While conveniently ignoring the little matter of who killed these Ukrainians, and also when it comes to letting your soldiers who are injured die without medical help, never mind decent burials, its SOP for the Russians. They do not help their living soldiers, so why would they help their injured or dead?
They are a year too late. Should have been deployed on the Ukraine/Russia border back in January/February as a visual deterrence when it was obvious Putin was making his move. It would have been enough to give Putin pause for thought and it's highly likely Ukraine wouldn't be destroyed and the world on the verge of nuclear war.
Transnistria, here we come.
It's incredible how many twists and turns there have been in this war. It's been like a pendulum shifting back and forth:
I think the only thing to learn here is that there are probably many more twists and turns before this thing is done. It's very likely that Kherson will be lost by the Russians soon enough which will be a major PR coup for Ukraine so you could argue that that would be the momentum swinging back in their favour. They really need some help to sort out that continued Iranian drone problem though.
If NATO had of flooded into Ukraine before Russia invaded Putin wouldn't have done ****. Part of me thinks the West we're happy to let him try and destroy his army in the process.
Thanks captain hindsight
So under what set of circumstances would we see 101st boots on the ground in Ukraine?
@Brussels Sprout Russia starts to target Ukraine's power grid and other civilian targets using their own supply of cruise missiles as well as newly acquired Iranian kamikaze drones. This leads to blackouts in many Ukrainian cities. Advantage Russia
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I think the only thing to learn here is that there are probably many more twists and turns before this thing is done. It's very likely that Kherson will be lost by the Russians soon enough which will be a major PR coup for Ukraine so you could argue that that would be the momentum swinging back in their favour. They really need some help to sort out that continued Iranian drone problem though..
I don't think it's an advantage drones I think it's a desperation move likely due to shortages in Russian stockpiles of missles were seen less and less drones and missles getting through to hit targets, we've seen an increase in Ukrainan air defenses coming on line ,and more coming along with an increase in Air2Air kills of Russian drones,
All the while the Ukrainians are pushing forward on a massive front edging towards Kherson, while Russia is still trying to get to bakhmut for some stupid reason.
Remember we have had experts on here telling us Last month the Ukrainans have been bogged down in mud unable to move till summer,while the orcs had Total control due to their trenches..
But yet we're seeing the total opposite of those claims
Could be right for sure. All that a bully understands is power. Putin spent years looking at western weakness and apathy with BS from Obama talking red lines and then the US voted in the weakest president in their history and he made his move.
Except Clare Daly and Mick Wallace and the like would’ve used this deployment as provocation by the USA , and blamed the subsequent invasion on western arms sellers and vested interests poking poor auld Putin only standing up for the motherland .
So much for Kherson becoming a war Russia will fight for every inch....
There would have been no invasion.
Yeah when I say Advantage Russia in this case I don't mean that I think that they are now favourites to win - more that there's been a momentum swing in their favour and Ukraine will need to do something to thwart it.
Agree that it's a sign of desperation by Russia but that doesn't mean that it cannot also be effective.
Effectiveness of drone and missile strike is that ukraine expend scarce resources in theri SAM stockpile to counter cheap drones
Wonder what was said to ping
If they're smart, they'll use their Gepard SPAAGs rather than their SAMs to go after the drones. They seem to be able to chew through the Shaded-136s like a kid through a chocolate bar. Twitter User @Gepardtatze, himself a former commander of a Gepards in the Bundeswehr, has posted some interesting videos of live fire exercises at the Todendorf firing range in Germany:
Apparently, Gepard is able to lock on to, and take out, the small towed target "bag", let alone the drone tasked with towing said target. In one case, they were even able to shoot through the towing rope, though that could have been a mere fluke. And to think Germany not only sold off but scrapped a large number of these systems after they were decommissioned! 🤬🤬🤬
You could make a case for this being Trump's fault. With his US isolationist stance - which already lead to the sh1t show that was the Afghanistan abandonment - and with mid terms loomig, Biden might have had to consider the gift he would have been handing the Republicans by going toe to toe with Russia via overseas deployments, which Trump and his lackeys would have had a field day with.
Biden 'should' have put US tropps in Ukriane itself for 'exercises', not just in a neighbouring country.
I think the toxicity of the republican party will lead to a dissolution of the US as a world power fairly soon.
The US really need to stop tollerating Chinese hacking and Espionage. Hacking should have a millitary response. It's warfare.
Sure they are trying to set up an agricultural Hub directly beside General atomics drone facility in the US .
Not even trying to hide what they are up to
"all Kherson residents must immediately leave city"..."Kherson civilians, and all subdivisions and ministries of civil administration must cross today to the Dnipro's left bank"
So much for the voluntary evacuation they have been talking about.
Self deportation to Russia
I wonder is this in preparation for a tactical nuke strike???
Not sure I'd be posting links from gateway pundit as reliable sources.
I didn't
Blowing the dam.
At that point, no one (except Putin) thought that he would actually invade Ukraine, and if the west had pre-positioned military along the border in Ukraine, Putin could always claim that he was not the invader, but the west was, and it was the west who started the war, and he was only protecting Russia.
Electricity transmission system operator Ukrenergo limited power consumption in Chernihiv, Zhytomyr, Kyiv and Cherkasy regions
The problem with that is you would likely need several thousand Gepards. I think the anti-drone drone with the mini machin gun might be a far better idea if it proves practical and if they can get enough of them. Mark Hamil apparently has bought 500 drones for Ukraine, bless him.
The fella you quoted, did.
In Australia, they tried to buy a massive pastoral empire, with one of the largest properties bordering the Woomera test range in South Australia, where all sorts of interesting stuff is tested, even of US and UK origin, like Taranis - woomera being the last confirmed sighting of this doing flight testing in 2013, not to mention the loyal wingman program and test firings of hypersonic missiles. It wouldn't surprise me if the US had shifted some things there as I'd imagine secrecy would be far more easily achievable than in the US. Woomera is now of immense significance for flight testing of advanced western military technologies.
Luckiliy the danger was spotted and the Chinese were told to F off.
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