Rolluplostinspace wrote:Lordy I would appreciate your take on this.
It's a very disturbing and quite depressing twenty minute analysis of where this war is at and why Biden is talking up putting America on a military footing... to produce desperately needed armaments.
Please ignore those on here who suck at the propaganda patriotic tit start flapping their arms and their gums in outrage and say shit like Scott Ritter must be a Putin stooge! Rollup is a Putin sympathiser ! Just watch the vid. Then give me a sober assessment.This guy is one of Americas most famous ex marines I think he talks a lot of sense.
Brilliant! He’s an ex military man, and just like myself and all my friends who are bloody annoyed by the lack of rearming in the face of a potential world conflict, he’s using his platform to highlight that the US is not prepared for such a conflict.
He’s using Ukraine as an example, saying it’s destined to fail and be overrun by Russia, which means Russian troops will be on the border with NATO countries, and Moldova will get absorbed into Vlad’s rebuilding of a Russian Empire.
Simply put, he’s playing devil’s advocate in my opinion, to scare the shit out of NATO with a wake up call to get onto a war footing and step up armaments production drastically - it’s exactly what I would do to scare the shit out of our leaders, had I such a platform and the respect that he carries from his military service.
With all the talk of war weariness, and Trump etc calling for cutting of aid to Ukraine, he’s trying to give them a wake up call, because taking such a course would imperil Europe and NATO.
Reading between the lines, I’d say that he’s telling them that if they don’t stop Russia in Ukraine, they will be shooting themselves in the foot.
Regarding the Ukrainians employing sick/unfit to fight sorts, please know the Russians do the same. I’ve taken a keen interest in the videos of intercepted telephone calls home from Russian draftees, poor bastards, thrown into combat with minimal training and told that they have special units to shoot them if they retreat.
Videos of entire units refusing to fight are commonplace too, morale is crap because they’re short of food rations, water, weapons and ammunition, plus they use 1950’s designed tanks and armaments. A clear sign they’re thought of as nothing more than cannon fodder.
Ukraine made a classic mistake with their western supplied Leopards and Bradley’s, they attempted armoured attacks in daylight, were identified by drones and taken out by mines, missiles, artillery, and airborne launched missiles.
They’ve reverted to using their superior night vision numbers to send engineers and infantry in at night to remove mined, clear paths through minefields, identify strongpoints and assault Russian trenches. A 3-1 ration is needed for the attacking side, but Ukrainian troops often go in 1-1 and attack Russian trenches. That’s hard work and leads to hide casualties on both sides, but they make small gains, measured by hundreds of metres- however, it’s the only thing to do.
At the same time, their long range weapons are taking out supply and ammo dumps plus Russian HQ’s to put a strain on the Russian command and control and logistics to starve them of food Ammo and orders.
The last time they did that they had people on the ground, probably civvies, who told them when Russians sent in to clear the damage and remove bodies from first strike.
They then unleashed another barrage at all sites with cluster munitions to kill as many Russian troops as they could, because they’re acutely aware that the more bodies getting sent back to Russia, the more public resentment will build against the war.
Poor bastards, on both sides, Russian defenders can be poorly trained troops in those miles and miles of defensive positions, the Ukrainians can only send in their best trained to take those positions.
It’s a numbers game, Russia thinks it has a never ending supply of meat, Ukraine knows it does not, so their doctrine is to kill as many Russians as they can.
What a waste of lives, I’ve a feeling it won’t end this year, it’s going to be a long bloody conflict, which is just what Vlad wants to wear the Ukrainians down - as per what Mr Ritter said.
