If you were to read the play-by-play of information in the U.K. Telegraph [SEE HERE], you could get whiplash from the diametrically opposed narratives coming from both sides in the propaganda war.
On one hand the western narrative is that Russia is losing, getting weaker, running out of money and weapons. On the other hand, France and Germany are asking Russian President Vladimir Putin to release all of the captured soldiers he is gathering, while western media claim all the Ukraine retreats are “strategic”. It would appear the Monty Python knight has lost all his appendages and is yelling, “come back coward, I’ll bite your kneecaps.”
(Via Telegraph) – Russia said its forces were in full control of the Ukrainian town of Lyman, a railway hub in the Donetsk region, on Saturday in a gain that would help set the stage for the next phase of the Kremlin’s offensive in the eastern Donbas.
Ukrainian and Russian forces had been fighting for Lyman for several days. The town lies 40 km (30 miles) west of Severodonetsk, the largest Donbas city still held by Ukraine but now under heavy assault from Russian forces. The governor of Luhansk region, which along with Donetsk makes up the Donbas, said on Friday that Russian troops had entered Severodonetsk.
The Russian gains indicate a shift in momentum in the war. (read more)
Meanwhile the U.S. State Department, the actual combatant command center for the U.S. proxy war, along with internationally aligned diplomatic corps and the U.S. intelligence apparatus, are continuing to push the propaganda as if we cannot see how clearly staged it is.
Indeed, with the Pentagon preferring a ceasefire and peaceful negotiations while the State Dept demands more war, these are very remarkable times on the other side of the looking glass.
In the narrative tweet below….. If you ignore the new and clean uniform, to include the fresh out of the package gloves and helmet; and if you ignore the clean, groomed and well presented appearance of the “soldier”; carefully chosen for the youthful connection needed with the targeted audience; then it’s possible to admire the cinematography as well contextualized and constructed for social media delivery. The background music is a generally good selection, and has the ‘feels’ as they say.
However, the Ukraine narrative engineers consistently run in to a problem when people start looking at the marketing aspect. World War Reddit, becomes transparent.
“When it gets scary, I remind myself why I’m here. To stop this evil. To not let it spread.”
An incredible video from a young Ukrainian soldier while he is being bombarded. #StandWithUkraine #ArmUkraineNow #UkraineWillPrevail pic.twitter.com/FNC6VfCdy3— olexander scherba🇺🇦 (@olex_scherba) May 27, 2022
It comes as no surprise that we should hear of Russian incremental gains along the line of contact in Luhansk and Donetsk. The side with the initiative should show gains. But how long can Russia maintain the initiative and can they convert minor, local gains into something more consequential. We have seen but little Russian success which only comes at heavy cost of manpower, time, and resources. I wager that their present gains will turn out to be ephemeral – especially when more arms begin to show up on the Ukrainian side.
Suggest website askeptic.
I am completely ignorant regarding military weaponry.
Daily updates. And lots of pictures of weaponry.
I was going to show the link…. he even quoted The Treehouse a few days ago:
https://askeptic.substack.com
Also, for maps, I suggest https://liveuamap.com/
Although the maps are a bit slanted towards the Ukraine.
Remember one thing… the Ukraine has NOT regained any territories… it has been the Russians who have been playing the game by invading areas and holding them to pin the Ukies in place while the Donbas offensive was being laid out. As soon and the Russkies do not need to ping down Ukie forces in the center and North, they leave and the Ukies claim they have “retaken” them.
“[T]he Ukraine has NOT regained any territories…”
…except those in Kiev and Kharkiv.
Which were areas that the Russians vacated. Ukraine has not launched any successful counterstrokes, with the exception of the minor one near Kharkov.
Did you READ my post? I think NOT.
Kiev was never attacked. If the Russian military wanted to take it and didn’t care about civilian casualties,
They could have done so in one day. They could have done to Kiev what the US military has done to many cities. Turned it into a pile of ruble.
And those were intentional diversions.
Try ISW’s website—Institute for the Study of War. Sundance includes their map in this post.
The ISW is not too bad, but it is definitely a globalist/neocon entity.
You’ve got to be kidding me! The ISW? That’s the biggest neocon dildo on the planet. Those ratbags are so far up the deep state bunghole that you couldn’t possibly be any more corrupt than they are.
Weaponry loss, complete with pictures, is updated for each side at the website “Oryx”.
Russia will be able to maintain the initiative for as long as it chooses to do so. It is fighting in a way that protects as far as possible its manpower, by using considerable amounts of artillery.
If you look at a current map, even one produced by the Ukrainians, you will find that they have indeed been converting many small gains into the major capture of territory.
Those present gains are anything but ephemeral, no-one is going to be able to take any of it back. As to more arms showing up, they have for quite a while but they don’t seem to be having much effect. Their efficiency against a real army like the Russians seem to be way lower than against the Taliban, let alone the claims in the manufacturer’s (mainly US) brochures. That is of course those weapons that actually make it to the fight as opposed to being destroyed enroute in Ukraine.
This fight will be won by the Russians and it will be at a rate of progress and to a destination of their choosing.
Edited to correct spelling
Addendum, “as long as they want to” is constrained by equipment losses, which were heavy in the first two months.
Ukraine is deliberately fighting in a way that maximizes Russian losses.
UK MoD estimates a roughly 1/3 loss so far, including equipment. That’s first line stuff, not the obsolete T-62 tanks pulled out of storage in Crimea.
The Ukrainians are not succeeding, because the Russians are using artillery and missiles to decimate their forces..Their untrained troops are cannon fodder and useless….It will be over within 3 months, but hopefully sooner with a settlement…
Those poor men fighting a war they can’t win. Russia needs to speed it up
“Those poor men fighting a war they can’t win.”
Remember the 300 Spartans? I do. So does each and all from that day forward.
The loser is he who will not fight for hearth and home.
One problem: The Ukrainian army are not Spartans, not by a long shot.
The Eastern hordes strongly resemble the Persians, though.
Once again, it is Eastern autocrats vs Western democrats…which way will it be decided this time?
“Their untrained troops are cannon fodder.”
The untrained conscripts are with the Russians. Ukrainian forces are well-trained, if slightly under equipped.
The M270 is on its way, however. It’s arrival will prove costly to the overextended Russian advance.
You bet! And Superman is also coming along with Maverick!
The Lord Jesus is coming to judge between the just and the wicked.
Put away all lying iniquity.
Hell is hot.
So Russia is the devil and Ukraine is the saint? Sheesh.
No. Liars are of their father, the Devil and they will both burn together.
Alot of the intel I have seen would say the opposite.
Is your source Colonel Macgregor and Scott Ritter?
Is Colonel Macgregor your intel source?
The UAF are being decimated. The war is over but the death and destruction will continue because some Ukies are still brain-washed and stupid.
“The war is over but the death and destruction will continue…”
…until morale improves, I imagine.
You live in fantasy.
You either know nothing about the reality in Ukraine or you are a bald faced liar.
I am an expat living in Ukraine. There is a ton of factual(video&pictures) evidence that show the exact opposite of what you say.
“You live in fantasy.”
No, I live in Ohio. How is the weather in Russia these days?
Sure, the Azov Nazi’s who have been terrorizing Eastern Ukraine are a tough bunch but they do not make a large portion of the Ukraine armed forces. Russia will take exactly what they want on their timeline. If NATO thought they could beat Russia in a ground war they would have entered the war in the first week. Just look what they did to Yugoslavia. No regard for civilian casualties.
“Sure, the Azov Nazi’s who have been terrorizing Eastern Ukraine are a tough bunch but they do not make a large portion of the Ukraine armed forces.”
Then why doesn’t Putin leave everybody else alone? Is it because of his Messianic Complex?
No settlement. Ukraine needs to be completely cleansed of nazi’s and the western virus.
There is no way Russia is allowing a western friendly regime in Ukraine.
If Ukraine even exists when this is over.
There is a good chance 50+% of Ukraine is in a new country when this is done.
“There is a good chance 50+% of Ukraine is in a new country when this is done.”
There is an equally good likelihood that Russian vassal states will desert their master when Putin brings Russia to military and financial ruin.
I read an explanation of the use of those T-62 tanks which is being touted as Russia running out of tanks by the Ukrainians/State Dept/Western media. Russia must maintain checkpoints on the roads to make sure that there are no Ukrainian saboteurs coming into already captured areas in cars. They could have a barricade and some men standing around, but that isn’t safe for those checkpoint soldiers and wouldn’t deter sabotage. Instead, they are using these T-62 tanks at the checkpoints which would stop ordinary traffic, be some protection to their soldiers, and wouldn’t use their more modern tanks.
Ukraine is deliberately fighting in a way to maximize the loss of civilian lives (especially the ethnic Russian Ukrainians in the Donbas) by setting up in schools, kindergartens, hospitals, shopping areas, stations, and civilian homes and by shelling civilian areas of towns.
Three year old pictures… ignore those pictures, they are western propaganda.
https://askeptic.substack.com
Again, if it is int he Western media, it is assuredly garbage. Haven’t we learned that from the frequent lies they say about all Christians and conservatives. Don’t believe anything our “media” says. The deepstate would like nothing more then for the Russians to get bogged down in an unwinnable war.
“Instead, they are using these T-62 tanks at the checkpoints which would stop ordinary traffic, be some protection to their soldiers,..”
Let me mention one additional feature of the T-62. They have the added advantage of being Javelin magnets.
Oh, the Javelins being captured or blown up by the Russians? The Russians are now using our javelins to fight Ukraine. Oh the irony…
Russian soldiers think flush toilets are potato washers. How are they going to figure out the use of Western antitank missile technology?
