Posted on 08/30/2023 12:47:10 PM PDT by ganeemead
LOL, but in the book it was all human pilots Ender sent to their deaths, not drones, which adds to the moral weight of his actions.
“There was a comment the other day that the Russian MOD was not reporting any enemy tank kills (at least for that day), only personnel and other equipment. This might imply the Ukrainians are holding back their remaining armor for defensive needs.”
Most likely the West is sending whatever equipment they have left (which isn’t much), so they’ve told Ukraine to hold back and try to stall. We’ll see soon enough as to Russia complies.
“It looks like China is printing maps with part of Russia indicated as China.”
Actually it’s India, which is why India is moving towards Russia.
“So these drone strikes are mosquitoes in the scheme of things.”
Absolutely. The country lost 27 million people in WW2 and the West has PROMISED to break them up if they win, so Russia is not about to get fazed by some puny drones.
“Chinese and Russians can and will settle any territory disputes they might have without neocon wankers and nato fops forcing or hoodwinking them into any kind of war...”
My understanding is that it’s basically settled at this point. Perhaps the news hasn’t reached the Neocon Cheerleaders?
“So these drone strikes are mosquitoes in the scheme of things.”
Also worth noting that the use of terrorism shows that Ukraine has basically conceded the war on their territory.
So did a lot of Freepers who supported sending our manufacturing, technology, and money over there.
Russia is getting its ass kicked. So profoundly that the Russian Federation might be disintegrating by next spring.
The Russians have lied before, they’ll lie again.
That seems like another Russian MOD propaganda talking point.
In case you haven't noticed the West has a lot of military equipment, and military budgets dramatically higher than Russia's. Remember, the total economy of Russia is about the size of the economy of Italy or Texas.
“That seems like another Russian MOD propaganda talking point.”
We would all like reality to be different when things go bad, and in this case, either the Western Media and Biden are repeating “Russian MOD propangada” or you’re having difficulty accepting reality.
Aug 31, 2023<
Update on the conflict in Ukraine for August 31, 2023:
- The Western media is trying to spin Ukrainian gains within the security or “gray zone” ahead of Russia’s first of several defense lines as a “turning point” in the offensive;
- Ukraine’s offensive potential has been exhausted with the West struggling to find arms and ammunition to replace Ukrainian losses;
- The West is even struggling to pull together large numbers of antiquated and inappropriate equipment like the post-WW2 Leopard 1 tank;
- Meanwhile Ukraine continues conducting drone strikes in Russia, achieving questionable PR value and little else;
- A recent Ukrainian drone strike on an airport hosting Il-76 strategic airlift aircraft damaged 2. To put that in context, Russia operates over 100 of these aircraft and has production capacity to build up to 12 annually;
- Ukraine’s sponsors are unable to sustain the conflict “for as long as it takes,” and only for as long as they have arms and ammunition to supply Ukraine in sufficient quantities;
Putin
Banned from Africa!
Banned from India!
LOL!
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