they are getting T-54/55 tanks out of storage
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Got out of storage and are now confirmed to be on the Russian front lines.
“Russia has lost so many T-72, 80, and 90 tanks they are getting T-54/55 tanks out of storage.”
IMHO, that is a wrong conclusion; because: Older tanks are useful, for Russian tactical purposes.
“The cruise missiles attacks that started in October dropped off in frequency and number of missiles per attack because Russian production could not keep up.”
IMHO, that is a wrong conclusion; because: Russian production takes into account, expansion of the war against Ukraine, into being a broader war against NATO.
Yet, in general, Ukraine continues to behave in a manner that favors drawing NATO into Ukraine’s *vision* that Ukraine will fulfill a mission to achieve absolute “justice” against Russia,
And *that* is why Russia is now preparing for the larger conflict.
As inept and wrong that Russia has been, starting the war in the first place.
Meanwhile, the Russian Special Military Operation (SMO) against Ukraine continues, through a Russian [way of “thinking”] that has a Russian “way” of being supplied with the needs of the SMO.
The Russian “way” of supplying the SMO, is not the Russian “way” of supplying Russia with the means to fight NATO.
For consideration: Russia - for some reason - has not attacked with determination:
- several of the Ukrainian mililtary command centers and intelligence operation centers
- strategic logistical centers of Ukraine
- strategic logistics transport routes of Ukraine
. . . until overnight, May 8 to May 9, 2023.
For the record, Russian losses at Bakhmut, are 7 times Ukraine losses - in terms of men and material - but Russia does control 77 percent of the area in and around Bakhmut.
Finally, Ukraine is fortunate to have military supplies given to Ukraine, but such supplies are not *apparently* planned to be used by Ukraine, to hold on to territory that Ukraine now has. Instead, Ukraine is *apparently* planning to waste what it will need, merely to hold on to what it has.
In the end, Ukraine will have to help Russia learn how to get along with others. Instead of Ukraine pursuing a path to reverse roles.
Ukraine any anybody who thinks that they can ignore Russia in a corner, is wrong.
As in Iran, where there are many people who wish to be free of the Islamic oppression, there are many Russian who wish to be free of Moscowvitivy (Moscow-vi-tivity). But the people of those countries, will have to succeed in their fight.
Same for Venezuela, for Cuba, for some islands and places in Africa and Burma; but not the same for North Korea and Communist China, which are the two worst, brutal police states on this planet.
IMHO