This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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Like I was saying...
In the first major legislative action under new Speaker Mike Johnson, House of Representatives Republicans unveiled a standalone supplemental spending bill only for Israel on Monday.
This is despite President Joe Biden's request for a $106 billion package that would include aid for Israel and Ukraine and funding to boost competition with China in the Indo-Pacific as well as security along the U.S. border with Mexico.
Republicans have a 221-212 majority in the House, but Biden's fellow Democrats control the Senate 51-49. To become law, the bill would have to pass both the House and Senate and be signed by Biden.
www.reuters.com
WASHINGTON, Oct 31 (Reuters) - U.S. senators from both parties voiced doubts on Tuesday about House Republicans' plan to provide $14.3 billion in aid to Israel by cutting Internal Revenue Service funding, without providing aid to Ukraine, and Democratic President Joe Biden threatened to veto the bill were it to pass.
In the first major legislative action under new Speaker Mike Johnson, House of Representatives Republicans unveiled a standalone supplemental spending bill only for Israel on Monday.
This is despite President Joe Biden's request for a $106 billion package that would include aid for Israel and Ukraine and funding to boost competition with China in the Indo-Pacific as well as security along the U.S. border with Mexico.
Republicans have a 221-212 majority in the House, but Biden's fellow Democrats control the Senate 51-49. To become law, the bill would have to pass both the House and Senate and be signed by Biden.
US House Republicans' Israel-only aid bill opposed in Senate, by Biden
U.S. senators from both parties voiced doubts about a plan to provide $14.3 billion in aid to Israel by cutting Internal Revenue Service funding, without providing aid to Ukraine. President Biden threatened to veto the bill were it to pass.
No biggie. Just our own military readiness impacted by another GOP idiot that the party refuses to rein in...
Did I claim it as 'my work'? I believe I supplied the proper links.
What I think is the solution: non-interventionist foreign policy, ZERO dollars going to foreign governments, disband the CIA (who make it their business to determine how foreign governments are run and who runs them), free and friendly trade with ALL nations...entangling alliances with NONE.
Doesn't matter. Nothing will ever change.
Attached story says the Marines are getting some of the new ones.
"The #Ukraine receives 40 armored vehicles #français AMX-10RC In recent weeks, the AMX-10RC is said to be used in combat operations again. Ukraine received an additional batch of 40 of these armored vehicles."
"The Ukrainian 37th Marine Separate Brigade has come into possession of an impressive 40 French AMX-10RC wheeled combat reconnaissance vehicles. These fortified machines, designed for recon and combat, have recently been delivered from France.
The AMX-10RC’s initial engagement on Ukrainian soil was less than stellar due to flawed tactical execution in their deployment. This unsuccessful advent saw four of the vehicles lost, one of which was seized by Russian forces and later exhibited in Patriot Park. Consequently, these French combat vehicles were relegated to the second line. However, within weeks, evidence of their reintroduction began to surface, notably in the form of indirect fire operations. (More)
https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2023/...-amx-10rcs-to-kyiv-are-for-ukrainian-marines/
"The #Ukraine receives 40 armored vehicles #français AMX-10RC In recent weeks, the AMX-10RC is said to be used in combat operations again. Ukraine received an additional batch of 40 of these armored vehicles."
"The Ukrainian 37th Marine Separate Brigade has come into possession of an impressive 40 French AMX-10RC wheeled combat reconnaissance vehicles. These fortified machines, designed for recon and combat, have recently been delivered from France.
The AMX-10RC’s initial engagement on Ukrainian soil was less than stellar due to flawed tactical execution in their deployment. This unsuccessful advent saw four of the vehicles lost, one of which was seized by Russian forces and later exhibited in Patriot Park. Consequently, these French combat vehicles were relegated to the second line. However, within weeks, evidence of their reintroduction began to surface, notably in the form of indirect fire operations. (More)
https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2023/...-amx-10rcs-to-kyiv-are-for-ukrainian-marines/
Well, I had ask for your thoughts and you posted something not by you.
What do we do with this?
Ukraine reports most extensive Russian shelling this year
Russia has shelled more than 100 settlements within the last 24 hours, more than in any single day so far this year, Ukraine said on Wednesday.Moscow has fired millions of shells on cities, towns and villages since it launched its full-scale invasion last February, reducing several to rubble across the eastern part of the country, according to Agence France-Presse.
