Evil thoughts about the imminent offensive of the Russian army in Ukraine

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Evil thoughts about the imminent offensive of the Russian army in Ukraine

And yet, there are many "military specialists" among us who have a broad profile and who know very well how to conduct combat operations. This is probably a feature of Russian furniture. Those same generals, colonels, lieutenants and even ordinary soldiers are trained for many days, months, years in an outdated way, over their heads.

When you read comments to materials concerning SVO, you really get the idea that the method of teaching in schools, institutes, academies and other universities is outdated. In general, the head has shown itself, according to the opinion of the authors of the comments, to be ineffective. Maybe the volume of the brain in the cranium no longer corresponds to the volume of knowledge received?..



Another thing is a sofa. A completely modern and very effective method. The main thing is that it meets the needs of modern people. You sit, sip coffee, look at the computer monitor, periodically rolling your "buns" from one half-ass to the other... And "knowledge" flows in a powerful stream, filling the body. But not "from above", but "from below", through the ass. And there is more space "from below"...

I apologize to those readers who were expecting a serious article, but I had to start this way. I studied the old-fashioned way. That's why I feel "offended" for the soldiers and officers in the SVO. Especially for the commanders of units and formations. You took a settlement - well, not Suvorov, but somewhere close. You didn't take it - you can shoot yourself right away. You are such a stupid, incompetent commander.

It's a good thing that not many of them have the opportunity to promptly participate in all the discussions after the resonant materials. Otherwise... Another disadvantage of "training through the head" is the significant vocabulary that the trainee has. Including swear words... And during a personal meeting, you can even damage your face. Hmm... The system of our fighters on the front lines is "very nervous"...

These thoughts arose in connection with the intensification of the discussion about the summer offensive of the Russian army. I have written many times that I do not consider the main goal of the summer campaign to be the rapid capture of Ukrainian territory. Especially at the cost of the lives of thousands of our fighters.

Well, the Supreme Commander did not set such a task! There is no order to take Ukraine, to take Kyiv or any other city! I will not repeat the tasks of the SVO for the thousandth time. I will simply ask, are they being carried out today or not? The answer, I think, is obvious. But then where does the discussion about our imminent offensive in Ukraine come from?

From our General Staff? No! Did the President or the Minister of Defense say this? No! Maybe Minister Lavrov mentioned this somewhere on the international stage? Also no! And the Internet and the media are teeming with materials about an imminent offensive. Not the one we see today. Steady advancement along the entire front.

Most readers have probably already heard the figure of 160 thousand? The Russians somewhere (here the authors make a mysterious face) have assembled a strike force of thousands of stormtroopers who are about to go to... (here again an aura of mystery). And no one, or almost no one, asks the question, how is it possible, with the current level of intelligence, to hide such a group for so long?

Once again the enemy is playing on our desire for a quick victory.

I understand that people are tired of war. People are tired of reports from the front. People are tired of losses. They are even tired of victories. People are waiting for Victory! And victory, in the minds of the majority, is the Ukrainian "Berlin", the Ukrainian "Reistag" and other attributes of that victory won 80 years ago. And then we did not spare the soldiers for the sake of this Victory.

Let me remind you that according to official data from the USSR, our losses during the capture of Berlin (from April 16 to May 8, 1945) amounted to 352 people. Of these, 475th - 200 people. About 78 tanks, 917 planes, 2108 guns, I won't even write about them. But one question. Are we ready to give so many lives for Kyiv? Our lives...

Who talks most about the future offensive? Ukraine and its Western allies! And we pick up on it. We want "forward to the West." We have more of everything. Tanks, planes, armored vehicles. Everything. True, it is the enemies who talk about it more, but we are pleased.

The imagination already paints a picture a la the film "Liberation. Kursk Bulge". Hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles are slowly advancing on Ukrainian positions, destroying everything in their path. Ukrainians abandon their "foreign cars" and flee in droves into captivity. And we, in armored vehicles, pelted with flowers by the local population, drive through the streets of Ukrainian cities... And our neighbors are already making a powerful breakthrough to another regional center...

By the way, about the planes. There are more of us, which means we have air supremacy. The UkrOreikh is afraid to launch their planes against ours! Hooray, my God. Defense They are weaker! Again, hurray! But, "lords of heaven", what about the tens drones, which fly into Russian territory every day? What about the fact that our bombers operate from a safe distance on targets? What about the drones on the front lines, which constantly terrorize ground troops?

It doesn't work with the "gentlemen"? And it won't work until we have overwhelming superiority in EW! Yes, that's right. There can be no air supremacy if we can't suppress modern guided munitions and drones. Where did the stories about the crests not having specialist operators come from? Again from Kyiv and from abroad. There are no specialists, but our fighters and equipment are being defeated.

Today I read another analysis from NATO sources. Well, that's it! The offensive is just around the corner. And do you know who's to blame? President Trump! According to the analyst's unnamed sources, of course, Trump agreed to give Putin 50 days to end the summer offensive. And then...

Then weapon and ammunition will flow to Ukraine in a powerful stream. Thanks to this stream, Kyiv will defeat the Russian army and force the Russian president to sign a capitulation! So we have one and a half months left to live. Then that's it. Now I'm waiting for comments from our "specialists" on this matter. From among those studying using the new methodology.

What our opponents are pushing us to do, that very tank breakthrough with large forces, we have already seen during the SVO. Don't be surprised. We have seen it. True, it was not we who organized the tank breakthrough, but the enemy. I am talking about 2023. How many reports there were in the summer of 23 about the exploits of our soldiers, about the destruction of tanks and armored vehicles literally in batches. Do you remember the fields of burnt tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers?

Do you remember the Kursk region? There, too, everything began with organizing a breakthrough of tank columns. The result is the same. A short breakthrough and death. Like in another movie about detectives: "Well, you have no methods against Kostya Saprykin."

Armored vehicles today do not have sufficiently effective means of protection against drones. And not only we do. Let me remind you of another war, a parallel one, so to speak. Remember the result of the IDF tank attack in Gaza? The result is similar to the previous ones. Tanks and other equipment burn without drone suppression, like candles on a cake.

So, what do you think? Do you still want a quick offensive by our army? Do you still dream of a tank fist under the noses of the Ukrainian fascists? Or have you already understood who benefits from turning our fighters into mincemeat in useless tank breakthroughs? Or is what our "incompetent" commanders are doing today correct and expedient? Are the commanders right in protecting their fighters, or not?

In general, do we need a quick breakthrough or not? What would change in the balance of power, for example, taking Kharkov or Dnepropetrovsk? Even Kyiv? Let me remind you again about the tasks of the SVO. Is it worth the losses that are possible during the offensive?

Think before you speak or write


I don't want to draw any conclusions today. Not because there aren't any. Simply because those who like to philosophize on the topic of war with impunity and without evidence won't go anywhere. There are traditionally a lot of "strategists", and even more so "tacticians" in our country. The further from the front, the more. That's the way it is, is it okay that I speak French in Russian material?

During the special military operation, or rather, during the time that has passed since the events on Maidan, I have repeatedly observed how people who used to be my friends became my enemies, and vice versa. Everything depends on how much a person is able to resist enemy propaganda. Not the stupidity that we see on the Internet from home-grown "patriots", but the one that skillfully disguises itself as common sense and takes into account the psychology of the reader.

Even more common are those for whom everything is always wrong. This category of the eternally dissatisfied. At the same time, when asked about proposals that would satisfy the dissatisfied, the answer is usually the same: "I am not the government (command, president, prosecutor, etc.), I do not decide such issues."

And all this mass of people, good and bad, smart and not so smart, educated and "sort of studied", spread, willingly or unwillingly, enemy ideas, enemy propaganda. Without thinking or thinking that they do it for the good of our army, but they work for the enemies. They are not enemies. They just do not think when they should think.

But you have to think. You have to learn a simple algorithm for expressing your own thoughts. First I think, then I speak or write. Only this way and no other way...
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  1. +104
    28 July 2025 03: 53
    As a person who served in the army and went to war, I want to reveal to the author a terrible secret, which he will not guess even in a bad dream! War begins and ends exclusively and only for the sake of an offensive! This is the law of Humanity of all times. War for the sake of pushing on LBS mixed with drapes and pacification is an adventure, deception, a trap for criminals, thieves and swindlers who have seized power. Kaiser Wilhelm: "Sitting in defense, in a deep and comfortable trench, we will never enter Paris." All these long-term fussing and shooting along forest belts with complete disregard for the elementary laws of war leads to huge, senseless victims of Russian men. And they can get very angry someday.
    1. +55
      28 July 2025 04: 07
      I agree with you, the author reminds us of the goals of the SVO, as far as I understand it is denazification and de-melitorialization of the country. So how in his opinion can this be done without control of the territory? It looks like on September 3 we will have an agreement that we will not like, but we will treat it with understanding. And the author is preparing public opinion.
      1. -4
        28 July 2025 04: 25
        Quote: ASSAD1
        It looks like on September 3rd we will have a contract that we won’t like, but we will treat it with understanding.

        Doubtful. Trump will try to remove Zelensky, it is not a fact that it will work because Europe will be against it, and Trump has done everything to make Europe disappointed in the USA. That is, the fight against Zelensky will last a long time, he himself will not leave and all this time the shooting will not stop.
        1. +10
          28 July 2025 06: 16
          Quote: Puncher
          Doubtfully

          Russian demands in Istanbul - during the week - were only 4 half-occupied regions and 2 pieces of paper.
          So it is necessary to prepare the people for victory.
          1. 0
            3 August 2025 16: 34
            LNR is almost completely controlled, DNR is territorially controlled by about three quarters. Kherson and Zaporizhzhya are also territorially controlled by three quarters. Why are they half-occupied?
            1. 0
              3 August 2025 21: 02
              Quote: Sergej1972
              LNR is almost completely controlled, DNR is territorially controlled by about three quarters. Kherson and Zaporizhzhya are also territorially controlled by three quarters. Why are they half-occupied?

              Well, it’s even worse - occupied territories and two pieces of paper!
              Are you satisfied request
          2. 0
            7 August 2025 11: 20
            Towards the end
            Ceterum censeo Washingtago delendam esse
        2. -21
          28 July 2025 06: 54
          I have a regular question that results in minuses)))

          When will nuclear weapons be used in the SVO? The explosion of a nuclear weapon, for example, a neutron bomb, will cause a very strong EMP - electromagnetic pulse. And it can be detonated over a relatively uninhabited area.

          And the EMP will knock out all the drone walls, many control centers, and burn out the electronics.

          The lives of Russian soldiers are important! That's what I think. And I will continue to think so!

          In addition, the use of nuclear weapons will very well sober up the hot heads in Europe and the USA, who are thirsty for the Third World War.

          Happy Baptism of Rus' Day!
          1. +36
            28 July 2025 07: 06
            Quote: Ilya-spb
            nuclear weapon explosion

            You have somewhat inflated expectations of the use of nuclear weapons. The effect of its use will be lower than you expect, and the consequences will be much worse.
          2. +2
            28 July 2025 07: 10
            By this you admit that our army is not capable of defeating its enemies with conventional weapons. And it is clearly not the right enemies of the USSR that have received Soviet nuclear weapons.
            1. +7
              28 July 2025 13: 32
              Quote: tatra
              By this you admit that our army is not capable of defeating enemies with conventional weapons.


              In the 4th year of the SVO, the issue looks ambiguous, the RF Armed Forces used the entire spectrum of weapons with the exception of tactical nuclear weapons and strategic nuclear weapons, there are of course questions regarding the immunity of the Ukrainian leadership, and their entire top brass, and questions regarding the logistics of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but in general, I think ours are acting at the limit of their capabilities.

              Also, despite the offensive of the Russian Armed Forces practically along the entire front, there is no sign of the collapse of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ defense; they will lose Pokrovsk/Kupyansk, etc., they will roll back to new lines of defense, and in some areas (Sumy region) they even have an advantage and are already going on the offensive themselves, while the Russian Armed Forces are going on the defensive.

              And I analyze all this, what will be the price of VICTORY? In my understanding, it is not just the liberation of 4 new regions but also the elimination of the threat from the new Ukrainian government, and if so, then we will have to go further and further... the losses of the RF Armed Forces are classified, but I think the price is not small for our successes.

              And if, in order to save the lives of our guys there, it is necessary to use increasingly heavy weapons, including tactical nuclear weapons, then I think this is justified. because victory has a price.... + I would not want the future of Russia to be connected with the replacement of the indigenous population by migrants, but here there is a direct connection.

              Previously, at the turn of 2008-2015, I somehow did not notice the problem of migrants because I live in Siberia in a small town, but now I see the problem, as they say, with the naked eye.... There are fewer and fewer Russian men/guys, that's a fact.
              1. 0
                2 August 2025 15: 23
                Yes, the swing was big, but there was no decent way out.
          3. -10
            28 July 2025 10: 29
            Quote: Ilya-spb
            Lives of Russian soldiers are important! That's what I think
            Those who downvote you don't think so. They simply don't care about the lives of our soldiers. I even suspect who it is...
            1. +6
              28 July 2025 17: 38
              Or don’t care what will happen after the use of nuclear weapons, and there is little good in that for our country.
          4. +2
            28 July 2025 15: 33
            Xiao and tiao are weapons of retaliation or preventing our destruction, and you are writing a wild nonsense - to use it in an offensive war.
            1. +5
              28 July 2025 22: 51
              Call the LBS SVO movement in the style of the height of the First World War on the Western Front offensive war - this is some kind of extreme level of optimism. In my native Donetsk, it was flying in 2014, and it still is (to be fair, it is much less frequent now, but it still happens, unfortunately).
          5. -1
            28 July 2025 20: 52
            Quote: Ilya-spb
            I have a regular question that results in minuses)))

            When will nuclear weapons be used in the SVO?

