Total war as during WW2, such as carried out by Britain & the USA as well as the Soviet Union, means everyone has a part to play in defending the nation, including women, from working in military factories to the front line. There's always engineering & support duties, planing & logistics, transport, repair & maintenance to support large numbers of front line soldiers in combat.
Hitler didn't believe in mobilising women for war as the Allies did, they didn't even work in factories in large numbers, women were supposed to raise their families. Instead the Nazi's used mostly inefficient, underfed, largely unqualified prisoners to supplement their war factories.
Is Putin going to start full scale mobilisation & conscription for the army, forcing civilians into arms manufacturing factories as Stalin did? That's his only option to win, but does Russia even have the resources & capability to increase military equipment manufacturing to a total war scale?
Will the more affluent population in Russia's western regions & cities even follow Putins demands if they were implemented?
Well, if the head of the is cut off, then there's a good chance that there will be a war of succession, and many of the PMO owners will die, or otherwise be put out of action. Case of survival of the fittest. I'm not sure which of them (Girkin?) said that reason Kadyrov and Prigozhin were both pulling their army's out of Ukraine to preserve them for the internal war that was coming. And they were not the only ones with an eye on the future either.
Considering the time it took to elect McCarthy in the first place, will some in the GOP in Congress be happy for no speaker to be elected at all?
Will they change their minds when some Republicans support a Democratic speaker nomination?
Or are they just looking to fashion a permanent vacancy in the post (if that is possible)?
Edit:maybe I was getting off topic as the question should be how this could affect the war in Ukraine..
Could be massive especially if the next speaker is more a Trump supporter. It just shows how much power they are wielding there.
There's 27 active Private Military Companies operating from Russia.
Even the Russian Orthodox Church finances it's own PMC.
Is there even a public army now?
It's been the FSB's/Putin's operandi to have these private armies around the world to influence power on the ground and power on the Internet.
How these cancers will be eliminated is another thing.
I wonder though, how many of them have private army's?
McCarthy has been booted from his role as speaker of the house in the US ,
This could be trouble
But on that there's literally only a handful of companies who actually produce shells one particular company in Norway didn't receive any orders from the Norwegian military for something like 10 years,I don't know how many times we've had people on here telling us the whole of western military industry has massively ramped up production because we were on a war footing,and yet we have shortages across the board,
Wishful thinking or too much time on social media
There's a few names very important here. Putin is the mouthpiece. But these are the fanatics who drive what orders come from the Kremlin.
These are : Nikolai Patrushev
Sergei Naryshkin
Alexander Bortnikov
Sergei Shoigu
Bortnikov and Patrushev’s sons have become powerful Russian officials. Dmitry Patrushev is Russia’s minister for agriculture and Denis Bortnikov is the deputy president and chairman of the state-run VTB Bank’s management board.
Mafias.
Edit: if you wanted change in Russia. Target those names above and maybe leave the husk of Putin.
Has been rumours for weeks now (could be just fanciful or wishful thinking) that Ukraine would launch a large scale offensive by sea directly into Crimea itself.
As you know he's his one loyal army within the military,two main objective squash decent and keep him in power,
Someone just as bad as Putin or worse.... This is what people say, but if I think about it, if that person exists, it begs the question why they haven't taken power already or are agitating for it in an effective way. They wouldn't be politely waiting in line. If they are, it strongly suggests they're under the yoke of Putin's political machine as much as anyone else is in Russia which isn't a great indicator of their ability to consolidate power.
And Ive been saying for weeks that the big problem isnt that NATO countries cant produce enough shells, its that it isnt worthwhile scaling up to producing 5m dumb shells a year (which they could easily do if NATO countires really wanted to) its that no one wants to invest in the capacity to produce so many shells when, once the Russian war is over, demand will drop off a cliff for dumb munitions.
Arms manufacturers will produce enough shells so that in a worst case scenario they will keep producing them at the same rate for years to come, or they will produce them in accordance with existing capacity, or they will increase production if governments take the risk and invest or commit to long term large orders.
