Ukraine war mega thread

[Iceman123]

^
Let’s use Occams Razor on this one.

Name the one country that would benefit most and almost solely from the destruction of the pipelines destruction?

Now that was not hard was it.

[Iceman123]

Video of Biden Saying He'd 'End' Nord Stream Resurfaces After Pipeline Leak

Well at least demented old Joe kept his word on this one

[harrybarracuda]

^
Let’s use Occams Razor on this one.

Name the one country that would benefit most and almost solely from the destruction of the pipelines destruction?

Now that was not hard was it.

The one that wants to sabotage Europe's fuel supply to pressure it to cave in on Ukraine while being able to deny they did it.

You're right, it's not hard at all.

[harrybarracuda]

Video of Biden Saying He'd 'End' Nord Stream Resurfaces After Pipeline Leak

Well at least demented old Joe kept his word on this one

Yeah....

I don't know if you just can't be bothered to keep up, or it's just to difficult for you.

But the recently completed Nord Stream 2 has never come online, since Germany, where it makes landfall, froze the authorisation process as Russia was preparing to invade Ukraine.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/gazprom-nord-stream-leaks-stop-gas-supply-could-resume-single-line-2022-10-03/

[Iceman123]

The one that wants to sabotage Europe's fuel supply to pressure it to cave in on Ukraine while being able to deny they did it.

You're right, it's not hard at all.

Confirmation of how dumb and one eyed Harry really is.
Blow up your own very expensive infrastructure in international waters instead of just turning the tap off. Yeah right.

[panama hat]

^ It is quite deliberately being suppressed. I'll give you one guess why.

Because no-one would ever buy Russian gas again. You're right. Simple.

[harrybarracuda]

Confirmation of how dumb and one eyed Harry really is.
Blow up your own very expensive infrastructure in international waters instead of just turning the tap off. Yeah right.

Yeah, which of these really big words do you need help with?

while being able to deny they did it.

[harrybarracuda]

<Wrong thread>

[HermantheGerman]

Niklas Masuhr is a member of the Global Security Team and works on contemporary conflicts, defence policies and military strategies. He holds an MA in Strategic Studies from the University of Reading and a BA in Political Science from the University of Mannheim.

Niklas previously worked at the Institute for Security Policy at Kiel University, principally within its maritime division. Before joining the CSS Think Tank he worked as Research and Teaching Assistant to Prof. Andreas Wenger, Director of the CSS. He is principally interested in the adaptation of military forces to contemporary conflict and war.

Expert: Russian offensive capability broken in UkraineZurich (AP) - Military expert Niklas Masuhr expects serious problems in the Russian campaign in Ukraine. There is a lack of weapons and fighting spirit.

According to a military expert, desolate troop morale and a lack of weapons will pose major problems for Russia in the coming winter in Ukraine. "Even without the influence of the Ukrainians, the winter will be a major challenge for the Russians," said Niklas Masuhr, a researcher at the respected Center for Security Studies at the ETH University in Zurich, the German Press Agency.

“For the Russians it's still about digging in over the winter. The troops are in such bad shape it's not clear they'll make it."

Supplying the troops at the front becomes more difficult in winter, which further depresses the morale of the soldiers, who are already on the ground. "The Russian offensive ability in Ukraine is broken, further advances are unlikely," he said. "Russia has switched to defensive mode." At the same time, there are no signs that the recent terror campaign with rocket and drone attacks has intimidated the Ukrainians or that they are running out of momentum.

Low morale among Russian troops

He sees daily reports of mobilized Russian troops refusing to go into battle and of commanders having to force subordinates to the front lines at gunpoint. There is a lack of cohesion in the associations because the troops have now been thrown together, some with regular soldiers, some with prisoners and other young and old conscripts. »You can defend yourself with such a patchwork quilt, but offensives make higher demands on training and cohesion.«

The fact that Ukrainian advances have come to a standstill can be explained by the attack strategy, said Masuhr. The Ukrainians attacked first where worn-out Russian troops had large areas to defend. "The closer you get to more heavily defended Russian fronts, the slower you go in order to wear the enemy down," Masuhr said. He does not consider a Ukrainian offensive in the Cherson region in the south-east to be hopeless. A success there is politically and militarily important because it would separate the Russian troops in the south and east and make new advances in the south impossible.
Russia is running out of guns

In addition, the Russians were running out of precision weapons. They lack Western microelectronics for further production, which the government cannot procure on the black markets in the necessary quantities and at an affordable price. At the same time, Western arms supplies strengthened Ukraine. “The performance curve goes up for the Ukrainians and down for the Russians,” said Masuhr.

