DustyBin
Established Member
So much wishful
So much wishful thinking!! Russia has almost eliminated Ukraine's power systems and rail routes, which carried so much kit to reinforce Ukraine's defences in certain places. Russia has transferred 300,000 soldiers (their figure) to the other bank of the river from Kherson and the surrounding area, conscripts though many will be. Some think that figure is underestimated by perhaps as much as 200,000. Putin and his crowd, many of whom are probably even more barbarous and nationalistic than he is, won't be losing any sleep about this potential cannonfodder. They see 'the West' will never truly fight them until Russia has done the 'unspeakable' and exploded a nuclear device. Zelensky, poor man and no fool, I'm sure realises now that so much Western rhetoric was just that: no wonder he's not convinced that the missile killings in Poland weren't deliberate, even though they probably weren't. The American population, no doubt stirred up by Republicans of all types, are becoming increasingly unlikely to support Biden's apparently genuine efforts to provide succour to the Ukrainians and, like with Aghanistan, the benighted, heroic population will be largely left to their misery by the West's effective withdrawal.
I can’t decide if this post is intended to be pro-Russian or simply defeatist?
I’m not sure where you got those Russian troop numbers from incidentally, but you need to take a zero off the end!