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Tigey
Apr 6, 2015

fatherboxx posted:

I have numerous questions regarding the confiscated possessions of cia nazi assassins

https://twitter.com/francska1/status/1518596830661066752?t=vad345k8Fzke97Qt4e2iKQ&s=19

6/10 - lacking in NATO stickers/'funded by CIA' receipts.

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Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

evilweasel posted:

russia's a big country, with most of its military hardware from the USSR era that had no idea drones would be a thing

not shocking to me their massive border isn't covered with anti-drone capabilities, but i would imagine moscow itself is

you say that but then some arms depot blows up in the background of putins big day parade.


Doccers posted:

They sent their best Air Defense units to Ukraine.


Let that just sink in for a moment.

ooof. and half of them are scrap or in ukranian hands or hiding in the woods.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Tigey posted:

6/10 - lacking in NATO stickers/'funded by CIA' receipts.

Lacking in Soros funding.

Alchenar
Apr 9, 2008

The latest UK number:

https://twitter.com/Joyce_Karam/status/1518609744377876483

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

Blue Raider posted:

The fascist plan of bricking Putin into a room with no doors and waiting for him to piss himself to death is exposed to the world.

To be fair this would work on at least two recent US Presidents

Chalks
Sep 30, 2009

Deteriorata posted:

https://t.me/pridnestrovec/19135



Lots of stuff just randomly exploding all over the place. :iiam:

At least they planted something that could plausibly be traced back to the Ukrainians this time

Vesi
Jan 12, 2005

pikachu looking at?

loving the spidercam

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Chalks posted:

At least they planted something that could plausibly be traced back to the Ukrainians this time

This could also be just Ukrainians trying to kill some spook preemptively there.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Vesi posted:

loving the spidercam

Also a NATO asset.

Mr. Apollo
Nov 8, 2000

https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1518615779985534978?s=20&t=jzsEeHZ4L1TOKkfa1D2nGg

Xae
Jan 19, 2005

Dapper_Swindler posted:

so do they just not have air defenses? i am curious if they will try to hit a target in Moscow area before/during/after the parade.

Ground based radar is kind bad because the earth is not flat.

If you're flying 100ft off the ground radar more than ~10-15 miles* away can't see you.

This really wasn't an issue for a long time because its super dangerous to fly a couple hundred miles an hour that low. One mistake or even bad wind gust and you're eating dirt.

Then came computer assisted flight and it got easier. Then drones came along and without all the meat bag support equipment drones can now fly much slower plus have computer reaction times.

So you either need radar every couple dozen miles along super long rear end borders measuring (tens of??) thousands of miles or you need radar that isn't limited so much by the curve of the earth.


Its why US/NATO is big on airborne radar.


* There is a formula for calculating visibility for curve of the earth, but :effort:.

Charlotte Hornets
Dec 30, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

Chalks posted:

At least they planted something that could plausibly be traced back to the Ukrainians this time

Tubes of RPG-22 and RPG-28 on that pic. Generic Russian stuff

ZombieLenin
Sep 6, 2009

"Democracy for the insignificant minority, democracy for the rich--that is the democracy of capitalist society." VI Lenin


[/quote]

KitConstantine posted:

A couple other facilities spontaneously combusted as well
https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPR/status/1518595920459350017?s=20&t=KOhXmzMIjsIctx902AOeag
This war has me getting real conspiracy-brained - these two targets look like much better options for 'false flags' by the Russian government. Could the Ukrainian military have timed the strikes on actual critical infrastructure with the scheduled 'false flag' hits on food infrastructure to muddy the waters???

:tinfoil:

too much sugar in the morning got me string-mapping

More likely, the Russians were like, “oh poo poo they bombed the poo poo out of sites located near our planned false flag! Perfect time to roll out the false flag and say they did that too!

:tinfoil:

There Bias Two
Jan 13, 2009
I'm not a good person


That makes *more* sense than actually thinking these games had anything to do with Nazis.

