Posted on 08/26/2023 8:15:35 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When a vehicle is captured and then lost in service with its new owners, it is only added as a loss of the original operator to avoid double listings. When the origin of a piece of equipment can't be established, it's not included in the list. The Soviet flag is used when the equipment in question was produced prior to 1991. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.
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It is interesting observing the "coverage." Speedy takes the AM shift and specializes in Twitter promotion, while UMCRevMom takes the PM shift and specializes in YouTube promotion.
So much success ongoing! We can read about it, courtesy of the Washington Post:
"The rapid Ukrainian breakthrough and advance that many hoped for has not occurred. Media coverage has grown gloomier in recent weeks on the back of fragmentary journalistic accounts from the front and reported intelligence assessments from Western analysts. The news has not been great. The fight against Russia has proved to be bloody and slow — a very hard slog."These guys from the Institute for the Study of War (one, Victoria Nuland's brother-in-law) apparently need to review the Speedy threads. They would feel better then, no doubt. "The news has not been great?""Opinion - Ukraine's counteroffensive might yet surprise critics," by David Petraeus and Frederick W. Kagan, Washington Post, August 24, 2023.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/24/ukraine-counteroffensive-victory-breakout/
Tell your Putin to stop plowing over Wagner graveyards. He’s not fooling anyone.
A quote verbatim made originally to CatOwner, and the URL citation for a "new spin cycle."So you can take it to the bank, proverbially, that Biden's Putin continues to operate a money laundering scheme in Ukraine on behalf of "Biden-Clinton-Obama"...."The ‘PUTIN-Biden-Clinton-Obama’ cartel did used Ukraine as a FRONT to stage their money-laundering by using Russian agents embedded BY PUTIN in the Ukraine government: Ukrainian deep-state! President Zelensky is still trying to remove Ukraine CORRUPT “deep state created by Putin!”
Source: https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4176363/posts?page=52#52
It's YOUR UMCrevmom@aol.com which testifies to this. Go to the link, if you need to see for yourself.
Note that YOUR UMCrevmom@aol.com posted her assertion -- is it an assertion? or the truth? -- on 20 August 2023. So more than eighteen months into the war, Biden's (and Obama's and Clinton's) Putin is still money-laundering in the Ukraine, and YOUR Zelensky has yet to root it out.... Enjoy.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4176363/posts?page=52#52
Your Putin is banned from Africa. LOL!
LOL, here's the rest:
But observers would be wise to temper their pessimism. War does not proceed in a linear fashion. Defenders can hold for a long time and then suddenly break, allowing an attacker to make rapid gains before the defense solidifies further to the rear. The Ukrainians aim to generate exactly this effect — and there is reason to think they can. Ukraine’s offensive push is far from over. In fact, it is still in the early stages — just 10 weeks into what is likely to last at least four more months....
Ukrainian forces are advancing in two key areas — in central Zaporizhzhia Oblast near Robotyne on the road to Tokmak and Melitopol, and in eastern Zaporizhzhia Oblast south of Velyka Novosylka on a line toward Berdyansk. The Ukrainians appear to have penetrated at least the forward-most belt of Russian mines and defenses in both areas, and their advance in the Robotyne area appears to be accelerating. They have also taken back some significant ground around Bakhmut, which is the only town Russia was able to capture during its own costly offensive last winter.
Ukraine’s incremental gains are part of a larger effort that British Chief of Defense Staff Adm. Tony Radakin termed “starve, stretch and strike.” Ukrainian forces are stretching Russian defenses by attacking at multiple points along the 600-mile front. They are also attriting assets in Russian-occupied territory, taking out artillery units, headquarters and reserve force staging areas, as well as targeting key supply depots and routes to make it more difficult for Russia to sustain its defense. To put it simply, Ukraine is applying pressure on their opponent until something breaks, at which point they will commit their reserves and strike.
