RE: putin17 Apr 2023 11:59
wasred15. Here's the deal. We in the West thought Putin would send his Air force into the Ukraine so that we could destroy it. The Ukrainians had loads of S300, and other surface-to-air missiles, waiting for them. Instead he sends a massive ground-based convey towards Kyiv from the north. It sat there for days, largely untouched whilst Zylensky was forced to pull thousands of crack troops out of the heavily fortified eastern regions.
Either Putin is very, very smart or he's got traitors embedded deep within NATO.
The SAS, plus U.S. Special Forces were originally successful in killing Russian senior commanders. A tactic we used against the Argentinians in the Falkland's War, but those successes have dried-up now.
We were told that we would defeat Russia with sanctions. That has turned into massive financial and military aid, with actual NATO troops on the ground.
Whatever any of us might think about Russia - good or bad. They are fighting World War III and know it. Our problem is that our "elites" are slowly boiling us frogs in our NATO pot. The first the masses will know WW III has started is when the missiles start reigning down on them, although I'm expecting Russian-backed terrorism long before then.
I think we need an RNS to refocus our minds!!!
ATB, FG