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KitConstantine posted:Chart from the Russian stock market opening today If I had to guess, it'll go up slightly, but its gonna crash back down again.
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Mar 24, 2022 14:39
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mobby_6kl posted:Wasn't there a Crimea campaign in Lock On? I remember shooting a bunch of ruskies there. Don't know for LOMAC, but the predecessors (Flanker, Flanker 2) were based in Crimea, in a NATO-aligned Ukraine vs Russia hypothetical conflict.
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I haven't been keeping up to the news the past 24-48 hours. What happened with that rumor about counterattacks and possible pocketing of Russian troops north of Kyiv?
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KitConstantine posted:Okay so I thought this was just Russian Q Anon spinning up even more Does anyone in Russia even give the slightest of fucks about Hunter Biden? This seems tailor-made for US chuds
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KitConstantine posted:Okay so I thought this was just Russian Q Anon spinning up even more Joe Biden's drug addict failson is *also* the genius mastermind behind COVID is not the plot twist I expected.
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KitConstantine posted:Okay so I thought this was just Russian Q Anon spinning up even more
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Failed Imagineer posted:Groverkrieg Thank you, this is my new Favorite Word of the Now.
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Mar 24, 2022 14:43
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Eric Cantonese posted:Not having lived during the Prague Spring, Hungary 1956 or the Cuban Missile Crisis but having endured the 1980s, this isn't quite right. This is way hotter and direct and worrisome than what I remember. Yeah, the 80's were more "is Reagan or whatever senile Communist is currently in charge at the Kremlin going to push the big glowing red button or not?" than this is. Nobody ever feared a ground war in Europe, we figured it would start and end with nukes.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Groverkrieg Lock the thread, frame this post, we have found it, the golden core, the alchemist stone, the culmination of all things Something Awful. The best post on the internet.
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Reiterpallasch posted:didn't get a chance to say this last night when getting dogpiled, but is this supposed to be about the front now? there's no way it's cold enough for people to be getting frostbite in this weather, is there? i'd believe 50% trench foot first, in this mud... Frostbite is a disease that takes time for the full ramifications to develop.
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FishMcCool posted:Don't know for LOMAC, but the predecessors (Flanker, Flanker 2) were based in Crimea, in a NATO-aligned Ukraine vs Russia hypothetical conflict. This is US Navy Fighters (1994) erasure.
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Angry_Ed posted:Wonder how many of those predictors also have a Groverhaus (Groverdacha?) Of their own 100%, building a horrible dacha with a horrible sauna is a national pastime Ukrainian twitter in peacetime used to have a meme about mini-bar - asking any agressive Russian on twitter about their mini-bar more than often resulted in a picture of a whiskey collection inside a Soviet wardrobe that the owner was really proud about.
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https://twitter.com/JackDetsch/status/1506988113939386372 https://twitter.com/JackDetsch/status/1506989930274246665 According to this, Russia may be fielding more conscripts and mercs to fill up the ranks down after the large number of causalities so far, though how those will integrate with the existing deployments is anyone's guess.
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mobby_6kl posted:
Hind... FOUR O'CLOCK at..... five hundred BMP.......is......FINISHED SPETZNATS!
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Saoshyant posted:https://twitter.com/JackDetsch/status/1506988113939386372 Yeah but with what supplies. Unless they go full Stalingrad and just shove them out the door and tell them to pick up ammo as they find it, this may work in the long run but its gonna be visibly awful. Electric Wrigglies posted:Hind... FOUR O'CLOCK at..... five hundred OH NO....2....IS DOWN.
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Wylie posted:Yeah, the 80's were more "is Reagan or whatever senile Communist is currently in charge at the Kremlin going to push the big glowing red button or not?" than this is. Nobody ever feared a ground war in Europe, we figured it would start and end with nukes. Living in Norway as a precocious kid/teenager in the 80s, I distinctly remember worrying about a ground war and THEN nukes.
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KitConstantine posted:Chart from the Russian stock market opening today I know nothing about stock markets, but couldn't they just cook the numbers? Or otherwise manipulate the market until it spits out nicer numbers to report?
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Cimber posted:I haven't been keeping up to the news the past 24-48 hours. What happened with that rumor about counterattacks and possible pocketing of Russian troops north of Kyiv? Info is sparse but there’s definitely a counterattack that has taken ground. There’s probably not an actual encirclement yet (as of the end of yesterday) but one doesn’t look very far off either. Supposedly the Russians also tried a counter-counterattack west of Ivankiv that doesn’t sound like it made headway.
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Electric Wrigglies posted:SPETZNATS! That doesn't quite have the same ring now does it?
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CommieGIR posted:Yeah but with what supplies. Unless they go full Stalingrad and just shove them out the door and tell them to pick up ammo as they find it, this may work in the long run but its gonna be visibly awful. I think we've seen basically a neverending stream of "Russia about to deploy _____!!!!!" pieces over the last two weeks and... none? of them have been real. Unless you consider some Kadyrovites riding over to get blown up At this point I will believe they have the logistics to deploy additional thousands of reserves and conscripts when US intelligence tells us that they've mobilized those thousands of people and moved them to the border and are deploying them
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Electric Wrigglies posted:Hind... FOUR O'CLOCK at..... five hundred I am still amazed at one point Arma 3 automatic voice callout gave me UKNNOWN UKNOWN ... AT... UNKNOWN, BEARING... UNKNOWN
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CommieGIR posted:Yeah but with what supplies. Unless they go full Stalingrad and just shove them out the door and tell them to pick up ammo as they find it, this may work in the long run but its gonna be visibly awful. Definitively a good question. Even us onlookers are aware that Russia's progress has stalled completely down to the field troops not getting supplies, no new supply routes being secured, and no proper logistics being planned. As per the wise words of a Ukrainian soldier: "thank god they are so loving bad at this".
