40 howitzers + drones donated by Turkey would make a huge difference in the south. Wake up Erdogan, you are on the wrong side of history.
I'm afraid that Turkey benefits far too much from the current situation to have any real impetus to change its stance. They are currently the dominant power in the Black Sea area, with free reign over the Dardanelles and the Bosporus and full freedom to move their assets around as the see fit. Meanwhile, their main strategic rival in the area, Russia, is economically weakened, tied up in a ruinous military conflict and politically isolated. They are also unable to meaningfully reinforce their Black Sea fleet. The inland waterways linking the Black Sea, Caspian and Black sea via the Volga and Don rivers are only able to support smaller vessels such as corvettes or diesel-electric submarines. The fact that Ukraine is similarly weakened is also very much in Erdogan's favor, as a politically stable, militarily secure and economically prosperous Ukraine could easily become a new strategic rival to Turkey. As it is, Erdogan can position itself as indispensable and as a consequence extract more and more concessions from most Black Sea nations.
I assume that's the Topoli on the right bank of the Oskil and not the Topoli on the left bank which the Russians still occupy according to LiveUA map.
The Oskil seems to mark the front line north of Kupiansk. I'm surprised the Ukrainians didn't make an attempt to get closer to Troitske during the summer and bring the rail line between Troitske and the border into artillery range. If they managed that, it would be much harder to keep Svatove, Kremina and northern Luhansk resupplied.
😆 Mate. You are on fire today!
At 0:17 you can see the smart missile floating down before striking. SMArt 155 - Wikipedia
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The Ukrainians do it on a daily basis, as well as destroying said equipment (12,000 Russian tanks, vehicles and pieces of equipment destroyed so far and counting)
Posters here can mock Russia's military as much as they please
I'll let you in on a secret. We're not actually doing the fighting ourselves, so the sniggering doesn't really affect the outcome of the war.
Russia is useless because despite having total numerical supremacy, their tactics and hubris has conspired to shred their armaments to the extent they're dusting off relics that will be destroyed in open warfare against NATO equipment. Even their modern equipment showed itself as insufficient for the task. The comparison with the Vietcong doesn't track because Russia are NOT the David in this mismatch.
While the morale of the army itself is, apparently, rock bottom (complete with surrendering groups) - so they're not even an energised, incentivised army, which is an important ingredient towards the kind of enthusiastic invention that might make best use of archaic equipment. Ukraine's doing that, attaching 7kg landmines to basic drones; or indeed their cardboard drones of late.
And we're snickering because it's funny; it's funny watching this invasion first stall, then slowly get it's àss handed to it while basically hastening the collapse of the mafia state from which they hail.
I'll laugh all day if they're dusting off ww2 tanks.
Most of us don't get a script, so it's up to the poster what they want to post.
An interesting article on how Russia's 'God of War' is being taken out. Kremlin Propagandists: Ukraine Artillery is Winning, Russia Guns Getting Taken Out – a Lot (kyivpost.com)
Why is Ireland still in the EU then?
Arguing with Kermit is like wrestling a pig, you both get dirty but the pig enjoys it.
Oh christ another one to ignore
Why not laugh and scoff? Nothing we say here has any effect on the frontline. Are you here to police what people should and shouldn't find humorous?
Bit rich considering your opening thrust was to bemoan other posters critisizing your posting style no?
Tanks, vehicles and pieces of equipment.
Russia had them, now they are destroyed, damaged, abandoned or captured. 12k in just over a year and a half.
Even Putin's propagandists support Ukraine.🙂
I think the poster meant 12,000 combined tanks, vehicles and pieces of equipment. An overall figure.
He is a scary man IMO. I wonder what goes on behind closed doors, but he does seem to think he is bigger (and usually knows better) than the US govt. /US military now, and no one appears to disabuse him of that (in public anyway - why would they I suppose).
Read a different article (in New Yorker which I think was posted here before - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule). It claimed US govt. officials in various departments anonymously said they felt they were beholden to him + his companies (Tesla, SpaceX) and keeping him happy is part of the role. That's "late stage" regulatory capture by wealth, and the hollowing out of democracy in the US for you.
In the past twenty years, against a backdrop of crumbling infrastructure and declining trust in institutions, Musk has sought out business opportunities in crucial areas where, after decades of privatization, the state has receded. The government is now reliant on him, but struggles to respond to his risk-taking, brinkmanship, and caprice. Current and former officials from nasa, the Department of Defense, the Department of Transportation, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration told me that Musk’s influence had become inescapable in their work, and several of them said that they now treat him like a sort of unelected official. One Pentagon spokesman said that he was keeping Musk apprised of my inquiries about his role in Ukraine and would grant an interview with an official about the matter only with Musk’s permission. “We’ll talk to you if Elon wants us to,” he told me. In a podcast interview last year, Musk was asked whether he has more influence than the American government. He replied immediately, “In some ways.” Reid Hoffman told me that Musk’s attitude is “like Louis XIV: ‘L’état, c’est moi.’ ”
So Musk has become a real life Tony Stark.
Except one that tells Putin what's going on.
You seem to be labouring under the assumption anyone here has any effect or relationship with the front-lines in the war. Russia isn't my "adversary", it's a country whose leaders chose to invade Ukraine, and is now being punished for its hubris and utter lack of modern logistical or military flexibility.
I laugh because a provable, demonstrable aggressor is getting its comeuppance, and is reduced to scratching around for weapons because the world has made it a pariah state. Arrogance doesn't come into it; this is schadenfreude at worst.
I'm sure though that you'll agree that whatever the standard of Russian equipment and standard of Russian soldiers, that the sooner they are eliminated the better for Ukraine and the rest of Europe and Asia for that matter.
They can always end this quickly: retreat back to Russia, pay reparations and hand over war criminals and those forcibly adopted. Perhaps you should focus your thoughts on these matters.
Everything from tanks to fixed wing aircraft, IFV's, artillery pieces, trucks, jeeps, mobile command centers, helicopters, jammers, mobile radars, AA guns, MLRS, etc, you catch the drift.
Just easier to write tanks, vehicles and pieces of equipment than to list it all out
Speaking of main battle tanks, the Ukrainians have taken out almost 2,300 of them (destroyed, captured, damaged, abandoned).
I've always liked the below quote from a Ukrainian serviceman
Ukraine
Textbook…
Not once in this special operation have the Russians displayed the tenacity and ingenuity of the VietCong.
In fairness it is different, the reds in Vietnam were fighting in their own country, much of it jungle, mountains and cut off plains against an invading force.
The Russian Red Army are the invading force, now they are on the defensive and holding, somewhat.
Holding on is victory at this stage.
The Ukrainians have no issue making fun of their enemy and the quality of Russian equipment. They're also, quite skillfully, wiping out vast quantities of it.
Not really sure I get your point..
Hi comrade,
I hope you find the below helpful
Russian Growth of 1.5% this year? I presume that is growth in GDP. Two things:
So its a lots more guns, but likely lots less butter.
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