Russian invasion of Ukraine | Fewer tweets, more discussion

VorZakone said:
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blo...at-the-us-military-should-learn-from-ukraine/
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Is this really that surprising? NATO is meant to be a purely defensive alliance, by some distance the most powerful on the planet, with the world's sole superpower. Ukraine is not a member.

The kind of war Ukraine is fighting is never a war that NATO would fight. Its either going to be a war where they win overwhelming air and naval superiority within a short time, they're the aggressors ( a la Iraq/ Afghanistan) or it escalates to nuclear war.
 
I probably missed a tweet or article here about these UKR operations in the sea near Crimea recently.



I am not sure how accurate the information in that clip but I thought it was interesting if true.
 
The lack of ammunition, especially for artillery, is an immediate concern, even before the mess in the U.S. house. A few posts ago, a post stated that RA's fire rate had been down. But apparently, in one of the newer CNN clips, one of the UKR commanders said RA still shoot about 10 times more than they can.
 
The United said:
The lack of ammunition, especially for artillery, is an immediate concern, even before the mess in the U.S. house. A few posts ago, a post stated that RA's fire rate had been down. But apparently, in one of the newer CNN clips, one of the UKR commanders said RA still shoot about 10 times more than they can.
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Russian fire rate really differs a lot between locations, simply because Russia doesn't have a lack of ammunition but a lack of logistics - where they can successfully get ammo to, they are still comfortable firing a lot of shells, but they can't do that at every point of the front currently.
 
calodo2003 said:
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It is a show of strength to the west. He shows us he can tell the most obvious lie and his people gonna suck it up, so we don't have any hopes he'll lose support. He could also tell them a feckin star destroyer shot him down, built in american-ukrainian underground labs and they would simply nod. Irradiated and frightened people ruled by a bloodthirsty neo tsar.
 
Ragnar123 said:
It is a show of strength to the west. He shows us he can tell the most obvious lie and his people gonna suck it up, so we don't have any hopes he'll lose support. He could also tell them a feckin star destroyer shot him down, built in american-ukrainian underground labs and they would simply nod. Irradiated and frightened people ruled by a bloodthirsty neo tsar.
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Noone is sucking it up. They know what happened. Just as they all knew they were fed lies in the USSR and couldn't do anything about it.
 
“The ‘big package’ idea is firmly supported by many throughout the administration,” said a source familiar with discussions. “Supporters of Ukraine want this to be a one-and-done big bill, and then not have to deal with it until after the next election.”
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