Kibayasu
Mar 28, 2010

As a deep cover highly trained foreign operative I never go anywhere without my Nazi paraphernalia and crystal meth.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Kibayasu posted:

As a deep cover highly trained foreign operative I never go anywhere without my Nazi paraphernalia and crystal meth.

Crystal Meth: Famous for making effective agents more effective.

TheDeadlyShoe
Feb 14, 2014

I always take my pocket hitler when i'm killin people. He gives me a kiss, for good luck.

WAR CRIME GIGOLO
Oct 3, 2012

The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

You can't use sims 3 to recruit Russians to become Nazis YOU WILL REGRET THIS

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:

You can't use sims 3 to recruit Russians to become Nazis YOU WILL REGRET THIS

That's why they made sims 3 into a free download, they are spreading the subliminal Nazi messaging like a virus :catstare:

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!

Dwesa posted:

Current UA passport looks like this, but they tried



Technically, if they are exactly 26, they could have got the old passport in 2014 at 18, and still have a year or two to go before it expires. Then, again, those look brand new, but I imagine there are plenty of blank Ukrainian passports left in LDNR, should anyone need them.

Atreiden
May 4, 2008

Crystal meth is just homemade Pervitin. The nazis would approve.

Chalks
Sep 30, 2009


I love that this is the most realistic explanation

KitConstantine
Jan 11, 2013

Longish thread on the UK SecDef's update today
https://twitter.com/haynesdeborah/status/1518605152441311232?s=20&t=Q_e6TO1D9pN77KAIOn4XOw
https://twitter.com/haynesdeborah/status/1518610848335413249?s=20&t=Q_e6TO1D9pN77KAIOn4XOw

Also updated map
https://twitter.com/Nrg8000/status/1518602047666688000?s=20&t=Q_e6TO1D9pN77KAIOn4XOw
More 'sacrificing land for time' from Ukraine?

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

Paladinus posted:

Technically, if they are exactly 26, they could have got the old passport in 2014 at 18, and still have a year or two to go before it expires. Then, again, those look brand new, but I imagine there are plenty of blank Ukrainian passports left in LDNR, should anyone need them.

Apparently their hypothetical assassin needed about 10 of them.

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Yeah, let’s get a bit more constructive, FSB clown poo poo episode #362 and all. Fresh ISW update:

https://twitter.com/thestudyofwar/status/1518620996642738178

Ynglaur
Oct 9, 2013

The Malta Conference, anyone?

loving interns...

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

https://twitter.com/camel_patrol/status/1518617578830188547

No loving way. Has anyone seen this? I'm not gonna watch russian propaganda at work

Charlotte Hornets
Dec 30, 2011

by Fritz the Horse
Handwriting looks spot on, probably written by a woman

Tuna-Fish
Sep 13, 2017

gay picnic defence posted:

Haha he knew something down there had their eye on him. Plenty of time to question his life choices that led to him dodging missiles over a neighbouring nation.

Like 5 second before the video started, his friend was shot down. :nms: A little more context from before the beginning of the video, showing a fireball on the ground.

For some weird reason, I've seen like 4 separate video clips about this sequence of events but never the whole thing as a single video.

edit: should have hit refresh.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

cinci zoo sniper posted:

Yeah, let’s get a bit more constructive, FSB clown poo poo episode #362 and all. Fresh ISW update:

https://twitter.com/thestudyofwar/status/1518620996642738178

So, just like their last lovely attempt at an encirclement.

KitConstantine
Jan 11, 2013

RE: the oil/ammo/farm/food strike - the plot thickens...even more????
https://twitter.com/Liveuamap/status/1518603464741376001?s=20&t=Q_e6TO1D9pN77KAIOn4XOw
https://twitter.com/Liveuamap/status/1518606663611486208?s=20&t=Q_e6TO1D9pN77KAIOn4XOw
:tinfoil:

More German drama:
https://twitter.com/AlexLuck9/status/1518594996781256705?s=20&t=Q_e6TO1D9pN77KAIOn4XOw

quote:

Before delivery to Ukraine, they would have to be repaired - that would take time and would be too late for Ukraine. However, the first 20 Marders could be delivered within six to eight weeks, Rheinmetall boss Armin Papperger told SPIEGEL - 50 more would be ready for use within five to six months ( read more about this here ).

