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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 20, 2024 16:30:05 GMT
North Korea has already provided more ballistic missiles to Russia than the US provided to Ukraine.
Ukraine claims the parts recovered from one shows it was built in 2023 with lots of western electronics.
Also they claim that 22 out of 24 North Korean missiles clearly missed their targets.
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 20, 2024 16:51:21 GMT
A frontline russian propagandist says 16,000 russians were killed and heavily wounded attacking Avdiivka. Remember that russians lie constantly though. So far the BBC and Mediazona group have ID 45k dead russians for the whole war: source. Real losses will be higher.
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 20, 2024 19:25:51 GMT
The list of places russia is attacking is insane.
South of Vulhedar, Russia lost 4 T-80 tanks, 2 BMP-3s and 3 MT-LB transports. Ukraine sadly lost one MRAP transport in a counterattack.
Russia hasn't built new T-80s in ~23 years, and MT-LBs were built in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Russia is really digging into its old Soviet reserves.
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 20, 2024 21:42:53 GMT
Russia continued attacks beyond Avdiivka and lost another 6 BMP fighting vehicles. Sadly the tank got away.
Putin is sending a chance for victories thanks to all the help he's been getting from his allies Kim Jong Un and the US MAGA Republicans. It could be 5-6 more months before European shell supplies are enough to stem things.
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Post by musik on Feb 20, 2024 23:00:34 GMT
Russia continued attacks beyond Avdiivka and lost another 6 BMP fighting vehicles. Sadly the tank got away. Putin is sending a chance for victories thanks to all the help he's been getting from his allies Kim Jong Un and the US MAGA Republicans. It could be 5-6 more months before European shell supplies are enough to stem things. Do you know if China have a role in this?
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 20, 2024 23:16:34 GMT
Blurry bodies in this one.
Russian channels complained earlier, said a commander made trainees line up and wait for ages in a field. Then a Ukrainian rocket, probably from a HIMARS, found them.
Sorry russians, you won't be getting to rape and murder today.
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Post by musik on Feb 21, 2024 2:58:40 GMT
A bit confusing to say the least ... 🤔
I know you were here saying USA didn't pay as much of the national defence budget to Ukraine as Trump claims and that it's only Trump saying this.
But I was listening now in the middle of the night to a Swedish political debate at Swebb tv online.
They said USA pay 4% and Europe and Sweden almost not more than 1% of their budget. And USA have contributed many many times more so far on Ukraine than all of the European countries together. They also said the name of the coming President is irrelevant. They all say the same.
😔
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 21, 2024 15:52:45 GMT
A bit confusing to say the least ... 🤔 I know you were here saying USA didn't pay as much of the national defence budget to Ukraine as Trump claims and that it's only Trump saying this. But I was listening now in the middle of the night to a Swedish political debate at Swebb tv online. They said USA pay 4% and Europe and Sweden almost not more than 1% of their budget. And USA have contributed many many times more so far on Ukraine than all of the European countries together. They also said the name of the coming President is irrelevant. They all say the same. 😔 The US spends about 4% of their budget on military stuff. That's not "for NATO", but for themselves. It's why they could go around bombing and occupying Iraq and Afghanistan for example! For money going to Ukraine the Europeans have committed more in total and as a percent of GDP than the US. Europe is sending more to Ukraine even though the US is the one who gave security assurances to Ukraine to get them to surrender their nukes in 1994. Turns out republicans have decided the US should be a liar, they won't back up the US' word. Europe needs to understand this: if Trump wins then the US will say anything to get what it wants. It will have no honour and cannot be trusted, relying on the US would be stupid.
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 21, 2024 15:56:25 GMT
Rumours that Iran is now supplying hundreds of ballistic missiles to Russia while the US has sent maybe 20 total.
Europe doesn't have many to spare, the US has thousands of ATACMS. The Biden-Democracy allies needs to work out how to send some, since thr Republican-North Korean-Iranian axis is getting so much help for Putin.
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 21, 2024 16:06:18 GMT
There's an interview with a Ukrainian pilot who flies Su-24 Fencers, the jets that launch our storm shadow cruise missiles. The claim is that Russia launched 150 missiles at their airbase and dispersion points and failed to take out a single one of the jets. Thanks to repairing old ones, the squadron has more than they started with ( link. I remember lots of the missile attacks when Russia said they destroyed all the planes. Then a week later they were up and storm shadowed something new. Imagine how bad it would be if Ukraine couldn't keep outsmarting Russia. Ukraine used ~a dozen missiles to destroy ~20 Russian helicopters FFS.
