New Reports Suggest Russian Losses in Ukraine Are Absolutely Catastrophic

Townhall ^ | Mar 12, 2022 | Matt Vespa

[McGruff]

Ukraine is winning the propaganda war.

[Lurker]

Thanks.

I’m not really buying the whole “mobile crematorium” thing. It just seems completely impractical. It would have to be pretty big. How would you transport it?

What kind of fuel does it use? They need the gasoline and diesel for their combat vehicles. Natural gas? They’d need a really big towed tank of it. That’s a mighty tempting target.

Why haven’t we seen any pictures of one of these rigs? Seems to me they’d stand out like sore thumbs in a convoy.

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[laplata]

“And that was a great deal due to the 1930s purges which imprisoned or killed many generals”.

That’s exactly right.

[Travis McGee]

Also: Demoralized Russian/Soviet soldiers have a habit of mass-surrender. 600,000 were surrounded and surrendered near Kiev in “The Great Patriotic War.” Many were recruited under General Vlasov to switch sides and fight against Stalin.

Much of the armor seen at Twitter @UAWeapons appears abandoned in working order, that is, not merely stuck in deep mud. (There is a lot of that too.)

Can’t be great for morale for follow-on troops to see all the blasted and burnt Russian armor and trucks.

The Turkish “mini predators” seem very deadly, and they don’t need big runways or distant control like our Nevada-controlled Predators and Raptors.

And we are giving thousands and thousands of modern ATGMs and MANPADs to the Uke troops.

We might be seeing a warfare paradigm shift. Armor might be a modern deathtrap, suffering heavy attrition from infantry-controlled drones, as well as infantry-carried ATGMs. See the Tweet image by @corpsman I posted above.

[bert]

-—Did Russia walk into a major paradigm shift trap?-—
I think so.

More precisely perhaps, they drove into a trap.

If Ukrainian commanders took out targets at both ends of the column, on such a narrow road, the ones in the middle were in fact trapped. Rendered useless, it is not necessary to destroy them all. They become harmless just setting there

First, there are the Turkish drones. There apparently lots of them and although the weapons load is not great, it can be delivered with deadly precision on tanks and vehicles lined up like ducks in a shooting gallery. They can deliver a bomb or rocket and then quickly go get another

Secondly, there are the American provided hand held rockets that seem to provide quite a strong punch. Once the drones stop the convoy, there they are sitting still for a sneak attack on the flank.

The end of the story is yet to be heard or told

[laplata]

With a lot of help from the media.

[AndyJackson]

Townhall is neoconservative in orientation,

I've only begun to realize that recently and now I treat anything published there as just more right side of the aisle deepstate propaganda.

Townhall is dead to me.

[RouxStir]

“who comes after Putin could be even worse”

Bingo!...let’s send Biden and all of the Democrats to take over...they entire economy would be hunter* gatherers within a decade.

No pun intended re the illustrious son of the Resident.

[Travis McGee]

The mobile crematoria propaganda has been totally debunked. It was cobbled together from a Russian industrial advertisement video more than a decade old.

The “mobile crematoria” are turning out to be Russian armor, killed by the Uke-infantry controlled drones and Uke-infantry carried ATGMs.

The burnt bodies are in the armor. That’s why so many are abandoned, I think. The Russian soldiers don’t want to be blown up in the next flaming tank or APC struck by a drone or ATGM they didn’t see coming.

Check out @UAWeapons. Tons of still and video ground images of blown up and/or abandoned Russian armor. Folks who say “The Ukes are just dragging them around and making new pictures” are delusional. This theater is brutal for Russian armor when we are passing out ATGMs and MANPADs like candy bars.

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1502614744297000963

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1502412686776315909

[Jay W]

“Not surprising as WW2 was a prime example of that, took Stalin 2 years to find Generals that knew how to fight..Always thought the Soviet army was a paper tiger.”

Absolutely true. In fact, if you look at maps of the Eastern Front from 1943-1945, it was an absolute catastrophic disaster for the Russians.....

[Justa]

The author “circles back” a lot.

[Lurker]

“The mobile crematoria propaganda has been totally debunked. It was cobbled together from a Russian industrial advertisement video more than a decade old.”

I figured. The whole story didn’t stand up to a couple of minutes of rational thought.

“The “mobile crematoria” are turning out to be Russian armor,”

In WWII our tankers called Sherman’s “Ronson Boxes”. They lit first time, every time. Sounds like the Russians need a nickname for their steel coffins.

“Check out @UAWeapons.”

I will. Thanks.

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[Travis McGee]

And when these canalized columns leave the paved roads, they often get stuck in very deep mud. March is Mud Season in Ukraine as the winter snow melts.

There are endless photos like this at the twitter site @UAWeapons. Please tell me how these are being "dragged around to make new propaganda photos." These mud-bound vehicles are going nowhere. And their Russian crews are nowhere to be found.

This is what happens when wheeled vehicles leave the pavement to get out of those columns:

[Travis McGee]

Armor doesn’t do much better off road in Ukraine in March:

Ukraine Weapons Tracker
@UAWeapons
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Mar 11
#Ukraine: Two T-80BV tanks, which got stuck in the mud, was abandoned by the Russian army in #Chernihiv Oblast.

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1502224853746790402

[Travis McGee]

Here is another good Twitter feed, mostly but not entirely pro-Ukraine. I’d post a Russian POV site but they are not to be found, due to Russian opsec or Google/Twitter/Youtube censorship, I don’t know.

https://twitter.com/KofmanMichael

[Lurker]

I’d love to see the dates on those rations.

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[gov_bean_ counter]

Yep questions…

1. Why does Biden want Ukraine in Russian hands?, and

2. Would he sacrifice an entire country to protect his son?

[Travis McGee]

The rations were probably captured from the Germans in Stalingrad and put in storage.

I'm also following Jack Posobiec for "big picture" analysis.

Check this out. The video at the link shows a "Paris bombed" VFX fake video to make some kind of point. Posobiec then brings up WW2 France.

[Travis McGee]

Link to the “Paris Bombed” fake video mentioned above

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1502511259949965315

[AndyJackson]

It seems like armor is a death trap in 2022. Did Russia walk into a major paradigm shift trap?

Somewhere between the defeat of the Soviets in Afghanistan and the aftermath of the 1st Iraq war we sort of knew that - precision guided munitions changed everything.

It has taken a long to for that to set in, as you say, and I don't know that US doctrine has really adjusted to it either. We sort of get it that the standoff distance for aircraft carriers is getting longer and longer. But our doctrine on carrier based force projection is still there.