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Comstar posted:Russian General: Somethings wrong with our bloody aircraft today. They've been using them since the start. There's a reason the Russian airforce has barely been present. If you look at videos from near Hostomel day 1 there were stingers everywhere.
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fatherboxx posted:Zimmerit cosplay? More like Panther cosplay - good luck fixing the transmission without dissembling the entire tank and taking the turret off!
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fatherboxx posted:Zimmerit cosplay? Nah, applique armor for extra protection against AT guns. Oddly enough I believe that particular use of concrete armor actually did improve the Sherman's survivability against conventional AT rounds, but it was so heavy it increased wear on the suspension and transmission to the point that crews were told in the strongest possible words to knock it off. Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Mar 5, 2022 |
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Failed Imagineer posted:That woman would make an incredible pitcher probably blue on blue https://twitter.com/rianru/status/1500098321779728384 war is over, thank god.
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Comstar posted:The only guy on the Ukrainian side who wore the suit, was the traitor. I was thinking this.
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Mr Scumbag posted:In other news, Santa Clause and the Tooth Fairy have joined forces to run interference on Russian Operations in Ukraine airspace. Mythology was never a corpse, it is a live beast
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Taking it as intended for domestic consumption, there is absolutely no preparation for a long war. Putin wants peace and he wants it soon.
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Nenonen posted:Germany should send more cucumber jars. I very much hope, after this is all over, the Ukrainian President makes a Netflix comedy staring him, of all the silliness this war is having. Tanks stolen by farmers. Cucumber jars knocking down drones. The assistant negotiator turns out to be a Russian spy. Russian Naval Ship: Go gently caress yourself. Please do not shoot at the nuclear reactor. Germany sending helmets and 40 year old East German AA missiles that don't work. 40 million dollar AAA trucks stuck with a bad tire in the mud. War is Horrible, but some of the stories belong in a Spike Milligan autobiography. Vladimir Putin: My Part In His Downfall.
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Morrow posted:Taking it as intended for domestic consumption, there is absolutely no preparation for a long war. Putin wants peace and he wants it soon. Yes, but all his crony lickspittles keep telling him that any day now they'll have the Ukrainians beat and he responds by telling them to keep up the good work, make sure you take Kyiv before next tuesday.
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Comstar posted:I very much hope, after this is all over, the Ukrainian President makes a Netflix comedy staring him, of all the silliness this war is having. Tanks stolen by farmers. Cucumber jars knocking down drones. The assistant negotiator turns out to be a Russian spy. Russian Naval Ship: Go gently caress yourself. Please do not shoot at the nuclear reactor. Germany sending helmets and 40 year old East German AA missiles that don't work. 40 million dollar AAA trucks stuck with a bad tire in the mud. Servant of the People, Season 4.
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gay picnic defence posted:How do you know how much of this can be believed if he's saying known falsehoods re the conscripts? I believe there are clear paper trails that it's not actually false. You see, everyone who participated was bullied or conned into signing contracts.
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Yes, the Russians has indeed lost a lot of aircraft. https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1500109526581891072 The anti-air pouring into the country started taking effect? And that spectacular drone shot of the helicopter might be because of one of the Finnish drones. It's like youtubers, they're applying more and more tech to get the best shots. What next, a gyro stabilized Javelin shot with the selfie stick masked out?
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evilweasel posted:Not Russia’s most embarrassing airborne defeat today: If jars of cucumbers are outlawed, only outlaws will have jars of cucumbers
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Comstar posted:I very much hope, after this is all over, the Ukrainian President makes a Netflix comedy staring him, of all the silliness this war is having. Tanks stolen by farmers. Cucumber jars knocking down drones. The assistant negotiator turns out to be a Russian spy. Russian Naval Ship: Go gently caress yourself. Please do not shoot at the nuclear reactor. Germany sending helmets and 40 year old East German AA missiles that don't work. 40 million dollar AAA trucks stuck with a bad tire in the mud. It's like an episode of Yes, Prime Minister that ends with Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey wading ashore to liberate the Falklands or something.
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Cimber posted:The Russians still are advancing Only in the south. North and east has seen some pretty stunning reverals in the past two days. If the early reports about the Kharkiv counteroffensive are true (Russian frontline annihilated, stragglers ran back to the border), the Ukrainians are probably going to link back up with Sumy in the next two days. After that, the position of all the forces threatening Kyiv from the east starts to become untenable.
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Comstar posted:More like Panther cosplay - good luck fixing the transmission without dissembling the entire tank and taking the turret off!  shermans were designed such that the transmission was easily removable! instead of disassembling the entire tank, you only needed to remove the tracks and unbolt the front, at which point you could pop out the entire transmission assembly. it was easy enough to do at a forward repair depot with a hoist, whereas if a german tank transmission poo poo itself it was, as you say, easier to just abandon the thing then drag it back for repair
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In practicalities: https://twitter.com/RobinWigg/status/1500059906568826882 quote:If an ICBM is heading your way, the size and composition of your portfolio becomes irrelevant. Thus, from a purely financial perspective, you should largely ignore existential risk, even if you do care about it greatly from a personal perspective. (This is, by the way, a real argument made sometimes as to why the risk of US default is underpriced: a world in which it happens is one in which you are unlikely to be paid anyway.)
