At the moment, Ukraine’s surprising offensive has Russian troops on the run. But do they have what it takes to sustain the rout all the way to the Russian border?
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32 replies on “Rout: Ukraine Offensive Stuns Russians, But How Long Can It Succeed?”
Hit ’em again; hit ’em again; harder; harder! Hit ’em again; hit ’em again; harder; harder!
Make no mistake – Ukraine is not a good country (though the people are good, the government is not). It is a semi-failed state and a kleptocracy.
HOWEVER…
Ukraine did not invade Russia; Russia invaded Ukraine. And that makes all the difference.
Putin can’t go back. He can’t backtrack on the ban on gas to Europe. Europe has a large reserve of frackable oil and gas, plus coal gas. A massive build out of this technology is happening,. The Climate change greens are still vocal but now are sidelined with people looking into their funding. If Putin back tracks that just gives the EU more time to decuple from Russian gas.
Putin, and over half the Russian population, can’t back track for two other reasons: They believe the Volga valley can’t survive with out empire.
1. If they loose Ukraine then other regions will follow including the Finish ethnic regions in the north and the Siberians.
2. Putin and his people believe the Slavs can’t do true western liberty and democracy, it must be autocratically ruled and will be always corrupt. This belief goes right back to the Tsars. If Ukraine was allowed to reform under Zelenskyy and become a true free country the myth that the Slavs need central authority, the Kremlin and the rigged Duma, ends. The war has slowed that process, and there’s a lot of propaganda that Ukraine is still corrupt, but the process continues. The battlefield victories prove that the money sent to Ukraine are not being sent off to swiss bank accounts.
The Ukrainians are attempting to stop at defensible lines and dig in but the Russians are falling back or surrendering in such numbers that its creating a problem. I think the guys are correct they will stop a the border. Somewhere in western Ukraine near the borders of Poland, Hungary and Romania there must be huge POW camps full of Russians. Even the UN is not giving numbers for POW’s in Ukrainian custody. Russia has a habit of calling POW’s traitors, defectors and going after them or their family. So there are good reasons to play down POW numbers. Also Russia is paying the families for losses. That’s good reasons for the POW himself to not report that he is alive. I would not be surprised if there are Russian units maneuvering for surrender, something that happened near the end of WW2 in Germany.
You’re on the wrong team. Putin is the world’s last hope against this evil western Globohomo Empire. Europe will freeze to death and starve this Winter all for Pride parades and child trannies in the elementary schools. Oh and let’s not forget the Azov neo nazis. ??? Wake up….wake up…..wake up. Ha.
Please pay attention to what’s actually happening in Europe, the EU left is getting shredded in the polls, wrecked in parliaments and destroyed in social media. The Euro Maga is growing so fast that even the left media are in a panic. Find the new conservatives and Maga media entities that are rising. They are about 3 years behind the US Maga movement but that’s expected.
The money we’ve spent in arming Ukraine against Russia was worth every penny … In intelligence regarding Russian military capacity.
Think what a different world we would be living in if we had only known 60 years ago that the Soviet (Russian) military was such a paper tiger.
Oh, I’m not saying that the Russians are toothless. I’m sure no one in Ukraine would agree with that assessment. But from what we’ve seen we could establish air superiority during the first days of any conflict and beat any Russian invasion in a matter of weeks if not days. If tiny little weak Ukraine can do what they’re doing, Russia would be a pushover for NATO.
I spent a significant fraction of my life fighting Communist ideology and now I find out that ideology wasn’t backed up by much more than hot air. The situation in Ukraine astounds me. If what we’re seeing today has always been the case we could have beaten them in a land war any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Seeing the events we’ve watched unfold in Ukraine has renewed my confidence in the Might of the West. Now if we can just keep our own people from choking us to death on their own stupidity the future will be a very bright one indeed.
Where’s the LOL emoji?
You forget, we are NOT at war with Russia, nor should we be, and only supplying Ukraine to the extent the Big Guy is getting his 10%!
Agreed, head up, Russia is no contest against the full might of the US military! They’s HAVE to go nuclear almost immediately!
But once Gen. Austin gets the proper shade of violet for their eye shadow, the Russkies would just lay down their guns! And drop their drawers for action!
LOL!
I didn’t forget a damn thing. You need to stop doom scrolling. There are an unlimited supply of people on the internet that will tell you your worst fear is justified and sound reasonable while doing it.