            Change your regular "?".
            And you will be happy.
          6. 0
            31 July 2025 11: 10
            1. In temperate latitudes, there are mainly westerly winds, so the radioactive cloud from an airborne nuclear explosion will go through Ukraine to Russia.
            2. The power of a nuclear explosion decreases proportionally to the square of the distance from the epicenter, so one explosion will have only a local effect.
            3. It is possible to completely destroy the Ukrainian Armed Forces with a nuclear weapon, but this would require hundreds of warheads, after which not only the territory of Ukraine, but also the adjacent countries (including the European part of Russia) would become uninhabitable.
            4. Even if you can burn out all the electronics with one bomb (which is unrealistic), nothing will stop Ukraine from bringing in new drones.
            5. The West also seems to have nuclear weapons.
            Here, read for fun:
            https://hi-news.ru/eto-interesno/chto-takoe-nejtronnoe-oruzhie-i-kak-ono-dejstvuet.html#:~:text=%D0%9E%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%20%D0%BD%D0%B0%20%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BC%20%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%20%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B5,%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%83%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%B5%D1%82%20%D0%B2%20%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%83%D1%81%D0%B5%201350%20%D0%BC.&text=%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BA%20%D0%B2%D1%8B%20%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%2C%20%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%83%D1%81%20%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F,%D0%9E%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%20%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%89%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C%20%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%B5%20%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%20%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%89%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BE.
            For example, when a charge with a power of 1 kiloton explodes, the radius of destruction is 1 km. At the same time, the radius of damage from neutron radiation is 1,5 km, and a person receives a lethal dose within a radius of 1350 m.
          7. 0
            2 August 2025 13: 56
            I completely agree. I have more global proposals. Nuclear weapons should have been used against Europe a long time ago, as soon as it joined the war. Europe should be destroyed so that we and our descendants could live in peace.
      2. +24
        28 July 2025 09: 29
        The Kremlin has no goal to win this war. They need the Minsk-3 option, like in 2014, when they made their choice for a reason. And in order for everyone to accept it, they need to show the imaginary impotence of our army. This is what all this grinding was created for. So that everyone would get tired of it and the upcoming deal would be accepted as an achievement of the SVO.
        1. +17
          28 July 2025 13: 42
          I read the article. Everything is clear. The author considers those who complain about the lack of a quick offensive "couch potatoes", and those who criticize the command "unwitting accomplices". It's good that the author gave people a break - they say, the people are tired. By the way, recalling the author's publications on various aspects of the SVO, I conclude that he himself belonged to one camp or the other. In general, "Malania was good until the party meeting, but when the debate began, opinions changed" M. Dudin. Well, okay, the author proved that everyone is an idiot, and then what? Conclusions, sir!!! But there are no conclusions. Apparently the author is tired. So I did not understand whether, in the author's opinion, it is possible to fulfill the tasks formulated by the president, and if so, how. Otherwise - trash.
          1. +1
            30 July 2025 00: 09
            Is it possible, in the author's opinion, to fulfill the tasks set by the president, and if so, how?


            And this is like with the infamous May decrees of the president, hundreds of billions of rubles from the budget were spent, officials wrote tons of pages of reports on the implementation of these decrees, and the result is practically zero....
      3. -9
        28 July 2025 13: 06
        How, how... this can be done by completely exhausting the human resources of Ukraine. And control of territories is a secondary matter.
        So, let's go from the opposite. The Russian army conducts a successful offensive, takes Kyiv and even Lvov. Millions of convinced Banderites remain on the occupied territory.
        Your suggestions - what to do with them?
        To re-educate them? "Guys, let's live in peace"?
        Restore the GULAG and send these crazy people to lumber camps or mines? Is this realistic? Will it work?
        Create your own "Auschwitz" and send the Bandar-logs to crematoria and gas chambers? Organize mass executions?
        Well, are there any other "methods against the Saprykins"?
        "Announce the entire list, please."

        Alas, but the most realistic, albeit harsh, option is: "war to the last Ukrainian". Total overkill.
        Personally, I don’t see any other real options.
        1. +7
          28 July 2025 17: 43
          This can be done by completely depleting Ukraine's human resources

          The main thing is not to exhaust your human resources in this mutual grinding.
          And the economy is not getting any better with each passing year, so it would be desirable to finish it as quickly as possible while taking the maximum.
          1. -9
            29 July 2025 13: 18
            That is unlikely.
            And this is how to evaluate economic indicators. I believe that our economy, on the contrary, is becoming healthier and more balanced.
            Wishlists are a nice thing, but real possibilities still rule.
            1. +3
              29 July 2025 13: 28
              I believe that our economy, on the contrary, is becoming healthier and more balanced.

              Towards the military-industrial complex? And many enterprises in the territory of European Russia are in difficulty at least because of the danger of UAV attacks.
              wishes are a nice thing, but real possibilities still rule.

              In fact, the production of the desires has not suffered, but all sorts of oil refineries, car factories, etc. have slumped. The coal industry is really sick.
              In Russia, more than 50 coal enterprises have been closed or are on the verge of closing.
              Kommersant
              https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/7889488
              1. -4
                29 July 2025 13: 37
                So what? Yes, towards the military-industrial complex. The military-industrial complex was, is and will be the locomotive of our industry for a long time.

                Well, yes, we do have a market after all. If they pay well for "wants", their production is not in any danger.
                Car factories... screwdriver assembly of imported models?
                As for oil refineries and coal mines, I'm not sure that this is a big problem. A significant portion of such products were exported, and the biggest decline was in the export of refined oil and coal. Oh well, maybe it's for the best. Since we ourselves didn't want to get off the "raw materials needle", let our dear "Western partners" get us off it.
                In my opinion, we have become too carried away by foreign trade; it is time to put more emphasis on our internal reserves. And not to drive our natural resources in exchange for imported "fire water" and other "wants" with a foreign label.
                1. +4
                  29 July 2025 14: 02
                  Car factories... screwdriver assembly of imported models?

                  No, AvtoVAZ cannot sell its cars, GAZ and KAMAZ are going on a shortened work week, perhaps AvtoVAZ will join them.
                  As for refineries and coal mines, I'm not sure that this is a big problem. A significant part of such products was exported, and the export of refined oil and coal fell the most.

                  And what are we going to trade with, say, China? After all, the main things that Russia exports to China are gas, oil, and coal. And without trade, it is impossible, our economy has been tuned to export for more than 30 years, and it will not be possible to switch it to autonomous operation at the snap of a finger.
                  And leaving Kuzbass without any profit at all is not a very good idea.
                  Since we ourselves did not want to get off the “raw materials needle”, let our dear “Western partners” get us off it.

                  Where to go from this needle? Our government very persistently destroyed industry not in order to restore it at the last moment, high technologies like computers, unfortunately, we do not produce, but they are necessary.
                  And not to drive our natural resources in exchange for imported “fire water” and other “wants” with a foreign label.

                  Again, in addition to the "fire water" we were sold the necessary machines, electronics, etc. to keep up with technology.
                  Now we rely mainly on China.
        2. -3
          28 July 2025 18: 14
          Why are you all so hung up on the Ukrainians? As I understand it, having accepted the challenge of the West or having decided to fight it, you need to strike directly at ITS territories. Or does anyone seriously hope to avoid this? And don't talk about World War III. The main goal is to neutralize Europe! Start with the two "nuclearists" - France and Britain. And what about the USA? America is not ready to die for the sake of Europe.
          1. -4
            29 July 2025 13: 24
            Because Ukraine is the most effective "proxy" of the Western elite. There will be no adequate replacement for Ukraine, the Poles have enough brains not to repeat the fate of Ukraine.
            The option of a direct military clash between Russia and NATO is undesirable for both sides, given the probable consequences, so its probability is extremely low.

            It’s still good that you are not our president and Supreme Commander-in-Chief... you think too adventurously. lol
        3. +1
          1 August 2025 14: 52
          I read the article... The impression is twofold: ok, let the author call us all "couch potatoes", ok, he reminded us all once again about the goals of the SVO, ok, he (the author) studied in the "old schools" of the Ministry of Defense... Oh, may the author forgive me - THE ARTICLE IS ABOUT WHAT?? About the fact that we need to continue sitting on the couch, sipping coffee and beer (as you wish), reading such "articles" and snoring in two holes, excuse me?!
          At the very least, it's somehow UNCONVINCING....
          The author (for some reason?!) completely forgot one SMALL detail - those sitting "on the couch" (not all of them, of course!), also have representatives with REAL combat experience, vision of the picture of combat operations, miscalculations during the execution of this or that operation on the LBS, and criticism of the command staff (and there are also enough representatives of the "old schools", if anything!), sometimes, COMPLETELY OBJECTIVE, especially this concerns the actions/decisions (which sometimes absolutely defy elementary logic!) General Staff... And... what?! And, excuse me, FOR WHAT, if not for discussion, are such "opuses" posted? What's bad about it?
          Go ahead.
          Somehow "short-cut", not expanded, the idea of neutralization/destruction of the top of the ukro-reikh came through.... Excuse me - the Banderites LONG AGO launched a terrorist war against the Russian Federation, against the TOP command staff (there are plenty of examples), and... what?? The General Staff of the Ministry of Defense, the Main Intelligence Directorate, the FSB do not know where their roots are coming from?! And why are the key figures not KNOCKED OUT from the enemy?! Who is stopping them (the security forces) from doing THEIR JOB?!
          So you ask us, who are "on the couch"... We will instantly SPLASH the topic for you (indicating the full names and titles/positions of the candidates FOR TAKEAWAY!)...
          So, for the sake of objectivity, the article is ABOUT NOTHING, just empty talk without REAL!!! conclusions...That's how it seems...
      4. +18
        28 July 2025 13: 28
        The author is a weather vane. If you have time and it's not difficult, selectively read his articles diagonally from 2022 to this one. There, by winter, everything will be over (2023) and we won't give up Kherson (2022) and so on and so forth.
      5. AAK
        +8
        28 July 2025 13: 38
        Well, this is not the first article and not the first author on "preparing public opinion"... Having started with "crony harlotry" and without proper preparation, SVO risks ending instead of "two de-" with a filthy deal, which they may well try to foist on us as a great victory... we'll see, there's not much time left before the "50 days" expire...
      6. Eug
        +3
        28 July 2025 18: 25
        And it looks very much like the future treaty is the current goal of the SVO...And all the loud statements and previously set goals and objectives can be forgotten.
      7. +4
        29 July 2025 09: 54
        Sun Tzu:
        "I have heard of the success of quick military campaigns, but I have not heard of the success of protracted ones. No state has ever benefited from a long war."
        Sun Tzu:
        "War loves victory and does not like duration."
        Mao Zedong:
        "The fascists and imperialists want wars to go on without end."
        Carl von Clausewitz:
        "In war, the mistakes of benevolence are the worst of all."
    2. +8
      28 July 2025 05: 19
      Quote: Mykola Kovacs
      War begins and ends exclusively and only for the sake of an offensive! This is the law of Humanity of all times. War for the sake of pushing on LBS mixed with drapes and pacification is an adventure, deception, a trap for criminals, thieves and swindlers who have seized power.

      In 1979, China entered the war with Vietnam. Within a month, it became clear that the war could drag on, and the Chinese declared that they had won and left the captured territories. That is, having started the war and faced serious opposition, they ended the war. That is, as we see, they ended the war by retreating.
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      2. +23
        28 July 2025 06: 24
        Vietnam was not without the help of the USSR. This needs to be recalled.
        As soon as the Soviet Union found out about the attack of China, the main military adviser in Laos, Major General Gaponenko, was sent to Vietnam. The USSR launched a full-scale preparation for possible military action. 6 military districts were brought to alert. Two airborne divisions were sent to the east, which were located on the border with Mongolia. 19 February General of the Army Gennady Obaturov, appointed chief military adviser in Vietnam, arrived in Hanoi on 1979. Together with other Soviet specialists, he studied the situation and advised the Vietnamese command to mobilize army units in the Langshon area. Contributed to the victory and a few Soviet experts. The transport squadron pilots on An-12 carried out the transfer of the army corps from Kampuchea to the Langshon direction, the communications center communications centers of the main military adviser (about 120 people were there from August 1978, and 68 was redeployed after the start of the conflict) provided our advisers with communication, including in the combat area.
        Fully at the expense of units transferred from the Soviet Union, the problem of conducting enemy air reconnaissance on the territory of Vietnam was solved. Parts of the military transport aviation provided air transportation on the territory of Vietnam. Successfully functioned an air bridge between the USSR and Vietnam. As part of the exercises and supplies of NRW, military transport aircraft transported more than 20 thousand personnel, more than 1000 combat equipment, 20 aircraft and helicopters, more than 3 thousand tons of armament, property and ammunition in less than a month.

        Military assistance to Vietnam was also very serious due to a sharp increase in its military potential through the supply of equipment and weapons. From the beginning of the conflict to the end of March, more than 400 tanks, infantry combat vehicles and armored personnel carriers, 400 guns and mortars, 50 MLRS Grad, more 100 anti-aircraft systems, 400 portable anti-aircraft complexes and thousands of missiles to them, more than 800 were deployed by sea transport. Hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers, 20 fighters. In addition, special engineering equipment and equipment for the repair of armored vehicles and vehicles and weapons were supplied. All this huge amount of equipment and weapons was allocated and delivered to Vietnam practically within one month.

        There was a country, the Soviet Union, which did not abandon its allies and had real power.
        1. -4
          28 July 2025 06: 29
          Quote: Per se.
          Vietnam was not without the help of the USSR. This needs to be recalled.

