Russia - threadbanned users in OP

One of his movies was so bad he played an navy seal sniper,but spent the majority of the movie sitting on a stool, with he huge gut being hidden behind props on tables,while stunt doubles did his fight scenes in the dark ,

I used to like the original handful of movies where he actually brought realistic Martial arts fights to the scene ,

Somewhere along the way he well and truly fell down a rabbit hole

Meanwhile in Moscow the victory parade passed off ......

A solidary tank and other vehicles took part, putin is hoping nobody noticed....

I didn't ask anything about Russia,

Are you able to answer the question,

Yes or no

By the sounds of it, this year's Tuam St. Patricks parade had more on show than Moscow!!😳😀

I see Prigozhin has a nice Victory Day message for Putin (?) this morning:

I thought this whole Prigozhin threat was a ruse. Now I'm not so sure.

It looks like Russia is now incapable of a successful strike on Kyiv due to the advanced western anti missile systems Ukraine has. This once against demonstrates conventional Russian military equipment by and large is no match for the West, bar maybe hypersonic missiles ,which the Russians have very little of.

the military industrial complex dicks must be rock hard right about now.

I doubt it's that simple. If things were that simple Ukraine could be mass producing their long range GRIM rockets, could be sending shahed clones back to Russia etc...

You would think Ukraine could approach the likes of Raytheon with money to build compatible rockets for their S300's

IMO a waste of time. As I usually point out, I am no expert even of armchair type but I really don't think on evidence of what has happened in Ukraine that anything the Soviet/Russian "MIC" has produced is really that much better than what the US/Western countries can give Ukraine.

Given Russia's actions + their refusal to back off from their effort to destroy Ukraine, assuming Ukraine survives (seems likely now) it will become a defacto NATO member at some point operating all classes of the NATO weapons, bar nuclear.

So training them to use Patriot + similar, stopping the restrictions on what missiles they can have etc. and Ukraine's allies increasing own production of ammunition (that they already know how to make...) as fast as possible to meet demands of the war in Ukraine seems the better option.

I find the whole US/NATO entirely reactive strategy making less sense to me now + quite poor (in a cautious, penny-wise pound-foolish kind of way) and frustrating. I wonder does Biden's age (in fact the general extreme age of entire set of US politicians and leaders, the senate etc. - they have an almost last days of the Soviet Union air about them) have something to do with it?

IMO at this stage given what Russia has done, it should be clear they need to be beaten here for the good of everyone. The cost of failing to make sure Putin/regime gets no wins/gains from what they have done is being underpriced by Ukraines' supporters IMO.

If we ever needed confirmation how fucked Russian tank stockpiles are it's that parade. Obviously they still have a lot around the frontlines and rear but they'll be all gone within another year.

I read a report that Russia are now pulling a lot of T-55's out. They have a lot they can access and they're easier and faster to train mobilised soldier's on. So over the next 12 months Russia will transition to an army of t-55's. Meanwhile Ukraine over the next year will be transitioning to leopards, Abrams and they already have plenty of Soviet tanks better then the 55.

Great to see a high success rate last night. Those 25 missiles are a lot less then the barrages they we're firing 6 months ago. Ukraine will only get more western air defence including patriot's going forward so this is another positive trend.

You really have to wonder what is wrong with T-14's that they could not even get onto the parade this year. Whether it's the squeeze on western components or they suffer from particularly bad mechanical reliability.

Last year only 2 or the 3 schedule T-14 Armatas showed up

This time None whatosever. A Tank that Russia is desperately trying to get export orders for.

Maybe they are in a Russian factory/engineering bay somewhere as some poor souls work 25 hr days to desperately try and find a way to put them into crash mass production (perhaps with Chinese/ripped off electronics and optics) on Fuhrer Putin's orders! Not a pleasant job I'd think.