Ukraine war mega thread

[bsnub]

I don't know if you are, but again you post on a subject and make a fool of yourself.

You have made a fool of yourself in this thread for years. You have utterly no fucking idea what you are talking about, as usual...

[cyrille]

How, long 'til the glorious USkraine victory now, snubby?

[bsnub]

How, long 'til the glorious USkraine victory now, snubby?

I never predicted when this war would end. I am not going to start now.

[OhOh]

How, long 'til the glorious USkraine victory now, snubby?

Not for the foreseeable future it appears.

US Defenseless Against Russian Hypersonic Missiles and Iranian Drones - Explosive DoD Testimony

Yesterday

"The crisis in Ukraine and escalating tensions in the Middle East have demonstrated that the US’ $886 billion defense budget has not translated into real-world capabilities on the ground. Now, an explosive verbal exchange on Capitol Hill has revealed that North America’s skies are defenseless against not only Russian, but even Iranian missiles.

An otherwise boring and formulaic briefing by senior Pentagon officials to lawmakers from the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces went off the rails on Wednesday after subcommittee Chairman Angus King took the floor and forced Department of Defense officials to reveal that North America is helpless against adversaries it has spent years agitating around the world.

“The truth is we have no defense for hypersonic missiles – yes or no? Mr. Hill, any defense on the hypersonic missile? You’re the commander of an aircraft carrier in the Greenland Gap. If we have a hypersonic missile launched from Murmansk [traveling at] 6,000 miles an hour, what do you do?” King asked, querying Deputy Secretary of Defense for Space and Missile Defense John Hill.

“We have some systems to defend in the terminal stage but we need more, you’re correct, Senator King… that our hypersonic defenses are inadequate and we do need [more]. SM-6 is in the Navy’s terminal range [capability], the Patriot – I’ll let General Gainey speak to the specifics on that. Those are examples but no argument, we need to focus on hypersonic defenses,” Hill responded.

“So why are we talking about 2029 and even stretching that out? This is next year kind of stuff. I don’t get your budget,” King countered, referencing the lack of focus on anti-hypersonic capabilities in current US defense spending plans.

“What we faced in the budget this year – it was a difficult year, particularly with the Fiscal Responsibility Act caps that we had to work with. There were must-pay bills that we had to work with for the personnel, the salaries, the health care, inflation costs. When you get down to the point of where you get down to the discretionary types of things where you can really control your choices,” Hill said.

“But that’s your mission – your mission is missile defense,” King retorted.
“The budget decisions are made at a higher level and so you’re trading off between readiness or your future investments,” Hill said.

“Well let me put the question another way: let’s say what happened on April 14 [Iran’s retaliatory missile and drone attack on Israel, ed.] happened over the Arctic Ocean – 300 missiles, drones, UAVs came across the Arctic Ocean toward Canada and North America. Could we do what Israel and we and other countries did – could we knock down 99 percent of those missiles coming in?” King asked.

“No chairman,” Air Force General Gregory Guillot, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), responded.

“That’s of concern,” King said. “What’s the gap – is the gap interceptors, is the gap sensors? How come they could do it over there and we can’t do it here?” he asked.

“Part of the reason, Mr. Chairman, is because they have the deployed forces. So at the current time we have the capability in the services but they’re not assigned to Northcom’s area of responsibility,” Guillot said. “Also, just the numbers of the assets that we have in the region right now would not be sufficient to meet the attack of that size that the Iranians [used].”

“And in fact our capability in the region is really aimed toward North Korea, isn’t that correct? [...] It’s not designed to take on Russia or China. But that’s where the threat is. What’s the cost of one GBI?” King asked, referring to the US’ Ground-Based Interceptor anti-ballistic missile system.

“Sir, the GBI is approximately $80-$85 million,” Hill replied.

“One missile to intercept an incoming missile is $80 million,” an astonished King said. “Well in the Red Sea, the Houthis are sending $20,000 drones and we’re shooting them down with missiles that cost $4.3 million. The math doesn’t work on that, gentlemen. It just doesn’t work. What are we thinking?”

The senator went on to grill Pentagon officials for spending just one 1,000th of the defense budget on directed energy defenses, asking “what in the hell are you guys thinking?”

