Russian losses in Ukraine Now At 1 Million Killed Or Wounded
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Yanno THUGR, I know you believe what "everyone" is telling you, and you're certain that anything else is a lie. So you'll reject a different narrative no matter that it's closer to reality than the narrative that you're used to hearing
But hasn't it occurred to you that what you believe isn't even internally consistent?
Take Bakhmut. The current western narrative is that Bakhmut is of no strategic significance, that the only reason that Kiev is defending it so heavily is to "grind down" Russia. Which, according to story, they're doing quite successfully: Russia has run out of weapons, is sending in human waves of untrained soldiers and suffering catastrophic losses. Have I got that right?
But in the same video, they say that Ukraine is still holding one (ONE!) major road in and out of western Bakhmut.
Tell me, THUGR, how can Russia have taken ALL THE OTHER ROADS ... roads for Ukrainian tanks, APCs, armored fighting vehicles etc .. if all the Russian troops have is assault rifles and trenching tools (i.e. shovels)? It would be impossible. Light weapons simply can't penetrate even moderate armor In order to meaningfully control a road, you need anti-tank weapons, mortars, and artillery.
In the same video, the commentary claims that Russia's aim is to "destroy" Bakhmut, and they say that Russia seems to be doing a good job. To prove their point,they pan over a devastated landscape.
Can Russian soldiers do that with rifles and trenching tools, no mater how many bodies they throw at the task?? Or would they need bombs, missiles, and artillery?
I predicted that Russia will take Bakhmut. If that happens, what will your explanation be for how that happened?
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Quote:The Kyiv Independent wrote an explanation:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I predicted that Russia will take Bakhmut. If that happens, what will your explanation be for how that happened?
Russia’s relentless assault on Bakhmut is sacrificing waves and waves of unprepared men being sent to their deaths. But multiple defenders of this embattled city in Donetsk Oblast feel that they are in a similar boat, according to interviews with more than a dozen soldiers currently fighting in or around Bakhmut.
During their brief visits to the nearby town of Kostiantynivka, Ukrainian infantrymen told the Kyiv Independent of unprepared, poorly-trained battalions being thrown into the front line meat grinder to survive as best they could with little support from armored vehicles, mortars, artillery, drones and tactical information.
More at https://kyivindependent.com/national/ukrainian-soldiers-in-bakhmut-our
-troops-are-not-being-protected
What battles did the U.S lose in WW2, on all fronts?
Not an exhaustive list.
• Battle of Kasserine Pass
• Battle of Santa Cruz
• Battle of the Coral Sea
• Battle of Savo Island
• Battle of the Hurtgen Forest
• Operation Bodenplatte
• Battle of Corregidor
• Operation Market Garden (not a strictly U.S. operation)
Also in the European Theatre, U.S. forces were defeated in every attempt to capture the monastery at Monte Cassino in Italy (1943–44) by frontal assault.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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SECOND: I already addressed that trope.
Fortified trenches, durable Soviet-style high rises, bunkers, and armored vehicles can't be destroyed by "human waves" armed with rifles and shovels. No matter how numerous.
How about coming up with an explanation that makes sense?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Fuck Ukraine.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Quote:Nobody cares what people like you think, Signym and 6ix, except other people like you, the losers of America, the drunks, the addicts, the failures. The Trumptards. Signym, did the U.S. lose WWII after losing so many battles? Check with google, Signym. After each loss, there was a certain fraction of American civilians, call them paleo-Trumptards, that wanted FDR to withdraw all troops back to America because the U.S. is not the Policeman of the World. How dare the U.S. impose its values on other countries? And think of the cost of war to taxpayers? Let the Europeans build their own Armies and pay the cost of fighting Hitler. And Hawaii isn't even a state. Why then is the U.S. fighting in the Pacific?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND: I already addressed that trope.
Fortified trenches, durable Soviet-style high rises, bunkers, and armored vehicles can't be destroyed by "human waves" armed with rifles and shovels. No matter how numerous.
How about coming up with an explanation that makes sense?
Paleo-Trumptards were outraged by what Democrats did to the National Debt during WWII:
Gross Federal Debt as Percent of Gross Domestic Product
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=10SiX
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:Then why are you still arguing? Just STFU already.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND, I already addressed that trope.
Fortified trenches, durable Soviet-style high rises, bunkers, and armored vehicles can't be destroyed by "human waves" armed with rifles and shovels. No matter how numerous.
How about coming up with an explanation that makes sense?
SECOND: Nobody cares what people like you think, Signym and 6ix,
Quote:No, fortunately for Europe, the Soviet Union saved their sorry asses from the Nazis.
SECOND: Signym, did the U.S. lose WWII after losing so many battles?
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yanno THUGR, I know you believe what "everyone" is telling you, and you're certain that anything else is a lie. So you'll reject a different narrative no matter that it's closer to reality than the narrative that you're used to hearing
But hasn't it occurred to you that what you believe isn't even internally consistent?
