Comments by "PNH 6000" (@PNH-sf4jz) on "The Russian Dude"
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A positive result of the steady provision of Western weapons is that over the period of nearly 2 years the majority of people have had the gradually developing opportunity to see Russia in its true colours.
At the beginning of 2022, there were still people who believed that Russia was just another maligned country that was having a difficult time.
During the intervening 18 months to two years, the majority of people in the Free World have had the opportunity to see exactly how vile, vitriolic and malevolent the speech and actions of the Russian political, military and media establishment really are.
Russia's insurgency, invasion and incitement to insurrection in Crimea and the Donbas region in 2014 was inexcusable and totally without justification, except to satisfy Russia's own greed, and desire and intention of imperialist expansion. The Russian full-scale invasion in February 2022 simply compounded an already indefensible atrocity.
I am pleased that the WAR waged by Russia did not culminate more quickly. I believe that many lives of Ukrainian civilians and military personnel have been saved and even greater destruction has been avoided. Had the WAR, waged by Russia against Ukraine, been fought more quickly and aggressively, the Russian response, at each stage, would likely have been hotter and more devastating.
All the Russians from Putin, Lavrov, Peskov, Russian ambassadors Kelin {UK} and Antonov {US}, the media entities, Simonyan, Solovyov, Skabeyeva, Mardan and other media "hosts" and their "guests" and "panelists" have shown and demonstrated how devoid of positive principles and values are the Russian political, military and media establishment, and presumably, a significant proportion of the Russian population.
🇺🇦 Victory for Ukraine, Absolute Victory 🇺🇦
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During the last two years Putin was changing generals every 3 to 6 months. Most of the Commanders have served in Chechnya, Syria, Georgia, the Transnistrian conflict in Moldova, among others.
-- Alexandr Dvornikov 'The Butcher of Syria'
-- Surgey Surovikin ‘General Armageddon’
"During his short time overseeing the troops in Ukraine, Surovikin was credited with strengthening coordination and reinforcing control.
"But he also announced a withdrawal in November from Kherson, one of the biggest and most important cities Russian forces had captured during the conflict.
Surovikin's demotion signalled that Russian President Vladimir Putin was not fully satisfied with his performance.
-- Valery Gerasimov
"The move not only made Gerasimov directly accountable for the fate of the campaign but also in effect demoted General Sergey Surovikin, nicknamed “General Armageddon” by the Russian media for his reputed ruthlessness.
"Surovikin’s demotion came after only three months on the job, and he becomes Gerasimov’s deputy along with two other generals
– Oleg Salyukov and
-- Alexey Kim.
-- Gennady Zhidko
The Russians claim "The only rule of WAR is the outcome". See the reference below to bombing hospitals.
"The 1999–2000 battle of Grozny was the siege and assault of the Chechen capital Grozny by Russian forces, lasting from late 1999 to early 2000. The siege and fighting left the capital devastated. In 2003, the United Nations called Grozny the most destroyed city on Earth. Between 5,000 and 8,000 civilians were killed during the siege, making it the bloodiest episode of the Second Chechen War."
It is really amazing that we see the same types of events statements and aggressive military action from and by Russia, time and time again.