          Well, we remember everything, we remember. But did the comrades in Beijing not expect such actions from the USSR? Let's not consider "Uncle Dan" a naive fool. He understood everything and such a reaction from the USSR was expected. That is, this was not the decisive factor.
          1. +6
            28 July 2025 09: 40
            Well, we remember everything, we remember. But did the comrades in Beijing not expect such actions from the USSR? Let's not consider "Uncle Dan" a naive fool. He understood everything and such a reaction from the USSR was expected.
            Back then, in 1979, "Uncle Deng" had not yet formulated China's foreign policy, he had hopes for the US, but in the end it turned out almost like the 08.08.08/XNUMX/XNUMX war. Then he suddenly became smarter.
            1. -3
              28 July 2025 10: 24
              Quote: Aviator_
              Uncle Deng had not yet formulated China's foreign policy, he had hopes for the US

              What kind of hopes are these? That the US will put pressure on the USSR? It's not even funny to expect this from Democrat Carter.
              1. +5
                28 July 2025 10: 40
                His hopes were that on the wave of cave-like joint anti-Sovietism the US would become China's partner and boost its industry. The US promised, but did not do.
                1. -6
                  28 July 2025 10: 57
                  Quote: Aviator_
                  His hopes were that on the wave of cave-like joint anti-Sovietism the US would become China's partner and boost its industry. The US promised, but did not do.

                  You are now accusing the Chinese communists, namely Deng Xiaoping, of terrible girlish naivety. If they were promised anything, it was the Republicans, not the Democrats. Reagan could have played along with the Chinese, I don't argue, but Carter never. It wasn't even worth hoping for.
                  1. +5
                    28 July 2025 12: 36
                    You are now accusing the Chinese communists, namely Deng Xiaoping, of terrible girlish naivety.
                    The leader of the Chinese Communists, Mao Zedong, had a terrible "girlish naivety" when, in the late 60s, he began to solve his growing internal problems with the help of an "external enemy" - the USSR (Damansky, Zhalanashkol). And I don't understand the American brands of crap (Republicans and Democrats).
                    1. -1
                      28 July 2025 13: 18
                      Quote: Aviator_
                      I don't understand the American types of sh c (Republicans and Democrats).

                      Let's say. What is your thesis based on then, that the Chinese were counting on US support?
                      1. +2
                        28 July 2025 14: 16
                        The fact that after Mao's death they unfroze relations with America, despite the fact that the US, starting in 1949, only recognized Taiwan, and not the PRC.
                      2. 0
                        28 July 2025 17: 18
                        Quote: Aviator_
                        they unfroze relations with America

                        That may be true, but they did not become allies. And support in a war is the role of an ally. If China had invaded North Vietnam while the Americans were in the South, it would have been a bid for a military alliance. The Americans would have appreciated such a gift. But by 1979, everyone was trying to forget about Vietnam as a bad dream.
                        So for China, the USSR's reaction was not surprising and was clearly expected. They couldn't help but expect it. It's just that the war didn't go according to plan and that scared them, the prospect of getting bogged down like the Americans for many years was clearly not to their liking. They acted like businessmen, recorded their losses and closed the issue.
                2. +3
                  28 July 2025 13: 13
                  Well, that's what happened. China's industrial takeoff was not without the help of the Yankees.
                  Just business, nothing personal. The Yankees began to use China's resources (raw materials, labor), China received American investments and technologies.
                  It was this "big deal" that predetermined the West's success in the Cold War.
      3. +2
        28 July 2025 13: 10
        The war is actually ended by the victors. In fact, the Vietnamese won. They returned the territories captured by the Chinese. This return can be considered a Vietnamese offensive (or counter-offensive).
        And the Chinese statement that they won is just propaganda, nothing more. Putting a good face on a bad game. Those who need to have drawn conclusions from this conflict.
        1. +1
          28 July 2025 13: 16
          Quote: Illanatol
          Good mine for a bad game.

          Well, who's arguing? Just don't tell that to the Chinese. By the way, the Iraqis also considered themselves winners in the 1991 war. Whatever you convince yourself, that's how it will be...
    3. -8
      28 July 2025 11: 39
      Quote: Mykola Kovacs
      As a person who served in the army and went to war, I want to reveal to the author a terrible secret that he would never guess even in his worst nightmare! War begins and ends exclusively and only for the sake of the offensive!

      As a person who served in the army, I was also under fire a couple of times, but that doesn’t count.

      I will reveal the truth to you, it is not about war! It is about the continuation of one's own FAMILY, in this case Russian, other nations, which are different, but the main thing for us is Russian. And this is the existence of the Russian state.

      The main task of the SVO is that our people and our fatherland develop. It did not have any preferences from this, did not bend, but that we remain Russian. Do not be like Western propaganda, that the main thing is to bend everyone, do not be like the Jews, we will bomb you all. Be Russian. The most Russian person (with black ancestors) Pushkin wrote it best:
      How is prophetic Oleg now gathered
      To avenge the unreasonable Khozars:
      Their villages and fields for a violent raid
      He condemned swords and fires;
      With his team, in Constantinople armor,
      The prince on the field rides on the right horse.
      1. +3
        28 July 2025 17: 48
        and that we remain Russian.

        With the current attitude of the authorities towards migration, it would be good if by 2040 we at least remain Russians.
        1. -4
          29 July 2025 05: 15
          Quote: Ermak_415
          With the current attitude of the authorities towards migration, it would be good if by 2040 we at least remain Russians.

          You remind me of forest defenders. My friend shouts, he cut down the whole forest, his classmate works as one of the main foresters in the Far East. He is definitely not lying, my friend. Google photos show it. But you need to turn on your brain. At the same time, my friend did a lot of rafting on the rivers in Siberia.
          The thing is that even technically it is impossible to cut down the forest. But the main thing is that it is impossible to take it away. Where it can be taken away, it has probably been cut down. And that is 0, zero tenths of a percent.
          For you to broaden your understanding of the issue. Now, due to observation means, it has been established that the most widespread tree in Russia is larch. More precisely, it is 51% of all trees.
          So, this is our land, Russian land!
    4. 0
      28 July 2025 12: 51
      Quote: Mykola Kovacs
      I want to reveal a terrible secret to the author

      I am not the author, and I almost agree with you... almost because there is a precedent in history - the Finnish war, after which the Tribalts joined the USSR without a fight
    5. -4
      28 July 2025 21: 30
      Complete nonsense, well, you took the entire territory quickly, there are civilians around who are raiding the duty convoy - their forces will always exceed yours and you will suffer great losses in peacetime, it is easier to destroy the enemy looking through binoculars than to peer into civilians! When their resources are erased and only then can you take the territory!
    6. -4
      29 July 2025 07: 52
      Quote: Mykola Kovacs
      Kaiser Wilhelm: "Sitting on the defensive, in a deep and comfortable trench, we will never enter Paris."

      The Kaiser lost the war, but Kutuzov won.
      So, study history.
    7. +2
      29 July 2025 10: 07
      Prolonged warfare requires enormous resources. From an economic point of view, a protracted war is extremely ineffective. As the sage Sun Tzu wrote: "I have heard of the success of quick military campaigns, but I have not heard of the success of protracted ones. No state has benefited from a protracted war." Here, unfortunately, the RAND Corporation (USA) 2019 plan is being fully implemented, which announced the preparation of a conflict in Ukraine with the aim of "limiting revenues and imposing costs." A similar US strategy led to the dismantling of the USSR, the West imposed an arms race on us in the 1960-1970s, when instead of televisions, washing machines, refrigerators and shoes, we produced tanks and ballistic missiles in incredible quantities, which after perestroika became of no use to anyone, they were put to the knife, and only weapons-grade uranium was sold to the United States. The longer the war, the greater the exhaustion. And here the West gets everything it wants.
    8. +1
      29 July 2025 10: 07
      Prolonged warfare requires enormous resources. From an economic point of view, a protracted war is extremely ineffective. As the sage Sun Tzu wrote: "I have heard of the success of quick military campaigns, but I have not heard of the success of protracted ones. No state has benefited from a protracted war." Here, unfortunately, the RAND Corporation (USA) 2019 plan is being fully implemented, which announced the preparation of a conflict in Ukraine with the aim of "limiting revenues and imposing costs." A similar US strategy led to the dismantling of the USSR, the West imposed an arms race on us in the 1960-1970s, when instead of televisions, washing machines, refrigerators and shoes, we produced tanks and ballistic missiles in incredible quantities, which after perestroika became of no use to anyone, they were put to the knife, and only weapons-grade uranium was sold to the United States. The longer the war, the greater the exhaustion. And here the West gets everything it wants.
    9. 0
      31 July 2025 03: 46
      First I think, then I speak or write. Only this way and no other way...
      No, just like this: don’t say everything you think, but think everything you say.
  2. +1
    28 July 2025 03: 54
    I have long believed that victory is not in Kiev. But the fulfillment of the conditions of the Russian Federation by NATO countries (read the USA), formulated by the Russian Federation on 15.12.2021/404/24. Clear and understandable. Taking into account the realities "on the field". I believe that the Russian Defense Ministry could not do without the military and military diplomacy. Talk about NATO "peacekeepers" in territory XNUMX, Odessa, Ochakov and so on, I believe, is talk. Like Trump's ultimatums. "Peacekeepers" will arrive, they will leave in bags. The President said that he will not excuse the fact that they will die if anything, but will be a priority. He said it more than once. And Trump promised peace in XNUMX hours. Then he said, such a figure of speech.
    1. +40
      28 July 2025 06: 47
      .
      alexputnik17

      .... The President said, .....He said it more than once....

      So everything that Vladimir Vladimirovich talks about and promises is being realized almost exactly the opposite.
      "We will not allow NATO expansion" - and here you go, Sweden and Finland are already there and the border is now right next to St. Petersburg... and now Austria, which was neutral since WWII, is planning to go there...
      .... And the "pension reform" .... and the Russian economy, which has "almost already surpassed the entire world", ... and the rapidly growing prosperity of Russians, which the entire world envied (although here he apparently meant Russians he knew well) ....
      .... whatever you take on, .... "everything goes according to plan" ))
      1. -20
        28 July 2025 10: 56
        Quote: Streck
        "We will not allow NATO expansion"

        Provide a link to direct speech
        The inclusion of Sweden and Finland in NATO is their response to our "ultimatum" of 15.12.2021/XNUMX/XNUMX.
        Quote: Streck
        Austria, which was neutral during WWII, is going there...

        And did we also destroy the 14th century church?

        Quote: Streck
        And "pension reform"

        Constitution of the Russian Federation. 55 Article
        n.3. Rights and freedoms of man and citizen may be limited federal law only to the extent necessary for protection purposes the foundations of the constitutional order, morality, health, rights and legitimate interests of others, ensuring the country's defense and state security.

        Bolshevik Putin has always opposed changes to the pension law to increase the retirement age.

        This is a clear example for all skeptics of who is more important: the legislative branch or the executive (presidential) branch.

        Vlasovite Medvedev, through the pro-Vlasov Duma under his control, nevertheless pushed him through and immediately "slunk under the baseboard". For a whole year he was not seen, not heard... Today he beats himself in the chest with his heel, how cool he is. He makes such speeches...

        Our country was the last of the post-Soviet space to adopt this law. This was preceded by:
        1. The IMF demanded an increase in the retirement age.
        2. Vlasovite Medvedev introduced a draft law to the pro-Vlasov Duma within a week.
        3. The Provlasov Duma adopted amendments to the Pension Law almost in one sitting
        4. The Federation Council immediately approved it.
        5. The President found no reason not to sign it - these amendments did not violate the Constitution of the Russian Federation. (see Article 55).
        6. The amendments were published in the media and entered into force.

        A question for you: why out of 6 participants, did you get stuck on the fifth?
        1. +3
          28 July 2025 11: 15
          Once again, I most urgently demand that you indicate which document states that the president is part of the executive branch.
          1. -7
            28 July 2025 11: 27
            The essence of Russian civilization is Bolshevism.

            Quote: DVostok-2
            in which document is it stated that the president is part of the executive branch

            The duties of the President are defined by the Constitution of the Russian Federation and his actions are limited by the Laws adopted by the Duma.

            If someone writes down your duties for you, then you are the performer!
            If someone limits your actions, then you are the performer!

            To which branch of government do you attribute presidential power?

            Let me remind you. There are five branches of power (not counting the power of God):
            1. +5
              28 July 2025 11: 41
              If someone writes down your duties for you, then you are the executor!
              If someone limits your actions, then you are the performer!
              Verbal balancing act, nothing more. The executors are all of them, including the Duma and the judiciary, because they perform their duties. But this does not make them part of the executive branch of power. I am asking you very clearly: in which law is it written that the president is part of the executive branch? According to my information, it is headed by the prime minister. Perhaps you have more complete information (well, since you even dragged the power of God into this, I would not be surprised if it was he who personally sent you some secret circular).
              1. -7
                28 July 2025 11: 49
                The essence of Russian civilization is Bolshevism.

                Quote: DVostok-2
                The executors are everyone, including the Duma and the judiciary, because they are fulfilling their duties.

                All branches of government are executors of the ideas of Conceptual power, starting from ideological power and ending with judicial power (see fig.).

                I will repeat my question. To which branch of power do you attribute presidential power?
                1. +3
                  28 July 2025 11: 59
                  I will repeat my question. To which branch of power do you attribute presidential power?
                  Excuse me? Do you have the right to insist? Have you already answered my question - in which law exactly is it written that the president is part of the executive power? No? Why so?
                  1. -7
                    28 July 2025 12: 01
                    The essence of Russian civilization is Bolshevism.

                    Quote: DVostok-2
                    Do you have the right to insist?

