09:32 – MatsExtrude
+100 Can’t help but agree with everything you write.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
09:45 – Johan No.1
A bit messy but meetings.
Here is a guy reasoning like some of us in the thread about the UA offensive.
https://twitter.com/euan_macdonald/status/1720136373217190310?s=46&t=UvZMSsecK1aLUBn-qXYuuA
Ukraine has attacked up towards the heights at Krasnohorivka NE of Avdiivka.
If they can establish themselves there, they have eliminated that attempt to scale – we will see how it goes.
It is that UA offensive I have been discussing for a while now that is playing out.
https://twitter.com/secretsqrl123/status/1720050732030681272?s=46&t=d59BhKkv-d1rOjOcCT1qKQ
RU is also attacking near Vuhledar and if they have not brought in new units, there is a weakening at the southern front right now. I have not received any information about reinforcements at the southern front for quite a while now, has anyone else heard anything?
It is not surprising that UA has advanced around Svatove because it is starting to be empty of RU units there. However, UA has weakened at the southern front, that is notable.
What Ukraine is starting to worry about is that it could turn into a war of attrition and Russia can handle that.
Russia has not mobilized but they are gathering the “bottom scrap” (excuse the expression) in the country and sending them to Ukraine – that is established.
They also have a supply line to Iran, NK, and not least China where China is still moving in the undergrowth.
https://twitter.com/glasnostgone/status/1720036233752072558?s=46&t=d59BhKkv-d1rOjOcCT1qKQ
https://twitter.com/jayinkyiv/status/1720147341313745222?s=46&t=UvZMSsecK1aLUBn-qXYuuA
What Ukraine is worried about is that Russia may now succeed in addressing the materiel shortage.
After Christmas, a bunch of CAA should be ready for the fronts and where the contact line is today, they can then reinforce, and even Gerasimov has figured out that the mine weapon works.
Since Russia has managed to escalate globally instead of conquering more in Ukraine, they will probably be satisfied with that.
Since the West does not allow Ukraine to shoot into Russia (🤬) they can stand right on their side of the border and lob missiles and drones at sensitive infrastructure in Ukraine for a long time to come.
The lost opportunities are many, Ukraine had 10 brigades up towards the northern border that they were not allowed to attack with so it had to be a few hundred Russian volunteers who swept away FSB border troops in one morning and rampaged in Russia for weeks, and carried out several raids after that.
Imagine what 10 maneuver brigades with support could have achieved?
Today Russia has placed its elite aircraft and ahkp just on its side of the border and they have (at least) 12 army bases where they train the next generation to die. The vehicles are parked in rows and they have accommodations for hundreds.
-There is no shortage of missiles, the number of ATACMS that are about to be retired was about 2000 in various models?
-There are probably about a thousand Storm Shadows left.
-GLDSB is being produced and will soon be delivered.
-JDAMS delivered by air, there must be plenty of those, presumably?
-Taurus, all that were produced are still available?
Russia has fired maybe 6000 missiles at Ukraine and it is portrayed as if the country must surrender any moment because of that.
The above arsenal is at least equivalent?
I put my money on that between the Poland-Belarus border and out to Urazovo there is not much defense at all. The Belarusian population has already risen but Russia drove in enough internal troops to suppress them.
Ukraine could already today have created chaos in Belarus and the northern Oblasts but they are forced to attack through our time’s largest minefield.
At the same time as voices are raised for the West to intervene?
On the escalation ladder, wouldn’t it be less if Ukraine stirred things up in Belarus and the area south of Moscow?
Below calls for reflection, to say the least, regarding the US support to Ukraine. What the US is doing is a mystery and I attribute it to the GRU group leader who is tired of champagne now…
https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1719921480660910271?s=46&t=d59BhKkv-d1rOjOcCT1qKQ
Now I have seen video number two where Russian is spoken during H…as attack into I..el.
https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1720111864624066970?s=46&t=d59BhKkv-d1rOjOcCT1qKQ
Then Wagner is supposed to send qualified LV to H..as.
https://twitter.com/deitaone/status/1720101954163224648?s=46&t=d59BhKkv-d1rOjOcCT1qKQ
One starts to wonder how much more is needed to label Russia as a “state sponsor of terrorism”?
The West, as said, is more than sluggish on that ball.