“UK MoD estimates a roughly 1/3 loss so far, including equipment. That’s first line stuff, not the obsolete T-62 tanks pulled out of storage in Crimea.”
Yeah, but are these estimates any better then the ones NATO produced in the Kosovo war? Remember? At one point, they claimed they destroyed 120 tanks, 220 APCs and 450 artillery pieces during a certain time period. Yet a Newsweek article a year after the war was over found that only 14 tanks, 18 APCs and 20 artillery pieces were destroyed, which is pretty close to the estimate that the Serbs themselves gave during that time period.
And at the end of the war, NATO claimed the Serb army’s morale in Kosovo was crumbling, but when the Serbs finally withdrew from Kosovo after months of being bombed, they did so in good order from underground bunkers. The media witnessed convoys of tanks, armored cars, artillery and anti-aircraft pieces, etc … all untouched by NATO bombing. Even NATO was shocked.
“Yeah, but are these estimates any better then the ones NATO produced in the Kosovo war?”
Oryx has documented evidence of material losses. It is worse than they allow because the T-72 tanks sunk into the Donets river cannot be photographed.
Those pictures of tanks pulled out from Crimea were three years old!
Look at the Skeptic https://askeptic.substack.com
The indomitable Russian army “ has already won.” Shut up and drink yer Koolade!
First off, I would certainly not believe anything the UK MOD has to say on this issue, and secondly the Russians can replace their losses, while the Ukrainians simply cannot replace any of their hardware/equipment losses. Lets face it, the Ukrainians are going to lose, they are being bled to death. But hey, lets fight to the last Ukranian!!
“[T]he Russians can replace their losses, while the Ukrainians simply cannot replace any of their hardware/equipment losses.”
The Russians cannot replace their losses because their economy is under an embargo from Western nations.
The Ukrainians can replace their losses because Congress has pledged $$$billions toward advanced weaponry.
When Russia feels the sharp end of our M777 howitzers and M270 missile platform, they will dig down through the earth to reach their Chinese allies in a futile attempt to escape flaming death.
Russia could take all your M777 howitzers and platforms, and shove them up your rear.
After which I would direct precise M777 fire on Russobot strongholds.
And redirect to Ukrainebot strongholds.
The residue of my ejecta would be reserved for you.
The embargo has had zero effect. Sales of Russian oil and gas have increased 50% since the war started. The ruble which crashed to 139 against the dollar is now trading at 62 to the dollar, higher than it was before the war started.
Russia has not even moved its state of the art weapons nor its elite troops to Ukraine. They are being held in reserve in case NATO (USA) decides to escalate.
The money that Congress has pledged will never reach Ukraine. Most of that money is going to pay for weapons that will end up in Serbia and sold on the black market, minus the kickbacks that the politicians will get under the table.
“Russia has not even moved its state of the art weapons nor its elite troops to Ukraine.”
Russia move its elite Chechen airborne troops…to where they were safe from reprisals by the enraged soldiers defending Kiev.
You should be a fiction writer, lol.
You should be a Putin flack…oh,wait!
Embargo? LOL! The ruble is stronger than ever and Russia doesn’t buy their arms from the EU, they make all of them. So how do you reach this absurd conclusion? You sound like a Ukrainian Tokyo Rose, lol.
“Russia doesn’t buy their arms from the EU, they make all of them.”
How many thermal imaging units does Russia make for their T-72s?
Let me give you a hint: it is a number between zero and none.
What people are not taking into account is that many of the people in the Ukraine are Russian. Therefore in some cases they are actually gaining more men than they lose. The civilian population in the south and east are overwhelmingly pro Russian. They are not going to be fighting against an insurgency but can put those areas behind them and push on while they corral the remaining Ukrainian forces. No amount of weapons will make a difference as they will not reach a Ukrainian army before surrender. The attack on Kiev was a brilliant move because it convinced NATO that the Russians intended to take Kiev. Then the Russians completely pivoted to the Donbass which is a much better gain strategically.
Leaving the unpopular and incompetent Zelensky in Kiev was genius. This way Ukraine would continue to be bled dry by Zelensky and his western grifters. So the morale for the Ukrainians was crushed knowing they are being used. They get to hear about weapons they will never see. Slowly they come to realize how they have been used. NATO had hopes that Putin would make a martyr of Zelensky but once again they have misjudged him and been played by a supreme tactician. Why should he remove the cancer from his opponent? Much better to let it grow and consume. It is already starting with Zelensky realizing now what his paymasters want from him as he lashed out at them. I believe his only hope is to be taken by the Russians before his handlers pull the plug on him.
“Leaving the unpopular and incompetent Zelensky in Kiev was genius.”
That was not nearly as smart as Russia’s “fainting” maneuver against Kiev, where they lost 100+ tanks and their bid for a coup de main.
And what makes Zelensky’s election with 73% of the vote “unpopular “?
Are you saying he is “unpopular” with a handful of Russobots?
Go back to the Puffington Host or Politico. No one is buying your bullshit here.
I have been here since the Trayvon Martin dust-up. When did you arrive, Ivan?
The UK MOD is desperate because they are losing their war on Russia, badly.
This is not accurate. Plenty of information that proves Russia’s losses are 10 to 20% of Ukraines.
Ukraine military is on the verge of collapse.
I suspect by the end of June Russia will be able to move around Ukraine with impunity.
Seeing Poroshenko crossing the border into Poland is a great example of the rats fleeing a sinking ship.
“Seeing Poroshenko crossing the border into Poland is a great example of the rats fleeing a sinking ship.”
He is fleeing Ukraine before he gets charged with High Treason for aiding the separatists.
If he really believed Russia would win, he would stay put and accept the mantle of Ukrainian strong man and Putin loyalist.
LOL, you should change your handle to The Ghost of Kiev.
Christian warrin’…
Do you get it now Ivan or does your FSB apprenticeship require you to be an atheist?
We assume the Ukrainians are using the weapons being sent to fight the war! We could also assume as corrupt as the Ukrainians are they just might sell sent weapons on the black market?
We have to understand whom is involved in this endeavor, just a few. Obama Biden Clinton CIA DOD State Dept. just a few.
I see lots of casual references to Ukrainian government corruption, but nothing about Russian government corruption, which has produced so many Russian Oligarchs.
The corrupt Ukrainian president that dealt with the Biden crime family was voted out in 2014.
Putin didn’t like having his puppet Ukrainian President ousted, so he invaded Donbas and annexed Crimea.
Zelensky was elected in 2019. I’ve seen unsubstantiated accusations that he’s corrupt, but nothing like real evidence. Accusations are not evidence.
Zelensky is a very corrupt man whose strings are being pulled by the corrupt oligarch Kolomoisky
He was exposed quite a long time back in the Pandora papers
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/03/discerning-volodymyr-zelensky.html
In 2014, the duly elected Ukrainian president was removed by Americans (among them Victoria Nuland) who wanted someone more compliant with what the US wanted. Hunter Biden continued to be paid $68,000 a month until 2017 when his bribes were reduced.
Here is an article that outlines some of the accusations that has links throughout in blue that you can click to get more information: https://kanekoa.substack.com/p/how-one-ukrainian-billionaire-funded?s=w
“In 2014, the duly elected Ukrainian president was removed by Americans.”
How do you explain President Zelensky getting 73% of the vote? Did Americans elect him?
Watch “Ukraine on Fire”
Sundance linked to it several months ago.
https://rumble.com/vwxxi8-ukraine-on-fire.html
It documents the guts of Norm Eisen’s “The Playbook” for implementing Color Revolutions.
Ukraine was the latest in a long line of Neocons subverting , upending and destroying nations.
Putin, with his defeat of the Neocons (Ukraine is just the stage, not the enemy) upends the Neocon globalist project.
Btw, the same “Playbook” happens here in America via the same agents.
“Ukraine was the latest in a long line of Neocons subverting , upending and destroying nations.”
Are you asserting that Zelensky did *not* win the Presidential election with 73% of the vote?
3/4 of the electorate is too big a pile to sweep under the rug. You need to hire the services of a magician to make it disappear. If he accepts rubles, it just may succeed.
Let me guess, more votes than registered voters? Counting stopped in the middle of the night? Ballot box stuffing by mules, voter intimidation and overseers being threatened and windows papered over? Oops, the was the 2020 US presidential election.
I heard the Ukraine election was the most honest in all of Earth’s history and I believe it. (sarc)
“ Let me guess, more votes than registered voters?”
No, that happened in Crimea, under the auspices of Russian army occupation.
Zelensky was elected on a pro peace platform. He promised to stop the Uke Nazis from shelling and killing ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine. When he confronted the Nazis and told them to lay down their weapons, they laughed at him.
That must be a rhetorical question.
No. Math falls into the sphere of logic.
I thought it was 127% of the vote, lol. I guess I was wrong.
You usually are.
Things like facts, figures, and reality are lost on our resident Ghost of Kiev.
Nope, long-time Treehouse resident.
Do they have free speech platforms in Putin’s Russia these days, Ivan?
“I see lots of casual references to Ukrainian government corruption, but nothing about Russian government corruption…”
The Russian corruption is far too extensive to list.
The Russians are standing up to the American empire and their Nazi stooges, and defeating them.
Who fking cares. My tax dollars are being stolen from me and laundered in Ukraine by a bunch of arrogant coup plotting genocidal international criminals that call themselves US representatives. 60 billion US dollars is not being wasted in Russia so I could give a rats ass. Yeah, Russia is corrupt but their internal affairs are none of my business.
“Russia is corrupt but their internal affairs are none of my business.”
C’mon Ivan. If you and the rest of the FSB do not stand against Putin, who will?
