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fatherboxx posted:Police doing police things Reading the article I instinctively felt sorry for those unprepared guys being led into a warzone, until it clicked that they were riot police. That changed my view a bit.
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Gervasius posted:Stinger batteries have a limited shelf life and need to be replaced every now and then. So I guess Latvians got refurbished Stingers and new batteries from Danish stocks with full support of US, but that takes time. It was 100% a move from the Danish Government to avoid sending actual weapons. If it was a question of batteries, Denmark could have acquired some from an ally almost instantly.
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Old James posted:In part 2 he claims the war is costing Russia $20 billion/day which I find hard to believe. It took us a decade to spend a trillion $ in Iraq half a world away, Russia’s going to spend that much in 50 days with a common border. Someone said yesterday that Russia had lost about ten times more MBTs in the last 48 hours than the US lost in 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now I have NO IDEA if that’s true or not, but if it is, it’s conceivable that Russia is spending much more per day than the US spent in those actions.
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Ogmius815 posted:Someone said yesterday that Russia had lost about ten times more MBTs in the last 48 hours than the US lost in 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now I have NO IDEA if that’s true or not This is true, but only if you don't count the MBTs that the US handed over to the local allies (which the local allies then proceeded to hilariously lose against troops with no anti-tank capability).
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nurmie posted:this reads like some kind of fanfic, tbh Yeah, it sounds like some Hitler in Wolf's Lair fanfic poo poo
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TheRat posted:Looks like a fairly obvious joke? Yes; it’s illustrative. In before I get a 6er for posting about posters, but better then risking a 24 hour probation for questioning the party line in cspam.
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Ogmius815 posted:Someone said yesterday that Russia had lost about ten times more MBTs in the last 48 hours than the US lost in 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now I have NO IDEA if that’s true or not, but if it is, it’s conceivable that Russia is spending much more per day than the US spent in those actions. The cost in outright write-offs, even with high level of casualties, is going to be a small fraction of the overall cost, in supplies, wear and tear, spare parts, the usual logistical stuff. TheRat posted:Looks like a fairly obvious joke? Just a joke. Just the same joke, repeated 24/7, across hundred threads, by hundred posters. But just a joke, for sure. Such as other hilarious jokes like "Ukrainians aren't people" and we could go on. All mere innocent jokes. Jokes repeated day off, day on, year by year. Normal, funny jokes for normal funny people steinrokkan fucked around with this message at 15:38 on Feb 26, 2022 |
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After watching the American war machine do it’s thing over the past 21 years, the abandoned equipment seems pretty gods damned amateurish. The evacuation from Afghanistan aside (and then it was mostly ANA equipment) when NATO countries have to leave operable equipment on the field they blow that poo poo up instead.
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Ogmius815 posted:You should check in on the CSPAM thread. It’s revealing and everyone should see. Don’t touch the poop of course. They’re allowed to hell dump us but not the other way around! I thought the KFA forums had been down for years
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ZombieLenin posted:After watching the American war machine do it’s thing over the past 21 years, the abandoned equipment seems pretty gods damned amateurish. It's a simple cost/benefit analysis. Does it cost more to transport this banged up MRAP back home, and put it back into tip-top working order, than simply writing it off?
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ZombieLenin posted:After watching the American war machine do it’s thing over the past 21 years, the abandoned equipment seems pretty gods damned amateurish. This is a conventional war. Not NATO vs insurgency. Who gives a poo poo about denying the Ukrainians an MTLB or some Ural trucks. They run the same poo poo.
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Ogmius815 posted:Someone said yesterday that Russia had lost about ten times more MBTs in the last 48 hours than the US lost in 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now I have NO IDEA if that’s true or not, but if it is, it’s conceivable that Russia is spending much more per day than the US spent in those actions. i am petitioning jeffery to find some way to make this video the thread title https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFhjNaHcmag
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TulliusCicero posted:Any word on SWIFT yet? Germany's Scholz has yet to say if he's changed his opinion. Some statement is expected today.
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https://twitter.com/poppoppopkt/status/1497485834236346368?s=20&t=cxPoiGvlCuiMp2XQQgEK0A First real indications of Urban insurgency. Looks like they're taking notes though and are bypassing most cities.
