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And then there was one - well a pair of jokers, actually.

Our hero, SpeedyInTexas and his ward and side-kick, the young caped crusader, PIF.

With the apparent demise of the endless Denys the Menys threads hosted by the Reverend Mother the Ukraine Propaganda Operation on Free Republic (UPOFR, pronounced "Up Offer") all moves to this location!

Congratulations, you are the survivor.

But, sadly for you, I fear it's a pyrrhic victory.

Start with YOUR recurring source, Oryx. They aren't doing very well. (BTW: Have you ever noticed how Arabic their logo looks? I wonder why that is?)

On 19 June 2023, Oryx announced that the blog would end on 1 October 2023. In the statement posted on Twitter, Oryx explained that the blog had been created a decade earlier "out of boredom", and that the project – which had been conducted "in our free time" and without any pay – had turned into an "all-consuming project" that had not resulted in any jobs and which "just doesn't make me happy anymore".In a follow-up statement, Oryx clarified that the list covering losses in Russia's invasion of Ukraine would continue to be updated until the end of the war by long-time contributor Jakub Janovsky and the open-source intelligence group WarSpotting.

OK, pretty sketchy. Janovsky was probably bailed out by deep-pocketed friends at some NeoCon institute or other. So the ridiculous tank counts continue in 2024.

One big difference between Russian equipment losses (whatever they actually are) and Ukrainian is that the latter are really American financial losses, seeing as we are paying for the vast majority of this ridiculous war.

NBC: With hopes of victory fading, Ukraine’s war against Russia could get even harder in 2024

KEY POINTS
At the start of 2023, hopes were high that a much-vaunted Ukrainian counteroffensive would change the dial in the war against Russia.
It didn’t, and 2024 could be even harder.
Ukraine’s alliances with the U.S. and Europe could be destabilized further in 2024, putting the future of military aid packages in doubt.
The amount of support and military hardware Ukraine receives could make or break its war efforts.
Russia has ramped up military spending and weapons production, signaling it’s prepared for a long war.
At the start of 2023, hopes were high that a much-vaunted Ukrainian counteroffensive — expected to be launched in the spring — would change the dial in the war against Russia.
It didn’t, and the prospect of a breakthrough in 2024 is also unlikely, military experts and defense analysts told CNBC.
They predict intense fighting is likely to continue into the next year but say Kyiv’s forces are unlikely to launch any more counteroffensives. Russia, meanwhile, is likely to focus on consolidating the territory it has already seized, particularly in eastern Ukraine.
Away from the battlefield, military experts said that the trajectory the Russia-Ukraine war takes in 2024 will mostly be dictated thousands of miles away in the U.S., Ukraine’s largest military supporter, and whether aid declines in the run-up — and following — the U.S. presidential election.
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“We’re in this situation now where if there’s not a clear winner, there’s going to be a stalemate, and there’s going to be, perhaps, a future frozen conflict. What can tilt the balance, in my view, is if the Ukrainians are not resupplied and they’re not re-funded and they don’t get the equipment and people that they need. Then this war could tilt to the Russians,” Twitty noted.

There is nothing unusual about this analysis, this is the standard view of the war in January 2024 by Western supporters of Ukraine.

It doesn't sound much like the impression given by the endless "Dead Tank Threads" that you two caped-crusaders keep so thoughtfully refreshed here on Free Republic.

KEY POINTS

At the start of 2022, hopes were high that a much-vaunted Russian invasion would quickly bring Russia complete conquest of Ukraine.

It didn’t. Russia suffered its greatest military losses since WWII, and 2024 could be even harder.

Ukraine’s alliances with the U.S. and Europe are steadily progressing toward formalization, as announced at last Summer’s NATO Vilnius summit. The communique from that summit explicitly declared “Ukraine’s future is in NATO”. The UK was the first to sign a bilateral defense pact with Ukraine, of the 30 that committed to do so during last Summer’s NATO Vilnius Summit. The UK Prime Minister announced that it was designed to last 100 years or more. American and French agreements are reportedly also far advanced toward finalization.

The amount of support and military hardware Ukraine receives could make or break its war efforts.

Russia has ramped up military spending and weapons production, signaling it’s prepared for a long war. But it is only capable of producing relatively lower tech weapons and equipment at any scale, and countries with a combined GDP more than fifty times that of Russia (before sanctions) have committed to supporting Ukraine with lethal weaponry, through the Ukraine Defense Contact Group (Ramstein Conference).

The Western weaponry is far more advanced and effective. European countries and America plan to contribute significantly increased amounts of military assistance in 2024, as compared to 2023, as well as new types of weapons. America alone is discussing an approximately 50% increase for 2024, which would likely inflict catastrophic losses on remaining Russian weapon systems in the air, at sea, and on the ground.