Berletic: Western Escalation in Ukraine: Sending in Armor - But is it Too Little Too Late?Archived Message
Posted by sashimi on January 5, 2023, 6:23 pm
Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for January 6, 2023:
* After over a week, the Western media continues talking about Ukraine's HIMARS strike on assembled Russian troops;
* The focus on political optics inadvertently reveals the lack of strategic and tactical importance of this strike and highlights the lopsided nature of fighting against Ukraine;
* Russia possesses many times more means and opportunities to carry out such strikes and does so nearly daily;
* Western pundits are resorting to increasingly fantastical thinking to solve what they admit is Ukraine's inability to defeat Russia;
* France has agreed to send an unspecified number of its aging AMX-10 RC light tanks;
* The light tanks are wheeled, have light armor, and will not be able to replace the main battle tanks Ukraine has lost over the last year of fighting;
* The US is contemplating sending Bradley infantry fighting vehicles - even less capable than France's AMX-10 RC;
* Both Western systems will require special ammunition and maintenance provisions including shipping them to the Polish border each time they break down;
* The Western systems including future transfers of even main battle tanks do not address the real deficiency Ukraine suffers from - lack of artillery and long-range weapons that Russia has in abundance;