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US Foreign Policy 3.0: We're The Mets of International Diplomacy

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Ukranians still in Mariupol are being 'Trail of Tears'd into Russia to either camps or small villages. Shelters for people are being targeted by Russians. Hospitals are being targeted.

Russia bombed the sh** out of a farm in western Ukraine and claimed it was a weapons facility in
Eastern Ukraine.

Russia State TV continues to happily have Tucker and now Candice Owens as stooges.
 
I was told this was a "special operation to de-nazi Ukraine?"

https://twitter.com/dpatrikarakos/status/1505455651396407301

If you don't get how vital the battle for #Ukraine is, let Sergei Lavrov explain:

"This is not about Ukraine at all, but the world order. The current crisis is a fateful, epoch-making moment in modern history. It reflects the battle over what the world order will look like".
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Russians be like:
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Ivan, no!

If firewall:

Germany says it has clinched long-term gas supply deal with Qatar
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The Krauts are switching horses.

TFW somebody wants stability so they leave you for... the Middle East.
 
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That may not be one go. Perhaps that was the group that parachuted into the Kyiv airport and tried to hold it.
 
ISW report for 3/20:

The Ukrainian General Staff reported for the first time that the Kremlin is preparing its population for a “long war” in Ukraine and implementing increasingly draconian mobilization measures.[1]The General Staff reported the Russian military commissariats of the Kuban, Primorsky Krai, Yaroslavl Oblast, and Ural Federal Districts are conducting covert mobilization measures but are facing widespread resistance. The General Staff reported the Russian PMC Wagner Group will facilitate the transport of Libyan fighters from LNA leader Khalifa Haftar’s forces to Ukraine. The General Staff reported universities in the DNR and LNR are conscripting students above the age of 18 and that most units in the DNR’s 1[SUP]st[/SUP] Army Corps are comprised of the “mobilized population,” rather than trained soldiers, and face low morale and equipment shortages. The Ukrainian Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) additionally reported on March 20 that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu signed an order to prepare to admit Unarmiya (Russian Youth Army, a Kremlin-run military youth organization) personnel aged 17-18 to fight in Ukraine on March 15.[2] The GUR further reported Colonel General Gennady Zhidko, head of the Russian Military-Political Directorate, is in charge of executing the order. The Ukrainian General Staff reported on March 19 that Russian officials “severely reprimanded” the head of the 652nd unit of Information and Psychological Operations for his “weak efforts” and inability to create a “Kherson People's Republic."[3]


Russian forces face mounting casualties among officers and increasingly frequent desertion and insubordination. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense reported on March 19 that “some [Russian] naval infantry units” (unspecified which, but likely referring to Eastern Military District units deployed to the fighting around Kyiv) have lost up to 90% of their personnel and cannot generate replacements.[4] The Ukrainian General Staff reported at noon local time on March 20 that Ukrainian forces wounded the commander of the 346th Independent Spetsnaz Brigade and claimed that Ukrainian forces killed the commanders of the 331st VDV Regiment, 247th VDV Regiment, and the 6th Tank Regiment (90th Tank Division, CMD) at unspecified times and locations.[5] The General Staff reported the Russian Black Sea Fleet is replacing 130 insubordinate soldiers in the 810[SUP]th[/SUP] Naval Infantry Brigade with paratroopers from the 7[SUP]th[/SUP] Airborne Assault Division – a measure highly likely to cause greater unit cohesion problems.[6] The General Staff additionally reported that Russian forces are increasingly using ”outdated and partially defective equipment” to replace combat losses.[7]
The Ukrainian MoD reported that forced mobilization in the DNR has demoralized Russian proxy forces, with many refusing to fight and accusing Russian leadership of forcing them into combat to find Ukrainian troop positions. The Ukrainian Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) reported the number of insubordinate Russian personnel who are refusing combat orders is “sharply increasing” in the Kherson and Mykolayiv oblasts on March 20.[8] The Ukrainian General Staff reported the Russian military commandant office in Belgorod City is investigating 10 Russian servicemen of 138[SUP]th[/SUP] Motor Rifle Brigade who refused to continue fighting in Kharkiv and agitated for other Russian servicemen to abandon their posts.[9]
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dxmnkd316 said:
I wouldn't be surprised if it were a suspiciously uneventful day
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Another report I saw said the State Bank was ready to perform "quantitative easing" on their market to the tune of One Trillion Rubles (10 Billion Dollars) in the buying of bonds... and that trading in equities of Russian companies will not resume. Still going to be a ride though.
 
Russian MoD appears to admit to 10k dead.

Gotta figure that makes the real number at least 20k.


Here's an article estimating both sides' equipment losses.

BLUF:

Russia - 1662, of which: destroyed: 800, damaged: 30, abandoned: 222, captured: 610

Ukraine - 500, of which: destroyed: 185, damaged: 10, abandoned: 37, captured: 268
 
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