Russia Ukraine war

Originally posted by street professor ↑

Exactly what Zelensky is doing, even to the point where he has arrested a Ukrainian opposition leader and attempting to use him as a swap for forces in Mariupol who may be foreigners.

The British hero didn't come across as all that smart after surrendering in Mariupol.

In regards to the sinking of the Moscow we have Ukraine claiming they fired two missiles, the US stating unsure how it was damaged and Russia claiming it was a fire amongst the ammunition. The ship would have state of the art defense systems, along with the other vessels in the area so I would doubt it was the Ukrainians that hit it. We may never know but my money would be on special forces involving NATO(Navy Seals possibly), the US admin haven't been gloating too much about the sinking.

One thing for sure I can't see anything but misery for the Ukrainian forces in the Donbas areas. The videos I've seen of surrendering Ukrainian troops are pretty sad, many of them shouldn't even be fighting looking at their age. Many of them just appear to rural farm workers who are just struggling to stay alive.

If the conflict doesn't end soon thousands more will die in the next few weeks, between now and then Zelensky will get his weapons and cash and the weapons manufacturers will have record sales this year.

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Still sipping the Kremlin's propaganda kool aid I see. As far as the sinking of the Moscova is concerned, you're now just making things up. Special NATO forces or US Navy Seals, haha. You should apply for a job in the Kremlin propaganda department. The Russians won't admit to the truth because it is embarrassing and represents losing out to Ukraine in warfare. They come up with a BS story about a mishap that occurred on board. Funny how this just happened to occur during a war. The first reports about the Moscova were from Ukraine after they hit the Russian's fleet flagship, so that is by far the most plausible explanation of what actually occurred. Since then the Kremlin has been in retreat with BS stories and excuses. I don't expect a Putin sycophant like you to admit to the truth. You can gloat about the war crimes that are taking place in the Donbass area, but the Ukrainians will continue to fight. They will continue to pick off Russian invasion forces and will do so for as long as they remain on Ukrainian soil. Slowly but surely the Russian economy will be destroyed, particularly when European demand for Russian oil and gas decreases dramatically over the next year. Russia will try to set up alternative trade deals, but the countries that engage with Russia will likely be met with economic sanctions of their own by NATO countries and their allies. North Korea is a prime example of how the world can respond in this fashion to despots. This invasion will prove itself a blunder of gigantic proportions for Russia. It isn't as if it already has a large economy. The Russian economy is barely bigger than Australia's despite having almost 6 times our population. Even then many of the benefits from that economy are plundered by Putin's inner circle. Soon they will be printing money like the Germans did during WW2.