Ukraine Watch...

[Ralphw2]

As usual, not much on line in the early days of a Ukrainian push, but it looks like the action in Kursk is fairly small scale. Ukraine appears to have captured 2 or 3 small settlements in the early surprise attack, but no sign at the moment of following it up with larger numbers of troops or weapons. It is not immediately clear if this is anything more than a token push to remind Trump, or just possibly a diversionary attack in advance of something else.

The feeling i get front the front lines is that both sides are at the extreme ends of cold and exhaustion, and of running low on supplies, and little motivation to move forward across the bright white snow with little in the way of covering fire. Video online of a Ukrainian apc out of ammunition driving round in circles for minutes to mow down Russian soldiers caught out in the open.

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As usual, not much on line in the early days of a Ukrainian push, but it looks like the action in Kursk is fairly small scale. Ukraine appears to have captured 2 or 3 small settlements in the early surprise attack, but no sign at the moment of following it up with larger numbers of troops or weapons.

The feeling i get front the front lines is that both sides are at the extreme ends of cold and exhaustion, and of running low on supplies, and little motivation to move forward across the bright white snow with little in the way of covering fire. Video online of a Ukrainian apc out of ammunition driving round in circles for minutes to mow down Russian soldiers caught out in the open.

It's all gone quiet because absolutely nothing was achieved apart from a load more Ukrainian lives and equipment thrown away!

Interesting feeling you've got about the front lines... The Russian advance continues, and many people are saying that Toretsk is all Red now. Chasiv Yar is only a matter of time

[Ralphw2]

At least you now openly gloat about Russian advances, so we know which ideology you prefer. I wish I could say that I was optimistic about the direction the Ukrainian supporting countries were heading, but with Trump taking power and the last vestiges of US democracy falling into the hands of gangsters and psychopaths I suspect Western liberal democracy has been severely wounded, and brutal shortsighted self interest is becoming dominant , as it is in most governmental systems around the world.

I really think the nation state as a concept is well past it's sell by date.

As another of my few remaining family members has died, I find I can view the coming future more dispassionately, as my own blood line rapidly approaches extinction.

As I said months ago, the only person who can win the war for Russia is Trump, and that is still true. What he will chose to do is anyone's guess, He may yet surprise us all, but I am way beyond being vulnerable to a whims of such a feeble human being. Unlike Putin.

[UndercoverElephant]

I really think the nation state as a concept is well past it's sell by date.

Then it will rot on the shelf, because there is nothing it can be replaced with.