It’s just the lead story on RT.com about Russian casualties, maybe it’s blocked at your work at something?
Says 498 Russians have died. Says Ukrainians claim ~2870 but that is not true.
Russians definitely know the truth is somewhere in the middle just like we do. RT just subtly tries to shift the perception to the lower end of the spectrum.
Point is Russians definitely have a good feel for what is going on, imo.
We have batshit crazy comments way worse than that here in the US over mask mandates.
2800 was the ukraine estimate a couple of days ago. yesterday many officials counted over 5k.
Guess that is a subtle way they got me then, tricky!
https://twitter.com/the_ironsheik/status/1496690535913771008
https://twitter.com/the_ironsheik/status/1496687259893977093
https://twitter.com/the_ironsheik/status/1497684258655141888
https://twitter.com/the_ironsheik/status/1498655168816193540
Not really. Not afraid, just aware that they’ll be blocked in their ambitions to be a regional hegemon.
Dugin:
Bit of a worrisiome perspective.
Hey, @VoteForSocialists, thanks for all your insights in this thread. Unimportant, but I was in Moscow in the spring of 1991 with my high school band and it was lovely and the people were great. One of the highlights of my life.
Did you hook up with a hot flautist?
Good thread.
Our guide was really hot. Tall woman named Olga who wore tight, slinky dresses. She setup a currency exchange in a room at our hotel. Pretty cool as a 15-year-old going into her hotel room to see tons of cash on a bed (and Olga).
Yeah, bobman is having a fine morning ITT.
Saw a counterinsurgency guy on CNN yesterday who said you need 5x the attacking force for urban counterinsurgency. Referenced 100k Iraqi troops going after 10k poorly trained isis fighters in Mosul, which took like 6 months. He seemed to think Ukraine had a significant advantage in Kiev.
But, of course, that doesn’t take into account just carpet bombing Kiev to rubble. I guess that is something Putin could do, but it would make Russia’s current international relations situation seem downright rosy.
Would be hilarious if it wasn’t so depressing that way too many Americans actually agree.
Russia number 1 in trolling
Just fyi you should try to remember to switch to Kyiv from Kiev.
Sorry, I’m a he/him guy.