Posted on 05/27/2023 5:12:39 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the origin of a piece of equipment can't be established, it is not included in the list. The Soviet flag is used when the equipment in question was produced prior to 1991. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.
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If so, I suggest you move to Russia and see how great their country really is.
I agree with the other responses to your post, I don't see a need to repeat them.
Personally, I am against same-sex marriage, no matter what they are called.
I believe that this should not be a criteria as to whether the U.S. provides materiel support.
I am not going to debate this further.
Using YOUR words, "license to invade this nation" -- taking "this" away and replacing with "any" -- may be rather quickly applied to NATO in a minor way, and our United States in an expansive way. License to invade a nation has been applied in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Sudan, Yemen, Somalia, and from 2000 when the US had a national debt of about $5 trillion, our land has increased its debt to circa $32 trillion. Invading nations is a costly and sometimes bankrupting business.
A look back at your comment activity shows me you too are focused quite a lot on the non-NATO conflict between two thugs, and that you've picked your favorite of the two. I dislike both, and think going further into debt for the neocon -- and your -- enthusiasm for war is a fool's game. If you are of Czech background but here in the states, then the massively grown debt will hammer your grand kids. If you are in the Czech Republik, then it's time to lobby your government to "invade" in defense of "West" Ukraine, and liberate "East" Ukraine, which the larger thug has now made into Russia. No matter how the pie is sliced, The US and EU countries are paying quite a price, and yet the expulsion of Russia from lands is not happening. Time will tell. Neither you nor I can adequately foretell, unless your Ouija board is working today.
Like the Admiral Kuznetsov, their hypersonic missiles are missing in action.
From today’s post:
“ the Carrier was put into a floating dry dock which sunk, then put in another dry dock where the ship caught on fire 2X, and the systems burned up cannot be replaced because of the sanctions. In a further irony, the ship’s most sensitive and precise equipment was made in Ukraine ...”
Their Kh-47M2 Kinzhal is not hypersonic, since it is just an 9K720 Iskander cruise missile with a different motor.
Their military export business is in the toilet because they need everything they have for their invasion forces.
“Think this is the last gasp of the Soviet Union which Putin so loved”
Rephrased: Think of this war as the last scrap on flesh falling off the bones of the USSR.
Since oil and gas are everything, it’s best to be sure people have facts.
1) Equinor, of Norway, is not 49% publicly traded/owned. 51% govt ownership would make them majority govt owned, which was the point. Latest numbers say no, not 51%. It’s 69% gov’t owned. Behold, Socialism, that someone above was praising.
2) The new Sakhalin project is indeed run by a domestic Russian company, somewhat subsidiary to GAZPROM. So whoever it was that thought only foreign oil skills could make it happen . . . wrong again. There is foreign participation — from Japan, and that participation remains in place, post Ukraine. Shell sold and is selling their stake post Ukraine. They are practically giving it away, because the EU will fine them otherwise. GAZPROM may buy their stake for a few rubles, and laugh the whole time.
3) The primary contracts for Sakhalin gas are with Korea and Japan, neither of whom have cancelled. It’s a great deal. Right next door.
4) As for Russian gas production, (always think extraction (production), not exports) the 2021 number per BP was 700+ billion cubic meters for the year. Consumption is 474 bcm for 2021. Note this was a virus year. Most countries were either flat or increasing during the virus, because oil and gas are everything. Regardless, note that over half of Russia output is also input.
5) So it is completely absurd to imagine Russian production was 400 bcm in 2022 because of Ukraine. That is lower than domestic consumption! Don’t say these things without having the information.
6) China’s nat gas consumption 2021 was 378 billion cubic meters, up 10% from 2020. They do have some gas fields and produced 209 bcm that year. Production was up 8ish% from their northeast fields that, like oil, are dying so they will be hard pressed to ever reach 300. Russia fills the difference, of course. The new pipelines into China from Russia focus on that, but Japan and Korea consumption growth compete with China for GAZPROM gas. China knows it. They will add Turkmenistan as an input.
Well said and of course they have a much larger one “planned”
Sure it will be a game changer
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