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To: AdmSmith

In the Falklands War, Argentine and British combined casualties (killed and wounded) amounted to a little over 3000. Putin’s euphemism for war is Orwellian. Putin’s shrugging off of the Kursk peacetime tragedy also illustrates his mindset.


1,944 posted on 08/20/2022 4:14:32 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (To the barricades !!!)
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To: Monterrosa-24
Yes it is odd that the Russian military not is saying stop to this nonsense. But the Russian army has almost zero influence in Kreml.
1,945 posted on 08/20/2022 6:00:08 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: Monterrosa-24
Long THREAD:
A war that the world has not seen for a long time...

Russia's war against Ukraine seems to many people to be local and not too big on a global scale. But if we compare it with World Wars І and II, then in terms of the level of destruction of artillery, Russia is not inferior to the artillery of the USSR in 1941-1942.

If you divide it by the length of the front line, then the destruction caused by Russian artillery is comparable to the scale of the destruction of Hitler's army in 1941-1944.
We see one of the most destructive wars right now. And it is difficult to call it a local conflict.

How long will Russia be able to feed this beast?
According to Novaya Gazeta, Russia had 15 million artillery shells at the beginning of the war.
Also, Russia can produce another 1 million shells per year and restore 0.5 million old Soviet shells

5/17 According to my calculations, this will be enough for about 11 months.
But from November to April, Russia will certainly experience logistics problems due to bad roads.
Most likely, Russia will not experience an acute shortage of shells until next summer-autumn.

https://twitter.com/Volodymyr_D_/status/1560350896340537344

1,946 posted on 08/20/2022 6:08:39 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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