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Attacks in Russia 'destroy myth of Putin's
invincible army'

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Posted By: Moritz55, 6/3/2023 5:40:35 PM

Recent drone attacks and the shelling of a Russian border town have forced residents to flee their homes, sowing panic and fear. The Kremlin has downplayed the raids, but experts think they reveal Putin's weaknesses. "Early in the morning, we left the town under the bombings and shelling. We left all our belongings. We are terrified," Galina, a native of Shebekino, told DW. Galina was among a group of Shebekino residents who chose to leave the town in the Belgorod region when it came under heavy attack on Thursday. The hostilities in the town continued on Friday, resulting in some 2,500 people being displaced to temporary shelters

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Reply 1 - Posted by: snakeoil 6/3/2023 6:00:40 PM (No. 1484011)
If push comes to shove Putin still has the largest no of nuclear weapons of any country on Earth. What I and most people want is for the war, aka Special Military Operation, to end. I am tired of Russians killing Ukrainians and Ukrainians killing Russians. And I am tired of my tax dollars being used to finance war. Both Russia and The Ukraine have some of the most beautiful women in the world. Stop killing each other and get back to making beautiful women.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: DVC 6/3/2023 6:17:23 PM (No. 1484014)
What had been widely judged by military experts to be "the second best army in the world", is now judged by military experts to be "the second best army in Ukraine". Russian equipment and tactics have been repeatedly found to be wanting. It is impossible to predict how this war will end, but clearly it isn't going as Putin thought it would go. It will be interesting how Putin's obvious failings will play out politically inside Russia.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: stablemoney 6/3/2023 6:22:30 PM (No. 1484016)
Russia is doing ok. We are the ones going broke.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DanvilleBill 6/3/2023 7:00:52 PM (No. 1484033)
Yon Prigozhin of Wagner has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous Beware Mr. Putin
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Reply 5 - Posted by: TCloud 6/3/2023 7:33:32 PM (No. 1484051)
Math says Zelensky Toast!
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Ashley Brenton 6/3/2023 7:54:36 PM (No. 1484071)
Yes. That is exactly what this debacle exposes. Russia is a joke.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 6/3/2023 8:07:26 PM (No. 1484086)
I still don't recommend a siege of Stalingrad (Volgograd).
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Reply 8 - Posted by: ChattyCatsSusan 6/3/2023 8:44:20 PM (No. 1484103)
Until we get some actual reporting, not the Ukrainian based reporting, on the true state that is going on I don't buy this a bit. I actually think Putin has been holding back, and Zelensky should be very scared. As for the Germans, they seem to have misplaced their national spines.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: DVC 6/3/2023 9:15:31 PM (No. 1484131)
You are in for a big surprise, #8 if you actually believe that Putin has been, as you say, "holding back". I hope everyone remembers all this stuff in a year or three when we can look back and see what was really going on. I'll bet that my take on this is far more accurate than most "conservatives" take.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 6/3/2023 10:28:44 PM (No. 1484159)
At the beginning of the war, everyone thought Ukraine would fold in 90 days. The sooner the war ends, the better for both.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: DVC 6/4/2023 12:23:15 AM (No. 1484196)
Re #10, Ukraine disagrees. They don't want this to end until they have driven the Russians entirely out of Ukraine, including Crimea. I don't have a crystal ball, but it seems increasingly likely that they might actually be capable of doing it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter 6/4/2023 2:48:50 AM (No. 1484212)
#1 - The story is that so many Russian men were killed during WWII that those who remained got the pick of the litter when came to dating and procreating.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: chance_232 6/4/2023 8:46:08 AM (No. 1484289)
It seems that the Russians have always been bad at projecting power. Russia has a history of going after weaker opponents and relied on brute force to win. Finesse and strategy were never in their wheel house. But..... No one does defense like the Russians. The same would apply to the Eukrainians. I had actually expected Eukrain to fold in about 96 hours, simply because I have been hearing all of my life how powerful the Soviets were.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 6/4/2023 9:48:44 AM (No. 1484326)
Makes one wonder. How much of the former USSR's might was based on Ukraine and other countries. Russia is a shadow of itself without the rest of the USSR.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: cold porridge 6/4/2023 12:40:01 PM (No. 1484476)
#12 has the truest picture of the situation. According to recent interviews with Col. Tony Shaffer and Scott Ritter, Ukraine is running out of bodies to fight, having lost most of it's soldier aged men, and they have lost most of their (our) ammunition and equipment. Putin is winning and there is no way for Ukraine to prevail. This is a leftist (and Lindsay Graham) pipedream that will end badly for Ukraine and the US. Don't believe the US MSN or this German propaganda article.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Pault135 6/4/2023 3:42:21 PM (No. 1484551)
I think I’ll wait for the surrender ceremony before I write off the Russian Army.
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