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  Check out /r/NonCredibleDefense for actual experts discussing tactics.
context: They want a humanitarian crisis and weaken morale inside Ukrainian society. >
  
  It’s literally never worked before. People get angry and then go back to work, production increases sometimes. Even in Japan after the nukes and Tokyo fire bombings, the population never cracked. >
  
  It only works if there's already dissent for whomever is in power before the war and the attackers can be viewed as a sort of liberator.
  I don't think Russia honestly thinks the people of Western Ukraine would ever willingly concede to them. Even at the start of the invasion a lot of rumblings were about letting Lviv remain as the sole "independent" Ukraine with everything east of the mountains becoming occupied. This is just taking out the frustrations of Russia's ineffectiveness on the people of Ukraine. >
  
  Russia is wasting their dumbass missiles. 90% are getting shot down. Soon all chips from RU dishwashers will be exhausted. >
  
  I thought the news said they were already out of missiles and had to use shitty Iranian suicide drones.  Is somebody else selling missiles to them? >
  
  Running out means they are approaching what experts predict would be a safe reserve. Between shaving the margins on their reserves, and what production they can continue on their missiles they can make more. Not as fast as they are using them of course. At some point the rate of attacks will slow down as it takes longer to get a salvo ready. >
  
  They've been running out, according to the experts, since march.
  They just launched one of their biggest volleys and again the experts say: anytime now they're going to run out.
  You're also saying the same thing.
  Same with the 80-90% shot down. Whole cities are on fire, electricity is down. Those two things can not be both true. Or the missiles get shot down, or they hit their targets. Shot down missiles can not hit their targets but apparently, that's what's happening in Ukraine if we choose to believe these reports.
  It's all not making sense. It's all propaganda from both sides. 
  Let's just say: we don't know. Shit's fucked. >
  
  
  They've been running out, according to the experts, since march.
  
  Not according to experts no.  Unless you mean Reddit armchair generals.
  No experts thought Russia was running out of missiles in March.  
  Likewise with this:
  
  Same with the 80-90% shot down. Whole cities are on fire, electricity is down. Those two things can not be both true.
  
  There aren't whole cities on fire but yes electricity is down.  But how many missiles do you think it takes to knock out electricity?  It isn't that many.  Ukraine isn't a rich country, they don't have above average redundancy in their grid.  
  Look at Texas - they had a major grid outage a year and a half ago that took hundreds of lives and causes hundreds of billions of dollars in property and economic damage.  For winter storms they knew were coming - not one single missile or drone blew up a substation or transmission line. >
  
  People already forgetting that power went down in the US last month from a bunch of rednecks shooting at transformers. Seems plausible that missiles could do the job. >
  
  We lost power for 24 hours this week due to 50 mph winds knocking down tens of thousands of trees across our city. >
  
  Now Ukraine will fire 1 missile into Russian and the Kremlin will cry foul and say that it's not fair. >
  
  And they'll hit a military target. >
  
  And 8 boats will spontaneously sink. >
  
  And 8 more Russian Oligarchs will accidentally fall out of windows. >
  
  And 9 tank turrets will take off >
  
  5 GOLDEN RINGS!!!! Oh wait >
  
  Omg THAT was golden. >
  
  Imagine the uproar from the Kremlin if Ukraine started striking Moscow.... >
  
  They’d claim it was an unprovoked attack, take it as a declaration of war, and send nukes instead of just missiles >
  
  "we had to, otherwise we would 'look weak'" >
  
  Amazing that Russia turned out to be “Toxic Masculinity: The Country” >
  
  You miss where they made domestic abuse legal in 2017? >
  
  As we can see another sucessful hit on a strategic road crossing to the tactical bakery >
  
  That bakery was an army barracks training hundreds of gingerbread men >
  
  They were producing muffins of mass destruction! >
  
  Russia is such a piece of shit. >
  
  Let’s remember this next time a video of Russians hugging as they die in the trenches surfaces.  
  Ukraine doesn’t want them there.  They want to just live their lives, and yet they are continually terrorized and hundreds of thousands of them have been massacre’d, just for existing.  
  Fuck Russia. >
  
  Don't forget all the kidnapped children, Russia is literally stealing kids like some horrible fairytale. >
  
  Russia was having a population crisis before 2022, it's rapidly been accelerated.  These children are all part of the re-population plan. >
  
  If genocide is part of your repopulation plan, you don’t deserve a population >
  
  Agreed. >
  
  Every time Ukraine at the verge of making a military break through in the front line, Russia will launch everything randomly towards Ukraine. Just like the tantrum of a spoiled child. >
  
  Eventually the impact wears off. It’s at its peak now due to being winter, once it changes momentum swings back in Ukraines favour. >
  
  Especially once the ground freezes enough in the south for Ukraine to start major counter offensives. >
  
  I know they’ve got big eyes for Melitopol and eastern Kherson at the moment could be a massacre for the Russians pushed back into Crimea (with an assault there not too far behind) 
  There’s also talk that they’re close to taking Kremiina even without the ground freezing. >
  
  I don't see an assault on Crimea in the realm of possibility, who is talking about such an outcome? Liberation of Donbas seems more plausible and pre 2022 borders, but I don't see Ukraine pushing through the narrow Perekop Isthmus to say less of an amphibious assault... >
  
  An assault isn't necessary if they had longer range missiles and could take out a certain bridge and some other critical supply infrastructure.  They can  just keep applying pressure to the supply lines until the Russians starve or run out of ammo and then just squeeze them out. >
  
  I think its high time that the US let's them have the longer range missiles for the HIMARS, wbu? >
  
  Give them that and you can knock that bridge into Crimea out. >
  
  This pattern is getting depressingly familiar. Ukraine about to make a significant gain on the front line. 
  Quick send in the missiles to show how “powerful” we are. 
  The irony is that Russia is just making Ukraine’s plea for additional support harder to ignore. >
  
  Is more like "we can't kill the soldiers, then try with their family". Typical mafia coward methods. >
  
  Kill them before they become soldiers >
  
  Thats how you get more volunteers to become soldiers out of vengeance 💀 >
  
  Of course. But they need to learn the same lessons we learned in the Middle East and every single war we ever fight. Apparently no one learns that lesson lol >
  
  But remember this is not a war guyz… >
  
  It’s a terrorist attack. >
  
  I am no war expert, but wouldn't it be more effective to drop those bombs on military targets instead? Surely bombing schools and random apartments won't do shit. Just makes the people in Ukraine more pissed off. >
  
  It won't. The logic behind it(intimidating your opponent into giving up because the cost of continuing to fight is too high on civilians) sounds sound...but just isn't backed up by data. No bombing campaign on civilian centers or infrastructure ever made the nation give up(not even the nukes being dropped on japan directly caused it, it was just the final nail in the coffin due to Japanase already having lost militarily clearly and just couldn't agree internally on what kind of peace they want). Heck usually even it's impact on the nation's ability to produce military goods is relativly minor(some factories in germany got bombed literally dozens of times throughout the war but still continued producing, even if at reduced capacity). >
  
  You say this like America doesn't immediately target this kind of infrastructure during its wars, too.
  This is standard wartime assholery. >
  
  If it was just the infrastructure, fine. But they are targeting civilian buildings on purpose. That's just terrorism. >
  
  Russia doesn't have the force saturation capable of destroying or suppressing Ukrainian infrastructure at least not across the whole country nor for very long. A decently sized missile attack about 1-2 times a month will damage and disrupt the situation temporarily but most shit is either fixed, replaced or supplemented by another part of the energy grid. Not to mention if Ukraine is to be believed between 50-85% of drones and missiles are destroyed with the percentage only going up.  The worst it got was October/November when 40-50% of the Grid was damaged in some way.  But Ukraine is getting more air defense and the number of destroyed missiles is only getting higher.
  Not to mention they can't directly blow up Ukrainian Nuclear power plants either which are also supplying a ton of electric power.
  It'd would need something akin to the USAF and RAF  1944-1945 level of consistency and power to actually wear down Ukraine and even then it would take months to actually have an affect on the front.
  The most this does is make Ukraine use up it's air defence systems and rockets which is why Gepard Anti air systems and western supplied air defense systems have been going into Ukraine basically negating the the losses Ukraine suffers in attrition. We need to send Ukraine more of these systems. >
  
