1/ CONCERNING MANPOWER STRENGTH OF #RUSSIAN FORCES: Not only a sentiment on Russian Telegram channels like #Strelkov's but for example also by (US alleges Russian state influence) Southfront DOT org:
QUOTE FROM THEIR SITREP BELOW:
@bazaarofwar @RWApodcast @MoonofA @GeromanAT 2/ Summing up the developments of the last few days, Russian, DPR and LPR forces have achieved more local tactical successes in the region of Donbass, in the south of Ukraine and around Kyiv.

1/ SITREP #UkraineRussianWar as of 2022/03/15 - OBSERVATIONS:
Follow e.g. @Suriyakmaps @maps_ukraine @NuestraIraSLG @GeromanAT @RWApodcast @colonelcassad @RALee85 @200_zoka @bazaarofwar @gbazov + Strelkovs/ASB Military on Telegram and many others I forgot for updates + details! -While fast flanking and encircling of #Ukrainian forces by #Russia would theoretically be possible on many parts of the front, the manpower for this is definitely insufficient.

;) I guess this is a trick question, Bill. OFC the US is at war, it is waging a hybrid/Proxy war. Multiple US-led soft/hard coups, with the last one in 2014 being successful. Then the built-up of a proxy force from the ground up, integrated into NATO C3,

https://twitter.com/billroggio/status/1503738982043160579

with several US and Ukrainian officials stating on camera multiple times since then that the goal of all this is using Ukraine in a proxy war against Russia. US M.O. of using proxy forces for plausible deniability is just as plausible as Putins Green men not being Russian. ;)

1/ If there was ANY hope for some ending of this war in a negotiated settlement, it today got even harder and unrealistic with #Ukraine killing dozens of civilians purpusefully in #Donetsk. #Ukraine forces in #Donbass front are now realisticly unable to break out into the west... 2/ even though the cauldron is not closed. They dont have the supplies, the roads are either cut off or under fire control, and the #Russian Air force would slaughter them anyway should they move into the open out from their fortifications.

1/ TO NEW AND OLD FOLLOWERS:
I thank the few of you who still followed me after i did not post for years. TBH, in the hot phase of the Syrian War reporting here consumed ALL my free time, and it also impacted my work, my family and myself so much, that i just had to stop... 2/ after years of reporting. Not to speak of the mental toll it took, after watching dozens of beheadings, people being crushed by tanks, burned, drowned, crucified, whatever. If you reported in the OSINT community here too when #ISIS was not as diminished as today, you know

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