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Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments PART 2

Wow, nato just allowed Ukraine to get Afghanistan 'd aka LANDLOCKED, because it doesn't want a war with Russia. Wow, Ukraine basically lost an eye... "for its real homie"!

Very true. NATO (I mean the US) has been very careful about material aid and what type of armament to accompany those aid platforms etc. Every item has been carefully considered & assessed with loads of possible outcomes & the most precise order. From the HIMARS to cluster munitions to Javelins and have probably donated a lot in terms of confiscated Soviet/Russian small arms and field equipment like they did for the Mujahadeens in Afghanistan. Same exact considerations back then, but on a much larger scale and more so now.

I was very surprised to see them agree on an M1A1 MBT package, probably because the Leopards are taking a beating and there aren't enough repair & replacement units. But even that, it would be strictly Ukrainians operating the tanks and even by the time the F-16s are in house of course.

But watching Zelensky and Ukraine ask for not only large naval assets but the US Navy actually operating them as escort ships to Ukranian grain cargo ships would be like taking a couple of US Army tank & infantry divisions and sending them into one of those wide-open meat-grinding grass plains. All it would take is one overzealous Russian commander to fire and kill a large contingency of American sailors and the US would be forced into the fight, which is exactly what it has worked very carefully up to this point to avoid being dragged into the conflict as a main fighting participant.

It was even hilarious listening to Biden come out and make some official denial regarding the Wagner mutiny and how the US had nothing to do with it!

I think Russia is also very careful despite the close calls and seemingly careless clashes it has had between its Su-30s and US Reaper drones. I honestly figured there would've been a couple of hits by now, especially the drones as they're gathering much of the battlefield intelligence against the Russians.
 
Cuase a subsonic 50 years old plane , will not survive modern air defence.




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Every air asset is valuable for Ukraine offensive. A10s won’t go against fighter jets or fly over enemy dense air defense . From a safe distance over trees or hills they can target Russia helicopters, tanks. trenches, mine fields, infantry. Why hesitant when the Russians use every thing they have in old Soviet stocks.
 
most retarded post in this whole 2000 page thread

you have zero ability to think
seriously , you have to stoop to this level ? At least he is providing original thought (which people on both sides of conflict often do) and I have a respect for either view. At least its original Vs. the lazy ones that just cut and paste twitter from either propoganda side.

Ever bother to done the math or just blindly follwoing Bozo Putin: Almost 30M tons of grain goes to Africa. What is this 50,000 tons going to do. Only half the african heads of states went to Moscow. They don't like the western colonials but they are no fans of Bozo in Moscow either.
 
Honestly orthodox Christian’s historically never did what the Catholics did and Muslims we never had any serious issues with them

Catholics during the Spanish Inquisition killed 5 million Jews

German Catholics killed 6 million Jews

They then say Muslims hate Jews ! We hate zionists because they steal land not because we hate them for fun like Europeans

Catholics killed 100,000 women and children in Constantinople on way to Jerusalem during the crusades for fun no reason

They then burnt Constantinople to the ground 200 years prior to the ottomans taking it which made it easy for the Turks

I believe this war is about Catholics just watching two orthodox brothers killing each other

Sad part is Ukrani have been hijacked by this terrible Zionist actor
Wrong thread or wrong forum, or is this a way for us to see the inner workings of your brain. Seriously, while your facts are correct, what relevance is what happened at the inquisition relevant?

It doesnt matter. All journalists what do reports out of the russian view are medial canceled, some of them even have to flee germany cause of death threats.
They should be treated the same as journalists in Russia who are jailed for any remark against the war. At least the ones fleeing germany are not being put in prison. They are just disliked the population but there are no laws against their writing.

In the US, Fox News and New York Post and other publications are free to report the pro-Russian narrative. Nobody is escaping
 
Yet through all this, the supposed higher GDP russia has gotten its cities attacked and finally Moscow , its citadel, open to limited air attack. Not the mark of a superior power that was supposed to do a 3 day operation.