https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Russia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Russia
List of wars involving Russia since dissolution of USSR in 1991
1991–1993 Georgian Civil War
1992 Transnistria War
1992 East Prigorodny Conflict North Ossetia-Alania
1992–1997 Tajikistani Civil War
1993 Russian spillover into Azerbaijan
1994–1996 First Chechen War
1999 War of Dagestan
1999–2009 Second Chechen War
2008 Russo-Georgian War
2009–2017 Insurgency in the North Caucasus
2014–present Russo-Ukrainian War
2015–present Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War
2018–present Central African Republic Civil War
A web-search of "Russian bombing of hospitals" returns the following results
{Adding the name "Syria" generates even more results also in different countries}:
-- Russian strikes on hospitals during the Russian invasion of ... Wikipedia
-- Russian bombings of hospitals and healthcare - Ukraine ReliefWeb 10 Mar 2022
-- Revealed: how Russia deliberately targeted Kherson's ... The Guardian 20 Sept 2023
-- Russia's 226 attacks on health-care targets in Ukraine are ... NPR 16 Mar 2022
-- Ukraine: Over 700 recorded attacks on health facilities and ... BMJ by E Mahase · 2023
-- WHO says 64 hospitals attacked since Russian invasion of ... Al Jazeera 24 Mar 2022
-- Report: Nearly one in every 10 hospitals in Ukraine have ... CNN.com 21 Feb 2023
-- Destruction and Devastation: One Year of Russia's Assault ... Physicians for Human Rights 21 Feb 2023
-- Syrian and Russian forces targeting hospitals as a strategy ... Amnesty International 3 Mar 2016
-- Russia's Long History of Bombing Hospitals New Lines Magazine 11 Mar 2022
-- At Least 707 Attacks on Health Care in Ukraine During One ... Physicians for Human Rights 21 Feb 2023
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@spicesmuggler2452 The Russian military fighting for Bakhmut for how many months ? Russian forces have been trying to take the city for over six months.
There is no need to divert attention; six months of fighting for Bakhmut is enough. And enough is enough. Russia has gained the huge distance of 20 milles {32 km}, from Popasna to Bakhmut, in six months, at the cost of many hundreds of lives each day.
Another consideration is the routing of the Russians from Kyiv, many Ukrainian people fighting with only improvised weapons like "Molotov cocktails". To be generous we may say that the Russians retreated or withdrew. The same applied to Kharkiv and Kherson where the Russians magnanimously, with a "gesture of goodwill" retreated from major portions of those oblasts.
I would think that the Russians would want to forget all about Bakhmut, since they have gained so little ground at the cost of so many lives. However, if the Russians do not care about their military personnel or the mobilised prisoners or the members of Prigozhin's private military company, the Wagner group, then those lives really don't matter to the Russians, Those lives were expendable to achieve the goal, the military objective.
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No, the transcript of what T.R.Dude said, reads as follows:
"And then he claimed that all these western sanctions had absolutely no effect against the Russian economy, which is absolutely prevailing right now.
"The effect of the sanctions was so negligible, according to him, that even the most common people of Russia, they didn't feel anything whenever their yachts and palaces were taken away.
"And, yes, you heard it right; regular people, yachts and palaces. I have no idea in which world he lives when the regular average salary is about $800.00 per month, but this is what he said, literally."
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@nicolaasstempels8207
In an attempt to speed up the culmination of the WAR in Russia's favour, Russia apparently put their military trainers into the field last year, 2022. Very likely, that is the reason why their recruits and mobilised personnel are considered to have very limited and inadequate training for combat.
Consequently, they use and conserve what remains of their best troops as blocking and backing troops, while sending the less trained personnel to the front. It is said that more than than half of their elite VDV {paratroops} have been eliminated.
The Russians started out with fresh troops and more than three times the numbers and higher quality of land-based hardware, than the Ukrainians, in their 2nd and full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The Russians also had overwhelming air superiority with helicopters, fighter jets and heavy bombers. The Russians had sunk or commandeered all of Ukraine's navy boats and ships.
The Ukrainians had some older soviet style tanks, a few planes and helicopters, shoulder mounted anti-tank weapons and the civilians were fighting with Molotov-cocktails hurled into the air-intakes and turrets of the tanks. This was after Russia had demilitarised Ukraine by Agreements, Memoranda and Treaties between 1991 and 1997. However, it is interesting to see how things have changed.
Apparently, Russia and Ukraine are presently at about parity with their land-based hardware and weapons. Russia still has large numbers of aircraft, though we know that their Black Sea fleet has had to sail from Sevastopol, East to the Port of Novorossiysk.
The following figures provide some perspective on losses. Ukraine had less to lose at the start, but Russia has lost three times as much as Ukraine to the present.
"This list only includes {confirmed} destroyed {hardware} vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here."