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Post by musik on Feb 21, 2024 16:16:53 GMT
A bit confusing to say the least ... 🤔 I know you were here saying USA didn't pay as much of the national defence budget to Ukraine as Trump claims and that it's only Trump saying this. But I was listening now in the middle of the night to a Swedish political debate at Swebb tv online. They said USA pay 4% and Europe and Sweden almost not more than 1% of their budget. And USA have contributed many many times more so far on Ukraine than all of the European countries together. They also said the name of the coming President is irrelevant. They all say the same. 😔 The US spends about 4% of their budget on military stuff. That's not "for NATO", but for themselves. It's why they could go around bombing and occupying Iraq and Afghanistan for example! For money going to Ukraine the Europeans have committed more in total and as a percent of GDP than the US. Europe is sending more to Ukraine even though the US is the one who gave security assurances to Ukraine to get them to surrender their nukes in 1994. Turns out republicans have decided the US should be a liar, they won't back up the US' word. Europe needs to understand this: if Trump wins then the US will say anything to get what it wants. It will have no honour and cannot be trusted, relying on the US would be stupid. 4% for themselves?!?!? I believe you here. And this is a great example of how a source you thought would be reliable simply isn't - a couple of pretty well known economists interviewed about USA, Nato, Ukraine, the green economy and other stuff by a smiling radio host w a soft voice. I suppose it's seen as a rather right wing program. And I don't care about what direction a source has, the priority is it should be honest. But I'm very doubtful. Also about what they said about the green economy.
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Post by musik on Feb 21, 2024 16:55:12 GMT
The Swedish Security Police report has landed.
First side Top News of today
Sweden are under a huge threat from Russia, China and Iran. Individual threats coming on their own, but sometimes these threats have been created together by these three nations - who apparently hate us for some reason.
We don't have many chinese or russian immigrants living here but quite a lot of Iranian people. I'd imagine it can be tough times for them when this circulates as first side top news.
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 22, 2024 16:11:36 GMT
Interesting news recently.
- Ukraine has hit several russian training grounds, there's live drone video of dozens of invaders getting whacked.
- russian propaganda blogger posted about 16k russian losses in Avdiivka then disappeared. Sounds like he got suicided, a real problem for russians who speak out.
- Iran is supposedly sending 400 ballistic missiles to Russia. This is disastrous.
- the Czech republic has found 800k shells for sale and money is needed. Canada, Denmark and possibly Germany have pitched in. This is really fucking important. If those shells start arriving within weeks then it could halt the Russian advances and prevent the russia-iran-north korea-republican party axis from getting any more wins this winter/spring.
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 22, 2024 16:19:34 GMT
Malaysia switching from buying russian Su-30 jets to buying South Korean FA-50s. Usually jet sales mean money for decades in spare parts and upgrades etc. Putin has thrown away so much possible future income. India is the big one to watch. And surprisingly Algeria.
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Post by wannabee on Feb 23, 2024 3:11:48 GMT
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Post by cvillestokie on Feb 23, 2024 11:11:09 GMT
It’s an interesting one that. I’m sure that politicians know that this happens but they probably just don’t want to talk about how ineffective certain tariffs are in a global economy. The sooner that countries transition to something like nuclear and create their own energy security, the better.
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 23, 2024 16:00:00 GMT
Russia is attacking like crazy all over the place. Lost at least 6 more vehicles south of Bakhmut.
The question seems to be what runs out first: Russia's prepared units and vehicles, or Ukraine's ammo supplies.
This is why the Republicans are blocking ammo. They're hoping that without ammo, lots more ukrainians will die.
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Post by Clem Fandango on Feb 23, 2024 18:16:15 GMT
Looks like they’ve lost another A-50 AWACS type aircraft in a similar location as they did a few weeks ago. Mental. Suggestions it was friendly fire as always.
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 23, 2024 21:21:17 GMT
Looks like they’ve lost another A-50 AWACS type aircraft in a similar location as they did a few weeks ago. Mental. Suggestions it was friendly fire as always. Fuckin brilliant! The crash site video has been located and russian pilot channels are screaming about it so I'm sure it's down. 😁 The question is - how? Rumours from one of the russian pilot channels is that it was two ancient soviet S-200 missiles that Ukraine refurbished.
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 24, 2024 6:15:19 GMT
Two years ago the brutal terrorist state invaded its neighbour, because the terrorist state hated that its neighbour wanted to be free.
Two years later, Ukraine stands, thanks to their bravery and Western aid.
Glory to Ukraine.
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 24, 2024 18:34:58 GMT
The town of Vulhedar then and now.
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Post by terryconroysmagic on Feb 24, 2024 21:43:00 GMT
Two years in and it looks like there’s no chance of Ukraine taking back their territory militarily. Opportunity lost the summer before last. Ukraine needs to take the war to Russia cities now.
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 25, 2024 17:55:51 GMT
Two years in and it looks like there’s no chance of Ukraine taking back their territory militarily. Opportunity lost the summer before last. Ukraine needs to take the war to Russia cities now. People would have said something similar in 1941 TBF. I'm convinced you're right about the delays in Western aid dragging the war out though. Delays then caused more death and financial cost. Delays now do the same. The political/ideological alliance between Russia, NK, Iran and the Republican Party could only be overcome by US voters in November or Europe committing at Danish or Polish levels. If the republicans win the election it looks like being a long war and Putin will be very emboldened.
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 25, 2024 18:00:32 GMT
New footage of the russian A-50 intel plane that was shot down. It was firing flares then a russian "Buk" missile launched towards it.
