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How are u posted:I'm aware. Kadyrov is a loving psycho and it is absolutely no surprise to me at all that he's happy to send his sons to their deaths because it fits with his toxic masculinity worldview. RIP those kids. Kadyrov also has double digit children, so if he loses three it's no big deal.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:
No. But no news in this case is good news, I think.
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the popes toes posted:Yeah, this is exactly what these Russian philologists were predicting: Any possibility of Ukrainian switching to the Latin alphabet? Hard to have a more complete break from Russia (and Russian) than that.
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Worth reading that whole thread, yeah--looks like someone in Kentucky has been doing some interesting investing: https://twitter.com/mkt_sentiment/status/1499585225546170370 Sir John Falstaff fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Mar 4, 2022 |
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Kentucky pensions melting down were the number one political issue here for like 2 years. lol that that’s coming back.
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ZombieLenin posted:Can talk about how lovely Russian MBTs seem to be? In roughly 21 years of service in both Afghanistan and Iraq the US Army lost a grand total of 2 M1A2s to enemy action. Even with the newer advanced tanks, Russian tanks are about quantity over quality, and thats before you even get to the corruption in military supply. Russian tanks are also famous for brewing up when hit due to the carousel autoloader that sits immediately under the turret and contains powder bags openly exposed within the carousel. There's tons of video from Syria of T-60s and T-72s brewing up after one hit.
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:yes, as well as sharing information and making sure that every member of the unit is aware of the plan and the goals of that plan, as opposed to just "get on truck, you're going on exercises" People see the US military doing all sorts of incompetent poo poo and believe claims of its professionalism are all bullshit. Truth is people have really skewed expectations of what "the best" looks like. Oh boy the US military looks nothing like their PR image projects but you'll never believe just how hosed up most everyone else is.
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Putin updates: Spoke with German chancellor - not backing down much if at all https://twitter.com/biannagolodryga/status/1499797668796809222?t=G7-UJnFrRmMv1uNb-cO9yw&s=19 Meanwhile, during that conversation: https://twitter.com/AlexKokcharov/status/1499795192227971078?t=4agvFosJQnJFX6TqSFsb2w&s=19 Why? Why say this?
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ZombieLenin posted:Is this because the tanks are actually lovely, or is it because the modern Western anti-tank weaponry just that much more superior to what American military adversaries in the War on Terror had access to? i think its a combination of russia using its tanks in a far more risky way in this conflict (america was highly risk averse to the optics of losing a tank), poor logistics and morale causing tanks to be abandoned by their crews, and an expectation that ukraine would not be able to field as many modern ATGMs and drones as they actually have to kill tanks with
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Triskelli posted:https://twitter.com/MaisonPoutine/status/1499431111709143041 I did not realize that Putin was spelled Poutine in French, that is hilarious.
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ZombieLenin posted:Can talk about how lovely Russian MBTs seem to be? In roughly 21 years of service in both Afghanistan and Iraq the US Army lost a grand total of 2 M1A2s to enemy action. If the Russian Army had M1A2s do you really think this war would be going any different? When you drive unsupported tanks down roads brimming with top attack ATGMs, they die. There is no tank in the world which would be faring any better. If anything, they would be doing even worse if they had fuel hungry tanks like M1s considering their supply problems.
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dominoeffect posted:Apparently the 31st Separate Guards Assault Brigade also have the Order of Kutuzov like some of the earlier VDV units we were seeing used in the early assaults on airports around Kyiv: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/31st_Guards_Air_Assault_Brigade That’s the same one.
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TheRat posted:There's a few reports of Russian kids in Norway being harassed in schools/kindergartens, as an example. poo poo like this was stuck on door of Russian school in Helsinki in Finland to my understanding: https://twitter.com/deepsami/status/1499374256374927361?s=21 (”You loving russkies kill innocent children in Ukraine. Watch out that the same doesn’t happen to you and your russian brats. We can also throw molotov’s at your home.”) They have full time guard now and that’s not normal for a Finnish school. While I think majority of folks, especially those in younger and more connected generations, or people living closer to eastern border or capital region likely to actually have acquitances or co-workers who are russian or have Finnish-Russian background, this is a racist country with plenty of absolute shits willing to blast it out on anyone seeming russian.
