This plays out much better with Yakety-Sax background music...
This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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Some say from summer FWIW.
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"They say the devil has the best tunes. Russia definitively proves this is not true"
I would love to shoot a Ma Deuce someday.
That is some hellaciously accurate artillery.
Except, Russian controlled areas all the way down to Crimea depend on water from that reservoir.
The joke is on those kids. At the rate things are going Putin will need to call them up by June.
May be a repeat if so I like the added comments.
Interesting story I saw on several sites about 5000 pregnant Russian women who have fled to Argentina to have their babies. Russia continues to lose its best hope for the future before they are even born.
www.bbc.com
5,000 pregnant Russians seek Argentine passports - BBC News
The women are trying to ensure their children obtain Argentinian citizenship, officials say.
www.bbc.com
I’m like everyone, I go back and forth on the daily death count. But comments like this suggest that the low quality of the fresh soldiers, with equally poor leadership, equipment, and concern from higher level officers is creating a death storm for the Russians.
Be safe, brave ones. Choose your shots well.
Loss of artillery and MLRS systems make me happy as well. They are used against civilians in an attempt to break the collective will.
Up to this point… FAIL.
Just to pile on to the comments above, in many ways the equipment losses are as brutal as the men. Especially knowing how they will be slow to replace the equipment that has been proven to already be woefully inadequate and outdated. Russia is in a real bad spot. There is no catching up to the west for decades and likely ever.
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Good lord.
They will be writing 100s of books at how overrated the Russian military was and why they were so staggeringly unprepared.
They will be writing 100s of books at how overrated the Russian military was and why they were so staggeringly unprepared.
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It’s crazy how we are basically watching this play out in real time. I just thought about how much “imbedding” reporters in Kuwait seemed to gives us real life updates in comparison to the coverage from the ‘Nam.
Obviously, not the same impact, as the cell phone era has brought forth amazing details.
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If someone cobbles together all of the footage from phones and drones, it could make for an amazing documentary series (once Ukraine wins).
I haven’t been reading every post the last few days, but I read that a Ukrainian higher up complaining that we do not provide longer range missiles, because Ukraine does not want to waste HIMARS rounds, and it only fires them if they receive coordinates from us. If true, and we give them a rocket and tell them exactly where to point it, and all they do is pull the trigger, then Russia has to know that too. If that is where we are at, I don’t see how longer ranged rockets are a problem. Or jets or tanks.
Yep. We need to give Ukraine whatever it takes to assure their victory.
Putin has to lose.
Agreed. I also think a lot of this is not surprising. They have been getting all our intel and input from a targeting standpoint. There is no other way to explain how accurate and fast and brilliantly operated they have been with the long range equipment from day one.
Overrated!! Overrated!! Overrated!!
"Here's this missile for you guys. Program in whatever coordinates you want, but there might be something super-kewl to destroy at 48.6035548 / 37.9653062 right now. Totally you guys' call, tho!!!
Have fun!!!"
The part of the equation thats alway missing is this….
(Ukraine "also continues to suffer a high attrition rate", the UK said.)
We have no accurate data on this front. Makes it almost impossible for us armchair quarterbacks to get a real read of the situation.
Russian soldier death rate highest since first week of war - Ukraine - BBC News
Unverified Ukrainian data shows 824 dying per day - the UK says the trends are "likely accurate".
www.bbc.com
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Historically, attackers have needed a 3-to-1 manpower advantage to successfully conduct an offensive. Ukraine is also dug in and has “home field advantage.”The part of the equation thats alway missing is this….
(Ukraine "also continues to suffer a high attrition rate", the UK said.)
We have no accurate data on this front. Makes it almost impossible for us armchair quarterbacks to get a real read of the situation.
Russian soldier death rate highest since first week of war - Ukraine - BBC News
Unverified Ukrainian data shows 824 dying per day - the UK says the trends are "likely accurate".
I would back of napkin their losses at around one-third of Russia’s, so in the 50k-60k range. That does not include civilians.
