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In virtually every war in human history, attackers have 3X the death toll as the defenders.
One of the reasons why Ukraine pulled back on this Summer's counteroffensive because they could not run through human lives as Russia has.
socal2 says
A Ukrainian "win" is kicking Russian occupiers out of their country.
Ukrainians win when the US deep state gets out of their business.
Remind me what Hunter did for Burisma?
"In virtually every war in human history, attackers have 3X the death toll as the defenders."
Why is Ukraine pulling the disabled, the crippled and the aged off the streets to fight Russia?
Answer: Because all the young Ukrainians are dead and injured!
Isn't Russia defending eastern Ukraine?
Onvacation says
Isn't Russia defending eastern Ukraine?
Up is down, black is white in Russian apologetics. Commies are great at inverting reality.
Russians getting ready to roll in their failed Ukrainian venture? I guess they have marinated the Ukrainian Slav Apocalypse enough? They seem to be stepping things up.
Russia working hard to replace the shit-ton of multi-million dollar tanks and APC's that Ukraine has destroyed with $1,000 FPV kamikaze drones?
But just you wait. Ukraine has a bunch of those F-16's that are ready to take off (as soon as they Shanghai enough pilots off of Ukrainian streets).
Ukraine Army Orders 50,000 Women Uniforms Amid Anti-Mobilisation Sentiment
The Ukrainian Defence Ministry is set to buy 50,000 sets of women's uniforms. The purchase will be the first such since the start of the conflict in February 2022. It came a day before an expected parliamentary vote on amendments to the law on mobilisation. The proposed changes in the Ukrainian Army have caused a public outcry. Watch for more.
"No reason to buy them tampons. They won't live long enough." The Moloch Slav Furnace continues.
Ukraine Army Orders 50,000 Women Uniforms Amid Anti-Mobilisation Sentiment
Patrick says
Ukraine Army Orders 50,000 Women Uniforms Amid Anti-Mobilisation Sentiment
Attention Ukrainian Women (and others that pretend to be):
Do NOT, under any circumstances, walk down any Ukrainian street for any reason, that is, if you don't want to be Shanghaied into the Ukraine military in order to fight
Those women can work in supply or fly drones as well as anyone. Plus if you are a total slut there is probably unlimited availability to get laid.
Most of the world’s leading navies are getting bigger—a lot bigger—by one key metric: tonnage.
But not the Russian navy. It’s struggling to grow at all, and for one main reason. The Ukrainian navy, which has no large front-line ships, keeps sinking and blowing up Russian vessels.
Reddit-user Phoenix_jz annually aggregates, analyzes and publishes the total tonnage of the top 10 navies. Their most recent survey, published this week, should encourage advocates of a free Ukraine—and worry proponents of Russian aggression.
In 2023, the Russian navy added just 6,300 tons and ended the year with a total tonnage of 2,152,000. The Russians would have added 17,700 tons last year through the new construction of a new frigate, corvettes, a minesweeper and submarines, but the Ukrainians destroyed Black Sea Fleet vessels together weighing 11,400 tons.
In losing nearly as much tonnage as it built in 2023, the Russian navy joins an exclusive and embarrassing club of stagnant or shrinking navies. The 886,000-ton Royal Navy also shrank in 2023, which is nothing new for what once was the world’s greatest fleet but in recent decades steadily has withered under the mismanagement of successive governments.
The 356,000-ton Italian navy shrank, but that’s mostly due to a gap between the decommissioning of some older warships and the commissioning of their new, and much larger, replacements.
The Russian navy is the only navy that can’t manage to grow mostly because it keeps losing ships in combat. Over the last year the fleet’s “woes in the Black Sea have continued unabated,” Phoenix_jz wrote.
The Black Sea Fleet began Russia’s wider war on Ukraine with around 50 large warships including the missile-cruiser Moskva, several frigates and corvettes, a dozen or so landing ships, diesel-electric submarines and a large flotilla of patrol boats.
This against a Ukrainian fleet that had just one large warship, the frigate Hetman Sahaydachniy. The Ukrainians scuttled the frigate at her mooring in Odesa in the early hours of the initial Russian attack in February 2022. With Hetman Sahaydachniy on the seafloor, the Ukrainian navy became a new kind of navy—one that mostly fights with drones and missiles, with a big assist from the air force.
In 23 months of hard fighting, the Black Sea Fleet has lost—to Ukrainian drones and missiles—its cruiser, four amphibious ships, a submarine, a supply ship and several patrol boats and landing craft. In 2023 “the most dramatic loss by far was the destruction of the [submarine] Rostov-on-Don in drydock at Sevastopol,” Phoenix_jz wrote. The sub displaced 3,100 tons.
Any other fleet might be able to make good its wartime losses, but the Russian shipbuilding sector collapsed with the end of the Soviet Union. It doesn’t help that what remained of the industry relied on maritime engines it imported from Ukraine—engines Ukraine no longer is willing to sell to Russia, for obvious reasons.
Today, Russian shipyards still manage to build large submarines, but they struggle to build surface warships heavier than a few thousand tons.
So while the world’s leading navy, the U.S. Navy, last year grew by 32,000 tons to a new total of 7,393,000 tons; and the fast-growing Chinese navy added 50,000 tons to total 2,899,000 tons; the Russian fleet grew barely at all.
It’s all because of the Ukrainian navy. A fleet with no large ships keeps destroying as much tonnage as the Russians manage to build.
Most of the world’s leading navies are getting bigger—a lot bigger—by one key metric: tonnage.
But not the Russian navy. It’s struggling to grow at all, and for one main reason. The Ukrainian navy, which has no large front-line ships, keeps sinking and blowing up Russian vessels.
So? Ukraine is a LAND war.
L-A-N-D
Thought Putin decided to get hundreds of thousands of his men killed, in part because the need to protect his Black Sea fleet and naval facilities in Crimea? How did that work out?
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