Forwarded from Gonzalo Lira (Gonzalo L.)
Ukraine is winning the information war.
Russia is winning the actual war.
Only one of these matters.
Russia is winning the actual war.
Only one of these matters.
Forwarded from Gonzalo Lira (Gonzalo L.)
The following is a status report of what appears to be happening at this time (2022. 02. 27 at 12:00 noon Kiev time) in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
I am trying to be as realistic as possible. I mean no disrespect or animus to either the Ukrainian side or the Russian side. I am not in any sense questioning the bravery of the soldiers of any nation, nor do I mean to give any offense. I live permanently in Ukraine, I love the Ukrainian people, and my children are Ukrainian citizens. In what I am about to say, I am trying to give a realistic, sober assessment of the current state of play.
The Russians have entered the center of Kharkiv, I know this from eyewitness accounts of people that I know there. There is small arms fighting, but generally light resistance. In the south, Kherson has fallen and the Russian army seems to have captured Zaporozhia. It seems clear that Dnipro will be reached within 3 to 5 days. At this time, Kiev is being surrounded by Russian tanks. There is sporadic small arms fire outside the city, but no big battles.
The Russian strategy seems to be to encircle the cities, while destroying military installations. The vast majority of civilian infrastructure in the areas under attack have been untouched and are functioning normally. It also seems very clear that the Russians have used their older equipment and less experienced soldiers in this initial assault. Very few of the high-tech modern weaponry that the Russians possess are being used in this first push. This would lead one to believe that the Russians want to probe and exhaust Ukrainian defenses before bringing out top-tier men and materiel.
The Russians are being incredibly disciplined insofar as their information management is concerned. The only information coming out of the Russians comes directly from the Ministry of Defense or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Their information so far has been 100% accurate, which I think is a deliberate strategy. There has been a great deal of Ukrainian propaganda that turned out to be complete fantasy, but even after these stories have been proven to be false, people cling to them.
At the current pace of operations, the Russians will completely capture Ukraine within 7 to 14 days. They are winning, and winning decisively. Maps comparing the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 to this current mechanized invasion show that the Russians are outpacing the Americans by a substantial margin. And as I said, they are using their second-tier men and weapons, and they did not use air power to soften Ukraine for several weeks, as the Americans did in 2003. Any claims that the Ukrainians are winning or holding back the Russians is complete fantasy.
This is the current state of play as I perceive it at this time.
Gonzalo Lira
Kiev, Ukraine
I am trying to be as realistic as possible. I mean no disrespect or animus to either the Ukrainian side or the Russian side. I am not in any sense questioning the bravery of the soldiers of any nation, nor do I mean to give any offense. I live permanently in Ukraine, I love the Ukrainian people, and my children are Ukrainian citizens. In what I am about to say, I am trying to give a realistic, sober assessment of the current state of play.
The Russians have entered the center of Kharkiv, I know this from eyewitness accounts of people that I know there. There is small arms fighting, but generally light resistance. In the south, Kherson has fallen and the Russian army seems to have captured Zaporozhia. It seems clear that Dnipro will be reached within 3 to 5 days. At this time, Kiev is being surrounded by Russian tanks. There is sporadic small arms fire outside the city, but no big battles.
The Russian strategy seems to be to encircle the cities, while destroying military installations. The vast majority of civilian infrastructure in the areas under attack have been untouched and are functioning normally. It also seems very clear that the Russians have used their older equipment and less experienced soldiers in this initial assault. Very few of the high-tech modern weaponry that the Russians possess are being used in this first push. This would lead one to believe that the Russians want to probe and exhaust Ukrainian defenses before bringing out top-tier men and materiel.
The Russians are being incredibly disciplined insofar as their information management is concerned. The only information coming out of the Russians comes directly from the Ministry of Defense or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Their information so far has been 100% accurate, which I think is a deliberate strategy. There has been a great deal of Ukrainian propaganda that turned out to be complete fantasy, but even after these stories have been proven to be false, people cling to them.
At the current pace of operations, the Russians will completely capture Ukraine within 7 to 14 days. They are winning, and winning decisively. Maps comparing the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 to this current mechanized invasion show that the Russians are outpacing the Americans by a substantial margin. And as I said, they are using their second-tier men and weapons, and they did not use air power to soften Ukraine for several weeks, as the Americans did in 2003. Any claims that the Ukrainians are winning or holding back the Russians is complete fantasy.
This is the current state of play as I perceive it at this time.
