Russia Requested A UN Security Council Meeting

[gab13by13]

At that meeting the US Deputy Ambassador, Tammy Bruce, called for an immediate cease fire for the Russia/Ukraine War.

Imagine that. This year Ukraine has been regaining territory at break neck speed. Ukraine is winning at the battle front.

Putin is short of soldiers, he is using more prisoners again.

Hey, I'm all for diplomacy to end the war but I have yet to see a peace plan from Russia that makes any concessions.

The tide of the war is turning in a significant way.

[dalton99a]

1. Putin wants to avoid the fate of Nikolai Romanov

There are several reasons to believe that Russia has been exaggerating its economic strength. Russia has claimed that its economy grew by around 13 percent between 2020 and 2024, but by measuring nighttime luminosity, an established way of assessing economic activity in countries where official statistics are not available or cannot be trusted, we have estimated that the economy actually contracted by around 8 percent during this period.

We also believe inflation is substantially understated. In 2024, when inflation in Russia was reportedly around 10 percent, the central bank raised the benchmark interest rate to 21 percent, suggesting that inflation was higher. And Sweden’s Military Intelligence and Security Service believes that it is higher than the current official forecast of around 5 percent. This would mean Russia is overstating its purchasing power, and that its military spending capacity is weaker than it appears.

Then there are Russia’s strategic failures in Ukraine. Advances at the front have almost ground to a halt, with Ukraine even regaining some territory. Russia’s casualty rates at the front are catastrophic. Russia has suffered 1.2 million casualties since the start of the invasion, by some estimates, an average of roughly 35,000 a month in 2025. Recruitment is increasingly expensive.

Russia’s economy, in nominal terms, is barely bigger than the State of New York’s, smaller than that of Texas and fragile. Russian households are feeling the pinch of daily expenses, and the lion’s share of the liquid assets in the country’s national wealth fund — its financial buffer — has been drained to finance the war. The weakness in the economy shows how effective Western sanctions have already been, and why further pressure is the best way to force Mr. Putin to engage in serious peace negotiations.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/opinion/sweden-intelligence-russia-economy.html

[True Dough]

2. And Russia's precious fuel supplies are going up in flames

I imagine Pooty Poot is more worried about the loss of economic standing than he is about the hundreds of thousands of soldiers killed and maimed in battle.

[justaprogressive]

3. kick

Give up nothing Ukraine!

[Swede]

4. There are reports that Putin is hiding, afraid of all his enemies, both foreign and domestic.

Good. I hope his days are miserable.

[tazcat]

5. Ukraine is shredding the paper tiger & now Krasnov is showing the world that we too are a paper tiger.

Just is so hard to believe that odious fool is destroying the U.S. at the behest of an enemy. Such shame.

[Faux pas]

6. The World

Owes That War Criminal NOTHING!