Putin has committed 75 percent of Russia's total military to the Ukraine war, Pentagon estimates

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Most of Russia's military offensives in Ukraine continue to be stalled amid fierce Ukrainian resistance, but Russia's military continues to fire dozens of missiles and rockets at Ukrainian civilian and military targets every day, a senior U.S. defense official said at a briefing in Brussels on Wednesday.

The U.S. estimates that Russian President Vladimir Putin has "around 75 percent of his total military committed to the fight in Ukraine," the official said, clarifying later that the 75 percent figure mostly refers to "battalion tactical groups, which is the units that he has primarily relied upon."

"At the height of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we were about 29 percent committed," former U.S. Army Europe commander Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges noted Tuesday at the Center for European Policy Analysis think tank. "And it was difficult to sustain that."

Britain's Ministry of Defense said Tuesday that given Putin's significant "personnel losses" in Ukraine, "Russia is redeploying forces from as far afield as its Eastern Military District, Pacific Fleet, and Armenia. It is also increasingly seeking to exploit irregular sources such as private military companies, Syrian and other mercenaries."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-committed-75-percent-russias-051619152.html

Heckuva job Pooty Poot.

[C_U_L8R]

1. China might want to grab Siberia instead of Taiwan.

[FarPoint]

2. I love that idea....

I think....in the short run anyways...

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. At least the part south of the Amur River

That used to be Chinese territory.

[Wednesdays]

9. Siberia?

Heck, China could take everything east of the Urals!

[lpbk2713]

11. Don't tempt them.

It has abundant supplies of oil, natural gas, timber and valuable minerals, such as copper, diamonds, lead, zinc, bauxite, nickel, tin, mercury, gold and silver.

And no one would come to Russia's defense. Not after what Putin has pulled.

[Irish_Dem]

14. The way things are going, China could grab Moscow.

Only 25% of Putin's military is left to defend all of Russia.

[Make7]

4. "My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators."

Dick Cheney, March 16th, 2003

[unblock]

5. I shouldn't joke about war,

but part of me would chuckle if Estonia waltzed in and took St. Petersburg...

[Wednesdays]

10. Finland could, too.

[unblock]

12. Joint training exercise!

[Bad Thoughts]

6. All he can do is kill people

The war has nothing to do with Putin's objectives anymore, not his real or imagined objectives. Russia's assets are stuck, but they can still harm Ukrainians. The war is becoming genocide.

[TheBlackAdder]

7. Back in the 80s Russia stationed lot of military on it's border with China, fearing them.

.

Russia has pulled their pants down to reveal the only way they can be safe is the threat of nukes.

.

[honest.abe]

8. Wow.. and yet he is still losing.

UKR!

[Sherman A1]

13. Good news!

I hope that more of the land and air forces are fed into this meat grinder and spit out with nothing to show for it.

Russia under Putin is a failure.

[Disaffected]

16. Putin is probably feeling some of the angst

that Hitler felt as the Germans were ground up on the eastern front and retreated from Moscow.

[Disaffected]

15. Sounds like a situation that might interest Blackwater.

"It is also increasingly seeking to exploit irregular sources such as private military companies, Syrian and other mercenaries."

But only if they are idiots....

Speaking of:

https://muslimmirror.com/eng/analysis-blackwater-mercenaries-natos-secret-weapon-in-ukraine-war/

(warning - sounds like a propaganda outlet).

[Talitha]

17. Does Pooty actually know the truth about what's happening outside of his bunker??

I remember hearing that Dump surrounded himself with ass-kissers who showed him only the favorable reports so Dump wouldn't get mad. Maybe Pooty's crew is doing the same thing.

[uponit7771]

18. +1, multiple private flights out of RU to Ural & to Dubai reported in last 3 days