Biden Approves Ukraine’s Use of Long-Range Missiles Inside Russia.
That should’ve happened a long, long time ago. Still, it’s better than nothing.
War
Taipei Personality
Destabilization and enmeshment of allies in other conflicts prior to a Taiwan invasion. This is exactly what I’d be doing if I were China.
Conditional Collapse
Ian Welsh and those types have constantly claimed ridiculous stuff about the war in Ukraine like, “Russia could win in a week if it really tried!”
No. Just no. That’s not how wars work. Especially not that kind of war. That’s a fundamentally ignorant take on the nature of war in general and what is occurring in the region. Russia possibly could have won quickly if they’d not completely misunderstood what sort of conflict they were getting into.
However, no country — not even as one as callous about human life as Russia — tolerates 1,000-2,000 KIA a day for months and years if they could just defeat the enemy if “they really tried.”
Ian Welsh just hates the West and the United States in particular and loves Putin. Everything else he writes and believes springs from that poisoned well. And he understands warfare about as well as a turtle understands astrophysics.
Tulsified
AOC is 100% correct, and this is exactly what I was saying earlier today. https://t.co/WhrxlQTpMU
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) November 15, 2024
AOC is right. That’s some bad shit, man. Russia won’t even stop at Poland. They’ll be in Germany before 2035.
Ka-blam
The crew of the Leopard tank smash a column of Russian armored vehicles to pieces. True professionals and heroes of the 33rd Brigade of Ukraine!
Russian losses in this column: 47 infantrymen, 2 tanks, 1 BTR, 3 combat armored vehicles, 1 motorcycle.https://t.co/zFsDVqOipR pic.twitter.com/WoCmUAkBj1
— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) November 13, 2024
Holy fuck. The targeting and fire control systems on those newer Leopards is pretty great. I still would not want to be in any tank on that battlefield. Or on that battlefield at all. (There is some gore at the end and people definitely die in that video FYI.)
Windows
Russia ‘suffering 2,000 casualties a day’ as Kursk counter-offensive falters.
Ian Welsh: WINNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111
Everyone else: Goddamn that’s a mega-fail.
Maybe the FSB should push some more generals out windows. That usually helps.
Not Gonna Look
It is completely unclear to me that so many in the EU do not understand that if Russia is not defeated in Ukraine, they then will be fighting Russia in their own country soon enough?
Perhaps (most likely) it’s just that they don’t want to understand.
How Do
It is a 100% false “fact” that in Vietnam (or anywhere else that has been said about) that 90% of soldiers didn’t fire their weapons to kill. Or as sometimes is heard, at all.
I’ve seen this claim trotted out about WWI, WWII, Vietnam, and other conflicts. But it’s made up. It’s just deceit and delusion. I believe where this faux fact comes from is that it takes a lot of ammo downrange to kill any one hostile. Suppressive fire is most of the fire used in every modern war. By design, by the way. In the Afghanistan war, for instance, there were 250,000 rounds fired for every insurgent killed.
This absurd nonsense gets trotted out about various wars depending on what sort of ideological axe is being ground and it’s just lunacy, for a few reasons but the main one is this: when the enemy is on top of you and you’re in small arms range, you’re often fighting for your life. Even the most pacifist and wilting soldier is going to be tossing whatever they have downrange at any target they can plausibly identify.
How do people believe such goofy crap?
Add It Up
Well, yes. But we’ll also probably have a huge war too. So there’s that.
‘Lectric
We are planning now what electronics and imported stuff we are going to buy in the next few weeks and months because those sorts of goods are going to get radically more expensive soon or just become unavailable altogether.
So get your gettin’ on from the gettin’ place, people. Soon all of that will be much more expensive or just not available at all, depending on the exact timing of tariffs and war.
Crane
I feel truly terrible for what’s about to happen to Ukraine over the next year or so. The death and destruction will make what’s occurring there now seem like a fun day in the park.
Fission for Survival
All the countries about to be under the heel of Russia and China, you better start building out some nuclear weapons with great alacrity or you will soon be crushed.
American protection is done and you do not have much time. Do this or become a colony of Russia and/or China.
Not Wavering
So, Russian meat waves in Poland in 2027-2028?
Meat waves in Berlin in 2030 or so.
Argh.
Signed Up For This
It’s too late to prevent that now. Russia will be in Poland within the next five years, with Ukrainian conscripts and volunteers. The meat waves against Warsaw will make the ones in Ukraine look paltry in comparison.
Dogbear
Indeed. We were already at war with Russia. Now we’ll just be their lapdog.