Putin pulls units out of Ukraine to defend Russia, Kyiv says
Ukrainian army spokesman said Moscow has pulled out “relatively small” number of troops to bolster Kursk against incursion.
Easy way to stop this, leave Ukraine entirely.
Not going as planned, eh, Putin?
Hopefully the Ukrainian military thought this all through in advance and had a good idea of where those reinforcements will come from, and have some surprises in store for them.
To armchair general for a bit- they send out small, fast, agile squads in all directions that make a show of fighting then rapidly retreat. The enemy follows into dug in positions and a sky full of drones. Repeat until you've put enough of a dent into the enemy then massively counterattack the direction most of the enemy is coming from.
Why counter attack (with the majority of forces) right away? Russians have shown poorer abilities when organizing offensives compared to defending. The incursion into Russia by Ukraine forces the Russian military into attacking. This is as opposed to sitting behind a thousand minefields in unmoving lines inside Ukraine.
Ukraine can set up elaborate layered defenses and enjoy the defensive advantage to grind up more Russian military assets. This also gives Ukraine opportunities for small detachments to hit the Russian reinforcements on the move, which is something they've already been doing.
In Putin's Russia, Ukraine invades you!
Yakov Smirnoff being Ukrainian makes it that much better!
Did not know that, thank you for improving my day with that little fact!
Sounds like a special military vacation
A vacation in a foreign land
Mother Russia does the best she can
A little mini sprog
Look ma, drones everywhere!!
In many ways this gives Putin an out from this incredibly stupid war that he created.
Agree terms with Ukraine, peacefully take back the land they lost, declare victory, and stop this war for good. He can save face and maintain power until he dies while Russia stays a pariah to the world. Ukraine will still naturally join NATO, but without the threat of war Russia can just sit on what it owns.
IMO, this is the ideal time for some final sanctions on Russia by heavily fining all western companies that don't leave within 30 days. Cut them off entirely, and then bring them to the table to negotiate the return once Putin is gone. I don't see a progressive candidate entering Russian politics any time soon, but a non-KGB candidate without ties to the Kremlin might find power by having the west on their side - they just need to stay away from radiation and balconies.
He can't do that. Losing Crimea would be a death blow for him. Some trash human standing close to him has already picked out the window he will fall from and he knows it.
That fucker doesn't let anyone near him.
There's probably not a single window in any building he lives or works in that could even be opened.
Even when sanctions lift, it'll be hard to reenter Russia for practical reasons. My company left entirely, and it would be very hard for us to turn it all back on now. We'd be basically doing a whole deployment from scratch to the region.
Which is to say that, yeah, you can negotiate a potential return, but companies may not be quick to want to reinvest.
It will be a pity when they fall from the window on their ground level house and still die from it.
At the risk of once again offending the people who read this as actually Cyrillic, this calls for another Rukraine post.
My Cyrillic reading eyes!!! They burn!!!
I tried to read that out loud and now there's a fucking Russian potato mephit just FOLLOWING me everywhere.
R?dui? D ?ocja iote?
Pretty much how I called it a day or two ago. Putin will now have to put more troops on his border with Ukraine permanently. Ukraine can continue to harass those troops. First though putin has to put together a successful attack to stall and repel Ukraine's advance. Meanwhile the troops already engaged with russias invasion may be able to put enough pressure on what remains to push them back.
Pull out game strong
Is it though? The guy has clearly overstayed his “welcome”.
Has no fresh ones in stock it seems
It reminds me of when rome did the same against hannibal and carthage
K now launch invasion of Crimea while they're busy with kursk
Misleading title; the article says that he pulled some troops out of Ukraine.
I would say the headline is unclear, not misleading. I read it as him pulling some forces out. Pulling all of them would be a ridiculous over-reaction.
Rereading after your comment I can see how it might be unclear though.
It's not, though. If I said I "ate apples from my fridge", you shouldn't assume I ate every apple.
Why is Lemmy."World" applying a US-Centric political spectrum to international news?
Putin needs to find Jesus. He needs to read scripture.
EDIT: This seems like just another online liberal echo chamber! What a joke!
Shares stupid opinion.
Everyone points out how stupid it is.
"This place is a liberal echo chamber!"
What does any of this have to do with the article? You're being down voted for making a weird comment about Jesus, nothing to do with being liberal.
Putin is Russian Orthodox.
He did find Jesus and then realized it to be a bit problematic that he couldn't fully control it, so he put his KGB friend at the head of the Russian Orthodoxy so now Jesus says what Putin wants him to say
Another one? Is it common for people to find it annoying when you suggest religion is somehow a solution for things?
Lol 🤣 what a terrible take.
Merging the head of state and head of religion is how we got here in the fist place.
Not everything is about religion, and god botherers need to not get so pissy about it.
Sky fairy can save: Neanderthal conservatives
This thread went downhill fast. ffs can't we all just get along.
The Internet atheists go reeeeeeeeee
I find it ridiculous how downvoted you got. Of all the major religions Christianity is the one that went through the greatest processes of self-reflection and criticism and while I find most of its institutions still very flawed, it offers a lot of deep and compassionate thought and traditions. Also it actually has excellent philosophers and thinkers that integrate a scientific world view in theirs.
Lemmy is very ridiculous in this regard. People have intense opinions on things they have no deep understanding of. It's like how MAGA people react to things like gun control or vaccines. They preach tolerance of some things and not others.
The thought of Putin finding Jesus could have led to a funny and weird conversation, and yet you were just met with hate. It's so sad.
Of all the major religions Christianity is the one that went through the greatest processes of self-reflection and criticism and while I find most of its institutions still very flawed, it offers a lot of deep and compassionate thought and traditions
Christianity is responsible for the crusades...
Well thanks to Socratic tradition of critical thinking, I'd say that the reason Christianity had self-reflection is precisely because of it. If it so happens that Socrates did not exist or his works weren't passed down, Western culture would be totally different from the one we know now.
What is he met Satan? Christianity, the only religion of Satan. Literally!
What if he met zeus?