Former German Chancellor Schröder, who acted as a negotiator between Ukraine & Russia in Istanbul has revealed that peace was thrown aside because Zelensky doesn't have power, and that US media and generals thought they could beat Russia and get Putin ousted from office.

🙃 Archive of the article in question

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Let us do a little reading and seeing how much they cope, and if they get anything right.

1/x 12 brigades against 6 regiments was the initial plan. But Russia was already mobilzing by that point as they note. Defenders get a say

I like that they throw Western industry under the bus, when prior it was "The Arsenal of Democracy"
Plus they gifted a nation's worth of stuff

Konstantin Sivkov's article on the Ukrainian counter offensive for the summer of 2023 is rather illuminating and puts a lot of information from many places into one easy source. Link to the article: tass.com/defense/1750919

Let us do a little light reading from WaPo today

1/n 20% staffing of the needed manpower is being well beyond being combat ineffective. All they can do is hold a little ground and pray. They are never going on the offensive unless their leaders are idiots.

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It is a new year.
And what better way to start it off than to continue with unique videos of Ukrainian cemeteries once again.

I will post 10 videos threads every day.

Without further ado

#241 Just a lil one here for #242

So Hamas released some more footage of of them engaging armour, this time inside Gaza city itself

I'll make this a little thread to just shake my head at the IDF and their conduct.
They tended to pride themselves as being the urban warfare specialists, yet they make basic errors So right off the bat we have a pair of Hamas fighters stepped out of an alleyway and take a shot into what looks to be the rear of a Namer fitted with the unmanned turret.

Where is the infantry or other vehicles securing the street behind the lead armoured element?

Ten more Ukrainian cemeteries and memorials today.

Starting with #231 This is Dnepropretovsk

#232

Lets keep the ball rolling.

Here is #221 Here is Kharkov

#222

A new part to the ongoing thread of Ukrainian cemeteries.

This here is Lvov . Please note all the red and black UPA flags of the nazi collaborating group.

#211 This is Matveeka

#212

Time for another 10 more cemeteries to show how Chubs are doing

#201 #202

Time to show the death that has come to Ukraine with ten more posts again.

#191 #192

Another day and another 10 Ukrainian cemetery shots

#181 #182

And another ten post thread of Ukrainian cemeteries.

#171 #172

Time for another little thread of ten Ukrainian cemeteries.

#161 #162

And here we go again.

Another thread of 10 Ukrainian cemetery shots.

#151 #152

New thread with ten more posts

#141 #142

Well lets show a different way of how the deaths have been mounting at the start of these new little thread🧵

#131 How about a little compilation?

#132

Ukrainian graves thread continues for another day.

#121 I know it is not a video but it highlights something too interesting.

This is Chabany near Kiev. The cemetery was full, so they were digging graves in the park area.

#122

I've got another big load of films of Ukrainian graveyards. So I shall share them once again.

One thing that definitely happened after I started my initial postings was a crackdown on posting of graveyards. Instead Ukrainians now mainly post funerals which I do not share

#110 #111

Look at all those UPA nazi collaborator flags.

Been a while since I did one of these.

Let us look at what (retired) General Sir Richard Lawson Barrons, KCB, CBE has to say 🧵 I am sorry but that is literally what everyone was saying it would do.

So he is saying the generals were knowingly lying to politicians about the success of operations, so that they would get material support and then pray they keep up in a lost cost fallacy.

So the Ukrainians decided to attack and blow up the Nova Kakhovka dam in Kherson.

This would be a violation of Article 15, Article 56, and Article Article 51(5)(b) of the Geneva Convention

ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treatie…
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https://twitter.com/squatsons/status/1665904490187485185

Now before anyone says, the Russians did it.

The Russians controlled the dam and the locks. They could lower the reservoir or inundate the downstream lands easily without having to resort to such actions.