Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Where do they get there facts from, probably Russian military, and we all know how truthful they are

i just believe what i see on the ground and the Russians dont have anywhere near your numbers, otherwise they would be winning

Again i ask you, why is Russia recruiting from prison's and kidnapping people of the street to serve in there army if they have such a big reserve of highly trained soldiers, please answer this now, i have asked a few times

Really interested in your reply

Explosions reported in Kharkiv

Do you understand the difference between combat troops and total military manpower?

Where do you think Russias frontline combat troops are concentrated right now?

You havent answered a single question. You cant even answer the last question directly put to you in this reply because you know if you answer it it cuts the legs put from under your argument.

Show us where the media figures were correct.

How exactly do these organisations count the number of operational russian tanks? Do they wander round russian bases? Or are they basing it on the potemkin numbers Russia puts out?

So dont repeat nonsense that western organisations have established how many operational tanks etc Russia has.

Tones, this is a very informative read if you genuinely believe those Russian troop numbers.

Russia is all in on a pair of twos.

They can't supply or feed the muppets they have there already. How do you expect them to handle another 200k. Maybe they'll carve them sticks in the shape of a gun and shout pew pew, pew pew at the Ukrainians.

General Mark Hertling (former commander of the US Army in Europe) says he's had his suspicions for over a decade that the Russian army was of a very poor calibre. He's basing this on personal experiences too - he visited Russia on three different occasions and was shown around military installations, watched Russian troops training etc.

It's not about writing it's about analysis. Over the last 2-3 pages on this thread you have posted 10+ times and rattled off 15+ question's.

Tell me this 200k troops that you think he can field. What will they be armed with. Will they have access to APV'S and trucks to get them to the front line.

Will they all have bullet proof vests like the US and the other western armies provide it's troops. Will they have tanks, artillery, radios ( even the unencrypted ones the Russian army use at present), trained officer's and experienced NCO's.

Russia has the largest land border of any country. It borders China which it has to be wary of. It's involved in Chechnya, Georgia, Syria, the Congo, Moldova as well as Ukraine.

It's Wagner group was supposed to similar to the US military contractor system. They are probably not as capable as professional soldiers from any Western nation. They are basically enforces for the regime. These are the losses of the Russian army in the last six months from sources on the net

Personnel – 43750 (+200)

Tanks – 1876 (+12)

Armored Fighting Vehicles – 4141 (+15)

Artillery Systems – 985 (+5)

Multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) — 261 (+0)

Means of air defense – 136 (+0)

Aircraft – 233 (+0)

Helicopters – 195 (+1)

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operational-tactical level – 787 (+3)

Cruise Missiles – 187 (+0)

Ships/Boats – 15 (+0)

Automotive equipment and tank trucks – 3044 (+5)

Special Technique – 92 (+1).

The other problem it's now facing is that any tanks or APV's still at the front are reaching factory overhaul timing and may need to be pulled. Because it used non precision artillery bombardment's to try to bomb Ukraine into submission many of its artillery pieces need barrel changes which they do not have it seems.

If they send 200 k troops into the Ukraine it's the Zulus against the Redcoats and we know how that ended.

Yeah but nuclear war chief.

That’s not good.

Have you ever noticed that lots of different news websites will all report the same news stories at more or less the same time? Do you think that each of these does independent research to confirm facts and then they all simultaneously reach the same conclusions and then independently report the same story, amazingly, using exactly the same wording and photos?

I'll let you in on a little secret, only one of them comes up with the story, the rest just cut and paste it. It's the same with stuff like Russian force estimates - and they are only estimates. Probably only one or three security services actually have the resources to come up with the estimates, and most won't make those estimates public. So while you are trying to justify your numbers with a claim that numerous sources back them up, your claim is false - they are just all echoing the one source capable of making the estimates.

The CIA are prone to exageration, because it serves a purpose of unnerving the US public and politicians and making it easier to get approval for large defence expenditure. This CIA exageration was quite prevalent during the cold war. The Russians also exagerated their numbers as it also served their purposes to appear like a more serious threat and therefor be taken more seriosly.

Did you know that during the cold war, the official population of Russia was supposedly 225 million, and that Moscow was a city of 5 million? The science fiction author Robert Heinlein actually went on a holiday with his fluent Russian speaking wife to the USSR in 1960 and did some private investigating to try and confirm the nubers and came to the conclusion that Moscow probably only had a population of about 600,000 and that the population was probably a lot less than claimed. He was right.

"but Soviet military manning and procurement was never as robust as the CIA estimated. The CIA depiction of a Soviet military Goliath with global reach and even control of international terrorism bolstered Reagan’s portrayal of an “evil empire.” CIA publications regularly discussed a “relentless Soviet buildup” and a “disquieting index of Soviet intentions,” which reflected institutional bias and not reality. CIA distortions of military issues also contributed to delays in disarmament negotiation with the Soviet Union" https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/25/intelligence-and-ideology-the-exaggeration-of-the-threat/

Have you heard about the very serious issue of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?

The CIA factbook probably should be taken with several pinches of salt.

Oh, and this tells you a lot about Russian military might:

"Vladimir Putin offers one million rubles to Russian mothers with 10 children as the country battles a demographic crisis

President Vladimir Putin is offering a one-off payment to Russian mothers who have given birth to 10 or more children as a way to address the country's demographic crisis. - August 19, 2022" https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/vladimir-putin-offers-one-million-rubles-to-russian-mothers-with-10-children-as-the-country-battles-a-demographic-crisis/news-story/062f502d80957b7d913a1ecd06df6d32