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| We haven't seen this kind of military performance since Snoopy tried to shoot down the Red Baron. |
And after they fall back and regroup for the 34th time, they plan another successful attack tomorrow. And the day after that.
Just kidding.
What Russian troops involved in the fighting in Ukraine actually have to say is hilarious:
(Buttfuckograd) ..."ninety-nine percent of the equipment" in another unit didn't even work, but when the troops warned the senior in command that their vehicles didn't work and their guns "did not fire" he shrugged it off and said to just "go like that".
It gets better. RTWT
Sounds like good news for Vlad is still not looking to be coming home anytime soon. Pretty much like his hapless raggedy "army". (Unless we count the coffins.)
And when they attack deep, they seem to have an accuracy problem, according to the conservative-leaning Washington Examiner.
Clever readers will note a common theme about Russian military "performance problems" from the entire political spectrum. Intel analysts would call those universally bad appraisals an "indicator".
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
Moscow Molly rebuttals detailing the 47-D chess Puton is playing in Comments.
What's the Russian translation of Größter Feldherr aller Zeiten?
ReplyDeleteВеличайший генерал всех времен.
ReplyDeleteReminds you of those stories from WWI where the Russian troops were sent into battle without any weapons at all and told, "eh, just pick them up from your dead comrades."
ReplyDeleteBut after 100 years of further industrialization, what's Russia's excuse now?
And now apparently they are shooting their own troops 'pour encourager les autres'...
ReplyDeleteSee what comes from "we pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us?"
ReplyDeleteIronically, the Russian equipment shortage now is due to the same reasons as during the Russo-Japanese War or WWI: too many corrupt, incompetent people at the top.
ReplyDeletehttps://thesaker.is/open-thread-for-today-and-comments/
ReplyDeleteBetter read up. Your team is losing.
Seems like two of your links contradict a little. I just noticed you don't have the Ukrainian flag on your homepage like all the other good little people.
ReplyDelete@Hegde,
ReplyDelete1) It's not "my team".
2) Losing one battle is like "losing" one inning. it's going to be a long war.
As to you source, The Saker was aptly and succinctly described by the late WeaponsMan on his blog specifically as "that old Communist".
If you keep noticing that my analysis and that of an entirely captured TASS and former Soviet Union mouthpiece/asset don't jibe, you may perhaps figure out just where it is you keep going off into the weeds.
The last time I ran into anything he posted, he was telling all and sundry that there were no destroyed Russian military aircraft in Syria after Trump sent the USmil in to re-arrange their hangar parking arrangements, and he maintained these fairytales right up until the after-action photos of a destroyed airbase and smoking Russian jet wrecks proved he was, as usual, completely full of pro-Russian bullshit, and his propaganda had been "overtaken by events".
You may as well refer to him as Moscow Bob.
It's all he's ever been, and all he'll ever be. Once a whore/shill, always a whore/shill.
@BCCL,
ReplyDeleteWhere do you see contradiction, versus different perspectives?
The Ossetian troops were amidst the Russian forces deployed. They are a primary source.
NATO estimates of 15K casualties are just that, NATO estimates, based on the aggregate of 30 different countries' intel assets.
The Washington Examiner is reporting on observed effects from within the target zone in Ukraine.
The ballgame always looks different from the dugout than it does from the seats behind the plate and those in the bleachers. A bit of variance is to be expected, but it's still the same game.
Ukraine is doing a fine job of flying their own flag. It's not my country, nor my countrymen. But I'll happily applaud any country that rabbit-punches a bully in the nose, throat, and dick, and then starts kicking him in the ribs while he's down. It's the only way they learn.
And if people weren't such baby ducks, they'd have seen historically Vietnam teach ChiComia the same robust lesson in 1979, just as Finland taught Russia in 1939-40. It turns out quantity doesn't provide "a quality all its own", until you account for competence vs. incompetence. China learned that lesson after three weeks of losing face, and stacking their own troops to the tune of about 10,000 dead/week. Stalin figured it out in only 3½ months. It remains to be seen if Vlad is a slower learner than Uncle Joseph, but he's already up to 10 weeks and counting, with no visible signs of getting much brighter.
Any comments on this?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/us-intel-helped-ukraine-sink-russian-flagship-moskva-officials-say-rcna27559
Remember the only reason Stalin was able to fight and prevail over the Germans was the millions of tons of lend lease weaponry, trucks, spare parts, ammunition and food that the USA was sending the USSR (on top of equipping its own military, the Free French forces, the Brits, Canada and Australia)...
ReplyDeletehttps://ru.usembassy.gov/world-war-ii-allies-u-s-lend-lease-to-the-soviet-union-1941-1945/
It's a sitzkrieg right now. Heard one analysis that the logistics (read: trucks, or lack thereof) are utterly nerfed for the Russians. And Vlad lost another ship.
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ReplyDeleteUS intel? Certainly. Beyond question. Us giving the Ukes intel is a given, just as we gave the Brits intel during the Falklands War.
But absent someone authoritative revealing the sorts of things that get you 25-to-life in federal SuperMax for espionage, the idea that the USN P-8 patrolling the Romanian coastline was involved is risible.
"Helped" is a far cry from "explicitly identified and relayed specific GPS data."
We could have simply aggregated its movements the week prior, and then described the box it was moving within (exactly as one open-source online website did a week before the attack). The Neptune ASM could have been launched "to whom it may concern" at that point, and reliably homed in on the biggest target in its acquisition fan.
The Ukes claimed they hit Moskva with two Neptune AS missiles.
The Russians denied anyone hit it.
We don't know how many Neptune missiles were launched, or on what bearing(s).
And Russia dug itself in pretty deep by denying anyone sunk it to begin with.
Scroll back to 4/23, and take a look at the post wherein I illustrated the danger area for Neptune missiles, right this minute.
https://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2022/04/and-another-thing.html
Russia is lucky to have any ships at all still afloat in the Black Sea northwest of Sevstopol larger than a frigate.
Consider this. Nobody would ever get a couple of dozen random big guys together, call it a pro football team, go right into the first game of the season without practice- or gear, and expect to win.
ReplyDeleteYet, this is what Russia is doing militarily. And it looks like a bunch of random big guys trying to play against a pro football team.
Possibilities.....
ReplyDeleteThe US has satellites but there are several commercial sat operators who might be able to locate the Moskva. Or maybe the drones provided some data. There were several non Russian, non Ukrainian ships near the cruiser who might have intentionally or unintentionally given away the cruisers position, or maybe someone on one of the gas platforms in the area. Or maybe the Ukrainians took something off one of their farm tractors and stuck it on one of their updated Harpoonsky missiles. And maybe the Russian training, maintenance or operations just suck.
Maybe some of us will live long enough to hear the real story. If they are telling Joe, or Ivan, Schmo anything, it is BS. The Ukrainian farm boys probably have a few more missiles stashed away and Admiral doesn't want to give anything away.
Sides, it seems as if the Russians had another fire and explosion on one of their frigates on the Black Sea as well as a bunch of fires at critical installation all over Rodina. You can be sure that no one gunna be saying nuffin for now. I wonder how you say "sleeper" in Muscovite.
Enjoy the show.
I remember in the 80s what a frelling business we made of the Soviets. Supermen who trained with real nerve agents while we used tear gas. The Spaatz who would show up behind the lines, kill the general in his sleep and fade away like a puff of smoke. Blah, blah, blah. When the USSR collapsed from its own rotten weight we found out about the inop equipment and the alcoholic troops and all the rest. Their military could fight their way out of the proverbial. Seems we did it again. Now if we just remember to replenish our stocks before the next warlet.
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