Current Affairs Ukraine

[Alan Whittle]

‘The MoD produced a strategy aimed at improving the way that it engages with industry and allies almost two years ago and yet we have been told it will take at least a decade to replenish (and then increase to a sustainable level) UK ammunition stockpiles.’

UK's 'dangerously low' ammunition supplies could take a decade to restore

MPs have warned this puts UK national security at risk.

metro.co.uk

Yep, you can’t just do it overnight, but there is no context for “dangerously low levels” and they talk about “replenishing stockpiles” but to what level?
To your point though, it should be generally accepted that they are lower than we might like given the support committed to Ukraine.

 

[Lobster Johnson]

Mad how Kev got thread banned last time out. Inexplicable

 

[Chewbacca]

Seems to be quite the purge going on in Putins inner circle.

Hasn’t reached Kev yet

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

I said thats what I had heard?

UK ammunition stockpile 'dangerously low' due to Ukraine war

Rebuilding the UK's diminishing stockpile of munitions after the conflict could take at least a decade, they added.

www.forces.net

Short on 155mm and 105mm artillery ammo as we’ve shipped most of it to Ukraine - where it’s doing what is was intended for…Killing Russians.

The British Army is not short on small arms ammo -the type being used on the ranges in Wales.

Do keep up Kevski

 

[Tennessee Blue Mike]

Hasn’t reached Kev yet

Because he is operating in Britain. The old saying keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

 

[davek]

Trump is Toast. He has too much going against him. He is on borrowed time. Biden is awful as well. A new face will emerge to the top.

Latest poll:

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/05/politics/cnn-poll-trump-primary-criminal-charges/index.html

43% say they'll definitely back Trump with only DeSantis getting into double digit support.

That'll take some shifting given that he already has outstanding criminal charges hanging over him.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Hasn’t reached Keev yet

 

[Tennessee Blue Mike]

Latest poll:

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/05/politics/cnn-poll-trump-primary-criminal-charges/index.html

43% say they'll definitely back Trump with only DeSantis getting into double digit support.

That'll take some shifting given that he already has outstanding criminal charges hanging over him.

Perhaps but these early polls are what got the Republicans in trouble last time out. Remember the supposed Red Wave well that fell off the mark in a major way. I will give him credit that he opened many eyes in the exposure of the collusion good ol' boy club that seems to control the masses. He seems to be in real trouble this time though as he has lost his big donor friends and needs a huge grass roots influence. If Biden does run against him which I doubt, he will be very competitive.
Deception is well played by the Russians as well as the US in the media. So, when the final vote is cast is most likely when we truly know the outcome. The ebb and flow of posturing will reign king until then.
Putin hopes for a Trump win to discontinue funding for Ukraine but that is still a long way off and many more of Putin's inner circle will lose their lives as well as many troops under their employ who are not adequately kitted out.

 

[davek]

Perhaps but these early polls are what got the Republicans in trouble last time out. Remember the supposed Red Wave well that fell off the mark in a major way. I will give him credit that he opened many eyes in the exposure of the collusion good ol' boy club that seems to control the masses. He seems to be in real trouble this time though as he has lost his big donor friends and needs a huge grass roots influence. If Biden does run against him which I doubt, he will be very competitive.
Deception is well played by the Russians as well as the US in the media. So, when the final vote is cast is most likely when we truly know the outcome. The ebb and flow of posturing will reign king until then.
Putin hopes for a Trump win to discontinue funding for Ukraine but that is still a long way off and many more of Putin's inner circle will lose their lives as well as many troops under their employ who are not adequately kitted out.

I'm not saying he'll be the next POTUS but I cant see Trump not facing whatever Democratic challenger is settled on if not Biden.

From all we know so far from polling that seems fairly straight forward.

 

[Tennessee Blue Mike]

I'm not saying he'll be the next POTUS but I cant see Trump not facing whatever Democratic challenger is settled on if not Biden.

From all we know so far from polling that seems fairly straight forward.

I agree at the moment. Every day another brick in the wall could be his undoing legally. Most of his previous inner circle are being picked off one by one and are fighting their own legal battles.

 

[davek]

I agree at the moment. Every day another brick in the wall could be his undoing legally. Most of his previous inner circle are being picked off one by one and are fighting their own legal battles.

I wouldn't underestimate Trump...the stupidity of his supporters seems to me to be baked in to Republican politics now.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Seems to be quite the purge going on in Putins inner circle.

Special friend uncoupling operation please.

 

[Tennessee Blue Mike]

I wouldn't underestimate Trump...the stupidity of his supporters seems to me to be baked in to Republican politics now.

No doubt it remains at a fever pitch but is it enough to supplant the incumbent.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Abit more from that posted the other day.

• Armenia will host a joint military exercise with the US later this month.

A close Russian ally snubbed Putin by announcing military exercises with the US — the latest in a series of embarrassments for the president

Russia's relationships with some of its traditional allies have been fraying, with Armenia even threatening to leave Russia's equivalent of NATO.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[davek]

No doubt it remains at a fever pitch but is it enough to supplant the incumbent.

Apart from an outlier or two the polls seem to think it'll be a coin toss for Trump v Biden right now.