Alexander S. Vindman tweets

[L. Coyote]

Live metrics show that Twitter has been restricted on multiple providers in #Russia as of 9:00 a.m. UTC

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[Irish_Dem]

1. Where the heck is Putin's supply chain? This is a basic part of any military operation.

Putin is looking like a fool.

[smb]

3. The Kleptocrats Probably Stole A Lot Of Supplies...

...and covered it up so that the shortages weren't obvious until now.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Yes that is a possibility for sure.

[L. Coyote]

12. Javelin missles and fuel supply convoys are an explosive mix.

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[Irish_Dem]

13. Russian generals don't know how to plan a military campaign or misjudged Ukraine.

Either way they are incompetent.

[Evolve Dammit]

24. Let's hope it continues

[TheBlackAdder]

29. This seems to be the Russian Army's version of The Battle of Tsushima.

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Russians thought their navy was badass and the Japanese Fleet sunk them in an hour or two.

The Battle of Tsushima (Japanese:対馬沖海戦, Tsushimaoki-Kaisen, Russian: Цусимское сражение, Tsusimskoye srazheniye), also known as the Battle of Tsushima Strait and the Naval Battle of Sea of Japan (Japanese: 日本海海戦, Nihonkai-Kaisen) in Japan, was a major naval battle fought between Russia and Japan during the Russo-Japanese War. It was naval history's first, decisive sea battle fought by modern steel battleship fleets,[2][3] and the first naval battle in which wireless telegraphy (radio) played a critically important role. It has been characterized as the "dying echo of the old era – for the last time in the history of naval warfare, ships of the line of a beaten fleet surrendered on the high seas".[4]

It was fought on 27–28 May 1905 (14–15 May in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia) in the Tsushima Strait located between Korea and southern Japan. In this battle the Japanese fleet under Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō destroyed the Russian fleet, under Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky, which had traveled over 18,000 nautical miles (33,000 km) to reach the Far East. In London in 1906, Sir George Sydenham Clarke wrote, "The battle of Tsu-shima is by far the greatest and the most important naval event since Trafalgar";[5] decades later, historian Edmund Morris agreed with this judgment.[6] The destruction of the fleet caused a bitter reaction from the Russian public, which induced a peace treaty in September 1905 without any further battles.

Prior to the Russo-Japanese War, countries constructed their battleships with mixed batteries of mainly 6-inch (152 mm), 8-inch (203 mm), 10-inch (254 mm) and 12-inch (305 mm) guns, with the intent that these battleships fight on the battle line in a close-quarter, decisive fleet action. The Battle of Tsushima conclusively demonstrated that battleship speed and big guns[7] with longer ranges were more advantageous in naval battles than mixed batteries of different sizes.[8]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tsushima

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[crickets]

18. The US & others are feeding Ukraine intel hand over fist. GOOD! It's working. 💙💛

[L. Coyote]

23. Another factor, Russian conscripts don't want to be there, not suppopsed to be there either.

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[msongs]

4. many russian convoy videos on youtube and twitter. if every person they passed attacked them

the whole offensive would bog down.

[mitch96]

8. +1"Putin is looking like a fool."...... putin IS a fool..a crazy insane fool...nt

[11 Bravo]

17. It looks like he outran it. Murderous tyrants occasionally seem to do that.

See: Bulge, Battle of.

[Irish_Dem]

19. Yes logistic problems can destroy an offensive.

As Hitler found out.

[bigtree]

2. Vindman is all over the place, tho

Alexander S. Vindman @AVindman 15h
We, the sole superpower, sit this one out. Is it deafutism or fatalism? Do our adversary conclude we’ve lost our nerve?

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...but, yeah, some setbacks for the Russians. They need supply chains to fuel their tanks.

[sop]

6. Just speculating here...I'd bet the Ukrainian countryside is crawling with CIA spooks, providing

logistical support, smuggling in all manner of sophisticated weaponry to take out tanks and aircraft, and teaching the resistance fighters the black arts of asymmetric warfare.

[mitch96]

9. I was thinking the same thing... What is the CIA/NSA/FBI and all the other alphabet agency's

doing to stir the shit and impede russia's plan...
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[L. Coyote]

10. I doubt there are Americans on the ground. I bet there were intrusions into RU communications

and the RU plans and movements were no secret. Ukraine had time to prepare for this. And they have weapons to take out tanks with a single, shoulder-fired weapon.

[mitch96]

11. I was thinking the same thing... What is the CIA/NSA/FBI and all the other alphabet agency's

doing to stir the shit and impede russia's plan...
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[Quixote1818]

7. Ukraine should re-paint them and put them back into action on their side. nt

[Justice matters.]