                    And you demand? "Once again I most urgently demand that you indicate..." laughing
                    1. +6
                      28 July 2025 12: 10
                      I do. That's why I've pointed out many times that you're misinforming the reader. But it's like water off a duck's back. The President is the head of state. Of everything. Together with the Duma, the courts and other, hmm, electorate. He has the right to dissolve the Duma, he appoints and dismisses judges. What branch of power does he belong to? Well, to the absolute one, obviously🤣
                      1. -8
                        28 July 2025 12: 12
                        Quote: DVostok-2
                        What branch of power does he belong to? Well, to the absolute one, obviously.

                        Got it. For you, the president and the king are one and the same. wassat hi
                      2. +2
                        28 July 2025 12: 23
                        What does "for me" have to do with it? Belonging to a particular branch of government is determined by law
                      3. +2
                        28 July 2025 12: 40
                        I will intervene in your dialogue.
                        The president may represent different types of power depending on the specific political system. In presidential republics, such as the United States, the president is the head of state and the head of the executive branch, combining these functions. In parliamentary republics, such as Germany, the president is the head of state, but executive power belongs to the government, headed by the chancellor. In Russia, the president is the head of state and has significant influence on the executive branch, but is not formally part of it.
            2. +6
              28 July 2025 11: 49
              Quote: Boris55
              The duties of the President are defined by the Constitution of the Russian Federation and his actions are limited by the Laws adopted by the Duma.

              Boris, don't overthink things by taking on the role of the one who
              Quote: Boris55
              If someone writes down your duties for you, then you are the performer!

              the executive power in the Russian Federation is headed by the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Mishustin, and not V.V. Putin.. they should at least have taken an interest, since you love to refer to the Constitution so much.. In Russia, according to the Constitution, the president is the head of state and the guarantor of the Constitution, the rights and freedoms of man and citizen, which implies control over all branches of government..
              1. -8
                28 July 2025 11: 51
                To which branch of government do you attribute presidential power?
                1. +6
                  28 July 2025 11: 57
                  Quote: Boris55
                  To which branch of government do you attribute presidential power?

                  this is general control and influence to all branches of government, he is not part of any specific branch of government.. and wherever you or I would like to attribute him - he is not part of any specific branch of government.. in the judicial branch - he appoints and approves judges, in the legislative branch he introduces and signs laws, in the executive branch there is a larger list.. but first of all - because more actions are needed there.. by the way, a project has been introduced in the State Duma that VVP will appoint governors.. and by the way.. oh.. how is that possible - United Russia introduced it.. probably a cunning plan, they are against VVP according to your theory...
                  1. -8
                    28 July 2025 12: 08
                    The essence of Russian civilization is Bolshevism.

                    Quote: Level 2 Advisor
                    this is general control and influence on all branches of government

                    1. Conceptual power. The President cannot influence it.
                    2. Ideological power. The President does not determine ideology.
                    The President is non-partisan.
                    3. Legislative power. The President has the right of legislative initiative, exactly the same as the 450 deputies of the Duma. The President does not adopt laws.
                    4. Executive - I wrote above.
                    5. Judicial power. The President cannot influence it.
                    1. +6
                      28 July 2025 12: 19
                      In which law is there a mention of the conceptual and ideological branches of power? Or is this all from the same new secret circular that was personally given to you by God?
                      1. -9
                        28 July 2025 12: 38
                        "Do you want checkers or go?"

                        Quote: DVostok-2
                        Which law mentions the conceptual and ideological branches of power?

                        The men got together and decided to buy a tank of vodka - an idea (concept)
                        There was not enough money. It was necessary to collect it from the people, but under plausible pretexts - say, for medical purposes - Ideological power.
                        And how to distribute vodka - according to the degree of each contribution (Законодательная власть)
                        Who will go for the tank? Executive power
                        And someone wants to pour themselves more - Judicial branch.

                        This is the only way power is organized everywhere! The concept determines the actions of all other branches of power. There was the USSR - there was a different ideology, different laws, etc.
                      2. +3
                        28 July 2025 12: 47
                        A so-so joke. And what about the law?
                    2. +5
                      28 July 2025 12: 26
                      Quote: Boris55
                      1. Conceptual power. The President cannot influence it.
                      2. Ideological power. The President does not determine ideology.
                      The President is non-partisan.

                      Where does it say that it can't?
                      Quote: Boris55
                      3. Legislative power. The President has the right of legislative initiative, exactly the same as the 450 deputies.

                      i.e. one way or another - it influences? and it may not pass the law, which it cannot no one from the deputies... and can disperse the Duma - what can't he do? no one deputy... that means he's not just one of 450, but more powerful...
                      Quote: Boris55
                      5. Judicial power. The President cannot influence it.

                      i.e. the fact that the President may not approve the appointment/reappointment of a judge does not affect anything? Well, well... and the fact that the President nominates the Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation for approval, of your choice - are these also trifles?
                      1. -8
                        28 July 2025 12: 49
                        Quote: Level 2 Advisor
                        Where does it say that it can't?

                        Can the President change the country's vector from capitalism to socialism? belay
                        Parties and only they determine their thoughts on the structure of the country - ideology. You can read about them on the pages of party websites.

                        Quote: Level 2 Advisor
                        and the law may not pass

                        It can, but only if the Law adopted by the Duma and approved by the Federation Council contradicts the Constitution.
                        Quote: Level 2 Advisor
                        The President may not approve the appointment

                        "State policy and management in a crowd-" elite "society is an agreement reached on the capabilities of various clan-corporate groupings in using the state structure and system to achieve their narrowly corporate goals."

                        The president can only change representatives of his clan in power. What he puts forward... he puts forward this or that candidate in agreement with his clan, to a place previously distributed between the clans.

                        Sorry for not being able to answer all the questions. Bye everyone. hi
                      2. +3
                        28 July 2025 12: 53
                        Quote: Boris55
                        The president can only change representatives of his clan in power.

                        but let's assume for a minute that your "power structure scheme" is correct and think about what will happen if he takes and appoints all of his own people everywhere within a year, say? What will happen? What will prevent this from happening and how? And don't forget that all the security officials are exclusively his people.. while its capabilities according to the lawu - are huge compared to any other in the country..
                        P.S. and another question... how did DAM end up in another "clan" if VVP took him "under his wing" when he was a modest professor at the department, where he would probably have remained until now?
                      3. -3
                        29 July 2025 07: 52
                        The essence of Russian civilization is Bolshevism.

                        Quote: Level 2 Advisor
                        and what will happen if he takes and appoints all of his own people everywhere within a year, say?

                        After Stalin's death, the Trotskyists needed ~40 years to finally change everything about Stalin's personnel and reformat society.

                        Stalin had the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Putin has no such party.
                        Stalin, after Lenin's call to the party, had the majority of his supporters in the lower ranks.
                        Putin, by creating "Time of Heroes", is trying to do this.

                        Quote: Level 2 Advisor
                        All security forces are exclusively his people.

                        And all the finances are in the hands of the enemy... When the army stopped being paid in the 90s, almost the entire army was forced to go into civilian life - some to become bandits, some to become businessmen...

                        DAM has always been in another clan. Remember the scandal on live TV about Libya. There are no friends THERE, there are only interests.
                      4. +1
                        28 July 2025 13: 30
                        Sorry for not being able to answer all the questions. Bye everyone.
                        Interesting. This is not the first time he says goodbye like this. Did he hand over his shift? Who will pick up the banner?
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      2. -2
        28 July 2025 13: 00
        Quote: Streck
        Sweden and Finland are already there

        Sweden Finland Austria have always been de facto in NATO. Pension reform is the result of an aging population, young people and middle age do not reproduce, self-satisfying themselves via the Internet and breeding cats, and welfare depends on Russians too, You need to study properly. I ask my daughter, a student - are you preparing for classes? - I am preparing! Show me your notes and textbooks - But I don't have them! We are all looking at our phones... And this is already the second generation studying on their phones
        1. +2
          28 July 2025 15: 34
          If I can partially agree with everyone about Sweden, then I can't agree with Finland and Austria. The Finns were still one foot in the Warsaw Pact 35 years ago.
          Pension reform - it was possible to find money for social services in a million places, the sums involved are not that big, this has already been discussed a million times.
          Regarding welfare - maybe it wasn't worth changing the tax legislation and dragging the lion's share of income to Moscow? For the sake of interest, if you're in Moscow, go to the metro museum and ask about financing, honestly tell you how it works. Namely - first the metro spends the money that transportation brings in, when it runs out it goes to the city authorities and takes more, when this money runs out it goes to the region and takes there, well, and in the end it goes to the federal government and pays the remaining bills, well, those from the money of the whole country. And this is only daily maintenance, stations are built for them immediately at federal expense.
          1. 0
            29 July 2025 09: 57
            Quote: parma
            Just 35 years ago, the Finns had one foot in the Warsaw Pact.

            the Poles stood there with both feet...
            Quote: parma
            there were a million places where you could find money for social services,

            in the subway?
            1. +2
              29 July 2025 10: 08
              "The Poles stood there with both feet..."
              Well, what did the Finns or the Austrians do to always be "almost in NATO"? Did they conduct exercises? Well, up to a certain point, we also conducted joint exercises, our soldiers went to the US, they came here and nothing.
              "in the subway?"
              Well, as one of the options, it was possible to ask Gazprom and other state corporations a little questions about efficiency or conduct an audit, and there was also the Olympics or football, also a lot of money was spent in a not very efficient way. In Yekaterinburg, they were planning to remove the stands at the stadium after the championship because they were no longer needed, they are still there...
              1. 0
                29 July 2025 10: 11
                Ukraine was generally Soviet... Gazprom is generally a separate state... Stalin is needed, however!!!
                1. +1
                  29 July 2025 10: 28
                  Well, wait, you initially stated something like "the tsar is good, the boyars too, you just don't understand anything", to which I pointed out that the Finns and Austrians were very cold towards NATO in Soviet times, the Swedes flirted but strictly within the framework. Their attempts towards NATO until 2022 had a purely nominal subtext, no more and no less than good-neighborly relations, even we indulged in such things.
                  Regarding the pension reform, the simplest path was chosen and nothing more.
                  1. 0
                    29 July 2025 11: 09
                    In general, initially the talk was about Putin not fulfilling his promises
                    1. 0
                      29 July 2025 11: 20
                      Well, then I misunderstood your comment, it seemed to me that you were trying to say something along the lines of “no one is to blame, it’s just that way, the management is simply a victim of circumstances”, although this is far from true, many, if not all, circumstances arose as a result of the actions (or inaction) of the management itself
                      1. 0
                        29 July 2025 13: 16
                        Quote: parma
                        many, if not all, of the circumstances arose as a result of the actions (or inaction) of the management itself

                        Have you ever managed a team? I mean a government agency?
                      2. 0
                        29 July 2025 13: 25
                        Yes, by the team, but not in a state structure. What is the difference between a large holding and a state structure? Does the Labor Code of the Russian Federation operate differently there, or maybe the concept of "positive result" and "negative result" is different?
                      3. 0
                        29 July 2025 13: 30
                        a holding company can disappear, but a state structure never does, managers only change if they can't cope, but otherwise you're right - it makes no difference!
                      4. 0
                        29 July 2025 13: 36
                        Well, government structures are constantly changing, constantly merging or, on the contrary, splitting up, that's not the point. The point is that, apparently, even a negative result suits everyone, as if the process is not the result that matters... take the Ministry of Defense - at least 3 ministers have changed their cabinet after a scandal, but they come out clean (the first was Ivanov, if anyone remembers him)...
          2. 0
            3 August 2025 16: 49
            What does the region have to do with it? The city of Moscow itself is a full-fledged subject of the federation, existing in parallel with the Moscow region and more powerful than the region in financial terms. During the USSR, there was a single budget of the USSR, part of which were the budgets of the union republics and their constituent parts. At the same time, the budget of the USSR was not equal to the sum of the budgets of the republics, it was much larger. Just as the budgets of the union republics were larger than the combined budgets of the ASSR, territories, regions and districts and cities of republican subordination.
            1. 0
              5 August 2025 07: 48
              It seems like there is already one in the area of the station, but I might be confused - I was in this museum 6 years ago.
  3. +15
    28 July 2025 04: 03
    But you have to think. You have to learn a simple algorithm for expressing your own thoughts. First I think, then I speak or write. Only this way and no other way...

    The thoughts are correct and relevant in many ways.
    It's been a long time since I read a well-written sentence.
    Just don't go overboard with the armchair strategists. Some of us had to study the tactics of combined arms combat, and if today it looks different due to the change in the quality of weapons (conventional), this does not mean that Russia cannot drive a single country into the Stone Age.
    We know about the losses and about corruption in the Ministry of Defense, and we also know why during the Second World War the number of billionaires increased from 125 to 146... We just don't understand who is left at the helm of military operations, if our army commanders are treated like ordinary thugs, and those guilty of the collapse (corruption) of the department are treated "with understanding"...
    There are no people who do not make mistakes (he who does nothing makes no mistakes), but there are very few who who recognizes them and tries to correct them.
    1. +4
      28 July 2025 07: 00
      You wrote correctly about corruption. And this is the main idea of this whole war. The war between Russia and Ukraine is a war between two super-corrupt political systems. Therefore, neither side will ever have a victory in the classical sense of the word. Therefore, there will never be attacks on the logistics and the central control system of the enemy, because for such a system the concept of an enemy is very conditional.
  4. +28
    28 July 2025 04: 09
    The listed losses of the USSR in the Berlin operation are the losses of three fronts in the defeat of the German group, and not the losses associated directly with the capture of the city of Berlin, which were small, since the German group of the 9th Army was cut off in the Falb pocket and these 200 thousand did not reach Berlin and therefore Berlin was defended by a hodgepodge of forces.
  5. +23
    28 July 2025 04: 32
    I studied the old-fashioned way. That's why I feel "offended" for the soldiers and officers in the SVO. Especially for the commanders of units and formations. You took a populated area - well, not Suvorov, but somewhere close. You didn't take it - you can shoot yourself right away. You are such a stupid, incompetent commander.

