• Madison420@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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    8 days ago

    Russia? Steadily has to be a euphemism right? Because it’s several thousand days, tens of billions of dollars and what a million dead over projected estimates. That’s not evidence of incoming victory that’s evidence of attrition and stagnation against a non peer nation.

    It’s Manchester United going 0-0 with an incredibly low ranking pre kindergarten team woke chanting about how close it was.

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      7 days ago

      No, steadily is the word.

      Because it’s several thousand days, tens of billions of dollars and what a million dead over projected estimates.

      What estimates?

      That’s evidence of attrition

      Yes, Russia had been using an attrition strategy for most of this war, using drones and shelling to exhaust their opponent’s reserves of troops and equipment. The reason this has been working is that Russia can field more troops and is producing more equipment.

      It’s Manchester United going 0-0 with an incredibly low ranking pre kindergarten team woke chanting about how close it was.

      Then you’ll have to forgive my confusion as to how and why the kindergarten team now fully controls one fifth of Man U

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        7 days ago

        Putins comments to reporters said two weeks, the intercepted plans lay out a two week strategy those are estimates.

        You get that attrition is the dumbest possible thing to use a strategy when you start a surprise war with an overwhelming disparity of force right? Like choosing the way most wars are lost as a strategy reenforces the fact they’re quagmired.

        Again you miss the point, a group of grown men shouldn’t not lose slower they should have already won and handily at that.

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            7 days ago

            he spent more than two hours with Khan discussing the minutiae of Moscow and Islamabad’s bilateral relations. Putin came across as “chilled” during the talks, said a source close to Khan. Afterwards, he invited his guest to stay for an unscheduled, lavish Kremlin lunch. At one point, Khan asked about the elephant in the room: the war that Putin had unleashed a few hours earlier.

            “Don’t worry about that,” Putin told him. “It’ll be over in a few weeks.”

            https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/feb/20/a-war-foretold-cia-mi6-putin-ukraine-plans-russia

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              7 days ago

              This is literally someone told that someone else told them something that the third person say to the other person…

              This is only trustworthy because you trust The Guardian.

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                7 days ago

                It’s intentional, their source is a third party source reporting on a second hand source of a closed meeting that literally cannot be verified because it’s closed door.

                Add to that their source is an entertainment network who in court said they are not a news source, that they do not provide news only entertainment.

                It’s harassing them with a source only mildly more trustworthy then their own.

                • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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                  7 days ago

                  So did I genius. What you gave is hearsay. What I asked for is a primary source of Putin or any other Russian official saying something of the sort on record. It doesn’t exist because the whole story is made up for gullible simpletons such as yourself.

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                    7 days ago

                    Dumb dumb your fox link is an entertainment networks correspondent reporting on a closed door session via third party anonymous source. Get a fuckin clue dumb dumb.

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            7 days ago

            Which time, he says a few weeks at the start and he’s said it’s coming to a close about as often as trump says Iran has been defeated.

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                  7 days ago

                  still waiting for the source for your fantastical claim

                  Also, in breaking news, an anonymous source has informed me that Madison420@lemmy.world regularly shits his pants in public.

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                    7 days ago

                    It’s already been provided, use your fuckin eyes comrade ain’t read good and stuff.

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                    7 days ago

                    Looks like the CIA-bot malfunctioned when you provided an actual source that contradicts their claim :^)