Posted on 08/30/2023 2:06:33 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
Drone attacks on Russian territory have become an almost daily occurrence in recent weeks....
Hodges, who has been one of Kyiv's most vocal advocates in the U.S., said in an interview on Monday that the growing drone threat "is a part of the counteroffensive" that is currently raging in southeastern Ukraine. There, Ukrainian troops are pushing into Russian fortified lines, hoping to precipitate a defensive collapse....
"You've got what I would call 'strategic bombing,'" he added. The campaign has seen "drone strikes that have hit Moscow several nights in a row as well as other places throughout Russia, by Ukrainian drone operators and perhaps sabotage happening in Russian controlled areas, going after munitions plants, oil storage areas, these kinds of things."...
"They don't have a coherent command structure, that they hate each other up there, and the best commanders are either dead or in jail now and the most loyal ones remain in office despite their incompetence," Hodges said of the Russian military....
"The great Black Sea Fleet doesn't want to get within 100 miles of Ukrainian coasts right now," Hodges said. "They're terrified of anti-ship missiles and Ukrainian maritime drones. And Ukraine doesn't even have a navy."
"The great Russian air force has not been able to destroy a train or convoy bringing equipment and ammunition from Poland into Ukraine in 18 months. That's because of the very good air defense, as well as Russian inability; they've failed to ever achieve air superiority."...
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Russia has lost a lot of wars. They certainly arent up to a “Great Patriotic War” at this time. I see this as more like the Polish-Soviet War. Or the Russo-Japanese War.
“If Russia landed an army on US shores I would to tempted to view them as liberators.”
And I would consider you a traitor and act accordingly.
“I have no doubt you would enjoy a nice, big war between the USA and Russia.”
Why not? Medvedev does. Or are you criticizing his opinion? Do you think him insane for provoking war?
Post of the day.
The support for the unelected dictator Xiden is sickening. I WILL NOT support Xiden in any circumstance, not even in war.
#RESIST #NOTMTPRESIDENT
The drones in Moscow aren’t military; they’re political. It’s designed to bring the war to the Muscovites, for whom it was previously just a TV show, if that. Not much other purpose for causing a fire in an office building on a weekend.
Typo.
NOTMYPRESIDENT
That’s what I’m saying. Exactly like the V1 and V2.
They hope for a propaganda effect but is militarily insignificant.
Also, guarantee to backfire. It doesn’t make people’s knees buckle and want to surrender. It gets their back up and want to expand the war.
Thank you.
In the coming persecution my only job will be to die bravely at the hands of traitorous left and those that support them. The arthritis ensures that. I am unable to physically resist them.
Why are you here posting? You should be in Ukraine with your brave, freedom-fighting comrades in the Azov Brigades?
Ukraine ping
DR: [And it has the distinction of killing more of it’s own workers than victims.]
I’d argue that the V-2 wasn’t so much a failure as Germany wasn’t wealthy enough to pay for it. A V-2 cost 50K RM, or about $12.5K dollars, had a 1 ton warhead. A B-17 cost $250K, lasted 4 sorties before being shot down, on average, and a payload of 2 tons.
A B-17 cost $250K to deposit 8 tons of bombs, before being destroyed. 8 V-2’s costing $100K would deposit the same 8 tons at 40% the cost without risking any pilots. It would have been a reasonable proposition if Hitler hadn’t decided to fight all the major powers simultaneously, while also slaughtering populations in the Russian empire that earnestly looked forward to German rule.
Parenthetically, the V-1, at 1/10 the cost of the V-2, while delivering almost the same warhead, was even more competitive. The problem was, again, primitive guidance systems and resource constraints from fighting multiple powerful adversaries, each mobilized to the utmost.
Hitler never expected the US to raise military spending from 1% to 40%. That was a political feat achieved only this one time in the nation’s history, and may not ever be achieved again.
Defense is universal. Everyone has that right. Conquest is specific to its beneficiaries.
You should go to RUS and volunteer to further Russia’s imperialistic goals. Support Putin’s adventurism. Maybe he’ll share some of the spoils with you.
“Hitler never expected the US to raise military spending from 1% to 40%. That was a political feat achieved only this one time in the nation’s history, and may not ever be achieved again.”
Yup. We don’t have the same kind of people here anymore: Patriotic; dedicated; willing to fight and willing to sacrifice. The Greatest Generation was just that; I am not optimistic we will ever see their likes again.
“Here’s the thing: It’s obvious to me that discount drones are not flying across hundreds of miles of Russian territory to hit these targets. They’re being launched and controlled from relatively nearby.”
There are anti-Putin Russians inside Russia. Perhaps one of them was responsible for this attack.
The law, entitled On the aspects of state policy on the restoration of the state sovereignty of Ukraine over the temporarily occupied territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine did no such thing. The Minsk agreement was to grant autonomy, not independence or Russian annexation, to Donbas. Legislation for this autonomy was first passed in 2014 and renewed in 2020 (Ukraine Extends Donbas Special Status Law By One Year). The 2018 law that you referenced just states that Donbas was Ukrainian territory temporally occupied by Russia. By the Minsk agreement Russia was required to restore control of the border to Ukraine, reintegrating it into Ukraine. It is Russia that failed to honor the Minsk agreement, not Ukraine.
In all the Russian hype about Ukraine allegedly not complying with the Minsk agreement (falsely implying that Ukraine was supposed to grant Donbas independence) what has been left out has been the actual desire of the people of Donbas. Two separate poles, one in 2016 and another in 2019, showed that a majority of respondents in the Russian controlled area wanted to return to Ukrainian sovereignty (Most people in separatist-held areas of Donbas prefer reintegration with Ukraine – new survey). The idea that the Russians are just protecting the people of Donbas who desire independence from Ukraine is pure Russian propaganda. Russia is acting on its own interest, not that of the people of Donbas.
“Uke has no chance. Never did. Should’ve kept their word in the Minsk agreements and said “No!” to NATO turning their country into a military springboard. But instead they asked for it, and now they’re getting it good and hard.”
What is the edition date of your Russian talking points?
Invading another country in an attempt to subjugate it is not "fighting on the side of national sovereignty."
Put up and shut up and make the same bet Megan C. made with me.
There is not an inch of annexed territory that will ever be part of Ukraine.
All idiots like you are do is getting more Ukrainians killed. But, you too much of sociopath to give a hoot.
We are getting are ass kicked in this proxy war. The terrorist attacks on Russian civilians are completely irrelevant to the outcome. And, simply continue to show 80% of the rest of the war that we, under Biden, the real evil empire.
Hard to know.
The V1 and V2 rockets were not effective against military targets. They were terror weapons.
The Ukrainian drones seem very precise. The question is, how much munitions and logistics support are they able to destroy?
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