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Ukraine is evacuating wounded soldiers by loading them onto large drones, in what is likely a battlefield first
Ukraine has deployed large drones that are able to carry 397-pound weights for up to 43 miles, the report said.
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Ukraine is evacuating wounded soldiers by loading them onto large drones, in what is likely a battlefield first, report says

Ukraine is using cargo drones that can carry up to 397 pounds, The Economist reported, with wounded soldiers airlifted away from the front lines.
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Rah. Rah Ukraine.

Tuberville says Ukraine can’t win war: ‘It’s a junior high team playing a college team’
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said on Monday he did not think Ukraine could win the war against Russia and compared Ukraine’s efforts to a junior-high team trying to defeat a college team in a hypothetical sports match.

In an interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham Monday night, Tuberville touted his record voting against funding for Ukraine and said that, while he supported the country’s efforts over Russia, he thought Ukraine was outmatched and that no amount of funding would change that.

“I haven’t voted for a dime to send Ukraine,” Tuberville told Ingraham. “I’m for Ukraine. Russia should have never done this. I was in Ukraine three months with President [Volodymyr] Zelensky before this started. They were already fighting to that point.”

“But, at the end of the day, it’s a junior high team playing a college team,” he continued. “They can’t win. We can throw all the money we want to, but unless we send NATO and our troops over, which we’re not going to do, if I have got anything to do with it, then there’s no chance.”

Tuberville’s comments come amid increasing concern that support for Ukraine might be waning among American voters and among Republicans in Congress.

The Alabama senator offered his comments in response to a recent CNN poll showing 55 percent of Americans thought Congress should not authorize additional funding for Ukraine.

Other polls, however, have struck a different note. In late June, a Reuters/Ipsos survey found an uptick in the percentage of Americans who supported arming Ukraine, from 48 percent in May to 65 percent in June.

President Biden has remained steadfast in his support for Ukraine, and the United States has authorized tens of billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine since 2021.
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Tuberville says Ukraine can’t win war: ‘It’s a junior high team playing a college team’

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said Monday he did not think Ukraine could win the war against Russia and compared Ukraine’s efforts to a junior high team trying to defeat a college team in a hypoth…
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DIY-HP-LED

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printer said:
Rah. Rah Ukraine.

Tuberville says Ukraine can’t win war: ‘It’s a junior high team playing a college team’
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said on Monday he did not think Ukraine could win the war against Russia and compared Ukraine’s efforts to a junior-high team trying to defeat a college team in a hypothetical sports match.

In an interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham Monday night, Tuberville touted his record voting against funding for Ukraine and said that, while he supported the country’s efforts over Russia, he thought Ukraine was outmatched and that no amount of funding would change that.

“I haven’t voted for a dime to send Ukraine,” Tuberville told Ingraham. “I’m for Ukraine. Russia should have never done this. I was in Ukraine three months with President [Volodymyr] Zelensky before this started. They were already fighting to that point.”

“But, at the end of the day, it’s a junior high team playing a college team,” he continued. “They can’t win. We can throw all the money we want to, but unless we send NATO and our troops over, which we’re not going to do, if I have got anything to do with it, then there’s no chance.”

Tuberville’s comments come amid increasing concern that support for Ukraine might be waning among American voters and among Republicans in Congress.

The Alabama senator offered his comments in response to a recent CNN poll showing 55 percent of Americans thought Congress should not authorize additional funding for Ukraine.

Other polls, however, have struck a different note. In late June, a Reuters/Ipsos survey found an uptick in the percentage of Americans who supported arming Ukraine, from 48 percent in May to 65 percent in June.

President Biden has remained steadfast in his support for Ukraine, and the United States has authorized tens of billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine since 2021.
thehill.com

Tuberville says Ukraine can’t win war: ‘It’s a junior high team playing a college team’

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said Monday he did not think Ukraine could win the war against Russia and compared Ukraine’s efforts to a junior high team trying to defeat a college team in a hypoth…
thehill.com thehill.com
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He probably thinks the confederacy could win against the US army the south will rise again! Popular support for Ukraine in ebbing in America. Trump and now more in the republican party are supporting cutting aid on the cusp of victory and fucking up the geopolitical bargain of the century. I think it will be too little too late and with Trump's help and their abortion policies, it should be a landslide for the democrats, if America is sane, which is in some doubt.

