Posted on 10/09/2023 8:34:11 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
“The death toll of Israelis has crossed 1000 in Hamas attacks on Israel.”
https://twitter.com/KazmiWajahat/status/1711413065613246751
“NEW: Israel will carry out extended attacks in Gaza Strip even at the cost of harming the Israeli hostages
— Israeli Army Radio”
https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1711412274433319034
Evil in our time.
“Hamas said it will broadcast the execution of a hostage until Israel attacks stop
A spokesman for Hamas said that the group will broadcast the execution of a hostage until Israel stops killing civilians in Gaza.
“From this hour onwards, we announce that every targeting of our people who are safe in their homes without warning, we will regretfully meet with the execution of one of our enemy’s civilian hostages, and we will broadcast this, under duress, in audio and video,” spokesman Abu Obeida said in a statement.
The statement further warned Israeli leadership of additional violence.”
“Russia can stand higher equipment losses than the Ukraine because Russian supply/repair chains are shorter & better equipped”.
Net of everything, they are burning through their (huge) old Soviet stockpiles pretty rapidly. They are generally losing equipment about ten times the rate that they can produce, and in some cases they can no longer produce them at all (like Tu-95 bombers, or older tank models).
That is a central focus of this thread - tracking Russian equipment losses. If attrition rates keep up like they have been, Russia is on track to pretty much exhaust their old Soviet fleets over the course of next year, and will no longer have storage to draw on.
Then they will have to produce more, import more from allies, or have less to put into the field. Currently, most of the tanks, armored vehicles and howitzers the Russians have in the field in the Ukraine, were pulled out of their inactive storage yards since the current invasion began. The Active Duty operational hardware for their Ground Forces that they started this invasion with, is mostly already in Ukrainian scrapyards. They face hard constraints when their storage yards empty out.
Iran can produce significant (not earth-shaking) amounts of rockets and drones. North Korea has a lot of old Soviet caliber Artillery ammo (122mm and 152mm), and Soviet howitzers (about a year’s worth, at current attrition, expenditure and wear out rates). Beyond that, only China could realistically resupply Russia with main combat platforms like tanks or howitzers (or planes or ships). So far, China has avoided breaking sanctions on weapons sales to Russia.
The Ukraine on the other hand, has more than all of NATO supporting them. From Wikipedia:
“The Ukraine Defense Contact Group (UDCG, also known as the Ramstein group) is an alliance of 54 countries (all 31 member states of NATO and 23 other countries) supporting the defence of Ukraine by sending military equipment”
Other countries not in that formal group (like Sweden) have also provided significant combat capability to the Ukrainian forces.
Ukrainian forces get support from the NATO sustaining base (depot repair, hospitalization of wounded, resupply) as well as the NATO training base, which has been training and equipping a stream of new units for them.
The Soviet Union looked ten feet tall back in its day, but the Russian Military at the start of this invasion was only about 1/4th of the Soviet Military when the wall fell. Most of the old Warsaw Pact is now against them rather than with them.
Russia’s GDP is less than Italy’s or Chile’s; less than that of Texas or California. The combined GDPs of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group is about 50 times that of Russia in 2021, before the heavy sanctions were applied. Russia is now the most heavily sanctioned country on Earth. The significant financial reserves Russia had at the start of 2022 (its National Wealth Fund and Gold Reserves) are also on track to run out next year (even at above average oil prices).
It is a challenge to maintain the will in the West to pay for the war in Ukraine, but for the West it is more of a nuisance cost (e.g. 5% of the US Defense budget), whereas for Russia they are rapidly heading toward bankruptcy and economic implosion (currency collapse and hyperinflation), likely in 2024/2025 at current rates.
“Hamas said it will broadcast the execution of a hostage until Israel attacks stop”
It is going to be ugly, but they cannot be left to keep taking hostages, and keep killing innocents forever. Not any more.
It is time to end Hamas in Gaza - I believe that will be the Military objective, and that will require a ground invasion, with a lot of physical destruction and collateral damage (civilian casualties), and occupation. That likely means that most or all hostages will be executed.
The killings of civilians willfully perpetrated by Hamas has already been horrific - ISIS-like.
In the Bloggers & Personal forum, on a thread titled Attack On Europe: Documenting Russian Equipment Losses During The 2022 Russian Invasion Of Ukraine, SpeedyInTexas wrote: Previous day’s thread: https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4187879/posts
Calling someone a RuZZian on FR is considered an insult.
Calling someone a Comrade on FR is considered an insult.Summarizing this war:
A tragedy for Ukraine.
A disaster for RuZZia.
A strategic win for the USA. The biggest winner of the war.“More than three decades after Reagan left office, most Republicans still believe that America is a force for good.”
Reagan would never have anything to do with the Ukrainian neo Nazi military and deep state corruption.
Most republicans believe that AMerica is a force for good when Trump is in charge.
It's not a 'strategic win for the USA.' The Ukraine is corruption headquarters and American tax dollars are being flushed down the Deep STate toilet. The Ukraine is NATO's proxy and the US provides most of the funding for this proxy war against Russia. Despite that, America is losing the war and Russia is elevated on the national stage for winning against the combined efforts of NATO, particularly the US. Russia's producing armaments and is not depleted - the US is depleted. Death on both sides of the war - what a waste.
Reagan would never have anything to do with the Ukrainian neo Nazi military and deep state corruption.
Most republicans believe that AMerica is a force for good when Trump is in charge.
