In before the screechy REEeeeeing begins!
Posted on 02/09/2023 5:32:42 PM PST by delta7
In 1973 when the Arab armies did their sneak attack on Israel from all 3 sides during the Yom Kippur war - Israel nearly lost that war. They literally had to move troops from one front to another just as soon as they had stabilized one of the fronts.
Anyway, Egypt had already lost badly in 1967 - they lost the Sinai and the Canal - so they had Soviet jets but this time they used Soviet pilots too. Didn’t help. Israel shot nearly all of them down while losing only a few themselves. Using mostly French and British planes.
Because Egypt lost twice with Soviet support and even Soviet command, they realized they had enough, they could not win, and ultimately agreed to make peace with Israel brokered by Carter at Camp David. We flipped Egypt from Soviet to US influence. It was and still is a relatively cold peace but better than a war.
Russia has a much larger population to draw cannon fodder from while Ukraine is being ground down. Unless Ukraine can deliver a miracle knock out of Russia, they will eventually lose.
whatever disgraced crook Martin Armstrong says, the opposite is true
Glad this whiner wasn’t around screaming “The sky is falling...The sky is falling” in 1942 & 1943...
In before the screechy REEeeeeing begins!
The Russians know they can just out-wait the West, soon people’s attention will be drawn off by the next shiny thing and Ukraine will fall... MSM will say: NOTHING TO SEE HERE FOLKS!
Oh, this is nothing like that! /s
Biden is fighting to lose.
I agree.
Is Armstrong Economics affiliated with Herbert W Armstrong? Or is it just the same name?
Moving troops from front to front is normal, and the possibility of doing so is a major advantage of having a central position.
Israel did the same in 1967, moving troops to take the Golan after the West Bank front stabilized.
The same thing happened in 1973. After crossing the Suez and trapping the Egyptian 3rd army, troops were transferred to the Golan to counterattack there, and threaten Damascus, when the ceasefire froze the fronts. IMHO, have read several accounts of 1973, Israel was very far from losing. Herzog, “War of Atonement” may be best. It took time to mobilize, but after that victory was just a matter of available time before a ceasefire was imposed.
From my understanding, they were surprised by the invasion and were losing badly the first day or two, but eventually pushed back fast and hard. War lasted only a few days and you’re right they gained the upper hand quickly and the cease fire stopped them from Damascus. Kissinger.
Also, in 1973 Israel was attacked from two sides, not three - on the Golan and along the Suez canal.
In 1967 the war was on three fronts - Suez/Gaza, the West Bank and the Golan.
I bet the munition industry is winning while china sees our miss spent resources dwinding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_A._Armstrong
martin armstrong is a convicted felon who spent 11 years in prison for cheating investors out of $700 million and hiding $15 million in assets from regulators.
The worst crisis was on the Golan but they did get reinforcements there in time. However the Syrians were in such bad shape that even if a column of theirs had gotten down from the Golan I doubt it would have been decisive. It would just have entered a hornets nest.
International consensus is building that it’s in their best interest to avoid Americans and their printed dollars at all costs.
It’s understood they’ll blow up their pipelines and seize their assets on a malicious whim too and then lie about it and most Americans will go along with that, considering it a “patriotic duty”.
And now the prospect of just destroying all countries that disagree is now proven as fiction. The US can talk the talk but can’t walk the walk and the thinking world sees this, plain as day.
If Armstrong had been around in 1942, he would have argued that we could not hold the West Coast and need to withdrawal to the Rockies…
They’ve been “losing” for a year now.
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