Nonsense. The US overthrew the democratically elected government and replaced it with “our man Yats”,
an anti Russian pro Nazi stooge.
I have read that he owns a $1.5 billion dollar mansion in soth Florida. How is it other than corruption?
He has been long before 2019.
Is President Trump corrupt? How much did the Mara Lago mansion cost?
Trump has a business empire. Zelensky is a cross-dressing fairy who dances half naked in high heels. How do you make over a billion and a mansion in Miami in a couple years doing that? I was wondering when you would bring Trump into this. Typical foaming at the mouth leftist.
“How do you make over a billion and a mansion in Miami in a couple years doing that?”
I dunno…he has a good Jewish accountant??
Oh my god, you sound like Biden’s press secretary the lying female lesbian trans Buckwheat, LMAO.
So make up your mind. Am I a ghost, a press secretary a Never Trumper or a foamy-mouthed liberal.”?
Take your time, Ivan. You can check in with Putin to see how he would prefer you to answer.
Bingo!
“That is of course those weapons that actually make it to the fight as opposed to being destroyed enroute in Ukraine.”
Or those weapons that will be sold on the black market to the highest bidder.
I wonder if there will even be any actual weapons. Biden and his cronies will get paid. Why actually send any real weapons?
Some explosives will make as good an explosion when hit by a missile.
It’s all theater, Jack. You’re watching a movie. Zelensky is watching it too, on his big screen TV in his Florida mansion, protected from NAZI hunters by his pet alligators.
This is a professional military with ample resources against an amateur military run by billionaire crooks who won’t risk any danger themselves…The Ukrainian army, as the WaPo now admits, is disintegrating and relying on untrained and poorly armed replacements, who are getting slaughtered…This war should be resolved, quickly, before there are thousands more needless deaths…
“The Ukrainian army, as the WaPo now admits,..”
You know the Russobots are desperate when they are forced to quote from the Washington Compost.
Ukie soldiers will soon start killing their leaders.
JohninMK you are spot om with your analysis. Russia is winning on their terms – firepower, large scale orcket, heavy artillery aided by drones fixing fire coordinates and tons of cruise type missiles are ravaging Ukrainian positions and logistics infrastructure daily. Mariupol was a huge loss with 15000 KOA dead and 2975 POW. Zelensky is running out of popularity with too many missing (dead) troops and no progress ni expelling the RDF. More weapons and hastily trained conscripts may not be enough to end this grinding campaign being executed by the Russians. Also, the whole story about Putin’s big loss in not taking KYIV is totally misleading. The Russians pushed to the fringe of KYIV and froze a large contingent of Ukrainian forces while the rest of Putin’s forces set up shop in the south and east with minimal resistance. A major head fake – Putin never intended on taking Kyiv – to big, too messy and hard to control once occupied.
“..large scale orcket,.,”
Whatsa “orket”, PinoMan??
“Putin never intended on taking Kyiv – to big, too messy and hard to control once occupied.“
He sure lost a lot of military assets proving he had no serious military objective.
“ Their efficiency against a real army like the Russians seem to be way lower than against the Taliban.”
How many Mig-29 pilots did the Taliban have in their Air Force?
The Taliban were a bit more sophisticated in their propaganda than the Ukes—they didn’t anticipate Westerners (even 4-star generals no less {link}) would be fooled by footage from video games. Might be kicking themselves now for not making up a ‘Ghost of Kabul’.
(Further reading:
Why is the media bombarding us with old photos and fake videos of the Ukraine invasion (SOTT {link})
Ukraine conflict: Further false images shared online (BBC {link}) )
“The Taliban were a bit more sophisticated in their propaganda than the Ukes.”
Yeah, ya gotta love them sophisticated medieval ragheads.
You have drunk the koolaid. Ukraine has been losing all along. You are just supposed to not notice so we can send more billions over there to launder around.
Think it thru. With no air power at all, weapons for Ukraine cannot reach their destination.
You need to go watch Putin speech of a few months ago explaining the military objectives to the Russian people. That’s pretty much what the Russian military has been doing.
“ You need to go watch Putin speech of a few months ago explaining the military objectives to the Russian people. That’s pretty much what the Russian military has been doing.”
I go watch Putin speech after I go listen Xi speech. Putin #2 world gangster. Why listen cheap hood punk?
Hey! How well English-to-Russian speech translator I using?
Your Russian/English translator good!
Cogent comment.
Ukraine can inflict more casualties on the defense, if they give way selectively to avoid tactical disadvantages and encirclement.
If they can get the NATO aid, particularly the superior artillery, used on offense, we will see if they can win back ground without also suffering heavy losses.
The Eastern Ukrainians have already lost the war. They lost it when Russia took command of the air.
Better artillery won’t help much, unless they can regain some control of the air. The new artillery will be destroyed from the air, likely much of it before it can travel the hundreds of miles from the Western Ukrainian border to the Eastern Ukrainian front.
“ Better artillery won’t help much, unless they can regain some control of the air. ”
One little word:MANPAD
Each of those artillery pieces will have SAM support.
Lol, more wishful thinking. My dad would say, “Wish in one hand and crap in the other and see which one fills up first.”
They ain’t trained. Running out of manpower.
Dream on-unrealist armchair general…..
And your qualification are ??
I’d be happy to see counter arguments backed by sources and plausible reasoning.
Almost always I don’t see evidence backing the refutations.
There is only a marginal difference between a US 155mm howitzer and a Ukrainian 152mm same. As the M-777 is not self propelled it is very vulnerable to counter battery fire as setting up and taking down takes time. It is unknown whether the M-777 digital controls went with the guns.
The M-270 is no panacea either, once/if it gets to the fight, as it has a similar performance to existing Ukrainian MRLS systems, Smerch in particular.
Both US systems have a big problem, they need munitions unique to them, different to anything in existing ammo dumps which means that it has to run the same Russian gauntlet to get to the front.
Russia is now using their 203mm (8 inch) howitzers.
Disprove anything I write, if you can.
“There is only a marginal difference between a US 155mm howitzer and a Ukrainian 152mm same.”
The M777 can be deployed by six wheeled trucks or slung beneath a helicopter. Its shell has an integrated fuze, making for rapid continuity of fire. It outranges its Russian counterpart and is more accurate, to boot.
As a counterbattery platform, the M277 can identify enemy positions through its radar targeting system and lay down accurate return fire—six meters of radial dispersion.
It loads its own ammunition module. These modules can be staged throughout the Area of Operations.
Fire a volley and move to a new position. Load more prepackaged ammo. Fire a volley. Move to a new position.
There is nothing in the Russian arsenal that can compare to this mobile, rapid-reload Death Ray.
Blah, blah, blah, says the Ghost of Ukraine. Let’s just see what happens. So far Ukraine is getting their asses handed to them.
They have not got verifiable numbers so they have to invent a fiction to support their argument.
“ And your qualification are ??”
Keyboard combatant! 😆
Russia has already taken the east and south of Ukraine. It would take a miraculous and massive Battle of the Bulge type assault for any hope of a reversal. That even failed in WW2. Ukraine is nothing but a failed corrupt incompetent criminal black hole for laundering US tax dollars.
They’ve captured 20% of the country the size of Texas in 90 days. Land mass the size of England and Wales. US didn’t get even near this in months in Iraq.
You have no idea about the timeline. There are other objectives to be achieved. Payments in rubles to destroy the petrodollar. EU arguments internally over whether to accept Russian gas and oil. NATO internal arguments over sending equipment or not. Emptying out the armament coffers of western nations. There’s more to this war and this fight than you can imagine. With all respect, you need to read some quality SITREPs and read what is really going on.
“I am smart. I watch tee vee.”
nice
The fake news???
“ They’ve captured 20% of the country the size of Texas in 90 days. Land mass the size of England and Wales. US didn’t get even near this in months in Iraq.”
It took US and allied troops 100 hours-four days-to move invading ground forces through Iraq and into Baghdad.
“‘I am smart. I watch tee vee.’”
Is that how you learned to imitate Baghdad Bob?
Lol
There are 3 means for the Ukes to get their weapons and troops that far East.. Via air, rail or over the road, take your pick.
4 ways, and I think they are relying on the 4th way… Uber.
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Just an idle observation, but I have noticed a lack of Teslas being used by either side in this war. If EVs are the future, one would think that EVs would be rolled out as the top tech. But noooo…
What, no charging stations out there? How did Biden’s kid miss such an opportunity?
“I have noticed a lack of Teslas”
I have noticed your non sequiter response.
All of which are efficiently being monitored and bombed by the Russians.
Russians bomb their own troops. The General Command has difficulty deconflicting the war zone.
So says the Ghost of Kiev, lol. Your posts, as your corrupt country, is becoming more desperate. I think I’ll make some popcorn and watch the meltdown.
“Via air, rail or over the road, take your pick.”
The ultralight M777 can be slung under a helicopter and be deployed within 10 minutes of landing.
It outranges all Russian artillery.
A helicopter you say? Yeah the problem is going to be landing. Also taking off. The fact that it outranges all other artillery will be a huge bonus as the Ukes can shoot past the Russians who are set up in range for their own artillery.
“Yeah the problem is going to be landing. Also taking off.”
…and flying in the air and twisting those tricksy dials to get their favorite radio station.
Flying, landing and taking off is hard, Barbie.
You really need to put down the MSN crack pipe and come back down. The Russians are in complete command of the war. Once the Donbus and the southern coastal areas are secure the Russians will offer peace if the Ukraine agrees to all demands. If the Ukraine doesn’t agree I believe the Russians will move to take the rest of the Ukraine. There will be no compromise.
