War in Ukraine

I bet you believe all of the Russians falling off balconies are because the Earth was rotating abnormally fast….

 

Two more russian generals dead this week

Russia general who reportedly served as the top commander for Ukraine last year has died | CNN

Jailed Russian general, 69, 'who knew secrets of Putin's £1billion Black Sea palace' dies mysteriously in prison ahead of parole bid - the second top Kremlin commander to perish within days | Daily Mail Online

 

At present rate it will take the Russians Balconied List years to catch up to the Clinton List.

 

I miss Frank …

 

An acute lack of readiness has to rank among the top reasons the U.S. has had to resort to fighting wars with other countries’ troops …

Such dissatisfaction reflects multiple causes, including low pay and family stress. Incompetent, stupid wars are another. More than 7,000 US military personnel and nearly 8,000 contractors died in combat since 9/11. A shocking 30,000 military personnel and veterans of the “Global War on Terrorism” committed suicide over the same period. At least 52,000 service members were wounded in combat. However, the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs figures that the number harmed “is exponentially larger” since the Defense Department does not count other injuries in theater as well as conditions diagnosed later.

https://www.cato.org/commentary/no-final-draft

 

US-UK ‘vision’ requires using Ukrainians as cannon fodder …

https://x.com/aaronjmate/status/1692337541087911958?s=61

 

Excellent sarcasm. Be careful or you will give our other troll a run for his money. OTOH, maybe we could have a troll-down and see who the best Russian troll really is.

 

Major fire rages in Russia's Novorossiysk port: cargo terminal in flames (msn.com)

A large fire has engulfed a cargo terminal in the Russian port of Novorossiysk and spread over an area of 1,300 square metres.

 

I would call it a troll-off. Sounds more Russian too.

 

Trolloffski

 

Looks like Russia is losing too many experienced pilots, and the ones they are left with don't know what they are doing. Russia has had 41 KA-52 helicopters shot down, and the recent shoot downs indicate that pilots don't know what altitude they should be flying to reduce the risk from missiles. Russia has lost about 176 pilots since the start of the war.

Video of a Ka-52 attack helicopter being shot down in Ukraine hints Russia isn't learning what it should have by now, former US general says

 

Reality setting in …


The U.S. intelligence community assesses that Ukraine’s counteroffensive will fail to reach the key southeastern city of Melitopol, people familiar with the classified forecast told The Washington Post, a finding that, should it prove correct, would mean Kyiv won’t fulfill its principal objective of severing Russia’s land bridge to Crimea in this year’s push.

The grim assessment is based on Russia’s brutal proficiency in defending occupied territory through a phalanx of minefields and trenches, and is likely to prompt finger pointing inside Kyiv and Western capitals about why a counteroffensive that saw tens of billions of dollars of Western weapons and military equipment fell short of its goals.

More Signs the West is Losing and Reacting Accordingly in Ukraine, Plus Judge Napolitano's Round Table - A Son of the New American Revolution

 

Congressman coming to grips with the limitations of American power …

https://x.com/narrative_hole/status/1692551918743163157?s=61

 

Well, much as we tried, we couldn’t get Western media to show ethnic-Russian civilians getting blown to bits, from Ukrainian missile, the last decade or so.

 

Is Gainesville still a sister city to novorossiysk?

 

Apparently Gainesville is standing against Western Russophobia.

 

Time for a history lesson:

Some Russian apologists are claiming that trying to defeat Russia is equivalent to punishing Germany after WWI, which led to more extensive devastation in WWII. Not only is the equivalence false, but the statement itself isn't even true. By 1929, Germany's GDP was 12% higher than it was the year before it started WWI (1913). Germany's military told the people that it was not defeated on the field of battle, but tricked into the 1918 agreement by the allied countries. So Germany only paid one sixth of its obligations in the first 11 years after the war. The allies were not too excited about forcing Germany to pay up, so there was little pressure for Germany to do so. What caused the economic problems in Germany in the 1930's was the same thing that caused them in the U.S.: the Great Depression.

Russia, Ukraine and Versailles: Bogus lessons from history won't solve this crisis

 

Given the onerous provisions of the Versailles Treaties it’s a wonder that Germany didn’t spawn a thousand Hitlers.