22. I suggest we don't give the stupid barbarian invaders any tricks...

JIC some of them lurk around here. (Re: They could use that for wicked "Trojan Horse" tactics.)

[L. Coyote]

14. Standing ovation for ⁦Vindman ⁩

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[bigtree]

15. that's a Lincoln project thing

...I wonder if he repeated this to the former republicans?

"Like every administration since the end of the Cold War, Joe Biden’s fell victim to wishful thinking about the Kremlin’s ambitions in Ukraine and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s basic commitment to international norms."

...the Biden administration continued the decades-long practice of allowing deterrence to erode. The paths to prevention were not taken.

For instance, early in December, President Biden openly acknowledged that he would not send American troops to fight in Ukraine, thus removing any possibility of strategic ambiguity."
-- Alexander Vindman

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/ukraine-russia-war-nato-biden-deterrence/622873/

Vindman wrote an article to criticize Pres. Biden for not playing rope-a-dope with Putin over U.S. troops on the ground in Ukraine. That's basically it. He's dead wrong on the military assistance to Ukraine. It was Trump who held it up and Vindman's said as much.

President Joe Biden has authorized the State Department to send another $350 million in weapons, including Javelin anti-tank weapons, to help Ukrainian forces fight back the ongoing Russian invasion.

With Ukraine struggling to repel Russia’s tanks, bombers, helicopters and missiles, the new tranche would supply Ukrainian forces with anti-armor and anti-aircraft systems, ammunition for firearms and body armor, according to the State Department.

This marks the third time Biden has used his presidential drawdown authority to send emergency security assistance from U.S. stockpiles to Ukraine, and it brings the total commitment of U.S. security assistance to $1 billion for this year.

https://www.armytimes.com/pentagon/2022/02/26/biden-to-send-350m-in-military-aid-to-ukraine/

I wish he'd just stfu about what Pres. Biden has done, will do, or should do. He's not in the government anymore, and doesn't know what the president is working on or intends to do.

[calimary]

16. Wow!!!

Good stuff!





#StandwithUkraine

[lame54]

20. Fill the barrels with cement

[crickets]

21. Found a translation of "A message for the Russian people"

The poem is translated in the tweets following this one:

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[halfulglas]

25. Someone over the last few days speculated that Russia has used the mercenary Wagner Group

so much in the last few years, they've neglected their infantry and haven't kept up with their drills and other maneuvers to keep them sharp and ready. (I've just watched so much of this in the last 4 days it's hard to keep straight where this old lady heard this.) I do know I just watched Seth Moulton talk about how hard it's going to go for them to take the cities now that they've gotten bogged down. With them not knowing what upper floor windows are hiding snipers and people dropping homemade bombs, etc.

[L. Coyote]

26. Chechen leader: "... does not want to fight against Ukraine."

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[scipan]

27. Poem translation:

Is this what you wanted,
Russian government?
To help us so strongly?
To not let us fall?
Is this how you see this,
Russian government?
The screams of our children-
is this your passion?
The tears of our relatives
escaping from apartments
from our houses
which are full of holes /1

from your bullets, your bombs,
cities in catacombs,
is this what you dreamt of?
Were you ready?
Hear me, all who can hear in Russia,
I am writing in Russian
from my native Ukraine
I have not been forbidden /2


What have you imagined,
what are they feeding you,
how did they brainwash you
while they are feeding us bullets,
fear, deaths,
Is this what you call saving us?
Take a look for yourselves,
with your own eyes, think with your own minds, /3

I know there are kind people in Russia,
they will not let something like this slide
Shout about this,
I beg you, do not be silent,
while our children shout
from explosions, understand
at least the words-
your truth
your bravery from now on
we need you so much
Ukraine needs you /4

Is this what you wanted,
Russian government?
To save Ukraine, and you came here to kill?
A mother waits for her son,
a wife waits for her spouse,
how can it be that after all these years we cannot understand each other? /5

Here is the truth
Spread it
the whole world hangs on a very thin thread
while your soldiers are striking our houses
I beg you do not be silent
This is war
do not let the whole country fall into ruins /6

Kyiv is burning while Kyiv-Capital speaks,
but in the 21st century there is no enemy with whom one cannot negotiate,
isn't that true?
and with all these thoughts,
dying from inside
I am shouting "No to war!"
Repeat it with me.

People are shouting: GLORY TO UKRAINE!

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1497630437828710406.html

[L. Coyote]

28. I stopped by the Russian Embassy to protest.

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