Russia needs to absorb the whole god damn country!!! What is the point of leaving even a rump of a neutered state which can be used as a forward missile base. The Ukrainian people will probably be thankful to be part of Russia. There is a slow growing disillusionment in Ukraine as events play out here. The people are starting to see how their own government has betrayed them, and uses their menfolk as expendable canon fodder.
“ Russia needs to absorb the whole god damn country!!!”
They’ll just have to settle for absorbing all the artillery shells that NATO can provide to the Ukrainians.
“The Russians are in complete command of the war.”
The Russian navy is anchored at Sevastopol, afraid to venture forth and lose any more ships.
The sailors are not enjoying their Crimean vacation, though.! The army is transferring the to the Eastern front to replenish the diminishing supply of Russian conscripts.
Absolutely. Ukraine is finished. It’s just a matter of time.
“ You really need to put down the MSN crack pipe and come back down.”
David is inviting you to crawl back down into the crab bucket, Major.
I know you are too smart to accept his offer.
Hope is not a plan.
You are dreaming.
Most of the larger weapons platforms will make little, to no difference, if they aren’t manned by experienced crews.
We should be more concerned about some of the systems with longer standoff capabilities targeting assets within Russian borders, or in international waters. The goal being the expansion of the conflict, and drawing the proxy war participants deeper into the bog.
There is also substantial evidence that the Russians have captured vastly more prisoners, than Ukraine. Azovstal alone netted just under 2500: Numbers matter, and it doesn’t seem like Russia has even considered conscription yet. This is yet another clue that they are not suffering the vast losses on the battlefield that we are being told.
In addition.
Russias economy isn’t going to implode. It just isn’t.. The Russians have a strong, and quite recent history of enduring great hardship. We do not. How will we deal with the STORM that’s on the way? Distressing times ahead.
Russia is comfortably sitting on a mountain of energy, food, and a multitude of other resources the world desperately needs. Would you be stressed if you were Putin?
Russias military also hasn’t been stretched close to what the media is telling the public. The Russians even had some large military exercises a short time ago.
The new Republics, the Chechens, and other fighters are picking up a huge amount of the slack. And there seems to be no lack of motivation amongst these soldiers. The Chechens in particular are very adept at urban warfare.
You seem to suggest that because Russia is making only incremental gains that they must be bogged down.
In more densely populated areas combat progress will always be slower. And contrary to the corporate medias lies, the Russians do seem intent on limiting civilian deaths. Contrast that to glib State Department euphemisms like “collateral damage”.
Russia is in an offensive , and Ukraine in a defensive posture. Gains are slow but solid. You will notice that none of these gains are lost, once achieved. For all the losses that Russia may have/ or not have suffered, we are currently receiving lessons in combined arms combat. We should be paying close attention.
As for the short lived “former” Ukraine.
It will be split in two, that much is certain. Some just haven’t realised it yet.
Now that was an on target answer. Excellent analysis based on reality not somewhere in cloud cuckoo land.
Russia’s borders are not being invaded by foreign hordes as the borders of Europe and America are at the behest fo the globalists.
That tells you all you need to know.
“There is also substantial evidence that the Russians have captured vastly more prisoners, than Ukraine.”
How brave of the Chechen soldiers, capturing women, children and pensioners!
But those same Chechens ran fast from Kiev when they met resistance from armed soldiers.
Yes, I’m paying attention as we may need to learn these tactics as our country melts down to Venezuela status. I will keep saying Citizen Grand Juries and county sanctioned citizen protection forces (militias). We need to organize before the hunger games begin.
“ Russia is in an offensive , and Ukraine in a defensive posture. Gains are slow but solid. You will notice that none of these gains are lost, once achieved.”
Oh, do you mean like Kharkiv?
You an I are sympatico regarding this conflict.
For a guy named “Rage” your remarks are surprisingly calm and level headed.
But 1000 miles from reality.
Dumb and dumber.
ROTFLMAO!
Then lay off the model airplane glue or you will lose still more brain cells.
Your other alias, lol. This is entertaining.
More arms yes, however, how does one replace potentially 10s of thousands of Ukrainian personnel being annihilated in Eastern Ukraine? Weapons mean little if you lack the manpower and Ukraine is indeed losing huge numbers of their armed forces. The artillery and missile barrages they are increasingly under night and day are the chief culprits taking such a toll. I think by the fall we are going to see what will no longer be able to be denied by the West and that will be the horrendous casualties on the Ukrainian side. We are already seeing larger and larger numbers of Ukrainian troops giving up and surrendering. That will only become worse as the weeks roll on. That and the large number of casualties will both get worse. They always do in every war once it begins going in that direction
“We are already seeing larger and larger numbers of Ukrainian troops giving up and surrendering. That will only become worse as the weeks roll on.”
We are seeing strategic withdrawals, made in good order, that position Ukrainian forces closer to their rear area supplies.
Having ample strategic depth, they are trading space for force.
Their retreat ends and the counterattack commences when their fallback meets up with the NATO weaponry being pushed in from Western Ukraine.
The US political machine has to keep this deception going until every dollar is drained from the American people.
How much is your wager?
LOL, you must be plugged into to the propaganda matrix of this occupational coup regime. Putin is doing everything he said he would do methodically. He will likely take everything east of the Dnieper river and south to Odessa to block any shipments coming from the sea.
the cognotive dissonance the establishment “War Bloggers” are experencing is wonderful to behold.
Globohomo just had its ass kicked by Christendom in The City of Mary i.e Maripol
and “The smart set” and “Reality based community” are disoriented.
Putin isn’t a leader for Christendom. As much as I hate globalism and welcome it’s defeat at anyone’s hands, let’s not be chumps.
Yes he is, Russia is building new cathedrals and the Orthodox faith has become massively popular…Whereas most of the West is godless…
LOL
A former commie LTC in the KGB as a Christian leader 🤣
Yes, Putin is a great Christian leader and much better than the leader we have who claims to be Christian. By the way, didn’t we needlessly murder 500,000 Iraqis in a war over weapons of mass destruction that Iraq never had. What does that make Bush and Obama????
Presidents of the USA?
Mass murderers.
He is leading Russian Christian troops to slaughter. That qualifies him as a leader.
He is leading them to slaughter those who are trying to destroy Russia, the US stooges in Ukraine.
So he is not merely content to kill his own Christians, he has to cast a wider net?
“Russia is building new cathedrals”
The venal and corrupt King Herod built the Temple of Jerusalem. Did this make him a righteous Jew?
He may not embody the spirit of Christendom but he has supported the church and Christian values as a leader.
“Putin isn’t a leader for Christendom.”
Read Russian history. The Czar (Caesar) is head of the Third Rome.
Putin had a Messianic Complex.
Putin and the Russian people told the US empire and its stooges to bacdafucup. They will never be allowed to put their missiles in Ukraine on the Russian border.
“ Putin and the Russian people told the US empire and its stooges to bacdafucup.”
Is that you, Joe?
Timothy,
THANK YOU for the return to SANITY!!!!!
Enjoy your brief reprieve.
The next nervous breakdown is scheduled for June 27, when Russian milbloggers finally admit that the war effort has ground to a halt.
So June 27th is VU Day over the evil Russian Empire and their tsar, Lord Vader, LOL!
“Globohomo”?
First time I’ve seen it.
Explanation and connections required.
Worldwide Queer!
“the cognotive dissonance the establishment “War Bloggers” are experencing is wonderful to behold.”
Russian milbloggers have begun criticizing the war effort, wondering why they have not seem their promised victory.
Suck it up, Ivan.
All I see is victory for Russia. They don’t need a trophy and they don’t need Ukraine to even surrender. Ukraine can claim victory all the like from Poland. So long as Russia gets everything they set out to get then Ukraine can say they won if it makes them feel better. The longer this drags on the better for Russia. Everyone in the west will soon realize how badly they have been lied to.
Is there anyway to put this ignorant buffoon on ignore? The Ghost of Kiev was good for some laughs but now it is like nails on a chalkboard.
That Twitter video features the cleanest soldier I have ever seen. Couldn’t the filmmakers have at least put a used helmet on his head and smeared a little mud on his face? But there are a lot of low-information morons out there eating this stuff up. Then when I come along and explain the facts – that Zelinsky is corrupt, and Ukraine will inevitably lose – the response is bemusement and anger. Too many people simply believe whatever lies they’re told by the media and become frustrated when confronted with the truth.
Zelinsky is not nearly as significant to the war as the obvious military skill of the Ukranian citizenry who came out to fight the Russians. As the war was starting, it was estimated that, counting regular reserves and combat experienced civilians, Ukraine had upwards of 400k combat experienced citizens. As a result when Russia invaded, its largely conscript army ran into a far more capable and committed Ukranian military. As a result Russia’s command structure has been decimated and overall it has now lost about 1/3 of its military stremgth. Those are not really sustainable losses. You have to ask just who is grinding whom down?
You don’t even know what you are talking about.
Your lack of reading comprehension does not nullify objectively quantifiable facts.
Russia has not lost its command structure. More lies by the West. Russian generals that were declared dead have miraculously come back to life. Russia is consolidating its captured territory and cleansing out the Nazi battalions as they said they would.
People really need to stop listening to the US and UK propaganda and seek out alternative real sources.
“People really need to stop listening to the US and UK propaganda and seek out alternative real sources.”
And Joe Biden accrued the largest number of votes in history….the MSM told me so.
Would Polish propaganda be more to your liking?
Because they say much the same as US and UK.
Its all the same. The Polish elite say exactly what the are told to say.
How do you know they don’t go off script now and then? Are you privileged to sooper seekrit information?
A NATO member parroting the same narrative? I’m so surprised…
Dead generals are even holding press conferences!
We have a dead president holding press conferences.
Ouija boards are a thing!
