Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
“I wonder”
If Trump loses Arizona (my prediction), it will be because of McCain Republicans.
Not all Rs have become isolationists. Reagan Rs still believe in America’s role in this world.
“Western official tells me if there is a US/UK agreement to allow Ukraine to use British Storm Shadows to strike in Russia, “The first announcement of this policy will land, when the first missile lands in Russia.””
https://x.com/nickschifrin/status/1834810605758210245
“Military correspondent Saponkov reports on the mass shutdown of Starlinks in use by Russians. He says that Starlinks cannot be used for more than 90 days outside the country of registration. Apparently, most are activated in Europe.
“Since the morning, there has been a mass blocking of Starlinks. Dishes registered in the EU are flying off. According to Starlink rules, you cannot use a dish outside the country of registration for more than 90 days. There is also information that dishes with activation in Germany are being massively disconnected.””
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1834885782483390706
I don’t either.
“I don’t think much about Vladimir Putin”
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1834869501684305998
Be afraid, I’ve got nukes...
Another cappuccino please.
“On the topic of Russian nuclear tests. Russians are once more making statements that: “Russia is ready to conduct nuclear tests for the first time since the collapse of the USSR.”
The main reason for that is to put pressure on the United States to not allow Ukraine to strike with long-range weapons deep into Russia.
I am sure that Putin is not going to use nuclear weapons. He is a coward and is afraid for his life.
If Putin ever makes such a decision, he will turn into a madman even to his close associates and will be a threat to them. Putin does not want to be an outcast in the world. He wants to be an influential player next to China and the United States. The topic of the use of nuclear weapons will make him a complete outcast (provided he remains alive).
Therefore, statements about the resumption of nuclear tests by Russia are a part of Putin’s game.”
https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1834907440661610588
That would be the best way to handle it, rather than give Russia a heads up, however from what I have seen Russians have already cleared airstrips in range.
Not great but more hours on airframes is good to
Remember when Putin was going to nuke everyone if Finland joined NATO?
Remember when Putin was going to nuke everyone if Ukraine got F-16’s?
Remember when Putin was going to nuke everyone if Ukraine got HIMARS?
“Ignore the Defeatists. America’s Strategy Is Working in Ukraine.”
“Kyiv remains far from victory, but the U.S. is achieving its primary goal: containing the spread of Russian power”
“As summer turns to fall, the news from Ukraine has been harrowing. Across the country, Russia has been attacking civilian targets, destroying residential buildings, schools and hospitals. Russia has been steadily degrading Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, ensuring that Ukrainians have a very hard winter ahead of them. In the next few months, fresh waves of Ukrainian refugees could well be pouring into Europe.
Most ominously, Kyiv has not had the military momentum on its side since the summer of 2023. Back then, Ukraine’s counteroffensive petered out, yielding to some basic Russian advantages in manpower and materiel. Russia is currently lurching forward in Donbas in eastern Ukraine. It has discovered novel methods for waging this war, repurposing old stock into precision-guided “glide bombs.” The results on the ground have been devastating.
Amid the distressing footage of damaged cities and murdered civilians, a common refrain in the U.S. and among allies has been that we lack a strategy or endgame for the conflict, that our war aims are unclear. In October 2023, two Republicans, Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas and Sen. James Risch of Idaho, published an open letter accusing the Biden administration of failing “to articulate a strategy outlining how U.S. assistance to Ukraine will help them achieve victory over Russia.” Vytautas Landsbergis, foreign minister of Lithuania, echoed the sentiment this past July, declaring that “we finally need a strategy that will lead to Ukraine’s victory in this war.””
looks like the AI is doing a crappy job of rendering.
The original source looks crappy.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Russian AI at its finest.
“But whoever wins the election should recognize that the strategy of containing Russia is working. It has not come at an exorbitant cost, and it has produced remarkable cooperation among partners and allies across the globe. The transatlantic edifice of support for Ukraine (so often alleged to be cracking) has held firm. And in the U.S., Republicans and Democrats have more often collaborated than diverged on Ukraine. It was a Republican Speaker of the House who brought forward the most recent military aid package. Almost all House Democrats voted for it, and President Biden happily signed it.
