Posted on 03/21/2022 2:59:23 PM PDT by tomd2
video of Russian trucks running on flat tires. https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1505370317228843008
Telenko concludes that the lack of professional maintenance and wear, unprofessional use by undertrained troops and soldier exhaustion has already and will continue to cause high levels of “operational attrition” in their truck fleets. The “details” that are being ignored will lead to massive issues. He predicts in six to eight weeks, the entire Russian Army military truck fleet will be “deadlined.” “Between the end of April and Mid-May 2022, the Ukrainian Army will be able to counter-attack EVERYWHERE. Because there will be NOWHERE more than 20 miles/30 km inside Ukraine where Russian troops won’t be out of food and low on ammunition.”
In February, U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley told lawmakers a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine could take Kyiv in 72 hours. Nearly four weeks after the Russian invasion began Feb. 24, the Russian military has managed to reduce some cities to rubble and resorted to indiscriminate bombing and brutal tactics, yet the Ukrainian people are still standing.
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To counter-attack, you kind of need an army that wasn't surrounded in the beginning of April.
The Russians found that out in 1941.
When has Milley ever been right? He's a woke POS.
Too bad that blogstar Trent Telenko hasn’t been made a General.
He’s totally smarter than everyone.
Give him a click, I’m sure he’ll tell you all about it.
You couldn't be further from the truth.
BTW, you left the refrigerator door ajar.
/s (just in case)
The Russians aren’t interested in taking cities. They are interested in destroying military.
Putin said what his goals were and they were not shock and awe takeover of Ukraine.
If it is still out there, go listen. Or don’t
Oh the little details. They ruin ideas.
“In February, U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley told U.S. lawmakers that he had advised his Chinese counterpart of his hope that a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine could take Kyiv in 72 hours.”
There. All fixed.
“Why did our so called Intelligence Community NOT know/predict this lack of capability of the Russian Army.”
Remember how the Pentagon ordered a bazillion body bags for Desert Storm? And how the vaunted and Russian trained Iraqi Republican Guards were going to slaughter American troops?
And then we slaughtered them.
Ditto with the Russians. It’s one part overestimating the enemy and one part openly lying about the enemy in order to secure defense budget money.
Maybe China can ship them some cans of Fix A Flat
Too busy attending woke classes.
They were surprised when the Norks and Pakistan detonated nukes too.
Why would they pick up om maintenance issues?
I worked in a garage that did contract work for a facility that rebuilt army trucks that were sent to Iraq. Each truck was stripped to the frame. If the frame had issues it was replaced. Every thing was rebuilt or replaced.
We dismounted and mounted the 24” tires. Some of the tires that were replaced were definitely Chinese junk.
We only mounted current production Goodyear, Bridgestone or Michelin tires,
What do you think the Russians are using for tires?
We are learning the difference between Russian style corruption and American style.
* In America a friend of a Congressman gets $100 million dollars for a $50 million dollar job of supplying tires to the army. Someone still checks to make sure our trucks have working tires.
* In Russia a friend of Putin gets a $100 million dollars for a $50 million dollar job of supplying tires to the army. $5 million of that goes to buy some used Chinese tires, another $10 million goes to bribe the guy in charge of checking the tires. The rest is profit.
Ridiculous. So what are they doing with Mariupol and Kharkiv, just faking it?
hmmm, and then they freeze to death cuz they forgot their jackets?
In all honesty, if Russian forces had used normal Soviet doctrine for bombardment and destruction of airfields and military strongpoints, they could have. They assumed most of the Ukrainians would welcome them in and they could get to Kiev fast.
But the period of time preparing for the attack and the false perception of their reception really messed up their timeline.
We know about the tires and other issues, but this guy goes on to say in 6-8 weeks all equipment will be down and Russia won’t be able to supply food to troops 20-30 kilometers in, which is ridiculous, as is a few other things in that very slanted article. Ukraine has no chance of winning without direct US & NATO intervention.
In a few more weeks the only thing left will be the insurgency which they’ve already planned and trained for. US special ops is rumored to already be deployed for special operations. We (the US) are going to keep this going on as long as possible, to wear down the Russians and keep Russia isolated from the Western democracies, i.e. discourage Nordstream2 and anything that would leave Europe dependent on Russian energy. This was the plan all along, all the rest is just window dressing to make it palatable to the people.
That is a very good example. I have been in countries with rampant corruption and was told the Americans did it too.
I used the Mafia example. The Mafia took a small percentage of everyone’s profit, allowing the host to survive and keep producing. African and Asian corruption bleeds the host dry, and then kills it to sell the parts. They use the money to provide themselves a bugout location, going there when the host gets wise to what is going on.
Look at all the ex-presidents and warlords who won houses in California. The West Africans like Jamaica and England for their bugout locations.
This whole entire Ukrainian fiasco has made the ‘vaunted’ Russian military look like one big fat joke.
Imagine all the existing US-Russian military comparison vids, etc. and their validity when put in the perspective of what the Ukrainians are doing against this ‘vaunted’ Russian military. LMAO. What a frakin peddling joke these vids are or have become. And what a frakin joke the Russian military has displayed thus far in Ukraine. Pathetic and Putin should be flipping mad as hell, but he is at fault as well.
The people in Russian cities buy stuff brought in by truck.
They know how to change tires in Russia too.
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