re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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The information contained in the map is very interesting, but they very clearly need someone with GIS experience to help them design their products to make them look a little better

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They want everyone they argue with to be a caricature of something they created in their own heads

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I think it is Projection by them. They think everything Trump says I am going to agree with whether its factual or not That is exactly how the NAFO Fellas behave.

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I think it is Projection by them. They think everything Trump says I am going to agree with whether its factual or not That is the exactly how the NAFO Fellas behave.

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It is not projection. It is calling out your position that Trumps comments on the Ukraine war are wrong. You are certainly entitled to your opinion, but you are just a random dude posting on a message board (like the rest of us) saying that the President of the US doesn't know what he's talking about.

Sorry, but I believe Trump over you.

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from MarketWatch....

Trump says he will ask OPEC, Saudi Arabia to lower oil prices

Speaking remotely to the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, President Donald Trump said he would ask Saudi Arabia and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC, to lower oil prices.

Trump said he was disappointed they hadn't acted already, arguing that doing so would have pressured Russia to end its war in Ukraine.

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I don't trust OPEC and Saudi Arabia to follow through and keep this pressure on...

at the end of the day, Saudi Arabia is an Autocracy, and one under internal threat... nobody wants to be the last standing Autocracy, so while they might be on "team good guy" a bit, they also don't want to see Putin toppled. They want to help anything that ultimately weakens their biggest enemy - Iran - but they also have self-preservation in mind and that means not being the last non-Democratic power that suddenly get focused on,,,

The number of troops in the country has no impact on their ability to exploit a breakthrough. You have to have mobility to do that.

Germany didn't execute blitzkrieg by walking infantry; they used armor, mechanized infantry, and air superiority to achieve rapid advances. Russia has demonstrated repeatedly in this war that they can't execute mechanized warfare...they aren't going to magically start now.

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I am 100% MAGA/Trump. That doesn't mean everything thing he says is factual

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Z ready to negotiate per Trump who communicates with Z, but JB says he’s wrong???

It seems to me that your disagreements with Trump are based solely on your obvious support of Russia and Putin. You profess to be objective and report all the facts, but all you do is make it appear that Russia is sbout to March into Kiev and Odessa any minute.

Your so called coverage is totally slanted one way and you dismiss any positive news from the Ukraine side and you even dismiss most of what Trump, who you say you support, says about the war.

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You think 800k casualties is 100% accurate?

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Of course it isn't 100% accurate, but I do think it's probably close to the real number, which is the point.

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blitzkrieg

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Tangent from Big Serge’s substack, this is not something I knew until I read this, but it’s not a word the Germans used

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At last, we come to Blitzkrieg. If ever there was a word which has bedeviled historians, it was this. In relatively short order, “Blitzkrieg” or “Lightning War” became the standard western parlance for the Wehrmacht’s mobile operations, and has since metastasized into a general synonym for maneuver warfare of any kind. And yet, the origin of the word itself seems to be largely an invention of western press, attempting to explain Germany’s sequence of rapid victories. The word does not appear in German military texts, handbooks, or operational drafts. Hitler decried it as “a completely idiotic word”, and Heinz Guderian dismissed it as a sloppy attempt by Germany’s enemies to explain their successes.

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The German officer corps in World War Two conceived of their operational art not as some entirely new form of war-making, but as a restoration and enhancement of their characteristically mobile and aggressive operations through technical, tactical, and organizational enhancements.

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Germany had an idealized form of warfare that they had never been quite able to fully realize - what they called “Bewegungskrieg”, or “Movement War”. The aspiration was to achieve genuine annihilation battles against operational targets (large enemy units like corps and field armies). They had glimpsed the ideal at Sedan in 1870, when Moltke had surrounded and destroyed an entire French army, but later attempts to duplicate the feat had failed.

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The Russian are fighting in the most economical way possible, leveraging their advantage in firepower and doing their best to minimize their own losses

It’s just intelligent. At some point the Ukrainians will crack the way the Germans did on the Western Front, or the way Lees forces did at the end.

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Germany will have that Russian gas flowing before the ink is dry on Ukraine.

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That gas stopped flowing on Nordstream before it was blown. Russians couldn't maintain natural gas integrity and crashed the compressors weeks earlier