Geopolitical Risk

[Waltzing]

IDF's Trophy system in the M4 has already had some pretty good outings with HAMAS...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophy_(countermeasure)

probably the UKE's will get Tanks with these systems...

More dead Ugly bears ....

Does it feel like the middle ages yet?

Just how many be headings will emerge ....

Some liberal Journos in an interview just got dusted by the IDF rep... the JOURNOS just sat down...

[Onemootpoint]

The changing character of war:

Expensive, massive tanks destroyed by small and cheap loitering munitions.

Drones helping artillery locate targets.
A battlefield so flooded with sensors that it's impossible to stay hidden for long.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the Army has carefully taken note of these trends. Now those changes are reshaping the service's plans from acquisition to how to approach formations to reimagining logistics. Already, the Army has rethought its plans to modernize tanks and altering its strategies with drones.

"The character of war is changing," Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George told Defense News in an interview ahead of the Association of the U.S. Army's annual conference. "It's changed more in the last couple of years because of the war in Ukraine. And I think it will continue to change at a very rapid pace and we have to have the mindset to change with it."


https://www.defensenews.com/land/2023/10/09/change-of-plans-us-army-embraces-lessons-learned-from-war-in-ukraine/

[Waltzing]

Tanking Around ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCIZ7zIYe9c

[Waltzing]

Well when the WIND is blowing in the right direction the Ugly  Bear  attacks to get that extra speed from the barrel...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ0mifT4UuA

Big battle  in the east....  both sides taking hits but it looks like the Ugly bears are taking the biggest losses since the start of the Kiev offensive..

and did the russian black seas fleet just get sunk by one of its own mine?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM7pIMofQbo

[Onemootpoint]

.....and did the russian black seas fleet just get sunk by one of its own mine?.....

Some 'friendly' fire....

[Waltzing]

Looks like the offensive on both side could start to wind down cause they are running out of stuff...

But Ugly bear has sourced stuff from NK....

NATO has got a BIG problem...

No shells... or rather it will take 12 months for RM to ramp up production and orders from germany defence has only just been signed...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/13/british-howitzers-ukraine-shells-shortage-soldiers-nato/

UKE start to find old guns to fire...

Dunkie Dunkie Sunkie Sunkie  ....

sneakie stuff...  baby boat drones.... may have damaged more black seas ships...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/13/ussia-ukraine-war-latest-news/

[Waltzing]

Not entirely related to this topic:

Dutch built the big new shiny bridge that went where no bridge has ever gone before...(star trek)...

Dutch prosecutor fines four companies that helped Russia build Crimea bridge
The Dutch prosecutor has penalised four Dutch companies and eight people for breaching EU sanctions on Russia between 2014 and 2017 for helping Moscow build a bridge to Crimea, it said in a statement on Friday.

The eight people were sentenced to community service ranging from 20 to 60 hours while the companies paid fines totalling 160,000 euros.

The companies involved supplied machines, machine parts and other services for the construction of the 19 kilometre (11.8 mile) long bridge spanning the Strait of Kerch, the prosecutor's office said.

"The Crimean bridge was built partly due to the use of Dutch knowledge and expertise," it added.

By committing the sanction violations, one company benefited from supplying the prohibited goods and services. This illegally obtained benefit amounting to 71,330 euros has been confiscated by the Dutch prosecutor.

The prosecutors' office did not name the companies involved.

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THE NK have shipped 1000 container of AMMO and equipment to Ugly Bear...

It a global war people... it slowly slowly getting bigger...

Shells will need to come the four corners of the world to supply this war....

Every western country will need to dig deep and soon...

[Waltzing]

How will NATO and Europe respond to what amounts to an ACT of war from Russia...

Technically it starts a NEW COLD WAR... in the BALTIC...

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/12/nato-gas-pipeline-baltic-sea-sabotage-finland-estonia/

[Onemootpoint]

There was the argument that the old Soviet leaders at least were 'rational' to some extent. Can we state the same of that region's current leader?

[Waltzing]

Good point OMP ..

Going back to 2010 and looking at the nightly TV NEWS in moscow you might think NOT what some would call RATIONAL...

very very strange News nightly viewing .....

[Hectorplains]

There was the argument that the old Soviet leaders at least were 'rational' to some extent. Can we state the same of that region's current leader?

The same argument could be made of Western leaders from the last decade too... Trump needs no explanation but check out Biden's remarks on the Hamas / Israeli conflict.  Phew, is he fully compos mentis? 

[Waltzing]

No hes not ... and many other also...

Heres is his logic for only sending 30 ABM to UKE land...

They only sent 30 AMB's to UKE... to hard to drive and fire at the same time for the UKE to learn how to operate..

Gordan says on Telegraph its the "any dummy can operate it in the world" ..

Gosh if it is than obviously you dont want to give the UKE armoured the best tank in the world to operate in any numbers else they might dive them all over the place as there is no shortage of fuel in UKE land...

Biden doesnt know anything about the controls on the ABM cause he has never had a game boy ..


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B3ZwOvugX4

F16 not being sent till 2025?

who in the white house is making these decisions?

Most of the time hes asleep at the desk...

[Onemootpoint]

Of course (re other leaders).


2025...it is as if they are wishing for a protracted war.

[Waltzing]

Middle East looking like a growing flash point...

https://www.bbc.com/