That is an absolutely positive consequence of President Trump’s comments if nothing else: Europe is starting to step up. If the President is not careful, he will lose whatever influence he still has with them and that includes the ability to restrain their participation in this war.
So up until a couple of weeks ago there were almost daily reports of refineries, C &C, munitions storage, radar units etc being taken out. Have you noticed those reports have stopped?
Not really, but many of those targets (refineries and factories, for instance) don’t require the kind of assistance we could give. We would be of far greater help with targets of a more perishable nature.
To begin with - it is SEAD, not SEED. Also, I will make as many military recommendations as I want to as someone who is a trained engineer who has worked alongside US navy personnel from admirals to enlisted designing and building this nation's ship systems that transport Marines and other military equipment across the world to hostile shores. I've taken classes alongside future navy and marine officers learning subjects from celestial navigation to weapon systems - right at Van Fleet Hall at the University of Florida. I actually attended lecture there by the commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet Marines, whose twin brother commanded all Russian Marines (Naval Infantry) at the time - have you ever met a Russian Marine? So I surely can't do any worse than what our military and intelligence communities have done in recent wars - a long line of intelligence "failures" leading to endless wars and our country now being run by Putin's pets with only a fake shot fired. What is the point of the trillions invested in weapons systems if we can't afford to properly educate our citizen and inoculate them from the oldest and most insidious method of warfare - propaganda spread through our own media? Having said that, I could pick a random stranger off the street who would make more sense than our current President and considering who our Secretary of Defence is, I think I can have an intelligent conversation with a company grade officer since I have ones with retired field grade officers all of the time. The fact of the matter is that Ukraine could have absorbed and trained more personnel to use our survivable armor and air systems that are sitting around collecting dust which could have saved more lives and valuable personnel much earlier, making counteroffensives possible before the construction of defensive positions and extensive minefields along the FLOT/FLET which has turned this into an attritional warfare nightmare. F-16s flying DCA missions could have been shooting down cruise missiles earlier than they did, gaining experience and going on SEAD/OAS/OCA missions earlier than has occurred. AIM-120s only recently seem to have shown up to conduct OCA - why? NATO collectively wanted Ukraine on the defensive to bleed Russians, supplying them with defensive systems accordingly to trade Ukrainians and their land for dead Russians. Those armor systems, properly supported by anti-drone EW systems could have situationally made it easier for the UAF cover their own entrenched defensive forces, supported counterattacks, and made it easier to conduct support missions to suppress enemy attacks before they fully developed. Now that the Russians have developed fibre-optic wire loitering munitions and are using infiltration tactics this becomes more difficult because these play against the relatively weaker numbers UAF infantry and the inability to safely to recover them if overrun by large attacks. Having said that the Russian/Ukraine personnel exchange ratio along the FLOT/FLET of 6 or 7 to 1 (280,000 KIA to 46,000 KIA IIRC) would seem much in Ukraine's favor, but Ukraine can't afford to lose the much more experienced personnel even though the Russian Army overall hardly have the classic 3:1 ratio that an attacker would desire across the entire front, except in the areas conducting active offensives against salients in the East. Armor helps save lives and frankly is relatively expendable if it does so, especially if it can be recovered and repaired. This strategy we are pursuing I can only imagine was predicated on the Russian military hitting a breaking point and realizing they need to cut their losses - not realizing that bodies mean nothing to Putin or the Russian people. It is sad that the pressure to provide armor was so great that we had to give Ukraine armor systems that they could have trained on much sooner so they could have become proficient sooner - had the political will existed. Now we have Putin's pets spouting Kremlin propaganda and seeing how fast they can destroy our alliances and hand Ukraine over to be taken from within with talk of elections during wartime in a divided country when millions are refugees in other countries. If the US military was not factoring that into the cake they were baking in Ukraine during the Biden administration, then shame on us, because it was clear to us civilians the entire time that what is now happening would happen if Trump won. Russia has run out of resources except manpower to continue this war while the West still has plenty, but the weapons are useless because the political will to use them has been compromised by Russia interfering with domestic politics. Their economy is in shambles, their air defense systems so degraded that Ukraine attacks their military and infrastructure target with relative impunity, their Black Sea fleet wiped off the Black Sea and instead of arming the Ukrainians to finish the job, we are crying about the paltry funds and old equipment from a minuscule fraction of our defense budget they used to wreck the ex-Soviet military. It is disgraceful, dishonorable, and disgusting that our country has laid down for our enemies to be dismantled from within. Now I ask myself what did the Greatest Generation fight and die for? Corporate profits for oligarchs. Better we had never stormed one beach than end up in this situation - it destroys the memory of what so many fought and died for.
Biden administration and Zelensky murdered American journalist Gonzalo Lira. Too Hot liberals could not care less
What organization did this “journalist” work for??? According to a search he was described as a social media influencer/pick up artist known as “coach Red Pill”. So…. guy posted internet videos of himself trying to pick up women???? He then shifted from that into spreading Russian propaganda in Ukraine. This is a journalist? Mmmmkkkay. Not sure why the worlds richest man has taken an interest in Andrew Tate and “coach Red Pill”, but here we are…
Maybe you're right. Do you care about any of the dozens of Putin opponents poisoned or tossed from balconies?
