But you refuted nothing, and I answered every pro-Russian propaganda lie you posted with facts and logic.
And, based on your past behaviors on Free Republic, I was expecting more from you than just pathetic whining about an alleged "wall of text".
woodpusher: "Onje with the intellectual power of Joe Biden could see that Ukraine has not one ship much less a navy, it has no operational air force, no operational air defese outside of Kiev, and its trops are being slaughtered."
Ukrainian surface & submersible ROVs:
OK, so let's Fisk your claims item by item:
- "Ukraine has not one ship much less a navy"
Ukraine certainly has no aircraft carriers or destroyers.
But they do have a number of smaller ships & boats, including:- 33 Patrol boats from 10 to 150 tons
- 3 Landing craft from 50 to 1,200 tons
- 3 Mine Warfare from 600 to 2,100 tons
- 38 Supply & misc. from from 50 to 3,200 tons
- 91 RIBs around 3 tons
- 16 ROVs, surface and submersible
184 naval craft of all types
US Perry class Frigates offered to Ukraine:
New ships in process or construction: - 6 Frigates
- 10 Corvettes
- 20 Patrol boats
- 2 Mine Warfare
- dozens of ROVs
- hundreds of drones
=38 ships plus unknown numbers of ROVs and drones.
- "it has no operational air force, no operational air defese outside of Kiev..."
Ukraine's air force consists of:
- 112 Old Soviet MIGs and SUs
- 40 Old Soviet helicopters
- 3 Antonov transports
- 10 US F-16s
=165 Ukraine air force aircraft
- 273 Old Soviet SAM sites
- 6 German SAM sites
- 14 US SAM sites
- 3 Italian SAM sites
=296 total Ukraine SAM facilities.
- 112 Old Soviet MIGs and SUs
- "...and its trops are being slaughtered."
According to the estimates we have: - 2023 Russian losses averaged three to every one Ukrainian.
- 2024 Russian losses have averaged six to every one Ukrainian.
- As of today, total Russian military casualties are nearly 600,000.
Such numbers reflect Russian "Meat Wave" assaults with Ukrainians defending from fortified positions and slowly giving up ground.
So, Russians are literally slaughtering themselves -- I'd call that "Ukraine assisted suicide" or Russian "suicide by Uke".
And Lindsay Graham announced that Ukraine is looking for former F-16 pilots to fly the planes."
US F-16s from Denmark and the Netherlands are still an unknown factor.
It seems highly unlikely that a small number could have a major effect, so we can only wait and see...
woodpusher: "All front lines are collapsing."
It's true that for the past year Ukraine has been giving up ground at the rate of roughly one square mile per day and a cost to Russians of 1,000 casualties plus over 100 Russian vehicles lost per day.
At the current rate, it will take Russians over 10 years and 3.6 million casualties, just to take the rest of Dontesk, much less all of Ukraine!
woodpusher: "Ukraine does not control any part of part of Kursk oblast.
Rather they are stuck there, running arond like cockroaches, trying to avoid the exterminator."
The fog of war over Kursk is still too thick to know what's really going on there, however, Ukrainians say they now occupy roughly 400 square miles, which is equivalent to the total territory of Ukraine taken by Russians in the past year, at a cost to Russians of over 200,000 casualties.