Countdown Clock Until Vladimir Putins' Rule Ends
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UPDATED: Tuesday, August 4, 2026 03:05
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I think you've got it bassakwards as usual, SECOND, THUGR, and JAYNZE.
Russia's Security Council drives policy, NOT Putin.
The scope of Russia's invasion of Ukraine is - still- a "Special Military Operation", NOT full-on war. That means Russia is being parsimonious with deploying troops in Ukraine: most of the infantry fighting is being done by the LDNR (the combined militias of Luhansk and Donetsk). That's why the Kharkiv oblast was lightly defended: neither Russia nor the LDNR committed more than a tripwire force there. Kiev sent their forces out into the open for that offensive, and the tripwire did what it was supposed to do: stall the offensive for a few days before being evacuated so that artillery and air forces could be brought to bear. Kiev lost somwhere in the realm of 2000 KIA and (by the usual 3:1 calculation) 6000 wounded in taking a militarily irrelevent (from a Russian POV) region, while combined Russian and LDNR forces lost almost no one.
Commentators who are panicking have forgotten what they've been pounding on since the beginning:
The real fighting is in the Donbas (and now in Kherson too), and
Russia's goal is to destroy Kiev's military and kill Kiev soldiers, NOT take and hold territory. I believe that is called "manuever warfare" and what you saw was "maneuver defesne", executed brilliantly.
The best comparison is, still, Russia's action in Syria. In that case, lots of air support and training but not much troop involvement, and at a VERY slow grind. If you recall, Russia's first action was to degrade ISIS by hitting those oil tanker convoys heading into Turkey, where ISIS was going to make $$$.
Many Russians, including high-ranking public figures, want to blitz Ukraine NOW. PUTIN IS A MODERATING FORCE. PEOPLE ARE UPSET WITH HIM NOT BC OF THE "SMO" IN UKRAINE BUT BC IT'S TOO CAUTIOUS.
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People here in the west are afraid that we're on the rbink of WW3.
WHAT THEY DON'T REALIZE IS THAT WW3 HAS ALREADY BEGUN.
Remember, step 1 of warfare is sanctions and embargoes. We've been there and done that.
I don't think anyone in Russia's Security Council was ever under any illusion that this was "Russia v Ukraine".
It was always going to be "Russia v the Collective West", and not by Russia's choosing.
Right now, the west is trying to crank up problems in Serbia, Georgia, Armenia, Syria, Taiwan and who-knows-where-else (the M$M certainly isn't going to tell us!) hoping to throw so much chaff at Russia and its allies to overwhelm Russia's military and economy. We - the collective west - are aiming for "all chaos, all the time". And we - the collective west- are getting sucked further and further into supporting Ukraine no matter what the long term consequences for us and the world.
I have no idea what Russia's Security Council calculations are. Unlike us, I believe they want to avoid full-on global hot warfare. I see something of a horse race between actual military status (which IMHO Russia is winning, slowly) and our economic and political ability to wage war (which is declining, maybe more rapidy).
But if anyone resorts to nuclear holocaust it's going to be us.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Biden* has 55 days left until irrelevancy.
He may have to wean off the aged teat of Pelosi for once, but he always has that darn Executive Order option to do basically anything his puppet masters want.
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Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
It’s Time to Prepare for a Ukrainian Victory
The liberation of Russian-occupied territory might bring down Vladimir Putin.
To be clear: This is not a prediction; it’s a warning. Many things about the current Russian political system are strange, and one of the strangest is the total absence of a mechanism for succession.
WTF??? Only a witless troll would post such nonsey.
Russia has elections. That's there mechanism for succession!
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Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh dear. THUGR ran out of anything credible to say.
Soon, he will be posting picture of pigs.
HAHAHAHA!
Russians are calling up the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense asking how to surrender, Ukraine says
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russians-are-calling-up-the-ukrai
nian-ministry-of-defense-asking-how-to-surrender-ukraine-says/ar-AA12iyQy?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=43b3423a300d43a4bc7b27853ca3d0e2
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Russian Army at 'Breaking Point' After Putin's Lyman Defeat: Lt. General
Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster said Sunday that Russia's army may be at the edge of "collapse" after it faced defeat in Lyman—the previously occupied Ukrainian city where Russian forces retreated on Saturday.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-army-at-breaking-point-af
ter-putin-s-lyman-defeat-lt-general/ar-AA12vRiW?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=1ae1d46bdfaa4e39c2d562e0d2300d6a
I couldn't be happier. How about you comrade signym. How happy are you?
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Biden* has never been relevant. And when he WAS cogent his concern about Ukraine was for his family's grift.
Here is a gift from Ukraine to Putin. Let me add my congratulations, happy birthday Putty.
Comrades kiki and signym, can_you_see_me_laughing?
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Russian-controlled Donetsk printing house burned to the ground in shelling
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Most of President Putin's Kremlin elite oppose the Ukraine war, report says
Top officials know that Putin's war with Ukraine cannot be won, two well-connected journalists told the Guardian. Russia has endured a series of disastrous defeats in its shambolic invasion of Ukraine.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/most-of-president-putin-s-kremlin
-elite-oppose-the-ukraine-war-report-says/ar-AA12Ltvb?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=097d020d15924e03aa7833a59780e7bd
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Putin's current term in office will end in 2024. If he isn't re-elected, his rule will end then.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Putin's current term in office will end in 2024. If he isn't re-elected, his rule will end then.
Putin signs law enabling him to stay in power until 2036
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20210405-putin-signs-law-enabling-h
im-to-stay-in-power-until-2036
Russian elections, you're so funny.
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