Comrade, can you see me laughing? I just reminded you that I'm not posting my opinions. 95% of what I post is what world leaders and the world's mainstream media are reporting. Including what the worlds' scholars and retired military experts are claiming.
You comrade, are a Russian troll. You are so sad you defy description.
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https://www.ft.com/content/439aa6b0-2f3c-4eca-b81f-b7e9c8eb286f
Volodymyr Zelenskyy doubles down on defending city of Bakhmut
Ukraine’s president shrugs off allies’ concerns about merits of holding on to eastern city under Russian assault.
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has doubled down on defending Bakhmut despite earlier signals of a withdrawal from the eastern city that is almost surrounded by Russian troops.
In an overnight video address, Zelenskyy said he had met his top generals who had “unanimously” advised “do not withdraw but reinforce”.
It is unusual for the president to cite the advice of his top commanders. His intervention comes amid reports of concerns among western officials, analysts and some Ukrainian troops at the frontline about the merits of holding on to the city despite the costs. US defence secretary Lloyd Austin on Monday said a retreat from Bakhmut should not be seen as an “operational or strategic setback”.
Zelenskyy said he had ordered General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, “to find the appropriate forces to help the guys in Bakhmut”.
“There is no part of Ukraine about which one can say that it can be abandoned,” Zelenskyy added.
The battle for the city, known among Ukrainian troops as “Fortress Bakhmut”, has lasted almost nine months, one of the most grinding stand-offs since Russia’s president Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
The largely bombed-out city has been assailed by Russian troops from its east, north and south.
“The Ukrainian defence of Bakhmut continues to degrade forces on both sides,” the UK’s defence ministry said on Twitter on Tuesday.
Sergei Shoigu, Russia’s defence minister, said taking control of Bakhmut would allow his troops to “continue an offensive” into the Ukrainian defences, according to Interfax. He estimated Ukrainian casualties grew 40 per cent in February to 11,000.
Ukraine’s general staff on Tuesday said 1,060 Russian soldiers had been killed along all front lines since February 24. The claims could not be independently verified.
Kyiv claimed it had identified one of its soldiers from a video circulating on social media on Monday that appeared to show Russian troops executing him as a prisoner of war. The footage shows the soldier, unarmed and smoking a cigarette, being shot after he chanted: “Glory to Ukraine.”
An army spokesperson told the Financial Times that relatives had confirmed his identity but that an autopsy was not currently possible as his body remains in Russian-occupied territory.
The general staff in a statement on Tuesday identified him as Tymofiy Shadura from the 30th mechanised brigade. In a separate statement, the brigade said Shadura went missing last month near Bakhmut.
“The shooting of an unarmed prisoner is a cynical and brazen disregard for the norms of international humanitarian law and the customs of war,” the general staff added.
Capturing Bakhmut, one of the last of several major cities in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region not under Russian occupation, would give Putin his first major battlefield victory since his forces captured the nearby sister cities of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk early last summer.
Ukraine counter-attacked last autumn twice to retake areas in the north-east as well as the southern city of Kherson. But Russian forces still occupy eastern and southern regions, accounting for just under 20 per cent of its territory.
Austin’s comments about a Ukrainian retreat echoed suggestions by some western officials and experts that Kyiv should pull out to preserve its forces ahead of its own planned counter-offensive. That push is expected after the arrival this spring of fresh western weaponry, including modern tanks from Nato countries.
But Ukrainian officials and experts have said their continued defence of Bakhmut is eroding Russia’s firepower. They say Russian losses in the battle have far exceeded Ukraine’s. Zelenskyy’s national security chief Oleksiy Danilov on Friday s
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Quote:
Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yanno THUGR, I know you believe what "everyone" is telling you, and you're certain that anything else is a lie. So you'll reject a different narrative no matter that it's closer to reality than the narrative that you're used to hearing
But hasn't it occurred to you that what you believe isn't even internally consistent?
THUGR: Comrade, can you see me laughing? I just reminded you that I'm not posting my opinions. 95% of what I post is what world leaders and the world's mainstream media are reporting. Including what the worlds' scholars and retired military experts are claiming.
First of all, it's not "world leaders" and "world media" who are opining, it's WESTERN leaders and WESTERN media. And not even all of western media, western leaders, western military experts and western scholars bc there are dissident opinions even within that group. The BBC, for example- the epitome of western establishment opinion - estimates Russian dead at 16,000. Not 160,000 or 200,000 or whatever the fuck Kiev is bloviating today.
But, be that as it may, what I'm pointing out is that even within the narrative THAT YOU ACCEPT, there are huge gaps, chasns of self contradiction, where two parts of the official narrative simply can't both be true at the same time.
Like, the devastation that they say Russia is imposing on Bakhmut ... with apparently non-existent weapons.
I wish you would turn your brain on for once.
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