In reality, the difficulties in producing dumb shells can be compared to the supply constriction in the Vinyl records industry. Its not that they cant produce enough, its that they dont want to put significant investment into an old technology because of a sudden increase in demand for outdated tech.
Since you are the preeminent poster on this thread championing negotations, what do you think a peace agreement will look like?
Just in broad terms? Will Ukraine give up territory? Will Russia have some other influence over their affairs? Who will pay for all the damage and destruction? Will people who commit war crimes be held accountable? Will Ukraine be guaranteed that its seabourne freight will not be interfered with?
Ive asked everyone who champions a negotatied peace but never get an actual answer - what do you see this peace actually looking like?
There is no point negotiating with Russia. Russia doesn't abide by its own agreements. Putin may not be immortal but there is no great appetite for a functional democratic society in Russia. Who comes after Putin will be just as bad or worse.
The only way Ukraine survives is for Russia to be completely broken or Russia to withdraw to its own borders while agreeing to hand over it's citizens involved in the multitude of war crimes committed by Russia; along with Russian assets being used to cover the reconstruction of the sovereign country it decided to invade. There is no happy ending here and no amount of Hellen Lovejoy esque wringing of hands will make it ok.
The point now though is who controls who..??? Once Putin got his hands on the levers of power, did he lay down his authority on everyone, including the feared FSB? He certainly brought his FSB /KGB colleagues with him to the Kremlin anyway. So as he is still in power, it appears that he presently has their support. Time will tell
True and when you extend the argument the question becomes 'Is this really Putin's war or is he just a useful fanatic, fronting a sinister FSB war?' People say Putin went a bit crazy during lockdown and started a war. I think it is more complex than that.
It's well documented putin was put into power, it's been discussed time and time again on here
It is interesting that he says "we" got him in...we as in FSB.
Seaborne invasion ???
Preparation for seaborne invasion?
Air alerts and bavovnas in Sevastopol again. Good
Yeah and no ,
Drone is effective where and when you don't have to deal with electronic warfare systems,but when you have dedicated modem systems drones loose effectiveness,the fpv drones being used in Ukraine are operating on 2.5-5 GHz Radio, Jam those properly your drones become a paperweight, where 4 155mm do serious damage and you Can't jam them ,and while drones look like the future more and more counter drones are coming online , small drones have very limited operating times something like 25 minutes at most and that drops dramatically in cold weather
Yes Putin's reign began in blood, continues in blood, and will end in blood. Seems to be the standard for Russian's.
Lets see in 1 year the importance of artillery, no doubht it will still be important, but drones are coming ahead in leaps and bounds rapidly
Much cheaper and more accurate to send one drone instead of 4 shells
This war is constantly changing, not just this war but probably also wars in the future
Cool. I guess we’ll see.
if you think that Ukrainians will accept any kid of " Deal" with the monster who has unleashed hell on their country, its you who needs to think again. If all support for Ukraine was to collapse in the morning ( it won't) and Putin rode into Kiev on his tanks in victory celebrations,, his hell would only be starting. In 10 years Russia was unable to subdue Afghanistan, and remember, his military had the full run of the Country on land and in the air. Yet they failed. And one of the reasons they failed was because the cost of keeping in Afghanistan the military to keep it subdued. It was driving Russia to bankruptcy. Another reason was the Nr of body bags coming home each week, and this was microscopic compared to the Nr of dead and injured Russian's that have and are coming back to Russia on a weekly basis from Ukraine. Ukraine will still be there and still Ukrainian long after Putin and his mafia thugs are long dead and gone. Puti bit off more than he can chew, and already the indigestion is settling in and eventually, it will kill him.
Explain what agreement can be reached with a country who sees Ukraine as a lost region of Russia, its leader writing a literal essay on the concept, without using ideas that amount to appeasement.
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