attributing this mass exodus to “brutal command, forced conscription, and inhumane treatment - soldiers "treated like animals.”
MASSIVE HINT: An army that's successful and winning does not need to kidnap people off the street and do not have mass desertions. That's a fact from all history.
A winning army often won't even need to mobilise or conscript, they'll have queues of volunteers. Just like the Russian army actually.
Trump's fake casualty numbers is the lynch pin the west uses to keep the whole shitshow on the road and driving Ukraine over the cliff, without it the whole facade would collapse along with any public support still left. The aim seems to be to screw every last penny leaving nothing but the husk of a country.
There is 2 wars going on here, Russia vs Ukraine and Russia vs NATO. There will need to be 2 joined peace agreements but there is no real effort to come to any kind of terms at all.
The Russian stance now seems fixed, to be ready for talks, but are only interested in finishing the conflict on their terms as stated by Putin over a year ago. If pushed Putin will be happy to punch right through to the old Novorossiya boundaries from the time of Catherine the Great where the population is still mostly ethnic Russian.
Turns out that the Russian rate of advance is not linear after all but is increasing steadily on a month by month basis according to the London Telegraph. So not 10 years to get to Kiev now apparently, who would have thought it? About to go exponential?
Neocons in the US senate, having forced Trump down the more sanctions path, are now looking to get a $55 billion funding bill for Ukraine, presumably having no faith in EU funding.
Continued western refusal to acknowledge that man power is Ukraine's main problem not equipment, weapons are useless if there's no one left to pull the trigger.
US politicians have suddenly started screaming that the US military is the best in the world but military historian Michael Vlahos disagrees, he say that Russia is now and it's thanks to .. err the US. Also btw the Chinese navy is now twice the size of America's. (D. Davis video)
On Trump's a deal or extra sanctions at the deadline on Friday. Commentators say that Russia is immune to sanctions, India does not do enough trade with the US for extra tariffs to stop them from importing Russian oil. And China no longer needs the US market enough to get down on their knees for it as they showed during the trade war a few months ago.
No one cares about Trump's 100% tariff threat let alone Lyndsey Graham's 500% threat. They will sell their cheap produce elsewhere just as Russia did.
India's Modi is now talking of taking a leaf out of Russia book and go for replacing western companies altogether with new Indian ones.
So why is Witkoff going to Moscow? The trip was delayed and rearranged for a few days latter (Wednesday?) Russia is not going to back down over the threat of sanctions but Trump really needs Putin to throw him some kind of a bone.
BRICS united as NEOCONS take over US foreign policy
WAR as a LIFESTYLE: How America Views the Conflicts We Participate In /Lt Col Daniel Davis
