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2022-06-06 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Vladimir Putin 'loses his 11th general' in Ukraine war as defenders 'ambush his vehicle in Donbas'

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 ~~Andrei~~ Vlad - you've lost another general?

Posted by Raj 2022-06-06 00:18|| 2022-06-06 00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Did the intelligence that allowed Ukraine to know of the General‘s itinerary come from US Intelligence, again???

If so:

Dear Mr. Putin - PLEASE listen to the words following words of a terrible nightmare for your own good...

Posted by Cletle Shinese1880 2022-06-06 00:30|| 2022-06-06 00:30|| Front Page Top

#3 The question is, are these generals the ones that know what they are doing or are they potential rivals that he's allowing to be taken off the board?

Posted by Silentbrick 2022-06-06 02:42|| 2022-06-06 02:42|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ Could certainly be an element in the apparent general office downsizing campaign.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-06-06 03:14|| 2022-06-06 03:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Putin 'loses two of his most senior commanders in one day' as Ukrainian forces launch ambush in Donbas - but Kremlin are accused of trying to hide general's death

Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-06 04:52|| 2022-06-06 04:52|| Front Page Top

#6 "Victory is ours!" says former 26th in Command

Posted by Frank G 2022-06-06 06:17|| 2022-06-06 06:17|| Front Page Top

#7 I think if you split the claims of the trolls on both sides down the middle, we may be looking at that elusive "Why can't both sides lose?" scenario.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-06 06:28|| 2022-06-06 06:28|| Front Page Top

#8 #3 The question is, are these generals the ones that know what they are doing or are they potential rivals that he's allowing to be taken off the board?

Posted by: Silentbrick 2022-06-06 02:42

Silentbrick,

Embrace the healing power of 'and'.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2022-06-06 06:42|| 2022-06-06 06:42|| Front Page Top

#9 "Ambushed". You comprehend you need to know the territory to know where to make it happen on short notice of when. Sorts out who are the locals from those who are the 'visiting team'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-06-06 07:40|| 2022-06-06 07:40|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ Who says it was the locals?

Posted by Vespasian Ebboting9735 2022-06-06 08:14|| 2022-06-06 08:14|| Front Page Top

#11 In my neck of the woods, if the road is blocked, I know another way around, if it is blocked, I know of another way around. That's local.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-06-06 08:28|| 2022-06-06 08:28|| Front Page Top

#12 Why can't both sides lose?

A grinding, long war of attrition will do just that.

Also it speaks volumes of the lack of communication, training and trust that senior generals have to come down to the front lines to make sure shit gets done. That makes them easy targets.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-06-06 08:36|| 2022-06-06 08:36|| Front Page Top

#13 OpSec is even more important when you're in Indian country.

I wonder how many cell phone calls alerting the next stop in their tour to their arrival were intercepted. Or if a local just spotted them and let the right person know.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-06-06 08:58|| 2022-06-06 08:58|| Front Page Top

#14 More veterans from international countries are headed to Ukraine, especially from Australia.

Posted by Black Charlie Slairt1430 2022-06-06 09:10|| 2022-06-06 09:10|| Front Page Top

#15 Oh no... the Biden Administration is begging communist Venezuela to ship oil to Europe. Also begging the House of Saud to cut production

US to Let Eni, Repsol Ship Venezuela Oil to Europe, Reuters Says

Veterans for oil?

Posted by Jean-Paul 2022-06-06 09:33|| 2022-06-06 09:33|| Front Page Top

#16 If you don't believe him, here's JP's link:

U.S. to let Eni, Repsol ship Venezuela oil to Europe for debt -sources

Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-06 10:21|| 2022-06-06 10:21|| Front Page Top

#17 People can believe whatever makes them feel better about themselves and their governments, yet the truth remains: the West is funding Russia's war effort, and Russia has captured three times as much territory as they held on February 24.

There's no other conclusion. Russia is winning the war. The West has lost the economic war. Ukraine is being slaughtered and dismembered.

