Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
Look at me, look at me is going with the diarrhea again.
Makes me chuckle 🍈
🍈 is on a roll today with extremely long posts which, as usual, are misdirected unless info.
Ah yes Russia is “self-sufficient “
Weapons and manpower from Korea is propaganda so says 🍈
This week, several US Air Force transport planes left Ramstein Air Base in Germany for Hatzerim Air Base in southern Israel before continuing on to Rzeszów in eastern Poland, the main hub for almost all military aid to Ukraine.
This information has not been officially confirmed, but previously a representative of the Israeli government offered to transfer such weapons to Ukraine during a meeting with the ambassador.
https://x.com/jurgen_nauditt/status/1883457051566678158
payback time
I saw on a news crawler that the US has released 2,000lb bombs to Israel - the ones JoeB denied because he was terrified the Israelis would “misuse” them.
Hopefully, Israel is also sending some of the recently retired Patriot systems & missiles.
What is the Kremlin’s reaction to President Trump’s proposal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine?
Listen to what the Kremlin heads are saying, through Putin’s mind: They do not want to find any compromises in their genocidal war in Ukraine. They are preparing for a stronger escalation to show “Russian power to the whole world”!
https://x.com/adnashmyash/status/1883295149964333551
19 sec video
"People who destroy whole nations do not have the right to teach us democracy and the values of living freely"
pic.twitter.com/L2OAmResgL— NO NEOCONS (@NoMoreNATO) January 19, 2024
I think this is the first time we have a figure on Ukrainian casualties from a credible source: former Prosecutor General and Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko said during an interview that Ukraine lost 500,000 soldiers so far. https://t.co/OA52OXkppX— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) January 8, 2024
They are preparing for a stronger escalation to show “Russian power to the whole world”!
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oh oh !! here comes the 6 Armies of 100,000 troops each and all the battalions of T-14s they have accumulated. Run!!
“Would not be surprised if that number is closer to 2-1 wounded to dead”
There has definitely been a well documented trend of growing Russian casualty rates, over the course of the last three years of war.
But it also does seem to me that there has also been a trend toward a higher percentage of those Russian casualties being fatalities. I have seen some indicators of the wounded to killed ratio (typically 3 to 1, as a general norm in war), becoming closer to the 2 to 1 ratio that blitz mentioned. Not sure if that is in certain areas of the front, or certain operations, or if that is the overall statistic (which I suspect).
With more Russian assaults being on foot, there is less/less effective Medevac of casualties, than during mechanized operations. Russian helicopters are long since gone from the battlefield in Ukraine, and Ukrainian drones have proliferated to hunt down the wounded, and finish them of with grenades.
There are also the reports of the Russian Command, adopting practices that increase the rate of fatalities.
There were reports of 7:1 - likely due to the heavy meat assaults in the past 2 years.
The Ukraine casualties were heavier toward the start then now. The bad officers and Soviet style leadership of the early days is long gone.
Leak: Kremlin concerned by President Trump’s skyrocketing popularity in Russia.
“Authorities ordered the reduction of discussions of Trump’s anti-migrant initiative in the Russian media, to focus instead exclusively on the growth of domestic conflicts in the United States due to the initiative.
Kremlin is concerned about the abnormal growth of Trump’s popularity among the Russian population. Surveys show that more than 70% of the Russian population considers Trump to be a defender of the interests of his citizens. The most enthusiastic support was caused by Trump’s new policy of “zero tolerance” for crime committed by immigrants and closing entry to unskilled foreigners.
In this part, the policy of the Russian Federation now differs strikingly from the United States - national diasporas and religious groups of non-Christians in the Russian Federation still have enormous support from the authorities, their crimes are carefully hushed up, representatives of their oligarchy are not subjected to nationalization of private property, their “cultural traditions” are protected to the detriment of native Russians, so as not to cause domestic conflicts. A significant share of capital withdrawal abroad also falls on unskilled migrants from neighboring countries, which weakens the ruble, stimulates inflation and forces absolutely every Russian to bear the burden of supporting these migrants.”
@IgorSushko
Putin wouldn’t be jailing and/or murdering his opposition if he wasn’t worried about his hold on power. He’d never win a fair election in Russia now and he knows it. Russians can’t help but notice the corruption of Putin’s regime on these issues while President Trump is cleaning up a similar mess left by Biden.
That type of intentionally disruptive behavior earned a well deserved ban here not long ago. No more, apparently.
Russian milbloggers criticized the Russian government on January 25 for not prioritizing the recruitment and training of Russia's next generation of military officers. One Russian milblogger claimed that current Russian youth are more patriotic than previous generations, but a second milblogger claimed that the Russian government is failing to take advantage of this trend and criticized Russian youth for highlighting issues in the Russian military without joining the military or working to develop solutions.[73] The second milblogger criticized Russian military academies for prioritizing state awards over properly training cadets and claimed that the Russian military expelled many contract servicemembers who joined the military in 2024 due to behavioral or training issues. A third milblogger noted that the Russian military does not pay cadets a livable wage and accused the Russian military command of being careless towards the future of the Russian officer corps.[74] A Kremlin-affiliated Russian milblogger noted that the Russian government needs to adjust its youth policies and propaganda.[75]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-january-26-2025
The interest payments of these organizations eat up more than two-thirds of their profits, which makes the situation critical. Just a year ago, the situation looked much better - there were half as many such companies.
The companies that form the technological core of the Russian economy are suffering particularly hard. Among them, transport engineering companies turned out to be the most vulnerable. These data raise serious concerns about the future of the country's key industries.
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