War in Ukraine

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BreatheUT said:
Some of yall better hope the democrats win the midterms so the US stays committed to funding an endless war with few stipulations. There needs to be a strategic vision and I'm not sure the current bunch in government has one. If I was European countries I'd get out of the way too with these current clowns in the WH.
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I think this is kind of what the Russians are banking on. That they can rely on sympathisers to soften up ukraine for them from the other side. Referring to a conflict that's less than a year old as "perpetual" is a bit of a stretch, too.
 
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WBO said:
Western fake news media? You, sir, are an f'ing idiot.

Don't know what you're reading but I read articles from think tanks like the Institute for War and professional publication the the Navy's "Proceedings".

But I am sure that is inferior to your sources, such as Infowars, after all it does have war in the name.
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That is the biggest propaganda machine out here regarding this war. To say it has a pro-Ukraine/Anti-Russia bias would be an understatement.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
Take your pick it’s been widely reported since the start. They first issued them to the insurgents and are now issuing them to recent conscripts.

Russia deploying soldiers ‘as old as 60 and giving conscripts 19th century rifles’

Mobilization Can’t Save Russia’s War

Those unlucky enough to be conscripted have few qualms about sharing their abysmal conditions on social media. Online posts show a variety of rusty Kalashnikov rifles being distributed as well as bolt-action Mosin-Nagant rifles that were already defunct a century ago. Officers declare to bewildered new troops that they need to source their own supplies, such as sleeping bags, and that they should ask their girlfriends to send tampons because there aren’t enough medical supplies to go around.
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Can't say I know much about the antique rifles; but in the wide open spaces rather than jungle, it seems that our older M14 might be a better choice than an M16 variant as an individual weapon. Hog and GV might have better insight into that.
 
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AM64 said:
Can't say I know much about the antique rifles; but in the wide open spaces rather than jungle, it seems that our older M14 might be a better choice than an M16 variant as an individual weapon. Hog and GV might have better insight into that.
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There's supposed to be a 6.8 mm Remington SPC on the way.
 
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KB5252 said:
Who were these outside monitors and from where? Were they also at gunpoint? The elections were hastily done to legitimize their invasion and because Ukraine was taking it's land back in large sections at the time.


For what it's worth I wouldn't trust an election Ukraine had hastily manufactured under those conditions either.

The fact you see them and the ridiculous, simply unbelievable results as legitimate is comedy.
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volgr said:
Also, kuddos to Iran for making a budget drone that has inflicted heavy damage on Ukraine and to which there is very little air defense for. Russia would be crazy not to take them up on letting them use these. Doesn't mean Russia is running out of drones, it means Russia gets to inflict heavy damage to Ukrainian infrastructure and a fraction of the cost. And if Russia is now making these, as they claim, then Ukraine is in an even bigger world of hurt.
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Remember the Molotov cocktails in Kiev? Weapons can always be fabricated on the cheap - and be hard to stop. Virtually all of guerilla warfare is based on relatively crude and cheap weapons - and it's still effective when not fighting fire with fire. Drone warfare may or may not be a passing fad, but you can probably count on cheap (almost commercial) drones as a passing fancy until they are really seen as more than a nuisance and countered. They work now because they are hard to bring down with common small arms and not quite what air defenses are currently made to counter. But believe in the long run that for every need, there is a solution.

The good thing is we are seeing it now without being the victim - whether our military has decided we need to counter a similar threat is the question - we should hope so. Of course, that involves money; and the question becomes will it be done reasonably or with some sort of gold plated and overly complex missile system where you wonder if the cure is really more costly than the damage.
 
