Strange comment. Measure and countermeasure are in the nature of all warfare, especially between those with sufficiently advanced technological bases.
However, the speed of development has been startling in this war: ‘Flying minefields’ certainly weren’t on my list of possible munitions even a couple of years ago!
I was talking about how you think it’s cool that we took over a smaller nation and fed 2 generations of their men into a conflict we knew they could never win. It’s evil on a Stalin-esque level, but it’s exactly what we’ve come to expect from the neocon globalists bastards who have attached themselves to our body politic like parasitic swine.
Bots, bots, everywhere, but none giv’n to think (with due apologies to Mr. Coleridge).
Your post is full of the usual nonsense of pro-Russian talking points. You’re either a paid agent of Russia et al or just one of the useful idiots that sit either on the hard-right or hard-left of western politics (but I suppose I shouldn’t automatically discount that you might fall into be both categories).
I see the Ukranian situation as analogous to next door neighbours helping a victim of ongoing domestic abuse.
You suggest that the victim should just continue take the abuse without trying to escape or seek outside help, and that anyone who does help them is just making things worse and so is responsible for any future abuse she then receives.
It’s clear that you stand firmly on the side of the perpetrator and are merely feigning concern for the victim.
You can't have read any of it or you'd be aware that Russia didn't invade with enough manpower for the objective you assert 🤷♂️ There's your argument. Read your book again and have a child explain it to you.
Expect them to start showing up hitting US bases. What this is doing is demonstrating to all would be terrorist is how to build them cheaply and undercover. They’ll soon make appearances in SE Asia, Africa, the S America and more. Even the Mexican drug lords can and will copy this
Wow, cool stuff, indeed. Somehow, they are still losing 🤔 After three years of failed promises, how can you still believe in the "wunderwaffe" scenario? No single weapon system is going to save Ukraine from it's self-authored demise.
Are you saying that there was a better military strategy that the Ukraine could have pursued that would have already led to victory (and if so, what)?
Or that the proximate and ultimate causes of the war are the fault of the Ukrainians and hence the entire war is their fault and should never have occurred if they'd only pursued a different political strategy since 1990 or 1994 or 2014 (and if so, what was the alternative strategy)?
So the US State Department and the CIA's strategic master plan was to "dogwalk" a (presumably willing or at least coerced) Ukraine into baiting(?), tempting(?), forcing(?) Russia into hostile(?)/defensive(??) actions on Ukrainian territory ie acts of war and then, what? Abandon them? Give them half the materiel support they needed and impose significant tactical and strategic limitations on the weapons systems they did supply and thereby severely restrict any chance at victory, a victory that no-one thought was possible prior to the Feb 22 invasion?
Cui Bono? Who benefits from such an assinine strategy? What am I missing here for this to make sense?
Well, the "alternative strategy" would have been to KEEP THEIR MINSK ACCORD AGREEMENTS 🙄 By simply stopping the shelling of the separatist oblasts and granting the partial autonomy that UKRAINE AGREED TO, there would have been NO INVASION. What part of that confuses you? Yes, we now know, thanks to the admissions of Hollande and Merkel, that Ukraine HAD NO INTENTION OF KEEPING ITS AGREMENTS, that those accords were brokered in BAD FAITH, with the aim of allowing Ukraine to "NATO-up" it's game and prepare for war with Russia, and Putin fell for the ruse 🤷♂️ Putin won't be so accommodating this time, methinks...say "goodbye" to Odessa.
So your argument is that it was breaching the Minsk accords that was the trigger for a full scale Russian invasion of Ukraine to annex the entire country, rather than just reinforce the troop deployments in the disputed regions with overt Russian regular army? That's a hell of a strategic escalation. It also doesn't explain the initial annexation of Crimes, either.