“ Russian generals that were declared dead have miraculously come back to life. ”
So Putin really *is* the Messiah!?
Thank you for being a textbook example of what I’m taking about. The fact is, Russia is doing far better, and Ukraine is doing far worse than what you have been led to believe. Ukraine is going to lose. It’s just a matter of how many citizens Zelinsky is willing to a sacrifice before negotiating surrender
It seems the citizens are willing to continue fighting, who knows what is really happening? I saw a comment from someone who went over to help fight that NATO will have to intervene. I think that’s what these bastards will do.
Wish someone would point out that the Ukies have had 8 years to construct hardened defenses along multiple lines through the Donbas– and this is where what is left of their army is dug in.
The Russians aren’t going to waste manpower in a latter day version of WWI trench warfare. With complete air superiority, they can let time and logistics wear the defenders down.
And the Ukrainians, especially the Azov Nazi battalions have spent those last eight years shelling, attacking, bombing, torturing, murdering and raping the Rus peoples of the Donbas region.
Seeing elders crawl out the heavily fortified basement doors in Mariupol to receive food and medical aid from Russian soldiers made it very evident what had been occurring in the region for many years. Patrick Lancaster has on-the-ground video reports showing what’s really going on.
https://www.europereloaded.com/patrick-lancaster-reports-from-mariupol-videos/
As with all such reporting, it is up to you to verify the veracity of any such reporting, because the MSM certainly won’t do it for us!
Thank you. Eagle
“… hardened defenses along multiple lines through the Donbas.”
Defense in depth is why Russian losses continue to mount.
“With complete air superiority…”
So why is Russian “complete air superiority” unable to interdict NATO supplies coming in from Poland, et. al.?
Does this make it “incomplete air superiority” or “complete air inferiority “?
It’s not how many citizens he’s willing to sacrifice its more of how many billions he can squeeze out of the West and siphon off before he agrees to a cease fire.
It would end a lot sooner if the Uke citizens and soldiers shoot their leaders which is a real possibility unless they are all brain-dead.
“Ukraine is going to lose.”
This is not “fact”; it is conjecture.
So is this: “The fact is, Russia is doing far better, and Ukraine is doing far worse than what you have been led to believe.”
I honestly don’t think Russia even needs them to surrender. At this point surrender is a gift to Ukraine and NATO. The longer this drags on the more territory Russia absorbs snd the more NATO countries are weakened. Eventually NATO will be on Russia’s border but that will be with Poland in the former Ukraine.
Well, this would explain why my old buddy Henry the K went to Davos and publicly instructed the Ukrainians to sue for peace– and to pay for it with territorial concessions.
I think Putin would have accepted a surrender on terms early on. Now that they have been forced to take the losses that they have, he wants more. He realizes he can get more than they ever dreamed of. The pipeline will be completely in Russian territory. Then he can tell the EU buy or die.
Exactly.
…and then he will mount the steps to the Temple and declare himself to be god.
Yeah, we know how the script ends, Jack.
We are all watching a movie, remember?
Lol.
Total nonsense…Russia has only 60,000 men on the ground, and is rolling over the opposition…
“Russia has only 60,000 men on the ground.”
…and 15,000 *under* it.
You really believe those stats?
Fighting with their airsoft rifles. 😂
ROTF!!!!
Right, and I will tell what is not sustainable. Most everyone in our woke U.S. Military who is sane has left the military or is planning to leave. Many who are left are sick due to the vax or are on board with our new genderless army. That will no doubt work out well.
The Ukraine army had eight years with NATO help to create fortifications and defense in depth in the Donbas. This defense is far stronger with more modern weapons than anything faced by the U.S. military in many decades. Not like facing goat herders with old rifles. What also does not get reported is the Russians started the conflict with fewer soldiers in Ukraine not more soldiers than the NATO trained Ukraine forces. Putin has held most of his forces in reserve in case NATO attacks.
The Ukraine forces are being ground down systematically. The Russian have been experts at this since 1941. The Russians will attack a defensive fortress area in mass and start their artillery barrage. The Ukrainians then move their available reserves to reinforce the area. The Russians then laterally move the rear forces along the contact line until they detect a weak area. Then they send in their special forces and infantry until the motor rifle companies arrive to take control of the area. Just like Tom Brady taking what the defense gives them.
This is why the Pentagon constantly talks about the Russians making slow uneven progress. Sure. That uneven progress will take them to all of their military objectives and then some. I just saw Kirby giving a press briefing. The press was getting very impatient with him because he wasn’t telling them what they wanted to hear anymore.
Nailed it there.
“ Putin has held most of his forces in reserve in case NATO attacks.”
Putin has held back his reserves as a means of suppressing dissent in Georgia and the other countries he invaded.
You are correct. Perhaps he needs some reserves in case NATO and the US CIA and Soros backed NGOs try to stage coups in places like Kazakhstan, Belarus and/or kill Russian ethnics in Georgia like they have done.
Don’t worry. Putin seems to have learned from the Ukraine. Like recently when he sent in special forces to take out the CIA backed criminals in Kazakhstan. It turns out that when you shoot some of the coup members in the head, the rest tend to scurry away like cockroaches. Who knew?
Thanks for forwarding the latest RT propaganda. I lost contact with that source when Duck Duck Go blocked Russian psyops.
Thesaker.js for the 180 perspective from yours.
Contrast that reporting with BlogsOfWar blog, which has gone muted since the Russian liberation of The City of Mary.
“ Thesaker.js for the 180 perspective from yours.”
Spot on! He takes the truth and turns it on its head.
You are parroting US-NATO war propaganda which is all lies.
“As a result when Russia invaded, its largely conscript army ran into a far more capable and committed Ukranian military.”
Morale is to mass as two is to one.—Napoleon Bonaparte
This is why uparming Ukranian troops will prove to be decisive. Better equipment in the hands of good soldiers translates into a humiliating defeat for the invaders.
Decimated sounds scary but literally means to lose one in 10. I doubt it is anywhere near that.
Do the math. 120,000 troops having 15,000 casualties is reasonably close to decimation.
LOL, you leftists must be getting desperate.
Mountain Man, Spot on!! When Nixon came to Vietnam in 1969, my unit was just back from a 20 day operation “outside the wire”, the media needed some troops for the photo ops…..we were filthy, our fatigues in tatters. So we got hot showers and were given brand new uniforms……we had to turn them in after the visit. Yippee, we’re all gonna die!!
And indeed, his last”line” is , “…and there are only two of us here on the front line.” Big smile…aaand…cut! That’s a wrap folks. Thanks Igor, that was fantastic. Your check’s already in the mail.
The loss/surrender of the Azovstal compound was a big blow to the only real fighters that Ukraine has/had.
And we still don’t know who or what was in those bunkers six floors below the plant.
Might just be an eye opener for some (many….okay most).
…..FOREIGN(NATO)…..officers & mercenaries…????exotic bio-weapon labs rumour or not …..?????. they are now in the Russia waiting for Nuremburg 2 trials…….next month…now bojo macaroni and german moron can cry…
“…..FOREIGN(NATO)…..officers & mercenaries…????exotic bio-weapon labs rumour or not …..?????.”
You neglected lions and tiger and bears. Oh, my!
“Explaining” that Zelensky is corrupt is not demonstrating corruption with good evidence.
I see the accusations repeated endlessly. I never see examples and evidence.
That makes the accusations nothing but repetitions of Russian propaganda.
Zelensky was paying Hunter Biden $300,000 a month! Sounds like corruption to me.
You might want to read this article and click on the blue links:
https://kanekoa.substack.com/p/how-one-ukrainian-billionaire-funded?s=w
“I see the accusations repeated endlessly. I never see examples and evidence.”
If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the Truth. 😈
Is that why you keep repeating things?
Well his opposition was arrested and is in jail. Any media outlets opposed to him were shut down. He us worth billions with no legitimate way to account for it. He has been associated with known criminals Pelosi, Biden, and Schiff.
Would it be appropriate for the State Dept officials to be arrested and the rest of the place shut down? I’m for that.
Why, yes it would be appropriate. However, it will take an army of significant size and scope to do so. The State Department is hand in glove with another deeper, darker more insidious and invidious agency.
Yes
This is not a “set piece” engagement. By its very nature and numerical characteristics, this would be a conflict of asymmetrical warfare, with the Russians having advantage in manpower and equipment, and the Ukranians intimate knowledge of the land. However, with limited manpower. Ukraine is bound to lose.
Ukraine used to be part of Russia, the lay of the land holds no mysteries for them.
Historically, Russia was part of Ukraine until Norsemen drove them across the Dnieper river and deep into the boreal forests where they could safely hide.
Sorry, if the Ukrainians think they can win, they are right now in a permanent boarder adjustment. The Dnieper river will be the new boarder to Russia. They should have never listened to the CIA. What is happening is what the CIA planned all along.
Send in the armament, then watch it explode, then more weapons watch it explode and cash for the corrupt Ukrainian government officials. With the people of Ukraine in the middle of the east and the west, no where to turn.
Russia, will methodically pound the Ukrainians across the Dnieper river. It will be a boon to the Russian economy, they do have factories and friends. A new administration in the US could change the equation, but that is not till 2024 and by then the Russians will have all their goals. The Buffer Zone, no enemies on their boarder.
Those poor people of Ukraine!
What most people don’t know is that the Russia/Ukraine is still not legally defined internationally following the breakup of the USSR in 1991. There was a legal deadline but the Ukraine let it pass as presumably they thought they could improve on it in the future, but the future is how here and just look what has happened.
This means that a future Ukrainian Government could sit down with the Russians and define a new border between themselves, register it internationally and there is nothing anyone could do about it, except bleat.
