We had to because they were too stupid and broke to maintain them. Gives me less than a lot of confidence they are paying to maintain the rest of them properly through to 2024. Their nuclear arsenal managers are every bit as corrupt as the rest of that backwards POS country’s politicians and military branches.
This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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We had to because they were too stupid and broke to maintain them. Gives me less than a lot of confidence they are paying to maintain the rest of them properly through to 2024. Their nuclear arsenal managers are every bit as corrupt as the rest of that backwards POS country’s politicians and military branches.
SIAP-there is a quote supposed to be from a Ukrainian official saying they respect the US input about not hitting the refineries but they have to fight with what they have....which may be a deserved shot at our support these days.
Just posting what Russian propaganda is saying now.
The U.S. has stopped 250+ terror watchlist members trying to cross at the southern border in 2023-24. Just think how many we missed. I’m sure all the guys we missed are just here looking for work not trying to attack a Taylor Swift concert.
Eff Russia.
I don’t like them. Not one bit.
I don’t like them. Not one bit.
We still have nukes in turkey.
Just sayin.
Yes, now but we did remove them at that time. Both sides declared victory and moved on, Kennedy proposing a joint lunar project and Kruscheve going to accept until Kennedy was killed, possibly for that very reason.
Ukraine should do what they need to do. Especially considering Congress is holding up aid.
That building must have been important-I think that was 3 consecutive hits.
I was thinking the same thing. You don't waste three missiles on one spot unless it is vital.
How stupid does Russia have to be to keep their ships in harms way?! I like their new Admiral
"A video that circulated on social media last week (Dec 2023) depicts a T-62 with explosive reactive armor blocks, an anti-drone cage and front-mounted mine-plows. The 60-year-old, but upgraded, tank reportedly belongs to one of the Russian brigades and regiments deployed around the ruins of Marinka in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region.
If there’s a downside to these add-ons, it’s that the T-62s all apparently still have their original 620-horsepower diesel engines, which produce much less power than a modern tank engine produces. An improved T-62 also is a heavier and slower T-62.
It’s obvious why the Russian army in Ukraine is heaping armor and mine-clearing gear onto its aging T-62s, even at the cost of the tanks’ mobility. Every tank on the 600-mile front line in Ukraine, whether Russian or Ukrainian, is vulnerable to artillery strikes, drones and mines. Especially mines.
One open question is the tanks’ habitability. After losing a thousand of its best tanks in the first few months of its now-22-month wider war on Ukraine, and struggling to ramp up production of new tanks, the Kremlin frantically pulled out of storage hundreds of T-62s and speeded them to the front line in southern Ukraine.
In the fall of 2022, counterattacking Ukrainian brigades destroyed dozens of these un-upgraded T-62s, and captured dozens more. The Ukrainians converted some of the T-62s into engineering and infantry-support vehicles, but they also handed over some of the tanks to their own territorial brigades—roughly the equivalent of U.S. Army National Guard brigades—for use as tanks."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davida...possibly-only-on-the-outside/?sh=14c6507b4b85
As I suspected, Russian disinfo. Not at all related to oil prices rising.
Ukraine has rejected claims that a series of strikes on Russian oil refineries risks alienating its Western allies, with senior officials in Kyiv insisting the country is well within its rights to target Moscow’s lucrative fossil fuels industry.
Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the office of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said the government has not received calls from the United States asking Ukraine to halt attacks on Russian energy infrastructure.
Podolyak’s comments, forwarded to POLITICO by the office of Ukraine Energy Minister German Galushchenko, were in contrast to earlier reports by the Financial Times that the U.S. had urged the Eastern European nation to refrain from attacks on major energy infrastructure for fear of sending oil prices skyrocketing and prompting retaliation from the Kremlin.
Ukraine has rejected claims that a series of strikes on Russian oil refineries risks alienating its Western allies, with senior officials in Kyiv insisting the country is well within its rights to target Moscow’s lucrative fossil fuels industry.
Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the office of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said the government has not received calls from the United States asking Ukraine to halt attacks on Russian energy infrastructure.
Podolyak’s comments, forwarded to POLITICO by the office of Ukraine Energy Minister German Galushchenko, were in contrast to earlier reports by the Financial Times that the U.S. had urged the Eastern European nation to refrain from attacks on major energy infrastructure for fear of sending oil prices skyrocketing and prompting retaliation from the Kremlin.
Pretty incredible when you factor in that Ukraine does not have a Navy!
I keep saying: Take out ALL of the rail lines to 50-100 miles inside the Russian borders (or further).
Daily.
And the train engines.
Broken lines, with nothing to pull the freight will destroy their supply chains.
We agreed to remove the nuclear armed missiles (the capability that the Soviets were mirroring in Cuba).
What we store at Inclirk are gravity bombs with nuclear payloads.
I remember during the last Turkish coup attempt, when people were wondering if we should still have them there.
Yeah, when the Cuban Missile Crisis was about the missiles, some people might have misunderstood your comment to mean we still have the missiles there.
