How Russian Tricks Try To Hide Its Warships From The Ukrainians
Ships are painted and covered in such ways as to camouflage them and make them hard to identify.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijdb9BYe18Q
Tag: Ukraine
Ukraine & Beyond
Trump removed the advocates general of the military and other military leaders. This is exactly what you would do if you wanted the military to do something illegal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLy8C9kCs0s
The Ukraine War After Kursk – Retreat, Lessons, Negotiations & The Coming Russian Offensive
The Ukraine War After Kursk – Retreat, Lessons, Negotiations & The Coming Russian Offensive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id7qG26NQis
Russian defense spending overtakes Europe, study finds
In purchasing power parity terms, Russia’s military spending is higher than Europe’s.
https://www.politico.eu/article/russian-defense-spending-overtakes-europe-study-finds/
Russia – Ukraine War. Operational Report Q1’25 [Mapped]
Ukraine’s biggest problem is a lack of manpower. Russia’s manpower advantage is growing. Russia doesn’t want a ceasefire, because Putin believes he has the advantage and can gain more by continuing the war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK1N1nTjbic
Five Questions for Stephen Kotkin: Advice for the New Administration (and the Rest of Us)
NATO was a defensive alliance of pacifists with small military budgets. It was not a threat to Russia and not Putin’s reason for invading Ukraine.
If Nixon really did make the comment about the madman theory referring to a part of his strategy in Vietnam…it didn’t work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8wTBy_tgKo
Russia Launches Major Ground Assault in Kursk
Russian advancement in Kursk coincided with Trump removing intelligence sharing with Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N3q8-FdKHg
How Ukraine Became Part of the USSR – The Soviet–Ukrainian War (Documentary)
How Ukraine Became Part of the USSR – The Soviet–Ukrainian War (Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gwuu7TXPwI
After Trump-Putin call, Russia agrees to limited Ukraine ceasefire
“The United States said Russia had agreed to an energy and infrastructure ceasefire. After Moscow and Kyiv agree to stop hitting each other’s power plants and electric grids, negotiators would move on to a potential halt in fighting on the Black Sea − and then to a full ceasefire and peace agreement in the 3-year-old Ukraine war, a White House statement said.
Trump said on social media the talk ended “with an understanding that we will be working quickly to have a Complete Ceasefire and, ultimately, an END to this very horrible War between Russia and Ukraine.”
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“Ukraine backers immediately slammed the scaled-back agreement as one that would primarily benefit Russia.
The agreement would keep Ukraine from striking Russia’s oil refineries”
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“Putin was likely to pull back from attacks on energy infrastructure in warmer weather anyway, said Luke Coffey, a senior fellow at the conservative Hudson Institute.
“Recognizing the need to offer something to stay in President Trump’s good graces, he delivered only the bare minimum,” said Coffey, who was senior adviser Britain’s defense ministry.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-putin-call-russia-agrees-175627523.html
Putin is playing Trump (again)
“Putin, meanwhile, has had the measure of his Washington opponents — and on Thursday, he demonstrated he understands Trump’s psychology. Praise the man while deflecting him; pat him on the head — something Ukraine’s passionate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy almost fatally forgot to do in his Oval Office meeting last month, prompting a hasty ejection from the White House.
There was no firm Russian nyet to stoke the U.S. leader’s anger, rather a teacher’s applause for Trump’s idea and effort.
The temporary truce was “correct” and “we support it,” the Russian leader said, but, alas, there were many sticking points. Ukrainian units had nearly been encircled in a salient in Russia’s Kursk region and could be forced to “surrender or die,” he explained. Why should they just be let go? “If we stop hostilities for 30 days, what does that mean? That everyone who is there will go out without a fight?”
During the pause in hostilities, will Ukraine be able to mobilize fresh troops and receive weapons from the West? “How will supervision be organized? These are all serious questions.” He then added: “I think we need to talk to our American colleagues … Maybe have a phone call with President Trump and discuss this with him.”
It was all drawn from the playbook that he and his lugubrious Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov have used time and again: Obfuscate, delay, muddle, throw in some whataboutism, be sorrowfully unctuous, but make sure to dangle a carrot.”
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““Trump is much more concerned about this deal than about Ukraine,” Bondarev said. “That gives Putin leverage.””
https://www.politico.eu/article/vladimir-putin-is-playing-donald-trump-again-russia-ukraine-war/