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Oct 18, 2022 18 tweets 4 min read Read on X
This is hugely vital logistical development in the Russo-Ukrainian War I've been looking to happen for a couple of months.

When you outsource key transportation consumable materials to foreign nations on a just-in-time basis.

Sanctions kill your transportation capability.
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This is my previous comment on that score.

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This is one of responses to that Sept 25 2022 thread that gives the industrial background to the Russian train bearing issue.

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The 2nd comment below pointing to the Russian Federation suffering from 40% of their railway rolling stock being sidelined by bearing shortages come Feb 2022 represents a transportation calamity.

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There is a reason I've hammered on the destruction of the Russian Army tactical truck fleet followed by the impressment and loss of Russian civilian trucks in Ukraine.

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Global and national just-in-time supply chains fail catastrophically when transportation capability is mildly disrupted.

While the fall of Russian imports from Western sanctions have reduced the need for Russian railway rolling stock.

The mass rail movement for the Feb 2022
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...Ukrainian invasion massively used up much of Russia's railway bearing reserves to get the huge mechanized forces in place.

Furthermore, the Russian mobilization is now making use of that Western import railway capability to...

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...move and support 'Mobiks' deep in Ukraine by rail.

These transportation trends are pointing to Russia suffering a Venezuela style failed state economic collapse as early as the winter of 2022-2023 due to a lack of rail rolling stock & trucks to distribute goods.

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The economic repercussions of Russian energy & food suddenly just falling out the world economy from this pending "transportation apocalypse" beggars the imagination.

Western national security and economic policy makers need to be putting together crisis teams to evaluate

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...the implications for both the world economy and for obtaining an armistice using access to railway cassette bearings as a leaver to obtain to two most important concessions -- Pre-2014 Ukrainian borders & getting back Ukraine's kidnapped populations -- that will make a

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...lasting cessation of hostilities possible.

The Russians have already started eating themselves inside Ukraine.

Defeat there will see exactly this sort of collapse in Russia.

nadinbrzezinski.medium.com/mercenaries-ka…
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The various Russian Oligarchs raising private military organizations right now looks a whole lot like Lebanon in the political-military run up right before it fell to Civil War.

Western governments failing to plan for Russian defeat/transportation collapse, so as to manage the transition to a stable post-war world, will put post-Putin Russia on the slippery slope to the hell of becoming a continent spanning Lebanese Civil War with loose bugs,

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... loose nukes & novachuk gas equipped sprayer drones.

It may not be possible to avoid this Russian meltdown collapse, but failing to plan for the possibility is planning to fail.

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If the USA had a real foreign human intelligence capability.

Now would be the time to be making openings to all of those Russian oligarchs to cushion the Russian transition with minimal bloodshed & economic disruption.

Unfortunately the 1970's Church Committee hearings...
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...destroyed that US capability without replacement.

This means the West & the USA in particular using either Ukrainian or Israeli human intelligence assets in Russia to make those approaches.

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Given the De-escalation Faction in the Biden Administration's irrational fixations of not escalating the Russo-Ukrainian War by denying ATACMS, F-16's & M-1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine & restarting the Iran Nuclear deal blocking the use of Israeli agents doing these approaches.

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We are left in the position of being spectators praying for the best & expecting the worse.

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May 6
There are still Western military officers -- including most flag ranks -- watching videos like the one below and denying FPV and other cheap DJI drones have fundamentally changed the way wars on the ground are fought.

Drone War🧵
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A year ago Ukraine had 10,000 drone operators, one per 100 troops

It has trained far more since then.

In fact, the AFU has created a military drone branch co-equal to infantry and artillery branches.

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In some forward areas there are now as many Ukrainian drone operators as infantry because FPV drones have all but replaced crew served infantry weapons.


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May 5
The people on X saying Ukraine couldn't use ATACMS in the counter-battery role against Russian tactical ballistic missiles were shills, toadies, and trolls.

No one who was at all reality-based would have said anything so stupid.

"WHEN THE GODS OF ARTILLERY MAKE A POINT"🧵
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2016 article at the link titled in english "WHEN THE GODS OF ARTILLERY MAKE A POINT" makes clear Ukraine had a very tight intelligence/surveillance/reconnaissance kill chain between its Spetsnaz and it's Tochka-U TBM & 300mm MLRS batteries.

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These Spetsnaz teams spotted 120km Tochka-U & 90 km Smersh fire strikes to clear a "Fire corredor" maneuver lane for these OMG operations during the 2014-2015 ATO.

This was pre-ATO (2014) Ukrainian military doctrine used during the ATO.

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May 4
What this Russian chemical feedstock for explosive production supply issue @Schizointel tells us about in his post below...⬇️

Russian Explosive Supply Chain🧵
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...means that the Russian TogliattiAzot ammonia production facility just became a priority target for Ukraine's OWA-drone strategic bombing campaign.

The distance by car between Kharkiv, Ukraine and Tolyatti, Russia is 982 km.

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It's less by air for a Ukrainian OWA-drone.

And since it was made with Western loans, there is insurance data in the West detailing the lay out of the plant for precision OWA-Drone strikes.

That's an example of the weakness of Soviet Union/Russian "one big plant" industrial infrastructure.

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May 2
Just...Finally!!!

Russian electrical railway substations are the key transportation infrastructure powering 70% of Russia's freight & passenger locomotives.

This is hard to replace long lead item (months) electrical infrastructure.

AFU Strategic Bombing 🧵
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Systematic targeting of these electrical facilities powering the railways within 200 km of Ukraine's 1991 border with Russia will logistically isolate the RuAF frontline units in Ukraine from 70% of rail supply.

Map H/T @Textyorgua_Eng
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en.defence-ua.com/news/ukrainian…
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Russia simply lacks the low level integrated air defenses after two years of attrition in occupied Ukraine to prevent this.

_IF_ Ukraine goes after this target set with a will.

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Apr 29
This is a symptom of the Russians lacking the industrial capability to make enough 152 mm barrel liners and the lack of 152 mm barrel life in reserve artillery stocks.⬇️

Russian barrel shortage🧵
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This was passed on to be by a Cold War graybeard in the Summer of 2022:

"A colleague who has worked in the area told me years ago that a lot of the cited strategic reserve is mythological as they burned out barrel liners

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...on tens of thousands of tank guns and artillery pieces during the Chechen wars and ended up with massive yards full of derelict armor and guns needing deep overhauls. Gun barrels only part of this, lots of burned out engines, transmissions and wrecked suspensions.
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Apr 27
I had a few pro-Russian trolls denying the effectiveness of cluster munitions on Russian railway infrastructure and engines the other day.⬇️🤣

Rail yards are one definition of "soft target."

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ATACMS M79 APAM submunitions hit far harder than the .50 caliber guns of WW2 fighter planes.

Here is are WW2 .50 caliber machine gun train strafing films to calibrate your eyes.

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And this is a ATACMS M79 cluster munitions weapons effect video hitting a simulated surface to air missile battery target.

Ukraine will soon have the ATACMS capability to strike every railyard inside Russian occupied Ukraine simultaneously. 😈

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