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2026-06-05 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russia’s $275B Ukraine Gamble Just BACKFIRED… Everything Started FALLING Apart!

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Posted by badanov 2026-06-05 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1811 views ] Top

1 Interesting, badanov. Certainly not information that one would read in Izvestia or Regnum.

I've heard similar analysis of the various points from other sources.

I do wonder, though. Further into to the video, the presenter seems to have some odd quirks as to how dates are spoken in English. A non-native speaker or AI generated?

Posted by Mullah Richard 2026-06-05 07:16|| 2026-06-05 07:16|| Front Page Top

2 How Ukraine has turned the tide on rattled Putin with devastating long-range drone strikes crippling his war chest and grinding down his navy

Posted by Skidmark 2026-06-05 09:45|| 2026-06-05 09:45|| Front Page Top

3 Ukraine been steadily winning - according to western reports - since the war started.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2026-06-05 09:47|| 2026-06-05 09:47|| Front Page Top

4 Oh, I seem to recall Col. McGregor, or something like that, cited on here talking about the Ukraine falling in x number of weeks or months. It's basically a Korean War situation.

Posted by Procopius2k 2026-06-05 10:10|| 2026-06-05 10:10|| Front Page Top

5 You're gonna run out of money when senior officers are corrupt and stealing money, so it is hard to imagine the field officers not doing it as well.

We could hand all the printed money we have to Russia, and they would still have money problems, if that money is making its way back to the west through corruption.

Posted by badanov 2026-06-05 11:12|| 2026-06-05 11:12|| Front Page Top

6 I don't see anybody winning this war, just a lot of people dying and otherwise having their lives ruined. It's about damn time to stop it.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2026-06-05 12:40|| 2026-06-05 12:40|| Front Page Top

7 From my perspective the West is running down their war stocks (and replacing the more slowly) than the Russians are. Meanwhile the Russian troops now have extensive drone centric, near peer combat experience that the Western troops do not have. I think it will be critical to see what Putin's successor plans to do with the forces at their disposal in a few years.

Posted by Dopey Photch2701 2026-06-05 18:19|| 2026-06-05 18:19|| Front Page Top

8 A few years? This was a 2 week Special Military Operation

Posted by Frank G 2026-06-05 19:24|| 2026-06-05 19:24|| Front Page Top

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