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    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;



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