Posted on 02/09/2023 5:32:42 PM PST by delta7
This guy is a clown.
Regarding this list of Western tanks pledged to Ukraine:
▪️This is about what NATO sent last year in terms of tanks - mostly modernized Soviet-era tanks Ukrainian forces were familiar with operating/maintaining;
▪️ Ukraine began the SMO with around 1,000 tanks, between those and all 2022 deliveries, it appears the majority have been destroyed;
▪️The American M1A2s haven’t been built yet. Questionable whether or not they’ll be ready for use any time in 2023;
▪️88 Leopard 1 tanks are antiquated, under-armed and under-armored, unable to be used as “tanks” but instead as assault guns;
▪️ Anti-Russian media Novaya Gazeta admits that Russia can make at least 850 tanks a year (a combination of modernized tanks + new tanks), almost 2x what the West pledged;
▪️ The 850 tanks Russia can make will be of varieties Russian forces are familiar with operating and sustaining on the battlefield;
Let’s not forget that Egypt was getting battlefront intel from the CIA and that Israel attacked a US spy ship off their coast that was helping Egypt. CIA. spit.
Delta7 “all accounts show there are “
All accounts meaning you got that number from the Kremlin?
No non Kremlin propaganda accounts say what you are alleging.
“So he is of the same scummy ilk, if not the same family.”
indeed ... i almost was gonna make a comment about what a scumbag he is, but decided to let the information in the wiki article speak for itself ...
Their purchase parity GDP per capita was just $14,000 per year.
Egypt is $16,000.
The USA - $75,000 per capita.
It is going to take $2 trillion just to rebuild the basics of civilization when the war is over.
“Ukraine Losing the War Big Time...”
Taking a year to lose a 72-hour war. Putin is a dead man and it’ll be a generation or more before a Russian can safely walk down a street in Ukraine.
Putting quotes around something means that someone said exactly those words. Got a source for that?
“In other words, a protection racket.”
It is a waste of time arguing with fools. You are saying, apparently, that Russia is an unreliable partner for providing gas to Europe, and was warned by friendly Americans, and Americans destroying the gas pipelines, and lying about it, somehow bolsters this argument.
A lot of the “thinking” that takes place on FR in support of US backed former state of Ukraine is absurd and ridiculous.
Mr. GG2 was on the Golan Heights with an IDF escort when the first rockets started coming across. They asked him if he knew how to operate an AK. When he said yes they handed him one and pointed to a wire and said if anybody tries to come across kill them. We’ll be back for you later. He sat up there guarding that wire fence for 24 hours before they came back.
He had a view of the tank battle. Later he walked out with the IDF forces past the burned out Syrian tanks with crispy bodies hanging out of them. He says for awhile it was a near thing.
Russian can safely walk down a street in Ukraine.
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You assume there will be an intact Ukraine. The way it is headed, it will be carved up, Vlad is not giving up the ethnic Russian provinces that are now a part of the Russian Federation….quite possibly the Poles get their historic land back also, no one knows how this regional war ends.
I do know this regional war ends on Vlad’s terms….unless the collective West escalates it to a world war, which the West appears to be doing.
Below is from a person who has been involved in machine manufacture for a small, family-owned company that ships world-wide over the past 40 years:
“Steel is down but hydraulic fittings up, hydraulic motors up and nuts and bolts up that is if you can get them. Still a supply chain issue. “
“...they [some suppliers] have merchandise, but they can’t get people to unload the trucks and stock shelves.”
“... I am beginning to hear of layoffs in our industry. Still a lot of lower skilled jobs opening are still available.”
“It will be interesting when spring comes. Incoming orders have slowed down some.”
Earlier, they mentioned that workers are constantly ill and there are days they cannot work due to reduced skilled staff.
There are countless small/medium suppliers who are literally decimated by this entire catastrophe. It affects every layer of our economy.
Same correspondent has relatives working IT abroad. Google is _admitting_ to a 20% layoff rate globally. No one has a clue if this will ever turn around.
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