Source: ORYX website "Hardware Losses in Ukraine" {Confirmed}
** Ukraine ** Total Hardware & Tank Losses 24 Feb 2022 to 1 Oct 2023
Total - 4786, of which: destroyed: 3274, damaged: 373, abandoned: 186, captured: 953
Tanks - 695, of which destroyed: 466, damaged: 56, abandoned: 40, captured: 133
** Russia ** Total Hardware & Tank Losses 24 Feb 2022 to 1 Oct 2023
Total - 13285, of which: destroyed: 9241, damaged: 597, abandoned: 542, captured: 2905
Tanks - 2513, of which destroyed: 1649, damaged: 140, abandoned: 176, captured: 548
Russian Naval Ships and Submarines (19, of which destroyed: 12, damaged: 7) {now probably more}
1 Project 1164 Slava-class guided missile cruiser: (1, Moskva, sunk)
1 Project 22800 Karakurt-class corvette: (1, B-802 'Askold', destroyed)
1 Project 636.3 Improved Kilo-class submarine: (1, B-237 'Rostov-na-Donu', damaged beyond economical repair)
5 Project 03160 Raptor-class patrol boat: (1, destroyed) (2, destroyed) (3, destroyed) (1, damaged) (2, damaged)
1 Project 02510 BK-16E high-speed assault boat: (1, destroyed)
1 Project 640 small patrol boat: (1, destroyed)
1 Project 1171 Tapir-class landing ship: (1, BDK-65 'Saratov', destroyed)
3 Project 775 Ropucha-class landing ship: (1, 'Minsk', damaged beyond economical repair) (1, damaged) (2, 'Olenegorsky Gornyak', damaged)
2 Project 11770 Serna-class landing craft: (1, destroyed) (1, damaged)
1 Project 1176 Ondatra-class landing craft: (1, damaged)
1 Project 22870 rescue tug: (1, SB-739 V'asily Bekh', destroyed)
1 Project 266M Natya-class minesweeper: (1, damaged)
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I believe that the supply of ATACMS at this time has been timely and neither too soon nor too late. The Russian military hardware has been reduced to a stage where their responses are now severely limited. Had the ATACMS been supplied sooner, the Russians may have "pulled out all stops", and attacked with even greater ferocity than that with which they are now capable. The consequence would inevitably have been even higher numbers of Ukrainian lives, both of civilians and military personnel lost, and greater destruction and devastation.
The Russians have surely shown, right from their initial invasion in 2014, that they adhere to absolutely no laudable principles when waging WAR. For this reason, it was imperative that Russian military capability, including their navy, should be diminished as far as possible before, what we hope to be, Ukraine's final major strikes.
Russian Naval Ships and Submarines (16, of which destroyed: 11, damaged: 5) February 2022 to October 2023
1 Project 1164 Slava-class guided missile cruiser: (1, Moskva, sunk)
1 Project 636.3 Improved Kilo-class submarine: (1, B-237 'Rostov-na-Donu', {Rostov-on-Don} damaged beyond economical repair)
5 Project 03160 Raptor-class patrol boat: (1, destroyed) (2, destroyed) (3, destroyed) (1, damaged) (2, damaged)
1 Project 02510 BK-16E high-speed assault boat: (1, destroyed)
1 Project 640 small patrol boat: (1)
1 Project 1171 Tapir-class landing ship: (1, BDK-65 'Saratov', destroyed)
3 Project 775 Ropucha-class landing ship: (1, 'Minsk', damaged beyond economical repair) (1, damaged) (2, 'Olenegorsky Gornyak', damaged)
1 Project 11770 Serna-class landing craft: (1, destroyed)
1 Project 22870 rescue tug: (1, SB-739 V'asily Bekh', destroyed)
1 Project 266M Natya-class minesweeper: (1, damaged)
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Russia has taken no meaningful area of land in the last twelve months after losing half of what they had illegally occupied in March 2022 when they retreated, withdrew and were routed from Kyiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Kherson. And Russia is still losing hardware, including land-based hardware and equipment, aircraft and even ships of their Black Sea fleet as well as tens of thousands of their future posterity in terms of the personnel that are dying on the fronts.
This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here.
