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Preoptopus posted:I was referring to Russians creating their own traffic jams and getting obliterated. It reminds me of thoes zombie killer phone games. To illustrate a typical Russian column: 
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fatherboxx posted:Would steve1989 eat Russian rations expired in 2015? Wow... I almost had to check because time flies. Almost 7-year-old MREs?! I noticed that guy's gun has a sight which I haven't seen all soldiers have. Does anyone know how typical it is for front line soldiers to have attachments like these? I'm assuming they're reserved for more experienced / specialized infantry?
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Wistful of Dollars posted:Like anything Musk-involved we'll see if it actually works.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Wait, what is your friend saying? quote:Who could knew that war is loving expensive
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Have Russian civilians begun building guillotines yet and testing them out? For cutting potatoes of course.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:What are you implying? I'm worried that might be a Polish bullet convoy on fire or something. If the OSINT person knew the fire was in a different place than the Russian column, why did they reply to a picture of the Russian column with the picture of the giant fire map and no mention of the different location? It is horribly confusing, the OSINT person is very bad at conveying useful information.
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dominoeffect posted:Wow... I almost had to check because time flies. Almost 7-year-old MREs?! Can anyone translate? I cant tell if hes angry that they (Ukr) doesnt want to eat expired rations or that the poor russian solider got issued these in the first place.
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Deteriorata posted:Bringing them up implies you think they'll be used, which is straight Clancychat. No one's going to use them, so they're irrelevant. If they're so irrelevant why doesn't every single country with a stockpile disarm? They cost money to maintain and secure.
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Oh yes, I agree with them. Since Russians have done nothing original in this war, it’s going to be apartment bombings with at least 50 different videos of people in reflective cop wests carrying in exposed C4 bricks.
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Feb 28, 2022 22:32
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Sir John Falstaff posted:Partly I think it probably depends what you count--frontline troops? Reserves? Militias with AKs and RPGs? Civilians with molotovs? Well, let's discount the ones that are simply armed civilians for now, but that still leaves Ukraine with a stated strength of 200 000 regular troops when this war began, as well as about 100 000 paramilitaries and I don't see why any reserves mobilized should not count as actual troops either when those get in. Now, not all of these are going to be at the frontline of course (and far from all of them are combat troops), but the same holds true for the Russians.
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Zhanism posted:Can anyone translate? I cant tell if hes angry that they (Ukr) doesnt want to eat expired rations or that the poor russian solider got issued these in the first place. He is mocking russian army for providing soldiers with expired crap
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Huh, first Switzerland now this. Rappaport posted:A part of it is that pretty much all of the EU has committed to it, even Finland and Sweden are sending actual weapons and stuff which is pretty much unprecedented at least for Finland. Russia is a bully, but they'll have a hard time responding to the entirety of the West doing it, nukes or no. Maybe they'll do some economic nonsense, but they have their hands full with their own internal economy imploding due to the sanctions. I doubt even Putin is prepared for escalating this to a full-out Europe-wide active war. The behaviour of the EU implies they consider all bridges thoroughly burned, so there's little holding back. I'd still quite prefer to return to the calm and quiet of just the pandemic 
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Oh yes, I agree with them. Since Russians have done nothing original in this war, it’s going to be apartment bombings with at least 50 different videos of people in reflective cop wests carrying in exposed C4 bricks. In super HD at 60fps
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Tom Clancy is Dead posted:If the OSINT person knew the fire was in a different place than the Russian column, why did they reply to a picture of the Russian column with the picture of the giant fire map and no mention of the different location? It is horribly confusing, the OSINT person is very bad at conveying useful information. Well, they looked for a fire convoy, and found unexpected fire elsewhere - communicating it clearly enough for me. I agree it was worth a separate tweet, but it probably would’ve been more difficult to surface then.
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So Ukraine isn't just getting planes, they're getting to stage out of Poland, so have planes parked where Russia *shouldn't* hit them. https://ukraine.segodnya.ua/amp-ukraine/evropa-peredast-ukraine-70-istrebiteley-mig-29-i-su-25-dlya-aviaudarov-po-agressoru-1605977.html Poland is really pissed huh Edit: deleting tweet and linking directly to the article instead - it's already walked back the claims a lot KitConstantine fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Feb 28, 2022 |
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Oh yes, I agree with them. Since Russians have done nothing original in this war, it’s going to be apartment bombings with at least 50 different videos of people in reflective cop wests carrying in exposed C4 bricks. Better not attend any theatres in major Russian cities in the coming weeks.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Well, they looked for a fire convoy, and found unexpected fire elsewhere - communicating it clearly enough for me. I agree it was worth a separate tweet, but it probably would’ve been more difficult to surface then. I don't think it needed a separate tweet, I think it need one clause saying "a nearby highway"
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William Bear posted:Google translate of the attached tweet thread: Any indication that this was planes or Russians? The territorial defense units have been detaining anyone moving after 8 and shooting them if they dont stop
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Starlink is an offshoot of SpaceX--which is run by Shotwell, not Musk (though he has input). It's also weirdly his only venture that isn't plagued with QC and management issues. So competence and follow-through is actually something to be expected here. Russia is going to have a LOT of headwind now. Ukraine is mobilizing more by the day, and getting top-tier premier weapons systems and resupply. The population is beyond resolved against the russian invaders. Russia's supply lines are strained and are being actively targeted. Russia's economy is, uh, lol. That said, they still have a fuckton of weapons and people and are fully capable of deleting cities if they care to do so. Given the reports in the last 12 hours, we may be seeing them approach that line--what's the west going to do, invade? Sanction more, somehow? Ukrainian citizenry will be valid targets or not based on the whims and decency of Putin. I'm looking at the near future with a degree of dread.
