Guess Assad finally ran out of tanks, and now Abu has no targets, so he's got TOW blue-balls, and Ukraine would give him plenty of Ruskie equipment to shoot at.
Except he doesn't have the troops to do that.
Hell, he didn't have the troops to do that before Russia lost 10% of it's military in Ukraine.
If Russia had the troops and was competent there would only be an insurgency no more conventional fightinf
A lot more to be fair. The US is orders of magnitude better in every respect than Russia when it comes to air power, battlefield intelligence gathering, coordinating units, logistics, and well basically everything else involved in this kind of war.
Russian military ZALA UAV captures destruction of the base of the self proclaimed Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion in Mariupol, the National Guard of Ukraine, along with personal vehicles and military equipment. As you can see, contrary to what the mainstream media tells you -- the Ukrainian Armed Forces are hiding among civilian infrastructure. You can observe secondary explosions which prove the presence of ammunition/weapons storage hidden in civilian neighborhoods; in addition to the countless photos and videos of Ukrainian military fortifications in apartment buildings, schools, kindergartens, etc. -- footage Via WarGonzo
Really? I would have thought that we'd have similar laws to Japan regarding the exports of rice, given that we have almost the same number of people as Japan.Back before Covid we export rice to UAE, Bangladesh, Qatar and other countries but we import about 79% of our rice from Vietnam.
Their ancestors had better logistics.
But, then, their ancestors had American trucks, so I guess it checks out.
Philippine rice exports amount to about 300 metric tons per year. That's not much.Really? I would have thought that we'd have similar laws to Japan regarding the exports of rice, given that we have almost the same number of people as Japan.
A lot more to be fair. The US is orders of magnitude better in every respect than Russia when it comes to air power, battlefield intelligence gathering, coordinating units, logistics, and well basically everything else involved in this kind of war.
The thing is, any military comparison (at scale) to the US by ANY other nation or group of nations in the world falls flat and is disingenuous. When it comes to large scale military operations, the US isn't just the varsity or first among equals; it is at least three generations ahead of ANYONE else.
As an American we take for granted things like real time satellite surveillance and a real time, encrypted, communications backbone that is able to handle the volume of traffic a battle space generates. We don't really think about what kind of game changer our Air Force is compared to everyone else. We don't really think about what putting encrypted radios in the hands of EVERY soldier along with night vision really means. We don't think about what having every soldier be a professional with a million dollars plus worth of training really means.
The US military is the best trained, best equipped, best lead, highest morale, most battle hardened, best supported, military that humanity has EVER seen.
Even comparing NATO nations (besides the US) to Russia is iffy because those NATO nations get access to US backend support. They use US communications networks, US surveillance assets, US tankers, US logistics support, US cross training, etc. We saw what happened in Libya when Europe tried to do war without US assistance.
If USA had brains and was competent, Osama Bin Laden wouldn't be the world's hide and seek champion. (2001-2011)
And Iraq wouldn't have been invaded.
Neither would Syria.
Nor Libya.
However, I understand that it's part of your job to shill for the US Military. But please, at least do it intelligently. Not all of us are kool-aid drinkers or RINOs here.
So basically, the forces used against Iraq in 2003? I am also assuming that Ukraine is pro-Russia ITTL.
Kiev, Kharhiv and other major cities would be bombed flat, first of all.
US warships would be colliding with each other in the Black Sea. A US sub would have scraped an underwater mountain.
Whole country would be looted and messed up.
UPA style insurgency would rise up against the Americans.
By today, US forces would be fighting it out with Ukrainian forces being supplied by the Russians. Situation would be much worse due to heavier resistance.
20 years later, a US backed puppet government will be overthrown even before the last US troops leave the country, in a hasty and panicked retreat ordered by a retarded Commiecrat of a President.
The Russian are actually doing quite well, all things considered.
But it's the DPR and LPR forces that really impressed me.
Those guys (and gals?) are hardcore, many of them experienced vets from the 2014 conflict.
Where is Russia's good stuff though . . .
Stuff like the T-14, more advanced T-90s, Arena APS, MiG 31Ks, etc.
That's the question.
Ukrop-fascists who have been murdering civilians in the Donbass since 2014.
May the Ukrop-fascists get their rightful due of lead. Or just TOS a few at them. RPO-A "Shmel" rockets are also handy.
How about this? He was fighting insurgents before. He's not prepared for a conventional fight.Source?
Video?
Because if this is true, then Zelensky's mercs are going to be running home real quick.
NATO soyboys can't fight without overwhelming air superiority, infinite ammo, and top tier gear.
So true.
Not really, SAA suffered massive material losses, both from combat and from poor maintenance, while Russia did replace some of it, their armored inventory is now of more ''managable'' size. T-55s are now almost gone from the inventory, mostly replaced by T-62s sent by Russia, T-72 inventory is greatly reduced and they have some T-90s as well.
