Warfare Russia/Ukraine War

[TheKiwi]

I'd offer a comparison of Ukraine with Vietnam where the USSR offered up not just AA weapons but hundreds of aircraft, staff to train the Vietnamese on how to use them best, intel on US operations and weaknesses - far more than the west has supplied to Ukraine so far,

 

[muck]

?? definitely BS

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Accept third party cookies

Expats, most likely. Ironically, immigrants in Europe are often more nationalistic than their countrymen at home. It's a similar story with Turks in Belgium or Germany, for instance, of whom majorities state in polls they owe allegiance to Erdogan rather than their elected governments. What amuses me is most protests not staged by ethnic Russians are the work of right-wing groups – who in doing so deny Ukraine's right to a national identity, which these same people always say is of the utmost importance to them. In other words, this is polarisation at play. "The foe of my foe."

 

[muck]

I'd offer a comparison of Ukraine with Vietnam where the USSR offered up not just AA weapons but hundreds of aircraft, staff to train the Vietnamese on how to use them best, intel on US operations and weaknesses - far more than the west has supplied to Ukraine so far,

The USSR's support to North Vietnam didn't begin on the very first day of the Vietnam War, though.
And the Soviets supplied the NVA with Soviet-made equipment fitting neatly into a grander scheme of a Communist arms build-up.

 

[CemalPasha]

Armenia needs to send arms to Russia ?

That's so pissed men. Russia ask Armenian jet's.. it's like US needs jet's of Luxemburg ( for ex) to recover Vietnam loses. Russian army is just ? they can't even scare Baltic nation's anymore. Their tanks are trash heli's are slower than mosquito's. They only have threatening power with nukes and balistic missiles. Nothing changed since Chechen wars perhaps. They can't win big scale war with wagner and Chechen gangs. Half of professional army wasted now. FOAB etc all fart fake propaganda project's. Their satellites are old as fck. Turkic ( Kazakistan etc) CSTO member's don't even g fck to Putin expect slave Belarus and Russian shadow needer Armenia. If they dare to launch Odessa ofansive during summer, that will be doom of Putin cuz there will be thousands of conscripts gonna die and it will be end of him for 2024 elections.

Asking help from Armenian airforce... It seems St. İnger blessed Russian air Force pretty much.

 

[Chazman]

Ukrainians assaulting LPR positions.

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Accept third party cookies

 

[Chazman]

You guys ever feel like you're being lied to? The Russian people are being fed nothing but lies.

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Accept third party cookies

 

[pigmode]

I'd offer a comparison of Ukraine with Vietnam where the USSR offered up not just AA weapons but hundreds of aircraft, staff to train the Vietnamese on how to use them best, intel on US operations and weaknesses - far more than the west has supplied to Ukraine so far,

AGREE. Here are a couple of lists of US air losses in Viet Nam. Check out the number of Fighters lost.

If Ukraine says they need tanks, send them tanks. They are on the ground--they know what they need. And send another 1000 Switchblade.

List of aircraft losses of the Vietnam War - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Loss Statistics

www.vietnamairlosses.com

 

[Celo]

Some nice combat footage from Mariupol!

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Accept third party cookies

 

[Chazman]

Some nice combat footage from Mariupol!

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Accept third party cookies

Are these DPR guys?

 

[Chazman]

While Russia scrapes to gather manpower. Hey, what happened to the Syrian Cannon Fodder Battalion? Will they be trained by those Chechen Tiktok clowns?

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Accept third party cookies

 

[vapingallday]

How the train station looked before the Russian attack.

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Accept third party cookies

 

[muck]

If Ukraine says they need tanks, send them tanks. They are on the ground--they know what they need.

I must concede that's a good argument. It's just we sometimes don't know if they really want what they it is they say they need. There's a considerable body of opinion the Ukrainians have at time asked for one thing – knowing they won't get it – in the hopes of being offered as a substitute what they really want. Wesley Clark, I believe, has characterised the MiG debacle as an instance of exactly that.

