[HN Gopher] War in Ukraine: Marshall Mud is winning again
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       War in Ukraine: Marshall Mud is winning again
        
       Author : mrzool
       Score  : 67 points
       Date   : 2022-03-06 17:54 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | netsharc wrote:
       | I thought Putin wanted to attack in the depths of winter, when
       | German/W. European leaders would be afraid to take action for
       | fear of losing the Russian gas and freezing their constituents'
       | butts in the cold (although still in the comfort of their
       | apartments), but maybe he got stuck with this late February date
       | after with Xi Jinping demanded he not upstage the Winter
       | Olympics[1], and not wanting to wait until next winter.
       | 
       | Hah, losing a war because of scheduling conflicts.
       | 
       | On the topic of freezing, I wonder if EU countries can send
       | firefighting planes to drop water on top of these Russian
       | soldiers, under the pretense of "We got reports from the
       | Ukrainian government that there were forest fires!".
       | 
       | [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/us/politics/russia-
       | ukrain...
        
       | egberts1 wrote:
       | so, Putin pulled a "Waterloo".
       | 
       | Napoleon would have been proud.
        
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