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  And yet there are still fresh videos coming from Ukraine from inside the city...
context: How do you liberate a town of ten thousand when you destroy every building? >
  
  Eh,  the us said we liberated Iraq. 2 decades later and the country is still worse off than under Saddam,  and that’s saying something. >
  
  The US in Iraq and what is happening in Ukraine are 2 completely different things. Russia is in Ukraine claiming to “liberate” different regions in an effort to make that territory a part of Russia while the U.S. removed an oppressive Dictator for power.
  I’m not saying we made Iraq a better place because we didn’t but by definition we did infact liberate Iraq from a regime that the people of Iraq wanted to be liberated from. It’s a case of Be Careful what you wish for.
  Still, the 2 situations are 2 completely different things. >
  
  Dude... Saddam was a friend of the US until he wasn't.
  And some say the idiot asked if he could take Kuwait and the US said "YES". >
  
  No, Saddam was an enemy of Iran until he wasn't; that's the only reason the U.S. supported him for a time.
  Noriega was a friend (and puppet) of the U.S. until he wasn't. >
  
  So the US supports evil dictators? Oh lard... /s >
  
  I see a couple of Kremlin trolls have arrived. Here is the reality, comrades:
  
  No, Russia is not fighting "all of NATO". If it was, the war would have been over before summer last year.
  Soledar is not a "linchpin" for the region. Is has some minor importance due to supply routes and possible pressure on Bakhmut. That's all.
  We have zero hard facts surrounding this supposed victory. Prigozhin already had to retract his first statement half a day ago, because his men did not actually "win" anything.
  
  That is all, gentlemen. >
  
  
  No, Russia is not fighting "all of NATO". If it was, the war would have been over before summer last year.
  
  After a few months of positioning assets, the NATO advance would start. How long does it take to drive to Poland from Moscow at a reasonable speed? Double it, that's how long the war would last. Well, that or the first nuke would go off. >
  
  I was a defence contractor supplying machined parts for tanks. I travelled to the customers office the day of launch of desert storm.Expecting a contract for supply, I was instead lead into a secure room and asked how much money we wanted to cancel a contract we had not yet been given . Name your price. The losses were anticipated to be up to 6000 tank losses. Instead there were nearly no lost tanks. Overwhelming superiority. >
  
  The number of tanks they expected to lose is probably still classified information. You could express the same thought without using numbers. ;) >
  
  The mighty Russian army, second best of the whole wide world, might have conquered a small village after months and months of fighting and sacrificing their men. If it is even true, they can be very very proud. /s >
  
  they've been attacking bakhmut since february lol.  you'd swear they were trying to take Kyiv, but nope, tiny little bakhmut.  and they're failing miserably.  the fields are there are littered with russian bodies.  hard to imagine having motivation after tripping over miles of dead comrades to get your turn to die.  they're going to grind a lot of meat for little gain >
  
  The crops will grow strong when its safe to plant again. >
  
  "this flour is not suitable for vegetarians" >
  
  "Russia says. . . "  <--- almost always lies. >
  
  I say ive walked on the moon. Ive said it, so its true! >
  
  I notice ever since Russia got 600ish soldiers deleted at once there's been big news about the Ukrainians "losing" 500-600 at once.    
  Almost like they're trying to compensate for something.     
  Make no mistake, both sides of this war are suffering tremendous casualties, but it's for very different reasons.  Ukraine is fighting a much larger country, while Russia is constantly suffering from its own incompetence.  I can only assume all this Russian propaganda is meant for internal consumption because on the world stage is falls flat. >
  
  There was an extremely embarrassing attempt right after they lost all those soldiers, claiming they killed the same number of Ukrainian troops in a dormitory.
  The story fell apart slightly when a Finnish journalist visited the site and found it had at most suffered a few broken windows... >
  
  Don't downplay this, they also pierced a bunch of water bottles stored in the vicinity! >
  
  those nazi laced water bottles deserved it!!!! >
  
  This would be more believable if I had not heard "Soledar has been taken! For real this time!" nonstop for months now.
  At some point, one must question why the greatest victory the Russian army can achieve is (at best) repeatedly taking and losing a small outskirt town that reinforces another small town that lost all strategic relevance to them a long time ago. Assuming this is true, which one can't, because Russia as a state seems to be unable to stop crying out, "Wolf! Wolf!" >
  
