A Ukrainian official said Ukraine’s army is suffering a manpower shortage that is hampering its ability to use Western-donated weapons, Time magazine reported.
Since the start of the war, several Ukrainian officials have blamed their difficulty repelling Russia’s invasion on the slow pace of deliveries by its allies.
However, in the Time report, an unnamed source identified as a close aide to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy highlighted a different problem.
“We don’t have the men to use them,” the aide said in reference to the Western weapons.
Although Ukraine doesn’t give public figures, Western estimates suggest it has suffered in excess of 100,000 casualties.
Time’s report also noted that Ukraine is struggling to stop combat-age men fleeing the country.
Under the current legal regime of martial law, Ukrainian men aged 18 to 60 are not supposed to leave.
However, 6,100 fighting-age men have been caught trying to leave with forged documents, State Border Guard spokesman Andriy Demchenko told AFP in September.
Not only are they running out of soldiers, they are about to run out of American taxpayer money.
blinken dressed his son as zelensky for the WH Halloween party. Many would say that was child abuse.
When the losses become too great, that’s when you sue for peace, or surrender.
That’s where I was going
Tuck Frumputin.
Tuck pointless death, Buydum has no diplomats no peacemakers, and his balance is a bit shaky too.
Ukraine never had a chance in winning. Too few people and to many officials receiving Biden slush fund dollars.
Ukraine WILL win, unless Trump’s GOP minions block funding and hand the country over to Putin. That was item #1 on Mike Johnson’s agenda. The first step was to split assistance to Israel off, and package that with their IRS defunding poison pill. They calculate that will delay assistance to Ukraine until the threat of a government shut-down rolls around again.
I don’t see it, Greg. They’re going to run out of bodies. Maybe you’re thinking American troops to fill in…
I’m thinking the situation in Israel has moved two US carrier attack groups and undisclosed submarines within striking distance of the Black Sea and points north. So yeah, that has crossed my mind.
I think the country would turn on him in a yuge way. The Senate would of course support it but not anyone else. It would be another Vietnam (it is Vietnam by proxy now) and likely could lead to an all out war.
I think he might not care who turns on him. Putin is an existential threat to western democracy.
And China is not?
Islamism is a far greater threat.
Putin has allied himself with the single greatest sponsor of Islamic extremism. China’s eastern territorial aspirations are far more modest, and the cost would be very high. I think Romney sized up the situation correctly. Russia is our most serious geopolitical adversary.
China is buying up the US and will likely run over Taiwan. It already has inculcated many universities against the US.
The total amount of U.S. agricultural land owned by Chinese interests is less than three-hundredths of 1%.
It just happens to be near a military base.
Hey I hear they want to add more men to the border issue, but…A whistleblower has told Congress that special agents at Homeland Security Investigations have been pulled off cases involving child traffickers and sexual exploitation and been deployed to the border to make sandwiches for illegal immigrants.
Couldnt they hire catering services for this treason?
Why do you imagine Obama didn’t blink an eye when Putin annexed Crimea?
Biden funded them, sell all the oil you want those silly sanctions…..
The Long Red Shadow Behind Islamic Terrorism
Decades of communist subversion by China underlie the terror currently witnessed in the Middle East.
However, China analysts, including a longtime insider from the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) elite ranks, say that an overemphasis on Iran misses the point.
“China is the ultimate enabler of the Iranian terrorist-sponsoring regime,” Mr. Yu said. “Indirectly, China is responsible for this crisis.”
Geopolitics and Antisemitism – Chinese Student Arrested in New York for Vile Death Threats Against Jewish Students
China already erased Israel from their online maps.
Chinese nationals have flooded into America in record numbers along our southern border. What could possibly go wrong?
We are broke we must look to cutting something out, call it what ever poison pill or budget review. How about cutting aid to invaders? Not give NY and Cali the money to flush on wefare for non citizens?
The treasury borrowed 500 billion in October alone, complete debt.