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KitConstantine posted:So Ukraine isn't just getting planes, they're getting to stage out of Poland, so have planes parked where Russia *shouldn't* hit them. One of the replies disputes the Bulgarian part. https://twitter.com/UkraineReports/status/1498353105431240705
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KitConstantine posted:So Ukraine isn't just getting planes, they're getting to stage out of Poland, so have planes parked where Russia *shouldn't* hit them. This would be phenomenal if true, I sure hope so! Dare Putin to do something about it.
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Apparently UN is now live, with Russia saying that they’ve bombed no one, and it’s the work of radicals (the government of Ukraine).KitConstantine posted:Poland is really pissed huh 
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KitConstantine posted:So Ukraine isn't just getting planes, they're getting to stage out of Poland, so have planes parked where Russia *shouldn't* hit them. Holy poo poo, flying out of Poland? 
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Oh yes, I agree with them. Since Russians have done nothing original in this war, it’s going to be apartment bombings with at least 50 different videos of people in reflective cop wests carrying in exposed C4 bricks. Don't forget talking about how they are nazis and hate russia for its freedoms, using bad ukrainian with russian accent.
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KitConstantine posted:So Ukraine isn't just getting planes, they're getting to stage out of Poland, so have planes parked where Russia *shouldn't* hit them. Comments suggest this may be false. Letting them fly combat missions out of Poland would be quite the stretch.
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KitConstantine posted:So Ukraine isn't just getting planes, they're getting to stage out of Poland, so have planes parked where Russia *shouldn't* hit them. This seems like a loving massive escalation that might end badly
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https://twitter.com/COdendahl/status/1498382109873954818 Pretty bold if true. Stuff of dreams for future historians if the course of Germany's entire foreign policy changed because one guy decided to say it was and dared anyone else to say otherwise.
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KitConstantine posted:So Ukraine isn't just getting planes, they're getting to stage out of Poland, so have planes parked where Russia *shouldn't* hit them. Doubt. If true Poland needs to be excluded from article 5 when those get Iskandered.
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TheRat posted:This seems like a loving massive escalation that might end badly For Russia, they have very few friends left
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KitConstantine posted:So Ukraine isn't just getting planes, they're getting to stage out of Poland, so have planes parked where Russia *shouldn't* hit them. I don't really think they'll do the strikes in Ukraine and just happily fly back to Poland. Surely not.
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steinrokkan posted:Better not attend any theatres in major Russian cities in the coming weeks. Ukrainians sank Kursk.
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KitConstantine posted:So Ukraine isn't just getting planes, they're getting to stage out of Poland, so have planes parked where Russia *shouldn't* hit them.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Apparently UN is now live, with Russia saying that they’ve bombed no one, and it’s the work of radicals (the government of Ukraine). This seems...bad Like, isn't Poland dangerously close to escalation here?
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Panzeh posted:For a few years during the Vietnam War, there were more than 100,000 PLA soldiers in North Vietnam, manning AA defenses and doing logistical duties. The USAF very deliberately avoided bombing the northernmost chunk of North Vietnam for this reason. What about that one time they ran an A6 intruder down the main road towards the communist party HQ in Hanoi in a hail of AA but their mk 83s missed, but managed to come around again, hit their mark and limped back home, huh?
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i am a moron posted:For Russia, they have very few friends left If it ends badly it ends badly for everyone
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FishBulbia posted:Doubt. If true Poland needs to be excluded from article 5 when those get Iskandered. If Russia hits Poland at this point, frankly, I suspect most of the EU is fed up with Russia.
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KitConstantine posted:So Ukraine isn't just getting planes, they're getting to stage out of Poland, so have planes parked where Russia *shouldn't* hit them. https://twitter.com/MarQs__/status/1498410548974821387
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javi posted:Not sure if this has been posted yet, but US is expelling RUS spies from UN. https://twitter.com/USUNSpox/status/1498395166272634890 You only have to play Civ6 to know that embassies solely exist for sending in spies
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Oh and the "Ukrainian Question" article that got posted then pulled just got posted again on Sputnik. I can't stomach re-reading much of it but if anyone hasn't seen it and still thinks this whole thing was about NATO and not imperial ambitions see the link below Vladimir Putin has assumed, without a drop of exaggeration, a historic responsibility by deciding not to leave the solution of the Ukrainian question to future generations.
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