Posted on 07/09/2022 9:18:46 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Vladimir Putin has lost at least 60 colonels in the war in Ukraine, it was revealed today.
Lieutenant Colonel Sergei Moskvichev, 45, was buried with full military honours.
A paratrooper, it took Russia three months to retrieve his body from the war zone and conduct his funeral, it was revealed.
He was the 60th known colonel to have died in the bloody war, which has seen a crushing toll of high-ranking officers in Putin's forces, including at least 11 generals.
The revelation of his death came as Putin declared he had hardly begun his military campaign in Ukraine.
'We haven't started anything yet in earnest,' he claimed, despite suffering an overall toll of more than 30,000 troops, according to estimates.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
On the plus side, the FR Ukie propaganda brigade has encouraged me to expand my news sources to more reliable and in-depth commentators, like The Duran.
How Christian of you...
I think he saying that they are bottom-feeding, cabal cheerleading, empty-headed propagandists.
Well at least they aren’t dropping to the tune of 500-1000 fighters a day like Ukraine is. Ukraine is begging other countries in Europe to send those fighting age Ukes who fled Ukraine in February back because they are running out of cannon fodder for Russian artillery.
I’m telling you now, the war might as well be over, and it won’t matter at all to anyone, soon enough. In fact, I’ll go one up on that, and tell you that some external shock or discontinuity will end the war—or at least, high-profile Western involvement in it, which is almost the same thing, as the Ukraine obviously can’t stand on its own—well before “the Russian army moves on Odessa”, or whatever else the Nintendo couch strategists might fantasize about.
That is, Russia will take Odessa (because it’s a Russian city and has suffered long enough under forced Ukrainization and a form of military occupation) but by that point, you won’t care because you’ll have bigger problems.
Russian Lieutenant Colonel Russian Lieutenant Colonel Sergei Moskvichev
You are one sick person.
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That’s a lot of colonel
NATO FANTASY SOLDIERS
Let’s look at some relevant data from the USA, NATO’s largest and most important member. About half of the US population reads at grade seven level or below – how’s that going to work with some complicated weapon’s instruction manual? About a third are rated as obese (the rate’s doubled in a quarter century). Not likely bound for the infantry and tank hatches should probably be made bigger. Covid vaccination rules just took out about a Vietnam War’s worth of soldiers. Twice as many of the potential recruits think other countries are better than the USA so the rah rah spirit is down. And, finally, 6000 veterans kill themselves every year. Hardly surprising then that the US military is having a lot of trouble recruiting new members. And so they’re dropping both their standards and their demands and offering bonuses. So Stoltenberg had better not expect too much from the USA.
How about the other chief cheerleader for more wars with more enemies? Well we were told about a year ago that only one of the British Army’s 33 infantry battalions was fully staffed – and that was the 1st Royal Gurkha Rifles. Gurkhas certainly are outstanding soldiers but they actually come from Nepal. Nothing to suggest that young Brits are very interested in joining up, And the British Army will be cutting further. But diversity numbers are up. I guess Stoltenberg had better not expect too much from the UK either.
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NATO has neither the stockpiles nor the manufacturing capacity to equal what Russia and its allies are doing in Ukraine right now.
As for Russia, Macrotrends says its armed forces numbers have held pretty steady from 1482K to 1454K in twenty years. But mere numbers miss a lot. There has been an enormous improvement in quality, training and equipment in two decades. The Donetsk and Lugansk forces have significant numbers of competent and equipped soldiers. Russia seems to be using a lot of Russian Guard troops as we see in the very visible Chechen, Cossack and Buriat formations. One can wonder, in fact, just how much of the Russian Armed Forces, strictly defined, are involved in the fighting. And they don’t have a supply problem – precision missiles and fire missions keep rolling out with no indication of concern.
Come back when it's no longer a failed state.
UMCRevMom, MarcusMaximus and MercyFlush... the “Three Stooges” of FreeRepublic.
Just trying to figure out who is Curly, Larry and Moe.
VDK or NI?
They lead from the front, unlike ours who are in the rear with the gear.
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Due to the way Orc forces are structured and managed they have to lead from the front, else nothing would get done. Which is why they are so easy to kill.
Remember the super fat “Russian general” pic published by many UK newspapers? Fake! He’s actually a border guard who retired in 2011 after 20 years of service
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4077213/posts
High ranking Orc officers basically fill the same role as NCOs in the US military. There is no western-like NCO corps in the Russian military.
Thank you
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