  Going by the normal rule of thumb that's 50 Ukranian casualties so far for the capture of a pile of rubble in the kill zone of the Ukrainians defending the salt mines >
  
  In these 10 months i started hating Reuters, every time i see "russia says" or "some russian official says" in title its almost always Reuters, might as well call themselfs RT, doing nothing but emplifying russian propoganda >
  
  I think your problem is thinking Reuters saying "Russia says" means they have verified it. In reality they are doing very neutral reporting, and accurately report what Russia has said. It is up to YOU to decide that whatever Russia says is bullshit of the highest degree. >
  
  Reuters reporting... 1. go to RT or some other russian state media 2. copy paste 3. achieve neutral reporting. Jokes aside if they are just a megaphone for russian propoganda and not an actual news agency with reporters or fact checkers then jokes on me for expecting something more >
  
  So that’s as good of an admission as possible that Ukraine still holds Soledar and killed 500 Wagner soldiers. >
  
  And yet there are still fresh videos coming from Ukraine from inside the city... >
  
  here's about 10 Wagner soldiers getting deleted with a few arty shells at the entrance of the salt mine in Soledar. 
  If Ukraine lost 500, these guys most certainly took more.
  Non-war related aside: google street view in the tourist part of the mine >
  
  Why do these videos zoom in and out, but always zoom out before impact? >
  
  I have absolutely no military experience, so I could be completely wrong. I believe they zoom out just to see where the artillery actually lands. Trying to hit a specific area is an extremely difficult task. If the shell misses, the drone operator will relay the info to the artillery team. Zooming out gives them a larger picture of where that shell is landing. >
  
  With absolutely no experience as well, that sounds logical. Getting a clear image of the impact site you can determine clean hits or not. >
  
  Exactly, you can always zoom in if the shell lands on the target to see if there are any casualties, but you can't really zoom out after the shell has already exploded. >
  
  Show me. >
  
  So Ukraine won in Soledar, and around 1500 Russian soldiers are dead. 
  FTFU Russia. >
  
  Russia is such a toxic shit stain country.   
  Their only exports are malice, misery, rape and oil.   The decay from within is palpable.   
  Fucking pathetic. >
  
  Does that include the innocent woman, elderly, and children. >
  
  Reuters Russia Says Article...
  Pass. >
  
  I think you should really be skeptical of what Russia says,  no matter the source. But why are your singling out Reuters?
  I thought they are a very centrist factive news source >
  
  Reuters is partnered with the Russian government-owned wire service TASS since 2020 >
  
  So, translating from Russian, 50 Ukrainian civilians were killed for no reason at all. 
  Check. >
  
  500 is your average of killed soldiers by ukrainian estimates, so you need to come up with another number as 500 is used already Vlad ! >
  
  numbers probably show 460 Ukrainian civilians killed tbh... >
  
  Liar liar Wagner group on fire.  . >
  
  Didn’t that happen last month? >
  
  500 Ukrainians killed...all women and children. >
  
  Russians have been reported to be wearing Ukrainian uniforms during this attack, thereby committing yet another war crime. >
  
  500?? Why not 5 billion? Wagner wouldn't lie. >
  
  No doubt both sides have heavy losses. We don’t like to hear about Ukraines, but yes they are taking losses >
  
  What's Moscow like this time of year? /s >
  
  He ain't wrong, dude. >
  
  Downvote russian propaganda. >
  
  I doubt that... >
  
  Bullshit. >
  
  These Wagner scum aren’t covered by the Geneva Convention, right? >
  
  You'd think in a civilized world we'd ban Mercenaries.  Using hired thugs to fight your war should be part of NATO policy ban. >
  
  Yeah all 500 women and children… hero’s… >
  
  Oh Wagner group, just shelter again in an easily recognizable building in an occupied land and take selfies in front of it…. Again.
  See how that works out for you…. Again.
  Fucking douches. >
  
  How do you liberate a town of ten thousand when you destroy every building? >
  
  Eh,  the us said we liberated Iraq. 2 decades later and the country is still worse off than under Saddam,  and that’s saying something. >
  
  The US in Iraq and what is happening in Ukraine are 2 completely different things. Russia is in Ukraine claiming to “liberate” different regions in an effort to make that territory a part of Russia while the U.S. removed an oppressive Dictator for power.
  I’m not saying we made Iraq a better place because we didn’t but by definition we did infact liberate Iraq from a regime that the people of Iraq wanted to be liberated from. It’s a case of Be Careful what you wish for.
  Still, the 2 situations are 2 completely different things. >
  
