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Going to start cataloging my Ukraine analysis and prediction threads ITT
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Date: January 20th, 2023 6:46 PM Author: orchid zombie-like lettuce Trying to keep this chronological. Looks like this is a good starting point.
I could go to the way back to February, except that back then I sincerely believed Russia was fucked. I stopped following things March and didn't really start following events again until July.
(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5274507&forum_id=2#45817839) |
Date: January 20th, 2023 6:48 PM Author: orchid zombie-like lettuce Hypo: Vietnam war except the South gets freezing cold and needs fuel from NVA (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5274507&forum_id=2#45817845) |
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Date: January 20th, 2023 6:49 PM Author: orchid zombie-like lettuce Ukraine is pre-announcing missile strikes so Russia can move troops out (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5274507&forum_id=2#45817851) |
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Date: January 20th, 2023 6:50 PM Author: orchid zombie-like lettuce Why don't Ukrainians attack Russians fixing railroads in the woods? (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5274507&forum_id=2#45817857) |
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Date: January 20th, 2023 6:58 PM Author: orchid zombie-like lettuce Looks like late July was when I started to dig in. This was the first of many HIMARS threads.
Holy shit we are selling bottle rockets to Ukraine. "So maneuverable though"" (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5274507&forum_id=2#45817896) |
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Date: January 20th, 2023 7:13 PM Author: orchid zombie-like lettuce This turned out to be an accurate characterization of the August counteroffensive. From top to bottom, it consisted of Ukrainians driving into areas where risk of combat was minimal.
Day 14 of Ukraine counteroffensive: video of tanks on dirt roads (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5274507&forum_id=2#45817986) |
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Date: January 20th, 2023 7:14 PM Author: Cocky Crackhouse Famous Landscape Painting (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5274507&forum_id=2#45817990) |
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Date: January 20th, 2023 7:39 PM Author: orchid zombie-like lettuce Too bad the original tweet is gone. This is when we first got satellite pics of Russian trenches. Ukraine at this time had NOTRENCHES.
(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5274507&forum_id=2#45818109) |
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Date: January 20th, 2023 7:47 PM Author: orchid zombie-like lettuce Ukraine has no way to hitting Russia across the river, but Russia can hit Ukrain (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5274507&forum_id=2#45818130) |
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Date: January 20th, 2023 11:06 PM Author: orchid zombie-like lettuce Of course this dick rider posts the same info months later with no actual satellite photos. He makes an interactive map that is less informative than tweets from two months ago.
(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5274507&forum_id=2#45819096) |
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Date: January 20th, 2023 7:41 PM Author: Brussels Sprout (Apropos of the Wet Snow) NSAM, to be fair, u were no where to be found on xoxo exactly one year ago, when I joined the board, and predicted Putin would invade Ukraine 2 days after the Winter Olympics in China (delaying the onslaught merely to appease Xi)-- so don't come here with your Johnny come lately pro-Russian/Putin bootlicking (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5274507&forum_id=2#45818115) |
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Date: January 20th, 2023 7:44 PM Author: orchid zombie-like lettuce I was right here predicting that Putin would not invade. I am open about my failed predictions.I made many before late July.
Interestingly, we just learned within the last few days that Zelensky also did not think Russia would invade. Burns visited him personally in January 2022 and said invasion was imminent, but Zelensky told him Russia was just posturing and the troop movements were flame. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5274507&forum_id=2#45818127) |
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Date: January 20th, 2023 7:49 PM Author: Brussels Sprout (Apropos of the Wet Snow) that is exactly right: Macron/France and all of Germany accused Biden of war mongering and the CIA of a fear campaign undermining European peace and stability, as late as February 1, 2022; I was the first to suggest Germany and Russia/Putin were in cahoots for a Pearl Harbor attack and quick surrender by Ukraine--truth turns out Putin had longstanding premeditated plans to fuck Ukraine up the ass {war of attrition and genocide}, Zelenskyy and the rest of Europe none the wiser (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5274507&forum_id=2#45818135) |
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Date: January 20th, 2023 7:54 PM Author: orchid zombie-like lettuce I strongly believe the shot callers in Germany wanted a limited war and wanted Russia to win in the end, but I can't prove it. They certainly acted consistent with that intent. France too. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5274507&forum_id=2#45818153) |
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Date: January 20th, 2023 7:56 PM Author: Brussels Sprout (Apropos of the Wet Snow) yes, Germany made a secret non-aggression pact with Putin, book it (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5274507&forum_id=2#45818158) |
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Date: January 20th, 2023 7:52 PM Author: orchid zombie-like lettuce Let's see if I end up being wrong about this. Maybe I will, but I think Kiev can be taken without a fight, like Kabul most recently.
Russian troops won't need weapons to take Kiev, just cabbage rolls (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5274507&forum_id=2#45818144) |
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Date: January 20th, 2023 8:48 PM Author: Brussels Sprout (Apropos of the Wet Snow) to be fair, your analysis of America's debacle in Kabul was tough but fair: incidentally, I met a state dept atty, much like urself, who admitted many American translators were hunted down and executed by the Taliban after we cut and ran from Afghanistan (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5274507&forum_id=2#45818415) |
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Date: January 20th, 2023 9:22 PM Author: orchid zombie-like lettuce ty that was tough to talk about (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5274507&forum_id=2#45818546) |
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Date: January 20th, 2023 9:24 PM Author: Brussels Sprout (Apropos of the Wet Snow) and yes, I concede, ur support for the early Donald Trump 45 against forever wars suddenly sounded real and cogent, touche (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5274507&forum_id=2#45818552) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2023 7:47 PM Author: orchid zombie-like lettuce Looking good so far. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5274507&forum_id=2#45831695) |
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Date: January 20th, 2023 7:59 PM Author: Irate duck-like keepsake machete ape Why aren't you summarizing your predictions? (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5274507&forum_id=2#45818169) |
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Date: January 20th, 2023 9:36 PM Author: orchid zombie-like lettuce I did get a fair number wrong for one thing. Mostly I thought Ukraine would have a food crisis before it had an energy crisis. I thought Russia would bomb food stores before it went for the electricity grid and I thought we would see real food insecurity in December.
Ukraine also pulled off some stunts I wouldn't have predicted, mostly assassinations of local officials installed by the Russians, and later on some rail sabotage. I thought maybe I had underestimated their reach. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5274507&forum_id=2#45818611) |
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Date: January 20th, 2023 9:44 PM Author: orchid zombie-like lettuce Obviously I got this one wrong:
Ukraine counteroffensive is flame here's how you know
I still think Ukraine lacked a strategy for winning. They had to do something to shake Russian morale badly but this wasn't it. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5274507&forum_id=2#45818656) |
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Date: January 20th, 2023 9:29 PM Author: orchid zombie-like lettuce (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5274507&forum_id=2#45818570) |
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Date: July 30th, 2026 11:15 PM Author: orchid zombie-like lettuce Shoulda listened to NSAM (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5274507&forum_id=2#50035839) |