Sunday, June 04, 2023

Too funny! Zelensky himself said the counter offensive was starting soon, now the Deputy Defense Minister is asking for silence?

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Saturday, June 03, 2023

NSFW - lone russian soldier gets hit by a dropped-grenade from a drone belonging to the 59th motorized brigade.

Here is what I see. Knocked out tank to the left. What appears to be an injured soldier lying in a bomb crater. Torniqute on his leg? Not moving. Obviously aware of the drone. Makes no move to escape. It appears he can see the grenade drop. Still doesn't attempt to run. Instead makes a half hearted attempt to cover up. Grenade lands. Slight delay. Still no attempt to run. Grenade goes off and he's in shit state beyond repair. Mercy kill? Soldier simply resigned to his fate? Sweeping the battlefield before sending in your infantry? 

Curious to see what readers say on this one. 

My only prayer is that his family doesn't see this. No family of whatever country needs to see their loved one die violently.  
NSFW - lone russian soldier gets hit by a dropped-grenade from a drone belonging to the 59th motorized brigade.
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Open Comment Post. 3 June 23

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Canadian Army @ Exercise Maple Resolve

 

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Russia is spending surprisingly little on its war on Ukraine

 via Business Insider.com

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has come at a steep geopolitical price and tens of thousands of people have died, but a new analysis by the Economist suggests the country is actually spending a small amount on the war effort.

The direct fiscal cost of the war — spending on soldiers and machines — is estimated to be about 3% of Russia's GDP, or roughly $67 billion a year, according to the report. That figure comes from a comparison of Moscow's pre-invasion spending forecasts for defense and security with what it actually spent.  

By historical standards, the current war pales in comparison. The Soviet Union during World War II, for example, spent about 61% of GDP, and the US at the same time put about 50% of its GDP toward the conflict.

However, 3% is substantially higher than the 0.4% of GDP the Soviet Union spent on its war on Afghanistan.

Here 

So what do we have?

*  Russia is fighting the war on the cheap.  

*  EU/US/NATO has basically emptied it war stocks in order to prop up Ukraine in this fight.

*  To say that the Russians are engaged in peer conflict against Ukraine/EU/US/NATO and still maintaining is not a good sign of the future.  

I missed it although it was in everyone's faces from the start.

The sanctions weren't designed to punish Russia for the invasion. The sanctions WERE designed to put Russia in such a precarious state that they couldn't afford to keep fighting because their economy was in shambles.

The sanctions game is dead.  You run the same play enough times then the other side will work around it.  In this case even our potential friends chose to do a workaround out of concern that what we did to Russia could be done to them.

Our economic war plan failed.

Despite the reports from the battlefield I believe that we've reached the point of permanent stalemate.

My solution?

Freeze the war.  Bring the EU/China/US and Ukraine into a room with Russia and work out a peace plan (left out the UN because that institution is dead and useless).

We've reached a point where the guys on the ground are being ordered to  fight for the sake of fighting.



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Friday, June 02, 2023

The United Arab Emirates said it was no longer taking part in operations by a U.S.-led task force protecting Gulf shipping

 via Reuters

The United Arab Emirates said on Wednesday it was no longer taking part in operations by a U.S.-led task force protecting Gulf shipping, which has been subjected to renewed tanker seizures by Iranian naval forces in recent weeks.

The UAE was responding to a Wall Street Journal report on Tuesday which, citing U.S. and Gulf sources, said the Gulf state was frustrated by the lack of U.S. response to recent tanker seizures by Iran.

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I SO SWEAR TO GOD!

The idiots running our defense establishment seem so unable to do a risk reward analysis.  They seem unable to anticipate enemy reactions to our activity.

They appear to be in the deep water and can't swim.

Make no mistake about it.

This whole issue revolves around the US seizing an Iranian tanker headed to CHINA!

The Iranians responded by seizing a couple of other tankers and the US was left in a position of not being able to respond for fear of escalating the issue into Tanker Wars Part Deux.

We tried to play hard and got called and backed down.

Now we have this.

Professional Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, or Airmen cannot act as diplomats.  

The State Dept must get out of its crouch and get back in the game.  Diplomacy is needed in a multi-polar/competitive world.

If all we can offer is a stick then that stick will get whittled down from over use.

We are rapidly reaching that point and we can't fight 75% of the planet that isn't the EU, Japan, Australia, S. Korea and New Zealand (left Singapore out cause they walk a fine line of being an enemy to none but ready to rip eyes out of everyone).

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Belleau Wood. When the USMC fought any clime, any place..

 

I guess back in 1918 the Marine Corps needed to get back to its naval roots because it found itself in a fight that the nation needed it in. It was a littoral battle. It was far from the sea. It was "acting as a second Army". But the nation needed it, the Marine Corps responded and history was made. It's a pity that so many are trying to tear apart a glorious past.
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The war in Ukraine was not ‘unprovoked’

 via Daily Star

There is no fairy tale end to the war in Ukraine, in which Ukraine defeats Russia on the battlefield and then joins Nato. The war can end with a safe and secure Ukraine, indeed with Ukraine a member of the European Union. But it cannot end with Ukraine in Nato. Russia has fought the war over that issue, and could possibly escalate to a nuclear war to avoid Nato enlargement to Ukraine.

A lie the West tells itself is that the war was "unprovoked." The word "unprovoked" is invoked incessantly, in President Joe Biden's major speech on the first-year anniversary of the war, in Nato statements, and in the media. TheNew York Times editorial pages alone have included at least 26 editorials, opinion columns and op-ed pieces that have described the Russian invasion as "unprovoked."

Yet, the war and Russian invasion were provoked by the issue of Nato enlargement, just as leading US diplomats had warned about for decades.

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The war is bad enough but Zelensky and now even the head of NATO are making noises about them joining the organization.

This is how you either escalate what's going on now to unimaginable levels OR you make a 2 year war into a forever war.

So many are cheering this thing on that NO ONE in power is thinking about an off ramp.

Zelensky is the pampered prince right now and from a position of weakness seems to be dictating terms to his benefactors.

I said seems.

I don't know what the plan is but if the idea is ultimately regime change in Moscow then that dog don't hunt.

We're setting ourselves up for worst case scenarios because leadership is not thinking.

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Royal Marines seeking a new high speed, low signature Commando Insertion Craft

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Do we need smaller aircraft carriers or need reduce the number we have & utilize them to the fullest?

 

I've always wondered why in the cold war we had carrier decks full of aircraft but today they're almost half of the legacy force. Does that mean we need to actually build smaller carriers with the idea that a medium carrier makes more sense than a super carrier? Is the answer to put a half our carriers port side, do proper maintenance and utilize the other half to the fullest extent possible? Whatever the case this tweet makes it clear to me that we're not properly using our carriers.
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