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Not sure what I think about this guy. But he does call out the reporting in the US in a way that seems accurate at least to me.
One of the points on his side is that he went to Kursk where he criticizes the NYT reporting before the Russian counter offensive.
I wonder if he went to Gaza if he would see the NYT reporting there is also very lacking?
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We need such systems. Merkel made sure we get nothing which can hurt Russia.
On other news Trump encourages Zelensky to attack Moscow.
Daily air alarms and heavy air raids providing night illumination for the Moscovite elite would be a nice reminder of what they started.
Zelensky: Can do that if you provide the appropriate weapons
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Pretty big change. This started with a pretty crappy and disorganized drip of light weapons and very short range weapons. Now medium range verging on strategic weapons.
The West should quietly supply Ukraine with gear that could take out the Kerch bridge.
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Dropping the Kerch Bridge would be high on my target list.
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Some nice bridges in Moscow, comrade.
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More a strategic than a tactical target.Is the Kerch Bridge still a huge strategic factor these days? I'd bet, much supplies would go through the occupied territories north of the Sea of Azov
Dropping the Kerch bridge impedes long term Russian support in Crimea. It also forces either the landborne route north of the Sea of Azov or waterborne transport. Edit: Airborne as well, but in contested airspace.
It takes the Russians from 4 options to 3 options. And it removes the cheapest option the Russians currently have. Edit: Airborne is faster, but again in contested airspace.
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That would make their oil like 40% more expensive than before the war I think when it was already barely competitive.
China might still buy it to keep Russia going despite also having profitted alot from the state Russia is in.
What the pounding that puppets Russia and Iran have been getting has achieved is increasingly forcing the puppeteer to reveal itself. Politicians just don't want to see it.
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Looks like a kiddie tickler so he'll fit right in.
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Fit in with the other misfits in a meat assault. Probably get punched in the face a few times before he gets press ganged, too.
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It’s a good route, but if you drop it, then for 3 months you can focus drones on the land route. Russia can’t get ships there, so it has limited options.Is the Kerch Bridge still a huge strategic factor these days? I'd bet, much supplies would go through the occupied territories north of the Sea of Azov
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The issue is not so much military ability, but political reluctance. Yes, dropping the bridge and putting it out of action for the rest of the war would require Taurus (or Tomahawk etc), but the decision not to give it to Ukraine is political because they know precisely what the Ukrainians would use it for and the Kerch Bridge is one of many of Putler's -WW3 nuclear Armageddon- red lines which carries a lot of weight, especially in Berlin because they don't want to be seen as having started their third world championships.
Air transport is by far the most expensive and will quickly eat up russia's limited military airlift capacity. Ukraine has some SAMs capable of covering part of the area, AIM-120 also especially if Ukraine gets more modern versions and with Crimea's air defences heavily attrited in the past year who would want to fly a lumbering aircraft into an area infested with drones including low observable USVs capable of launching SAMs and FPV drones?
The land bridge with Crimea is in range of Neptun, GMLRS, ATACMS, AASM Hammer, JDAM, extended range artillery etc. Besides the obvious: drones.
Russia's military transport ships have been sunk, destroyed in dry dock or chased out of range of most Ukrainian weapons. Using civilian ships carries a great deal of risk as these aren't designed to take any hit. They also require an established port facility to load/unload = predictable. If Ukraine has weapons capable of reaching into the Sea of Azov or infiltrating USVs in there it would be a turkey shoot.
The Kerch Bridge is by far the easiest logistical means. Much of the russian army's logistics are based primarily on train and trucks.
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That would put China's US tariffs higher than they were a few months ago and I'm not sure they want to do that again. I'm not sure where China's tariffs are currently, but if they are at around 50%, buying Russian oil would put them at 150%.
The secondary tariffs aren't on the oil, they are on the people that buy it.
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This is almost always the issue.
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