I read your other comments and it’s clear you have no idea what you’re talking about. If things were the way you say they are then Putin would have to be bone stupid. He’s not. You don’t start a war you want to win by sending in the very worst you have first. That would be dumb. Military operations don’t work that way. For very good reasons. Because if you tried to win a conflict that way it wouldn’t work. It’s amazingly clear you have no military background. Though I’m sure you’ve convinced yourself you’re a military genius and one of the few people privy to The Truth.
I didn’t say we were at war with Russia but if you think for one minute that Russia isn’t an enemy of the United States you’re as dumb as you seem to think Putin is.
Russia does not “have to go nuclear immediately” because NO ONE WHO CAN POSE AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT IS ATTACKING RUSSIA. It’s Russia doing the attacking here. I can’t speak for what the Chinese say in private but in the West no one who could pose an existential threat has seriously considered attacking Russia since Hitler made that mistake and paid for it dearly. What you said in that regard is also dumb.
NATO is a defensive organization. An attack on one would be considered an attack on all — NOT an attack by one would be backed up by all. The treaty doesn’t say that, if a NATO nation wanted to start a war with Russia it would be on it’s own and good riddance. The concern regarding Continental Europe all during the Cold war was that Russia would come rolling across the Iron Curtain with thousands of tanks and hundreds of thousands of troops to grind Free Europe into the dust. Not that we would attack Russia, that Russia would attack us. There were never any plans for an unprovoked invasion of Russia, the plans were for a response to an unprovoked attack FROM Russia. Apparently you don’t understand the difference between offense and defense either.
In the event of an unprovoked attack by a massive, irresistible force coming out of Russia it was NATO that had plans to “go nuclear” by using tactical nuclear weapons on NATO soil to STOP the Russians if conventional warfare wasn’t sufficient. Using tactical nukes on our own soil was considered to be the best defense because no nukes would be launched against targets on the Russian side of any border. No existential threat and no nuclear threat would be posed to the Russian homeland provoking a larger escalation to strategic nuclear weapons. All nukes are not created equal and the use of one, under certain circumstances, does not mean a planetary escalation to Armageddon.
Even now Putin has the option to deploy and use tactical nuclear weapons. If he does so against Ukraine, on Ukrainian soil, he will suffer the worst economic hostilities ever experienced at any time anywhere. Russia will become a pariah nation. Putin knows this.
On the other hand, there’s no reason to think that if the Ukrainians cross the Russian border and start taking Russian territory Putin would not feel justified in using tactical nukes. On Russian soil. A mirror of the tactics planned by NATO in the event the Russian homeland was actually threatened. That blade cuts both ways.
The Russian homeland is not threatened and if the Ukrainians have a lick of good sense they won’t do that. Yes, I know that targets have been struck which are located on the Russian side of the border. That’s not the same thing as an invasion. Not even close.
I don’t know where you’ve getting your ‘information’ but if you’re paying for it you’re being robbed and should demand a refund. The only emoji you deserve from me strongly resembles soft serve chocolate ice cream.
Even if Ukraine were to fall to day (not that it will with the current momentum, but if…), Polonium Vlad will have taken an “L” on this one. The once-feared Russian military has been decimated by the guys who couldn’t make the JV team. If your army is a paper tiger, you don’t show the world that fact!!!
The way things have worked out so far, I have to wonder if ol’ Vladdie Baby even knew his army was a paper tiger.
It’s very possible that with all the anal osculation and corruption he really thought his mojo was better than it actually was.
In the old Soviet Union disappointing Komrade Chairman was a guaranteed ticket to a nice chilly Gulag somewhere. Failing Komrade Chairman totally because you’ve been stealing the money earmarked for things like training, tires and maintenance meant a one way visit to the basement at Lubyanka.
Those things do not seem to be happening. Yet. Time will tell.
I think judging the USSR of the 60s with what we know of Russia in the 20s isn’t going to be accurate. They did have some scientific successes (Sputnik [probably enabled by former Nazi scientists captured before the US could get them] and Tsar Bomba [though that might have been a one off, singular success]) but as the system slowly degraded, then fell apart after the Wall came down, it only had a Potemkin shell to hide behind. The Russian bear was still as large as before, but holding his breath to keep his skin stretched out, hoping we wouldn’t see his ribs.
