Posted on 08/05/2022 10:19:54 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Russia is now unable to counter Western weapons in Ukraine. ATACMS missiles will be unbearable burden for Russian army, - Zaluzhny advisor Rice News Censor.NET War in Ukraine atacm
Russia is finding it increasingly difficult to wage war in Ukraine because of the effective use of Western weaponry by the Ukrainians.
This was stated in an interview to Ukrinform by American combat veteran and adviser to the Commander-in-Chief of the AFU Dan Rice, noting that Russia is unlikely to be able to significantly counter this weaponry in the short term, reports Censor.NЕТ.
Rice recently returned from Donbass, where he observed changes on the battlefield and assessed Ukraine's needs to achieve victory in the war.
"It appears that Russia is finding it increasingly difficult to wage war in Ukraine. Ukraine has done an excellent job striking control points, supply trains and troop concentrations," he said.
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The expert explained that the Russian Army's logistic support system requires centralized trains, which is due to the "palletized" type of logistics. This makes warehouses excellent targets for high-precision HIMARS and M777s, he noted.
"If - and hopefully when - Ukraine gets ATACMS missiles (missiles that fly up to 300 kilometers - ed.), Russia has nowhere in Ukraine to hide its command and control systems or supply formations," Rice said. .
"There should be an agreement between NATO and Ukraine that no ATACMS will be launched outside Ukrainian territory. The maintenance of an army that does not control the skies and will be bombarded anywhere in the occupied territories will probably prove to be a burden for the Russian army that it is not capable of carrying," the adviser emphasized.
He noted that the maintenance of the army, which does not control the sky and will experience shelling in any place in the occupied territories, will probably prove to be "a burden that the Russian Armed Forces are not able to bear".
According to Rice, most of the Western weapons – the NLAW, Stinger, Javelin, HIMARS, Switchblade, M777 precision munitions, Gray Eagle and Harpoon – have proven incredibly effective against the Russian military.
"Russia has known about most of these platforms for a long time and yet cannot successfully counter them elsewhere. It is unlikely that Russia will be able to significantly counter these platforms in the near term - within the next few years. In my view, with enough of these weapons, it is only a matter of the time when Ukraine will achieve victory and expel the Russians from its land," said adviser of Valeriy Zaluzhny.
“It’s war on Ukraines soil - between Russia and Bidens using Ukrainian military”
I disagree. Ukraine once and for all needs to establish their border & stop Russian Invasion. The only way I see the invasion stopping is if Putin does or is run out of Russia.
Different kind of war because different social and geographical circumstances. The biggest one was that the Taliban was fighting the US, which for its own internal political reasons was unwilling to do what it took to control the Afghan population. That is, implement a system of reconcentration/ “strategic villages”/ethnic cleansing or what have you.
The US problem in Afghanistan wasn’t a contest of firepower with a peer enemy and an effective abscence of civilians on the battlefield. That is Ukraine.
“God probably looks at as participating in murder.”
The omnipresent God is Sovereign: Omnipotent & Omniscient.
I do not pretend to play God.
This propaganda line has been used in every modern war. It goes quite far back. Napoleon (or maybe it was his brother Jerome) used it in re Spain/Portugal, 1808-1814. It was the poor Spanish/Portuguese cannon fodder serving British interests you see.
Central donbas is in impasse.
165 days in and Russia has lost land it held on March 8th.
Putin needs to stop his murdering of eastern Orthodox slavic people.
“lining Soros & Co’s pockets with tens of billions of U.S. money”
Source for your reasoning?
I trust Dan Bongino thoughts:
“As is always the case with Soros, his advertised motives conflict with his true self-serving motives.
He made headlines last August for speaking out the threat from China’s dictator Xi Jinping – but didn’t have a problem investing $24 million in China in November 2016 (Xi has been President since 2013).
It was only since Xi has targeted individual companies that Soros is personally invested in (in this case, Alibaba and DiDi) that Soros saw fit to speak out.
The same is the case here.
Ukraine just so happens to be a country where Soros has historically wielded influence. Contrary to some claims, there’s no ties between Soros and Ukraine’s current President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Soros actually backed former President Petro Poroshenko, who Zelensky defeated in 2019.
