Russia-Ukraine War

Big blow for Ukraine today. From telegram.

"The Russians ended up at a military school in Poltava that trains radar and electronic warfare specialists.

179th training center of the signal troops (military unit A3990) in Poltava, 44 Zinkivska Street.

As usual, it was the officers' mistake, who were arranging the formation and ignoring the siren.

People are already writing about this: MP Bezugla, Ukrainian military and local residents.

As they say, this is negligence on the part of senior staff officials, which means there will be demonstrative purges.

It is important for Zelensky to shift the negative focus of society to small-time flunkies.

According to our data, this negligence cost: about a hundred dead and more than a hundred wounded.

The government will now declare mourning and try to extinguish the negativity of society, but it is worth understanding that only stopping the war will prevent such and other large-scale tragedies."

Threat is still real, but it exposes the belief on here by some that Russia has unlimited weapons despite dipping into 60's stockpiles.

They are getting to the bottom of the barrel in some items like tanks and towed artillery. All still very deadly, but there has to come to a point when they are pulling the parade T34 and there's literally nothing left (bar the few modern tanks rolling off the production line, which cannot keep up with the loss rate)

Russia seems to be sending men forward with the life expectancy of a day. I wouldn't say the logistics for those meat waves is that much.

No but they will need them all the same. Might buy Ukraine a bit of time not much but a bit.

That's the thing about it though thankfully. It's a feature of the system. Not a bug.

It all comes down to free media. Imagine the absolute scandal in the media if an American military operation ended the way Russian ones do 4 times a week. Where a convoy of armored vehicles stumbles into a minefield and then proceeds to get deleted by artillery and FPV drones. A dozen APC's destroyed a hundred American casualties.

Or that there was widespread theft of parts and skimping on material.

Or heaven forbid that LLoyd Austin organised a mutiny run on Washington, shot down a few planes, backed down, was posted in Canada and subsequently assassinated 2 months later.

Or any of the other ridiculousness going on in the Russian military

It'd be a national embarrassment. High ranking officials would be losing their jobs or more likely their freedom. Biden would have to answer for it and probably step down.

These scenarios don't really exist in the US or normal democracies with functioning militaries. Because of free media. But of course Putin can't have free media or really the actual truth become norms in Russias public space. Because if it did he'd be hung from a lamppost. Remove the corruption and the dictatorship dissolves.

Biden needs to let Ukraine take the gloves off. It's absolutely scandalous.

Eastern European and Scandinavian leaders who are giving a much higher percentage of their GDP in terms of weapons to Ukraine.

I still reckon Mirage's will end up in Ukraine