re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

I just read through a politard thread. Someone really believes Russia hasn’t used their “good” stuff yet and is saving it. Russia is also purposefully not even using their air force that much on Ukraine because they don’t need to. LOL

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$154,000,000 million dollar loss

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$154 trillion seems high.

Window for Russian breakthrough on battlefield narrowing – Bloomberg

KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO — Saturday, 8 June 2024, 19:57 - Ukrainska Pravda

Bloomberg has noted that Russian forces only have limited gains on the battlefield in Ukraine in recent months, and they are beginning to lose ground.

Source: Bloomberg in an article titled Putin Is Running Out of Time to Achieve Breakthrough in Ukraine

Details: Bloomberg reported that Ukraine had managed to stop the Russian offensive when the flow of weapons from its partners began.

Quote: "With Kyiv now taking delivery of billions of dollars in fresh arms from its US and European allies, the window for a Russian breakthrough is narrowing even as it continues to fire missiles and drones at Ukrainian cities including energy infrastructure.

A Russian attempt to open a new front in Ukraine’s northeast Kharkiv region already appears bogged down without achieving Putin’s goal of creating a buffer zone along the border."

More details: Bloomberg further noted that Russian forces have made little headway since capturing the strategically important city of Avdiivka in Donetsk Oblast in February at a price of enormous casualties over months of fighting. They have been trying to capture the critical town of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk Oblast for several weeks.

The news agency quotes Ruslan Pukhov, Head of the Moscow-based Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, as saying that Russia's strategy of depleting Ukraine's forces is "very expensive and bloody for the Russian army itself". "It can lead to excessive exhaustion of forces on the Russian side, which in turn, gives Ukrainians a chance to counter attack," he believes.

"The prospects of Russia achieving victory this year have greatly reduced" due to the resumption of arms supplies and aid to Ukraine, as reported by Bloomberg, quoting Ben Barry, a Senior Fellow for Land Warfare at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies.

"Russia might have the largest number of soldiers, but a lot of their first rate armoured vehicles have been destroyed," and rebuilding its Armed Forces to the levels of 2022 will take years, he added.

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$11,000,000 x 14 tanks

$154,000,000 million dollar loss

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Try to sell a pickup built between 1986 and 1992 the list price of $4.6 million AFTER its Chobham armor is removed. I wonder what the cost to transport them back from Germany to our Sierra Depot storage would be? I'm going to guess more than the resale price.

These are OLD tanks that were retired decades ago.

Are you aware that it costs the government to sell surplus HUMVEES from 20 years ago than it costs them to remove any special stuff from them?

Dude, you are why Aggie jokes are everywhere for decades and why they stick.

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I just read through a politard thread

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notiger1997

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Do you not care about your IQ points?

It sure looks like Russia is retreating on its Kharkiv axis. Those Chechen Akmat troops are going to have a field day shooting retreating Russian soldiers.

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3) The American public is still very much in favor of Ukraine, and abandoning it would be unpopular.

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Last polls I saw had it 50-50 at best

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Well that’s factually true

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LOL

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OK, so what "good" stuff hasn't Russia put on the battle field

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Nukes

We started this war. The United States.