Posted on 07/25/2022 9:57:06 PM PDT by devere
‘A DISTINCT TURNING POINT’: In Ukraine, the signs of a subtle battlefield shift are everywhere as President Volodymyr Zelensky announces the beginning of a counteroffensive in the south and Pentagon officials make plans to continue the flow of weapons for months to come.
“We are there for Ukraine for the long haul,” said a senior defense official in the latest Pentagon briefing, who described the Russian advances as stymied by effective Ukrainian tactics and newly arrived HIMARS precision rocket systems, which have forced Russian forces to dig in and hide high-value targets. “They're paying a high price for every inch of territory that they try to take or hold, and we're seeing very low morale from the Russian forces,” the official said.
The Washington-based Institute for the Study of War cites growing alarm in the “Russian nationalist information space,” noting Moscow Calling, a telegram channel, described the arrival of HIMARS as “a distinct turning point in the war” that has “changed everything.”
“Moscow Calling strongly insinuated that recent Ukrainian strikes on Russian warehouses, communication hubs, and rear bases are having a devastating and potentially irreversible impact on the development of future Russian offensives,” the ISW says. “Russian troops are being forced to engage in various HIMARS mitigation tactics on the battlefield, including camouflage measures and constantly changing the location of equipment groupings. These mitigation tactics are impeding Russian forces from conducting the massive artillery barrages that they have widely employed over the course of the war.”
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Nothing has changed, The Ukes are still losing. Only thing happening is the prep for another phase.
“I don’t have a dog in this fight. Giving Putin a bloody nose is fine with me, but the Ukes don’t impress me as an independent nation.”
I’m always up for a good game of “let’s you and him fight”, especially when Russians are involved. They’re owed quite a bit of payback for the 20th century.
I just don’t think we should be bankrolling this border squabble on the other side of the world. Both sides are corrupt. The only difference is the scale.
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Russia is never gonna run out of ammo, that's the problem.
Besides which, their ability to turn stolen washing machines and laptops into missile guidance systems is well known.
What point does Russia have? Really?
What they’re accusing America of doing, is stuff they’re doing too.
What pisses Russia off is that while it’s had REAL WORLD uses for novichok, polonium and even anthrax (killed loads of people in one of their own towns with that nasty) over the last 50 years, the American control over what used to be SOVIET biolabs hasn’t (to our knowledge) killed a single person outside of those labs.
And of course, those biolabs are so dangerous and the contents so likely to cause mass casualties if released into the area outside, Russia’s solution is imprecise artillery strikes.
What can you expect from a country whose grunts dug trenches around Chernobyl after lobbing rockets at the admin buildings (where a lot of the safety monitoring systems are operated from) because the poor sods had never even been told about what happened in Reactor Number 4.
Russia has an amazingly thin skin when it comes to America messing with dangerous cocktails under very tight safety control procedures... but a skin as thick as a rhino’s when it comes to their own labs repeatedly leaking this stuff out, or giving it to FSB agents to deploy in Western towns.
Well they have oil, copper, Uranium, cobalt, and a whole bunch of other minerals and metals that are needed in the production of modern society
And as to what point they had America pushed Ukraine to talk about joining NATO, set up biological laboratory‘s in their border calling some of them veterinary laboratories that were studying human diseases, they deposed the democratically elected Ukrainian president through a color revolution. And they they permitted the Ukrainians to basically and systematically hunt down and kill the Russian speaking people in their borders.
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