What total BS! The Uke War was lost before it ever began because of lies and self delusion like this. When these same idiots in the Pentagon and Western groupthink tanks told us the Russian paper bear military would collapse after the first hard poke, the route to catastrophe was mapped. They haven’t learned a danged thing! If the Pentagon still believes fantasies like this, I’m surprised we don’t have masses of American boys in Ukraine being slaughtered every day already.
I read it this past week and it has lots of self serving BS in it to try to make this CF of administration look good.
Have trouble accepting that Russia is losing, don’t you?
There’s a lot of others on FR in denial too
Another year of the inept Russian military failing ... another year of Russian lies and propaganda while Russia slowly degrades ...
“Carthage (Russia) must be destroyed” - Cato (NATO) the Elder
I think the US intelligence community is preoccupied with figuring out how to get Biden reelected. I don’t believe its credibility is salvageable.
Wow, all caps, must be important!
I really hate to say this but since the grand conspiracy (FBI, CIA, M-16, Clinton, Obama, etc.) to take out the legitimate Trump government, I have lost all confidence in the CIA to provide any intelligence that isn’t seriously biased and flawed. In my younger days I spent a few years in LE and looked up to both The FBI and CIA, having had some good interactions with them both - no more.
Bottom Line: China realizes better than anyone that Russia’s conventional military is a paper tiger. Russia is unable to conventionally defend its rich far eastern Pacific territories and the Siberian treasure house. China has made a huge investment in its military and by most accounts is facing a huge, politically destabilizing economic crisis.One day the temptation to revive ancient claims to those territories and seize them will be overwhelming for hard pressed Chinese leaders. The irony is that Japan could never tolerate such seizures. Ironically Japan Russia and the US, alligned with some souteast Asians such as Vietnam may unite to resist and fight China.
The article, from you vehement reaction, must have struck and nerve and be well over target. Sorry for all you comrades that have given their lives or been grievously wounded because of ‘Shorty’ Putin’ delusion.
And we should believe them because......................
In Washington DC, there are no consequences for lying, and no consequences for stupidity and failure. Everyone gets paid as normal, everyone gets promoted as normal
Its why they all work so hard to protect the bloated bureaucracy and deep-state
Before people even try to understand this war, they need to know that Russia lost 20 million people in WWII. The Germans slaughtered everyone they could get their hands on (including my family) on their way to Moscow. The obvious, and declared goal of the Globalists is to strangle Russia and impose their vision on it, and the rest of the world. Putin is not going to submit. He may be an evil son-of-a-bitch, but the Russians are used to having evil sons of bitches as their rulers. And, in fact, most Russians, somehow, revere them, (even Stalin). Go to a city park on a Sunday and you will see their old veterans proudly wearing their service medals from WWII etc.. We are playing with fire, cosmic fire.
From the words of Frederick Douglas: “Power concedes nothing without a fight. It never did and it never will.
More than two years after the whole-scale invasion of Ukraine, is Russia still a near-peer threat to the United States?What are the capabilities of the Russian military after 24 months of heavy fighting against a determined Ukrainian military equipped with Western weapon systems?
How soon can the Russian armed forces replenish the devastating losses they have been taking in the fighting?
These are just some of the questions the U.S. Intelligence Community analyzes in its latest annual threat assessment.
Released every year in early spring, the annual threat assessment delves into the most acute threats to U.S. national security and projects how these issues will affect America.
China remains at the forefront of threats to the United States. In the long term, Beijing will challenge U.S. supremacy not just in the Indo-Pacific but also around the world.
But on a more short-term, but still important, level, Moscow continues to directly threaten the U.S. and NATO in an attempt to gather leverage in Europe and elsewhere.
The Russian military has lost more men than at any time since World War II. Western intelligence estimates put the number of Russian losses to over 300,000 men killed and wounded.
Russia has also lost thousands of heavy combat vehicles. Until the Russian army recovers, it will fall on the Russian navy and Russian Aerospace Forces to provide some sort of global power projection capabilities.
“Moscow’s military forces will face a multi-year recovery after suffering extensive equipment and personnel losses during the Ukraine conflict. Moscow will be more reliant on nuclear and counterspace capabilities for strategic deterrence as it works to rebuild its ground force,” the Intelligence Community estimated in its annual threat assessment.
Although the Russian Ministry of Defense has announced plans to enlarge the military, it will take the Kremlin years to rebuild its previous combat capacity, let alone enlarge it. And it’s not just about numbers - rather, to increase its capabilities, the Russian military will need modern weapon systems and to provide adequate training to its soldiers.
“Moscow’s announced plans to massively expand its ground forces almost certainly will fall short, but nonetheless will over time result in a larger even if not qualitatively better military,” the Intelligence Community assessed.
The Kremlin is pouring big bucks on its military, offering significant pay and benefits to attract more men to enlist. It also has a national service system that provides more troops, though of questionable quality.
But the Kremlin is also relying heavily on private military companies to achieve its ends, and the U.S. Intelligence Community assesses that it will continue to do so even without the powerful Wagner Group mercenary group in the picture.
“Russia will rely on private military and security companies (PMSCs) and paramilitary groups to achieve its objectives on the battlefield in Ukraine, to augment Russian forces, to move weapons and to train fighters, to hide Moscow’s hand in sensitive operations, and to project influence and power in the Middle East and Africa,” the annual threat report stated.
Whatever US intelligence says...believe the opposite.
I haven’t read the intel propaganda report but I bet there is nothing in there that acknowledges that two years of war has given Russian troops ground combat experience that no other world power now possesses on the planet. There is nothing like hands on combat to temper the troops, test combat tactics, and refine war fighting equipment.
The Russians spent their money wisely. On big ticket nuclear weapons in numbers to destroy the us and survive both a first strike and a first strike retaliation. They have “low tech” missile defense that would likely smack back a lot of what we had left. Plus, they can lose 97% of their people and be happy if they killed 60% of us. They don’t have level 4 helmets or MREs or armored hummers…boo hoo
Fight it out, REMFs.
The greatest threat to the United States as a nation comes from Davos, not Moscow.