Gonzalo Lira
Kiev, Ukraine
Gonzalo Lira
The following is a status report of what appears to be happening at this time (2022. 02. 27 at 12:00 noon Kiev time) in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I am trying to be as realistic as possible. I mean no disrespect or animus to either the Ukrainian side…
Here is a local and sober assessment of the situation on the ground in Ukraine.
It seems increasingly likely that Putin sent in the rookies to draw out Ukrainian the resistance.
Putin invades a country led by a Jew. But don’t worry, room temperature IQ imbeciles will find a way to blame the Jews.
Jew-Haters/Blamers are right’s version of woke.
They claim to understand a vast global conspiracy. They say that they know how things “actually work.”
Like the wokesters, despite their vaunted understanding of how the world works, they’re poor, usually single and often fat.
And yet they don’t look at their own lives and ask whether their unique, supposedly learned perspective is just dead wrong.
They claim to understand a vast global conspiracy. They say that they know how things “actually work.”
Like the wokesters, despite their vaunted understanding of how the world works, they’re poor, usually single and often fat.
And yet they don’t look at their own lives and ask whether their unique, supposedly learned perspective is just dead wrong.
Fifty years ago, with a high school diploma, someone had a ticket to a well paying job, a wife and a decent home.
That’s over. And it’s not at all clear that even a college diploma will get you those things.
People who were left behind by the system are very vulnerable to being sold a narrative about who’s to blame by the first eloquent snake oil salesman they come across on the internet.
Whether that narrative is right, wrong or somewhere in between, it leads nowhere.
Go ahead and try it. Adopt a victim mentality for a few years and see what it produces in your life. You won’t like the results.
That’s over. And it’s not at all clear that even a college diploma will get you those things.
People who were left behind by the system are very vulnerable to being sold a narrative about who’s to blame by the first eloquent snake oil salesman they come across on the internet.
Whether that narrative is right, wrong or somewhere in between, it leads nowhere.
Go ahead and try it. Adopt a victim mentality for a few years and see what it produces in your life. You won’t like the results.
Look at the physiques of people you see at political conferences.
So many of these people shouldn’t spend any time concerning themselves with politics. They need to get their fat asses into a gym.
If you can’t resist cookies and candy, you shouldn’t care about the filibuster.
So many of these people shouldn’t spend any time concerning themselves with politics. They need to get their fat asses into a gym.
If you can’t resist cookies and candy, you shouldn’t care about the filibuster.
Forwarded from Eric Striker
Every war Putin has waged (Chechnya, Georgia, Crimea, Syria, etc) has been a massive success.
He only acts when Russia's immediate security is threatened, sets limited and realistic goals, and leaves things better than when he found them. Ukraine will be no different.
Compare that to the US.
American foreign policy is reckless, bloody, and the root of much of the world's instability, serving as a catalyst for everything from the rise of ISIS to history's worst refugee movement to Europe to now this perfectly avoidable conflict in Ukraine.
USA defied the UN security council when it went into Iraq. Where were the sanctions against America? Military and financial aid for the Iraqis? The theater of countries making furious moral condemnations?
The rank hypocrisy is what is most irritating of all. If international law was real and actually applied, the entire US leadership would be tried at the Hague.
He only acts when Russia's immediate security is threatened, sets limited and realistic goals, and leaves things better than when he found them. Ukraine will be no different.
Compare that to the US.
American foreign policy is reckless, bloody, and the root of much of the world's instability, serving as a catalyst for everything from the rise of ISIS to history's worst refugee movement to Europe to now this perfectly avoidable conflict in Ukraine.
USA defied the UN security council when it went into Iraq. Where were the sanctions against America? Military and financial aid for the Iraqis? The theater of countries making furious moral condemnations?
The rank hypocrisy is what is most irritating of all. If international law was real and actually applied, the entire US leadership would be tried at the Hague.
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Given how murky the information coming out of Ukraine is, the only thing you know for sure is to not be too sure you know anything.
The next generation of oligarchs will be made during this crisis. The men who are bold enough to say “This power plant belongs to me now. Come and take it.”
If you were 1/10th and smart and 1/10th as bold as someone like Roman Abramovich or Michael Bloomberg, maybe you’d be an oligarch yourself.
One of the richest men in Ukraine is Yuriy Kosiuk. He’s a billionaire because he took over all of the poultry farms left behind the last time that the weak and the fearful abandoned the nation of Ukraine.