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cinci zoo sniper posted:https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1498360815245615104 Lol they have so much loving money now and they’re using it amazingly
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Mooseontheloose posted:I know we shouldn't take the Ukrainian numbers at face value but let's assume the 5K number is halved to 2.5k soldiers killed, isn't losing 2.5% of your operational force before you have even conquered a major city a major loss in terms of man power? yea for comparison, the U.S. lost 2.420 soldiers (and some 19,950 wounded) over the 20 years they spend in Afghanistan. If we go to the more bloody war (for Americans) the U.S. lost 58k in Vietnam over 19 years. 5k or just 2.5k in a week is big for a modern war.
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Kaddish posted:That sucks, I’ve been following him for a couple years now and didn’t know this. Don't feel too bad, I did the same exact same. I only randomly googled him when bored one day.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1498377982771359745 Really running on fumes here Moscow Next they will say feeding Ukranians is an act of War against Russia
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https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1498380774713827332?s=20&t=5UnBUoEPPUFfWZWw06bgVQ Uhhh
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Picture of the fuel tank train being deleted. https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1498374225358462982?t=ocsQbRt_WatjEwtn3vx6yQ&s=19 Also, a gift from gbs 
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Sodomy Hussein posted:Everyone is worried that this is the next phase, since just rolling in with a show of bombastic force did not work at all. It's far too early to declare the conventional invasion a failure. The Russian strategy is to encircle key cities and cut off entire chunks of the country from the western half. That's still ongoing. This is going to continue to unfold over weeks.
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Possibly related… https://twitter.com/iaponomarenko/status/1498380314212765704?s=21
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Shes Not Impressed posted:https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1498380774713827332?s=20&t=5UnBUoEPPUFfWZWw06bgVQ How are they supposed to transfer the funds if SWIFT is disconnected? A true masterstroke on the part of Russia!
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Apparently Ukraine started the war with around 750 T64s (that's the public best guess, who knows how close to true that is) so even if Russia's claims are accurate it looks like there's still a whole load of armour out there.
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Shes Not Impressed posted:https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1498380774713827332?s=20&t=5UnBUoEPPUFfWZWw06bgVQ I assume this threat is to bluff grandmas who don’t know how computers work but I don’t know how they would see it
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Djarum posted:CNN just posted Russian "numbers" I don't think these necessarily seem entirely unbelievable, Ukraine's forces have absolutely been taking a pounding even if they're giving as good (or better) as they get. The fog of war tends to naturally puff up kill counts some due to the difficulty of confirming that a vehicle/installation is really definitely destroyed, so I doubt this is a super conservative "yes we have definitely confirmed all these kills" number, but I don't think they're particularly exaggerated.
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Russia is now deploying advanced malware across the globe called Daxin. It can apparently penetrate hardened networks and route communications from non directly internet connected devices to a command and control center. Not sure how bad this will escalate due to this happening now.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1498377982771359745 Oh good, I was cold and this dickwaving posturing bullshit warms me up all the way in Florida 
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I have a feeling that most of the RU army also believed Putin when he said that a invasion was never going to happen. So they assumed it was no problem if they sold some of their gear during the exercise.
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Majorian posted:Yeah, there are a lot of qualifiers on the case for sanctions making a difference. Here's a good paper from Yale on the subject. The conclusion is basically, "Ehhhhh...if sanctions helped, they did so indirectly": Good read, thanks for linking. I have questions on the paper but I’m worried that it would be too off topic to discuss here.
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I will take all the money from Russia. All of it. Yes this is a serious threat.
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Blurred posted:Is it possible that the EU / US smuggled much weaponry into Ukraine in the lead-in to the war, given how prolonged and obvious the Russian build-up was? The Ukrainians have thousands of javelins. That's why so many russian soldiers are getting bulldozed. Absolutely the US has been handing them out like candy.
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bad boys for life posted:Russia is now deploying advanced malware across the globe called Daxin. It can apparently penetrate hardened networks and route communications from non directly internet connected devices to a command and control center. Everything I can see about this is that it's chinese?
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Answers Me posted:Possibly related… It's possible you need to be inside Russia/use Russian VPN to access.
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KitConstantine posted:Also, a gift from gbs Only recently learnt that word, the smilie gave me a laugh.  Slava Ukraini! 
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KitConstantine posted:Picture of the fuel tank train being deleted. Send GBS my regards 
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"Attention: Being Ukranian will be treated as an act of War against Russia"-Defense Ministry of Russia
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Sandweed posted:I have a feeling that most of the RU army also believed Putin when he said that a invasion was never going to happen. So they assumed it was no problem if they sold some of their gear during the exercise. If they are to believed a lot of the troops who got sent in didn't really understand there was an invasion at all. They probably were told it was a peacekeeping thing which also might be why they felt like they could just ask for fuel and directions.
