Putin cancels annual year-end news conference for 1st time in a decade amid setbacks in Ukraine

[toomuchtime_]

Has it occurred to you those claiming Ukraine can defeat Russia are lying?
How does Ukraine defeat an opponent capable of firing ten times more artillery shells a day than the US proxy, has unlimited fuel and ammunition, 540,000 troop poised to strike along 3 axes, 5000 armored fighting vehicles, and at least 1500 tanks?

And yet Ukraine has been winning since it started its offensive in September. It must be that your sources are lying to you.

 

[Kilroy2]

That depends on whether you are using Russian numbers or the real numbers

Yeah and you can trust them to be truthful. That why they are depending on the air force to bomb the opposition into submission. Putin going to be pissed if the Ukrainians are able to hit does planes.

 

[ESay]

Ukraine doesn't have a Chinaman's chance of retaking Crimea. ..
By the month of August the conman Zelensky will have fled the country and Ukraine will be totally under Russian control.

Didn't you loon claim that Russian retreat from Kharkiv is a feint and massive Russian advance was due in October?

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be holding his annual year-end marathon news conference this month amid the war in Ukraine. Observers have attributed the rare break in the long-held tradition to the Kremlin's uneasiness about a string of battlefield setbacks.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed Monday that Putin wouldn't hold the annual news conference for the first time in 10 years. He didn't comment on the reason behind it, but many commentators attributed it to the Russian leader's reluctance to face unpleasant questions about what he calls Russia's "special military operation" in Ukraine.

The annual news conference has been used by the Kremlin to polish Putin's image. The tightly stage-managed show televised live lasted for up to 4 1/2 hours and featured Putin talking about a wide range of domestic and foreign policy issues.

Political analyst Abbas Gallyamov said in a video commentary that Putin cancelled the annual news conference because "he has nothing to say from the point of view of strategy."

"The press conference has become a significant fixture in Putin's calendar of public engagement and has frequently been used as an opportunity to demonstrate the supposed integrity of Putin," the U.K. Defense Ministry said in a commentary on Twitter.

"Although questions are almost certainly usually vetted in advance, the cancellation is likely due to increasing concerns about the prevalence of anti-war feeling in Russia," it said. "Kremlin officials are almost certainly extremely sensitive about the possibility that any event attended by Putin could be hijacked by unsanctioned discussion about the 'special military operation.'"

Putin cancels annual year-end news conference for 1st time in a decade amid setbacks in Ukraine

U.K. military suggests first cancellation of the presser in a decade is likely down to Kremlin "concerns about the prevalence of anti-war feeling in Russia."

www.cbsnews.com

So while the Russian army runs away from the AFU in Ukraine, Putin runs away from questions about the war in Moscow.

The euros are not only buying Russian LNG they're moving to buy fertilizer now

Lol

 

[georgephillip]

And yet Ukraine has been winning since it started its offensive in September. It must be that your sources are lying to you.

That depends on how you're defining "winning."
There is a school of thought I've heard from Macgregor and Ritter that claims you don't win wars by taking territory; you win by killing more of your enemy than they kill of yours, and that is the price Ukraine has paid for all its "winning" since September.

 

[toomuchtime_]

That depends on how you're defining "winning."
There is a school of thought I've heard from Macgregor and Ritter that claims you don't win wars by taking territory; you win by killing more of your enemy than they kill of yours, and that is the price Ukraine has paid for all its "winning" since September.

A passed over colonel and a pedophile, nice company you keep.

 

[georgephillip]

A passed over colonel and a pedophile, nice company you keep.

They seem to understand why the US engages in perpetual war; do you?

 

[toomuchtime_]

They seem to understand why the US engages in perpetual war; do you?

They seem to understand how to scratch out a living from losers like you.

 

[georgephillip]

They seem to understand how to scratch out a living from losers like you.

America with all good intentions still does stupid shit around the world

"US and the world​

"Serge Galitsky writes: The statement supposedly made by Barack Obama — 'Don’t do stupid shit' — succinctly expresses what should have been the guiding principle of US foreign policy ('The simple reason America can’t stop doing stupid things').

"But even Obama couldn’t help himself and he quickly engaged in the 'democratic' coup in Kyiv, the origin of the hideous war in Ukraine."