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William Bear posted:https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1515453566546284545?t=N7djcFRUhbtexRQiEadp2Q&s=19 Can't wait to spend next week's Soros check on authentic Van Gogh monke paintings
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Rinkles posted:remember waronfakes? man, and oliver stone had such a sterling moral reputation before this
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:man, and oliver stone had such a sterling moral reputation before this My country goes too lightly on traitors. Ammonchat: Ukraine seems to be fairly honest about their needs versus their wants. They're asking for artillery shells and rockets especially. One of James Vasquez's recent tweets asked for people to push their governments for small arms ammo, so that may be getting rationed rather than handed out like candy right now. Modern high-intensity conflict uses a fuckton of ammunition, even with precision munitions everywhere.
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https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7087067921398123781 unbreakable spirit
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Risky Bisquick posted:https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7087067921398123781
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yunichel posted:You know that Ukraine declared total mobilization and all males 18-60 are banned from leaving the country, right? Society must have extreme social cohesion for such proclamations to matter. If the population doesn't buy in, such proclamations are worthless or even counterproductive.
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Mr. Apollo posted:I’m guessing it’s self propelled artillery since there’s a loader. I’m seeing lots of people (Americans) claiming it’s fake or staged because the commander is a woman. I guess they don’t realize that Ukraine allows women to serve in front line combat rolls. The US Army has women in combat jobs too (infantry, armor, reconnaissance, field artillery), including as commanders.
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OddObserver posted:That's a lot of people, but nowhere near 500?
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Mustang posted:The US Army has women in combat jobs too (infantry, armor, reconnaissance, field artillery), including as commanders. I think it's more about people thinking that the backwards sexist Ukraine surely wouldn't. They all savages there innit (being sarcastic here, obviously).
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Mr. Apollo posted:I’m guessing it’s self propelled artillery since there’s a loader. I’m seeing lots of people (Americans) claiming it’s fake or staged because the commander is a woman. I guess they don’t realize that Ukraine allows women to serve in front line combat rolls. It’s a SPG, tanks wouldn’t have open racks like that. People claiming it’s fake because they see a woman tanker are just sexists, disregard their opinion.
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Risky Bisquick posted:It’s a SPG, tanks wouldn’t have open racks like that. People claiming it’s fake because they see a woman tanker are just sexists, disregard their opinion. Also  isn't being shorter an advantage in those environments?
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OddObserver posted:Also Gonna laugh at chuds making video essays about how armor has become feminized because women end up being better at it.
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Are we mixing up Oliver Stone with Oliver North, or is there something about the former I'm not aware of?
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zenguitarman posted:Are we mixing up Oliver Stone with Oliver North, or is there something about the former I'm not aware of? While we’re there, what’s the relationship between Oliver and Roger Stones.
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the popes toes posted:Why sanctions you ask? I've been reading articles for years saying that a lot of their tank manufacturing centers have been on the edge of bankruptcy or being shut down. I'm just amazed that it's happening right now in the middle of one of the largest standup wars in modern history. Ukraine manufactured a lot of Russia's military equipment, especially certain high technology like FCS systems for tanks and more complex machinery like turbine engines (naval ones, coincidentally enough). They were also Russia's source for cast steel armor until the part of Azovstal that made cast parts closed down in the '90s, so Russia has been forced to pick and choose which T-90 tanks get the last of the cast turrets in their inventory as opposed to welded turrets, for example.
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Hes not going to do the Kursk all over again
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zenguitarman posted:Are we mixing up Oliver Stone with Oliver North, or is there something about the former I'm not aware of? cinci zoo sniper posted:While we’re there, what’s the relationship between Oliver and Roger Stones. Mr. Apollo fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Apr 17, 2022 |
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https://meduza.io/news/2022/04/15/fsb-predlozhilo-na-17-uvelichit-gosudarstvennye-rashody-na-pohorony-rossiyskih-voennyh FSB did request a 17% budget increase for military burials this Friday.
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I’ve been busy with real life so have kinda missed out on the news and thread in general. Is this still up to date?: Kiev and everything around it is Russian-free, Ukrainians more or less control that entire north region again. The south-easty areas are Russian controlled (have there been any Ukrainian counter offenses to get land back?). At some point Ukraine sunk a Russian ship and that was a nice morale victory. Marioupol may or may not be controlled by Russians or Ukrainians and is a little pocket cut off from everything. I can’t believe we’re nearing month two of this and Ukraine held out the way it did.
