Maybe they will retreat to their border while they can.
Posted on 03/24/2023 3:44:53 AM PDT by dennisw
The U.S. National Security Council spokesman has suggested the best way for Moscow's tankers to avoid the British depleted uranium munitions being sent to Ukraine would be to retreat back across the border.
London announced on Monday that it would send depleted uranium tank rounds—which are particularly effective in piercing enemy armor—along with the Challenger 2 main battle tanks being provided for Kyiv's use. The news touched off a furious reaction in Russia, where President Vladimir Putin falsely equated the munitions to nuclear weapons.
NSC spokesman John Kirby on Wednesday dismissed the Kremlin's concerns about the depleted uranium munitions during a briefing with journalists.
"And if that's really the concern—if the Russians are very concerned about their tanks staying fully operational—they can just take them across the border back into Russia and take them out of Ukraine; they don't belong there in the first place. That would be my recommendation if they're concerned about threats to their tanks."
Depleted uranium rounds are 70 percent denser than lead, producing significantly more kinetic energy. On contact with armor, parts of the rounds sheer off and self-sharpen, making their passage more deadly to tankers inside armored vehicles. Smaller than lead alternatives with the same mass, depleted uranium rounds have less aerodynamic drag and can hit targets at longer ranges. They are also inherently incendiary.
"It's going to be a bad day for Russian tankers when they meet the depleted uranium munitions, because there's simply nothing they can do to defend themselves against those," Mark Voyger—a former special adviser for Russian and Eurasian affairs to ex-commanding general of U.S. Army Europe Ben Hodges—told Newsweek.
"No Russian tank, as far as I know, can withstand such a hit," Voyger—now a non-resident senior fellow at Center for European Analysis and professor at American University of Kyiv—added.
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sensible advice
of course, Putin will be too stupid to follow it
Depleted uranium is Uranium 238. This can be turned into Plutonium 239 . It is a waste of potential energy to be using it for anything else.
And if NATO withdraws to it’s 1991 borders, peace will come.
Right, the peace of a new Iron Curtain across eastern Europe.
“And if NATO withdraws to it’s 1991 borders, peace will come.”
I am pro-NATO while you are Pro-Russian irredentism. You can look that word up son.
there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking & invading its neighbors
the only reason NATO still exists is because of Russia’s malicious actions
Including the abandonment of Poland, Romania, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Hungary, Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovakia, and Slovenia?
Riggggght.....
“Right, the peace of a new Iron Curtain across eastern Europe.”
And is why every nation bordering Russia hates Putin and his gang of idiots. And none want the Russian boot back on their necks.
Maybe they will retreat to their border while they can.
I guess abiding by the Minsk Accords and apologizing for the 2014 coup never occurs aa an option.
Agree, NATO needs to be completely dissolved. That should of happened back in 1995. The globalists wanted NATO, now they got NATO good and hard. Too bad NATO = US taxpayer foots the bill.
Occupation and enslavement by russia is ‘peace’ by your definition, but not the sort of peace that the Baltics, Poland, Slovakia, etc. wanted for themselves, which is why they applied to be admitted into NATO.
The Navy CIWS uses depleted uranium rounds. That is the sum total of my depleted uranium knowldege.
Can't Poland defend themselves, or are they a nation of blithering idiots like some of the jokes infer?
Well if all y'all in NATO think it is so important and Russia is so threatening why don't y'all pay up and relieve the American taxpayer of paying the cost of what you guys apparently want. Freeloaders.
Long before the Minsk Accords, Russia invaded Georgia (2006)
so Russia was already violating the treaties it signed in the early 90s, promising to respect its neighbors boundaries, long before Minsk
See if you see a pattern.
Coup in Georgia.
NATO arms and advisors
Ethnic cleansing of anything Russian
Joining of NATO
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