kiryandil to BJK: "Ya got your Grift blinders on again today, I see [and you DON'T see]. I think we understand you a little better, BroJoKe."
And here we see evidence to support my theory.
Can anyone offer evidence to the contrary?
Posted on 12/08/2023 1:09:39 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
07 Dec: NO NEED FOR INVITATION! UKRAINIANS ATTACK FIRST! | War in Ukraine Explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aukQOCs_ojE&list=RDCMUCcNB1tZYpeDetqCadElv9Ow&start_radio=1
Invasion Day 651 – Summary December 6, 2023 The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the recent developments on the battlefield, as of 6th December 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-651-summary/
Dec 7th The Swedish Brigade received Rosomaks 21st Mechanized Brigade got Polish armored personnel carriers.
VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVndZVgjFJY Other operators of Polish supplied Rosomak armored personnel carriers are the 57th Motorized Brigade and 44th Mechanized Brigade. https://militaryland.net/news/the-swedish-brigade-received-rosomaks/
[NOTE: two summaries per week, released on Wednesday and Sunday]
*** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front!
https://militaryland.net/maps/
kiryandil to BJK: "Ya got your Grift blinders on again today, I see [and you DON'T see]. I think we understand you a little better, BroJoKe."
And here we see evidence to support my theory.
Can anyone offer evidence to the contrary?
Right.
About half of US aid to Ukraine is in the form of military hardware and supplies, around 90% of which comes out of old inventories nearing obsolescence and scrap anyway.
Our costs are what it takes to replace our own old stocks with new, updated equipment.
The other half is humanitarian and financial aid, much of which also goes to purchase American made goods & services.
blitz: "History does not repeat itself but it does rhyme and those who disregard history pay dearly for it
“Peace in our time” did not work in the 30s and the world including the US paid dearly, let Putin suceed and it will happen again"
Exactly, and it's not just Vlad the Invader.
Today we are looking at a new Cold War -- Cold War II -- with a new Axis of Evil: Russia's Vlad the Invader, the CCP's Xi-snake, NoKo's Little Kim and Iran's Moolah Mullahs.
All of these are authoritarian dictatorships, "democratic" in name only, in announced opposition to the American led "world order", and threatening their neighbors militarily, from Ukraine and Georgia to Israel, Taiwan and in the case of NoKo's Little Kim, South Korea and Japan with nukes.
Further, if wars of conquest now become the method of choice for settling national disputes, then today's New Axis of Evil is just the beginning.
There is a long list of other countries with border & other national disputes which could become excuses for launching invasions of their neighbors.
The most notable of these right now is Venezuela and Guyana, involving billions of barrels of oil on Guyann territory that Venezuela's Nicholas Madura wants to conquer and seize.
And there are dozens and dozens of other disputes, some quite minor, but not all.
This list shows unresolved territorial disputes by continent, including:
90 total territorial disputes around the world
We are talking about Russia and China's "Decline of the West" narrative, a shift in global centers of power -- economic, political, military & cultural -- from the allegedly declining democratic West to the more authoritarian and militarily aggressive East.
Map of world by levels of democracy -- green/yellow = democratic, red/black = dictatorships
Rocco’s Russian memes.
Sadly, in today's world, death has a name, and a face.
Death's name is Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
This is the face of death:---->
And what do we say to death?
Says a tip-top FR shill for one of Europe's most corrupt nations, a broken down, busted out sinkhole "led" by a gay-dancing, satanist-appointing, grifting, degenerate, globalist puppet!
Here's an award Hitler V. Putin has just ordered me to give you. . . it's the coveted Youcrayno the Clown™ award!!
If you want a serious laugh, check out the sheer volume of that bloviating clown’s comments shilling for Youcrayne and attempting to defend Mommy. It’s just nuts! Endless. The clown must never leave his house! Geesh!
The demographic structure for Russia and Ukraine are not unlike much of the world. Russia is in negative growth, so is China. I find it interesting that the lowest is South Korea
Joe bloggs has done some good work on this,not sure this who this is from, but valid point. In an agrarian society children are a positive, ie more workers for the farm…., in the city children are a liability in relative terms.
In western societies, children if they become successful don’t really benefit the parents, at least financially, and with a wife who does home health a lot of children see parents as a burden with little respect for what they sacrificed to raise and educate them
Russia and Ukraine have the added stress on their demographics due to the war casualties and population leaving the country.
If interested Perun has a good video (they are all good) on Russia and Ukraine and covers why the average age for BOTH nations is in the 40s.
Like ww2 as the war progressed and casualties mounted the median may stay the same but the more age for soldiers will include more of the young and old.
Much has been made of the hitler youth and the elderly fighting in the last days of the reich, less about soviets were doing the same and though it may not have seemed like it, we’re running out of people to fight and were using increasingly younger and older people as well as women to stick the forces.
Russia has a larger population to draw from, but much of what they have is from eastern non ethnic Russian sources. As the “internal security” forces have been reduced to feed the war effort, control of these regions become more problematic.
As the need for more forces become more desperate, and these regions can’t or won’t fulfill the govts requirements the need to fill with folks from St. Petersburg and Moscow side of the federation will become more and more necessary
Apparently they started with migrant workers, homeless, and prisoners ( one source claims that prewar prison population was 400k and now around 260), once depleted the general ethnic Russian population will be drawn upon to fill the ranks
At that point, and I think it will begin after “election” will see if all the stories of”everything is fine in Russia” continues .
Control for Russia/putin is key, and keeping white Russia relatively free from war hardships has been a priority, when reality meets desires things may become complicated.
Fortunately for Kremlin the only budget line to see increases like the military is the “internal security” budget and that is understandable
Pretty sure the 40% military budget does not include internal security so in reality war budget is most likely somewhere north of 50%
Interesting times indeed
May it be Moe!
Slava guava!
The JoKe’s on you, Bro.
It would be my pleasure.
Thanks
You're welcome.
And that's all you've got? Jokes and insults?
So, you have no facts, no logic, no reasons, no data, no arguments worth the name.
All you can do is blast away with ridiculous nonsense.
I think the way that works is Russia's nominal GDP is circa $2 trillion, of which Russia spent $87 billion on defense in 2022 or roughly 4% of GDP.
That compares to about 3% of US GDP spent on defense and less than 2% by most western style democracies.
But Russia's $87 billion is about 15% of Russia's total government spending in 2022, which was ~35% of GDP or around $700 billion.
And 15% is the number which is said to increase up to 40% or 50%, meaning Russia's defense spending could rise from $87 billion to something like $300 billion, which would be circa 15% of Russia's GDP.
Those Russian numbers are not yet approaching percentages of many countries during the Second World War, however as of today, only one other country in the world spends as much of its GDP on its military.
Ukraine = 34% of GDP spent on its military in 2022.
Factoring in size of economy Ukraine numbers make sense
As to Russias spending I wonder how reduced net revenue from petro sales, loss of military export market, much increased imports , and devaluing of ruble and inflation factor into this?
If I were to guess I would say that military and internal security portion of budget is under estimated, as well as gdp since much of that is built and then blown up. Not exactly long term economic gain there, but I am not an economist, and numbers from Russia like China are always suspect.
Klowns usually get no respect, B-JoKe. You should be used to being treated like this by now.
The pro-Russia crowd contains a fair number of Russian trolls.
He’s a Russian troll. A liar.
Bimbo eruption must be a Russian troll.
Swell Russian meme, Rocco. You win a bottle of Vodka. Don’t drink it all at once.
That’s all they’ve got, because they’re Russian trolls. Stupid ones.
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