I checked with other sources and it does appear as though Micron and Cameron are silent. Stunned methinks, that RF is carrying out the nuke tests preps atm and calling in French/UK ambassadors for some talking to in Moscow. The septics are too busy with their election hehe and their NATO poodles have no instructions. Xi is off to Serbia an Hungary. Here is hoping RF takes Transnistria and has 'the corridor' there into EU at some point. Odessa will have to fall.
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I thought his comment on the apparent leaked "backdown" on the Kerch Bridge in the Independent was also interesting. I see that got repeated in Kiev News: https://www.kyivpost.com/post/32255 ...the western mouthpiece in Ukraine.
The bridge was "doomed" according the the UK tabloid press a mere three days ago, so perhaps there has indeed been a lowering of expectations going on. ( i.e the Anglo warmongers have folded that particular hand)
"Odessa will have to fall"
-Something I have said all along. The Black sea litoral is really what this is all about.
They can't get Sebastopol...so the idea is to keep Odessa as a consolation prize and retry the same NATO dominance game from there sometime down the line.
That's of course why the Ukrainians ( i.e.the Brits) have been focussing on the Russian Navy and most especially on the land assault ships with all those fancy missiles and torpedoes. It's a puzzle to me how the Russians intend to take it...which they must, or the war has effectively failed. But...It's also a historical Russian city and its highly doubtful the Russians want it to become a heap of ruins...so problematic.
They might be hoping to take it diplomatically in a peace deal rather than fighting over it....The last working-class hero in England.
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Re: Odessa
Posted by Ken Waldron on May 8, 2024, 2:04 pm, in reply to "Odessa"
They might be hoping to take it diplomatically in a peace deal rather than fighting over it....
Reckon the Ukrainians would rather it a ruin than hand it over so Russia would have to hold a major bargaining piece for exchange ( like, say Kiev...) Before they could hope to get it diplomatically...otherwise the entire collapse and surrender of the Ukrainian regime and a unilateral redrawing of the map by Russia would be required.
Re: Odessa
Posted by t on May 8, 2024, 2:43 pm, in reply to "Re: Odessa"
Reckon the Ukrainians would rather it a ruin than hand it over ..
Someone commented that RF could siege the city, .. like Mariupol, and try and minimise the damage .. send in Chechens + precision strikes. We wait.
Re: Odessa
Posted by Keith-264 on May 8, 2024, 9:12 pm, in reply to "Re: Odessa"
Keep away from the steps.The last working-class hero in England.
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Re: Odessa
Posted by t on May 8, 2024, 9:33 pm, in reply to "Re: Odessa"
on May 7, 2024, 11:02 pm