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ZombieLenin posted:Can talk about how lovely Russian MBTs seem to be? In roughly 21 years of service in both Afghanistan and Iraq the US Army lost a grand total of 2 M1A2s to enemy action. A lot of it isn't necessarily the tanks themselves, it's poor discipline in using them. Tanks wandering out in the open by themselves without support are gonna get wrecked, period.
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Last Kentucky governor had the legislature help fund a big aluminum mill in eastern KY and then tried to hide investors from the public. It turned out it was mainly funded by Russian oligarchs and also it never opened.
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Luigi's Discount Porn Bin posted:I wonder about this. The video a few pages ago made what sounded like a pretty plausible case that the siege setup is proceeding reasonably well - rather than being out of fuel or stranded behind a couple burnt-out BMPs or whatever, the big column has stopped where it wanted to stop and is now carrying out the standard Russian army doctrine of setting up a forward operating base within range of the target and securing supply lines. Is there reason to think that isn't the case? I've seen Ukrainians claim that they have now blown up a bridge behind that convoy, cutting it off. No actual confirmation yet, but that would certainly be a twist. Alchenar posted:Seriously we are at the point where Zelensky needs to get out of Kyiv or needs to start making whoever is next in line to succeed him more visible. Hopefully he's done that already. Why? Kyiv is substantially less threatened today than it was 3 days ago. There are areas of the country where the war is going badly for them, but the counterattack north of Kyiv seems to have worked. CommieGIR posted:They do not have superiority, but they also still have these assets because they have not been reckless in trying to get into duels with Russian SAMs and aircraft. So they've been holding them back most likely on purpose. They appear to be using air mostly in areas that are well under their own control, such as against the breakthroughs from the south. This allows them to shepherd them from Russian AA and planes, while getting good use out of them.
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KitConstantine posted:Putin updates: Mafia mindset. Only thing he knows how to do in response to a threat is bow up.
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Much like the UK is discussing how connected Boris Johnson and the Tories are to Russian oligarch money, we in America need a discussion of how mobbed up our politicians, largely the Republicans, are to Russia.
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OctaMurk posted:If the Russian Army had M1A2s do you really think this war would be going any different? When you drive unsupported tanks down roads brimming with top attack ATGMs, they die. There is no tank in the world which would be faring any better. It's a dumb hypothetical because the US fields those tanks because they have the logistical capabilities to support it.
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KitConstantine posted:Putin updates: You cant even take the capital of your primary target and you are threatening to invade more after? With what? More VDV drops?
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KitConstantine posted:You really don't research anything do you? This was one of the first results for googling "Grozy Humanitarian Corridor" there is no doubt that the corridor was not super safe, but they did set it up. however, it is almost certainly not the case that they setup the corridor just to shoot people fleeing - the entire purpose of the corridor was to get civilians out so they could kill more fighters. if you read your actual article instead of skimming for owns, you will see it was unclear who attacked those civilians, and you will also see they passed right by - with the journalist's own eyes - a russian column without being machine-gunned to death. russia has setup many humanitarian corridors and they are likely to setup some in ukraine. their goal is a political victory, not genocide. that's pure propaganda.
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KitConstantine posted:Putin updates:  This Russian army couldn't make it to a Polish Walmart Man these chuds really do huff their own farts
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https://twitter.com/bgpolitics/status/1499779496328708112?s=21 for the record, the trs is like $28 billion so this is a tiny part of the fund.
