Previous day’s thread: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4202981/posts
Summarizing this war:
A tragedy for Ukraine.
A disaster for RuZZia.
A strategic win for the USA.
“Why Internet Trolls Do What They Do and How to Spot Russian Fakes”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLtBzvw0—0
“Here is the best-kept secret about U.S. military aid to Ukraine: Most of the money is being spent here in the United States. That’s right: Funds that lawmakers approve to arm Ukraine are not going directly to Ukraine but being used stateside to build new weapons or to replace weapons sent to replace weapons sent to Kyiv from U.S. stockpiles. Of the $68 billion in military and related assistance Congress has approved since Russia invaded Ukraine, almost 90 percent is going to Americans, one analysis found.”
https://twitter.com/TheDeadDistrict/status/1730119780873441750
USA is using 3500 RuZZian tanks as the denominator for pre-war stocks.
RuZZia can build around 200 tanks per year (if they can import the parts). Say another 300 built since the war started. So 3800.
ORYX has cataloged 2500 RuZZian tanks lost. 2500 / 3800 = About 66% gone.
Gone With The Wind. All for a relatively small amount of US taxpayer dollars! A Great TRIUMP of US foreign policy.
“Russia Has Lost Almost 90% of Its Prewar Army, U.S. Intelligence Says”
“The declassified estimate says 315,000 personnel have been killed or injured in Ukraine”
“The war in Ukraine has devastated Russia’s preinvasion military machine, with nearly 90% of its prewar army lost to death or injury, and thousands of battle tanks destroyed, according to a newly declassified U.S. intelligence assessment shared with Congress.
The intelligence assessment, according to a congressional source, says that 315,000 Russian personnel have been killed or injured since the February 2022 invasion, or 87% of Moscow’s prewar force of 360,000.
Russia has also lost nearly two-thirds of its tank force, or 2,200 out of its 3,500 preinvasion stock, the source said.”