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Saladman posted:I suspect that the Russians assume that Brussels (both EU and NATO) are just doing what Washington tells them. It would be like to them if we sent a delegation to talk to Minsk - a waste of time because Luka doesn’t decide poo poo. Agreed. Putin seems completely unable to understand European politics and culture at the moment. Which is maybe not surprising considering what things were like when he was KGB in Germany, and how his dealings in recent years have been mostly with corrupt politicians. He considers Western Europe American vassals, and Eastern Europe Russian vassals stolen by the Americans. Interestingly, China seems to have a much better grasp on how to deal with the EU, and I expect Beijing is working overtime and how to adapt to the winds of change now blowing in Europe. If Russia wins in overtime and annexes part or all of Ukraine, NATO will be strengthened and Europe will be tied much more closely with the US. This would be a bad thing for China. If Ukraine repels the invasion without NATO involvement - Europe may distance itself from the US and NATO. Especially if Russia collapses as a regional power. Even more so if European boots end up on the ground (which I think could be the response to Russian going Grozny on Kyiv). This would be a good thing for China. I would not be surprised to see China start backing the EU as key to resolving this situation, while underlining that they consider the US an intruder in this conflict.
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Comstar posted:War is Horrible, but some of the stories belong in a Spike Milligan autobiography. Vladimir Putin: My Part In His Downfall. quote:At Kyiv station the RTO gave me a travel warrant, a Javelin missile, and a picture of Putin marked "This is the Enemy". I searched every compartment but he wasn't on the train... netflix probably won't do the part where he gets crippled by PTSD
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Ola posted:Yes, the Russians has indeed lost a lot of aircraft. Putin: Stop exploding, you cowards!
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ronya posted:In practicalities:
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ronya posted:If an ICBM is heading your way, the size and composition of your portfolio becomes irrelevant. This should be the thread title
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evilweasel posted:Not Russia’s most embarrassing airborne defeat today: Well that drone operator is in a pickle!
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Comstar posted:Russian General: Somethings wrong with our bloody aircraft today. Ukraine didn't get new or better Anti Aircraft in the past two days. My guess is the Russian tactics are getting more desperate. They have relied on air, especially during that airport assault that led to them losing their top of the line helicopters all over the place, but it's been restrained and it's obvious this was mostly a ground war. This was explained as preserving civilian population centers or fear of advanced Anti Aircraft. If they are now pulling all of the jets out to start losing a weird amount of them, just now, after everything else that has been happening recently then it would signal the starving/destroyed/abandoned army now needs the air support even if it's extremely risky. They have to use their airforce despite the anti aircraft.
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Letmebefrank posted:This should be the thread title No Dividends On A Dead Planet
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Dr Mike Martin has Seen Enough https://twitter.com/ThreshedThought/status/1500120722877947906?t=mHLUrZrRfuzAC9M0y4nurA&s=19
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evilweasel posted:Not Russia’s most embarrassing airborne defeat today: The determination of the common people is quite something. I don't see any scenario where Russia could occupy a country filled with these guys.   
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Ikasuhito posted:Putin: Stop exploding, you cowards! *DJ Khaled voice* Anotha one! https://twitter.com/markito0171/status/1500121467358429189?t=7y9mhbg9tW9PaPBzuy--rg&s=19 Guess since by sea didn't work they're trying by air!
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  Photo includes dead Russian solider. The secret plans of the Russian invasion reveal a big problem of supply quote:The press service of the Ukrainian Joint Forces Operation reported the acquisition of enemy secret documents from the battlefield regarding operation plans of the Russian Army. Among them there are work cards, combat mission, call sign table, control signal tables, hidden control tables, staff lists. So in other words, the Russian attack will have failed by this time next week, should Ukraine be still standing. And I think they will.
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Zelensky's on with the Senate right now. https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1500120431382175750?t=R_OhQw_gKOEuaFBEzX5etA&s=19 I'm interested to see what gets posted about this later
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Why is Rubio trying to turn into a Ukraine meme guy? He thinks that people’s high opinion of Ukraine will rub off on him?
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PederP posted:Agreed. Putin seems completely unable to understand European politics and culture at the moment. Which is maybe not surprising considering what things were like when he was KGB in Germany, and how his dealings in recent years have been mostly with corrupt politicians. He considers Western Europe American vassals, and Eastern Europe Russian vassals stolen by the Americans. Europe has been for quite awhile drifting away from China. The authoritarianship, Uyghurs and the general lack of reciprocity have been sticking points. China is also a dictatorship looking to reclaim "lost" land. Even if Europe no longer needs NATO, I dont think it will be looking too much towards china economically or for its security concerns.
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Ola posted:Yes, the Russians has indeed lost a lot of aircraft. I think it's more that the Russian Air Force were hoping to stay out of it (which makes sense if they expected no serious resistance) but have been forced to get involved due to the losses on the ground from the lack of air support. Of course as Ukraine hasn't immediately capitulated as planned the anti-air capabilities still exist and they are just getting shot our of the sky.
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I AM GRANDO posted:Why is Rubio trying to turn into a Ukraine meme guy? He thinks that people’s high opinion of Ukraine will rub off on him? He's a chickenhawk wannabe Cold Warrior so I guess it fits and plays well to the unreconstructed Miami gusanos?
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What name is Masha a nickname for?
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That's quite a coincidence given what Russia was saying a week ago about how Ukrainians dressed.
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I AM GRANDO posted:Why is Rubio trying to turn into a Ukraine meme guy? He thinks that people’s high opinion of Ukraine will rub off on him? given a lot of potential competitors for the 2024 nominations history of being vaguely or explicitly pro-russia its a definite lane for him.
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Failed Imagineer posted:He's a chickenhawk wannabe Cold Warrior so I guess it fits and plays well to the unreconstructed Miami gusanos? I mean him lying about his parents fleeing Castro served him well so probably this is his line of thought
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Boris Galerkin posted:What name is Masha a nickname for? Maria.
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Boris Galerkin posted:What name is Masha a nickname for? Pretty sure it's Maria.
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