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cinci zoo sniper posted:The next step is clearly to get McKinsey run the invasion into Ukraine. Maybe setup an M&A process for Kazakhstan. In Phase 1, we will analyze the current state of Russo-Ukrainian control. In Phase 2, we will develop a strategy which will help you realize your vision for a pan-slavic Russian Empire. In Phase 3, we will socialize this strategy with key stakeholders. Because you're an autocracy, this phase will be very short because it's basically just a meeting with Putin where we tell him what he wants to hear. Also, due to current economic uncertainty fees for our professional services are due prior to project start.
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Apparently that Russian ship got lured into an ambush position by smaller boats and was sunk by a MLRS barrage. hosed up if true.
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Barrel Cactaur posted:That's around 6000 liters of fuel each. A full tank on one of these trucks is 300, and that moves them 100km for 35 liters on roads. 11,000 gallons of fuel. At $3 a gallon they just blew up about 5 million rubles worth of fuel.
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Play posted:That did not look like any compression artifact I've ever seen, frankly. Compression would've blurred everything to make it difficult to see what happened, especially zoomed in, whereas this was actually quite clear. the uncompressed video is also public, twitter was the one doing the compression. it's not a question if it was the result of compression or not, because we can compare the uncompressed to the compressed
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a podcast for cats posted:Apparently that Russian ship got lured into an ambush position by smaller boats and was sunk by a MLRS barrage. hosed up if true. If this were a wargame it would be disallowed.
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evilweasel posted:because of how these firms operate it basically means the firms in russia are gonna change their logo and name, and that's it Each country is its own legal entity, so they can do this. It basically means cutting all of the Russian partners loose and removing access to global services: HR, IT, payroll, finance, etc. If you're a Big 4 employee in Russia, you're effectively unemployed immediately.
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evilweasel posted:the uncompressed video is also public, twitter was the one doing the compression. it's not a question if it was the result of compression or not, because we can compare the uncompressed to the compressed Don't almost all videos have some level of compression, otherwise they'd be absolutely enormous? But yeah, whatever it was it wasn't compression artifacts. Either way, seems totally plausible to me that it was a remote meeting staged to look like an in person meeting. It's not really a big deal either way, just an amusement really.
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CommieGIR posted:Too long with the warning lol Would abbreviating it help? Jast saw it that works
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Anyone in tech from Europe know anything about Hetzner hosting company? People in the comments say they are sketchy/have weak security but it's waaaay outside my area. https://twitter.com/MFA_Ukraine/status/1500899289580584962?t=TeE8MrwZ50lNrL-TCDDefQ&s=19 Weird time for this website to go down though.
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Relevant Tangent posted:It seems to me that with a fantasist such as Putin in charge there's no real advantage to Ukraine in accepting realpolitik arguments. That's the trouble with realpolitik: it only works when both sides believe in it.
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https://twitter.com/RepDeanPhillips/status/1500131161770766336 Didn't see this here recently and I've been pretty careful to read basically everything. Marco stepping in it like the absolute LARPing goober he is
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In these dark times I think it will sooth minds to think of the more peaceful times when Putin would dance with then-foreign minister of Austria at her wedding. In 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVuM7963n20 quote:In August 2018, she married entrepreneur Wolfgang Meilinger, 54, at a ceremony in the small town of Gamlitz, near the border with Slovenia. During the wedding, she danced with Vladimir Putin, who was in attandence, and subsequently performed a deep curtsey. Pictures of her gesture, a European foreign minister bowing in front of Putin, were widely published in Russian and international media, and sparked major outrage and criticism due to her perceived naivety.[11][12] In 2019, after a vote of no confidence ended the First Kurz government, she left political office. There are no signs of her resignation, just like Gerhard Schröder who is also staying in Rosneft.
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a podcast for cats posted:Apparently that Russian ship got lured into an ambush position by smaller boats and was sunk by a MLRS barrage. hosed up if true. It's okay they have plenty of boats
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KitConstantine posted:Likely this is just more tough talk, but now Russia is apparently going to consider supplying arms to Ukraine via Poland to 'risk drawing NATO into the conflict.' Yeah, unless the war enters a new phase down the line of irregular warfare, and Ukraine gets to use NATO countries as staging areas for Ukrainian guerillas or something I really can't see this being anything but rhetoric. Not that NATO would even allow that scenario to begin with imo.
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Weird to watch russia apparently adopt retroactive GWB-style War Of Liberation bullshit. They'll be finding the WMD's any day now
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Threadkiller Dog posted:If this were a wargame it would be disallowed. No,.I think I did that once in Civ 2 Ukraine just needs a phalanx unit
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PerilPastry posted:Yeah, unless the war enters a new phase down the line of irregular warfare, and Ukraine gets to use NATO countries as staging areas for Ukrainian guerillas or something I really can't see this being anything but rhetoric. Not that NATO would even allow that scenario to begin with imo. "Beware, our military current struggling to handle militia and guard units could turn its gaze on you!" - Lavrov Somewhere, a bunch of EU/NATO/US commanders just started laughing for no reason. That's the thing: Both Russia's soft power AND its military image is utterly destroyed, even if they win this in the long run. Hieronymous Alloy posted:No,.I think I did that once in Civ 2 I've love to see the US provide them some Point Defense systems.
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Kavros posted:Weird to watch russia apparently adopt retroactive GWB-style War Of Liberation bullshit.
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Kavros posted:Weird to watch russia apparently adopt retroactive GWB-style War Of Liberation bullshit. I think it's fairly deliberate. When your position had no merit, just highlight the other side's hypocrisy.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:That's the trouble with realpolitik: it only works when both sides believe in it.
