All things Russia and Ukraine...

So which nation sent the highest number of tanks to assist Ukraine?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/22K1SdZdffs

 

Niech Zyje Polska
Shortest trip.

 

I don't often watch tech analysis videos about tanks in battle, but the Red Effect YouTube channel does give some interesting opinions.

https://www.youtube.com/@RedEffectChannel

 

What a logistical (parts, maintenance and training of service personnel) and tactical (different performance, crew training level witth different vehicles, varying # of units) nightmare for the Ukrainian Army but if you expect your tanks to be short lived on the battlefield (thank you drones), nothing to worry about.

Heard that Russia is restricting export of scrap metals. Guess they need stuff for their smelters and both sides have plenty of wreckage to choose from (so long as DU ammunition wasn't involved).

Tanks for playgrounds! Make the kiddies happy.

 

I saw Lech Walesa when he came to San Francisograd for UN50. Does that count?

 

Not my first rodeo

 

The Albanese Government underlined its steadfast support for Ukraine announcing the gifting of 49 M1A1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine. Thats right up there in numbers....And "gifted"....obligation free.

This announcement brings the total value of Australia’s military assistance to Ukraine since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion to over $1.3 billion, and overall support to more than $1.5 billion.
Not bad for a country thats not involved - Not in NATO.

 

I finally heard back from my cousin. Her FIL was in the 5th Battalion, attached to the 29th ID.

 

Less than ten days ago, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham doubled down on his previous statements that the Ukraine war is all about money …

“This war is about money. People don’t talk much about it. But you know the richest country in all of Europe, for rare earth minerals, is Ukraine. Two to seven trillion dollars worth of minerals, that are rare earth minerals, very relevant to the 21st Century. Ukraine is ready to do a deal with us, not the Russians. So it’s in our interest to make sure that Russia doesn’t take over the place. It’s the bread basket of, really, the developing world. Fifty percent of all the food going to Africa comes out of Ukraine.

We can make money, and have an economic relationship with Ukraine to be very beneficial to us, with peace. So Donald Trump’s gonna do a deal, to get our money back, to enrich ourselves, with rare earth minerals. A good deal for Ukraine and us.”



Note that size of the prize is scaled differently from what he said on Face The Nation last summer.

 

One of our own mining billionaires is very interested in Ukraine...Just saying. (Twiggy Forrest)
Forrest is ready to give Ukraine $735m, but there’s one condition
"the country’s government must stamp out corruption"

 

When Graham talks like this, I recall the adage, "Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes."

 

Graham for once spoke the truth. I'm of the opinion that we don't need WW III just to make a handful of rich people richer.

 

Supposedly Russia dropped leaflets over Kyiv that warned the populace to evacuate.

AAt around 29 min:

 

Here's something that you don't see every day. A Russian-made Sukhoi Su-30 refueling from USAF KC-135 tanker. Trainex with Malaysian air force.

 

Ukraine Unveils Robotic Anti-Drone System in Fight Against Russia

 

Proximity fuse and will there be sales to Americans? I need a patrol vehicle that can go out when it's wet, cold, dark and I want to stay warm and dry.

 

My view on these types of platforms is that they become "sport" for the enemy - Lacking armour - Possible to come up behind etc etc...This system should be mounted on a Tank/AFV etc etc...
I think 50cal is the wrong ammunition for drones - Plus this looks to mount an existing 50cal...these drones should be designed from the ground up.
Its not even painted white!

 

Looks like the US-Israeli organized crime syndicate is trying to bait Russia and Iran to wade deeper into the quagmire of Syria. And the story we get from Joe Biden is laughable. What really happened, is what always happens to a developing nation that has fossil fuels, food or other natural resources to be exploited.





Former Senator Richard Black, also a retired colonel with 30-plus years of military service, had this to say about Russian intervention in Syria and U.S. funded terrorists from al-Qaeda …

“What I do know and I can tell you about Aleppo, is that Russia was extremely reluctant to get involved in combat in Syria.

The war began in 2011, when the United States landed central intelligence operatives to begin coordinating with al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. And we have been unwavering supporters of al-Qaeda, since before the war formally began.

We are supporters of al-Qaeda today, where they're bottled up in Idlib province. The CIA supplied them under secret operation TIMBER SYCAMORE. We gave them all of their anti-tank weapons, all of their anti-air missiles. And al-Qaeda has always been our proxy force on the ground.

They together with ISIS, have carried out the mission of the United States, together with a great number of affiliates that really are kind of interchangeable. You have the free Syrian army soldiers move from ISIS to al-Qaeda, to free Syrian army, rather fluidly.

And so we started that war, but the United States has a strategic policy of using proxies to engage in war and our objective was overthrow the legitimate government of Syria and in order to do that, we employed proxy soldiers, who were the most vile of all terrorists.

Something very similar is happening right now in Ukraine, but going back to Aleppo the Syrian army together with Hezbollah which was very effective. There were some troops that were organized by Iran also, but it was pretty much a Syrian show. Certainly directed by Syrian generals and they had fought this bitter urban combat, very brutal, very deadly. And they had fought it for four years before Russia ever joined the battle.”

SCHILLER INSTITUTE (26 April 2022)
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This woman worked for the CSIS, war for profit think tank, when talking about the U.S. occupation of Syria—which is illegal by international law—but referred to it as being “leverage.” Using language that one might expect from a gangster, she claimed that 1/3 of land in Syria where oil, gas and wheat is concentrated (economic base of the nation) is “owned” by the United States through military power.



CSIS Syria Study Group (31 October 2019)
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The new head of state in Syria, Muhammad al-Jawlani, has been on a U.S. state department watch list for designated terrorists since May 16, 2013. During a recent media blitz led by the United States and United Kingdom, al-Jawlani was swiftly repackaged as a moderate rebel statesman. The Jihadi-lites are rehabilitated, we are assured. It's possible that al-Jawlani will be delisted as a terrorist so that the White House, Congress and the FBI can save face.

Technical Difficulties

https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/fiel...ormation-on-the-leader-of-the-al-nusrah-front

How Syria rebel leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani reinvented himself

 

'Ukrainian drone' explodes after hitting Russian special forces base