War in Ukraine

This account is saying very few missiles were intercepted and Russia was smarter about how they used them.

Ukraine Invasion Day 675: major RU strike

Ukraine will run out of anti air missiles soon if they are not resupplied and then Russia will bomb them into the Stone Age. It’s really sad.

 

We need to get Putin to personally check this out. Go lean over that balcony and see if there is any truth to it. Lean way way over ....

 

"87 0f 122 missiles" and "27 of 36 drones" were shot down.

 

We should be preparing as well. It’s not 1991 anymore. It’s more like 1936.

 

Must have misread it sorry

 

More on the economic situation in Russia. Russia's gas exports are suffering because switching from one customer to another in the gas business is not as easy as the oil business. You don't just move your pipelines from one country to another. It takes a lot of capital and a lot of time to make changes in your customer base. And no one wants to invest in Russia these days.

‘Moscow is full of Del Boys now’: Putin’s war economy lurches towards full-blown crisis

 

Huh. Russia doesn’t like having its cities targeted indiscriminately. That really surprises me. I would have thought they were all about it.

MSN

 

I don't think hitting them in Belgorod really matters - if they could put more damage on to Moscow that might be meaningful. But given the scarcity of weapons, I would prefer at this point they were blowing up soldiers.

 

The attack in Belgorod may have been on a military facility. Ukraine claims that Russian incompetence "caused wreckage to fall in the city center".

Explosions and fires reported in centre of Belgorod due to mistake of Russian air defence

 

The Brits think it will take a decade for Russia to re-build their military. Casualties have increased by 300 per day in 2023 (an extra 110,000 on the year) compared to 2022.

It will likely take Russia up to 10 years to rebuild a highly trained, experienced army, says UK intel

Training right now consists of getting recruits to lie on their back and fake an injury.

 

No doubt. But you have to admire the irony of Russia bitching about it. Reminds me of Alabama throwing a fit about Freeze buying players at Ole Miss.

 

Ukraine launches large drone attack against military facilities in four Russian cities: Moscow, Belgorod, Tver, and Tula. Russia claims to have shot down 32 of the more than 70 drones used in the attack, meaning that at least 38 drones successfully hit their targets.

It looks likely that the drones that hit civilians in Belgorod were shot down in the city on their way to military targets there.

Ukraine launches widespread drone attack on military facilities across Russia

 

Nearly two years in and Russia is just now on the verge of securing its four new oblasts in the east and establishing that Crimea is impenetrable.

And tomorrow it’s going to invade Poland.

 

What's really sad is that if the U.S. was governed by grownups, we would not have to treat the situation like it was 1936 (i.e., overreact). We would have maintained the flow of weapons and ammunition to help Ukraine win this war. Republicans in Congress have not really been confronted on the fact that opposing military aid to Ukraine is borderline treason, as it is aiding an enemy of the U.S. (and civilization). This younger group of republicans that seems determined to control the U.S. is just too ignorant to understand what the issues of modern America are, and prioritize them in any meaningful way. Trump has really turned the nation into a bunch of idiots (although we were already heading in that direction with our obsessions with social media and celebrity worship). The U.S. used to be a nation of ideas, not an Idiocracy.

 

The U.S. has a long history of creating enemies, meddling in the affairs of other nations and fomenting proxy wars that end up destroying their proxies.

 

Do you mean, like when the Afghans defeated the Soviets, eh comrade? Are you claiming that the Soviets/Russians do not meddle in affairs of other nations? Our sin in Afghanistan in the early-1990's was not meddling enough in the rebuilding of the country that fought our war for us and won. That is what led to the Taliban taking power, and Al Qaeda taking up residence there. America was happy the Russians were defeated and declawed, but were lacking in gratitude and compassion for a country that was destroyed by the Russian barbarians.

 

Or how about our Afghans, topknot ? And you don’t want to get into a war comparison between the US vs Russia or anyone else. It’s like sending an FSU team, with half of its team opted out, to the Orange Bowl vs Georgia.

 

I personally don't own any Afghans. Do you, bottomknot?

 

Putin is busy building Stalin Centers around Russia to revive and restore the reputation of the Great Barbarian, Joe Stalin. The new motto in Russia will be "Nobody doles out suffering like Stalin, but Putin will do his best." I'm sure this will help motivate Russians as they learn to live under the new Stalin.

Russia builds ‘Stalin centres’ to restore reputation of dictator