Yeah. Seems like world is asleep at the wheel. Maybe I am missing the stories but also seems like of all countries, the US was/is best poised to increase grain production to help but are we ramping up / incentivizing? I have heard nothing.
It's too late to do anything this growing season, and, we use a lot of our grain to fatten up cattle and humans.
And waste it on ethanol to appease Red State legislators.
I think this is likely accurate. But, I doubt they get it.
Your takeaway from watching the Russians flounder in Ukraine is that ‘in a few short years’ they’ll attack NATO?
www.bbc.com
Russia has extended its planning for the war in Ukraine for another four months, until the end of October, according to a Kyiv intelligence chief.
This is what they do. Grind cities to rubble and not worry about war crimes. I wish they would go back to trying blitzkrieg. To bust up what Russia is doing, need some game changing equipment like better air support or longer range artillery.Starting to look like this war is going to go on for a long time. Was watching Morning Joe and the guy they had on there said the last 2 weeks have been the worst casualty wise for the Ukrainians...losing around 700 troops a day killed and wounded.
As we've seen the Russians have slowed down but are taking advantage of their ability to mass large amounts of artillery. Basically just annihilating areas....
Ukraine in maps: Tracking the war with Russia
As Russian forces make slow progress in eastern Ukraine, Ukraine's military stages a surprise cross-border attack.
www.ibtimes.com
I agree....what we have now is basically simple math.
We don't even need NATO troops, unless you are including airborne pilots. If NATO jets just lit up the targets we know are there this would be over in a week.
So you think the Russians can Zerg-rush NATO with a bunch of foreign conscripts and whatever equipment that isn’t rusting away in Ukraine?
Not only like Orcs, but also similar to Klingons, characterized by prideful ruthlessness, brutality, authoritarianism and slave labor (war, war, war).
I think Poland will wave a red and white flag and U.S. will dominate any efforts by Russia to attack NATO.
Someone said it towards the beginning of this thread, but it's like every Hollywood stereotype and fear in movies put out in the 1980s are actually true, or in reality it is even worse.
We have been told it would be a long war for a long time now. We were also told that this period would be very difficult for Ukraine.Starting to look like this war is going to go on for a long time. Was watching Morning Joe and the guy they had on there said the last 2 weeks have been the worst casualty wise for the Ukrainians...losing around 700 troops a day killed and wounded.
As we've seen the Russians have slowed down but are taking advantage of their ability to mass large amounts of artillery. Basically just annihilating areas....
Ukraine in maps: Tracking the war with Russia
As Russian forces make slow progress in eastern Ukraine, Ukraine's military stages a surprise cross-border attack.
HIMARS will be a huge force multiplier for artillery. Artillery is really all the Russians have. Their troops suck. Use HIMARS to take out Russian artillery and Russian troops collapse.
I agree....just don't know how long Ukraine will maintain the amount of international support they'll need for a conclusion that is acceptable to them...
On this board a imminent Russian collapse was predicted for a couple months...
Russia is not going to attack Nato. I doubt they try to go much further in Ukraine. If Russia starts mobilizing into a war machine like Germany did in the 1930’s, then it’s time to start worrying about that.
Very, very little.
I think you are leaving out some details/misremembering. You go back to early and mid March and folks in this thread and the tweets they supplied were predicting the Russian invasion was major failure and was collapsing (not Russia) and guess what. They were. They got pummeled so bad on the north front they gave up Kyiv and had to fully retreat so in many ways did collapse.
I'm not sure it is a stalemate as much as slow grinding down of Ukraine. The good news is that the grinding is slow, and the further west it goes, the more Russia is exposed.
Dont worry everyone, @hwk23 doubts it....
I get what Bins was saying earlier. There have been a lot of ups and downs in sentiment in this thread. And, they definitely are moving forward right now. However, at what cost, and is is sustainable? Their defense industry has been severely stunted, and just how much do they have in reserve. The common wisdom was that their stockpile of standard armaments is nearly inexhaustible, with massive caches of artillery, rockets, and small arms ammunition dating back to the USSR days. But, do they have that? Seems like we have repeatedly heard of shortcomings in supply, and ineffective equipment. I just wonder how much of the stockpile was siphoned off over the years by corrupt officers, and sold off to other countries?
