re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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When our Javelins are averaging an 90% kill rate at whatever they are fired at then it’s not hard to see why they are running out of tanks. That’s not even accounting for the British NLAW which is a damn good weapon itself. Ukraine has also captured 300 of their more modern T-72 tanks.

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It's not just the western ATGM either. The Ukrainians have learned (or maybe were taught by western military advisors) the trick of setting up their wire guided missile launchers away from the soldiers who launch them. That way when the Russians attack that position all they destroy is used missile tube. The Ukrainians have tens of thousands of Ukrainian made and Soviet made wire guided ATGM which have proven to be just as deadly against Russian tanks as western ATGMs. I can't remember what source I read it from, but that source said that for every 1 Russian tank killed by western ATGM there were at least 3 Russian tanks killed by Ukrainian or Soviet made ATGMs.

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Ruble in better shape today than pre-invasion. Before the accusations, I’m just legitimately trying to understand where the sanctions went. Very rapidly and robustly effective on announcement, but now appear to be inefficient.

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A few things about this:

1) Interest rates went from around 8-9% to 20% overnight

2) People are still limited on the amount of money they can convert ($10k)

3) All exporters MUST export 80% (IIRC) of the product in the Ruble

4) I'm still not sure how much of their market is actually open.

5) Inflation is over 17%

6) GDP is expected to contract 8-10%

Basically all-in-all they manipulated their currency and it's not what the actual exchange rate would be if they floated it, but it did "save" the ruble for the time being. Not sure how they come off these measures, but here traditionally when you manipulate currency like this the black market rate is the actual rate and there is an article I could find from 7 days ago LINK

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Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine has put the economy on track for its sharpest contraction in decades. But the Russian currency is up about 25% against the U.S. dollar since the invasion began, giving it the incongruous title of best performer globally.

While that’s allowed Putin to brag that the sanctions “Blitzkrieg” of the West has failed, ordinary Russians can’t take advantage of the currency’s strength. Oil flows and capital controls have warped the official rate, and the ruble is around 20% weaker at exchange points and on the black market -- reminding many Russians of its Soviet predecessor.

“It’s like trying to show the Soviet Union is beating America by waving a copy of the Izvestia newspaper in someone’s face in 1982 and saying: ‘Look, the dollar is worth only 64 kopecks!”’ said Sergey Khestanov, a Moscow-based professor of finance and banking and advisor to the chief of executive of the Otkritie brokerage. “I’d agree -- if anyone could actually buy a dollar for 64 kopecks.”

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The article also talks about the points I made above.

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This is probably hopeium, but as I'm watching the updates with the Ukrainian withdrawal I'm really hoping it goes like Kyiv. Pull back and expose the logistics then start attacking and force them to pull back.


Goodbye

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Such a well researched counterpoint that I never considered. Thank you so much for your reponse.

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Russia hasn't even declared an official war with the Ukraine. They have like 200k soldiers compared to the 1 million plus Ukranian forces. They are toying with them, plus not trying to kill citizens, because the hohols love to hide behind Ukraine citizens and in elementary schools. If Russia really went total war l, they'd have the entire country in a week max and that's without nukes. Go back to reddit and cope with the plebbit trannies and shill bots.

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All that massive Russian power, and they couldn't take Kyiv or Kharkiv.



Your RT talking points have already been used in this thread multiple times by your fellow Putin dick suckers. Get some new material.

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If Russia really went total war l, they'd have the entire country in a week max and that's without nukes.

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Real subtle I have no idea what happened in the First World War brag

ETA Assuming Total War 1 was a reference to the first WW

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Then why didn’t they use standard military doctrine to capture these cities?

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Why did they send in armor columns without infantry screening? Why are they not paying their troops? Why are the Shtola APSs not working on the T-90s? Why are large numbers of the ERA blocks empty? Why are are the mechanized columns constantly running out of fuel? Why are Russian soldiers abandoning equipment?

I can keep going if you'd like.

Why aren’t the widows pensions being paid? Why aren’t the KIA families being notified? Why aren’t the missing soldiers families being notified? Where are the billions of dollars that were supposed to be spent on upgrading military equipment?

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Why aren’t the widows pensions being paid? Why aren’t the KIA families being notified? Why aren’t the missing soldiers families being notified? Where are the billions of dollars that were supposed to be spent on upgrading military equipment?

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Why's Ukraine getting crushed in Donbas? Lol at you gulping up the propaganda coming from the the United States.

So many very interesting questions, and never any answers. Only downvotes.

How odd.