  Enough to cover all of Ukraine please. Then ruzzia has nothing left... unless they want ww3 knowing they would be decimated by NATO >
  
  Ukraine needs to send the same amount of naval drone boats to Novorussysk oil ports. 
  Fuck Pootin. >
  
  Congratulations Putin, you have only hardened Ukraine's resolve and pointed more guns at yourself. >
  
  Do we have a problem? >
  
  If Russians know whats good for them, they should keep what they have got
  Long wars always favor the defenders >
  
  Putin can suck my shriveled dick. >
  
  As a Russian I think he can suck a gun barrel, shriveled or not 🤷‍♂️ >
  
  He should be strapped to the same missiles that are being lauched at Ukraine, except aimed and lauched at his vanity bridge (Kerch bridge that is). Two birds, one missile >
  
  Better toward his palace >
  
  All they can do attack cities. How low and degraded have the Russians become? >
  
  They lack the technology for precision.  Cities are big enough that they can claim success if they hit anything.  That's my guess.  I'm sure there are twisted people that want to target civilians specifically, but I think maybe most of them are just twisted in a different way where they just don't care what they hit, so long as they hit. >
  
  Hitler made the same mistake bombing the UK. The “blitz” just stiffened the Brits resolve. 
  In the end it is the will of the people of Ukraine that will be the deciding factor. >
  
  It was also a tactical waste of resources, as the London Blitz had very little strategic benefit, pulling resources away from potentially hitting military installations, and giving the RAF time to repair and reorganize. >
  
  Putin seems to follow in those footsteps. >
  
  The Russian Federation must be dissolved. >
  
  Unfortunately that won't happen unless russia is occupied. Nazi Germany lost WW2 only because it was, and Japan lost because it was hit with 2 nukes. >
  
  The Russian Federation will dissolve when its vassal republics walk away, no longer in fear of Russia's toothless army. >
  
  There are no vassal republics, save for maybe Belarus, except for the rumors that it might be absorbed into Russia proper any day.
  If you mean the internal regions that are euphemistically called “autonomous republics” or whatever, then no, they are neither autonomous nor republics. >
  
  Ukraine gives up its weapons of mass destruction so Russia will feel safe and leave them alone only for Russia to pull this shit off down the road and hide behind weapons of mass destruction. The amount of restraint Ukraine has for not retaliating across the border is boundless for the amount of disrespect hurled at them. >
  
  They’re being held back. 
  I think the deal is, if they want the international community to give money and weapons then they must not use the weapons on russian soil. 
  After all the west wants the long term effects of a war of attrition to work against russia. And they’re probably telling Ukraine to not worry since the west will rebuild Ukraine.  
  I’m an armchair Reddit political scientist so this is just me guessing, but it makes sense to me. >
  
  I also just don’t see what Ukraine has to gain by stretching their military into a foreign nation.
  The same was true for Russia when they started this whole thing, but Putin’s an idiot and Zelenskiy isn’t. >
  
  Murderous petulance.
  Give Ukraine whatever and whoever it needs to end this. >
  
  Fucking cunts. >
  
  Damn. This shit makes me dislike Russia a lot more than reading about the bad shit they did in history books. I will never in my life give one tourist dollar to Russia after this >
  
  I wonder what they’d do with it if they got it, no one is going to help them. They’ve just impoverished generations for nothing. Just to say they have poor “Russians”.  I hope Ukraine hangs in there, may the powers that be give them strength. >
  
  All Russia is doing is giving Ukraine incentive to keep fighting back, I mean why would they trust someone who fires on civilian targets and does a bs invasion when he already controls more land than anyone in the world >
  
  It seems they intend to keep doing it for years to come. >
  
  Yeah Putin's days are numbered, I guess he figures he might as well use up all the missiles. >
  
  Welp that’s enough Reddit for me today. 😢 >
  
  Stay strong Ukraine! Fuck Russia! >
  
  I hope Putin and all of his cronies get the Mussolini treatment when this is all over >
  
  Maybe we could start earlier... Where's all the killer commandos at which Hollywood kept telling us about. >
  
  Ukraine needs volumes of cruise missiles... 100s... >
  
  Monsters >
  
  It's about time Ukraine starts sending some serious strikes into Russia. Enough of this nonsense >
  
  Putin needs to re-read history and think about how England withstood Hitler’s bombing and missile attacks in WWII. Boots on the ground win wars (ok, not nuclear weapons) and the Ukraine military has punished the Russian military so far >
  
  It really is time to give Ukraine longer range weapons. >
  
  They sure are firing a lot of their missiles the past few weeks.  I wonder if they've given any thought at all as to what happens when they run out and can't easily replace them? >
  
  They are thinking ahead with massive missile strike; Ukraine will give up and Russia will be ahead. 👀🙈
  Edit: I'm really naive about labeling sarcasm here; thought the emojis would help....
  Russia doesn't have the proper help to strategically win this war. 
  Even if Zelenski gave up now, Russia would be strewn with discord and rife >
  
  
  Even if Zelenski gave up now, Russia would be strewn with discord and rife
  
  This.  Even if the official Ukraine government did surrender,  Russia would have a far worse time until they pull out completely. >
  
  Can't wait for the downfall of Russian society. I hope it happens in my lifetime, and this absolutely ruins that terrorist state >
  
  Russia is a terrorist state >
  
  The only thing necessary for evil to win is good people do nothing.  Make the difference. >
  
  One thing I truly find baffling is the "what about Donbass" comment. Every single time someone accuses Russia of being a piece of shit country for starting a war, there is that comment. 
  One, if it is possible to defend your land in 2022 without civilian casualties and shelling, why isn't Russia doing it now? Ukraine would've taken Donbass in 2014 without any casualties if it could, but it's just not possible due to how modern combat works. Russia certainly has zero problems murdering tens of thousands of civilians. No matter how much of a hardcore Putin bot you are, you can not look at Mariupol and say "Yeah, Ukraine shelled all of that". The scale of devastation is imense. Troops fight in cities because that's where battles are, just the way it is, nobody is just going to a fucking empty field. This is why war has to be avoided in the first place.
  Two, if Russians care about doing the right thing so much, protecting the Russian speaking population, protecting Ukrainians from nazis, protecting the "motherland", and all of that crap, how does killing more Ukrainian civilians now help the dead civilians from years ago? Why not just retreat your army from Ukraine to achieve zero casualties? Ukraine wouldn't keep attacking Donbass if Russian troops weren't there. Isn't that the right thing to do if you truly care about saving people, to not escalate the situation? Are the dead Ukrainian kids or their grandparents nazis? Is everyone killed a nazi? 
  Just imagine if Russia did not arm separatists and did not move their stupid ass troops intro Ukraine, imagine if they just retreated the second the battle for Donbas was about to begin. How much harm would be avoided? Are 200k+ dead people worth the cause of "protecting the Russian language"? 
  But we all know that it's not about doing the right thing anyway, it's about Putin being too powerful for his own good and Russian people being too complacent. It's not like democracies are perfect, but it's damn good to switch leaders up once in a while, otherwise they'll have self-inflated worth. People talk about Zelenskyy being corrupt and a oligarch, but they somehow forgot to include Putin and most politicians in that category. It's only Zelenskyy and Ukraine who are evil, but no, not Russia. The bot farms are working well. There are too many brainwashed idiots who claim they care about freedom, that are watching Fox News and support Russia. So many stupid contrarians who think they're smart. 
  By the way, I am no leftist, just as I'm not from the right, I hate being 100% for one party. But right now it feels like if the left said not eating shit is good for you, the right would eat shit just to piss off leftists, and vice versa. >
  