“[A] future Ukrainian Government could sit down with the Russians and define a new border between themselves,..”
Agreed!
Russia will surrender the Donbas and rent Crimea from Ukraine.
“ Russia, will methodically pound the Ukrainians across the Dnieper river.”
Just as they pounded them across the Donets river. And it only cost them two Battalion Tactical Groups!
“… if the Ukrainians think they can win, they are right now in a permanent boarder (sic) adjustment.”
Does this mean they hafta pay rent for their own land? 🤣
It seems to me that what was on the table for the Ukraine before the war is looking like a pretty sweet deal now. Any deal they would be offered now will make the pre war one like hitting the lottery.
Most of the people online who I see adamantly talking about Russia being doomed to defeat are the same people who said PDJT couldn’t win in 2016. I don’t know anything about this fight, but I have found that to be quite interesting.
“Safe and effective.”
“You will own nothing, and be happy”
https://t.me/asbmil/1702
Donetsk People’s Republic isn’t flucking around.
Intent is to deter other mercs from coming to Ukraine.
Death penalty.
Hmmm! I wonder what will happen to the NATO officers purported to have been captured under the Azovstal steel plant complex in Mariupol? Other nations had resources there as well including Britain, US and France.
War is bloody. War is Hell. Only the prince of this realm wins….and I’m not referring to Jesus Christ.
The Russians have said that there were no NATO, American, or French soldiers that were “evacuated” from Azovstal. The Ukrainians killed numerous helicopter crews and ship crews trying to rescue the commanders of the Azov Regiment who WERE among those who surrendered.
Ah, but there was a Canadian – who is being, and has been for some time, “interviewed”.
heard that…their republics been shelled for 8 long yrs with 13,000 citizens of Donbas killed….They got death penalty…
As the below graphic makes clear this war was started on February 15th when Zelensky started shelling the ethnic-Russian enclaves in the Donbas. On February 24th Russian forces intervened to rescue the citizens of the Donbas.
This is not “Putin’s war” – this is Zelensky’s war and no doubt Zelensky was prodded into this war by Victoria Nuland and Antony Blinkin. These two neo-Bolshevik’s have been working as far back as 2014 to start this war and they got their wishes. Today white Christian brothers are killing each other for nothing!
Nuland and Blinkin need to be called out every chance we get for starting this war. Not only did they start this war they are behind the many provocations intended to draw Russia into direct conflict with NATO. In a just world they would be charged with war crimes and upon conviction summarily executed.
Spot on Keith. The Ukraine military was also preparing to directly invade the east with about 100,000, or more soldiers who were already in place. Their “final solution” to the ethnic Russians living there. This was the proximate cause of the Russian invasion on 02/24/22.
This is a hard reality pill for the self righteous “save the Ukraine “ bandwagon to swallow.
A disproportionately large number of deaths over the last 8 years have been Russian speakers in the east.. Another fact also conveniently ignored.
Nearly positive that Rusia is winning. How? A nation that is beaten by Ukraine is not likely to march on Israel anytime soon. Also notice the alliance with China.
Read the book people.
Is Russia Gog or Magog?
There’s been no “momentum shift”, the Allies have been inexorably crushing the Nazi’ since the first few hours of destroying their command and control and air capability.
Uke is a dead country walking.
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He looks ridiculous. The smirking too. I can smell the bubble bath still on him even from here.
That is no soldier.
.
There is so little hard data. Do the Ukrainians have defense in depth? Do they have mobile strategic reserves to plug holes in their defense lines? If not, their main frontline defense will collapse, if/when it is blown through at any point. Do they have prepared defense lines to retreat to, if not, they will be routed. What counter offensive forces do they have, to ever reclaim territory once lost? The local population in the east is not unified against Russia. Are they able to rotate units out for rest and refitting?
Once the Russians consolidate the resource rich eastern oblasts and the coast, they have no need to proceed further west. The US aid money is already safely in overseas accounts, there are no resources and the population becomes increasingly ethnic Ukranian, just a pain in the rear to govern.
The US has created a European Afghanistan style failed state. Odds are the regime will crumble and flee with the US cash, and future generations of hatred and infighting caused by brutality by both sides to civilians aggravating the historic ethnic tensions. The Russians will gain abandoned US weaponry.
“Do they have mobile strategic reserves to plug holes in their defense lines?”
Good question. I have seen no hard data indicating the number of available trucks they have. See below for the response: “interior lines.”
“Do they have prepared defense lines to retreat to..?”
Cities have always been a bulwark against invasion. The population density of Ukraine is greater than that of Russia and the Wehrmacht ground to a halt against Stalingrad.
“What counter offensive forces do they have, to ever reclaim territory once lost?”
If we are to believe the Pentagon, M270s are enroute to the Donbas. M777s are already there and have given the Ukrainians a decisive advantage at Kharkiv.
Now it is my turn.
What drone surveillance losses have been suffered by Russia? Are they able to replace them in light of economic sanctions? How has the lack of night vision goggles made the Russians helpless against nighttime incursions by the Ukrainian Special Forces?
Does having “interior lines” mitigate the Ukrainian’s lack of troop transport?
Does the deployment of Harpoon missiles to Odessa indicate that NATO can readily break any attempt by Russia to blockade the Black Sea?
The outcome of this war is anyone’s guess but the Russians have a long row to hoe and time is not on their side.
Since there is propaganda everywhere, its hard to know what is true, so saying that someone is swallowing one sides propaganda isnt a game changer. Both sides are doing it, but I must say Ukroprop really strains credulity. So maybe I can give some background fundamentals gleaned from studying Pоссия my entire жизнь
Russia has a history of starting a war ineptly, only to learn the harsh lessons, and then vastly improve. It happened in both WWI and WWII. The Russian leadership at the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914 was laughable. Two years later, the same country launches the Brusilov offensive which some historians praise as the best executed attack of WWI. Twenty five years later, the Russians went from losing 3 million men in 1941 to executing the brilliant trap at Stalingrad. It may be happening now
Russia has always done artillery and missiles as well as anybody. They put the first dog into space, lest we forget, due to their superior rockets. Their prowess in arty was noted as far back as the Crimean War. Sometimes they suck at maneuver warfare, but once again, they have been known to greatly improve
But it looks like its falling back to its prowess in artillery
Russia has the largest land mass by far, and inherited the worlds largest military industrial complex from the USSR. So the idea of Russia running out of weaponry and ammo on account of Ukraine seems far fetched. They can make more, you know
The last time we were in an all out war we transported several million men across two oceans at a time when our population was smaller than the current pop of Russia. So Russias current losses, from a strategic standpoint, are a pittance
If Russia is moving slow, it is because Ukraine has been building a hardened defensive line in the Donbass over 8 years You could accelerate the pace of operations and increase casualties, or you could slowly grind the Ukros down. Its not likely that the Krainians are getting much resupply in anything to include food and water. Given time the Ukrainians will be forced to surrender or starve. So why not go slow
Always keep the geographical fact of the water barrier that is the Dnipro River. It lies between the AO and all NATO ressuply points. So how can heavy equipment such as improved howitzers ever get there?
Well put. Watching propaganda and trying to figure out what is going on is a fools errand. You. did a nice analysis there based on history.
And let’s not forget the economic “war” the west tried to wage. Blew up in their faces like in a cartoon. Ruble is at an all-time high against the dollar, while we’re facing record inflation and food shortages. Brilliant.
”its hard to know what is true,”
Your assertion is correct.
Inversely it’s easy to identify absolute falsehoods.
“Russia has a history of starting a war ineptly, only to learn the harsh lessons, and then vastly improve. It happened in both WWI and WWII.”
Nope. Russian incompetence in WWI led to the Bolshevik Revolution and the end of monarchy.
FAIL!
“So how can heavy equipment such as improved howitzers ever get there?”
The ultralight M777 howitzer is designed to be slung under a helicopter and transported anywhere it is needed.
https://askeptic.substack.com/p/victorias-secret?s=w
ISW as a source?
Vicki Nuland runs that shop.
That is a VERY interesting link! I didn’t realize that Nuland was that important in ginning up the war nor that the main source of info for the western media is run by her sister.
Excellent link, many thanks.
https://askeptic.substack.com/p/daily-report-from-the-ukraine-field-e83?s=w
Today’s report on Ukraine
Not a pretty sight
Hate to spoil the narrative, but supposedly this war was going to be over in three days and here we are, 95 days later.
Someone needs to check their assumptions.
Anyways…
Below is a 7 minute clip by Peter Zeihan providing the overview of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
So why would Zeihan be a good source for info you might ask?
Well, because he predicted that Russia would invade Ukraine…
… in 2014…
… and after the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine, his prediction was that Russia’s next invasion of Ukraine would be in 2022.
So one could say that Zeihan is to Russian invasions of Ukraine as Sundance is to the Russia Hoax conspiracy… 🙂
Below is the clip but he has a longer, in depth presentation up on youtube likewise. (The hour long one he did at Fort Benning is particularly insightful.)
Video’s over two months old.
The Bible is more than four-thousand years old.
Has it passed its “sell by” date?!
How I hates me some Hegelian dialectal analysis!
Why do we tolerate commies at the Treehouse?
2018 article: ‘Peter Zeihan Makes Bad Predictions With Bad Premises’: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/11/peter-zeihan-makes-bad-predictions-with-bad-premises.html
On basis of that article, I’ll not be wasting my time with him.
It is your loss.
Surely you jest.
This affront to honesty can only be described as Brookings infused garbage. Replete with Cold War, DC whack job, ugly Russian hyperbole, and sprinkled with World Economic Forum hubris
I particularly enjoyed his description of authoritarian regimes, delivered without a hint of self awareness or irony
This “expert” exemplifies the utopian thinking that has brought the world right to the brink of a global energy and food crisis.
