Ukraine invasion

[Eltab]

The next month will likely be more about the annual mud festival than more of the dramatic events of recent weeks. Fiver says we'll find Ukraine adapt to the conditions while Russian troops become ever more miserable.

Normally, General Winter and Colonel Mud are the Russians' best officers. We'll see if the Colonel has also been dismissed from service, as the General seems to have been.

 

[Umbran]

Normally, General Winter and Colonel Mud are the Russians' best officers. We'll see if the Colonel has also been dismissed from service, as the General seems to have been.

Those officers are great on the defense. Offense is not their forte - they aren't really what you'd call "go-getters".

 

[Imaculata]

Seems the purging of those around Putin has already started. It is a familiar and predictable ritual: Dictator surrounds himself with yes-men and makes gross mistakes. Dictator blames everyone but himself for his failures. Dictator starts removing the people around him that he holds accountable.

The next step is sometimes that his people turn on him. We'll see if we are that lucky.

 

[Zardnaar]

Musical interlude. Kremlin has bling.

 

[Ulfgeir]

Seems the purging of those around Putin has already started. It is a familiar and predictable ritual: Dictator surrounds himself with yes-men and makes gross mistakes. Dictator blames everyone but himself for his failures. Dictator starts removing the people around him that he holds accountable.

The next step is sometimes that his people turn on him. We'll see if we are that lucky.

I saw something that he had purged 150 members of the FSB, and they are his people.

 

[Zardnaar]

I saw something that he had purged 150 members of the FSB, and they are his people.

Think he's just firing them instead of purging them as such.

 

[nedjer]

Normally, General Winter and Colonel Mud are the Russians' best officers. We'll see if the Colonel has also been dismissed from service, as the General seems to have been.

Unfortunately they can't rely on Sgt Get Your Bloody Wellies On due to their bizarre lack of NCOs.

 

[nedjer]

Think he's just firing them instead of purging them as such.

Some are getting house arrest others Lefortovo Prison, the latter is fired as in out of a cannon.

 

[nedjer]

A good day to contribute to EN's Ukraine KS or maybe buy some digital art from a Ukrainian?

 

[Lidgar]

Watched an episode of Frontline last night that did a fairly good job on portraying Putins rise to power and obsession with rebuilding an empire.

Putin's Road to War | FRONTLINE

Watch "Putin's Road to War," FRONTLINE's March 2022 documentary on what led to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine.

www.pbs.org