Prof. Bonk 🇺🇦 Perverse & Unintended Consequences

@DarthPutinKGB You made me think of this old Ian Fleming (James Bond) quote: “The way to catch Russians is to make them look foolish. Embarrass them. Laugh at them. They can’t stand it.” -From Russia, with Love. 1957.

Russia 🇷🇺 spent decades convincing the West it was a terrifying military juggernaut. Now they are fighting a 21st century war by doing cavalry charges on golf carts. The terrifying Russian 🇷🇺 bear is just 3 conscripts on a dirt bike. ⬇️🎧 professorbonk.substack.com/p/the-televise…

Bakhmut was supposed to be Russia’s 🇷🇺 trophy. Nearly 3 years later, the Russian army is losing a neighborhood in Chasiv Yar next door. That is an astonishing amount of blood and concrete to spend proving you can flatten a city and still lose a fight with the next block.🇺🇦

The Russian 🇷🇺 Army has discovered that nostalgia is not camouflage. Ukraine’s 🇺🇦 drone-age fortress cuts across open fields, strips back treelines, anchors on rivers and forests, and layers belts in depth for visibility and overlapping fires.

@zriboua @TrentTelenko I would love for this to be true, but I don't have enough evidence yet. Great interview with Aaron, by the way.

China’s bet was that U.S. cannot do preemptive military operations and even less so in the Middle East, the fact that this changed simply reverses a lot of the previous planning, especially since they will need a buffer other than Iran to do the sanctions evasion.

Maps lag. 🗺️ Fire patterns don’t.💥🔥 Near Pokrovsk, GSUA reports and FIRMS suggest the line lies farther S/SW than most maps show. Around Warwariwka, the burns suggest either a Russian 🇷🇺 assault stopped cold or a Ukrainian 🇺🇦 push that may have checked the Hulyaipole axis.

China 🇷🇺 doesn’t need to gloat. While Washington 🇺🇸 burns through munitions in Iran 🇮🇷, Beijing stockpiles, tightens the screws on Taiwan🇹🇼, and keeps score.

Russia 🇷🇺 came to Lyman 🇺🇦 hunting for a breakthrough, only to find a scrapyard instead. Ukraine smashed the assault: 2 tanks, 5 APCs, 7 IFVs, and more than 40 buggies and quad bikes destroyed.

@Charlenezqe Why?!?

@actfast I really thought I was part of this community of Ukraine supporters, but now I see I was just delusional. That’s all.

A Russian 🇷🇺 Grad battery just went from firepower to scrap metal.💥 Lasar’s Group of Ukraine’s 🇺🇦 National Guard destroyed 6 BM-21 Grad launchers on the Pokrovsk axis, sharply reducing Russian fire pressure on Ukrainian infantry.

@BiankaB12 🥰

Timeline cleanse.

RUSSIA’S 🇷🇺 SPRING OFFENSIVE BROKE ITSELF ON UKRAINIAN DEFENSES AT LYMAN. Ukraine 🇺🇦 stopped the assault cold. The butcher’s bill: 💥🔥 2 tanks, 5 APCs, 7 IFVs/BMPs, more than 40 light vehicles, 164 killed, 129 wounded, and OVER 1,500 total losses in a single day.

Trump 🇺🇸 wants to know why NATO won’t help in Iran. Perhaps scaring Denmark 🇩🇰 badly enough that it moved blood and explosives to Greenland in January was not the ideal way to inspire allied confidence.

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trump is a liar, today we lost japan, first F35 take down, and ukraine is winning more x.com/i/spaces/1mxPa…

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