Your posts are so clearly pro-Putin its quite amusing. I would love to know and understand the true reasons you seem to so admire this ridiculous man who has inflicted so much suffering on the world, and on his own beautiful country and people.
You also seem to misread pretty much every sentiment on this thread. You say things like ''Lets just admit it, Ukraine is losing the war''
Where did anyone say or think little Ukraine would defeat Russia militarily and actually win this war? If that happened, despite all of Russia's huge advantages it would be the greatest military shock in all of world history. Although i guess it can depend on perspective and definition, for me Ukraine have already 'won'. No matter what happens they have fought for their country, embarrassed a 'super power' it shares a huge land border with, and they have shown themselves to be an incredible people. Yes a hollow victory if they end up losing the whole country or a substantial part of it, but a victory of sorts none the less.
Imagine the USA invading Mexico, and 4 x years later not having taken even a quarter of the country, and having to call in Brazil to send shells and troops. That's basically what has happened so far with this war.
You even talk seriously about Russian voting tendencies, as if those can possibly tell us anything the Russian people are truly thinking! Do you really think any Russian voting results tell us anything other than what Putin wants them to show? Do you understand how this country actually operates? These sort of comments just cause people to normally just skip even reading your posts. You cannot trust any results, or even any economical data from this country, as it is all scrutinised, sanitised or outright forged by the Putin regime. Even surveys taken by reputable outside agencies cannot be accurate as most Russian people are terrified or being exposed as someone anti-war or anti Putin and will not speak their truth when asked as they fear the consequences.
Do you have Russian friends or family? I do, and they tell me of shortages, price hikes, a sense of unease and paranoia across the country, and a huge feeling of shame (from both pro-war and anti war camps). They tell me of huge losses, that they cannot even mourn normally. Rural Russia in particular is suffering in ways you wouldn't believe.
What I find incredible, is the fact so little of the country has been taken by Russian after 4 years, how reduced Russia's standing is now in the world, just how much damage it has done to its own reputation, its economy, and its population, and how embarrassing its military performance has been. No possible news from the battle lines can really change this now. Wagner's rebellion, having to invite North Korean troops to fight for them, their Navy and Air force being decimated. Its all kinds of different defeats, irreversible defeats that will have ramifications for Russia for generations, and one that no matter how much land they manage to grab will have been worth the cost.
Back to ignore now, don't know why i bother but occasionally it is just satisfying to point out to you how ridiculous some of your comments are.
Excellently written. Thank you. I think so too. I read your post and my soul rejoiced that somewhere far away there are people who understand everything that is happening perfectly well.
This is amazing! The thing is that I have been observing the processes in Russia for a long time and have always wondered: "Does Europe really not see what Putin is preparing Russia for? After all, everything is being done openly." When Putin was killing hundreds of Chechens a day in the Caucasus, Europe watched silently. When Putin attacked Georgia, Europe continued to watch indifferently. Back in 2007 in Munich, Putin made threatening statements addressed to Europe itself. Europe simply ignored them. Only rare voices began to warn that things were heading for war. Putin started it, but not in 2022, but 22 years ago!
I lived in Russia for 20 years - from 1980 to 2000. I served in the Soviet Army for two years. Already in 1994, with the beginning of the Chechen war, I saw a threat to my country, Azerbaijan. When Putin came to power, I immediately came to the conclusion that Putin is war. On the third day, Putin voiced his famous threat: "Whoever offends Russia will not live three days." And who and how can offend Russia, a country that already had the largest nuclear forces in the world?! No one! And given Putin's statement that "the collapse of the USSR is a great geostrategic catastrophe," it becomes clear that Russia has already been offended, which means, according to Putin's own logic, the offender must be punished. Mr. Putin was offended even before coming to power. And not only by Russia's shameful defeat in the first Chechen war. After all, it was not the Chechens who destroyed the Soviet Union, dear to his soul, where he served as an officer in the punitive body - the KGB. He was "offended" by the West! According to Putin, the West destroyed the USSR. It was clear from the very beginning that Putin would take revenge! On whom? On the whole world! In Russia itself, hurray-patriots called Putin "The Avenger" 20 years ago!
It is unlikely that London has forgotten how fascist Russian youths, at the instigation of the Russian authorities, persecuted the British ambassador, literally terrorized him with constant persecution in Moscow. And it is unlikely that they will forget Russian strategic bombers with nuclear weapons on board, flying around the British Isles, not to mention the constant threats from the Russians to turn London into a nuclear ashes... Russia will not win this war with this army, which has become a laughing stock! By the way, even 45 years ago, when I served in it, it amazed me not with the huge number of tanks, but with the incredible amount of vodka drunk by Russians in a day. Even serving in this army, I simply despised it - this eternally drunken gathering of gangs. I, like you, believe that Ukraine has already won the war, even if it has lost the territories already occupied by Russia.
As for our colleague Lool, I admit that, with rare exceptions, all his posts leave me perplexed and upset. And this concerns not only this topic. In other topics, he publishes no less "masterpieces"
But, fortunately, I am a person with a sense of humor
and I am not going to ignore anyone.
