Posted on 06/05/2024 2:25:25 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Frontline | The War in Ukraine and Global Security:
'The Kremlin knows this is not sustainable' as Putin's losses mount in Ukraine | Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges Times Radio 836K subscribers 5-14-2024 3:00 p.m. 30:32 Minutes
"I don't think that they can maintain their industry and an army of this size that they need, given the casualties they're suffering."
Russian manpower shortages because of the war in Ukraine are not sustainable, Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges tells Frontline on #timesradio
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“So far they’ve been using up old Soviet-era equipment and at some point they’ll run out.”
All other things remaining equal, at recent rates, some of that gear runs out in about a year, and most of it around two more years.
Sure
They certainly are trying to prove that in the north
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It worked in the Napoleonic Wars and World War II, however in World War I the citizenry eventually got to the breaking point as their sons were sent into the meat grinder and overthrew the Czar. Then in Afghanistan the Russians ran into an opponent that was just was willing to throw endless hordes into the meat grinder as they were, so eventually just gave up in frustration.
I would assume that since a large percentage of Russians live in Ukraine, that a good number of them fought in Russian units because Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union at the time. Some Ukrainians may have even joined resistance forces during WWII. I know from reading a book about the Vilna Jewish Ghetto in what is now Lithuania, that the Vilna resistance fighters that fled the ghetto into the forest, met up with Russian partisans, and fought alongside them, and the Red Army to push the Germans out of the city of Vilna in July of 1944. There could have been Ukrainians serving with those partisans, and/or within the ranks of the Red Army as well.
““Putin” had multiple meltdowns today in his interviews with foreign journalists.”
Did he talk about how our next election would take days to count the votes and threaten anyone that would dare not accept the results? Oh wait, that was the United States.
Is this the crazy Putin you were mentioning?
https://www.youtube.com/live/UkV3Un-lxLA?si=GOXEHHaKBnejJg7N
LOL - the spam skit never gets old.
Five weeks ago.
But, but - BoobBoo will gladly fix predict their arrival on Tuesday, for $60 billion in aid and hamburgers today.
If you seriously think that Russia's industrial capacity is comparable to the US you are clueless.
Did you hear that Russia just built a new domestic semiconductor factory? It can produce 320 nm features.
Ukrainians fought against the invading Russians, against the Germans, against the invading Russians, and against anyone else who tried to conquer them.
You're washin' hogs, here.
Do they send you in to blow sunshine up the skirts of your fellow zeepers when things are looking dire on the collapsing Ucrazian front lines, BooBoo?
Oh for pity’s sake. The knuckleheads are back.
Please go away.
” Let me think. Is Turkey a part of NATO or Russia’s ally? “
Is this a trick question ?
Turkey moves ahead with its threats to send refugees to EU
Ukraine needs artillery shells not “semiconductors”.
Slacker.
;)
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