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2022-05-17 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
'The whole world is against us': Retired colonel gives damning assessment of Russia's war in Ukraine on state TV as he urges Putin to 'get out of' the conflict
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Posted by Skidmark 2022-05-17 08:33|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 War within Russia's secret services over bogus intelligence that led to invasion: Blame game erupts over 'worthless' info that meant 'Putin was the most uninformed person to decide about the war'
Posted by Skidmark 2022-05-17 09:00||   2022-05-17 09:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Say it with me: "Slam-dunk..."
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-17 09:05||   2022-05-17 09:05|| Front Page Top

#3 You mean the Russians bought another Christopher Steele dossier?
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-05-17 09:13||   2022-05-17 09:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Over/under on how long until he's found dead? I'm betting two weeks from now his entire family will be found dead and it will be ruled a murder/suicide. The suicide will involve four shots from a bolt action rifle.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-05-17 09:31||   2022-05-17 09:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Over/under is 3:1 that Christopher Steele will be dead before Durham can put him on the witness stand
Posted by George Mussolini5115 2022-05-17 09:36||   2022-05-17 09:36|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm shocked that he's still above the sod.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-05-17 09:43||   2022-05-17 09:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Where's Wee Willie Winky?
Posted by Frank G 2022-05-17 10:04||   2022-05-17 10:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Likely studiously avoiding the topic.

As ordered.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-05-17 10:12||   2022-05-17 10:12|| Front Page Top

#9 China is salivating, when Russia’s military is severely depleted, China will start taking eastern Russia.
Posted by Papa Cooky 2022-05-17 11:37||   2022-05-17 11:37|| Front Page Top

#10 China is salivating, when Russia’s military is severely depleted, China will start taking eastern Russia.

It's why God suggested machinegun-artillery divisions for Russian eastern provinces.
Posted by badanov 2022-05-17 11:39||   2022-05-17 11:39|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm guessing it would be a hell of a lot easier to cross the Amur River than the Taiwan Strait.
Posted by Matt 2022-05-17 12:11||   2022-05-17 12:11|| Front Page Top

#12 Better to know your enemy who's demonstrated a serious lack of quality equipment and operational acumen than one you really haven't tested yet but who is armed to the teeth knowingly awaiting you.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-05-17 12:40||   2022-05-17 12:40|| Front Page Top

#13 Wee Willie Winky will be too ill to testify.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-05-17 12:41||   2022-05-17 12:41|| Front Page Top

#14 Maybe not the whole world but whoever pulls Joe Biden's strings has wanted Putin dead for quite some time now.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-05-17 12:44||   2022-05-17 12:44|| Front Page Top

#15  Any decent human wants him dead, that pissant toad is worse than Hitler. Hitler's SS troopers preserved this, Putin's Russian robots destroyed it.

Thank God the Russian Army is run by a bunch of mindless crooks.
https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1526563707186290691
Posted by Omineling Forkbeard1962 2022-05-17 13:12||   2022-05-17 13:12|| Front Page Top

#16 If it makes you feel better, Russian troops also took up positions inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone, even dug trenches and bunkers through the layers of sand and soil intended to cap off the radioactive debris.

They'll die young. People who come in contact with their gear will possibly die young. Their children may have all sorts of defects.

All because Putin has a teeny little peepee.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-05-17 13:57||   2022-05-17 13:57|| Front Page Top

#17 More video game footage presented as war reportage. By a retired US general, I would add:

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-17 14:04||   2022-05-17 14:04|| Front Page Top

#18 Suppose we should be glad it wasn't from Star Wars: Squadrons.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-05-17 14:11||   2022-05-17 14:11|| Front Page Top

#19 Russia committed so many troops to Ukraine they only have 25 BTGs left for all their borders - so yes, if China wanted to they could Cake Walk into Town.

Posted by 3dc 2022-05-17 19:46||   2022-05-17 19:46|| Front Page Top

#20 SURRENDER AT MARIUPOL

"The surrender at Mariupol solidified the conquest of a once-thriving southeastern port, which unlocks a land corridor between Crimea and east Ukraine. This would give President Vladimir Putin a stronger position in any negotiated settlement to end the war, U.S. officials have said."

An enormous development. Russia has achieved the paramount goal of the invasion. The land bridge to Crimea is complete.
Posted by Jase Snetle1858 2022-05-17 20:01||   2022-05-17 20:01|| Front Page Top

#21 Keep spanking, the fun isn't over :-)
Posted by Frank G 2022-05-17 20:28||   2022-05-17 20:28|| Front Page Top

#22 Ukraine will sue for peace. The $40 billion package will be squandered or stolen by the Ukrainians the same way the Iraqis stole all the billions that we airlifted into Baghdad in the early days of the Iraq War.
Posted by Jase Snetle1858 2022-05-17 20:33||   2022-05-17 20:33|| Front Page Top

#23 Nope. The Russuans have been so severely pimpslapped the Ukranians won't stop. Sure the Russians have land bride but for how long?
Posted by Percy Flotle3938 2022-05-17 21:47||   2022-05-17 21:47|| Front Page Top

#24 ^ just so long as the land bride doesn't know what the sea maiden's up to
Posted by Enver Scourge of the Chinese6624 2022-05-17 22:40||   2022-05-17 22:40|| Front Page Top

#25 all the billions that we airlifted into Baghdad in the early days of the Iraq War

I'd love to see the source documenting that we sent billions to Baghdad while it was controlled by Saddam.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-05-17 23:35||   2022-05-17 23:35|| Front Page Top

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