Posted on 05/24/2022 9:51:33 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Sod off, pizdobol.
“they would be justified in attacking our assets”
Being “justified” won’t stop them from getting attacked right back, and they know it.
“How will the Ukraine victors treat the Russian people who live there?”
You know, if Russia was actually concerned about the plight of “Russian people” living outside their borders, they could simply offer refugee status to any of them who want to come back to Russia. But Putin will never do that, because they might accept the offer, and then Putin would no longer have a ready-made excuse to invade all of his neighbors.
No, Putin wants those “Russian people” to stay outside of Russia, just like the Arabs want the Palestinian Arabs to remain a people without a state, so they will always have a ready-made excuse to attack Israel. SSDD.
Meanwhile the war is progressing in Russia's favor. I do not have time to show detailed maps of what is happening but there are two reasonable Youtube channels which provide good daily reports based on multiple sources. These are Military Summary and Defense Politics Aaaaasia.
In the north Lyman has fallen with reports of Ukrainian troops withdrawing after a short fight. In the east the Ukrainian held city Severodonetsk is mostly isolated and now under fierce attack. Several more towns around the Popasna bulge have been taken by the Russian side. South of it the city Svetlodarsk has fallen after the Ukrainian tried but failed to destroy a nearby dam. The Ukrainian troops retreated without a fight.
Instead of holding the lines by all means Ukrainian units now seem more interested in running away. That is more healthy for them and also solves their serious supply issues. Like other supply lines the Bakhmut-Lisichansk road is now under Russian fire control. This video shows what that means.
What we are seeing now are the effects of nearly three months of Russian artillery war. The Ukrainian troops at the frontline have been ground down and those who are left are moving out before being destroyed too. The front begins to move at several points. When those points merge we may next see the tactical deep battle phase of a classic Russian deep operation:
Deep battle envisaged the breaking of the enemy's forward defenses, or tactical zones, through combined arms assaults, which would be followed up by fresh uncommitted mobile operational reserves sent to exploit the strategic depth of an enemy front. The goal of a deep operation was to inflict a decisive strategic defeat on the enemy's logistical abilities and render the defence of their front more difficult, impossible, or indeed irrelevant. Unlike most other doctrines, deep battle stressed combined arms cooperation at all levels: strategic, operational, and tactical.
Yup. They (NATO) lost it, found it, and then lost it again a few months ago.
Diesel electric subs are very dangerous.
And I think that it can stay down for a quite a while. Unlike the older diesel electrics.
Anyone, especially in this country, that thinks that these Russians are a bunch of incompetent backwater imbeciles had better wake up. They do stupid stuff with their ground forces, that is not to be debated.
They got this sub, the hypersonic missiles and have long range missile systems that might soon be developed into long range hypersonic missile systems. Those missiles? There is no defense against them and the Russians and Red Chinese have advanced way ahead of the rest of the world.
Oh! Those missiles are not accurate? That is just fine. Just put a kiloton warhead on it and let it hit in the general area.
“You seem very supportive of Biden/Obama and the globalist stooges in the Pentagon.”
No, I was around for the Cold War and don’t care to have generations of Americans unborn having to deal with a renewed Soviet threat.
I’m also reminiscent of then-Senator Biden on the Foreign Relations Committee and the fact of his longtime antipathy towards an aggressive Russia is perhaps one of his few positive attributes to me.
Right now I oppose Putin and Russia in their imperial ambitions but at the same time I agree with many of Putin’s domestic and cultural policies. Does that mean I support Putin and his imperial stooges in the Kremlin? Hardly.
Nor does Biden’s support of Ukraine mean that Biden and his cronies enjoy my unfettered support. I’ll still be voting for and financially supporting Donald Trump come 2024.
Oh, give the Russians credit for some ingenuity. I’m sure they could get a tug boat to tow one of their vessels within range to attack our carriers :D
“Diesel electric subs are very dangerous.”
1. German made diesel electric subs are very dangerous to their intended prey.
2. Russian made diesel electric subs, like other Russian made subs, are very dangerous to their own crews.
Thanks for your reply.
Thanks for the very good post.
ROFLOL!
