Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Considering America has by far the most amount of Western tanks and the first Abram won't be arriving until September at the earliest shows Ukraine won't be running out of donated armour ever. As for air superiority they'll get that any year America decides they can get F16's. No shortage of Bradley's and other APC's either.

The only shortage is artillery but both sides suffer with this.

Over the next 2 years of the war. Russia will, hands down. It has the factories in place already but most importantly it has the will to produce them.a

If the West was somewhat serious about it, they would blow the reds apart within months. If.

In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.

That a ficged up country like Russia can do ground and pound better than the entire West is not an endorsement of them, just a reflection on the tragedy of foreign policy in the West over 30 years.

Winning for Russia is holding most of what they have. If that means a million dead and an economy in tatters, they'll take it.

My approach is a much more muscular backing of Ukraine than seen to date or that would ever be tolerated by much of Western Europe.

There is an epic amount of bs spoken in Western Europe about backing Ukraine but the reality is much harder.

I think people confuse Russia with the Soviet Union.

In Soviet times, I'm sure they could mass produce pretty much anything, they done it with artillery and tanks, but this it's just Russia now.

Where's all the modern tanks? The T-90 & T-14 are Russian tanks, I'm sure they can mass produce them yeah?

No, they are dragging.... (checks history book) 70 year old soviet tanks out of the scrap yards.

Artillery is great at a stalemate, where both sides are dug in and little movement, but (excluding the quick land grab in the first 2 months of the war, with less artillery used) Russia have gained **** all despite their artillery advantage. With (insert multiplier) x more artillery shells fired by Russia in the past 12 months. Russia gained 0.55% of Ukraine.... but Ukraine gained 8.13% back. (net Russian loss of 7.58%) So with all this artillery benefit.... how come Russia can't gain land?

I certainly agree with the holding back of key weapon systems to Ukraine, ATACM's/Jets/Cluster munitions.... I'd even add in cruise missiles. Are the West waiting for Ukraine to fall or fail before they give them everything they need? Or afraid of it being seen as an escalation?

"We do not know who Finbar Cafferkey was, except that for whatever reason he was fighting in a foreign land"

Disgraceful comment from the Embassy of Russia in Ireland to our Tánaiste. It would be great if Micheál Martin would ask the Embassy of Russia why his country is fighting in a foreign land.

If Putin decides to escalate to nuclear level's you can be guaranteed he'll go for a Chernobyl 2.0 in the south with Zaporozhye. Won't cause anywhere near the western reaction dropping an actual nuke would and they'll claim the Ukrainians were equally to blame.

Not what I said at all ,

They were promised 1 million shells for the the whole of 2023 we're 5 months in and they have only received 40,000 shells, France has blocked production and purchasing of shells for ukraine,

If they had 1 million shells ready to go they would be a great position but they only have a fraction of that,

While there is claims they fire less thats going to have to change for the coming counter offensive, you cant have mass movement of men and vehicles with no aircover without massive artillery barrages to protect them as they move forward, because the Russian run artillery at timea no stop around the clock,

If you can't counter that artillery men and vehicles out in the open will face the exact same problem the Russians faced at Vuhledar and bakhmut crossing open ground and getting anilated with artillery

Just strange you reference a photo being recently released showing 155mm shells not detonating on a thread about a war in Ukraine, which also use 155mm shells which Russia don't use, with zero reference made to the photo not being related to Ukraine.

Wagner fighting in Sudan.

Time to take the head off that particular snake, seize all its assets, stop any money flowing and take over control of its information technology. Wagner must cease to exist.

Another careless smoking related incident in moskovyte controlled territory with an oil refinery near Sevastopol on fire:

only 2 places in Russia fit your description of new russia there, St Petersburg and Moscow.

the rest of it is largely the same or even regressed since the Soviet Union collapsed.

Bad Day for Russia. Oil depot in Sevastopol gone and large chemical warehouse in Iran gone up in smoke.

This is frighteningly plausible scenario. Hit the nuclear site and claim it was the Ukrainians

If Ireland does not expel several "diplomats" from Orwell Road and reduce the numbers to parity with our representation in Moscow, then we will be revealed as total wimps, in thrall to the anti-Western jerks in politics and the media.