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cinci zoo sniper posted:In Europe that would be Vegeta. Allspice isn't allkrydda, it's kryddpeppar!
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Shell blocking the 'blended' oil that were getting past sanctions - essentially countries were buying Russian oil cheap, blending it 51-49 with their domestic or other foreign supplied oil then selling it. Shell is specifically saying that won't fly with them anymore https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1519351426748665857?s=20&t=ANhfyySN3coGPCODLZ0YiQ I wonder if more companies will come out and do the same? I assume this was under EU and/or US pressure to crack down on sanctions avoidance.
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Pook Good Mook posted:There are reports for the past two weeks that artillery using NATO standard shells are making their way into the conflict, both towed and self-propelled. This is the general consensus among tankers. Training ”a tanker” is very fast process, and western tanks in general are way friendlier in their UI to the crew. Training ”a tank crew” is the part that takes time. So If you have ready-trained, combat-proven tank crews that stack BMPs for lunch with an ancient t-72, converting them to a bit more modern abrams is basically showing the controls, letting the driver get a feel on how it handles, let the gunner get accustomed with his sights and FCS and point them to Any Russian formation they need to delete. In addition to this you need to translate the technical manually and teach basic maintenance and repair. Logistics and maintenance crews actually need to know What they are doing, extensively. As someone who jumped ship from Leo 2 to m1A2Sepv2, converting a Leo crew to destroy stuff on a functional abrams is less than a days training. Teaching them to troubleshoot issues that would come up within the first 3 days would be a longer process.
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I am concerned that the food derail is about Scandinavian foods. This is the thread about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and food derails should be Ukraine-related. Thanks for your attention to this pressing matter.
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https://twitter.com/KyleJGlen/status/1519262232030453761DekeThornton posted:Allspice isn't allkrydda, it's kryddpeppar! English language...
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cinci zoo sniper posted:
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cinci zoo sniper posted:
Allspice is the English name for Pimenta dioica. I'll drop the food derail now, sorry.
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*bangs fists on table* DOLLAR STORE D-DAY! DOLLAR STORE D-DAY!
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Fritz the Horse posted:I am concerned that the food derail is about Scandinavian foods. This is the thread about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and food derails should be Ukraine-related. Thanks for your attention to this pressing matter. There is no Kievan Rus and therefore no Ukraine if there weren't a bunch of vikings who wanted to get as far away from surströmming as possible 
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Fritz the Horse posted:I am concerned that the food derail is about Scandinavian foods. This is the thread about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and food derails should be Ukraine-related. Thanks for your attention to this pressing matter. If I were making some Ukrainian plaited bread, should I egg wash the top? And what type of salt? Coarse sea salt or fine table salt?
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Risky Bisquick posted:This is the dumbest false flag 1 PM in broad daylight lol
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I would hazard that it is more likely that Russia wishes to maintain the threat so that Ukraine has to commit a defensible number to protect against it and those troops can't be commited elsewhere. I can't think that razing Odessa, and that would be what it would take, would imaginable to the Russian public?
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the popes toes posted:I would hazard that it is more likely that Russia wishes to maintain the threat so that Ukraine has to commit a defensible number to protect against it and those troops can't be commited elsewhere. On the other hand, from experience we know that if Ukraine fires off another Neptune and hits and/or sinks another one of these this problem will go away for another few weeks. Apparently they just have to wait for some bad weather so the defense radars have a hard time tracking the missile over the waves.
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Orthanc6 posted:On the other hand, from experience we know that if Ukraine fires off another Neptune and hits and/or sinks another one of these this problem will go away for another few weeks. Just wait till all those British anti-ship missiles get activated.
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I thought this was interesting - Loooong article from BBC Russia about the negotiations and the breakdown/non-breakdown thereof. Apparently they're still ongoing. The piece has sources from both sides of the table. https://www.bbc.com/russian/features-61241525 A couple excerpts - machine translated: quote:In any case, discussions about how the agreement will work continue. And, according to BBC interlocutors, there is no talk of any clearly formulated document that could be considered Moscow's response to the "Istanbul communiqué". Really interesting stuff in there. The sense I get is that Putin is starting to get a bit more involved, but the sinking of the Moskva pissed him off so everything got hosed up.
