the war in the ukraine has not gone well with the rooskies. but, they have reached new heights in one department, and that would be the ministry of outright lies and deceptions.
for instance.--
the russians admit that about 1,300 of its soldiers have been killed, while claiming to have killed about 30,000 ukrainians.
let's do a little reality check here.
if those "statistics" had any relation to reality, then why are the russians loosing the war, quite badly. and, if the russians were telling the truth, why have they not advanced their positions since about the first week of the invasion, when their troops did occupy territory already more or less held by ukrainian separatists? since then, they have not done much.
on the other hand, the battle fields seem to be littered with russian dead, and they are loosing tanks and armored vehicles every day, and by scores. why are the russians recruiting out of prisons to try and fill their depleted ranks? and, why do they complain vociferously about the west giving the ukrainians advanced weaponry, if no russian soldiers are being killed, if not armor were being destroyed, if their artillery positions were not getting counter-battery fire? and, why are their airplanes being shot from the sky, from the ground and in the air?
and, why have 13 or 14 general officers been killed in 5 months of battle?
and, if they have lost only 1300 dead, why are they in danger of being encircled at kherson, their command staffs having abandoned their troops to the ukrainian encirclement?
well, the simple answer is, they are liars, trying hilariously to cover the fact of the horrible losses they have suffered in the ukraine. i for one, find the ukrainian estimates of 30 to 35,000 russians troops killed, with an additional 50 to 60,000 wounded or injured to be quite credible. keep in mind the fate of russia's vaunted 331st parachute/shock troops brigade ..... decimated at kiev, forced to withdraw, only to be fed piecemeal into the maw of battle in the southeast as replacement troops. where they are being killed.
the russians have as yet simply not figured out how to fight the ukrainian armed forces. simple as that. and, they are dying by the truckloads because of it.
who do the russians believe they are fooling by their ludicrous posturing? not their own people, who are clamoring about the fate of their loved ones, that's for sure. they know the kremlin lies.
john jay @ 08.21.2022
post script, 08.21.2022 . btw, analysts believe that russia has just about exhausted it supplies of "smart" weapons, and that they are suffering a severe shortage of chips/electronic components to make more. china to the rescue? (at some point the chinese are gonna get tired of propping up the russians, and are simply gonna view them as a drain upon their own capabilities. this bears watching.)
they are perilously close to having exhausted their military stores.
and, the russian populace is not rushing in droves to enlist in the military, showing a distinct dislike of this war.
putin has stepped in dog shit up to his ankles with both feet, and he has no clear way out of the fix he is in. i am guessing that if this goes on a bit more, putin and shoigu end up hanging from the yard arms in front of the kremlin. i am old. serious heart disease. not in the least wealthy, and in fact, probably "poor" in a financial sense ..... i just had the luck of the draw to pick an epoch and a country in which being poor is not absolute disaster. but, i would not trade places with putin, (nor, especially, shoigu) for all the rice in china. nor, for all the chinese computer chips upon which they sit.
i am gonna die one of these days. but, those two, they have "death" written on all them. (this, even in "the former soviet union," is the penalty political leaders in russia pay for failure and miscalculation of the magnitude of putin's folly.) "death," as in, soon enough. count on it.
he doesn't look good in recent photo's. he'll look even "less good" with a 9mm (makarov) hole on the bridge of his nose. and, one behind the ear, just to make sure.
end post script.
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