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Losing In Ukraine
Some people in the U.S./UK government, NATO lobbyists and a number mainstream media writers will end up with egg on their faces.
Here is an incomplete short list of them:
- What If Russia Loses? – Foreign Affairs – Mar 4, 2022
- Blinken: Putin is ‘destined to lose’ war against Ukraine – Politico – Mar 6, 2022
- Russia Has ‘Lost’ Ukraine War, Analyst Says, but Poll Shows Most Blame U.S – Newsweek – Mar 14, 2022
- Gen. Jack Keane says Putin ‘on his way to losing’ the war in Ukraine – Foxnews – Sep 23, 2022
- Battle of Kherson: Russian retreat confirms Putin is losing the war – Atlantic Council – Nov 10, 2022
- ‘Losing is not an option’: Putin is ‘desperate’ to avoid defeat in Ukraine as anxiety rises in Moscow – CNBC – Nov 23, 2022
- Putin is losing against Ukraine, against the West – and at home – CEPA – Nov 23, 2022
- Why Putin can’t give up on his losing war – Financial Review – Nov 25, 2022
- Russia Is Losing the War. Give Ukraine the Weapons to End It – 1945 – Dec 3, 2022
- Russia is losing in Ukraine, says head of UK armed forces – Financial Times – Dec 14, 2022
- Russia is losing in Ukraine and ‘will continue to fail in all its war aims,’ the UK’s armed forces chief says – Business Insider – Dec 14, 2022
- Russia is losing and the world can see that Putin is lying: UK statement to the OSCE – uk.gov – Dec 15, 2022
- What next for the world if Russia loses in Ukraine? – The Week – Dec 16, 2022
- The Long Goodbye: Why Russia is losing the war – Euractiv – Dec 20, 2022
- The war in Ukraine: Convincing Putin he holds a losing hand – CBS News – Jan 1, 2023
There is more than one person who disagree with the above. But only one of them is really decisive:
President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia’s powerful military-industrial complex was ramping up production and was one of the main reasons why Russia would prevail in Ukraine.
Putin, speaking to workers at a factory in St Petersburg that makes air defence systems, said overall military equipment output was rising even as demand for it was growing because of what he calls Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine.
“In terms of achieving the end result and the victory that is inevitable, there are several things … It is the unity and cohesion of the Russian and multinational Russian people, the courage and heroism of our fighters … and of course the work of the military-industrial complex and factories like yours and people like you,” said Putin.
“Victory is assured, I have no doubt about it.“
Putin said Russian arms companies manufactured about the same number of anti-aircraft missiles as the rest of the world combined, and three times more than the United States.
Today is the 80th anniversary of the Nazi et al loss at Leningrad which was also a genocidal crime scene. Annually there’s a ceremony and meeting of commemoration and this year only differs in those attending as those who survived pass on. “In the State Memorial Museum of Defense and Blockade Vladimir Putin met with veterans of the Great Patriotic War in Leningrad war, residents of besieged Leningrad and representatives of public patriotic associations.” There’s a video and transcript here, the first two to speak after President Putin were two veterans, both women, who remain involved in the teaching of that tragedy. During the talks, there’re many comparisons to Leningrad’s Genocide and that of Donbas and Russian speakers within Ukraine. Putin made note of the fact that “we have recently proposed a document at the United Nations that condemns the glorification of Nazism. After all, 50 countries voted against it. Who can be against recognizing the glorification of Nazism as criminal? [My Emphasis] I suggest every troll coming here is an abettor of Nazism.
During Putin’s visit to the Obukhov Plant, part of the Aerospace Defense Concern Almaz-Antey, a conversation with some workers took place; this is one of those exchanges:
Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon.
Sergei Ryabinin: Sergei Ryabinin, locksmith-electrician.
Today we note the breakthrough of the siege of Leningrad. For every citizen of Leningrad, It’s a personal story. Obukhovsky the plant was part of the front, more than six and a half thousand employees died in the Great Patriotic War.
Today we are once again confronting neo-Nazism. So what do you think can help us win this confrontation?
Vladimir Putin: You You know, I just met with veterans, and we talked about it. I want to emphasize this: we are absolutely right to say that that we are fighting neo-Nazis, because there is Bandera, who collaborated with Hitler and shot civilians, and his henchmen were engaged in the murder of civilians persons elevated to the rank of national hero Ukraine. How can you imagine that? And everyone keeps quiet, does not notice, pretends not to notice. But it’s true! And they continue this practice – and practice. barrage detachments, and the practice of shooting They continue this abuse of civilians in Donbass and the surrounding areas, by the way.
Therefore, we have every reason to call the current regime neo-Nazis and there is every reason to help, including with the help of the Armed Forces, those people, who consider themselves part of Russian culture, native speakers of the Russian language, cherish it as much as their culture and their traditions. We can’t help but defend them simply.
What can help us in this, bearing in mind what you said, our historical memory and all the trials that ours went through. people? You know, in that sense conceptually, in fact, in terms of reaching the final the result and the victory that is inevitable is a few things that haven’t gone away and that are at the heart of our victory. This is unity and cohesion of the Russian and in general multinational of the Russian people, this is the courage and heroism of our fighters in the framework of a special military operation and on the front line and, of course, the work of the military-industrial complex, businesses like yours, and people like you.