U.S. policy toward Ukraine may have been chaotic in the early days of the war, but since 2022 it has coalesced into an effective, sustainable strategy. Today more than 80% of Ukraine remains sovereign and independent—an astounding achievement against a brutal, determined and much more powerful adversary.
If the next president, whether Trump or Harris, can expand U.S. assistance to Ukraine while cajoling allies to do more, Ukraine may be able to make some modest progress on the ground. If all the next president can do is hold the line and continue containing Russia, that would be a major accomplishment too.”
“US Is Securing More Air Defense for Ukraine, NSA Sullivan Says”
“President Joe Biden will meet his Ukrainian counterpart at the UN General Assembly to discuss Ukraine’s strategy for the war ahead of the US elections, said White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.
With little more than four months before a new US president is sworn in, “we are going to treat each single one of those days preciously when it comes to supporting Ukraine,” Sullivan said via a video link to the annual Yalta European Strategy conference in Kyiv, organized by businessman Victor Pinchuk.
“I believe that we’re at a vital moment, at a crossroads,” Sullivan said of the Biden meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskiy meeting at UNGA.”
Bloomberg pay wall.
It’s big tent politics and how Trump won in 2016. Vance is just trolling for support from the Chomsky and/or LaRouche nutjob demographic. The dimmest bulbs on the voter rolls. Pay no attention.
Some Russian field commanders continue to make decisions that degrade the overall quality of their subordinate forces—prioritizing infantry-led frontal assault tactics over cultivating technical specialists who would allow the Russian military to better field technologies and innovations in combat operations. Various Russian milbloggers reported on September 13 that two drone operators from the 87th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 1st “Slavic” Motorized Rifle Brigade (51st Combined Arms Army [CAA], formerly the 1st Donetsk People's Republic Army Corps [DNR AC]) died in combat near Pokrovsk after their field commander forced them into an assault detachment as punishment for criticizing their command.[14] The two drone operators posted footage explaining the situation and their forced reassignment to assault tasks before their deaths, which milbloggers widely amplified.[15] Several milbloggers claimed to have heard numerous similar stories and claimed that the practice of sending specialists, such as electronic warfare (EW) specialists, snipers, machine gunners, and drone operators, to conduct frontal assaults as punishment for dissent is commonplace, particularly amongst units of the 51st CAA.[16] DNR First Deputy Information Minister Danil Bezsonov claimed that the commander of the “Komendant” naval Spetsnaz group, which was operating in Kherson Oblast, similarly divided his subordinates into assault groups based on personal vendettas and that a commander operating in Donetsk Oblast sent a talented cyberhacker to an assault unit for disagreeing with the command, after which the hacker died in combat.[17]
Milbloggers argued that this practice is indicative of poor command discipline and is degrading the quality of Russian forces.[18] ISW has previously noted that the Russian military command's reliance on infantry-led frontal assault tactics has flattened the distinctions between formerly elite (such as Airborne and Naval Infantry forces) and ordinary Russian combat services and degraded Russian combat capability throughout the frontline.[19] Reports of Russian commanders forcing personnel with more technical specialties to conduct such frontal assaults are consistent with this wider observed pattern. Machine gunners and snipers are not necessarily specialists in a technical sense, but they possess unique skills that accomplish different effects than foot-mobile infantry conducting a frontal assault against a tactical objective. By using specialists of any variety as additional bodies for frontal assaults, the Russian command is forgoing the opportunity to properly leverage whatever specialties they could integrate into their respective units, further illustrating that most Russian frontline troops have been reduced to understrength and low-quality motorized rifle units.[20] The use of specialists who are familiar with more advanced battlefield technologies, such as drones and EW systems, is likely compounding these effects. While Ukrainian forces have consistently displayed high degrees of tactical and technical innovation, the Russian military appears to be willfully undermining its own ability to integrate innovations into combat operations.[21]
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