Yommie
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It's no surprise young Ukrainian women are fleeing Ukraine in droves before Zelensky bans them from leaving Ukraine the way young men got banned.
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It's no surprise young Ukrainian women are fleeing Ukraine in droves before Zelensky bans them from leaving Ukraine the way young men got banned.
Yommie
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Raiden
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You seems to be talking as if only Russia that is the one having material losses from the front line and not Ukraine who miraculously go unscathed. Russia is now constructing new assembly line for their T-80 since at least early 2023, new and expanded engine factory for the V-92 series engine as well as GTD-1500 turbine engine have been completed, so you can kiss goodbye
to your fantasy of Russia having to rely on their Soviet inheritance. What about Ukraine? how many Leopard 2s have they received? How many Challengers? Last time I check 16 out of 33 Abrams has been disabled.
That's just the equipment, we're not talking morale and manpower arguably the more important one.
Your ally, South Vietnam lost to the Communists even though on paper they have the larger army.
And then there's the bullshit that Russia lost 600K. If Russia loses 600K then imagine how much losses Ukraine had consider that it's the Ukrainians that's so desperate to kidnap civilians off the street and send them straight towards the frontline + the fact that Russian glide bombs has been pummeling them non stop for a year without the Ukrainians being able to do the same.
Ukrainian propaganda are just that... Propaganda. It doesn't even make sense.
Yommie
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You seems to be talking as if only Russia that is the one having material losses from the front line and not Ukraine who miraculously go unscathed. Russia is now constructing new assembly line for their T-80 since at least early 2023, new and expanded engine factory for the V-92 series engine as well as GTD-1500 turbine engine have been completed, so you can kiss goodbye
What about Ukraine? how many Leopard 2s have they received? How many Challengers? Last time I check 16 out of 33 Abrams has been disabled.
That's just the equipment, we're not talking morale and manpower arguably the more important one.
Your ally, South Vietnam lost to the Communists even though on paper they have the larger army.
And then there's the bullshit that Russia lost 600K. If Russia loses 600K then imagine how much losses Ukraine had consider that it's the Ukrainians that's so desperate to kidnap civilians off the street and send them straight towards the frontline + the fact that Russian glide bombs has been pummeling them non stop for a year without the Ukrainians being able to do the same.
Ukrainian propaganda are just that... Propaganda. It doesn't even make sense.
Good point. In Hollywood the super heroes never die. But Hollywood ain't the real world. Ukrainians also have losses.
Raiden
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First he proudly announce that the front is at a stalemate, I show him the list of all settlements Russia has captured.
Then he says the Russian army has been obliterated. I simply quote the American estimate that the Russian army is 15℅ larger than before.
Then his cope jumped to.. Bu but Russia is vast emptying its Soviet inheritance, probably ignorant that Russia has already working on that since last year, engine factory has been expanded, new T-80 production line is almost finished etc etc.
Then he bullshit that Russia is losing 600K men likely to save his ego about being constantly wrong. Has it ever knock their mind that if Russia lost such number, the it's only logical for Ukraine to lose more? All I see is Russian UMPK bomb landing on top of Ukrainian trenches and position + the never ending stream of Ukrainians getting snatched in broad daylight. Never mind that early in the war the average age of Ukro soldiers was 33. Just a year later that number has jumped to 45 after the massive annihilation of the previous age cohort.
I wonder what kind of cope will come next
F-22Raptor
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You seems to be talking as if only Russia that is the one having material losses from the front line and not Ukraine who miraculously go unscathed. Russia is now constructing new assembly line for their T-80 since at least early 2023, new and expanded engine factory for the V-92 series engine as well as GTD-1500 turbine engine have been completed, so you can kiss goodbye
What about Ukraine? how many Leopard 2s have they received? How many Challengers? Last time I check 16 out of 33 Abrams has been disabled.
That's just the equipment, we're not talking morale and manpower arguably the more important one.
Your ally, South Vietnam lost to the Communists even though on paper they have the larger army.
And then there's the bullshit that Russia lost 600K. If Russia loses 600K then imagine how much losses Ukraine had consider that it's the Ukrainians that's so desperate to kidnap civilians off the street and send them straight towards the frontline + the fact that Russian glide bombs has been pummeling them non stop for a year without the Ukrainians being able to do the same.
Ukrainian propaganda are just that... Propaganda. It doesn't even make sense.
The only new production tanks are T-90s, T-80s are not in production but refurbishment. The vast majority of equipment is refurbished Soviet stock. Thats a finite resource and OSINTERs have done some excellent work on Russian storage bases and remaining stock the last couple months.
Russians losses are far more than Ukraines and that’s reflected in equipment losses and intelligence estimates.
Ukraine is receiving a consistent supply of equipment now from the US and Europe. Russia missed its opportunity for a breakthrough in January-April when they were receiving almost no aid.
The frontline is frozen, in the grand scheme, a village here and a village there is meaningless. Russia needs breakthroughs, because it doesn’t have the equipment necessary to sustain this war beyond 2026.
Russia is still not even close to taking the Donbas, much less half of Ukraine.
A village by village strategy at Russias attrition rate is a losing strategy. If this was the US military we’d be raked over the coals for that performance and rightly so.
F-22Raptor
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An no, Russian equipment won’t disappear in Ukraine in 2026. What will happen is Russia will find it much harder to sustain this war. To the point, where Putin and Russia will be forced to come to the negotiating table on favorable Ukrainian terms.
F-22Raptor
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Russia financial system shaken after U.S. imposes new sanctions
A tough new raft of U.S. sanctions sent jitters rippling through the Russian financial system Thursday and forced Moscow’s main financial trading platform to halt dollar and euro transactions, further raising the cost of President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine.