“Directed energy is the answer. It costs 25 cents a shot, and the budget’s gone down from $140 to $15 million a year. That’s a scandal. We can’t possibly defend ourselves with $80 million missiles. There’s not enough money in the whole world for that,” King emphasized.

“So I’ll look forward to some further response because right now, we don’t have much missile defense. Whether it’s to hypersonics, to drones, I’d like you guys to go back and really rethink what is your mission. If your mission is missile defense, we need to reorient what it is you do,” the senator summed up."

US Defenseless Against Russian Hypersonic Missiles and Iranian Drones - Explosive DoD Testimony

[helge]

You have made a fool of yourself in this thread for years. You have utterly no fucking idea what you are talking about, as usual...

We were talking the Winter War, My Little Well Vetted Millitary Historian.



You know.......kind of before any american ..Lend Lease.

If you are an ignorant, then looking it up might help.

You know......look for help.


You are amazing though

Like the drunk uncle at Xmas

[helge]

BTW:

Kind of fair that the US provided some material.

After all: Did GM and Ford provide Hitler with ...10 %, 20 %, 40% or 66% of his milli trucks ?

Can't remember, but the US bets on all horses, don't they ?

[Norton]

Analysis: Ukraine is on the back foot - and Russia's exploiting its weapons shortage
By Sean Bell, military analyst


At 5am, the Russians launched a surprise attack on the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine, killing two civilians and injuring at least five others.


The Ukrainian border community of Vovchansk was one of the targets - this community is only 5km away from the Russian border, and the attack led to the evacuation of 3,000 residents.


Russian forces are reported to have advanced around 1km, before Ukrainian reinforcements were deployed.


So why has Russia opened up a second front in the war?


There are probably two key reasons for this latest Russian attack.


First, the Russian border town of Belgorod is a logistics hub for Russian military activity, and is regularly targeted by artillery from Ukrainian territory.


President Putin has long promised to create a buffer zone to push Ukrainian forces out of artillery range, which would limit the attacks on this frontier town.


Secondly, although most analysts believe Russia would struggle to seize Kharkiv, the attack does force Ukraine to spread its limited resources across a broader front, leaving it more vulnerable to further attacks.


Russian's priority still appears to be the Donbas - a primary objective of what it calls its special military operation.


Russia's military are evidently exploiting the window of opportunity created by Ukraine's current shortage of weapons, and are reported to be preparing for a major summer offensive.


Ukraine's strategy appears to be to trade territory for time, making Russia pay a high price for every metre of ground seized, pending the arrival of the West's next delivery of military aid.


But, momentum and initiative are vital commodities in war, and Russia has both at this crucial juncture. Ukraine is on the back foot, and could face a very difficult next few weeks on the battlefield.

[bsnub]

After all: Did GM and Ford provide Hitler with ...10 %, 20 %, 40% or 66% of his milli trucks ?

You really are an epic scale moron.

[Iceman123]

When was the last time the Russians had any type of battlefield victory?

Smashed outside of Kyiv
Smashed outside of Chernihiv
Smashed in Kharkiv twice
Smashed around Izyum
Recently decimated around Bakhmut
Currently, being attritted in Kherson oblast

Just where is the winning happening dippy? Where?

Well Snubby this was your take 18 months ago.

Rather than make a further arse of you I will allow you to answer your own questions.

[helge]

After all: Did GM and Ford provide Hitler with ...10 %, 20 %, 40% or 66% of his milli trucks ?

No comment, Mr Well Vetted in Millitary History ?

You really are an epic scale moron.

Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man..

(kind of like the 'epic' part though )

[helge]

Last day for Zelensky as elected president.

Rumours that the russians will see him off with a nasty bombardment

[bsnub]

Well Snubby this was your take 18 months ago.

All of it was true and actually happened, unlike your predicting that the ruzzians had won a year and a half ago. No one has proven to be a bigger idiot on this thread than you have, and that is a stretch considering that we have two complete morons in ohdoh and helga constantly spamming this thread with utter shit propaganda and nonsense. Some of your predictions from a year and a fucking half ago, moron...

Says the man who claims Ukraine is winning

Yep I am on the side of reality, and unfortunately Ukraine are losing.

Now when are you going to accept the reality that Ukraine are not winning.

the Ukraine has virtually no chance against a superior force in numbers and equipment.