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Orthanc6 posted:On the other hand, from experience we know that if Ukraine fires off another Neptune and hits and/or sinks another one of these this problem will go away for another few weeks. On the other hand, I read a commentator who said, "At this juncture it would be stupid to attempt to take Odessa, so the Russians will probably try." And why is the Kerch bridge still standing? Is it beyond Ukrainian capability at the moment?
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The Dutch are apparently providing some self-propelled artillery (PzH2000): https://twitter.com/hdevreij/status/1519274656037023747
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cinci zoo sniper posted:
Looks like they accidentally did some damage with one of those shots!
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Sir John Falstaff posted:The Dutch are apparently providing some self-propelled artillery (PzH2000): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv77Yo_FbBU
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the popes toes posted:On the other hand, I read a commentator who said, "At this juncture it would be stupid to attempt to take Odessa, so the Russians will probably try." The bridge is like 300 km away from the frontline, also there's no guaranteed way to hit a bridge in a way that does permanent damage to it. Knocking out a pylon would do it, but that's easier said than done.
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https://twitter.com/fa_burkhardt/status/1519364839201812489DekeThornton posted:Allspice is the English name for Pimenta dioica. I understood what you’re saying, I’m just complaining that only the English could deem that a good name for the plant.
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I found a lengthier Zakharova quote which seems to confirm she's just responding to the statement by the British armed forces minister. It seems to not be so much of a threat to hit NATO territory but more of a petulant: "Oh yeah? Well by that same logic wouldn't we be justified hitting England, Mr Minister???" "Maria Zakharova said: “Do we understand correctly that for the sake of disrupting the logistics of military supplies, Russia can strike military targets on the territory of those Nato countries that supply arms to the Kyiv regime?” “After all, this directly leads to deaths and bloodshed on Ukrainian territory. As far as I understand, Britain is one of those countries.”" https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/russia-threat-attack-uk-ukraine-26811611 See this earlier post of mine for additional context PerilPastry posted:Yeah, this is a probably in response to the British armed forces minister saying that it would be perfectly legitimate for Ukraine to attack military targets on Russian soil using British weaponry. Which is true but probably a pretty ill-advised thing to actually say out loud.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:https://twitter.com/fa_burkhardt/status/1519364839201812489 Ah! Yes, that is correct.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:
Russians would hear it's a spice and run away screaming. Ukrainians would wonder whether one can use it for spiced distilled alcoholic beverages.
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Rust Martialis posted:Frokken Jensens opskrift: Denmark is rumored to have exported 4000 one-time use frikadeller to the UAF.
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ZombieLenin posted:Pretty misinformed—in my opinion. I am sure others might give you a different answer. There are more defenses for a USN carrier group than just Aegis for missiles and more than the SSN for torpedos, much of it is classified though. Really the only way you are going to be able to take out a modern carrier is you would need several dozen missiles or torpedos to be able to hit critical areas effectively all at once. That would require enough airframes to be able to get through fleet defense or many submarines to evade all of the anti-submarine detection that makes it effectively impossible. You would need to be willing to send far too much out on a suicide mission, have an incredible amount of luck and have too many people sleeping on the job that it just is improbable of being successful. This is why China and Russia both have been investing in long range, hypersonic missiles to try and counter some of the defense. The issues there is multifold as you can't get as big of a payload in a hypersonic missile since to try and make them less detectable you need to make them small and to make them long enough range a majority of the space is used by fuel. Also the launch of said missiles are easily detectable so while you have less time to react you still have plenty of time to ready defenses. This is why the US and NATO have instead been investing in stealth missile tech since if you make them less detectable you can still keep lethality and range without having to make as many sacrifices. The only way to take out a modern carrier group would to drop a MIRV but even that isn't a silver bullet either.
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An interesting long-read Twitter thread from a Navalny-aligned anti-corruption investigator about Russian/Dutch conductor and Putin sidekick Valery Gergiev: ik edit:  corpse photo in the first tweethttps://twitter.com/pevchikh/status/1519319069501054977 The money tweet: https://twitter.com/pevchikh/status/1519319344710311937 (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) Somebody fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Apr 27, 2022 |
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Why does it seem like Kherson residents are able to protest, use phones, taunt soldiers, etc, while other cities have their communications severed and people are murdered for just having Ukrainian flags? While the rest of the occupied areas took a hard turn into brutal crackdown, Kherson is still getting a relatively soft approach.
