Ukraine - Superthread

[Colin Parkinson]

20 Leopard 1a5 going to Ukraine

Denmark plans to provide Ukraine with 20 refurbished Leopard 1A5 tanks | Defense News February 2023 Global Security army industry | Defense Security global news industry army year 2023 | Archive News year

 

[Spencer100]

500,000 in new offensive Feb 24

Putin preparing new assault with '500k men' & Ukraine think they know EXACT date

 

[KevinB]

Lol.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1621007101182058498

 

[KevinB]

https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/02/02/russias-invasion-spurs-debate-on-how-switzerland-can-help-ukraine-with-tanks-bloomberg/

 

[Czech_pivo]

Watch how the US reacts to this effort/campaign. Some say the US wants a non-Eurocentric female Chair, to counter the FRA-DEU block, but if Bojo answers the mail enough on that desire by Uncle Sam, then Freeland’s star may fizzle.

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The non-Eurocentric makes sense for the US, but if they have the dream of putting a CDN in that role, regardless of their gender or their abilities and getting Canada is starting pulling its own weight once again, they are living in a dream world.

 

[Czech_pivo]

500,000 in new offensive Feb 24

Putin preparing new assault with '500k men' & Ukraine think they know EXACT date

I'm suspect of this number - pulling that number of men, primarily between 18-50yrs of age lets says, would crippled their economy - full stop.

 

[daftandbarmy]

I'm suspect of this number - pulling that number of men, primarily between 18-50yrs of age lets says, would crippled their economy - full stop.

It's amazing how much self-inflicted punishment the modern nation-state can sustain.

Putin be like...

 

[Good2Golf]

The non-Eurocentric makes sense for the US, but if they have the dream of putting a CDN in that role, regardless of their gender or their abilities and getting Canada is starting pulling its own weight once again, they are living in a dream world.

Don’t underestimate the power of power…

 

[daftandbarmy]

Don’t underestimate the power of power…

 

[Czech_pivo]

Don’t underestimate the power of power…

Well if it means that we are 'forced' to start pulling our weight and the atrophy is fixed, I'm all for it.

 

[NavyShooter]

Be careful what you wish for.

 

[Czech_pivo]

Be careful what you wish for.

Put me in Coach, I've ready to play.
I'm in the camp that I basically get nothing from the candy bag that the current government sprinkles out, so I've got nothing to lose.

 

[Good2Golf]

 

[MilEME09]

Good thread about casualties, Russia is hurting hard

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1621292411287650305

 

[Bruce Monkhouse]

Good thread about casualties, Russia is hurting hard

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1621292411287650305

I'm not sure you can say that about a regime that doesn't care about personal losses at the coal face.

 

[Mills Bomb]

None of the big attacks so far seem to have panned out, like the other "winter offensive" rumours, but let's say they do attack with 500,000...

In this kind of war, is that even really that big of a number against the UA which is probably still much bigger and in the defence? I would imagine the UA has probably become pretty big since this started...

Operation Barbarossa was over 3.8M people to put this into perspective.

 

[MilEME09]

None of the big attacks so far seem to have panned out, like the other "winter offensive" rumours, but let's say they do attack with 500,000...

In this kind of war, is that even really that big of a number against the UA which is probably still much bigger and in the defence? I would imagine the UA has probably become pretty big since this started...

Operation Barbarossa was over 3.8M people to put this into perspective.

Estimate I heard yesterday was the UA was 700k - 1m, plus territorial, border guard, foreign legion, and other security forces now total 2.3m for all Ukrainian Forces

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Anatomy of an Russian attack

Anatomy of a Russian Army village assault » Wavell Room

At the end of December 2022 a set of discarded Russian Army orders found near the village of Kyselivka in Kherson Oblast. What did they say?

wavellroom.com

 

[CBH99]

Watch how the US reacts to this effort/campaign. Some say the US wants a non-Eurocentric female Chair, to counter the FRA-DEU block, but if Bojo answers the mail enough on that desire by Uncle Sam, then Freeland’s star may fizzle.

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If they want a female Chair, obviously that's fine.

Want them to shift the focus away from Europe, to the SCS? Also fine


But there are so many smart, driven, competent women out there... couldn't they pick someone that isn't totally incompetent?

(I don't think that arrogant, condescending tone while explaining nothing, will work all that well in NATO...)

 

[brihard]

None of the big attacks so far seem to have panned out, like the other "winter offensive" rumours, but let's say they do attack with 500,000...

In this kind of war, is that even really that big of a number against the UA which is probably still much bigger and in the defence? I would imagine the UA has probably become pretty big since this started...

Operation Barbarossa was over 3.8M people to put this into perspective.

If these are forces not currently committed, able to be concentrated on one front? I have to think that yes, it’s a lot, even with Russia’s tendency to squander troops in brute force attacks. Will they die prodigiously? Yeah, probably… but raw numbers are one distinct advantage Russia has over Ukraine notwithstanding western equipment and ISR support. Could be that Russian strategy will turn to a desperate sort of “bleed them out” by sheer force of numbers? Try to make Ukraine run out of soldiers first?