Don’t forget that they are also better informed now than they were earlier!
It’s hard to know the truth about the realities of war, strengths, weaknesses, and reasons for the choice of certain strategies. It’s strange to have internationally recognized embarrassments like this supposedly successful counteroffensive happen. if Putin still was running a true super power, this shouldn’t happen. I see things online (where every opinion is “true”) with information that sounds so reputable. Everything from too few men of fighting age even existing in Russia to the ineptitude of the generals, the sorry state of the soldier’s conviction to fight, and the state of their weaponry being bad is out there to see. I agree with others that Ukraine is no “good guy” in this fight, is knee deep in under-the-table Biden coercion monies, and is culpable in provoking the Russian bear with all of the NATO talk. But I’m having trouble – maybe it’s my own susceptibility to Russian propaganda – believing that Putin’s best troops are being held in reserve and there is some great strategy to get the Russian people on his side to finally “win” the war.
In previous posts, my great concern has always been nukes. I’ve been pilloried in the comments section as a result, being told “cooler heads in the Russian military” wouldn’t do this. I guess I’m stupid, but I have no faith that such people exist. If things go further south, I’m still scared to death. It must be my programming, going back to hiding under a blanket in the hallways of my elementary school for Nuclear strike drills as a child.
From what I read, Putin IS the cooler head, and his generals would have responded to NATO’s aggression already. Better to die fighting than on their knees, and that Russia die is NATO’s stated objective!
Wow, the kool aid is strong with this one.
Doom scrolling victim. He said “From what I read …” He’s ‘researched’ this and has no foundation in reality by which to gauge the things he reads. He’s willing to accept things from ‘alternate’ sources because he doesn’t know any better. Even though those things are clearly idiotic to everyone else. He knows ‘The Truth’ and we’re all dummies beneath his intellectual station. He has no military background, no unbiased training in tactical or strategic matters, no yardstick to measure what he reads. Just a raging confirmation bias that makes him eminently ‘convincible’.
There are always people on the internet willing to help someone realize their worst fears with the most reasonable sounding sophistry. It’s pretty easy for them to convince someone who doesn’t know any better to start with.
That’s how we get people who think the Earth is flat, that lizard people secretly rule humanity, that the Nazis built a secret base in Antarctica and have means and plans to take over the world, that the US never sent Americans to the moon, that Putin is stupid enough to launch an invasion with his worst assets (Seriously, how does that even make any sense?), etc.
It always amazes me that human beings have this inexplicable capacity to believe things that are obviously not true and to steadfastly refuse the acceptance of any truth that doesn’t fit their confirmation bias. They are usually otherwise pretty smart people too. It’s almost impossible to convince a stupid person of anything because he lacks grasp and scope but smart people are a different matter. They have grasp and scope but their ignorance on a given topic makes them vulnerable.
It’s kind of sad if you think about it but that doesn’t stop me from entertaining myself by mocking them unmercifully. Which does no good, they don’t know they’re being ridiculous and they’re happy to accept ridicule because they think they’re the ones truly in the know. Even so, it amuses me to laugh at them. It’s a fault of mine, I recognize that and purposely choose to mock them anyway.
I remember those drop-and-cover drills in school too and no, you’re not stupid.
Bear in mind that people will rarely do things that stand solidly against their own interests. If you were a Russian General and knew that following a launch order from Putin would destroy everything you hold dear; family, fortune, friends and end the history of your nation … Would you be likely to order a strategic launch over a spat in Ukraine?
Probably not but … You’re sane.
There is always a chance that some lunatic somewhere in the Russian chain of command would follow such an order. While this is undeniable it’s also not probable. It’s always all too easy to demonize an enemy and think he’s stupid, less than human or … crazy. Russians are human beings too.
It is never far from the minds of people on the missile button that we have nukes too. If we are backed into a corner we’ll use them. Russians will likewise use them if all other reasonable choices are exhausted. It’s our responsibility not to back them into a corner that tight. A cornered rat is going to bite.
On the other hand, if we let Russia bully the world with the unlikely threat of using its nuclear weapons the world becomes more dangerous and more likely to suffer a nuclear holocaust. This is why terrorists and criminals often kill one person ‘to show they’re serious’. If you make a threat, eventually you have to prove you’re willing to follow through on it. The larger and more improbable the threat, the more the urge to prove you mean it at the first opportunity that presents itself.
