Russia vs. Ukraine Part 2

[jamil]

Is that footage from a video game too? It's getting hard to tell anymore with the reality of video games these days, and the rampant propaganda being spread these days. I keep seeing video of Russians getting beat only to find out it's a video game clip.

 

[BigMoose]

Turkey no longer shares NATO's values; how does a country get kicked out?

Sadly, due to their absolutely golden strategic position... we will likely have to make them change their minds.

 

[BigMoose]

Remember when I said Russia was going to start pulling out the old stuff?

T-62 being pulled into active service...




Suddenly those German Leopard 1a5s look pretty good for Ukraine...

 

[Wolfhound]

Remember when I said Russia was going to start pulling out the old stuff?

T-62 being pulled into active service...




Suddenly those German Leopard 1a5s look pretty good for Ukraine...

Did the Leopard 1’s ever get approved and sent? I can’t find any info on it other than an article that says a group in Germany was trying to get approval to send 88 of them to Ukraine.

 

[BigMoose]

Did the Leopard 1’s ever get approved and sent? I can’t find any info on it other than an article that says a group in Germany was trying to get approval to send 88 of them to Ukraine.

They are longer term items, need work by Rhienmetal before sending, plus training

 

[KellyinAvon]

Remember when I said Russia was going to start pulling out the old stuff?

T-62 being pulled into active service...




Suddenly those German Leopard 1a5s look pretty good for Ukraine...

The T-62s made it onto trailers and then onto railcars, so they run anyway. By Rooskie WRM standards they look pretty good. Must've been stored in a desert area to not be rusted down to the tracks.

 

[BigMoose]

The T-62s made it onto trailers and then onto railcars, so they run anyway. By Rooskie WRM standards they look pretty good. Must've been stored in a desert area to not be rusted down to the tracks.

The big issue is training. The T-62 requires a loader, for a four man crew.

Plus having no up-armour reactive kits. Just plain cast steel armor.

 

[BigMoose]

They are in theatre now.

 

[KellyinAvon]

The big issue is training. The T-62 requires a loader, for a four man crew.

Plus having no up-armour reactive kits. Just plain cast steel armor.

I’m picturing buses pulling up to the old Soldiers Home.

 

[KellyinAvon]

They are in theatre now.

I’m impressed that they actually run. After all these years you would think Sergei the scrounger and the DRMO Daddy would’ve had a heyday!

 

[KellyinAvon]

I’m picturing buses pulling up to the old Soldiers Home.

CALLED IT!!

As Ukraine war drags on, Russia removes military age limits

Russian lawmakers passed legislation eliminating the existing age limit on serving in the military.

www.foxnews.com

 

[BigMoose]

Poor guys, I hope they are only to help train others.

The Russian serviceman/public is as much a victim of Putin's meglomania as Ukraine is..

 

[DadSmith]

Remember when I said Russia was going to start pulling out the old stuff?

T-62 being pulled into active service...




Suddenly those German Leopard 1a5s look pretty good for Ukraine...

I wonder if they dig deeper to find that they have some T55's, and maybe a few T34's

 

[BigMoose]

I wonder if they dig deeper to find that they have some T55's, and maybe a few T34's

The poor T-44, everyone forgets about it.

 

[BigMoose]

There might be some odd stuff besides main T series tanks around

T-10M heavy tanks, SU and ISU assault guns, and IS series heavy tanks.

 

[snorko]

I wonder if they dig deeper to find that they have some T55's, and maybe a few T34's

I am currently rereading Tom Clancy's The Bear and the Dragon which is about conflict between Russia & China. In it the russkies haul out hundreds of T-55s that had been long term lagerred since Stalin.

Of all Clancy's novels, this one is really dated. Russia took a left turn with Putin and the timeline diverged.

 

[indyartisan]

 

[BigMoose]

 

[smokingman]

The estimated cost to repair or replace the 45,000 SD bridges, based on average price data from the U.S.
Department of Transportation (DOT), would be $41.8 billion. (data is from the 2021 report on repairing structurally deficient bridges in the USA).

https://artbabridgereport.org/reports/2021-ARTBA-Bridge-Report.pdf

Of course we did not do that,nor did we approve the 42 billion for small businesses(the week before the vote on sending Ukraine 40 billion,the bill to support growing new and helping existing small business was voted down,by both parties).

But sending our money to a country to weaken another country while we profit and fund loads of special interests. Yep approved,here is your 40 billion.

Our own military budget including new funding for NATO(we pay more than half of all NATO funds) is now more than the next 11 highest spending countries combined for 2022($782 billion (46% if all global defense spending,thus far for 2022) and we keep adding to it,we kind of had to after all we have 109k active troops in Europe now). That means more than half our federal budget is the military(non military for 2022 is 769 billion). Without sending 40 billion to Ukraine.

I am all for a strong military,but we have crossed lines and levels of spending we did not even do during the height of the cold war.

Biden's 2022 budget raises military spending past $750 billion

Today, President Joe Biden unveiled his administration's FY 2022 “skinny budget” request. While not a full breakdown, the “skinny budget” offers a critical glimpse at topline discretionary budget spending and speaks volumes about the administration's priorities. At $753 billion, Biden's...

www.nationalpriorities.org

GPO and OMB Release President Biden's FY2022 Budget

www.gpo.gov

 

[erasure]

No worries. Ukraine will counterinvade and crush the commie heathens any day now, and when they do, America gets a lovely prize for saving the world and protecting democracy

nah we just get to pay six billion a month for a while, the us taxpayer's generosity is as infinite as it is legendary