  It's the only thing that they can do.  We really need to crack down on any supplies needed to make more missiles as well as getting more air defense equipment to Ukraine.  I can only hope from my sofa that the people in charge in sane countries are on top of it. >
  
  Bag of dicks Russia.   Bunch of assholes. >
  
  Hard to believe a human being can make millions of people suffer for a completely bullshit reason and sleep just fine. >
  
  I wonder if today will be the day Putin falls out of a window. >
  
  The London blitz and Vietnamese war both showed that bombing civilians just hardens their resolve and unites them. Could it be that the Russian leadership doesn't know this? If they do then this is pure cruelty. If they don't they're awfully stupid. >
  
  I hate Russia >
  
  But yet there are still people across this world that believe the disgusting pile of excrement, Putin, wants ,"peace". He doesn't want peace, he wants a piece of UKRAINIAN LAND. What a pile of shit. >
  
  55 of 69 missiles were destroyed and 11 Iranian drones were destroyed as reported by Ukraine. >
  
  Didn't Pooter...ahem...Put-IN just kill off his top military general like....Yesterday?
  I mean, dude I'm on my period too, but you don't see LITERAL MASSACRES when I'm feeling pissy.
  This guy is far beyond psychooooo >
  
  Only a terrorist state would act like that. >
  
  Fuck, and I cannot stress this enough, FUCK Putin. >
  
  They're trying to get as many shots in before the patriot missiles arrive to block them out completely. They've got stockpiles of rotting missiles, if they don't use them in this war then they'll never use them, and the defence system that can block them 100% is arriving within a few weeks. Russia is just going to throw as much garbage as they can over the property line before Ukraine puts up the fence. 
  If people die over this bullshit, I want to see something like the Nuremberg trials when this is all over >
  
  Do not kid yourself, one Patriot battery won't be able to destroy everything hostile flying over Ukraine. It's a huge country. It will certainly help to protect one decently sized area, but that's it. >
  
  Imagine if we create like those massive force field the gun guns sued in phantom menace to permanently solve this problem >
  
  or we just create MegaMan. >
  
  X or classic? >
  
  Russia showing off how willing and able it is to kill women and children. 
  Every time I see news like this I donate more money to Ukraine. >
  
  Parallels with this are in 1944 when Hitler unleashed the V1 and V2’s in an effort to obliterate London.
  It didn’t work then and it won’t work now, this just signals the desperation of a failing regime as it plummets toward insignificance. >
  
  Russia is that annoying kid in primary school who beats you up but then starts crying when you hit him back >
  
  Cowards >
  
  Yea look at how the blitz turned out, real win for Germany that was
  What’s the point of this, why is Russia doing this what’s the strategic angle >
  
  I swear I saw something just too days ago that the kremlin was basically begging for a peace, and yet they continue to act like a spoiled 12yo at McDonalds that didn't get their happy heal. >
  
  If Russia doesn't demilitarize, Ukraine will do it for them. >
  
  I don't care anymore if Russia ceases to exist, I only hope the Russian people eventually stand up for what's right, so they don't all have to die with it. >
  
  Russia> "we want to come to the negotiation table"
  Also Russia> Pelts Ukraine with billions of rubles of missiles >
  
  My cousin and his wife are there and they're medic, it's been 5 months now he hasn't contacted me or his family yet, last time we spoke he was in lviv. >
  
  Ok, so now it's really time to stop delaying the inevitable... The west need to get properly involved now.  Yes it brings risk, but like I said I think it's inevitable eventually. >
  
  man fuck putin >
  
  Fuck putin and all Russia apologists across the globe. Death to fascists! >
  
  those psychopaths illegaly invading Ukraine a sovereign country ... I pray for Ukrainians. Strong people.
  russia will colapse after this.. not sure whom will be in power then.... >
  
  🇷🇺 is a Terrorist state >
  
  Putin is evil. >
  
  If you gave me a gun with two bullets and put me in a room with Putin, Hitler, and Bin-Laden, I’d shoot all of them several times (I brought my own gun too). >
  
  I’d shoot Toby twice. >
  
  Russia is a terrorist state. >
  
  WhY wONt UkRaiNE nEgOTiaTe peACe WiTh uS? >
  
  The Russian state is a fucking cancer. What an absolute joke and embarrassment to humanity. >
  
  Russia: We sending missles to demilitarize your country! Now we are demanding peace talks! >
  
  Fuck Russia. I’m so sick of this shit. >
  
  Putin is on track to go down as one of the great mass murderers in history. He isn't in the top 10 yet, but he's on his way. >
  
  Who's selling the rockets to Ruzzia?  Iran? China? >
  
  Time for Ukraine to send missiles to Moscow. >
  
  Putin's war is officially a failure as today is the 100th anniversary of the creation of the Soviet Union and was to be the day he planned to present the reconstituted borders of the old Soviet Union. Trump was to have pulled the US out of NATO at the last minute before the war started leaving Europe alone in defending Ukraine. With little defenses and no real NATO Russia was to have marched on to retake all the old soviet states in a glorious rewriting of history which Putin called the the worst geopolitical tragedy of the century and blamed the previous Russian leadership for allowing it to happen.
  Today, Putin's grand plan is in tatters. And the writing is on the wall. All the walls, actually. >
  
  
  and was to be the day he planned to present the reconstituted borders of the old Soviet Union
  
  Source?
  
  Trump was to have pulled the US out of NATO at the last minute before the war started leaving Europe alone in defending Ukraine
  
  Again, source?
  Actually Nevermind, you don’t have any. Just bullshit. >
  
  Do you somehow don’t think that Trump liked NATO?  The guy who said he didn’t know if he would support defending smaller nations.
  The guy who 4 months into his term shared top secret intel with the Russian ambassador.
  The guy who was still pursuing a Trump branded property in Moscow while campaigning for president?
  The guy who couldn’t help but praise Putin at every turn?
  The guy who asked the CIA to share Middle East counterintelligence intel with the FSB with nothing expected in return because he only makes the best deals and is such the good negotiator?
  The guy who couldn’t help but declare Putin a genius for invading Ukraine, again.
  The guy who ran anti-NATO ads in the 80’s after a visit to the USSR?
  That guy? >
  
  Enough is enough Ukraine needs to start shooting some missiles into Russia. They have to stop being afraid of angering the Russian people. All the smart ones have left. Start firing away. >
  
  Really going for full Nazi Germany on the UK terror bombing. >
  
  So this has been going on almost a year at this point. Genuine question..: can nobody get involved like period? I feel like we just keep watching the Ukraine get fucked up week after week and just go...."Sad" >
  
  Nobody is going to get involved directly because a) you’re risking nuclear conflict and b) basically no country wants to sacrifice their own soldiers in this conflict. And in the case of the USA, which is by far most powerful in NATO, they are shifting focus towards the Pacific anyway. China is a much greater long-term threat than Russia. >
  
  I mean let's be honest, Russia won't fire a nuke at the US, it's suicide. But Iv been wondering about that, Ukraine is a sovereign nation, this isn't a civil war....it's totally valid for them to allow another county's military to operate in the borders of their own country. The US could provide air support within UA borders and not technically enter Russian territory. If we are being honest Russia wouldn't be able to do anything. Let the USAF do just 2 days of targeted bombing onto Russian bases within the Ukraine and it would break their entire line >
  
  This is what you do when you run out of troops. >
  
  Putler will very soon in the recent future rue the day he let this war be put into motion! >
  
  Sick and barbaric oxygen thief is what Putin is. Nothing more, except a coward. I hope Karma rips him to shreds. >
  
  Terrorists >
  
  Remember when everyone thought Russia was a world power. Those were the days. >
  
  Peperidge farms remembers >
  
  Im getting tired about people saying there are problems about tanks logistics, repair etc. Europe must send tanks jointly Now. I dont want to listen to any excuses. Every european country a part of what it has I dont care about the tanks names >
  
