Ukraine war mega thread

[sabang]

Nope, in 2023 Russia still has the World' largest tank army by a country mile- but the US has slipped to 3rd place. Do your homework.

Combat Tank Fleet Strength by Country (2023)
https://www.globalfirepower.com/armor-tanks-total.php

Of course everyone is so clever in this Doghouse thread that they do not need to read, or follow Links. They know it all already!

Bit surprised though that nobody picked up on the fact that Ukraine had the 9th biggest tank army in 2014, it has now slipped to 13th. So what happened to them then? Why do they beg more from us? Doesn't matter I suppose- the shills will provide. Nice to know our hard earned taxpayers money is going into such competent, honest hands.

[Norton]

Nice to know our hard earned taxpayers money is going into such competent, honest hands.

0.02% of your GDP mate. Give til it hurts.

The Kiel Institute’s tracker shows that Estonia and Latvia are the countries that have committed the largest assistance as a share of their own gross domestic product (0.9%), whereas the US is 10th in this analysis (0.2%) and Australia 32nd (0.02%). This data took into account 40 donor countries.

Australia’s military aid to Ukraine has been ramping up – here’s how it compares with other nations | Australia news | The Guardian

[pickel]

Of course everyone is so clever in this Doghouse thread that they do not need to read, or follow Links. They know it all already!

I clicked on your link and already told you it said they have mothballed the majority of their tanks. Short memory? Or just being a "bonehead"?

[sabang]

Damn statistics. It's a bit like that one about which country has the highest amount of Rolls Royce' per head of population? The Falklands, with precisely one- the Governors car.
But I reckon $100bn could build a fair few schools and hospitals, and upgrade a wad of public transport. That's worth more to me than thousands more dead Russians and Ukrainians.

[bsnub]

Nope, in 2023 Russia still has the World' largest tank army by a country mile- but the US has slipped to 3rd place. Do your homework.

You are a moron. Russia has lost thousands of tanks since February in Ukraine, confirmed by independent observers. The reason why the number on the site you quoted is so high is because they do not take that reality into account, furthermore, Russia always counts obsolete equipment that has been taken out of service in the overall numbers. A clear distortion. Over the last few months, very few new tanks have rolled into Ukraine because Russia is not capable of producing very many at all. We have seen them scraping the bottom of the barrel, sending old shit like T-62's. A clear sign that they are running out of inventory.

Of course everyone is so clever in this Doghouse thread that they do not need to read, or follow Links. They know it all already!

From a dipshit like you who posts nothing but lies and propaganda. Utterly laughable.

Bit surprised though that nobody picked up on the fact that Ukraine had the 9th biggest tank army in 2014, it has now slipped to 13th. So what happened to them

Your site is a bit shit as usual. Rest assured that Ukraine has more tanks than they had before the war, and they have Russia to thank as their number one provider of equipment. Ukraine has captured hundreds of tanks.

Damn statistics.

Yours are always complete shit.

[sabang]

Dontcha just love it when recruit snubski goes into meltdown mode. Now for some historical reading, for the literatti:-



For a Different Angle on Ukraine

December 30, 2022


Starting with Robert Parry’s groundbreaking reporting on the 2014 Maidan coup, through the Russian intervention this year, Consortium News has been a leading source of analysis on Ukraine that defies the ‘psyopcracy'.

Consortium News has been on the leading edge of Ukraine coverage, beginning with Robert Parry’s work in 2014 to identify U.S. involvement in the coup and the role of neo-Nazis. He also warned as early as 2015 that the Ukraine crisis could lead to nuclear war. Here is a list of some of the most important original Consortium News stories on Ukraine since 2014. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to help us continue our Ukraine coverage into 2023.


ROBERT PARRY

Neocons and the Ukraine Coup – Feb. 23, 2014
Who’s Telling the Big Lie on Ukraine? – Sept. 2, 2014
Ready for Nuclear War Over Ukraine? – Feb. 23, 2015
The Mess That Nuland Made – July 13, 2015
Troubling Gaps in the New MH-17 Report – Sept. 28, 2016

JOE LAURIA

Tangled Tale of NATO Expansion at the Heart of Ukraine Crisis – Jan. 28, 2022
What a US Trap for Russia in Ukraine Might Look Like – Feb. 4, 2022
Why Putin Went to War – Feb. 24, 2022
On a Knife’s Edge in Ukraine – March 11, 2002
Biden Confirms Why the US Needed This War – March 27, 2022
Defensive West Smears Samarkand Summit – Sept. 21, 2022
On the Influence of Neo-Nazism in Ukraine – Dec. 29, 2022
Evidence of US-Backed Coup in Kiev – Dec. 29, 2022

SCOTT RITTER

Pity the Nation – March 7, 2022
Phase Three in Ukraine – May 30, 2022
Reaping the Whirlwind – Sept. 22, 2022
Nuclear High Noon in Europe – Oct. 19, 2022
A ‘Dangerous, Bloody & Dirty Game – Nov. 3, 2022
Merkel Reveals West’s Duplicity – Dec. 5, 2022

PATRICK LAWRENCE

The Great Acquiescence – Glory to Ukraine – April 16, 2022
Ukraine & the Strength of Nonalignment – April 27, 2022
The New Iron Curtain – May 16, 2022
The Imaginary War – July 13, 2022
War as Presentation – Nov. 1, 2022
A War of Rhetoric & Reality – Dec. 27, 2022


https://consortiumnews.com/2022/12/3...le-on-ukraine/

[bsnub]

Dontcha just love it when recruit snubski goes into meltdown mode.

