That link claims HIMARS, javelins, drones etc aren’t having the affect that Ukraine is claiming.
It says they are more a psychological plus for Ukraine with little positives on the battlefield.
Reminds one of its predecessor the MiG 25. When Viktor Belenko defected to Japan in 1976 with one, after examination it took a while for Western engineers to understand why it had vacuum tube electronics, until they realised it rendered it pretty resistant to nuclear EMP effects.
A MiG-31 fighter jet has crashed in Primorsky Krai of the Russian Federation during a training flight.
Russias antique restorers are unlikely to be able to help with that. Keeping those things flying is almost as incredible as the US still fielding the B-52.
I believe these are the only plane the Orcs can use to launch the 'hypersonic' Kinzhal missile. They don't seem to have very many left as they deployed only 3 to Belarus to air launch other cruise missiles at Ukraine. Those 3 returned to Orcistan a couple of days ago.
Reminds me of the song 'ten green bottles'.
I reckon if Ukraine can physically cut-off Crimea and also take back northern Luhansk there will be an inevitable victory. They can cut off Crimea and leave it's liberation until last. If their entire force was focused on the Donbass I can't see the Russians holding them back.
Of course they'll stay on the defensive there as long as hordes of Russians run at them but whenever that stops they'll go on the attack and I can't see Russia stopping them if there's no other fronts to worry about.
They could easily tie up a large Russia force in Crimea at the same time by just threatening to take it along with probing strikes.
I also saw reports of volunteers in Kyiv working in special kitchens preparing freshly cooked food for the front line soldiers. I doubt you'd see anything like that in Moscow somehow.
I had considered this but it equally applies to people who live in awful conditions. The basic premise is whether war or just bad life conditions, once a person is removed from this environment they are more likely to recover from the addiction.
It’s actually sad to think that Russian life is so painful that so many suffer this addiction.
The twitter video in the article includes an impressive drone recording of a failed assault of Russian troops on a dug-in set of Ukrainian soldiers. The Russians imho did not appear to be poorly equipped and seemed to have some discipline in the ranks, including the idea to retreat when they realized they couldn't do what they wanted to based on terrain/cover/etc.
Fascinating video.
Yes but if I understand it correctly, Stradaz was not speaking about the war effects as such, he was talking about Russian Society itself, even long before the war. What will come after the war if Putin is still in power will make matters 1'000 times worse for Russian society.
What you say is very true. It's what happens when a gangster takes over a Country, and sucks the very life blood out if it, which is what Putin has done. One of the reasons that Putin is kidnapping thousands of Ukrainian Children is to prop up Russia's falling birthrate, which has worsened since he came to power. So, you have an increasing death rate, (massively helped by alcohol consumption) coupled with a falling birth rate (helped by very high abortion rate, for every 1'000 births, there are 500 Abortions.) In their own way, these are all symptoms of a population railing against a Country ruled by criminals. And now, with an estimated 700'000 Russians having left to avoid conscription, plus the 300'000 newly minted conscripts thrown into the front lines, thats presently another 1000'000 out of circulation in the Russian population, and for most, maybe permanently. (Not counting the current figure of 85'000 dead)
Great pic of women in Bucha hand making winter camo and a general update on the recent changes on the Donbas frontline.
Russian Nuclear Energy Corporation: A protection zone should be established around the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant as soon as possible
Yes, you can tell it's not a happy country. It's like North Korea transplanted into Europe (and yet they have the regime propaganda telling them it is the greatest nation on earth....classic authoritarian dictatorship or '1984' stuff).
They wouldn't be able to train and arm a fraction of that 5 million. They're spoofing.
^^Corrupt & elderly absolute rulers living in obscene wealth like kings of old on the back of the populace. Moving toy soldiers about on tables, playing with the borders on their maps, ordering purges of undesirables from their comfy palaces. Yay for preserving "European traditions" and the "golden ages"!
I believe November has been the highest month of losses for Russia... So far!
Speaking of Darth, here's his latest cutting contribution:
I'd say he's more a grifter, from the land of the grifter and salesman. Like I suspect of a lot of American commentators on the fringes, they don't buy the bull themselves, but tweak said bull enough so their paying audience does. Ritter's just not very good at it and he's lost the same audience.
I think we can stop wondering where Darth Putin is gettign his advice from. 😁
Not to mention he is a peadophile and have done jail time,and he probably hates himself as much as he hates his own country
Ritter? Ah here, are there still some out there quoting that thundering eejit? 🤣 Even the pro Russia people I know who buy the Kremlin stuff lock stock and barrel quietly gave up on that grifter a few months back. He's trying to keep in the game with slack jawed American conspiracy nuts for his few rubles
And lest we forget the same eejit's "reasonable military assessments". Check the dates:
Yeah.... The second last one is literally opposite land. Everything he claims actually went in the other direction. When even a stopped clock is right wtice a day, Ritter isn't even that.
General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine estimates number of Russian soldier's fatalities at 90090
Russians don’t have problems, they have misery and alcohol .
outside of Moscow and St Petersburg it hasn’t improved and it never will.
Makes me think of the heroine epidemic that existed in Vietnam war for American soldiers (just under 50% of American soldiers tried or used heroine). They were really worried that these soldiers would return home and flood the country with addicts.
When they returned home most of them were able to get off it. The sentiments where that when you put people in such atrocious conditions (like war) that drug (or alcohol abuse) use shoots up with people finding their own ways to “live in” the living nightmare. Makes sense when you think about it.
Interesting thread
https://twitter.com/SevaSamokhvalov/status/1598248831766130688?t=8sY60c21ejAFi1KjVAwyGA&s=19
Watching the 1420 channel on YouTube, it strikes me that the main reason so many Russians are alcoholics is because they know they are living in an absolute kip of a country. It's not for cultural or genetic reasons or anything else - it's because it's an utter kip, depressing, oppressive and dictatorial.....what else would they be doing but drinking themselves into oblivion.
“I never once said that the Ukrainians SHOULD go for full on retribution”
Yes, but then you follow by saying:
”if, the opportunity came their way, that they get pay back on their Russian counterparts, whatever that may entail.”
’whatever that may entail’ suggests to me that you ARE ok with full retribution if it should happen.
And as for this:
“but I would have zero hesitation in meting out as much barbarism, pain and cruelty to any Russian soldier I came upon, I would have ZERO mercy on any of them and would ensure, till my last breath that I killed and maimed as many of them as was possible.”
If you really believe your capable of doing this why not take up Timberrrr’s (he has served in the military I believe) advice from a few pages back: quit what you currently do, head over, enlist and make an actual difference or are you yet another individual contributing keyboard warrior opinions?
ah, u poor ruSSian lover. so sad. well, at least u got thanked by othe sick unbanned pupies here.
yes, good idea, dont post here. even better idea, delete all your previously scribbled marasm on the way out, and close the door behind you.
You're really just not getting the message, are you?
Are you purposely not getting it or are you really that simple.
I never once said that the Ukrainians SHOULD go for full on retribution, what I DID say, was that considering everything they've been through, I would not hold it against any of them, if, the opportunity came their way, that they get pay back on their Russian counterparts, whatever that may entail.
Now, is that simple enough for you to take on board, or would you prefer I draw you some pictures ?
As one soldier put it early in the war "we're lucky they're so fk'n stupid"
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