This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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The ICBM temper tantrum is classic Putin. He mad.
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**BREAKING** #Russia’s Vast Naval Modernization Set Back By War In #Ukraine Shared here before the other site https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/11/russia-vast-naval-modernization-set-back-by-war-in-ukraine/
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Russia's Vast Naval Modernization Set Back By War In Ukraine
The Russian Navy, though still a serious concern for NATO, shows signs of decline reminiscent of the 1990s. Expensive reconstruction projects are struggling in Russia
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Russia has spent the last 15 years steadily modernizing and rearming its navy. The work is intended to recover it from the post-Cold War low point of the 1990s, reaching new levels. The introduction of new classes of warship, though smaller than those they replace, is a significant leap in modernity. Meanwhile new submarines, particularly the nuclear-powered Severodvinsk(Yasen) class, are truly world class.
But the project now faces a major obstacle. The cracks are already showing, and Russia is unlikely to be able to maintain the modernization of its naval forces if the war continues.
The invasion of Ukraine has heated the Russian economy and created new political and financial challenges for the Kremlin. This is felt on the battlefield, and is also visible in the navy’s reconstruction. So while the future Russian navy may retain some high-end assets, particularly advanced submarines, its overall influence at sea is likely to diminish.
More Ukrainians want talks to end war with Russia: Gallup
More than half of Ukrainians want talks to end the war with Russia, according to Gallup polls released Tuesday, the war’s 1,000th day.
The surveys, conducted in August and October, found that 52 percent of Ukrainians want their nation to negotiate an end to the war in Eastern Europe that has been raging for more than 2 1/2 years. About 38 percent of Ukrainians want their military to keep fighting until it wins the war. Some 9 percent did not know or refused to share their opinion on the matter.
The aren't,.. no need to feed cannon fodder.
So Joes Place was wrong and Russian ICBMs do work?
Anyone surprised besides Joes Place?
Polymarket odds of a nuclear attack in Ukraine doubled on this development, but at least they’re not over 50% yet.
The ICBM launch might be a temper tantrum to scare the West, and it also might be a sign the Russians are really running low on stuff to shoot.
Hell of a waste of an intercontinental ballistic missile platform don't you think?...
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The closer to the front, the more people want peace now:
Over time, support for continuing the war has withered in all regions in Ukraine, no matter how close to the front line they are. Support has dipped below 50% everywhere in 2024.
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Among Ukrainians living in the country’s East, more than twice as many people now want the war to end as soon as possible (63%) rather than continue (27%).
Neocons really are willing to fight to the last Ukrainian:
Biden officials are also still pressing Kiev to step up mobilization efforts. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan in a recent interview with PBS News Hour described that the real problem allowing for a continued Russian advance is lack of manpower, and not arms or advanced technology.
Sullivan said in the Monday conversation, "Our view has been that there’s not one weapon system that makes a difference in this battle. It’s about manpower, and Ukraine needs to do more, in our view, to firm up its lines in terms of the number of forces it has on the front lines."
He emphasized, "Where is the straightest line between Ukrainian performance and inputs? It’s on mobilization and manpower." The West has been pressuring Zelensky to lower the conscription age, which would be a deeply unpopular move at home.
Biden officials are also still pressing Kiev to step up mobilization efforts. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan in a recent interview with PBS News Hour described that the real problem allowing for a continued Russian advance is lack of manpower, and not arms or advanced technology.
Sullivan said in the Monday conversation, "Our view has been that there’s not one weapon system that makes a difference in this battle. It’s about manpower, and Ukraine needs to do more, in our view, to firm up its lines in terms of the number of forces it has on the front lines."
He emphasized, "Where is the straightest line between Ukrainian performance and inputs? It’s on mobilization and manpower." The West has been pressuring Zelensky to lower the conscription age, which would be a deeply unpopular move at home.
I feel he is right about mobilization in Ukraine but making excuses due to being scared stiff of Putin - 31 Abrams out of over 10,000 with 4,000 being considered obsolete, no F16s from US arsenals and slow playing the ones given from other countries. I know, I could go on and on and I often do
You don't have to feed them more than a day, if you're just "throwing them into the wood-chipper"....
Take out his bridge, his palace, and all the Black Sea ports with everything NATO has.
Putin escalates, the West response will be greater.
At least that's my hope.
At least that's my hope.
It is good that Russia is at least this responsible still,
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LONDON — Britain's armed forces would be ready to fight their Russian counterparts "tonight" if Vladimir Putin invades another Eastern European nation, a top U.K. military chief said Thursday.
"If the British Army was asked to fight tonight, it would fight tonight," Rob Magowan, the deputy chief of the British defense staff, told the House of Commons defense committee. "I don't think anybody in this room should be under any illusion that if the Russians invaded Eastern Europe tonight, then we would meet them in that fight."
The striking comments came as MPs asked Magowan Thursday how many British brigades could get to NATO's eastern flank in the event of a major escalation by Russia. "
UK army chief: We’re ready to fight Putin in Eastern Europe
Rob Magowan told MPs the British Army ‘would fight tonight’ if asked amid rising tensions with Russia.
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Ukrainian Partisans Monitor Transfer of Msta-S Howitzer in Krasnodar Krai | Defense Express
Ukrainian partisans continue to monitor the movements of russian forces and equipment
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Russia is being resupplied by China and North Korea already. Bomb them too?
They are being resupplied via ships sending them stuff thru the Black Sea.
Take out their Trans-Siberian rail lines, too. They ain't shipping much in from that direction.
Looks like Sweden and Norway tea-bagging him w/ a 2-headed peen.
Nice sentiment, but the article mentions the Brits are down to their smallest standing army since the 1700s.
LONDON — Britain's armed forces would be ready to fight their Russian counterparts "tonight" if Vladimir Putin invades another Eastern European nation, a top U.K. military chief said Thursday.
"If the British Army was asked to fight tonight, it would fight tonight," Rob Magowan, the deputy chief of the British defense staff, told the House of Commons defense committee. "I don't think anybody in this room should be under any illusion that if the Russians invaded Eastern Europe tonight, then we would meet them in that fight."
The striking comments came as MPs asked Magowan Thursday how many British brigades could get to NATO's eastern flank in the event of a major escalation by Russia. "
UK army chief: We’re ready to fight Putin in Eastern Europe
Rob Magowan told MPs the British Army ‘would fight tonight’ if asked amid rising tensions with Russia.
