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In a twist I didn't expect this early, the US military is starting to withdraw equipment in active service to send to Ukraine.
Dr.Snekotron @snekotron ^ | August 23, 2022 | Dr.Snekotron

Posted on 08/24/2022 2:41:31 AM PDT by Cathi

I'm getting word from team guys (special forces) that they're being forced to turn in their Carl Gs (Carl Gustaf 8.4 cm recoilless rifle, an indispensable piece of equipment to SF teams), to send to Ukraine. This removes a very important item out of an operator's kit.

Have your bravos prep your Carl Gs for turn in. I've fought back on it as long as I can. Grp CDR said tough sh_t. SECDEF is sending them to Ukraine.

Not just SF you didn't hear it from me, but HIMARS systems slated for my regiment were sent there along with most of the ammo allotted to the regiment for training this year for both Tubes and Rockets

We're being played to become defenseless

Apparently it's also happened to the other Marine Corps Artillery Regiments

Sec Def in collecting all the Carl Gs the inventory and sending them to Ukraine.

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Including the new ones.

Every single one.

Fu_king retarded are we just conceding conflicts for the next 10 years?

Today 5:39 PM For real though... that can't be a thing. It doesn't make any sense. Sec def is collecting all the Carl Gs in the inventory and sending them to Ukraine.

2 Replies Can't be real! Are you ing me?! HAHA Word came from the b team, it's for real.


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KEYWORDS: 10percent4biden; another40billion; bendovertaxpayers; greatreset; muga; slobberukraini; ukraine; ukraineuberalles; usmilitary
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To: Candor7
Nuclear war is almost a given now.

Um. No.

21 posted on 08/24/2022 4:04:53 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Cathi

China must be pleased to hear this.


22 posted on 08/24/2022 4:11:18 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: Cathi

I had to go on base yesterday for some admin. It looks dumpy. A 120 year old base with historical buildings. But overgrown neglected landscaping. Huge piles of dirt with grass and weeds growing out.

People are wearing old nasty t shirts.

Active duty are wearing pants dragging on the floor. The uniform is totally different from anything I’ve seen in 40 years. Someone decided to waste an enormous amount of money to change the uniform. For no good reason.

I saw a second lieutenant a woman way overweight wearing a wrinkled uniform she was wearing braided pigtails way down past her shoulders. She looked like an idiot. It’s hard enough to get respect as a 2 lt who wants to listen to anything she has to say.

People are moping. I saw no one smiling.

Biden just sent $750 million to ukraine.

He is not working for Tge US.


23 posted on 08/24/2022 4:11:18 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Cathi

Not the Carl G’s!

They’re not overly fun to carry long distances.


24 posted on 08/24/2022 4:12:30 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Cathi
I thought democrats were the antiwar party. They sure seem to like starting them.
25 posted on 08/24/2022 4:13:24 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: central_va

“Nuclear war is almost a given now.”

‘Um. No.’


26 posted on 08/24/2022 4:14:54 AM PDT by stanne
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To: T-Bird45

Not to worry.....we don’t have warriors anymore; we have woke limp-wristed sex deviates, like the French.


27 posted on 08/24/2022 4:14:59 AM PDT by traditional2 (lets go B*and*n)
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To: Cathi
Fu_king retarded are we just conceding conflicts for the next 10 years?

Without regard to the credibility of this source, this question is easy to answer. IMHO, yes. We did that in Vietnam and again in Afghanistan, and you can bet we'll do it again.

Our government and military industrial complex don't care about the troops killed and maimed, the deficits we build up, or how humiliating the exit was. All they care about is making money from these conflicts.

I would have called that a conspiracy theory 10 years ago, but I believe it now.

28 posted on 08/24/2022 4:16:55 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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To: stanne

Officials just announced today that Biden is sending 3 billion more on their Independence Day (today.)

Fortunately, later reports indicated that none of the weaponry was coming out of U.S. armory (guess we know why now they don’t have any...:-) Instead it is going to be by “procurement” for medium and long term defense. Which means after the long procurement process is done the MIC will have to produce the weapons so it could be many months or even years before that happens.


29 posted on 08/24/2022 4:17:34 AM PDT by Cathi
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To: Cathi

Isn’t that a part of the plan to weaken us. Something happens and marshal law. Then we need military help and foreign military to the rescue. Then they decide we don’t need our guns.


30 posted on 08/24/2022 4:17:46 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: Cathi

From Telegram ASB Military news;

Just to put the current conflict in Ukraine into perspective:

In 1991 Iraq, USA has fired 60,000 rounds for the entire gulf war.

Russia fires this in one day.

The NATO industrial base is not capable of such production numbers.

Europe is not capable of producing an arsenal capable to stand up to the Russian military.

