I mean it's up to Russia how it wants to spend it's money, I guess that it just thinks it's better to buy super yachts for oligarchs rather than spend on military equipment for troops that it sends into battle.
I mean it's up to Russia how it wants to spend it's money, I guess that it just thinks it's better to buy super yachts for oligarchs rather than spend on military equipment for troops that it sends into battle.Why does Russia need to spend more on its military when its fighting an opponent who spends more than 10X its military budget and yet is still barely hanging on.
This is where Crimea gets their water so whatever. 👍
I find your points of view tiresome and almost hysterically wrong.Even CNN has to admit that Ukraine is running low on artillery and that the West has little production capability to produce them fast enough. In other words, the Russians and Ukrainians are used to fighting large scale artillery wars and without enough ammo, it will be very hard to compete. The Soviet countries fight wars differently than Western countries. Large scale land warfare and heavy use of artillery is used in the ex-Soviet countries. That's not how the West conducts war. The West is used to fighting opponents with no navies or air forces, or with militias.
So for this so-called offensive, can the West run whatever is left of their factories to full capacity to supply ammo to Ukraine?
Ukraine is using a lot of ammunition in its fight against Russia — up to 6,000 artillery shells every day. The result? Munitions stocks among the country's Western suppliers are starting to run low. That might be about to change. Polish and European Union officials met Monday to discuss a new $2.2 billion program that would "supply Ukraine in its war against invading Russian forces and to replenish Europe's dwindling stocks," The Associated Press reports.
But Europe isn't the only place where ammunition and other critical military supplies are in short supply. "What the U.S. has been able to do is use a range of its stockpiles of weapons," to supply Ukraine, Seth Jones of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) tells PBS NewsHour. Now, though, the "number of those stockpiles are now decreasing."
Indeed, The New York Times reports that American efforts to supply Ukraine have left the military low on artillery shells and other "more sophisticated" weapons, exposing fault lines in how the U.S. military prepares for its own wars. America's armed forces are "watching … stocks of some key weapons dwindle," the Times reports — the result of "industry consolidation, depleted manufacturing lines and supply chain issues" that have become more critical while war rages in Europe, and as a potential conflict with China looms.
https://theweek.com/russo-ukrainian-war/1022183/is-the-us-running-out-of-ammunition
So basically, arming Ukraine is leaving the West short on weapons. Even if somehow US can provide Ukraine with adequate shells, that might leave the US short for its own needs. Especially since it seems to pursue a hostile policy towards China.
Don't care about crap movies, just showing an example of Western hypocrisy. And this war could be over if the Western nations want it to be. Ukraine as a country is only holding on due to endless American money. So basically, America owns Ukraine and its government. It can push Ukraine to talks if it wants but that's not what it wants.
Some have even said that it was Boris Johnson who stopped the peace talks that Turkey was trying to broker between Ukraine-Russia.
Diplomacy Watch: Did Boris Johnson help stop a peace deal in Ukraine?
A recent piece in Foreign Affairs revealed that Kyiv and Moscow may have had a tentative deal to end the war all the way back in April.responsiblestatecraft.org
And now China is trying to broker peace between Ukraine-Russia but the Americans and the West don't want it either.
What?? Water from Kakhovka Reservoir is cooling the 5.7 GW Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (wiki). Seems, uh, a bit dangerous. It's cuts off fresh water to Crimea, but certianly there was a way to do that without blowing the whole dam??
What?? Water from Kakhovka Reservoir is cooling the 5.7 GW Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (wiki). Seems, uh, a bit dangerous. It's cuts off fresh water to Crimea, but certianly there was a way to do that without blowing the whole dam??
are we sure AFU?The AFU reportedly blew up the Nova Khakova dam.
are we sure AFU?
thought the area was occupied by Russia?
The WMD level of destruction on Ukraine, will flood Kherson, and benefit Russian defensive positions.The AFU reportedly blew up the Nova Khakova dam.
The WMD level of destruction on Ukraine, will flood Kherson, and benefit Russian defensive positions.
Do not believe Russian lies, wait until there is confirmation of who did what. This action benefits Russia, and they had it primed to blow since at least last September.
Cutting water off from Crimea is a good thing. It makes rashists have to import all water.The WMD level of destruction on Ukraine, will flood Kherson, and benefit Russian defensive positions.
Do not believe Russian lies, wait until there is confirmation of who did what. This action benefits Russia, and they had it primed to blow since at least last September.
Russia isn't fighting NATO. If it was, it would've gotten its asshole ripped open the first day.Why does Russia need to spend more on its military when its fighting an opponent who spends more than 10X its military budget and yet is still barely hanging on.
That makes sense. Rolled earth dams don't stand up well to over topping.A structural failure is also not out of the realm of possibility.
Typical Russia.A structural failure is also not out of the realm of possibility.
Russia isn't fighting NATO. If it was, it would've gotten its asshole ripped open the first day.
They are fighting against a trickle of our old equipment.
Read that statement back to yourself as many times as necessary until you see the fucking irony, Vlad.At some point you have to ask yourself why can't these warmongers leave other countries alone instead of bombing the shit out of them and launching coup attempts? It's getting old.
You forgot "A country with a real military like Russia."Read that statement back to yourself as many times as necessary until you see the fucking irony, Vlad.