The wall thing should be more hilarious than upsetting. Given the state of modern military tech (heck, even modern not-quite-military tech would do), the idea of building a wall to protect a very long border is either really good humor or really bad idiocy.
The wall project has been halted….its run out of money to finance it. It’s a really stupid idea….as it’s incapable of preventing Russian tanks bursting through if the need arose.
Back in Iron Curtain day, there really WAS an iron curtain — mesh fencing, barbed wire on top, ploughed land either side to show footprints, guard towers from which they’d shoot PEOPLE LEAVING.
The Ukrainian one probably suffered from the usual disease, half the money disappearing. The ditch digging machinery was moved to the front lines, to help “defensive” forces dig in near Odessa and Mariupol. So far only two of their own tanks got caught in the anti-tank ditches.
This is okay. Dug in defenses are stuck. They need supplying. They are easily surrounded because they can’t move because they are dug in.
Worse comes to worse, they are ready-made mass burial sites.
Very upsetting to hear of a wall being built on the Uke-Russian border. Is this true?
yes ukr wants to reinforce its 2000 kilometre border-it seems to be mostly an unfinished ditch so far, with no prospect yet of being completed
The wall thing should be more hilarious than upsetting. Given the state of modern military tech (heck, even modern not-quite-military tech would do), the idea of building a wall to protect a very long border is either really good humor or really bad idiocy.
The wall project has been halted….its run out of money to finance it.
It’s a really stupid idea….as it’s incapable of preventing Russian tanks bursting through if the need arose.
Back in Iron Curtain day, there really WAS an iron curtain — mesh fencing, barbed wire on top, ploughed land either side to show footprints, guard towers from which they’d shoot PEOPLE LEAVING.
The Ukrainian one probably suffered from the usual disease, half the money disappearing. The ditch digging machinery was moved to the front lines, to help “defensive” forces dig in near Odessa and Mariupol. So far only two of their own tanks got caught in the anti-tank ditches.
This is okay. Dug in defenses are stuck. They need supplying. They are easily surrounded because they can’t move because they are dug in.
Worse comes to worse, they are ready-made mass burial sites.