And [the work] of the military-industrial complex and the entire economy, because each of these links: both industry and condition public finance, and the social sphere, including related to the support of families requiring special attention from the state, health care – all this creates the basis for our effective development and for Victory. It is provided, I have no doubt about it. Including the guarantee of this is what you are over work, how you work and what you do.
So, for example, now my colleagues and I, with your leaders, talked: we, for example, the air defense missiles that you produce, we produce more than three per year times more than in the United States. And in general, our “defense industry” produces missiles per year Air defense for various purposes is about the same as produced by all military-industrial enterprises target. Our production is comparable to the world Production. So we have a lot to lean on. And all this can not but inspire confidence that the victory will be ours.
Sergei Ryabinin: Thank you.
Vladimir Putin: To you Thank you.
WW2’s goal of denazification was never accomplished as the Nazis were protected and nurtured by the USA (and its accomplice the UK), which soon became the Outlaw US Empire. As with the several Genocides the Nazis spawned, facts related to them continue to surface in national archives that help to complete the overall picture of those times and deeds. Since WW2, the Outlaw US Empire and most of the former colonial nations all committed Genocides and their behavior is continued today in Ukraine. Clearly the job must be finished, the goal attained, and humanity allowed to finally enjoy the Four Freedoms that have been denied far too long.
Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 18 2023 22:51 utc | 83
Very good article. All the math of pre-existing and additionally donated hardware laid out.
On December 22, 2022, Russian Chief of the General Staff, Army General Valery Gerasimov said: “Since the beginning of the special military operation, the West has delivered to Kiev a total of four aircraft, more than 30 helicopters, over 350 tanks, about 1,000 armoured combat vehicles, at least 800 armoured vehicles, up to 700 artillery systems, 100 MLRS [multiple-launch rocket systems], 130,000 anti-tank weapons, more than 5,300 MANPADs, and at least 5,000 UAVs for various purposes.”
Russia’s initial estimate of Ukrainian military strength included 2,416 armoured fighting vehicles — probably about 800 main battle tanks (MBTs) along with 1,600 infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) and armoured personnel carriers (APCs) — 152 fixed-wing combat aircraft and 149 helicopters, 180 medium- and long-rang surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems, 1,509 artillery guns and 535 MLRS.
Various Western ‘military analysis’ sources say Ukraine had a lot more tanks and artillery to begin with, although those figures includes mothballed vehicles and guns that would have to be overhauled — while Russia continues to hit repair workshops with its long-range missiles.
In mid-June 2022, Ukrainian Deputy Defence Minister Denys Sharapov admitted that his army had lost around half its heavy equipment: 400 tanks, 1,300 IFVs and 700 artillery.
At the end of August, the Ukrainian army launched its counter-offensive in the Kherson region. Just three weeks in, on September 21, Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu said his forces on that front had destroyed “208 tanks and 245 infantry fighting vehicles, 186 other armoured vehicles, 15 aircraft and 4 helicopters.” Those losses continued to mount until Russia pulled back across the Dnieper river from the city of Kherson in November 2022. The final tally was around 1,200 armoured vehicles of all types, 40 artillery pieces, 38 aeroplanes and a dozen helicopters.
As of January 14 2023, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) claims to have destroyed more than 7,500 armoured fighting vehicles of all types, 372 planes and 200 helicopters, 400 SAM systems, 982 MLRS, more than 3,800 self-propelled and towed artillery and 8,000 soft-skinned military vehicles, which include civilian-model trucks and cars.
More specifically, Russia says it has hit at least 31 of the 38 M142 HIMARS MLRS launchers pledged by the US, plus six of the 13 M270 tracked MLRS, of the same nine-inch calibre, donated by the UK, Norway, Germany and France. Also on the clobber list are 122 of the 152 US-made M777 howitzers supplied — 80 per cent of them.
The MoD claims may be exaggerated. But, as The Saker blog points out, even if you halve those numbers then the Ukrainian armed forces are still on the verge of being completely ‘de-militarised’.
The arsenals of NATO’s eastern and southern European members have been scoured for Soviet-made arms and vehicles that the Ukrainian forces already operate and for which they have ammunition and spare parts.
As it turns out, Poland has one of the biggest armies in Europe. It has already supplied, among other things, at least 230 MBTs to Kiev, all variants of the T-72. Warsaw has also sent about 40 IFVs, 72 self-propelled 155mm howitzers, 20 122mm SP howitzers and 20 MLRS.
If, as some suspect, the defence ministry in Warsaw actively encouraged the thousands of serving soldiers to have gone to fight in the Ukrainian ‘Foreign Legion’, Poland has lent its very flesh and blood to the Kiev government.
But the cherry on the cake, announced by Polish President Andrzej Duda on a visit to Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky in Lvov, the western Ukrainian city Warsaw still covets, was “a company of Leopard tanks” — 10 to 14 in layman’s terms — which he hoped would be just the start of a new wave of largesse from the “international coalition.”
http://thesaker.is/tanks-for-nothing-nato-keeps-on-demilitarising-itself-in-ukraine/
Posted by: unimperator | Jan 18 2023 23:41 utc | 100
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