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If Russian does "win" and occupy a good chunk Ukraine it's just going to be so easy for partisan groups to operate. All of that captured Russian equipment, uniforms etc on top of the fact that unlike say the middle east, the occupied people look exactly like the occupiers and many of them speak the same language, it's going to be a nightmare for the Russians when it comes to insurgency attacks on their troops. Of course this will likely have the horrible effect of those Russians being a lot more trigger happy around anyone that acts even a little shady.
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TheRat posted:Source? Let me dog for it, I actually read it on one of the former American General (I think it was a general) military analysts Twitter thread someone linked in here either Saturday or Sunday. Basically he was saying Russia has smart munitions, but given the cost and what they invest in their military dollar wise they do not have anywhere close to what say the United States has. He then mentioned how France and Great Britain ran out of smart munitions during the Libya campaign, and speculated that Russia most likely burned through the majority of its smart munitions stocks on the first two days. I will try and find it.
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In russias defense (lol) this is a reevaluation of current doctrine war Like railroads in us civil war or Calvary in ww1 because it’s looking like tanks are p obsolete with how much anti tank tech has advanced
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Telsa Cola posted:
Are you just fully dead if you are one of those little pixel guys walking around the convoy?
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Telsa Cola posted:If they are to believed a lot of the troops who got sent in didn't really understand there was an invasion at all. They probably were told it was a peacekeeping thing which also might be why they felt like they could just ask for fuel and directions. the two kids they grabbed on the first day said they were told they were being sent on a training exercise. whether that's true or not, who knows, but that was their story
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Shes Not Impressed posted:https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1498380774713827332?s=20&t=5UnBUoEPPUFfWZWw06bgVQ Calling bullshit on this one, having worked as a tech guy in classical financial services. punk rebel ecks posted:Good read, thanks for linking. Theory of sanctions could (briefly) be interesting, but reviewing sanctions against a third country would be off-topic at best.
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Dog Friday posted:Are you just fully dead if you are one of those little pixel guys walking around the convoy? Your odds aren't great but you could be okay/hosed up but alive. Though on the other hand you could be like 10 cars down and take a piece of shrapnel to the face and die. Explosions are funky.
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Mr. Apollo posted:Glad to see the "Ukraine should mint NFTs to finance their war effort" takes have started appearing. Very effective strategy when your power plants are being bombed.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:In russias defense (lol) this is a reevaluation of current doctrine war because it’s looking like tanks are p obsolete with how much anti tank tech has advanced nope . . . tanks are all terrain bulletproof vehicles with big cannon and thermal sights. they have weaknesses but the idea that theyre obsolete is a real tired meme.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Calling bullshit on this one, having worked as a tech guy in classical financial services. https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1498383515997585408?s=20&t=DPc2V3KhUh7RaG4g0Vo72Q Hey there's always a chance anonymous has developed quantum computing to reverse prime primes!
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Thales' stock just shot up like 20 bucks in the last week. I hate to bring this up, but it seems like the missiles are doing the work, or at least they'll be really busy making a shitload more.
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The_Franz posted:the two kids they grabbed on the first day said they were told they were being sent on a training exercise. whether that's true or not, who knows, but that was their story I kindaaaa buy it because it explains a lot of things. For clarification I don't think it would be true anymore with current/newer troops.
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Telsa Cola posted:Your odds aren't great but you could be okay/hosed up but alive. I had a friend who was hurt at the Boston Marathon bombing, fairly close and while she was hospitalized and had surgeries, she lived, can walk, and had no amputations because the bombers left the bags on the ground and the ground absorbed most of the blast. People next her weren't quite so lucky with injuries.
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Mr. Apollo posted:Glad to see the "Ukraine should mint NFTs to finance their war effort" takes have started appearing. Ukraine needs to mint an NFT of itself and give than to Putin so he can say he owns it, whole war would be over
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ZombieLenin posted:The Russians don’t actually have much in the way of “smart bombs”; and they’ve likely blown through 90% of the smart munitions they do have. Actually a Russian smart bomb is when you write a clever anecdote on the side of a bomb. BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:apparently russians are using loving cell phones to communicate with each other so disabling power would hurt them as much as the ukranians 2022 was the year when Russia was brought to its knees. No, not by Ukrainian army nor western sanctions, but by roaming fees of Ukrainian phone companies. surf rock posted:https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1498366362540032001 There's so much to take in a twelve second video, you could write a whole novel out of it. Looks like a MT-LBu with specialist equipment on roof, towed by an acquisitioned civilian tractor (notice the white Z markings on both). I'm going to go on a limb and say this is an artillery forward observer vehicle or some other technically valuable vehicle, anyway not just a troop carrier. Not sure how much a couple of molotovs would have done on the AFV, especially if it was out of fuel. In hindsight the tractor would have been a better target as it would have been easier to disable and then the MT-LBu would have been immobile again. But a valiant attempt anyway, it really must suck for the Russians who don't know what they're doing and why the locals are so angry at them.
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Sandweed posted:I have a feeling that most of the RU army also believed Putin when he said that a invasion was never going to happen. So they assumed it was no problem if they sold some of their gear during the exercise. Wait, this is a thing that happens?
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