“Over the last 24 hours, the enemy shelled 118 settlements in 10 regions,” Ukraine’s interior minister, Igor Klymenko, said on social media.
“This is the highest number of cities and villages that have come under attack since the start of the year,” he added.
These claims have not yet been independently verified.
- Ukraine’s commander-in-chief said the war with Russia was moving to a new stage of positional warfare involving static and attritional fighting, a phase he warned could benefit Moscow.
- The Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, told a prank caller posing as an African leader that there was “a lot of tiredness” over the war in Ukraine and that she had some ideas up her sleeve on how to “find a way out”.
- More than 260 civilians have been killed in Ukraine after stepping on mines or other explosives during the 20-month-old war with Russia, Ukraine’s military said.
- Russia has shelled more than 100 settlements within the last 24 hours, more than in any single day so far this year, Ukraine said on Wednesday.
- A Russian attack on Kherson in eastern Ukraine killed one person and injured two others, the region’s governor said earlier, with a Russian drone strike reportedly killing another civilian in Nikopol. These claims have not been independently verified.
- South Korea’s top spy agency believes North Korea sent more than a million artillery shells to Russia since August to help fuel Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine, according to a lawmaker.
- Russia launched a score of drones and a missile in an overnight attack that targeted military and critical infrastructure, Ukraine’s air force said, while regional officials said the Kremenchuk oil refinery was hit.
Russia-Ukraine war: Ukraine reports most extensive Russian shelling of the year – as it happened
More than 100 settlements hit in the past 24 hours, Kyiv says
Maybe proof of the 1 million shells from N Korea. Wish there was something the West could do to intimidate N Korea from keeping this up. Hope the railroad bridges carrying all these munitions start to blow up.Ukraine reports most extensive Russian shelling this year
Russia has shelled more than 100 settlements within the last 24 hours, more than in any single day so far this year, Ukraine said on Wednesday.
Moscow has fired millions of shells on cities, towns and villages since it launched its full-scale invasion last February, reducing several to rubble across the eastern part of the country, according to Agence France-Presse.
“Over the last 24 hours, the enemy shelled 118 settlements in 10 regions,” Ukraine’s interior minister, Igor Klymenko, said on social media.
“This is the highest number of cities and villages that have come under attack since the start of the year,” he added.
These claims have not yet been independently verified.
- Ukraine’s commander-in-chief said the war with Russia was moving to a new stage of positional warfare involving static and attritional fighting, a phase he warned could benefit Moscow.
- The Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, told a prank caller posing as an African leader that there was “a lot of tiredness” over the war in Ukraine and that she had some ideas up her sleeve on how to “find a way out”.
- More than 260 civilians have been killed in Ukraine after stepping on mines or other explosives during the 20-month-old war with Russia, Ukraine’s military said.
- Russia has shelled more than 100 settlements within the last 24 hours, more than in any single day so far this year, Ukraine said on Wednesday.
- A Russian attack on Kherson in eastern Ukraine killed one person and injured two others, the region’s governor said earlier, with a Russian drone strike reportedly killing another civilian in Nikopol. These claims have not been independently verified.
- South Korea’s top spy agency believes North Korea sent more than a million artillery shells to Russia since August to help fuel Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine, according to a lawmaker.
- Russia launched a score of drones and a missile in an overnight attack that targeted military and critical infrastructure, Ukraine’s air force said, while regional officials said the Kremenchuk oil refinery was hit.
Russia-Ukraine war: Ukraine reports most extensive Russian shelling of the year – as it happened
More than 100 settlements hit in the past 24 hours, Kyiv sayswww.theguardian.com
I also saw an article where Ukraine apparently said it is running out of qualified people to operate western equipment. Not great.Ukraine reports most extensive Russian shelling this year
Russia has shelled more than 100 settlements within the last 24 hours, more than in any single day so far this year, Ukraine said on Wednesday.
Moscow has fired millions of shells on cities, towns and villages since it launched its full-scale invasion last February, reducing several to rubble across the eastern part of the country, according to Agence France-Presse.
“Over the last 24 hours, the enemy shelled 118 settlements in 10 regions,” Ukraine’s interior minister, Igor Klymenko, said on social media.
“This is the highest number of cities and villages that have come under attack since the start of the year,” he added.
