Ukraine is now able to strike military targets in Russia using Western-supplied weapons. One commander said Ukraine had destroyed columns of troops.
  • Ukraine destroyed columns of waiting Russian soldiers with HIMARS, a Ukrainian commander said.
  • He said Ukraine targeted them as soon as it got permission to use allied weapons across the border.
  • Military experts say Ukraine’s ability to use Western-supplied weapons in Russia is aiding its fightback.
  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    This is patently untrue, look to Syria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Khashamor

    Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Battle of Khashamor in Wikipedia to check for alternative titles or spellings.

    shrug

    The US is able to project power globally in a way that Russia has tried to and simply cannot counter.

    Who can forget their famously successful efforts to project power into Afghanistan, Iraq, and Yemen.

    Even Ukraine is projecting power in Sudan and Syria

    In a report on Monday, the English-language Kyiv Post said it had obtained video from Ukraine’s military intelligence directorate (GUR) filmed in March

    Listen, I know we’re all “Rah Rah Ukraine! Can’t wait till they’ve got boots on the ground in Moscow!” But you can’t seriously link to a fucking press briefing by the GUR as unbiased news.

    The United States spends in a year, what the rest of the world spends in 1.2 years.

    Yes, yes. This is why we can’t afford health care. Ye-haw.

    But we spend all this money on an endless parade of Wall Street executive compensation packages. Nobody in Russia is getting paid a Boeing CEO’s salary to make aerospace equipment that strands folks on the IIS. And while Lockhead and Raytheon have made a mint selling the Pentagon loot boxes, the physical hardware we’ve produced still doesn’t seem capable of winning the fucking war.

    There is no historical analogue to the power of the United States military.

    There are numerous analogs. But none of them are particularly flattering.