Why aren’t we razing Minsk to test Russian resolve?

We have more than enough conventional materiel to turn it into a crater.

It isn’t in the Russian homeland so we can escalate without tripping nuclear wire

Is it because Minsk is white?

I'm eager to hear the numbers and potential impact of these foreign recruits.

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This ought to do wonders for military effectiveness.

Oops, wrong Tweet. Although that one is pretty freaking awesome. This is what I meant to post:

I think that's a great idea. I'm sure those will be very effective soldiers at the front *cough* *cough*. (does he want the tank drivers surrendering tanks to the Ukrainians?)

Anonymous wrote:What if Putin just wants western weapons sent to Ukraine so he can capture them and copy them?

Good luck with that. I assume he has had the plans of everything for a while FSB is quite good.

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Anonymous wrote:Meh.....they sent in a bunch of teenagers and early 20s somethings (kids) conscripts with crappy supplies and weapons to serves as fresh meat to be turned into ground beef. They were used to soften up the Ukraine. Russia's advanced weaponry and elite divisions till haven't really been deployed yet. People shouldn't get confident at all that Russia has been 'struggling'. They are just getting warmed up, so I wouldn't extract a whole lot from the first week of combat.

Why, though? Why would they send their worst troops first?

This will be a question for the ages. High on their own supply (propaganda) seems the most likely, combined with bad intel about the Ukrainian ability to mount a resistance. Or the people that knew this would be the outcome were not allowed to get that message to Putin. We've all heard that he is isolated and only seeing a few advisors. Maybe no one had the guts to tell him the truth.

Hassan Piker (Hassanabi) had Chelsea Manning on his show (you can see it on YouTube). I don't know how much you can take what she says for the truth since she's a traitor to the US but she basically said that Russia just doesn't have the war machine that we have. She claimed (exaggeration?) that we have 100,000 cruise missles just sitting around and that most of them will rust out before ever being used. Meanwhile Russia doesn't have those types of stockpiles of ammunition waiting to be fired. They're using what they've got but they don't spend a gazzillion dollars a year on weapons like we do.

You do have to remember our doctrine --- win -- win ---- hold. We have set our goal at fighting say the Russians and the North Koreans at the same time with the objective of winning and fighting in the Middle East with the objective of holding until we win the other two. For a time that became win -- hold -- hold but the refreshed US doctrine is again Win Win Hold. That is a lot of supplies and a lot of people. Our defense budget is high and there is waste and corruption but the corruption tends to be different. We may pay 5 million for a 3 million plane but we get the plane and it works. In Russian they get the plane at it does not work. We have perhaps several thousand main battle tanks sitting in storage. We will not run out even if it took us a while to ramp up production. We spend a lot and others cannot do this/.

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This ought to do wonders for military effectiveness.

Oops, wrong Tweet. Although that one is pretty freaking awesome. This is what I meant to post:

This ought to do wonders for military effectiveness.

What if Putin just wants western weapons sent to Ukraine so he can capture them and copy them?

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone remembers Moscow’s Afghanistan disaster.

But the key turning-point was:

- US Stinger anti-aircraft missiles (which are fired by a single individual).

Advanced versions of those missiles are flowing over the border, along with advanced western anti-tank missiles.

This is not Chechnya.

From where ?

Romania ?

I thought Putin bombed all the Ukraine airport runways .

How are masses of supplies getting in ?

Certainly am rooting for Ukraine, but just asking realisticly how are we able to supply ?

By land. Poland, Romania. Nothing was ever coming in by air. Too dangerous.

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Anonymous wrote:It is hard to believe Putin is this smart. He lined up a baited convoy from Iraq’s highway of death. Literally drones could have killed the entire convoy in about 24 hours.

I really think the Russians are a paper dragon.

Why haven’t drones taken down that damn convoy?

It blows my mind that the rest of the world watches this and sits on their hands.

Perhaps that was the point, though? To lure the rest of the world into starting a war with Russia.

The point was the opposite.

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Anonymous wrote:Meh.....they sent in a bunch of teenagers and early 20s somethings (kids) conscripts with crappy supplies and weapons to serves as fresh meat to be turned into ground beef. They were used to soften up the Ukraine. Russia's advanced weaponry and elite divisions till haven't really been deployed yet. People shouldn't get confident at all that Russia has been 'struggling'. They are just getting warmed up, so I wouldn't extract a whole lot from the first week of combat.

Why, though? Why would they send their worst troops first?

This will be a question for the ages. High on their own supply (propaganda) seems the most likely, combined with bad intel about the Ukrainian ability to mount a resistance. Or the people that knew this would be the outcome were not allowed to get that message to Putin. We've all heard that he is isolated and only seeing a few advisors. Maybe no one had the guts to tell him the truth.

Fascinating and worth clicking through to the article and running it though google translate.

Anonymous wrote:Putin called Macron today. Putin told him Russia is determined to take the whole of Ukraine. Macron says "the worst is yet to come."

The worst has yet to come for Ukraine and Europe. People don’t understand Putin, he will use everything at his disposal before he goes down.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone remembers Moscow’s Afghanistan disaster.

But the key turning-point was:

- US Stinger anti-aircraft missiles (which are fired by a single individual).

Advanced versions of those missiles are flowing over the border, along with advanced western anti-tank missiles.

This is not Chechnya.

From where ?

Romania ?

I thought Putin bombed all the Ukraine airport runways .

How are masses of supplies getting in ?

Certainly am rooting for Ukraine, but just asking realisticly how are we able to supply ?

Russia has no presence and no control over the western half of Ukraine. Large military transports from numerous countries have been flowing in to Rzeszow Poland near the Ukraine border, from there supplies and hardware can be trucked in. That part of the Poland-Ukraine border is also bristling with troops, equipment, attack helicopters, drones, etc.

Good, so how come with ALL hundreds of millions of $$$ in military hardware, including drones being delivered to Ukraine why is the 40 mile Russian convoy still threatening Kvyv ?

Seems even the Houthis- as poor, starving and uneducated as they are has managed better against the Saudi's ?

So, why not obliterate that 40 mile convoy by now and send Putin reeling ( and likely assassinated out of office )

They started hitting the convoy yesterday. They have a limited number of fighter jets which I imagine they don’t want to lose so quickly. That convoy has been stuck running out of gas and now apparently running out of food. Russian troops are starving, sent to slaughter by terrible leadership.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone remembers Moscow’s Afghanistan disaster.

But the key turning-point was:

- US Stinger anti-aircraft missiles (which are fired by a single individual).

Advanced versions of those missiles are flowing over the border, along with advanced western anti-tank missiles.

This is not Chechnya.

From where ?

Romania ?

I thought Putin bombed all the Ukraine airport runways .

How are masses of supplies getting in ?

Certainly am rooting for Ukraine, but just asking realisticly how are we able to supply ?

Russia has no presence and no control over the western half of Ukraine. Large military transports from numerous countries have been flowing in to Rzeszow Poland near the Ukraine border, from there supplies and hardware can be trucked in. That part of the Poland-Ukraine border is also bristling with troops, equipment, attack helicopters, drones, etc.

Good, so how come with ALL hundreds of millions of $$$ in military hardware, including drones being delivered to Ukraine why is the 40 mile Russian convoy still threatening Kvyv ?

Seems even the Houthis- as poor, starving and uneducated as they are has managed better against the Saudi's ?

So, why not obliterate that 40 mile convoy by now and send Putin reeling ( and likely assassinated out of office )

The convoy is already stopped. It's not threatening anyone or anything.

Putin called Macron today. Putin told him Russia is determined to take the whole of Ukraine. Macron says "the worst is yet to come."