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freeasinbeer posted:Yes; it’s illustrative. Hey remember earlier in the week when a CSPAM mod tried to bait Brown Moses into sharing a post from this thread there so that he could prob him? That's the culture and level of Putin apologism there. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Mokotow posted:Isn’t the bosphorous governed by some crazy UN regulations? No, it's governed by a treaty from 1936, called the Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits. Fun facts, at one time Stalin demanded Turkey allow a permanent Soviet military presence and joint control of the strait, and the Soviet Navy being dicks about the strait by anchoring warships in it is what led to turkey joining NATO.
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Oh, Orban showed up at the Ukranian border and held a press conference promising that Hungary will support all sanctions against Russia. "It's time to cooperate, this is a war."
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TulliusCicero posted:Any word on SWIFT yet? https://twitter.com/kyivindependent/status/1497581880530583554?s=21
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Charlz Guybon posted:Russians seem to be advancing a lot in the south That's because they've largely been unopposed. Ukrainian defense has focused on the larger cities in the north.
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Unconfirmed, but the Ukranian navy is claiming the Russians on the Black Sea did another whoopsie, against their own government this time https://twitter.com/remingtongeo/status/1497573570595098624?t=h8s8fpSC4ps2-QMkctfKZA&s=19
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Al-Saqr posted:https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1497566426118463489?s=20&t=5ZzUffyfvSor05JxGP3TjQ Confirmed to have not closed the straights. Misinfo claims seem to be based off of one tweet. https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1497578012358979591?s=21 Turkey playing both sides still https://twitter.com/phildstewart/status/1497578044923338752
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BigglesSWE posted:History is full of great bluffs. But for every successful one, there’s probably 10 that get curbstomped. OMON are known loving assholes in Russia so them getting murked is a blessing.
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Alchenar posted:Hey remember earlier in the week when a CSPAM mod tried to bait Brown Moses into sharing a post from this thread there so that he could prob him? And that’s the reason we get baited into “talking about posters”, basically folks in here potentially earnestly asking who could do the mind gymnastics to support putins war of aggression, and a really potent example of the contortions happening in real time is nearby.
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KitConstantine posted:Unconfirmed, but the Ukranian navy is claiming the Russians on the Black Sea did another whoopsie, against their own government this time once again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFhjNaHcmag
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More signs of urban insurgency against supply colomns in Sumy, but molotov's are hard to do right. https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/1497583185776971779 Condition on Southern Front seems dire for now, as Ukrainian forces have withdrawn to at least 70 KM of the west gate of Mariupol. https://twitter.com/KofmanMichael/status/1497577941278117891 And to the north up to Zaporizhia, seem to be trying to cut off the entrenched Ukrainian forces in the East. https://twitter.com/COUPSURE/status/1497559125416361987
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Alchenar posted:I do worry that we are about to enter an extended period of everyone saying loudly that they support exclusion from SWIFT but for mysterious reasons it never happens. Isn't the US the lynch pin on this? Last I understood they were not on board.
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the popes toes posted:Isn't the US the lynch pin on this? Last I understood they were not on board. No, its been Italy and Germany pussy-footing around. Biden said yesterday they were looking a SWIFT, but needed to confer with European allies.
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the popes toes posted:Isn't the US the lynch pin on this? Last I understood they were not on board. The US seems to be onboard, but they want to act in concert with Europe rather than acting unilaterally.
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Trump posted:No, its been Italy and Germany pussy-footing around. Biden said yesterday they were looking a SWIFT, but needed to confer with European allies. its just germany now and scholz has a conference today. Even loving Orban's in favor of it now so if he still holds out lol.
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Ogmius815 posted:You should check in on the CSPAM thread. It’s revealing and everyone should see. Don’t touch the poop of course. They’re allowed to hell dump us but not the other way around! (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) :rolleyes: fucked around with this message at 16:00 on Feb 26, 2022 |
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Finally a use for all these Bitcoins https://twitter.com/Ukraine/status/1497586406436352004 Reportedly posted by the Ukrainian DOT or something in a Facebook post about them removing road signs. https://twitter.com/olex_scherba/status/1497585311626502150 ummel fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Feb 26, 2022 |
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