Posted on 10/16/2022 8:50:01 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin
The Russian military continues to lose ground in Kherson. Damage to the Crimean Bridge turns out to be more extensive than initially reported. Russia is also getting very creative and desperate to find Russian men to mobilize, including lawyers and musicians.
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The actors. Don’t forget the actors.
I have no desire to see a return to the draft. Rich boys have been evading it since The War Between the States.
Yep, you are obtuse.
Musicians and lawyers are exempt from military service?
Since when?
Apparently.
Chuckle.
Well, at least they’ll have some good new songs.
I actually did but I went to school long ago
Comrade! In USA they voluntarily enlist.
“ Musicians are generally leftards. That is an occupation that can easily be replaced.”
Mostly true, but I would put sweaty teddy Nugent up against a battalion of leftard musicians.
Wow!
Kazan has first comment again. Must have his pro Russia invasion posts on speed dial.
Bttt
The last time the Russians sent in the musicians was the Winter War in 1939 in Finland except that time they had all their instruments and were there to march and play victory music for the Finnish crowds celebrating the victorious Red Army.
They were slaughtered right along with entire divisions of the army and their instruments (and bones) lay languishing in the snow and forests for years.
This time they will probably give them guns and ammo and hope for a better result.
Needless to say, that massive missile strikes by Russia continue all over 404 and there are reports of massive explosions and power outages in Nikolaev and other places, plus Kiev remains to be targeted. And, as was expected, all VSU attempts to perform "offensives" have been repelled with massive losses for VSU, including at Kremennaya and Svatovo (in Russian), but NATO--let's drop the pretense here--will try to throw as much cannon fodder at Russian formations as possible because they need something, like "breakthrough" in some sectors, because the Midterms are coming and Russians amassing troops for obvious things. Time is running out.
So, there are signs that the realization of grim reality begins to descend on Washington D.C.
I was on record for years--pardon me for my pleasure in reminding everyone--that NATO cannot fight a real war with the peer. Russia is not just the peer, Russia fields combat capabilities many of which are simply non-existent anywhere in NATO (US, of course, included). This becomes increasingly obvious both through operational and strategic incompetence of NATO planners and through admissions of such nature as by Austin or, if you read further, by:
Mark Cancian is a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic & International Studies who spent seven years working on DOD procurement issues for the Office of Management and Budget. His assessment based on inventory levels, industrial capacity, and information from the Biden administration is that the U.S. has "limited" supplies of HIMARs, Javelins, Stingers and M-777 Howitzers. "There are some areas where we’re basically at the bottom of the barrel," he told Fox News Digital. In some cases, this means the U.S. will likely start meeting Ukraine’s request for weaponry by sending over lower-end substitutions, such as lighter Howitzers that are serviceable but not what Ukraine is after. In other cases, the U.S. may not have much to give – Cancian said that while there is talk of the U.S. providing more air defense equipment, there is not much the U.S. can give in that area. Cancian said he reads Austin comments as a sign that the days of the U.S. giving Ukraine its best stuff are gone.
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But this fast review may give you some glimpse into the "thinking" by NATO planners who need something, anything to show for their failed "offensives" and to somehow spin (to cover up, that is) an atrocious record of the US-made weaponry (plus from other lapdogs) in real combat conditions. There will be a talk about well documented utter failure of the US AGM-88 HARM missiles against Russian Air Defense, but we need to be patient and wait for the conclusion of the active part of SMO and with anti-terrorist operations by FSB and MVD coming at the forefront of this war. In the end, terrorism is the only type of war combined West excels at.
Putin has greatly helped the globalist elites expand and accelerate their agenda
I’m hearing the US *must* have this victory, whatever “victory” means to NATO, because with a successful Russian liberation of Donbass and Lugansk(sp) to Russia would *end* NATO. (Trump would be pleased with that consequence.)
Hopefully they are being employed clearing minefields
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