The Ukraine war thread
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wrote on 25 May 2022, 23:31 last edited by
@George-K said in The Ukraine war thread:
What's the politics behind this?
Why doesn’t Germany just say “how cute, you have an opinion”
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@George-K said in The Ukraine war thread:
What's the politics behind this?
Why doesn’t Germany just say “how cute, you have an opinion”
wrote on 25 May 2022, 23:38 last edited by George K@jon-nyc said in The Ukraine war thread:
Why doesn’t Germany just say “how cute, you have an opinion”
In the thread, there are comments saying that the contracts under which Germany acquired the weapons have restrictions as to how they can, and IF they can, sell/give to 3rd parties.
And, because I'm a Twitter n00b, I can't find it.
Wait...
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wrote on 26 May 2022, 14:16 last edited by
Supposedly Turkey has backed off of its opposition to Sweden's NATO membership.
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wrote on 26 May 2022, 14:22 last edited by Mik
Good. But I wonder what that cost us.
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wrote on 26 May 2022, 14:25 last edited by
@George-K said in The Ukraine war thread:
"Refused to fight"
Really?
There may be something to that, though I would like to see more reporting and think tank commentary on it.
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wrote on 27 May 2022, 23:13 last edited by
Meanwhile, back at a far greater tragedy...
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wrote on 27 May 2022, 23:21 last edited by
I'm reading that things are not going all that well in the East, and the Russians are making gains, albeit slowly.
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wrote on 28 May 2022, 23:56 last edited by
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wrote on 29 May 2022, 00:14 last edited by
Sounds pretty credible. We will see.
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wrote on 29 May 2022, 00:21 last edited by
@Mik said in The Ukraine war thread:
Sounds pretty credible. We will see.
This guy is keeping track of Russian and Ukrainian losses - but only those with photo-documentation of said losses.
He claims a total of 736 Russian tanks lost as of tonight.
By his count
20 T90s
132 T80sThe rest are T70s or older/inferior.
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wrote on 29 May 2022, 00:52 last edited by
It's amazing what you can't do with an unmotivated, uninformed, ill equipped and poorly led army.
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wrote on 29 May 2022, 13:02 last edited by
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wrote on 29 May 2022, 17:32 last edited by
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wrote on 29 May 2022, 21:21 last edited by
Over 40? No problemo...
https://news.yahoo.com/putin-signs-law-scrapping-military-090818055.html
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Over 40? No problemo...
https://news.yahoo.com/putin-signs-law-scrapping-military-090818055.html
wrote on 29 May 2022, 21:41 last edited by@Jolly it sure smacks of desperation, but the numeric advantage that the Russians have is substantial. OTOH, training will play a HUGE role, and the ability to deliver combat-ready recruits within weeks, who are middle-aged, well...
Into the grinder.
Ukraine claims 30K KIA. Add MIA, captured and injured, you're over 100K soldiers. It can't be too long before this starts to resonate with the folks back home.
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@Jolly it sure smacks of desperation, but the numeric advantage that the Russians have is substantial. OTOH, training will play a HUGE role, and the ability to deliver combat-ready recruits within weeks, who are middle-aged, well...
Into the grinder.
Ukraine claims 30K KIA. Add MIA, captured and injured, you're over 100K soldiers. It can't be too long before this starts to resonate with the folks back home.
wrote on 29 May 2022, 22:44 last edited bySo far Putin has been relying on his colonial troops - non Russian ethnics from the Caucasus and Siberia to feed into his meat grinder. The ethnic Russians making up the senior NCO’s and officers for flavour. Looks like he’s now turning some older ones who may have received better basic training at one time in the past.
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So far Putin has been relying on his colonial troops - non Russian ethnics from the Caucasus and Siberia to feed into his meat grinder. The ethnic Russians making up the senior NCO’s and officers for flavour. Looks like he’s now turning some older ones who may have received better basic training at one time in the past.
wrote on 29 May 2022, 22:49 last edited by@Renauda what's your overall sense of how things are going?
My impression, just from what I see on Twitter and the news, is that the fight in the East is at least a stalemate, with the Russians making slow progress. OTOH, the rate of attrition might slow, or even reverse that.
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@Renauda what's your overall sense of how things are going?
My impression, just from what I see on Twitter and the news, is that the fight in the East is at least a stalemate, with the Russians making slow progress. OTOH, the rate of attrition might slow, or even reverse that.
wrote on 29 May 2022, 23:03 last edited byAs I stated the other day the weight of Russian numbers is beginning to tell in the Donbas regions. If the Russians take it, and I believe they will regardless of the cost in human life, then what? Sue for an armistice on the Kremlin’s terms? I do not for a moment believe that the Kremlin is prepared to withdraw so much as a square yard of Ukrainian land from what it has occupied since 2014.
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wrote on 30 May 2022, 11:53 last edited by
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wrote on 1 Jun 2022, 17:15 last edited by
The Tide Is Turning Toward Russia
The evidence is overwhelming. Russia’s new military strategy is starting to bear fruit. Just as the interest of the world starts to wane, the Russian army is starting to exert its will on the battlefields of eastern Ukraine. This might be startling and surprising news to many Americans.
Back when Ukraine dominated the Google charts, it was militarily ascendant. It hadn’t just stopped Russia’ initial drive against Kyiv, it had completely routed Russian forces in the northern Ukraine. It not only inflicted staggering losses on the Russian military, it had chased its forces back to the start line. The Ukrainian capital was safe, and much of the striking power of the Russian army lay in ruins on the streets and in suburbs outside Kyiv.
But if you know anything about Russian military history, you know this early setback is nothing new. For more than a century its army has made a habit of failing early before it regroups, recenters around its strength—overwhelming firepower—and gradually (and brutally) exerts its will. And that’s exactly what seems to be happening now.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