    Let's be honest, in all my time on this site I have never seen a single bad word about a Russian soldier, not even from our enemies. They criticized tactics, they criticized supplies, they criticized the command, but ordinary soldiers and officers never...
    There is no order to take Ukraine, to take Kyiv or any other city! I will not repeat the tasks of the SVO for the thousandth time.

    And what is the task? Denafication? Demilitarization? Well, really, what, no, I'm not arguing that I'm as dumb as a brick, it's been explained here a thousand times, but I really don't get it...
    Let me remind you that according to official USSR data, our losses during the capture of Berlin (from April 16 to May 8, 1945) amounted to 352 people. Of these, 475th - 200 people. I will not even write about 78 tanks, 291 planes, 1997 guns. But one question. Are we ready to give so many lives for Kyiv? Our lives...

    But here there is no need to distort history, of course it is easier to say that the "bloody" red generals were in a hurry to take Berlin, and it is nothing that they were in a hurry to cut off a huge enemy group from Berlin, and they cut it off by taking it into a cauldron, only a couple of units were able to slip into the city, otherwise the losses would have been many times greater.
    In general, do we need a quick breakthrough or not? What would change in the balance of power, for example, taking Kharkov or Dnepropetrovsk? Even Kyiv?

    So not long ago, together with the author, we were choosing a direction, Kharkov, Kherson, everything was so sweet here that all these are keys, and after that everything will fall apart...
    But seriously, I liked the article, you can really quote every sentence, and there will be something to say about every sentence. Yes, I am a couch analyst, well, excuse me for not being in the swing, nor in the Red Army, but I do not teach anyone tactics, and I do not express my thoughts in articles, well, if the article is a joke, let's start to burn too, because war is fun, funny, literally stand-up. Personally, I do not understand who these "readers write", and the commentators too, well, apparently from some other sites, and here the author simply posts material, bewilderment.
  6. +33
    28 July 2025 04: 45
    According to the author, all "armchair patriots" work for the enemy by expressing their comments that do not fit into his understanding of the SVO.
    Staver really went for it...he put everyone under the same brush...he doesn't want to become a field marshal.
  7. +27
    28 July 2025 05: 09
    And all this mass of people, good and bad, smart and not so smart, educated and "sort of studied", spread, willingly or unwillingly, enemy ideas, enemy propaganda. Without thinking or thinking that they are doing this for the good of our army, but they are working for the enemies.

    In fact, those who dream of "putting a scarf on each mouth" work much more for the enemy. After all, mendacity, together with stupidity and thievishness, really do not like "disclosure"...
    1. +32
      28 July 2025 05: 20
      I recommend that forum members familiarize themselves with the case of Warrant Officer Gadzhiev. smile
      He was sentenced by a military court for criticizing the Russian army and praising the Ukrainian Armed Forces in private conversations.
      So now all critics of corruption and mediocrity in the army should keep quiet... everyone should express joy turning into ovations and applause at the slogans of comrade Staver... hurray comrades... everything is good and wonderful with us... anyone who says that it is not so will get a prison term and a fine of 2,5 million rubles.
  8. +24
    28 July 2025 05: 46
    I studied the old-fashioned way.
    Therefore, obviously, unlike the "couch potatoes", the author is very good at tactics and strategy. In particular, having wisely assessed the situation, he immediately realized that we will not give up Kherson. He made many, many more predictions. Mostly he hit the nail on the head, but still puts himself above the couch potatoes and continues to lecture them, not even realizing that he himself is probably in the "top three" of those whom he himself named
    those who like to philosophize on the topic of war with impunity and without evidence will not go anywhere
  9. +13
    28 July 2025 05: 51
    Most readers have probably already heard the figure of 160 thousand? The Russians somewhere (here the authors make a mysterious face) have assembled a strike force of thousands of stormtroopers who are about to go to... (here again an aura of mystery). And no one, or almost no one, asks the question, how is it possible, with the current level of intelligence, to hide such a group for so long?

    Here the main question is, will 160 thousand be enough to conduct a large-scale offensive? And where is the reserve? And only then should we ask ourselves, do these 160 thousand even exist? Today, the average one-time payment for a contract is 2 million, of which 0,4 million is from the federal budget, and the rest is from the local budget. We have 89 subjects from which the replenishment is taking place. 160 thousand are supposedly units ready for action that are not currently occupied, but other areas also require updating, so another X thousand people should be added to 160 thousand. Are our subjects of the Russian Federation capable of paying so much for 2-3 thousand people? Considering that most budgets are openly subsidized. Considering that one-time payments have doubled in a year, this means that the reason for this is an insufficient number of volunteers. What kind of large-scale offensive can we talk about in this case? People are needed to prepare a LARGE-SCALE offensive, because the author's reference to the Berlin operation looks one-sided, because there is no mention of the number of forces and resources involved, because more than 2 million people from our side took part in it, and they were not recruited under a contract. Regarding the goals. Now that's where the water is the water... Let's say one of the goals is demilitarization. But since February 2022, Ukraine has increased the level of militarization many times over in almost all types of weapons. Let's say they are not allowed into NATO, ok, but during this time Finland and eternally neutral Sweden have joined NATO. And most likely, a base of Turkey, a NATO member, will appear in Azerbaijan. It hasn't gotten any better. Well, the fact that Ukraine will not be a member of NATO does not really change anything, because the European defense system is already being formed, which Ukraine is already a part of. An awl for a soap. What will access to the borders of the LPR and DPR give us (we can't even dream of Kherson, they gave it away themselves) if this does not change anything in the status of Ukraine? The situation is openly Trotskyist, "no war, no peace"...
    1. +11
      28 July 2025 06: 11
      Let's say they won't be allowed into NATO, okay, but during this time Finland and the eternally neutral Sweden joined NATO. And most likely, a base of Turkey, a NATO member, will appear in Azerbaijan.

      Austria is coming...maybe it will also say goodbye to neutrality.
      1. +8
        28 July 2025 06: 15
        Quote: The same LYOKHA
        Austria is coming...maybe it will also say goodbye to neutrality.

        Every day there is "good" news...
    2. +3
      28 July 2025 10: 14
      Quote: Puncher
      The main question here is whether 160 thousand will be enough to carry it out. large-scale offensive?

      There is no plan, and apparently no large-scale offensive was planned strategic goals. The time for this is irretrievably lost. Such operations usually begin in June, after the flood has subsided, in order to have the entire summer in reserve, with good weather and "solid soils", for the implementation and development of the operation. August-September is an opportunity for an offensive with limited, tactical targets before the autumn thaw sets in. As an example, the actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces last year in the Kursk region.
  10. +29
    28 July 2025 05: 54
    Let me remind you that according to official USSR data, our losses during the capture of Berlin (from April 16 to May 8, 1945) amounted to 352 people. Of these, 475th - 200 people. I will not even write about 78 tanks, 291 planes, 1997 guns. But one question. Are we ready to give so many lives for Kyiv? Our lives...

    The author believes that if the Berlin operation was carried out for three years instead of three weeks, there would have been fewer losses? He is deeply mistaken and this article is an unsuccessful justification
  11. +16
    28 July 2025 06: 00
    The author of the article attaches too much importance to his modest person. The people commenting on the articles are, as a rule, people familiar with ethics and politeness in relation to even incognito to other people's thoughts or judgments voiced in other people's comments. Moreover, the author is also being disingenuous when at the beginning of the article he tells us that the articles in VO with the participation of the author of this article often raised discussions about the summer 2025 offensive of the Russian army. As far as I can remember, there were no specific articles about, supposedly, the upcoming offensive of the Russian army in the summer of 2025 in VO. Such an offensive was “planned” by the Ukrainian media so that they could then triumphantly declare that the Russians were not allowed to carry out a summer offensive by the Ukrainian Armed Forces... And it doesn’t matter that every day since the beginning of this summer the Russian army has been moving forward at a decent speed, liberating our lands from the Banderites every day of the summer of 2025.
  12. +26
    28 July 2025 06: 07
    I also learned the old-fashioned way. Back when wars were called wars; when they began and ended, and not even not begun; there would hardly be any debates with "a gang of neo-Nazis and drug addicts who settled in Kyiv and took the entire Ukrainian people hostage" ©, considering how many people among this fraternity were included in the lists of terrorists and extremists; when criminal cases and sentences were quite real, and not "in absentia"; when famous combat commanders sat on the front lines, and not in prison, for statements in the public information space that did not correspond to the agenda; when war criminals were tribunaled or liquidated, and did not travel abroad and promote themselves in the media, having gone through the procedure of some "extraction" (what a word)... And so on, and so forth. Something like that.
  13. +28
    28 July 2025 06: 10
    It turns out that the VO commentators are to blame for what is happening in Ukraine.
  14. +19
    28 July 2025 06: 14
    Another thing is a sofa. A completely modern and very effective method.

    The author believes that months of warnings from armchair analysts about an impending breakthrough in the Kursk region were completely stupid and caused by a lack of education? belay
    And a wise Ministry of Defense, taking into account the subtleties of modern ... SVO in Kursk region - what should we take as an example?
    Brilliant!
  15. +22
    28 July 2025 06: 32
    And yet, there are many "military specialists" among us who have a broad profile and who know very well how to conduct military operations. This is probably a feature of Russian furniture.

    Not a bad start, by which the author is immediately guessed. Of course, it is Alexander Staver, of course, a new article from the category that "everything is going according to plan" or "and we haven't even started yet". Where the poor and wretched can learn the intricacies of deep strategy. How can one not remember an army joke here...
    General:
    - I see, comrade soldier, you are too smart.
    - Who, me?
    - Well, not me!
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  17. +9
    28 July 2025 07: 07
    I read a lot of different materials and comments on the site - I have never seen anyone write - forward in such columns to Kyiv. Where did the author of this libel get all this from? And the majority of readers have always correctly asked a fair question - why is the enemy's logistics and leadership not being knocked out? And this does not require great sacrifices. Only will and correct use of available resources. But the super-corrupt political system of Russia is not capable of this.
  18. +5
    28 July 2025 07: 27
    Soldiers in the 4th year of the SVO are fighting on horses and motorcycles. Soon it will be August, the hinzirs will go to hell again.
  19. -12
    28 July 2025 07: 31
    Quote: Streck
    alexputnik17

    .... The President said, .....He said it more than once

    Let's order.
    In our kingdom-kingdom not everything is normal or good.
    "We will not allow NATO expansion." A figure of speech. There were many other words there. The Russian Federation cannot gradually (note, not becoming, but becoming sovereign) hit Finland or Sweden with a powerful loaf of bread. You are proposing this. To me, NATO is not about war, but about money. The entire economy of this "garden" is about controlling the resources of other countries and trade routes. It has been like this for centuries. And each time, someone got it from Russia. In WWII, they fought with the Germans, now they are fighting with the Ukrainians. The Saxons fought. And who pumped up impoverished Germany before and during WWII?
    Austria has never been a neutral country in real life. One failed artist from there. In 1938 it was part of Nazi Germany. Neutrality was declared at the end of the war. All the meetings, squabbles over a separate peace took place there. To save more Nazis.
    Having joined NATO, Sweden and Finland are doing well? Yes, closer, yes nearby, and is it better for them, the state, the people, the economy, security? Formally, they conducted exercises without this.
    About the "pension reform" VVP said "it won't happen now" and a bunch of different words. What is he, the Lord God or something? We had two waves of demographic pits. 1941-45 and the 90s, which, in my opinion, were worse than in the Great Patriotic War.
    "Fast-growing welfare of citizens." I don't remember that. He could speak softly. But I don't want to go back to the 90s. Never. Although I felt pretty good there, having come back from the army, having changed my profession dramatically, having studied (apparently not with a head that was broken in the SA) at the institute, etc.
    You can throw slippers. That means you know more than me. And probably more than GDP. What policy to pursue, domestic and foreign.
    Another issue is that the Russian economy is being rebuilt slowly. Especially because it is run by people. The same people from the 90s, according to the IMF template and other such idiots. There is a vice-speaker in the Duma, Babakov, for example. Not the last person. He explains on his fingers what needs to be done. But the Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance cannot. And they cannot and do not want to explain to ordinary people, on their fingers and balls, why it is so bad.
    That's when the indicator will not be the banks' income from super profits, but the income and growth of production, then grace will come to the kingdom.
    But I don't want to go to another country. It will be worse there. And I won't go to Europe even for free. That's how it is.
    1. -1
      28 July 2025 09: 21
      Quote: alexputnik17
      The entire economy of this so-called “garden” is based on the control of the resources of foreign countries and trade routes.

