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GD_American posted:Is there a good observations/lessons learned/analysis blog out there that's keeping up with things? https://www.understandingwar.org/ has been linked around the forums, but I have no idea if their analysis is any good. This seems like a really hard thing to get a ground truth for while the invasion is actively ongoing.
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Saw this photo dump floating around on the combat footage subreddit: In it was this picture: I've been trying to figure out what that shrink-wrapped car to the left is. It looks like an expensive and fast coupe, at first I thought it was a Mercedes SLS AMG, with that sloping rear, big wheel and the way the rear view mirror is positioned. But the rocker panel on those look a bit different, I think, unless it's some aftermarket thing edit: for reference Nuclear Tourist fucked around with this message at 06:55 on Mar 4, 2022 |
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https://www.dailyveracity.com/2022/...ifestyle-brand/ Let's look at the sources that are pushing this? NGL could be another intentional misdirect; but I personally won't weep over any collateral fasciscide.
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Nuclear Tourist posted:
The flaring on the wheel arch looks different too. Post it in AI, someone will probably ID it in about 5 seconds.
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What are those flags they are holding up?
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Dick Ripple posted:What are those flags they are holding up? The one on the left is a Blackbeard flag*, slightly modified. Yes, that Blackbeard. Scourge of the Royal Navy, wove cannon fuse through his beard, cutlass-wielding Blackbeard. Murdered in 1718 off of Ocracoke Island by a British Royal Navy LT. *this is the pop culture idea of his flag going back a century. No known records exist, aside from someone remembering a story passed down through the family that went something like “a horned skeleton giving cheers, while stabbing a bleeding heart”. No known chud context that I’m aware of, at least for the original. They’re common on the NC coast, where Blackbeard was known to have lived/operated. e: the one in that pic had the drink held up in cheers replaced with an AK. Original is this: Icon Of Sin fucked around with this message at 07:15 on Mar 4, 2022 |
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Dick Ripple posted:What are those flags they are holding up? Forward Observations Group A military style "lifestyle brand" founded by former SF dudes and who's members do keep getting photoed with Nazis. What's more interesting is the Canoe Club flag. https://canoeclubusa.com/ You can buy ammunition at this url. Also I laughed at the implications of this eBay listing tags FORWARD OBSERVATIONS GROUP CANOE CLUB FLAG FOG DEVGRU GBRS ONE7SIX SUPDEF WRMFZY https://www.ebay.com/itm/165262543125 REALLY reminds me of Lake City Quiet Pills. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF0dCNxfYHk Wasabi the J fucked around with this message at 07:14 on Mar 4, 2022 |
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Dick Ripple posted:What are those flags they are holding up? Right one is maybe a reference to canoeing, a signature ritual corpse mutilation practiced by US SOF? aphid_licker fucked around with this message at 07:12 on Mar 4, 2022 |
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There's a SEAL team that uses that flag or a variation thereof as a unit patch. FWIW, forward observations was working on a documentary thing on the separatist regions in Ukraine. Looking at their channel, they just uploaded some new stuff. https://youtu.be/m9YJexrBNMo
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aphid_licker posted:Right one is maybe a reference to canoeing, a signature ritual corpse mutilation practiced by US SOF? That’s 100% what it is. It looks like Forward Observations Group either got banned or deleted their IG account. I wonder what touched that off, but I’ve noticed there seem to be a number of “SOF veteran owned businesses” that seem to get in trouble for hanging out with Nazis.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion It's worth reading about the fascists shooting at the Russians since I trust them about the same.
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A Finn here and the whole thing is rather terrifying. Russia starting an invasion excused with sone A grade bullshit is uncomfortably familiar. I have nothing but sympathy for Ukraine and the poo poo they are going through, all I can say that this has caused an upsurge in enrollment to voluntary Finnish Defense Force courses and reservist organisations. I am a reservist myself and all this strikes rather too close to home.
