you're welcome...thanks for taking out the trash!
you're welcome...thanks for taking out the trash!
one of the best questions i have seen here ! and needs no answer... but becoming a Santos adviser could be worse. what was it that a GOP Senator called him today? a "bunny boiler"...what kinda troll farm loser to you have to be to get assigned to troll a pot growing site?
Those Abrams aren't no good for the Ukrainian terrain.Tank is to heavy with its 70 ton.they USED to. Ukrainians man many of them these days, of those that didn't burn...
Ukraine are now picking up men from the streets in Odessa.They already lost around 122K of men.Summons are be enjoyed on the door and photographed, because no one is opening their door to be picked up and serve as cannon fodder.the russians are beating themselves. the fighting in bahkmut shows the russians repeatedly attacking entrenched defensive positions with human wave type assaults.
russian losses right now are 500-700 men per day.
the Ukrainian forces are not fighting for control of bahkmut, they are fighting to exhaust the russians.
and to deplete the manpower and munitions.
it takes more resources to attack than defend.
soledar is not an important strategic point. neither is bahkmut. the roads and railways that supply them are important strategic points
the Russians were supposed to be preparing for a large spring offensive. now they have to wait because they are not equipped and don't have enough people.
the spring offensive is not going to happen.
meanwhile, the equipment keeps arriving. the Ukrainians are getting stronger.
the russian troops are ill-equipped, one group is complaining that they don't even have enough rifles or ammo. out of food and water.
warehouses full of russian munitions are being blown up. the ukrainians just discovered another large cache of 152mm ammo for the big guns. this time in the kharkiv region. in an area controlled by ukraine for 4 mos.
the winter is closing out and the energy systems in ukraine are still functioning despite the attacks on the grid. so putler just wasted a bunch of expensive, hard to replace munitions in another failed effort.
the entire southern front from kherson to kharkiv is a continuous dug-in defensive line.
almost no movement by either side in 4 months. little pieces of dirt going back and forth with no real progress made.
putler is trying to take and hold as much land as possible before this war goes to the negotiating table.
sometime in the spring the Ukrainians will launch an assault designed to cut the russian line in two from Zaporizhzhia to Melitopol.
putler had announced another mass mobilization but it's not happening yet because the russian people don't want this war.
young men are pouring out of the country in every direction.
nobody is volunteering.
there is infighting between the wagners and russian generals. prigozhin is blaming shoigu, the defense minister, for all the failures.
it really doesn't look good for russia now. they sought to fight a war of attrition after the initial invasion failed.
but now they are the attrited instead of the attriter.
I'm speaking to the fact that they actually consider targeting working satellites in orbit as terrifying. And incredibly short sighted.actually, this one was in a deteriorating orbit, and was about to re-enter the atmosphere when it was hit to intentionally rupture and disperse the fuel before it came down.
Neutrality and Outer Space Vol. 93I'm speaking to the fact that they actually consider targeting working satellites in orbit as terrifying. And incredibly short sighted.
done deal!
if taking out satellites degrades accuracy of ICBMs to the point of uselessness, i can live with everyone elses cell phones not working... too much trash floating around up there anyway, needs a good cleaning. can't pick out the UFOs for all the damn other stuff floating around...I'm speaking to the fact that they actually consider targeting working satellites in orbit as terrifying. And incredibly short sighted.
well, actually Germany is not supplying them, Poland is. but the Poles DID ask Germany for permission to give them away/sell them/whatever. "and hurry up with those Abrams, Sam! WTF, dude... " it'll take weeks if not months to get the Ukrainian tankmen up to speed on the Abrams. and maintaining them will be a bitch. complicated all the way around. speed things up a LOT if Belarus would see clear to donate THEIR Russian tanks and missiles to the cause...done deal!
treaties are all well and good...but who can enforce them? treaties get broken every day all over the world. no reason it won't be the same in space, the ultimate high ground. the US, Russia, China, North Korea, everyone. okay, maybe not Ireland or Samoa. the Kiwis seem fairly stable, but the Aussies are crazed, who knows what they are gonna do. i keep expecting them to invade Antarctica, but they have enough problems with their birds to keep them busy at the moment though.Neutrality and Outer Space Vol. 93
The first Leopard drivers are already chosen.Ukraine are now picking up men from the streets in Odessa.They already lost around 122K of men.Summons are be enjoyed on the door and photographed, because no one is opening their door to be picked up and serve as cannon fodder.