Posted on 04/07/2022 5:48:06 AM PDT by Red Badger
Good morning! Welcome back to work! Had your coffee already, mentally sharp? On to your keyboard!
And the same people you trust have been LYING about war over that same time frame...have you read the Afghanistan Papers
OK...
Everything coming out of America is a lie.
It is impossible to have a serious discussion with someone you cannot take seriously.
Go back to your Q thread.
Did you read the Afghanistan Papers...yes or no?
Boy that’s a lot of sad & mad Moms, daughters and wives!
Enough for the ruskies to say enough?
We’ll see...
What are you my mother?
You spout idiocy. Go back to your Q Anon theories.
I cannot believe the amount of hatred towards the US on these forums these days. Jim Rob is going to be scratching his head wondering why donations are going to dry up. I guess he should take payments in Rubles.
Plus they hadn’t a clue that the Pakis and Indians were developing Nukes.
They also thought Trump was (NOT) a ruskie asset!
They also claimed ruskie misinformation on the now infamous Hunter laptop.
US intelligence is worthless and CORRUPT to the hilt!
There must be a way to ID the dead and let their mothers in Russia know.
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Went the kids don’t return home, their mothers ID them.
By using the same outdated armor vulnerable to shoulder fired and drone fired anti-tank weapons.
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No!
By using artillery* and infantry.
Snipers and booby traps are are real morale killer.
The goal is not to win a head to head battle but to keep them stressed out and moving them in the direction you want them to go.
Had your coffee already
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He’s Russian and drinks tea.
The Afghanistan Papers are a set of interviews relating to the US war in Afghanistan prepared by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) and published by The Washington Post in 2019 following a Freedom of Information Act request.[1][2][3] The documents reveal that high-ranking officials generally held the opinion that the war was unwinnable while keeping this view hidden from the public.[1][4][5][6] Due to the difficulty of creating objective metrics to demonstrate success, information was manipulated for the duration of the conflict.
Well that is funny right there because all the arm-chair generals here are prognosticating how Ukraine needs a lot of armor to press their counter-attack.
My guess is that many Russian battalions used in the initial invasion have reached the 40% casualty rate at which units begin to find ways to avoid offensive operations. I read yesterday that the Russians are taking some depleted units and recombining them with others, which won't help. There's also speculation that the attack on a Russian fuel depot a few days ago was actually carried out by Russian officers to conceal theft of fuel.
If the Russians simply throw new units together using even more raw recruits and worse equipment I do not expect their performance to improve, although if they throw enough mass together they may advance to try to cut off Ukrainian salients in the east. Even then, I strongly suspect they will advance only to have supply lines cut and be slowly ground down by Ukrainians as they have been.
There's nothing new about any of this: it's the same story since 1945-- US political leaders set goals far and above what can realistically be expected to be achieved given the military resources and ROE used, resulting in failure every time, with the exception of the Gulf war, where we fought for a limited goal with almost unlimited force and kept the treasonous press muzzled.
I think he was surprised that Ukrainian security would not back Yanukovych when Yanukovych ordered them to use force against the Maidan protesters a la Tiananmen. That made Yanukovych unable to find a safe haven from which to call in “fraternal assistance” from Russia.
This propaganda designed to keep the war goal. The goal is to turn what's left of Ukraine into Palestine and use it as a vehicle for perpetual insurgency against Russia. The loss or quality of the life the people there doesn't matter.
This war wouldn't be occurring if we hadn't fomented a revolution that caused an eight-year civil war in Ukraine and then encouraged the Ukrainians to reject the Minsk Agreement would have ended the war in Donbass.
Thanks. That’s very interesting.
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To put that into perspective, Russia reported 14,400 killed through 10 years of war in Afghanistan.
To put that into perspective, Putin probably regards the Afghanistan war as "the good old days". Even if he didn't before, he probably does now.
And what has that got to do with anything?
Anyone with two brain cells could see that.
What has that got to do with casualty estimate calculations?
You hate America so much, it consumes you.
The number of wounded is more like four times the number killed, not two times; plus you need soldiers to get the wounded to the rear for treatment.
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