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So . . . what is preventing the HUR/Ukrainian SF from attacking North Korean shipping/transport? North Korea and Iran have allied themselves so closely as to be considered combatants. If the reasoning is that then NATO countries could be considered combatants and liable to attack, well Russia...

Would be interesting to see test results of cage vs ERA efficacy against FPV and dropped AT RPG rounds

3.9 million Ukrainians deliberately starved to death in a year. 1 Austin's Darrell K Royal Memorial Stadium or 3 Regina's Mosaic stadiums worth every SECOND of the silent memorial at the end of the video. Does anyone seriously think Ukraine will agree to 'negotiate' with an Imperial Russian...

USSR 2.0 and the recent Crocus city hall attack. Some things never change.

A definite possibility. There still exists a lot of mid level commanders who understand the soviet 'tactics' better and use them a lot

Kids at home in a family drone production line. Don't see that in Russia.

Ever since March 24 1999 when NATO started bombing Yugoslavia without security council approval (such a badly designed system!) thus ending the believability of the NATO stance that they are a purely defensive alliance. That placed in the future wannabe tsarina the belief that NATO was an active...

Russia is already at war with NATO and has been for some time. NATO is just willfully blind to anything other than sustained kinetic action.

Ok, fair, hadn't thought about it that way. But I still have serious problems with not shooting down attack drones/cruise missiles "for fear the debris might land on NATO territory and injure or kill civilians". But escorting it to the border and allowing it to hit its target and kill Ukrainian...

Interesting (long) oped by "Sarcastosaurus" (Tom Cooper, an Austrian aerial warfare analyst and historian) available on his substack. "The following is something like ‘a number of thoughts’ that came to my mind in reaction to certain developments of the last weekend. I’m not yet entirely sure I...

But, just as in the overflights and occasional impacts of drones onto NATO soil, with Snake Sullivan as the 'brain' behind US and thus NATO responses, what will be done beyond 'thoughts and prayers - we will watch and wait for as long as it takes' Very likely absolutely nothing. There is...

A 2nd front with the Baltics invading Kaliningrad to relieve pressure on Ukraine would be an interesting development.

GDP is not the same as PPP. PPP IS GDP corrected for the purchasing power of 'X' currency units within that countries economy. I am by no means a financial whiz, I leave that to Perun et al, but as I understand it (probably badly) it still is not the same as GDP. Think of the Big Mac standard...

The purchasing parity USD equivalent of $193k combined signing bonus and 1st years pay for Russians in Moscow. For as long as they can afford it, Russia will be able to find meat.

If this is a RECREATIONAL shooting match based around the skills their reservists are evaluated on, Russian conscripts will not last long if they test the Finnish borders.

2 Eyes? youtube video from Sky news lSuU45EIOKY

After 2.5 years the US has reached the lofty production goal of 40,000 shells a month (potentially 480,000 a year) while Russia has surpassed 110,000 a month (1,325,000 a year) with well under 1/12th the economy. Per the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Russia will procure 4 million 152mm...

I hope you are correct, but there is a huge difference and time lag between public promises and actual physical deliveries across the Ukraine border. And OSINT is not great at differentiating the two. Tracking AMC and chartered ships helps a bit when coordinated with sat photos of loading and...

With the (almost total) cessation of military hardware support from the US after the Kursk counter-invasion, maybe they are hedging their bets on suppliers in former Soviet bloc states being more reliable long-term.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-close-agreeing-long-range-missiles-ukraine-delivery-take-months-2024-09-03/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mil-ebb