War in Ukraine

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WBO said:
Let's not overstate the rebuilding of the Russian military. Their Navy is a fraction of its Cold War size plus many of their combat ships were built 40-50 years ago. The same is true for their ground forces. They once had a massive superiority in tanks but that no longer exists.

They've been working on technological advances with their biggest one being hypersonic misses IF they've actually accomplished that but it really doesn't change the calculations on conventional war. They've also developed a new front line fighter which I see mentioned by Russian news bots as being a devastating weapon. Doubt it.

As far as regular weapons systems you see them doing it on the cheap.

Their biggest issue is what you see happening in Ukraine. Their regular (not special forces) troops are conscripts who are more culturally diverse than you might expect. Less cohesiveness.

Our biggest advantage, and it's a huge one, is the difference in the authority, ingenuity and commitment of our senior enlisted ranks (our NCOs). The Russians do not give their senior enlisted the authority to manage and innovate. It is a very hierarchal management structure. Our service members are trained and encouraged to exercise leadership at all levels. So in the fog of war, you would see an American E-5 who finds that he is the senior ranking person in a group, organize that group and get them in the fight. A Russian NCO is going to consolidate his position and wait for higher authority to tell him what to do next while he has to worry about how many of his conscript troops are going to sneak off in the dark to avoid getting killed.

On an update, Ukrainian reports say they shot down two Russian troop planes. If troops were on board that would be a lot of dead.

I think the real surprise is that 72 hours into this war the Russians have not established air superiority.

I can tell you that when two modern military countries engage it an air war, it is closely tracked by our military pilots. I remember sitting around the ready room with all the pilots in the training squadron I was teaching in at the time, talking about the reports of the Argentian air force tearing the Brits apart with their old A-4s during the Falklands war. If we hadn't broken neutrality and provided 24/7 AWACS coverage over the Brit fleet, they would have been beaten. Their Harriers couldn't intercept the A-4s without substantial warning.

I digress, my point was that I would love to be a fly on the wall listening to those discussions one more time.
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I did not overstate the rebuilding of the Russian military. My own opinion is that the modernization of Russian forces is limited. I'd guess that only around 2,000 or 3,000 of its tanks have been upgraded. Make no mistake, the Russians are capable of damaging attacks. Some of their equipment is modern and capable. But once their top forces are degraded, they would be forced to fall back on older stuff more easily defeated.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
They have to control the Eurasia for their larger goals. This has been in the making for over 170 years.

With these guys in charge and no peers to counter any of their destructive decisions, humanity is moving towards serfdom.
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You are literally insane. You need therapy and meds honestly
 
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Prominent Putin propagandist rages on live TV about Losing his Italian villa - which is next to George Clooney's - because of sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine

  • Vladimir Soloviev, 58, griped about losing access to two multimillion-dollar estates he owns in Lake Como due to sanctions that followed Russian invasion
As the death toll mounts in Ukraine - where at least three children have died since Vladimir Putin ordered the country invaded - a tone-deaf Russian TV host is fuming about how the conflict has cost him access to his Italian luxury villas.

Proponent pro-Putin television personality Vladimir Soloviev publicly lamented Friday losing access to his multimillion-dollar vacation homes due to Italian-imposed sanctions spurred by Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

'Is this the Iron Curtain?' Soloviev opined on the set of his late-night program. 'I was told that Europe is a citadel of rights, that everything is permitted, that’s what they said.'

Prominent Putin propagandist rages on live TV about losing Italian villas because of sanctions | Daily Mail Online
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
I used to watch him all the time until they all became progressive mouth pieces. I’m hoping Zucker’s exit drags them back to news and accordingly Fox follows suit. We would be in great shape if we had a slightly left and slightly right news source that we could believe what we hear without fact checking them FFS.
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I think we unquestionably have a free press. It would be great if we could have a less biased one.
 
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AM64 said:
Neither should a country giving up industry and letting the enemy produce the stuff it used to manufacture - but that's exactly what we have done here. There's a lot of weird thinking in the world today, and today we seem to be just one of those countries willing to commit suicide.
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Agreed. How does the obvious escape the voting masses?
 
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Weezer said:
This is America. We elect the least qualified people possible. Hell, just look at our Congress, both sides of the aisle. I think we took "you can be anything you want to be" too far. We need to stop electing idiots, but they seem to be the only ones that run for office.
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Asylums used to be stocked with people who thought they were fit to rule the world. Now we elect them to run the world. Beware the guy who thinks he should be your boss. We could do better filling congress the way we select people for juries than by the farce we call campaigns to select and then elect candidates.
 
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Franklin Pierce said:
Prominent Putin propagandist rages on live TV about Losing his Italian villa - which is next to George Clooney's - because of sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine

  • Vladimir Soloviev, 58, griped about losing access to two multimillion-dollar estates he owns in Lake Como due to sanctions that followed Russian invasion
As the death toll mounts in Ukraine - where at least three children have died since Vladimir Putin ordered the country invaded - a tone-deaf Russian TV host is fuming about how the conflict has cost him access to his Italian luxury villas.

Proponent pro-Putin television personality Vladimir Soloviev publicly lamented Friday losing access to his multimillion-dollar vacation homes due to Italian-imposed sanctions spurred by Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

'Is this the Iron Curtain?' Soloviev opined on the set of his late-night program. 'I was told that Europe is a citadel of rights, that everything is permitted, that’s what they said.'

Prominent Putin propagandist rages on live TV about losing Italian villas because of sanctions | Daily Mail Online
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So that's where Joy Behar was planning to go.
 
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InVOLuntary said:
And who says he wouldn't have advanced on those now NATO countries without NATO protection? He's admitted that he wants to go back to the old USSR lines. Now he's probably pushed Finland and Sweden to NATO.
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I think me and you think a lot alike, I am just far more vitriolic about it. I wish I was more like you.
 
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IDK if real or not, so I'm not reposting, but there is evidence that Putin has gone completly mad. His "stormtroopers" seem to be wiping towns as they go, possibly hitting them with thermobarics. This is a new escalation.
 
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evillawyer said:
Spineless party.
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Rent free.

Did George ask democrats what they thought of Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan and why they didn't condemn it? Did he get Obama's take? I doubt it. Always looking to get a negative take out of the Republican party on another Republican.

Even people with low intelligence quotients can see it. Good job sniffing it out Cotton.
 
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