Darth_Vader

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So five months ago Ukraine reached a crisis stage as far as manpower goes. Russia is getting a record number of soldiers signing up. Ukraine’s are dying at a 22:1 clip. Russian artillery is dominating Ukraine at a 12:1 clop. Air defenses in Ukraine are being canavalized.

My question to you is why aren’t we seeing the results on the battlefield?

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You have to understand the nature of warfare, especially in today’s hyper-political landscape. One of the main weapons of war is propaganda. Basically, you have to sift through the bullshite and use deductive reasoning based on logic and knowledge of military history.

Having said all that, I’d say you should be highly skeptical of any casualty figures released by either side, or even purported by media outlets.

So, what does that leave us? Well, let’s lay out some facts:

The war is in its third year. And it’s been stalemated for almost two years. So, the one definite fact we know about this war is it’s a stalemate. So, what is the nature of a stalemated war? What decides the outcome of such a war? Again, history gives us the answer. And that answer is exhaustion. The side who runs out of men and resources first, will lose.

So, and you’ll have to do a bit of homework here, I suggest if you want really understand how this war will end, look into which country, Russia or Ukraine, has the advantage in manpower and resources.

As for what we’re seeing on the battlefield, I’ll again refer you to the nature of this war, the nature of a stalemated war. As always history can guide us. Specifically WWI, more specifically, the Western Front of WWI. In that war, stalemate descended on the front in 1914. Between 1914 and the end of the war in 1918, the front barely moved. In fact, if you read the daily updates from this war; about how the Russians advance here and take this and that village sometimes the Ukrainians advance a few kilometers and take this or that village, it reads exactly like updates written in 1916.

All that to say, when the end in WWI came, it came suddenly. In summer 1918, it looked as though the war would drag on for at least two more years or longer. Tens of thousands were dying monthly on both sides. Then, in the fall of 1918, the German lines finally started to crack and rapidly began to crumble all together. The Germans had reached their breaking point. That’s how a stalemated war ends. One moment appears that it will go on for the foreseeable future, until it doesn’t. And when that point comes, the losing side degenerates rapidly.

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Meanwhile Ukraine is pulling men from its rear area air defense units and pulling old and unfit men off the street to flesh out their infantry units at the front.

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A series of interviews with Ukrainian officers, who spoke anonymously, given the sensitivity of the issue, paint a worrying picture for Ukraine’s war effort.

” The people we get now are not like the people who were there in the beginning of the war,” said one soldier currently serving in Ukraine’s 114th territorial defence brigade, who has been stationed in various hotspots over the past two years. “Recently, we received 90 people, but only 24 of them were ready to move to the positions. The rest were old, sick or alcoholics. A month ago, they were walking around Kyiv or Dnipro and now they are in a trench and can barely hold a weapon. Poorly trained, and poorly equipped,” he said.

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Two sources in air defence units told the Guardian the deficit at the front has become so acute that the general staff has ordered already-depleted air defence units to free up more men to send to the front as infantry

“It’s reaching a critical level where we can’t be sure that air defence can function properly,” said one of the sources, saying he had been prompted to speak out by a fear that the situation was a risk to Ukraine’s security.

“These people knew how air defence works, some had been trained in the West and had real skills, now they are sent to the front to fight, for which they have no training,” said the source.

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The Guardian - Dec 2024

Anyone who knows history, understand what it means when a county is pulling old men and untrained rear area troops to the front to fight as infantry. It’s been done before…

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Christianity in the western sense is slowly shrinking.

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And just look what that’s done to our society.

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Darth will be in here soon and give these guys a mud check

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I hung up my cut and retired from riding years ago. As for these threads, I tend to ignore them now. 99% of what’s in them is complete horse shite and it’s not worth getting involved.

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Rampant Masturbation

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Didn't they open for Weezer back in the day

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Frankly, I’m surprised someone hasn’t used this as their OT handle.

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I imagine this was similar to Sodom.

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I think if we invented a Time Machine and brought the residents of Sodom to see places like this, or jsit your average “so-called” pride parade, they’d be shocked at what they see going on.

I listen to the Rick Burgess show on WZZK in the morning and news talk on WERC or sports talk on WJOX the rest of the day usually.

But, I do it via the iHeart app played on my Bluetooth speaker when I’m in my office. If I’m in my truck, I’ll listen on my radio unless I’m traveling. Then I listen on iHeart in my truck.

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I’m not saying Europeans win every battle, look at the second Punic War. But it was very easy for the leaders and rulers of European nations to raise armies willing to smash it out in a decisive battle over, and over, and over again.

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Europe, at least most of Western Europe, isn’t even a shadow of its former self. They’re already all but conquered by the third/world Muslim hordes they’ve allowed to pour in from every shithole in Africa and the Muddle East. Europe, at least Western Europe is lost.

In 2016, due to a long undiagnosed cleft mitral valve, I was in the final stage of congestive heart failure. I was so far gone, my organs had shut down. I wasn’t even digesting food. When they admitted me to the hospital, they found the problem and determined I had to have open heart surgery to replace my mitral valve with a mechanical one. My Dr didn’t tell me until much later, but he put my chance of survival at less than 10%. I was admitted on Nov 7, and they scheduled my surgery for the following Monday the 14th. The reason for the delay was to medicate me for a week in the hope I’d regain enough strength to survive the surgery. Not only did I survive it, I survived a second one a week after the first after coding due to internal bleeding. I left the hospital on Dec 8, wheelchair bound, unable to walk more than a few steps, and on oxygen. Fast forward 8 years and I live a pretty normal active life, I work, travel, go to the gym 3-4 days a week, and pretty much go and do as I please, within reason.

If that’s not a miracle, then I don’t know what is.

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55 year olds can get in now LOL Thats just amazing to me. At 55 you should still be working and helping with grandchildren.

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A colleague of mine moved into the Villages before turning 55. He had to get some sort of waver or something to do it.