Posted on 01/24/2023 4:14:57 PM PST by familyop
The West is poised to send nearly 200 battle tanks to Ukraine in a potential hammer blow that could help Kyiv win its war against Vladimir Putin...It brought the total number of tanks Kyiv can expect to have at its disposal to nearly 200, with potential for more...Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, said the new tank deliveries "would bring nothing good to the future relations".
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“I’m not clear what Ukraine is winning.”
russia is a superpower. there are three : us, russia and China.
russia, as a superpower, should have taken Ukraine in a week or two. They didn’t even come close.
Sooo they are losing. The longer this goes, the weaker russia/putin look and are.
If putin was smart he would declare Ukraine de-nazified, bring his troops home and have a victory parade
Lol they have already been training in poland,
If we had eggs...
Not true. My shoulder fired missiles I ordered can't get past customs.
You need to have them sent to Cuba who will drop-ship via rafts to Miami.
How Christian of you!
NOW you tell me. Got it.
>> If Russia owns the skies.. that’s just 200 new targets... <<
Yes. Ukraine wins the tank battles because Russians do not own the skies.
Maybe he meant it as a compliment?
I just don’t see how this can be a successful endeavor without NATO boots on the ground helping them out.
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Sounds like you have been there done that. I have. The massive convoy of ammo, fuel, maintenance and support vehicles following a western tank company or even platoon is huge, and they usually ( depending on mission) are less than 30 miles behind.
This is going to be a HUGE embarrassment to the collective West.
So we are donating 200 tanks, yet we have an equipment shortage here or coming shortly.
And we are deploying the 101 Airborne to Ukraine near border when we have our own recruiting/retention problems.
Globalists really want WWIII. Guess I am in the minority in thinking this is going to end very badly for USA.
>> As for the tanks, we have Javelin tank killers, so I assume Russia has something similar. <<
Nope. No they don’t. Well, they have anti-tank rockets, but our tanks defeat them by making them blow up a few feet above the turrets.
Neocon envy maybe?
The Russians have a lot of atgms, but they dont really have top-attack versions. They may have announced some, but they dont seem to have used any so far, likely because they are not fully developed.
These vehicles, like nearly all other western aid, will travel from the Polish border on busy roads. Thats Ukraine’s lifeline. Russia has not been able to interdict that flow of military and civilan support. If they had been able to they would have won by now.
The Russians are stalemated due to a bunch of interlocking circumstances. They can’t use most of their Air Force effectively is a big one.
The question now is whether Ukraine has or will have the ability to break through on the Zaporozhia front and take Melitopol or Mariupol. That will cut the Russian front in half and leave the Russians in a logistics mess on the east bank of the Dneiper, and in Crimea. It will also achieve the bulk of Ukrainian war aims. This remains to be seen.
No wonder Sholz was hesitating.
Apparently, the suspicion held by some in Germany is that the US military industrial complex is using this opportunity to nudge the Germans out of the tank export market.
Right, like the HIMARS rockets, they have been such a "HUGE embarrassment" that Poland wants to buy 500 M142 HIMARS.
Any day now, the Nazi Azov Battalion will be marching on the Kremlin...
And yet, the M777’s and the rest of the western 155mm guns are still there. Their main problem is getting as much ammo as the Ukrainians want, and that is because of availability problems on the suppliers side, not anything the Russians have done.
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