This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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Kompromat of a russian general who looks to have filmed himself dancing naked for a catfisher. This makes me wonder what the russians have on some of our politicians.
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Things are going to warm up in the Russian trenches.
it has always amazed me that these dropped grenades can hit right next to a Russian and they can get up and run away. I am sure they are hurt or injured, but often not killed.
So 14 Leopards from Poland so far.
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I agree. Even though it’ll take a while…we need to laying the groundwork. Pilot/maintainer training. Maybe give them a couple airframes so their own newly trained maintenance folks can train their own folks at one of their operational airfields. That way they wouldn’t have to send all their maintenance folks off the flight line and provide training while they’re still working the MIGs they have. It can be done we just need to get started.
Maybe we have an its just not public.
Have a couple buddies that work at the F-35 schoolhouse on Eglin and that’s basically how it’s done on the maintenance side. Train a corps group….they go back and train their folks with help from the Lockheed guys…
Use their first few airframes as training platforms essentially
It is a critical issue, but at least I think we have good people looking for solutions.Came across this article....it's from a couple weeks back.
It looks like the "west" has answered the call the last couple weeks but the article is pretty sobering. Very important couple months ahead....
Unless the West agrees and also speeds up the delivery of the tanks, Ukraine is in danger of losing the war against Russia this summer – “losing” in the sense that Russia is expected to surge its military efforts with a fresh call up and threatens to overwhelm Ukraine’s heroic forces, complete it capture of greater Donbas region, when Russian President Vladimir Putin can declare a victory and freeze the conflict. Ukraine is already running low on the critically important ammunition, especaily 155mm arrtillery shells, and a potential ammunition crissi is looming.
More help needs to be delievered right now. Ukraine has a window of opportunity in these next two months to strike a hammer blow against Russia’s forces, which are currently of poor quality, undersupplied and undermanned at the front, as it has taken a six month defensive stand as it trains its new recruits and waits for its factories to manufacture more arms. Tanks and planes could break lines and possibly repeat the rout in Kharkiv last September. If Ukraine waits until summer to launch a counteroffensive it will almost certainly face a much bigger, better trained and supplied Russian army. Tanks, planes and modern offensive missiles could make all the difference.
After a year of fighting both sides are becoming exhausted, but Russia has already brought an extra 300,000 conscripts to the fight with a partial mobilisation that started on September 21 and could add an additional half a million men, or more, in the widely anticipated mass mobilisation that all signs suggest will start sometime in March.
Manpower is going to make a big difference. Without the powerful modern western offensive weapons, the war in Ukraine increasingly looks like something out of WWII; troops cower in trenches as artillery pounds both sides’ positions causing a steady stream of deaths. There is little footage of high tech “bunker busters” that filled screens during the Iraq war. In this set up another half a million men, even of low fighting quality, could prove decisive.
To add to the problems, while Russia has already long since started to put its economy on a war footing, as bne IntelliNews reported, Ukraine is running out of ammunition, as the West has yet to invest into expanding its munitions production. The US has donated around one million of the crucial 155mm artillery shells, but it can only produce 100,000 a year, according to a recent study. Ukraine is currently firing off in a day what the US can produce in a month.
An ammunition shortage is looming and reports from the frontline by bne IntelliNews’ reporters and others is that Ukraine is already being forced to ration its shells. While more shells are available from the likes of US allies in South Korea and Israel, probably enough to get to the end of this year, the lack of ammunition is already starting to tell on Ukraine’s ability to resist a Russian onslaught.
Igor Zhovkva, Deputy Head of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskiy’s office, told Bloomberg the country’s stocks are “almost zero” in an interview on February 10. Intense fighting in Ukraine means that its military is running out of ammunition, with stocks not being replenished in time, Zhovkva said.
Zhovkva lamented that “now we are having like almost zero ammunition,” a situation that makes it harder for the Ukrainian military to respond to Russian shelling. “We are running [out] of the ammunition very quickly because the fights are intensive,” he said, adding that Russia has more firepower.
He also said the West needs to send more arms, including long-range missiles to “de-occupy Ukrainian territory,” as opposed to hitting targets inside Russia.
According to Zhovkva, this type of weaponry would be crucial to launch a counteroffensive against Moscow’s forces. Commenting on the military aid already provided by the West, Zhovkva said that it was “too late, too little, and too slow.”
