... If it keeps on rainin, levees goin to break. I wish I could have been wrong and not to be a bad news' bearer.
If it keeps on rainin, levees goin to break,
When the levee breaks Ill have no place to stay.
Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan,
Lord, mean old levee taught me to weep and moan,
... continues. Kharkov--50 explosions.
... a bit what is going on--from Marat. This is how radical increase in operational tempo looks like. Just one of the operational axis among many others.
... water is wet, fire is hot and concrete is hard.
Russia Has Won the Ukraine War and ‘Defeated’ NATO. Key Points - The war in Ukraine is effectively over, with Russia on a clear path to achieving its objectives through a grinding war of attrition that has exhausted Ukraine and outlasted Western and NATO resolve. Russia's military has adapted, its economy has been reoriented away from the West despite sanctions, and its political regime under Putin remains stable. In contrast, Ukraine faces a critical and irreversible manpower crisis that no amount of Western hardware can solve.
To those who still didn't get the message--it was over in Summer 2023 when the much touted "counter-offensive" exposed utter military incompetence of NATO and was defeated without effectively NATO forces even reaching the first line of defense. After that, it was just the method of demilitarizing NATO by Russia. That's what happens when your military history and "operational art" is nothing but a collection of fairy tales written by losers defeated by the Red Army in WW II and a sense of military exceptionalism endemic in America's founding. General Patton and all kinds of other rah-rahs. Result?
Russians gave a bit of a taste in the last 24 hours. Here is one of the Kiev's powerplants leaving the chat.
The establishment wants you to believe it's all about the number of ships but the rot runs much deeper, which can lead to delusional strategy.What do you mean can, it already did. Anybody who thinks that the carrier-centric navy in the 21st century is anything but the collection of fat juicy indefensible targets must have his head checked. TOE of 1990s has no place in 2025.
... aircraft engines repair plant left the chat. See first the arrival of a hypersonic munition, after that looks like either 3M14 or X-101 finishing the job.
I have news--it is even more than that.
We need to spend, produce more or we could be under threat in three, four, five years, Rutte says Rutte says the change in attitude in the last few years, particularly since Russian invasion of Ukraine, is “staggering.” And he warns that war-time Russia “produces, in core ammunition …, in three months what the whole of Nato, a 25 times bigger economy, produces in a year.” “If we don’t take actions now, if we don’t do this now, … the next few years we are fine, but … otherwise three, four, five years from now, we are really under threat,” he says.