These claims have not yet been independently verified.
- Ukraine’s commander-in-chief said the war with Russia was moving to a new stage of positional warfare involving static and attritional fighting, a phase he warned could benefit Moscow.
- The Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, told a prank caller posing as an African leader that there was “a lot of tiredness” over the war in Ukraine and that she had some ideas up her sleeve on how to “find a way out”.
- More than 260 civilians have been killed in Ukraine after stepping on mines or other explosives during the 20-month-old war with Russia, Ukraine’s military said.
- Russia has shelled more than 100 settlements within the last 24 hours, more than in any single day so far this year, Ukraine said on Wednesday.
- A Russian attack on Kherson in eastern Ukraine killed one person and injured two others, the region’s governor said earlier, with a Russian drone strike reportedly killing another civilian in Nikopol. These claims have not been independently verified.
- South Korea’s top spy agency believes North Korea sent more than a million artillery shells to Russia since August to help fuel Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine, according to a lawmaker.
- Russia launched a score of drones and a missile in an overnight attack that targeted military and critical infrastructure, Ukraine’s air force said, while regional officials said the Kremenchuk oil refinery was hit.
Russia-Ukraine war: Ukraine reports most extensive Russian shelling of the year – as it happened
More than 100 settlements hit in the past 24 hours, Kyiv says
No expectation that Europe, with their larger economy and larger population, will carry the fight happening on their doorstep in the absence of additional US support?
The Biden administration predicts a deficit of $14,531,000,000,000 over a decade.
Income taxes collected as a percentage of GDP are higher than before the Trump tax rate changes.
From the White House's own budget tables:
The White House estimates for income taxes collected as a percentage of GDP remain above pre-Trump levels through the end of the decade, and higher than all but six years of tax collections since WW2.
"SOF tactical group of the 3rd Separate Regiment destroyed Russian electronic warfare equipment R-934 by MLRS " #HIMARS " in the area of the temporarily occupied village #Svitlodarsk , region of #Donetsk ."
Video from yesterday but this one explains what is happening.
Since they went in disassembled I'd say they're training platforms for maintenance folks.....
That's not how flyable aircraft are moved...at least not F-16's.
Essential to getting the F-16's up and running though...have to get the maintainers trained.
The dreaded S word. To me it's been pretty evident for a couple months now. For all the happy talk the lines have been essentially stagnant all summer. Now we have the rasputista pause...
To link this to the Israel/Hamas conversation...I'd expect calls for a "cease fire" and negotiations to ramp up in the coming weeks in regards to Ukraine. A cease far is obviously a W for Putin as it is for Hamas in the Israel/Hamas war...
Russia’s war with Ukraine has become totally bogged down in the trenches, according to Ukraine’s top general.
And the prospect of a long war gives Vladimir Putin and Russia an advantage, Ukraine’s Army Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny said in a sobering interview with the Economist published Wednesday night.
In the five months since Ukraine launched an eagerly awaited counteroffensive, its troops have advanced only 17 kilometers through heavily fortified and mined Russian defense lines.
The counteroffensive has already disappointed many Ukrainian partners, some of whom are now demanding an end to military aid with the war deadlocked. However, the West’s cautious provision of weapons to Ukraine has allowed the Russians to mobilize thousands and fortify positions in occupied Ukraine, according to Zaluzhny.
“There will most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough,” the commander said.
Western arms supplies have been sufficient to sustain Ukraine in the war, but not enough to allow Kyiv to win. However, the top commander does not complain: “They are not obliged to give us anything, and we are grateful for what we have got, but I am simply stating the facts.”
Zaluzhny acknowledged a mistake in thinking Russia would halt the full-scale invasion after it lost more than 150,000 soldiers killed on the battlefield.
The Kremlin — with its massive human and economic resources — has been treating its soldiers like cheap resources, Zaluzhny said, sending them to die in frontal attacks against artillery, drones and tanks.
The lack of a breakthrough has caused some Ukraine fatigue among many of its formerly strong backers, Zaluzhny said. In the U.S., Republicans have been blocking any further aid for Ukraine until President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy show them a clear strategy to win the war.
Zelenskyy has been urging the democratic world to unite behind Kyiv, but with signs of diminishing returns.