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This is good, previous US efforts to help Ukrainian refugees was really limited (I think the estimate was we only settled 7 previously). https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1506988664957644808 Pookah posted:Same. Just the other day, I remembered Samantha Smith, the 10-year-old American girl who wrote a letter to Yuri Andropov asking if there was going to be a war. Andropov personally wrote a touching reply and invited her to visit the Soviet Union. I had a laugh imagining what Putin would do in that situation.
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I assume they will start training conscripts at the start of April, paralel to gathering supplies and then launch them into battle in May. It is entirely possible they will dig in as hard as they can and wager that Ukrainians will be tired of fighting by May and fresh bodies led by somewhat experienced mercenaries help them win the war.
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CommieGIR posted:If I had to guess, it'll go up slightly, but its gonna crash back down again. Will it though? How independent is the Russian stock exchange, and if there's no outside people buying and selling can the Russian government just gently caress with it? I mean the seem happy just loving with the value of the ruble, seems like if they have the ability to make it look like their stock market isn't crashing they will be more then happy to do what ever they need to, to keep up appearances.
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Didn't that guy who has been confirming via photo all the destroyed trucks and tanks say that the Russians have lost nearly 1,000 Ural trucks so far? I think for any army that much shipping equipment getting toasted would be a big problem.
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Gervasius posted:This is US Navy Fighters (1994) erasure. God I wish someone would make a new US Navy Fighters. I probably spent more time with that and Falcon 3.0 than just about anything back in the early/mid 90s. Falcon 4.0 and the LOMAC/DCS addiction came later. I kind of don't know what happened to all the hardcore sims on the PC in general. It's like 2001 happened and they all went the way of the dodo.
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Saoshyant posted:https://twitter.com/JackDetsch/status/1506988113939386372 I doubt there are many mercs willing to die on an actual battlefield instead of just bullying civilians and committing war crimes in some forgotten country.
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Kikas posted:I assume they will start training conscripts at the start of April, paralel to gathering supplies and then launch them into battle in May. It is entirely possible they will dig in as hard as they can and wager that Ukrainians will be tired of fighting by May and fresh bodies led by somewhat experienced mercenaries help them win the war. At an estimated 1,000 casualties per day, there won't be a Russian army in many places in Ukraine by May. There's no world in which this timeframe works, where Russia conscripts some teenagers and rushes them through a training camp starting in April while Ukraine began full mobilization and proper training for its (much more motivated, better supplied, often already with military experience from previous mandatory service) reserves several weeks ago.
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dr_rat posted:Will it though? How independent is the Russian stock exchange, and if there's no outside people buying and selling can the Russian government just gently caress with it? They haven't replaced the multitude of supplies they are importing like electronics, food items, etc. It will likely crash again. Despite what Russia is claiming, they can't just 'nationalize' factories without the globalized supplies these factories needed to operate and produce. And given even before this, corruption and outright theft in the production of components, especially military ones, was rampant, unless they are suddenly going to tighten that belt? They cannot just 'replace' these lost companies and logistics.
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I'd never heard about this incident, it's really striking how completely the tone has changed between then and the Putin regime.
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KitConstantine posted:Chart from the Russian stock market opening today A reasonably well off friend of mine from Daugavpils messaged me not 30 minutes ago, saying he bought a lot of stock on MOEX just before shutdown and fully expects to be rich when this blows over. I'm reasonably sure he's taking the piss, but lol if he isn't. with a rebel yell she QQd posted:This dude is the ex director of national TV and currently "content advisor" of state controlled media. Almost a random Hungarian posting poo poo on the internet. Cheers for that, I had no context whatsoever and this helps to put it back into where it belongs.
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Electric Wrigglies posted:Hind... FOUR O'CLOCK at..... five hundred Operation Flashpoint's expansion Resistance is very relevant, it even has a mission to steal a bunch of tanks from literally under the Russians' noses
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Pookah posted:I'd never heard about this incident, it's really striking how completely the tone has changed between then and the Putin regime. Russia has also returned to the "de-nazification and demilitarization" demands https://twitter.com/mfa_russia/status/1506992164068278273?s=20&t=0hQWAqLeWGQtA64taGmgcQ
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Pookah posted:I'd never heard about this incident, it's really striking how completely the tone has changed between then and the Putin regime. I remember when that poor girl died in a plane crash. She was a big deal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Smith
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Eric Cantonese posted:I remember when that poor girl died in a plane crash. She was a big deal.
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KitConstantine posted:Russia has also returned to the "de-nazification and demilitarization" demands That map seems to include the DNR and LNR as part of Ukraine.
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KitConstantine posted:Russia has also returned to the "de-nazification and demilitarization" demands Have they ever stepped away from that?
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