  
  Europe must send tanks jointly Now
  
  This assumes that a lack of tanks is what's holding Ukraine back at the moment... >
  
  I am aware of the PR and ethical problems with Ukraine responding with missiles strikes of their own deep inside Russian territory, but a sustained assault on just the Kremlin itself would be justifiable, and a real blow to Russian morale. It’s not like there are many options for Russian escalation at this point, and I don’t think they’ll break out their nukes, if they even work. Russia would be glass within a day if they nuked anywhere in Europe. >
  
  Yes, yes, russia, we get it, you have a tiny pp. Enough. >
  
  New markets are forming to circumvent the sanctions, and Russia is able to increase production of missiles along with purchasing more suicide drones. >
  
  Ruzzia is a terrorist state >
  
  SLAVA UKRAINE!!! >
  
  I don’t know about the Ukrainians but every time this happens I send a note asking my Senator and Congressman if there is any more we can do. It’s like the Russians want us to break out the good stuff and send it to Ukraine. >
  
  Patiently waiting for Putin to f--- up and cross the line so NATO can take control of the air and stop the shenanigans. Someone will assissinate him very shortly if that happens I'm sure. Then hopefully they blame it all on him and stop this needless war. >
  
  Russia continuing its Special Decivilianizing Operation. >
  
  When will this carnage end?? >
  
  When Putin dies a horrible and inhumane death. I wish to see him handed to the Ukrainians when russian eventually loses. >
  
  One thing I have noticed since the war began, and especially lately, is that the only thing the Russians seem capable of is lobbing Hail Mary rockets from afar. They seem to lack finesse completely. 
  So I interpret headlines like this one like this:
  “UA forces managed through careful planning and military finesse to archive x. In response rear echelon RU forces launches a hail of rockets in the general direction of Ukraine”. >
  
  I wonder how this will end for Putin.. Is he gonna go out like Marie Antoinette or Hitler? Guess we'll wait and see... >
  
  hanged like mussoulini >
  
  I’m surprised there hasn’t been a von Stauffenberg or what happened to Park Chung Hee in South Korea yet. C’mon Russians, step up. >
  
  Please mine russia’s railway infrastructure!
  If you you can’t kneecap them,  then at least fill all the shoes with broken glass >
  
  Putin needs sorting out once and for all >
  
  Nobody wastes money, manpower, weapons and morale than the Russian military. Just wow >
  
  Putin is a sad old man. Instead of enjoying old age with his family, he's taking out innocents both in Ukraine and Russia as his legacy.  Sad bad mad. >
  
  Sure doesn't feel like they're running out of missiles.. >
  
  "Surely if we bomb a few more playgrounds the world will see things our way!"
  Russian Federation or Cobra? YOU decide! >
  
  Bombs over ~~Baghdad~~ Moscow >
  
  I see something like this and wonder what Ukraine pulled off - did they kill a general, capture a city, shoot down a jet, scrap a mechanized battle group? Every time Russia loses on the front they go after civilian targets in retribution. Ukraine needs more weapons and ammo to keep up the assault, but people see this and start wondering if Ukraine should give up its territory and sue for peace - and think the west should stop giving them weapons to make this happen faster. >
  
  Isn’t this essentially carpet bombing which is now a war crime? >
  
  Fuck Russia and fuck puto! >
  
  They're trying to get an upper hand before the Patriot System arrives >
  
  I don't understand the Russian mentality that thinks endlessly seeking to destroy the ability for the citizens of an independent nation to live is thing to make them compliant to their wishes. Ukrainians and much else of the world will simply hold them in more contempt and disgust than they already do. Russia will be a pariah state long after this war ends. >
  
  This is what happens when you give one man too much power. The US should be taking note. We have our own authoritarian problems here as well. >
  
  Reduced to the "fire everything" tactic of winning an invasion. >
  
  And this is why NATO needs to send more anti-missle defense systems. >
  
  I hope Ukraine pushes those Commies all the way back to Moscow! >
  
  Fucking bastards >
  
  BlackRock’s getting a chubby >
  
  Kinda fuct, when there “military” doesn’t know what there doing…or that’s what there told to do just inflict pain everywhere on everything >
  
  Yes deep in the ace of russian buttholes >
  
  Fucking clowns just leave them alone >
  
  if this were civ 6, i would be sending in the giant death robots and nukes >
  
  What is Russia even trying to do now? >
  
  Russia be like: >:((((
  Ukraine be like: xD >
  
  Russia is right up there with cancer. Fuck Cancer. >
  
  "I can't believe I'm rooting for cancer." --deadpool, probably >
  
  Can we give them the iron dome? >
  
  This is reminding me of those frustrating games of risk where one rambo super defender manages to stop an army of 4 cannons. Then you dont manage to get territory so you miss your card that turn and cant reinforce, and your neighbour fucks you up from your undefended rear. >
  
  Terrorists. >
  
  Fuck the Russian military and leadership. >
  
  I would say that an attack on Russian cities would be legitimate at that point. >
  
  Does anyone know the status of Russia’s arsenal? Can they do this indefinitely or is there a limited supply of missiles? >
  
  Launching what they have left, because Patriots are going to make quite the sheild >
  
  Putin, Trump, Abbott, and DeSantis are vying for Times Monster of the Year. >
  
  Putin wins Monster of the Year. Trump wins Asshole of the Year. >
  
  And a very “fuck you” to Russia this holiday season >
  
  When does Ukraine start returning the favor?  It’s hard to win wars with degenerates when you always take the high road… >
  
  Russia is throwing all they can at Ukraine before the American Patriot systems get there and are fully functional. Ukraine will not crack. Putin is thrashing about in a rage because (1) Ukraine had the audacity to defy him and fight back as they have, and (2) all the money that Russia allocated to upgrade their military never made it to the military and it is now seen how many billions of rubles were actually siphoned off by the oligarchs, many of who are now apparently experiencing severe balance problems when in high buildings. >
  
  The West needs to equip Ukraine with long range missiles and start terrorizing Russian cities, like Moscow. >
  
  This is straight war crimes Russia is committing. Everyone is gonna get involved. They ain’t gonna survive everyone coming at them when they are already losing. This is absolutely evil >
  
  The fact this is still going on breaks my heart man >
  
  The guys in the live thread said Russia was about out of missiles. >
  
  They've been saying that for past few months. Reddit analysis is impeccable. >
  
  They have been saying that since february. But this time, however, even according to Ukraone intelligence russia doesnt have much left.
  But keep in mind that Russia had to buy thousands of drones from Iran already. >
  
  
  even according to Ukraone intelligence
  
  You mean one of the most (justifiably and understandably so) biased sources you could possibly find?
  They're not exactly going to say, "russia has enough missiles to bomb us into the stone age and prevent supplying troops" are they. >
  
  Next up on cue in the news cycle:. 
  "Why Russia is almost out of missiles". >
  
  Man, I keep missing classes hosted here because I keep seeing more and more Military experts in r/worldnews detailing war production, what tactic will be used next and what will run out next. >
  
  Check out /r/NonCredibleDefense for actual experts discussing tactics. >
  
  Barbarism is a good word for it.  The only good thing of all this is the huge level of bankruptcy Russia is sinking itself into.  When it runs out of money and credit completely, the people of russia might wake to the reality of their situation.  That they elected a sociopath to power, and that he's destroyed their own country to slaughter their neighbors--who are their own kin.  So many levels of fucked up. >
  
  
  That they elected
  
  Oh please. >
  
  His election following the 1999 apartment bombings that he orchestrated were actually not rigged, ballotwise.  Bombingwise, they obviously were.  The Duma has forbidden any investigations into the matter. 
   In 2004 he was reelected running on a platform of nationalism.  Over his tenure, he removed his opponents by killing them, and making the elections themselves nothing more than a sham, while also granting himself an unending presidential term, currently extending through 2036.  Although I'm hopeful only his piss-soaked bones will survive that long. >
  
