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Lest we forget...
"We will not leave without our guns."
tee, hee.
Lest we forget...
"We will not leave without our guns."
tee, hee.
Let us proceed...
State run media CNN reporting!!!
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Biden officials privately doubt that Ukraine can win back all of its territory.
By Natasha Bertrand, CNN
Updated 12:00 AM ET, Tue June 28, 2022
(CNN) White House officials are losing confidence that Ukraine will ever be able to take back all of the land it has lost to Russia over the past four months of war, US officials told CNN, even with the heavier and more sophisticated weaponry the US and its allies plan to send.
Advisers to President Joe Biden have begun debating internally how and whether Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should shift his definition of a Ukrainian "victory" -- adjusting for the possibility that his country has shrunk irreversibly.
More russian losses.
State run media CNN reporting!!!
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Biden officials privately doubt that Ukraine can win back all of its territory.
By Natasha Bertrand, CNN
Updated 12:00 AM ET, Tue June 28, 2022
(CNN) White House officials are losing confidence that Ukraine will ever be able to take back all of the land it has lost to Russia over the past four months of war, US officials told CNN, even with the heavier and more sophisticated weaponry the US and its allies plan to send.
Advisers to President Joe Biden have begun debating internally how and whether Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should shift his definition of a Ukrainian "victory" -- adjusting for the possibility that his country has shrunk irreversibly.
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HERE IS THE END OF THIS STORY. THE ENTIRE STORY IS OVER ON STATE RUN MEDIA CNN, but this last part is too damn juicy for old Dale to leave alone.
Let us proceed...
[[[The hunt for Soviet-era weaponry
As CNN has previously reported, Russia is looking in particular to exploit the gap between how much Soviet-style ammunition Ukraine and its allies have in their stockpiles, and how long it will take the west to provide Ukraine with modern, NATO-standard weapons and munitions that require time-consuming training.
A senior defense official acknowledged to CNN that the Soviet-era stocks are "dwindling," but haven't yet reached "rock bottom." The official said that some eastern European countries still have more they could provide -- but only if they continue to be backfilled by allies with more modern equipment.
The US and its allies, meanwhile, have been scrounging the world for the kind of Soviet-era ammunition that fits the equipment Ukraine already has, including 152 mm artillery ammunition. NATO-standard weapons fire larger, 155mm rounds. But another US defense official told CNN that effort is effectively reaching its end, with almost everything available that countries are willing to provide having already gone in.
Given the prodigious rate at which the Ukrainians have gone through their older ammunition in the bruising artillery fight in the Donbas, the official said, "Soviet-era weapons are being wiped off the earth."]]]
"Soviet-era weapons are being wiped off the earth."
- U.S. Defense Official
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U.S. are scroungers!!!
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"The U.S. and its allies have been scrounging the world for the kind of Soviet-era ammunition that fits the equipment Ukraine has."
Go Joe Go!
Russia begging for ammunition from Belarus, wonder why!?
The Russian Federation has staggered Ukraine!!!
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"Ukraine has struggled to repel Russia's advances in the Donbas and has suffered staggering troop losses."
Black Gold & Moscow Tea fueling & feathering the Federation's cap as oil prices have skyrocketed.
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"Russian oil revenues have only been going up as oil prices have skyrocketed."
Redford & Robertson debating black gold 50 years ago...
-3 Days of the Condor-
Higgins: It's simple economics. Today it's oil, right? In ten or fifteen years, food. Plutonium. Maybe even sooner. Now, what do you think the people are gonna want us to do then?
Joe Turner: Ask them?
Higgins: Not now - then! Ask 'em when they're running out. Ask 'em when there's no heat in their homes and they're cold. Ask 'em when their engines stop. Ask 'em when people who have never known hunger start going hungry. You wanna know something? They won't want us to ask 'em. They'll just want us to get it for 'em!
The russians crying!
GO---PUTIN---GO!!!
Make sure you're right...
Then give Effy the 12 incher.
Cool as the old proverbial cu ber.
Putin!!!
& yet Putin is taking on the entire free & non free world, Rarg; NATO, EU, UN, us, 50+ countries + Z'land and doing yeoman work 4 months in!
Lav!!!
RED ROVER, RED ROVER LET VLADDY COME OVER
BOOM!!!
A SHORT EYES CHILD SNIFFER
Invictus
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank what ever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of cir stance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scrolls,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
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