And no I never believed in the WMD lie in Iraq but this post is not about Iraq.

Plan working pretty well. Putin can't even go to South Africa. Thats the ultimate insult.

Other than that Russia is well on its way to being an economic disaster:
1. Ruble down 35% over last year
2. Current account balance drop by 93% because of oil revenue hit
3. Profits from oil/gas revenue fell 31%
4. Car sales are an important proxy of economic health. Was 100,000 before the war started, now 1/4th of that.

And this is the best its going to be. Europe, that got 40% of oil/gas from Russia has permanently moved off it. So with war over tomorrow, the economic situation will not change as the new customers for Russian oil/gas will continue to squeeze it and pay less than market rate.

So this suffocation is going pretty well.

For this Putin has captured 20% of a country that it will struggle to hold on to. And turned Baltic into a NATO surrounded lake and now borders NATO in its northern flank, something that never would have occurred. If I had a street performing monkey, he would have made better decision with slightly better outcome on a bad day than what Kremlin did. And unfortunately they humiliated the entire Russian population in the process and upset the balance and status quo of power across the 3 major power holders.

Read more here: https://markets.businessinsider.com...s-account-finance-putin-moscow-ukraine-2023-7


Its hilarious to have Xi talk about declining west. Lets see what has happened under Xi's leadership. This is commentary around Xi's power hunger mifiring and not anti-China:

1. 3rd rate vaccines they could not trust and kept their population under lock down for 2.5 years when rest of the world went with vaccines that worked and pretty much overwhelmed airports/airlines around the world as they got to go back normalcy.
2. Economic hardship and record declines a consequence of this long-term lock down.
3. And finally , not realizing that China afterall was not self sufficient. Big aims to make sub 10nm semiconductors and claiming to be a lion when in reality it makes none of the design software and lithography equipment/etching components to make small chips and realized they have no clothes and calling 'life is unfair' that US and Netherlands won't sell them the equipment to make these advanced < 10nm chips.

Seriously, may be he should have known China's true industrial capabilities before picking a fight and then like a whining kid complaining that life is unfair.
War is not always bad. China makes big profits. The Russians buy now everything they need from China from underwear to cars because Russia makes none. Previously only 1/10 cars came from China, now 7/10. As I predicted when the war began Russia GDP will be a fraction of China so living standards the Russians will become a beggar. They become a colony of China.
 
THen why did Ukraine launch its do-or-die desperate offensive in southern Ukraine when it has no airforce? your point proves that Ukraine's offensive is doomed, is that right?

multiple reasons- no need to rush to lose more lives, lower # of active troops on the battlefield, more entrenched Ukrainian forces (now Ukraine military can be beat up by even 3rd world countries since its so battered and cant exist without NATO support)

This is just a problem for most nations, this is because the U.S. has something called SEAD (Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses) this role is almost non-resistant in Russia and Ukraine in a lot of countries too. Without SEAD fighting a war against large amounts of SAM's will attempting to field a large air force would be almost impossible. We can look back to Operation Desert Storm when America launched many SEAD operations against Iraqi SAM's and pretty much controlled the skies throughout the conflict. Hope this helps you understand Ukraine had to fight for its territory regardless of no air support same goes for the occupying forces fighting hold on
 
LOL its not "Ukrain military leadership", its NATO shit. As always.

Everyone who knew anything about military operations knew this was going to be slow given the building of Russian forces

Why do you think stuff like the BlitzKrieg of France or the Kharkiv Counter Offensive are such a big deals, complex military operations moving that quick are very rare.

Best no one takes this indian garbage reported news as a news channel Indians are all known as circus clowns when comes to reporting truth & fair balance stuff.
 
LOL its not "Ukrain military leadership", its NATO shit. As always.
Behind Germany its Nato,
France is nuetral,
Germany is nuetral,
UK has america backing
all small EU nations already declined to assist
 
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