Posted on 12/19/2022 7:40:20 PM PST by rxsid
Ukraine wields US-supplied offensive arms against Russia – for the first time
Monday, Dec. 19 saw the first Ukrainian strikes inside Russia with advanced US missiles that President Joe Biden promised the Ukraine leader a week earlier. DEBKAfile’s military sources report that the Ukrainians used their fresh supplies of AGM-88 Harm missiles to strike power and water supply plants in the Russian town of Belgorod in retaliation for Moscow’s unceasing Iranian-made drone assaults on its vital facilities including power – in a bid to freeze Ukraine into submission.
The American AGM-88 is a high-speed anti-radiation missile designed to disarm the radar systems of antiair weapons. Powered with solid fuel, it can reach a speed of Mach 2 without generating smoke, which makes it hard for the targeted victims to detect in time to ward off its strike.
Our sources note that this missile attack was timed for Monday to coincide with an important summit President Vladimir Putin held with his Belarus ally, , Alexander Lukashenko. The first use of an American offensive weapon on targets inside Russia is expected in military circles to raise the stakes of the Ukraine conflict. Putin may decide to expand his campaign to crush Ukrainian resistance even to the point of taking his war across the border into its NATO neighbors, especially those keeping Kyev supplied with military equipment.
Ukraine wields US-supplied offensive arms against Russia – for the first time
Does anyone remember Russia has nukes? Hello? Bueller? Bueller?
Russia ‘Shoots Down’ 4 AGM-88 Anti-Radiation Missiles (HARM) Over Belgorod Region, MoD Says
Russia ‘Shoots Down’ 4 AGM-88 Anti-Radiation Missiles (HARM) Over Belgorod Region, MoD Says
Lol.....that’s not how these work...”used their fresh supplies of AGM-88 Harm missiles to strike power and water supply plants in the Russian town of Belgorod”
power and water supply plants don’t radiate radar
If nothing else, our military is getting some very good performance feedback.
But Biden is on Putins’s side. He has drug his feet and doesn’t want to help Ukraine. I have been told that twice but different posters here the last two days!
Ukrainians are the bad guys because Biden supports them. Biden is evil and corrupt. The Ukraine was his personal money laundering service.
So Russia has radar installments in their power and water plants?
“.that’s not how these work”
And their MAX range is 13 miles.
From some aircraft.
I don’t think the Ukes are flying IN Russia.
So do we Snowflake. RuZZia is not going to commit nuclear suicide for Putler Folly.
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Forbes has published an article attempting to dismiss concerns over extremism among the ranks of Ukraine’s armed forces as Russian propaganda, but admits that it had been a problem that Ukraine has since “fixed.”
Unfortunately, a screenshot included in the article is from a video that proves exactly the opposite - that extremism in Ukraine’s armed forces is worse than ever and openly benefiting from Western weapons and equipment flooding the country.
Links to articles in the Western media about the neo-Nazi problem in Ukraine at link.
At the start of the war Ukraine had, at least on paper, a well equipped military:
Ukraine has a lot of tanks and is ranked 13th across the globe with 2,430. In terms of armored vehicles, Kiev also ranks high, occupying the seventh spot globally with 11,435. Kiev’s artillery power is also formidable at 2,040 batteries.
That General Zaluzhny requested all that new stuff is a confession that most if not all the old stuff is gone. That includes the weapons he received after the war started. If the 20 percent of the Russian military that was used in Ukraine could do so much material damage in such a short time how long would a NATO army in a war against Russia survive?
Good. Time for Russia to feel the pain they’ve been inflicting on Ukraine!
Could the U.S. and NATO just limp out of the situation and leave it to Zaluzhny to negotiated his defeat with Russia?
But haven't Biden, NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg and Germany's chancellor Scholz said that Russia 'can not be allowed to win'? Sure, they have.
But Crooke points to Afghanistan and how fast the chaotic retreat from Kabul has vanished from the media and is now mostly forgotten. The Taliban were another enemy that could not be allowed to win. They won. And no one cares about it.
🇺🇸👤 Former US Colonel Douglas Macgregor stated that all the efforts of Washington and its allies to destroy Russia only backfire and seriously affect their own economy.
☝️ In his opinion, over the entire conflict period, Moscow has only strengthened its financial and economic position, and as a result of the Ukrainian conflict, the Russian armed forces will become “larger, more combat-ready and deadlier.”
💬 “So all of this is and will continue to turn against us because we can no longer try to impose American or US-led Anglo-American hegemony on the rest of the world. The rest of the world doesn’t want that. Frankly, we don’t need it ourselves. It’s ruinous us. So all this (US hegemony) will collapse and the conflict between Russia and Ukraine will only accelerate this process.” Macgregor concluded.
Article sounds contradictory...
“...AGM-88 Harm missiles...”
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“...designed to disarm the radar systems of antiair weapons...”
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“...to strike power and water supply plants...”
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