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1. If #Ukraine can figure out a way to put a mechanized force across the #Dnipro at #Kherson, #NATO supplied armor force that has arrived could be used for a lightning strike on #Mariupol from #Vuhledar while a second force moves from #Kherson to cut Russian escape at #Armiansk.
2. With only the #Crimean bridges at #Chongar and #Henichesk available to withdraw the dilemma created by possible loss of #Mariupol could start a rout that will see #Russians abandoning more equipment to be able to escape into Crimea or in the east towards #Donetsk or #Rostov.
3. #Zalenskyy's visit to #Zaporizhia may suggest this is the plan. But guessing the #Ukrainian moves has proven a fool's errand. Just making the #Kremlin contemplate the capture of 50,000 Russian soldiers might be enough to get #Putin to withdraw especially
#Ukraine Update Bakhmut.
Encore une journée d’intenses combats dans et autour de la ville.
Les défenseurs UKR tiennent toujours même s’ils sont sous pression.
Encore une journée d’intenses combats dans et autour de la ville.
Les défenseurs UKR tiennent toujours même s’ils sont sous pression.
🧵FN FALs in Ukraine!
Yesterday I shared a video looking at the use of FN FALs in #Ukraine. Both fixed stock 50.00s and folding stock 50.61s have been seen in theatre. 1/
Yesterday I shared a video looking at the use of FN FALs in #Ukraine. Both fixed stock 50.00s and folding stock 50.61s have been seen in theatre. 1/
The PARA FALs began to appear in October with photos of crates of them shared. These are 50.61s which have a folding stock but full length barrel. Their exact origin is unclear but there's some interesting theories and leads I'm still investigating. Belgium is 1 likely source. 2/
I was able to speak with several Ukrainian servicemen who have been equipped with the FAL - one loved it, one hated it.
Check out their thoughts/insights here: armourersbench.com/2023/02/24/rig… 3/
Check out their thoughts/insights here: armourersbench.com/2023/02/24/rig… 3/
#Ukraine: Today's news for #UkraineWar: 1. Heavy battles going on around #Bakhmut with RU throwing its full force into encircling the city & breaking UA defence. UK Intel says city "increasingly isolated". This is the sound of Bakhmut. #tweet100 🇺🇦THREAD
Now is the time to read William Shirer’s “Rise & Fall of the Third Reich” if you haven’t before.
If you have read it before, READ IT AGAIN. 📖
Much of it will sound familiar…
smithsonianmag.com/history/revisi…
If you have read it before, READ IT AGAIN. 📖
Much of it will sound familiar…
smithsonianmag.com/history/revisi…
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is more than just a chronicle of what Bill witnessed in Berlin.
He searches for a deeper “why”: Was the Third Reich a unique, one-time phenomenon, or do humans possess some ever-present receptivity to the appeal of primal, herd-like hatred?
He searches for a deeper “why”: Was the Third Reich a unique, one-time phenomenon, or do humans possess some ever-present receptivity to the appeal of primal, herd-like hatred?
On my desk again today…
🇺🇦🧵🗣️Kenneth Gregg writes; (1/11) "The update today is late because I am in a place that has continuous power outages. The front lines have not changed since yesterday but both the non-visa tourists and we have large troop movements.⤵️
2:"Where we move, I can't comment, but the tourists have to open the game and guess where our next attack will come, they KNOW that one will come very soon. They have guessed that we will arrive at the Zaporizhzhia front.⤵️
3:"There has been wild speculation as to whether we will take the Kinburn peninsula or not. When we take it, we will completely control the access to the ports of Dnipro, Mykolaiv and Kherson. ⤵️
So maybe #Russia is going to retreat from Kherson. Assuming they are, they have some issues that I hope the #Ukrainians can cash in on. When the #Russian's retreated from #Kyiv they were able to do it in fairly good-ish order. #Ukraine was still lacking in artillery and most of
her forces were still in the JFO area of the Donbass. At the same time much of Russia's initial combat power was still intact. Mud was the biggest issue. They we get to Kharkiv. That was a rout and had Ukraine had a western style army with all the bells and whistles that retreat
would not have ended short of the Russian border or Black Sea Coast. Now with even less combat pwoer than in Kharkiv, with an army that has been gutted by loss, infected with malcontent mobliks, abandoned by its officers the Russian army is supposed to cross a massive river at