The answer to me is obvious -- you're a CINO, Deep Stater or neocon stooge or all three.
https://sonar21.com/looks-like-cnn-and-rest-of-the-american-media-are-growing-weary-of-the-war-in-ukraine/
The whores that masquerade on a daily basis as news readers or pundits on the mainstream media are like any normal cheerleader. They will shout passionately on behalf of their team at the start of the game but fall silent once a total ass whipping is underway. Pretty tough to shout, “Two bits, Four bits, Six bits, a Dollar, all for Zhelensky stand up and holler”, when there is no good news to show on the nightly newscasts. The presstitutes are suckers for video showing a ship getting hit with a Ukie missile and sinking, or a Ukie jet strafing a line of stalled Russian tanks, or Ukie artillery raking the positions of entrenched Russian soldiers.
But those videos are not available. The best Ukraine can produce are clips pulled from realistic video games that even confuse hardened warriors (sarcasm alert) like Barry McCaffrey. Imagine my shock today to read this headline and story from CNN. (Note–The CNN story confirms as true the analysis that Andrei Martyanov and I have offered):
Former US soldier now fighting in Ukraine tells of days trapped in ‘house of horrors’
Kevin is part of a group of elite foreign special forces veterans, primarily American and British, who have enlisted to help the Ukrainian cause.
He says that back in March, the group spent four days in the health spa – they called it “the house from hell” – often just 50 meters from Russian troops. It was, he says, the furthest-forward Ukrainian-held position in Irpin, a suburb on the outskirts of Kyiv, as Russian forces tried to push on through to seize the capital. . . .
Despite a career as a former top-level US counter-terrorism operative, serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, Kevin says it is here in Ukraine that he has faced the most intense fighting of his life. . . .
For the first time in his life, Kevin was defending against invasion by a better-equipped enemy. He, not the enemy, was the one who had to worry about airstrikes. There was no master plan, no air support – and there would be no evacuation in case of disaster.
“It was like a movie,” he says. “It was insanity from the start. We started taking indirect fire driving in – small arms fire driving in. And I was in a pickup truck, just driving down the street.”
“There’s tanks, and above us there’s helicopters. And you can hear the Russian jets flying by. And out in the open fields the Russians were dropping troops off in helicopters. And so you’re like: ‘Woah, wow!’ It’s a lot.”
Kevin and his colleagues were on the receiving end of artillery fire. During battles in Afghanistan, Iraq, or Syria, these foreign soldiers were calling in the air strikes and artillery bombardments. They’d never known was it was like on the receiving end. . . .
Day after day, Kevin and his buddies concluded that they, too, had had enough. Then the next day came, bringing with it new orders and new missions, and they found themselves staying on. Eventually, he says, they wound up at the sauna and gym complex where they holed up for four days, even as the building slowly disintegrated under Russian shelling.
“We call it the house of horrors, because it was literally a nightmare in there,” he says. “This was four really miserable days of really little sleep, really heavy artillery, really heavy infantry presence from the Russians. No matter how many people that we removed from their side, they just kept coming.” . . .
Kevin and his team were not sitting on Ukrainian tanks charging the Russians and defeating them on the field of battle. Nope. He and his special forces buddies were hunkered down getting to experience the receiving end of aerial and artillery bombardments. Karma is a bitch.
Kevin described the dilemma of the average Ukrainian soldier–no air support, no artillery support, no rescue. But hey, those Ukie troops sure are brave. I have a news flash for Kevin–there were brave Nazi soldiers fighting Soviet troops in World War II and they lost (thank God!).
They'll have lots of problems keeping them operational with the embargo of western technology.
Russia’s Highest Ranking Airforce Commander Killed
Putin sending 63-year-old retired generals to fly combat missions in Luhansk. What a freaking loser.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4065846/posts
Yes, and many of your Putin Puffing comrades likewise have blank ‘about’ pages. So what’s your point?
Very scary. Thanks. We’d better catch up and dominate.
Manned ships, especially aircraft carriers are going to be obsolete soon, if they aren’t already for some applications.
I understand that they have critical parts stockpiled and readily available.
Yes, the point is you and your fellow #NeverTrumps all have anniversary dates that coincide with Brandon’s inauguration. You’ll all be supporting the GOPe nominee, over Trump, when that time comes.
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