Putin never tried 5o annex all of Ukraine, only an imbecile would suggest that Russia intended to overthrow all of Ukraine and it's 880,000 man army with an invasion force of 180,000 men. Are you such an imbecile? As for Crimea, again, only an imbecile would imagine that Russia, a regional hegemony, would give up it's Black Sea port that it's held since America was still struggling with independence just because of Vicky Nuland's coup in Kiev? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 You clearly have no grasp of "realpolitik". You might as well imagine USA giving up Guantanamo just because of a revolution in Cuba 🤣
As for Crimea ... So your argument boils down to "regional hegemonic power can do whatever they like regardless of national borders, international law, existing treaties etc"?
Pure force majeure, might makes right, then?
As the basis for a system of government I think I'd prefer some moistened bint lobbing a scimitar at me in some type of farcical aquatic ceremony than that.
Um, isn't that essentially the same justification USA has used to invade about a hundred nations? 🤔 Or Britain, since you like British comedy so much?
Do you or do you not remember the Cuban Missile Crisis? Do you know what a "Monroe Doctrine" is? The answers are clear, you're simy playing at intellectual dishonesty, or some kind of twisted Western exceptionalism. Either way, it's not a serious argument.
So an airborne assault onto the main airport and an armoured assault towards the capital city were NOT part of a strategy to annex the entire country? Pretty strange military decisions then, surely?
Now you're just demonstrating how little you know about war making...go read some Clauswitz, or Sun Tzu, perhaps. There are formulas for warfare, educate yourself.
"My argument" is formed from following this shitshow of America's making since 2008. Since you seem new to the party, and seemingly clueless about how any of this could possibly have happened, let me provide you a link that should sum it up nicely.
Once you've brought yourself up to speed, feel free to offer any questions that aren't answered herein;
'Well, the "alternative strategy" would have been to KEEP THEIR MINSK ACCORD AGREEMENTS'
Yeah sure. The Ukraine broke those accords. There's nothing wrong with being a dumbass. There are lots of those. But being a useful idiot is something else entirely...
Agreed, nothing wrong with you being a dumb ass 🤷♂️ Did Ukraine stop the shelling? No. OCSE reports confirm they did not. Did Ukraine allow autonomy to the separatists? No, they did not. Did Ukraine use that time to invite NATO troops, equipment, and 20 CIA bases on Ukrainian territory? Yes, they did 🤷♂️ US, UK and German politicians confirm all those points.
I don’t know what you guys would do without Putin, you’d have to confront the fact that your whole political philosophy has been revealed to be an inch deep and completely mercenary.
But anyway, luckily for the rest of the people on earth The Ukraine is getting its ass kicked.
Fuck that magatard/putinista noise. I don't have a political philosophy, really. Mostly just that starting expansionist wars, and targeting schools, churches, hospitals and apartment blocks for 3 years is bad.
If you’re Ukrainian or even like Lativian or something I get it, that’s fine, but don’t drag us into your historical ethnic beefs. Fight your own wars.
If you’re an American then WTF are you doing? There’s a million tragedies to meaninglessly spin your mind about, why do you care about this one?
Who’s “we”? You’re American? If so you really need to stop caring about things that you have absolutely no ability to change, do not affect you in any way, and which you have an incomplete understanding of. Learn to tell the difference between “your” problems and “other people’s” problems.
Ukrainian arms innovation is astounding! Slava Ukraine!
Amen! Amazing innovation.
It's amazing, we have so much to learn from the Ukrainians on drone warfare. The cash we send to them is clearly being well spent.
You could do with some getting shot at, it might put things into perspective for you
Strange comment. Measure and countermeasure are in the nature of all warfare, especially between those with sufficiently advanced technological bases.
However, the speed of development has been startling in this war: ‘Flying minefields’ certainly weren’t on my list of possible munitions even a couple of years ago!
I was talking about how you think it’s cool that we took over a smaller nation and fed 2 generations of their men into a conflict we knew they could never win. It’s evil on a Stalin-esque level, but it’s exactly what we’ve come to expect from the neocon globalists bastards who have attached themselves to our body politic like parasitic swine.
Bots, bots, everywhere, but none giv’n to think (with due apologies to Mr. Coleridge).