The West's policies have achieved a Yarmolenko (what the Ukrainian futbol team achieved last night in the qualifying)match Cardiff)

Posted by Jean-Paul 2022-06-06 10:40|| 2022-06-06 10:40|| Front Page Top

#18 *futbol = soccer, en amerloquais

Posted by Jean-Paul 2022-06-06 10:42|| 2022-06-06 10:42|| Front Page Top

#19 achieved a Yarmolenko
😄

haha, c'est rigoleux, J-P...
Where have I heard about the West's "own goal" before?
Oh right.
Sanctions on Russia are an own goal by the West

Posted by Palmerston 2022-06-06 11:01|| 2022-06-06 11:01|| Front Page Top

#20 Soccer = Metric Football in Americanese

Posted by Frank G 2022-06-06 11:01|| 2022-06-06 11:01|| Front Page Top

#21 Jokes aside, there's nothing more painful than realizing you've destroyed your team's chances of a World Cup berth by putting the ball into your own net.

It's certainly understandable that we in the West wish to believe that our leaders are pursuing wise policies and have our best interests at heart.

I can well understand why Americans wish to believe that President Biden is striking blows for freedom and democracy, and standing up to aggression, by begging Maduro and the Venezuelan communists to please please bail out the West.

Or that Biden is standing tall in Riyadh and begging similar favors of the Arab king whom he insulted and whose nation he vowed to make into a "pariah" just a few months ago.

Biden is wise, far-seeing and noble, Biden is doing all that can be done to protect us and make the world safe and prosperous -- yes. Biden would never put the ball into our own net.

Posted by Jean-Paul 2022-06-06 11:13|| 2022-06-06 11:13|| Front Page Top

#22 own goal

LOL

Love the top comment on the "sanctions are an own goal" video:
The US did not impose sanctions to Russia. They simply conducted a special economic stimulus.

Posted by Pancho Uloting7130 2022-06-06 11:20|| 2022-06-06 11:20|| Front Page Top

#23 Americans wish to believe that President Biden is striking blows for freedom and democracy, and standing up to aggression, by begging Maduro and the Venezuelan communists to please please bail out the West.

Well if Putin is Hitler, and if Roosevelt sided with Stalin vs Hitler, then Roosevelt's biggest admirer Joe Biden should (naturally) sidle up to Maduro-Stalin the commie against Putin-Hitler.

It all makes perfect sense when you think about it. It's the Most Greatestest Generation! C'mon, man!

Posted by Pancho Uloting7130 2022-06-06 11:28|| 2022-06-06 11:28|| Front Page Top

#24 special economic stimulus

Ha.. 'special' in that it makes us poorer and funnels hundreds of billions to Russia ... so they can reduce Ukraine to rubble, which will require us to pay out trillions in more 'special economic stimulus'... Bloody special alright

Posted by Palmerston 2022-06-06 11:35|| 2022-06-06 11:35|| Front Page Top

#25 "The Biden administration has been courting Venezuela since the Russian invasion of Ukraine..."

Oh my, so prim and proper! I didn't know that "courting" was the new term for being a cockholster

Posted by Pancho Uloting7130 2022-06-06 11:42|| 2022-06-06 11:42|| Front Page Top

#26 Didn't some clown here at Rantburg call Putin a "commie" the other day?

So why is Biden begging real communists in Venezuela for help against capitalist Russia?

Posted by Palmerston 2022-06-06 11:47|| 2022-06-06 11:47|| Front Page Top

#27 Why do our visitors assume that Rantburgers like the current American president and approve of his reasoning and decisions?

Posted by trailing wife 2022-06-06 12:42|| 2022-06-06 12:42|| Front Page Top

#28 Back to Russian Generals getting plugged.
I'd like to see a bit more of their ranks thinned.

Posted by Vespasian Ebboting9735 2022-06-06 12:50|| 2022-06-06 12:50|| Front Page Top

#29 The Ukrainians are down to their volunteer troops, the middle aged teachers and programmistes and 18 year-old students who signed up to defend their homes in the West but who've been sent instead into the meat grinder in the east.

Their casualty rate is over 60 percent. Horrific.

Ukraine is in its last legs. This is why Biden is so eager to negotiate.

