Regarde Aduck posted:

like what was the EU project even for? Was it just to make the US running it into the ground that much easier? Was it ever its own thing?

Slim Jim Pickens posted:

https://twitter.com/Gernot_Koepke/status/1602316624258031617/photo/1

Tankbuster posted:

hey put a translation ffs.

Lostconfused posted:

The linked video is in English.

Tankbuster posted:

I am not clicking on a video in this thread.

Regarde Aduck posted:

Really don't like how close the front is to donetsk

The scale of the humanitarian disaster that would follow Ukraine occupying that city would eclipse all that came before and it would receive no western coverage

Orange Devil posted:

The European elite never saw the US as a threat whose shadow they needed to get out from. Except maybe DeGaulle. So the EU can't be that.

Zodium posted:

the european and american bourgeoisie identify as neither european nor american, but simply as bourgeois.

quote:

Russia will try to capture Kyiv again next year, in January or in spring

Lostconfused posted:

https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPR/status/1603381611533201409

https://twitter.com/olgatokariuk/status/1603403254787964930

quote:

TE: Are your allies holding you back in any way from advancing on Crimea?

VZ: I can’t answer the question of whether they are holding back or not. I will simply state the facts. In order to reach the borders of Crimea, as of today we need to cover a distance of 84km to Melitopol. By the way, this is enough for us, because Melitopol would give us a full fire control of the land corridor, because from Melitopol we can already fire at the Crimean Isthmus, with the very same HIMARS and so on. Why am I saying this to you? Because it goes back to my earlier point about resources. I can calculate, based on the task at hand, what kind of resource is needed to build combat capability.

We are talking about the scale of World War One…that is what Antony Radakin [Britain’s top soldier] told me. When I told him that the British Army fired a million shells in World War One, I was told, “We will lose Europe. We will have nothing to live on if you fire that many shells.” When they say, “You get 50,000 shells”, the people who count the money faint. The biggest problem is that they really don’t have it.

With this kind of resources I can’t conduct new big operations, even though we are working on one right now. It is on the way, but you don’t see it yet. We use a lot fewer shells.

I know that I can beat this enemy. But I need resources. I need 300 tanks, 600-700 IFVs, 500 Howitzers. Then, I think it is completely realistic to get to the lines of February 23rd. But I can’t do it with two brigades. I get what I get, but it is less than what I need. It is not yet time to appeal to Ukrainian soldiers in the way that Mannerheim appealed to Finnish soldiers. We can and should take a lot more territory.

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TE: What do you make of Russia’s mobilisation?

VZ: Russian mobilisation has worked. It is not true that their problems are so dire that these people will not fight. They will. A tsar tells them to go to war, and they go to war. I’ve studied the history of the two Chechen wars—it was the same. They may not be that well equipped, but they still present a problem for us. We estimate that they have a reserve of 1.2m-1.5m people… The Russians are preparing some 200,000 fresh troops. I have no doubt they will have another go at Kyiv.

sum posted:

Also his assessment of Russian mobilization seems a lot sunnier than CNN's:

gradenko_2000 posted:

that's a pretty wide range to make a prediction

gradenko_2000 posted:

Zaluzhniy needs to read more Al-Saqr posts

Hazamuth posted:

https://yle.fi/a/74-20008814/64-3-128368?utm_medium=social&utm_source=copy-link-share

...

According to the ministry, Poland has asked Ukraine for an explanation.

fits my needs posted:

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1603076146354176006?s=20&t=uaJ40oFZD8422liSKQQCTw

slava ukraini

sum posted:

His full comments are worth reading. Zaluzhny's essentially saying that he can't recapture the rest of Kherson without an armored corps' worth of new materiel, which he seems to strongly imply he's not expecting to get.

Also his assessment of Russian mobilization seems a lot sunnier than CNN's:

quote:

VZ: I trust my generals. Since the start of the war I fired ten of them because they were not up to it. Another one shot himself. I trust Syrsky [General Oleksandr Syrsky, commander of Ukraine’s land forces]. If he tells me he needs another brigade, it means that he really needs another brigade. I certainly don’t think I am the smartest one here. I must and do listen to those who are in the field. Because the initiative is there.

fits my needs posted:

https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1603361570494578688?s=20&t=3qsrSTa0rCj-sQTSrP6Lrg

sum posted:

His full comments are worth reading. Zaluzhny's essentially saying that he can't recapture the rest of Kherson without an armored corps' worth of new materiel, which he seems to strongly imply he's not expecting to get.

Also his assessment of Russian mobilization seems a lot sunnier than CNN's:

quote:

I know that I can beat this enemy. But I need resources. I need 300 tanks, 600-700 IFVs, 500 Howitzers. Then, I think it is completely realistic to get to the lines of February 23rd. But I can’t do it with two brigades. I get what I get, but it is less than what I need. It is not yet time to appeal to Ukrainian soldiers in the way that Mannerheim appealed to Finnish soldiers. We can and should take a lot more territory.

lobotomy molo posted:

quote:

After the war broke out, Ukraine's military outfitted many women with small-sized men’s uniforms or boots. In recent months, as part of its response, Zemliachky has crafted its designs to account for women’s bodies, sizes and needs.

Dozens of orders come in and go out by truck, train and courier daily, and a converted two-room warehouse stall in northeastern Kyiv serves as a showroom where women on leave can pick up the wares — made available for free — themselves.

Once, Drahaniuk recalled, she got a call indicating that an order for 10 uniforms and pairs of shoes needed to be reduced to five — after a Russian attack one night cost five lives.

"They really give their lives for the freedom of our country,” she said.