Prediction Thread: When Will Ukraine Conquer Russia

[pchang]

Well - Russia has threatened "consequences". Perhaps they will make Serb happy and declare War on the USA.

[PLATO]

no mention of Russia wanting to avoid enormous lawsuits for failure to deliver?

I think that is the real reason that Russia blew up the pipelines. Failure to deliver is probably mitigated by terrorist destroying the ability to deliver.

[PLATO]

Exactly! I doubt credible sources would pick him to reveal anything like this given his age and the controversy that still stims from his Bin Laden "theories".

[Geronimo]

Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh says U.S. and Norway blew up Nordstream pipelines:

Seymour Hersh claims US Navy behind Nord Stream 2 pipeline explosion (nypost.com)

Russia, amazingly, agrees.

no mention of Russia wanting to avoid enormous lawsuits for failure to deliver?

[Jon Miller]

He is 85 years old? How much of the investigation is he doing now?

JM

[PLATO]

Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh says U.S. and Norway blew up Nordstream pipelines:

Seymour Hersh claims US Navy behind Nord Stream 2 pipeline explosion (nypost.com)

Russia, amazingly, agrees.

[Geronimo]

This will probably have enormous impact. Without Starlink, I don't think Ukraine has any communication lines to support attacks and even if only drone strikes are eliminated Ukraine has clearly been leveraging them heavily all across the front.

[pchang]

The next "election" cycle in Russia has begun. May the best candidate survive.

[PLATO]

Looks like the UK is going to train Ukrainian Pilots on "Western" aircraft. The clock is ticking until the "no planes for you" taboo is broken also...

[Dauphin]

For the briefest moment I thought you were making commentary on India-Pakistan cricket rivalries, and thought 'Crikey!'

For context, I just read an article about the Asia Cup (cricket competition) and how Pakistan want the ICC (International Cricket Council) to take action against India over various slights and threats.

Carry on.

[PLATO]

He is a "special" man for sure. Hopefully the ICC will indict him shortly.

[BeBMan]

Almost a year into this very "special" war I'm glad the fight against Satan is not forgotten:

Ramzan Kadyrov, a key ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has begun rattling off threats about attacking Poland after Ukraine.

Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, suggested Monday that Russia should “denazify and demilitarize” Poland next.

“What if, after the successful completion of the NMD, Russia begins to denazify and demilitarize the next country? After all, after Ukraine, Poland is on the map! I will not hide that I personally have such an intention,” Kadyrov said on Telegram. “I personally have such an intention, and I have repeatedly stated that the fight against Satanism should continue throughout Europe and, first of all, on the territory of Poland.”

Kadyrov warned Tuesday that the time has come for the West to fall to its knees before Russia, predicting that the so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine, would be over by the end of 2023.

“The special [military] operation will be over before the end of this year. European countries will admit they have been wrong, the West will fall to its knees, and, as usual, European countries will have to cooperate with the Russian Federation in all spheres,” Kadyrov said, according to TASS. “There should not and will never be an alternative to that.”

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https://news.yahoo.com/top-putin-all...180627963.html

[BeBMan]

Meanwhile, Putin revealed why he completey miscalculated the Russian military performance:

"It's unbelievable but true," he said. "We are again being threatened by German Leopard tanks."

From https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64502504

I'd say it's no wonder the Kremlin overestimated its military after they defeated post-war tanks in WW2 already!

[Dauphin]

I am sorry!

The Canadian motto!

[Proteus_MST]

But still, you dhd dare to laugh at Russians, who had created a whole new generation of tanks?

You realize that, in western countries, the armament companies are more or less independent from the state?
Our 2 large tank suppliers (KMW and Rheinmetall) do their own research even without explicit order from the state, because, after all, they can sell their arms to other states (except for those that are on the prohibited-list).

This results not only in new variants of the Leopard 2 (including variants that are only meant for export), but also in a totally new tank, that was created and presented on the Eurosatory last year by Rheinmetall alone (the KF51 Panther)