Good morning from the Ozark's! Hope you all have a wonderful day even if it won't be a good as mine. Not everyone can brew percolator coffee to an #Arkansas sunrise after all.
After breakfast then it's time to start my day and end up in a trail. Don't forget to do what you do. Contact your leaders as I contact @JohnBoozman, @SenTomCotton, and @RepFrenchHill and tell them to support Ukraine
Give to charities like @MriyaAid join #NAFO to support the @georgian_legion and bonk Vatniks. Ukrainian soldiers are camping out in the elements because they must, I do it for fun. No one is shooting at me either.
I get back from the woods and not much has changed. There was some apparently rather forceful rejection of forced conscription. One commander got fragged in one instance and in another some dragooned Central Asians said, "Russian Army Go Fuck Yourself" spelled out in 7.62 font.
The Ukrainian high commander has imposed a blackout over Kherson so something but what? Fingers crossed it makes the Kharkiv offensive gains look small. I really want that city liberated because of its political importance to Putin. Though apparently one pressing question was
answered while I was helping some people back up the mountain.... we now know what air defense doing. Shelling Belgorod. You can't make this stuff up. Ukrainians strike and Russia piles on with malfunctioning missiles. So far this do not be off too a good start for
Since T-62 tanks are trending this is one bandwagon I don't mind jumping on. By now most of you have seen this video. Most of the comments are about how Russia is running out of better tanks.
After all why put in an order for 800 T-62M/MV or whatever M? ends up coming out of these workshops if you still had plenty of T-64/72/80/90's laying around. I think it is probably more subtle than that. First, Russia was supposed to have had around 10,000 of so 64+ series
T tanks in storage plus an active fleet somewhere between 23-2800. We have not seen losses high enough to seriously threaten a running out of hulls. Plus if Russian tank losses were in the mid to high thousands, real WWII 1943 on the Eastern front type losses a paltry 800 T-62's
I thought maybe it was just me, but I woke up to at least two other people posting about interactions with Indians, I guess Russia has mobilized its Indian trolls to help in the info battle over Ukraine. I freely admit that #NAFO has not really engaged there, after all its in our
name NORTH ATLANTIC FELLAS ORGANIZATION so the focus has not really been in the INDIAN OCEAN but since expansion is non-negotiable.... Indian support for Russia is non-sensical from an anti-imperialism perspective. Now if they want to support Russia because they too believe in
religious tinged nationalism, mass poverty outside of the elite core of a couple of urban areas, ultra rich oligarchs, corruption and eventual vassaldom to China that is an honest stance and I can respect that. But Russia is an imperial state so ergo support for Russia is support
Now into a second day of Russian strikes designed to cripple Ukraine's civilian population heading into winter. This is not revenge for the Kerch Strait bridge, this is state sponsored terrorism by a dictator who has failed to fill the shoes of his heroes like Hitler and Peter
The Great. He has now moved from Ukraine will be part of the Russian Empire again to if I can't have it no one can. He seeks to de-energize the entire country and also make the countries soviet era district heating system using centralized thermal plants inoperable. Its a slow
attempted murder attempt to kill as many people and depopulate a city much as a nuke would but without the mushroom clouds and fall out... Well there will be fall out he is trying to force Ukraine to move enmass. We are now watching one of the most important races in human
I wake up and the news of the day is a massive Russian strike across Ukraine with 50-70 missiles and drones including a strike on the visas office of the German Embassy. Many of the strikes were launched from Belarus who has handed Ukraine's ambassador a note of protest.
Looks like Belarus is finally going to be going all in and opening a new front against Ukraine in order to take pressure off of Putin's flaling failings in the south and east of Ukraine. How long the Belarussian army can sustain high intensity operations on foreign soil during
fall and winter remains to be seen. Most experts I have seen don't rate the Belarussian army very high: poor leadership, old equipment, bad morale and no belief in the cause. The invasions appears to have already miscarried at least once this spring. Lukashenko has now had 7
I freely admit I am not an engineer, however, as a truck driver I know something about roads and pot holes that I feel is germane to the conversation about the Kerch Strait bridge. What we know is that half the road way was dropped and one of the rail lines was roasted. Thats the
That is the absolute best case scenario. That would mean a loss of 50% each of max road and rail traffic at a minimum since the remaining capacity now has to be divided to continue two way traffic. Now if the peak capacity thats left still exceeds the needs of the Russian army
then the impact on combat operations won't matter much for now. If the new peak is less than what the army requires well then in plain English: that's a problem. However much capacity is left however is sitting on a timer. The roadway will be the easiest to repair because the