They are striking back. All along the southern front. It's just not getting the coverage you'd expect because of the Kursk distraction, so in that sense it's achieved its intended effect, however temporary that might be.
I don't think people fully grasp the magnitude of this operation. This is a war between the two largest armies in Europe (at the beginning) over a 1000 km front. It's almost all open ground, which means everyone can see everyone else's moves and target them if they have the ability. From Russia's standpoint it's about depleting that ability, where possible at a distance, so as to minimize Russian casualties. A war of attrition IOW.
To mount a full scale invasion would be to make the same mistake Hitler made in Operation Barbarossa. Better to just grind NATO down, which is what they're doing very effectively. Wars are not won by tactics and strategies, they're won by logistics. If you can hold your line, then the war ends when your enemy runs out of the capacity to attack, and we're just about there - not just for the UAF but for all of NATO. They simply don't have the manufacturing capacity to keep up with the losses, it's as simple as that. Meanwhile, Russia has augmented its own formidable military production with Iranian and N Korean assistance. NATO can rattle their sabres all they want, but the war is already lost. This posturing you see is for domestic consumption ahead of the US election. To steal a line from Shakespeare, this latest pronouncement by Lindsey Graham " is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Same as always.
If the North Atlantic TERRORIST Organization is so foolish as to allow western pilots to fly F-16s from Moldova Russia obviously has the right to retaliate against Moldova. Instead of sucking Romania in to invade Moldova threatening Transnistria, Russia most likely will take the gloves off and declare an actual war against the Nazi Kiev regime with weapons that the west doesn’t know exist.
My understanding is you need a squeaky clean runway to fly F-16s as they are notorious for vacuuming up debris into the engine. So how many squeaky clean runways does Moldova have, and how many will be left after Russia gets through with them? All you have then is the highways, and what sort of condition are they in? Can you even support your F16s in that scenario, far from base and out in the open with no hard shelter?
As usual nobody's thought this through. This is antiquated junk they're being offered which will be shot out of the sky the moment they pop up. I'm sure US pilots will be lining up around the block to fly those missions. On the bright side, you don't have to worry about being captured when you bail as you'll get hit long before you reach the line of contact.
Switch some of he MIG-31 payload back to R-37, aggressive air patrol backed up by more frequent AEW flight. But the AEW is a highly vulnerable asset. Shoot F-16 down in the sky rather than on the ground to avoid escalation.
US is entirely at fault for keeping the Korean nation separated, while Russia is entirely at fault for keeping Romanians separated. For over 70 years USSR/Russia have gaslighted Moldovans that they are ethnically different from Romanians.
I wonder what would the polls say about re-unification if the questions put were about re-uniting R of Moldova with its western half Moldovans (now part of Romania), with the historical cultural centres of Suceava and Iasi, under the image of Stephan the Great, who has statues both in Iasi and in Chisinau?
And if armed forces are need for re-unification, so be it. Once inside, Moldovans from over the Prut will see that local autonomy is how things are done in Romania, and that minority rights are respected - see the rights of Hungarians, so the ethnic Russians and Ukrainians shouldn't fret.
As for Transnistria it is true that was never Moldovan territory, but it should be considered a swap for Budjeak (that appendage territory on the Black Sea, that pushes so inorganically west from Ukraine), which was taken from Moldova and given to Ukraine after WWII (same time as Crimea I think).
But I appreciate Andrew's calling Moldova historical territory of Romania.
Romania has joined Germany in WWII in attacking USSR because USSR did strike first and took Bessarabia (R of Moldova) and Northern Bukovina (never before in control of Russia) after the 1939 non agression treaty with Germany... For Romania was a war of liberation, no matter what the view of Russians is on it.
I'm not crazy about the following quote coming from "World Socialist Web Site," but I've learned to read all kinds of sites for information because we're highly censored and propagandized in the West. Upon reading about the Kursk incursion, my initial reaction was that it had Pentagon fingerprints all over it. This operation wasn't an Ukrainian one. Someone challenged me on another site, and I found:
"At its summit this week in Washington, the NATO military alliance announced the creation of an office inside Ukraine and the establishment of a NATO command in Germany, led by a three-star general, to oversee the war against Russia.
