This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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If it makes Russia bleed it's alright with me.
Putin is a KGB guy. Master of manipulation, spreading false propaganda and murder. It appears he has lost of lot of people and equipment in this war with Ukraine that was suppose to last 3 days. I personally think America know's exactly what they are doing. Just sit back and let the Ukraine people slowly tear down Russian forces. That being said, I haven't followed this in quite some time. How does Russia look against a fight with NATO. I can't imagine they stand much of a chance. Especially with the colder weather coming upon them.
Remember when Putin required countries to pay them in Rubles and now those payments are virtually worthless.
Some really disappointing Friday afternoon news dumps about Ukraine being asked by the US to lower its conscription age to 18
Happy Thanksgiving from Russian propaganda.
Although it makes it difficult to think Ukraine if fully invested in her defense when men under 25 are not being called up. They desperately need larger forces.
Do they really not understand the devastation the US can lay on them also?
Trump appears set to name Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg as his special envoy to try and negotiate a peace deal. Kellogg is a hard nosed veteran of the Cold War. I'd hate to see him go wobbly and push for Ukraine to give up 10 percent of its territory. It sets a bad precedent. Plus, it's hard for Ukraine, and Western Europe to accept a deal like this. What's the plan if Ukraine doesn't agree? Would Kellogg and Trump negotiate a deal in which Canada invaded the US and froze the new lines taking in a large swath of the northern tier of states?
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tr...kellogg-ukraine-envoy-sources-say-2024-11-27/
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tr...kellogg-ukraine-envoy-sources-say-2024-11-27/
By Philip Bennett and Steve Coll
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, May 25, 1999; Page A1
BELGRADE, May 24 – NATO airstrikes on Yugoslavia's power grid left millions of people without electricity or water service today, bringing the war over Kosovo more directly into the lives of civilians across the country.
Three consecutive nights of air attacks caused extensive blackouts in Belgrade, Novi Sad, and Nis, the three largest cities in Serbia, Yugoslavia's dominant republic. In contrast with previous attacks on the power supply – in which allied warplanes triggered temporary outages by dropping carbon-fiber filaments that shorted out electrical lines – NATO forces this time struck at Serbia's five major power-transmission stations with high-explosive munitions, causing damage that could take weeks to repair.
Officials at the Pentagon and at NATO headquarters in Belgium said allied jets deliberately attacked the power grid, aiming to shut it down more completely and for longer periods than at any time previously in the two-month-old air campaign. U.S. officials estimated the attacks had shut off power to about 80 percent of Serbia.
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The graphite bomb was first used against Iraq in the Gulf War (1990–1991), knocking out 85% of the electrical supply.
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The United States targeted electrical power distribution facilities, but not generation facilities, throughout Iraq, according to a senior CENTCOM official. He told Human Rights Watch that instead of using explosive ordnance, the majority of the attacks were carried out with carbon fiber bombs designed to incapacitate temporarily rather than to destroy. Nevertheless, some of the attacks on electrical power distribution facilities in Iraq are likely to have a serious and long-term detrimental impact on the civilian population.
Electrical power was out for thirty days after U.S. strikes on two transformer facilities in al-Nasiriyya. Al-Nasiriyya 400 kV Electrical Power Transformer Station was attacked on March 22 at 6:00 a.m. using three U.S. Navy Tomahawk cruise missiles outfitted with variants of the BLU-114/B graphite bombs. These dispense submunitions with spools of carbon fiber filaments that short-circuit transformers and other high voltage equipment upon contact.
The attacks caused significant and long-term damage, and the civilian cost was high. Dr. `Ali `Abd al-Sayyid, director of al-Nasiriyya General Hospital, told Human Rights Watch that the loss of power was a huge impediment to the proper treatment of war wounded. No one died as a direct result of the power loss, but the hospital’s generators were taxed to their limit and it had to do away with some non-critical services to ensure the wounded were given basic treatment. He also stated that the loss of power created a water crisis in the city.
Human Rights Watch researchers saw many areas in al-Nasiriyya where people had dug up water and sewage pipes outside their homes in a vain attempt to get drinking water. Even when successful, the water was often contaminated because the power outage prevented water purification. This led to what Dr. `Abd al-Sayyid termed “water-born diarrheal infections.”
Human Rights Watch believes that extreme caution should be used in the targeting of electrical power facilities because of the potential profound and long-term impact on civilian populations. The loss of electrical power in the first Gulf War, for example, crippled basic civilian services, including hospital-based medical care, and shut down water distribution, water purification, and sewage treatment plants. This led to death and suffering, especially among the most vulnerable members of the population.
Tsar Bomba was just a test (and propaganda milestone to brag about having created the biggest bomb).
It's not a deployed weapon.
In an "exchange" we'd be hit with MIRVs - lots and lots of smaller nukes, to cover whole thing - not one big bomb.
Seems reasonable.
White House pressing Ukraine to draft 18-year-olds so it has enough troops to battle Russia
The aim is to expand the pool of fighting-age men available to help a badly outnumbered Ukraine in its nearly three-year-old war with Russia.
apnews.com
Nothing stops you from putting me on ignore if you don't want to see the truth.
A majority of the Ukrainian want the war to end.Seems reasonable.
White House pressing Ukraine to draft 18-year-olds so it has enough troops to battle Russia
The aim is to expand the pool of fighting-age men available to help a badly outnumbered Ukraine in its nearly three-year-old war with Russia.
"The official said “the pure math” of Ukraine’s situation now is that it needs more troops in the fight. Currently Ukraine is not mobilizing or training enough soldiers to replace its battlefield losses while keeping pace with Russia’s growing military, the official added."
Ukrainians aren't volunteering sufficiently either.
April 14, 2022.
Russia’s war against Ukraine rages on. The U.S. and Europe continue to support Kiev. But not, it seems, to make peace. Rather, the allies are prepared to back the Zelensky government as long as it fights Moscow to the last Ukrainian—which has always been the West’s approach to Kiev.
I hope Ukraine responds in kind to Moscow and St Petersburg.
Putin is getting increasingly desperate. He is now threatening direct attacks against the civilian leadership of Ukraine.
It’s hard to see a deal being cut with this guy that isn’t a bag of suck.
It’s hard to see a deal being cut with this guy that isn’t a bag of suck.
40 million in his bank account, if that is rubles then it might be worth about $200 or so
A lot to be thankful for yesterday.
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