The sharp escalation in sanctions by the Treasury Department prompted former Russian president and prime minister Dmitry Medvedev, now a senior security official, to call on the population to “inflict maximum harm” on Western societies and infrastructure in retaliation. Meanwhile, several leading Russian banks and brokerages blocked access Thursday to corporate hard-currency accounts.
The sweeping new sanctions — announced by the Treasury Department on Wednesday — singled out the Moscow Exchange, Russia’s main financial marketplace, for helping Russians “profit from the Kremlin’s war machine,” and broadened the risk of secondary sanctions for any foreign financial institution doing business with Russia’s war economy.
The Moscow Exchange operates trading markets in stocks, bonds, derivatives, currencies and precious metals.
The new sanctions also targeted companies based in China selling semiconductor chips to Russia, as well as more than 300 individuals and entities in Russia, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Russia has managed to ramp up spending on military production since it invaded Ukraine in 2022, despite facing the biggest barrage of sanctions and export controls ever unleashed by the United States and its allies against a country’s economy.
Rather than buckle, Russia has turned to China and India and myriad murky intermediaries to sidestep the restrictions, with the West unable to wean itself fully from Russian commodities.
The effort to toughen the penalties against Russia reflect a growing recognition among policymakers that measures so far, including unprecedented export controls, have proved insufficient at stopping the Kremlin from obtaining Western parts for its military supply chain, said Edward Fishman, who served as a senior State Department official in the Obama administration.
Ukrainian officials have documented thousands of foreign-made parts in Russian military supplies recovered on the battlefield, despite the Western restrictions.
To cut down on the trade, the Treasury this week broadened “secondary sanctions,” which seek to make foreign banks unwilling to process Russian bank payments.
Secondary sanctions, which target entities doing business with Russian companies or individuals under sanction, are now applicable not just to entities working with Russia’s defense industry but also to those working with any sanctioned Russian business or individual, including the country’s biggest banks.
U.S. officials wanted to put the sanctions in place ahead of a gathering of world leaders at a Group of Seven summit in Italy. “There’s tremendous frustration the export controls are not working as well as one would hope,” Fishman said. “They’re basically saying, if we financially isolate Russia, it could make it much harder for it to pay for its military imports.”
In response to the new measures, Medvedev, who has become one of the most vociferous Russian officials in condemning the West, called on Russians to “look for vulnerabilities” in Western economies and to “hit them in all areas.”
“We must find problems in their most important technologies and strike them mercilessly,” he said. “Literally destroy their energy, industry, transport, banking and social services.”
Stocks on the Moscow Exchange initially plummeted on Thursday, though they recovered later. Economists and former senior officials warned that the new measures barring trading in dollars and euros on the central exchange would significantly impact the cost of doing business for Russia’s export- and import-based economy, possibly further stoking inflation, which is already high — officially at 8 percent.
As a result, Russian businesses now must convert dollars and euros on Moscow’s interbank market instead of on the centralized exchange, allowing the banks to charge high commissions for each trade and increasing the spreads at which dollars and euros are bought and sold, reducing transparency.
Although Russians have increasingly switched to the Chinese yuan since the February 2022 invasion — 54 percent of all currency trading on the Moscow Exchange is now Chinese — dollars and euros are still important for Russia’s economy.
“Russia is still dependent on using Western currencies for trade with all countries except for China,” said Janis Kluge, an economist at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. “There is huge demand for trading these currencies.”
The new sanctions, Kluge said, “will increase costs for importers and exporters” and add new “layers of complexity” to Russian business transactions. “The impact is initially psychological,” he said, and further increases Russia’s isolation.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called for calm and told Russians to look to the Central Bank as a “mega-regulator capable of ensuring stability” after Russian banks began sharply increasing the exchange rate for dollars following the ban on trade on the Moscow Exchange.
Some raised rates as high as 200 rubles to the dollar, the Russian newspaper Kommersant reported. The day before, the rate set on the Moscow Exchange was just under 90 rubles to the dollar.
The Central Bank said it would set daily dollar and euro exchange rates based on aggregated data from commercial bank purchases and sales. It fixed Thursday’s official rate at 88.2 rubles to the dollar.
A former senior Russian financial official said that the Russian economy would not run out of dollars or euros, but that the new sanctions would clearly add to the rising costs of Putin’s war for the economy.
“This is not a question of financial stability, but it is a question of financial costs,” the former senior official said. “The costs for imports will grow and this will be an additional factor leading to price growth.”
The huge increase in government spending on Russia’s defense industry, which is further driving inflation, will eventually become untenable, the former senior official said.
Signs are growing that the Kremlin was aware of this, which is why tax increases for next year have already been adopted into law.
“If oil prices don’t grow any more, then sooner or later the budget will reach a ceiling, and it will not be possible to continue spending without printing money,” the former official said. “But there is another instrument, and that is taxation, and it is not a coincidence that a law has been passed that increases taxes on companies.”
Putin announced the increases for 2025, including a hike in the tax on corporate profits from 20 percent to 25 percent, as well as increases in income taxes. He referred to them as a “fine-tuning” of the system.
“Putin has plenty of ways to continue funding the war machine this year and next, but after that, it becomes more difficult,” said Alexandra Prokopenko, a former adviser at Russia’s Central Bank who is based in Berlin.
TopGun786
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Pouring and pouring and pouring,
And pouring,
And pouring
Pouring, pouring, and pouring.
Just keep pouring tax money, arms bought with tax money.
After all those massive massive pourings NATO still far away reaching their goal.
Never thought I will live to see these days
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