Your post is full of the usual nonsense of pro-Russian talking points. You’re either a paid agent of Russia et al or just one of the useful idiots that sit either on the hard-right or hard-left of western politics (but I suppose I shouldn’t automatically discount that you might fall into be both categories).
I see the Ukranian situation as analogous to next door neighbours helping a victim of ongoing domestic abuse.
You suggest that the victim should just continue take the abuse without trying to escape or seek outside help, and that anyone who does help them is just making things worse and so is responsible for any future abuse she then receives.
It’s clear that you stand firmly on the side of the perpetrator and are merely feigning concern for the victim.
You can't have read any of it or you'd be aware that Russia didn't invade with enough manpower for the objective you assert 🤷♂️ There's your argument. Read your book again and have a child explain it to you.
Expect them to start showing up hitting US bases. What this is doing is demonstrating to all would be terrorist is how to build them cheaply and undercover. They’ll soon make appearances in SE Asia, Africa, the S America and more. Even the Mexican drug lords can and will copy this
Wow, cool stuff, indeed. Somehow, they are still losing 🤔 After three years of failed promises, how can you still believe in the "wunderwaffe" scenario? No single weapon system is going to save Ukraine from it's self-authored demise.
"self-authored demise"?
Can you expand on that?
Are you saying that there was a better military strategy that the Ukraine could have pursued that would have already led to victory (and if so, what)?
Or that the proximate and ultimate causes of the war are the fault of the Ukrainians and hence the entire war is their fault and should never have occurred if they'd only pursued a different political strategy since 1990 or 1994 or 2014 (and if so, what was the alternative strategy)?
The alternative was to not let the Ukrainian leadership be dogwalked into war by the U.S. state department and CIA.
I'm not sure I follow the logic here?
So the US State Department and the CIA's strategic master plan was to "dogwalk" a (presumably willing or at least coerced) Ukraine into baiting(?), tempting(?), forcing(?) Russia into hostile(?)/defensive(??) actions on Ukrainian territory ie acts of war and then, what? Abandon them? Give them half the materiel support they needed and impose significant tactical and strategic limitations on the weapons systems they did supply and thereby severely restrict any chance at victory, a victory that no-one thought was possible prior to the Feb 22 invasion?
Cui Bono? Who benefits from such an assinine strategy? What am I missing here for this to make sense?
Who benefits? Ask Victoria "fuck the EU" Nuland what she thought was going to be the result of her 2014 coup.
Well, the "alternative strategy" would have been to KEEP THEIR MINSK ACCORD AGREEMENTS 🙄 By simply stopping the shelling of the separatist oblasts and granting the partial autonomy that UKRAINE AGREED TO, there would have been NO INVASION. What part of that confuses you? Yes, we now know, thanks to the admissions of Hollande and Merkel, that Ukraine HAD NO INTENTION OF KEEPING ITS AGREMENTS, that those accords were brokered in BAD FAITH, with the aim of allowing Ukraine to "NATO-up" it's game and prepare for war with Russia, and Putin fell for the ruse 🤷♂️ Putin won't be so accommodating this time, methinks...say "goodbye" to Odessa.
So your argument is that it was breaching the Minsk accords that was the trigger for a full scale Russian invasion of Ukraine to annex the entire country, rather than just reinforce the troop deployments in the disputed regions with overt Russian regular army? That's a hell of a strategic escalation. It also doesn't explain the initial annexation of Crimes, either.
Putin never tried 5o annex all of Ukraine, only an imbecile would suggest that Russia intended to overthrow all of Ukraine and it's 880,000 man army with an invasion force of 180,000 men. Are you such an imbecile? As for Crimea, again, only an imbecile would imagine that Russia, a regional hegemony, would give up it's Black Sea port that it's held since America was still struggling with independence just because of Vicky Nuland's coup in Kiev? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 You clearly have no grasp of "realpolitik". You might as well imagine USA giving up Guantanamo just because of a revolution in Cuba 🤣
As for Crimea ... So your argument boils down to "regional hegemonic power can do whatever they like regardless of national borders, international law, existing treaties etc"?