  Every time people complain about how shitty America and living here is… just remember. America is the only reason this kinda shit doesn’t happen to Western Europe or the western hemisphere anymore. I cannot even imagine how terrible it is to live in a waezone >
  
  Is their goal to use up all of their missiles before Ukraine gets the Patriot defense systems? Can’t brag about a defensive screen if there’s nothing left to defend against? >
  
  Russia just needs to dissolve already... cowardly shitheads >
  
  Russians are cowards. Not just the military responsible for the attack on Ukraine, everyone who supports or silently watches as they do all this and persecute the few who stand up to the limp dick in Kremlin. Fuck that disgusting country. >
  
  So many Ruzzian's are involved in inputting coordinates and pushing the fire buttons.  War crimes trials will last for a decade. >
  
  They want a humanitarian crisis and weaken morale inside Ukrainian society. >
  
  It’s literally never worked before. People get angry and then go back to work, production increases sometimes. Even in Japan after the nukes and Tokyo fire bombings, the population never cracked. >
  
  It only works if there's already dissent for whomever is in power before the war and the attackers can be viewed as a sort of liberator.
  I don't think Russia honestly thinks the people of Western Ukraine would ever willingly concede to them. Even at the start of the invasion a lot of rumblings were about letting Lviv remain as the sole "independent" Ukraine with everything east of the mountains becoming occupied. This is just taking out the frustrations of Russia's ineffectiveness on the people of Ukraine. >
  
  Russia is wasting their dumbass missiles. 90% are getting shot down. Soon all chips from RU dishwashers will be exhausted. >
  
  I thought the news said they were already out of missiles and had to use shitty Iranian suicide drones.  Is somebody else selling missiles to them? >
  
  Running out means they are approaching what experts predict would be a safe reserve. Between shaving the margins on their reserves, and what production they can continue on their missiles they can make more. Not as fast as they are using them of course. At some point the rate of attacks will slow down as it takes longer to get a salvo ready. >
  
  They've been running out, according to the experts, since march.
  They just launched one of their biggest volleys and again the experts say: anytime now they're going to run out.
  You're also saying the same thing.
  Same with the 80-90% shot down. Whole cities are on fire, electricity is down. Those two things can not be both true. Or the missiles get shot down, or they hit their targets. Shot down missiles can not hit their targets but apparently, that's what's happening in Ukraine if we choose to believe these reports.
  It's all not making sense. It's all propaganda from both sides. 
  Let's just say: we don't know. Shit's fucked. >
  
  
  They've been running out, according to the experts, since march.
  
  Not according to experts no.  Unless you mean Reddit armchair generals.
  No experts thought Russia was running out of missiles in March.  
  Likewise with this:
  
  Same with the 80-90% shot down. Whole cities are on fire, electricity is down. Those two things can not be both true.
  
  There aren't whole cities on fire but yes electricity is down.  But how many missiles do you think it takes to knock out electricity?  It isn't that many.  Ukraine isn't a rich country, they don't have above average redundancy in their grid.  
  Look at Texas - they had a major grid outage a year and a half ago that took hundreds of lives and causes hundreds of billions of dollars in property and economic damage.  For winter storms they knew were coming - not one single missile or drone blew up a substation or transmission line. >
  
  People already forgetting that power went down in the US last month from a bunch of rednecks shooting at transformers. Seems plausible that missiles could do the job. >
  
  We lost power for 24 hours this week due to 50 mph winds knocking down tens of thousands of trees across our city. >
  
  Now Ukraine will fire 1 missile into Russian and the Kremlin will cry foul and say that it's not fair. >
  
  And they'll hit a military target. >
  
  And 8 boats will spontaneously sink. >
  
  And 8 more Russian Oligarchs will accidentally fall out of windows. >
  
  And 9 tank turrets will take off >
  
  5 GOLDEN RINGS!!!! Oh wait >
  
  Omg THAT was golden. >
  
  Imagine the uproar from the Kremlin if Ukraine started striking Moscow.... >
  
  They’d claim it was an unprovoked attack, take it as a declaration of war, and send nukes instead of just missiles >
  
  "we had to, otherwise we would 'look weak'" >
  
  Amazing that Russia turned out to be “Toxic Masculinity: The Country” >
  
  You miss where they made domestic abuse legal in 2017? >
  
  As we can see another sucessful hit on a strategic road crossing to the tactical bakery >
  
  That bakery was an army barracks training hundreds of gingerbread men >
  
  They were producing muffins of mass destruction! >
  
  Russia is such a piece of shit. >
  
  Let’s remember this next time a video of Russians hugging as they die in the trenches surfaces.  
  Ukraine doesn’t want them there.  They want to just live their lives, and yet they are continually terrorized and hundreds of thousands of them have been massacre’d, just for existing.  
  Fuck Russia. >
  
  Don't forget all the kidnapped children, Russia is literally stealing kids like some horrible fairytale. >
  
  Russia was having a population crisis before 2022, it's rapidly been accelerated.  These children are all part of the re-population plan. >
  
  If genocide is part of your repopulation plan, you don’t deserve a population >
  
  Agreed. >
  
  Every time Ukraine at the verge of making a military break through in the front line, Russia will launch everything randomly towards Ukraine. Just like the tantrum of a spoiled child. >
  
  Eventually the impact wears off. It’s at its peak now due to being winter, once it changes momentum swings back in Ukraines favour. >
  
  Especially once the ground freezes enough in the south for Ukraine to start major counter offensives. >
  
  I know they’ve got big eyes for Melitopol and eastern Kherson at the moment could be a massacre for the Russians pushed back into Crimea (with an assault there not too far behind) 
  There’s also talk that they’re close to taking Kremiina even without the ground freezing. >
  
  I don't see an assault on Crimea in the realm of possibility, who is talking about such an outcome? Liberation of Donbas seems more plausible and pre 2022 borders, but I don't see Ukraine pushing through the narrow Perekop Isthmus to say less of an amphibious assault... >
  
  An assault isn't necessary if they had longer range missiles and could take out a certain bridge and some other critical supply infrastructure.  They can  just keep applying pressure to the supply lines until the Russians starve or run out of ammo and then just squeeze them out. >
  
  I think its high time that the US let's them have the longer range missiles for the HIMARS, wbu? >
  
  Give them that and you can knock that bridge into Crimea out. >
  
  This pattern is getting depressingly familiar. Ukraine about to make a significant gain on the front line. 
  Quick send in the missiles to show how “powerful” we are. 
  The irony is that Russia is just making Ukraine’s plea for additional support harder to ignore. >
  
  Is more like "we can't kill the soldiers, then try with their family". Typical mafia coward methods. >
  
  Kill them before they become soldiers >
  
  Thats how you get more volunteers to become soldiers out of vengeance 💀 >
  
  Of course. But they need to learn the same lessons we learned in the Middle East and every single war we ever fight. Apparently no one learns that lesson lol >
  
  But remember this is not a war guyz… >
  
  It’s a terrorist attack. >
  
  I am no war expert, but wouldn't it be more effective to drop those bombs on military targets instead? Surely bombing schools and random apartments won't do shit. Just makes the people in Ukraine more pissed off. >
  
  It won't. The logic behind it(intimidating your opponent into giving up because the cost of continuing to fight is too high on civilians) sounds sound...but just isn't backed up by data. No bombing campaign on civilian centers or infrastructure ever made the nation give up(not even the nukes being dropped on japan directly caused it, it was just the final nail in the coffin due to Japanase already having lost militarily clearly and just couldn't agree internally on what kind of peace they want). Heck usually even it's impact on the nation's ability to produce military goods is relativly minor(some factories in germany got bombed literally dozens of times throughout the war but still continued producing, even if at reduced capacity). >
  
  You say this like America doesn't immediately target this kind of infrastructure during its wars, too.
  This is standard wartime assholery. >
  