You couldn’t be more wrong. Reagan spoke eloquently about the right of all people not live as slaves in the filthy Russian World. For doing that Reagan was attacked as being as fascist and Nazi by the Kremlin and its duped fellow travellers. Then with the help of John Paul II, Thatcher and others he defeated the Kremlin Bolsheviks. Don’t be duped by modern day Kremlin gaslighting, FRiend.
In the Bloggers & Personal forum, on a thread titled Attack On Europe: Documenting Russian Equipment Losses During The 2022 Russian Invasion Of Ukraine, lodi90 wrote: Reagan would never have anything to do with the Ukrainian neo Nazi military and deep state corruption.
Most republicans believe that AMerica is a force for good when Trump is in charge.
You couldn’t be more wrong. Reagan spoke eloquently about the right of all people not live as slaves in the filthy Russian World. For doing that Reagan was attacked as being as fascist and Nazi by the Kremlin and its duped fellow travellers. Then with the help of John Paul II, Thatcher and others he defeated the Kremlin Bolsheviks. Don’t be duped by modern day Kremlin gaslighting, FRiend.
You do recall Reagan was referring to SOVIETS, right? And you remember the US and Russia both fought the Germans, viewing Germans as worse? You admit to Bolshevicks, right? To make supporting the corruption in Ukraine, it's supporters conflate Russia with Bolsheviks. That's modern day Ukie gaslighting.
Russia is the self identified successor state to the USSR. The issue at hand is Russian chauvinism. Imperialist, Bolshevik, Putinist. It’s all the same just different flavors. Reagan was attacked by the America hating left and Soviet Kremlin with identical language to what you are using. Congrats on the company.
In the Bloggers & Personal forum, on a thread titled Attack On Europe: Documenting Russian Equipment Losses During The 2022 Russian Invasion Of Ukraine, lodi90 wrote: Russia is the self identified successor state to the USSR. The issue at hand is Russian chauvinism. Imperialist, Bolshevik, Putinist. It’s all the same just different flavors. Reagan was attacked by the America hating left and Soviet Kremlin with identical language to what you are using. Congrats on the company.
The leftists and other Ukraine corruption supporters need a bogey man worse than the Ukraine to prop up support for the Ukraine. They've decided to declare the Soviet Union still exists and is in fact, Hitler on steroids etc. Reagan was attacked, but not for wanting to stay out of a war between Deep State Headquarters in the Ukraine, and modern Russia. The US should never have propped up the neo Nazi Ukrainian corruption hub responsible for endless fraud and graft which keeps the DNC in control in the US. Reagan wanted none of that. I believe we should not help either Russia or the Ukraine - it's NATO's proxy war being used to drain the US and leave us helpless at the feet of China.
“US and Russia both fought the Germans”
USSR/RuZZia was allies with the Nazi Germans.
In the Bloggers & Personal forum, on a thread titled Attack On Europe: Documenting Russian Equipment Losses During The 2022 Russian Invasion Of Ukraine, SpeedyInTexas wrote: “US and Russia both fought the Germans”
USSR/RuZZia was allies with the Nazi Germans.
No. Stalin led the Soviet Union, which included the Ukraine, Russia and other countries, into a 2 year alliance which broke down and later resulted in WWII in which the Soviet Union did much to defeat the Nazis.
https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/sinister-alliance-soviet-german-relations-1939-1941
"So between 1939 and 1941, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union are allies. And Stalin actually provides very substantial support to Nazi Germany. So when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June of 1941, this time it was Stalin who is taken by surprise. He had been given warnings, including warnings by Churchill and from other intelligence sources that the Germans were preparing an invasion"\
The Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, releasing both the Ukraine and Russia along with other nations to become independent. Except now the Ukraine is owned and operated by foreign money - mostly from the US and other NATO nations.
Love the partial history being given, yes soviets helped defeat nazi germany, but not before they invaded Finland, started the war allied with Germany and invaded poland then Lithuania Latvia and Estonia. Fun fact Germany would not have been able to train for their future blitzkrieg, tank tactics, combined arms maneuver… without having the soviets allowing them to train inside Soviet Union, lol ain’t that some shit
president Reagan called the Soviet Union the evil empire, and the same applies to today Russia. Without Russia ther would have been no Soviet Union
Gaslighting man I spit my coffee out on that one, pot calling the kettle black
Love the partial history being given, yes soviets helped defeat nazi germany, but not before they invaded Finland, started the war allied with Germany and invaded poland then Lithuania Latvia and Estonia. Fun fact Germany would not have been able to train for their future blitzkrieg, tank tactics, combined arms maneuver… without having the soviets allowing them to train inside Soviet Union, lol ain’t that some shit
president Reagan called the Soviet Union the evil empire, and the same applies to today Russia. Without Russia ther would have been no Soviet Union
Gaslighting man I spit my coffee out on that one, pot calling the kettle black
Bee strikes again, sad it is basically what is being demanded of Israel
https://babylonbee.com/news/emperor-hirohito-calls-for-ceasefire-after-bombing-of-pearl-harbor
“So between 1939 and 1941, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union are allies”
Thats exactly what I said.
They were allies.
“BREAKING: 100 bodies found in a remote farming village in Southern Israel. Hamas came in and slaughtered every villager”
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1711520325282750752
bttt
Yes. So during that time the Ukraine and Russia were allies with Nazis.
Reagan knew who the Soviet empire was, and that is why he wanted to free those living under Russia’s bayonet and tank treads.
Reagan said “My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”
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