You have severe mental health problems if you think I am any kind of meltdown. You just further reinforce my comments by posting more shit from your trash propaganda sources. I even see your favorite convicted pedophile Scott Ritter mentioned. Utterly laughable.

[HuangLao]

Propaganda sources.
Of course.

[bsnub]

Propaganda sources.
Of course.

Only a dense moron like you would take any of that utter shit seriously. No surprise there, since over the years you have proven to be as big of a moron as Sabang.

[sabang]

I can see why you like small z so much- you're both natural comedians. Can you play piano with your penis too?

[harrybarracuda]

I can see why you like small z so much- you're both natural comedians. Can you play piano with your penis too?

Can you ever get yours out of your hand?

[HermantheGerman]

Nope, in 2023 Russia still has the World' largest tank army by a country mile.

Why?

When it holds the largest stockpile of nuclear warheads in the world.

Could it be that Russians have a big mistrust against....everyone?

Maybe Russians have always been hated and even China looks over the border with a slanted eye.

[HermantheGerman]

Can you ever get yours out of your hand?

You mean he uses it as a swagger stick and reminisce about his military holidays?

[panama hat]

Nope, in 2023 Russia still has the World' largest tank army by a country mile- but the US has slipped to 3rd place. Do your homework.

Combat Tank Fleet Strength by Country (2023)
Combat Tank Fleet Strength by Country (2023)

I clicked on your link and already told you it said they have mothballed the majority of their tanks. Short memory? Or just being a "bonehead"?

Damn statistics.

He's giving Skidmark a run for his money

[sabang]

I said Russia has the largest tank army in the world, by a country mile. Factcheck- Russia has the largest tank army in the world, by a country mile (2023 fugures). Game over, now stop acting like petulant little babies.

[harrybarracuda]

I said Russia has the largest tank army in the world, by a country mile. Factcheck- Russia has the largest tank army in the world, by a country mile (2023 fugures). Game over, now stop acting like petulant little babies.

That would be great if it was still 1945.

[david44]

That would be great if it was still 1945.

Or quarter to eight as we call the cocktail hour.

As we see cheap drones that may change course rather like here are the way forward

[bsnub]

I said Russia has the largest tank army in the world, by a country mile.

It does not matter how big it is, it has been getting utterly decimated in Ukraine. It is total shit, as is the entire Russian army, air force and Navy. Any NATO tank would obliterate an entire squad of T-72s. Some of the worst tanks on the modern battlefield. But do keep clinging to your fantasies.

[sabang]

Oh, yawwwn.

[bsnub]

Oh, yawwwn.

You are an idiot with your head in the sand, so meh.







A drop in the bucket.

[sabang]

Makes you wonder how they are sitting on 20% of 'ukraine', and incrementally gaining ground. Haven't heard you spruiking the fabled Winter offensive for a while, so whet's it to be now? A Spring offensive? And of course because the Russians are running out of anti-tank munitions [], the Leopards will sweep all before them. Deutchshland wunderwaffen!

[bsnub]

Makes you wonder how they are sitting on 20% of 'ukraine'

They aren't. More like 12%.

and incrementally gaining ground.

Incrementally? For months.



Still, not even into a strategically irrelevant town like Bakhmut.

Haven't heard you spruiking the fabled Winter offensive for a while, so whet's it to be now?

You are an idiot. The ground only just froze in the last couple of days. Utterly laughable how clueless you are.

[helge]

Makes you wonder how they are sitting on 20% of 'ukraine'

Aha !
I see what you are getting at and I therefore have to ask you how many % of ..."Novo Rossiya" is currently occupied by Ukraine ?

It does not matter how big it is, it has been getting utterly decimated in Ukraine. It is total shit, as is the entire Russian army, air force and Navy. Any NATO tank would obliterate an entire squad of T-72s. Some of the worst tanks on the modern battlefield. But do keep clinging to your fantasies.

I wholeheartedly agree, which is why I oppose any boost in the european millitary budgets.

I choose to count the areas where we agree......buddy

[sabang]

how many % of ..."Novo Rossiya" is currently occupied by Ukraine ?

Actually that is a bit of a worry- because 100% of novorussiya includes Kharkiv, Dniepr and Odessa Oblasts too. I am hoping for a diplomatic off ramp without Russia taking them, because there is little chance Kiev would accept it, unless after a long, grinding, bloody war that would leave UKR decimated and a landlocked rump state.

Thanks to US/Nato largesse, Ukraine now has the second largest military budget of any country worldwide- more than Russia, more than China. Yet we keep getting told how well they are doing.

[bsnub]

I am hoping for a diplomatic off ramp without Russia taking them, because there is little chance Kiev would accept it, unless after a long, grinding, bloody war that would leave UKR decimated and a landlocked rump state.

You really are a clown. Russia is holding on for dear life in Ukraine.