Since I'm seeing a lot of misinformation surfacing about the Ukrainian logistical posture. It is time for a thread🧵on planes, trains and automobiles in the Ukraine war in relation to NATO Lend Lease.
Where are the Russian red arrows compared to the Ukrainian train tracks?
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Where are the Russian red arrows compared to the Ukrainian train tracks?
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None of those red arrows cut off rail lines going to Kyiv, Odessa & deeply into the East Ukraine right up to the Donbas battle area.
The Eastern 1/3 of Ukraine is under UAF air superiority. Putin cannot shut down Ukrainian trains filled with East European ammo & EU fuel
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The Eastern 1/3 of Ukraine is under UAF air superiority. Putin cannot shut down Ukrainian trains filled with East European ammo & EU fuel
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...provided for free.
This is why you are seeing lines of Ukrainian infantry with anti-tank rockets for a 1/2 dozen NATO states so quickly on the battle line.
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This is why you are seeing lines of Ukrainian infantry with anti-tank rockets for a 1/2 dozen NATO states so quickly on the battle line.
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https://twitter.com/RFERL/status/1501995044894560264
Ukraine is spending it's blood and other people's money to fight this war. It's logistics are golden.
Putin's military can't destroy the rail infrastructure because it needs it to project power into Ukraine.
Russia lacks the trucks to move more than 145 km from a railhead.
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Putin's military can't destroy the rail infrastructure because it needs it to project power into Ukraine.
Russia lacks the trucks to move more than 145 km from a railhead.
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That is why Russia brought a pair of armored trains from Crimea to support the now failed siege of Mariupol.
If you are using these sorts of logistical trains. Russia simply cannot blow up the bridges that Ukrainian supply trains are using at night to avoid Russian airpower.
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If you are using these sorts of logistical trains. Russia simply cannot blow up the bridges that Ukrainian supply trains are using at night to avoid Russian airpower.
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Now we are going to talk about automobiles.
How are the Ukrainians making distribution of all sorts of weapons past/through those red lines?
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How are the Ukrainians making distribution of all sorts of weapons past/through those red lines?
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https://twitter.com/DefMon3/status/1501976805846261765
The Ukrainians are using civilian automobiles to move men and distribute NATO Lead Lease anti-tank rockets there.
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See:
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See:
https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1502683293795373056
What this choice by Ukraine does is make every Ukrainian civilian car a legitimate target of war in the Russian occupied zones, check points and AFV sweeps like the one we see called a "War Crime" here:
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https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1501164176227590144
Russian conscripts in Ukraine are very much in the same seat as US soldiers at checkpoints in Iraq dealing with suicide car bombs when Iraqi civilian in cars didn't listen to loud speakers or warning shots speeding at you
You have to assume they are the enemy & kill them
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You have to assume they are the enemy & kill them
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The Ukrainians are in the same position with regard to Russian Army ambulances being used to transport ammunition to the front lines under the red cross flag.
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https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/1499366317564043267
Ukrainians have to treat every Russian ambulance in the war zone as a priority logistical target.
And note:
The Ukrainians have seen this Russian tactic for the whole of the Donbas war.
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And note:
The Ukrainians have seen this Russian tactic for the whole of the Donbas war.
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https://twitter.com/MavkaSlavka/status/1499441449280372736
The Newsweek columnist George Will used a line after the 1st Gulf War that has stuck with me since that applies to what we are seeing in Ukraine.
"War is the ultimate moral solvent."
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"War is the ultimate moral solvent."
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Neither the Russians killing civilian cars nor the Ukrainians killing Red Cross marked Russian vehicles are "War Crimes"
The uses of such vehicles as ruses of war forfeits their protection under laws of war & entitles combatants upon which the ruses were used to destroy them
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The uses of such vehicles as ruses of war forfeits their protection under laws of war & entitles combatants upon which the ruses were used to destroy them
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...from that point going forward.
I have refrained from talking about Ukrainian civilian automobile logistics until I was absolutely sure the Russian Army knew about them and was taking countermeasures.
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I have refrained from talking about Ukrainian civilian automobile logistics until I was absolutely sure the Russian Army knew about them and was taking countermeasures.
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The Russians seeing through this ruse means Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces & Ukrainian Spetsnaz stay behind teams North and North-East of Kyiv are now "Wasting Assets."
They are now denied civilian car mobility they need to destroy Russian truck convoys in the scale
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They are now denied civilian car mobility they need to destroy Russian truck convoys in the scale
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...we have seen so far. Another point I need to make.
These sorts of ruses & lost Geneva convention protection retaliation are "normal" in war. We will be seeing more in the weeks and months to come.
Don't let war fever overwhelm your rational brain when we have
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These sorts of ruses & lost Geneva convention protection retaliation are "normal" in war. We will be seeing more in the weeks and months to come.
Don't let war fever overwhelm your rational brain when we have
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...to prevent 6,000 Russian nukes, in the control of a cut off from outside reality Russian leader, from flying.
This is why I keep harping on the need to be sophisticated media consumers and cold blooded in looking at the latest Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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This is why I keep harping on the need to be sophisticated media consumers and cold blooded in looking at the latest Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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