Can I promise you that nuclear weapons are not going to ever be used? Nope. I can’t say that because there are factors that are beyond good sense which might be possible and might hold sway. There are no guarantees in life and this is just like anything else that cannot be guaranteed.
For what it’s worth I don’t trust the integrity of any Russian as a rule of thumb. I don’t have to trust their integrity here, integrity isn’t the issue. What is at issue is that anyone who is not coldly, calculatingly, ruthlessly rational could rise to a position of great power in Russia. Their system tends to weed out the nutjobs and the crazy weird.
Indeed, they think we’re crazy to allow the decadence and degradation of some of the insane things done in the West. Like chopping up little boys who think they want to be little girls and vice versa. They have a point there. We are being endangered by our current Administration because Joe Biden and Co. are behaving in a manner that leaves doubt about whether there are rational actors running this popcicle stand.
Irrational people with nuclear weapons are a cause for concern no matter which side they are on. The Russians are every bit as afraid of someone doing something crazy on our side as you are of the same on theirs. They might be Russians but that doesn’t mean they’re stupid or blind.
What I can promise you is that there are huge preponderance of people in Russia that don’t want to get vaporized by thermonuclear hell any more than you or I do.
All we can do about that is hope those are the people in real hands-on control of strategic nuclear weapons on both sides. It’s a good hope because it’s sensible and sane. It’s a reasonable hope because mankind has possessed nuclear weapons for three quarters of a century and we haven’t created our own armageddon yet.
I learned a long time ago that while you must plan for worst case scenarios those absolute worst cases rarely happen. When they do it’s usually because you didn’t plan for them. Both we and the Russians have done an awful lot of worst case scenario planning. That means we both know what an actual, real, no-shit worse case would look like and are not likely to mistake anything less as being a real worst case.
If you want to worry about this, that’s something for you to figure out for yourself. I don’t blame you but I also don’t agree with worrying about this. I learned a long time ago not to borrow trouble by worrying about improbable things I have no control over. I study doomsday scenarios as a hobby and as it relates to a prior vocation. We could get hit by an asteroid, the sun could flare and burn us all to a crisp, a star could go nova in our immediate galactic neighborhood rendering all life on Earth dead and sterile with a gamma ray burst, prions could morph into something much more contagious, Marburg Ebola could mutate, etc.
There’s a lot of things that could spell the end for humanity but they’re all improbable. In our lifetimes. Or the lifetime of our immediate descendants. If we’re going to worry we’re choosing to worry. I choose not to, I have more immediate problems less catastrophic to humanity and more personal to me. I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about those things either, I do my best to resolve or avoid those things I have control over and the rest are just nothing I can do anything about so all the worry in the world won’t change a thing. You only live so long no matter what and I choose not to waste whatever time I have on worrying about things I can do nothing about.
That is my choice. Your choices are your own and I’m not pillorying you, I wish you well.
I honestly only “worry to death” about nukes here on line discussing the Russia/Ukraine conflict. My daily life is very free of concern. Call me pollyanna.
Lol, fair enough. It’s a concern that should be and is an aspect of our National Strategic Defense posture so it’s not a nothingburger either. I just try to get people to keep things in perspective. It’s not surprising if I goof and mistake perspective for a topic of discussion and if I did that, my apologies.
I probably wouldn’t have said anything at all except I thought I might be one of those you said piloried you for your concerns. If that was me, that was not my intent either and I apologize for that too.
Thanks for your excellent evaluation!!
The Russian withdrawal from the Kharkov region began one week BEFORE the launch of the Ukrainian attack. That was a prudent maneuver, or possibly a strategic retreat to create a vacuum to draw Ukraine out of their fortified bunkers, as Scott suggested. I certainly don’t know why, and trust nothing the NY Times, WaPo, nor London Times report!
There has never been a Russian attempt to conquer the entire land mass of Ukraine.
The initial column outside of Kiev was sent with third tier forces and outdated weaponry to pose a supposed threat to the capitol, and thus freeze defensive troops in place. Yet they parked in place for weeks, a 40-mile column! Remember?
There was no assault on Kiev in force, no Shock & Awe campaign, though the Russians had near total air supremacy! That doesn’t fit the propaganda you have swilled like drunken sailors! Meanwhile the Russians attacked the Azov battalions in the Donbass regions with his secondary forces in cooperation with the Donbass independence militias.
