analysis World War III

[oldtimer]

I believe that President Biden was right when he said that Russia is going to Invade Ukraine.

Any intelligent person is going to come to the same conclusion knowing that Russia has already decided to pay any price imposed on it by the West through sanctions.

Short of full military confrontation by the West there is nothing that can make Russia to change its mind as they see this as a golden opportunity to resurrect the once powerful superpower that was equal to the USA.

But Russia’s ambitions are not going to stop with taking over Ukraine since it already has made plans to increase its sphere of influence to Asia, Middle East, and South America and perhaps the whole World knowing that the West is most likely not going to do anything beyond just imposing sanctions which ultimately will hurt the West itself by effecting the Global economy in an adverse way the longer that they go on.

I personally don’t like any of the old ideologies, philosophies, and doctrines of Capitalism, Communism, Socialism, Religious Fundamentalism and all the other “ism” that are derived from the bad human characteristics of Greed, Lust, Hate, Cruelty, Jealousy, Prejudice, and lack of Empathy and that have been infringing on our rights in one way or another throughout the history because they can only exist through supporting inequality, oppression, suppression, torture, killing, and War.

When it comes to saving the World the last thing that I want to see is the further expansion of these old systems that have all already proven to be a failure in dealing with the existential problems that are currently facing Humanity and the Environment.

We don’t want all these political, Religious, and Racial parties and groups to resurrect their past, we want something new that can propel the World into the next Era that is based on the Universal Principles and Values that have been derived through Logic and Compassion and not through Force and Violence.

By “We” I mean all the Intelligent, Righteous, and Peace loving people of the World.

IMO

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[DmitrySV]

I am just hoping their nuclear arsenal is as poorly maintained as the rest of their junky tanks, planes, etc... the vast majority seem to be relics of the past from the 70's and 80's when USSR was a superpower.

The should have paid for the better tires -

How cheap Chinese tires might explain Russia's 'stalled' 40-mile-long military convoy in Ukraine​

Some submarines are pretty new:
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-northern-fleet-new-class-of-subs-worry-us-navy-2021-6

Russia is not currently using its latest weapons(like t-90) in Ukraine focusing on recycling what is left from USSR.

T-90:

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/upgrades-galore-russia’s-t-90-tank-armored-killer-191346

 

[DmitrySV]

Some submarines are pretty new:
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-northern-fleet-new-class-of-subs-worry-us-navy-2021-6

Russia is not currently using its latest weapons(like t-90) in Ukraine focusing on recycling what is left from USSR.

T-90:

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/upgrades-galore-russia’s-t-90-tank-armored-killer-191346

.. and some equipment is still at ukrainian border:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...anced-urban-fighting-vehicles-towards-ukraine

 

[bmugford]

.. and some equipment is still at ukrainian border:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...anced-urban-fighting-vehicles-towards-ukraine

Interesting. Looks like they have only been operational for a year and only have a handful.

I am not sure how good of a plan it is to lead with all your junk and take massive losses.

Brad

 

[.X.]

they have this instead:

I noticed in pics that the Russian military is using older weaponry , some USSR weaponry, they aren’t far from homeland , they don’t need to bring out new weaponry and technology for this war , Ukraine only has a military of 250k , the civilian Ukrainian's that have joined the war have the will , Ukraine lacks actual trained military as well as technology to sustain against the Russian military IMO … I don’t think Putin is up for gorilla warfare , I think he will go heavy in days to come to end the war , I feel Putin has bigger places he wants to go as opposed to extending the Ukraine conflict .. Putin is not going to show his modern weaponry performing in Ukraine .. he isn’t going to reveal Russias military power to other countries in this conflict war IMO .. should the Russian military end up rolling into Poland , I expect Putin will expose more of Russias military and technology.

 

[.X.]

Interesting. Looks like they have only been operational for a year and only have a handful.

I am not sure how good of a plan it is to lead with all your junk and take massive losses.

Brad

I think the Russian military got more civilian resistance than expected , from the start of the conflict to today, the Russian military has adjusted and continues to adjust how much they bring on Ukraine , right now with such a large civilian resistance and civilians entering the war theater , the more likely that what were civilian non military targets , have turned into military targets , the Ukraine civilians have showed they have the will to fight the Russian military , i expect many many places through out Ukraine that were not marked military targets , have now become military targets due to the civilians joining into the conflict ..

