Generational Dynamics World View News

[utahbob]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVhwakm121c
Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF): 1: RF does NOT have Air Dominance over Ukraine. 2: Units going BLACK on logistics or scavenging for fuel and food. Usually, units have three days of supplies, then have to rely on the echelons above for logistic support. This is not happening. 3. General who signed off on Air Assault operation on surrounding airports of Kiev that led to the meat grinder or dead paratroopers is in deep shit. Lack of airdroppable armor is a surprise. 4. Small, but surprising amount RF units are lost and lone APCs and tanks are roaming the countryside. That means individual soldiers do NOT know their objective or mission other than to stay alive.

[utahbob]

It looks like the SIGINT and EW platforms are up. https://twitter.com/ameliairheart/statu ... 2239879188

[Guest]

#BREAKING — Russian Armed Forces Bear Net (Strategic Bomber radio net) is active!

Cruise missile launches expected on Ukraine!

[Guest]

El Pitazo: "Joe Biden official: US sanctions on Russia will impact Venezuela"| 02-26-2022

-"US sanctions against Russia will impact Latin American governments that have ties to this country, such as Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba. This was stated this Friday, February 25, by the director of the National Security Council for the Western Hemisphere, Juan González."

-"What we want are negotiated solutions to the crisis in Venezuela, with a restoration of the democratic order in Nicaragua, and we want the Cubans to determine their future, and not a dictatorship,” said the special assistant to the president of the United States, Joe Biden.

[Guest]

Ichkeria leader Ahmed Zakayev has offered Zelensky to sign an agreement on military cooperation, thanks to which Chechen volunteers from Europe and Ukraine itself will fight against Russia.

It is important to note that more than 300,000 Chechens live in Europe

Many Chechens have been fighting against Russia in Ukraine since 2014.

Looks like Kadyrov has brought a problem with him to Ukraine.

Now Chechen traitor-dictator is in trouble too.

[Guest]

Russia lost more soldiers in the first day of the war against Ukraine than in 8 years of war in Syria - The Economist.

[Guest]

Russia has been excluded from SWIFT

[richard5za]

I do think that a couple of important points have been missed by the West, in that they don't understand Russia and especially not Putin

The first is the Russia has made sure that it is surrounded by vassal states for a very long time, about 300 years. This to protect the mother country. This was lost in 1991 with the break up of the Soviet Union, and the break up might have been tolerated except for the West's expansion of NATO, which again Russia has been complaining about for a long time. One of the telling things Putin said is that 'now maybe they will listen to me'

The second is that Putin clearly doesn't want democracy and he wants to create circumstances that work against democracy, especially on Russia's borders. And I do think that the West over elevates the merits of democracy and don't listen to alternative views; for instance the poor of Peru, with all their difficulties of living are definitely much more joyful that the average American who has many, many times the wealth. The West now mostly overlooks the purpose of life.

[John]

** 27-Feb-2022 World View: Russian debacle?

• Map of Ukraine

More and more, I'm hearing the Russian invasion of Ukraine being
described as a debacle. The Russians had expected to simply roll over
the Ukrainians, as they did in 2014. Instead, the initial phase of
the invasion is taking several days longer than planned, and the army
is running out of petrol and bullets, because of the long supply
lines.

There is street fighting in Kharkiv, which is Ukraine's second largest
city and is close to the Russian border, but troops attempting to
reach Kiev from Donbas in the east, from Belarus in the north, and
from Crimea in the south, have all met stiff resistance. The
Ukrainians have been much better trained than they were in 2014.

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy is being considered something
of a hero internationally. It was expected that he'd flee the
country, as Afghanistan's president Ashraf Ghani had fled. Instead,
Zelenskyy is remaining in Kiev. Each day he posts videos of himself
in the streets of Kiev. He says that he's the number 1 target of
Russia's bombs, and his family is the number 2 target, but he's
remaining defiant, and telling his people to fight the Russians, which
they are doing very effectively so far.

The fear is that Putin will double down on the invasion, with
substantial bombing of Ukraine's infrastructure, including fuel
depots. Putin used this kind of total destruction in Syria and
Chechnya, and it's feared that he will now do the same in Ukraine.

Russian media is being heavily censored. They have been ordered not
to use the words "war" or "invasion," but just to call it an
"operation." Of course, they're not allowed to report on Russian
casualties or setbacks.

On Tuesday of last week, Putin gave a speech which many analysts are
calling "unhinged."

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67828

I've posted the full text of the speech in the "Long Texts" thread:

viewtopic.php?p=69315#p69315

[guest]

Russia, most likely, will eventually overrun large parts of Ukraine, through brute force, but then what? The Russians have already lost the battle for hearts and minds. How much of a hard slog can Russia endure at this point?