Keep in mind...that it took less than a year from D-Day to Hitler's death...
This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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AP story about continued efforts to train enlisted men for the Ukrainian Army. AP was granted access to a French training facility where the instructors splattered animal remains around in order to create a more realistic setting of trench clearing.
https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-war-france-military-f70fb490a8e4fd5ea472e3d81de7a176
https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-war-france-military-f70fb490a8e4fd5ea472e3d81de7a176
Well, time to send in the French Foreign Legion
agree. Sadly, I think what it will take for sustained support at current levels is if Putin is more effective this winter destroying the power grid creating a humanitarian crisis.
Other than the chance to get high, what other perks are there to serving in a Russian unit? Sadistic commanders, poor equipment and food, little training, poor care and support if you are injured. Might as well smashed on heroin when you buy it.
It's unanswerable, perhaps. Could the West have pushed in one more high level platform? Short of stripping a US reserve wing I don't know that useable jets were available right away. The training of pilots and crews, establishing a supply chain. Settling on a more available platform? Maybe that would have helped. For sure the identification of pilots and initial training was drug out too long.
The point is valid. If the West had been able to push in air power then Crimea would either be back under control, or occupied but unusable for the Russians.
I did not mean to imply all of the f-16s would have come from us, or that they would get our best ones. I didn't even really mean f-16s per se. I should have said NATO jets.
Speaker Mike Johnson floats confiscating Russian assets to fund Ukraine war aid: 'It would be pure poetry'
It's the latest bid by the new speaker to offset foreign aid spending after he passed a bill using IRS funding to fund $14.3 billion in Israel aid.
www.businessinsider.com
Yep, the battle line is more or less the same as it was at the start of 2023
To be fair though, Germany was being squeezed by the two most powerful countries on earth, that had total control of the air. And the allies lost hundreds of thousands of men to do it which Ukraine probably cannot call up or spare.
Ukraine admits they have gone to a style of warfare that cuts down on their casualties. Just hope the West has the courage to stick it out.
I too fear the lack of progress. It is still my hope that at some point the Russians will reach a tipping point and collapse on at least one of their fronts.
May be rerun
"Russia's military roasting #Russia is number 2, no one recognizes number 1Russian troops, with the support of armored vehicles, attacked #Staromlynivsk , area #Donetsk . The 58th Mechanized Infantry Division of #Ukraine destroyed most of the enemy, armored vehicles were seen abandoning their comrades."
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"Russian YouTuber Askhabali Alibekov, better known under the pseudonym “Wild Paratrooper,” was released from a colony where he served time for repeatedly “discrediting” the army, and immediately turned to the subscriber who met him with a request to remove his official statement.“There are more than 200 Ukrainian hostages in this camp, who were brought here by force and are being held hostage. Ukrainians. Citizens of Ukraine. They were brought from the Kherson region. They were not given any status. They are told that we supposedly saved them. These people asked me for help so that I could report this,”- said Alibekov.It would be good to check this information with the Red Cross and other Kukold organizations; if this is true, then this is clearly another war crime committed by Russia."
"Russia's military roasting #Russia is number 2, no one recognizes number 1Russian troops, with the support of armored vehicles, attacked #Staromlynivsk , area #Donetsk . The 58th Mechanized Infantry Division of #Ukraine destroyed most of the enemy, armored vehicles were seen abandoning their comrades."
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"Russian YouTuber Askhabali Alibekov, better known under the pseudonym “Wild Paratrooper,” was released from a colony where he served time for repeatedly “discrediting” the army, and immediately turned to the subscriber who met him with a request to remove his official statement.“There are more than 200 Ukrainian hostages in this camp, who were brought here by force and are being held hostage. Ukrainians. Citizens of Ukraine. They were brought from the Kherson region. They were not given any status. They are told that we supposedly saved them. These people asked me for help so that I could report this,”- said Alibekov.It would be good to check this information with the Red Cross and other Kukold organizations; if this is true, then this is clearly another war crime committed by Russia."
Sounds like great news if it happens.
Uh oh-it has dropped to 30 already
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It's actually 60 units. 30 by the end of the year and another 30 by mid-24
Uh oh-it has dropped to 30 already
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It's actually 60 units. 30 by the end of the year and another 30 by mid-24
"Comrades, quickly get into this armored vehicle to be safe from the Uka drones.Drone Uka:- Hello comrades, I'm here!!!"
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The HORT counterintelligence section isn't as intelligent as they think they are.
Divisions can be different sizes but this has to be at least 4 divisions worth of soldiers.
No translation but Russians getting hit.
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Trump cult members don’t read Applebaum’s stuff.
Beat me to it. Hopefully the Jordanians have a crap load of ammo to ship with them. Isn’t there some hang up with Switzerland? I seem to recall they make the ammo needed, and won’t supply it, which puts a pinch on other manufacturers.Sounds like great news if it happens.
Uh oh-it has dropped to 30 already
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It's actually 60 units. 30 by the end of the year and another 30 by mid-24
The NATO F-16 training facility in Romania was just officially opened. If you do the Google it’s easy to lurk the base just to the west of Fetesti- gara. Lots of new construction at the site. Nice to have these new partners with lots of space available and cheap labor to build new facilities.
FYI, if you go to the East there is an active NATO base by Mihail to look at, too.
Eventually Ukrainian pilots will be trained there.
news.yahoo.com
FYI, if you go to the East there is an active NATO base by Mihail to look at, too.
Eventually Ukrainian pilots will be trained there.
Training center for Ukrainian F-16 pilots opens in Romania
The training center for Ukrainian pilots to learn how to fly F-16 fighter jets has officially opened in Romania, Romanian Defense Minister Angel Tilvar announced on Nov. 13.
Yep and Germany eventually gave up trying to get them to change their mind. Every couple of months the Swiss say they may change their rules for this special situation but it is just talk to get people off of their backs.
Kyiv said to be considering dismissal of army commanders
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense is considering dismissing three commanders of the armed forces, Ukrainian news outlet Ukrainska Pravda reported Tuesday, citing unnamed sources in Ukraine’s military and political leadership.According to the sources, Ukraine’s Defense Minister Rustem Umerov is preparing to dismiss Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, who is in charge of one of the fronts of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, and Serhii Naiev, commander of Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, along with another army chief.
Ukraine war live updates: Kyiv said to be considering dismissal of army commanders; Russian troops punished for drink and drugs
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense is considering dismissing three commanders of the armed forces, Ukrainian news outlet Ukrainska Pravda reported Tuesday.
Zelenskiy says Russian frontline attacks rising; Germany says EU won’t meet 1m pieces of ammo target
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has said Russia is increasing its attacks across the frontline, AFP reports.
Neither side has made any significant territorial gain for months, but both Zelenskiy and the Kremlin have denied the conflict has ground to a stalemate.
“The military reported an increase in the number of enemy assaults,” Zelenskiy wrote on Telegram on Tuesday, saying Russian forces were attacking around Donetsk, Kupiansk and Avdiivka.
“The enemy continues to take revenge on the free Kherson, shelling the city centre without any military necessity,” he added.
Zelenskiy has said Russia is likely to increase airstrikes against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure before winter, as it did last year.
Ukrainian troops secure foothold in south, says senior official – as it happened
Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of staff says Ukraine’s forces established on Dnipro’s east bank in Kherson region
But maybe if she published it under the pen name "Bell O'Really" with the title "Killing Putin", they would lap it up.
What are the odds of these approval rates dropping, if the US stops supporting Ukraine?
2023 Global study.
What are the odds of these approval rates dropping, if the US stops supporting Ukraine?
Wait until a Republican is in the WH.
