Not sending weapons degrades our national security AND decreases both revenue and job growth here. How many Americans understand that the opposite is happening in Russia today? Putin has the Russian economy on a war footing. Every factory available has transformed to building/producing for the military! We need to match this strategy her…
Not sending weapons degrades our national security AND decreases both revenue and job growth here. How many Americans understand that the opposite is happening in Russia today? Putin has the Russian economy on a war footing. Every factory available has transformed to building/producing for the military! We need to match this strategy here in order to defeat them. Trump, Speaker Johnson, the entire Republican Party are more than useful idiots for Putin. It is a disgrace. History will be righteously cruel to these scoundrels. Their legacy will be that of Charles Lindbergh.
I was reading about Russia's GDP being strong, but if most of your GDP is making weapons and selling oil to other countries, how does that help the freezing and starving Russians?
Plus Russia has lost billions of dollars in weapons and over a million revenue producing bodies due to fleeing working age Russians and dead and wounded military personnel.
Russia is not a rich country, but its wealth is highly concentrated at the top. Hungry Russians is nothing new but I haven't read anything about starving Russians in or around St. Petersburg and Moscow. Note that very few white Russian soldiers are dying in Ukraine from Moscow or St Petersburg. The Russian soldiers that are dying are their ethnic minorities from far off oblasts/provinces' like Dagestan, Chechnya, and further east. ( something I thought of when I saw the 3 US serviceman killed in Jordan, all three were African American and two under 25 btw...just pointing out a similiar demographic we have with Russia's military at the enlisted (not officers) demographic). Russia is rich in population compared to Ukraine. Putin can afford to expend Russian lives from his minority population that are from far off places like the Caucus, Dagestan/Chechnya, and Siberia, Asian oblasts. Its only when the people in Moscow and St. Petersburg start to protest that he has a problem. The war footing is an issue. Putin is not wasting time. He has converted all possible factories to make more artillery shells. I think he can't make higher tech weapons like drones and smart missiles because he can not get more computer chips to do so. It is artillery and tank rounds that Ukraine can not keep up with. Russia is firing 10,000 rounds of artillery shells a day, while Ukraine is firing 5,000 or less a day. Russia is still making 1 billion a day in profits from oil and gas sales, mostly to China and India. There was a report a that India is re selling Russian gas to the west and that this is difficult to track. The US could easily match this but it would take I think either Congress or Presidential order to order a private US manufacture to convert production to military contracts.
Putin will do whatever it takes, he doesn't care about starving Russian People. That is his problem not ours. If they are starving then protest against Putin, then that is good for the US, Europe, and Ukraine. Anything that weakens Putin domestically is a bonus for Western Democracy in my humble opinion.
The story yesterday about the CIA and likely many other foreign intelligence services being able to recruit spies inside of Russia could be Putin's undoing. Russian cannot begin to defend all of the military and fossil fuel infrastructure as it is and with the help of spies inside Russia, obscure and well hidden high-value targets can be identified and eliminated.
This is likely how Ukraine will win the war (if they do).
The Ukrainians have done a good job of targeting Russia already, but as other valuable targets are identified this could become a game changer.
That seems logical. Attack Russian oil infrastructure. Probably hurts their cash flow more than anything. That is interesting because Russia makes 1 billion a day in oil and gas profit to fund their Army supply and operations. Clandestine attacks on oil and gas infrastructure make sense.
Using smart weapons to target command and control centers is another logical strategy.
Turkey, Romania and Bulgarian Navies are helping in the Black Sea by clearing mines set by the Russian Navy. Cruise missiles to target the Russian Black Sea Fleet is helping. I think the Kurtz bridge should be taken out completely.
Putin over 20 years has also amassed a fortune of 200 billion dollars ( estimate according to Bill Browder, who did business in Russia for many years, also responsible for the Magninsky Act, Author Red Notice). So, we should also just allocate the frozen Russian accounts and oligarch accounts of 300 million to go to Ukraine to pay for more western weapons.
Even if tfg wasn't so pro Russia Pro Putin, I don't ever see him capable enough to make war time decisions. And Looking forward, his wealth depleted by lawsuits, he would use US Policy as a way to selfishly restore his wealth. He should never be allowed to have any seat at any office let alone the presidency.
The Kurtz bridge must be very well protected as I'm sure it's been a target for most of the war. I wish the F-16s would be deployed in Ukraine. That could really help.
I'm guessing the war has put a dent in Putin's 200 billion especially those funds frozen offshore.
At the end of WWII the allies bombed Dresden killing tens of thousands of German civilians. It would be nice to see the Ukrainians bomb each of the known Putin mansions as well as his armored train. Some civilians would be killed, but it would send Putin the message that none of his assets are safe.
tfg-putin.putin-tfg. The old divide and conquer, with an extremist minority willing to do US in for the sake of their "fearless leader". None dare call it treason.
