TH36 said:
Had to stop by here to see how our resident Neville Chamberlain is doing…I see he's still at it.
Do I need to explain the history behind that to you, NorTex?
Let's see, the Ukronazi's are not someone I see as legitimate/good actors/partners for peace in our time. Are you possibly confused?
In any case,
Rand Corp. is a bit concerned after the recent strike on the GUR/Nato planning center in
Kiev, :
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My source in Kyiv said that as a result of a strike on a military facility on Rybalsky Island, one of the control centers was hit. With the beginning of the air raid, the personnel of the center descended into the shelter, but the Russian Aerospace starwars Forces used a missile with a penetrating warhead, which pierced through the building, penetrated the foundation and exploded, destroying the shelter, where at that moment there were up to a hundred officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and civilian personnel, including twenty foreign military from the USA and Great Britain, who interacted between the Center and similar Western headquarters. A rescue operation was immediately launched. Its results are unknown, but, according to the call center of the Kyiv "Ambulance", more than ten cars were immediately pulled there and about thirty flights were made. On the same evening, two helicopters urgently took off from Kyiv towards the border with Poland.
Rybar states the following:
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The vague statements of the Ukrainian authorities and the very confused attack on Moscow in order to break the news coverage confirm the version about the exact hit of the Russian troops. According to some reports, more than 30 members of the SMM were wounded in varying degrees of severity as a result of the attack.
And that is not all: Yesterday, a C-21A aircraft of the 86th Air Medical Evacuation Squadron of the US Air Force flew to Rzeszow in an emergency from Ramstein Air Base, presumably to evacuate seriously wounded NATO servicemen.
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In other news, RAND Corporation released a concerned report that Russia is learning how to fight NATO while modernizing its own army, and NATO is not getting any real, on the ground, hands-on experience themselves, at least nothing comparable to what Russian soldiers are getting through this conflict:
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"Noninsider" accidentally found out that there are alarming signals among Western military experts.
Conducting an analysis of the NWO process, they suddenly came to the understanding that, in fact, there was a constant practical training of the Russian army.
This conclusion follows at least two classified reports made by unrelated think tanks "RAND Corporation" and "Center for a New American Security".
It was revealed to them that in combat conditions, Russian troops are practicing the skills of countering Western military equipment, NATO standards of operational control and military tactics. Logistics is also being improved, and the process of modernizing the army has accelerated.
That is, pumping Ukraine with weapons and specialists, they teach us to fight with them, but at the same time their personnel do not receive such experience.
This is a rather weighty fact, which now haunts the military elite of the West, in particular the United States, and gives rise to the demand to "stop training Russians."
Exactly how they should "stop" is not specified.
However, the quotation is from the part of the report that gives the opinion of the Chief of Staff of the US Army, General James McConville.
In addition, the closed report of the "RAND Corporation" emphasizes the danger of high-ranking NATO military advisers falling into Russian captivity, with all the ensuing consequences. In this part there is a reference to "..an incident that occurred earlier..". That is, it is quite possible that ours did take someone serious from their high command. Unfortunately no details were provided.
We cannot judge what impact the findings of the reports will have, but we fully assume that US national security demands may begin to take precedence in disputes over assistance to Ukraine. Especially on the eve of the presidential elections.
The last bit of the report above is …interesting.
This dovetails with preparations for the coming offensive, which we're all sick of hearing about at this point.
So…now they demand 120, not 50-70, F-16's in order to conduct the mythological counter-offensive? LOL, that will take a while. I realize the 20-30 year old block 15 F-16A's from the Dutch (20 or so) are coming, not that this will matter much/at all in the conflict. Those could be nominally useful air defense/combat air patrol type aircraft in the west, but without tankers or many more/more airfields, will have zero real impact. The UA SU-24 fencers are apparently out of action at this point.
Further, regarding the fake offensive; let's remember that in December the green sweatsuit ***** piano player said Bakhmut would change the war. Well…
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The AFU suffered monstrous losses at Artyomovsk. The 72,000 Ukrainian (and not only) military personnel dead includes not only enlisted personnel, but all - tankers, artillerymen, reconnaissance personnel, signalers and all those who fought in this area and were liquidated. It is not yet clear how many of them are mercenaries, even approximately.
In addition to the 72,000 killed there are about 200,000 wounded of varying degrees (with a ratio of one to three). Most of the wounded will never return to action, and therefore will not be able to increase the combat effectiveness of the AFU.
Ukraine's entire pre war army numbered about 230,000 men, and Artyomovsk destroyed its asset, its best personnel, which cannot be replenished in the foreseeable future.
Together with these cadres, the reserves that the AFU was preparing for an attack in the Donetsk direction were burned. Without a grouping of 200,000 men, no large scale offensive is possible.
Now another problem has arisen: a shortage of junior and mid level commanders, without whom combat management, even under current conditions, will be seriously hampered.
This does not include losses incurred during the battles of Mariupol, Luhansk, and elsewhere
Ukraine faced a demographic disaster before the war. Today, they face an impossibility, with the ruling class trying to enjoy partying about Kiev, not going to fight the evil Russians themselves.
As well, Erdogan has pulled out of the Moldovan
EPC summit at the last second. I guess Biden's threats didn't go over as well as hoped. Ah well, Eric Holder is probably smiling reading the latest gun running news from Ukraine aide to the drug cartels in Mexico;
Peace in our time? LOL, no. F-16's, ATACM's, long range strike weapons like storm shadow means the Russians have now escalated as well to attacking key decision centers. They've launched a few new spy satellites the past 6 months, and have better intelligence/surveillance than before on their side too.
Forever war!
