Russian special military operation in Ukraine #40

I just hope Poles don't get cold feet at the last second (or decide that they don't want to do it without USA... which they will)

Of course we do. The EU is in recession, a lot of companies are going out of business.
Producing Chemicals is consuming a lot of energy which is pretty expensive these days.

Yes, a consequence of saving money by only buying the bare minimum ammo means the ingredients will be produced for that tempo of production so if you suddenly decide you need max production and you want it now, well supply chains can be told to ramp up production quickly but some chains are simply unable to comply in a useful timescale.

It is like demanding high quality drones in Russia in 2008... having a state of the art aerospace sector didn't help because a whole new range of engines and designs and technology needed to be developed... countries that could supply such things didn't invent them over night either, they spent enormous amounts of money and time and effort to make what they have and Russia was never going to just be able to snap their fingers and have the perfect drones either.

Forepost is an old technology obsolete Israeli drone but making it in Russia was a huge benefit to the drone industry in Russia because it gave them an idea of what a drone could do and how it operates and how to support it and deploy it, but obviously it was only with real experience in a combat situation like Syria and Ukraine that they started to add demands and features they also find useful.

In real combat heavy drones are not so great against an enemy with air defences intact, but small light disposable drones are very useful... but still not all powerful either.

If you have an enemy counter offensive and you have five or ten suicide drones and the enemy attacks with thousands of men and hundreds of vehicles then it is not suicide drones that will win the battle, it will be the medium sized drones rapidly finding targets for your artillery and air power and keeping your command informed about the enemy force and its movements... an armed drone might carry missiles or bombs to take out 3 or four vehicles if you are lucky but a single drone with good cameras and a laser target marker could hit dozens and dozens of targets using guided artillery and directing rocket barrages by ground and air platforms.

I hope the reserves and defense preparations are ready for when these idiots go mad max on the line

When it is clear the actual attack is starting, that is the time you launch 300mm Smerch rocket attacks with HEAT submunitions to destroy armour and infantry positions over a large area very very quickly, with a second volley of anti armour mines with a lifespan of say 6 hours so they can destroy retreating Orc vehicles but wont be a problem for counter attacking Russian armour.

As said they seem to be accumulating more vehicles

Easier to kill enemy troops inside an armoured vehicle than if those troops are spread out moving in a field...

This is why the Poles deserve every bit of their brains splattered onto the dirt.

Poland is part of HATO, so if they join then it becomes nuclear, and if Poland joins the conflict then the other HATO countries are not obliged to help it... and when it gets nuked they certainly wont want to get involved...

Their deployments are towards Kaliningrad because they think Russia is weakest there but I suspect most of those Iskanders will be armed with nuke warheads because they are not for fighting Ukrainians on territory they want to keep intact for the future users, they will be fighting Polish forces on Polish territory so nuking it is just fine.

Thousands of wellies were crowdsourced, even the ones prepped for winter, with wool inners. MoD bought tons of them too. Plenty of videos and pictures of Russian troops wearing them. From last year.

Gumboots are good for drivers or other people that spend their time sitting down so keeping their feet warm and dry is a good thing, but if you spend most of your time in the mud and you have to walk around a lot and even run then gumboots are terrible because they wont stay on and they wont support your ankles properly when moving in the mud... carrying a pack or weight and you will fall over or lose a gumboot because it stuck in the mud... does not happen with lace up proper boots.

You can fit gaiters and other plastic covers for standard boots to keep your feet dry if you want to, but most hikes I have done my feet were wet within minutes and stayed wet all day till we got to the cabin... you take your wet socks off and put on warm dry socks overnight and do your best to squeeze out the water in the socks you wore all day and dry them as best you can overnight and then you put your wet socks back on for the next day... once they are wet they don't get any wetter and your circulation doing hard work keeps them warm.

Beijing and Moscow are working together to shape “a more just multipolar world,” and ties between the two countries are now “at the highest level in their history,” President Vladimir Putin

This is huge, because normally powerful countries like to make their own rules that suit their own needs and interests, like the UK did and France did and the US does, but a multipolar world means even the big powerful countries have to follow the rules the way the west does not.

This will appeal to most countries around the world as being more fair than the current situation where the rich and powerful can use their power and money to get their way, which usually results in them increasing their power and wealth.

The US order is finished

They never really had complete actual control of the world.... only of the west, which they will likely retain because their spy services are directed and optimised to find dirt on western power structures so they can control them as they please.

When their currency collapses their ability to survive will become a challenge and their ability to bribe will disappear.... being offered a hundred billion droobies to do something sounds impressive, but when you learn nobody will accept droobies as money then you realise it is not impressive at all... like being offered a billion drops of water when you can take that from the sky when it rains for free.

Good God Biden's crime syndicate cares for Ukrainian lives about as much as the East India Co cared about Indian lives.

The Chinese are not so stupid as to fall for such an obvious ploy. What motive does Russia have for having mercenaries attack economic targets in Africa?
There is no "French-vs-English from the 1700s" competition between China and Russia for Africa.

The CIA is run by delusional clowns. Not surprising that they have become a political tool of the Demonrat Party.

Ukraine is going to have to gather forces for an attack on Avdeyevka also. Basically they will have to gather their cannon fodder for the
whole front. What they will achieve is nothing but squandering of their cannon fodder.