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Scraping the bottom of the barrel..

Well…haven’t talked about the illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine in a while so, with what was reported this morning, I thought I’d just do a shorty on it…the amount of equipment that Russia has lost is just staggering…I mean almost 3,000 tanks, thousands of artillery pieces, thousands of armored fighting vehicles…you get the point, they have been bleeding equipment almost on a daily basis…just yesterday they lost 8 tanks…and with the sanctions in place, the Russians really can’t replace them with the semi modern tanks they were sending…they really don’t have a modern tank that can match the Leopard 2′s or the M1 Abrams that we are sending them in the near future…so what is Russia’s response? They start sending even older tanks that they had in storage in Siberia or someplace like that…just today photos were posted of tanks that were made in the 40′s…late 40′s I guess but at least designed in the late 40′s….by comparison, if we sent tanks of that generation, we’d have to dig some Shermans out of museums to go that far back….where do you get parts for something that old? I do know that one Leopard or Abrams could take on 30 or 40 of those old relics and come away unscathed…remember that in the Iraq war, not one Abrams was lost to the same tanks the Russians are using in Ukraine…so the ones they scraped off the bottom of the barrel are really not going to do much….but, hey…keep sending them, they will make great scrap metal….

This is a little funny…

Well…ran across this little tidbit about the Ukrainian army that struck me as a little funny…not that this invasion and murder by Putin is funny at all….a couple of days ago, when I was reading the news, someone mentioned that the Ukrainian army now has more tanks than they did when the invasion started…if you’ve been following this atrocity, you’ll understand this comment that is supported by videos of Russian tank crews running out of fuel and abandoning their tanks to have them towed away by Ukrainian farmers….and you have to admit the picture of the Russian “supermen” running away from their tanks in droves while the Ukrainians sit and wait for it to happen and then adding the abandoned tanks to their own army is a little funny…and one of the jokes going around asks: what country is the biggest donor to the Ukrainian army? Of course the answer is Russia…whether it’s true or not is not the point…it’s just another pin pricking the bubble of Russian superiority and helps the morale of Ukrainians everywhere….humor will do that…..