But it would be similarly foolish to write off this “summer” counteroffensive — a fight that is likely to continue through the fall and into the winter. Ukrainians know they are fighting for their very survival, and the country’s total mobilization across all sectors of society is a testament to their will and determination
For Western observers, it is important to keep this big picture in mind when following Ukraine’s grueling fight. And policymakers should not wring their hands about the counteroffensive not yielding quick gains. This will be a long war, and we need Ukraine to prevail.
Ukraine needs long-range precision-strike capabilities such as the U.S. Army’s Tactical Missile System (ATACMS). It needs cluster munitions for its rockets, not just its artillery rounds. It needs more ammunition to sustain the offensive. And it needs the accelerated delivery of F-16s. In truth, Ukraine needed these capabilities months ago.
The United States’ provision of more than $44 billion in arms, ammunition and assistance has been hugely impressive. But we must do more, and we must do it with a greater sense of urgency. The time to act is now.
You silly little mark. He is Biden's Putin, which you should know. Proof?
A quote verbatim made originally to CatOwner, and the URL citation for a "new spin cycle."
"The ‘PUTIN-Biden-Clinton-Obama’ cartel did used Ukraine as a FRONT to stage their money-laundering by using Russian agents embedded BY PUTIN in the Ukraine government: Ukrainian deep-state! President Zelensky is still trying to remove Ukraine CORRUPT “deep state created by Putin!”So you can take it to the bank, proverbially, that Biden's Putin continues to operate a money laundering scheme in Ukraine on behalf of "Biden-Clinton-Obama".... It's YOUR UMCrevmom@aol.com which testifies to this. Go to the link, if you need to see for yourself.Source: https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4176363/posts?page=52#52
Note that YOUR UMCrevmom@aol.com posted her assertion -- is it an assertion? or the truth? -- on 20 August 2023. So more than eighteen months into the war, Biden's (and Obama's and Clinton's) Putin is still money-laundering in the Ukraine, and YOUR Zelensky has yet to root it out.... Enjoy.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4176363/posts?page=52#52
Peak China
“What China’s Economic Woes May Mean for the U.S.”
“The fallout is probably limited — and there may be some upside for American interests.”
Truly worthy of a report in The New York Times. And yet here you are on FR. How times have changed.
So said Petraeus and Kagan. Since you so enjoyed -- the LOL suggests -- the WaPo article, you might also enjoy looking into The Institute for the Study of War, which has on its staff the two authors of the WaPo opinion piece. Opinion? Yup. So said the WaPo itself.
The Institute for the Study of War tells of its cadre of opinion writers:
Source: https://www.understandingwar.org/who-we-are
Everyone's favorite, Victoria Nuland is number two under Anthony Blinken in the Biden administration and sister-in-law to Fred Kagan, and married to:
Robert Kagan (born September 26, 1958) is an American neoconservative scholar. He is a critic of U.S. foreign policy and a leading advocate of liberal interventionism.Did you too endorse Clinton in 2016? LOL, as you say.A co-founder of the neoconservative Project for the New American Century, he is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Kagan has been a foreign policy adviser to U.S. Republican presidential candidates as well as Democratic administrations via the Foreign Affairs Policy Board. He writes a monthly column on world affairs for The Washington Post. During the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign, Kagan left the Republican Party due to the party's nomination of Donald Trump and endorsed the Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton, for president.
LOL, you were first to reference the WaPo article (Post 21) and now when shown the whole article, attack the authors. Okay. Maybe, next time, don't bring it up?
Silly chap. I included the URL, as I include many sources in my comments, while so many others make assertions without references to support them.
Attack the authors? Sure, because they are worthy of attack. Connected to a group which endorsed Clinton, groused about Trump and generally rubber-stamps Biden, yeah they are worthy of attack.
Since you cited the "rest of the article," we can then revisit the beginning of the article:
"The rapid Ukrainian breakthrough and advance that many hoped for has not occurred. Media coverage has grown gloomier in recent weeks on the back of fragmentary journalistic accounts from the front and reported intelligence assessments from Western analysts. The news has not been great. The fight against Russia has proved to be bloody and slow — a very hard slog."Might surprise the critics. Might not. That's how modal verbs work."Opinion - Ukraine's counteroffensive might yet surprise critics," by David Petraeus and Frederick W. Kagan, Washington Post, August 24, 2023.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/24/ukraine-counteroffensive-victory-breakout/
Cheer on the Biden-Blinken-Nuland-Kagan-Petraeus foreign policy. It is your right so to do.
