Tuesday, November 1, 2022

The Winter Of Their Discontent

 





13 comments:

Anonymous said...

The best thing about your blog these days is seeing it over at Western Rifle shooters blog, where it is surrounded by other blogs going over in excruciating detail how wrong you are, and then all of them eating a shit sandwich day after day when nothing they say pans out. You'd think they'd occasionally get something right just on mathematical laws of pure averages, but nope. Never happens.

John Wilder said...

The only thing worse than the Russian army is the Russian navy.

RandyGC said...

John Wilder,

I dunno, I think the Russian Air Force is a contender for the that title

Anonymous said...

jocko willink in Ukraine?

Joe in PNG said...

The sucker in a scam is always the last to admit they were had.
In this case the scam was "Putin is the Greatest Field Commander of All Time!", The Man to Lead the Great Crusade against the Globalhomo Conspiracy.

It's bad enough when a supposed American patriot goes full quisling for someone who is openly against all the things that have made America actually great. But to go full quisling for an incompetent is unforgiveable and Biden level stupid.

Remember that America was just as globalist under FDR, but the moral and best thing for America was not to go cheer for the Axis. Then again, knowing a lot of the Putinites, they would have cheered for the Axis, had they lived back then.

Old NFO said...

Sadly, most of those are true...

Rollory said...

"then all of them eating a shit sandwich day after day "

They don't do that. They never address any of the failed predictions at all. They just keep making more of them, and more blatantly false assertions, on and on.

Just the other day WRSA posted a thing from Bracken where he was going on about a Doug McGregor podcast, half an hour long, and Bracken was bragging about how he'd listened to it 3 times and was about to start a fourth. Not a word about how essentially every single thing McGregor has said about this war has been false, often proven explosively false within days. Not a word about McGregor flat-out denying the Ukrainians had retaken Hostomel airport back in February when in fact they had done exactly that. Not a word about McGregor explaining in late August how the Ukrainians were getting crushed and a massive Russian offensive was about to begin. Not a word about how the very first thing McGregor starts off with - the claim that Russia invaded with small groups of infantry and a focus on avoiding casualties - is, to put it mildly, extremely difficult to reconcile with the columns of tanks everyone saw all over the place, following the roads and lacking any infantry support at all, resulting in hundreds of Javelin'd tanks and the giant traffic jam north of Kiev; or the massive artillery barrages that flatten everything and gain the Russians 100 meters at a time. No. No discussion of this at all. Just blindly swallowing and regurgitating the latest programming.

NPCs aren't just on the left.

I had a lot of respect for Bracken at one point. That's pretty much zeroed out for good. Now I'm just wondering if he was always this stupid, and how for me to best to recognize and avoid such dumbasses in the future.

Mike-SMO said...

Thinking that the movement of the US to the Balkins and the attack on the Russiian Navy may be related to some historical knowledge that Odessa, Bess-Arabia and part of Romania were once under the control of Russia and that Romania has some significant oil reserves. Russia is unlikely to pull off a fighting advance out of Kherson, so where is the brass ring? All the moves buy the West pre-empt a Russian invasion from the sea in the far left field.

I wonder if the Ukrainians/NATO is reading the tea leaves or if they heard a leak.

Reltey McFee said...

John Wilder: how's the Russian Air Force stack up?

Anonymous said...

Anyone see any verifiable results from the Ukrainian Drone Boat attack on Sevastopol Harbor? Any satellite pictures of damaged or undamaged ships? Somehow, I think Ukraine must have scored, because Russia fired off 50 cruise missiles on Monday morning, and many Russian Cruise Missiles were supposedly launched from the Caspian Sea? But I also remember the satellite photos of the Kerch Bridge with the RR Tank Cars still burning. The absence makes me think the attack was not very successful?

As far as Russian success? Why are the Russians not besieging Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv or Lyman anymore?

RD

Anonymous said...

Matt Bracken and many other commentators show good knowledge of tactics but fail at strategy. They remind me of the special forces guys who tried to capture Maduro In Venezuela, despite none of them having any experience leading the number of troops planned: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KdXxRspj-ZA

HMS Defiant said...

Winning or losing really depends on how you frame the terms. I won't discuss the merits or the actual battlefield contest but let us examine who really is "winning" this war. It's Russia hands down.
Their economy and Ruble are stronger than ever
They're not the ones who will be freezing to death in the dark this winter
They have plenty of gas and electricity
They have plenty of export markets and friends

What exactly does NATO have to show for its involvement in a meaningless war?
dead Russians? That's it? That's the only thing you did with $80 billion in weapons support?

John Wilder said...

Russian air force: inflexible, and targets for Ukrainian SAMs and AA. So, mostly ineffective, which is better than the navy or army.