More cannon fodder from Siberian arctic

[3NUMBAS]

https://metro.co.uk/2025/02/19/putin-calling-indigenous-people-2000-miles-war-die-thousands-22588676/?ito=opera&amp
 

Putin calling up indigenous people 2,000 miles from war to ‘die in their thousands’

 

Some of the last members of Russia’s threatened indigenous peoples are dying on the battlefields in Ukraine.

Thousands of men being fed into Vladimir Putin’s war machine are failing to return home alive, according to human rights defenders.  

Recruits from a reindeer herding community around 2,000 miles from the frontline are among those who have been conscripted or promised large payments to join the military.

[swissie]

1 hour ago, 3NUMBAS said:

https://metro.co.uk/2025/02/19/putin-calling-indigenous-people-2000-miles-war-die-thousands-22588676/?ito=opera&
 

Putin calling up indigenous people 2,000 miles from war to ‘die in their thousands’

 

 

Some of the last members of Russia’s threatened indigenous peoples are dying on the battlefields in Ukraine.

Thousands of men being fed into Vladimir Putin’s war machine are failing to return home alive, according to human rights defenders.  

Recruits from a reindeer herding community around 2,000 miles from the frontline are among those who have been conscripted or promised large payments to join the military.

Hard for you to understand, but for the Ukraine, "the game is up". Predictably. The Ukraine will be "carved-up" by Donald and Vladimir.

Followed by a fragile "pseudo-peace", as nobody wants to send any troops into a "cordon sanitaire", similar to North/South Korea.

The great "deal-maker" has only 1 option left to avoid a miserable peace deal for the Ukraine. Supply more weapons to the Ukraine. Something he won't do, as he and his voters want to pull out of the Ukraine. Vladimir knows that.

 

What will it take for you to understand that the Ukraine has lost the war?

[altayvan]

Wait. Has the west effectively wrapped up weapon deliveries at January 19th?

[MicroB]

Clear insight.

[Purdey]

People said at the beginning of the year it would be over in a few weeks...

[MicroB]

23 hours ago, Purdey said:

People said at the beginning of the year it would be over in a few weeks...

 

 

They said the same in 2022, because we assumed the Russians would swamp Ukrainian defences in a manner to how the Americans took Baghdad in a Blitzkrieg. The talk then was whether the Russians had enough forces for crowd control and to contain a probable insurgency that was much more capable than the Iraqis.

 

Serendipity meant that year, Ukraine had a cracking good Eurovision song (accessible to a wide range of cultures, with just enough Ukrainian in it, I think a good fusion), which combined with a brilliant bit of propagandising (the official video) grabbed our attention in a way that the war between the Armenians and Azeris just never did.

 

Ukraine might not be winning, but they are not losing. The Russian gains are miniscule, and at great cost. Ukraine are still in the fight, when hardly anyone thought they would last. In 1973 and 1967, we all supported Israel, when confronted by numerically superior forces, they resisted, and stood, sustained by a combination ingenuity and outside support (despite some parties making it difficult).

 

 

There are those in the wealthy West who whinge about the cost. But the cost we've paid is nothing compared to the Ukrainians who seem to be pretty united on this thing. Ironically, if dickless Putin had sat back, Zelensky would have likely lost the 2024 election anyhow, Putin might have even gotten his guy in, or maybe now would be dealing with the Ukrainian Willy Wonka.  Zelensky narrowly won the election as an outsider. Perhaps that's Putin's real fear; not imaginary Nazi's next door or the idea of a mocking comedian next door, but that Ukrainian poitics will increasingly resemble the normal politics seen in the rest of Europe, where there are normal lively debate, dicources, disagreement and aggreement, and orderly transfers of power. And Russians would start to want that, rather than the sham that is supposedly Russian democracy, that Russians basically don't believe in.