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AM64 said:
Can't say I know much about the antique rifles; but in the wide open spaces rather than jungle, it seems that our older M14 might be a better choice than an M16 variant as an individual weapon. Hog and GV might have better insight into that.
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In a wide open space an M-14 on single fire, an M-1, or hell even a 1903 Springfield would be a great plinker. But have you seen the fire discipline of these orc clowns. Even that idiot Kadyrov was boasting about the “combat prowess” of his Chechen orcs by showing typical spray and pray videos. It was hilarious at the lack of fire disciple they exhibited 😂
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
He's 110% correct. had Putin been as evil and erratic as you guys claim, he would have Dresden-ed Kyiv on Day One and would have been in Poland by mid-March.
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He tried and got his teeth kicked in because they were too incompetent, or too impotent for the task.

A monumental failure from the outset.
 
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USF grad in TN said:
Bombing to Lose

Why Airpower Cannot Salvage Russia’s Doomed War in Ukraine
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Good article but not unflawed. One of the biggest flaws is lumping the bombing of population centers to destroying infrastructure; they are very different things. Destroying infrastructure like the power grid does far more than attempt to demotivate the masses. It hampers production and movement of weapons and systems. In our case (and most other developed countries) try pumping fuel from underground tanks or moving it with a destroyed electrical grid. With interstates run through cities you can shutdown an entire regional transportation grid by blocked thoroughfares in cities - no gas and accidents from no traffic control. Imagine the damage by simply destroying I-24 and I-75 coming into Chattanooga. At that point wiping out the I-24/75 junction is almost a moot point. Other cities are similar - a very flawed transportation system. The same goes for railroads. You may run an air defense system on generators, but you have to have the fuel for the generators.

Further, even a backward country like N Vietnam, while not so much reliant on electrical power or oil, still had to have access to fuel and munitions to continue the war. That SHOULD have meant bombing the ports and docks rather than stupidly trying to intercept dispersed supplies on the move. Docks and ports are generally near or coexist with population centers. The other thing the article doesn't really address is that those population centers often include the people who make the ports and the factories work. Not a case for bombing cities, but cities can be collateral damage.

The other point not really covered is what is the sense in destroying a country you want to occupy for economic reasons? For example in a different case, China wants the technology Taiwan has; but what good is it to destroy the technology to capture a destroyed island?
 
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AM64 said:
Good article but not unflawed. One of the biggest flaws is lumping the bombing of population centers to destroying infrastructure; they are very different things. Destroying infrastructure like the power grid does far more than attempt to demotivate the masses. It hampers production and movement of weapons and systems. In our case (and most other developed countries) try pumping fuel from underground tanks or moving it with a destroyed electrical grid. With interstates run through cities you can shutdown an entire regional transportation grid by blocked thoroughfares in cities - no gas and accidents from no traffic control. Imagine the damage by simply destroying I-24 and I-75 coming into Chattanooga. At that point wiping out the I-24/75 junction is almost a moot point. Other cities are similar - a very flawed transportation system. The same goes for railroads. You may run an air defense system on generators, but you have to have the fuel for the generators.

Further, even a backward country like N Vietnam, while not so much reliant on electrical power or oil, still had to have access to fuel and munitions to continue the war. That SHOULD have meant bombing the ports and docks rather than stupidly trying to intercept dispersed supplies on the move. Docks and ports are generally near or coexist with population centers. The other thing the article doesn't really address is that those population centers often include the people who make the ports and the factories work. Not a case for bombing cities, but cities can be collateral damage.

The other point not really covered is what is the sense in destroying a country you want to occupy for economic reasons? For example in a different case, China wants the technology Taiwan has; but what good is it to destroy the technology to capture a destroyed island?
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Our target selection process and results in Vietnam was a classic example of letting the inmates run the asylum. Absolutely idiotic.

Linebacker and Linebacker II are about the only two that come to mind that made tactical sense.
 
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volgr said:
Will Ukraine have a large enough force left to even make a legit push on Kherson?
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More foreplay of what the Russian shill is seeing while claiming it’s too bad to post. LMAO Larry.

That clown is getting destroyed in the replies same as you get destroyed in posting the same crap here.

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