quoted by Robeson from the live panel in Washington, e.g.:
"(...)
Kurt Volker insisted that “we need to have our own people embedded in Ukrainian fighting forces.” Formerly the U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine (2017-19), a vocal opponent of the Minsk peace process, and lobbyist for Raytheon, which produces Javelin missiles, Volker turned his head toward his fellow panelist, a Banderite defense contractor, and lamented “the fact that we prohibit uniformed personnel from being present in Ukraine alongside the Ukrainians means that we are not learning, and getting real time feedback, and knowing what we actually ought to be doing.”
During the next Q&A period, Col. Vince Mucker, sitting behind Ben Hodges and Christine Balko, introduced himself as the next U.S. military attaché in Kyiv. Philip Breedlove, the former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO in Europe, stressed to Mucker that “a big part of solving the conundrum … is completely about policy, when we get a policy that allows us to shoot the archer [in Russia] … we can put dumb 2000 pound GPS bombs on these sites.”
Volker, the moderator of this panel, chimed in, “I would add to that [analogy], not only shoot the archer, but shoot the arrow factory.” With Breedlove nodding along, Volker chuckled and continued, “or maybe you don’t have to shoot it, maybe you can go right up to it and blow it up, with a little help from some friends in the Middle East.” He laughed again but got serious. “So I think that’s something, frankly, we should be talking with Israel about.”
A few minutes later, Volker said to Mucker in the audience, “as you take up your new duties, I hope you’re able to make a persuasive case about how some active duty [U.S.] personnel embedded in Ukrainian forces as observers—not participants, but observers—would actually help us give much better advice and much better equipment.” After the lunch break, the deputy chief of mission at the Ukrainian embassy in Washington predicted that “American soldiers will have to be engaged, sooner or later.”
thx for reminding of Mediazona. Had last checked in the fall.
Mediazona adds to the 44.600 figure:
"the true death toll is undoubtedly higher, although previously undetermined. In June 2023, in a joint study with Meduza, we aimed to address this uncertainty. Through a combined analysis of our casualty list and the Probate Registry database, we succeeded in estimating the true mortality rate among Russian men.
On the war’s second anniversary, we applied this method again to assess the excess mortality rate up to the end of 2023. Our findings indicate that, by January 1, 2024, the war had resulted in the deaths of 75,000 Russian men under the age of 50. This figure does not include the military personnel from the units of Russian-controlled Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics."
How should one judge this method of figuring out the "true" number of deaths?
How would dead in the RU army be concealed from the family members / friends?
And what about the DL republics then?
btw the headline towering over this Mediazona report is:
"Russia suffers 75,000 military deaths in Ukraine war by end of 2023. Investigation by Mediazona and Meduza"
Great and sobering discussion. But then, what else can one expect from _real politick_?
Excellent discussion.
Moss Robeson: Bandera Lobby Blob Summit (Excerpt)
see:
https://natyliesbaldwin.com/2024/04/moss-robeson-bandera-lobby-blob-summit-excerpt/#comments
quoted by Robeson from the live panel in Washington, e.g.:
"(...)
Kurt Volker insisted that “we need to have our own people embedded in Ukrainian fighting forces.” Formerly the U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine (2017-19), a vocal opponent of the Minsk peace process, and lobbyist for Raytheon, which produces Javelin missiles, Volker turned his head toward his fellow panelist, a Banderite defense contractor, and lamented “the fact that we prohibit uniformed personnel from being present in Ukraine alongside the Ukrainians means that we are not learning, and getting real time feedback, and knowing what we actually ought to be doing.”
During the next Q&A period, Col. Vince Mucker, sitting behind Ben Hodges and Christine Balko, introduced himself as the next U.S. military attaché in Kyiv. Philip Breedlove, the former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO in Europe, stressed to Mucker that “a big part of solving the conundrum … is completely about policy, when we get a policy that allows us to shoot the archer [in Russia] … we can put dumb 2000 pound GPS bombs on these sites.”
Volker, the moderator of this panel, chimed in, “I would add to that [analogy], not only shoot the archer, but shoot the arrow factory.” With Breedlove nodding along, Volker chuckled and continued, “or maybe you don’t have to shoot it, maybe you can go right up to it and blow it up, with a little help from some friends in the Middle East.” He laughed again but got serious. “So I think that’s something, frankly, we should be talking with Israel about.”
A few minutes later, Volker said to Mucker in the audience, “as you take up your new duties, I hope you’re able to make a persuasive case about how some active duty [U.S.] personnel embedded in Ukrainian forces as observers—not participants, but observers—would actually help us give much better advice and much better equipment.” After the lunch break, the deputy chief of mission at the Ukrainian embassy in Washington predicted that “American soldiers will have to be engaged, sooner or later.”
(...)"
thx for reminding of Mediazona. Had last checked in the fall.
Mediazona adds to the 44.600 figure:
"the true death toll is undoubtedly higher, although previously undetermined. In June 2023, in a joint study with Meduza, we aimed to address this uncertainty. Through a combined analysis of our casualty list and the Probate Registry database, we succeeded in estimating the true mortality rate among Russian men.
On the war’s second anniversary, we applied this method again to assess the excess mortality rate up to the end of 2023. Our findings indicate that, by January 1, 2024, the war had resulted in the deaths of 75,000 Russian men under the age of 50. This figure does not include the military personnel from the units of Russian-controlled Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics."
How should one judge this method of figuring out the "true" number of deaths?
How would dead in the RU army be concealed from the family members / friends?
And what about the DL republics then?
btw the headline towering over this Mediazona report is:
"Russia suffers 75,000 military deaths in Ukraine war by end of 2023. Investigation by Mediazona and Meduza"
Interesting spin. NYT-worthy
see:
https://en.zona.media/article/2024/02/24/75k
Like the scamdemic Harmacide, I wish you were wrong but it seems harder to deny what you are saying