Russia's War Against Ukraine

[GDS_Starfury]

It'll be interesting to see where this stops.  Were I Ukraine, I think I would cross the Russian border by 5 or 10 miles in a few key places, then stop and channel their attacks elsewhere.  It would drive home to the Russian people the fact that Putin's Army had been vanquished in the Northeast, but deny Russia the whole "We're fighting for our survival" excuse to go nuclear.

fwiw the governor or whatever its called in Belgorod told the border towns to evacuate.

IMO there should have been 100s of sorties a day.

they actually have been running between 100 to 250 a day.  the issue is that they arent strike packages, nor are they coherent and theyre using dumb munitions.  NATO for comparison  would be running at least 500 if not more.
some napkin math:  210 days at an average of 150 sorties a day for russia in merely 31500 sorties spread out over the entirety of the a 1200 mile front.  in the first month of the second Iraqi war we ran 41400 in a much more coordinated fashion.

[GDS_Starfury]

for those of us that like comedy:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1569525207274237952

L:-)

[GDS_Starfury]

good read:

https://kyivindependent.com/national/with-successful-kharkiv-operation-ukraine-turns-the-war-in-its-favor

Illia Ponomarenko has become THE standout journalist of this conflict.  expect to be reading his books about it in the future.

[Gusington]

'NATO does not want to see German Marders rolling through undisputedly Russian territory.'

^The great fear (Russian fear) that started this whole thing!!

[Skoop]

good read:

https://kyivindependent.com/national/with-successful-kharkiv-operation-ukraine-turns-the-war-in-its-favor

Illia Ponomarenko has become THE standout journalist of this conflict.  expect to be reading his books about it in the future.

Tucker just caters to the magahatters.  Their platform is anything to make Biden look bad at any cost, including throwing Ukraine under the bus.  You can't get through to them that this affects the next 50 years but hey......thank god the Ukrainians are making head way and silencing the nay sayers.  I even have seen intel experts say that the fsb is trying to influence  western conservatives like the lepens and trumps.  So if your a magahatter and your on some poopoo anti Ukraine rant, you gota ask yourself......am I doing Putin's work ?

[GDS_Starfury]

with all the various western equipment currently in the Ukraine I can only imagine the efforts of their logistic system as is it.
when its all over and theyve won theyll have all the best of western tanks and apcs.  now isnt the time to add that logistic
burden. 

[Skoop]

'NATO does not want to see German Marders rolling through undisputedly Russian territory.'

^The great fear (Russian fear) that started this whole thing!!

Well.....Sweden and Finland to nato kinda of means this war has no point anymore.  Russia cut off it's nose to spite it's face.

[GDS_Starfury]

in 1989 I never thought I'd get to see the soviet union fall twice.   <:-)

[GDS_Starfury]

its just so fun to keep reading.  :hug:

[GroggyGrognard]

good read:

https://kyivindependent.com/national/with-successful-kharkiv-operation-ukraine-turns-the-war-in-its-favor

Illia Ponomarenko has become THE standout journalist of this conflict.  expect to be reading his books about it in the future.

Tucker just caters to the magahatters.  Their platform is anything to make Biden look bad at any cost, including throwing Ukraine under the bus.  You can't get through to them that this affects the next 50 years but hey......thank god the Ukrainians are making head way and silencing the nay sayers.  I even have seen intel experts say that the fsb is trying to influence  western conservatives like the lepens and trumps.  So if your a magahatter and your on some poopoo anti Ukraine rant, you gota ask yourself......am I doing Putin's work ?

According to the Washington Post, and what the intelligence community has known about for years, you are doing Putin's work.

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1569786833453850624?s=20&t=RUFVXWcxoURt2SfgLQlVvg



Groggy

[GDS_Starfury]

1. its inside a paywall

2. outside the scope of this thread.

its been extremely difficult to not get into the whole political spectrum of this and get me banned and JH stroking out.

[Sir Slash]

Gee Star, I'm sorry if I spoiled the woody you had about killing Russians. My question was an honest one concerning the possible continuing war and the possibility of the Ukraine having too much land to defend effectively. In other words, to you the most dangerous kind, one you don't agree with. My question didn't come from Tucker Carlson. It came out of my own feeling that this war isn't over. Russia still has a whole hell of a lot of men, tanks, planes, and rockets. And Nukes. If they have the will to continue, they certainly can, even with all the experts saying they cannot. So how does wondering about strategies openly constitute treason in some people's minds? It's because people like that think for themselves instead of following blindly what self-loving loudmouths spout.

Watching Tucker Carlson doesn't make you a Putin-Lover or a voice for the Kremlin. That was actually Hillary that paid for Russian dis-information remember? And just for the record, Tucker's been right a hell-of-a-lot more often than you have Star. But nearly as funny I'm sure. 

[GroggyGrognard]

1. its inside a paywall

2. outside the scope of this thread.

its been extremely difficult to not get into the whole political spectrum of this and get me banned and JH stroking out.

Fair point.

In my defense, it was purely a reply to:

1. Tucker

2. magahatters

3. "intel experts say that the fsb is trying to influence western conservatives"

I'll keep my future posts in the realm of the war.

[Crossroads]

Oryx lists 101 visually confirmed tank losses during the Organised Regrouping Definitively Not A Rout of the RuAF for the past week.

Would be interesting to have a listing of how many of those were captured. So going back with Wayback Machine to Tuesday last week, Oryx lists 1010 lost tanks (+102) and 291 (+62) captured tanks.

That's two tank battalions supplied to Ukraine. Not everyone will be in running condition of course, then again, these are just the visually confirmed losses.

#UkraineWar: #Russia is visually confirmed to have lost 101 tanks in the past seven days 🇷🇺

https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1569809013675630594

[Crossroads]

good read:

https://kyivindependent.com/national/with-successful-kharkiv-operation-ukraine-turns-the-war-in-its-favor

Illia Ponomarenko has become THE standout journalist of this conflict.  expect to be reading his books about it in the future.

Another great summary of the Kharkiv operation so far by Mykola Bielieskov who can be found at twitter as @MBielieskov

Ukrainian Balakliya-Kupyansk Offensive: Sequence of Events, Mechanics and Consequences