Yeah, that’s what I’ve been thinking all along…China sitting in the background, whispering to Putin to “Go Get ‘em!” But not supplying any meaningful military support. As long as this does not escalate to a nuclear weapon, Russia comes out weaker politically, militarily and will have lost world influence. China will have significant leverage over their now “little step brother”.
China can play the long game...benefit of a one party system.
How many of our former generals have been bought by Russia? How many of our current Generals are currently bought?
Yep, Scott Ritter sounds like someone that would be spewing misinformation on twitter. Not only a Russian stooge, but also this:
Is that Russian military prowess supposed to be sarcasm?
Their disinformation gets so oldNow this updated version of the hit on the mall at least shows a little more imagination.
Say you get your way, and the war drags on for 6 more months, the Russians solidify their gains in Luhansk, Donetsk, and the land bridge to Crimea, and then decide to bring Kharkov under artillery fire
Yeah, they weren’t showing dumb bombs in Schwartzkopf’s briefings.
Yes, the usual business of NATO is defending NATO members.
If that is the situation after 6 months I could see Ukraine negotiating but I am very hopeful the tide of the war will be changing in the near future. I think the West is becoming more and more pissed at Putin which is freeing up weaponry that they refused to send earlier. Hope it continues with aircraft, tanks and better surface to surface missiles.Say you get your way, and the war drags on for 6 more months, the Russians solidify their gains in Luhansk, Donetsk, and the land bridge to Crimea, and then decide to bring Kharkov under artillery fire
Yeah, they weren’t showing dumb bombs in Schwartzkopf’s briefings.
The Gulf War in 1991 marked the first extensive use of precision-guided munitions in warfare. Eight percent of the munitions dropped were PGMs, compared to less than one percent in Vietnam.
Of the 29,199 bombs dropped during the war [2003 Iraq invasion] by the United States and United Kingdom, nearly two-thirds (19,040) were precision-guided munitions.21 In the Persian Gulf conflict in 1991, 8 percent of all bombs dropped were PGMs; in Yugoslavia in 1999 approximately one-third were PGMs; in Afghanistan in 2002 approximately 65 percent were PGMs.22
I like the UK versionRussian forces are arguably having their best spell since the invasion of Ukraine began four months ago.
They have eliminated most Ukrainian defenses in the Luhansk region, consolidated control of a belt of territory in the south, improved their logistics and command structure and blunted the effectiveness of Ukrainian attack drones.
Within the last week, the Russians have been rewarded for their intense -- some would say merciless -- bombardments of the remaining parts of the Luhansk region held by Ukrainian forces, which have finally given up Severodonetsk and lost territory south of Lysychansk.
The head of the self-declared Luhansk People's Republic, Leonid Pasechnik, predicted last Friday that Russian forces would completely encircle Lysychansk within two or three days. So far they haven't, but the city is in imminent peril.
Tide turns in the Ukraine war as Russia makes progress in the east | CNN
Russian forces are arguably having their best spell since the invasion of Ukraine began four months ago.www.cnn.com
much betterI like the UK version
Nicholas Cecil
Tue, 28 June 2022
Putin’s forces ‘increasingly hollowed out’ by Ukraine war, says UK
In this article-
Vladimir Putin’s forces are becoming “increasingly hollowed out” by the scale of his onslaught in Ukraine which is achieving only limited success, British defence chiefs said on Tuesday.
They stressed that he was unleashing “large numbers” of missiles which are normally used to target sites of “strategic importance” but are instead being used to gain “tactical advantage”.
They argued that the combat effectiveness of his military units was becoming so degraded that it is “probably unsustainable in the long term”.
Mr Putin’s troops seized control of the eastern industrial city of Severodonetsk over the weekend.
They are now trying to capture its twin city of Lysychansk, across the Siverskyi Donets river from Severodonetsk in the eastern Luhansk province of the Donbas region.
In its latest intelligence update, the Ministry of Defence in London said: “Ukrainian forces continue to consolidate their positions on higher ground in the city of Lysychansk, after falling back from Severodonetsk. Ukrainian forces continue to disrupt Russian command and control with successful strikes deep behind Russian lines.”
Putin’s forces ‘increasingly hollowed out’ by Ukraine war, says UK
Vladimir Putin’s forces are becoming “increasingly hollowed out” by the scale of his onslaught in Ukraine which is achieving only limited success, British defence chiefs said on Tuesday. Mr Putin’s troops seized control of the eastern industrial city of Severodonetsk over the weekend.uk.news.yahoo.com
Wondering when the tipping point comes, when Ukraine has a significant amount of advanced western military weapons, giving them a major tactical advantage, and they go on a strong offensive push and maybe the Russians start to retreat/surrender enmasse because of the threat of imminent death? Is there a chance Ukraine could take back a major part or all of currently lost land?I like the UK version
Nicholas Cecil
Tue, 28 June 2022
Putin’s forces ‘increasingly hollowed out’ by Ukraine war, says UK
In this article-
Vladimir Putin’s forces are becoming “increasingly hollowed out” by the scale of his onslaught in Ukraine which is achieving only limited success, British defence chiefs said on Tuesday.
They stressed that he was unleashing “large numbers” of missiles which are normally used to target sites of “strategic importance” but are instead being used to gain “tactical advantage”.
They argued that the combat effectiveness of his military units was becoming so degraded that it is “probably unsustainable in the long term”.
Mr Putin’s troops seized control of the eastern industrial city of Severodonetsk over the weekend.
They are now trying to capture its twin city of Lysychansk, across the Siverskyi Donets river from Severodonetsk in the eastern Luhansk province of the Donbas region.
In its latest intelligence update, the Ministry of Defence in London said: “Ukrainian forces continue to consolidate their positions on higher ground in the city of Lysychansk, after falling back from Severodonetsk. Ukrainian forces continue to disrupt Russian command and control with successful strikes deep behind Russian lines.”
Putin’s forces ‘increasingly hollowed out’ by Ukraine war, says UK
Vladimir Putin’s forces are becoming “increasingly hollowed out” by the scale of his onslaught in Ukraine which is achieving only limited success, British defence chiefs said on Tuesday. Mr Putin’s troops seized control of the eastern industrial city of Severodonetsk over the weekend.
If this continues for another 6 months Putin is going to have no tanks or missiles left, lost 80k soldiers, caused NATO to expand, and exposed how poorly run their military is just to have made hardly any gains from 2014.
Just going by what Ukraine says (hopes I imagine) they expect to see results by the end of this summer.
