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Posted on 05/06/2022 9:14:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I don’t know anything about military strategy, but it seems to me that an army has to have heart.
I don’t think the Russian soldiers - or the majority of the people - are really behind this. Putin doesn’t seem to have fostered a very inspiring leadership.
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All Part of Putin’s Plan.©️
Regards,
You have the wrong news sources.
After the westerntards treated the ordinary Russian people like untermenschen yet again, even the normally Western-loving academics are on board for opening a can of whup-@ss on the West.
There is apparently a significant percentage that thinks Pootie is being too soft.
Don't be surprised at future events...
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Did you see that the guys are inviting Jacob Dreizin on The Duran?
Misspelled Odessa and Kharkov...
I try to watch them and Patrick Lancaster every day. Gonzalo is pretty good too.
Pretty good stuff - he retweeted some dude's discussion of Russia artillery doctrine.
Since we all have reads, here is mine:
1) Ignore any article that claims to be telepathic and reads Russians minds. That would include this one above.
2) This is the first war with both sides having superb satellite recon. This is the #1 most important reality. It transcends weapon sophistication, troop counts . . . everything. Neither side can do anything unseen.
3) This is the 21st century. Advance and occupation don’t mean much when weapons do damage from extreme ranges. There is no value in occupying territory if it can be targetted from over 100 miles away, and very accurately.
4) Russia has been progressing. Their MoD provides daily maps. And those maps show progress. Very slow. They saturate enemy positions to obliteration, and then and only then, move a couple of miles forward. It’s very slow and they seem content with very slow — which strongly suggests they have been given no deadline.
5) The western weapons hyped travel by train. Ukraine has about 1600 locomotives, and only 300 are diesel. Russia is wiping out all the electric sub stations in the west and the trains can’t move.
6) Russia has infinite fuel. That’s just the way God distributed crude and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
7) There is quiet talk in the world of oil about “excess refinery capacity in India”. These ballyhooed EU embargo plans . . . well, they will import refined products from India (who are refining Russian crude). The embargo will thus fail and rubles will flow to Russia.
8) Plans for Ukraine offensives run into the same satellite recon issues.
9) Stop thinking in terms of money and costs. All that matters is joules and calories. Russia has infinite joules/fuel and plenty of food. They also have a central bank that can create all the rubles they need domestically. Put this attitude about Russian technological inferiority to bed. US astronauts get to the ISS via Russian Soyuz vehicles and have for the past TEN YEARS. There has been no other way since the Shuttle was closed down. Russia’s tech is superior, not inferior. Just accept it. It is reality.
This does not fit with the other article I just read, that SpaceX just retrieved our astronauts from the ISS.
The ruble is at 68.87
When Russia invaded Ukraine, I seriously figured it would be over in a couple of weeks. Russia military has turned into a meme.
True. The 10 years of reliance on Russia Soyuz ended the past few months.
Is that joules or calories?
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