This is my shocked face.
Posted on 06/04/2025 1:51:40 PM PDT by Mariner
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States assesses that Ukraine's drone attack over the weekend hit as many as 20 Russian warplanes, destroying around 10 of them, two U.S. officials told Reuters, a figure that is about half the number estimated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Still, the U.S. officials described the attack as highly significant, with one of them cautioning that it could drive Moscow to a far more severe negotiating position in the U.S.-brokered talks to end more than three years of war.
Russian President Vladimir Putin told U.S. President Donald Trump in a telephone conversation on Wednesday that Moscow would have to respond to attack, Trump said in a social media post.
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- Within two minutes Ukraine's claim of 41 aircraft had circled the globe twice. And within a couple of days a couple of billion people heard the claim.
- The US has an interest in Russia responding with severe, shocking results. It would act as a deterrent for our own vulnerable fleet.
Zelensky exaggerating, uh, lying, no kidding.
This is my shocked face.
That figure is probably an exaggeration as well.
Numbers notwithstanding, you don’t just tool-up and start cranking out Soviet era Tupolev long range bombers to replace the ones lost. Those babies are gone forever.
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Russian Ministry Of Defense says 4 planes were destroyed. 0 casualties.
I have some faith in Tulsi’s people (assuming she got NRO staff replaced by now) so I would not cut the US estimate in half. Call it 10 (from Tulsi) + 4 (MOD) / 2 and you get 7.
Russian bomber fleet pre-war was 136.
US bomber total — 60, 40 of which B-52, 20 of which B2
US nuclear warhead distribution is 80% submarines, 20% ICBMs and Bombers.
Russia nuclear warhead distribution 60% submarines, 40% ICBMs and bombers (with the very significant reality that the ICBM leg of their Triad is clearly superior to the US in that, simply, they are mobile. They will move on warning and escape the blast zone)
Less than what Ukraine said, more than Russia said. What’s the story? What else would they say?
Thanks,
We figured that the Zeepers were LYING TO US, yet again, when they claimed 40 planes destroyed.
I should have used my normal BS filter and estimated the true number to be far less.
I fell for it.
Figures, Zelensky is a well known liar. I imagine the Ghost of Kiev emerged from the rubble.
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Boeing probably has some 737 Max’s they could sell them
Check to see if there are faucet restrictors in the fuel line.
Take the Uke claims and divide by 4. Just like their absurd estimate of 1,000,000 Russian casualties.
What could one expect from a dwarf that plays the piano with his penis?
Sounds like something right out of Joseph Goebbels’s Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.
“The US has an interest in Russia responding with severe, shocking results. It would act as a deterrent for our own vulnerable fleet.”
Where did you buy that sub-prime logic? Laughable!
I heard estimates of $70.000 to pull off the operation that wrecked 7 billion dollars worth of airplanes. If the number of ruined airplanes gets revised downward......Still very impressive leverage of drone assets.
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