Posted on 08/30/2023 9:28:59 AM PDT by MeganC
I’m pretty sure the Vindman brothers could take on the entire Russki Army by themselves.
The EuroNews title is itself amusing. The "right" seems a EuroNews interpretation of what was said. There are three instances of "right: in the article. One in the title, one in the prose and one as half of the "copyright" mention at the bottom of the article. Interesting how the media works. The title and article were reprised by Yahoo!News, since their "reporting" usually involves reprinting others.
One finds: "Medvedev's post on Twitter came following Britain's Foreign Secretary James Cleverly's statement that Ukraine 'has the legitimate right to … project force beyond its borders to undermine Russia's ability to project force into Ukraine itself'.”
Source: https://www.jpost.com/international/article-744805
The Twitter answer to Cleverly restates Cleverly's use of "right." But the tweet does not use the word again. So it turns out the use of the word is Cleverly's.
Clever, eh?
Source: https://twitter.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/1663784322480873472
So using quotations -- single, one observes, not double quotation marks -- cleverly suggests the word was Medvedev's. It was Cleverly's.
As to war, it turns out we all have the possibility of using "war" against another nation. Happens all the time. We shouldn't forget that. But we do.
“Name a SINGLE NATO MEMBER that has not invaded Russia.”
Spain, Norway, the U.K., the U.S.A., Federal Republic of Germany, Poland, Denmark, Turkey, Greece,
Do we really need to keep going?
To: entropy12
I don’t want to see Russia conquered. I want it eradicated.
37 posted on 6/19/2023, 11:09:36 AM by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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Your derangement and wish for genocide is duly noted.
Man’s got a point. We’ve been supplying Ukraine with billions of taxpayer-funded military equipment, along with the use of our spy planes and satellite information. We’ve trained them for free. We gave them cluster munitions that they continually use on civilians. We’ve given them drones. Armor. Artillery.
The US government is directly involved. And we can’t pretend that they’re not.
If you think all those long time vets and leaders were all on the same plane, you’re not bright. Mind your own yard. It’s a bloody mess. I’m trying to do the same. Worry less about things you clearly don’t understand.
Our tranny military couldn’t fight their way out of a wet paper bag.
And Russia isn’t the enemy - this place sounds like DU lately with all this Russia, Russia, Russia BS lately.
Totally ignoring the reasons that Russia went into Ukraine in the first place.
Putin himself has said Russia cannot win a conventional war with NATO. A vid of him stating so was posted on FR shortly B4 Russia invaded Ukraine.
Moreover, that was B4 Sweden and Finland decided to sign up (with NATO).
Go see post #27 in this topic for an example of someone who sees Russia as synoymous with the USSR.
You are forgetting that the US is not the only “Allied” country producing artillery shells. Rheinmetall alone will boost production to 600,000 rounds in 2024, which is over 1/4 of that 6000 / day. The South Koreans are quite capable too, and... Well, the list is quite long. All that requires money, so, I would not say GDP is ENTIRELY irrelevant.
Moreover, cluster munitions are relevant, since both sides are already using them (Russia first, thank you) in Ukraine, and the US has immense stocks of cluster munitions that never got scrapped because someone “conveniently” neglected to fund the scrapping even though it was stated policy. I read a Human Rights Watch article on this last year, and while head scratching and further web research to try to figure out what really HAS been scrapped turns up a range of quantities, a rough guess would be that the US has around 20 million cluster munitions of various types remaining.
All this misses the point that in (heaven forbid) a direct NATO vs. Russia war, NATO would not likely fight an extended artillery / short range missile duel with Russia in the 1st place. This has ben a sort of proxy war where we’ve largely limited Ukraine to that, plus whatever they can make or turn up in the way of drones, not even supplying ATACMS. I call it Biden’s weak stream of popgun weapons.
Meanwhile Russia has been using almost its entire range of conventional weapons.
Do you seriously think that in a direct NATO vs. Russia war, NATO would refrain from using its other conventional assets?
“Rheinmetall alone will boost production to 600,000 rounds in 2024, “
Which factory is this, the one in South Africa ?
“US is not the only “Allied” country producing artillery shells. “
Well, you are right, there. France is doubling production to 600 per week.
The issue is the decay and incompetence of the USA industrial base.
The US can’t get to 6000/day until 2026.
That’s longer than the f*cking Manhattan Project, to produce 1/3 the Russian output !
While the Russian military-industrial base is dependent upon cannibalizing washing machines for their microchips and repurposing them for missiles.
Impressive!
Regards,
True.
Thankfully Putin is the first presidente of Russia to try at addressing it. It is now a World Wide issue. I believe God never approved birth control. What nation invented the danged pill?
Being able to use commercial chips that they produce, or buy from China, beats some proprietary chip from Motorola Classified Defence Production which has been out of production for 20 years, the production equipment long gone, and the employees retired or deceased.
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