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Ukrainian forces low on just about everything they need shut down a large Russian mechanized assault in a telling front-line fight
Business Insider ^ | 4/1/2024 | Chris Panella

Posted on 04/01/2024 1:43:19 PM PDT by marcusmaximus

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To: Zhang Fei

Not WWI or WWII.......not for a LONG time. We’ve given UKR a significant amount of money and arms. We’re talking today and what’s available and produced today which is vastly more expensive than WWII.. If you wanna compare crap 80 years apart, then what about the money we’ve given them. The entire US war debt in WWII was about $250B. Democrats and RINOs want to sucker us into a debt for them that is vastly more significant than that.


41 posted on 04/01/2024 3:32:33 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: marcusmaximus

When this started I thought Ukraine was just going to lose the Donbas. Now I’m starting to think they may lose everything east of the Dnieper and maybe even Odessa.


42 posted on 04/01/2024 3:34:37 PM PDT by FreedomForce
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To: FreedomForce

Russia hasn’t taken a single major city in Ukraine since the beginning of the war more than two years ago.


43 posted on 04/01/2024 3:37:21 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

Russia plays the long game.


44 posted on 04/01/2024 3:42:07 PM PDT by FreedomForce
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To: FreedomForce

Losing 40% of the Black Sea fleet in 2 years is the long game?


45 posted on 04/01/2024 3:46:50 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

Russia can absorb that.


46 posted on 04/01/2024 3:47:46 PM PDT by FreedomForce
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To: House Atreides
Giving surplus weapons to Ukraine saves money, and reduces the amount of money the USA will have to spend in the future to defend against Russia.

The total spending on supporting Ukraine so far is a tiny share of the federal budget.

47 posted on 04/01/2024 3:49:38 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: rfp1234
Mongs? Doink? Are you 14?

The most obnoxious Ukie troll on Free Republic.

48 posted on 04/01/2024 3:51:05 PM PDT by kiryandil (what Odessa doink?)
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To: Kazan
Thanks for sharing today's Russian propaganda talking point.

Russia has no ability to produce missiles, drones or any advanced weapons without smuggling in parts from American and European sources.

Russia simply lacks the necessary level of technology, and they depend on CNC machine tools made in the USA and Europe to make aircraft, tanks, cruise missiles, and most of their airborne equipment.

49 posted on 04/01/2024 3:53:46 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: freeandfreezing

Also, Europe and NATO are getting their act together on the threat from Russia. As well as the need to prepare for the drone wars.


50 posted on 04/01/2024 3:53:54 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: freeandfreezing

“ The total spending on supporting Ukraine so far is a tiny share of the federal budget.”
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Feel free to mortgage YOUR home and cash in YOUR retirement accounts and give to the Ukrainians. Do it!


51 posted on 04/01/2024 3:57:17 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: delta7
It took Russia ten years and more than 16,000 dead soldiers to capture Avdiivka, a small city with a pre-war population of about 32,000 people.

Vlad doesn't hold many cards at all, he just has a tyrant's ego and disdain for other people's lives.

52 posted on 04/01/2024 3:57:29 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: marcusmaximus

What Chasov Yar doink?


53 posted on 04/01/2024 4:04:07 PM PDT by kiryandil (what Odessa doink?)
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To: marcusmaximus

>>>Continuing to demilitarize Russia with 3% of our annual defense budget is the bargain of a lifetime.<<<

Bargain of a lifetime? It won’t be for our grandkids or our great-grand kids.

What part of WE HAVE NO MONEY don’t zeepers understand? Why are we enslaving future generations in order to keep Joe and Volod’s Laundromat in business?


54 posted on 04/01/2024 4:11:04 PM PDT by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
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To: kiryandil

Yeah, dodging the Zelvis Draft until he grows up.


55 posted on 04/01/2024 4:11:40 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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To: marcusmaximus
Mariupol, a bombed out abandoned shell of a city 40 miles from the Russian border?

You're completely ignorant. Mariupol was an Ukrainian stronghold and home base of neo-Nazi Azov battalion. And, it wasn't bombed out when the war started.

You're clueless about the subject matter.

You are literally too ignorant to have an intelligent conversation with on the subject.

56 posted on 04/01/2024 4:13:30 PM PDT by Kazan (Megan C. bet me, lost the bet and was humiliated!)
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To: PIF
Feel free to haul your fat ass over to Ukraine and voluntary to fight for the Ukrainian army and feed yourself into the Russian meat grinder.

Your parents would probably be happy to have your out of their basement so they wouldn't have to support you anymore.

57 posted on 04/01/2024 4:15:13 PM PDT by Kazan (Megan C. bet me, lost the bet and was humiliated!)
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To: freeandfreezing
Russia has no ability to produce missiles, drones or any advanced weapons without smuggling in parts from American and European sources.

Where did you ever get that ridiculous idea?

Russia simply lacks the necessary level of technology

That's why the Russians have hypersonic missiles and we and Europe don't?

58 posted on 04/01/2024 4:18:10 PM PDT by Kazan (Megan C. bet me, lost the bet and was humiliated!)
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To: delta7
Vlad still holds all the cards…and as we are witnessing, the entire might of the West can do nothing about it. Get used to it.

Yes - the West is used to picking on goatherders in sandals, who they target with their drones and pinpoint missile attacks.

59 posted on 04/01/2024 4:21:24 PM PDT by kiryandil (what Odessa doink?)
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To: Kazan
You're talking to the FR "wonder weapon" and "game-changer" people here.   
60 posted on 04/01/2024 4:23:39 PM PDT by kiryandil (what Odessa doink?)
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