Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
“Russia has significantly depleted its extensive stockpiles of Soviet-era weaponry since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine”
Ukraine absorbed the main blow of Russia’s Armor, Artillery and a good chunk of its Aviation; that Europe, and all of Russia’s other neighbors had faced.
“Russia’s defense industry now... receives the majority of its ammunition from North Korea.”
Now Ukraine is taking the punch of North Korea’s war stocks as well, that had so long threatened South Korea.
Ukraine deserves the support of the Free World. They have paid the price.
Although the following management process for the Russian administrators does not include the many steps for embezzling funds (which are never put on paper - that could get you sent to the gulag), it is otherwise representative of their high quality assurance procedures.
“Lots of C17 and C130 transport flights today. Most since President Trump returned to office.”
It is a new phase in the war.
It is just over a month until D-Day, when the Bone Crushing Sanctions deadline arrives (along with the EU’s 18th sanctions package, lowering the price cap). That is going to be a significant inflection point as well.
https://x.com/Heroiam_Slava/status/1949878984528801828
🚨 JUST IN: President Trump is DONE with Putin. He just said he's lowering the initial 50 day deadline for sanctions on them to 10 days...
"I'm gonna make a new deadline of about 10 or 12 days, from TODAY. There's NO reason in waiting. No reason in waiting. I wanna be generous, but, we don't see any progress being made." https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4331215/posts
Trump is putting on a show. His “anger” at Putin is part of the show to keep the deep state off balance. Trump and Putin already have a deal. All the other stuff you see is just noise.
This deal with Putin is already done and done on terms Putin is fine with.
All of the Russian Oblasts go to Russia, Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Odessa most likely.
Ukraine WILL NEVER joins NATO
A general security agreement that protects Russians living in Ukraine and safeguards their rights
Russian approval required for any government in what’s left of Ukraine.
The Zelensky Gone!!
The Putin sends his regards!
🍈 is flailing again😂
Mr GED trying desperately to be taken seriously 😂
“🍈 is flailing again😂”
It is far more likely that the US and China (and possibly the EU) have a deal, and that Russia was just one of the bargaining chips.
President Trump’s announcement of the new 10 (or 12) day deadline, came after the second day of US/China trade talks in Sweden - where these Bone-Crushing Secondary Sanctions were explicitly on the agenda.
It also comes immediately after President Trump’s visit to Europe, meeting with the UK Prime Minister and EU (EC) President, and the announcement of an overarching trade deal with the EU.
Looks like deals were made, and Russia was either left out, or was traded off as a bill payer. The field seems to have been cleared for President Trump to drop the hammer on Russia.
Hammer time approaches (likely to be hard for Watermelon to spin): President Trump not interested in talking to Putin anymore, says: “I think I already know the answer — what is going to happen.”
Kyiv Independent (28 July):
“U.S. President Donald Trump said on July 28 that he aims to shorten the 50-day deadline he had set to Russian President Vladimir Putin for a peace deal in Ukraine, expressing disappointment with the Kremlin leader.
The U.S. president was referring to his July 14 warning that Washington would impose up to 100% in secondary tariffs on Russia unless Moscow agreed to a peace deal in Ukraine within the next 50 days.
“We thought we had that settled numerous times, and then President Putin goes out and starts launching rockets into some city like Kyiv and kills a lot of people in a nursing home or whatever,” Trump said alongside U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the Turnberry golf club in Scotland.
“So we are going to have to look, and I am going to reduce that 50 days that I gave him to a lesser number because I think I already know the answer — what is going to happen.”
Trump said he now plans to impose a 10- to 12-day deadline starting July 28. “There’s no reason in waiting,” he said. “It’s 50 days, I wanted to be generous, but we just don’t see any progress being made.”
When asked by a reporter whether he still wanted to meet with Putin, Trump replied, “I’m not so interested in talking anymore.”
US President Donald Trump announced a new deadline for Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate an end to Russia's war against Ukraine no later than August 9. Trump stated on July 28 that he is “very disappointed” with Putin and will “reduce” his previously articulated 50-day deadline by which Putin must agree to peace negotiations.[1] Trump stated that he will make a new deadline of roughly “10 to 12 days from today [July 28]” as Putin's ongoing disinterest in peace negotiations leaves “no reason” for the United States to delay its response.[2] Trump insinuated that he will more formally announce the new deadline on the evening of July 28 or on July 29. Trump's new deadline would expire between August 7 and 9. Trump previously stated on July 14 that Putin had 50 days (September 2) to conclude a peace agreement with Ukraine or face “severe” 100 percent secondary tariffs on its trade partners.[3]
Kremlin officials continue to frame Russia as in direct geopolitical confrontation with the West in order to generate domestic support for the war in Ukraine and future Russian aggression against NATO. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed at a Russian youth forum on July 28 that “Russia is fighting alone against the entire West... for the first time in history” and that Russia “must rely on [itself].”[4] Lavrov claimed that Russia has “no allies on the battlefield,” unlike during the first and second World Wars. Lavrov’s claim that Russia is operating alone in its war in Ukraine ignores the current support that Russia receives from North Korea, Iran, and the People's Republic of China (PRC). North Korea has sent ballistic missiles, artillery shells, and North Korean troops to support Russia's war effort against Ukraine, and there are economic and political signs of a growing rapprochement between Russia and North Korea.[5] Iranian Shahed drones have played a key role in Russia‘s air campaigns against Ukrainian cities throughout the war, and Iran's assistance has allowed Russia to become self-sufficient in producing the Shahed-variants that Russian forces are increasingly leveraging in frontline strikes.[6] Russia largely depends on the PRC for support in Russia's ongoing sanctions evasion schemes, and Chinese companies provide critical dual-use components and microelectronics for Russian military technology.[7] Strengthening relationships between Russia, Iran, North Korea, and the PRC constitute a growing threat to Western security, and Russia is actively pursuing a global anti-Western alliance. Lavrov’s statements also underscore the Kremlin's efforts to install an informal state ideology that perpetuates the idea that the West is in an existential conflict with Russia in order to foster unquestioning support of the Russian government.[8]
Lavrov additionally claimed that Russia had “no alternative” to launching its war in Ukraine as Russia needed to protect Russian-language speakers in Ukraine, a routine narrative that Russian officials use to justify Russian aggression against Ukraine.[9] Lavrov claimed that Russia must insist on its “legitimate” demand: “no drawing Ukraine into NATO, no expansion of NATO at all,” and recognition of Russia's illegal annexation of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson oblasts and Crimea. Lavrov’s statements reinforce the Kremlin's commitment to its war goals in Ukraine to the Russian public, and specifically Russian youth. The Kremlin has devoted a significant amount of time and energy to generating domestic support for the war, and Russian state and independent polling suggest that most Russians support continuing the war in Ukraine until Russia achieves its war aims of Ukrainian “denazification,” demilitarization, and neutrality.[10] Russian society's commitment to achieving Russia's war aims, which the Kremlin has worked hard to foster, will make it much harder for Russian President Vladimir Putin to present any peace agreement that falls far short of his stated aims as a victory to his domestic audience. Putin is unlikely to make any concessions in his war aims unless he is forced to do so by significant Ukrainian battlefield victories, as any negotiated end to the war that does not achieve all of Putin's objectives would call into question the success, and, potentially, wisdom of Russia's military campaign in Ukraine.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-july-28-2025
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