Posted on 08/09/2022 12:33:32 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Die Welt is accusing Zelensky of “corruption on an industrial scale”.
“The FBI raided Donald Trump’s Florida home You should move there.”
I haven’t been invited to move to Mar-a-Lago.
Helpful info:
1- https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/local/state/2022/08/08/florida-governor-ron-desantis-slams-fbi-raid-trump-mar-a-lago/10272933002/
2- Former Trump official Michael Caputo slammed the Biden administration following the FBI’s Monday raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida.
In an exclusive statement to Fox News Digital, Caputo compared the FBI to the Soviet-era KGB in Russia, declared the nation was in a “full-blown constitutional crisis,” and predicted the raid would lead to President Biden facing an indictment following a loss in the 2024 presidential election.
“America is in a full-blown constitutional crisis. The American people have endured a slow, creeping attack on our nation. I had a front row seat in the Russia hoax, and I’ve watched it get steadily and methodically worse ever since,” Caputo said.
“With this militant raid on President Trump’s home, we have become Russia. The FBI is the KGB. I should know. I’ve seen them both in action and I see no difference at all,” he said.
3- TRUMP SAYS MAR-A-LAGO HOME IN FLORIDA ‘UNDER SIEGE’ BY FBI AGENTS
“With all the disagreements over presidential documents across almost ever single presidency in history, there was never a military-style raid on a former president’s home. Today Joe Biden just guaranteed he will be indicted in 2025. And his son. And his brother,” he added.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M49OaVsGWrE
Caputo was referencing allegations of corruption against a number of Biden family members, including his son Hunter Biden, and brother James Biden, who have been accused of using the Biden family name to peddle influence for international business deals.
Caputo served as Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Public Affairs under Trump in 2020 and 2021.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vDDzZ4-Sck
ATTENTION:
“-When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing
- When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors
- When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you
- When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.” ~Ayn Rand
The thing with Russian Artillery shells, is that they don’t need to pay for them out of their current budget - they inherited millions from the Soviet stockpiles.
Although they can afford to fire millions now, being able to replace that many in inventory (for future conflicts) is where they have their budgetary challenge.
Outside of their strong suits, like Artillery shell stockpiles and old vehicles in inventory, that replacement/restocking challenge is much greater for Russia. Things like precision guided missiles or combat aircraft are going to be difficult to afford and hard to do even if they could, given sanctions, and the loss of Ukrainian and Western materials and components from their supply chains.
They have been burning through a year’s worth of production for some platforms and munitions per month - in some cases, per week.
The human capital losses for their Military, has been another weak spot for the Russians. Specialized skills and leadership, that take years to be develop, have been hollowed out quickly by their wartime losses.
Faced with a Russian regime that clearly has the intent to use its Military capability for conquest, NATO sees the utility of removing that capability from their hands. Keep them fighting that tar baby until they are completely exhausted, and a decade or a generation from being able to mount the same level of capability again.
Russia is being demilitarized the hard (but quick) way.
You folks do not understand pretty much anything.
1. This is the first war in the history of the world in which both sides have superb satellite imagery. Forces cannot cluster and cache supplies without being seen and hit.
2. Satellite passes are predictable. Troops gather for the image and then move before targeting. But this is one sided. The traditional advantage of defense vs offense is lost. Defense gathers but cannot move. It is defending emplacements. Artillery with satellite imagery targeting destroys defense. It is a new lesson in warfare.
3. Mines slow offense. Mine clearing is either at night so imagery is degraded, or overt, realizing that artillery strikes on mine clearing operations effectively clears the mines for the advancing side.
4. This loss of defense advantage is why Ukraine has talked of and tried to gather forces for attack in Kherson. So far it has been the most talked of and least executed operation of the war. Russia has hit the gathering before it could advance and now they don’t have adequate numbers for any credible attack.
Your post was a good description, I don’t care about Putin and I don’t care about Zelenskyy, I care about the long-term threat to America and Europe that Russia poses, and that threat is fading at a rate that none of us could have predicted 6 months ago, 6 months ago we thought it was growing.
Most of us think that Russia will surely prevail in the end, although that is far less certain today, especially if Putin is removed from the scene, Russia’s dreams of returning to being a powerful, world-threatening evil are finished for generations.
The more Ukraine is losing, the more desperate the propaganda they pump out.
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