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Both sides are building up for the next big push. Note that it took months for Desert Storm to materialize before the US was able to expel, with minimal friendly casualties, the Iraqi invasion force from Kuwait. Both Russia and Ukraine had basically peacetime military budgets, and lack the fully-functional and large Cold War surplus the US had to throw at the Desert Storm operation. It will take both sides a significant amount of time to mass the supplies and warm bodies necessary to feed into the meatgrinder that will determine the victor of this conflict.

* Both Russia and Ukraine have significant Cold War surplus equipment, but much of the original inventory was sold for scrap, was misappropriated for private disposal or has disintegrated over the decades. Only what was maintained, at significant cost, remains available for use in this conflict.

1 posted on 03/26/2022 9:52:16 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
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I’m ashamed that, as the Ukrainians are fighting for their lives, Jo Jo the Pedophile Clown is in Warsaw smelling and sniffing their wives and children. Biden is a disgrace!


2 posted on 03/26/2022 10:00:27 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump. Let's Go Brandon! FJB!)
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3 posted on 03/26/2022 10:03:39 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (Whenever a Russian soldier is killed, an Angel gets its wings)
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The New York who?


4 posted on 03/26/2022 10:05:03 AM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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Hi.

Both sides also speak Russian.

5.56mm


5 posted on 03/26/2022 10:05:51 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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The Democrats must have been doing some really dirty things in Ukraine.


6 posted on 03/26/2022 10:14:23 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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7 posted on 03/26/2022 10:15:44 AM PDT by sauropod (Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.)
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Recent Javelin strike:

“The 25th Airborne Brigade of the Ukrainian Army claimed to strike a Russian BMP. As you can see, an ATGM is used, most likely the Javelin.”

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1507759843213561859


8 posted on 03/26/2022 10:17:31 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (Whenever a Russian soldier is killed, an Angel gets its wings)
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Army Detachment Steiner is counterattacking and will save Berlin!


10 posted on 03/26/2022 10:18:34 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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“The charred body parts of Russian soldiers were still decomposing on the asphalt three weeks later”

Nothing like a little visual aid to the other orcs about what may be in store for them.”


16 posted on 03/26/2022 11:21:52 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Кчерту Путина, Kчерту Россию)
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“It will take both sides a significant amount of time to mass the supplies and warm bodies necessary to feed into the meatgrinder that will determine the victor of this conflict.”

The Ukraine has the arsenal of Democracy at their disposal. Anti-tank missiles flowing by the thousands, right off the shelf out of inventory, from more than a dozen other countries.

Everyone would rather fight Russia in a proxy country, than wait for Russia to get around to them.

Firstest with the mostest advantage was to Russia initially, but one little Javelin equals one huge main battle tank and its crew, so the effect of the massive flow of anti-tank weapons from outside is further magnified in its effects.

I think it will be like when machine guns and rifles were introduced against the old Infantry formations that used to march into battle all neatly lined up. Mechanized forces like Russia’s are big targets for these missiles, and they are easily found by drones, and with a hostile population reporting their every move.

Month Two: the collapse of Russian armor.

Send more Javelins.


19 posted on 03/26/2022 1:03:37 PM PDT by BeauBo
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