Pure force majeure, might makes right, then?
As the basis for a system of government I think I'd prefer some moistened bint lobbing a scimitar at me in some type of farcical aquatic ceremony than that.
Um, isn't that essentially the same justification USA has used to invade about a hundred nations? 🤔 Or Britain, since you like British comedy so much?
Do you or do you not remember the Cuban Missile Crisis? Do you know what a "Monroe Doctrine" is? The answers are clear, you're simy playing at intellectual dishonesty, or some kind of twisted Western exceptionalism. Either way, it's not a serious argument.
So an airborne assault onto the main airport and an armoured assault towards the capital city were NOT part of a strategy to annex the entire country? Pretty strange military decisions then, surely?
You imagine that a handful of tanks and VDV troopers were supposed to seize Gostomel, AND Kiev? You see, this is why you are not a General..
Now you're just demonstrating how little you know about war making...go read some Clauswitz, or Sun Tzu, perhaps. There are formulas for warfare, educate yourself.
"My argument" is formed from following this shitshow of America's making since 2008. Since you seem new to the party, and seemingly clueless about how any of this could possibly have happened, let me provide you a link that should sum it up nicely.
Once you've brought yourself up to speed, feel free to offer any questions that aren't answered herein;
https://open.substack.com/pub/ericzuesse/p/russias-case-against-the-us-empire?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1pungh
How could the war have been avoided? Maybe USA should have allowed Russia into NATO when Putin asked 🤣🤣🤣 back in 2000..
Hahahaha, you're funny, I'll give you that.
'Well, the "alternative strategy" would have been to KEEP THEIR MINSK ACCORD AGREEMENTS'
Yeah sure. The Ukraine broke those accords. There's nothing wrong with being a dumbass. There are lots of those. But being a useful idiot is something else entirely...
Agreed, nothing wrong with you being a dumb ass 🤷♂️ Did Ukraine stop the shelling? No. OCSE reports confirm they did not. Did Ukraine allow autonomy to the separatists? No, they did not. Did Ukraine use that time to invite NATO troops, equipment, and 20 CIA bases on Ukrainian territory? Yes, they did 🤷♂️ US, UK and German politicians confirm all those points.
If there’s any risk of RAM-2X falling into Russian hands, they should auto-destruct.
These gay little puff pieces that try to distract from the overwhelming reality of Ukraine’s weakness are soooo 2023
whine more, putinista
I don’t know what you guys would do without Putin, you’d have to confront the fact that your whole political philosophy has been revealed to be an inch deep and completely mercenary.
But anyway, luckily for the rest of the people on earth The Ukraine is getting its ass kicked.
Fuck that magatard/putinista noise. I don't have a political philosophy, really. Mostly just that starting expansionist wars, and targeting schools, churches, hospitals and apartment blocks for 3 years is bad.
If you’re Ukrainian or even like Lativian or something I get it, that’s fine, but don’t drag us into your historical ethnic beefs. Fight your own wars.
If you’re an American then WTF are you doing? There’s a million tragedies to meaninglessly spin your mind about, why do you care about this one?
We're not in any war. Fuck off putin-fellator.
Who’s “we”? You’re American? If so you really need to stop caring about things that you have absolutely no ability to change, do not affect you in any way, and which you have an incomplete understanding of. Learn to tell the difference between “your” problems and “other people’s” problems.
Very interesting article. Thank you.
If only drones could take back territory 🤣
The famous Ram-2X, the so-called "Jew in the sky".
Awesome!!! I love how low cost drones are just raising hell!! Слава Україні !!!
It's dropped off from another drone and glides to its target, it's basically a flying RPG
The war forces them to
If you look at the photo of the downed RAM-2X you can see a propeller boss in the tail. The prop blades appear to have broken off when it crashed.
How can it “loiter” if it has no power and must glide and soar in thermals?
Probably don’t trust the author too much regarding this drone’s magnificence. The tone of the piece is more fitting for a paid review.
sure thing, putina-licker