He currently sees no basis for negotiations. As long as Russia sticks to the goal of destroying Ukraine, talks are impossible. "Something like this can only happen if Russia accepts that Ukraine will continue to exist."



Experte: Russische Offensivfahigkeit in Ukraine gebrochen


I guess this is what bsnub keeps telling us

[panama hat]

Russia is running out of guns

Yet sabang only posts about Ukraine needing weapons . . . which it gets from NATO. Russia gets . . . Chechens and Syrians.

[OhOh]

Thank you for your opinion.

Your sources, of Ukraine air superiority, are?

Ukraine flies attacks in the contested regions regularly

I'm sure they do.

I suspect "Air Superiority" has a different meaning, one example:

What is a air superiority?

"A dominance in the air power of one side's air forces over the other side's during a military campaign."

shoot medium range air to ground missiles from Russian airspace

I suspect any missiles fired from Vladivostok to Kiev, are judged as Long Range Missiles.

[HermantheGerman]

Sabang's comedy club

The sort of 'freedom and democracy' the current Ukrainian government represents is no better than the 'freedom and democracy' you brought to Iraq.

Thank you!

[OhOh]

Experte: Russische Offensivfahigkeit in Ukraine gebrochen

It appears Reuters, experts and Ukraine defence ministry are doubtful.

October 26, 20229:21 PM GMT+7Last Updated 3 days ago

Ukraine says southern counter-offensive complicated by wet weather, terrain

By Max Hunder

KYIV, Oct 26 (Reuters) -

Ukraine's counter-offensive against Russian forces in the southern Kherson region is proving more difficult than it was in the northeast because of wet weather and the terrain, Ukraine's defence minister said on Wednesday.

"Kyiv's forces are piling pressure on Russian troops in the strategically important Kherson region occupied by Moscow since the start of its Feb. 24 invasion, threatening President Vladimir Putin with another big battlefield setback.

"First of all, the south of Ukraine is an agricultural region, and we have a lot of irrigation and water supply channels, and the Russians use them like trenches," Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov told a news conference. "It's more convenient for them."

"The second reason is weather conditions. This is the rainy season, and it's very difficult to use fighting carrier vehicles with wheels," he said, adding that this reduced the options for Ukraine's armed forces.

"The counter-offensive campaign in the Kherson direction is more difficult than in the Kharkiv direction," he added.

Reznikov declined to elaborate when pressed on Kyiv's plans in the south.

Temperatures can fall far below zero degrees Celsius in winter, now just weeks away, and Kyiv has urged foreign partners to step up their deliveries of air defences to help.

Reznikov said he expected Ukraine to take delivery of sophisticated anti-aircraft NASAMS systems provided by the United States in the next 10 days.

Ukraine says southern counter-offensive complicated by wet weather, terrain | Reuters

Lots of "piling pressure" but no ground taken/no advances for what, a month now.

"First of all, the south of Ukraine is an agricultural region, and we have a lot of irrigation and water supply channels, and the Russians use them like trenches," Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov told a news conference. "It's more convenient for them."

"The second reason is weather conditions. This is the rainy season, and it's very difficult to use fighting carrier vehicles with wheels," he said, adding that this reduced the options for Ukraine's armed forces.

One hopes the Russian military in the "channels" are aware that the "rain/snow/ice" are coming.

Whether the "soon to be delivered", 1990s era ... "sophisticated anti-aircraft NASAMS systems" will be manned by fully trained competant Ukraine soldiers, can manoeuvre in the mud and will be effective is yet to be determined.

[HermantheGerman]

What happened to our Russian gas station attendant?



You know...Gomer Pyle Backspinsky.

[harrybarracuda]

It appears Reuters, experts and Ukraine defence ministry are doubtful.

October 26, 20229:21 PM GMT+7Last Updated 3 days ago

Yeah, three day old news isn't much help these days hoohoo, so there's no need to repost things just because they made you a little bit wet between the legs.

[sabang]

As Edward Said once wrote about these courtiers to power:

“Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn’t trust the evidence of one’s own eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice.”