“but supposedly this war was going to be over in three days and here we are, 95 days later.”
The Russian Government will certainly want to hear that bit of important news. Particularly in light of the fact that at no stage have they made any official statements as to the duration, scope or scale of its “special military operation”.
If they have since done so, please let us know. I will stand corrected.
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“This affront to honesty can only be described as Brookings infused garbage.”
Straw man.
Why doncha git yerself some training in logic before embarrassing yourself any more?
Bottom line after day one any chance of a Ukraine victory was over. How Russia chooses to collect their prize is up to them. The longer they wait the more they get.
“ So one could say that Zeihan is to Russian invasions of Ukraine as Sundance is to the Russia Hoax conspiracy…”
Welcome to the Treehouse!
This place is in desperate need of critical analysis because Russobots are threatening to overwhelm the credulous.
If your name is Scipio, then you know exactly how Ukraine intends to fight this invasion.
It was over in one day, at least as far as the inevitable conclusion. The longer this lasts the better for Russia. Russia is methodically gaining territory with minimal losses while preserving critical infrastructure as much as possible. They have already taken the whole east and south with miles of rich farmland and minerals. This territory will never be anything other than Russian in anyone’s lifetime. The longer this lasts the better will be the final outcome for Russia. They are also giving Ukraine time to turn on their leaders who blindly walked into this meat grinder. The signals coming from the west indicate a sense of panic.
Many are tied into the corruption in Ukraine as they had been in Russia and are lashing out erratically with silly petty anti Russian nonsense.
If this is a soldier fighting in the frontlines then I am the Queen of England. To his credit, the boy seems to be slightly embarrassed of all this stuff about fighting “orcs” he has to repeat. He looks 17 at best. Sad.
“He looks 17 at best.”
Young men make the best killers:
“[Audy] Murphy received the Medal of Honor for valor that he demonstrated at the age of 19 for single-handedly holding off a company of German soldiers for an hour at the Colmar Pocket in France in January 1945, and then leading a successful counterattack while wounded and out of ammunition.”
H/T Wikipedia
Here are a couple of videos to humanize the Russian side, posted today: Russians and cats and dancing Chechens.
Dancing Chechens.
This one gets me.
Such a beautiful country. I lived there for a while in the 1990s and couldn’t see how they would ever get their economy and government turned around. And they’ve done it, in just a couple of decades. A stunning achievement. The standard of living for the people is now far better than ever before.
Imagine what it would be like if we had honestly sought to embrace them and create free and stable institutions and truly helped them institute free thriving markets, stable security arrangements, and an honest reassessment of all borders with sensible realignments that would have obviated the conflict we now see?
Instead we sent robber barons intent on plunder, the opportunities lost are immeasurable.
They have indeed come a long way despite all that, and I hope nothing but well for them. I’m frankly sad that the West wants enemies so badly that they make them out of our own brothers and sisters.
By the way, I’ve been hoping to find a Russian language learning site that uses Romanization, I’m pretty certain that Cyrillic is a non-starter for me, and I don’t need to read Cyrillic directly as there are translation tools for that, but I’d like to expand my conversational capacities beyond the few words I know. Are you familiar with any such resource?
Cyrillic is pretty easy to learn.
A lot of the cat videos on U Tube are from Russia. They really seem to like their cats.
A lot of stories coming out of Russia of them going above and beyond to rescue animals.
Obv. they have their share of evil sods—but there seems to be a remarkable amount of stories of them going far beyond what one might expect:
E.g. Cow rescued after falling into a septic tank … ‘A full brigade of the Russian Emergencies Ministry turned up to rescue the distressed animal.’ A ‘full brigade’—for a cow!
E.g. A helicopter pilot while flying spotted a moose in the ice, landed, then him and his passengers spent 1½ hours rescuing animal from the ice:
E.g. Russian fishermen rescue a dog stranded on an ice floe:
And many more such once one starts looking. Really makes one wonder, as the Mitchell & Webb line goes: ‘Are we the baddies?’
In Ukraine, yes, we are.
And by my reading of the comments on this page, Maquis, far too many people have their eyes closed and their curiosity doused.
Reality, when it finally bites them in the butt, is going to shock them – I suspect.
For “Tree Housers”, I have to admit that I did expect much more from them (as I’m an Aussie peeking in from afar, on one of the wider branches).
I haven’t commented for months, and although I read Sundance’s posts each day, I have found the comments to have deteriorated somewhat in recent months – and that concerned me.
Tonight was an aberration, as far as reading and commenting goes, I guess.
For the commenters such as yourself and the others who have done their homework and do understand what is actually happening, and likely to happen in/with Ukraine, I commend each of you.
Thank you, 45, kind of you to say.
All in all we’re pretty blessed to have this place, and to have folks from around the world drop in to help us out. Lots of diamonds in the chaff, folks that want to learn will do so in spades here.
“A full brigade of the Russian Emergencies Ministry turned up to rescue the distressed animal.’
The Ukrainians were try to. hide the cow by dropping it into the septic tank.
All Russians get in their food rations is beetroot, raw onions and boiled potatoes.
So of course the prospect of roast beef would attract an entire brigade.
…and hate their Chechens, although perhaps not without cause.
Check the guy in the balaclava at 20s.—talk about looks could kill; he’s like ‘You’ll take kitty from me when you pry him from my cold, dead hands.’
(Also the one at 12s.—awwwww, sweet…)
The maladministration of baracks third term is failing hard.
These narcissistic and deranged sociopaths apparently just assumed that they would ‘win’.
Instead what we get is mostly hapless average joe Ukrainians being sacrificed for no morally justifiable cause.
The bio weapon labs is a real thing also. The Russians seem to have a solid, well documented case that Ukraine was being used as a staging area for some very clearly not defensive biological warfare agents.
Western media is of course 100% ignoring this new aspect of the war, however the info will break thru soon enough.
The globalist cabal is getting kicked in the head repeatedly by current events.
Enjoy.
Info won’t break if our western controlled media have anything to say about it.
The narrative has recently shifted.
They can’t fake it forever.
I believe the term is “overtaken by events.”
World War Fox News too. It’s literally sickening to me to watch Stuart Varney dedicate 25% of his program to Ukraine propaganda. Pure bullshit. Gone is Col. MacGregor … never to be seen again. Varney is pushing the party line … and HARD.
And BTW … it’s always how the brave, brave, Ukrainians are WINNING!! … WINNING!!! Ugggh the disinformation is heavy in the air.
Varney is a typical globalist Brit that still doesn’t understand or respect America’s culture. He is about as anti gun as they come on Fox News.
“Gone is Col. MacGregor … never to be seen again.”
So sepaku is a thing?!
At least he had enough honor to off himself for the shame of predicting that Ukrainian resistance could “not last ten days”. 😆
The SMO began with the west contending that the actions near Kiev indicated that Russia suffered a setback. That was coupled with reports that Russia would run out of missiles in two weeks. Both the complete misinterpretation by the west of Russia’s objectives and strategy, and the subsequent phony Hollywood-styled propaganda have characterized the western reporting.
Strategy
The Russian maneuvers near Kiev were a strategy to shape the battlefield, to keep the Ukrainian forces concentrated on defending Kiev, a Kiev that Russia had no intentions of attacking. The strategy was to keep Ukraine from providing logistical support to their Donbas force, which was the primary goal. This strategy worked.
The west has never listened to Putin. In 2008, when he said that the expansion of NATO was unacceptable, the west didn’t listen. Putin defined the first goal of the SMO as the ‘denazification’ of Ukraine. That target was the Azov Battalion and Right Sector forces in the Donbass. Those areas are being denazified. Some of those AB members were part of the attacks on citizens of Donetsk and Lugansk, and some were the perpetrators of the Odessa Trade Council massacre. As a result of the focus on Azovstal, Russia now has among the ‘evacuees’ those war criminals, who will be tried for their crimes.
Propaganda
Have you been following the phony stories? Bucha/ Kramatorsk railway attack/Ghost of Kiev/the Snake Island ‘F.U.’/Shoigu is sacked/ Shoigu is dead/ Gerasamov was fatally wounded/the crossing into Russia? All fake.
What is real is that the thugs that make up the backbone of the UA have drafted old men, forced ordinary citizens into the front lines as cannon fodder, shot POWs in kneecaps then watched them die, then called their mothers and mocked their sons to them (that nazi has been terminated) hid their equipment, tanks,weapons and ammunition in shopping centers, schools, civilian homes, terrorized citizens, shot at citizens taking the humanitarian corridors, shot citizens suspected of sympathizing with Russia or just speaking Russian, …and more. None of which you will see reported by the MSM we already knew is completely compromised.
The west conveniently didn’t listen to Putin when he stated that one SMO objective was to attain the goals with as little danger to the locals citizens as possible (given that a battle is happening across a wide battlefield, this is a highwire act)
Nevertheless, in spite of the fake Call of Duty players opining on U.S. news programs, Russia is achieving its real objectives.
In the future, Putin may tell us about the shenanigans of the Bidens, Romneys, Grahams, Canadian, UK and NATO brass and other corrupt officials involved in Ukraine. He might provide details about all those bioweapons labs in Ukraine.
“The Russian maneuvers near Kiev were a strategy to shape the battlefield, to keep the Ukrainian forces concentrated on defending Kiev, a Kiev that Russia had no intentions of attacking.”
Let it go, man!
We heard this same BS from the Russobots when Chechen forces were driven from Kiev with staggering losses.
It was only a feinting (sic) maneuver. 😆
Can Russia win the occupation?
