"All of Vlad's forces and all of Vlad's men, are out to put Humpty together again." (76 Viewers)

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Sometimes it's six of one and half a dozen of the other. The current US administration has just done a deal with India for oil
which included India cutting oil imports from Russia, effectively a big sanction. India has to now been buying in a full 38%
of Russian oil exports. That's a big hole in Russian sales.

True, but the bipartisan US bill, if passed, would make that look like peanuts. All but a thumbnail full of senators and congressmen have promised to vote for it but ONE PERSON is stopping it from being bought to the vote - and he is not a senator or congressman.
 
While the tenor of this story doesn't surprise me, the skeptical part of me wonders how the quoted Russian soldiers managed to escape from the army, from prison, and from Russia.


The reporting shouldn't reveal too much specific detail about the men for fear of compromising them or their families. However, the eyewitness commentary provided has few specific details.

I'm not saying these men are lying. It's just that there isn't any tangible evidence to corroborate their stories, and the big gaps in the narratives (like how they escaped) make me pause before accepting it at face value.
 
I saw on our news programme that a number of the American arms manufacturing companies are starting to lean on the government to get the European countries to start placing orders in the USA. They are getting worried that by European countries concentrating on European manufacturing companies, America will lose a significant amount of long term business, which once lost will be hard to recover.
I think we are all aware that companies make at least as much money from support, spares and general maintenance, as they do from the initial purchase.

I admit that I have been wondering when this was going to happen, it was only a matter of time.
 

This is an interesting example. RFE/RL is a good and reputable source.
But several days ago, they put a teaser ahead of this movie, and the title was "80,000 missing soldiers". I sent them a request to correct the title since no data confirmed the claim of 80,000 MIA Ukrainian military personnel. There is an approximate 80,000 estimate of all missing persons, civilians and military, including 3,000+ children, in the register of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
I'm glad to see that they changed the title of the full video.
 
While the tenor of this story doesn't surprise me, the skeptical part of me wonders how the quoted Russian soldiers managed to escape from the army, from prison, and from Russia.


The reporting shouldn't reveal too much specific detail about the men for fear of compromising them or their families. However, the eyewitness commentary provided has few specific details.

I'm not saying these men are lying. It's just that there isn't any tangible evidence to corroborate their stories, and the big gaps in the narratives (like how they escaped) make me pause before accepting it at face value.
There are networks designed to help them escape. One of the most famous:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Lost_(organisation)
Others are not so public.
The Legion and RDK(RVC) work with fugitives through their own channels, most probably, together with Ukrainian HUR.
 
This is an interesting example. RFE/RL is a good and reputable source.
But several days ago, they put a teaser ahead of this movie, and the title was "80,000 missing soldiers". I sent them a request to correct the title since no data confirmed the claim of 80,000 MIA Ukrainian military personnel. There is an approximate 80,000 estimate of all missing persons, civilians and military, including 3,000+ children, in the register of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
I'm glad to see that they changed the title of the full video.
Interesting! Probaly sure, you were not only petson that noticed that tiny mistake! But they were open, friendly and civil to accept their unintentional mistake, and correct it.
 

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