And the Taiwanese ship is a 5th rate while the San Antonio is unarmed on the Bilgepumps rating scale.
The San Antonio as an amphibious LCS design by Taiwan's SCS standards.
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This passage from the Drive piece is absolutely lethal:
"At the same time, the fact that these kinds of weapons have been fitted in the Taiwanese LPD (in the case of the TC-2N) or at least considered (HF-2), likely reflects the assumption that any kind of conflict involving
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"Between #Torske and #Kreminna it has become a no man's land, there are likely to be Ukrainian reconnaissance and infiltration units around, making it a shooting gallery for anyone who crosses it."
The entire road out of Lyman is under Ukrainian drone observed artillery fire with MARS-M270 rocket delivered German AT-2 mines to pin Russian columns in the artillery kill jar.
It's all over for the Russian Lyman force, save for the details of its bloody annihilation. 2/5
Editor in Chief Censor.NЕТ Yurii Butusov has dropped this article on the tactical situation pertaining to Lyman.
"If Russian grouping in Lyman manages to be completely destroyed at withdrawal,
According to my position, chemical weapons were used. This is not a joke. Doctors say that the thing is not fatal, but it is difficult for the boys. Due to the castration of the "civilized" world, we will someday wait for the stars. I freaked out to be honest
This is no surprise as the Russians have already used chemical weapons in Mariupol.
Russia used a spray-drone on the Azov Btn there as a part of their "Special Operation" because "Ukrainian Nazis deserved it."
Western defense analysts went into deep denial over that fact.
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The DC De-escalation faction is making increased Russian WMD use inevitable by denying Ukraine the F-16's, ATACMS, M-1 Abrams tanks, & Bradley fighting vehicles it has been asking for to win quickly.
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AFU is using German MLRS rocket delivered anti-tank/anti-vehicle mines to block Russian vehicle movement on the last main supply road to Lyman at Torske in Eastern Ukraine.
@EmmaMAshford makes an extremely astute point that modern political science and foreign policy academics have not been particularly...umm...call it 'reality based' vis a' vis the foreign policy of Putin's Russia. 2/