Expert opinion:
According to ex-US marine corp officer Scott Ritter, the British would run out of ammunition in 2 weeks in a war against Russia. Scott Ritter said they would “not even last 2 weeks because they’d lose their entire army by then.”

According to Scott, NATO has been demilitarized. Even the United States,
According to Scott, has run out of rounds for their most important systems which are meant to break down the russian military — in event of conflict.

Scott says that the Russian military, according to leaked documents by Ukrainian ministry of defense itself — inflicted 250,000 casualties onto the Ukrainians. This is 3x the size of Britain’s entire standing army.

Scott estimates that before the war, no European military would stand in a conflict with the Ukrainian army. He explains that the Ukrainian military would decimate Poland, Germany, Romania, etc.

Having internal knowledge due to his US military background/connections, Scott is aware of the level of support, training and supplies to the Ukrainian military since 2014. Scott describes the pre-2022 Ukrainian military as best combat equipped in Europe with more battle experience than any other army in Europe.

Scott Ritter estimates 15,000 combined casualties for Russia and its allies, this is inline with our previous estimation.

Ukrainians are losing thousands of men without ever seeing a Russian soldier face to face. This is inline with the videos we saw from various Ukrainian units who refused to fight and called on the Ukrainian authorities to pull them out of battle. They said the exact same thing. The casualty ratio between Russia and Ukraine is simply jaw dropping. These are numbers we have not seen in modern history.

Russia is doing this with 200k men, a peace time economy. Russia has not mobilized. Russia has employed 20% of its capability.

One more thing to add: while looking at maps, we only see “small advance” arrows. Small advance arrows accomplish one thing, they demilitarize Ukraine and inflict heavy casualties on the Ukrainians without putting Russian lives at danger. Russia is not on a timed schedule here. They have no reason to rush. Anyone who studied history, especially WW2 battles — is aware that big arrow map moves cost big casualties. Thousands of men die. There’s simply no reason for this. In fact, the longer Russia drags this out, the more they demilitarize Europe and drain the United States military supplies and funds.

At the same time, the Russian military is now the most combat experienced military in the world. The longer this drags on, the more soldiers get combat experience due to rotations. The more pilots get to perfect their skills, navy, intelligence, etc.

No modern military has fought a war even remotely similar to the Ukrainian war. This is not a war where the enemy gets bombed to oblivion by aviation, cities get turned into rubble and soldiers then move in like heroes with minimal resistance— this is ground warfare in its purest form; artillery battles, territorial conquest. This is where individual skills and strategy are crucial.

The world has not seen anything like this since WW2. Russia will demilitarize Ukraine. Russia will reach its goals. No magical weapon can change that. No one with military background doubts this.

T.me/asbmil


31 posted on 08/24/2022 4:27:46 AM PDT by MulberryDraw (Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?)
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To: MulberryDraw
The NATO industrial base is not capable of such production numbers

LOL, that's nonsense.

32 posted on 08/24/2022 4:31:31 AM PDT by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Kneescause )
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To: Cathi

The Carl Gustav is a fine Swedish weapon that has been in production for better than half a century, with constant refinements and improvements. As a portable, man carried recoiless rifle, it is more weight efficient than single shot, tube launched missiles. I have no doubt that Saab and its contractors will quickly be awarded contracts to produce more and that US troops will soon get new and more advanced versions than what they are now giving up.


33 posted on 08/24/2022 4:33:28 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Cathi
Dr.Snekotron

Well if 'Dr.Snekotron' says so it must be true, since we have no idea who the hell he is.

34 posted on 08/24/2022 4:33:43 AM PDT by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Kneescause )
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To: mewzilla

Joe will give them any amount of cash to keep his family’s decades-long involvement there quiet. No doubt he’s being extorted.


35 posted on 08/24/2022 4:39:01 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: Cathi

Uh, yeah, sure they are.

Will wait for some independent confirmation of this.


36 posted on 08/24/2022 4:39:12 AM PDT by Fury
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To: Candor7
Nuclear war is almost a given now

If the "Big Guy" doesn't get his cut from what the Carl G's get on the Black Market for unused Ukraine Weapons...

37 posted on 08/24/2022 4:43:31 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Cathi

Soon to be sold on the Ukrainian black market.


38 posted on 08/24/2022 4:45:34 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (Remember the 2020 backstabbers. No more RINOs ever!)
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To: MulberryDraw
inflicted 250,000 casualties onto the Ukrainians. This is 3x the size of Britain’s entire standing army.

Putting it another way: that's three times the size of the IRS.

39 posted on 08/24/2022 4:51:57 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: tlozo

You can click on the Twitter name and then on the tab “Following” and see that he follows a lot of communist and far-left accounts so we know at least something about the bad doctor.


40 posted on 08/24/2022 4:53:35 AM PDT by Krosan
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