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21 hours ago, Boudrias said:

Sadly a site that I listen called ATP Geopolitics did a report on corruption inside the Ukrainian officer corp. Evidence of materials being stolen instead of sent to soldiers. Some confusion as to whether some of these goods were being hoarded for use by units other than those that they were being sent to. This site is very pro Ukraine but will advocate for change. Also stated that some Ukrainian officers need more training. 

 

Warthog Defense site has been removed from uTube. Apparently Russian agents send in multiple complaints on a site and the AI flag it and will shut it down. The process to get reinstated takes days.

 

If Avdiivka falls to the Russians it might cause a AFU retrenchment and reassessment of strategy. Ukrainian allies have to increase their support plain and simple. Ukrainian troops are dying because of weak support. The focus has to be victory and not maintenance of the status quo. If the world cannot stand up to a despot like Putin then there is little hope for the future. 

On reflection the concern expressed here should not be unexpected. Ukraine must eradicate corruption throughout their society. To an extent the Russian influence over many decades has engrained such behavior. Zelensky has started that work and if Ukraine is to survive he must be successful. EU and American support requires such effort. The EU paving the way for Ukrainian membership is a significant achievement. I do think the Americans will provide the aid asked for. There is enough support within the GOP who will vote with the Democrats to make that happen.  

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1 hour ago, SilentSam said:

 


 

Denys Davydov is hearing the same rumors. He thinks the attack will be across the Dnipro at Kherson. He even stated that much of the new equipment like the Abrams have not been committed to date. Maybe January on better frozen ground. 

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The "currency curtain" is falling over Russia: Western banks have reduced their presence in Russia to the levels of the collapse of the USSR

The financial bridges that Russia has been building with the West for three decades have been burned to the ground. The volume of Western banks' business in Russia has shrunk to the levels of the Soviet Union, according to Raiffeisenbank International. 

RBI, the parent structure of the last major European bank on the Russian market, estimates that at the end of 2023, the assets of foreign credit institutions in Russia amounted to only $66 billion. This is half the pre-war 2021 level ($119 billion) and almost four times lower than the record set in 2012 ($239 billion).
 


 

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