Russian soldier reading world of Warcraft "Revenge of the Orcs" after liberating Mariupol.

[Confederate Soldier]

Then you should stop watching Ukrainian propaganda and face reality because Ukraines best forces are being decimated in the Donbas.

Do you ever consider the possibility that you are believing Russian propaganda?

 

[Silver Cat]

I have two men in my life that I consider friends. One is Ukrainian, and one is Russian. We know each other through our love of metal detecting for historic artifacts. My Russian friend is in the army. I have not heard from either of them since February. I do not believe that the Russian soldiers are orc, but I do believe their fight is unjust and evil. I hope both of my friends survive, but I hope my Russian friends forces fail.

The Russians have a pretty different understanding of the term "Orc".

The Last Ringbearer - Еськов Кирилл :: Режим чтения

royallib.com

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Fifty miles east from the Orodruin volcano, where the light-minded babbling brooks originating from the snows of the Ash Mountains turn into staid, respectable canals and then subside quietly into the pulsing heat of the Mordor plain, lies the oasis of Gorgoroth. For ages they would gather two annual crops of cotton, rice, dates and grapes here, while the handiwork of local weavers and weapon-makers was prized throughout Middle Earth. Of course, the nomadic Orocuens have always looked with scorn on their tribesmen who chose the life of a farmer or a craftsman: everybody knows that the only occupation worthy of a man is cattle-breeding; that is, if you don’t count robbing caravans. This attitude, however, had never prevented them from regularly driving their flocks to the markets of Gorgoroth, where the sweet-talking Umbarian merchants who quickly came to dominate local trade would invariably fleece them. Those crafty fellows, ever ready to risk their heads for a handful of silver, drove their caravans throughout the East, not spurning either slave trade or smuggling, or even plain robbery, when convenient. However, their main source of income had always been the export of rare metals, mined in abundance from the Ash Mountains by the stocky unsmiling Trolls – unequaled miners and smelters, who later monopolized all stonemasonry in the Oasis, too. Life side by side had long trained the sons of all three peoples to eye the neighbors' daughters with more interest than their own, to make fun of each other (“An Orocuen, an Umbarian, and a Troll walk into a bar…”), and to defend the Ash Mountain passes and the Morannon against the Western barbarians together.
This, then, was the yeast on which Barad-Dur rose six centuries ago, that amazing city of alchemists and poets, mechanics and astronomers, philosophers and physicians, the heart of the only civilization in Middle Earth to bet on rational knowledge and bravely pitch its barely adolescent technology against ancient magic. The shining tower of the Barad-Dur citadel rose over the plains of Mordor almost as high as Orodruin like a monument to Man – free Man who had politely but firmly declined the guardianship of the Dwellers on High and started living by his own reason. It was a challenge to the bone-headed aggressive West, which was still picking lice in its log ‘castles’ to the monotonous chanting of scalds extolling the wonders of never-existing Númenor. It was a challenge to the East, buckling under the load of its own wisdom, where Ying and Yang have long ago consumed each other, producing only the refined static beauty of the Thirteen Stones Garden. And it was a challenge to a certain someone else, for the ironic intellectuals of the Mordor Academy, unbeknownst to them, have come right up to the line beyond which the growth of their power promised to become both irreversible and uncontrollable.
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[Silver Cat]

All I see are fields full of burning Russian tanks, scores of dead Russian soldiers, and shredded BMPs.

Because there are Russian tanks, Russian soldiers and BMPs on the both sides.

 

[Confederate Soldier]

Because there are Russian tanks, Russian soldiers and BMPs on the both sides.

Lol, good point.

BUT!

It's still Russian losses, they were stupid enough to let their tanks get captured. The tanks currently in Ukrainians service are a mix of captured Russian tanks, and modified soviet era tanks.

 

[Silver Cat]

Lol, good point.

BUT!

It's still Russian losses, they were stupid enough to let their tanks get captured. The tanks currently in Ukrainians service are a mix of captured Russian tanks, and modified soviet era tanks.

And the Soviet tanks are "Russian" too. The Soviet Union was Russia, and Kharkov is a Russian-speaking city. From some points of view Ukraine is just "Small Russia" (Malorossiya). Losses from both sides are Russian losses (as well as losses of both sides in American Civil War were American losses). From one point of view it is good, because "whoever loses - Russia will lose". From another point of view situation is much worse - "whoever wins - Russia will win" (and there is no big difference where exactly will be the capital of the reunited Russia - in Moscow or in Kiev).