Originally Posted by
NutLoose
This is what I worry about, Russia is starting to ramp up production in all areas, the defences they have built are bleeding Ukraine dry, the counter offensive delays have increased those problems exponentially, gone are the times where Ukraine can rapidly advance from the likes of Kharkiv to Lyman. I do hope they can make a breakthrough and drop those damned bridges.
Saying RuSSia is ramping up production in all areas from a report that they are putting out more drones than before with the continued assistance of Iran, is possibly a fairly tenuously supported position. The ruble has had every lever pulled to keep it up so the inmates of the asylum Vlad oversees don't puke into their vodka bottle while having breakfast, those levers have been bent to the stops and the economy continues to be welcomed back to the dark ages. Seepage though the sanctions is continuing to occur, but the buffer to the population that adore Vlad has been exhausted, as has a fair chunk of his military capability built since Gorby was boss. The stuff that has been spectacularly lost is the stuff that RuSSia is trying to foist in arms sales to the rest of the impoverished world, who have been given a great lesson in the capabilities of 'gators and Ivan yadayadas survival when faced with MANPADS and drones of various flavours. Equally, Ukraine and RuSSia have taught lessons to all concerned on the benefits and limitations of drones etc, and the defensive systems to those.
Ukraine does need more air defence capability against drones, they are taking out a lot of them, but they need more protection yet, and sure, RuSSia will continue with their program of attacking civilians, as they always do, so as targeting civilians deliberately is nowadays classified as a war crime, how about our own leaders getting serious about supporting Ukraine in defense of their civilian populations. RuSSia has no place at present in any international community organisation, the recent attack by a Wagner "soldier" committing murder on a train in RuSSia is an apt metaphor for Vlad and his minions, if the wholesale ransacking of the RuSSian sovereign wealth by him and his minions is added as an aside.
RuSSia's vector remains as before, Titanic like.