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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPutin Says if West Wants to Defeat Russia on Battlefield, 'Let Them Try'
"Everyone should know that we have not started in earnest yet," he said.
Vladdy, old boy.. Shut your gas hole and open your piggy little eyes.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/07/07/putin-says-if-west-wants-to-defeat-russia-on-battlefield-let-them-try-a78241
Meadowoak
(5,551 posts)yesphan
(1,588 posts)Walleye
(31,028 posts)EX500rider
(10,849 posts)Well boys, we've got three engines out, we've got more holes in us than a horse trader's mule, the radio's gone and we're leaking fuel and if we was flying any lower, why we'd need sleigh bells on this thing... But we've got one thing on those Ruskies
At this height, why they might harpoon us, but they dang sure ain't gonna spot us on no radar...
Kubrick didn't tell slim Pickens it was a black comedy he thought it was a straight movie..lol
Walleye
(31,028 posts)MarineCombatEngineer
(12,399 posts)and the Russian military leaders are well aware of this, especially after the disastrous performance in Ukraine.
in a nuclear war, there are no winners, only the end of civilization as we know it.
Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)And we're not even there. We are mailing it in and kicking their asses.
MarineCombatEngineer
(12,399 posts)Russia must be hugely embarrassed by how their so called sophisticated weapons systems are being annihilated by Western weapons systems, and I'm quite sure the Russian military is sitting up and taking notice of the poor performance of those systems and the performance of their soldiers.
Igel
(35,320 posts)The inferior "russkies" forced pull-back after pull back. They have most of Luhans'k province.
I despise this. It harshly interferes with my joie de vivre. Yet that's what's happened.
We'll see how the Donechshina works out.
I continue to hear how wonderful the counteroffensive to retake the Khersonschina is. Any day now. 48 business hours.
Yet I continue to see no actual territorial gains. Had I joie left, I'd would be violated.
MarineCombatEngineer
(12,399 posts)they have a lot more resources at this time than Ukraine, but they're still suffering huge losses in men and material and as more and more western systems flow in, it will get even worse than now, and there is no doubt that the west has technologically superior weapons systems.
TygrBright
(20,762 posts)JohnSJ
(92,219 posts)BootinUp
(47,165 posts)Shellback Squid
(8,919 posts)none shall pass
ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)How'd that work out?
A thug AND an idiot. As i expected.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)We're doing quite well just choking off your imports, Potato Face.
Layzeebeaver
(1,624 posts)Russia is doing it to themselves along with a little help from the Ukrainian military (and a bit of western support).
11 dead russian generals, 8 additional dead commanders, 4000-7000 dead soldiers, flagship sunk, and they're dragging mothballed tanks built in the '60's out to fight.
We're mighty scared.
lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)You might want to keep that sabre rattling down to a minimum.
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)pwb
(11,276 posts)Easily too.
DFW
(54,409 posts)Like the Ukrainians, they just want the Russians to go home--and that is NOT in Ukraine.
Shellback Squid
(8,919 posts)fuck vlad
BannonsLiver
(16,396 posts)Im sure he believes that. But if theres anything this war has demonstrated its that Russias conventional war machine is not that formidable relative to ours or the combined forces of NATO. They still have their nuclear triad. But I wonder what state some of those weapons are in. Im imagining one of those Estes model rocket engines thats been stored in a damp garage for 30 years.