against an ally of Russia, to which Russia reacted with its own special operation, which we are now discussing here.

Russia is a multinational country and condemns Nazism, at the official level it is a policy of zero tolerance. Far-right nationalist groups in Russia are extremist and operate outside the law, this is working for the special services. It seems that the FSB already had questions to the head of the LPR about his public statements, I hope this will soften the intensity of the rhetoric. The community of Russian people is supranational.

If you listen to Arestovich a lot, then Ukraine is doing much better now than a couple of months ago. Buried alive in the Azovstal bunker is also a victory for Ukraine, of course.

That is, it doesn’t bother you that the president of Ukraine is a drug addict and an actor from the series about the president, doing some kind of game and all that?

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