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[Lordo]

What is amazing is how he was able to walk amongst people with spears no protection and looking very relaxed.

[Lordo]

Now that gas is cut off from Russia, it seems Uranium in Niger has become crucial.

https://www.facebook.com/100012156374485/videos/3628437210719596

[Kikapu]

Worth watching the officials who greeted him. Most of them are white.

They are most probably the attaché from the Russian Embassy in South Africa. Had this been a State visit, there would have been more locals there to greet him for sure.

[Pyrpolizer]

Now that gas is cut off from Russia, it seems Uranium in Niger has become crucial.

https://www.facebook.com/100012156374485/videos/3628437210719596

Shhh... Paphitako General might hear you, and burst our balls about Holy Rosy Australia exporting 2 times more Uranium than Niger... Problem is France cannot get that for peanuts.
Btw here's the largest producers in the World.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/263 ... y-country/

[Lordo]

Now that gas is cut off from Russia, it seems Uranium in Niger has become crucial.

https://www.facebook.com/100012156374485/videos/3628437210719596

Shhh... Paphitako General might hear you, and burst our balls about Holy Rosy Australia exporting 2 times more Uranium than Niger... Problem is France cannot get that for peanuts.
Btw here's the largest producers in the World.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/263 ... y-country/

Oh shit and double shit or as the French would say:

Oh merde et double merde avec des cloches dessus

[Pyrpolizer]

Russian video urging the Ukrainian soldiers to surrender published in Warnews 247
Still contains the sad reality of the corrupt Ukrainian state as well as their latest tactic to send unprotected infantry to the front line, to save face of losing too many armored vehicles

https://warnews247.gr/wp-content/upload ... 38.mp4?_=1

[Robin Hood]

This is the sort of analysis that Paphitis et al never seem to read? They simply rely on the Ukraine/Western propaganda machine rather than trying to understand informed opinion from people who have the background and experience to know what they are talking about.

Escaping Attrition: Ukraine Rolls the Dice

The Zaporizhia Summer Blockbuster – Big Serge

At this point, however, the appearance of some of Ukraine’s last remaining premier brigades, which had previously been held in reserve, confirms that the axes of Ukraine’s attack are concretized. Only time will tell if these precious reserves manage to achieve a breach in the Russian lines, but enough time has passed that we can sketch out what exactly Ukraine has been trying to do, why, and why it has failed to this point.

Part of the problem with narrating the war in Ukraine is the positional and attritional nature of the fighting. People continue to look for bold operational maneuver to break the deadlock, but the reality seems to be that for now some combination of capability and reticence has turned this war into a positional struggle with a plodding offensive pace, which far more resembles the first world war than the second.

Ukraine had aspirations of breaking open this grinding front and reopening mobile operations - escaping the attritional struggle and driving on operationally meaningful targets - but these efforts have so far come to naught. For all the lofty boasts of demonstrating the superior art of maneuver, Ukraine still finds itself trapped in a siege, painfully trying to break open a calcified Russian position without success.
Ukraine may not be interested in a war of attrition, but attrition is certainly interested in Ukraine.

Full article ..... quite a long read but goes from A to Z of the conflict:

https://bigserge.substack.com/p/escaping-attrition-ukraine-rolls

[Pyrpolizer]

This is the sort of analysis that Paphitis et al never seem to read? They simply rely on the Ukraine/Western propaganda machine rather than trying to understand informed opinion from people who have the background and experience to know what they are talking about.

Escaping Attrition: Ukraine Rolls the Dice

The Zaporizhia Summer Blockbuster – Big Serge

At this point, however, the appearance of some of Ukraine’s last remaining premier brigades, which had previously been held in reserve, confirms that the axes of Ukraine’s attack are concretized. Only time will tell if these precious reserves manage to achieve a breach in the Russian lines, but enough time has passed that we can sketch out what exactly Ukraine has been trying to do, why, and why it has failed to this point.

Part of the problem with narrating the war in Ukraine is the positional and attritional nature of the fighting. People continue to look for bold operational maneuver to break the deadlock, but the reality seems to be that for now some combination of capability and reticence has turned this war into a positional struggle with a plodding offensive pace, which far more resembles the first world war than the second.

Ukraine had aspirations of breaking open this grinding front and reopening mobile operations - escaping the attritional struggle and driving on operationally meaningful targets - but these efforts have so far come to naught. For all the lofty boasts of demonstrating the superior art of maneuver, Ukraine still finds itself trapped in a siege, painfully trying to break open a calcified Russian position without success.
Ukraine may not be interested in a war of attrition, but attrition is certainly interested in Ukraine.

Full article ..... quite a long read but goes from A to Z of the conflict:

https://bigserge.substack.com/p/escaping-attrition-ukraine-rolls

I am actually worried that those analysts might be wrong on a number of issues where they provide no evidence. Here are some:

a)The claim that the Ukrainians are running out of ammunition. I haven't yet seen any shortage of Ukraine's ammunition on the battlefield.
b) The claim that currently the Ukrainians are using their last strategic reserves, after which they will not have enough to continue in an offensive mode
c) Some e.g. Scott Ritter claim that Russia still has about 200K troops waiting at the back to start their own counteroffensive as soon as Ukraine can no longer sustain their own.

Ukrainian losses both in manpower and equipment can be verified indirectly though, e.g. their building of new huge cemeteries, and total mobilization in major cities (the 4th one from last October.)

[repulsewarrior]

...on "History".

[Lordo]

General Bafidoboullo has hit the jackpot. He has sold Australian made cardboard drones to the Ukrainians. That may well work in Australia where it never rains for years but in Ukraine they will be dropping on their own heads if it is raining.

https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/ukraine-australia-cardboard-drones-russian-base