Biden admin hopes New Arms Supplies Helps Ukraine Seize Crimea

Remember the kerfuffle about Hunter Biden being on the board of a Ukrainian gas company? That was a money laundering racket. Criminals paid money to Burisma, who then paid it to Hunter for his "advisory services." Hunter then paid it to his dad Joe in the form of $50,000/month rent for their home in Deleware. (Take a moment to think of how insanely high that rent is.)

Mitt Romney had a similar arrangement, except using some assistant instead of a relative. And there was at least one more Washington bigwig (whose name escapes me at the moment) who was part of this scheme as well.

That's what this war is about. Criminals trying to hide their crimes.

originally posted by: vNex92
a reply to: khnum

Russia has resources that can that Russia can use for decades.

The question does the US/West have the same amount of resources as Russia or China?

It's a shame that they (Russia) didn't maintain and update those said resources. They would have proved really useful right now. Please don't give me the 'they are holding back the really good stuff' line.

a reply to: vNex92

According to my atlas Crimea is part of Ukraine , not sure that's changed other than in Putin's head and I don't think that counts.

Recovering stolen property shouldn't be looked down on.

a reply to: JAY1980

"It's pretty intellectually dishonest to say Ukraine alone is standing against Russia."

Who said that?

originally posted by: vNex92
a reply to: khnum

Russia has resources that can that Russia can use for decades.

The question does the US/West have the same amount of resources as Russia or China?

lol Our military is larger than the rest of the worlds combined and you think we will be the ones to run out of equipment?

The propaganda is turning your mind to mush.

originally posted by: khnum
The Russians have 12000 tanks,good luck Ukies

Negatory good buddy.


How many tanks does Russia really have?

At the beginning of its full-scale invasion in Feb., Russia had around 3,330 operational tanks (2,840 with the ground forces, 330 with its naval infantry, and 160 with its airborne forces), according to the Military Balance 2021 database.

The database includes all tank types currently employed by Russia’s military, notably T-72s, T-80s, and T-90s, and their modifications.

According to Oryx, an online investigative project documenting equipment losses in Russia’s war, Russia has lost at least 994 tanks as of Sept. 1.

However, according to estimates by the Conflict Intelligence Team, an independent Russian online armed conflicts monitor, the Oryx database covers nearly 70% of the total equipment lost in combat by both sides, as it includes only fully-verified losses -- not every single captured or destroyed vehicle is pictured and documented.

Based on these estimates, Russia has lost nearly 1,300 tanks – an impressive 40% of its total operational tank fleet.

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The Military Balance 2021 database says Russian storage facilities have around 10,200 tanks, including various T-72s, 3,000 T-80s, and 200 T-90s.

The database’s 2016 publication also indicates that Russia has roughly 2,800 Cold War legacy T-55s (the first tank type to feature a nuclear warfare protection system in the 1950s) in storage, as well as 2,500 T-62s and 2,000 T-64s.

This means that Russia may have around 17,300 tanks produced between the late 1950s and now.

It likely does – on paper.

In reality, nobody – likely not even Russia – knows precisely how many of those estimated thousands can emerge from the mothballs and be made operational again.

In reality, thousands of those tanks in storage will never move again. Corruption, theft, and lack of maintenance has killed them.

True, 50 or 100 modern tanks added to Ukraine's already force of a few hundred Soviet era tanks isn't going to 'man up' to the 1500 or whatever that Russian can still deploy in a major tank battle. But tank battles don't happen anymore and Ukraine is using its tanks a lot better than Russia is.