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Petain once said, under German occupation, "I am only a lemon, they will squeeze me dry and then throw me away."
How Prigozhin doesn't understand that is beyond me. He will be used until he has no more utility, and then he too will find a convenient window.
The weight of a sewer grate may actually cause problems with the COG on a Lada Niva.......Strap some more sewer-grates onto it, you're good to go.
Simple then.It also sees you for miles. During manoeuvres, infantry units are surprised by its ability for detection. The armor is not that of a tank as it is not a tank.
Its mission is recon, the gun serving to disengage.
By the way, it was adopted in preference to a tracked concept that did not convince.
The weight of a sewer grate may actually cause problems with the COG on a Lada Niva.......
No I didn't. When you've only got 1600cc's to start with, you can't afford to start handing them out....Hopefully you CC'd this to Larry Bell?
I'll take you for a ride in my 2017 Grand SportBecause a Peugeot can go around the corner while a Corvette can only drive straight
If I ever get to your place, I will hold you too that promiseI'll take you for a ride in my 2017 Grand Sport
Yes, there are several other articles seeming to confirm what I have been told, and emerging in greater volume.Have you seen this?
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Rebuilding U.S. Inventories: Six Critical Systems
Are U.S. weapons inventories getting too low because of transfers to Ukraine? Although most inventories are acceptable, some key munitions will take many years to replace. Often, there are workarounds, but there may be a crisis brewing over artillery ammunition.www.csis.org
Yes, there are several other articles seeming to confirm what I have been told, and emerging in greater volume.
One of the 'military pundits' that I have found to be repeatedly reliable (as a 'contrarian' to the propaganda) is Col. Douglas MacGregor (USA Ret'd). He has consstently dived below the approved 'messanging and messengers' to parse the details and proceses and facts that must be in existance to 'make the messaging reliable'. He is not well liked by Left wing supporters of POTUS, or Right wing advocates of 'any war is a good war' - as long as the money flows to our defense industry.
Additionally former senior advisor to SecDef, Col. Douglas MacGregor just recently wrote his latest book "Transformation under Fire" which gained significant traction with Israel IDF.
Excerpt from website:
"With LTG Kohavi, IDF Chief hosting the meeting, Macgregor is speaking to the IDF General Staff and Commanders on 17 Feb in Israel. "The Chief of the IDF General Staff made Macgregor's book,Transformation under Fire (Praeger, 2003), required reading for all officers in the rank of LTC and above.
This is the first time in the history of the IDF that a Chief of the Israeli General Staff has identified a book as the intellectual basis for future change in the IDF."
As usual, when a learned POV is expressed by an expert, all the pundts ranging from Fox News/Gowdy to Newsweek and WaPo immediately attack the messenger and his POV.
Much has been said about US/NATO now on a 'War Footing' to ramp up capability, but little has been said about reinstating draft. expanding manufacturing capability, re-training workers, building new plants and tooling, and increasing taxes to support the buildup.. As I look around at the governments within NATO struggling with inflation (and in case of US, massive debt service) not one is articulating the need to prepare for war with Russia - only 'we need to support Ukraine (requiring unspecified commitments of national resources).
The US was FAR more capable, financially and manufacturing wise (as well as public will), to expand to war footing before and during the period we entered WWII, with sole exception of trained and experienced war fighters.
I think its also worth remembering some of the other things he said
That Poland has had 5000 casualties and that the US and UK have also suffered thousands of casualties
It's also worth remembering that he didn't try to defend or support his statements.
I would lay good money that the IDF don't mention this to their students
Yep...that's just one of many examples where he made entirely baseless claims. For starters, Macgregor seems to be insinuating that it's the NATO military forces that have suffered these casualties. Certainly his choice of language is...interesting. He didn't say "Polish citizens" or "British citizens". Instead he talked about the number of casualties that Poland and others have sustained...which makes it sound like a national agenda rather than individuals volunteering to fight in Ukraine.
I can guarantee that pretty much every UK casualty hits the headlines. Just look at the recent news article about two men who were killed trying to evacuate civilians from danger areas. For there to have been "thousands of casualties" involving UK citizens, it would require every one of their families to remain silent about the deaths. That's an impossibility in this day and age where everyone below the age of 40 feels the need to post what they had for breakfast online. Local news agencies would quickly pick up on the death of a local lad/lass, which would then get repackaged by the national media.
While I have every respect for COL Macgregor's military service, IMHO he's just another talking head trying to bolster his reputation by making unfounded grand pronouncements and then not being held accountable if they don't come to pass. I put him in a similar category to Pierre Sprey, although Macgregor is perhaps ever-so-slightly more credible that that particular waste of oxygen.
Holy crap, I just read up on the guy. Was his helmet made of tin-foil as well?
It was also an attempt to blackmail the US Govt to pay him money...which they rightly called his bluff on.He has and it is not Ukraine.
His "gift" of Starlink was an advertising ploy so that he could trot out his "Ukraine can just give Putler Crimea and the other four teritories and all be friends" again crap while appearing to support Ukraine and be hailed a great peacemaking hero.
It's quite pathetic how some are so desperate to argue against the war/for Russia that they rely on such weak individuals to justify their position. They are either desperate or delusional...or both.Here's another example of where Macgregor's analysis was massively incorrect.
In September 2022, he again predicted on Carlson's show that "this war may be over soon" and later in the month "the Ukrainian army is bled white, tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops have been killed or wounded, Ukraine is really on the ropes." This was just before Ukraine's offensive actions that took a huge swath of territory, including Lyman, in the north, and then in October the push that cleared the north bank of the Dniepr near Kherson.
I mean, really....could he have been any MORE wrong? And yet he's made almost monthly appearances on Fox News and continues to be cited as a speaker of "truth." I just sit here and shake my head at this nonsense.