      exactly!.. a couple of years ago the CEO of Total said that resources for sustainable development of the country must simultaneously meet 3 conditions: they must be abundant, cheap and sovereign... Europe taken separately does not have these (I would even say with some stretch that it does not have any of them, not to mention all 3 at once) and throughout its history it has compensated for this deficiency by robbery (abundant and cheap) and sovereign appropriation of the stolen / plundered territory... now it has become more difficult, but the need, it has not gone away :)
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    3. +7
      28 July 2025 09: 37
      Excuse me, but did the Finns and Swedes suddenly feel worse after joining NATO? And how? NATO is not only and not so much about money, although let's be honest until 2022 it was a decrepit structure, NATO budgets as an organization were decreasing every year, the charter requirements for expenses were also decreasing, after 2022 a new explosive growth of everything and everyone connected with the military began, now citizens do not need any special explanations why a new tank is better than beautiful flower beds in the city center ... and the worst thing of all this is that we clearly demonstrated that all their "cranberries" in the movies are not so far from the truth ...
      Regarding the economy - I remember in 2003 or 2004, the PVV promised that in 15 years Russia would surpass Portugal, one of the poorest EU countries, in terms of nominal GDP per citizen. At that time, the ratio was about 22000/7000, now it is 23000/10000 dead US presidents, although much more time has passed... and the Central Bank and others cannot cope and do not explain anything to anyone for the simple reason that they cannot tell people that their entire problem is spending on the SVO. The country is simply drowning in money that is not backed by anything. According to official data, 2024 thousand people have signed contracts for 450 alone, this is almost a TRILLION in lifting costs alone, or about 3% of the budget, from an ECONOMIC point of view, this is money wasted...
      PS: in general, we need to make a decision - we either do something for the result or we fold, go our separate ways and count our losses. And standing and waiting for "your enemy's corpse" to float past on the river does not bring anything good, but the author cannot say that, so he suggests waiting...
  20. +16
    28 July 2025 07: 42
    The basic principle of bourgeois commerce. Throw it on the fan and the article's traffic will increase several times. Dear site administration, return the minuses for the articles, let's be democratic
  21. +15
    28 July 2025 07: 47
    Well, if the main optimist, Mr. Staver, started such a song, then, apparently, things are really bad.
  22. +5
    28 July 2025 07: 52
    In general, everything that the government's propagandists say and write is completely meaningless. Here, our "leader" wants to continue everything, and they chant in unison that everything must be continued, and when he wants to finish everything, they will praise him in unison for deciding to finish, and with "indignation" they will "brand with shame" those who are for continuing.
  23. -11
    28 July 2025 08: 28
    Bravo, author! Don't listen to f... experts! Slowly and surely, we're killing the Ukrainian Nazi scum! But we need more and DIFFERENT means of destruction... Behind the lines, EVERYONE to the last one must firmly know and believe that we'll kill everything and everyone, no matter what threat there is to our existence, our rules, and that we'll use EVERYTHING we have for this. So far, our enemies don't have this confidence... and to a large extent, it's our fault... and our misfortune!
  24. +12
    28 July 2025 08: 44
    Quote: Per se.
    There was a country, the Soviet Union, which did not abandon its allies and had real power.

    Yes!
    Our regiment of Tu-16 naval missile carriers was preparing to strike China.
    I personally prepared maps for the missile strike on Beijing.
  25. +5
    28 July 2025 08: 54
    Let me remind you that according to official USSR data, our losses during the capture of Berlin (from April 16 to May 8, 1945) amounted to 352 people. Of these, 475th - 200 people. I will not even write about 78 tanks, 291 planes, 1997 guns. But one question. Are we ready to give so many lives for Kyiv? Our lives...

    I wonder how many the Nazis and the Allies lost? Without these figures, this statement is false and provocative.
  26. +4
    28 July 2025 08: 55
    In general, the head has shown itself, according to the opinion of the authors of the comments, to be ineffective. Maybe the volume of the brain in the cranium no longer corresponds to the volume of knowledge received?..

    well, how?
    if there is news like this:
    "Belarusian Silovik" writes that in Kondratovka in the Sumy direction, fighters from the 30th MSP were killed in encirclement - they held their positions until the very end, but unfortunately they were unable to break through to them.

    didn't see, didn't know, maybe were on a coffee break? did it happen suddenly?
    As long as there is such an attitude towards guys, there will be no attitude towards those for whom the author stands up...
    there is no justification for such planning - not "from the couch"
    1. -3
      28 July 2025 09: 52
      "Belarusian Silovik" writes that in Kondratovka in the Sumy direction, fighters from the 30th MSP were killed in encirclement - they held their positions until the very end, but unfortunately they were unable to break through to them.
      This is the only place where the Sumerians managed to push back our troops, recapturing 2 villages. And this was done by concentrating the SSO forces, the most qualified in the ranks of Sumeria. Earlier, they stabilized the front near Volchansk. The Sumerians do not spare elite troops in the Sumy and Kharkov regions. And in other directions they retreat.
      1. +10
        28 July 2025 09: 56
        This is the only place where the Sumerians managed to push back our troops, recapturing 2 villages.

        I mean that the guys died and died in front of the eyes of those who were supposed to get them out...
        but the author is worried about the "sofas"...
        There aren't enough people as it is, and then...
        1. +15
          28 July 2025 09: 57
          I mean that the guys died and died in front of the eyes of those who were supposed to get them out...
          but the author is worried about the "sofas"...
          There aren't enough people as it is, and then...
          He is such an author that I have been reading only comments about him for a long time now.
          1. +9
            28 July 2025 09: 59
            This is the kind of author that I have been swearing by for a long time now.I only read comments to him.

            Unfortunately nothing changes...
      2. -4
        28 July 2025 12: 41
        As many as two khokhlobots - minus-takers have emerged, they don’t like that the creeping offensive is still going on.
  27. +15
    28 July 2025 09: 00
    It is surprising that such a respected publication as VO publishes such contradictory articles with a touch of thuggery. What did the author want to say? That they should sit and keep their heads down. Those at the top know better what to do and how to act. And this despite the fact that the army has been butting heads with evaders and busified people for more than three years with, to put it mildly, dubious results. I consider this article as part of a program to justify mistakes, miscalculations, and even crimes of the state leadership.
    1. +11
      28 July 2025 09: 54
      I consider this article as part of a program to justify mistakes and miscalculations
      They write about what they pay for. Social order, however.
      1. +12
        28 July 2025 10: 10
        If at least they pay, then this can be understood. Not justified, but understood. But if such thoughts are born out of convictions, then this is much more terrible.
        1. +9
          28 July 2025 10: 13
          There are no convictions there, just: "What would you like?"
          1. +3
            28 July 2025 13: 47
            Well then it turns out that for money and other perks. This is disgusting but understandable. In the style - after us, even the deluge.
            1. +1
              28 July 2025 14: 19
              Well then it turns out that for money and other perks. This is disgusting but understandable.
              Such individuals are encountered at every step. Even among the authors of VO.
              1. +2
                28 July 2025 16: 31
                I have a journalist friend who started working for Yushchenko's team back in 2004 during the first Maidan. He was neither fish nor fowl, but then suddenly he flared up with righteous anger. I don't know the details of the collaboration, I won't lie, but after the victory of the Orange, he and his wife moved to England. They bought a house. Then they got divorced with all the consequences, but that's a completely different story.
                1. 0
                  28 July 2025 17: 12
                  The journalists are well paid, especially when their sponsor wins. And the population eats their waste products with a shovel.
  28. BAI
    +11
    28 July 2025 09: 10
    If everything is correct at the front, why do they storm the frontal fortifications of populated areas for months? And nothing remains of the point and the losses are huge.
    Has the cauldron for the breakthrough Ukrainian groups ever been implemented? (In Kursk, near Kharkov, etc.)
    And all because (a terrible secret - especially for the author), our troops (and commanders) are fighting according to the 1941 guidelines - TO OCCUPATE AND HOLD TERRITORY. But we should be fighting according to the guidelines of the Wehrmacht that lost the war - DESTRUCTION OF THE ENEMY'S MAN POWER.
    But how can we use the experience of the defeated enemy? We won, we laid everything down in the Charters, and the fact that the victory was not achieved in the most rational way is not important, the war will write everything off, the winners are not judged.
    The front is 1200 km. Can anyone explain why everything is stuck at one point, where the enemy has pulled up reserves and we've been marking time for months?
    Why can't we find a weak spot on the 1200 km section and strike there?
    The same Germans, if they encountered stubborn resistance, changed the location of the attack and bypassed those who stubbornly resisted, who ended up surrounded.
    The same Halder wrote in his diary: the Russians will do us a great favor if they stubbornly resist.
    We have the same problem with maneuver warfare as in 1941.
    Moreover, there are restrictions that were impossible in 1941-45:
    1. Match-fixing.
    2. No counteraction to technical intelligence of 3 countries in favor of Ukraine. The regulations provide for a war when everyone will be knocked out by nuclear weapons and the only means of communication will be cable communication and not a single satellite. But this is not the case.
    1. 0
      28 July 2025 09: 18
      If everything is correct at the front, why are settlements being stormed for months?

      Yes, because there is no air superiority and we cannot gather forces for a concentrated strike, since a missile and artillery strike is immediately launched against a concentration of troops and equipment - we have not won in the counter-battery fight, just as we could not cope with the reconnaissance UAVs. So we are forced to fight in small groups, hiding in the buildings of villages and towns, otherwise, when advancing across open terrain, we will find ourselves under artillery fire, adjusted from drones ... a tactical snag without air superiority
      1. BAI
        +9
        28 July 2025 09: 24
        That's not the question. What, in the absence of air superiority, is it possible to storm a strongly fortified point, but not a weakly fortified one?
        Why can't small groups attack a weak defensive midfielder, but should we push against a strong one?
    2. -2
      28 July 2025 09: 46
      Quote: BAI
      Why can't we find a weak spot on the 1200 km section and strike there?

      but bourgeois analysts believe that this is exactly what the Russians do (in general), not having an overwhelming numerical superiority, they find (or organize a diversionary manner) a weak spot, and they strike there... when the "awakened" enemy brings reserves there, the activity in this area dies down and manifests itself somewhere else... it's called maneuver warfare and yes, it's not fast...
      in their opinion, what you described is typical in this war specifically for the Ukrainian army, like "hold, not a step back and don't let go at any cost"

      the book that immediately comes to mind is colonel jacques beau's "operation zed", former official representative of switzerland at nato headquarters in brussels (switzerland itself is not in nato, but has its own representative-observer there), but there are others
      1. 0
        29 July 2025 10: 48
        a view from the "other side" and "from today" - military expert, volunteer officer Maksym Sharin: the Ukrainian command has to "scrape the bottom of the barrel", removing its formations from the "calm" sections of the LBS, which immediately become "restless".

        "This tactic is now called 'split', when the Russian Armed Forces feel for a weakness in the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defense and strike there. The enemy is forced to transfer reinforcements here, and we immediately strike in another place," the officer explains.
    3. +8
      28 July 2025 10: 14
      God bless him and 1941. Let me remind you that while there were no generals, and Donetsk miners fought from 2014 to the fall of 2022, there were both offensives and cauldrons for the Ukrainians. No one talked about grinding. And now they have discovered a new word in tactics, meat assaults.
      1. -1
        29 July 2025 11: 55
        Understanding tactical maneuvering, combat by units, parts and subdivisions of various branches of the armed forces is an ability that people with combat experience have. With all due respect to the Donetsk miners and to representatives of working professions in general, military art cannot be mastered in a coal mine. And why is this not the case now? Because before, one grandmaster sat at the chessboard, and since 2022, it has been a duel of grandmasters.
    4. -2
      28 July 2025 22: 58
      Sorry, you wrote nonsense about a war of maneuver. In 1941, the Red Army could not wage a war of maneuver due to its low motorization, weak reconnaissance and lack of air superiority. And for the same Rzhev in 1942, the Germans bit their teeth and fought for territory.
  29. +9
    28 July 2025 09: 14
    Think before you speak or write
    - That's right, Staver. Articles in the form of a stream of consciousness at the level of an extended forum post, as a form of expressing one's own illiteracy on the topic.
    In general, do we need a quick breakthrough or not? What would change in the balance of power, for example, taking Kharkov or Dnepropetrovsk? Even Kyiv? Let me remind you again about the tasks of the SVO. Is it worth the losses that are possible during the offensive?
    it's not far from "why did we start it then, and why are we continuing it?" After all, now the positional war has maximally militarized and raised Nazism in the Ukraine to the heights, and behind it, Europe is slowly but steadily preparing. Isn't that right, captain?
  30. +4
    28 July 2025 09: 41
    Whatever you say, in all wars you need to fight, not stand around smoking. The point of any war is to achieve results and win. And what about us, the generals sent soldiers to the front lines just like that, without any ephemeral goals. For 3 years now, they have been basically marking time in one place. Shame, it's hard to find other words. Let the author name at least one war that was fought in a similar vein, except for the Korean one. By the way, it is still classified and there is no one who could make progress in this regard. C'est la vie al-da France.
    1. +3
      28 July 2025 11: 41
      Quote: koralevviktor
      Let the author name at least one war that was fought in a similar manner, except Korean.

      Why do you say that about the Korean War? The campaign was very dynamic, thrice swinging like a pendulum across the entire peninsula, until it reached positional equilibrium.
      It would be better to use WWI as an example here.
      1. +1
        28 July 2025 15: 20
        Actually, I meant the war of the early 20th century. Then our troops also had a noticeable success at the beginning of the war, but in the end everything led to minor advances. Everything is the same as in a modern war. That war, which was within the framework of the Russo-Japanese War.
      2. 0
        28 July 2025 15: 25
        Take WWI, there were big losses, but there was also significant progress. At the beginning of the war, the Germans had only a few dozen divisions, and later they had to transfer them to about a hundred. At the end of the war, they had to keep about 120-130 divisions on the Eastern Front, not counting all the weapons that could be useful on the Western Front. And there was something to hack there.
    2. 0
      28 July 2025 18: 19
      Let the author name at least one war that was fought in a similar manner, except for the Korean one.

      It reminds me of the Iran-Iraq war.
      The same trench battles using both the latest types of weapons and weapons that the soldiers’ grandfathers used.
      1. -1
        28 July 2025 22: 51
        Well, the Iran-Iraq war is something completely different. After all, we participated in it indirectly. That's a plus for us. But those were the Soviets. Another country, other people. I meant with the participation of our country. Then Saddam pulled it off to the fullest. By the way, no one has appreciated that yet. For example, Israel didn't succeed at all quite recently. They killed a lot of specialists there, but Saddam managed to avoid it. Anachronistic, after all.
        1. 0
          30 July 2025 13: 41
          What did he achieve? Iraq, in fact, lost the campaign, the stated goals were not achieved. Although the US helped Iraq, by the way.
          1. 0
            30 July 2025 15: 04
            Learn history. America was interested in the defeat of Iraq. Basically, all positions were surrendered under pressure from the international community. And most importantly, Saddam achieved the non-destruction of his own country. It was then that the foundations of the current US position in the region were laid.
  31. +7
    28 July 2025 10: 09
    First I think, then I speak or write. Only this way and no other way...

