Subj : Re: Russia's Endgame
To : Moondog
From : Andeddu
Date : Sat Oct 08 2022 04:46 pm
Re: Re: Russia's Endgame
By: Moondog to Andeddu on Thu Oct 06 2022 10:41 pm
> During the conflict Russia has been losing an average of 500 trained troops
> a day. In the approach to Kherson they lost another 2500 in a day or two.
> Russia's downfall was a high level of corruption over time. The taking of
> Kie v was thwarted by old dry-rotted Chinese military tires that were never
> replac ed . New soldiers that have been mobilized are buying their own
> winter r
> gear and camoflage because 1.5 million uniforms are missing. They were
> eithe
> r sold off or the generals who were given funding pocketed the money.
>
> The Russian's anti-rocket reactive armor has been removed and sold off
> several years ago, and the soldiers who stole it were long gone. The
> pictures of armor on the news are of T-62 tanks, which were considered
> effective in the early 1960's. During the onset of war, Russian Su-34's and
> 37's were ineffective on bombing roles because pilots are trained to fire
> precision munitions they hard in small quantities, and were forced to use
> their mk I eyeballs to drop (and miss) older dumb bombs.
>
> If Russia was as well equipped and trained as we used to think, Russia
> would've taken the Ukraine in 2 or three months. The best upgrade the new
> AK12 was the optics rail to facilitate modern optics, however troops were
> not
> issued optics because of the theft concern. The newly mobilised troops are
> probably getting AK-74's made in the 70's or even 60's era AK-47's.
>
> I wouldn't be surprised if they issued every other troop a rifle, and assign
> his battle buddy with just a magazine.
I am not too interested in instances of incompetency by the Russian
government/military or examples of poor logistics and sourcing of equipment
becuase I know the UK military, along with a number of European forces, are in
a similar state. We, the British, have a load of aircraft carriers with no
planes which we like to set sail in the Far East to "intimidate" China to no
avail.
This little border skirmish or proxy war is about much more than Ukraine or
Russia winning back its former sattelite states. This is a war about global
energy, resources, currency, trade, and it involves bigger players, such as
China and the USA.
I can spot a powder keg when it's about to go off and I can see that there is
much more to this than people give it credit.
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