Hubcapped

I agree that this is most likely. I also believe this is the best deal that either side can get. What pigeon doesnt understand is that to throw a map on a wall and claim “stalemate” is not understanding the method of this war. (This gets subjective) the attritional gradient is indicative of shaping operations as pushed by miley. Even the worst case 3rd party organizations claim losses at roughly 3-1 in ukrainian favor. This was facilitated by the EU who put up almost twice as much as the US (relative to GDP) despite the overused word of feckless like some child, the EU has stepped up. If not, ukraine just wouldn’t exist right now. Despite what our poor tucker infused russbot wishes to be true, the reality is in the numbers, not fox news.



lets not forget the claims:

europe will abandon them in 22-didn’t happen

Russian army is too big-not anymore

the mine fields are to extensive-broken through in the south



They’ll just keep going to justify the basic cowardice of appeasement as engineered by the RU propaganda playing the heartstrings of our population that can’t quite grasp things have changed. It scares them, they get played…..simple

Hubcapped

there are a couple facts that get skipped by the right wing extremist. Trump and 18 of his associates had 140 documented interactions with RU agents as confirmed by the DOJ. You can not like that, you can say its all a conspiracy, but it is what it is.

to get ahead of tucker vlads incessant insecure posting, 2 wrongs dont make a right. I learned that in 3rd grade. Burn them all

Excargodog

Ever read Herman Wouk’s The Winds of War ?

This is looking more and more like the opening chapters…

METO Guido

Feckless gained trite status after Canadian satirist Samantha Bee used it to label Ivanka T, a feckless c*nt. Who incidentally, graduated Wharton school at Penn. It means apathetic/indolent. Extreme is a measure. Posters using either to explain opposing views aren't exactly stretching themselves rhetorically. Evaluating moves to confront Russian aggression as, working or not, stripped of emotionally loaded popular jargon, is the responsibility of a balanced OP/contributor. Especially on a topic this real, tragic, volatile. You know, pilot stuff.

Excargodog

KFOR has about 4500 personnel assigned (down from a onetime peak of 50,000) versus the Serb militaries 25,000 active and 50,000 Reserve troops. The big disparity of course would be in crew served heavy equipment. The bulk of current forces are MP - type troops intended more for civilian peacekeeping than heavy fighting against tanks, artillery, etc.

Excargodog

Except sometimes a word just so precisely fits that it is the only logical choice.

METO Guido

Until such time it becomes overused, trite, cliché, hackney, banal. Doesn't work as intended.

Excargodog

Yet the fact you don’t care for it does not change its appropriateness.

Hubcapped

what precise metric are you applying when claiming the EU is not stepping up. Be very specific. 100BL required? 150?

do you even have a number or do you just whine with no context? You clearly dont understand the way this war is being fought, do you understand economics?

be specific dude, own it

What metric?

METO Guido

Appropriate v effective, not much of a battle.

"I’m sorry. I’m impressed with Hitler’s ability to use socialist prattle when necessary, and then discard it. He uses doctrines as he uses money, to get things done. They’re expendable. He uses racism because that’s the pure distillate of German romantic egotism, just as Lenin used utopian Marxism because it appealed to Russia’s messianic streak. Hitler means to hammer out a united Europe.... He understands them, and he may just succeed. A unified Europe must come. The medieval jigsaw of nations is obsolete. The balance of power is dangerous foolishness in the industrial age. It must all be thrown out. Somebody has to be ruthless enough to do it, since the peoples with their ancient hatreds will never do it themselves. It’s only Napoleon’s original vision, but he was a century ahead of his time.” Herman Wouk