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The long Russian convoy appears to have stalled, for reasons unclear.

they are running out of gas

I saw one report that both fuel and food are in short supply for that convoy which makes no sense unless Ukraine has somehow caused this

but youre right something is out of wack with its progress

The however long convoy has been approaching Kyiv for weeks now, it seems.  It's all in the news, and yet, something is not right here.  The tail end appears to be heavy trucks (supplies).  And it is indeed all strung out on one road, from what we can see on line.  If they want to take the city, they need to surround it and cut off supplies etc. and basically besiege it.  The alternative is to try what the Americans did with Baghdad, but I don't think that will work here.

It would be nice to understand what is happening at the head of said convoy.  Is it a combat heavy front end?  Or just supplies?  Are they in tactical formations?  Or in line?

Tracked vehicles can go cross country obviously, and should in such cases.  I just don't understand something, maybe the reportage is wrong.

They have difficulty in the mud, which is another reason people are questioning the sanity of the timing of this offensive maneuver.  They've missed the window where the ground is completely frozen which would have made offroad driving easy for most vehicles, and now the ground is thawing.  There are several photos on the internet over the past couple of days, of Russian tracked vehicles stuck and abandoned in the Ukrainian mud.

man thats depressing

think of all the tacos they could withhold from russia

yeah, but tacos are only good fresh! not frozen. 

The sat photos show snippets of vehicles lined up on a road, a long line, and that was reported a couple days ago as a major threat to Kyiv.  What the heck is going on?  If it's a supply convoy, it's not going to be short of food or fuel.  It's not in any tactical formation.  I just don't get it.

Incidentally, in WW Two, the southern German offensive in 1941 (before we entered the war) was stopped before Kiev as well.  Hitler got rather annoyed (duh) and order Guderian who was 200 miles north around Smolensk to head south to take Kiev from the rear.  Guderian wanted to head for Moscow, he blames this decision for the war being lost in his book.  (I disagree.)

They did manage to take Kiev and went further east all the way to Rostov, and Guderian went back to try and take Moscow late that year, but rain and then cold set in, and many of his tanks were in need of major repair.  Tanks don't do well traveling on their own for many miles.

Not sure Mexico not putting sanctions on Russia really matters at this point, when virtually the entire West already has. I do agree with the guy though that the push to censorship of Russian state-sponsored media, probably not a good idea. If you're supposedly free and open democracies with freedom of the press - then censorship is something you should be against, not for.


https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1498752705791205379?s=20&t=DokJptRiID-6OKzKJ9bcbg

is us and west govs forcing netflix and whatnot to drop russian tv? if not, privately held companies deciding to not carrying a channel is not an act against of freedom of the press. 

is us and west govs forcing netflix and whatnot to drop russian tv? if not, privately held companies deciding to not carrying a channel is not an act against of freedom of the press.

did not say it's an act against the freedom of press by government - but it clearly is censorship. and I'd say my negative reaction to it is more of a principle thing. 

Not sure it hurts anyones bottom line, which is probably why these companies did it- PR move for them without hurting their bottom line- as I doubt very much they generate much revenue from Russian state-media in Europe and the US. Let's be honest, how many eye balls/clicks they really getting? Probably not much. PR stunt if you ask me.