Here were the star painters,
https://twitter.com/felix_nuno/status/1720073907510628439?s=46&t=d59BhKkv-d1rOjOcCT1qKQ
Now came the Russian influence operation where H..as (not them, completely fake) thanks Ukraine for the weapon deliveries. Budanov has already outed this but the video was probably ready to be played 😀
https://twitter.com/golub/status/1720127993467519429?s=46&t=d59BhKkv-d1rOjOcCT1qKQ
If anyone in Sweden still believes that the UN is an organization with a sensible function, I give you – Gutterez shaking hands with Iran’s highest leader 😐
https://twitter.com/saintjavelin/status/1720059263182107011?s=46&t=d59BhKkv-d1rOjOcCT1qKQ
We will see what H…ah has to say in his speech but from my parents’ basement room it looks like the global escalation is accelerating right now and for the hundredth time, the only place to reach Russia is in Ukraine and Ukraine can, according to all legal standards, attack Russia in whatever way they consider best – Ukraine is the only country in the world that can reach Russia’s soft parts.
09:48 – Johan No.1
Terrorists and barbarians 🤬
10:49 – MatsExtrude
Thanks!
I’ve thought that the UN is completely toothless when it comes to preventing wars etc. but they do have a lot of other sensible projects going on. Now one starts to wonder if they actually do more harm than good.. Completely incomprehensible. I don’t understand what they are really trying to achieve..
13:11 – Johan No.1
These organizations also cost enormous sums just to keep afloat in running costs.
22:46 – Johan No.1
Rybar admits that the counterattacks at the Dnieper have failed
https://twitter.com/noelreports/status/1720548245850489325?s=46&t=SCQKfEmLyFE218W4F5xB8A
23:53 – MatsExtrude
Rybar, the account that has given the word depressed sauerkraut a new meaning, and that’s not in a positive way..
(In some language on earth rybar must mean exactly that, otherwise I will be disappointed).
09:17 – Johan No.1
Where are all those who constantly claimed that the West’s arms deliveries prolong the war?
They need to go out in the media and criticize North Korea, China, and Iran for the same thing now, but it’s completely dead silent from them.
There are very many who have outed themselves as pro-Russian in this war.
Why don’t the newspapers write that anymore, that arms deliveries prolong the war, because they used to write that when Western arms packages arrived?
This whole damn war is rigged in Russia’s favor and yet they can’t manage to win. They have been cheating for 1.5 years but tens of thousands of Ukrainian infantry have paid for this with their lives.
If the country Russia does not become a “state sponsor of terrorism,” the West has completely failed in its analysis of the threat Russia poses.
The military threat is now a strong second after this, but if they get 5-10 years, they will come back. They manage to circumvent the shortage of materiel through smuggling and through Iran and China.
When they are a state sponsor of terrorism, cooperation with them – financially or active collaboration – is illegal and you can start prosecuting through the pro-Russian support in the West.
It also gives greater opportunities for wiretapping and other surveillance methods.
We have discussed for a long time that Russia fuels divisions in the West. That information the blogger posts about how in West Germany during the Cold War they were responsible for neo-Nazism by painting swastikas everywhere. The neo-Nazism in West Germany that was epidemic was Russians with a marker pen.
Now two Moldovans have been caught for painting a large number of stars on damn buildings and they took orders from a Russian.
The West MUST understand how enormously widespread Russian subversive activities are and how devastating they are. Many of the divisions in the West would probably disappear if Russian influence disappeared.
I think we in the thread have shown how many Russian influence operations there are, not just indications but so strong that the justice system should examine them where they occurred.
Prosecute them through anti-terrorism legislation and the world will be a better place to live in.
The West has remained PASSIVE during this war and that is the main purpose of the Russian subversive activities in Europe.
It is the same with Africa, running a huge campaign for “colonial guilt” (I think that’s what it’s called?) so no politician in the entire EU with some self-awareness and career sense would dare send troops to Africa while flooding Wagner into half of Africa’s fragile countries and apparently having divided the continent with China.
This works and it’s time for the West to wake up.
The fact that the West refuses to realize that Russia’s subversive activities control their Ukraine policy and that they denied Ukraine entry into the northern oblasts makes me completely damn furious 🤬
I know it’s not good for blood pressure but it’s on the level of standing knee-deep in water in the park pond while others dive to the bottom in the deep part of the swimming pool – the West must take this in and start acting.