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Infrastructure in Russia is collapsing while Putin spends trillions of rubles killing innocent Ukrainians
— OSINT (Uri) 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@UKikaski) April 8, 2024
Russian Media: An overpass bridge collapsed onto the railroad tracks in #Vyazma, Russia.
"The governor of the Smolensk region took personal control of the situation with… pic.twitter.com/GJRgslYqoT
SouthTex99 said:
Ukraine has long wanted the US to come to its direct defense as Russia launches thousands of drones and missiles at its cities. And now they've seen Israel receive exactly that support and how effective it is. And defended against much of the exact same weapons.
Got to be frustrating.
The only thing that stops the bolded above is to let Ukraine join NATO after an agreement is in place. Of course he'll take another bite at the apple if the apple is JUST Ukraine. He will NOT take that bite if the apple is ALSO NATO.MaroonStain said:
My $0.02:
Ukraine is not getting back lost territory.
Outside of Ukraine and Russia, all other "players" want a stalemate, POS forced agreement and these new borders.
In 5-10 years, Putin will reload and attack again.
There is no amount of input, material nor $$$ that will push Putin back or to FULL STOP.
OR
Ukraine keeps fighting as is and this "special operation" lasts for another 10 years.
Ukraine should be given what they need to achieve objectives instead of this nonsense slow-walking. I don't agree that Russia cannot be beaten except by a self-fulfilled prophecy.MaroonStain said:
My $0.02:
Ukraine is not getting back lost territory.
Outside of Ukraine and Russia, all other "players" want a stalemate, POS forced agreement and these new borders.
In 5-10 years, Putin will reload and attack again.
There is no amount of input, material nor $$$ that will push Putin back or to FULL STOP.
OR
Ukraine keeps fighting as is and this "special operation" lasts for another 10 years.
Yep, the defeatist narrative Russia has been pushing throughout western social media has taken hold. Putin has long understood that undermining support for Ukraine is key to winning on the battlefield. It appears he is right as we have little strategic foresight and even less backbone. When some here look for the reason for US decline, they have only to look in the mirror.Waffledynamics said:Ukraine should be given what they need to achieve objectives instead of this nonsense slow-walking. I don't agree that Russia cannot be beaten except by a self-fulfilled prophecy.MaroonStain said:
My $0.02:
Ukraine is not getting back lost territory.
Outside of Ukraine and Russia, all other "players" want a stalemate, POS forced agreement and these new borders.
In 5-10 years, Putin will reload and attack again.
There is no amount of input, material nor $$$ that will push Putin back or to FULL STOP.
OR
Ukraine keeps fighting as is and this "special operation" lasts for another 10 years.
People that point to Ukraine's current struggles should ask themselves why Ukraine is struggling. It is due to a lack of military aid. The moment that started to dry up was when the real woes began to happen.
Waffledynamics said:
Too much trolling going on.
In my opinion, I wish Staff would start handing out bans. Y'all have been asked multiple times to stop derailing and trolling. There is a "from another perspective" thread and numerous other threads where you can spout the same stuff without cluttering up this one. It's extremely old at this point.
This isn't for partisan political nonsense. Your whining about inflation caused by a rounding error in the military budget is clearly trolling after it's been pointed out a thousand times. None of you are coming in here to discuss the conflict in any good faith except maybe nortex sometimes.
Out of the 800,000 Czech-located artillery shells, Czechia has so far only contracted 180,000 — the exact sum of Germany's commitment to the initiative (€576 million), which might be just a coincidence. https://t.co/QpJC17UW6F
— German Aid to Ukraine 🇩🇪🤝🇺🇦 (@deaidua) April 15, 2024
Note that the article is from the 8th; Reddit was showing videos of it already disabled last week.fullback44 said:
OMG… look at this Russian tank that appeared on the battle field in Ukraine… talk about a Cope Cage.. they are calling it the turtle tank. The idea is that small drones dropping small ordnance can't take it out. Technology moving fast
https://www.twz.com/land/bizarre-turtle-tank-appears-in-ukraine-with-shell-covering-it-nearly-completely
I don't see this one being a new long term design… lol
Yeah I figured it would last very long, its pretty much a giant target of metal that looks like a turtle moving aroundNaveronski said:Note that the article is from the 8th; Reddit was showing videos of it already disabled last week.fullback44 said:
OMG… look at this Russian tank that appeared on the battle field in Ukraine… talk about a Cope Cage.. they are calling it the turtle tank. The idea is that small drones dropping small ordnance can't take it out. Technology moving fast
https://www.twz.com/land/bizarre-turtle-tank-appears-in-ukraine-with-shell-covering-it-nearly-completely
I don't see this one being a new long term design… lol
Three seen so far, latest with EW gear.Naveronski said:Note that the article is from the 8th; Reddit was showing videos of it already disabled last week.fullback44 said:
OMG… look at this Russian tank that appeared on the battle field in Ukraine… talk about a Cope Cage.. they are calling it the turtle tank. The idea is that small drones dropping small ordnance can't take it out. Technology moving fast
https://www.twz.com/land/bizarre-turtle-tank-appears-in-ukraine-with-shell-covering-it-nearly-completely
I don't see this one being a new long term design… lol
NEW: The current US debate about providing additional military assistance to Ukraine is based in part on the assumption that the war will remain stalemated regardless of US actions. That assumption is false. Russian advances will accelerate absent urgent American action. 🧵(1/8) pic.twitter.com/C6VGjcWrdF
— Institute for the Study of War (@TheStudyofWar) April 16, 2024
New Russian ‘Turtle Tank’ Emerges On The Battlefield, Features Electronic Warfare System
— The War Zone (@thewarzonewire) April 16, 2024
Russia’s monstrous turtle tank was not a one-off, with the third one now identified and it carries an electronic warfare system.
Story: https://t.co/BEt9Oh6Nn2