This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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Yep. This represents an amazing reset of worldwide relationships per countries, and more so will influence migration patterns perhaps greater than anything else except climate change during our life span.
China has to make big choices.
Europe has to make big choices.
Russia is poised to become 2nd tier.
Does the US grab the reins in a positive way, or trundle down the old, uninspiring path? The direction we go will help determine our kids future.
We have the option of helping to create a positive future for all.
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Imagine fighting for an organized crime syndicate.
What a shit society. Absolute fvcking garbage.
I’d say definitely since WW2 imo.
Russia already is a 2nd tier as has been established here. One wonders how many other countries could do the same.
Brings up a question for the likes of @SSG T, do forces on the offensive have a night shift and a day shift? They can’t fight 24/7, so do a bunch of them who have night vision and such sleep during the day, and fight at night?
Gotta feel that the good guys can only push forward so long and hard “safely”. Surely they need to rotate out for some R n R in order to come back refreshed.
Generally, no. A commander wouldn't employ all of their troops, so you always have units in reserve and you rotate who's in reserve so the same units aren't getting tasked with offensive operations all the time.
As far as I know, it's been that way since at least WWI. If you did have everyone engaged, you would stand down, with security, for a couple of days to recover, then launch another operation, or continue on with the existing one.
That's called surrendering
It's raining HARMs
We didn't during Desert Storm, we just grabbed sleep as we were moving forward when we could, which wasn't much. During the 2ish weeks we were in full active combat, I got maybe 25-30 hours of sleep...little of that from 23 Feb to 28 Feb. In those 5 days, maybe 8 hours total.
Gotta feel that the good guys can only push forward so long and hard “safely”. Surely they need to rotate out for some R n R in order to come back refreshed.
Makes me wonder what type of rest the bad guys are getting. Can’t sleep while you retreat.
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Not to mention bombed and shot at.
Really sounds brutal and Russian people are beginning to hear of it. The next few weeks will be the most dangerous from Russia using Nukes on Ukraine.
Nerves, caffeine and Copenhagen.
Keep in mind, even into the ground war, we still expected it to be a month/years long dog fight. We seriously had no clue what was going to happen for the 1st few days. Then after laying waste to our first Republican Guard division, we were on a high that lasted weeks.
There's a midterm coming up, and our national media are not driven by what's newsworthy, but rather by political agenda. That's really all there is to it.
It's hard to sleep in those environments anyways, so during an offensive pushes, sleep is a luxury
"Russians are panicking on social media. On Sunday, Ukraine completely damaged the Russian base at the police station in Beryslav (HIMARS?). This may have resulted in heavy losses. The Ukrainians are still 36 km away, but if Beryslav falls, a very large part of Kherson will be cut off from supplies."
I still remember looking at the Air Tasking Orders and seeing the specific air missions and targets (Iraqi units) that were being attacked(bombed) day after day, night after night, and just thinking “you poor bastards” and this is before they had to fight our Army and Marine ground forces.
I don’t think Putin or his regime can fathom the level of destruction and the speed at which that destruction would happen. They have misjudged every step of the way. Corruption and Incompetence are the crumbling pillars the Russian Military is built on.
Awesome if true but if it was hit tomorrow morning their time wouldn’t it still be smoldering?*
*edited to note me no read so good. Looks like it was hit yesterday morning, as it is about 4 am there.
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I wonder if some of this is psychological warfare against Russia indicating military support to Ukraine is planned well into the future?
Since Fox/Tucker Carlson has been praying that support to Ukraine wanes as the war goes longer, perhaps Putin's influence toward the Murdoch Network changes?
Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard gonna need a new schtick.
Then the conscripts won't have as far to go to get to the front lines!!!
You suggest world changing events are not worthy of political agenda consideration?
NATO countries have nothing to fear when it comes to going up against Russia in any kind of conventional war, but those damn nukes.
Of course Poland and NATO need to be vigilant, but I seriously doubt that Russia could make a meaningful strike on anything in Poland, or any other NATO country bordering Russia right now. Air assets have been pushed forward. That has been reported. And, I assume air defenses have been pushed forward, too.
We don't know what their rotation and tempo is. We can only guess. I will say that they have plenty to fight for, and plenty to keep them going right now. Everyone has a physical limit, but when you liberate village after village where you find murdered civilians, and you know your country has suffered you keep going. There is also the component of adrenaline as you know your opponent is on his heels, and you have to keep pressing the attack.
2 years after a coup attempt politics are pretty important.
Beyond that, sending staff into a war zone is pricey. All the networks had people over in Poland and Ukraine at the beginning of the war, and it's hard to maintain that presence.
You also seem to think that the news providers aren't dishing up what their customers want to buy.