Putin’s consistently stated goals were denazification of Ukraine and neutralization of the illegal bio-weapons labs. He has used roughly 10% of his forces in the operation to date. He has LOTS in reserve and is waiting on the Russian public to demand victory outright, as he is a cagey politician engaged in likely the last geopolitical conflict of his career.
The current country of Ukraine has no historical basis prior to 31 years ago. It was a district of the Soviet Union only and created by decree after the fall of the Soviets. Kiev was the original capitol of the tsarist Russian Empire before it was transferred to St. Petersburg. It was the location of the founding of the Russian Orthodox Church. Russia today is the largest Christian Nation in the world by law.
The 70+% Russian culture Donbass regions were promised a referendum regarding separation from this alien construct country of Ukraine. That agreement, negotiated by the West, was violated by Zelensky, after being elected promising the exact opposite. Lying to his people, Bill?
The troops headed to Crimea for training were re-tasked, because VP Harris announced US support for Ukrainian entrance to NATO 4 days before the invasion. This was a previously announced Red Line by Putin. NATO has been serially violating the expansion treaties for decades, acting as a stealth aggressor.
As to Scott’s point of deploying an expanded army, Putin has a 4-month window of Russian winter to do just that, and since they have just run a major military joint exercise with the Chinese in the east, these primary troops are highly trained with the best weaponry. Using internal lines of supply, train lines, air, etc., transportation can be easily accomplished.
Meanwhile, Europe will be starving and freezing to death as Trump had suggested to the Germans, who laughed at the time. They AREN’T laughing now!
Bill, everything you criticize Putin for, Zelensky has done to a far greater degree, including banning other political parties, jailing and killing their leaders and spokesmen, and closing press outlets who speak anything other than his party line narrative.
Russia DOES have a functioning democracy, though not a US style. Yes, there are dissidents, but such dissent is limited in times of military action, as we’ve seen in US history as well. I’d suggest the possibility of foreign entanglements by some of the arrested Duma members as a possibility.
There are NO good guys on either side of this conflict! The EU is willing to fight to the last Ukrainian to pose a distraction from their deliberate self-destruction of the European economy to construct an authoritarian single state led by whichever puppet the WEF installs. Biden is deliberately destroying the US economy to sideline us from the future conflicts and establish de facto authoritarianism here. Of course, they blame Putin! The West is demilitarizing themselves to support this charade! A great opportunity for weapons testing though! (Sarcasm!) We can resupply ourselves better than the Europeans, but too many of those digital chips come from China! LOL!
I am NOT pro-Russian, heaven forbid! Neither am I a blind supporter of anything Zelensky has done, including laundering money for the Biden Crime Syndicate, whom you now wholly support!
I AM a rational nationalist American patriot, not a globalist, and respect those attitudes in other nations too.
Putin was promised a secure buffer by NATO for Russia from NATO militarism, and that promise was serially violated. His logical conclusion was that the follow-on was to be an ultimate attack on Russia herself. VP Harris and the NATO military brass have confirmed that his understanding was correct. He responded by trying to free the breakaway republics and thereby creating that buffer again.
Your jingoist globalist militarism disappoints me greatly!
You three have bought the globalist cabal’s propaganda, hook, line, and sinker!
As a Founding Member of TBWN, I now question how sincere you EVER WERE in supporting a Constitutionalist, Tea Party, or patriotic American agenda!
Not even the Kremlin is peddling that line. Quite the opposite.
Edit: The link didn’t post, but here’s the headline you can search. “Russians admit defeat in Kharkiv; Zelenskyy visits Izium after troops flee shattered city.”
Way to go, cherry-pick ONE point, and quote the Russian Propaganda minister to buttress your case against him! LOL!
AGAIN, there are NO GOOD GUYS ON EITHER SIDE, including NATO!
Heed George Washington, not Joe Biden!
Glad to understand there are so many Buden fans here!
