Posted on 05/21/2023 4:02:13 PM PDT by Kazan
“Russia’s delusions about being a superpower are now obvious to the rest of the world.”
Yup. Its Admiral Kuznetsov is testament to that.
Curious, what weapons system fires nuclear subs at the enemy?
The Admiral Rustnetzov is the best sooperdooper carrier in the world! Our Soviet comrades here on FR all say so!
Which Democrats? McCain? Lindsay Graham? Mitch McConnell? Romney?
The support for this insane policy is completely bipartisan, it's not Democrats vs Republicans, it's everyone in Washington vs. America.
Delusions??? Muskovy has been an existential threat to every neighboring country for centuries. They learned how from the Mongols.
Order of battle pieced from OSINT is an art
One I’ve used rather successfully in a past career to complement all-source
But please…share with us your estimates of the strength of the battle forces and your sources
Biden is a Republican?
This guy notes some of that delusion by the West.
BAKHMUT HAS FALLEN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQGsfrtQE4A&ab_channel=HistoryLegends
“Let’s pull out the old Magic 8-Ball and ask it.”
Same...I use open source material. Look at confirmed numbers from both sides. And look at the opposing estimates and look for the data to back it up. And so far it’s clear Russia lost a lot more. However they can afford to. The real question is did Ukraine kill enough to slow them down...and it doesn’t appear they did.
I wonder how far those subs can travel through the air......
It will be denied by anyone who recognizes one sided propaganda when they read it.
Yeah, Russia is committed to its goal of “denazifying Ukraine”.
If you believe Russia went into Ukraine to save the world from Nazis - Ukraine led by the Jewish Zelensky - you are a delusional idiot.
And the article lists all the Ukrainian brigades that suffered in the battle. Doesn’t bother to list a single Russian unit.
Why do you spread this idiotic bs.
Goes on about how Russia captured Mariupol a year ago.
Doesn’t mention Ukraine taking Kherson.
We shall see.
“The citizens of this country have had to rely on Putin and the Russians to show restraint”
You’re right. Russia has been holding a gun to our head for the last 70 years.
That is why we should not end this war until Russia ceases to exist.
Americans deserve to live free of a madman in Moscow being able to destroy the world at the press of a button.
Russia is using mostly foreign mercenaries (and Pitin puppet state armies as part of these mercenary groups) to do the heaviest fighting.
Ukraine didn’t just kill enough to slow Russia down. So far they DID slow Russia down.
Russia wanted to break out through Bachmut then to the West.
Maybe they will. But it’s taken them a year and it hasn’t happened yet.
We will see what the Ukraine offensive does in the next few weeks.
No idea but we’ll see.
True. Wagner was using prisoners indiscriminately to take land. Which is the Russian method of fighting. Two guys one gun.
Of course, it will be denied. Just like so many of their other lies.....
-Hunter Biden's laptop was a Russian hoax
-Trump colluded with Russia
-Moscow hookers peed on Trump's bed
-Only 9.65342 years left before global warming kills us all
-There was absolutely no fraud in the 2020 election
-Shut down the economy for only two weeks to flatten the curve
-Take the 100% safe and effective jab, and you WILL NOT get COVID
-January 6th insurrection
-We got all the people out of Afghanistan
-There is absolutely no bank crises
-Those biochemical weapons in Iraq are going to kill us all
And you expect anyone in their right mind to believe them when they tell us Ukraine is winning and Bakmut did not fall.
Okay, then.
True. I should have said stop Russia not slow down. They want to stop them not just slow them down.
Ukraine ping
Speaking of delusions, Larry Johnson claimed the US would lose a head-to-head conventional war with Russia. Meanwhile, 15 months into this 3-day war, Russia is stalemated mostly along the lines it established in the first days of its surprise attack. With Ukraine, of all countries, which is using its own worn out Soviet-era gear and near scrap date Western gear and ammunition doled out in tiny quantities.
Note that during the Vietnam War, North Vietnam received 500 late model fighter jets and 2000 tanks, as a Russian government website acknowledges. And in that war, Vietnamese communists had an almost unbroken record of failure in terms of warding Uncle Sam off with respect to any real estate he wanted to take or hold. Whereas Ukraine has not only kept the Russians from advancing further, it has pushed the Russians back - from Kiev’s outskirts, Kharkov’s outskirts and Kherson.
https://www.rbth.com/history/332396-how-soviets-fought-against-americans
Published by: Pavel López Lazo
The Joe Biden Administration stands on the threshold of launching America into a war with Russia that we will lose. Most Americans have swallowed the propaganda that our military is the best in the world and head and shoulders above Russia and can easily handle Putin’s forces, according to a report signed by expert Larry Johnson.
Mr. Johnson also added ¨Yes, we have some remarkable capabilities and some very brave, capable men and women. But the risks of getting into combat with Russian forces who are fighting on their home turf are enormous.
Here is the truth. The United States has not fought a real Army and Air Force in the last 50 years. The Vietnam War was the last time we fought a genuine Army and we failed to win that contest.
In saying this I am not disparaging the grit and sacrifice of the soldiers, sailors, marines and aviators who fought and died in Vietnam. They were betrayed by military and political leaders who lied about the war and used those lies to rally a majority of Americans to support a hopeless military mission.
In the intervening fifty years America has sent its military forces to “fight” in Honduras, Grenada, Lebanon, Kuwait, Iraq, Panama, Somalia, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan.
We have not fought a single country with a legitimate air force or functioning army. And we have not prevailed in all of those contests. Anyone prepared to argue that we won victories in Somalia or Afghanistan? Give it your best shot.]
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