Assuming that Russia takes and holds the eastern territories that have Russian speaking people that support Russia. Not everybody there is pro-Russian. So can they hold it with unwilling citizens?
Ukraine seems to have no real intent for a peace that leaves Russia holding pieces of Ukraine. And as long as we are willing to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian, how can Russia ever win?
Ukraine never honored the Minsk agreements. How can Russia ever trust them to honor a peace agreement?
Tactically Russia seems to be winning. But I just can’t see how they can achieve a strategic victory without America, NATO and Ukraine agreeing to it.
Russia has never said it wanted to possess anything in Ukraine…..never. The objectives of the military action were:
They will indeed take and hold most of Eastern Ukraine up to the Dneiper and the entire region bordering the Black Sea; Ukraine will be landlocked.
This is the only way to protect the Russian speaking areas, which would not be spared by a vengeful Nazi Ukraine if Russiya went wobbly. Ukraine has revealed itself, proven Russiyan actions justified, and that their original goals require the taking of much more territory due to Ukrainian and NATO treachery.
This is also the only way to ensure that NATO cannot create overt or covert naval bases of operation in the Black Sea. Xiden wants an endless proxy war and Putin will not have that.
Our CIA has been running the Ukrainian Nazi organizations since the end of WWII, Russiya has to end the games, reduce Ukraine to a rump state, and ensure that NATO, Nazis, and the CIA cannot exploit this ancient highway of treachery any longer.
Yes. Not to mention the New Plandemic Bio-Labs.
Here is a bioweapons labs update:
What’s with the background music?
It’s taking Russia too long and too much time for Biden to launder money
To find the reality in the Ukraine is hard. The Western Propaganda Machine is running overtime and it’s very hard to find the information.
In the not so far past, the Western Media were sort of honestly reporting on the Ukraine, things that right they have swept under the rug as if it were Putin’s Propaganda ( because the narrative has shifted to support the Davos Cabal ).
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/359609-the-reality-of-neo-nazis-in-the-ukraine-is-far-from-kremlin-propaganda/
I have found good info in this site, it has a daily recap and links to other.
https://askeptic.substack.com
Good reading:
https://substack.com/profile/12667580-thomas-bergman
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/author/doug-mac/
This one has situational maps, but it is shaded towards the Ukraine ( the Russians never seem to conquer…. even as the map shows their territorial gains). Note how they are now hinting that the Russians are reinforcing to repel a Ukrainian attack, even though it was a small scale affair (20 armored vehicles) and it was rejected 20 hours ago by Russian artillery.
https://liveuamap.com/
The Russkies are attempting not to attack the populace nor destroy the infrastructure. The Ukies have no such restrain so long as the fighting is in the Donbas, which they have been attacking for eight years now. The modus operandi for the Russkies is to draw the Ukies out of the cities, in the open, and then bomb them to kingdom come. Meanwhile, note how Russkie bombardment continues unabated throughout the Ukraine, all the way to the West. Attacking and destroying military targets, rail, airports, etc…
The Ukie military is now mostly engaged in the East and they are running the risk of losing 80K troops encircled by the Russkies. Many other places, Kharkiv, are held by very weak Ukie forces and will likely fall within two months to the Russkies. Odessa will likely go as well, so the Russkies can make a land grab all the way out to that region East of Moldovia which wants reunification with Russia.
In the meantime, Russia is raising flags everywhere they take over, have officially acknowledged both the Russian and Ukrainian languages for official use, are instituting rubles as currency, Russian banks and TV, etc… they are NOT leaving.
It’s only a matter of time before the people in the West realize that the Davos Cabal needs to go the way of Marie Antoniette and the Versailles Cabal.
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WTH?
Too many links are WTH….. I returned your email. It has since been posted.
Thanks.
“ Too many links are WTH…..”
You have a good sense of humor, Ad Rem. 🙂
Western media reports on the war in Ukraine are becoming more like a Comical Ali press conference from 2003 every day.
“…like a Comical Ali press conference…”
“Gonna float like a butterfly
Sting like a bee”
“[You could get whiplash from the diametrically opposed narratives coming from both sides in the propaganda war.”
Having used ISW’s map, Sundance leaves out any mention of ISW’s war analysis. The situation can be summarized with one sentence: Russia has limited ability to advance in Eastern Ukraine.
Field Marshal Foch, in evaluating Germany’s steady push toward Paris observed, “Gentlemen, the enemy has offered us his flank.”
A counterattack led to stalemate, trench warfare and Germany’s defeat.
The Ukrainians have not organized a counterattack because they haven’t taken possession of the US M270, which will be as devastating to Russian artillery as the Javelin missile has been to tanks.
When the multiple-launch precision missile platform is fielded, the consequences to Russia’s overextended supply lines will be immediately evident to nearly everyone.
You seem to be basing your comment on the M-270 MLRS bringing something new to the Ukrainian Army. Well, it isn’t. They have had large numbers of 3 different types of MLRS from the start, the Smerch having a similar performance, and the M-270 rockets are just going to get shot down like now, if they and their rockets actually get to the front. Unlike US Air Defences like the Patriot (vide Saudi) Russia’s layered AD actually works.
But you are correct in claiming “M270, which will be as devastating to Russian artillery as the Javelin missile has been to tanks” only not in the way you think in that here is little evidence that the Javelin has had any big impact on the Russians. As to a counterattack, you’re having a laugh. At the base level, where is the diesel to power it? Where is the AD to protect it?
If you think that Russia has “overextended” supply lines you really ought to take a look at a map. Supplies are pouring in by road and rail, especially the latter as the capture more railheads. Those “overextended” supply lines are Ukraine’s.
By the way, you know why the M-270 is being shipped don’t you? It could be something to do with the US having up to 50,000 rockets, yes you read that right, that need to be used up before more orders can be placed.
“[T]here is little evidence that the Javelin has had any big impact on the Russians.”
Blown off tank turrets are prima facie evidence of a “big impact”.
These primarily occur because T-72 tankers sit on top of their ammunition stores. When a Javelin penetrates the tank’s armor, it ignites Ivan’s seat and launches him into the clear, blue Ukrainian skies.
To make it seem like the Russians are winning, Putin transfers these airborne soldiers into his Air Force, making their troop strength increase with each tank loss.
The ISW’s founder and president is Kimberly Kagan, the sister-in-law of Victoria Nuland, US State Department Under Secretary for Political Affairs (Kimberly is the wife of Frederick Kagan, a Senior Fellow and director at the American Enterprise Institute, whose brother Robert is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and husband of Victoria Nuland).
You might as well just point us to the US State Department as a source and cut out the middleman.
“ The ISW’s founder and president is Kimberly Kagan, the sister-in-law of Victoria Nuland.”
Ad hominem, circumstantial
There’s one thing I have to allow to you Russobots: you never tire of proffering bad logic.
I’m sure if we look in a sound effects library, we can find the exact clips that were used for the bombardment noises in that video. This is probably some dude dressed up in his own backyard.
There is a Youtube channel called Military Summary that gives daily analysis of the fighting village by village. They use official Russian and Ukrainian info and the narrator is very familiar with the area. No narrative. Just the facts on the ground.
What most people don’t know is that the Russia/Ukraine is still not legally defined internationally following the breakup of the USSR in 1991. There was a legal deadline but the Ukraine let it pass as presumably they thought they could improve on it in the future, but the future is how here and just look what has happened.
This means that a future Ukrainian Government could sit down with the Russians and define a new border between themselves, register it internationally and there is nothing anyone could do about it, except bleat.
Anything from the UK should be viewed with extreme caution. They are worse than our Deep State. The French are much better.
While I admire anyone who is willing to fight, even for a seemingly lost cause, I do not believe Ukraine will “win” in any measurable way unless NATO (by NATO I mean the United States) puts boots on the ground and fights to control the airspace. Russian artillery out performs US artillery all day long. In the last 20 years, the US military has focused on counter-insurgency that relies on air support for cover. Our Artillery and Air Defense have atrophied. Russia’s has not. In addition, Russia fields whole Battalions of Electronic Warfare capability that are on par with US assets, especially with regard to our Army (Navy and AF fare better, but so far, Ukraine is primarily a ground war).
Again, Ukraine’s only chance is US troops on the ground in a massive deployment. I do not believe that is going to happen. Ergo, Ukraine is done for. The idiots at the US State Department should be tried for war crimes and for fomenting this massacre.
If the U.S. decides to send our troops to Ukraine to get those dirty Ruskies, we will surely send well qualified leaders with them. Meet Cpt Coss:
She is a “leader” of a Ranger unit. She took her unit into “combat in Afghnistan. ” Her size 7 boot on the ground will make all of the difference. I do have one question. When you look at the photos of Cpt Coss and her men, it is not clear to me how she could lead them when she obviously could never keep up with them.
We no longer have a military to send to a major conflict. We instead have a large clown world organization engaged in an experiment destined to fail.
Feels more like a money laundering operation than a war. At least in America.
I must say I have never seen a more delusional people so out of touch with reality than Western man today. It’s shocking to me. Many of you people will still be arguing that Ukraine is going to win this fiasco months from now no matter the truth on the ground. I couple this with the way the West is destroying itself economically, socially(demographically) and spiritually and honestly it seems that the die is already cast. Western man has truly become a sick creature.
No argument here.
A return to reverence and worship seems the only way back to sanity.
There is a God and He is not silent.
“I must say I have never seen a more delusional people so out of touch with reality than Western man today.”
OT but this is the fruit of post-modernism. We are beyond good and evil so there can be no true/false statement regarding objective reality.
“Good “ is what is good for you. “True” is what is true for you. We are all discrete atoms, cascading through an imponderable environment with no point of contact between the existential and the conceptual.
Man is dead and so is his mind.