Rheinmetall had previously requested the delivery of other main battle tanks to Ukraine . This is the Leopard 1, as CEO Armin Papperger told the " Handelsblatt " newspaper - the predecessor of the Leopard 2 currently used in the German armed forces.

Chancellor Scholz will answer questions about his Ukraine policy in the Defense Committee on May 11, according to Hebestreit. The chairwoman of the defense committee, the FDP politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann , had invited the chancellor to the appearance. Strack-Zimmermann demands the delivery of heavy weapons to the Ukraine.

Strack-Zimmermann originally invited Scholz to the upcoming meeting on Wednesday this week. However, this date cannot be realized, said Hebestreit.

Sax Mortar
Aug 24, 2004

mobby_6kl posted:

https://twitter.com/camel_patrol/status/1518617578830188547

No loving way. Has anyone seen this? I'm not gonna watch russian propaganda at work

They wrote it in as legible text as possible as well. Wanted to make sure they got full credit for following instructions perfectly.

Willo567
Feb 5, 2015

Cheating helped me fail the test and stay on the show.

the popes toes posted:

Putin did laughably warn Ukraine against attacks on Russian soil. As if that warning had any meaning. But mobilization seems inevitable given their battlefield needs and the hypocritical pretexts of Ukrainians actually responding in kind. May Day would seem to be a useful patriotic platform to exhort the populace to move to a war footing. “Soldiers of Stalin, the Motherland needs you now more then ever!”

Wouldn't mobilization contradict Putin's bullshit claim of everything going to plan?

XMNN
Apr 26, 2008
I am incredibly stupid

ZombieLenin posted:

Corbyn is pretty decent person, and as far as left or labor policy party leaders in advanced industrial countries go, I agree he would have been a far better PM for the British people; however, and this is a big however, he would have absolutely failed to live up to this historical moment with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Boris Johnson is a rich, pro-capitalist, walking clown… but he’s managing to live up to the global historical moment.

My suggestion to British goons is they find a labor leader who wouldn’t have let Germany get away with invading Poland, or Russia invading Ukraine.

lmao

for the avoidance of doubt, you're a loving moron

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




mobby_6kl posted:

https://twitter.com/camel_patrol/status/1518617578830188547

No loving way. Has anyone seen this? I'm not gonna watch russian propaganda at work

That’s a known pseudonym, there’s a real person who signs like that.

KitConstantine
Jan 11, 2013

Willo567 posted:

Wouldn't mobilization contradict Putin's bullshit claim of everything going to plan?

Looks like they're considering 'one weird trick' - grain of salt due to source, but it fits with the pattern of border attacks and is a way to split the baby of full mobilization
https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPR/status/1518627307522564096?s=20&t=KOhXmzMIjsIctx902AOeag

Ynglaur
Oct 9, 2013

The Malta Conference, anyone?

Willo567 posted:

Wouldn't mobilization contradict Putin's bullshit claim of everything going to plan?

Argument by assertion does not require adherence to facts or indeed any knowledge available by the five senses. Such tyranny requires only obedience.

People like Putin and Trump do not care.

the popes toes
Oct 10, 2004

Banderites continue their racist assault on Russian culture and history
https://twitter.com/rommari/status/1518548711990771712

Just Another Lurker
May 1, 2009

Sax Mortar posted:

They wrote it in as legible text as possible as well. Wanted to make sure they got full credit for following instructions perfectly.

Malicious compliance? :evilbuddy:

I can't read Cyrillic but it looks like nice handwriting.

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Ikasuhito
Sep 29, 2013

Haram as Fuck.

the popes toes posted:

Banderites continue their racist assault on Russian culture and history
https://twitter.com/rommari/status/1518548711990771712


I'm very surprised that it hadn't been wrecked already.

Or that it hadn't been hit by a russian bomb.

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