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 ...
It's become impossible to regard the USA as a healthy functioning representative republic, so how much more so is it impossible to regard a puppet state of its bureaucratic overlords?
If you are one of the self-anointed elites, you wish to do to the Russians what you've done to the American people, I get it. The sort of people who think themselves above everyone else are full of plans to "better" them. But turning the world into woke misgendered fascists will not be an improvement, and will not create any sort of utopia.
It's not really a concern anyway. The people who lost Afghanistan will assuredly lose Ukraine. And the world will be the better off for it. But it's a shame for all the Ukrainian cannon fodder and their Russian neighbors who have to die in such a futile exercise.
And Russia has the moral high ground as a functioning democratic republic? Really?
If you are one of the self-anointed elites, you wish to do to the Russians what you've done to the American people, I get it.
All I want from Russia is for them to go home and leave Ukraine alone. Let both nations worry about their own internal politics. Why is that so hard to understand?
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