I fled my wars but would continue to write about other people’s wars. I know the wounds and scars. I know what’s often hidden. I know the anguish and guilt. It’s strangely comforting to be with others maimed by war. We don’t need words to communicate. Silence is enough.

Chris Hedges: My War Never Ends

[harrybarracuda]

As Harry once wrote about these complete fucking morons:

The wanketeers don't have an original thought between them, do they?

[bsnub]

^^

More complete shit from one of the dumb stooges.

[david44]

Meanwhile real developments beyond the twattersphere

At DEFCON 3 for now I think we'll know its getting serious if raised to 2 like Desert Storm or the Cuban crisis we reach FAST PACE of heaven forfend COCKED PISTOL.

Failure against Ukraine may lead a cornered defeated Putin to revanche against the tiny virtually cut off Baltics which will be very difficult to resupply in time. An attack on Lithuania with the excuse of relieving Kaliningrad exclave means transiting both Belarus and possibly but not necessarily Poland. However Latvia with its large Russian minority has a direct border as does Estonia.

A Nato Finland and Sweden while a defeat for Putin will offer added security, bases to NATO and give Russia a much longer frontier to work with hundreds of miles in the snowy woodlands N of Karelia right up to the Polar Circle and beyond.
Finns would love to recover Vyborg and there Arctic port of Petsamo stolen by the reds.

Of course they have the NATO guarantee that an attack on one is an attack on all which is why Ukraine wishes to join.
Finland and Sweden's accession seems a formality, who is next Moldova other neutrals esp Austria may be inclined if Putin moves west to 'reclaim" the former Soviet Empire of the cold war era that Putin remembers fondly as a revanchist



Northern Command News | NORTHCOM Or USNORTHCOM Alerts North America


October 29, 2022 | Northern Command News
US, NATO Deploying B61-12 Thermonuclear "Gravity Bomb" To Europe - NATO - the United States said during a closed meeting with NATO that it will be accelerating the deployment of an upgraded version of the B61-12 air-dropped thermonuclear "gravity bomb" to European bases in December, which is a few months earlier than was originally planned.


The gravity bomb was originally scheduled to be sent to European bases next spring, according to US officials who spoke to NATO, according to a report by POLITICO.




The United States already has around 200 nuclear weapons, half of which are located in bases at Germany, Turkey, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands. Meanwhile, Russia has about 2,000 working tactical nuclear weapons.




Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder told POLITICO in an email that, “While we aren’t going to discuss details of our nuclear arsenal, modernization of US B61 nuclear weapons has been underway for years and plans to safely and responsibly swap out older weapons for the upgraded B61-12 versions is part of a long-planned and scheduled modernization effort. It is in no way linked to current events in Ukraine and was not sped up in any way.”




Russia responded to the news saying that the United States is lowering the "nuclear threshold" by deploying new nuclear bombers to Europe.


Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko spoke to Russian state news agency RIA Novosti and said, "We cannot ignore the plans to modernize nuclear weapons, those free-fall bombs that are in Europe."




"The United States is modernizing them, increasing their accuracy and reducing the power of the nuclear charge, that is, they turn these weapons into 'battlefield weapons', thereby reducing the nuclear threshold," Grushko added. Taken from Defcon Level Warning System:

Northern Command News | NORTHCOM Or USNORTHCOM Alerts North America

[helge]

FFS why isn’t the information about the pipeline breaks public ?
It’s not rocket science - they were internal explosions (methane hydrates) or external explosions (bad guys).

Russians now say that the sabotage was carried out by................................................ .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ........the Brits.

I'll believe that.

They hate Europe

[sabang]

That would not surprise me at all- but they were the contractors. Hired help.

[bsnub]

That would not surprise me at all- but they were the contractors. Hired help.

The Russians said it, so it has to be true.

[panama hat]

Russians now say that the sabotage was carried out by................................................ .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ........the Brits.

I'll believe that.

They hate Europe

The majority don't . . . and of course the Russians would say that. Who's next? The Belgians?

That would not surprise me at all- but they were the contractors. Hired help.

Paid for by Moscow - well done

[david44]

but they were the contractors

Or in this case

SUB contractors surely?

[helge]

The majority don't . . . and of course the Russians would say that. Who's next? The Belgians?

The stuff about the brits hating Europe, was a joke, PH



Or was it?