America Last agenda.
Posted on 07/01/2022 5:11:51 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
A few days later, Himars hit a Russian military barracks where new recruits were sleeping, inflicting heavy losses, Lt. Koval said. In a third attack he described, the Ukrainians directed all four Himars at Russian positions in one Ukrainian town, sending 24 rockets against targets in the same area. Another strike struck in the town of Zymohirya, some 30 miles behind the frontline, Lt. Koval said.
Due to the $155,000 price tag per rocket, the Ukrainians are focusing the firepower on high-value targets like military headquarters, weapons depots and barracks rather than individual Russian tanks or artillery systems. They expect this will force Moscow to pull assets back from the frontline, which will further stretch its already strained logistics.
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The Russian invasion has lost the “shock and awe” and has degenerated into a logistic war of attrition. What is unusual in this case is the long supply lines on both sides.
Russia may choose to export a captured one back to the USA.
We lack border security.
The Russians are said to be using 50,000 shells a day. Assuming 5,000 shells in one place, and $800 per shell, that $4m worth of destruction in exchange for 1 $155K smart shell - a pretty good exchange rate. Not quite as good as what Russians are doing to civilian infrastructure in Ukraine with $800 shells. Of course, the savings are even greater when you think about the tens of millions of dollars worth of Ukrainian civilian targets that won’t be destroyed by those 5,000 Russian shells.
I doubt the Russians have many barracks in the Ukraine.
Hey, when we defeat the Russians for the corrupt Ukrainian oligarch can we have normal gas prices?
The Russians will disperse their weapons depots.
“The Russians are said to be using 50,000 shells a day.”
That’s about 18 million shells a year.
The Chinese produce about 18 million motor vehicles per year.
The Russians probably have a shortage of targets and not a shortage of shells.
Joe Biden’s “Liberal World Order” — being paid for by your tax dollars.
“already strained logistics”
Everyday about 135 million Russians eat food bought at stores stocked with food brought several/dozens/hundreds and even thousands of miles away.
—”The Russians are said to be using 50,000 shells a day.”
“Quantity has a quality all its own.”
Stalin(?)
They brought in many ancient tanks (T-62) with no updates on their use?
Sometimes mass quantities of junk just slow you down.
Regretfully, our dear president only authorized 6 MLRS units sent to the Ukraine, when they need at least 50 including HIMARS to remain in parity with Russia.
“Due to the $155,000 price tag per rocket, the Ukrainians are focusing the firepower on high-value targets...”
What do they care how much the things cost?
“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor [...]. The social atmosphere is that of a besieged city, where the possession of a lump of horseflesh makes the difference between wealth and poverty. And at the same time the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.”
(Goldstein’s Manifesto)
— 1984
I just stand amazed at all the retards that are piloting this ship of disaster, and all the people that have been raped and silenced and ruined by them giving them any semblance of support at all...but here we are on FR, marching in step with Biden and the New World Order.
INTERESTING ARTICLE:
Will the sanctions deter Putin from continuing the war?
While Russia may have the reserves and revenue to fund its military, it may not be able to arm it as easily if sanctions continue, according to Alexeev.
“Where there is a very significant limitation, is what kind of armaments for weapons and munitions they can actually make,” he said.
Restrictions on imports of spare parts and high-tech goods mean the Russian military “basically cannot make a lot of stuff that they would need if the war becomes prolonged. They have very limited ability to make tanks, missiles...and fighter jets.”
It’s unclear what effect the sanctions will have on Putin’s desire for war in Ukraine.
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It’s unclear what effect the sanctions will have on Putin’s desire for war in Ukraine.
Yet a recent survey by the Russia-based independent polling firm the Levada Center found that while a majority of respondents were concerned about sanctions, a majority also thought that Russia should carry on with its current policies rather than make concessions to try to lift sanctions. Many polls taken since the invasion began have reported that a majority of respondents support the war.
Matveev, however, doesn’t believe that polling can be relied on to determine how the Russian public truly feels about key issues.
“These results are highly questionable because polling in authoritarian regimes, in general, is a very problematic activity,” he said. “You ask people, ‘So what do you feel about the government?’ And they’re obviously afraid to say the truth, even to pollsters. Especially now, when there is a de facto martial law in operation in Russia and all criticism of the war is criminalized with very long prison sentences.”
“The sanctions have had an impact on ordinary people, according to Alexeev. He said that despite government price controls on essentials like food and gas, inflation has caused most things to become more expensive. Although many poor Russians in rural areas farm some of their own food and don’t rely on goods that have been sanctioned, most of what they still need to buy has become more expensive, Alexeev said, and “those who don’t grow any food themselves are suffering quite a bit.”
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