Posted on 08/30/2023 9:28:59 AM PDT by MeganC
yes
“a third of Russian shell production.”
Russia claims a lot of things.
Meanwhile, here’s an article that predates the current propaganda war:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/01/29/us-defense-contractor-distances-itself-cluster-munitions
“According to a 2017 Department of Defense letter, the US has destroyed approximately 3.7 million cluster munitions, containing 406.7 million submunitions, from its stocks since 2008.
The US still stockpiles millions of cluster munitions for possible use.”
Millions. And an article that was on FR in the past month or so said that 300,000 of these cluster munition artillery shells were designated for disposal and now they’re being sent to Ukraine.
We aren’t doing both, and you are not “we”. You’re another foreigner running your mouth.
“So, you hate America?”
I love America. But I’m not so keen on the bullies and thugs who too often wear badges, the bullies and thugs in the public schools, the bullies and thugs on the freeways, etc.
So, he’s going to fight every man in the bar?
Well, good luck with that...
LOL! My hubby would say that ‘Medvedev wrote a check he can’t cash’.
that was what the Soviet Union of pre Ronald Reagan did... which is NOT the Russia of today.
go away neocon.
https://youtu.be/pKcmNGvaDUs?si=QmTfL-jxxSsei-XF
Oliver Stone documentary on the Ukrainian coup and the called for genocide of Russian nationals.
That’s living off of the old inventory of the past. (good for 500 days, then what?)
Current production is less than 1000 per day, going to 3000 per day.
By 2026 they will do 6000 per day.
Ukraine needs 7000 per day. Russia produces 20K+ per day.
https://www.thedefensepost.com/2023/08/15/us-155mm-shell-production/
Bravado........ absolute bravado
Russia lacks the wherewithall to war with Ukraine, much less NATO
There are reports today that Japan had enough of the Russian provocation and began sending Money to Ukraine. There are also reports of Japanese mercenaries involved in the current battles around Bakhmut
Sorry, too many people on this forum and too many Russians in real life argue that Russia is a continuum of the USSR and not a child of it. It is part of their thinking in invading Ukraine is that they’re reuniting the USSR.
Russia is the USSR
The USSR is Russia
Latvia, Poland, and Lithuania are actively rounding up Russian nationals and deporting their butts back to Russia.
What’s Russia going to do about it?
And what’s their complaint with Ukraine removing Russian nationals? If they want to be Russian then the bast place for them to do that is Russia.
And Russia does?! Russia?! With a GDP comparable to, say, Spain alone? Against the combined power of NATO?!
If NATO/USA doesn’t win in the first couple of weeks - inevitable loss.
"You cannot invade mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass." - Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
It's claimed that the quote is bogus - that it is falsely attributed to Yamamoto. But that doesn't lessen its validity.
Regards,
A distinction without a difference.
What is your point? As long as a great many Russians believe that they are re-uniting the U.S.S.R., what does it matter if, technically speaking, the Russian Federation is a mere successor-state to Soviet Russia?
Regards,
“GDP” is irrelevant. In war it is industrial production that is relevant.
Credit default swaps, OnlyFans subscriptions, Uber secondary stock offerings, retail margins on imported Ch!nk crap - none of that is relevant to industrial production of military equipment for war.
The reality - it will take the USA until 2026 to install the new equipment to produce 6000 artillery shells per day.
That is longer than the Manhattan Project !
It's precisely this kind of Great Power "sphere of influence" game of thrones that got us WWI and WWII.
wrong.
Yawn. More Russian boasting. What’s new?
All he has to do is have someone place a suitcase nuke in
Pershing Park or Faragut Square. The rest will take care of itself. There will be peace on earth for a thousand years. /spit
Your fallacy itself is irrelevant to the topic.
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