 

[bmugford]

I think the Russian military got more civilian resistance than expected , from the start of the conflict to today, the Russian military has adjusted and continues to adjust how much they bring on Ukraine , right now with such a large civilian resistance and civilians entering the war theater , the more likely that what were civilian non military targets , have turned into military targets , the Ukraine civilians have showed they have the will to fight the Russian military , i expect many many places through out Ukraine that were not marked military targets , have now become military targets due to the civilians joining into the conflict ..

I am pretty sure Russia expected to just march in and not be taking the major losses they are now.

It is not really even clear what Russia is fighting for.

The Ukrainian citizens will never accept an illegitimate government, neither will the rest of the world.

Even if Russia eventually takes over Ukraine, they will never actually win anything.

They should have learned their lesson in Afghanistan in the 1980s.

The Russian economy and currency are destroyed. They are toxic to the vast majority of the rest of the world. Companies want nothing to do with them. I hope it was worth it.

Brad

 

[.X.]

I am pretty sure Russia expected to just march in and not be taking the major losses they are now.

It is not really even clear what Russia is fighting for.

The Ukrainian citizens will never accept an illegitimate government, neither will the rest of the world.

Even if Russia eventually takes over Ukraine, they will never actually win anything.

They should have learned their lesson in Afghanistan in the 1980s.

The Russian economy and currency are destroyed. They are toxic to the vast majority of the rest of the world. Companies want nothing to do with them. I hope it was worth it.

Brad

The only thing I have figured out , Russia wants Zelensky out , and they do not want NATO on their doorstep , aside from those two things , I am pretty clueless of the complete narrative and end result , I have a theory , but I will leave that unless the theory proves to be right or somewhat correct.

Think of this , Afghanistan has taken on two of the worlds super powers and lost to neither , I don’t think Afghanistan can be defeated in a conventional war by any country , the Afghan homeland has the best natural bomb bunkers in the world , their caves , the wide open terrain leaves the aggressor constantly on the defensive , the caves are a no win for the aggressor IMO ..

 

[Samer]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1500427275862523905

 

[Cannuck]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1500357239428763649

 

[Cannuck]

Informative...

 

[eurorealtor]

they do not want NATO on their doorstep

 

[Sutruk]

The Ukraine government needs to move the civilians who are going to stay in the country completely away from military installations

The card being played is that Vladimir Putin is ordering military strikes on civilians , I don’t feel that is the case

Man, you must be kidding. Either, or you are not watching TV news, or you are only watching Sputnik TV or RT news.
Putin, currently the russian Hitler, is MASSACRING the ukrainian population by MASS SHELLING indiscriminately and rughtlessly CIVILIAN BUILDINGS and cities, not military installations.
Really, you must be joking to say that.

 

[Kingslayer]

If NATO isn't able to or doesn't want to meet Russia's demands half way perhaps the Ukrainians should be looking for a way to come to an agreement with Russia on their own in order to prevent further deaths and carnage in their homeland.

See this is the problem, people seem to think it's NATO's job to resolve all this and all we keep hearing is 'why doesn't NATO get involved' and 'why doesn't NATO create a no fly zone' That is not NATO's job, NATO is a defensive force for NATO countries.

Ukrainians should be pushing the UN to create a no fly zone not NATO as that was the UN was created for, to resolve conflicts and promote world peace. Should the a UN create a no fly zone, it would have been voted on the the UN security council (ie a world decision) under the banner of the UN not NATO, which could escalate things.

 

[Sutruk]

Civilians who Choose to enter the war theater are no longer just civilians , they become military targets .

Who the f*ck entered the war theater. I think that's russian troops who invaded Ukraine. Civilians stay at their home!!! They are being bombed and shelled in their buildings, in their houses!!!! They did not enter any war theater, they LIVE THERE in their homes!!!! WOMEN AND CHILDREN included!!!!

Putin also said that the Russian military would avoid any Ukraine civilians as they are not targets.

Putin also said he wasn't going to invade Ukraine. Man, are you really believing all the lies of the russian Hitler?
Aren't you watching all the shelling over civilian buildings currently in the biggest ukrainian cities like Mariupol? All the civilian deaths caused by Putin's mass and indiscriminate shelling of the cities?
The russian dictator is a compulsive liar.

 

[koolishman]

Reports claim Ukraine negotiator shot for treason; officials say he died in intel op​

Clashing reports emerged Saturday surrounding the death of a Ukrainian identified by media as a member of the country’s negotiating team with Russia.

First, widespread reports in local media and social media throughout the day claimed Denis Kireev, who had been photographed taking part in negotiations in Belarus in recent days, had been killed by Ukrainian security forces during an attempt to arrest him.


https://www.timesofisrael.com/ukrai...or-treason-officials-say-he-died-in-intel-op/

 

[.X.]