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Kavros posted:Weird to watch russia apparently adopt retroactive GWB-style War Of Liberation bullshit. Russia has a charming history of "we suck, so does America, who cares" -- I'm always reminded of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes
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In social media news Telegram is one of the last independent social media sites standing in Russia, and the government there has reportedly been wavering on whether to pull the plug on it or not. The founder and CEO of Telegram is from Russia originally and put out a wishy-washy statement earlier in the war. Seems like his position has firmed, and he's pro-Ukrainian. https://twitter.com/etbrooking/status/1500891610019676171?s=20&t=YNPZExzM3nduCVK3Wa06Cw I didn't know this guy had founded VK.
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Rectal Death Adept posted:It's okay they have plenty of boats hosed up in the impressively ingenious sense of the word.
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There's an interesting snippet from the UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss where she admits they've been planning for this since the end of last year. https://twitter.com/Rachael_Swindon/status/1500900513705041931 e: Sorry, I wasn't aware that it was known about back then. My bad. fuctifino fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Mar 7, 2022 |
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Play posted:Is dressing up in the other side's uniforms like, acceptable overall? Are there any treaties or anything preventing that? It's explicitly a war crime and it would also probably understandably have them treat you like a spy.
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KitConstantine posted:In social media news Telegram is one of the last independent social media sites standing in Russia, and the government there has reportedly been wavering on whether to pull the plug on it or not. The founder and CEO of Telegram is from Russia originally and put out a wishy-washy statement earlier in the war. Seems like his position has firmed, and he's pro-Ukrainian. There's some concern Telegram is tapped by the Russian intelligence groups, so there may be an ulterior motive here to get Ukrainians on Telegram...
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a podcast for cats posted:Apparently that Russian ship got lured into an ambush position by smaller boats and was sunk by a MLRS barrage. hosed up if true. I hope someone goes down there with a dive camera and takes pictures of the wreck because I want Oryx to add a new category. Bremen fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Mar 7, 2022 |
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Obviously, no one wants to find out but I'm sure people must be wondering about the state of Russia's nuclear arsenal if their regular military vehicles are so poorly maintained.
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freeasinbeer posted:Yes; either the Russians don’t grok how much the rest of Europe has unified against it, or it’s banking on the it’s NATOs fault/one sided pacifists gaining ground as gas prices go up or Europe’s economy suffers.
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Play posted:Is dressing up in the other side's uniforms like, acceptable overall? Are there any treaties or anything preventing that? no, you can be executed for that under the geneva conventions
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Play posted:Don't almost all videos have some level of compression, otherwise they'd be absolutely enormous? But yeah, whatever it was it wasn't compression artifacts. Just to clarify, the previous poster means the uncompressed original video is out there and Putin's hand doesn't pass through the microphone in it, so we know with complete certainty that it *is* a compression artifact.
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Anubis posted:11,000 gallons of fuel. At $3 a gallon they just blew up about 5 million rubles worth of fuel. Knowing the incredible state of the military-industrial kleptocracy, I'll take the under on 11,000 gallons.
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Ynglaur posted:In Phase 1, we will analyze the current state of Russo-Ukrainian control. Here is a invoice of $5,000,000 and pretty PowerPoint slides.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:I was leaning in on military sim = "video game", rather than the veteran part. Just a joke anyway. I was an advisor on Full Spectrum Command (a recreation of the Ft. Brag military operations in an urban environment training thing). Company commander stuff. The thing I learned from that? Small drones are very useful for knowing where people are. We had them as a “2020 option” in thje sim and it changed the results greatly.
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fuctifino posted:There's an interesting snippet from the UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss where she admits they've been planning for this since the end of last year. That was when they first learned that Russia planned to occupy Voronezh and Rostov.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Forgive me if this question is inappropriate, but I watched all of this: Yeah, that was a good watch. Shout out to the guy with the Jean Luc Picard portrait in the background.
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PerilPastry posted:Yeah, unless the war enters a new phase down the line of irregular warfare, and Ukraine gets to use NATO countries as staging areas for Ukrainian guerillas or something I really can't see this being anything but rhetoric. Not that NATO would even allow that scenario to begin with imo. OMG the same Russian Ambassador to the UK who made the ~implications~ about NATO earlier today is now whining about how his office is getting threats. https://twitter.com/RussianEmbassy/status/1500903516075929617?s=20&t=wJO_pAN6jCV4RU39CrRxYQ Farcical
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fuctifino posted:There's an interesting snippet from the UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss where she admits they've been planning for this since the end of last year. This isn’t news though? Even the Wikipedia page says Russia has been planning this since 2021. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021-2022_Russo-Ukrainian_crisis
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Play posted:Is dressing up in the other side's uniforms like, acceptable overall? Are there any treaties or anything preventing that? evilweasel posted:no, you can be executed for that under the geneva conventions The US went pretty hard on this during the Battle of the Bulge in WWII after it caught Germans putting on US uniforms and engaging in sabotage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Greif quote:Pernass, Billing, and Schmidt were given a military trial at Henri-Chapelle on 21 December and were sentenced to death; they were executed by a firing squad on 23 December. Three more Germans were also tried on 23 December and shot at Henri-Chapelle on 26 December, seven more men were tried on 26 December and executed at Henri-Chapelle on 30 December, and three others were tried on 31 December and executed at Huy on 13 January 1945. These executions were carried out by the U.S. First Army. All of these commissions were appointed by Lieutenant General Courtney Hodges, commanding general of the U.S. First Army pursuant to authority delegated to him by General Omar Bradley, Commanding General of the Twelfth U.S. Army Group on the instructions of General Dwight Eisenhower, commanding the European Theater of Operations, United States Army.
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Threadkiller Dog posted:If this were a wargame it would be disallowed. Ukraine sinks Russian Naval ship using motorcycle and road flags
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