Do they?
Posted on 01/23/2023 3:33:52 AM PST by Timber Rattler
In the battle to keep warm, Ukrainian infantryman Kyrylo Molchanov has turned to “trench candles”—empty food cans packed with cardboard—to heat his front-line dugout.
With Russia and Ukraine fighting through the winter, keeping Ukrainian soldiers warm could become a competitive advantage for Kyiv.
For armies, winter weather affects everything from maneuverability to battery power. But the cold and wet can have a crushing effect on soldiers’ morale and ability to fight, while creating potential medical problems.
The U.S. and its allies have sent hundreds of thousands of pieces of winter clothing. Ukraine has supplemented those supplies from elsewhere, and the various items in Lt. Molchanov’s uniform come from several countries.
Some Russian soldiers seem to be arriving for battle less well kitted out, hindered in part by a hasty mobilization drive in the fall.
Ukraine’s armed forces are adapting, cutting wood from local forests, sourcing smaller barracks and using the trench candles, which volunteers and family send packed tight with rolls of cardboard.
“If you light it an hour or two before going to bed, it heats up more than you would expect,” Lt. Molchanov said from Ukraine’s southern front line.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Do they?
No one cares what you think, either.
No, “think” isn’t the right word. You obviously don’t do much thinking. Believing, now that you do a whole lot of.
But thinking and believing are two entirely different things.
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The German army held drives begging for coats during the Winter of 1941-42. They were supposed to have defeated Russia prior to winter.
The clothes didn’t arrive until spring. Oops.
Right. Russians have no experience with cold weather. Sigh.
One side is being brutally invaded and fighting for survival on their own soil against a foreign invader.
They weren’t prepared for the winter war in Finland, and I would like to see how many Russians died from the cold during WWII, and they don’t seem prepared this winter.
People see the Russian hordes defeating the unprepared Germans, but were the Russians really adept at winter logistics, or merely doing what they do, ignoring their casualties and sending more bodies?
Millions more Russian soldiers died than Germans and I believe that the reasons are several, including losing a lot from cold.
That's because some folks are getting very rich by keeping the confrontation going.
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👩🪖📄🇺🇦In Odessa, men change into women's clothes in order to go grocery shopping and not accidentally go "cannon fodder" to war after receiving a summons
Uh, is that supposed to be English?
“Shoo, Neocon.”
Hush, child. Grownups are talking.
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Yesterday I watched a football game on a snowy field. A lot of the larger men had bare arms.Some of the players would lie down and make snow angels. I don’t think they were Russians. ;-)
Is that cute little guy a badger or some other critter? Besides, what fun is a war if you can’t play with the propaganda, and -ists.
It sounds like men in Odessa have learned a lot from their Russian counterparts. That is why Ukraine will win. Faster learning curve.
Did the Russians ever find or find out about the missing million winter uniforms? Were they lost, never made, or sold off somehow? Ar least the Russian cannon fodder doesn’t have to worry about chickens—t stuff like having tidy identical uniforms and gear.
Its a spontaneous, loosely organized group opposing Russian trolls and Russian state sponsored web brigades over the invasion of Ukraine.
"NAFO expansion is nonnegotiable"
FYI
Zelensky’s Top 5-6 officials quitting - or dismissed
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4125585/posts
How Russia is going to train, equip, and deploy several hundred thousand more soldiers when they can't is beyond me.
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