Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments

[zartosht]

Devastating inflation hitting the americans/euros... this is just the beginning.

-truckers paying 1200$ to fill up diesel, where last year they paid around $600

Everything is transported by trucks, add the loss of fertilizer and certain staples like cooking oil, and the western warmonger cheerleaders are going to be in for alot of pain. diesel touches virtually any items you can think of. food prices will skyrocket.

meanwhile in "sanctioned Russia", with crippling blablabla... USD to ruble is now 69....

tells you about the competence of the Russian government vs. team woke in the west.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

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[RescueRanger]

Mods pretty biased here.. even with the green and white...

@nang2 - done post has been removed!

 

[The SC]

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Finland suspects that a Russian Mi-17 helicopter violated the country's airspace - according to the Ministry of Defense, it happened from the eastern border at about 10:40 in the morning of May 4. The Finnish Border Guard has launched a preliminary investigation into the accident

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[WotTen]

Napoleon was winning before he invaded Russia. Hitler was winning before he invaded Russia. Biden was winning before he invaded Russia. Russia will end Biden.

There is a YouTube meme called "Unless you're the Mongols" which talks about how the Mongols were the exception to many truisms through history.

One of them is "No one can invade Russia in the winter and win....unless you're the Mongols"
Another is "Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires...unless you're the Mongols".

 

[The SC]

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[The SC]

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[Wood]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1521878575917510657

This is an interesting perspective on Russia's capacity for total mobilisation. As part of reformation, Putin's defence minister has reduced the training facilities and officers available to command them. Seems like Russia cannot perform total mobilisation as effectively as the Soviet can

 

[The SC]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1521836672446574592

 

[Paul2]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1521878575917510657

This is an interesting perspective on Russia's capacity for total mobilisation. As part of reformation, Putin's defence minister has reduced the training facilities and officers available to command them. Seems like Russia cannot perform total mobilisation as effectively as the Soviet can

Yes, that's why Russian field armies are so tiny. It's a legacy from communist period.

Per communist doctrine, these 12 armies were to increase in size 4-5 fold with eager red guards, and people militia. Surplus equipment goes to militia, and militias goes to surplus officers, and then the People's War starts.

We will see. The critical part — bearable quality hardware is already gone.

Old tanks are driven by levers, you need to learn, and train to drive them. It's not like a car.

Similarly, old comms hardware cannot be taught to complete rookies.

Artillery without ballistic computers means 30 minutes per high quality firing solution, or none at all if you don't have people with university level math skills who trained for month to do that.

I am not talking at all about rocket artillery, and aviation.

This is why modern military equipment reduces the need for mobilisation preparedness:

Ukrainians learn point-and-shoot NATO ATGMs within weeks. NATO arty is more or less point and shoot to, with almost every unit having a digital fire director.

Not to say, NATO purposefully adopted car style controls on armour, so pilots can be taught fast.

Most NATO jets are similarly fly by wire, where computers can make a good pilot out of somebody just few month flying.

 

[The SC]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1521961907992858624

At least the touret is still there!

 

[Wood]

Yes, that's why Russian field armies are so tiny. It's a legacy from communist period.

Per communist doctrine, these 12 armies were to increase in size 4-5 fold with eager red guards, and people militia. Surplus equipment goes to militia, and militias goes to surplus officers, and then the People's War starts.

We will see. The critical part — bearable quality hardware is already gone.

Old tanks are driven by levers, you need to learn, and train to drive them. It's not like a car.

Similarly, old comms hardware cannot be taught to complete rookies.

Artillery without ballistic computers means 30 minutes per high quality firing solution, or none at all if you don't have people with university level math skills who trained for month to do that.

I am not talking at all about rocket artillery, and aviation.

Another interesting point from the same Twitter handle is the possibility for armed resistance in the capital if the war drags on. Right now there is zero capacity for a successful resurrection because people don't have any means for it. But mobilisation means arming civilians who value their life over some glory for the state. It is easy to cheer for war when you are in a telegram group afterall. But if you are made to march as a cannon fodder in hostile territory, then all bets are off. This may also weigh on Putin's mind as he would prepare to mobilisation. The Bolsheviks themselves were empowered by all the low class non ideological pleb who simply wanted to avoid the trenches afterall

https://twitter.com/x/status/1521886901376061440

 

[Paul2]

Another interesting point from the same Twitter handle is the possibility for armed resistance in the capital if the war drags on. Right now there is zero capacity for a successful resurrection because people don't have any means for it. But mobilisation means arming civilians who value their life over some glory for the state. It is easy to cheer for war when you are in a telegram group afterall. But if you are made to march as a cannon fodder in hostile territory, then all bets are off. This may also weigh on Putin's mind as he would prepare to mobilisation. The Bolsheviks themselves were empowered by all the low class non ideological pleb who simply wanted to avoid the trenches afterall

https://twitter.com/x/status/1521886901376061440

Not happening. Russian police, and its 3 letter services are bigger, better funded, and better trained than its military, just like in China.

All "red" countries share that trait. China, and Russia are police states, and not military states, or stratocracies.

No empire in the past ever had a police larger than its military. Not even the ill Austro-Hungarian Empire, or sick late Ottoman empire. We really have no historical precedent to project how this will end.

 

[The SC]

It's high time all Russian neighbours joint nato or otherwise they will all become ukraine

That's a double edged decision .. like being between a rock and a hard nuked place..

 

[Hassan Al-Somal]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1521926130533638147

Russia's mission to the United Nations: The European Union is subordinate to Washington and has no foreign policy

@AlArabiya_Brk



In the Kyiv region, the forests of the Chernobyl and Ivankievsky region are burning, mayor Vitali Klitschko said. Kyiv residents are urged to close windows in case of smoke and not be on the street unnecessarily.

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Russia should drop a nuke on that island where the Antichrist is imprisoned.