If you take a minute to read the article…
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The European Union has agreed to ban imports of Russian gold, including jewellery, and freeze the assets of Sberbank, Russia's largest bank.
Half of the Russian shells are gone according to Russia itself
https://novayagazeta-eu.translate.goog/articles/2022/07/20/kreml-ne-doveriaet-sobstvennym-voennym?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Interesting take from Olga Skabayeva on Russia-1. She argues that the regime should not halt the war or agree to any peace talks, but instead should seek to eliminate the Zelensky led state.
This flies in the face of everything the Putin apologists in the west have been suggesting about "giving Putin an out" and bringing the war to a speedy conclusion. It seems from what she and Lavrov are saying that they actually favour a long war.
And the award for most delusional goes to ...
BTW, love seeing these clips - keep them coming.
UK somewhere (possibly corrupt Russians selling on black market) found 50000 Soviet shells
Meanwhile, the Air Force’s top general on Wednesday hinted that Kyiv could be getting fourth-generation fighter jets as well. Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum, Gen. C.Q. Brown did not rule out the possibility that the U.S. or its allies could provide Ukraine with fighters, naming a number of possible platforms that could be sent.
“There’s U.S., there’s Gripen out of Sweden, there’s the Eurofighter or the Rafales. So there’s a number of different platforms that could go to Ukraine. ... It’ll be something non-Russian, I could probably tell you that. What I can’t do is tell you what it’s going to be,” Brown said.
Earlier in the day, Brown told Reuters that the U.S. and allies are starting to look at options to train Ukrainian pilots. But Milley said there have been no final decisions.
source: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/20/austin-more-us-rocket-systems-ukraine-00046856
To be honest, between this and the Putin health stuff, there is an embarrassing side to the Western Media and even politicians where we are being found to be lapping up a lot of nonsense and only giving weight to the Russian propaganda machine of us suffering from Russia-phobia and hysterics.
I reluctantly can see how everyday Russians might see us as fools who are clueless about what’s really going on. This in turn gives weight to an argument that maybe there is a lot we don’t know or understand about what has went on in Eastern Ukraine from 2014. Or at least from a Russian citizens perspective I can see how they might be convinced something on the assumption that the West is equally capable of BS.
To be fair, when claims come from either intelligence services, or ministry of defense or a president, then I’ll pay attention. Outside of that I would take anything, including a lot of shared content here coming from Twitter, with a pinch of a salt.
There will not be anymore 40 mile long Russian military convoys if they deploy the warthogs......come to think of it, there won't be any convoys, of any size.... They are a tank mans worst nightmare come through....even the sight of one approaching in "peace mode" is pretty terrifying. Slava Ukraine
Til they are all shot down?
They are not good planes in this day and age.
If Putin thought that he would get away with full mobilization, he would already have done it...as it is he is frantically trying to keep the Ukraine war death toll to a minimum, not that he gives a damn for Russian or any other Lives, but preferring to use soldiers from the rural areas, and the further from Moscow the better. Its one thing to have rumblings of discontent in the provinces, but in Moscow itself???
I'm pretty sure that Georgia are keeping a close eye on what's happening elsewhere in the world where Putin is involved...
Russians might see westerners as fools
but at end of day they are the ones living in a criminal fascist/oligarchic regime with a weak economy and standard of living well below most of the civilised world.
The real fools are citizens of worlds largest country with most resources who should have a standard of living up there with Norwegians and we’re given a chance and access to markets to reach such a goal, but now are on path to becoming a larger version of North Korea
To be fair they were designed to work against Soviet era equipment, exactly the types of 60 year old tanks and artillery Russians are using now
There is a wider effort to negate Russian air advantages
The more time goes the better supplied and trained Ukrainians become while the reverse seems to be case for Russians (less training, older and older equipment)
At some point everything tips over, we are already at a stage where Russians are unable to advance
Let’s be honest. The Christian right(a large cohort of them) have been idolising Putin and Russia for years for fighting the gays and defending Christianity etc. Fox News most watched presenter Tucker Carlson has said he was on Russias side in this conflict multiple times and he and other prominent members of the right globally have been Putin fanboys and parroting his propaganda. The biggest lovers of Putin and Russia over the last 15 years have been from the right not the left. Back in the USSR days it was different(more love from elements of the left) but nowadays Russia under Putin is a right wing fascist state.
They'd do wonders against the tanks and trucks, I just don't think they'd last long in a modern contested airspace.
The talk of F16s or even more modern aircraft is interesting. I hope its not complete smoke without fire.
There might be an element of posturing towards Russia with it by early doors announcing things that won't have an immediate impact.
As in Russia, if you think you can hunker down for a long war and grind Ukraine down slowly, well you'll be facing an upgraded Ukraine.
Near Bakhmut.
Their plan is to wait out for western populations to die out due to being gay
Given the population of Russia has been dropping consistently over the last couple of decades and has accelerated since putin's war, the Russians left better start ridin' like it's going out of fashion.
No need, they can just "borrow" Ukrainians. approx 1m.
Very sophisticated drone tactics
The argument to say 'what about what's been going on Donbas/Eastern Ukraine?' doesn't really hold much weight with respect to the kind of actions the Russian military is currently undertaking. From the beginning, it's been pretty plain that Russian objectives stretch far beyond the Donbas, since they first attacked on multiple fronts, with one being tasked with conquering Kyiv. It's always been about taking the whole country or enough of it to render the free part an irrelevance. If it had only been about the Donbas, Russia would have done the Donbas and Crimea together, and there isn't a thing Ukraine could have done about it at that time.
We can look at this through the prism of our own country, because we can understand very well that love-hate relationship with a larger neighbour with many historical chapters. For example, we have the Great Famine that's pointed to as sowing a lasting bitterness against the British that would burgeon into revolution not even a century later. The Ukrainians have Holodomor, which was also a famine in which their neighbour was implicated, only many times worse, and tens of millions of people died. We can go down this historical rabbit hole but ,as ever, two wrongs don't make a right - Ukrainians firing shells into the Donbas over the last eight years doesn't excuse the Russians massacring people in Bucha.
Isn't that why the russkies are kidnapping Ukrainian kids ?
I assume that training Ukraine pilots on f16s or grippens or what ever is a long term project ? , Something Ukraine would need to preserve a peace ,whenever and whatever that will be ?
Don't step on the fakes
There was that story yesterday how they planned to fake an attack on a HIMARS and it supposedly being destroyed in Ukraine and have it all filmed by Russian journalists, but they were found out even before it happened.
There's a new and as they say improved version on the cards now, although I doubt that's what they would be sending to Ukraine.. but in any case , its cannon and weapons systems will have been updated, giving it even more destructive power. So even if it was only used for selective missions, it would still get the job done, and in Ukraine, every weapon counts. Its very appearance is terrifying, faced head on you can imagine the feeling a diver gets when he is faced with a great white shark. If I saw one or two of them coming in for a strafing run, I'd be getting out of there as fast as I could, not that it would do any good if you were in its sights.
Meanwhile in the real world Saudi is buying oil from Russia so they Saudi Arabia can can supply more of their own oil to America.🤔
similarly Britain and therefore us get some of its gas from the Netherlands and where does the Netherlands get it, Russia
I said this several days ago but was attacked by the Mob here cause Germany is the big boogeyman there
Funny how the world works really
I think you over egg the vast majority of your posts on here tbh.
You don’t hear Michael Martin or Boris Johnson lambasting the Germans or the Dutch. They never did. The last thing they want is an energy hungry Germany scraping the bottom of the same barrel as ourselves.
The crew on this tread blame Germany for everything.
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