• adarza@lemmy.ca
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        they’re getting ready for a huge offensive, and push to kyiv. january. third week. obvious choice for time frame.

        that’s why djt told putin not to ‘escalate’… he was really just reminding him “not yet”.

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          50000 would not be near enough to push to Sumy, let alone Kiev. But they want to make sure they retake Kursk before the conflict is frozen.

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            It would be quite embarrassing to cede Russian territory in a special 3 day military operation that lasted years.

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          12 days ago

          Lmao what? There won’t be a push for Kyiv anytime soon. And not from Kursk on the other side of the country. Even the worst scenarios don’t include Kyiv getting captured at this point.

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    November 12: Zelensky says Russia has 50,000 troops in Kursk
    November 13: Zelensky says Russia has 45,000 troops in Kursk
    November 14: Zelensky says Russia has 40,000 troops in Kursk
    November 15: Zelensky says Russia has 35,000 troops in Kursk

    etc.

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    12 days ago

    I’m sure I read elsewhere recently that the Ukrainian army was killing 17, 000 Russian troops a day. Fifty thousand wont last long

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        12 days ago

        Nice! So another 40 days or war. That could be a nice Christmas present 💝🎁 for the world, even if you didn’t believe in a flying spaghetti monster who created us all. Right?

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      12 days ago

      You added a zero (to yesterday’s tally).

      And is casualties, not deaths. Casualties includes wounded.