01:09
That thing about Russian offensive power sneaked in, cross that out.
01:31
What an enormous twelve-gauge Kherson is 🙂
Everything on the western side will stay on the western side, it’s not harder than that. I don’t believe for a second that Ukraine will let those thieving magpie-murderers escape to safety east of the Dnieper. On the big breakout day Ukraine will put everything into blowing away panting Russians on the highway with washing machines on homemade carts.
A well-deserved sprinter death for this absolute magpie rabble.
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Kherson’s fate has been sealed for a while, it’s just that the Russians haven’t realized it yet and it will send shockwaves all the way into the living rooms of fine Russia. A heinous war crime when Russia does it but smart PR when Ukraine lines up 15,000 war-weary soldiers in a field and does panoramic sweeps with the latest camera drone.
I want to add that it has been suggested between 10,000 – 25,000 thieving magpie-murderers west of the Dnieper, the exact number probably barely known even by the Russians themselves 🙂
How Putin will spin that retreat will probably be his PR staff’s worst, and maybe last, day. “Kherson wasn’t important so we asked 25,000 of our finest to lay down their arms, we don’t really need VDV and Spetsnaz.”
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Now of course the million-dollar question is how many Russians remain east of Izyum and in the darkest Donbass.
Starting to get a bit disappointed that we haven’t seen CV90 yet pounding on T72s with clouds of arrow projectiles. These moments don’t come often and now you really want to be proud to be Swedish and for that we need to send down a couple hundred CV90s to Ukraine pretty soon. They are needed and it will be a whole swarm of flies in one go, marketing, beta test, a blow for the free world and you get my vote for the years I have left before acute work-related stress hits.
Being on the right side of history hasn’t always been our strongest side but a clearer invitation to do just that probably hasn’t presented itself since April 9, 1940. Send down everything we have and let the Ukrainians die in the best equipment instead of glorified milk cartons and Renault cars.
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Think it over and anchor the proposal and the golden middle way we can take afterwards, right now we need middle managers who make decisions and think it’s better to apologize afterwards than to ask for permission beforehand. We all know that if you wait for approval you never get it but if you force a decision it often becomes what you want. Send them down to Ukraine!
01:47
So… now it’s a late meeting and I’ve sneaked in a couple of beers because I don’t think I’ll get any questions.
This strategy has completely failed at times and I’ve had to give long lectures to 50 eagerly listening engineers after a bunch of whiskey mixed with some beers and then blame all the chaos on the language barrier.
Memory is short and then at the next meeting the assessment will again be that there is low risk of getting caught and out comes the fine whiskey.
The meaning of – like – is strictly comments in the thread, just want to be clear about that 🙂
01:48
Where is Erik14, a deviation from established routine.
01:07
I understand that the Amnesty report has been widely discussed today but just want to interrupt with one point (late meeting again on a damn Friday…).
You MUST unreservedly support Ukraine all the time, one negative report or article is one too many. Many journalists still claim that you have to give both sides’ views. It’s a bit like a serial killer-pedophile being allowed to give his sob story about why he murdered 100 children, very inappropriate.
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I wrote at the beginning that Ukraine can boil Russian prisoners in oil if they want, the Russians have a choice to go home, Ukraine is fighting for their lives. There is no objectivity here. It’s all Russia’s fault and Ukraine does everything right, even when they don’t. Sure, a lot happens on the Ukrainian side too that maybe shouldn’t happen but that doesn’t matter now.
Right now all sensible people should be devoted supporters of Ukraine and then after the war ends we can start discussing what went wrong.
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Amnesty, the UN, the Red Cross and all other organizations have completely missed the mark in this war. Why, I leave to those who can speculate but I am content to say that they are all obsolete as organizations and should have their funding withdrawn immediately.
Then we have our media, now the war has been going on since February 24 and the war crimes are the worst possible, completely incomprehensible.
And yet they have to give Russia’s view on the “operation” in the “disputed territories” etc. endlessly.
I know you can do whatever you want in a democracy as long as it’s not illegal but it’s a grey area to support Russia when you work at a media house, or state media, that sets the agenda for the country.
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CV90 in Ukraine now, Ukraine needs them and we can spare them. Russia has no offensive power left. The last puzzle piece is MBT and IFV in large numbers and Sweden can contribute and clear up the question marks from earlier conflicts. When it really matters we stand on the side of the weak.