Thread by @TrentTelenko

This is a logistical thread🧵on pre-fabricated concrete structures and gravel for maintaining road lines of communications in a kleptocracy.

Please look closely at the Ukrainian pre-cast concrete drainage culverts being used for a temporary bridge below.
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https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1512572286255210496

When Russia was conducting it's build up before invading Ukraine in Dec 2021-Feb 2022 I was looking for a lot of gravel, sand & pre-cast concrete structures.

I've mentioned this before.👇
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https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1500157608879173634

You can do a lot of things with pre-cast concrete.

It is a mark of a modern economy to see a lot of these structures as it indicates highly mechanized productivity to avoid labor costs.
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Pre-cast concrete structures are how you get economies of scale & speed in major civil engineering projects like roads, bridges & the drainage for both.

The Russians used these pre-cast concrete structure building techniques to build the Kerch Straits bridge into Crimea.
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Yet to date, we have not seen anything like that temporary Ukrainian gravel & pre-cast concrete structure bridge from the Russian Army anywhere in occupied Ukraine.

I wrote this March 5th & it is still true👇
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https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1500157612956033035

Suppliers of pre-cast concrete structures have literal catalogs of standard structures they can sell from stock.

So why hasn't the Russian Army reached back into the Russian economy for such structures?
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It's not like the Russians are lacking for Ukrainian fording sites where building similar temporary bridge structures would be both useful & hard to destroy via artillery raids.

Unlike the floating bridge structures the Russian Army are using👇
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https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1512149974108229636

This is another example where a Ukrainian style pre-cast concrete structures & gravel temporary bridge would have been a better option. Simply because you can't sink it with fragments from Ukrainian MLRS artillery rockets.

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https://twitter.com/TheDeadDistrict/status/1512011540664356870

I would have expected the LNR & DNR forces to have been using temporary bridging techniques similar to the Ukrainians simply because the Russian Army didn't provide floating bridges to them.
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https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1511459809039683586

Yet they too seem to be utterly lacking in gravel & pre-cast concrete structures which the Ukrainian civilian economy is capable of throwing together near-overnight.

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The general inability of the Russian Army to use pre-cast concrete structures that the Russian state has demonstrated it can produce for priority state projects like the Kerch Straits bridge suggests a number of things.

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o There are are few/no pre-cast concrete structure vendors in the Russian economy.

o If there are such vendors, they have no stocks of pre-made structures available for fear they will have their stock stolen by the state...
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...or destroyed by Russian thieves looking for scrap steel to sell.

Whatever the case, the idea that Putin can mobilize the Russian economy for a long war of attrition with Ukraine has to be viewed with great suspicion.

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Kleptocracies don't stop stealing because there is a war on.

The inability of the Russian State & economy to use pre-cast concrete structures outside of 'high imperial focus by Putin' priority state projects like the Kerch Straits bridge suggests any sort
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... of Russian general mobilization will fail because of Kleptocratic thievery @kamilkazani has extensively detailed.

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