One story that fits: russia launched a Buk anti-air missile to shoot down a Ukrainian weapon(s). Either the Ukrainians got through, or the Buk accidentally took out their own plane.
Buks are deadly, it was a russian Buk that murdered everyone on flight MH-17.
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Post by adri2008 on Feb 25, 2024 18:18:28 GMT
Two years in and it looks like there’s no chance of Ukraine taking back their territory militarily. Opportunity lost the summer before last. Ukraine needs to take the war to Russia cities now. I think both sides are struggling to make any sort of progress against toughened defensive positions. The Russians do it through pure numbers and at the end of the day I think it'll be decisive as they can simply take more casualties.
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Post by terryconroysmagic on Feb 25, 2024 18:35:05 GMT
Two years in and it looks like there’s no chance of Ukraine taking back their territory militarily. Opportunity lost the summer before last. Ukraine needs to take the war to Russia cities now. I think both sides are struggling to make any sort of progress against toughened defensive positions. The Russians do it through pure numbers and at the end of the day I think it'll be decisive as they can simply take more casualties. Yep I said for a while since the lost opportunity the summer before last this was going to end up in a frozen/stalemate position. However the ability to absorb casualties may make it untenable for Ukraine in the longer run
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 25, 2024 20:42:19 GMT
I think both sides are struggling to make any sort of progress against toughened defensive positions. The Russians do it through pure numbers and at the end of the day I think it'll be decisive as they can simply take more casualties. Yep I said for a while since the lost opportunity the summer before last this was going to end up in a frozen/stalemate position. However the ability to absorb casualties may make it untenable for Ukraine in the longer run I think logistics makes a huge difference to casualties. All the soldiers say most losses are from artillery/mortars, and that everyday stuff like rotating troops or evacuating wounded soldiers needs artillery too. You shell enemy positions so they can't shoot your troop carrier or ambulance. Begging NK for ammo makes me really think the soviet warehouses are nearly empty of the main calibres. Once the NK supplies are used up, russia will shoot even less, and 2025 Western production should be comfortably more than russian, so we can give Ukraine fire superiority if we want. It's all politics - and a lot of it depends on whether Americans vote for Biden and democracy, or Trump. I honestly believe it'll make a huge huge difference when instead of Russia having a 5-1 or 10-1 shell advantage, Ukraine can match or beat them. Get the casualty ratio to something like 5-1 or better and russia loses, even if they have more bodies.
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Post by terryconroysmagic on Feb 25, 2024 20:55:55 GMT
Yep I said for a while since the lost opportunity the summer before last this was going to end up in a frozen/stalemate position. However the ability to absorb casualties may make it untenable for Ukraine in the longer run I think logistics makes a huge difference to casualties. All the soldiers say most losses are from artillery/mortars, and that everyday stuff like rotating troops or evacuating wounded soldiers needs artillery too. You shell enemy positions so they can't shoot your troop carrier or ambulance. Begging NK for ammo makes me really think the soviet warehouses are nearly empty of the main calibres. Once the NK supplies are used up, russia will shoot even less, and 2025 Western production should be comfortably more than russian, so we can give Ukraine fire superiority if we want. It's all politics - and a lot of it depends on whether Americans vote for Biden and democracy, or Trump. I honestly believe it'll make a huge huge difference when instead of Russia having a 5-1 or 10-1 shell advantage, Ukraine can match or beat them. Get the casualty ratio to something like 5-1 or better and russia loses, even if they have more bodies. Hope you’re right but you been saying that for ages and things are actually going backwards. It’s time to bring some destruction to Russian cities. There is no way to win this war the way it’s currently being fought and extra shells/equipment isn’t going to solve that
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 25, 2024 21:47:24 GMT
Hope you’re right but you been saying that for ages and things are actually going backwards. It’s time to bring some destruction to Russian cities. There is no way to win this war the way it’s currently being fought and extra shells/equipment isn’t going to solve that What are you thinking when you say russian cities? E.g. I give you a bunch of missiles and drones, what do you do with them and what's the goal? I think we should tell Ukraine to hit inside Russia whenever they want but haven't really thought through what would be best. Need to know what the targets are before deciding which drones or missiles they'll need.
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Post by terryconroysmagic on Feb 25, 2024 23:44:08 GMT
Hope you’re right but you been saying that for ages and things are actually going backwards. It’s time to bring some destruction to Russian cities. There is no way to win this war the way it’s currently being fought and extra shells/equipment isn’t going to solve that What are you thinking when you say russian cities? E.g. I give you a bunch of missiles and drones, what do you do with them and what's the goal? I think we should tell Ukraine to hit inside Russia whenever they want but haven't really thought through what would be best. Need to know what the targets are before deciding which drones or missiles they'll need. Power plants, military installations, radar facilities, any military infrastructure. Go after them. This is nothing like WW2, it’s one side defending its territory but not attacking the aggressors. It’s time to go full out on Russian military infrastructure in Russia. Nothing else is going to work at this stage, it’s patently obvious that the Russians have the numbers and fortified defensive positions.
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