Posted by Jean-Paul 2022-06-06 13:02|| 2022-06-06 13:02|| Front Page Top

#30 ^ Ukraine is on its last legs

Posted by Jean-Paul 2022-06-06 13:04|| 2022-06-06 13:04|| Front Page Top

#31 Why do our visitors assume that Rantburgers like the current American president and approve of his reasoning and decisions?

Because they idiotically believe that your vote automatically became a vote for the other side once the vote count farce ended.

They all have their noses up Putins's or Zellllllennnnnssssskkkkyyyyiiii's asses. They assume it works that way here.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-06 13:04|| 2022-06-06 13:04|| Front Page Top

#32 why is Biden begging real communists in Venezuela for help against capitalist Russia?

Like you have to ask??

Biden wants to turn America communist. Build Back Better is his Five Year Plan. Green New Deal is just Lysenko-isn't bullshit.

Russia's got better financial management and more freedom than Biden's America

Posted by Pancho Uloting7130 2022-06-06 13:09|| 2022-06-06 13:09|| Front Page Top

#33 They all have their noses up Putins's or Zellllllennnnnssssskkkkyyyyiiii's asses

... says the sad clown whose nose is up Biden's ass

Biden's throwing away your money, Murcek.
The Venezuelans are laughing at you.

Posted by Pancho Uloting7130 2022-06-06 13:11|| 2022-06-06 13:11|| Front Page Top

#34 What do you think we're gaining by dragging out this stupid war?

It's been pointed out - hell, Zelllliiiinnnnssssskyi's said it -- Russia's captured over 100,000 square kilometers in this war. That's the size of the Northeast Corridor!

How much more territory do you want Ukraine to lose?
Are you secretly rootin' for Putin?

Seriously: Why drag this out?

Posted by Pancho Uloting7130 2022-06-06 13:16|| 2022-06-06 13:16|| Front Page Top

#35 says the sad clown whose nose is up Biden's ass

Well, there's proof you don't know me at all.

Heh...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-06 13:21|| 2022-06-06 13:21|| Front Page Top

#36 I guess we can question exactly what do you know, Pancho?

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-06 13:22|| 2022-06-06 13:22|| Front Page Top

#37 What do you think we're gaining by dragging out this stupid war?

It is very difficult to persuade Americans to stop pursuing a losing cause when it involves spending a trillion dollars or more on an overseas war for "freedom" and "democracy."

Americans persisted with their disaster in Vietnam for over a decade, their fiasco in Iraq for another decade and their debacle in Afghanistan for two decades.

The corn is green.

Trillions must be wasted before America recognizes reality and admits defeat.

Posted by Jean-Paul 2022-06-06 13:24|| 2022-06-06 13:24|| Front Page Top

#38 So some middle-aged school teachers knocked off two Russian generals. Interesting.

Posted by Matt 2022-06-06 13:25|| 2022-06-06 13:25|| Front Page Top

#39 we can question exactly what do you know, Pancho?

Try a better parser, troll. Or learn some English grammar

Posted by Pancho Uloting7130 2022-06-06 13:28|| 2022-06-06 13:28|| Front Page Top

#40 Everyone's mocking and humiliating the US now. Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba. The Democrats are attacking Biden. Everyone piles on.

The compliant America press is staring to use words like "chaotic" to describe his foreign policy and international summits. Summits that are on-again, off-again, who the fuck knows again.... He goes to Riyadh / he doesn't go to Riyadh; he says KSM's a "killer" / he begs KSM for help...

Como se dice shitshow?

Biden scrambles to avoid Americas Summit flop in Los Angeles
ELLIOT SPAGAT, JOSHUA GOODMAN and CHRIS MEGERIAN
Sun, June 5, 2022, 9:03 AM

Posted by Pancho Uloting7130 2022-06-06 13:39|| 2022-06-06 13:39|| Front Page Top

#41 #40 Everyone's mocking and humiliating the US now. Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba. ..words like "chaotic" to describe his foreign policy and international summits. Summits that are on-again, off-again, who the fuck knows again.... He goes to Riyadh / he doesn't go to Riyadh; he says KSM's a "killer" / he begs KSM for help

It's really extraordinary how far American foreign gn policy has fallen since the time of Nixon and Kissinger.

