Russia still bogged-down as its casualties climb ... good
Posted on 05/01/2024 7:56:01 AM PDT by delta7
Russian crowds are flocking to see a new exhibition in Moscow of NATO military hardware that was captured by Russian forces in Ukraine.
The display features a range of “trophies,” ranging from U.S.-made armored fighting vehicles to state-of-the-art tanks and European armored personnel carriers, from 12 countries including the U.S., U.K., France, Sweden, South Africa, Turkey, Australia and Germany.
People look at U.S. M12A1 Abrams tank captured by Russian forces in Ukraine, displayed at the WWII memorial complex at Poklonnaya Hill western in Moscow, on May 1, 2024. ……
Secondly, as Vlad stated, very expensive western equipment “ burns” like all the rest. A captured M1 tank sitting in Moscow as a war trophy should cause the world to re-think buying US wonder weapons.
I sincerely hope the US weapon’s manufacturers sales decline, our forever wars are fueled by our defense industries and politicians.
“First, this illustrates the Russian citizens belief this is a war against the collective West”
You cant evaluate the average Russian citizen’s belief because they are not allowed to *talk* openly and every single website/blog opened in Russia is reviewed and banned within hours if it does not fit Kremlin guidelines
They have to believe they are fighting “against the whole collective West” to protect their fragile egos.
Otherwise they’d have to admit that they’re getting beaten by much smaller Ukraine, whom they have always seen as subhumans and conquerable in 3 days.
Unlike you, I have lived in Moscow training Ivans, I have many friends there. They are united in defeating the West, especially the Ukro Neo- Nazis.
They are rock solid united, and overwhelmingly support Vlad. The troubling part is the few have said they should turn Nato and EU into a huge smoking hole….
Draw your own conclusions, but make not the mistake of believing senile Joes narrative spewed by our MSM.
Matters not, realize they are not giving anything up. Current released negotiation talks are stating Vlad keeps his ethnic Russian provinces, and a huge buffer zone ( called the Dead Zone) up to the Dniepner.
I take it you still believe the Ukies will be marching into Red Square any day now. You need to ditch that Hopium drug, it destroys your reasoning ability.
The proxy war in Ukraine has proven our weapons are more about being visually or technologically impressive than functional on the battlefield.
The defense industry is clueless about how to build weapons against formidable enemy in a ground war.
I see that you do not realize that in America you live under the same sort of regime.
“I see that you do not realize that in America you live under the same sort of regime.”
I have lived in the USSR/Russia and know USA is not even close to that clownshow...
Huh - guess our stuff is really lousy after all (smirk).
Here are the real totals that could be verified from the BBC and Mediazona:
https://en.zona.media/article/2022/05/20/casualties_eng
RECORDED NAMES COUNT
51,679
+ 1,208
11 Apr — 25 Apr
PROBATE REGISTRY ESTIMATE ~ 85k
+ 10,671
23 Feb — 14 Mar
I was born in USSR and lived in Russia. In public you will hear a far different story than in private...
Canuck tomorrow: RuzZzian Orcs will march across Europe unless we agree with Chuck Schumer to give Ukraine $1 trillion!
They are, in fact, fighting the Satanic GloboHomo West, which destroyed Ukraine in 2014.
Russia shows off destroyed NATO antique military hardware captured in Ukraine
Even here on FR there are certain opinions shared by lots of conservatives that are verboten.
If you want a clown show all you have to do watch the court proceedings with Trump, where the crooked inmates run the asylum. Unfortunately th US is in a race to th bottom of the heap.
NATO Hardware = Likey U.S. Hardware.
The Ukies manning that hardware must have made a hasty retreat.
Or went thru Ruzzia meat grinder.
Foolish to leave hardware behind.
Or destroy it upon retreat.
All it proves that giving better weapons to poorly trained troops that lack the combined arms strategy that the US uses will achieve nothing. Same will go with the F16s. These weapons don’t work in a vacuum. Saddam’s army didn’t get murdered because of the M1s. It got murdered because of the combined arms strategy. Same same Russia’s Wagner unit getting its @ss handed to it in Syria.
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