Given the recent set backs and the Russians fighting essentially a rear guard action in the centre of Berlin, its time we faced the facts and acknowledge the war is turning and the Russians are clearly on the run. Its true Australia has lost 50 000 ( and 150,000 missing) but its also true Russia has lost perhaps 5 million men in Putin’s aggression.

It seems to me that Australia should combine forces with the Southern Army and finally throw the Russians out of Berlin once and for all. Whats irksome is how the Australian Infantry executed 500 men recently for misgendering enemy combatants during battle.

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