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On this day a year ago
Ukraine
The repercussions of the missile attack at Kremenchuk have caused a reaction at the G7 summit. While the governmental leaders present have renewed pledges to help the Zelensky regime, that regime itself has bitten the hand that is feeding it, criticizing the amount and speed of resupply.
The latest reports are that the Kiev regime is finding it hard to resupply units armed with Soviet artillery, mainly because the stocks of suitable ammunition in Ukraine itself are running low, and because the only other substantial stocks are held by Russia and by ex-Soviet republics unwilling to anger, too much, the Russian Government.
NATO uses artillery ammunition of calibres unsuitable for use in Soviet-era artillery pieces.
Even if more NATO artillery is sent to Ukraine, together with NATO or NATO-compatible ammunition, the bulk of Ukraine’s artillery would by then be unusable for lack of suitable Soviet-type ammunition.
If Kiev-regime sources are to be believed, at present the Russians have an artillery advantage, numerically, of at least 10:1, possibly 15:1. When is added to that the fact that much of the Russian artillery has a reach further than that of the Ukrainians, the advantage is naturally even greater.
In relation to infantry, the Russians do not seem to be using it much, not on a wide scale; only for urban fighting. As for the Ukrainians, their infantry seems to be mainly dug-in, in urban areas where the Russian advantage in artillery and missiles is lessened in effect.
In any case, the Kiev-regime forces appear not to be very mobile, because of (speculating) fuel shortages and/or fear of artillery or air attack in open country.
Another feature of this war is the relative absence of air battles and even bombing. The Russians lost a great deal of air power, especially helicopters, in the early weeks, to Ukrainian missiles. The Russians seem now to be cautious in their use of air.
As to the air force of the Ukrainians, I have seen or read little of it. Presumably under hardened bunkers in the west of the country.
The Kremenchuk attack is unlikely to have been accidental, or a mistake. It made the point to the G7 leaders that Russia is raising the stakes. As I blogged yesterday, the attack is saying to the G7 and to the civilians along the Dnieper, in the cities of Zaporozhye, Dnipro, Kremenchuk and, yes, Kiev as well, that “we are coming“.
The G7 leaders must be acutely aware of Russia’s nuclear arsenal, no matter that some of it might not work. Even a single nuclear missile on London, Washington, New York or wherever would undo a lot of well-laid plans. In the UK, it would mean, very likely, the end of the country as a major military and economic power.
What a time in which to have an idiot such as “Boris” at the head of affairs.
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See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/12/10/thoughts-about-bitcoin/
The same was true from 2010, when Conservative Party voters —mostly elderly houseowners in the UK, esp. the south of England— in effect declared war on those who were not houseowners and/or were unemployed and/or disabled and/or poor generally.
That was not merely a difference of political opinion, it was (for the victims) a case of being subjected to a legalized form of bullying and harassment which amounted to attack.
Can you imagine? A great city such as Chicago (once touted as potential capital of the USA) being “governed” by a ridiculous monkey of that sort…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori_Lightfoot; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori_Lightfoot#Other_controversies
“Ukraine is the new ‘Covid’“…
A lying, chancing, part-Jew/Levantine “Prime Minister”, an ambitious but not very impressive general, and an (((infested))) UK msm. Result? Could be catastrophic.
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Jeremy Vine. A talentless little blot paid hundreds of thousands a year by the now-useless (when not actively malicious) BBC.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Vine].
An assertion which may be true but was not, I think, on TV or in the Western msm generally (I have not seen any TV news recently).
Small children in St. Albans being fed evil (though posing as good) propaganda by migrant-invaders. Who or what, though, might be (((behind))) those invaders? What (((influence))) is organizing it all?
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/19019471/ghislaine-maxwell-jailed-abuse-jeffrey-epstein/.
20 years. Federal time, so no parole. She will be 80 by the time she gets out.
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