Posted on 08/22/2024 10:26:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Edited on 08/22/2024 5:10:49 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
The month of the Kursk Surprise turns out to have all kinds of surprises, including Kyiv's longest-range drone strike against Russia — so far, anyway. A bit less far away in Volgograd (née Stalingrad), a huge oil depot has been blowing up all day. I have video of that and more for you below.
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The Kursk incursion took so many troops from the defense of the Donbas that the front lines there can no longer be held up. It has also diverted scarce artillery ammunition which the Donbas defenders now lack. The Ukrainian defense in Donbas is currently crumbling with the Russian side taking several villages per day.
There was some hope expressed that Russia would divert troops from its Donbas attack towards Kursk. But the Kursk operation is on Russian ground where the Russian army is allowed to use conscript unit to defend the country. Conscripts are not allowed to take part in the operation within Ukraine. This gives the Russian army a large reserve that it can use against the incursion.
This war has been ongoing as a conventional conflict between two armies for 30 months with no end in sight. If the US had invaded Mexico would that conflict remain conventional for 30 months even if say China supplied money and weapons.
If the Chinese had been training the Mexican army and the cartels for 8-10 years, perhaps.
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Fascinating question and an appropriate one.
More than that, how many of Russia’s aircraft have the Ukes destroyed or rendered inoperable due to repairs needed and unBle?
Is it a significant number? Or does Putin have thousands more to use instead?
Striking fuel depots and or refineries etc deeper in Russia would have to have domestic Russian effects on top of war efforts.
Does the West keep old WW1 era and later mechanized tanks and aircraft that could be thrown into the fight by the ukes? How about fully fueled obsolete stored jet airliners to be sent one way and crashed into targets inside Russia? Perhaps we could have the Ukes dump our troublesome deadly used nuclear fuel that we have trouble storing in ponds into Russian mineshafts in captured territory, thus rendering those mines useless? Only limited by imagination.
Nothings too good for Putins Russia.
“If the US had invaded Mexico would that conflict remain conventional for 30 months even if say China supplied money and weapons.”
Yes, if endless war and lining the pockets of warmongers was the goal instead of peace or victory.
I don’t think this will end the way they think it will.
Don’t know. Maybe we could ask the Vietnamese, Afghans, Iraqis and Syrians if anyone could last a whole 30 months conventionally.
Who do you think trains the Mexican Army.
None of those were conventional on both sides except early Iraq both times. This war is frontlines. Planned assaults. Both sides with air power and missiles. And both sides are descrining success in taking a couple of villages. And to respond to your models, let the Russians sweep aside the Ukies and have the Ukies engage in guerilla war and your models become valid.
Well, we did invade Mexico in 1916-17. And it went about as well for us as the ‘Special Operation’ appears to be going for Russia. Pancho Villa and his army survived until we felt we had bigger fish to fry in Europe.
I have no dog in this fight, and have no idea how it will turn out. But I don’t think it has gone the way that Russia or Putin thought it would.
Be careful when you poke a bear. Even a trained one. They have claws that are backed by rather powerful muscles. And nobody wants to Glow in the dark.
Going tob e a lot of unhappy freepers with this news and videos.
I think the real takeaway from this is the effectivity of drones upon infrastructure and the vast number of military aged males that Xiden and Kameltoe let into the USA from questionable countries. They will wreak havoc at some point, just like in that episode of “24,” starting with the grenade in the elevator. You ask why China is buying up land adjacent to our military installations? Gee, I dunno ...
—”Does the West keep old WW1 era and later mechanized tanks and aircraft that could be thrown into the fight by the ukes?”
Most, not all of the ammunition sent from the US to Ukraine is out of date and expired and was awaiting costly EPA-approved dismantling. You cannot just dump it into the ocean as in the old days.
Russia posted photos of the data tags from some rockets with a date of manufacture from the early 1990s.
One problem is that this is GPS-guided and now the Russians are jamming the GPS...
The wile Ukrainians are reprograming them and using them with less precision.
And the news shows the original list price, like they are taking a tax deduction.
That was also an unconventional war.villa’s forces hit an ran in friendly environs. An encounter with Huerta’s army may have been interesting since in 1916 they were the only army in the world armed with semi auto rifles, the Mondragon 1908.
Stop on with that.
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