Who’s winning now on planet Bsnub?

here on earth Ukraine are losing for sure.

I will repeat to try to get it to sink in “Russia is winning”

Yet you keep coming back for more.

No comment, Mr Well Vetted in Millitary History ?

No reason to comment on your drivel. The US gave the ruzzians massive amounts of supplies in WW2, it is a fact, you utter buffoon. To this day, the ruzzians still use trucks based on the Studebaker US6 trucks they were given in WW2.

Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man..

No it really is not. It is a fact.

[helge]

Originally Posted by helge
No comment, Mr Well Vetted in Millitary History ?

No reason to comment on your drivel. The US gave the ruzzians massive amounts of supplies in WW2, it is a fact, you utter buffoon. To this day, the ruzzians still use trucks based on the Studebaker US6 trucks they were given in WW2.

Yes. Some could even argue that the SU couldn't have survived without the "gift".

But you came and offered your wisdom to a completely different thing.

First SU-Finland war; before any lend and lease. Just eat it up

After all: Did GM and Ford provide Hitler with ...10 %, 20 %, 40% or 66% of his milli trucks ?

No comments on my little teaser to you ?

[bsnub]

First SU-Finland war; before any lend and lease. Just eat it up

Oh who cares. So I did not read far enough back in the comments to notice that. I was probably on the piss when I posted that anyway. Not like you don't drunk post yourself.

No comments on my little teaser to you ?

It is too stupid to bother responding to.

[helge]

Oh who cares. So I did not read far enough back in the comments to notice that. I was probably on the piss when I posted that anyway. Not like you don't drunk post yourself.

Never !

It is too stupid to bother responding to.

[OhOh]

Pepe Escobar discusses the news.

[OhOh]

Two Americans discuss a variety of global issues.

[harrybarracuda]

Pepe Escobar discusses the news.

Pablo Escobar makes more fucking sense.

[OhOh]

The land of the free have acted again.

3 Jun, 2024 18:40


HomeWorld News


US seizes Scott Ritter’s passport


The RT contributor was stopped from visiting Russia.

"The US State Department has seized the passport of former Marine and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, he told RT on Monday.

Ritter was on his way to Russia for the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) when he was pulled off the plane and had his documents confiscated.

“I was boarding the flight. Three [police] officers pulled me aside. They took my passport. When asked why, they said ‘orders of the State Department’. They had no further information for me,” Ritter told RT. “They pulled my bags off the plane, then escorted me out of the airport. They kept my passport.”

“Was this done in accordance with the First Amendment, or the Fourth,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, commenting on the news.

The first amendment to the US constitution protects freedom of speech, press and assembly, while the fourth bars the government from “unreasonable searches and seizures.”

Ritter is a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, who later served as the US and UN weapons inspector in Iraq. He is also a RT contributor, writing about international security, military affairs, Russia, and the Middle East, as well as arms control and nonproliferation.

He most recently visited Russia in January, spending time in Chechnya, Moscow and St. Petersburg, among other places.

The most recent post on Ritter’s Telegram channel put the Clooney Foundation for Justice on notice for its alleged crusade against “Russian propagandists.”

“Here I am. In your face. If telling the truth about Russia makes me a propagandist in your book, then I accept the title,” he wrote. “Bring it on. I’ll school you on the First Amendment.”

“You have zero concept of what free speech is. Try and arrest me and you’ll find out. In spades. It’s war,” he added."

US seizes Scott Ritter’s passport — RT World News

[cyrille]

Well that was a moment of levity that I wasn't expecting when I saw you were, the last poster.

[Norton]

Bring it on

Ask and ye shall recieve.

[helge]

“You have zero concept of what free speech is.

No such thing when it's needed

Someone seems desperate

[pickel]

No such thing when it's needed

Someone seems desperate

Not desperate enough to jail hin though, as Russia does when they dont suit the narrative. Odd how you never seem to complain about that though.

[helge]

Not desperate enough to jail hin though, as Russia does when they dont suit the narrative. Odd how you never seem to complain about that though.

I can only read this one way

Condoned by Pickel

Pickel knows how to bend principles.

Or has he got any ?

Apparently not

[pickel]

^
I can only read this one way.

You're a fucking hypocrite.