  If it was just the infrastructure, fine. But they are targeting civilian buildings on purpose. That's just terrorism. >
  
  Russia doesn't have the force saturation capable of destroying or suppressing Ukrainian infrastructure at least not across the whole country nor for very long. A decently sized missile attack about 1-2 times a month will damage and disrupt the situation temporarily but most shit is either fixed, replaced or supplemented by another part of the energy grid. Not to mention if Ukraine is to be believed between 50-85% of drones and missiles are destroyed with the percentage only going up.  The worst it got was October/November when 40-50% of the Grid was damaged in some way.  But Ukraine is getting more air defense and the number of destroyed missiles is only getting higher.
  Not to mention they can't directly blow up Ukrainian Nuclear power plants either which are also supplying a ton of electric power.
  It'd would need something akin to the USAF and RAF  1944-1945 level of consistency and power to actually wear down Ukraine and even then it would take months to actually have an affect on the front.
  The most this does is make Ukraine use up it's air defence systems and rockets which is why Gepard Anti air systems and western supplied air defense systems have been going into Ukraine basically negating the the losses Ukraine suffers in attrition. We need to send Ukraine more of these systems. >
  
  Enough to cover all of Ukraine please. Then ruzzia has nothing left... unless they want ww3 knowing they would be decimated by NATO >
  
  Ukraine needs to send the same amount of naval drone boats to Novorussysk oil ports. 
  Fuck Pootin. >
  
  Congratulations Putin, you have only hardened Ukraine's resolve and pointed more guns at yourself. >
  
  Do we have a problem? >
  
  If Russians know whats good for them, they should keep what they have got
  Long wars always favor the defenders >
  
  Putin can suck my shriveled dick. >
  
  As a Russian I think he can suck a gun barrel, shriveled or not 🤷‍♂️ >
  
  He should be strapped to the same missiles that are being lauched at Ukraine, except aimed and lauched at his vanity bridge (Kerch bridge that is). Two birds, one missile >
  
  Better toward his palace >
  
  All they can do attack cities. How low and degraded have the Russians become? >
  
  They lack the technology for precision.  Cities are big enough that they can claim success if they hit anything.  That's my guess.  I'm sure there are twisted people that want to target civilians specifically, but I think maybe most of them are just twisted in a different way where they just don't care what they hit, so long as they hit. >
  
  Hitler made the same mistake bombing the UK. The “blitz” just stiffened the Brits resolve. 
  In the end it is the will of the people of Ukraine that will be the deciding factor. >
  
  It was also a tactical waste of resources, as the London Blitz had very little strategic benefit, pulling resources away from potentially hitting military installations, and giving the RAF time to repair and reorganize. >
  
  Putin seems to follow in those footsteps. >
  
  The Russian Federation must be dissolved. >
  
  Unfortunately that won't happen unless russia is occupied. Nazi Germany lost WW2 only because it was, and Japan lost because it was hit with 2 nukes. >
  
  The Russian Federation will dissolve when its vassal republics walk away, no longer in fear of Russia's toothless army. >
  
  There are no vassal republics, save for maybe Belarus, except for the rumors that it might be absorbed into Russia proper any day.
  If you mean the internal regions that are euphemistically called “autonomous republics” or whatever, then no, they are neither autonomous nor republics. >
  
  Ukraine gives up its weapons of mass destruction so Russia will feel safe and leave them alone only for Russia to pull this shit off down the road and hide behind weapons of mass destruction. The amount of restraint Ukraine has for not retaliating across the border is boundless for the amount of disrespect hurled at them. >
  
  They’re being held back. 
  I think the deal is, if they want the international community to give money and weapons then they must not use the weapons on russian soil. 
  After all the west wants the long term effects of a war of attrition to work against russia. And they’re probably telling Ukraine to not worry since the west will rebuild Ukraine.  
  I’m an armchair Reddit political scientist so this is just me guessing, but it makes sense to me. >
  
  I also just don’t see what Ukraine has to gain by stretching their military into a foreign nation.
  The same was true for Russia when they started this whole thing, but Putin’s an idiot and Zelenskiy isn’t. >
  
  Murderous petulance.
  Give Ukraine whatever and whoever it needs to end this. >
  
  Fucking cunts. >
  
  Damn. This shit makes me dislike Russia a lot more than reading about the bad shit they did in history books. I will never in my life give one tourist dollar to Russia after this >
  
  I wonder what they’d do with it if they got it, no one is going to help them. They’ve just impoverished generations for nothing. Just to say they have poor “Russians”.  I hope Ukraine hangs in there, may the powers that be give them strength. >
  
  All Russia is doing is giving Ukraine incentive to keep fighting back, I mean why would they trust someone who fires on civilian targets and does a bs invasion when he already controls more land than anyone in the world >
  
  It seems they intend to keep doing it for years to come. >
  
  Yeah Putin's days are numbered, I guess he figures he might as well use up all the missiles. >
  
  Welp that’s enough Reddit for me today. 😢 >
  
  Stay strong Ukraine! Fuck Russia! >
  
  I hope Putin and all of his cronies get the Mussolini treatment when this is all over >
  
  Maybe we could start earlier... Where's all the killer commandos at which Hollywood kept telling us about. >
  
  Ukraine needs volumes of cruise missiles... 100s... >
  
  Monsters >
  
  It's about time Ukraine starts sending some serious strikes into Russia. Enough of this nonsense >
  
  Putin needs to re-read history and think about how England withstood Hitler’s bombing and missile attacks in WWII. Boots on the ground win wars (ok, not nuclear weapons) and the Ukraine military has punished the Russian military so far >
  
  It really is time to give Ukraine longer range weapons. >
  
  They sure are firing a lot of their missiles the past few weeks.  I wonder if they've given any thought at all as to what happens when they run out and can't easily replace them? >
  
  They are thinking ahead with massive missile strike; Ukraine will give up and Russia will be ahead. 👀🙈
  Edit: I'm really naive about labeling sarcasm here; thought the emojis would help....
  Russia doesn't have the proper help to strategically win this war. 
  Even if Zelenski gave up now, Russia would be strewn with discord and rife >
  
  
  Even if Zelenski gave up now, Russia would be strewn with discord and rife
  
  This.  Even if the official Ukraine government did surrender,  Russia would have a far worse time until they pull out completely. >
  
  Can't wait for the downfall of Russian society. I hope it happens in my lifetime, and this absolutely ruins that terrorist state >
  
  Russia is a terrorist state >
  
  The only thing necessary for evil to win is good people do nothing.  Make the difference. >
  
  One thing I truly find baffling is the "what about Donbass" comment. Every single time someone accuses Russia of being a piece of shit country for starting a war, there is that comment. 
  One, if it is possible to defend your land in 2022 without civilian casualties and shelling, why isn't Russia doing it now? Ukraine would've taken Donbass in 2014 without any casualties if it could, but it's just not possible due to how modern combat works. Russia certainly has zero problems murdering tens of thousands of civilians. No matter how much of a hardcore Putin bot you are, you can not look at Mariupol and say "Yeah, Ukraine shelled all of that". The scale of devastation is imense. Troops fight in cities because that's where battles are, just the way it is, nobody is just going to a fucking empty field. This is why war has to be avoided in the first place.
  Two, if Russians care about doing the right thing so much, protecting the Russian speaking population, protecting Ukrainians from nazis, protecting the "motherland", and all of that crap, how does killing more Ukrainian civilians now help the dead civilians from years ago? Why not just retreat your army from Ukraine to achieve zero casualties? Ukraine wouldn't keep attacking Donbass if Russian troops weren't there. Isn't that the right thing to do if you truly care about saving people, to not escalate the situation? Are the dead Ukrainian kids or their grandparents nazis? Is everyone killed a nazi? 
  Just imagine if Russia did not arm separatists and did not move their stupid ass troops intro Ukraine, imagine if they just retreated the second the battle for Donbas was about to begin. How much harm would be avoided? Are 200k+ dead people worth the cause of "protecting the Russian language"? 
  But we all know that it's not about doing the right thing anyway, it's about Putin being too powerful for his own good and Russian people being too complacent. It's not like democracies are perfect, but it's damn good to switch leaders up once in a while, otherwise they'll have self-inflated worth. People talk about Zelenskyy being corrupt and a oligarch, but they somehow forgot to include Putin and most politicians in that category. It's only Zelenskyy and Ukraine who are evil, but no, not Russia. The bot farms are working well. There are too many brainwashed idiots who claim they care about freedom, that are watching Fox News and support Russia. So many stupid contrarians who think they're smart. 
  By the way, I am no leftist, just as I'm not from the right, I hate being 100% for one party. But right now it feels like if the left said not eating shit is good for you, the right would eat shit just to piss off leftists, and vice versa. >
  
