500 Russian tanks destroyed up to now. Good job they got the weapons and training early
Funny how railways have been shaping history in conflicts since at least the US Civil War to my knowledge. Keeping California in direct contact with Washington was identified as a key wartime issue. Pony Express filled the gap while the transcontinental telegraph and railway connections neared completion. Ultimately there was a separatist movement in CA that was foiled, and the Confederacy couldn't thin itself out that far west, successfully. There haven't been too many technological advancements in the rails on the ground since then. Wood and Iron, carefully planned.
Hardly surprising if she only gets her news from russian state sanctioned news media, which seems to be pretty typical of the less tech savvy older generation.
Russian drone footage of the attack on the Kyiv shopping centre. The warhead used seems a bit overkill for taking out a grad MLRS.
Yes, I’ve good friends in Moscow who show their parents footage from Ukraine and they think it is fake or staged by NATO. Support Putin 100%. They won’t be persuaded and the family split is irretrievable by the sounds of it
It also made a difference in winter 1941 that Stalin decided to listen to what his spooks were telling him for once. In this case it was his man in Tokyo, who reported that the Japanese were looking south, not west. This freed up a large number of fresh Siberian divisions to be shipped to the Moscow front, just as the German attack was starting to run out of steam.
One thing that is often overlooked but is in my eyes one of the most remarkable feats of the war on ANY side is the relocation of much of the USSR's industrial base from its traditional locations to east of the Ural Mountains. Entire factories were dismantled in the west, often with German forces far too close for comfort, loaded onto railway cars and trains, and sent east, where new buildings for them were being built in record time. There were quite a few incidents were German forces seized "factories" only to find that they had been stripped to the walls, whilst the machines of said factory were being reassembled in places such as Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk or even entirely new cities such as Magnitogorsk. This meant that the USSR kept most of its industrial infrastructure and was able to produce new weapons throughout the war and is probably one of the biggest reasons why Moscow remained in the war in the first place. They could just keep cranking out T-34s, Il-2s and so on, whilst Germany's industrial base suffered from increasingly severe doses of explosive disassembly...
Absolutely key and I'm somewhat surprised they haven't been sabotaged earlier. Slightly OT but closer to home - Milltown bridge which the LUAS traverses still has dynamite holes. Temporary home to migratory birds now.
Apart from Nespresso, I don't use any of those brands. So I'll buy L'or and Starbucks coffee pods.
100% overkill for a warhead that size but I guess for them (and the eejits on Twitter) it was enough to justify the mall was now a fully functional military base or some ****.
I've talked to a Russian living in the UK. Sadly, totally supportive of Putin. She even has family in Ukraine. She went through a litany of anti-western grievances that didn't even have to do with Ukraine. Even Napoleonic wars.....
Basically Russia has historically been a victim of the west and the free market capitalism created gangsters in their country.
They have been suffering sabotage for quite some time (several weeks now) aimed at disrupting movement of military trains.
Is there currently a way to take out hyper sonic cruise missiles? I know the US is working on it, obviously.
Do you think that if laser interception of missiles is achieved, that laser could effectively deal with hypersonic given that laser is the speed of light.
Tbh, in the information and social media era of 2022, anyone who doesn't believe what's happening is at best a dense brainwashed imbecile or at worst a scummy terrorism supporter.
Don't mind if I do! 😁
I really must get to an optician - I have no idea what that little red emoji is. It looks like a tomato that someone started to cut and didn't bother to go all the way through...
People with such views in the face of these widely documented atrocities should be swiftly deported back to that shithole that is Russia.
These supportive barbarians have no place in the West.
Heard something mentioned online today- apparently 97% of the Belarusian public oppose becoming involved in this invasion and conscription there is a toxic word- mothers with young sons being sent to slaughter is very emotive, Lukaschencko doesn’t want to push it too hard as he knows the public might lynch him despite the apparent stranglehold he may have. As we saw in the past in Romania, the army switched sides and ceacescu got his just desserts with a shower of bullets
So aprox 10,000 KIA in 3 1/2 weeks - vs 14,500 aprox in 9 years in Afghanistan
And of course the new Ukraine Figures are 'official' so - god knows how many more - plus DPR LPR forces
Unfortunately gold is quite popular in India and China (although no-where near $140bn, they could be markets for Russian gold over an extended period). I'm assuming it's stockpiled in Russia, but if for example some of it is held somewhere like Switzerland that could be locked by sanctions
Everything she looks at is Russian. She watches Russian news (or did until RT got bumped off) she uses Russian search engines, Russian email, Russian chat messengers. She has about 5 different Facebook accounts which got me suspicious that she works for a Russian troll farm 😂
These people never cease to amaze me- hate the west but flock to live here, turn their backs in truth on the countries they supposedly “love”. We are taken for absolute mugs over here. Firmly of the opinion you must show a demonstrable loyalty to your chosen adopted country- else here’s the door and thank you. We really are victims of our moral standards and freedoms sometimes
Wouldn't be surprised if Putin sent his lackey Lukashenko to the frontline knowing he would likely face a demise and then makes a quick play at the power vaccum in Belarus.
I was hoping someone could help me. Somebody posted a video on this thread from an American in Kyiv a few days into the invasion "explaining" the russian tactics....
Basically he said russias strategy was to encircle cities and not destroy much......a very pro russian spin on things
Id be interested to see how is bullshìtting his way out of what is happening now....levelling mariupol, blowing up shops and theatres etc...
Has anyone a link?
There have been a number of people interviewed on various TV stations who have relatives in Russia (some of them Ukrainian) who have similar views. The propaganda machine in Russia is, unfortunately, quite effective, particularly with older generations.
I’d be having a word with the Authorities, no question. The U.K. take espionage seriously. Be no harm to see her feathers ruffled at the very least.
Well he is actively known to dislike him but even lukashencko isn’t that thick I’d imagine
She said about living here in the UK that her "heart was in Crimea". I did think about telling her to f*ck off back there then, but she's actually a nice person to talk to. And this is the difficulty in that it just doesn't register with her about what Russia is doing. She's also a Stalin fan as was her mother. If you can somehow justify mass starvation and gulags, then you can justify the Ukraine war too.
She did say at the end that it was nice talking to me even if we didn't agree.
Meanwhile back in the real world .....
Going by the supposed leaked death figures of Russian troops in Ukraine combined with the injuries list Russia has lost about 15% of it's 200,000 invasion force in under a month and yet they are literally only fighting in a few places in Ukraine,how high would the casualties be if they were fighting across the whole of Ukraine,
50% + casualties in a month ?
Not including vehicles , weapons systems and aircraft
Optimistic article. Kind of interesting. Makes the argument that Ukraine is winning.
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