Next up for Trump, reuniting the Korean peninsula, making Kim Jong Un the "elected president" of all Korea.
I suppose we can be thankful the orange god wasn't president at the height of the cold war. Selling out our allies and reneging on commitments would have been even more dangerous for us then.
I've debunked many of those reports again and again, as have others. It's interesting, as Lavrov pointed out, that the American media was so interested in who killed Navalny as opposed to who killed the American journalist Gonzalo Lira (who was murdered by the Biden administration and Zelensky). There's no evidence that Navalny or the Skripals were poisoned by Putin.
Euro leaders sold out there own people, just like the people you vote for sell out Americans. Trump and Musk back the European and American people which is why they support nationalist movements and populism. And oppose third world invasions of Europe and America
Well, if you ask Poland, that’s precisely what good Democrat FDR did over the pleas of Churchill et al. In the context of the Cold War, we often chose expediency over principle, because we had an adversary that did not blink at doing the same. That is realpolitik in a nutshell. But your larger point is that we do not have to do that here with Ukraine, and we should not. And I agree with my whole heart.
You don't have to work for an organization to be a journalist. Lira was a filmmaker and writer. He put out insightful videos from Kharkov on an almost daily basis. Lira gave relationship advice on occasion. So what? He married a Ukrainian woman and they had 2 children. He loved the Ukrainian people and had a high opinion of their intelligence and geopolitical knowledge. The tragedy of Ukraine as he saw it was just how corrupt the country and it's institutions were You claim Gonzalo spread Russian propaganda without evidence. It would be far more accurate to say that Lira bravely debunked Ukrainian and Biden administration lies, putting his own life in jeopardy. For example, Lira debunked the Ukrainian lie that Russia carried out the "Bucha massacre." Ukraine carried out the massacre and the American media spread the Ukrainian propaganda. Lira talked about Nazi influence in the Ukrainian gov't and military. Ever heard of the Banderistas? Lira talked about Ukrainian corruption and where US arms and money were ending up. Gonzalo spoke of the impossibility of a Ukrainian victory and how the longer the war went on the greater the tragedy would be. Lira talked about the neocons and the root causes of the war. He spoke about Russian and Ukrainian history. Lira graduated from Dartmouth and had a good understanding of economics. He was able to explain why the sanctions on Russia would not work. Lira was beaten and tortured by the Zelensky regime. His father begged the Biden administration to have him released from prison. One phone call was all it would have taken. But why would they do that? They wanted him dead. And you wonder why Elon Musk would be interested in this story? Here's a video Lira put out that you might find interesting. If you have a few minutes check out part of it:
Yup SEAD. Typo. I stopped reading after your your first paragraph. It's great that you work on engineering naval ships but that does not mean you know anything about employment of Army, Marine Corps, and Air Force weapons systems on a modern battlefield, the logistics required to get them there, and what it is actually like on a battlefield. That's cool you took classes at Van Fleet Hall but just because I have attend a couple classes at a law school does not make me a lawyer ready to argue before the Supreme Court. I think if I stated that after attending some engineering classes at UF, I was ready to make detailed recommendations on the engineering specifications for the next version of the Navy's DDG's or SSN, you would be more than a little hesitant to take those assertions seriously and be surprised by the chutzpah it would take to make those assertions.
A quick google has Ukraine with roughly 1.3 million combat ready troops and reserves at the outset of the SMO. Since that time Ukraine has conducted upwards of ten conscriptions and Zelensky has constantly complained about acute troop shortages. By contrast, Russia’s army has grown to its largest number since the 1970’s and has, by Ukraine’s own admission, outgunned Ukraine upwards of 10:1. You hear no more about grand offensives. Yet, somehow we’re supposed to believe that Ukraine enjoys a 7:1 KIA ratio.
Elon Musk accuses Zelenskyy of killing Gonzalo Lira, slams Vogue photoshoot: 'Did this while kids were dying' | The Express Tribune The Trump apparatus lining up against Zelenskyy. WTH are we doing?
A lot of Democrats and RINO's kept telling us Ukraine was winning, as if repeating a lie often enough could change reality.
There's plenty of open source intelligence available including plenty of footage from the front lines on exactly what is occurring. It's all being filmed by drones and GoPros. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to understand the logistics, road infrastructure, terrain, weather when you can see it all. Yes, it is selectively filtered, but again not too hard to understand the conditions. I've seen plenty of European military officers and our own ex-military with direct knowledge of the conflict speak about the tactics and strategy it in detail and I have a pretty good feel for things. It's doesn't require any of our military personnel not involved in the conflict to filter it through here on GatorCountry. So read/don't read my posts, I don't care - feel free to stop posting in response to my posts anytime you like - I don't need your opinions.
Yes, but when you look at all the storage yards for their equipment, they are empty. And if they have so many troops, why are North Koreans on the battlefield trying to take back RUSSIAN territory?
