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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted on 4/20/22 at 8:16 am to Hulkklogan
Posted on 4/20/22 at 8:16 am to Hulkklogan
quote:Big pharma doesn't make drugs out of Afghan poppies
Opiates to feed big pharma and our opioid epidemic?
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Posted on 4/20/22 at 8:49 am to nitwit
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Not about nazis, iron, petro, etc, but warm water ports are part of the equation.
That might be part of it, but I don’t believe that is all of it. Even if they conquer Mykolaiv and Odessa they still don’t have access to the open ocean. All shipping through the Black Sea has to go through the Turkish Straits. Plus Russia’s only export is O&G and wheat. It’s O&G infrastructure is pipeline based with export terminals in Northern Russia or Vladovostock. It’s grain shipments are to China and Europe and are rail based.
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The natural resources angle makes little sense here and responds to no real Russian need.
The angle that makes the most sense is that Russia’s population is declining and Putin believed that there were 17 million ethnic Russians in Ukraine who secretly wanted to be real Russians. Plus once he absorbed eastern Ukraine he could absorb Belarus and go along way to fixing his declining population problems and reassert Russia as a global superpower instead of just being a large nation with nukes.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 9:09 am to TutHillTiger
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So what did the Russians frick up today
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The Russians have not fully set conditions for a large-scale offensive operation. The Russians have not had enough time to reconstitute forces withdrawn from the Battle of Kyiv and ready them properly for a new offensive in the east. The Russians appear to be still building logistics and command-and-control capabilities even as they start the next round of major fighting. The tempo of Russian operations continues to suggest that President Vladimir Putin is demanding a hasty offensive to achieve his stated objectives, possibly by “Victory Day” on May 9. The haste and partial preparation of the Russian attack will likely undermine its effectiveness and may compromise its success.
Nothing new. Just repeating the same old mistakes of launching an attack against a dug in defender on a wide front instead of trying to flank or atleast concentrate and break through then exploit the break through. Russia also has launched an attack to have a victory for May 9th instead of waiting until its forces are ready and the conditions are right. They are still transferring troops from Belarus to the Donbas and once again they launched an armor attack before the end of the Rasputitsia. Russia has lost a third of its armed forces including tanks. If the next month of combat is like the first two, then it’s very possible that Russia would have lost half of its available armor and military force by the time the Rasputitsa ends. Which coincidentally is just about the time that Ukraine’s reserves will be finishing their training and the tanks and planes that Ukraine is receiving from NATO will be ready for combat.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 9:30 am to WeeWee
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The Russians appear to be still building logistics and command-and-control capabilities
Its too late, to fall in love with Sharon Tate
Posted on 4/20/22 at 9:44 am to RLDSC FAN
AeroVironment Donates Over 100 Quantix Recon Unmanned Aircraft Systems to the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine and Territorial Forces
Donation is independent of other AeroVironment systems already being provided to Ukraine by the United States Government
Donated Quantix Recon unmanned aircraft systems will ship this week with more to follow
Operational training services for donated systems will also be provided at no cost
Recon specs LINK
BusinessWire LINK
Donation is independent of other AeroVironment systems already being provided to Ukraine by the United States Government
Donated Quantix Recon unmanned aircraft systems will ship this week with more to follow
Operational training services for donated systems will also be provided at no cost
Recon specs LINK
BusinessWire LINK
Posted on 4/20/22 at 9:46 am to RLDSC FAN
I feel terrible for the civilians trapped in Mariupol. They're going to get deported to bumfrick Russia to live out their days in misery.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 9:52 am to TexasForever
Posted on 4/20/22 at 9:56 am to TexasForever
The sounds of a dying animal.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 10:00 am to Dataisbeautiful
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The sounds of a dying animal.
Watching the Russians the last couple of months has been surreal, like a bad Dali dream.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 10:21 am to GetCocky11
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I feel terrible for the civilians trapped in Mariupol. They're going to get deported to bumfrick Russia to live out their days in misery.
The party line us they all want to be Russians, right?
Posted on 4/20/22 at 10:23 am to doubleb
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10735477/Ukraine-war-Russian-colonel-killed.html
Another one bites the dust. You hate to see it.
Another one bites the dust. You hate to see it.
This post was edited on 4/20/22 at 10:32 am
Posted on 4/20/22 at 10:24 am to TexasForever
They’re turning into a more technological NK before our eyes
Posted on 4/20/22 at 11:36 am to TexasForever
I'm more concerned about their older ICBMs. Russia might develop some pretty high tech and advance new missiles but they do not have the resources of the time to build a lot of them. However, they have lots of older missiles which will eat up NATO's missile defenses fast.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 11:37 am to DabosDynasty
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They’re turning into a more alcoholic NK before our eyes
FIFY
Posted on 4/20/22 at 12:32 pm to doubleb
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The party line us they all want to be Russians, right?
That and those that don’t are just nazis
Posted on 4/20/22 at 12:35 pm to Jim Rockford
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Great article on corruption in the Russian army
So Putin, the head of the biggest crime syndicate/kleptocracy in the history of mankind got blindsided by............corruption in the military?
The jokes write themselves.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 12:40 pm to StormyMcMan
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That and those that don’t are just nazis
Yea, thry either love mother Russia or they are Nazis.
But when Russia bombs the crap out of those Eastern cities somehow only the homes, businesses and hospitals of the Nazis are destroyed.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 12:46 pm to Lakeboy7
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So Putin, the head of the biggest crime syndicate/kleptocracy in the history of mankind got blindsided by............corruption in the military?
Corruption is more or less culturally accepted in Russia. This goes back to the flaws of the Soviet Union; in a society where everyone is forced to be equal the only way to get anything is through pulling strings and bribing everyone. The wall might have fallen but the mentality didn’t, as evidenced by the current system of oligarchy. When that mentality exists at all levels of society and has existed for generations, it’s more or less impossible to uproot, it part of the fabric of who they are. This has been their undoing in the past and probably will be again, as nobody in charge is going to do what has to be done to uproot corruption since the entirety of their government benefits from it.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 12:52 pm to PrecedentedTimes
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Corruption is more or less culturally accepted in Russia.
Absolutely. The premise of the article is hilarious though, Putin had to know the military was hollow he and his gang took the appropriations for new aircraft, new tanks, new ships (the big dollar expenditures) and the rats down the food chain did the same. What you get is what you see in Ukraine, untrained soldiers, bad old equipment, no logistics and shortages of everything.
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