Thread by @JBelcourt73

Wow, I wake up to THE HEAD of Russia @AKorybko calling for the head of nothing to investigate @AdamKinzinger for his ties to a grassroots movement that opposes genocide and wars of territorial aggression. Thats actually really funny given all the real crimes THE HEAD is Ok with.

no complaint about torture chambers, forced kidnappings, shopping malls on targeting lists, kids killed on their way to speech therapy.... nope. A funny meme showing THE HEAD wearing a T-90 turret as a hat.... demands investigations. Talk about jumping the potato. Also in my feed

this morning are more people calling for some version of, "we make Ukraine give up and reward Russia for nuclear blackmail". Though thankfully there is one less since Kim Dotcommie blocked me. What they all have in common is they are doing Russia's work in looking for a way out.

Russia is in a no-win situation. While NATO and the West's weapons supplies are drawing down and it will be some time before production catches up in Russia the situation is worse. The combination of corruption, sanctions, low morale and technological inferiority means the means

war as a contest of wills and attrition do not exist in Russia. Russia has vast stocks of old stuff, but enough to sustain her efforts? I don't think so. I have already pointed out that I think there is a 125mm tank gun ammunition crisis. Her artillery fire has slackened off as

HIMARS wrecks her logistics and hundreds of thousands of Russian men are running for their lives looking for ways out of Russia. Each man who jumps the border becoming a permament loss to Russia just as final as one who gets converted to sunflower duty in Ukraine.

This is a war of attrition and Russia has deliberately seeded the conflcit with the generational hate that Ukraine needs to sustain her own morale which will keep her own numbers up. Even if western support dried up today the combination of Russian donations, white hot rage and

skill the Ukrainians display means the only result would be an even longer bloodier war before Russia folds. Ukraine is never going to give up. Russia's response to this fact of attrition has been to deny it exists. Though a unfiied command is something they should have done

6 months or more before they invaded they didn't and they dulled whatever edge the Russian military had in wasteful ways from attacking into the face of mud season and the Azovstal fortress to the endless assaults before the gates of Bakhmut. Whats left is a conscript army

with vintage equipment and napoleonic tactics. No general can save this. They should have read Dr, Cathal Nolan's "The Allure of Battle". Rather than hoping for a 3 day SMO they should have prepared long ago for the long war. They didn't. Neither did Ukraine, but Ukraine survived

the first punch and didn't give up, then she mobalized her society and friends for war, the long war. She also began building that other factor that dooms the agressor, the coalition. In this case the coalition already exists in the form of NATO. NATO is not fighting Russia, not

yet, even Russia for all the stupidity has not been willing to go that far. Instead Russia is locked into the downward spiral where Ukraine's supporters provide the material means for Ukraine to attrit Russia into defeat. Meanwhile sanctions choke off her ability to recover and

the multi-layered corruption saps her will. So how will the war end? Exhuastion or collapse? I predicted that Ukraine would use a bite and hold strategy and that has born out, bites here, bites there some big some small but everywhere Russia backfooted. The war has clearly

become unwinnable becuase Russia's secret weapons of vast reserves of manpower via Central Asia's captive populations and a bottomless well of material and ammuntion have not lived up to the hype. At the same time Russian assumptions about Ukraine's will to resist proved to be

badly mistaken. The war Russia is in today is a classic example of Dr. Nolan's thesis about attrition not genius winning war between peer/neer peer enemies. He would be a really good speaker on the @MriyaReport if anyone has the gravitas to convince him to speak to us.

Now its time to change gears a bit. It seems one of the orginal OG #Fellas has some skeletons in his closet. The Vatniks and Russian apologia machine have seized on this in an attempt to achive 2 goals. 1. discredit #NAFO and 2. use the bruhaha to divert attemtion away from the

evil that is Russian behavior in Ukraine. Make no mistake. @Kama_Kamilia is not NAFO et al, he is a fallible human being. He stands of falls on his own merits and appears to regret his earlier associations. That should be the end of it as it regards Ukraine but no. The trolls

want to use him as the latest #whataboutism what about kama is no different than what about Iraq or what about this or that. Noe of it matters, what matters are towns ripped apart by Russian bombs, kidnapped kids, wrecked familes, bodies in the streets and torture chambers.

the pro-genocide side really cared about "nazis" they wouldn't be pro-genocide Kleptograd bootlickers but would be with us in opposing Russia. Putin stands firmly under the shade of the tree of hate that gave brith to nazism and communism. Just ism's to cover the evil idea that

one peopleor one man canhave the right to control, kill, expoloit and exterminate another. #WeAreNAFO oppose this idea. Its why we support the @georgian_legion and bonk vatniks. We are part of Ukraine's coalition of friends and supporters who do what we can in this war of

attrition. Will you join us? if not by joining NAFO even though expansion is non-neogitable can you at least donate to a worthy pro-Ukrainian charity like @MriyaAid or @UkraineAidOps? Every little bit helps, this war won't be won tomorrow and winter is right around the corner.

If you can't doante, will you at least lend your voice? Let your leadership know that you support Ukraine. I tag @JohnBoozman, @SenTomCotton, and @RepFrenchHill every day. There is always something that everyone can do to help move Ukraine towards victory.

Until Ukraine wins on Ukraine's terms: Slava Ukraini #GenocideOfUkrainians #RussiaIsATerroristState #RussiaIsLosing #ukrainecounteroffensive #UkraineWarNews @mfa_russia <--- still losing and and a nation with men jumping borders to avoid the army cannot win a battle of attrition.

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