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ummel posted:Why does it seem like Kherson residents are able to protest, use phones, taunt soldiers, etc, while other cities have their communications severed and people are murdered for just having Ukrainian flags? While the rest of the occupied areas took a hard turn into brutal crackdown, Kherson is still getting a relatively soft approach. Kherson is seeing crackdowns as much as every else does. The main differences are that Kherson is close enough to urban infrastructure controlled by the Ukrainian government for it to be impractical to shut down poo poo like 4G and that it's a big enough city. They may simply not have enough manpower to handle the consequences of brutalizing 20-50 people and then having every adult male in the city decide to Maidan them.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Kherson is seeing crackdowns as much as every else does. The main differences are that Kherson is close enough to urban infrastructure controlled by the Ukrainian government for it to be impractical to shut down poo poo like 4G and that it's a big enough city. They may simply not have enough manpower to handle the consequences of brutalizing 20-50 people and then having every adult male in the city decide to Maidan them. It does seem like they're trying to run things a bit differently there for some reason - or at least they were. There was an announcement that the Russian's had seized the city council building a couple of days ago, expelling all employees, implying that to at least some degree the city council had been operating for some time under occupation.
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Chalks posted:It does seem like they're trying to run things a bit differently there for some reason - or at least they were. There was an announcement that the Russian's had seized the city council building a couple of days ago, expelling all employees, implying that to at least some degree the city council had been operating for some time under occupation. They are prepping for a bullshit referendum to "legalize" their annexation.
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Found this on the socials. quote:Опять Тверская область отличилась. Помните как они закупили патриотичные наклейки с zалупой, расклеили их, а краска была некачественная, и российский флаг, когда краска выцвела, неожиданно стал желто-голубым? Теперь такая же неприятность произошла с плакатом, призывающим служить в российской армии. И вот теперь плакат призывает служить в украинской армии. Ну, понимаете, патриотизм-патриотизмом, но на закупке же надо денежек попилить, как обычно? Вот и попилили. Интересно, что теперь они с этим сделают? Просто снимут плакат или отправят криворуких коммунальщиков перекрашивать? Machine translated: Again, the Tver region distinguished itself. Remember when they bought patriotic stickers with a zalupa, glued them on, and the paint was poor, and the Russian flag, when the paint faded, suddenly turned yellow-blue? Now the same trouble happened with a poster calling to serve in the Russian army. And now the poster calls to serve in the Ukrainian army. Well, you know, patriotism is patriotism, but you need to make money for the purchase, as usual? Well there goes the saw. I wonder what they will do about it now? Will they just remove the poster or send crooked utility workers to repaint?
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Chalks posted:It does seem like they're trying to run things a bit differently there for some reason - or at least they were. There was an announcement that the Russian's had seized the city council building a couple of days ago, expelling all employees, implying that to at least some degree the city council had been operating for some time under occupation. A theory I've also seen: Kherson pretty much rolled over for the Russians as soon as they came in. There's lots of rumors floating around about collaborators but really it just seemed like there were no defenses up and the Russian army was able to sweep in the way they planned to in Kyiv. Since the populace didn't "resist" the initial conquest they didn't piss off the occupiers as much. Other cities put up a fight before being taken over which included killing/wounding Russian soldiers, which pissed off their would-be liberators. Angry occupiers then felt more free to start committing war crimes as 'reprisals'. Especially in towns that put up stiff resistance for weeks prior to take over.
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Pook Good Mook posted:They are prepping for a bullshit referendum to "legalize" their annexation. Does that imply they've ditched that idea now they've kicked out the council?
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Chalks posted:Does that imply they've ditched that idea now they've kicked out the council? I haven't seen anything about it, but I would make the guess that the council refused to sign off on it and the Russians "fired" them.
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Pook Good Mook posted:I haven't seen anything about it, but I would make the guess that the council refused to sign off on it and the Russians "fired" them. There's not a lot of info about it, apparently it's based on a facebook post by the mayor https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3467325-russian-invaders-seize-building-of-kherson-city-council-mayor.html quote:Tonight armed men have come to Kherson City Council. They took the keys away and replaced the security staff. I left at 07:45 p.m. – the Ukrainian flag was still flying above the mayor’s office It's actually pretty amazing that the city council was still working months after the city was occupied, with the Ukrainian flag still flying outside.
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