KYIV BLOG: Ukraine might lose the war this summer unless West gives it more offensive weapons now
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been travelling to London, France and Brussels in recent days to plead with the west to give him more ...www.intellinews.com
I also think that the possible mobilization, war footing, and offensive by Russia is overstated. I do not want to sound dismissive, but Russia has had decades to prepare for war, and their military is a mess. A God awful mess. They have critical failures in training, equipping, morale, logistics, reliability of their equipment, leadership... I cannot see them somehow improving all of these areas, if any. The country is corrupt. I doubt that they can outproduce Ukraine. Their economy is stumbling badly, and the pressure is increasing on the general population. There is no reliable economic data coming out of Russia, but it is clear they are struggling to keep day to day services going, and they are disgorging gold and hard currency reserves. Their oil is selling well, but they are doing it at a discount, and every illegal shipment is at a lower rate, and requires up front costs. 500,000 men on top of 300,000, on top of previous mobilizations have critical impacts on their ability to govern, keep their economy going, and keep order in the streets.
I doubt that if these mass mobilized soldiers show up they will be credible on the battlefield, much less sweep across Ukraine and topple to government. And, Ukraine is not going to simply run out of arms. They will be forced to fight differently. They have the will, and motivation to fight. It is up to the West to keep up the flow of weaponry. I keep telling the folks of GIAOT this, and I sincerely mean it. Contact your representatives, and express why supporting Ukraine is so critical to the US, on top of the morale imperative to oppose tyranny and mass murder.
Edit: On top of the mobilizations and the dead, I forgot the hundreds of thousands of young Russians who have fled the country with their skills, upward mobility and money.
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I agree for the most part but as a note of caution…the Russian military was a mess during the Finland invasion in 1940. They were a hot mess during the initial stages of Barbarossa and really didn’t get their shit together until late 1942.
Took what looked like unsurvivable losses in the process.
Not a totally apt comparison because it was mother Russia getting invaded and they had western support.
If you want to kill a few hours on Google Earth, look up Polish air bases on the internet, and then scout them out. This news about tanks is so indicative of how badly Putin has screwed up. Poland is turning itself into the strongest military in Europe minus nukes. Check out the new hardware at their air bases. There's one in central Poland that appears to have been completely rebuilt from it's Soviet era beginnings. Supposedly it's where their F-35s will be based. Near Gdansk is a base with F-16s, right across the Baltic from the Russian base in Kaliningrad.
The same goes for Romania. Check out all the improvements they are doing. Massive infrastructure improvements, and new weapons. New bases in Greece. New partners with advanced arms in Finland and Sweden.
Putin is grinding his military into dust while NATO strengthens all around Russia.
They lost 20 million men in WW2, or something like that. And, they actually wanted to fight that war. The grunts up front knew they were fighting Germany to save themselves. You can only lie so much about Nazis in Ukraine.
Starting to look eerily familiar to the build up over one year ago…
And though Russia has most of the population, there were a lot of people in the old Soviet Union who will now no longer be fed into the Russian army.
Exactly, the TV personality, with cameras surrounding him at all times, and probably a couple of iPhones, didn’t think to have him say it again into the camera.
And you’re right, reminds me of how Trump always drops in, “they’re all saying”. But you never hear anybody really saying, what he says that everyone is saying.
Interesting comment on Lib TV today about Zelensky wanting to meet Xi, and the US making repeated comments about how China should not provide lethal aid to Russia. Xi is going to want lucrative contracts to rebuild Ukraine, or some Chinese involvement. That can be easily blocked, or green lighted.
Western leaders aren't doing photo opportunities in Ukraine for shits and giggles right now. There's an ass-kicking coming Russia's way and they're all lining up to see who gets to stand closest to Zalenskyy, Soviet-style indicating importance, when the ass-kicking is done. The weapons are there, the training is done, and this Moldova attempt by Putin will likely be preempted by western intelligence imo. It's just a matter of waiting for the weather to allow for it
Oh you are totally right. I am trying so hard to find stuff not made in China. It's almost impossible.
Menards is a shitty company that treats workers badly anyway and is a terrible corporate citizen.
Slaves for big money at Menards
My dear wife and I love Menards. We go there all the time. One of our favorite things is the usually twice-annual promotion offering a discount -- say 14%, or 17% -- on however much you can fit into a paper shopping bag. We stock up on light bulbs, batteries, laundry detergent, cleaning...
Menard's contract threatens managers with 60% pay cut if union forms on their watch
The longstanding rumor gained credence when the Progressive obtained a copy of a contract agreement.captimes.com
Didn't know.
It's out there, you just end up paying more for it. You're not getting any deals buying American, but I'm ok with that vs the alternative
I know nobody wants to make this a larger war.....but I feel like the Russian people should feel the pain that Ukrainians are feeling.
I wonder if this is the previously linked refinery attack.
Even more on the refinery attack.
75KG is 165 pounds of explosives.
75KG is 165 pounds of explosives.
This really does look like something out of Star Wars.