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https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1499796919836557312 Statement from the teachers pension
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ZombieLenin posted:Can talk about how lovely Russian MBTs seem to be? In roughly 21 years of service in both Afghanistan and Iraq the US Army lost a grand total of 2 M1A2s to enemy action. You've already been dog piled on this but my 2 cents is you need to pay attention to what military analysts are saying. They aren't say the Russians have lovely equipment, they are saying that they are being absolute loving morons in how they are using them and that they appear to not be maintaining them well. It's been repeatedly discussed in this thread how they are loving up, and how this probably is also contributing to a high casualty rate.
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ZombieLenin posted:Can talk about how lovely Russian MBTs seem to be? In roughly 21 years of service in both Afghanistan and Iraq the US Army lost a grand total of 2 M1A2s to enemy action. Skimpy maintenance, poorly-trained demoralized troops, bad tactics, lovely logistics, and determined opposition will turn even the best armored forces to poo poo very quickly. It's genuinely hard to determine the actual merits of the newest Russian equipment when it's being employed so ineptly, to the point it's like writing a review of a top-of-the-line sports car after using it as an agricultural tractor.
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Young Freud posted:Much like the UK is discussing how connected Boris Johnson and the Tories are to Russian oligarch money, we in America need a discussion of how mobbed up our politicians, largely the Republicans, are to Russia. Kentucky pension boards currently controlled by dems lol
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cinci zoo sniper posted:$13m seems pennies to me. It is now! BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Kentucky pension boards currently controlled by dems lol Were they the ones that made the initial investment though?
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Zhanism posted:You cant even take the capital of your primary target and you are threatening to invade more after? With what? More VDV drops? Going to drop 50 confused dudes over downtown Berlin: no supplies, no food, pocket pussies for all of them though!  At this point these threats are just getting sad
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It’s very unlikely that this is true. Even if the big convoy is stalled, the Russians are still advancing towards Kyiv from the northeast and it’s still being shelled
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Zhanism posted:You cant even take the capital of your primary target and you are threatening to invade more after? With what? More VDV drops? I'm surprised Russia has any paratroopers left. TulliusCicero posted:Going to drop 50 confused dudes over downtown Berlin: no supplies, no food, pocket pussies for all of them though! If they tried dropping them on Berlin all you'd need to defeat them is a bunch of currywurst vendors offering free samples.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I'm surprised Russia has any paratroopers left. they drained the fountains looking for loose change to fund the war and found a couple troopers
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TheRat posted:Considering we've seen quite a few videos of Russian aircraft lately and just about zero Ukranian I'm going to have a hard time believing this one. it might be technically true (ukraine still has a bunch of usable airframes) while not actually implying that ukraine is directly contesting the skies (all those airframes are grounded due to logistics, russian aa, they're more useful as some kind of "air fleet in being", etc.) i wonder whether the conspicuous lack of videos of ukrainian air and armor assets is due to good opsec/ lack of civilians in areas where they're deployed, the ukrainian military holding them in reserve for some future counterattack opportunity or as a continuing factor complicating russian planning, or they're not in a position to deploy them anymore or of course it could be a mixture of all three
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:German used to be the second most spoken language in America with distinct dialects, newspapers, and neighborhoods where knowing German was necessary. Then world war 1 happened. It stuck around til WW2 to some degree. My mom's entire family that was born in the US before the war could speak German still. My grandpa lied about it at the draft office to get sent to the Pacific because he didn't want to end up fighting relatives.
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ZombieLenin posted:Can talk about how lovely Russian MBTs seem to be? In roughly 21 years of service in both Afghanistan and Iraq the US Army lost a grand total of 2 M1A2s to enemy action. Peep the tank losses for Suadi Arabia against even slightly similar ATGMs, they use very similar equipment. They didn't get the Tusk II package, but the minor upgrades in armor wouldn't make much difference against things like TOW missiles. You cannot compare the losses the U.S. took fighting two incredibly one sided conflicts with a peer to peer fight with modern equipment. What Iraq and Afghanistan could bring to bear against U.S. Armor was not comparable to the ATGMs that are in Ukraine. Ciprian Maricon fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Mar 4, 2022 |
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