Russia - Total hardware and Tank losses 24 Feb 2022 to 1 Nov 2023
Total - 12863, of which: destroyed: 8911, damaged: 554, abandoned: 498, captured: 2900
Tanks - 2437, of which destroyed: 1591, damaged: 139, abandoned: 157, captured: 550
Ukraine - Total hardware and Tank losses 24 Feb 2022 to 1 Nov 2023
Total - 4666, of which: destroyed: 3179, damaged: 354, abandoned: 172, captured: 960
Tanks - 682, of which destroyed: 451, damaged: 55, abandoned: 35, captured: 141
Russian Naval Ships and Submarines (16, of which destroyed: 11, damaged: 5)
1 Project 1164 Slava-class guided missile cruiser: (1, Moskva, sunk)
1 Project 636.3 Improved Kilo-class submarine: (1, B-237 'Rostov-na-Donu', damaged beyond economical repair)
5 Project 03160 Raptor-class patrol boat: (1, destroyed) (2, destroyed) (3, destroyed) (1, damaged) (2, damaged)
1 Project 02510 BK-16E high-speed assault boat: (1, destroyed)
1 Project 640 small patrol boat: (1, destroyed)
1 Project 1171 Tapir-class landing ship: (1, BDK-65 'Saratov', destroyed)
3 Project 775 Ropucha-class landing ship: (1, 'Minsk', damaged beyond economical repair) (1, damaged) (2, 'Olenegorsky Gornyak', damaged)
1 Project 11770 Serna-class landing craft: (1, destroyed)
1 Project 22870 rescue tug: (1, SB-739 V'asily Bekh', destroyed)
1 Project 266M Natya-class minesweeper: (1, damaged)
Russia: Total aircraft losses - 539, of which: destroyed: 369, damaged: 36, captured: 134
Combat Aircraft (82, of which destroyed: 78, damaged: 4)
Strategic Bombers (3, of which destroyed: 1, damaged: 2)
Command And Control Aircraft (2, of which destroyed: 1, damaged: 1)
Transport Aircraft (6, of which destroyed: 5, damaged: 1)
Helicopters (131, of which destroyed: 101, damaged: 28, captured: 2)
Ukraine: Total aircraft losses - 325, of which: destroyed: 231, damaged: 4, captured: 73
Combat Aircraft (71, of which destroyed: 70, damaged: 1)
Jet Trainers (2, of which destroyed: 2)
Transport Aircraft (4, of which destroyed: 3, captured: 1)
Helicopters (37, of which destroyed: 33, damaged: 1, captured: 3)
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All the B52's have been rebuilt and upgraded, a number of times, in accordance with contemporary requirements and specifications. They are most certainly not the same B52's that existed during the 1950's and 60's. Details of the upgrades are easily accessible by websearch. All of the information shown below is freely available on the WEB. Any comparrison between the current B-52's and the T12 or E12 anti-tank gun is absolutely ridiculous and ludicrous.
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is an American long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber. The B-52 was designed and built by Boeing, which has continued to provide support and upgrades. It has been operated by the United States Air Force since the 1950s. Wikipedia
What is the youngest B-52 bomber?
The youngest B-52 left Boeing's Wichita factory in 1962, meaning the 76 B-52Hs that remain in service are, technically, at least 59 years old.
The B-52H is the only version still in service. The U.S. Air Force contracted 62 B-52H Stratofortresses, serial numbers 60-0001 through 60-0062, on 6 May 1960.
Will the B-52 ever be retired?
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Many believe the B-52 will still be in service for its 100-year milestone; the long-range, subsonic bomber used by the United States Air Force is expected to remain in service through the 2040s.
A new computer-generated rendering from Boeing offers a window into what the U.S. Air Force's fleet of B-52H bombers will look like after receiving a host of upgrades in the coming years. The company had previously revealed that the next iteration of the B-52 – which may ultimately receive the designation B-52J or B-52K – would feature noticeably larger underwing engine pods to accommodate new Rolls-Royce F130 turbofans. But the new rendering goes well beyond that, offering a freshened-up, more streamlined, reworked Stratofortress.
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