How the Czech Republic has just stopped Putin cold and saved Ukraine
(Zim : I don't know if this article is true or not . . .)
(...... But if true it means the Russian Bear is once again being turned into rugs.)
Wed, March 13, 2024
Russia went to war in Ukraine two years ago with twice as many artillery pieces as Ukraine had. But it isn’t the advantage in howitzers that really matters – it’s the advantage in shells.
After all, a single gun firing 50 shells a day is about as useful as two guns each firing 25.
For hundreds of years, artillery has dominated land warfare. Firing far and hitting hard, it’s the biggest killer of infantry, the main means of supporting an attack and the main means of supporting a defense.
It’s for that reason that, in charting the supply of artillery ammunition on both sides of a war, you can map the progress of that war. The side with the most shells is probably going to win.
And it’s why a surprise initiative, led by the Czech Republic and involving more than a dozen European countries, has been so critical to Ukraine’s survival as Russia’s wider war on the country grinds into its third year.
The Czechs found, for Ukraine, nearly a million shells precisely when Ukraine needed those million shells the most: at the peak of Russia’s winter offensive. It’s not an exaggeration to say that the Czech artillery initiative probably saved entire Ukrainian cities, by giving the Ukrainian army the firepower to resist a much bigger Russian army.
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(Article does continue. With some gratuitious Trump bashing thrown in for good measure.)
(But I'd much rather have Trump than anything on the demo-rat side of the fence.)
(By the way, this article also appears to be another example of the EuroWeenies trying to stop Putins bid for world domination.)
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