Ukrainian War Developments

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Fedupwithlies

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Pivot to Asia and the US attempts to face China in the global south is dead. China, barring any major missteps, will overtake the US economically by 2025, technologically by 2030, militarily by 2035.

The US will never experience the peace dividend they had post-90's ever again. Their military spending will continue to grow ever larger trying to support older and older equipment, too committed to too many things to ever replace and repair, and funding ever more reckless overseas expeditions in an attempt to hang onto every bit of their empire, letting their fundamental infrastructure at home crumble to dust.
 

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"The Ukrainians have had time to get into positions inside Kyiv. If the Russians are trying to make a large push tonight, it’s going to be some ugly urban fighting."

Yeah. It is going to be really bad. Zelensky's 15,000 civilians in the night, likely with the power cut off, with just their shirts, against professional Russian soldiers with night vision equipment and body armor. Ever heard of Ratnik 2?

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"By 2020, the Russian army will be fully equipped with Ratnik-2, by now the troops have received more than 200,000 kits," Russia’s Central Research Institute of Precision Machine Building told Sputnik on Wednesday.
That twitter "analysis" is backwards.
Zelensky fucked up because he didn't order a mobilization a month earlier.
And started actual fortification of the capital. They were never given the time.

Kyiv could easily have been a much harder nut to crack. Not days, but weeks and months without even sending every child and grandma into the front lines with molotovs.

A bit ranty, but I don't think Kyiv urban fighting is going to be a big thing unlike what the breathless accounts tell us.
 
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