I'd also like to see your analysis or your source for Russia being unable to sustain their war for more than 1-2 months, which is frankly the most ridiculous thing I've heard about this war thus far. Well, that and stupid Twitter twats thinking that any war that goes on longer than a week is somehow a colossal failure.
That list is rather unrealistic, much of stuff there is rusting away in dump depots, there is no way they are still using 200+ BTR-152, their BTR-60 were written off before the war and were mostly used as towed metal piboxes, there is no way 650 are in use, T-55s are also mostly written off, there is no way 1600 of them are in use. To put it simply, their maintenance capabilities are limited, so with Russians replacing their lost material with better stuff, their armored forces are better equipped and more experienced, but also smaller than they were before war.Bulk of it survived and remained in their hands and shipments from Russia plus re-captures leave them better equipped than before.
I think it was Sun Tzu who said "All warfare is based on deception. The need to keep CNN in the dark should be placed above all other concerns. Appear weak to CNN when strong, appear strong to CNN while weak. A leader with poor understanding of tactics will lose a battle, especially in the eyes of CNN. A leader with a poor understanding of strategy will lose the war against CNN."Yeah, I'm real sure they're wasting blood and gold right now so some of them can cackle about how wrong American pundits were during all of this.
Dunno about Krautland, but around here private hospitals get a shit ton of money from the national health insurance system.Regarding those Munich doctors, it's a private clinic and not part of the standard public healthcare and emergency system, as far as I can tell. So, as a private entity, they are well within their rights to choose their "customers", even if it's a total crap move.
I do know this yes.No, not really. You do realize it took the US longer to capture Baghdad, much less conquer all of Iraq, than Russia has yet spent in Ukraine?
The same US that had massive superiority to the Russian military in every category, was attacking a nation that had been sanctioned to hell and gone for more than a decade, and that wasn't facing an enemy that was receiving top of the line military equipment from third parties for the entire time.
The only way the war in Ukraine would have been over in a few days was if the Ukrainians just decided not to fight.
As for the broader question of competency, the Russian forces in Ukraine are overwhelmingly the least well trained, least well equipped, most disposable, part of the Russian military. Virtually all of the Russian first line military equipment and truly professional military units have been steadfastly kept out of Ukraine. Oh, and lets not forget that those Russian forces in Ukraine are still operating without substantial air or artillery support.
And despite all of that, Russia is still winning at the moment.
You also need to account for the tiny issue of information sourcing and propaganda. Virtually everything calling Russian competency into question is provided courtesy of the Ukrainian government, who have a vested interest in making Russia look worse and themselves look better. A government that has provable and flagrantly lied about both their own and Russian actions in Ukraine since this was started.
The actual facts on the ground of the war are something that are not public information, regardless of what everyone in the media seems to think.
The propaganda makes anything but the broadest of generalities kinda pointless as anything more specific is inevitably based on information sources that are 1) unreliable and 2) impossible to determine the veracity of.
A lot further because we would have had complete air control by the end of the forst two weeks.If this was an American operation with 100-200k troops, and military operations started on the 24th, how much progress would the US army have made by this point?
Erdogan pursued Turkish Interests first. Like he should, and you are confusing money with currency, like Russia, the average Turk sees no difference in their lives and its luxury products the elites buy that are inflating. That and they saw their standards of living substantially increase under Erdogan.
Turkey never aided ISIS, it backed the FSA while simultaneously dealing with an Islamist Parallel State that nearly seized the country in a military coup plus dealt with the PKK who broke the ceasefire agreements. They also have been systematically assassinating the Nusra leadership, getting others to do the dirty work and making sure they take the brunt of Syrian/Iranian/Russian Assaults while also trying to lure non-radicals out of their ranks into the FSA.
Also Assad started the Civil War and used indiscriminate tactics on people who wanted reform and basic rights after 4 boys were tortured over a joke.
But hey we live is a post fact world.
DPR on the advance again.
Hate to be the Radar Operators on duty when this occurred. Or the Officers in charge that night.
Looks like a Spetnaz Team or a DPR/LPR team.
If so, the the picture of the Air Space is changing.
Ukraine is falling. The math is against them, and their 'victories,' are getting closer to areas they can't lose.
No they are not, honestly fuck capitalism and its lack of honor the practice of medicine is not a business doctors need to respect the Hippocrates oath.Regarding those Munich doctors, it's a private clinic and not part of the standard public healthcare and emergency system, as far as I can tell. So, as a private entity, they are well within their rights to choose their "customers", even if it's a total crap move.
So you're telling me they went among the ruins after the explosion to clean up the blood?"4. Why isn't there any blood?
"7. Why is there a bucket of fake blood?"
...Yeah, OK bud.