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buglord posted:I’ve been busy with real life so have kinda missed out on the news and thread in general. Is this still up to date?: Kyiv and everything up until Kharkiv, clockwise along the border, is free. Russia maintains presence in east (Kharkiv to Donetsk) and south (Kherson to Mariupol) fronts. Ukraine has made some minor pushes in the western outskirts of Kherson, but nothing grand. They did also sink 2 ships - a landing craft near Mariupol a few weeks ago, and the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet a few days ago. As for the Mariupol itself, it has been firmly encircled for over a month now, and there’s limited information available - the best we can tell is that at least half of the city is under Russian control already.
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Another dawn is breaking in Kyiv, and it's still Ukrainian.  
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https://mobile.twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1515524471289004035 C5 Super Galaxy flights have been landing in Poland, I wonder if those are the mi17 helicopter deliveries. https://mobile.twitter.com/jmvasquez1974/status/1515537897356599296 
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loving Shrek and his "interpreter" girlfriend.
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Young Freud posted:loving Shrek and his "interpreter" girlfriend.
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Risky Bisquick posted:https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7087067921398123781 Apparently Ukrainians are trying to bribe officials to get let into the TDF. There's a cap on new entrants because of limitations on training capacity but there's a ton of people who want to kill some Russians. cinci zoo sniper posted:https://meduza.io/news/2022/04/15/fsb-predlozhilo-na-17-uvelichit-gosudarstvennye-rashody-na-pohorony-rossiyskih-voennyh I was wondering if this could be used to estimate the number of Russians getting killed in Ukraine but then I realised they're leaving most of their dead in the field so it would be pretty worthless.
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Risky Bisquick posted:https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7087067921398123781 This feels like an echo of the Soviets in Afghanistan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvUSLKB9UMs&ab_channel=%E3%81%95%E3%82%93%E3%81%BF%E3%81%A3%E3%81%A1%E3%83%BC PeterCat fucked around with this message at 06:33 on Apr 17, 2022 |
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buglord posted:I’ve been busy with real life so have kinda missed out on the news and thread in general. Is this still up to date?: Pretty much? To summarize, after massive losses and minimal progress Russia retreated and is (supposedly) consolidating and re-organizing their offensive along fewer fronts.
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Good news. https://twitter.com/jmvasquez1974/status/1515556813634113538
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Per Ukraine General Staff Russia may be preparing a naval landing operation on Mariupol https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2022/04/17/7340158/ quote:In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions , the enemy continued to launch air strikes on Mariupol. Conducted assault operations near the seaport.
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Youth Decay posted:Per Ukraine General Staff Russia may be preparing a naval landing operation on Mariupol
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Youth Decay posted:Per Ukraine General Staff Russia may be preparing a naval landing operation on Mariupol i don't understand, they have a multiple uncontested ground corridors and the remaining ukrainian resistance seems concentrated in few large industrial blocks. what benefit could there possibly be in a naval landing?
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:i don't understand, they have a multiple uncontested ground corridors and the remaining ukrainian resistance seems concentrated in few large industrial blocks. what benefit could there possibly be in a naval landing? Odessa is a non-starter and they just lost their flagship, could be a desperate attempt by the navy to not look completely worthless. "Look, see, we're helping!"
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Nessus posted:Has anything changed, that would make this easier than it was last time they were looking at doing this? Yes. Russians made Ukrainians waste their ASMs in a clever feint 
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Youth Decay posted:Per Ukraine General Staff Russia may be preparing a naval landing operation on Mariupol Guessing this is supposed to be the coup de grace for Mariupol? I don't see they're be any real reason to have an amphibious landing, since the city is supposedly mostly in Russian hands right now. Feels like they have uncontested shore line compared to everywhere else west of the Dnieper river so it's more like doing an amphibious invasion just for the sake of having an amphibious invasion.
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Young Freud posted:Guessing this is supposed to be the coup de grace for Mariupol? I don't see they're be any real reason to have an amphibious landing, since the city is supposedly mostly in Russian hands right now.  Some maps have them controling the coastal district on the west side too A complete bombardment of Azovstal seems more likely to be honest.
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Nessus posted:Has anything changed, that would make this easier than it was last time they were looking at doing this? Seems like Ukrainian forces are now just in the steelworks so an amphibious landing at this point could make their position even less tenable. Apparently the steelworks is full of tunnels and looking at google maps is surrounded on 3 sides by water and it's about 3km from one end to the other. It would be an absolute headfuck to assault if the defenders have any ammo left so i can imagine the temptation to bring in reinforcements from a different direction to take some of the heat off the rest of the guys attacking.
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