These actions signify the shift to a new phase in the war, in which the NATO military alliance will openly take charge of arming, funding and directing the Ukrainian military, as a prelude to the deployment of NATO forces in the conflict."
I found an AP story which corroborates...because Western news stories will never report nor analyze in this fashion. AP News writes:
"The new plan would be a complementary effort. Announcing the move after chairing a meeting of defense ministers in Brussels, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that the effort would be headquartered at a U.S. military base in Wiesbaden, Germany and involve almost 700 staff.
He said that it would help to organize training for Ukrainian military personnel in member countries of the alliance, coordinate and plan donations of the equipment that Kyiv needs, and manage the transfer and repair of that military materiel."
Essentially, the war's become directed by the U.S. who's taken over planning and strategizing with delivery of the planes and other weapons. They'll cite Ukraine as the fighter, but in actuality, NATO officers aka U.S. military officers are planning and conducting this operation as they would a war against their own forces.
The Ukrainians are fools. Their operations are unsustainable. They have no men with whom to fight. Mercenaries are wary of the poorly conducted war from Ukraine's side. NATO can only strategize within the parameters of a supposed Ukrainian military force; hence, the political plum of the Kursk invasion without Russia relaxing in the front.
Russia has reason for patience. If they move too rapidly, other nations might enter the war. In actual fact, Russia now has unfettered access to the Mediterranean and Black Sea if they can hold the territory while driving Ukraine to negotiations. This is probably the real reason the U.S. wants no negotiation: they don't want Russia controlling this territory let alone enjoying such luxurious access to the Mediterranean. I would suspect these places are highly strategic...though I have no knowledge of such matters.
If Putin doesn't strike back with extreme force to this the USA will keep 'crossing red lines' ad infinitum'.
They are striking back. All along the southern front. It's just not getting the coverage you'd expect because of the Kursk distraction, so in that sense it's achieved its intended effect, however temporary that might be.
I don't think people fully grasp the magnitude of this operation. This is a war between the two largest armies in Europe (at the beginning) over a 1000 km front. It's almost all open ground, which means everyone can see everyone else's moves and target them if they have the ability. From Russia's standpoint it's about depleting that ability, where possible at a distance, so as to minimize Russian casualties. A war of attrition IOW.
To mount a full scale invasion would be to make the same mistake Hitler made in Operation Barbarossa. Better to just grind NATO down, which is what they're doing very effectively. Wars are not won by tactics and strategies, they're won by logistics. If you can hold your line, then the war ends when your enemy runs out of the capacity to attack, and we're just about there - not just for the UAF but for all of NATO. They simply don't have the manufacturing capacity to keep up with the losses, it's as simple as that. Meanwhile, Russia has augmented its own formidable military production with Iranian and N Korean assistance. NATO can rattle their sabres all they want, but the war is already lost. This posturing you see is for domestic consumption ahead of the US election. To steal a line from Shakespeare, this latest pronouncement by Lindsey Graham " is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Same as always.
Unbelievable: 80+ years later another ground war in Kursk.
German tanks on Russian soil. That hasn't gone unnoticed in Russia.
If the North Atlantic TERRORIST Organization is so foolish as to allow western pilots to fly F-16s from Moldova Russia obviously has the right to retaliate against Moldova. Instead of sucking Romania in to invade Moldova threatening Transnistria, Russia most likely will take the gloves off and declare an actual war against the Nazi Kiev regime with weapons that the west doesn’t know exist.
"Right" has nothing to do with it.
My understanding is you need a squeaky clean runway to fly F-16s as they are notorious for vacuuming up debris into the engine. So how many squeaky clean runways does Moldova have, and how many will be left after Russia gets through with them? All you have then is the highways, and what sort of condition are they in? Can you even support your F16s in that scenario, far from base and out in the open with no hard shelter?
As usual nobody's thought this through. This is antiquated junk they're being offered which will be shot out of the sky the moment they pop up. I'm sure US pilots will be lining up around the block to fly those missions. On the bright side, you don't have to worry about being captured when you bail as you'll get hit long before you reach the line of contact.
