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What’s the update on conflict between Ukraine and Russia?

Fighting continues. Russia is not succeeding operationally in any area.

Artillery and missiles continue to be used by both sides. Russia with limited accuracy and achieving only something akin to strategic bombing in the last century. This succeeded only once and that was against Japan in 1945. The will of Ukraine will not be undermined by these efforts. Putin will not order the use of nuclear weapons.

The accurate counter force actions by Ukraine artillery is seeing success against Russian headquarters, logistics storage sites, etc. This is undermining Russian ability to fight. Look out for forced withdrawals from the rest of Kherson Oblast, and Crimea should the Kerch Strait bridge be hit again. Access into northern Crimea is now vulnerable to long range artillery in fact by striking three bridges Crimea could be cut off from support by land, making defence of Crimea by Russia untenable.

The economic situation for Putin continues to worsen by degrees and in a few months will reach a critical point where the choice will be between paying internal security apparatus or fighting the war. At that point Putin risk the breakup of the Russian federation.

Putin will be working his worry beads.

Mohammad Mudasir Chandio

What’s the update on conflict between Ukraine and Russia?

Fighting continues. Russia is not succeeding operationally in any area.

Artillery and missiles continue to be used by both sides. Russia with limited accuracy and achieving only something akin to strategic bombing in the last century. This succeeded only once and that was against Japan in 1945. The will of Ukraine will not be undermined by these efforts. Putin will not order the use of nuclear weapons.

The accurate counter force actions by Ukraine artillery is seeing success against Russian headquarters, logistics storage sites, etc. This is undermining Russian ability to fight. Look out for forced withdrawals from the rest of Kherson Oblast, and Crimea should the Kerch Strait bridge be hit again. Access into northern Crimea is now vulnerable to long range artillery in fact by striking three bridges Crimea could be cut off from support by land, making defence of Crimea by Russia untenable.

The economic situation for Putin continues to worsen by degrees and in a few months will reach a critical point where the choice will be between paying internal security apparatus or fighting the war. At that point Putin risk the breakup of the Russian federation.

Putin will be working his worry beads.

Mohammad Mudasir Chandio

What’s the update on conflict between Ukraine and Russia?

Fighting continues. Russia is not succeeding operationally in any area.

Artillery and missiles continue to be used by both sides. Russia with limited accuracy and achieving only something akin to strategic bombing in the last century. This succeeded only once and that was against Japan in 1945. The will of Ukraine will not be undermined by these efforts. Putin will not order the use of nuclear weapons.

The accurate counter force actions by Ukraine artillery is seeing success against Russian headquarters, logistics storage sites, etc. This is undermining Russian ability to fight. Look out for forced withdrawals from the rest of Kherson Oblast, and Crimea should the Kerch Strait bridge be hit again. Access into northern Crimea is now vulnerable to long range artillery in fact by striking three bridges Crimea could be cut off from support by land, making defence of Crimea by Russia untenable.

The economic situation for Putin continues to worsen by degrees and in a few months will reach a critical point where the choice will be between paying internal security apparatus or fighting the war. At that point Putin risk the breakup of the Russian federation.

Putin will be working his worry beads.

Mohammad Mudasir Chandio

What’s the update on conflict between Ukraine and Russia?

Fighting continues. Russia is not succeeding operationally in any area.

Artillery and missiles continue to be used by both sides. Russia with limited accuracy and achieving only something akin to strategic bombing in the last century. This succeeded only once and that was against Japan in 1945. The will of Ukraine will not be undermined by these efforts. Putin will not order the use of nuclear weapons.

The accurate counter force actions by Ukraine artillery is seeing success against Russian headquarters, logistics storage sites, etc. This is undermining Russian ability to fight. Look out for forced withdrawals from the rest of Kherson Oblast, and Crimea should the Kerch Strait bridge be hit again. Access into northern Crimea is now vulnerable to long range artillery in fact by striking three bridges Crimea could be cut off from support by land, making defence of Crimea by Russia untenable.

The economic situation for Putin continues to worsen by degrees and in a few months will reach a critical point where the choice will be between paying internal security apparatus or fighting the war. At that point Putin risk the breakup of the Russian federation.

Putin will be working his worry beads.

Mohammad Mudasir Chandio

What’s the update on conflict between Ukraine and Russia?

Fighting continues. Russia is not succeeding operationally in any area.

Artillery and missiles continue to be used by both sides. Russia with limited accuracy and achieving only something akin to strategic bombing in the last century. This succeeded only once and that was against Japan in 1945. The will of Ukraine will not be undermined by these efforts. Putin will not order the use of nuclear weapons.

The accurate counter force actions by Ukraine artillery is seeing success against Russian headquarters, logistics storage sites, etc. This is undermining Russian ability to fight. Look out for forced withdrawals from the rest of Kherson Oblast, and Crimea should the Kerch Strait bridge be hit again. Access into northern Crimea is now vulnerable to long range artillery in fact by striking three bridges Crimea could be cut off from support by land, making defence of Crimea by Russia untenable.

The economic situation for Putin continues to worsen by degrees and in a few months will reach a critical point where the choice will be between paying internal security apparatus or fighting the war. At that point Putin risk the breakup of the Russian federation.

Putin will be working his worry beads.

Mohammad Mudasir Chandio

What’s the update on conflict between Ukraine and Russia?

Fighting continues. Russia is not succeeding operationally in any area.

Artillery and missiles continue to be used by both sides. Russia with limited accuracy and achieving only something akin to strategic bombing in the last century. This succeeded only once and that was against Japan in 1945. The will of Ukraine will not be undermined by these efforts. Putin will not order the use of nuclear weapons.

The accurate counter force actions by Ukraine artillery is seeing success against Russian headquarters, logistics storage sites, etc. This is undermining Russian ability to fight. Look out for forced withdrawals from the rest of Kherson Oblast, and Crimea should the Kerch Strait bridge be hit again. Access into northern Crimea is now vulnerable to long range artillery in fact by striking three bridges Crimea could be cut off from support by land, making defence of Crimea by Russia untenable.

The economic situation for Putin continues to worsen by degrees and in a few months will reach a critical point where the choice will be between paying internal security apparatus or fighting the war. At that point Putin risk the breakup of the Russian federation.

Putin will be working his worry beads.

Mohammad Mudasir Chandio

What is the difference between communism, capitalism and socialism?

Capitalism is a political system in which individuals own all the property that isn’t required for the government. The government’s basic function consists in ensuring individual freedom and property rights, and enforcing contracts. The government could be democratic or not. In history, capitalist countries have included democratic and non-democratic regimes, but most have been democratic.


Socialism is a political system in which the state owns all the property. That state could be democratically controlled, but need not be. In history, most socialist societies were not democratic.


Communism is an ideal social system put forward by Karl Marx. As other posters have noted, communism is supposed to exist when production is so abundant there is no need for ownership, contracts, or pay. This idea violates one of the basic principles of economics, which is that human wants are unlimited and some resources are always scarce.


In common parlance, “Communism” is often used to refer to totalitarian socialism, such as that of the Soviet Union, Maoist China, Castroist Cuba, and North Korea. These countries severely limited private property. The state or workers’ communes owned most of the property. The ruling parties in those countries called themselves “Communist,” so the name has stuck.


All economies in the world today are a mix of capitalism and socialism. No country bans all forms of private property, and no country embraces laissez-faire capitalism in the sense classical liberals advocate. China, though ruled by a Communist Party, is not strongly socialist now.


MBC / Mudasir Bedar Chandio