I agree with Larry--the timeline issue is critical here. Could it be that Lindsey met his end in Kiev? I am not saying it is 100% but the probability is very high that he died in Kiev. Was he an accidental (or maybe deliberate?) victim of Russian strikes at the drone factory he visited or was something else involved in his demise? Who knows. But there is very little doubt that he was a war criminal, warmonger, supporter of terrorism and genocidal maniac. Good riddance.
Now they say that it may take between two to five years to "replenish"--it is akin to stating that my height is between four to seven feet tall.
But replenishment rates are low for key missiles, Cancian said — according to current fiscal year delivery schedules, the Pentagon is receiving roughly 15 new Tomahawks and 20 new Patriot missiles per month. There are no THAAD deliveries forecast in 2026. CSIS estimated it would take three or more years to rebuild those inventories to pre-Iran war levels.
Well, "pre-Iran levels" is an indicator that the US is incapable to fight even single medium-intensity conflict against subpar opponent and, most importantly, SUSTAIN it, period. This is not to mention the fact that it doesn't matter how many missiles for Patriot PAC3 or THAAD the US produces--the combat effectiveness of these systems is laughable. Are they that incompetent? Yes. Across the board. This is what happens when one get too high of own supply of a second-rate militarist propaganda and military fairy tales. To illustrate, from three years ago:
This is the expenditure of the Patriot PAC3 missiles by a single battery before being wiped out(aka "slightly damaged" in Pentagonese) together with its combat crew by a single Kinzhal missile. This is half of the monthly production of these missiles by the US in a single tactical episode which lasted less than a minute. Count yourself.
His ideas about "two conditions", especially about drones, are those of the amateur in warfare and its specific field of Air Defense. But then again, where can he get his data from? Of course from same amateurs as he is and they take it from visuals and 404 propaganda. Yet, this guy remains in continuous rotation in every media and delivers platitudes time after time. He was wrong about Russia so consistently, so outlandishly bad for the last 10+ years, that I don't even know how to explain to him what REAL air defense is and how it operates. He will not grasp it. He will not listen anyway.
For Mearsheimer it is advised to get acquainted with Russia's Military Doctrine and to look up real situation on the battlefield and then try to figure out what are the objectives of Russia in SMO, and not from merely statements of Russian officials but based on verifiable data. I have news for him--and videos and testimonies, such as deputy commander of the 4th Brigade of the 6th Motor Rifle Division responsible for UAV systems and their operations (among many others) who actually implement daily what amounts to anti-drone measures, effectively UAV air-to-air combat in the tactical zone.
While REAL number of UAV leakers into Russia is expressed in SINGLE digits, but Mearsheimer knows nothing about. For the US those things are beyond the grasp, including this thing:
This was in 2024, since then the production increased a number of times. Russia outproduces whole of combined West (NATO and shit) by an order of magnitude in all types of drones. Now let's get to 2026. This is Mr. Manturov:
For arithmetically challenged (forget about combat models used for planning of operations against NATO's aerial terrorism) this means: 365 x 15,000 = 5,475,000 drones per year. Combined West's economies will choke trying to match this. But then again, one must be situationally aware--a novelty thing for Pentagon, CIA and so called "analysts" such as Mearsheimer. And so he continues with platitudes.
Now to the crux of the matter--Russia MAY strike Europe, and among targets could be some of those UAVs-producing facilities, but if it happens, it is going to be NOT the main consideration, and NATO's UAVs could be used MERELY as casus belli. Already now Russia blunted and mitigated all this "wall of drones"--yet another pathetic moniker for NATO's military impotence--if Russia will be striking Europe she will come in hard and main targets will be the remnants of NATO's industrial plant, thus solving a strategic task of a complete demilitarization of Europe. But here we enter the sphere of a strategic ambiguity which plays extremely well for Russia, who knows about herself and combined West orders of magnitude more than Mr. Mearsheimer.
P.S. You all know that 404 "struck" today ... drum roll ... 46 "Russian tankers" in the Sea of Azov. I was incensed--why such a low number? There should have been at least 250 tankers hit and another 50,000 Russians killed around Moscow, which is about to fall. This "quick victory" thing becomes nauseating.
... 404 flags and demand government stops recruiting cannon fodder for 404.
Here is a gruesome fate of one such Columbian "volunteer" who didn't do his homework on the abyss separating "operations" of cartels and lefty guerrillas and fighting the best army in the world. It is too late now for learning.
Seriously? They still believe it? Europe is Russia's EXSISTENTIAL enemy and there will be no lifelines. Europe as it exists today must die--it is Satanists and pedophiles' playground with brainwashed population (majority of it, anyway) and an economic basket case.
Nice try, but no. Europe must be completely removed from the new world order as a subject and must be kept demilitarized and under the constant threat of punishment. It must be allowed to consume herself in internal squabbles, warfare, multiculturalism, Islamization and degeneracy until no threat (to the rest of the world) of war originating there remains. Russia, of course, will continue to maintain contacts with normal Europeans but their chances of getting to power and changing anything in Europe are approaching zero and there should be no trust anyway. The US is a separate matter.