“The American taxpayers have become weary of funding a never-ending stalemate in Ukraine with no vision of victory,” reads a recently published letter to Biden, signed by seven Republican members of the U.S. Congress.
Zaluzhny does have a battefield strategy, however.
According to an accompanying essay he wrote, the key to Ukraine’s possible path out of the current positional warfare is to: gain air superiority; breach mine barriers in depth; increase the effectiveness of counter-battery; create and train the necessary reserves; and build up electronic warfare capabilities.
In short, Zaluzhny said that combining old methods of war with superiority in technological warfare might let Ukraine fight to its strengths of flexibility and nimbleness.
www.politico.eu
The bolded above is the crux of the matter if we're going to look at this in hindsight. Slow rolling air assets basically killed the Ukrainians chances this last summer. Pretty big hole in the "combined arms" approach to warfare. Minus air superiority a breakthrough just wasn't in the cards....
When historians look at this war years from now...this is what they're going to point to...
To link this to the Israel/Hamas conversation...I'd expect calls for a "cease fire" and negotiations to ramp up in the coming weeks in regards to Ukraine. A cease far is obviously a W for Putin as it is for Hamas in the Israel/Hamas war...
Ukraine’s top general: War with Russia has reached stalemate
‘There will most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough,’ says Valery Zaluzhny.Russia’s war with Ukraine has become totally bogged down in the trenches, according to Ukraine’s top general.
And the prospect of a long war gives Vladimir Putin and Russia an advantage, Ukraine’s Army Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny said in a sobering interview with the Economist published Wednesday night.
In the five months since Ukraine launched an eagerly awaited counteroffensive, its troops have advanced only 17 kilometers through heavily fortified and mined Russian defense lines.
The counteroffensive has already disappointed many Ukrainian partners, some of whom are now demanding an end to military aid with the war deadlocked. However, the West’s cautious provision of weapons to Ukraine has allowed the Russians to mobilize thousands and fortify positions in occupied Ukraine, according to Zaluzhny.
“There will most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough,” the commander said.
Western arms supplies have been sufficient to sustain Ukraine in the war, but not enough to allow Kyiv to win. However, the top commander does not complain: “They are not obliged to give us anything, and we are grateful for what we have got, but I am simply stating the facts.”
Zaluzhny acknowledged a mistake in thinking Russia would halt the full-scale invasion after it lost more than 150,000 soldiers killed on the battlefield.
The Kremlin — with its massive human and economic resources — has been treating its soldiers like cheap resources, Zaluzhny said, sending them to die in frontal attacks against artillery, drones and tanks.
The lack of a breakthrough has caused some Ukraine fatigue among many of its formerly strong backers, Zaluzhny said. In the U.S., Republicans have been blocking any further aid for Ukraine until President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy show them a clear strategy to win the war.
Zelenskyy has been urging the democratic world to unite behind Kyiv, but with signs of diminishing returns.
“The American taxpayers have become weary of funding a never-ending stalemate in Ukraine with no vision of victory,” reads a recently published letter to Biden, signed by seven Republican members of the U.S. Congress.
Zaluzhny does have a battefield strategy, however.
According to an accompanying essay he wrote, the key to Ukraine’s possible path out of the current positional warfare is to: gain air superiority; breach mine barriers in depth; increase the effectiveness of counter-battery; create and train the necessary reserves; and build up electronic warfare capabilities.
In short, Zaluzhny said that combining old methods of war with superiority in technological warfare might let Ukraine fight to its strengths of flexibility and nimbleness.
Ukraine’s top general: War with Russia has reached stalemate
‘There will most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough,’ says Valery Zaluzhny.
www.politico.eu
The bolded above is the crux of the matter if we're going to look at this in hindsight. Slow rolling air assets basically killed the Ukrainians chances this last summer. Pretty big hole in the "combined arms" approach to warfare. Minus air superiority a breakthrough just wasn't in the cards....
When historians look at this war years from now...this is what they're going to point to...
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It's nice to have veterans and/or military experts who know what is going on, adding details to these tweets.
To continue....with the huge investment the US/NATO made in regards to Ukraine....why the slow role of air assets? It's obviously a huge hole in Ukrainians capability. Why pump up Ukraine's chances in this last summers offensive when anyone with some military knowledge knows that was a really tough hole for the Ukrainians to overcome....
