Posted on 03/31/2024 11:04:08 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Strikes on Russian oil refineries have a significant impact on Russia’s ability to conduct warfare. Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, Commander of U.S. Forces Europe in 2014-17, stated this during the 16th annual Kyiv Security Forum. “Of course, attacks on oil refineries have a significant impact. Russia is less able to pay for this war, and it also deprives it of the necessary fuel to continue hostilities. I would recommend ignoring the calls for an end to such attacks.”
The Lieutenant General emphasized that sanctions against Russia need to be strengthened. He also added that 2024 will be the year of industrial competition. “Ukraine and the West should win this competition. I am talking about of course building up ammunition supplies, but also moving forward maintenance capabilities so that the Ukrainian soldiers can fix forward equipment that is broken or damaged on site, as well as increasing their ammunition stocks.”
According to Hodges, Ukraine should put pressure on Russian logistics, particularly in Crimea, to make the peninsula unusable for Russian troops. “I would not expect a dramatic drop in Ukraine’s ability to defend itself. The job of (new Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine) Syrskyi will be to stabilize the situation on the front line, but industrial competition will play a role here, while the Ukrainian army needs new units to ensure rotation”.
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Putin really stepped in it this time!
It’s all over for him now!
No. 483,374,503
The walls are closing in.
Lt. General Ben Hodges has been wrong about everything for the past two years. I wonder what his Zeeper name is?
The French and the Ukrainians will march on Moscow!
Ben Hodges is an idiot
Retired now, but jeez, wonder how much damage he did on active duty
In the words of The Prophet Rick James… “Cocaine is a hell of a drug”. 😂
Russia is on a war footing and they did that starting in 2022. I haven't seen anyone in the West do that.
The Author:
Passing the torch: (Lt./ General) Hodges bids farewell to U.S. Army Europe, Army (Dec 15, 2017)
https://www.army.mil/article/198326/passing_the_torch_hodges_bids_farewell_to_u_s_army_europe_army
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Former US Army general Ben Hodges predicts failure in Ukraine could lead to collapse of Russian Federation (Nov 11, 2022)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-12/russia-latest-ukraine-failure-putin-downfall-ben-hodges-says/101638484
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Ben Hodges on why 2024 will be the decisive year of the Ukraine War and Ukrainian Army’s new command (Feb 2024)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9HyzZ-TUJU
This will not end well.
Why would they want to do that? Russia is nothing but a sh!t show, and Putin being at its head is the very least of it.
Ben Hodge’s name is really Ben Dover.
Z’s checks in the mail for this guy, right after Dopey gets his 10% cut.
Russia is something like a month away from completing their rail line along the Azov Sea that will connect Crimea to the rest of Russia, and, at that point, they won’t even need the Kerch Bridge, at all.
By the way, Biden’s people, how’s that 2nd Avenue Subway line progressing? I hear that several new stops opened, and it only took 20 years to get that far.
LOL! For only a peace treaty.
What a clown this guy Hodges is.
Lt. General Ben Hodges is a delusional idiot.
The French Surrender Monkey’s will take Moscow!
No he doesn’t. That pic is pretty old. Trump knows Ukraine was behind many of the problems he had.
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