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How does the Ukraine war compare to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq and 1941 Operation Barbarossa?
2022-03-27
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Posted by:DarthVader

#12  pastry war of 1838
Posted by: borgboy   2022-03-27 20:33  

#11  ...ah, a soccer game?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-03-27 17:59  

#10  /\ em>State Department and CIA started the war by engineering a coup in Kiev in February 2014.

Not to be critical, but is there some other method for starting wars we've somehow overlooked in the past 50 years or so ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-03-27 15:58  

#9  ^ This is correct. It's fundamentally a civil war that has been going on since 2014. The Biden people view it as a proxy war between the US and Russia. You can make a strong case that the US Ambassador and the State Department and CIA started the war by engineering a coup in Kiev in February 2014.
Posted by: Herman Clunk4487   2022-03-27 15:56  

#8  In Operation Barbarossa the aggressor was Adolf Hitler and NAZI Germany. People who assume the aggressor in the current Ukraine war is Vladimir Putin are, I believe, mistaken. IMHO the war currently raging in Ukraine was started by Barack Obama and his deep state sponsors when they engineered the Maidan coup in 2014 to oust Ukraine's then pro-Russian President Yanukovic. This violent expansion of Western influence triggered a civil war in Ukraine's eastern provinces which was, until recently, being fought on a low level. So, in this respect, the comparison to Operation Barbarossa is apt because the invasion is going from West to East. The comparison is also apt because the Russians are having great difficulty repelling it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-03-27 15:29  

#7  Heads will roll. For real.
Posted by: badanov   2022-03-27 09:00  

#6  Moment a Russian soldier 'surrenders with TANK in return for £7,500 and Ukrainian citizenship after his colleagues ran off and his commander threatened to shoot him'
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-03-27 08:52  

#5  Russian tank regiment commander killed himself ‘after finding out 90% of tanks held in reserve were unusable because parts had been stolen’, claims Ukrainian intelligence
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-03-27 08:41  

#4  Both nations had extensive natural barriers.

Finland with her lakes and swamps, which channeled Soviet divisions into narrow kill zones.

The Soviet Union with its "funnel," which eventually dispersed the German Army and her allies along a much broader front.
Posted by: badanov   2022-03-27 08:20  

#3  er Finland
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-03-27 08:16  

#2  ...invasion of Findland without production and mobilization ramped up for wartime demands?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-03-27 08:16  

#1  Poorly? I'm trying to think of anything specific that matches...
Posted by: magpie   2022-03-27 00:11  

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