Ukraine ping
Yet another instalment ($800m) of the $13b aid package passed by Congress on March 15, 2022. Ukraine to get a brigade’s worth (72 pieces) of M777 howitzers, along with perhaps a week’s worth of ammo (2000 rounds per howitzer), as well as brand new Switchblade-equivalent drones that have reportedly just emerged from development and testing.
For some perspective, Russian and Chinese equipment flows to North Vietnam during the Vietnam War (the final link is a Russian website):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_in_the_Vietnam_War#Confronting_U.S._escalation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev#The_Vietnam_War
https://www.rbth.com/history/332396-how-soviets-fought-against-americans
Our inventory of all sorts of weapons must be depleted close to a dangerous level.
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Thanks Zhang Fei.
Non-revisionist weighted history doesn’t leave much room for offensive Russian offensive variance.
Russia has fought many wars against much more even adversarial opponents.
The political climate is amazingly in RU favor, even to the present.
RU is still circumnavigating energy export for profit in a big way, while simultaneously in a strong economic and defense agreement with Keetai. As well, the EU will not for a while yet be able to ween itself from profiting the Kremlin, and the US is almost seemingly taking orders from the same.
That being said, if it weren’t for Russian strategic and massive WMD arsenal power, I would almost suggest Moscow as a proxy battering ram which has penetrated the EU in a significant way, as it has the US.
However, at the moment they are working together, ad offer each other significant offensive “specialization”.
As such, almost regardless of the armament headed into UA, this is one of the best climates (on paper anyway), Russia has had to deal with in it’s many larger scale historical offensives.
What has already turned out to be a decisive and critical Trump “stop gap” with advanced infantry training and nimble anti-armor Javelin’s (matched by the Brits derivative), will already go down in history as having kept UA in this fight long enough to break the back of the 3-7 day UA capitulation and RU government takeover of UA. Other very important factors have been Weather, social media, and continued flow of weapons into UA.
In a sense, advanced Western ground systems have for now made it a deadly proposition for RU pilots to just fly all over UA. RU hasn’t yet established a RU no-fly zone. This is absolutely critical.
Now the US is beginning to send in even more near-robotic/launch-and-forget type weapon systems (”ghost drones”).
This has turned out to be a very dynamic war.
The greater scheme is still geopolitical hegemony of EU foreign and domestic economic and military policy. As well, there is truly only a window in time for Putin to pull it off.
He may well also find it necessary to even keep Israel from continued development of it’s Eastern Med energy, in order to keep to force the EU into submission.
Crazy times...
Non-revisionist weighted history doesn’t leave much room for Russian offensive variance.
Russia has fought many wars against much more even adversarial opponents.
The political climate is amazingly in RU favor, even to the present.
RU is still circumnavigating energy export for profit in a big way, while simultaneously in a strong economic and defense agreement with Keetai. As well, the EU will not for a while yet be able to ween itself from profiting the Kremlin, and the US is almost seemingly taking orders from the same.
That being said, if it weren’t for Russian strategic and massive WMD arsenal power, I would almost suggest Moscow as a proxy battering ram which has penetrated the EU in a significant way, as it has the US.
However, at the moment they are working together, ad offer each other significant offensive “specialization”.
As such, almost regardless of the armament headed into UA, this is one of the best climates (on paper anyway), Russia has had to deal with in it’s many larger scale historical offensives.
What has already turned out to be a decisive and critical Trump “stop gap” with advanced infantry training and nimble anti-armor Javelin’s (matched by the Brits derivative), will already go down in history as having kept UA in this fight long enough to break the back of the 3-7 day UA capitulation and RU government takeover of UA. Other very important factors have been Weather, social media, and continued flow of weapons into UA.
In a sense, advanced Western ground systems have for now made it a deadly proposition for RU pilots to just fly all over UA. RU hasn’t yet established a RU no-fly zone. This is absolutely critical.
Now the US is beginning to send in even more near-robotic/launch-and-forget type weapon systems (”ghost drones”).
This has turned out to be a very dynamic war.
The greater scheme is still geopolitical hegemony of EU foreign and domestic economic and military policy. As well, there is truly only a window in time for Putin to pull it off.
He may well also find it necessary to even keep Israel from continued development of it’s Eastern Med energy, in order to keep to force the EU into submission.
Crazy times...
What is the life span of a towed howitzer on a modern battlefield?
We fished him out and the lieutenant got his silver ring - this guy was big, about 6 feet tall - and his ring slipped easily over my thumb!
So they had advisors working with them against us.