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Eeeehhhhh... Hijack alert, but: If Russia hadn't stuck it's dick in a wasp's nest, Turkey would have been the big security story in a few months. Their economy is in the pan and the lira in a bit of a death spiral. These are all self-inflicted wounds that aren't relevant but suffice to say "gently caress Erdogan". Turkey's energy consumption sits at about 1.7PJ NG, 1.7PJ Coal, 1.8PJ oil. They import all three and they're experiencing hyperinflation and attendant massive currency devaluation; that's not good news if you want to keep the lights on. It's so bad they've outright seized some private foreign currency reserves. Parts and support for what will undoubtedly turn out to be a monkey model S400 is going to be background noise next to the energy question. That they closed the bosphorous to Russian warships was really most of what could reasonably be expected of them, noting their other (again, self-inflicted) woes. Who knows, maybe Iran can be rehabilitated as an international citizen? e: On Finland 2, don't forget that at the end of the continuation war, the SU did wind up with the insanely defensible terrain they'd been fighting over. If there's winter war 2, the Finns don't have that advantage. The SU knew this at the time. Yeltsin I think made some overtures towards the returned of the territory, but it never happened. Few folks seem to be saying that NATO would play differently if Finland or Sweden got invaded. I'm not sure that's right. Since I'm sure that key decision makers are making these decisions based on what some guy on a dead gay comedy forum says, join before you've got a territorial integrity issue. IPCRESS fucked around with this message at 08:00 on Mar 4, 2022 |
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Wasabi the J posted:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion I'm not sure anyone posting in this thread is unaware of these jackoffs.
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Need an automated page sniper that just posts "Yes we know about Azov Battalion thank you"
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I just think about Putin being a spy his whole life, he knows how to pit ideological enemies against each other for his own benefit, surely?
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IPCRESS posted:: On Finland 2, don't forget that at the end of the continuation war, the SU did wind up with the insanely defensible terrain they'd been fighting over. If there's winter war 2, the Finns don't have that advantage. The SU knew this at the time. Yeltsin I think made some overtures towards the returned of the territory, but it never happened. Yeah, the Karelian Ishtmus. The issue popped up a few times during the Cold War but nothing concrete got done. There is a joke in Finnish, "Let's take back Karelia!(bottle by bottle)" since Karelia is also a beer brand.
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Ataxerxes posted:Yeah, the Karelian Ishtmus. The issue popped up a few times during the Cold War but nothing concrete got done. There is a joke in Finnish, "Let's take back Karelia!(bottle by bottle)" since Karelia is also a beer brand. I always got a case of Karjala in the tax free shop when I went on Viking Line cruises, half a lifetime ago. Good stuff.
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Nuclear Tourist posted:In it was this picture: Looks like a Nissan GT-R or 370Z or something to me.
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IPCRESS posted:Few folks seem to be saying that NATO would play differently if Finland or Sweden got invaded. I'm not sure that's right. Since I'm sure that key decision makers are making these decisions based on what some guy on a dead gay comedy forum says, join before you've got a territorial integrity issue. They're also both EU countries whose economies are highly integrated with the rest of the continent and, frankly, have a level of shared identity with Northern and Western Europe that Ukraine unfortunately lacks.
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It sounds like Russia is having to activate additional troops that weren't a part of the original invasion force. Didn't the original grouping already represent something like 60% of their total active duty forces? Couple of other interesting notes:
UA MoD posted:🇺🇦 Operational information as of 06.00 04.03.2022 regarding #Russian_invasion / 🇬🇧 Operational information on 06.00, 04.03.2022 regarding the #russian_invasion (ENG below) psydude fucked around with this message at 10:26 on Mar 4, 2022 |
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Triple posting because this made me chuckle: https://twitter.com/BBCTech/status/1499693576342622209 I guess this is one of the use cases the Naval Research Laboratory was thinking of when they created Tor.
