The question now is whether Russians have learned from their past mistakes and whether Ukrainians will be armed enough to stop Russia's Round Two (or is it Round Three?).
Posted on 05/30/2022 8:13:51 AM PDT by Widget Jr
Former U.S. Army sniper Robert Terkla discusses current problems the Russian invasion has (May 29, 2022).
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The Russians are currently profiting handsomely from uncertainty and shortages in the energy and food sectors of the economy. They have no incentive to end this quickly. The corrupt Ukrainian government is receiving unimaginable sums of money day after day. They have no incentive to end this quickly. This conflict will go on until someone in charge has a reason to end it. Until then enjoy the show; it is costing you more than you think.
Russia’s inherently flawed and ineffective conventional military has been noted especially by China. China realizes that Russia is unable to defend its Siberian treasure house and its rich underpopulated far eastern Asian Pacific possessions.
About that $40bn Biden sent to Zelenskyyy, where did it come from?
Russia did not invade so they could "benefit" from Western sanctions gradually crippling their economy. Ukrainians would rather have their sovereignty intact, and not have their cities leveled, 1/4 their population turned into refugees, for billions in aid.
What’s the massive weakness the leaked intel exposes?
The Russians don’t care about all this crap. They don’t care about wrecked tanks, or casualties. They will just keep plowing along, slow as molasses. Brutal and lethal. And will win in the end.
Nothing. It's B.S.
Russia has continually stated they are proceeding slowly as to not sacrifice lives. The west sees this as they’re plodding along as they have no strength.... a bit silly. I am watching many of the events on Telegram channels as all russian news is Nato news in the west, and other sources are being censored. I feel terrible for the Ukro forces of conscripts... not the Azov, as they’re posting videos and complaining of not being adequately trained or supplied. The Azov famously take cover in residential buildings, schools, hospitals etc and those units seems to be where the equipment is being sent. The other thing we are seeing, is many humanitarian supplies being sold in sgtores instead of being handed out.
Poland has given Ukraine 18 more 155mm howitzers and trained 100 men on their use. The goal is to have 70 BTGs
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Those are ANS Krab SPG’s and are what the UA needs more of. Are copies of the German PzH-2000 SPG except the components are sourced from other countries.
Once again the Media is using the Western made up term ‘BTG’ which does not exist in the Russian Ground Force terminology. They use Platoon, Company, Battalion, Brigade, Division and Army. There as brief fling at that terminology by Defense Minister, Sergi S, but since he never served in the Army, it never went anywhere. The RGF is still in transition from all Brigade to all Division.
The CHICOM’s have taken note of how Russia is bleeding out. The CHICOM’s will turn on Russia like Hitler turned on Stalin.
“China’s ex-ambassador to Ukraine Gao Yusheng has offered his take on Russia’s war against Ukraine, concluding that “the failure of the Russian blitzkrieg and the failure to achieve a quick victory signaled the beginning of the Russian defeat.” “Russia’s political, economic, military and diplomatic power will be significantly weakened and isolated,” according to the former diplomat. “
The difference in reservists—with Russia having nothing but trash with just a month of training—and Ukrainians massing large numbers of reservists with both training and high tech weaponry, is the key point that will make the difference in the outcome of this war.
Russia kept a Soviet military but destroyed what made a soviet military at least somewhat effective: the ability to mass large numbers of new conscripts to send like meat bags to the front.
Russia no longer has the officer population to do so, nor the weapons and armor to send with them, having sliced the former to small numbers deliberately before the war, and the latter having destroyed in Ukraine and through poor maintenance.
The result is that Ukraine is going to have an entirely fresh and fully armed army by late June/July, August at the latest, while Russia will be fielding trash armed with WW2 era guns and tanks.
For this reason victory is certain unless Russia uses nuclear weapons or chemical/biological WMDs.
This is also why Russia’s agents in the West, with its useful idiots like Kissinger, have been pushing for a speedy negotiation and surrender. Because the longer this war goes on, the worse it gets for Russia.
And before any Putinist says, “but what about the progress they’ve made in the Donbass?” The Donbass should have been taken within the first week of conflict, and taking the Donbass does not give Russia anything more than a political victory. It will not come anywhere close to ending the war. And, all that said, there are signs that Russia is already failing in the Donbass despite having some success after finally concentrating forces in Luhansk.
About that $40bn Biden sent to Zelenskyyy, where did it come from?
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of that amount, like all large bills, <10% actually goes to the thing named. ~21B goes to aid other countries with the refuge crisis, ~11B or so goes to restocking US weapons supplies, and ~8B goes to Ukraine military items
Which of course is bullshit. They have been confirmed as attempting to cross the Donetsk river 5 times, with extreme loss of life as the price each time. And then there is the Russian method of waging war: they are completely obliterating all towns and cities with artillery and missile strikes, leaving them completely uninhabitable. Even the Russian conscripts have noticed this, saying that they are "capturing nothing but rubble".
We're supposed to believe Russian is an iron-fist dictatorship but all these leaks are occurring that are getting into the western media.
LOL. I think the Russians are laughing their butts off knowing that NATO is a paper tiger now. That’s after Pentagon contracted Raytheon to replenish the arsenal of missiles expended by sending them to Ukraine, scheduled to be fulfilled by 2026.
You forgot to translate that from your native Russia, but if the suggestion is that it is somehow Ukrainian armor, or that it is hoax, this is complete nonsense. There have already been videos of Ukranians inspecting the scene. These are dead Russkies and dead Russkie vehicles.
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