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In reply to the discussion: Russian Forces Push Deeper Into Northern Ukraine [View all]Torchlight
(3,666 posts)32. An unsustainable Pyrrhic victory to regain ground already lost. Great plan, Moscow.
This small series of cost-ineffective advances brings some additional context to Putin's replacement of Sergei Shoigu as defense minister this weekend. It was a feud between Shoigu and Prigozhin (the latter blamed the former for inexcusably high casualty rates) that led directly to the mutiny by the Wagner Group last year.
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It's not a generic "Congress" at fault, it's the fucking Russiapublicans in our House.
Hermit-The-Prog
May 13
#14
You're still saying "Congress" when it is specifically Republicans causing the problems.
Hermit-The-Prog
May 13
#24
Russia could send half of their population to this war, it doesn't matter to the government, so losses are irrelevant
tornado34jh
May 13
#13
It's not meaningless if Ukraine's defensive perimeter's for Karkhiv have been breached.
Voltaire2
May 13
#28
Hopefully with the needed weapons and the F-16 fighters they (Ukrainian fighters) and international help
Botany
May 13
#29
An unsustainable Pyrrhic victory to regain ground already lost. Great plan, Moscow.
Torchlight
May 13
#32