Re: Hey there's about to be a war in Ukraine.
 

8 March Assessment.

[url]https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-march-8[/url]

Re: Hey there's about to be a war in Ukraine.
 

I see we pussed out with the Mig29 transfer.

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[quote=nonniey;1312117]I see we pussed out with the Mig29 transfer.[/quote]

Poland and U.S. playing hot potato. Ridiculous.

Re: Hey there's about to be a war in Ukraine.
 

[quote=nonniey;1312117]I see we pussed out with the Mig29 transfer.[/quote]

No surprise

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[quote=Chico23231;1312151]No surprise[/quote]

Disappointing.

Wish we would tell Putin that any cyber attack on the US is an act of war against the US. But seems the people high up really want to keep this contained.

Re: Hey there's about to be a war in Ukraine.
 

[quote=nonniey;1312117]I see we pussed out with the Mig29 transfer.[/quote]

How so?

Re: Hey there's about to be a war in Ukraine.
 

A Russian artillery assault devastated a maternity and children's hospital complex in the besieged southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, Ukrainian officials said Wednesday.

The Mariupol City Council posted video on social media of the battered buildings.

"The destruction is enormous," the council said in a statement. "The building of the medical institution where the children were treated recently was completely destroyed. Information about the affected children is being clarified."

President Volodymyr Zelensky said people were still trapped in the wreckage. He urged the West to ban Russia from the skies over Ukraine.

"Atrocity! How much longer will the world be an accomplice ignoring terror?" Zelenskyy said in a Twitter post. "Close the sky right now! Stop the killings! You have power but you seem to be losing humanity."

The U.S. and its allies have declined to do so because it could further drag the alliance into the war. The West has hit Russia with heavy economic sanctions, and on Wednesday the Kremlin threatened retaliation for the "economic war" it accused the U.S. of waging.

A plan for Poland to provide fighter jets to Ukraine was also in doubt after the Polish government said it would give all of its Soviet-built MiG-29 fighter jets to the U.S. –apparently to allow them to be used by Ukraine’s military. The Pentagon dismissed the idea as not "tenable.”

“Poland is not a side in this war ... and NATO is not a side in this war,” Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki Morawiecki said Wednesday during a visit to Vienna. “Such a serious decision like handing over planes must be unanimous and unequivocally taken by all of the North Atlantic alliance."

[url]https://www.yahoo.com/news/harris-visits-poland-amid-fighter-081315764.html[/url]

Putin bombed the hell out of a childrens hospital ...

"never again will the free world sit back and watch crimes against humanity ... until the next time"

we have to do something

Re: Hey there's about to be a war in Ukraine.
 

9 March Assessment.

[url]https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-march-9[/url]

Re: Hey there's about to be a war in Ukraine.
 

[quote=Giantone;1312161]How so?[/quote]

[url]https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/03/09/pentagon_thanks_poland_for_its_generousity_but_sending_jets_is_too_high_risk_to_send_to_ukraine_at_this_time.html[/url]

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[quote=nonniey;1312406][url]https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/03/09/pentagon_thanks_poland_for_its_generousity_but_sending_jets_is_too_high_risk_to_send_to_ukraine_at_this_time.html[/url][/quote]

How is that "pussed out "? your words.

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[quote=Giantone;1312408]How is that "pussed out "? your words.[/quote]

I think it is pretty self explanatory. That said if you disagree with that interpretation that is fine. Everyone else who replied seems to agree mine.

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Link has a video (UAV camera bounces around a bit though) of a tank battle. Video shows a platoon of Russian tanks and couple of APCs engaging something off screen to the left (probably Ukrainian tanks). Shows hit on BMP (starts to burn), a Russian tank advancing and firing and then that tank being hit and destroyed (it's ammo rack exploded) by return fire.

[url]https://twitter.com/Militarylandnet[/url]

Re: Hey there's about to be a war in Ukraine.
 

[quote=nonniey;1312462]Link has a video (UAV camera bounces around a bit though) of a tank battle. Video shows a platoon of Russian tanks and couple of APCs engaging something off screen to the left (probably Ukrainian tanks). Shows hit on BMP (starts to burn), a Russian tank advancing and firing and then that tank being hit and destroyed (it's ammo rack exploded) by return fire.

[url]https://twitter.com/Militarylandnet[/url][/quote]

Somebody made a smart comment ... Ukraines are probably watching as many gas stations as possible to ambush russian tanks looking for fuel. Assuming russian tanks take diesel or gas station gas

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[quote=nonniey;1312459]I think it is pretty self explanatory. That said if you disagree with that interpretation that is fine. Everyone else who replied seems to agree mine.[/quote]

It's not and I'm asking you not the other two who replied. You seem to think that the US not wanting to escalate the War with a mad man is being a pussy and I'm asking why you think that is?

Hey there's about to be a war in Ukraine.
 

[QUOTE=Giantone;1312476]It's not and I'm asking you not the other two who replied. You seem to think that the US not wanting to escalate the War with a mad man is being a pussy and I'm asking why you think that is?[/QUOTE]


I agree. So that makes it 2-2. Lol. I think it is pretty self explanatory why we are staying as out if it as possible. I mean we are talking about making a terrible situation for Ukraine (who we are helping best we can) not turning into a terrible situation for the world. Talk about self explanatory.

Clearly Intelligence is telling us this isn’t the same Putin. Increasingly isolated, paranoid, talking about nukes. It is a different situation than Syria. A different guy.