It remains my right to "attack" them and their Democrat / neocon politics. We obviously hold different political views. Siding with the Biden nexus is not mine.
Siding with the Biden nexus is not mine.
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And apparently neither is siding with the Ukrainian people, preferring to see them exterminated by the Russians.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4eSuRuWAAAUacd?format=webp&name=smallThe URL refers to "Twitter's image-hosting domain and PBS stands for “Photo Blobstore," but the tale is more complex than just that.
One reads from "When PBS is Not PBS," by Ricardo Sandoval-Palos• Published on August 11, 2020.
Source: https://www.pbs.org/publiceditor/blogs/pbs-public-editor/when-pbs-is-not-pbs/
So among your signature comment styles has been really big graphics, something like a few other threads with similar daily content. Good for you. Twitter Blobstore is your friend."How the web address became a fake-news bazaar remains a mystery. If you put PBS.Twimg.com into a web search, you get a mixed bag -- political images in some cases, or error messages in others.
New Jersey-based journalist and data researcher Jorge Melchor helped us track the origins of PBS.Twimg.com. He found suspicious sites with no single owner.
“There’s nothing there except bad links and they could be adding malware to your computer,” Melchor said.
Still, PBS.Twimg.com material seems to be everywhere, but coming from nowhere.
One of our earnest tech wizards then discovered a possible, more innocuous origin story for PBS.Twimg.com, and explains why audiences might confuse it with the Public Broadcasting Service:
The PBS part of the suspicious address is actually a clumsy acronym.
At Twitter there is something called the “Photo Blobstore,” a service Twitter uses to archive millions of images that cross its social platform. The Blobstore was set up to isolate not just 'bad' files, but all image files that accompany tweets. Meanwhile, 'Twimg' stands for 'Twitter imaging' and is used to sequester photos and graphics determined to come from suspicious sources."
And that graphic is just silly. It is like much of your debate in that way.
Thanks for indicating your allegiance to the Biden nexus.
One can be concerned for a "people," without siding with a government at the moment ruling over them. Rather like my siding with most Americans while not siding with the Biden-Blinken-Nuland cabal.
“Ukrainian forces have made newly-confirmed tactical gains in the past 24 hours. They are now geolocated to be within 2.5 km of the great anti-vehicle ditch - the next major military engineering obstacle within the Russian layered defense.”
https://twitter.com/georgewbarros/status/1695470501932552534
“In western #Zaporizhia Oblast, geolocated combat footage published August 25 indicates that Ukrainian forces have expanded control southward by 1.5 kilometers to a tree line NE of #Novopokropivka.”
https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1695466130943447255
“The Godfather in the Kremlin”
“The very public death of Putin henchman Yevgeny Prigozhin highlights the evolution of Russia into a mafia state held together by violence and incapable of global leadership.”
“By the time of his death in a plane crash this week, Yevgeny Prigozhin had come to symbolize the criminal trajectory of the Russian state. In the 1980s, he had been imprisoned in the Soviet Union, after which he experienced a rags-to-riches transformation from street vendor in post-Soviet Russia to close associate of President Vladimir Putin. Prigozhin’s remarkable portfolio ranged from elite catering to election meddling in the U.S. to running the Wagner Group, a government-funded private military apparatus.
Haphazardly, the Wagner Group projected Russian power into Ukraine and Syria. In Africa, it did not operate with the ideological zeal and the hope for economic development that the Soviet Union had once championed, gaining the U.S.S.R. networks of loyalty and cooperation. Instead, the Wagner Group erected a vast criminal enterprise, a protection racket on a continental scale, offering security to amenable dictators and warlords. In return Wagner acquired access to resources, which it used to enrich itself. This was not the application of hard power or soft power. It was the application of criminal power.”
I despise Diapers more than you can imagine ... you who is always bringing up the hated name.
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