Russia has lost 87% of troops it had prior to start of Ukraine war, according to US intelligence assessment
Russia has lost a staggering 87 percent of the total number of active-duty ground troops it had prior to launching its invasion of Ukraine and two-thirds of its pre-invasion tanks, a source familiar with a declassified US intelligence assessment provided to Congress told CNN.
Still, despite heavy losses of men and equipment, Russian President Vladimir Putin is determined to push forward as the war approaches its two-year anniversary early next year and US officials are warning that Ukraine remains deeply vulnerable. A highly anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensive stagnated through the fall, and US officials believe that Kyiv is unlikely to make any major gains over the coming months.
The assessment, sent to Capitol Hill on Monday, comes as some Republicans have balked at the US providing additional funding for Ukraine and the Biden administration has launched a full-court press to try to get supplemental funding through Congress.
If we could harness the energy of Regan spinning in his grave, we'd have a limitless supply of energy.
Imagine telling any conservative, during the Cold War era, that we could completely fuck Russia's military power and readiness, for years to come, by sending weapons to a relatively small country. They would be rushing to arm anyone and everyone they could, unintended consequences be damned. And yet, here we are with the GOP blocking exactly that sort of activity. And even better, there is a very real possibility that we aren't arming future terrorists this time around. Maybe that's the GOP's problem, Russia losing in Ukraine won't create an excuse in 20 years to kill more brown people.
I had always thought the same thing about Nixon, after he sees what Trump gets away with.
Ya, it's pretty bad when you can look at Nixon as a "stand up guy" compared to Trump. He at least had the decency to recognize that he had been caught in his bullshit, resign and go away.
Nixon is really interesting as a president it's kind of a shame how he's only remembered for Watergate and the drug war now. Most people don't think "created the EPA" or "desegregation" when they picture Nixon, he also ended the Viet Nam war and draft. Definitely a complex person above a lot of other presidents, poor Quaker upbringing and looked down on by his elite classmates, could have rejected the draft on his Quakerism but became a lieutenant commander, insanely respected as he rose through the ranks and commended by almost everyone he worked with. Did terrible things with Kissinger in South America as a staunch anti-communist. It's like every stark judgement on him has some extreme counter example. The guy basically was the USA at an insane time in history, definitely a man who fully embodied that period of history.
Say what you will about the Boomers, but at least they knew when it was time to leave.
Trump is literally a boomer.
Way to ruin a joke.
Ain't that literally why they supported the Mujahideen?
Bingo! You get the prize :)
Religious fanatics.
Not religious fanatics this time.
They don't want to hurt the feelings of anyone they made friends with on their last 4th of July holiday in Moscow
You won't their are wild cards at play.
There*. Also, mind elaborating? Or are these wild cards pulled from your rectum?
In the world of politics you never give something for free. The Republicans are asking for more stringent border security and more border funding. If democrats were truly committed to supporting Ukraine then they would have made those concessions all ready. The problem is democrats love exploiting brown people for their cheap sweat shop labor.
You could build an IMAX theater with all that projection.
Border security wouldn't stop migrant workers. The whole "invasion of the border" thing is never talking about those people, as was proven by farmers lamenting their absence in Florida.
I wasn't referencing migrant workers with work visas, I was referencing all the people entering illegally. Of course farm owners are upset, their source of cheap labor dried up.
Yes, hence my first sentence.
You know what would actually put a dent in illegal immigration? Fixing their country that we broke. They come here because being undocumented and working under the table with potentially dangerous conditions is better than their home country. Maybe we shouldn't have destabilized so many democracies in South America.
If you expect us to take responsibility for our actions, then we'd have to have real solutions, and it's just easier to complain about things, plus we'd have to arrest a looooooot of war criminals.
Bullshit. You pass a law because it's the right thing to help the country not because you got something for it.
I agree with you, Maggoty, and that why neither one of us will get very far in National politics.
That's cute that you think the world works that way.
The existence of bad people does not invalidate morality.
The existence of morality does not change how politics works.
That's demonstrably untrue. Otherwise we'd still be operating under monarchies.
Many monarchies were overthrown by people some ceeded power so they wouldn't get overthrown.
That's the point.
I'm failing to understand how monarchs ceeding some power to retain others shows that politicians act selflessly.
Because they would never have had to do that if morals and values didn't change and force the issue.
The monarch ceeding was not acting selflessly.
No but that doesn't mean morality didn't cause them to leave. They didn't care, everyone else cared.
Jesse what the fuck are you talking about
Or the Dems know that letting the GOP get their shitty ideas through just because Dems want something isn't a good idea and are going to try to do it without the traitors' party's help
They have been, some substantial compromises actually. The Republicans still wanting more, in a non-compromising sort of way.
Personally I'm hoping the FBI actually does checks on everyone in Congress, to make sure they're not being compromised to vote in certain ways that certain countries wants.
George W. Bush set the precedent that The US does not negotiate with terrorists. Even when those terrorists are in Congress. They should stop setting precedents they don't really mean.
Oh yes, more money to fix the perpetual, nebulously defined "border problem".
Sometimes compromise is not the solution. This is one of those times. I'm tired of Republican fearmongers getting rich off my tax dollars by funneling it into the border security slush fund.
Or is it that the Democrats understand the rhetorical danger of equating an actual war in Europe involving a major nuclear power, with the ego driven pet project of a fascist demagogue?