War in Ukraine

[Orangeburst]

 

[NorthDallas40]

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Yep just like the car business. You make money on maintaining the car over its life not selling the car.

 

[hog88]

How's the spring offensive going?

Not well I'm guessing?

 

[NorthDallas40]

Not well I'm guessing?

They’ve gained back a good deal of territory and are holding their own. Somehow I’m guessing whatever they do wouldn’t have been enough my porcine friend?

 

[KB5252]

You can have Xi’s little b

Why would I want that?

 

[NorthDallas40]

Not well I'm guessing?

Here is a read if you want to go thru it. Advancing just doing it slowly while Russia continues to self immolate politically Apparently Prig is back in Russia and Wagner is not in Belarus

Institute for the Study of War

 

[Velo Vol]

How's the spring offensive going?

Slowly.

 

[hog88]

They’ve gained back a good deal of territory and are holding their own. Somehow I’m guessing whatever they do wouldn’t have been enough my porcine friend?

I was just asking, haven’t seen it being discussed much here or elsewhere. I figured if it was going well y’all would be here rubbing it in the noses of the doubters.

 

[NorthDallas40]

I was just asking, haven’t seen it being discussed much here or elsewhere. I figured if it was going well y’all would be here rubbing it in the noses of the doubters.

I don’t think it’s going badly. But they aren’t sprinting across territory by any means. They are making costly gains and I don’t think that’s going to change even if they get the magical F-16s. I’m frankly more interested in the political implosion of Russia than day to day gains in Ukraine right now. As long as Russia continues with self immolation Ukraine will continue to advance. But that doesn’t mean they advance will be a sprint. It would be nice to see them bust thru one of these heavily fortified areas and have fairly open terrain that they could consolidate quickly but that obviously hadn’t happened yet. The biggest battlefield story by far is Russia is still unable to close the deal largely due to their own incompetence

 

[Velo Vol]

I was just asking, haven’t seen it being discussed much here or elsewhere. I figured if it was going well y’all would be here rubbing it in the noses of the doubters.

1) Russians built multiple defensive lines and littered them with mines.

2) Ukraine lacks the air power needed to push through the front.

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

So in sum: We can kill civilians because we're getting our asses handed to us on the battlefield, and America bad.

That's the entirety of your response. Pathetic.

With the US sending cluster munitions, you don't have room to talk s^^t...

 

[MG1968]

With the US sending cluster munitions, you don't have room to talk s^^t...

The Russians will just have to get better at hiding.

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

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Now wait, when it says "procurement", is that the purchasing of materials and weapons or is that the processing, planning and bookeeping of weapons and materials? Just want an understanding of what that graph is showing.

Also, what is covered under "operations and maintenance"? Military personnel wages/salaries would be covered under some of that, but are these operating and maintenance costs also paying military contractors to perform these tasks?

 

[Orangeburst]

Now wait, when it says "procurement", is that the purchasing of materials and weapons or is that the processing, planning and bookeeping of weapons and materials? Just want an understanding of what that graph is showing.

Just made up ledgers

 

[Hunerwadel]

The Russians will just have to get better at hiding.

 

[volinbham]

US expected to provide cluster bombs to Ukraine | Ukraine | The Guardian

Cluster bombs? Aren't they dangerous to civilians? Surely we can do better than this.

 

[hog88]

I don’t think it’s going badly. But they aren’t sprinting across territory by any means. They are making costly gains and I don’t think that’s going to change even if they get the magical F-16s. I’m frankly more interested in the political implosion of Russia than day to day gains in Ukraine right now. As long as Russia continues with self immolation Ukraine will continue to advance. But that doesn’t mean they advance will be a sprint. It would be nice to see them bust thru one of these heavily fortified areas and have fairly open terrain that they could consolidate quickly but that obviously hadn’t happened yet. The biggest battlefield story by far is Russia is still unable to close the deal largely due to their own incompetence

So it looks like another winter stalemate and maybe an effective offensive in summer 2024?

 

[evillawyer]

With the US sending cluster munitions, you don't have room to talk s^^t...

So bombing residential buildings in lviv (a thousand km from the front line) with no military value is morally on par with using cluster munitions to clear out dug in orc invaders? Gotcha!

 

[NorthDallas40]

So it looks like another winter stalemate and maybe an effective offensive in summer 2024?

Sure why not. You’ve already convinced yourself of that anyway right?

 

[KB5252]

With the US sending cluster munitions, you don't have room to talk s^^t...

With Russia already having used them you can't criticize their use. Goose and Gander.

 

[hog88]

Sure why not. You’ve already convinced yourself of that anyway right?

At the pace they are advancing and Ukraines inability to conduct a winter offensive it's a safe bet wouldn't you say?

 

[MontyPython]

 

[evillawyer]

 

[NorthDallas40]

At the pace they are advancing and Ukraines inability to conduct a winter offensive it's a safe bet wouldn't you say?

Compared to what we’re all used to seeing from the US’s ability to prosecute a fight they can never live up to that standard.

And no I wouldn’t say that at all.

 

[NorthDallas40]

AIM-7?! What museum did they get those from?! And no ATACMS listed.