How many thousands of Russian dead to try and capture an insignificant outpost?
Perhaps not. But sometimes over a 1000 Russians have been dyingâŚa dayâŚfor some sort of offensive. More horrendous loss of life to come?
no. whats going on is the vaunted great russian offensive. theyâre losing about 1000 a day and 30-50 vehicles. russia doesnât have 500K more troops or 1800 tanks. they had a total of 500K from their conscription and mobilization combined. theyâve already sent the majority of them to the front.
Russians are very good at dying for their country even when their country is not at risk. The ability to endure suffering is a matter of national pride.
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And all of this is happening before Ukraine has further capabilities with an influx of tanks and artillery.
word is the russian plan is to take kupiansk, lyman and sversk. To do this thay have to take dorichna, and bakhmut and hold kremmina. The idea being to push ukraine back to the oskill and hold the east bank allowing them to pressure kramatorsk and sloviansk from the north and southeast. I give them even odds on taking bakhmut and holding kremmina. Thats about as far as theyâll get.
HmmmâŚI know the new arms (tanks, arty, etc) are coming in different batches. Any sense of how quickly and effectively Ukraine can use this new weaponry?
end of March is what Iâm seeing
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problem is the slow walking of the equipment. Training will be done and all together theyâll have 500 tanks. enough for a large tank army of 5 ABCTâs. Add in a a couple motorized BCTâs and theyâll have 2 armored divisions. But not likely to have it all until late jun. Probably 2 brigades worth in march. which is enough for a limited offensive. IMO, they should keep it in reserve until they can mass for a lager attack. i doubt theyâll wait though.
According to the Ukrainian government, the U.S. leads all countries with $196 billion in total military, financial and humanitarian aid to Ukraine between Jan. 24, 2022 through Nov. 20, 2022. Germany has sent the second-most funds, with $172 billion sent in that span.
These figures do not include loans sent to Ukraine or additional contributions that were approved by their respective governments between Dec. 2022 and Feb. 2023.
$196 billion.
Wow! 
Money we donât even have really.
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We can always print more . . .
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Which leads to even more inflation.
We need to stay out of it.
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Russian military budget 2022 $75B
HUD estimate to end homeless - $20B. Weâll double it because government $40B
End hunger in US - $25B Link
40B+25B= $65B
196B-65B= $131B
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way over estimated.
US buys a M55S tank from âXâ country for less than 1M
Tank is shipped to Ukraine
Cost to replace 1 US tank= 10M
cost to replace decommissioned striker vehicle=0 (theyâre decommissioned)
cost reflected in aid=4.8M
The guy begging for more âoverestimatedâ becauseâŚ
Youâve completely lost the plot.
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you never had the plot.
keeping decommissioned bradleys in storage that we will never use costs us money. giving them away is free.
try watching. the guy is extremely thorough and very even handed. he does one vid every week.
Heâs an Australian gamer. Probably wears a backwards ballcap and has a neckbeard.
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