RE: Russia and Ukraine
October 19, 2023 at 3:49 pm
(This post was last modified: October 19, 2023 at 4:09 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
They probably are - but I'm smart too..and I still dig holes with a shovel. Sure...sure...I'd like to dig holes with my mini x - but I gave the keys up over a decade ago. Russia is in a similar situation. They may have inherited the surplus of the soviet empire but they had to make hard choices about what they're were going to continue to feed. They opted for large quantities of subpar gear and gutted their modernized projects. That's how they paid the bills - and - ultimately, that's what we're seeing in ukraine. The limits of their funding strategy going back to the 90's with respect to their territorial ambitions.
A bmp3m would likely be an issue for bradleys - but it doesn't matter, because they don't have enough of them. They have bmp1s, which are coffins. They can be as smart as they want riding around in coffins. Just as they can be as smart as they want trying to fire defective firecrackers labeled as artillery shells. The outcome in either case is thoroughly predictable. Case in point. OSINT has been working through the past weeks new data and they've visually confirmed that it's as bad as Ukraine said it was. The best scenario right now for russia is that all of those vehicles only had drivers in them...which is it's own kind of horrific news, if so. It's yet another vulhedar.
We can wonder whether russia is so stupid they don't know any better by now, or we can consider that they do, but can't do anything about it. They're in the kind of situation where you have to beg NK for ammo.
A bmp3m would likely be an issue for bradleys - but it doesn't matter, because they don't have enough of them. They have bmp1s, which are coffins. They can be as smart as they want riding around in coffins. Just as they can be as smart as they want trying to fire defective firecrackers labeled as artillery shells. The outcome in either case is thoroughly predictable. Case in point. OSINT has been working through the past weeks new data and they've visually confirmed that it's as bad as Ukraine said it was. The best scenario right now for russia is that all of those vehicles only had drivers in them...which is it's own kind of horrific news, if so. It's yet another vulhedar.
We can wonder whether russia is so stupid they don't know any better by now, or we can consider that they do, but can't do anything about it. They're in the kind of situation where you have to beg NK for ammo.
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