Russia and Ukraine

[Leonardo17]

   The war has officially turned into a typical WWI style artillery warfare. Both side are lacking munitions. Russia is turning to South Korea + China to replenish its stocks. And the US is turning to South Korea + Japan for more munition + it plans to triple its production capacities within the coming years. Germany is left with 20,000 shells (which would be enough for only a few days if they had to use them). A typical artillery shell costs about 800 $.
 
   One of the main issues are those cluster bombs which are banned in many countries. The problem with these is that some of the bomblets do not explode and hurt people years after they have been dropped. So the US using them is a sign that the US is starting to run low on munitions too.
 
   Also the amount of resources, metals etc. I see in this video are simply incredible. According the ChatGPT many advanced militaries have programs to recycle those empty shells. Still all that iron etc. being spent like this is simply incredible.

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When did the US join this war between Russia and Ukraine?

And why would we go to ChatGPT as a news source?

Well, billions of your taxes are going there + most of the modern military gears come from the US
 
- I don’t use chat GPT that often. But they say it’s efficient enough to do high school level homework for you

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Anomalocrasis said:

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“It should be noted that when an attacking force is able to break out from a mire in front of prepared defensive positions,  that attacking force almost always enjoyed heavy superiority in numbers, in supporting artillery or air power over the defending force, and in addition always possess considerably more mobile strategic reserves further behind the front than the defending forces can call upon.     Technical solution’s ability to make up for shortcomings in those areas are not nearly as great as those influenced by military fan fiction that glorify individual pieces of weaponry might think.
 
Ukraine with any conceivable western support short of indirect all out NATO Attack not only do not enjoy those advantages,   it is quite on the wrong side of where these advantages lay throughout this conflict, even at the times when Russian effort seemed unremediably incompetent,    The net balance of factors driving the final outcome was always heavily in Russia’s favor, whatever the west think the righteous outcome should be and however the west pretend the war is approaching that righteous outcome.       The entire counterattack Ukraine conducted this year was a gross strategic blunder that could only have been justified if it could have dragged NATO directly into the war.     If it failed in that, as it evidently had,  its net result would inevitably be to put Ukraine much further into the red in both of these two strategic aspects.

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Militarily, in terms of relative frontline strength able to take action in near term, and in terms of relative availability if strategic reserves, both trained and recruitable, Ukraine is now undoubtedly much worse off now than in June, when the current offensive began,  or indeed any time since the initial Russian attack last year.”
 
- And I don’t think it’s pure propaganda. Some people are warning us that Russia could still start to push the Ukrainians back at some point.
 
First: Ukraine is a functioning democracy. People do no want to enlist and die. Having that many casualties in a democratic country is more problematic.  
Two: What if Trump is re-elected? What if he is elected and decides “to solve the problem within a month” as he is claiming on TV shows?
 
Also, Putin said something. The only person I have ever heard building such phrases is my own semi-divine emperor. So here it goes:
 
“We also want to end the conflict, and as soon as possible but only on our terms,”
V. Putin
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/putin...24899.html
 
/ So he is negotiating but only if nobody is arguing with him. That’s what I make of it.