    Or maybe the author of the article will try to apply his advice in practice at least once? Or will we never see it? The armchair analyst blames armchair analysts. And it would be fine if he himself could at least succeed with forecasts and other analytics, but here it is a complete failure.
  32. +16
    28 July 2025 10: 13
    Let me remind you that according to official USSR data, our losses during the capture of Berlin (from April 16 to May 8, 1945) amounted to 352 people. Of these, 475th - 200 people. I will not even write about 78 tanks, 291 planes, 1997 guns. But one question. Are we ready to give so many lives for Kyiv? Our lives...

    In principle, the assessment of the level of analysis can be finished here. The author forgot that we, not for Berlin, for which at least 200 thousand fascist group fought to the last, but for Artemovsk, a much smaller city, gave 20 killed - and this is only "Wagner", not counting army units.
    Therefore, only Staver can say that today's methods of conducting military operations save our soldiers.
    1. +1
      29 July 2025 02: 39
      Quote: Andrey from Chelyabinsk
      In principle, the assessment of the level of analytics can be completed here.

      and for Artemovsk, a much smaller city, they gave up 20 killed - and that's just the Wagner

      A killer example, to be honest, it even moved me...
      It's a pity you can't give more than one star!
      1. +3
        29 July 2025 18: 19
        Believe me, I am not happy with my parallels. But you can't turn off your brain...
  33. +7
    28 July 2025 10: 14
    Let me remind you that according to official USSR data, our losses during the capture of Berlin (from April 16 to May 8, 1945) amounted to 352 people. Of these, 475th - 200 people. I will not even write about 78 tanks, 291 planes, 1997 guns. But one question. Are we ready to give so many lives for Kyiv? Our lives...


    The author forgot one thing. We have losses, but there is no result. There is a cemetery "in memory of the victims of January 9" not far from me. Until recently it was considered closed.
    Now a new quarter has opened there. How many of these are there in the whole of the Russian Federation?
    1. +5
      28 July 2025 14: 01
      Quote: vovochkarzhevsky
      Now a new quarter has opened there. How many of these are there in the whole of the Russian Federation?

      This is a very sad topic. I was at the cemetery last week, they were burying a soldier, a lot of people, they were shooting machine guns into the air... There was a big bus, everything would have been fine, what was so disconcerting was the banner across the entire rear window - "Join your own", against the background of a field with flags... They should at least think with their own heads, where and with what they are sending the transport.
      How many more of our men will be put down in this "grinding", instead of punching with a fist, poking with a spread palm and breaking fingers. And then there's the article, like, why are we rushing? For eight years since 2014, they've been chewing snot, recognizing the Banderites and the integrity of Ukraine, finally "woke up", portrayed Russia as an aggressor, smeared the blow, "blitzkrieg", here we fight, there we trade, later we'll formalize a deal. It's hard to find such a similarity in Russian history, what will descendants say about the organizers of this "SVO", that's the question...
      1. +2
        28 July 2025 14: 55
        They should at least think for themselves heads, where and with what the transport is sent.

        and their heads are for hats...
      2. +6
        28 July 2025 23: 04
        What can I say? The most shameful war in the history of the Russian state, it has already surpassed the Russo-Japanese war. It is shameful not for the soldiers, of course, they are fighting at the limit of their strength, but for the completely corrupt political system.
    2. 0
      30 July 2025 13: 44
      Quote: vovochkarzhevsky
      The author forgot one thing. We have losses, but there is no result.


      How could it not? And how many stubborn Banderovites have been turned into mincemeat? This is precisely the desired result.

      Clearly less than in Ukraine.
  34. +8
    28 July 2025 10: 39
    Author, don't blame others and attribute your fantasies to the readers of VO. You will never be able to wash yourself clean of "We won't surrender Kherson" followed by justification for surrender. And the example about Kursk region is a very bad example, since not 100 years have passed and everyone remembers perfectly well how and what happened.
  35. +9
    28 July 2025 10: 51
    The author may be shaping public opinion on the eve of the deal, but...
    I'm sick and tired of the victorious rhetoric in the media and on the Internet. They literally make us yeeeeep. Often during one news release, journalists don't contradict themselves, it's because they're so angry, what kind of idiot do they take me for? The trolling towards Ukrainians doesn't end there. But there's an aftertaste, as if I'm being trolled with all this.
    Think before you speak or write

    The authors of articles and videos, for the most part, don’t think at all.
  36. -1
    28 July 2025 11: 38
    Quote: Mykola Kovacs
    As a person who served in the army and went to war, I want to reveal to the author a terrible secret, which he will not guess even in a bad dream! War begins and ends exclusively and only for the sake of an offensive! This is the law of Humanity of all times. War for the sake of pushing on LBS mixed with drapes and pacification is an adventure, deception, a trap for criminals, thieves and swindlers who have seized power. Kaiser Wilhelm: "Sitting in defense, in a deep and comfortable trench, we will never enter Paris." All these long-term fussing and shooting along forest belts with complete disregard for the elementary laws of war leads to huge, senseless victims of Russian men. And they can get very angry someday.

    I completely agree with you. But how would you actually propose to tactically organize a major offensive with large masses of forces and resources? The situation at the front, as I understand it, is somewhat similar to the "positional deadlock" of 1917-18 on the Western Front of WWI.
    A separate question arises regarding the sufficiency of available forces and resources for such an offensive.
  37. -1
    28 July 2025 11: 42
    Outdated thinking. This is the first conflict in history with the mass use of unmanned vehicles, and this is what we should proceed from. If human reserves are limited in principle, then robots, theoretically, are not limited in quantity at all. The key to victory in such a conflict is the modern military-industrial complex, which allows for the production of unmanned and remotely controlled (with the possibility of direct control) military equipment in huge quantities.
    Let's imagine that we had several thousand unmanned aircraft with the characteristics of 1000-1000-1000 (range - speed - combat load), and every day and every night they would fly out several hundred of them, several times a day, and also at night, to enemy positions and to the near rear. Each one carries 4 FAB-250 or missiles. They would return to the airfield, reload and take off. Reconnaissance UAVs and repeaters would hang in the air continuously (changing). Let's start with this.
    So that only one reconnaissance SAM position, in one raid, 100 of these aircraft would fly in, in one raid only, and attack the SAM from different heights and directions, first with missiles, then with bombs. If they are not hit on the first attempt, a second attempt will fly in, another 100 units. Each aircraft carries 4 FAB-250, or 1 Kh-29 missile, or 1 UShKE (anti-missile missile).
    Also on the ground, light tanks, remotely controlled, with an automatic cannon of 30 mm or 57 mm. They also need several thousand pieces, and so that they act under the cover of light self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, like the Shilka, only with modern electronics, radar, automatic target acquisition, this is against UAVs. Also remotely controlled, the operators of such equipment sit 3-4 km away, in dugouts or kungs.
    And so let the offensive go THIS way, at least in 2 strategic directions
  38. +2
    28 July 2025 12: 19
    We have a significant layer of patriotically minded citizens who sincerely believe that the goals of the SVO can be achieved without seizing the entire territory of the former Ukraine. This is, of course, an illusion. Arguments about potential losses during the "storming of Kyiv" are shattered by the much greater losses to come if Bandera's Ukraine is left in the world.
    But now the key moment is not the capture of some separate territories, but the need to defeat the enemy army. Almost all of it is concentrated in the east of the former Ukraine. When it is destroyed, large cities can be taken in 1 day, leaving military police there to destroy the Bandera underground, and move on.
    1. +1
      28 July 2025 18: 25
      when it is destroyed, large cities can be taken in 1 day

      When do you think this might happen? Well, by 2030, 2035 or maybe 2040?
      1. -1
        30 July 2025 13: 45
        Even if it's in 2040. What matters is what will happen.
  39. -4
    28 July 2025 12: 27
    Quote: parma
    Excuse me, but did the Finns and Swedes suddenly feel worse after joining NATO?

    Well, I don't know about the Swedes, but the Finns went there to drink and to the shops and fill up with gas with the Balts. + watch videos of Russians living in Finland, how are things there with social services, finding a job and other delights of a peaceful life.
    Oops... A friend just came back from Corfu. He bought a Townhouse there. I wanted one too. It was a lucky break. The place is fabulous. 300 days of sun. He came back now and says it's not so great. The people are the same. Only the prices have become horrendous. I understand that the Greeks are different, but they are also NATO. So, not everything is colorful there. Just like with us. Only we are not interfering. They are interfering with us.
    And let me disagree. NATO is precisely about money. The structure itself is organized to cut up dough on a global scale. Missiles, hardware, technology - all good. But can you imagine an average American, European infantryman, ready to storm, fight with an equal enemy, be wounded or killed? Not special forces? I can't. So it's about money. Buy the national guard in Iraq, smash everything to pieces and sit on the pipe, burying everything around you in chaos. I won't cite other historical moments. Throw in the minuses.
    I am not saying that I am happy with the policy and what I would like to see in the Russian Federation. But I am saying that I do not have all the information about why and for what purpose such decisions are made. And I cannot have it.
    1. +3
      28 July 2025 13: 33
      Well, no one is living a colorful life now. Including our lovers of jamon and cheese. But you can live, and that's the main thing.
      But it’s also unfounded to think that no one will go there to storm… I wouldn’t put much faith in that.
    2. 0
      28 July 2025 14: 58
      Buy the National Guard in Iraq, smash everything to pieces and sit on the pipe, burying everything around you in chaos.

      the idea is clear, but we need to differentiate between who gets the "chips" and who gets the "pipe"...
  40. +2
    28 July 2025 12: 31
    Any war. Any conflict begins with a political decision. The SVO in Ukraine does not have a political decision of the Russian authorities. What does this mean? This means that this SVO does not exist legally, i.e. no one is responsible for it and all decisions on it are private, i.e. commercial. 3,5 years have passed since the SVO in Ukraine and there is still not a single legal document of the Russian Federation (law, decree, resolution) on the SVO in Ukraine. In which document is it written what the SVO is, what is the goal? What does the Russian Federation want from the SVO? Slogans and statements in the media, inscriptions on fences are not serious, this is for the illiterate, this is an attempt by the authorities to hide the true goal and whitewash themselves. What is the point of discussing the military, their actions, if there is no political decision on Ukraine. To win the war, you need to have:
    1) Desire.
    2) The enemy.
    3) Purpose.
    "Well, the Supreme Commander did not set such a task! There is no order to take Ukraine, to take Kyiv or any other city"
    If there is no order, then what happens? What is it called?
    "Evil thoughts about the imminent offensive of the Russian army in Ukraine"
    among all the people of Russia.
    I wrote here earlier. We need a law of the Russian Federation that will state that the entire territory of Ukraine, within the 1975 borders, is an integral part of Russia.
    In the presence of the Law, the military operation conducted by Russia in Ukraine is the liberation of the territory of Russia occupied by separatists, the restoration of the territorial integrity of Russia, the reunification of peoples, the inclusion of the economy, population, and territory of Ukraine in the sphere of economic activity of Russia. This is an understandable goal of the people.
  41. +10
    28 July 2025 13: 06
    Yes, Clausewitz and other theorists who proclaimed that a war is considered victorious only when a soldier's foot has fully set foot on enemy territory have been disgraced and thrown into the trash bin.
    I wonder, does the author believe in the figures of losses of the Ukrainian Wehrmacht that agitprop presents to us? And does he believe that our losses are tiny?
    For example, to my great chagrin, when I spoke with fellow soldiers of a comrade who died near Kherson, I was simply shocked by the scale of our losses. And especially that it was the drones of the Ukrainian Wehrmacht that dominated the air.
    I'm really interested, author seriously thinks that by marking time for years, you can defeat an enemy that has an UNINTERRUPTIBLE supply of equipment, weapons, ammunition and gear?
    И author seriously believes the disinformation that Western media is spreading about the depletion of reserves and the helplessness of their military-industrial complex?
    And does he seriously think that the notorious strategy of "grinding" exhausts only the Ukrainian Wehrmacht, and does not lead to colossal losses on our side as well? When the notorious "battles for the forester's hut" last for months. And an advance of several hundred meters in a week is presented as such a grandiose success that the creators of Operation Bagration or Iasi-Kishinev should nervously smoke on the sidelines and howl at the moon with envy.
    I remember one of these strategists seriously reasoning that encircling the enemy is a bad idea. He said that the enemy will fight desperately when surrounded.
    They asked how long he could hold out without supplies with his despair. The answer simply killed him, like, why would he be without supplies. That is, the "expert" doesn't even get that encirclement is, first of all, depriving the enemy of all sources of supplies. After which it became absolutely clear that his level of military knowledge is below the baseboard.
  42. +10
    28 July 2025 13: 41
    The bad analyst Staver correctly works out the agenda - "The samurai has no goal, only the path. And they are to blame for everything." Reading these hurray opuses, you notice one interesting detail, how these non-couch experts are trying to "stretch an owl onto a globe", as a result we get nonsense - such a hodgepodge, a porridge, where sound logic and cause-and-effect relationships are lost after a couple of paragraphs. .. We do not attack because we can't ... or we don't want to - because we can't do it this way ..., but we also don't want to, because the Supreme Commander did not order ... or we don't want to because we are saving the soldiers ... and in general we need it.
  43. -5
    28 July 2025 13: 42
    Quote: Russian_Ninja
    Well, no one is living a colorful life now. Including our lovers of jamon and cheese. But you can live, and that's the main thing.
    But it is also unfounded to assume that no one will go there to storm

    I'll tell you a military secret. The Spanish make jamon, among other things, from 404 pigs. And there's a ton of jamon and cheese in the Russian Federation. Both European and domestic. I sometimes buy farm cheese. But usually Russian cheese is fine. No one has even filed a patent for it since the beginning of the USSR.
    And to storm... I don't want to get into arguments and polemics... History is enough. God willing, if anything happens, the Russian Federation will not storm and coddle these people.
  44. +5
    28 July 2025 14: 49
    Well, the Supreme Commander did not set such a task! There is no order to take Ukraine, to take Kyiv or any other city!

