Ukrainian War Developments

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Abominable said:
Over the next few days there will be increasing pressure on China to "mediate" and help solve this peacefully. Europeans will try to flatter China by asking them to show how they are now a world leader, Americans will do what they always do and threaten sanctions.

However it is all a trap. What they actually want is for China to put economic and diplomatic pressure on Russia, expending goodwill with Russia in return for them granting concessions. The Ukrainians know they are being backed by America and all of Europe, so they feel they can be unreasonable as they want in their demands. The Russians have no major power in their corner. It is the classical colonial game of divide and conquer. I don't think Russia will change it's stance regardless of what China says, but will see it as a betrayal for decades to come if China ends up in the western camp on this.

The only best approach to this is to treat it like it was a conflict in any other continent. Call on both sides to resolve the issue bilaterally, and maintain relations with both sides. That will be all the support Russia needs for the foreseeable future without antagonising the west needlessly.

Everything that is currently being done to Russia right now was planned to be used on China in the near future. The Anglos didn't expect Putin to actually invade the Ukraine so they had to deploy it on Russia instead.

The good news is Xi is showing strong resilience on this matter, and is being guided by a public largely sympathetic to the Russian cause and suspicious of western intentions. I hope he continues to do so.
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What does the West want China to do? China has already made it clear that in its view the expansion of NATO is at the root of the conflict. That's a hint that can lead towards a compromise. China will not sanction Russia. The best that the West can hope for from China is that they agree to Ukraine's neutrality... That is it...
 
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plawolf said:
Yeah its dramatic footage, but it is also a sign of just how dire the situation is for the Ukrainians.

The Russians were bunching up on the main road and they could only bring, what? A single artillery piece to bare that whole time, and what did they actually achieve against such a target rich environment? One kill?

The Russians are sloppy and over confident, but they are still beating the snot out of the Ukrainians.
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That is still indeed, very sloppy. Do they not have drone hunters?
 
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plawolf said:
Yeah its dramatic footage, but it is also a sign of just how dire the situation is for the Ukrainians.

The Russians were bunching up on the main road and they could only bring, what? A single artillery piece to bare that whole time, and what did they actually achieve against such a target rich environment? One kill?

The Russians are sloppy and over confident, but they are still beating the snot out of the Ukrainians.
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the Strategy of a good ambush is to hit the first vehicle in the last vehicle and rest become gridlocked and they can then be finished off one by one

And in all of the ambushes this is what we are seeing and with artillery this is amazing accuracy if not too accurate
 
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Do we even know if this footage is recent?

Like hasn't there already been multiple cases of footage and images being actually 'quite' old (waited with releasing them for later)
 
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"The likelihood is increasing that Ukrainian forces could fight to a standstill the Russian ground forces attempting to encircle and take Kyiv. Russian forces also appear to be largely stalemated around Kharkiv and distracted from efforts to seize that city. Russian advances in the south around Mykolayiv and toward Zaporizhya and in the east around Donetsk and Luhansk made little progress as well in the last 24 hours."

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