Knicks Morning News (2024.06.23)

Jordan Poole maybe? He could be a decent buy-low candidate and his contract expires after the 2025-26 so that could be a decent trade chip.
If the Knicks traded for Jordan Poole I would enlist in the Ukrainian army to ensure my prompt death.

Strat — I hope this is not a dig at Ukraine. More than double the Russian soldiers have died in their unprovoked attack of Ukraine. Russia cannot win.

Strat — last comment and then back to Knicks. If you want non-mainstream media on Ukraine here is a great source. On twitter @AndrewPerpetua . Andrew aggregates photos from drones, etc daily and visually identifies equipment losses daily. He also compares this to the stock of Russian equipment and as well as there manufacturing capacity to replace the equipment. What you will see is that Russia is on average losing 3x the equipment of Ukraine. Couple that with Europe and the US supporting Ukraine while Russia gains foreign equipment from Iran and North Korea, you will see what direction this war will go in. Russia has nearly burned through its modern stockpiles of Tanks, BMP’s, artillery, etc. as a result, as of late it has been sending WW2 tanks to the front. It rounds up conscripts forcibly off the street and send them to the front to engage in waves of “meat grinder” assaults.

The most modern Western equipment is just entering the war after rounds of training. This includes F-16 and ATACMs. As a result of the recent Russian offensive in Kharkiv, western governments have given the green light for Ukraine to use western equipment to attack troop, aircraft and equipment aggregations on Russian territory. This disastrous new Russian offense has resulted in 8-1 equipment losses and the minimal territory originally gained has now largely been recaptured. In opening up this new front Russia now does not have sufficient troops in reserve to support any of the fronts. Russia’s exterior lines take 3x the distance to support as Ukraines interior lines.

Ukraine has steadily degraded Russian air defense in Crimea over the past months. Its vaunted latest generation S-500 missile defense systems have not intercepted a single ATACM. With the F-16s entering the battle, the situation does not look pretty for Crimea. Ukraine is waiting to fully degrade Crimea missile defense and then will blitz the Crimean bridge, destroying Russia’s only ability to resupply the peninsula. The panic among Russian occupying citizens and vacationers will be palpable as the seek to flee back to Russia across the occupied land bridge by Mariupol entirely in the war zone.

Russia’s Black Sea fleet that has been decimated by a country without a Navy will not be able to support Crimea either. Over 1/3 of Russia’s navy has been destroyed by Ukraine including a Submarine!!!

They sent “slaves” to liberate free people. Russia soldiers fight for nothing, while Ukraine fight for freedom and democracy. Ukraine is the thin line on the fight of democracy against autocracy. We should all be invested in Ukraine’s defense. Should Ukraine fall, China will be emboldened to invade Taiwan. Russia will invade the Baltics, Poland. The is must not happen.

Western mainstream media puppets Putin’s nuclear rhetoric. While Putin’s useful idiots in congress (Gaetz, MTG, Boebert) sought to block funding US funding and lost. Putins bot farms and paid Russian shills on Twitter have been neutered by ground roots citizen groups such as NAFO.

Putin’s 3 day war has turned into a multi-year genocide campaign where he is forced to randomly attack Ukrainian civilian targets due to Russia’s failed kleptocracy being unable to develop or produce modern weaponry. Russia has kidnapped over 100,000 Ukrainian children in the temporarily occupied territory. It’s children’s minister Maria Lvova-Belova has been declared a war criminals This war will be the downfall of Putin and his brutal kleptocratic regime. The west must not waiver in its support of Ukraine.