Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

They can sabre rattle all they want. Once exposed as just that they will soon be kissing up to Azerbaijan as they realise they can't wield influence over them as they might have liked -

The second army in Ukraine…

The suggestion made at the time was that the Crimean defences were almost entirely dependent on two secure supply routes - the Kerch bridge and the long overland coastal route. Well, there was also the option of bringing in supplies by sea, but seeing as Ukraine has chased the Black Sea Fleet out of Sevastopol, shipping solutions would be … vulnerable.

Again, the suggested strategy I read was to start with an old-fashioned siege, crippling local infrastructure and economy, and progressively degrading the military presence on the peninsula. In the time since I read that article, Ukraine has demonstrated that it's perfectly capable of using drones to disrupt supply routes and repeatedly target key military infrastructure.

As it is, we're seeing a pattern of air defence systems in Crimea being destroyed just before Ukraine decides to fly a fleet of drones and missiles into southern Russia, i.e. they can do it as and when they want. So having run the Black Sea Fleet out of the region, Ukraine would seem to be not far off having control of the sky over Crimea too. With a decoy "thunder run" across the Dnieper to draw troops towards the north of the peninsula, an amphibious assault backed up by massive drone support might not be the same kind of slugfest as in previous conflicts.

Even if they did take all of Luhansk, this is after 3 and a half years of fighting and very little else to show for it and the Vatnik Turds economy is at serious risk of a catastrophic collapse. What gets forgotten is that Ukraine has adopted a strategy of corrosion, instead of trying to overpower them they'll outlast them and Russia has burned through nearly all of its reserves bar meat at this point. The economy is the key factor, if the Russian economy finally implodes once its financial reserves run out this WILL begin a chain reaction of failure that will either force Putin out of this war or his forces strait up disintegrate once the rubble drops that they aint getting paid anymore and they all quit or turn their guns on HIM. Ukraine just needs to keep doing what they're doing, hit their military centers, critical supply depots and manufacturing and every asset in range. Sooner or later something in Vatnik Russia will give out and it will all come collapsing down on Putrid.

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The silver lining is that if US military aid disappears, so too do the accompanying restrictions and red lines, eg on targeting Russian energy infrastructure.

I don't know if all the kowtowing and stroking of Trump's giant ego by European politicians (incl. our own!) and the NATO Secretary General achieves much in the end.

I suppose it can be argued that things would be deteriorating in US-European/Ukraine relations even faster (e.g. there would have been some destructive public blow up at that recent NATO summit) if they didn't fawn all over him and prostrate themselves.

I agree. Behaving any other way would have lost him completely

From my experience of psychopaths, they will go after one small but even significant thing and achieve their objective but having completely ignored the BIG picture where they would have gained much more. Or/and achieve a success for THEMSELVES on some small thing , say, within a company, and lose sight/ completely ignore the much bigger picture of company survival which might be bankrupt because of their small success.

Trump does not like VZ so will not sell him arms and , in doing so there is double satisfaction in that he is helping his friend Putin . But the bigger picture is that the US arms industry is losing out on sales AND It ‘ENCOURAGES’ other arms producers to up production, innovate, etc.

IMO , the above is as clear as the noses on our faces

The US arms manufacturers are already suffering their growth has been anemic as not many trust to purchase from them

Boeing +14% in 5 years

Lockheed +20% in 5 years

Rheinmetal +2200% in 5 years

Same for the US energy industry many of whom are loudly grumbling that they were better off under Democrats, the same industry which can boom again if only Trump ever decides to sanction his Daddy in Kremlin, but he won’t

It’s Kremlin First, Americans Last

Wonderful opportunity for the EU to draw Putrid a red line and say 'if you do this, we will deploy EU aircraft and troops to help defend Ukraine. But EU leaders are both stupid and cowards. Not standing up the Orc aggression in the past lead to the invasion of Ukraine - I have no confidence they will ever learn. While Boris Johnson has a great many faults and is/was hard to take in several ways, he's about the only ex/leader in Europe who got it and had the steel to do something aggressive enough about it.

I'd ask SK if they want to send some troops to Ukraine to get some skills and experience that they are going to sorely need very soon, the way things are headed with dear fatso. They are decades out of practice and would be extremely foolish to not take this opportunity the way NK is.

When putrid's regime tumbles and his body is hanging from a lamp post, people are going to be astounded at the speed of the collapse. This war is costing them a small fortune each month with no end in sight. At some point the wealth reserve runs dry, inflation kicks in and the economy crumbles. At that point the ruzzians will lose the will to fight on and all occupied territory will go back to Ukraine without a fight, mark my words.

i think there was no other way to deal with donnie,either stroke his c…whoops erm…ego or have him hop on his plane and feck off while at the same time blowing up his twit machine saying how trully awful,horrible people they are in europe…maybe we in europe should give him a plane too?