  It's the only thing that they can do.  We really need to crack down on any supplies needed to make more missiles as well as getting more air defense equipment to Ukraine.  I can only hope from my sofa that the people in charge in sane countries are on top of it. >
  
  Bag of dicks Russia.   Bunch of assholes. >
  
  Hard to believe a human being can make millions of people suffer for a completely bullshit reason and sleep just fine. >
  
  🇷🇺 is a Terrorist state >
  
  I wonder if today will be the day Putin falls out of a window. >
  
  The London blitz and Vietnamese war both showed that bombing civilians just hardens their resolve and unites them. Could it be that the Russian leadership doesn't know this? If they do then this is pure cruelty. If they don't they're awfully stupid. >
  
  I hate Russia >
  
  But yet there are still people across this world that believe the disgusting pile of excrement, Putin, wants ,"peace". He doesn't want peace, he wants a piece of UKRAINIAN LAND. What a pile of shit. >
  
  55 of 69 missiles were destroyed and 11 Iranian drones were destroyed as reported by Ukraine. >
  
  Didn't Pooter...ahem...Put-IN just kill off his top military general like....Yesterday?
  I mean, dude I'm on my period too, but you don't see LITERAL MASSACRES when I'm feeling pissy.
  This guy is far beyond psychooooo >
  
  Only a terrorist state would act like that. >
  
  Fuck, and I cannot stress this enough, FUCK Putin. >
  
  They're trying to get as many shots in before the patriot missiles arrive to block them out completely. They've got stockpiles of rotting missiles, if they don't use them in this war then they'll never use them, and the defence system that can block them 100% is arriving within a few weeks. Russia is just going to throw as much garbage as they can over the property line before Ukraine puts up the fence. 
  If people die over this bullshit, I want to see something like the Nuremberg trials when this is all over >
  
  Do not kid yourself, one Patriot battery won't be able to destroy everything hostile flying over Ukraine. It's a huge country. It will certainly help to protect one decently sized area, but that's it. >
  
  Imagine if we create like those massive force field the gun guns sued in phantom menace to permanently solve this problem >
  
  or we just create MegaMan. >
  
  X or classic? >
  
  Russia showing off how willing and able it is to kill women and children. 
  Every time I see news like this I donate more money to Ukraine. >
  
  Parallels with this are in 1944 when Hitler unleashed the V1 and V2’s in an effort to obliterate London.
  It didn’t work then and it won’t work now, this just signals the desperation of a failing regime as it plummets toward insignificance. >
  
  Russia is that annoying kid in primary school who beats you up but then starts crying when you hit him back >
  
  Cowards >
  
  Yea look at how the blitz turned out, real win for Germany that was
  What’s the point of this, why is Russia doing this what’s the strategic angle >
  
  I swear I saw something just too days ago that the kremlin was basically begging for a peace, and yet they continue to act like a spoiled 12yo at McDonalds that didn't get their happy heal. >
  
  If Russia doesn't demilitarize, Ukraine will do it for them. >
  
  I don't care anymore if Russia ceases to exist, I only hope the Russian people eventually stand up for what's right, so they don't all have to die with it. >
  
  Russia> "we want to come to the negotiation table"
  Also Russia> Pelts Ukraine with billions of rubles of missiles >
  
  My cousin and his wife are there and they're medic, it's been 5 months now he hasn't contacted me or his family yet, last time we spoke he was in lviv. >
  
  Ok, so now it's really time to stop delaying the inevitable... The west need to get properly involved now.  Yes it brings risk, but like I said I think it's inevitable eventually. >
  
  man fuck putin >
  
  Fuck putin and all Russia apologists across the globe. Death to fascists! >
  
  those psychopaths illegaly invading Ukraine a sovereign country ... I pray for Ukrainians. Strong people.
  russia will colapse after this.. not sure whom will be in power then.... >
  
  Putin is evil. >
  
  If you gave me a gun with two bullets and put me in a room with Putin, Hitler, and Bin-Laden, I’d shoot all of them several times (I brought my own gun too). >
  
  I’d shoot Toby twice. >
  
  Russia is a terrorist state. >
  
  WhY wONt UkRaiNE nEgOTiaTe peACe WiTh uS? >
  
  The Russian state is a fucking cancer. What an absolute joke and embarrassment to humanity. >
  
  Russia: We sending missles to demilitarize your country! Now we are demanding peace talks! >
  
  Fuck Russia. I’m so sick of this shit. >
  
  Putin is on track to go down as one of the great mass murderers in history. He isn't in the top 10 yet, but he's on his way. >
  
  Who's selling the rockets to Ruzzia?  Iran? China? >
  
  Time for Ukraine to send missiles to Moscow. >
  
  Putin's war is officially a failure as today is the 100th anniversary of the creation of the Soviet Union and was to be the day he planned to present the reconstituted borders of the old Soviet Union. Trump was to have pulled the US out of NATO at the last minute before the war started leaving Europe alone in defending Ukraine. With little defenses and no real NATO Russia was to have marched on to retake all the old soviet states in a glorious rewriting of history which Putin called the the worst geopolitical tragedy of the century and blamed the previous Russian leadership for allowing it to happen.
  Today, Putin's grand plan is in tatters. And the writing is on the wall. All the walls, actually. >
  
  
  and was to be the day he planned to present the reconstituted borders of the old Soviet Union
  
  Source?
  
  Trump was to have pulled the US out of NATO at the last minute before the war started leaving Europe alone in defending Ukraine
  
  Again, source?
  Actually Nevermind, you don’t have any. Just bullshit. >
  
  Do you somehow don’t think that Trump liked NATO?  The guy who said he didn’t know if he would support defending smaller nations.
  The guy who 4 months into his term shared top secret intel with the Russian ambassador.
  The guy who was still pursuing a Trump branded property in Moscow while campaigning for president?
  The guy who couldn’t help but praise Putin at every turn?
  The guy who asked the CIA to share Middle East counterintelligence intel with the FSB with nothing expected in return because he only makes the best deals and is such the good negotiator?
  The guy who couldn’t help but declare Putin a genius for invading Ukraine, again.
  The guy who ran anti-NATO ads in the 80’s after a visit to the USSR?
  That guy? >
  
  Enough is enough Ukraine needs to start shooting some missiles into Russia. They have to stop being afraid of angering the Russian people. All the smart ones have left. Start firing away. >
  
  Really going for full Nazi Germany on the UK terror bombing. >
  
  So this has been going on almost a year at this point. Genuine question..: can nobody get involved like period? I feel like we just keep watching the Ukraine get fucked up week after week and just go...."Sad" >
  
  Nobody is going to get involved directly because a) you’re risking nuclear conflict and b) basically no country wants to sacrifice their own soldiers in this conflict. And in the case of the USA, which is by far most powerful in NATO, they are shifting focus towards the Pacific anyway. China is a much greater long-term threat than Russia. >
  
