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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Oh they turn up every now and again during the plowing. To follow up on this, just because I’m a huge WWI nerd and I have a Twitter account recapping WWI: https://twitter.com/warhappened/status/1429722577921089540?s=21
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Dumb question apropos of nothing other than the “flight turned around lol” I suppose.. Are nations running expat/nationals repatriation flights from Russia right now? With the cut off of airspace to Russian flights is this a “go talk to your embassy” thing?
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:I think it's pretty clear that Russia doesn't give a single gently caress about optics Yeah they definitely do although I suspect they may start to less the longer this goes on. I guess also there are plenty of Russian Ukrainians plus they want to actually have the country forever once they capture it so are probably trying to damage as little as possible. The miscalculation so far is the Ukrainians being less keen on being 'liberated' than they expected perhaps.
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Paracausal posted:https://twitter.com/PutinIsAVirus/status/1498013700543983619 Wow they confirmed the Ukrainian number 1:1 Just for comparison, official Russian losses in First Chechen War was 5732 and that was 1,5 years It has been 4 days of action here and it is already at 4300
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Mokotow posted:Looks like the Aeroflot cancellation to the US is due to Iceland and Denmark telling them to idi na huj. 
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Mokotow posted:Looks like the Aeroflot cancellation to the US is due to Iceland and Denmark telling them to idi na huj. (This is the minister of transport tweeting.)
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DaysBefore posted:Oh so it was actually true that the entire Chechen deathsquad convoy got blown up the day they entered Ukraine? This is apparently another one of their convoys that was destroyed. The first was in Hostomel and this one is in Bucha according to the guy talking in the video.
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It's going to be a very bad night. https://twitter.com/ckoettl/status/1498019431804510216?t=7zks7wYTA2TXXjVf1PALuA&s=19 It looks like it's the Chechen reinforcements https://twitter.com/UA_BotTwitte/status/1498006072740782091?t=_q4GPb9ZXrn80FFZY_lugA&s=19 There are additional videos of Chechens flexing and gloating floating around twitter (ugh), and the terrain matches. Sending in notoriously violent troops while claiming you want to negotiate is pretty hosed up imo Edit: this is new, after the Bucha group got blown up.
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Seph posted:If Kyiv gets encircled, would it be at all possible to airdrop supplies (food/water) to residents, considering that Russia doesn't really have air superiority? No one having air superiority means all planes are getting shot down by AA. What pilots in Europe would agree to suicide themselves over Ukraine in a civilian plane?
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Seph posted:If Kyiv gets encircled, would it be at all possible to airdrop supplies (food/water) to residents, considering that Russia doesn't really have air superiority? airlifts are notorious for being extremely costly and prone to failure. the berlin airlift was only really possible due to a carve out in the wests post-war treaties with the USSR for a v narrow air lane between west germany and west berlin. Even then soviets buzzed them, harrassed them and did everything possible to get them to gently caress up and do an act of war accidentally
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Is it too late to change the Eurovision entry??
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Paracausal posted:https://twitter.com/PutinIsAVirus/status/1498013700543983619 almost certainly a hack or a sympathetic person on the inside, the same thing happened yesterday I think
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Old James posted:I was thinking the same about Chechnya. With their "crack" forces out of town (and getting decimated) this might trigger an uprising against Kadyrov. Yes I was also thinking about this. The basis of Putin's legitimacy was resurrecting the economy and ending the war in Chechnya, if Kadyrov's forces get thwacked you have to wonder if he can hold things together.
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Seph posted:If Kyiv gets encircled, would it be at all possible to airdrop supplies (food/water) to residents, considering that Russia doesn't really have air superiority? Only via sub-orbital spaceplanes. As others pointed out, lower flying craft are vulnerable to AA fire.
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KitConstantine posted:It's going to be a very bad night. I suspect some of these fucks will die to drones and etc. having long lines of fuel/logistics in hostile territory rarely ends well.
