Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
“the United States approved the sale of 3,350 Extended Range Attack Munition (ERAM) air-launched missiles to Ukraine and reported that the systems will arrive in Ukraine in six weeks (about mid-October 2025).”
Another month for OPEC+ to ramp up production further, before Russian oil is pulled off the market.
Hundreds of ERAMs, plus secondary freeze damage, can impose an epic train wreck for Russian oil exports and domestic fuel supplies. Russia has little surplus capacity available to buffer such kinetic damage.
Their Center of Gravity is Strategically vulnerable.
The cards being played right now are Ukraine building Flamingo cruise missiles. receiving longer ranged and more capable cruise missiles and hitting Russian energy production harder. OPEC is sweetening the deal for India to move away from Russian energy.
It is really easy to see that next moves are for Ukraine to go all in on attacking Russian energy production and India to cut Russian energy purchases as much as possible. This is all moving forward and getting press right after Putin walks back from the Alaska meeting.
Almost as if it was Trump's plan all along to end the war or sink the Russian economy. Not that the MSM will give Trump any credit for it.
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