It is now looking likely that the NATO will be directly involved in air strikes against Russia
Has not been a secret that HATO has funded planned armed and trained Kievs forces since 2014.
That is why their collapse and failure is so funny.
Plans are out, NATO forces plan to block off Odessa so russia cannot get it and all of west and central Ukraine.
And how will they do that?
Remember they wont send their own troops...
I assume they will merely stand there and do nothing which is all they need to do, Chances are they are calling Putin's bluff, I could be wrong but I do not think Putin will let the military fire on official foreign forces unless attacked first
In that case all of Ukraines soldiers will dress up in HATO uniforms and the war will stop?
Are you stupid?
And going by the past, Putin's bluffs have been called before.
Russia has hit HATO operated systems and HQs that likely had HATO personel in situ before in this conflict. Sounds like they actually targeted a group of French soldiers a few weeks back.
France will say they were mercs, but they are hardly going to admit they are active soldiers in the French military. The Russians have hit rear areas before and killed foreign mercs before... they never phoned up the home countries of those mercs to tell them about it.
We will see how this plays out but not securing Odessa while they had the chance would be a massive failure
The defences around the Ukraine are bleeding men that are being sent to the front line to die at a rate of 1,000 per day... by the time Russia gets around to a proper offensive everyone will either rush to the front line or run away in panic and taking Odessa would not be anywhere as hard as it would have been to do it last year.
You remind me of Scammers who always create a sense of urgency to throw off the decision making process of their victims.
Exactly right.... a false sense of urgency to try to get them to make a mistake.
To be fair the US government is doing the same... give them 60 billion dollars or they will lose... except the reality is... give them 60 billion dollars and they will lose anyway... but the money is going to the US MIC anyway so give it anyway.
The amusing thing is that when this conflict ends the US is going to say we are spent and we need hundreds of billions of dollars extra to be spent n the US military over the next ten years to refill the stocks of ammo and weapons they have depleted.
You have to feel for the US military being so underfunded all these decades... the peace dividend of the end of the cold war really hit them the hardest.... NOT.
Bridges allow crossings . You drop bridges that enemy uses now and bridges that the enemy will drop, once you use them later . Weak bridges allow meat to cross , not armour . This will not limit the number you can kill . Resources from the MIC , will never make it to the front , needing destruction , creating profits for fat Cats .
Destroying the main bridges makes them set their own bridges up which can appear in different places at different times and just complicate the fact that you have to look along the entire river for crossing points and monitor them to see what crosses.
When you are exterminating the enemy you don't fear them moving forces to the front... the only time you would drop the bridges is when they are retreating.
Russia has the capacity to cross rivers.
What makes you think Russia won't kill NATO troops in Ukraine? Idiot.
More importantly why would Russia not want to kill the troops of the countries responsible for this conflict in the first place.
Ukrainian troops first, but western troops too.
Maybe this will be part of a hazing ritual where the old HATO countries make the Swedes and Fins send their troops to Ukraine or else they wont teach them the secret handshake.
They'd get spit roasted with everything up to and maybe including nukes with no way of responding
All the talk about nukes is BS when it is only Ukraine troops, but when HATO troops get involved then nukes become justified because HATO troops raise the stakes to a level where nuking them might knock them to their senses. A bit like slapping a hysterical woman... and HATO and the entire west has been acting like a hysterical woman for quite some time.
Unsurprisingly the tape of German officers discussing amongst other things the Crimean bridge has been taken out of context.
And yet one gets the feeling that this entire conflict came from such brain storming sessions where some idiot overheard and thought... that would be a good idea...
Big losses. If this continues, then in a month the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Abrams will run out. Although, most likely even earlier. These three were just destroyed. We don’t know for sure how many were hit or broken.
Probably just as well... the amount of work and fuel needed to keep them running was probably doing more damage than the vehicles were managing to do themselves.
Damn... did russia really lose 2,774 tanks?
Does that include the captured ones?
Of course lose is a funny word because the vast majority were probably recovered and sent back and repaired and put back into service.
It really takes a catastrophic failure for an armoured vehicle to not be recoverable.
I don't think this time Putin can bluff really
Why would he need to bluff? Are the western nations that send armed troops into a war zone going to complain that their soldiers got killed?
Did Russia refuse to destroy western tanks.... they didn't even wait till the pain was dry... some were destroyed in the factories they were kept in when they arrived.