Let me have a go at “one point.” You wrote
I see it differently. Take a look at what actually occurred. Ukraine was crafty — they said they were going to counterattack Kherson and they advertised it widely and loudly for nearly a month. The result was that Russia moved 25,000 troops into the Kherson region — mostly from Kharkov — to defend the coming counterattack. But Ukraine didn’t attack Kherson except for small forays at the edges of the battle lines. What they did was to demolish the bridges over the Dnieper River — both vehicle and train bridges — trapping 25,000 Russian troops in the Kherson region with no way to get home and no way to get resupplied (No food! No ammo! No fuel!). AND THEN Ukraine attacked (yes, a week later) where Russia was weakest — the Kharkov region. What Ukraine did was brilliant. They sucker-punched the Russians who fell for the “ruse” (ugh, sorry)
It IS a rout of the Russian forces. And my best guess is that Putin will be gone pretty soon. Dick Morris, who has a good track record, reports that his sources who monitor Russia closely say that there is about a 50/50 split between those in Russia who want Putin to either WIN the war using any means necessary OR get out, and those who want to just pack up and go home (like the Vietnam protesters here). PS — I have no dog in this fight — just an observer 3,000 miles away trying to figure it out.
You don’t rout an army that isn’t there. Only militias remained. The temporary territory control is meaningless, as this was not Putin’s stated goal!
Ukraine had the largest standing army in continental army.
US Army Lieutenant-Colonial Daniel L. Davis, now at the prestigious American think tank “Defense Priorities”, most factually observed:
“There is nothing to suggest that Russia will not be able to continue saturating Ukrainian positions, especially in the Donbas, with upwards of 70,000 artillery shells and rockets per day.
If every heavy weapon committed to Ukraine by the West were delivered immediately, it would not represent one tenth of the UAF losses – and that they continue to lose on a daily basis, including the 155mm howitzers provided by the United States.
In every measurable metric that has historically determined the winner and loser on the battlefield, Ukraine is at a major deficit.
There is no rational basis to hope that Ukraine will stop its bleeding of personnel and equipment and win the war against Russia.”
You’re citing what’s known as “bean counter warfare”. Wars don’t actually work that way, if they did we had a shit ton more beans than the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong, or the Taliban for that matter. How did bean counting work out in those cases? Do you have enough scope when it comes to this kind of thing to actually discuss it or do you think you know everything and cannot possibly learn about things like “bean counter warfare” vs. actual real world experience, strategy and tactics?
I know of this Lt. Col. you cite, I don’t know him personally but I do know a couple Colonels (not “Colonials” as you put it), a few Majors and a Navy Captain (same rank as a bird Colonel) or two. All either combat arms or intel guys. They come by my place for drinks and conversation. Often. My best friend is a retired Marine Lt. Col. who now works in intel in support of MarForLant and larger military concerns. I served in the Marines and other capacities myself. Unless you have friends with credentials like mine have, you’re not in a position to talk down to me like I’m some sort of doe-eyed simpleton so if you were smart you’d stop doing that … Let’s see if you’re smart or not.
I’ve never conversed with you until your dick reply to me above on this page. If you want to act like a dick I’m more than happy to treat you like one. If you want to knock that crap off and actually discuss the military aspects of this situation I’m OK with that too.
Either way, you’ll get as good as you give. We had an unofficial motto that went “No better friend, no worse enemy”. It’s not real smart of you to think you know a lot more than people who have actually fired real shots in anger. War is not so simple a thing that you can learn what you need to know about it by reading a few articles or watching a few news broadcasts.
It’s also not real smart of you to assume you know very much simply because you watched a few talking heads. The opinion of one Lt. Col. are just that, one man’s opinion. In the quote you cited he’s clearly not addressing asymmetrical warfare, tactical and strategic considerations or any of the many other facets in play. So either he’s either not much of an expert or there was a lot more context to what he said that you didn’t bother to copy and paste.
Ball’s in your court.
Dear Sir — You wrote
If you believe that, then please give me your thinking and your reasons for the following Russian incursions —
Why do you think Russia did those things if not to take over the entire country?
Thank you.
Missile attacks and shelling are not attempts at occupation.
I am not privy to the tactical choices of Russian generals. There may have been installations there. The Ukro-Nazis were using hospitals and schools in the early weeks. The dam is fuzzy in my recollection, again I’m not privy to details, but often the dams also serve a railroad lines and roadbeds in crossing rivers. The destruction of which would affect material resupply, an obvious benefit.
After Biden’s* Satanic Hitler speech, it would have been nice to see Republicans sign a document calling for Biden* to resign.
No, wait a minute, that would meen President Harris. I withdraw my last comment
Thank you so much for thorough analysis highlighting freedom values and truth in war.