This is a war of attrition, by winter Europe will suffer a crisis and they don’t have much military capabilities anyway, reducing the amount of supply Ukraine can get in total, by that same time the US Empire will be forced to reduce arms supply if this article stands correct. This is without taking into account the economix side of things when the European crisis stsrts and affects the global market and by antonomasia the dollar. Russia needs to keep losses at minimum until winter and then it will probably win the war.
This is precisely why Russia is not reacting to western provocations. The “gains” Ukraine is currently making do not have any substance to them. Ukraine isn’t defeating Russian army on the battlefield and they’re capturing empty villages that have no strategic value. In doing so, Ukrainian army continues to spread itself increasingly thinner on the line of contact.
Meanwhile, Russia is preparing a force of 300k reservists, along with another 70k volunteers, and another 70k fighters from Chechnya. This is a massive force that is about to be deployed in the coming months against thinned out and underequipped Ukrainians.
Also, I remember reading, the farther East the Ukranian army advances, the longer the distance grows, therefore resupply becomes more difficult, whereas on the opposite side the contrary is correct, ressuply becomes easier for Russia.
Right, supplies become more difficult on a wider front. Also, we’re into rain season now where a lot of terrain becomes muddy and impassable. Especially so by western vehicles that Ukraine now relies on. It’s entirely possible that Russia is intentionally drawing Ukrainians in, then once they have their forces ready, and ground hardens, they will start a counterattack.
🤞Fingers crossed, maybe by new year’s eve we can all be toasting the collapse of the Empire. Cheers. 🍾🥂
Good. The rabid dog is losing its teeth.
They will find a way to pump more money into re-arming/supplying (goodbye funding for truly needed infrastructure or other needed stuff that would help actual citizens). We can’t find the money or anything for healthcare or education, but the military industrial complex basically owns the money machines. What would be a much better example (IMO of course) of teeth losing would be if we see rapid and real ship jumping by nations that have felt they needed to do what the US says. A bully doesn’t have power if the other kids don’t give in to the threats and are ready to stand up for one another.
But I agree that it is a good thing for the world to have the US lose any amount of the free reign over other nations it has had for so long.
While we may cheer at this news, imo the intention of this narrative is manufacturing consent among citizens living under us/NATO/aukus for greater military spending. Also, I’d say there’s a reasonable probability this isn’t even factual.
Given that material support from the west to Ukraine is drying up, I see no reason to think this isn’t factual. The fact is that the west has been deindustrializingfora many decades now. Weapon production relies on having a well ironed out domestic industry.
This is a pretty good article discussing the actual numbers https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/return-industrial-warfare/
Both are potentially correct given how the US military industrial complex has lied about amounts of weapons in the past (or that they even exist). But as we saw with the post 9/11 demand of conservatives and liberals for the complex to “shut up and take our money” for all the weapons they wanted. Which it does seem that while the US has greatly de-industrialized in many sectors. The ones that make stuff for the military are still setup. However I also agree that the over abundance of computers for making shit work means the lack of local foundries a problem. So that might be the main point of failure depending on the weapons/armor. I also wouldn’t be super shocked if all the random claims about how Russia’s military was missing lots of stuff due to oligarchs just taking money and not actually building stuff. But actually in the US and using all the mismanaged money spent for all of the “War on Terror” craziness. In any case the US is going to repeat history and the two fake options for parties will only come together in wasting more and more tax money on being the judge, jury, and executioner of the rest of the world.
The key problem I see for US is that standard of living has dropped to the point where public is becoming restless. Billions being spent on Ukraine while people in many US cities don’t even have clean drinking water isn’t exactly going over well.
US economy is headed for a severe recession now, and if the administration keeps pushing the war that’s going to cause riots like we’re seeing in Europe right now at some point. US is able to keep these proxy wars going as long as the public fails to connect them with their material conditions.
