Posted on 03/07/2022 9:00:50 AM PST by Widget Jr
What western military analysts miss and we track the Russian invasion minute by minute.
Day 7 of the Russian invasion and Kyiv hasn't fallen yet but the Russian regular forces are changing their strategy.
Using a live update open source intelligence tool we can track the Russian military in real time.
https://liveuamap.com is the website used for open source intel.
The Russian Way of War: Force Structure, Tactics, and Modernization of the Russian Ground Forces.
Dr. Lester W. Grau. Charles K. Bartles. 416 pages. 2016
Research gate:pdf
Army University press: pdf
Yes, it is a few days old. In the news, Russia is getting everything wrong. This misrepresents how the Russian military fights and the realities of supporting forces in war. The fact is, for the first two weeks the invasion went largely according to the Russian war plan. This video addresses ways the Russian military is being misrepresented in the news.
Option #1 Is not even being considered by the NATO for now.
Option #2 runs into how much Russia can take. Their economy is on the size of Spain and Australia. As far as their military, there is a big gap between their announcing new weapons and upgrades and actually delivering them. This is not the Russian military of WW-II or the 1980s. The willingness and actual ability to sustain losses are not the same. The Russia military has limits and the Russian population is not interested in this war either. Which means, there is not much reason to negotiate if Russia can not actually sustain war as much as is thought.
Which makes Option #3 look like the most realistic outcome for now. If Russia successfully occupies Ukraine, the Second Cold War starts and starts with open support for the Ukrainian resistance. There is no deniability or use of proxies for American and and NATO shipping weapons. That can easily lead escalate to war.
Right now there there is too much going on in too confused a way to see any better outcomes.
RE #7 and #9: Watch. The. Video.
liveuamap is one sided
Andriy Biletsky, the proudly fascist Azov Battalion leader who once pledged to “lead the white races of the world in a final crusade…against Semite-led Untermenschen”, vowed to bring thousands of fighters to Zolote if Zelensky pressed any further. Meanwhile, a parliamentarian from the party of former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko openly fantasized about Zelensky being blown to bits by a militant’s grenade.
Though Zelensky achieved a minor disengagement, the neo-Nazi paramilitaries escalated their “No Capitulation” campaign. And within months, fighting began to heat up again in Zolote, sparking a new cycle of violations of the Minsk Agreement.
By this point, Azov had been formally incorporated into the Ukrainian military and its street vigilante wing, known as the National Corps, was deployed across the country under the watch of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, and alongside the National Police. In December 2021, Zelensky would be seen delivering a “Hero of Ukraine” award to a leader of the fascistic Right Sector in a ceremony in Ukraine’s parliament,
I can't read for you. So feel happy in the belief that a Jewish man cannot be eaten alive by a criminal organization that also happens to be Neo Nazi. Zelinsky is Jewish therefore he cannot be beholden to Neo Nazis is a glittering generality which IS propaganda.
You seem to be anthropomorphizing countries acting based upon geopolitics as individuals managing interpersonal relationships. This is a great way to manipulate opinion by appealing to pride and honor and a well proven method to escalate a war.
I’m going out on a limb to say Putin does not have the power to order nuclear strikes on US forces or the American homeland unprovoked.
Was listening to an oliver stone interview on Sirius this morning with Bennington, all about the Kennedy assassination. The black hats were inside the gate then imagine how far they have gotten since 1963. Many parallels’ between trump and Kennedy one being an outsider who became president unexpectedly and what they did to remove him
RE #18: Please PM me the link.
Russia has already blown up the bio weapons labs, military bases, fuel dumps and taken out the radar. The only thing left is mopping up what’s left of the Gesarian mafia in the major cities. Zelensky needs to get to the table and sign.
They make great lawn ornaments on farms.
I am not anthromorohizing ENTIRE countries. I am not even denying that Neo Nazis exist in the Ukraine as they do in the USA.
What I object to, is Putin and his supporters implying that his invasion of Ukraine is in part to denazify Ukraine.
It is a broader pattern of Russian propaganda frequently painting Ukraine’s elected leaders as “Nazis and fascists oppressing the local ethnic Russian population, which it claims needs to be liberated.” It ignores the fact that hundreds of thousands of Jews live in Ukraine and ARE NOT BEING OPPRESSED. It ignores the fact that Ukraine is one ( probably the ONLY ) Country that has BOTH a Jewish president and a Jewish Prime Minister.
Putin’s always claims genocide and Nazism as part of a long-running attempt to delegitimize Ukraine.
The Soviet Union used similar language — like calling pro-Western Ukrainians “Banderites” — to discredit Ukrainian nationalism as Nazism. Putin is simply following this traditional Soviet propaganda.
I will concede that Ukraine is home to ultranationalist movements, including most prominently the Azov Battalion, which formed in 2014 and later joined the country’s National Guard after fighting against Russian-backed forces in eastern Ukraine.
But these nationalists make up about less than 2% of Ukraine’s population, with the vast majority having very little interest in anything to do with them.
And let’s not ignore the fact that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is Jewish, as is the former prime minister, Volodymyr Groysman.
Zelenskyy was elected in 2019 with a whopping 73% of the vote — a considerably larger share than his predecessors — and won a majority in every region, including the most traditional and conservative.
In no other European country could you have ... a president, a prime minister being Jewish without having a lot of antimseitic propaganda in media and in newspapers.
The Holocaust took a personal toll on Zelenskyy’s family. Three of his grandfather’s brothers were killed by the German Nazis. Now Putin wants to call him a Nazi? Which country has been supporting the Israel hating Syrian leader Bashar Al Assad? Is it Zelensky’s Ukraine or Putin’s Russia? You know the answer to that question.
I’m not going to ignore what is obvious to indulge in believing Putin’s propaganda to justify his invasion of a sovereign nation.
Putin’s tactics is simply a mythical use of history to justify present-day crimes.
I suspect some Ukrainian used a bulldozer to tear up miles of pavement.
The Russians would have to make and advance over a log road.
Interesting, but I’m staying with my observations, and this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXGyXIROSho
Right -- those infamous bioweapons labs that were part of Putin's propaganda. Almost forgot.
The only thing left is mopping up what’s left of the Gesarian mafia in the major cities.
The Russians seem to be moving awfully slowly if the only thing Ukraine has left is a few gangsters in major cities. But if that really is true, then we should expect Kyiv to fall within a couple of days anyway, right? So you'll get your wish by Wednesday anyway!
Zelensky needs to get to the table and sign.
You know, here's the thing. I don't think Zelensky believes that Ukraine has nothing left except a few mafia types to defend major cities. He seems to think he's got a good bit of his actual army left. So I guess we'll see who's correct in a couple of days. Heck, let's give the mighty Red Army 4 days -- until the end of the week. If Russian soldiers haven't finished off the few remaining mafia types, and aren't swilling vodka peacefully in the heart of Independence Square by then, we'll know that someone is full of fecal matter.
“Neo Nazi” probably means to Putin a Ukrainian who has done violence to an ethnic Russian in Ukraine.
When the smoke clears I think we will see that the press and deepstate have been lying and distorting reality.
The Russians have primarily gained ground in primarily Russian-speaking areas.
I have lost most of my faith in the major media.
“That’s the way it is,...” is no longer the basis of the American news business.
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