Informative...

It’s a good analogy , a lot of theory and wondering if Putin has his shit together or not … Putin is 69 years old , he knows that his future is bleak at best now , Russia has sanctions on it that could take the country down quickly … to question rather Russias nukes will work as advertised is playing True Russian Roulette… Russia has the most nuclear missiles in the world , range nuke missiles that have a range of 8,000 miles… Putins mental state of mind right now ? No one knows really , his end game strategy if he is going to die ? No one knows , it looks as a good possibility that people are willing to challenge Putin as a bluffer , if that happens I think we all will find out if the red button works as advertised, it’s very bold to test these waters , if they are right , it’s victory , if they are wrong , it’s the end of the world.. Russian Roulette in its truest sense of meaning IMO

 

[Cannuck]

Russian Roulette in its truest sense of meaning IMO

Putin gambled Russia's future and lost. It was a HUGE blunder on his part. He will decimate Ukraine and call that peace, but his country will decay, only to become a dependent puppet of China IMO .

 

[.X.]

Man, you must be kidding. Either, or you are not watching TV news, or you are only watching Sputnik TV or RT news.
Putin, currently the russian Hitler, is MASSACRING the ukrainian population by MASS SHELLING indiscriminately and rughtlessly CIVILIAN BUILDINGS and cities, not military installations.
Really, you must be joking to say that.

This conflict will win awards for media Propaganda … Zelensky repeatedly requests for Ukraine civilians to fight the Russian military , many are doing it , it appears , Civilians can be used to harbor the military , military can hide in school building and Civilian installations, I don’t have proof that is what is happening right now, but with the shelling and bombing of civilian area targets, it points to the Ukrain military hiding within these installations .. or .. the civilians have joined the conflict and are firing on the Russian military as Zelensky asked of them … we will know something half true concerning it soon I think.. then we should know the facts of the Russian military targets hit

 

[Sutruk]

The card being played is that Vladimir Putin is ordering military strikes on civilians , I don’t feel that is the case

The card being played is that Vladimir Putin is ordering military strikes on civilians , I don’t feel that is the case , if civilians are harboring Ukraine military , those will become military targets

Watch this video and tell me if this young mother and her 18 months old toddler killed by Putin's bombs were a military target.

 

[.X.]

Putin gambled Russia's future and lost. It was a HUGE blunder on his part. He will dessimate Ukraine and call that peace, but his country will decay, only to become a dependent puppet of China IMO .

What if Putin feels the same way you do? If that’s the case, Putin knows his days are numbered , will he go full out and go out with a bang ? Or will he shrivel up and go get in a closet and wait for his own Demise? Had Hitler had a red button , we would not be here right now , he didn’t, so he took himself out..

 

[.X.]

Watch this video and tell me if this young mother and her 18 months old toddler killed by Putin's bombs were a military target.

That video is why war is so horrid , but, were the mother and child collateral damage of a strike on a military installation , in other words , the location where they were struck could have been next to a military target and they are collateral damage from the strike , this is nothing new to war, it happens in every war , it’s what makes war so horrid

 

[Sutruk]

That video is why war is so horrid , but, were the mother and child collateral damage of a strike on a military installation

You must be really kidding. Putin is BOMBING CIVILIAN BUILDINGS man!!! In the biggest ukrainian cities, mass civilian bombing and killing innocent people same way as Hitler did!!!

 

[.X.]

We have to know facts regarding civilian casualties before we can actually know if the targeting is intentional , collateral damage from a military target or civilians that have voluntarily entered the war on their own demise , Zelensky asks the civilians daily to fight the Russian military . We need facts of military targets and rate of civilians that have entered the war.

 

[Cannuck]

What if Putin feels the same way you do? If that’s the case, Putin knows his days are numbered , will he go full out and go out with a bang ? Or will he shrivel up and go get in a closet and wait for his own Demise? Had Hitler had a red button , we would not be here right now , he didn’t, so he took himself out..

There are safeguards on the 'red button', but that's what makes the situation in Ukraine so fragile. Unfortunately, Putin is saying that anything the West does, including sanctions is equivalent to a declaration of war.

 

[.X.]

You must be really kidding. Putin is BOMBING CIVILIAN BUILDINGS man!!! In the biggest ukrainian cities, mass civilian bombing and killing innocent people same way as Hitler did!!!

We have to know the facts , the Ukraine military was fully aware that the Russians would enter into the cities , could it be that Ukraine military was harboring in those buildings ??? We need facts to know