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@Yuri better than your circus clown flag 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺
@Yuri and so? what has ikea flag to do with ukraine flag? They maybe imbued with the same color but different design, thus different, as many other national flags. Ikea’s logo color might have been inspired from where the founder originated which is from Sweden which has the blue and yellow color in their national flag also.
AND ALSO NOT FOOD FOR ME TODAY I DON’T FEEL HUNGRY. 😂😂😂😂
Why did Putin attack the flagpole on top of the Kremlin? 🤣🤣
@Whazzat it was threatening his borders.
Why blow up apartments
A false flag operation in a real flag lol
@Robert WhiteBet the AK47 jammed while he tried to take it down.
It’s funny because their fake drone attack struck the flagpole, pyrotechnics blow-up, and they still couldn’t do any damage to the flag. Hell, you’d think the flag would at least catch fire.
And the Oscar for best actor goes to…Yevgeny Prigozhin!
@Its Me The Ukrainian government
@Juan Elorriaga “Go-ollllllllyyyy!” “Shazzzzammmm!”
@Juan Elorriaga who? Professional comedian/ actor turned Dictator, Zelensky?
nice move Putin, let those Uk troops walk into more artillery
And what a great opportunity for retired military to cash in on the drama.
Mercs. What did they expect?
Mercs be trippin..😂
“Buy me a Mercenary,
cruise up and down the road. ” K. C. Douglas
To me this looks like a campaign video for Yevgeny to be the next Russian president.
@Sean McDonald Then you go to Ukraine and report it. Fox is nowhere in Ukraine so basically you’re wasting your time and money on an airline ticket
@Barricade379 No.
@Varuda Zahira or multiple “self inflicted” gunshot wounds to the head, and of course also tied hands and feet behind him. Or drinking irradiated tea
Wagner owner is going to have a “terrible open window tragedy” soon.
Landing head first on two bullets.
@Doperooni either that or a close encounter with a polonium pellet.
💯
There is nothing new here, as it has been said before by Prig, almost bi-weekly. It has been understood that Wagner troops were disposable.
@MattBest troops they have and also considered disposable. Putin has to keep all the other warlords in check when they get too big for their britches.
..and a pitiful soldiers.
Prigozhin is clearly playing a very high risk game for power in Russia and that can very well backfire and he might find himself falling out of a window one day in 2023.
Boo hoo.
You know he’s not asking for any tea anytime soon…
he stabbed himself five times in the heart before opening the windows and jumped. Moscow rule suissideee
@Jim Smith LoL
Stay away from those windows! lol
If you believe a word this guy says you deserve the surprise you’ll get.
If anybody trusts and values the opinion of a coward who hides behind anonymous identity on the internet, they deserve the anger and frustration they feel.
@Christopher Strongso you’re talking about yourself ??
Did he think he’d be allowed to exist after this with his private army?
That’s probably the _only_ thing still keeping him alive at this point.
Though running low on rockets, artillery, tanks and even troops I can see… but not even having enuff bullets?!
No, he’ll get “suicided” or have some “accident” falling out of a window…
Remember that the US lost over 50,000 young men in the Vietnam war. Most of these casualties were caused by bad decisions from commanders in charge
and bad decision by the president to enter into war, not realizing what the combatants were up against. Just like Ukraine, as you stated.
So it’s ok for Wagner to shoot retreating troops but to also retreat?
When you’re in power you make the rules
That’s Russian freedom.
Good point!
Its logistics…if you run simply because your afraid your a deserter. This is a tactical retreat, if it is real.
@Josh Exactly and thank you.
Could this all just be a clever ruse? Why else would they publicly proclaim this type of information which presumably would be kept quiet in a disciplined professional military force, would it not?
there is a window for Prigozhin if he returns to Russia
In ten years, the Russian army may be competent fighting force, but it will be comprised of twelve-year-olds, women, and old men.
The maintenance is an issue beyond most peoples comprehension with all weapon systems we deploy. When a administration says we’re sending X , I automatically wonder about training and maintenance.
Military equipment and human resources when employed have a high risk rate of becoming expendables by definition.
And even when not, they wear out. I recently heard a Gulf war veteran recall that even before entering in combat there where a few Abrams casualties due to mechanical breakdowns. Most of the old tanks deployed where to act as replacements for guns that had to be retooled due to destruction or barrel wear.
I usually follow AU military news as it has many commonalities of mine. A retired brass critizized this “boutique Army” with fancy equipment project and procurement, but in numbers that could hardly sustain. And worse with the cost of each equipment unit rising, no margin for statistical losses. Maintenance and training is also is also overstated. Basically due to irregular level among units. Rapid reaction Forces may be OK, but other units … we saw recently how the German Defense Minister was embarrassed during manoeuvers with the mechanical breakdown of the Marders. In a combat situation that may have lethalk consequences.
NATO land forces have been spoiled by a high dependancy on CAS in past conflicts. In a constrained battlefield, sure it would prevail, but our current societies surely don’t have the stomach to support a high level of casualties. Even the US is facing problems to recruit its 70 thousand annual freshmen without lowering entry requirements.
Bodybuilders and powerlifters are kinda in the same game…lifting weights.
But it’s a bit like the difference between style and substance.
Some things look the part…but that’s the size of it…they just look the part.
The blood of the brave people dying while defending that flag was still warm on the ground when he did this. This action was disgraceful beyond words.
And in my own personal opinion,And the Lockheed — Martin and Raytheon invented,developed and constructed F.G.M. — 148 Javelin anti — tank or anti — armor weapons and also the Lockheed — Martin approved,tested and issued N.A.T.O Alliance Armed Forces’s High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems also known as HI.M.A.R.S. including the all — powerful,the all — deadly and the all — potent BAE Military Defence or Defense Contractor — made M — 777 155 M.M. howitzers or artillery indeed ” proved to be decisive ” in the unspeakable,the terrible and the horrible as well as the awful Ukraine — Communist Russia War that already lasted for more than a year.Semper Fidelis