The Russian army is a mile wide and an inch deep. Yes, they have a massive army, but by all accounts the troops are bumbling and incompetent. And these are their professional soldiers. Rushing in poorly trained conscripts are unlikely to change the calculus. Russian equipment is clearly inferior to Western weapons. Russia has lost about 25,000 KIA in less than three months, which is about half the US KIA in the entire Vietnam War. Russian clearly cannot sustain this rate of attrition.
https://twitter.com/peregreine/status/1523815027937009664
552) #StandWithUkraine #DefeatPutin
Russian troops in Ukraine who refuse to fight as reported on by Newsweek.
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-russia-troops-morale-armed-…
Ukraine has said that disillusioned Russian troops are refusing to fight in the war.
The claim by the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces comes amid numerous reports of low morale among Russian troops over the six weeks since the start of the conflict.
Ukraine’s military said on Thursday that some Russian units had been placed in tent towns on Russian territory bordering Ukraine and that “soldiers are refusing to participate in further combat in Ukraine.”
I’ve seen some concerns that our stocks of Javelins and Stingers might become depleted. Those weapons were built to destroy Russian equipment, so let’s use them for their intended purpose and deplete the stocks. They do no good sitting in a warehouse. IMO, we should triple down on our support for Ukraine.
-syke6
- #StandWithUkraine #DefeatPutin
Biden signed the Lend Lease Program into law not even an hour ago:
https://archive.ph/8ZQ2i
WaPoHeadline: Biden to sign Ukraine lend-lease act into law, expediting military aid
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By Amy B Wang
Today at 1:10 p.m. EDT
President Biden is scheduled to sign into law Monday afternoon a bill that would expedite the process of sending military aid to Ukraine, as the Eastern European country presses into its third month of fighting off a Russian invasion.
The House passed the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 last month on a 417-to-10 vote. Only a few weeks before, the Senate had passed it unanimously, a rare and overwhelming show of bipartisanship in today’s bitterly divided Congress.
The measure, introduced by a bipartisan group of senators, would update a 1941 law the United States used to help its allies during World War II. Once the bill is signed into law, the United States will be able to more quickly provide equipment and other supplies to Ukraine during the ongoing Russian invasion, as the bill enhances Biden’s authority to expedite agreements with Ukraine and other Eastern European countries.