  I mean let's be honest, Russia won't fire a nuke at the US, it's suicide. But Iv been wondering about that, Ukraine is a sovereign nation, this isn't a civil war....it's totally valid for them to allow another county's military to operate in the borders of their own country. The US could provide air support within UA borders and not technically enter Russian territory. If we are being honest Russia wouldn't be able to do anything. Let the USAF do just 2 days of targeted bombing onto Russian bases within the Ukraine and it would break their entire line >
  
  This is what you do when you run out of troops. >
  
  Putler will very soon in the recent future rue the day he let this war be put into motion! >
  
  Sick and barbaric oxygen thief is what Putin is. Nothing more, except a coward. I hope Karma rips him to shreds. >
  
  Terrorists >
  
  Remember when everyone thought Russia was a world power. Those were the days. >
  
  Peperidge farms remembers >
  
  Im getting tired about people saying there are problems about tanks logistics, repair etc. Europe must send tanks jointly Now. I dont want to listen to any excuses. Every european country a part of what it has I dont care about the tanks names >
  
  
  Europe must send tanks jointly Now
  
  This assumes that a lack of tanks is what's holding Ukraine back at the moment... >
  
  I am aware of the PR and ethical problems with Ukraine responding with missiles strikes of their own deep inside Russian territory, but a sustained assault on just the Kremlin itself would be justifiable, and a real blow to Russian morale. It’s not like there are many options for Russian escalation at this point, and I don’t think they’ll break out their nukes, if they even work. Russia would be glass within a day if they nuked anywhere in Europe. >
  
  Yes, yes, russia, we get it, you have a tiny pp. Enough. >
  
  New markets are forming to circumvent the sanctions, and Russia is able to increase production of missiles along with purchasing more suicide drones. >
  
  Ruzzia is a terrorist state >
  
  SLAVA UKRAINE!!! >
  
  I don’t know about the Ukrainians but every time this happens I send a note asking my Senator and Congressman if there is any more we can do. It’s like the Russians want us to break out the good stuff and send it to Ukraine. >
  
  Patiently waiting for Putin to f--- up and cross the line so NATO can take control of the air and stop the shenanigans. Someone will assissinate him very shortly if that happens I'm sure. Then hopefully they blame it all on him and stop this needless war. >
  
  Russia continuing its Special Decivilianizing Operation. >
  
  When will this carnage end?? >
  
  When Putin dies a horrible and inhumane death. I wish to see him handed to the Ukrainians when russian eventually loses. >
  
  One thing I have noticed since the war began, and especially lately, is that the only thing the Russians seem capable of is lobbing Hail Mary rockets from afar. They seem to lack finesse completely. 
  So I interpret headlines like this one like this:
  “UA forces managed through careful planning and military finesse to archive x. In response rear echelon RU forces launches a hail of rockets in the general direction of Ukraine”. >
  
  I wonder how this will end for Putin.. Is he gonna go out like Marie Antoinette or Hitler? Guess we'll wait and see... >
  
  hanged like mussoulini >
  
  I’m surprised there hasn’t been a von Stauffenberg or what happened to Park Chung Hee in South Korea yet. C’mon Russians, step up. >
  
  Please mine russia’s railway infrastructure!
  If you you can’t kneecap them,  then at least fill all the shoes with broken glass >
  
  Putin needs sorting out once and for all >
  
  Nobody wastes money, manpower, weapons and morale than the Russian military. Just wow >
  
  Putin is a sad old man. Instead of enjoying old age with his family, he's taking out innocents both in Ukraine and Russia as his legacy.  Sad bad mad. >
  
  Sure doesn't feel like they're running out of missiles.. >
  
  "Surely if we bomb a few more playgrounds the world will see things our way!"
  Russian Federation or Cobra? YOU decide! >
  
  Bombs over ~~Baghdad~~ Moscow >
  
  I see something like this and wonder what Ukraine pulled off - did they kill a general, capture a city, shoot down a jet, scrap a mechanized battle group? Every time Russia loses on the front they go after civilian targets in retribution. Ukraine needs more weapons and ammo to keep up the assault, but people see this and start wondering if Ukraine should give up its territory and sue for peace - and think the west should stop giving them weapons to make this happen faster. >
  
  Isn’t this essentially carpet bombing which is now a war crime? >
  
  Fuck Russia and fuck puto! >
  
  They're trying to get an upper hand before the Patriot System arrives >
  
  I don't understand the Russian mentality that thinks endlessly seeking to destroy the ability for the citizens of an independent nation to live is thing to make them compliant to their wishes. Ukrainians and much else of the world will simply hold them in more contempt and disgust than they already do. Russia will be a pariah state long after this war ends. >
  
  This is what happens when you give one man too much power. The US should be taking note. We have our own authoritarian problems here as well. >
  
  Reduced to the "fire everything" tactic of winning an invasion. >
  
  And this is why NATO needs to send more anti-missle defense systems. >
  
  I hope Ukraine pushes those Commies all the way back to Moscow! >
  
  Fucking bastards >
  
  BlackRock’s getting a chubby >
  
  Kinda fuct, when there “military” doesn’t know what there doing…or that’s what there told to do just inflict pain everywhere on everything >
  
  Yes deep in the ace of russian buttholes >
  
  Fucking clowns just leave them alone >
  
  if this were civ 6, i would be sending in the giant death robots and nukes >
  
  What is Russia even trying to do now? >
  
  Russia be like: >:((((
  Ukraine be like: xD >
  
  Russia is right up there with cancer. Fuck Cancer. >
  
  "I can't believe I'm rooting for cancer." --deadpool, probably >
  
  Can we give them the iron dome? >
  
  This is reminding me of those frustrating games of risk where one rambo super defender manages to stop an army of 4 cannons. Then you dont manage to get territory so you miss your card that turn and cant reinforce, and your neighbour fucks you up from your undefended rear. >
  
  Terrorists. >
  
  Fuck the Russian military and leadership. >
  
  I would say that an attack on Russian cities would be legitimate at that point. >
  
  Does anyone know the status of Russia’s arsenal? Can they do this indefinitely or is there a limited supply of missiles? >
  
  Launching what they have left, because Patriots are going to make quite the sheild >
  
  Putin, Trump, Abbott, and DeSantis are vying for Times Monster of the Year. >
  
  Putin wins Monster of the Year. Trump wins Asshole of the Year. >
  
  And a very “fuck you” to Russia this holiday season >
  
  When does Ukraine start returning the favor?  It’s hard to win wars with degenerates when you always take the high road… >
  
  Russia is throwing all they can at Ukraine before the American Patriot systems get there and are fully functional. Ukraine will not crack. Putin is thrashing about in a rage because (1) Ukraine had the audacity to defy him and fight back as they have, and (2) all the money that Russia allocated to upgrade their military never made it to the military and it is now seen how many billions of rubles were actually siphoned off by the oligarchs, many of who are now apparently experiencing severe balance problems when in high buildings. >
  
  The West needs to equip Ukraine with long range missiles and start terrorizing Russian cities, like Moscow. >
  
  This is straight war crimes Russia is committing. Everyone is gonna get involved. They ain’t gonna survive everyone coming at them when they are already losing. This is absolutely evil >
  
  The fact this is still going on breaks my heart man >
  
  The guys in the live thread said Russia was about out of missiles. >
  
  They've been saying that for past few months. Reddit analysis is impeccable. >
  
  They have been saying that since february. But this time, however, even according to Ukraone intelligence russia doesnt have much left.
  But keep in mind that Russia had to buy thousands of drones from Iran already. >
  
  
  even according to Ukraone intelligence
  
  You mean one of the most (justifiably and understandably so) biased sources you could possibly find?
  They're not exactly going to say, "russia has enough missiles to bomb us into the stone age and prevent supplying troops" are they. >
  
  Next up on cue in the news cycle:. 
  "Why Russia is almost out of missiles". >
  
  Man, I keep missing classes hosted here because I keep seeing more and more Military experts in r/worldnews detailing war production, what tactic will be used next and what will run out next.