My criticism from before 2014 has been this.
Russia tries to parry the punches, til its worn out. But doesn't punch the aggressor itself.
Thats sometimes akin to punching a knife rather than a knifer.
Previously Russia was in no position to take on the entire west.... this is not just the US... this is the entire west which still controls most international organisations and commerce...
Russia letting the west continue to punch but rather than just absorbing the blows it has been turning the blows back on the west... the west lost a lot of money over the years of all their sanctions... they have lost a lot of income from selling food and other things to Russia and now they face Russian companies that replaced EU companies in the Russian markets in international trade now too and the value of the ruble gives them a huge economic advantage.
The west will counter with bullying and threats, but the rest of the world are not stupid... how long will they support corrupt and broken America?
With 780bases around the World, there is no shortage of targets... and enemies of America to arm/"help in the battle for liberation from Western imperialism".
But does anyone have an idea what preferred tactics might be?
When countries stop accepting US dollars for anything how are they going to afford that number of bases... let alone all the bribes needed to keep the gears moving...
With a plus 30 trillion debt and spending even more on their military and helping the Ukraine they are going to have to start balancing their books... it might create a civil war because their goons in Kiev will get paid but social programmes and education and health resources in the US are going to start failing with their funding cut to the bone.
home ported military ships are NOT currently being allowed through.
You can't take the leap from home ported military ships aer not going through to prove they are not allowed to go through... there is an obvious difference.
Bush asked Zelensky to kill as many Russians possible.
Hahaha... the man who said his own invasion of Iraq was a war crime...
Then he remembered to blame Putin.
I dont think that Polish elites are that stupid to get their hand between Russia and its Ukraine.
Hope they are... do Poland a favour and hit a HQ with their most rabid anti Russian politicians with a missile would be hilarious... they could blame old maps like the yanks did when they murdered Chinese diplomats in Serbia.
Easy to spot the ghost of kiev. Its Stuka siren gives him away.
Yeah, that and also the cartoonist that draws him uses colours that are way too bright to be realistic....
Since when can "Ukraine" move troops safely?
It is a special material camouflage called a body bag...
New advanced lightweight all-terrain wheeled transport system delivered by the west, pricetag: around 500.000$ without extras
You laugh but a wheel barrow or shopping trolley is a great way of carrying around rather more than you could normally carry... water, ammo, food, fuel etc etc... Nice big all terrain wheels on that wheelbarrow... wont be an accident...
You could stack a lot of PKP ammo or 30mm grenades on that wheel barrow...
Russian troops are often identified by the letter “Z” on their vehicles or uniforms. We can thus call them the “Zees”
Those opposed to the Russians have shunned and “canceled” the letter “Z” itself. We can thus refer to them as the "Not-Zees"
Except in the country that invented the English language and many of its former colonies call the letter Zed, so that would be Zeds and Not Zeds...
A strong currency will definitely benefit the man on the street and it will be good for imports as well.
Not at all... making imports cheaper is bad for production in Russia, and makes Russian exports less competitive...
Getting Rubles for oil and gas exports will be very beneficial for the economy as a whole.
Eliminating Euros and US dollars from Russian trade is beneficial to the world outside the west.
This clown is really stupid. Who talked about this weapon being a turning point? Russia needs no Wunderwaffen, she has Iskanders, Kinzhals and Kalibers.
Worse than that... Russia has had experience against drones in Syria, but in the Ukraine the number of drones provided to the enemy is multiplied enormously, so this is very much an escalation in the threat of drones for Russia and they are dealing with that escalation with jammers and lasers and all sorts of other methods of dealing with drone threats... can the west claim they are ready to fight an enemy well supplied with drones and air defence systems you can disconnect from an IADS but have to take out one by one?
I honestly think they would rapidly run out of weapons in every regard... not to mention their vulnerable supply lines...
So what's more likely, Ukrainians are good at hiding aircraft, or Russians suck at bombing airports?
Dispersing aircraft is quick and easy. It is not like they are taking off and attacking and then landing and being hidden again... when they take off they get shot down...
In such a situation having 500 planes is no help if they are going to be shot down as soon as they take off and they risk losing a pilot.
I don't know about Su-27 family fighters, but I was under the impression that most Soviet era fighter
Both the MiG-29 and Su-27 are designed with grids to protect their air intakes from FOD while on the ground. The old MiGs have solid panels with overwing louvres to allow air into the engines, while the Su-27s and new MiGs use a mesh grid that covers the the intake.
Earlier, The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/) reported that the initiative, approved by US lawmakers, "provides $20 billion in military assistance expected to fund the transfer of advanced weapons systems such as Patriot air defense systems and long-range artillery."
Good idea... that would be a great reason for Russia to level Kiev just to show how useless Patriot is....
“Earlier, David Kasatkin offered to cut off the head of Ramzan Kadyrov's mother and abuse his children. Now we will send this information to the commanders from the Chechen Republic, you will talk to them personally.”
That meeting will be brief...
Which round is this?
A new round for their navy for shore bombardment and point target destruction.
Ideally they should design 155mm rounds that can be used by both the 2S19 Msta and modernized 2A36 Giatsint-B that should also be 155 mm.
You mean 152mm, 155mm is a western calibre.
2S19 is any case being replaced with the 155mm 2S-35 Koalitsiya-SV.
It will be replaced by two versions of Koalition... the first based on the Armata chassis called 2S35 and the other based on a wheeled chassis... both 152mm calibre.
Makes sense to have self propelled howitzers and towed howitzers that both use the same 155mm round.
They will both use the same 152mm round developed for the Army (Coalition in the form of a tracked and wheeled and towed models) and the navy (a shore based coastal artillery gun to replace Bereg and also a gun turret used on destroyers and cruisers).
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The complete refusal of the Empires fart-sniffers to recognise the reality around them will lead them to over-extend and collapse.
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