Attack On Europe: Documenting Russian Equipment Losses During The 2022 Russian Invasion Of Ukraine (2 year anniversary)

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[JonPreston]

[JonPreston]

Some people should stick to flipping hamburgers.

[BroJoeK]

"US Vice President J.D. Vance:
'The era of American global hegemony is over.' "

That's not what Vance said.

On May 23, 2025, Vice President JD Vance delivered a commencement address at the U.S. Naval Academy in which he declared that “the era of uncontested U.S. dominance is over.”

Another report on Vance's speech.

Vance's key points:

1. After the Cold War, the U.S. enjoyed
   “a mostly unchallenged command of the commons, airspace, sea, space and cyberspace...
   Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, our policymakers assumed that American primacy on the world stage was guaranteed.
   For a brief time, we were a superpower without any peer, nor did we believe any foreign nation could possibly rise to compete with the United States of America”.

2. This era is ended with rising threats from China, Russia, and other nations seeking to challenge U.S. influence across multiple domains — from supply chains to low Earth orbit.

3. Vance said, “our leaders traded hard power for soft power”, and argued this was an error -- the US should have focused on containing China.

4. Criticized past U.S. leaders who "traded national defense and the maintenance of our alliances for nation-building and meddling in foreign countries' affairs."

5. Announced a pivot toward hard power and technological superiority, aligning with a return to more traditional, force-based strategic thinking.

My summary: the Greatest Generation, which won Cold War I (i.e., Nixon, Reagan, poppy Bush), was followed by a generation of very unserious fools (Clinton, sonny Bush, Obama & Biden), whose bumbling effectively restored the status quo ante 1991 (a Cold War II) in which the now Trump-led US must again compete to preserve our international order and leadership in it, though this time with Trump's very different set of assumptions.

For a radical leftist view of Vance's speech, see this report:

"US VP JD Vance announces new strategy of blatant imperialism, aimed at China"

[ANKE69]

[FtrPilot]

A Ukrainian airstrike, observed by the 30th Mechanized Brigade, targeted and struck the position of Russian UAV operators in Soledar, Donetsk region.

https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1938568716968509539

[FtrPilot]

Ukrainian border guards near Vovchansk destroyed two Russian artillery pieces — a D-30 and an MT-12 “Rapira.” Recon-strike UAV also eliminated three Russian vehicles used for transporting troops and ammunition, and neutralized six soldiers.

https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1938567041574973493

[gleeaikin]

How is it possible that some who believe they know history can forget that a few years before the start of WW2, Russia’s Soviet Union had deliberately starved more than 3,000,000 Ukrainians to death by robbing them of the food they had grown. Given the absolute hatred of Russia by the victims of this atrocity, a tendency to hope an alliance with Germany to fight Soviet Russia might be a useful choice does not surprise me.

Unfortunately, the period of starvation was a horror within which the strongest and most aggressive survived. Thus a Ukranian group with questionable ethics and morality existed and was able to use the Nazi coalition to fight the Russians. I do not know enough of that historical period to understand how Jews became targeted victims. However, currently it is interesting to see the elected leader of Ukraine has Jewish heritage.

[FtrPilot]

Ukrainian long-range attack drones continue to hunt down high-value Russian SAM systems in Crimea.

Seen here, a swarm of Ukrainian drones blind a pair of Russian S-400 batteries, scoring hits on a TEL, two 92N2E Grave Stone engagement radars, and two 91N6E Big Bird search radars

https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1938497943021170832

[dfwgator]

Thus a Ukranian group with questionable ethics and morality existed and was able to use the Nazi coalition to fight the Russians.

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And kill hundreds of thousands of Poles.

[JonPreston]

"The era of uncontested US dominance is over. - JD Vance

[FtrPilot]

🥩 The enemy complains about huge losses in the Sumy region. Meat…

https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1938559528838353262

[gleeaikin]

Do you know if Poles helped or tried to help the Ukrainians who sere being systematically starved to death? Did their government do anything merciful or helpful during that period of atrocity? I am not saying that failure to act is an excuse for mass murder, but it might be an explanation.

[FtrPilot]

Ukraine’s MoD approved the Protector, a heavy unmanned ground platform by Ukrainian Armor, for use.

It can carry ammo, evacuate wounded, serve as a remote combat module, or act as a mobile EW system.

With a 700 kg payload and 400 km range, it can also deliver smaller ground drones for frontline ops within 2-3 km.

https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1938575050388509144

[FtrPilot]

The "Sky Ryders" Ukrainian drone crew struck a Russian logistics route with an FPV drone, hitting a mined railway bridge on the eastern front.

https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1938568846635331655

Partisans?

[blitz128]

Soviet Union began ww2 allied with nazi germany and invaded Poland along with the nazis. NATO has been on Russias borders for decades and no invasion.

Those are historical facts

[FtrPilot]

❗️ 🇺🇦 Ukrainian FPV drone attacks a 🇷🇺 Russian military train near temporarily occupied Tokmak, Zaporizhia region

https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status/1938569725027529047

[FtrPilot]

Defense giant Raytheon, a division of RTX Corporation, is developing a ground-launched variant of its GBU-53/B Small Diameter Bomb II, the precision-guided, long-range munition known as StormBreaker.

https://interestingengineering.com/military/us-firm-developing-glsdb-2-0-weapon

[blitz128]

Hundreds of thousands? You mean under Soviet control, 10000+ Polish officers executed and then blamed on the Nazis.

Next😂

[JonPreston]

🍈

GROK:

"No, Russia did not start World War II. The war began on September 1, 1939, when Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, invaded Poland...The Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland on September 17, 1939

Mr McDonald likes to argue with AI.

[FtrPilot]

❗️A 🇺🇦 Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jet using 🇺🇸 American GBU39 precision-guided bombs destroys a 🇷🇺 Russian base in the South.

https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status/1938615225038537153