  Dude... Saddam was a friend of the US until he wasn't.
  And some say the idiot asked if he could take Kuwait and the US said "YES". >
  
  Did you miss the part where Iraq was originally part of the American Federation and we simply want it back? Oh wait >
  
  I see a couple of Kremlin trolls have arrived. Here is the reality, comrades:
  
  No, Russia is not fighting "all of NATO". If it was, the war would have been over before summer last year.
  Soledar is not a "linchpin" for the region. Is has some minor importance due to supply routes and possible pressure on Bakhmut. That's all.
  We have zero hard facts surrounding this supposed victory. Prigozhin already had to retract his first statement half a day ago, because his men did not actually "win" anything.
  
  That is all, gentlemen. >
  
  
  No, Russia is not fighting "all of NATO". If it was, the war would have been over before summer last year.
  
  After a few months of positioning assets, the NATO advance would start. How long does it take to drive to Poland from Moscow at a reasonable speed? Double it, that's how long the war would last. Well, that or the first nuke would go off. >
  
  I was a defence contractor supplying machined parts for tanks. I travelled to the customers office the day of launch of desert storm.Expecting a contract for supply, I was instead lead into a secure room and asked how much money we wanted to cancel a contract we had not yet been given . Name your price. The losses were anticipated to be up to 6000 tank losses. Instead there were nearly no lost tanks. Overwhelming superiority. >
  
  Since I’m guessing when a tank is lost the crew is typically lost too that would have been a lot of casualties and deaths. Wonder how long American popular support for Desert Storm would have lasted if those expectations had been realized. >
  
  The mighty Russian army, second best of the whole wide world, might have conquered a small village after months and months of fighting and sacrificing their men. If it is even true, they can be very very proud. /s >
  
  they've been attacking bakhmut since february lol.  you'd swear they were trying to take Kyiv, but nope, tiny little bakhmut.  and they're failing miserably.  the fields are there are littered with russian bodies.  hard to imagine having motivation after tripping over miles of dead comrades to get your turn to die.  they're going to grind a lot of meat for little gain >
  
  They have to attack somewhere if they want to take any territory. And anywhere they attack will be Ukraine's front line too. It's going to be a tough battle wherever they fight.
  The smarter alternative is to stop attacking altogether, but that's not on their radar. >
  
  I know the rumors been that they’re going to attack again from Belarus to draw more Ukrainian defenders north… I don’t know what they’ll attack with besides moth balled tanks. And the terrain in the north is all thick woods with armor having to rely on roads and we saw how that played out the first time around. I’m honestly still amazed they haven’t resorted to a tactical nuke, the only sane decision these drunk baboons have made >
  
  We’d totally destroy every Russian unit in Ukraine if they used a tactical nuke. I think we even flat out said so. Totally wipe the floor with them.
  neverdropthesanctions >
  
  I have no doubt about that. I’m just amazed they are rational enough to understand that while at the same time having such an overall clumsy and irrational war plan >
  
  I notice ever since Russia got 600ish soldiers deleted at once there's been big news about the Ukrainians "losing" 500-600 at once.    
  Almost like they're trying to compensate for something.     
  Make no mistake, both sides of this war are suffering tremendous casualties, but it's for very different reasons.  Ukraine is fighting a much larger country, while Russia is constantly suffering from its own incompetence.  I can only assume all this Russian propaganda is meant for internal consumption because on the world stage is falls flat. >
  
  There was an extremely embarrassing attempt right after they lost all those soldiers, claiming they killed the same number of Ukrainian troops in a dormitory.
  The story fell apart slightly when a Finnish journalist visited the site and found it had at most suffered a few broken windows... >
  
  Don't downplay this, they also pierced a bunch of water bottles stored in the vicinity! >
  
  those nazi laced water bottles deserved it!!!! >
  
  "Russia says. . . "  <--- almost always lies. >
  
  I say ive walked on the moon. Ive said it, so its true! >
  
  I brought Emma Watson and Jennifer Connelly to climax AT THE SAME TIME. I said it, so it's true >
  
  holy cow.
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  Just yesterday I brought Emma Watson, Jennifer Connelly AND Megan Fox to climax at the same time as well!   
  They must have came over to my house right after your house!