What this conflict has shone a light on is that armor has to be supported by dismounted infantry,not columns of tanks and APC's riding single file tight to each other on roads like animals on a conveyor belt in a slaughterhouse.The infantry fans out and defends against the opposing infantry that wants to ambush the armor,modern infantry anti air and armor light weapons have come along way admittedly but the Russian's tactics have been incredibly flawed.
Oh man. YouTube has some nice documentaries on the history of the region.
INHO the sanctions should stay on until democracy emerges and whoever crawls to the top had better understand that and make some moves in that direction to get movement on sanctions. America and the EU will want to keep Russia as weak as possible until they come around. It might not be as long as many people think, they are not starting from scratch this time and have the form of a liberal democracy, but not the substance. They also have an economy this time, shattered though it may be, it is an economic foundation that can be built upon.
True, but they didn't have enough infantry for that and tanks attempting a blitzkrieg attack would be slaughtered anyway. The idea here is for the Ukrainians to build a much larger infantry army than the Russians, then they would kill their screening troops. Armor can't make large advances into the enemy rear anymore followed up by troops. Now they must dismount and go at a walking pace, terrain make a big difference, open ground and long distances favor tanks, urban environments favor NLAWs and chew up troops. The point is the tank is no longer the king of the battle field and stingers took out close air support. When they can backpack switchblades, infantry can defeat artillery too, the God of war. They also don't mass troops or tanks anymore (except the Russians) they have tank hunting teams.
*MORE* plausible than our intelligence services reading the signs spread all over Europe? Not really!I was reading some shit about why Putin was so confident that it would take just a couple days to take over. Supposedly the FSB was given billions in untraceable cash over the years to bribe Ukrainian defence officials etc to not put up resistance when the invasion happened. They had been stealing it all and lying to Pootin. Then when he told them he was going in they freaked then leaked Pootin's plans to the US hoping that when Biden beaked off about it like he did Pootin would change his mind. Now they're all running scared.
Tried to find the link but no luck. Biden did seem to hit the nail on the head about the invasion before it happened tho so sound plausible to me.
You just know how it would work too, there will be a rivalry for control or influence in the Stans of central Asia, some of which have oil and the others for pipelines right to Iran. They might play nice with their Muslim minorities in western China to achieve this. Like Vlad did in Ukraine a province of Siberia might want to "break away" and form an independent country, with Chinese covert help, it will be an "independence " movement, and it might have popular support, as a way of instantly getting out from under sanctions. There will be no invasions of Russian territory, why bother when they can profitably trade with the new places with in their soft and hard power sphere. Russia only had hard power and that is being destroyed on the battlefield of Ukraine, China with the world's second largest economy, has both, like America.
Seems plausible, especially if they had Zelenskiy down for a few million when they did the paperwork for the accounting department! The funny thing is when ya think about it, the CIA probably can blackmail most of the Russian military industrial complex because of massive corruption. Perhaps they bought some of that equipment on eBay and have the goods on them all, from the minister of defense to the colonels in the army selling equipment. Those who aren't corrupt are even better agents, they are the patriots and the most dangerous to Vlad and the rest of them. The CIA will be recruiting many patriots in the future, they will need help in getting rid of Vlad. Soon the spy master's empire will be full of spies, revolutionaries and coup plotters, he sure as shit is no strategist.I was reading some shit about why Putin was so confident that it would take just a couple days to take over. Supposedly the FSB was given billions in untraceable cash over the years to bribe Ukrainian defence officials etc to not put up resistance when the invasion happened. They had been stealing it all and lying to Pootin. Then when he told them he was going in they freaked then leaked Pootin's plans to the US hoping that when Biden beaked off about it like he did Pootin would change his mind. Now they're all running scared.
Tried to find the link but no luck. Biden did seem to hit the nail on the head about the invasion before it happened tho so sound plausible to me.
why no? everything he just said is quite possible with existing tech. if they're on a direct satellite link, they're unjammable, and very hard to trace the signal back
i think he said exactly what he meant to say, and it's high motherfucking time someone started saying it...i say even after Ukraine kicks them the fuck out of their country and entirely humiliates putin, we refuse to drop ANY sanctions till putin is ousted...fuck putin, and fuck placating him any more
One other important point about commercial drones and RC planes. There are no export restrictions on this stuff and any company or country can donate or sell it with no red tape. So selling 100 big agri-drones wouldn't raise an eyebrow and we most likely won't hear of it. If they could be as effective at night as hundreds of Javelins would be during the day, they would quickly strip the Russians of armor, vehicles and artillery pieces within range and that can be easily extended too.
a tank won't fit in a residential garage...
They could be starlink controlled in the future, but they can use GPS to precisely hit or land on a target and fly autonomously using GPS. I have a GPS drone and often fly with 12 or more satellites because it uses other foreign GPS systems too. This cheap little drone with an older GPS system often lands back a couple of feet from where it took off, when I hit the panic button, RTH!
They can often "make" it fit! I figure many will leave them out, hoping they will be destroyed while they sleep and not while they are in them during the day!
I walked it back. My first read was a bit high.
i heard it was money laundering...
i'd very much like to see confirmation of that somehow, but it is entirely plausibleI was reading some shit about why Putin was so confident that it would take just a couple days to take over. Supposedly the FSB was given billions in untraceable cash over the years to bribe Ukrainian defence officials etc to not put up resistance when the invasion happened. They had been stealing it all and lying to Pootin. Then when he told them he was going in they freaked then leaked Pootin's plans to the US hoping that when Biden beaked off about it like he did Pootin would change his mind. Now they're all running scared.
Tried to find the link but no luck. Biden did seem to hit the nail on the head about the invasion before it happened tho so sound plausible to me.