They treasury announced earlier today they are looking to sell 1.6 trillion in bonds early next year while at the same we have 8 trillion in debt that is set to be refinanced at a much higher rate.
So they chose to cut out tax enforcement, when we’re already losing $688 billion a year to non-compliance?
That’s just plain crazy.
We need to rescind high end and corporate tax cuts and return to a more progressive tax schedule—like we had before the national debt skyrocketed.
That tax cuts “pay for themselves” has always been a fairy tale. We went over the top of the Laffer curve before the Reagan administration ended. “Trickle down economics” has always been bullshit.
The real problem is that the administrative branch has grown into a massive intrusive power that went beyond what the Founding Fathers proposed.
Thus, it wants more and more $$$ to keep up its bloated size that is hurting the rest of the country as they meddle in schools, representation of the states is being usurped and to regulates outside of Congressional control.
The United States of the Founding Fathers was a simple agricultural nation of only 4 million people who wiped their posteriors with corncobs and illuminated their homes with candles. The world has become more complicated.
People made the same arguments against overreach when the federal government imposed a whiskey tax. Washington had to put down the rebellion with a threat of military force.
You missed the point completely since it was about containing power of the government as envisioned by the Founding Fathers which is why they wanted the House of Representative be the main seat of power who has been diluted in the last 120 years when the US Senate selection was taken away from the states which is diluting the power of the people as it by default transferred to Washington D.C.
Since you’re so worried about that, send the IRS a nice check for a couple of grand (you know, 1,000’s of your $$$$’s))
The history books need rewritten. According to you, JFK believed in fairy tales.
Explain to the rest of us why you were mute in 2014 when Putin invaded Ukraine under the Obama administration. Or dig up your old comments about that then. How patriotic of you to care more for the grifter, Zelenskyy, than you are about Americans dying from Chinese/Mexican drugs.
11/01/23 – Senate Democrats launch effort to bypass Tommy Tuberville’s hold on military promotions –
As usual, when you have no intelligent response, you change the subject.
I agree with Tuberville who has more brains in his little finger than you have in your entire head.
Comrade Greggie, you remain an idiot.
11/01/23 – Republicans confront Tuberville over military holds in extraordinary showdown on Senate floor –
At a time of growing geopolitical peril, one moron is effectively blocking confirmation votes on nearly 400 military officers.
Meanwhile, another effin’ moron is trying to make assistance to our most important ally in the Middle East—which happens to be in the middle of an existential conflict with state-supported terrorist armies—contingent on defunding IRS enforcement when we’re losing $688 billion a year to tax cheats.
What do both of these a-holes have in common? Support of a man who already tried to overturn an election with lies, fraud, and mob violence.
Ya tax cheats…

What makes you think the average working American is a tax cheat?
Who are the biggest tax cheats? The 1% — and here’s how they get away with it
The same 1% who buy political power.
The same 1% who promote the lie that IRS compliance enforcement would be coming after YOU, not THEM.
Ukraine was destined to lose from the get go. Now they are unable to field an army. Russia continues to gain ground without opposition.
It is a pipe dream to think Ukraine has a snowballs chance in hell to win at this juncture.
Currently the average age of the Ukrainian fighting soldier is 43. That is hard to believe except we do not know with any certainty the number of casualties they have suffered.
But if what we have heard about the thousands upon thousands of waving blue and yellow flags at cemeteries across Ukraine is any indication, the age may not be as unbelievable as it would seem.
Well
There were 2,243 US drone strikes against foreign targets during the first two years of Trump’s presidency, compared with 1,878 during the entire eight years of the Obama presidency.
But Trump seemed not to drone civilians, he bagged some bad ass terrorists.
Not doctors without borders.
I can hear the sound of goalposts moving.
Just facts he never started a war, it was there before his election, a war that Barry armed his terrorist “freedom fighters”.
Greg and you can move goal posts those of us that dont have vaxx brain damaged memories will kick it right down the middle.
They have to move them so often they’re on wheels.
We have noticed seems you dont want to post on the lack of Ukraine bodies for Zelenskys blood lust.
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