Posted on 05/25/2022 9:19:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
Of course it mostly ignores the tactical advances that Russia has made at it learns how to operate effectively in Ukraine against modern western systems. Arrogant folks in the west just sort of presumed that the Russians started off ignorant and incompetent and were too stupid to learn, preferring to die on the battlefield while sticking stubbornly to their way of doing things.
I love how the Russians are so stupid that they are retreating backwards through Ukrainian lines in Donbass and the Ukrainians have to move quickly to avoid being encircled by the swirls of Russians running away to the West.
The Globohomo propaganda machine has also been making every Russian flag officer or colonel who dies into a “victory is right around the corner” story.
It’s only a US military tradition (and a recent one at that) that the perfumed princes have to be protected at all costs.
Generals and colonels in winning armies still say “follow me” instead of “I’m right behind you”.
Our way of war is so superior with top end $135M F-35’s with mission availabilities running as high as 17-20% although the Naval variant at 10% availability still needs some improvement. If we can get one of those suckers in the air it is going to be a bad day for the guy trying to fly against it.
Get this:
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/24/american-fighters-ukraine-white-supremacists-00034860
Seems as if the media only acknowledges Nazis in Ukraine when it suits their need to attack US conservatives.
If Ukraine was smart they would start talks now and keep Odessa Otherwise they will lose the black sea port. We will see Mr. Z. fly to Florida soon to join his family in a nice mansion and a job on CNN. Russia has all the cards now—and if they play them right—they will win. Unless Poland marches in with US and UK to win our own victory?
“The results of barrages from the TOS-1A thermobaric MLRS”
VIDEO CLIP
https://twitter.com/RWApodcast/status/1529771411023306753
Our Genius Generals spent twenty years and trillions of dollars losing to the Taliban, leaving billions in weapons behind, and the Taliban only had AK-47s and improvised IEDs, and no air assets at all.
But I’m sure the Genius Generals of the Pentagon would do MUCH better against Russia, right next door to Russia.
Especially now that we have Lady Rangers.
The current antiseptic high tech American style of warfare overlooks a crucial thing. That stuff works against ships and aircraft and really expensive hardware, but to control what happens on the ground you have to hold ground and exclude others from using the ground. And that means boots on the ground willing to engage in the bloody nightmare of combat on the ground killing people.
Anyone who read EB Sledge's classic book "With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa" or y T. R. Fehrenbach's book on the Korean War "This Kind of War" would get a clue about the problem. You cannot defeat the guy trying to knife your pilot on the ground by taking off in a B52 and bombing your own base.
We blew Sadam out of his villas, but we created the Iraqi resistance. As Tom Schelling wrote in his classic "Arms and Influence" even unconditioanl surrender isn't really total surrend in the sense that you didn't fight the war to utterly exterminate a people and a culture. And so what you can get in war, even total war resulting in total surrender of the other side's military only gets you so much.
You never take the house. You just get another turn at the table.
Which means, inspiring and holding the hearts of men.
Can you imagine Milley or Austin doing THAT?
Italy and France are far from the front-lines, so they think that in the case of a war, the Central European nations will take the brunt of the attack.
The UK see’s that helping the Ukrainians is bolstering its image among its former allies in the EU - the central european states.
Kissinger wants Ukraine to give up territory for peace.
That won't work with Putin. He'll take some today and tomorrow come back for more.
it’ isn’t the beginning of winter. That’s another indication of the utter failures of Russia’s invasion.
Now the gas usage is down. Germany, Poland, etc. have the time to switch and build up reserves.
It won’t be easy, it won’t be cheap, but it will be possible and it IS possible
In 3 months? September? Nope.
November, yeah, but not earlier
So you are happy if a defensive group that protects its members form Russian attack would be weakened?
well, you are going to be disappointed - Putin has actually strengthened NATO
NATO was due to be scrapped in another couple of years if Putin hadn't invaded Ukraine
Dude, what are you talking about?
Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria all are in this war because they know that they are next on the Russian eagle's target list if Ukraine falls
Germany is in this to rejoin the rest of humanity and not be seen as supporting an aggressor Nazi state like Putin's Russia
the UK is rebuilding its network of allies
These countries are not doing it for the USA in any way.
Congress has to step in!!!
Zelenskyy’s family are still in kyiv, so there isn’t a “removal of the Zelenskyy fmaily from Ukraine”
This was as of April 13th
this is as of May 19th
Russia has given up in the north around Kharkiv and retreated.
in the east it looks like they have slowly advanced.
Will this lead to encirclement? Perhaps - but as you see in the map below, they've been trying to do this since March 2022 and failed.
Is it a breakthrough? No. Is it a Russian victory? a minor one, yes.
Can they translate this to something more? Well, that depends.
“they now have Donbas”
“they” haven’t got Donbas - not yet.
If you look at Intel Slava Z there’s a lot of Soviet symbology showing up there.
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