    Well, of course! As usual, everything is written correctly! He didn't order it!
    Only Staver forgot to indicate what the supreme leader of the Russian nation ordered his voters.
    It seems to me that the leader set the task of enduring.
    To endure daily attacks from the Ukrainians on our territory.
    Tolerate the impoverishment of the population due to sanctions, key rates, the squeezing of Russian gold and foreign exchange reserves and other nonsense.
    Tolerate the replacement migration of the population to the savages, because our people are fighting.
    Endure the transport collapse of recent weeks.
    To tolerate the lies and theft of his cronies.
    To endure the humiliation of the Russian state from almost all former satellites (except, perhaps, Belarus).
    To endure the cheerful pissing of red lines and other artistic efforts by Westerners from all sorts of official structures of the country.
    To endure endless tax increases, fees and other levies on the population.
    Tolerate the extinction of the indigenous population (we even had to keep Rosstat data secret, because the rate of extinction makes your hair stand on end).
    Well, and finally, to tolerate the endless leader, because if not him, then the cat?!

    Did I forget anything? I think my list is not complete, my colleagues will add more.
    1. -6
      28 July 2025 15: 09
      Quote: Mishka78
      I think my list is not complete, my colleagues will add more

      A smart person (and you know him, no doubt) wrote me a personal message about people like you. I'll send it here, I think he won't be offended:

      In the process of "shaking pipes" citizenship and registration are of no small importance, and if the horizon of foresight is limited by faith in anonymity and is not limited in generating d-ma in relation to the country of residence, then there is a high probability that polite people with an FSB badge can knock on the door with a sledgehammer

      You, this, keep in mind Yes
  45. +6
    28 July 2025 15: 18
    Can you tell by the title which propagandist wrote the article? I can ))
  46. 0
    28 July 2025 15: 27
    Let me remind you that according to official USSR data, our losses during the capture of Berlin (from April 16 to May 8, 1945) amounted to 352 people. Of these, 475th - 200 people. I will not even write about 78 tanks, 291 planes, 1997 guns. But one question. Are we ready to give so many lives for Kyiv? Our lives...
    These are the losses of three fronts in the Berlin operation, not only Berlin. They accomplished the main task, they did not allow the retreat of the main German troops into the city itself.
    1. +1
      28 July 2025 20: 34
      I would like to know our losses. I predict: over 100 thousand killed. One Wagner officially announced over 20 thousand. Maybe you want to say that the others lost less? Our troops suffered major losses during the capture of Mariupol, while repelling the "counteroffensive" in 2023.
      1. +2
        28 July 2025 23: 10
        This figure can now be safely multiplied by 2
        1. +1
          29 July 2025 10: 36
          This figure can now be safely multiplied by 2

          It is quite possible. There are still some shots in the army about which they sang: "When I put on my shoulder belt, I get dumber and dumber..." Because of which there are unjustified losses.
  47. -3
    28 July 2025 16: 50
    Quote: Puncher
    Quote: Mykola Kovacs
    War begins and ends exclusively and only for the sake of an offensive! This is the law of Humanity of all times. War for the sake of pushing on LBS mixed with drapes and pacification is an adventure, deception, a trap for criminals, thieves and swindlers who have seized power.

    In 1979, China entered the war with Vietnam. Within a month, it became clear that the war could drag on, and the Chinese declared that they had won and left the captured territories. That is, having started the war and faced serious opposition, they ended the war. That is, as we see, they ended the war by retreating.

    You don't know history well, in particular of this conflict. The Chinese stopped when the units and formations of the USSR Armed Forces moved through Mongolian territory towards the northern border of China with the Mongolian People's Republic. bully
  48. -2
    28 July 2025 18: 56
    1. For some reason there are a lot of emotions.
    2. The reasoning is unexpectedly sound.

    3. What conclusions can be drawn?
    Not only will the capture of Kyiv not solve anything.
    Even the capture of the entire former Ukraine will not solve anything.
    We don't need a Pyrrhic victory.

    We need to eliminate our technological gap with the NATO bloc.

    And this is an internal task. Before grandiose victories outside, one must win inside.

    And who to defeat?
    To defeat all those forces that hinder technological development.

    Their passivity or frantic activity is not for the benefit of the development of our country.

    These are the conclusions, gentlemen comrades.
    1. +1
      28 July 2025 19: 42
      Doesn't the feudal-capitalist system bother you?
      1. -9
        28 July 2025 22: 56
        It's simply shocking to think how Rus' stood before 1917, without Marxism.
        1. -1
          29 July 2025 08: 42
          Thanks, I laughed. So, the Soviets of Soldiers' and Peasants' Deputies of 1917 are Marxism? Did you study at the CIA school?
          1. -3
            29 July 2025 10: 00
            Your train of thought defies logical comprehension. Have you stopped drinking cognac in the mornings?
            1. +1
              29 July 2025 10: 06
              Keep being rude, what can you expect from such people - brain-lazy people...)))
  49. +4
    28 July 2025 20: 29
    I will not repeat the tasks of the SVO for the thousandth time. I will simply ask, are they being carried out today or not? The answer, I think, is obvious.

    The answer is not at all obvious. Are the SVO tasks being fulfilled? Well, if 500 sq km per month, then it will take about 2,5 months to fulfill the task, i.e. until 2029, which is what NATO is planning. Will the Russian economy survive by that time? Perhaps, but it will be in ruins. That is the price of squeezing out, which for some reason is called, both appropriately and irrelevantly, an offensive.
    1. -2
      28 July 2025 22: 29
      You know the purpose and tasks of the SVO in Ukraine. I would be grateful if you provide a link to the document.
      1. 0
        29 July 2025 10: 33
        Listen and read the president (VVP). And let there be a document for you. And everything will become clear to you. And as for the orders of the Ministry of Defense, we are not allowed to see them.
        1. -2
          29 July 2025 13: 12
          Why the mockery? The orders of the Ministry of Defense are not for us, they are an internal document. The goal and strategy are determined by politicians. The Ministry of Defense, the executor.
  50. +1
    28 July 2025 21: 48
    I believe the Author would have included Ilya Muromets among the "stove warriors".
  51. +2
    28 July 2025 22: 57
    Pure into space ...
    Before sitting down on the sofa, many of those present had given more than a dozen years to military service, and not in the "Arbat Military District", but in places that were previously called "hot" and where a day was worth three... Yes, not the same scale, not the same tactics and not the same weapons, and not the same fighters... but the desire to punch in the face ironed and clean subjects from the distant rear remained the same... because the question - "Why do you have no field visual propaganda at combat positions?" - at first puts you into a stupor, and then into a state of the previously stated desire.
    This is not taken out of thin air or invented. This is the reality of the SVO.
  52. +3
    28 July 2025 23: 50
    does an ordinary Russian have the right to express his own opinion on a website about the current situation in his country?.....why was this website created?...like, everyone together in a single impulse?...demonstrating universal unity?
    It is possible to shut people up en masse. We have already been through this many times. Nothing good came out of it. Yes, a person can make mistakes situationally, emotionally, in the moment, using tendentious, unverified information, but strategically changing the internal conviction of an adult, an established person is extremely difficult. The author of the post is cruelly mistaken. Shutting everyone's mouth without exception is extremely dangerous for the existence of the country itself. Internal problems are much more dangerous than external ones.
    1. 0
      29 July 2025 08: 37
      It's just that the author of this opus is Katz. And he suggests surrendering...))
  53. 0
    28 July 2025 23: 51
    I wonder, when generals take bribes 🤔 especially large ones, are they spreading enemy propaganda?
  54. 0
    29 July 2025 00: 26
    It's somehow difficult to understand all this.
  55. -1
    29 July 2025 11: 32
    The Achilles heel is the economy, and the worst thing is that the West has also understood this.
  56. 0
    29 July 2025 13: 23
    Quote: Illanatol
    How, how... this can be done by completely exhausting the human resources of Ukraine. And control of territories is a secondary matter.
    So, let's go from the opposite. The Russian army conducts a successful offensive, takes Kyiv and even Lvov. Millions of convinced Banderites remain on the occupied territory.
    Your suggestions - what to do with them?
    To re-educate them? "Guys, let's live in peace"?
    Restore the GULAG and send these crazy people to lumber camps or mines? Is this realistic? Will it work?
    Create your own "Auschwitz" and send the Bandar-logs to crematoria and gas chambers? Organize mass executions?
    Well, are there any other "methods against the Saprykins"?
    "Announce the entire list, please."

    Alas, but the most realistic, albeit harsh, option is: "war to the last Ukrainian". Total overkill.
    Personally, I don’t see any other real options.

    hi. there are methods
    send to Canada, they accept all covids there
    ban the Ukrainian language, education and office work only in Russian
    3: closing of Uniate churches and transfer of temples to the Russian Orthodox Church, the Patriarch of All Rus' (and also to rein in the Catholics a little)
    4 well, especially violent ones under ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, you know what under
    1. 0
      29 July 2025 13: 35
      Quote: Ivan Kuzmich
      Quote: Illanatol
      How, how... this can be done by completely exhausting the human resources of Ukraine. And control of territories is a secondary matter.
      So, let's go from the opposite. The Russian army conducts a successful offensive, takes Kyiv and even Lvov. Millions of convinced Banderites remain on the occupied territory.
      Your suggestions - what to do with them?
      To re-educate them? "Guys, let's live in peace"?
      Restore the GULAG and send these crazy people to lumber camps or mines? Is this realistic? Will it work?
      Create your own "Auschwitz" and send the Bandar-logs to crematoria and gas chambers? Organize mass executions?
      Well, are there any other "methods against the Saprykins"?
      "Announce the entire list, please."

      Alas, but the most realistic, albeit harsh, option is: "war to the last Ukrainian". Total overkill.
      Personally, I don’t see any other real options.

      hi. there are methods
      send to Canada, they accept all covids there
      ban the Ukrainian language, education and office work only in Russian
      3: closing of Uniate churches and transfer of temples to the Russian Orthodox Church, the Patriarch of All Rus' (and also to rein in the Catholics a little)
      4 well, especially violent ones under ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, you know what under

      5 and at least camps should be sent to places from where they do not return
      in Chechnya the issue was resolved without trials and investigations all the militants were liquidated during detention because the jury began to acquit them
      and after that all the partisan activity came to naught (plus financial influences)
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        30 July 2025 08: 02
        Are you sure that all the guerrilla warfare in the North Caucasus has died down? But there is a suspicion that some embers remain and everything could flare up again if the circumstances become favorable.
        Well, financial injections are still too expensive. Okay, Chechnya, it's not big. But Ukraine will be bigger, and the Russian Federation has already shaken off some of the fat.
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      30 July 2025 07: 58
      1. It is not a fact that Canadians will accept everyone.
      2. Unfortunately, among the die-hards there are plenty of those who prefer Russian.
      3. It won't work. The religious factor shouldn't be overestimated. And paganism is already beginning to flourish on Zalezhnaya.
      4. "Only mass executions will save the Motherland"? Alas, even under Stalin it was necessary to observe moderation in this matter. At present - it will not work at all. The only acceptable method of mass destruction is protracted military actions.
      You know, even the completely insolent Israel does not use such methods. And what could be simpler: herd all the Palestinians into one heap - and machine guns, machine guns... but no, we have to "fight Islamic terrorism."

      Either it is not very realistic or not effective enough.
  57. -1
    29 July 2025 13: 31
    Quote: Alexey Lantukh
    I would like to know our losses. I predict: over 100 thousand killed. One Wagner officially announced over 20 thousand. Maybe you want to say that the others lost less? Our troops suffered major losses during the capture of Mariupol, while repelling the "counteroffensive" in 2023.

    hello losses of the Russian army killed approximately 0,08-0,1 percent of the country's population
    judged the losses suffered by my fellow countrymen in the area during this time
  58. -1
    29 July 2025 15: 02
    Victory lies in the change of power in Ukraine!
    Collective West - get out, restore the Government loyal to us!!!
    But there is no one to come out to the Ukrainians with cookies: everyone is in Rostov....
  59. +1
    29 July 2025 15: 02
    "We didn't promise you anything." Classic. Dislike.
  60. -2
    30 July 2025 02: 40
    The author did not mention what they teach in military schools: do they remove energy and bottlenecks in transport communications (bridges, terminals, tunnels, etc.) during war?
    Or just organizing battles or avoiding them in LBs?
    And what about working on sea communications, and creating problems and troubles for the allies of your enemy?
  61. -1
    2 August 2025 22: 11
    Never mind, school holidays will soon be over and normal articles and normal comments will start coming. Some will go to school, others will be busy helping their students with homework. Just over a month left and everything will settle down.
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    5 August 2025 00: 32
    judging by the history of the conflict and the steps taken, the military-political leadership does not intend to inflict a military defeat on the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which means there is no talk of any "denazification" or other "de-". Military experts can independently characterize the offensive on the enemy's most fortified positions without the prospect of large-scale encirclements as the chosen strategy