Any competent American president would have easily avoided war with Russia over such a trivial matter. Crimea was a non-issue, a sleeping dog -- trivial by comparison to far more difficult issues such as Taiwan or the Middke Eastern regional balance.

Posted by Jean-Paul 2022-06-06 13:44|| 2022-06-06 13:44|| Front Page Top

#42 🤡

Biden to visit Saudi Arabia, a country he vowed to treat as a 'pariah'
4 days ago

Biden's meeting with Saudi crown prince pushed back to July
2 days ago

Pariah pilgrimage: Biden to beg Saudis for more oil in person

"We were going to in fact make them pay the price, and make them in fact the pariah that they are," Biden said of Saudi Arabia during a Democratic debate in 2019. He added there is "very little social redeeming value in the present government in Saudi Arabia."

Posted by Pancho Uloting7130 2022-06-06 13:58|| 2022-06-06 13:58|| Front Page Top

#43 'S all good. Murcek's happy. He just got a $250 discount on his solar panels!

Thank you, Brandon!

Posted by Dino Chaise3516 2022-06-06 14:01|| 2022-06-06 14:01|| Front Page Top

#44 I'm loving this. These ~~people~~ entities have no idea...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-06 14:03|| 2022-06-06 14:03|| Front Page Top

#45 It is very difficult to persuade Americans to stop pursuing a losing cause when it involves spending a trillion dollars or more on an overseas war for "freedom" and "democracy."

You can thank our Military-Industrial Complex for that, J-P.

"Our business is ~~killing~~ grifting and losing wars. And business is good."

Posted by Billy Budd 2022-06-06 14:19|| 2022-06-06 14:19|| Front Page Top

#46 The gummint always doubles down on bad choices. The half of Americans who trust the gummint no matter what are programmed the same way.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-06 14:22|| 2022-06-06 14:22|| Front Page Top

#47 "Seriously: Why drag this out?"

Good question. Thoughts, Murcek?
How does it benefit us to drag out the slaughter and waste more $$$$$$$?

Posted by Billy Budd 2022-06-06 14:34|| 2022-06-06 14:34|| Front Page Top

#48 ( "us" means normal Americans outside the MIC )

Posted by Billy Budd 2022-06-06 14:35|| 2022-06-06 14:35|| Front Page Top

#49 Why am I being asked? I have always been against it. From the get-go. Check it out. Ukraine is a chancre on the American body politic, and Russia really isn't bothering us if we don't bother them.

I'm caught in a narrative I have not ever participated in. Not that I give a damn about that either.

You can hate me. You can hate yourself.

You can't make me hate myself.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-06 14:37|| 2022-06-06 14:37|| Front Page Top

#50 I suspect the trollbots latched onto my comments because Murcek is easier than DipShitDirtBag0919 to store and respond to.

I use my real name because I'm easy to find. Come visit anytime...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-06 14:42|| 2022-06-06 14:42|| Front Page Top

#51 I am friend to all, enemy of none (outside the MIC)

Posted by Billy Budd 2022-06-06 14:43|| 2022-06-06 14:43|| Front Page Top

#52 Me too. I'm very easy to get along with. The exception is people who think they can put words in my mouth or misrepresent my all-out-in-the-open positions on everything.

Don't try to use me to sell somebody else's agenda.

Just. Don't.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-06 14:47|| 2022-06-06 14:47|| Front Page Top

#53 MIC - well, there's lots going on there. The parts building Columbia and Virginia submarines, building B-21 Raiders, Trident D5 and follow on, LRSO, Next Gen Ground Based Deterrent. I'm good with those.

Giving Ukraine shit that we need to pay to restock here at home? No. I'm not a fan of that.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-06 14:53|| 2022-06-06 14:53|| Front Page Top

#54 Note the album title.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-06 15:20|| 2022-06-06 15:20|| Front Page Top

#55 Didn't some clown here at Rantburg call Putin a "commie" the other day?

He was in the KGB. He had to be a Communist Party member. I doubt his sense of the relation of the people to the state has changed a bit.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-06-06 15:37|| 2022-06-06 15:37|| Front Page Top

#56 Putin: Fallof the Soviet Union was a "Genuine Tragedy."

