Posted on 07/01/2023 7:37:25 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Yes, but he is correct in that it is suicide to attack without sufficient artillery and air support. Any commanding general who orders an attack he knows is impossible to win should be court-martialed.
We need nukes. Give us nukes!
Send:
- ammo
- 60mm mortars
- grenade launchers
- Tourniquets
- drones
Use armor to support troops, instead of wasting armor on “armor herds” and “armor spearheads.”
Real leaders do not complain. They find a way.
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The also have a bad habit of stating the facts - in Combined Arms Warfare having the proper weapons is a must, else success will be slow and many will die needlessly.
There is no way to overcome the lack of modern air power, except by losing many more troops then necessary.
The only answer to the Russian KA-52 is F-16s or F-18s. Nothing else can hit them from 9 miles beyond the FEBA. They only get taken down when they get too close to some guy with a manpad. Which is not that often.
F-16s or F-18s would effectively ground Russia’s helicopter fleet.
Lack of battle preparation using LR Artillery and missiles is essential - Ukraine only has a very limited selection and limited supply of those weapons - some of which like the Storm Shadow are software crippled.
Facts not complaints.
Zelensky knew from the get go thy would not get air power....he thought he could get no fly zones. He thought he was in charge.
Ukraine and ppl like you have been crying about F16s for a year and a half, so why don't they have what they need?
If Ukraine had kept all of the money that they snuck to the Biden crime family, they would have had enough money to buy the equipment they want.
more shovels!
please stop sending weapons so both sides can stop dying...
ukes never getting territory back but its better to keep what u have
I heard that close to 700 Ukrainian soldiers surrendered yesterday. I know the numbers are usually inflated on both sides but that’s a lot of men even if it was half that number. Has anyone else heard about this?
We would do better if you would just give us guns, bullets, troops, planes, pilots, tanks, artillery, intel, logistics, and cash. Dont forget the cash. Plenty of cash.
There may be some validity to this. However, until recently, the Ukes were fighting by the Soviet system, which emphasizes reliance on ‘the plan’ and discourages initiative at the lower levels. Tactical opportunities may be missed for fear of punishment for deviating from the plan if things don’t work out. Initiative must be taught to the tactical leaders from day one. It will take about 8-10 years to develop an officer with initiative and to move him up to a battalion command level. If you want flexible plans your staff officers must be taught flexibility in planning and it takes about 10 years to develop a staff officer that can do this effectively. And the higher level leadership must allow subordinates to exercise flexibility and initiative. The Ukes are still learning and developing these qualities.
“corruption, soros, Biden”
I said nothing about the items mentioned above
So GET YOUR FACTS Straight.
I don’t want any U.S. dollars going to Ukraine be it a Democrat or Republican President. It’s none of our business. Let EU Countries deal with it.
All aboard the Zelensky gravy train: an independent audit of US funding for Ukraine
BY HEATHER KAISER, ANYA PARAMPIL AND MAX BLUMENTHAL
thegrayzone.com
JUNE 27, 2023
In the absence of official scrutiny of Washington’s spending spree on Ukraine, The Grayzone conducted an independent audit of US funding for the country. We discovered a series of wasteful, highly unusual expenditures the Biden administration has yet to explain.
During a recent discussion with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Samantha Power, touted her organization’s push to guarantee transparency for US taxpayer funds sent to Ukraine.
“We are involved in funding efforts at ensuring judicial integrity, which is intrinsically important to building Ukraine’s democracy and its integration plans to get into Europe,” Power declared, adding USAID’s work in Ukraine was “also really important in terms of assuring the taxpayer, the American taxpayer, that they’re resources are well spent.”
While innocuous on the surface, Power’s comments revealed a great deception the US government is currently waging against the American public. In the roughly 16 months since Russia’s February 2022 escalation of the Ukraine conflict, the US government has approved several multi-billion dollar spending packages to sustain the Kiev military’s fight against Moscow.
Though many Americans likely believe that US dollars allocated for Ukraine are spent directly on supplies for the war effort, the lead author of this report, Heather Kaiser, conducted a thorough review of Washington’s budget for the 2022 and 2023 fiscal year and discovered that is far from the case.
US taxpayers may be shocked to learn that as their families grappled with fears of Social Security’s looming insolvency, the Social Security Administration in Washington sent $4.48 million to the Kiev government in 2022 and 2023 alone. In another example of bizarre spending, USAID paid off $4.5 billion worth of Ukraine’s sovereign debt through payments made to the World Bank — all while Congress went to loggerheads over America’s ballooning national debt. (Western financial interests including BlackRock Inc. are among the largest holders of Ukrainian government bonds.)
Though it is nearly impossible to calculate the total sum of US tax dollars sent to Kiev, Kaiser was able to perform an independent audit of Washington’s proxy war in Ukraine through a careful search of open source data available on the US government’s official spending tracker.
Kaiser reviewed all the funding allocations in which Ukraine was listed as the “Place of Performance” for fiscal years 2022 and 2023. Additionally, she discovered supplementary funds were sent to Kiev by listing Ukraine as the “justification” for spending, rather than the location where the money was physically sent.
Calculating the total dollar amount that the US has given to Ukraine is incredibly challenging for multitude of reasons: there is a lag in reporting expenditures; covert money given by the CIA (Title 50 Covert Action) won’t be publicly disclosed; and direct military assistance in the form of military equipment is not calculated in the same manner as raw cash. The Pentagon recently admitted to an accounting error revised up to 6.2 billion dollars. Despite this, Kaiser submitted a request to the Department of Treasury asking them to disclose the total dollar amount of US taxpayer support for Ukraine. Treasury has not responded at the time of publication.
Though Kaiser was able to search through pages of reported spending, the US government has yet to conduct an official audit of its funding for Ukraine. What’s more, there is currently no limit to how much Washington can send to Kiev.
In the absence of dedicated official scrutiny of Washington’s spending in Ukraine, The Grayzone has produced an independent audit of US tax dollar allocation in the country.
Among the many troubling contracts we discovered was a $4.25 million payment from the Pentagon to a military diving contractor that a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee has described as a “fraudulent company.” The US government asserts the payment covered the company’s delivery of explosives equipment to Ukraine.
So how exactly was that money put to use? And why has Congress so far refused to implement any program to track these shady weapons deals?
Unfortunately, the “justification” for contracts like these often consists of just a brief paragraph — or worse, a single sentence. Little little information is available that documents precisely how the funds were spent down to the dollar and item.
Beneficiaries of USAID’s Ukraine aid: Polish NATO lobbyists, a private equity firm, rural Kenyans, a TV station in Toronto
snip.....rest on grayzone.com
ping to post #34
Send Biden, one way.
Even if we were willing to provide such equipment to Ukraine, they haven't got enough time left to train up pilots who can use it. They are also running out of men for their army.
Hunter-killer drone aircraft would be a strategic upset that would neutralize air power for everybody. It would likely eliminate the Russian advantage in artillery too. If we had them and were willing to give some to the Ukraine, it would change the outcome.
But we don't and we wouldn't give such equipment away if we did.
The Ukraine government is going to end up in villas in the south of France. Or in Florida.
It’s amazing how many people in the country and especially here on FR don’t realize Ukraine is being asked to fight a war against an opponent that has a superior military but somehow with American weapons they will win , no questions the toughest of the Ukrainians but fighting Russia with inferior weapons is not a winning strategy
Hey Liz - maybe someone has finally found one of Hunter's many hidden LLC's...
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