Russia on brink of ... NOPE! Russia INVADES Ukraine!

[you2]

I tought that was a joke..

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump-putin-summit-documents-left-behind

But NYT confirms this...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/us/politics/trump-putin-summit-papers-hotel.html

It let me say: OH COME ON! So bad is the security in the country now?

You know it is a culture divide between right and left; the skill vs corrupt unskilled. I mean it is in plain sight you have a clown running hhs and military and well just abut everything up to the presidency which by the way is why he has to paint himself orange all the time; needs that good clown look.

 

[manly]

Is that like a 14 to 1 kill ratio in favor of Ukraine?

Is DJT pulling those numbers out of his ass? If Russia actually lost 100k KIA in 7 months, they are getting fucked hard and could simply collapse if that keeps going. But that's probably not exactly what's going on these past 7 months. We do know that broadly speaking, Russia doesn't value the lives of its grunts all that much. Through Ukraine's bravery and ingenuity, they are fighting a much larger adversary to a near draw.

Wiki has some estimates for the entire war since 2022, the KIA ratio is about 5 to 2 (caveat: nobody really knows).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine#Casualties

 

[fskimospy]

Some analysis and points....

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1) Ukraine already had US security guaranties via the Budapest Memorandum. Didn't really count for much.
2) Putin will never meet with Zelenskyy. Putin doesn't acknowledge Ukrainian sovereignty and Zelenskyy as its President.
3) Trump wants a peace deal. He doesn't care what it costs.

So I sincerely hope that Ukraine and Europe has a plan B. They really need to go it mostly alone and treat the USA as a military hardware store and hope that Trump will keep its intel flowing and keep the Russian banks from the Swift network.

The only US security guarantee in the Budapest memorandum was that the US would not invade Ukraine and it did not.