Trolls please note: I did not put those words in his mouth.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-06 15:44|| 2022-06-06 15:44|| Front Page Top

#57 This is why Biden is so eager to negotiate.

Biden isn't a party to negotiations. This line, about Biden needing/wanting to negotiate is a common one from Russki trolls.

Everyone's mocking and humiliating the US now. Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba.

Newsflash: the US is not popular with state-run media in countries that have never been friendly towards the US!

(No, Mexico is not friendly with the US. Their failure to control their border and the incursions by their military demonstrate that.)

What do you think we're gaining by dragging out this stupid war?

Putin can end the war in just a few minutes. Why aren't you asking him and his mouthpieces why they're dragging it out. Why are they sending Russian generals to die? Why did they send Russian soldiers to dig into the irradiated soil around Chernobyl?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-06-06 15:45|| 2022-06-06 15:45|| Front Page Top

#58 Also note: Reportage by a source I don't have much respect for.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-06 15:45|| 2022-06-06 15:45|| Front Page Top

#59 When Nicraugua and Venezuela start liking the US, I will start to worry...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-06 15:48|| 2022-06-06 15:48|| Front Page Top

#60 ^Uh, new foreign dudes of all stripes: this website doesn't do fan service for Biden or the Democrats. Though veteran posters do try to be fair and objective... within the confines of generally hating both.

So, I know you've got to make your daily quotas of posts. We've all gotta earn a living. But you aren't just barking up the wrong tree. You're in the wrong forest.

Posted by Secret Master 2022-06-06 16:03|| 2022-06-06 16:03|| Front Page Top

#61 Didn't some clown here at Rantburg call Putin a "commie" the other day?

I believe that was me, and I stand by it.

Posted by Frank G 2022-06-06 16:06|| 2022-06-06 16:06|| Front Page Top

#62 # 60, I'll say something positive about Bidet: He's the stupidest son of a bitch that has ever been installed in the White House. His entourage is similarly deficient.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-06 16:11|| 2022-06-06 16:11|| Front Page Top

#63 Of course the US is the main counterparty in the negotiations with Russia -- just as it was in 1973 when Nixon and Kissinger negotiated with Le Duc Tho. The Peace Accords were signed by the United States and North Vietnam.

Ukraine is simply an American client state, no different from America's client states in South Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.

This is a truth so obvious that Biden, habitual liar that he is, must deny it at each turn with his programmed mantra ("No rain in Spain without Ukraine" or what-have-you).

Posted by Jean-Paul 2022-06-06 16:16|| 2022-06-06 16:16|| Front Page Top

#64 Ukraine is an American client. Nobody who voted for Trump agrees with that except the GOPe Conservative Inc. grifters who work both sides of the fence equally hard.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-06 16:19|| 2022-06-06 16:19|| Front Page Top

#65 Don't forget Pelosi and the Biden criminal family syndicate. They laundered billions through the Ukraine so I bet they think it is an American client state, even though it isn't.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-06-06 16:22|| 2022-06-06 16:22|| Front Page Top

#66 Macron does not include the Ukrainian in his discussions with Putin. The same is true for the other European leaders, also Erdogan. Le petit Ukrainien does not decide; he is informed of decisions after they're taken.

Posted by Jean-Paul 2022-06-06 16:29|| 2022-06-06 16:29|| Front Page Top

#67 Dems and Never Trumpers will always love Ukraine because they believe they came soooo close to impeachment then.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-06 16:31|| 2022-06-06 16:31|| Front Page Top

#68 EXCLUSIVE: Family of Bill Clinton advisor who admitted Jeffrey Epstein into White House seven times has blocked release of files detailing the death scene after he was found hanging from a tree with a shotgun blast at a ranch 30 miles from his home

Posted by Oil Derek 2022-06-06 16:36|| 2022-06-06 16:36|| Front Page Top

#69 Why the shotgun? Seems like... overkill. As it were

Posted by Oil Derek 2022-06-06 16:37|| 2022-06-06 16:37|| Front Page Top

#70 Died like he lived. Messy.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-06 16:42|| 2022-06-06 16:42|| Front Page Top

#71 Died like he lived. Messy.

And neither by his own hand?

