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1. The Russians surprised again. The first was grills on tank turrets to protect against #Javelins and #NLAW.
Now this "miracle" isn't analogous: the ship's anti-aircraft guns were welded to the hull of the infantry fighting vehicles... I'm laughing to the point of tears...⬇️ Image
2. What, they find the remains in the graveyard of vehicles, and then do this?
#stupidRussia #RussiaIsATerroristState #PutinIsaWarCriminal #PutinWarCriminal #StopRussia #stopputin
3. The ship's anti-aircraft automatic installation 2M-3M with KPVT machine guns is welded to the MTLB.

R2-D2, is that you, admit it?🤣🤣🤣
#StupidRussia #StopRussia
#StopPutin #RussiaIsATerroristState #PutinIsaWarCriminal
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@James85fletcher @MrAhmednurAli Dom TRY to keep up

THAT's the POINT

It's not clear at all when you look at one individual country like Japan

Although if you're capable of critical thinking you can glean some information even from that if you do your own research

For example even...
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@James85fletcher @MrAhmednurAli For example even though Japan has the tightest gun laws they have the highest suicide rates

Which shoots down the gun-ban argument that cutting legal gun ownership will reduce suicides

But like the US that's a single data point & proves nothing...

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@James85fletcher @MrAhmednurAli If things were so simple the gun-banners wouldn't find it so easy to blind the public with "science" & lies damned lies & statistics

For example Protestant cultures have higher suicide rates than Catholic

Gloomy Nordics higher than sunny Mediterranean...
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1/17
Press briefing: US Def Sec #Austin and Gen. #Milley after the 3rd #Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting in Brussels.
Selected points: (note, this is *not* a NATO meeting. It's an ad hoc group, that has now grown to 50 countries.)
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2/17
DefSec Austin:
Fact we have 50 countries pledging mil aid to #Ukraine testament to how RUS unprovoked invasion has horrified and galvanised the world, and testament to #heroism of Ukrainian people
3/17
DefSec Austin:
In May, US #Congress approved 40 bn USD in assistance to UA. On 1 June, POTUS auth. further 700 mill USD mil package incl #HIMARS rocket system and guided munitions, plus #Javelins, helicopters, counter-battery radars and ammunition.
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Happening now: @SecDef Lloyd Austin testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee
.@SecDef joined by @thejointstaff Chairman Gen Mark Milley
"We are now facing 2 global powers, #China & #Russia" warns @thejointstaff's Gen Milley

"We are entering a world that is becoming more unstable & the potential for significant int'l conflict btw great powers is increasing..."
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Day 68 - #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine️

+2,125 missile launches since start of the invasion

"We continue to see minimal at best progress by the Russians in the #Donbas" per a senior US defense official
NEW: #Russia|ns not holding gains in #Donbas - "They'll move in, declare victory and then pull out, allowing the #Ukrainians to take it back" per a senior US defense official

Says Russian forces appear risk, casualty averse and "anemic"
NEW: #Russia losing ground around #Kharkiv, per a senior US official

#Ukraine troops have pushed #Russian forces 40km to the east of Kharkiv, making it difficult for Moscow to push down from the north
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Happening now: @PentagonPresSec briefs reporters at the Pentagon Image
#Russia repositioning from around #Kyiv-"We continue to see indications that they are moving a small number..." per @PentagonPresSec "It has not been wholesale by any means"

"Not exactly clear...where they are going to go, for how long, for what purpose" he says
US believes small number of #Russia|n troops being repositioned from around #Kyiv likely will be sent to #Belarus to resupply & refit before being sent elsewhere in #Ukraine, per @PentagonPresSec

Same w/Russian troops being repositioned from #Chernobyl, he says
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#UkraineRussia
Local media reports that the UAF troops from the territory of Ukraine launched a rocket at #Belgorod, which is a Russian city near the border with Ukr. It was reportedly shot down
#UkraineRussia
Captured UAF Manpad and #NLAW in the #Kiev area ImageImageImageImage
#UkraineRussia
The Rus Army captured a large UAF field camp in the #Kherson region with large quantities of supplies and equipment
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1. Drones are not the same as combat aircraft. In the war in #Donbas it soon became apparent that modern air combat strategies would not play a role in the conflict. After the July 2014 #Russian Buk shoot down of #MH17 with some other combat air loses around that time, the air
2. over Donbas was seldom scene of combat operations. The war became like WWI but with even less air combat. I can't think of another protracted modern war since the #Chinese civil war where air power figured as little as it did in 2015 in #Ukraine. Mostly artillery like #China.
3. At the time of the heaviest fighting we were giving the #Ukrainians very little material support. Some intel but for the most part they were on their own. Like now they needed #counterbattery radars & better howitzers. HIMARS ideally but at least the radars & our M777 155mms.
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1. Does anyone know if we have sold #Ukraine more #Javelins as requested in the call? I have reported extensively on Ukraine since 2014 Maidan & I don't think they have used what we sold them earlier & Russia would be pretty unhappy if they got more. I thought we supplied 200.
2. I don't think there are lot of tanks on the contact line. But clearly Russia has been making noises that it may attack soon.
Russian tanks are sitting ducks for the way Javelins work that exploits the weakness in the top of Russian main battle tanks. I wonder how Putin feels
3. about Trump trading Russian tank crews for dirt on Biden? It's possible that Trump was never going to supply the Javelins and was going to try to get some bogus facts on @JoeBiden and then just blow off reciprocity. We can get Putin's attention if the House and Senate vote
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#Europe "an increasingly complex & competitive security environment," SACEUR/@US_EUCOM Commander Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti tells #SASC in opening statement
"Our adaptation to the environment has made significant progress...particularly under the European Deterrence Initiative" per Gen Scaparrotti, calling it "the largest reinforcement of Euro-Atlantic Defense in a generation"
Gen Scaparrotti also says @NATO alliance "is strong" and that "European allies & #Canada have turned a corner on defense spending with increases in each of the past 3 years" adding $46 billion to defense spending
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