Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar
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There is some crazy good footage of Ukranians clearing out a church in Donetsk on the Sun's page on YouTube posted yesterday or the day before. It includes the use of RPGs, grenades, gun fire and includes first person go pro footage and drone footage
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Not that anybody probably cares because it's 2 minor countries like Armenia & Azerbaijan but it seems Kyrgyzstan is going to war with Tajikstan
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I read about that earlier, these are both meant to be in the CSTO alliance thing (like NATO but the Russian version). Russian weakness is really showing when they can't do anything about their own supposed allies going to war with eachother, or being attacked.
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I think there's a little more to it than that, when things started to look like it was going to go bad for Russia I believe they asked the CSTO members for help in Ukraine and they all refused, so perhaps this is more a result of them not helping Russia and now Russia refuses to help them and is letting them sort out their own differences
- Speaker of Armenian Parliament: Very Dissatisfied by Russian-Led Military Alliance’s Response to Request for Help in Conflict With Azerbaijan
- Speaker of Armenian Parliament: We Expect More Tangible Steps From Our Russian Partners, Not Just Statements
- Ukraine Parliament’s Human Rights Commissioner: More Than 1,000 People Were Tortured and Killed in Russian-Occupied Areas of Kharkiv Region
- Pentagon Spokesman Ryder: U.S. to Deliver Two NASAMS to Ukraine in Next Month
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Russia has caused this by withdrawing all there troops from everywhere else back to Ukraine.
Assad must be crapping himself about now, without Russia he will be vulnerable.
Do we really need reminding that WW1 started very similarly?
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It feels like just about everybody is after a war, the older generations who had seen war have now almost gone and its all over again. Its a pity...
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But mainly Putin right?
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Putin and winnie the pooh don't forget
I dunno why he is getting so much **** - he is mainly sounding a note of caution. People are far too ready to write the Russian military off compared to the reality due to their poor showing in Ukraine. A lot would hinge on how much the Russian public would stand for a wider mobilisation.
As per his comments though at odds with the US's assessment they aren't anything like as close to running out of ammunition as is banded around - every few hours from this Kharkiv offensive they are finding Russian ammo caches, depots, dumps, etc. some of them quite large (albeit the loss of these will have an impact) for example https://twitter.com/eideticeye/status/1570925390335705090 https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1570692051070767106
While the state of their armed forces isn't great especially reserves and deep storage - they still have large amounts of equipment which can be put back into service even if in some cases that means cannibalising 2-3 of something to get 1 working - for instance they haven't even touched stuff like their T-90 reserves (albeit there are to a certain extent reasons for that :s).
Some of the biggest stumbling blocks and not easily overcome are man power, maintenance and logistics, a wider mobilisation could solve the man power side of it but they still are severely challenged to get the equipment where it needs to be, in the condition it needs to be, and kept in the condition it needs to be.
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I thought Russia was going to roll over Ukraine because of how formidable Russia's military has been reported to be. It has just been a given that Russia's military is big and strong and effective. We all heard the same stuff.
Now that Russia's military has failed to live up to the hype, I am less inclined to believe reports that Russia's military *could* be formidable if they *really wanted to* but just isn't right now (because reasons)
Russia seems to have rotted from the inside out, from corruption and totalitarianism.
The corruption and top-down centralized control has resulted in what we see now.
Now that Russia's military has failed to live up to the hype, I am less inclined to believe reports that Russia's military *could* be formidable if they *really wanted to* but just isn't right now (because reasons)
Russia seems to have rotted from the inside out, from corruption and totalitarianism.
The corruption and top-down centralized control has resulted in what we see now.
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I was watching a live cam at a military check point situated here https://goo.gl/maps/GvczaNLRAfkt7X2P9 while that stuff in the video was going on - about 6 miles away could hear the artillery they drew. The MRAP came flying in at one point, transferred wounded to an ambulance and then was gone again.
The one that puzzles me the most is the almost non-existence of their air force, even taking into account in reality they only have single digit combat serviceable numbers of many of their latest model combat jets and that they failed to eliminate Ukraine's anti-air capabilities. There was Enkore/Amnesia insisting that Russia would just fly in 100s of Migs, 100s of SU-27s, etc. and just obliterate everything :s
A lot of the thinking is they simply lack the institutional structure, knowledge and experience to carry out large scale operations like that against a foe capable of putting up a fight.
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