Joe appears to be doing an excellent job on all fronts, is healthy and his lack of popularity is somewhat of a mystery to me. Then again Trump's popularity is a mystery to me too, he's a total idiot, a psycho and an asshole, a NYC city slicker billionaire and well-known con artist. Here he is the champion of a white ethnonationalist populist movement at cold civil war with America. A billionaire demigod that old people send money to for his very expensive legal defense and who continues to spew lies that divide the country even after multiple indictments. Ukraine is just one of the fault lines in the republican party, there are many more, but paradoxically Trump holds them together while he divides America.
 
BudmanTX

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nother bridge head i see::

UKR has launched a surprise crossing of the Dnipro in the vicinity of Kozachi Laheri. It has been confirmed that a significant UKR force has effected a lodgment approximately 800 meters deep N of the village.
 
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BudmanTX said:
nother bridge head i see::

UKR has launched a surprise crossing of the Dnipro in the vicinity of Kozachi Laheri. It has been confirmed that a significant UKR force has effected a lodgment approximately 800 meters deep N of the village.
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They hope to get the road through the north under fire control when the Russians have to divert supplies the long way from Crimea.
 
BudmanTX

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They hope to get the road through the north under fire control when the Russians have to divert supplies the long way from Crimea.
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i was just looking at the map when you said that....lol....looks like the major road there is M-14 that actually connects to the backside of Oleshky.......lets see what they do....
 
DIY-HP-LED

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cannabineer said:
Bezos must be furious. Suck it, penis rocket dude.
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There are plenty of southeast Asian countries and companies have been moving to them, China's aggressive action in the region has had the same effect as Russia's in Europe. That corner of the world has been developed a lot over the past few decades and the Asia tiger economies are doing well at China's expense. Bezos saw the writing on the wall long ago and most of his competition is from Chinese online retailers who sell directly to Americans and the world for that matter using the internet and mail systems.
 
cannabineer

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DIY-HP-LED said:
There are plenty of southeast Asian countries and companies have been moving to them, China's aggressive action in the region has had the same effect as Russia's in Europe. That corner of the world has been developed a lot over the past few decades and the Asia tiger economies are doing well at China's expense. Bezos saw the writing on the wall long ago and most of his competition is from Chinese online retailers who sell directly to Americans and the world for that matter using the internet and mail systems.
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It still seems to me that 90+% of the merch on the Zon is Chinese.
 
cannabineer

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Sativied said:
www.economist.com

Ukraine’s latest weapons in its war with Russia: 3D-printed bombs

They are cheap—and surprisingly effective
www.economist.com www.economist.com

Like the cheap or self-made drones it's actually quite sad as it shows they're still ill-equipped
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in this instance I can think of a less sad story … perhaps existing ordnance is not well-adapted to the drone-based game of tank hatch bingo. I can’t think of anything like these bombettes except smaller mortar rounds, which probably are safetied such that they arm by being fired. (So arming them otherwise is perhaps risky.)

I don’t know.

But U infantry seems better-equipped than the opponent. What they really need now is
-aircraft
-engineering/minesweeping heavy vehicles
-more precision munitions; they’ve done well with those
 
DIY-HP-LED

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Sativied said:
www.economist.com

Ukraine’s latest weapons in its war with Russia: 3D-printed bombs

They are cheap—and surprisingly effective
www.economist.com www.economist.com

Like the cheap or self-made drones it's actually quite sad as it shows they're still ill-equipped
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This is a cost-effective innovation and it's all about reducing casualties and the cost per dead Russian. We tend to see a lot of drone footage because everything is recorded for intelligence purposes. It is simply better to do the job with a 400-dollar drone than a $20,000 missile, even cheap military arms are expensive in comparison. The Ukrainians are innovating with "dual use" technology and much of their drone supply effort is volunteer based and supplements the army who have created specialized drone units and are training thousands of operators. It is the international availability of large volumes of cheap commercial equipment and parts that make this possible. 3D printing is another dual use technology they are using to make bombs, fins for bombs and drone parts like the bomb dropping mechanisms. Commercial drones are extremely useful for all aspects of war and other militaries have taken notice. The Ukrainians have drone air superiority IMO and nothing moves on the battlefield day or night without being seen, there is no cover. Groups of troops or equipment are spotted tens of kilometers behind the front and very accurate artillery or HIMARS fire is called down on it.
 
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