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Flesnolk posted:Would you mind elaborating on this? What makes them so good? Extremely well educated population and a military culture that seems to actually want to let soldiers use personal initiative, and train and treat them like professionals rather than drones. And there's basically near zero corruption in Scandinavia while even the US military is rife with it, much less most militaries on earth. E: https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2017/9/20/trigger-happy-autonomous-and-disobedient-nordbat-2-and-mission-command-in-bosnia Dunno if this is accurate but I wouldn't be surprised. Pine Cone Jones posted:I know why, but loving please can we at least do some kind of kinetic action to support Ukraine. I hate sitting here and just watching. Oh yeah lets just escalate this further into a shooting war rather than give aid thats working just fine for no real gain because you feel bad. We're (assuming you're American) really the best country to take the moral high ground on "don't invade sovereign nations and bomb civilians with no reason." You know they're taking foreign volunteers if it's so hard to directly sit it out and so eager? aphid_licker posted:Right one is maybe a reference to canoeing, a signature ritual corpse mutilation practiced by US SOF? It's been a widespread SEAL "meme" in the regular teams since like 2018 at the very least? I heard about it from a friend who was in SWCC around then. I'd bet my life that's why Bin Laden's body was buried at sea so I'm sure it goes back much much further. Butter Activities fucked around with this message at 12:36 on Mar 4, 2022 |
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:It's been a widespread SEAL "meme" in the regular teams since like 2018 at the very least? I heard about it from a friend who was in SWCC around then. I'd bet my life that's why Bin Laden's body was buried at sea so I'm sure it goes back much much further. I remember one of the Special Forces officers I was working with lamenting that the SEALs attached to them were "essentially sociopaths, and not in a fun way."
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I'm more curious what they're eating. Are those sardines? psydude posted:Triple posting because this made me chuckle: "yeah gimme those Jimmy Saville clips"
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Update from the UA Minister of Defense. (11:21 CET). According to below, Ukraine's casualty estimates are a combination of KIA and WIA. quote:Minister of Defence of Ukraine Oleksii Reznikov: psydude fucked around with this message at 13:13 on Mar 4, 2022 |
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this was in Russia https://twitter.com/markito0171/status/1499714102616330244
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psydude posted:Update from the UA Minister of Defense. (11:21 CET). Slava Ukraini, Heroiam Slava
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Alan Smithee posted:this was in Russia Looks like an SRBM hitting an ammo cache?
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Saw something in one of the other threads that was russian reports that it was an explosion at an ammo facility or something like that but they explicitly said it was an accident and not a missile. Also, this is news (from a couple hours ago) https://twitter.com/HenryJFoy/status/1499679745012871171
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Imo NATO shouldn't intervene but there's nothing to stop them from doing their own troop exercises on Russia's border right now. Make Putin divert resources to prepare for a US invasion that never comes.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Saw something in one of the other threads that was russian reports that it was an explosion at an ammo facility or something like that but they explicitly said it was an accident and not a missile. well as long as they are covering up an embarassment and not trying to start false flag poo poo
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ded posted:It was on fox news.
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https://twitter.com/dohuyaumnyi/status/1499725455288582149?s=21 what is this thing
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Alan Smithee posted:https://twitter.com/dohuyaumnyi/status/1499725455288582149?s=21 Sani towed mortar. Also, a technical.
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:Extremely well educated population and a military culture that seems to actually want to let soldiers use personal initiative, and train and treat them like professionals rather than drones. And there's basically near zero corruption in Scandinavia while even the US military is rife with it, much less most militaries on earth. This is accurate, at least for FDF. Especially this part hit home: "were taught that the only truly mortal sin was to hesitate. To seize the initiative and act was the primary imperative." Taking the initiative was loving hammered in, at least for the platoon leaders.
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IPCRESS posted:Sani towed mortar. Doctrine purist, structure neutral.
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https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1499702341146234880?s=20&t=T0zwEqgVSHzkSzOreMBLNgSpoggerific posted:Doctrine purist, structure neutral. not toyota, certainly not a hilux. Not even a pickup truck or flatbed ill give them a pass on minimum wheel requirement
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Alan Smithee posted:https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1499702341146234880?s=20&t=T0zwEqgVSHzkSzOreMBLNg
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bees everywhere posted:Imo NATO shouldn't intervene but there's nothing to stop them from doing their own troop exercises on Russia's border right now. Make Putin divert resources to prepare for a US invasion that never comes. I'd worry that Putin is not in a good mental state to be able to see it as an exercise. He seems to have gone totally overboard into his own bullshit.
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