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This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...

A good piece on how far behind we've fallen on having the infrastructure in place to support a Big War, the steps we are taking to correct that, and how important Ukraine has been to teach us a lesson in what is necessary to prepare for a war with China.

To the extent our military can be deemed to have been sleeping, the giant has awakened. Bad news for china.
 
FWIW

"It is being alleged that the Russian attack helicopters are patrolling the shoreline from Novoazovs'k in the east & supposedly all the way down to Kherson. Russia is poss expecting a seaborne assault from Ukrainian forces."

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That is a really strange and desperate mindset. Pootie is all in, full speed ahead, damn the torpedos. I never would have expected his inability to see the follies/failures of the orc tactics.
It really shows how desperate he is to hide the effects of the war. Earlier there was a story about using special forces as infantry and now this…
 
Looking at Google maps, this area of Ukraine presents a possible path straight to Crimea. One of the things I have wondered, knowing that the coming UA offensive will be undermanned:

If you are Ukraine do you go straight for the Crimean crown jewels to put as much pressure on Russia as possible? Feint like you are going to attack the eastern oblasts and instead move south. Get a bunch of forces squatting in northern Crimea where artillery can hit any Russian military position? That gives you the most leverage in peace talks, kicks out the Russian civilians. It is probably the riskiest strategy as the Dnipro crossing is no joke for a huge force (not sure they have the boats, bridges etc to even attempt), but presents the greatest chance to ratchet up pressure inside Russia.

If so, putting recon elements where they just did would be part of the opening gambit I assume.
The Ukrainians are undoubtedly on the south side of the river, especially on the spit of land that juts out into the Black Sea. The connecting area to the Crimean Peninsula is very marshy and broken up. There are two decent land approaches, one on each side. Each one has several bridges along its length. I’m sure Ukraine wants to punch down, cut access, and then hope a lot of Russians flee. And, as I keep harping, we need to give longer range rockets to pound the many Russian bases there.
My rose colored glasses tell me there aren’t as many battle ready Russian soldiers manning the South as we think. Probably a lot of poorly armed, unmotivated conscripts. What is worrying is the multiple air bases with fixed wing and helicopters that you can see via Google Earth. Gotta pound them hard.
 
A good piece on how far behind we've fallen on having the infrastructure in place to support a Big War, the steps we are taking to correct that, and how important Ukraine has been to teach us a lesson in what is necessary to prepare for a war with China.

Nice to see on Google Earth that the Scranton PD is adjacent to that plant. I really hope that the clowns in Middletown are being vigilant about security. Talk about a crippling blow if the Russians could disable either facility. And, that could be a cyber attack, sabotage on a rail line…
 
Great explosion.

"And the series of failures of the Russian bear continues The Russians think they are working with a block press and I am not stupider than this They are drying mines before they plant them"

 
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