Why would it be any different than taking over a factory or something? I don’t get it.
The way I took it this airport was in the Ukrainian rear and they dropped helo air assault troops on the airport. It was an all airborne operation. Is that not how it happened ?
Sounds right. I just don’t know why taking an airport would be difficult, if everybody lands safely.
Did they get overrun by nearby troops maybe?
Because shit doesn't go right, not even in training.
Bad weather can fuck you up. You are reliant on resupply being accurate and on time.
It's very easy for landing troops to not come down where they are supposed, lose key leadership, get key equipment destroyed or not show up. Things can compound really quick.
You really need your shit together because there are so many ways to fail.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Friday that he is open to sending a delegation to Minsk, Belarus to negotiate with Ukraine if they surrender.
Ukraine is going to fold in the next 12 to 24 hours
Putin tells Ukrainian soldiers "Take power into your own hands, it seems it will be easier to negotiate with you than with the band of drug addicts & neo-Nazis that sits in Kyiv & has taken the Ukrainian people hostage."
Erm, so how about those new talks in Minsk?
РБК
@ru_rbc Путин обратился к военнослужащим армии Украины: «Берите власть в свои руки, похоже нам с вами будет легче договориться, чем с этой шайкой наркоманов и неонацистов, которая засела в Киеве и взяла в заложники весь украинский народ».
Peter Doocy: We’ve been able to confirm that when Lloyd Austin went to Capitol Hill to brief senators about the Pentagon’s plans and the Biden orders to the military chiefs, they are figuring out how to train Ukrainian forces to fight Russians remotely… Right! And it would be a very 2022 thing.
The managerial States only answer, 'Can't we teach the Ukrainians to fight, form units and defend their country with a power point slide deck and some online classes.'
The president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls on Russian President Vladimir Putin to sit down to negotiate.
"Let's sit at the negotiating table to stop people from dying" he said before going underground
Other reports
Some or most elements of the US 2nd Cav in Romania are retiring to Germany
Zelensky frantic that Biden won't help him
It’s just dawning on him from the looks of it.
First, he thought NATO/US would deter Putin.
Then he mobilizes the entire country to buy time for NATO.
NATOs not coming, and he’s about to get Sadaam’d.
Expect some serious flailing and probably an intercepted flight out of country.
SuburbanFarmer wrote: Fri Feb 25, 2022 9:28 am
It’s just dawning on him from the looks of it.
First, he thought NATO/US would deter Putin.
Then he mobilizes the entire country to buy time for NATO.
NATOs not coming, and he’s about to get Sadaam’d.
Expect some serious flailing and probably an intercepted flight out of country.
Yep, but he's got a nice Swiss bank account that you and I paid for, plus whatever he can steal from the people of Ukraine.
On Thursday Dmitry Rogozin called Joe Biden’s latest sanctions the “sanctions of Alzheimer’s.”
Dmitry Olegovich Rogozin is a Russian politician, currently serving as Director-General of Roscosmos, the state space program, since 2018. Previously Dmitry was Deputy Prime Minister of Russia in charge of the defense industry from 2011 to 2018.
Путин обратился к военнослужащим армии Украины: «Берите власть в свои руки, похоже нам с вами будет легче договориться, чем с этой шайкой наркоманов и неонацистов, которая засела в Киеве и взяла в заложники весь украинский народ».
