Posted on 03/10/2023 9:11:33 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Russia has lost an estimated five men for every Ukrainian soldier its forces have killed in the battle for Bakhmut, according to a Nato official.
Speaking to CNN on condition of anonymity, the official said that Nato intelligence showed that Russia’s losses in the assault on the eastern salt-mining town far outweighed Ukraine’s.
The official also said, however, that Ukraine’s losses defending the city were significant.
Russia’s use of costly wave attacks have prompted comparisons to the First World War and the commander of the mercenary forces leading the assault has described the battle as a “meat grinder” for Russian troops.
Russia has been assaulting Bakhut since August, in what has become the longest and costliest battle of the war.
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The propaganda from both sides is never ending. I don’t care what the Russian media says but the western media is just as dishonest. The coverage of the war is as crooked as Joke Biden.
The Russians are charging naked through the snow with only toothpicks to figh with I tell you! /sarc
Good propaganda has to be somewhat believable and this excrement is not.
Wait until Canada gets into the war! Then Russia will surely surrender.
First, the scenario is just a little bit more likely than Russia capturing Hawaii.
Second, if Putin is weak, Russians are going to get a strong leader.
It is that simple.
Western propaganda is exaggerating a bit, that's for sure. But here's a prediction. NATO weapons will give Ukraine the upper hand. The Russians will not be able to defend against the upcoming spring/summer offensive. The corruption of the Russian military machine have made them ineffective in combat.
the ruble is trading at a multi year high, oil/gas prices are elevated=Putin is prospering. The Dem doubling of the price of fuel before any invasion enabled this and the 2014 invasion. He funded the anti fracking movements for a reason.
The solution ofc is to flood the world with oil and watch him run home. Yet, I haven’t heard it mentioned not even one time.
Putin won’t use nukes because the doctrines of their use are obsolete on modern battlefield.
If he’d indeed use them, it is going to scare NATO away for good.
I have an odd request of fellow Freepers. I read the news that is pro Russian and Pro Ukrainian, from many different sites. I believe none. Is there a site or several sites that just tell the truth about what is real on the battlefield without political bias?
Do you not even read what you type? Our administration has not made any attempt to negotiate. We have just charged in hells bells, balls to the wall. Well, President Putin has no reason to believe anything Biden says because our politicians have lied to the Russians since 1991.
Within the past week an untold number of our US military have arrived at a new forward operating base FOB in a Rzeszów (RZE) the largest city in southeastern Poland about fifty miles from the Ukrainian border. You may get your World War Three death wish sooner than you thought.
there might be, but I haven’t seen one
part of the problem is because both sides have info blackouts
so you have to condense a lot of news from various sites, and then add in some common-sense deductive thinking
One can follow the currency exchange. The ruble has been freely traded for a number of years.
I had not looked in a little while before my post above as it has come back down to almost where it was pre invasion.
He prospered for a little while and is now back to as if no invasion took place. We’ll know if it starts tanking that he is not faring well.
Any search of the conversion rate chart makes it easy to follow along.
According to fanatical Putin Stooges, Bakhmut has been a cakewalk in the park.
MacGregor has an awful track record of information and prediction.
He’s got a track record as a field officer of armored forces. Thats something, but he has no other professional or other informational background. If he were advising Ukrainian tank battalions equipped with US equipment and organized on the US model he may have something to offer.
On the other side you have an anonymous source out of NATO.
I’d say ignore both. Wait for after the war.
That is the most foolish thing I have ever heard. You are ignorantly thinking of small tactical nukes in theater.
Have you not heard of MAD, Mutually Assured Destruction? If the super powers use nuclear weapons there is no choice but to launch on warning. When there is only sixteen minutes or less from a launch until destruction, there is no choice but to launch the most crushing barrage of weapons before the other guy has a chance to destroy your arsenal.
Let me guess, you have never been in the military. What am I asking for? You are from the Great White North. Nuclear weapons trump any imagined political support.
I am wondering how much of the drop since the last time that I checked it out has to do with the warm winter in Europe. Obv that caused a drop in the demand for rubles.
Ultimately though, not losing a war without the currency being decimated in the process.
There is no absolutely fair source for information, as all of the most important info is filtered through the Ukrainian or Russian MOD.
Which is natural, as it is their war and their forces. Modern war is a numbers game, and only those two know the real numbers. And they aren’t telling. Anyone else has to work around the fringes.
Two reliable (by my standards) sources -
1. Oryx, which categorizes and counts equipment losses based on photos/videos. A genuinely new sort of approach to modern war journalism, based on the best proof possible. I would take them as the gold standard on open source material and processing. Their output is however very much “inside baseball” and itself needs context to interpret. What does it mean that x number of a certain type of Russian tank has been shown to be destroyed or captured? Thats for you to figure out.
2. Perun. His videos are long “staff officer” type powerpoint presentations. These are based on “open source” also, but they are mainly based on economic/trade press information, from his background in Defense Industry and (Australian) Armed Forces procurement. He is definitely pro-Ukrainian, but extremely detailed and meticulous.
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