 

[jebirun]

I support Ukraine.. go-go Ukraine.. make ruskies beg for their mama.. Slava Ukrainia!!!

 

[jebirun]

How the train station looked before the Russian attack.

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Accept third party cookies

That how Russian behave, if they cant take the city, the bombard into pieces, regardless lost of civilians life what not.. for them to subdue Ukraine to its knee is the main objective.. thats the more reason for the Western countries to pour any assistance as possible so Ukraine can drove the Russia back to its actual borders and liberate Crime, Donetsk, and Luhansk for good...

 

[Faheka]

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Accept third party cookies

 

[IDF_TANKER]

I must concede that's a good argument. It's just we sometimes don't know if they really want what they it is they say they need. There's a considerable body of opinion the Ukrainians have at time asked for one thing – knowing they won't get it – in the hopes of being offered as a substitute what they really want. Wesley Clark, I believe, has characterised the MiG debacle as an instance of exactly that.

I’m listening periodically to Alexei Arestovich, who is a Zelenski adviser and himself an ex-military, on his YouTube channel. He is talking all the time with his Russian/Ukrainian interlocutors about necessity of the offensive weapons - armor, artillery etc. According to him, without this is impossible to mount a counteroffensive to actually push the Russians out of Ukraine. Which makes sense to me, so probably not entirely a begging tactic…

 

[Ivan le Fou]

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Accept third party cookies

That would be the third MIG31 loss since the beginning of the year.

But the first "crash" per say.

 

[Hiryu2.0]

Hungary will not send arms to Ukraine, this is a mandate given to the government by the Hungarian people, Zoltán Kovács, State Secretary for International Communications and Relations, said in an interview with CNN on Friday.

Christiane Amanpour, the news network's chief international correspondent and anchor, asked the state secretary how the Hungarian dissent on this issue could be explained.

According to Zoltán Kovács, this is not the Hungarian position. According to him, Hungary does not stand apart, it stands 100% by the decisions of NATO and the European Union. He explained that Hungary does not want to be dragged into this war.

In support of his claim, the presenter referred to the fact that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at an international press conference after his convincing election victory that Hungary would have no difficulty paying for gas to Russia in rubles if the Russians asked for it. What is the explanation for this?" asked Amanpour.

Zoltán Kovács replied that it was worth clarifying the concepts. There is no common procurement procedure for gas and oil purchases for EU member states, so Hungary is complying with the agreements it has with Russia. Under these, however, it is only a technical matter in which currency Hungarians pay.

According to Zoltán Kovács, paying in rubles does not mean circumventing international policy on sanctions.European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also told CNN on Friday that Hungary would be in breach of EU sanctions against Russia if it were to pay for Russian gas in rubles, as Prime Minister Viktor Orbán promised.

 

[Ivan le Fou]

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Accept third party cookies

The US may not buy the story, but they tried very hard to sell made-up ones for preemptive reasons.

Bold, effective and risky: The new strategy the U.S. is using in the info war against Russia

“It doesn’t have to be solid intelligence,” one U.S. official said. “It’s more important to get out ahead of them [the Russians], Putin specifically, before they do something."

www.nbcnews.com

And that's one of the things that may end up bitting the US in the ass when it's all over.

When you have multiple US officials acknowledging the US has used low-confidence and low-accuracy intelligence for deterrent effect, it's basically the US saying "yeah, we lied, it was all BS, but it worked". Like a magician explaining how his tricks really work.
On the long term, it may push America's allies to question the accuracy and veracity of shared intelligence.

Again "buying" and "selling" something is not the same in term of implications and impacts.

 

[Hiryu2.0]

Ukraine: Inside the spies’ attempts to stop the war

As the invasion of Ukraine loomed, Western intelligence officials decided to tell the world what they knew.

www.bbc.com