Grifman
19520
KevinC
19521
Ahh, Bakhmut. Thanks for the link, that’s one place I’ve been wanting to hear more about as it’s been attacked every day for months and Ukraine is still holding, somehow.
There’s a snippet from ISW in the article:
Ouch. Whole lot of dead mercs for Prigozhin’s PR prize.
Houngan
19522
I’d say they establish that line I talked about a while ago from the sea to Zaporizhzhia and slowly grind the southern advance back to Donetsk. No way RU is giving up Crimea or Donetsk this winter unless UA fully cuts the bridge and makes a massive attack.
It will also tell everyone else that nuclear blackmail works. Maybe if you do it fast and clean enough then you don’t even get sanctioned much.
Anyway, here’s a nice graph for you all.
Janster
19524
One escalation we might see is Israeli strikes on Iranian stuff, they almost got a free ticket now to do whatever in there…Lets see how that pans out.
Some mildly comforting news, given all the talk about nuclear armageddon:
mprod
19526
Good thread on what the war in Ukraine might mean for future western armies.
ShivaX
19527
Like Petraeus is practically an anti-Democrat, but sure, he’s the de facto mouthpiece for the US government while he’s teaching at a college in England.
And he’s talking to a famous Russian writer Lukyanenko. You might know him for the urban fantasy book series Night Watch which was later adapted into a movie. It’s a story about evil and good magic existing in our world in a state of constant Cold War. Heh.
That’s not fair Petraeus came out against Trump before most Generals did. But I’m pretty sure he lost all of his clearance after revealing secrets to his girlfriend/biographer.
But man, the BJs were worth it I bet.
You’re thinking of Paula Broadwell, the de facto sidepiece for the Biden Administration:
Grifman
19534
That was very interesting. Protecting against drone swarms is going to be very expensive. One might assume that drone swarms favor weaker nations but they are just as vulnerable to them as more powerful nations, but much less likely to be able to afford anti-drone protection. The delicate balance between offense and defense continues
The same things that make drones easy to replicate probably make some of their targets easier to replicate too.
Tanks are easy to replicate?
ShivaX
19537
He was also almost Sec of State for Trump. And by anti-Democrat, I mean back in the long ago times when parties were more sane. Dude was a lifelong Republican and hasn’t been in government for 10 years and was quite angry at Biden for pulling out of Afghanistan. Hardly the “de facto mouthpiece” of Biden’s admin.