Switch some of he MIG-31 payload back to R-37, aggressive air patrol backed up by more frequent AEW flight. But the AEW is a highly vulnerable asset. Shoot F-16 down in the sky rather than on the ground to avoid escalation.
US is entirely at fault for keeping the Korean nation separated, while Russia is entirely at fault for keeping Romanians separated. For over 70 years USSR/Russia have gaslighted Moldovans that they are ethnically different from Romanians.
I wonder what would the polls say about re-unification if the questions put were about re-uniting R of Moldova with its western half Moldovans (now part of Romania), with the historical cultural centres of Suceava and Iasi, under the image of Stephan the Great, who has statues both in Iasi and in Chisinau?
And if armed forces are need for re-unification, so be it. Once inside, Moldovans from over the Prut will see that local autonomy is how things are done in Romania, and that minority rights are respected - see the rights of Hungarians, so the ethnic Russians and Ukrainians shouldn't fret.
As for Transnistria it is true that was never Moldovan territory, but it should be considered a swap for Budjeak (that appendage territory on the Black Sea, that pushes so inorganically west from Ukraine), which was taken from Moldova and given to Ukraine after WWII (same time as Crimea I think).
But I appreciate Andrew's calling Moldova historical territory of Romania.
Romania has joined Germany in WWII in attacking USSR because USSR did strike first and took Bessarabia (R of Moldova) and Northern Bukovina (never before in control of Russia) after the 1939 non agression treaty with Germany... For Romania was a war of liberation, no matter what the view of Russians is on it.
No. NATO will base those F-16s out of Romania and Poland.
Russian indecision is what has led to this.
Actually an intelligent move on the part of US/NATO. Put your enemy on the horns of a dilemma
I'm not crazy about the following quote coming from "World Socialist Web Site," but I've learned to read all kinds of sites for information because we're highly censored and propagandized in the West. Upon reading about the Kursk incursion, my initial reaction was that it had Pentagon fingerprints all over it. This operation wasn't an Ukrainian one. Someone challenged me on another site, and I found:
"At its summit this week in Washington, the NATO military alliance announced the creation of an office inside Ukraine and the establishment of a NATO command in Germany, led by a three-star general, to oversee the war against Russia.
These actions signify the shift to a new phase in the war, in which the NATO military alliance will openly take charge of arming, funding and directing the Ukrainian military, as a prelude to the deployment of NATO forces in the conflict."
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/07/11/gzdi-j11.html
I found an AP story which corroborates...because Western news stories will never report nor analyze in this fashion. AP News writes:
"The new plan would be a complementary effort. Announcing the move after chairing a meeting of defense ministers in Brussels, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that the effort would be headquartered at a U.S. military base in Wiesbaden, Germany and involve almost 700 staff.
He said that it would help to organize training for Ukrainian military personnel in member countries of the alliance, coordinate and plan donations of the equipment that Kyiv needs, and manage the transfer and repair of that military materiel."
https://apnews.com/article/nato-ukraine-military-assistance-training-russia-war-b1c3549b4c3fa98e0792089402d3ee62
Essentially, the war's become directed by the U.S. who's taken over planning and strategizing with delivery of the planes and other weapons. They'll cite Ukraine as the fighter, but in actuality, NATO officers aka U.S. military officers are planning and conducting this operation as they would a war against their own forces.
The Ukrainians are fools. Their operations are unsustainable. They have no men with whom to fight. Mercenaries are wary of the poorly conducted war from Ukraine's side. NATO can only strategize within the parameters of a supposed Ukrainian military force; hence, the political plum of the Kursk invasion without Russia relaxing in the front.
Russia has reason for patience. If they move too rapidly, other nations might enter the war. In actual fact, Russia now has unfettered access to the Mediterranean and Black Sea if they can hold the territory while driving Ukraine to negotiations. This is probably the real reason the U.S. wants no negotiation: they don't want Russia controlling this territory let alone enjoying such luxurious access to the Mediterranean. I would suspect these places are highly strategic...though I have no knowledge of such matters.