Not sending weapons degrades our national security AND decreases both revenue and job growth here. How many Americans understand that the opposite is happening in Russia today? Putin has the Russian economy on a war footing. Every factory available has transformed to building/producing for the military! We need to match this strategy here in order to defeat them. Trump, Speaker Johnson, the entire Republican Party are more than useful idiots for Putin. It is a disgrace. History will be righteously cruel to these scoundrels. Their legacy will be that of Charles Lindbergh.
I agree with all of your points.
I was reading about Russia's GDP being strong, but if most of your GDP is making weapons and selling oil to other countries, how does that help the freezing and starving Russians?
Plus Russia has lost billions of dollars in weapons and over a million revenue producing bodies due to fleeing working age Russians and dead and wounded military personnel.
Russia is not a rich country, but its wealth is highly concentrated at the top. Hungry Russians is nothing new but I haven't read anything about starving Russians in or around St. Petersburg and Moscow. Note that very few white Russian soldiers are dying in Ukraine from Moscow or St Petersburg. The Russian soldiers that are dying are their ethnic minorities from far off oblasts/provinces' like Dagestan, Chechnya, and further east. ( something I thought of when I saw the 3 US serviceman killed in Jordan, all three were African American and two under 25 btw...just pointing out a similiar demographic we have with Russia's military at the enlisted (not officers) demographic). Russia is rich in population compared to Ukraine. Putin can afford to expend Russian lives from his minority population that are from far off places like the Caucus, Dagestan/Chechnya, and Siberia, Asian oblasts. Its only when the people in Moscow and St. Petersburg start to protest that he has a problem. The war footing is an issue. Putin is not wasting time. He has converted all possible factories to make more artillery shells. I think he can't make higher tech weapons like drones and smart missiles because he can not get more computer chips to do so. It is artillery and tank rounds that Ukraine can not keep up with. Russia is firing 10,000 rounds of artillery shells a day, while Ukraine is firing 5,000 or less a day. Russia is still making 1 billion a day in profits from oil and gas sales, mostly to China and India. There was a report a that India is re selling Russian gas to the west and that this is difficult to track. The US could easily match this but it would take I think either Congress or Presidential order to order a private US manufacture to convert production to military contracts.
Putin will do whatever it takes, he doesn't care about starving Russian People. That is his problem not ours. If they are starving then protest against Putin, then that is good for the US, Europe, and Ukraine. Anything that weakens Putin domestically is a bonus for Western Democracy in my humble opinion.
The story yesterday about the CIA and likely many other foreign intelligence services being able to recruit spies inside of Russia could be Putin's undoing. Russian cannot begin to defend all of the military and fossil fuel infrastructure as it is and with the help of spies inside Russia, obscure and well hidden high-value targets can be identified and eliminated.
This is likely how Ukraine will win the war (if they do).
The Ukrainians have done a good job of targeting Russia already, but as other valuable targets are identified this could become a game changer.
That seems logical. Attack Russian oil infrastructure. Probably hurts their cash flow more than anything. That is interesting because Russia makes 1 billion a day in oil and gas profit to fund their Army supply and operations. Clandestine attacks on oil and gas infrastructure make sense.
Using smart weapons to target command and control centers is another logical strategy.
Turkey, Romania and Bulgarian Navies are helping in the Black Sea by clearing mines set by the Russian Navy. Cruise missiles to target the Russian Black Sea Fleet is helping. I think the Kurtz bridge should be taken out completely.
Putin over 20 years has also amassed a fortune of 200 billion dollars ( estimate according to Bill Browder, who did business in Russia for many years, also responsible for the Magninsky Act, Author Red Notice). So, we should also just allocate the frozen Russian accounts and oligarch accounts of 300 million to go to Ukraine to pay for more western weapons.
Even if tfg wasn't so pro Russia Pro Putin, I don't ever see him capable enough to make war time decisions. And Looking forward, his wealth depleted by lawsuits, he would use US Policy as a way to selfishly restore his wealth. He should never be allowed to have any seat at any office let alone the presidency.
The Kurtz bridge must be very well protected as I'm sure it's been a target for most of the war. I wish the F-16s would be deployed in Ukraine. That could really help.
I'm guessing the war has put a dent in Putin's 200 billion especially those funds frozen offshore.
At the end of WWII the allies bombed Dresden killing tens of thousands of German civilians. It would be nice to see the Ukrainians bomb each of the known Putin mansions as well as his armored train. Some civilians would be killed, but it would send Putin the message that none of his assets are safe.
tfg-putin.putin-tfg. The old divide and conquer, with an extremist minority willing to do US in for the sake of their "fearless leader". None dare call it treason.