Just perplexing to me....did we we want them to succeed or not? Was the objective to just give them enough to hold? To bleed Russia and eliminate them as a threat? Sure looks that way...
Some tough questions need to be asked on this front.
Just perplexing to me....did we we want them to succeed or not? Was the objective to just give them enough to hold? To bleed Russia and eliminate them as a threat? Sure looks that way...
Some tough questions need to be asked on this front.
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A stalemate is a loss for Russia. They cannot sustain the cost of the war economically or politically, and even their manpower is not inexhaustible. Not unless the West goes wobbly.The dreaded S word. To me it's been pretty evident for a couple months now. For all the happy talk the lines have been essentially stagnant all summer. Now we have the rasputista pause...
To link this to the Israel/Hamas conversation...I'd expect calls for a "cease fire" and negotiations to ramp up in the coming weeks in regards to Ukraine. A cease far is obviously a W for Putin as it is for Hamas in the Israel/Hamas war...
Ukraine’s top general: War with Russia has reached stalemate
‘There will most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough,’ says Valery Zaluzhny.
Russia’s war with Ukraine has become totally bogged down in the trenches, according to Ukraine’s top general.
And the prospect of a long war gives Vladimir Putin and Russia an advantage, Ukraine’s Army Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny said in a sobering interview with the Economist published Wednesday night.
In the five months since Ukraine launched an eagerly awaited counteroffensive, its troops have advanced only 17 kilometers through heavily fortified and mined Russian defense lines.
The counteroffensive has already disappointed many Ukrainian partners, some of whom are now demanding an end to military aid with the war deadlocked. However, the West’s cautious provision of weapons to Ukraine has allowed the Russians to mobilize thousands and fortify positions in occupied Ukraine, according to Zaluzhny.
“There will most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough,” the commander said.
Western arms supplies have been sufficient to sustain Ukraine in the war, but not enough to allow Kyiv to win. However, the top commander does not complain: “They are not obliged to give us anything, and we are grateful for what we have got, but I am simply stating the facts.”
Zaluzhny acknowledged a mistake in thinking Russia would halt the full-scale invasion after it lost more than 150,000 soldiers killed on the battlefield.
The Kremlin — with its massive human and economic resources — has been treating its soldiers like cheap resources, Zaluzhny said, sending them to die in frontal attacks against artillery, drones and tanks.
The lack of a breakthrough has caused some Ukraine fatigue among many of its formerly strong backers, Zaluzhny said. In the U.S., Republicans have been blocking any further aid for Ukraine until President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy show them a clear strategy to win the war.
Zelenskyy has been urging the democratic world to unite behind Kyiv, but with signs of diminishing returns.
“The American taxpayers have become weary of funding a never-ending stalemate in Ukraine with no vision of victory,” reads a recently published letter to Biden, signed by seven Republican members of the U.S. Congress.
Zaluzhny does have a battefield strategy, however.
According to an accompanying essay he wrote, the key to Ukraine’s possible path out of the current positional warfare is to: gain air superiority; breach mine barriers in depth; increase the effectiveness of counter-battery; create and train the necessary reserves; and build up electronic warfare capabilities.
In short, Zaluzhny said that combining old methods of war with superiority in technological warfare might let Ukraine fight to its strengths of flexibility and nimbleness.
Ukraine’s top general: War with Russia has reached stalemate
‘There will most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough,’ says Valery Zaluzhny.
The bolded above is the crux of the matter if we're going to look at this in hindsight. Slow rolling air assets basically killed the Ukrainians chances this last summer. Pretty big hole in the "combined arms" approach to warfare. Minus air superiority a breakthrough just wasn't in the cards....
When historians look at this war years from now...this is what they're going to point to...
Those are the thoughts that make up my mindset...
Idk what we do with this. That's what happens when you choose sides; you make enemies. If we were a serious country we'd bring our troops home from all over the world (the 100+ countries where we're insuring the peace) and protect our own borders from people like that.
Shoulda heeded the sage advice from long ago to mind our own business. Probably too late now...all empires must end at some point, I guess?
War is entering new stage, Ukraine needs technology – Ukraine's Commander-in-Chief
Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine's Armed Forces, believes that the war with Russia is moving to a new stage: "positional" warfare with static and exhausting battles. To win it, Ukraine needs high technologies.