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Majorian posted:Jesus. Nah those are the ukranian numbers, but they apparently were indeed on tass for a little while before being removed, which makes it all so much weirder. steinrokkan posted:It's 100% hack or fake, the whole thing is written poorly and is a copy-pasta of Ukrainian claims, verbatim. yeah Herstory Begins Now fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Feb 27, 2022 |
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I was skeptical of the numbers I was seeing, but I figured hey, important to keep up Ukrainian morale and all that.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:I suspect some of these fucks will die to drones and etc. having long lines of fuel/logistics in hostile territory rarely ends well. They look super vulnerable here. It’s just a question of how well guarded they are against air attack.
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https://twitter.com/energybants/status/1498005296299622408 Hell has frozen over
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Yes I was also thinking about this. The basis of Putin's legitimacy was resurrecting the economy and ending the war in Chechnya, if Kadyrov's forces get thwacked you have to wonder if he can hold things together. There's no good numbers for the Kadyrovtsy, there were maybe 5 to 7,000 when they formally disbanded and were integrated into the Chechen government when Kadyrov took over. But the casualties we are seeing are unlikely to make a significant dent outside of morale.
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Yeah I was going to say, all I see there is evidence that some poor Ukrainian drone operator is going to get carpal tunnel syndrome tonight.
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the popes toes posted:Oh, was it ever confirmed that Putin fired the chief of the General Staff of Armed Forces? It's been all but confirmed to be misinformation
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Paracausal posted:https://twitter.com/PutinIsAVirus/status/1498013700543983619 I looked at that link and I don't see the casualty numbers from the picture in the tweet, am I missing something?
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Hell has frozen over Would be a very weird but very welcome silver lining of this whole shitshow. Germany going hard on nuclear would end up saving an incalculable number of lives, in the long run
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Kamrat posted:It might not be the scenario they hoped for but I refuse to believe a modern military wasn't ready for all kind of scenarios, I'm sure they had a plan B/C/D etc. ready from the onset. I would have refused this belief anytime before, as well. But every day that passes so far does not suggest a reduction in their disarray, nor a recovery in their plans. They aren't even capitalizing on gross attrition.
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Paracausal posted:https://twitter.com/PutinIsAVirus/status/1498013700543983619 This was a hack or something, Russian article has no such information
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cinci zoo sniper posted:https://twitter.com/energybants/status/1498005296299622408 Not going to happen. Lindner also called renewables "Freedom Energy" a few hours ago. And nuclear reactors don't heat homes.
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Kraftwerk posted:In WW1 the French lost like 250,000 people in two weeks in like august 1914. In the invasion of Belgium the Belgian forces initially held out valiantly against the Germans to the point that there were so many bodies that successive assaults were able to use them as cover to assault their forts. In terms of 21st century wars, in the 20+ years the US was in Afghanistan, they lost around 2800 people, and about 4300 US personnel died in Iraq since 2003. A supposedly modern army losing that number of troops in less than a week is significant.
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KitConstantine posted:It's been all but confirmed to be misinformation Yeah, figured. Thanks. This thread is a pretty good source for what's likely or not likely to be true, much appreciated.
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Putin's Chechens are thugs who are only good for massacring other thugs. Even aside from drones, they aren't going to have the discipline to operate effectively when they get fired on by professional soldiers or even an organized militia.
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Antigravitas posted:And nuclear reactors don't heat homes. I am here from Vancouver, Canada to tell you that electricity can and does heat homes, and the equipment is incredibly cheap and easy to install. It's also stupid inefficient, but that's a separate matter.
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Antigravitas posted:Not going to happen. If they can convince average Germans to accept nuclear district heating it absolutely can because there's literal gigawatts of waste heat.
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the popes toes posted:Yeah, figured. Thanks. This thread is a pretty good source for what's likely or not likely to be true, much appreciated. You can tell the numbers are inaccurate anyways, the TB-2 drone videos out of Ukraine so far show Russian forces losing: 2x Buk-M1-2 SAM system 1x Tor-M2 SAM system 4x 152mm 2A65 Msta-B howitzer 4x KamAZ-6350 8x8 artillery tractor 10x Unknown truck Which are not reflected in the numbers!
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Franks Happy Place posted:I am here from Vancouver, Canada to tell you that electricity can and does heat homes, and the equipment is incredibly cheap and easy to install.
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