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RE: Russia and Ukraine
July 10, 2024 at 9:00 pm
(July 10, 2024 at 1:55 pm)Mr Greene Wrote: My guess is there'll be a general mobilization in 2025. They'll likely not directly attack a NATO country but I would expect some crisis to 'suddenly occur' and threaten to draw NATO members' attention.
Of course Russia won't attack NATO ... more's the pity.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
July 11, 2024 at 1:17 pm
More F-16s inbound to Ukraine. This oughta be "interesting".
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
July 11, 2024 at 1:46 pm
If the past is any indication, they're already there and doing work. Transfer announcements have been a critical part of ukraines disinfo and psyops campaign.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
July 11, 2024 at 2:15 pm
Yeah, there seems to be a 2-3 month lag between deployment and announcement.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
July 11, 2024 at 2:39 pm
They somehow managed to get local air superiority in the kharkiv region. Proceeded to level russian positions with glide bombs. POWs and russian twitter swear the mech assault had cas too...but those guys have been seeing ghosts since kiev...so..
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
July 11, 2024 at 2:47 pm
(July 11, 2024 at 2:15 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Yeah, there seems to be a 2-3 month lag between deployment and announcement.
Russia got super hot for ukranian airfields recently. I suspect that they're either shooting at ducks or trying to drain the lakes in advance. I would be surprised if ukraine doesn't spend a good amount of time just moving planes (or decoys) around internally to fix and waste enemy assets.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
July 17, 2024 at 11:27 am
What do you know, Russians are overjoyed with Trump's VP pick. They couldn't have picked better themselves.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
July 17, 2024 at 11:29 am
They know they can't sustain the hundred years war of extermination in ukraine they've been salivating over on state hate tv without the help of quislings in the us.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
July 18, 2024 at 12:05 pm
There are many aid agencies that are stationed in the city of Dnipro right now. They say that the Ukraine somehow got used to it. But those aid workers stationed in these cities are describing the situation a quite impressive. And it’s the same all over Ukraine. You may go to bed in the evening and become a crater in the morning.
But otherwise everything seems to be going smoothly right now. There is no more Russian Black Sea Fleet now:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/humiliating-r...41094.html
Russians cannot obstruct the shipment of grain from Ukraine anymore.
So if there is a Ukrainian air superiority thanks to the F-16’s and other new fighter jets (that will not happen before 2025), than the Russians will have to capitulate and call it a day.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
July 19, 2024 at 10:58 am
I don't think the 80 or so F-16s promised will give Ukraine air superiority except on a local and temporary basis. It will definitely help, and will allow Ukraine's next offensive to be a combined-arms project, which is good.
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