“If Mexico had joined a Russian military alliance, bought billions in Russian weapons, conducted military exercises with Russian military on Mexican soil and had its military trained by Russians, plus ship countless planes of military equipment to Central America countries...... the US would certainly invade Mexico.”
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Except:
Ukraine hasnt joined any alliance.
Any exercises with western military was AFTER Russia stirred up fake rebellion in the east and invaded and seized Ukrainian territory of Crimea.
And the bulk of “billions of military aid” didnt happen until Russia invaded in Feb.
“Ukraine hasn’t joined any alliance.
Any exercises with western military was AFTER Russia stirred up fake rebellion in the east and invaded and seized Ukrainian territory of Crimea.
And the bulk of “billions of military aid” didnt happen until Russia invaded in Feb.”
I appreciate your thoughtful comment.
Putin is not even listening to his own people that DON’T support this Invasion with Ukraine.
Putin will either die or me run out of Russia for this invasion to end.
“Nope, it’s just more globalist propaganda talking points. “
Saya the guy who claims Zelensky has millions in a bank that doesnt exist....
You seem more Baghdad Bobish to me
Seems quite a few people want to ignore the fact that Russia did the invading. None of this would even be happening if not for that
Your sources suck. Time to find another
Would love to see where you are getting your false info from because I just read what you posted is not true. Stop being a Bagdad Bob
Nice rhetorical.
Now, can you disapprove anything indicated in that analysis vid or anything else that would otherwise show Ukraine is, you know, ‘winning’ in their conflict with Russia? Maps? Analysis? Anything other than the ‘absurd levels of Baghdad Bob propaganda’ being continuously spewed by the US, EU/NATO/Western propaganda media? Anything?
Yes, and if Jesus was not born, we would not have salvation.
I could go on.
Your comment is a moot point.
Disapprove with actual counter analysis, etc. or move along.
In the aftermath of the coup Lugansk and Donetsk sought to separate themselves from the new, illegitimate, undemocratic regime - a regime that moreover sought to deny their identity as Russian speakers.
There were other seperatists in eastern and southern Ukraine. Unfortunately for them they were far from Russian support. They stopped publically protesting after seperatists in Odessa were massacred by coup-sympathisers.
To their credit the regular Ukrainean army of 2014 baulked at suppressing the seperatists in Lugansk and Donetsk. So the Obama Whitehouse channelled 18B dollars of your aid money to fund 'Chainsaw' Kolomoisky's private army to fight a proxy war with Russia over the breakaway regions.
Fast forward to this year. After eight years of the AFU shelling the citiens of the DPR and LPR, Russia recognised their independance.
After recognition the AFU kept on shelling the DPR and LPR, because their western backers knew that an attack by Russia to back up the new states would give the West the excuse to apply massive sanctions that Russia couldn't possibly survive.
Well, that didn't turn out so well.
citiens = citizens. Ugh, going out to get an eye test
Have to go back a bit farther in history. NATO was an alliance to defend against the expansionist USSR. When the USSR collapsed NATO wasn't needed anymore;. When the somewhat expansionist Serbs fomented separationist rebellions in other parts of the former Yugoslavia, NATO came back to life to stop the Serbs.
But then NATO decided to support the stirring up of Albanian-supported rebellion in part of Serbia and helped invade and seize part of what was Serbia. Choosing sides in a breakup is something that Serbs and Russians remember and they end up doing the same thing themselves.
The way to stop this is to stop NATO in 1999. Stop Clinton's wag-the-dog and Albright's ancient grievances against the Serbs. Since it's too late for that, the way to do it is to stop NATO again now. Of course you'll do otherwise and Russia may be pushed out. If they are, then mark your calendar for 20 years from now for war with Russia, because they won't stay down. Sooner if they get Chinese support against the US.
Alternatively Russia will keep a chunk of Ukraine but conflict will continue at some low level. Or Russia will be allowed into negotiations for an independent demilitarized status for parts of Ukraine, maybe all of Ukraine. I don't think such an enlightened solution is likely.
Not our war. We need to stay out.
And the Titanic was unsinkable too. Any time I see “absolute” statements, my first thought is “I wonder how long until that’s proven wrong”.
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