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NEWS >Ukraine/Russia Russian soldiers are encircled in Balakliya >Syria Syrian president signed decree on large demobilization of the army, The unprecedented discharging order indicate that the next phase will be political and not military. >Iran The nuclear deal is on the verge of being signed as the "thorniest issues" have been cleared. Meanwhile, U.S. and Iran-backed forces clashed in Syria this week. >Iraq Protests and clashes broke out in Baghdad on Monday evening, carrying into Tuesday morning, and leaving at least 30 dead, after influential Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr announced his resignation. >Ethiopia The ceasefire between the Ethiopian goverment and the TPLF has collapsed and fighting has resumed in the north of the country. >Somalia Al-Shabaab Boasts 170 govt official casualties in Hayat hotel raid.
russians are really stupid but i reckon its because they aren't fighting to win but to keep ukraine in a permanent state of syria-dom
as long as they remain in war that means they have propaganda to dish out and keep any investments out of ukraine therefore retain their gas & oil monopoly over europe
Still, an attack from that direction was very predictable. Some Russians were even able to predict it but only shortly before it happened and they didn't make much of a fuss about it.
Is it worth the cost instead of just conquering the industrial and energy rich regions outright?
Isaac Green
Russia should just flatten them and be done with it, I am tired of this gay war. I got a kid coming and I dont want him to get cold, so I got to pay thousand of euros this winter ffs
Kayden Clark
>costs considering all countries operate a fiat economy it costs nothing for them to create artificial demand for more military-industrial complex production, which creates more demand for research and development in the same field. if anything they are actually gaining on that front
>its because they aren't fighting to win erdo, I don't even know how to reply to this. Kremlin planners are birdbrains, not masterminds who can turn a 1905-style military defeat and humiliation into a geostrategic victory
Fucking off from Izium is the smartest thing they could have done, should have been done a long time ago. Their position to the South of Izium was disadvantageous to say the least and they clearly didn't have enough forces there to improve their position substantially.
Jacob White
Yet that makes the objective to eventually take all of Donbass much harder without being able to strike against that axis. It's a disaster, Russia at best may need to settle for a peace where they just retain Luhansk or at worst lose it all since again, they willfully don't have manpower in this war.
Thomas Reyes
incompetence can explain things but after a certain point there has to be something else to it