Posted by trailing wife 2022-06-06 18:19|| 2022-06-06 18:19|| Front Page Top

#72 What do you think we're gaining by dragging out this stupid war?

Back when the trailing daughters were playing soccer (futbol for Jean Paul and all other non-Americans), one of the girls on one of our teams whined why did they have to play the game early Saturday morning when everybody knew our team was so much better trained than everybody else. The coach’s answer was that training is what you go to the game with, but it’s what happens on the field when you’re playing against an opponent that counts.

Tl;dr. It ain’t over ‘til the fat lady sings. I’m just a little Midwestern suburban housewife, with no influence over those making such decisions. So as the Germans say, my role is Abwarten und Tee trinken, a role I am eminently designed by nature and nurture to undertake.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-06-06 21:19|| 2022-06-06 21:19|| Front Page Top

#73 ^ Huh? Come again?
Does not compute

Posted by Big Darling of the Welsh6829 2022-06-06 22:12|| 2022-06-06 22:12|| Front Page Top

#74 Rach On... Rach 2, performed by 15 year-old Alexander Malofeev (5,000 comments)

Posted by Russkaya Kultura Rukoprovoditi 2022-06-06 22:37|| 2022-06-06 22:37|| Front Page Top

#75 These trolls are sounding more and more desperate. As Dark Helmet said in Spaceballs "Keep firing Assholes!"

Posted by Chealing Chomotle4158 2022-06-06 22:58|| 2022-06-06 22:58|| Front Page Top

#76 Trolls, LOL

It's obvious to anyone with even the most basic grasp of economics that the rest is royally fucked up.

The US and Western Europe are funding Russia's war machine. US sanctions are running the US economy into the ground.

Try listening to your more intelligent, more economically–literate compatriots:

"Putin has found ample alternative markets for Russian oil and gas in Asia. In particular, both India and China are not infected with “green new deal ideology” demonizing hydrocarbon fuels. Realizing the cost-efficiency of coal, oil, and natural gas, India and China represent a large and growing export opportunity for Russian hydrocarbon fuels.

"At the same time, Putin has quietly placed the ruble back on the gold standard, positioning the ruble to rise to the top against the diminished purchasing power of the overprinted dollar and euro fiat currencies."

😂🤣

Posted by Janet Smellen 2022-06-06 23:12|| 2022-06-06 23:12|| Front Page Top

#77 "Russia Ruble Quote Surges to 7-Year High"
61 Mothafuckas!!!
🤑 🤣

Posted by Janet Smellen 2022-06-06 23:16|| 2022-06-06 23:16|| Front Page Top

#78 Do you 🤡s really believe that Janet Yellen, Paul Pelosi, the Biden family, Schumer McConnell Romney the Clintons and Bush family and 1,000 other insiders are NOT buying rubles and betting on Russia to win the war?

Do you really believe that they think Ukraine is going to win? Really? SERIOUSLY?

Would you like to buy this bridge in Brooklyn that I have to offer you?

Posted by Janet Smellen 2022-06-06 23:22|| 2022-06-06 23:22|| Front Page Top

#79 Hey, Janet...

Putin's dick is that way ===>

Get working on it.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-06-06 23:25|| 2022-06-06 23:25|| Front Page Top

#80 ^ Huh? Come again?

More plainly, I guess: It does no good to say “this one ought to win because...” There is no way of knowing until the game is actually played to the end — or in this case the war fought to the end — who actually wins and loses depends as much on the heart and stubbornness of the fighters as it does on the size and equipment of the armies.

Napoleon said, "Morale is to material as three is to one." Putting aside the propaganda of both sides, we have no way of knowing which side will win until after one side has conclusively won. Pushing for premature negotiation based on the claim that one outcome is assured only guarantees there will be a rematch.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-06-06 23:25|| 2022-06-06 23:25|| Front Page Top

#81 Rach On... Rach 2, performed by 15 year-old Alexander Malofeev (5,000 comments)

About three notes in, trailing daughter #1 perked up, recognizing it from our collection. I’m supposed to be doing articles for tomorrow, but you have distracted us.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-06-06 23:33|| 2022-06-06 23:33|| Front Page Top

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