I actually posted on this but Thread buried it:
Since this is headed towards a long bloody conflict both sides are now making sure each know they are all in.
Russia just lost an embarrassingly (for Putin) large number of troops trying to take Severodonetsk.
The in-city fighting favors the defenders. The long range war favors Putin. He just hit Kyiv to show he could.
Then Putin warns Ukraine and the West (supplying long range weapons) about doing the same.
Good luck with that Vlad. In the long run, this long range war could involve Russian cities, not only in Ukraine.
Belgorod province in Russian was already most likely attacked by Ukraine in April.
So Putin hitting Kyiv was supposed to be a warning to the West. It might lead to a wider long range event that might not have great effect in overall military strategy as it exists now, but it could cause and escalation in events which will disturb both Russians and the West and US who supplies these weapons. I read an article on the 5 ways this war might end from military historians and such, I will try to post it.
Most of the above is from ISW. Ins ute for the Study of War
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61674469
Baghdad Lavrov
UKRAINE
Published June 1, 2022 9:04am EDT
Zelenskyy says Ukraine losing 60-100 service members daily in intense eastern fighting.
Zelenskyy says 500 Ukrainian fighters are wounded every day.
~~~
a. they ed around.
b. they found out.
c. "you have a nice day."
Putin...
Biden...
Lav!!!
Putler backtracking threats associated with US supplying Ukraine with MLRS.
Once a Welsher, always a Welsher.
Invictus
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank what ever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of cir stance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scrolls,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
RED ROVER, RED ROVER LET VLADDY COME OVER
BOOM!!!
Cool as the old proverbial cu ber.
Putin!!!
"Make sure you're right.........then make Biden steal from your girl friend."
That strategy and US lend-lease aid is how they beat back Nazi Germany in WWII. Soviet casualties were insanely high.
They literally look like makeshift sunshades.
Museum pieces turned to flea market .
This we drive in Africa.
Like safari
This war is over,,,democrats just trying to save face,,,,another failure by biden and the democrats,,,sending weapons and money to a losing cause while our own social security fund is running out of money and the elderly are ed in the next 10 years,,,,but, hey, as long as the young college punks get some student debt relief and ukraine gets billions,,,thats all that matters,,,
NATO conducts naval exercises with Finland and Sweden
HELSINKI (AP) — NATO kicked off nearly a two-week U.S.-led naval exercise on the Baltic Sea on Sunday with more than 7,000 sailors, airmen and marines from 16 nations, including two aspiring to join the military alliance, Finland and Sweden.
The annual BALTOPS naval exercise, initiated in 1972, is not held in response to any specific threat. But the military alliance said that “with both Sweden and Finland participating, NATO is seizing the chance in an unpredictable world to enhance its joint force resilience and strength” together with two Nordic aspirant nations.
Finland and Sweden both have a long history of military non-alignment before their governments decided to apply to join NATO in May, a direct result of Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine. Over the past years, Moscow has repeatedly warned Helsinki and Stockholm against joining the Western military alliance and warned of retaliatory measures if they did.
Ahead of the naval drill, which involved 45 vessels and 75 aircraft, the top U.S military official said in Sweden — the host of the BALTOPS 22 exercise — that it was particularly important for NATO to show support to the governments in Helsinki and Stockholm.
“It is important for us, the United States, and the other NATO countries to show solidarity with both Finland and Sweden in this exercise,” U.S. Gen. Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Saturday during a news conference aboard the large amphibious warship USS Kearsarge, which was moored in central Stockholm.
Milley, speaking with the Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, stressed that the Baltic Sea is a strategically important body of water — “one of the great seaways of the world.”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/n...and-and-sweden
UKRAINE
Published June 1, 2022 9:04am EDT
Zelenskyy says Ukraine losing 60-100 service members daily in intense eastern fighting.
Zelenskyy says 500 Ukrainian fighters are wounded every day.
~~~
a. they ed around.
b. they found out.
c. "you have a nice day."
Putin...
Biden...
Lav!!!Invictus
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank what ever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of cir stance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scrolls,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
RED ROVER, RED ROVER LET VLADDY COME OVER
BOOM!!!
Topper!
Make sure you're right...
Then give RG the 12 incher.
AN OLDIE, BUT A GOODY...
CHARGE!!!
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