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I took you off ignore to see if you had anything intelligent to add, but, nope.
I took you off ignore to see if you had anything intelligent to add, but, nope.
Nope. I didn't transform into a state department shill in one short month. Put me back on your ignore list and check back in 20 years.
Not the ones in Azovstal for what I know. I may be wrong, but they knew where they were getting into and had chances to fly. The one's that surrendered in Mariupol's port belonged to a different contingent, and, to be honest, had a worse terrain to defend.
Oh, I see:
Steel mill Azov:
Port Azov:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrU0Y_2eU8I
Please, do not get me wrong, these people are not super-human, they die and need food and water, but they are quite peculiar in terms of their moral and will to fight. The longer they pin the Russian army, the more chances Ukraine has to use the West's aid.
Lol. I hope if I ever get 'pinned down' in combat it is the way Azov and associated mercenaries pinned down the Chechens in Mariupol.
I'm guessing that for to long the 'defenders' believed the stories about a Ukrainian breakthrough to save their asses, and probably thought that with the Western mercenaries among them, the West would somehow come to the rescue. The joke is on them because the only people who would like to see them dead more than Russia would be Zelenski and their Jewish oligarch sponsors who have been paying them for a decade for just this day.
Takes a lot of 'character' to justify the use of human shields just to maybe give a little more time for Western weapons to come in to some other part of the country. I will give you that.