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facialimpediment posted:NATO appears to be logisticsing the gently caress out of the resupply effort while Western Ukraine isn't being harassed by Russian fighters yetz: You know how I’m Star Trek the Federation is renowned for their engineers and technobabbling through a situation? This feels very much like that. “Ukraine needs supplies? We’re going to lift 3 dozen kinds of supplies from 8 different countries and Thwomp fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Mar 5, 2022 |
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Hekk posted:Don't post videos of children watching their dad bleed out in this thread. We know the Russians are good at war criming. If anyone is interested in watching snuff films, there are lots of places they can find that content. I certainly respect that, and didn't mean to post it for the shock value of "oh my god dead bodies!" As someone with a legal background it is probably the most brazen war crime I have ever seen on video (sorry SOC Gallagher, you've been bested). This isn't the fog of war, or a car speeding around a blind corner at a checkpoint. It's soldiers engaging a civilian vehicle, known to be occupied, and stopped in the open. Good at war criming is an understatement.
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CommieGIR posted:https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1499894955996856327?s=20&t=w4pwYgl2dNQEsqLoVIpKDA If that thread is even remotely accurate.... Also, seriously? They bagged the general because he was out front losing his poo poo?
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:If that thread is even remotely accurate.... I think I read earlier that it's happened to 3 high-ranking officers, not sure of the ranks of the others though.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:https://twitter.com/RepHoulahan/status/1499740290650890241 Mount the A10 gun on a Lada technical instead.
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whda posted:Mount the A10 gun on a Lada technical instead. Doubles as a means of propulsion!
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:If that thread is even remotely accurate.... Ukrainian snipers have incredible eyesight and accuracy. One of them double-mag dumped Lt. Dickheadski while he was taking a dump between two APCs. Freaks of nature.
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Mar 5, 2022 03:38
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:If that thread is even remotely accurate.... I want to say this exact scenario has happened before in modern times but all I immediately found or recalled was Fraser at Saratoga which is probably more legend than reality.
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CommieGIR posted:https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1499894955996856327?s=20&t=w4pwYgl2dNQEsqLoVIpKDA 
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gently caress could you imagine dying trying to take a Ukrainian mud season poo poo? Just embarrassing.
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Wasabi the J posted:gently caress could you imagine dying trying to take a Ukrainian mud season poo poo? Honestly it seems pretty on brand for Russian forces. Speaking of ground conditions. Yes it’s Azov we know we all know. Also I can’t confirm the footage so take it as you will. Twitter translate posted:The Russians are hiding their losses: the occupiers remain in Ukrainian soil https://twitter.com/ua_industrial/status/1499675495016935424?s=21 The footage is just heat signatures, but heads up if you don’t wanna look at.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:If that thread is even remotely accurate.... Presumably he was making himself a target by looking like he was in charge. Like why we don't salute on FOBs. The enemy can tell who is in charge by who is being saluted. But if you do have to salute an officer on a FOB at least have the common courtesy to call out "sniper check!"
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Like in that movie The Patriot, except it's the Ghost of Kyiv instead of the Ghost of the Santee.
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Hannibal Rex posted:https://twitter.com/risj_oxford/status/1499007132934582274?t=MALLCSqYE7qtEio-ni4JXA&s=19 I have this weird conspiracy theory that the Russians keep seizing these nuke plants so they can be like "the Ukrainians are making nukes!" Then they're gonna light one up on their own guys in a false flag and use it as a justification to nuke Kyiv. Of course with how they've been doing so far some Ukrainian would secretly livestream a bunch of Russian guys taking a warhead out of a box labeled "SECRET ATOM BOMB FOR SPEZNATZ TO PLANT TO FALSLEY INCRIMINATE UKRAINE"
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Singapore is hitting them with sanctions now which hasn’t been done in decades. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-05/singapore-to-sanction-russia-in-almost-unprecedented-move https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/singapore-details-financial-sanctions-export-controls-russia-after-ukraine-invasion-2541026 Marshal Prolapse fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Mar 5, 2022 |
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Elviscat posted:I have this weird conspiracy theory that the Russians keep seizing these nuke plants so they can be like "the Ukrainians are making nukes!" Then they're gonna light one up on their own guys in a false flag and use it as a justification to nuke Kyiv. This is way, way too plausible for comfort.
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McGavin posted:https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1499772906678767618?s=20&t=XUB03p4fyhQsP6OePKeD5Q The way it flies, kind of reminds me of the lovely flying saucers, in plan nine from outer space.
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hobbesmaster posted:I want to say this exact scenario has happened before in modern times but all I immediately found or recalled was Fraser at Saratoga which is probably more legend than reality. Wikipedia says: quote:Major General Sedgwick died at the beginning of the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, on May 9, 1864. His corps was probing skirmish lines ahead of the left flank of Confederate defenses and he was directing artillery placements. Confederate sharpshooters were about 1,000 yards (900 m) away, and their shots caused members of his staff and artillerymen to duck for cover. Sedgwick strode around in the open and was quoted as saying, "What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line?" Although ashamed, his men continued to flinch and he said, "Why are you dodging like this? They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."[6] Reports that he never finished the sentence are apocryphal, although the line was among his last words.[7] He was shot by a Whitworth rifle bullet moments later under the left eye and mortally wounded. And Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner died during the battle of Okinawa but that was artillery fire and he wasn’t being foolish at the moment.
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Putin has loving lost it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/04/putin-russia-ukraine-normalization-sanctions/ He even argued that Russia would benefit by developing new skills. “We will just have to move some projects a little to the right, to acquire additional competencies. But we will still solve the problems that we face,” he said. “In the end, we will even benefit from this because we will acquire additional competencies.”
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I keep seeing this endless meme either expecting, encouraging, or assuming that Putin is going to die via a bullet from one of his cronies. Look, this is a nice fantasy, and I kind of like it too. But the truth is, Putin is not the leader of Russia because he is the most gullible bastard out there. The Russian State Apparatus, like most dictatorships, is built around subservience to the dictator. Every single chain on the ladder owes its loyalty to Putin, usually through relations of money and influence. Think less Hitler running Germany and more Saddamn running Iraq. The entirety of the state is built in such a way as to prevent leadership change and move the benefits of the state to the loyal partners and supporters of the regime. That's how dictatorships operate: reward the people who are the pillars of your regime, destroy dissent, be incredibly distrustful to the point of paranoia. Could Putin be unseated by something like a palace coup? Totally, but that wouldn't happen until things got extremely bad and by then Putin would be wary enough to know to watch for plotting. Could Putin be unseated by popular revolution? I don't think so. Venezuela is a country that has been in arguably worse economic straits than Russia for years, and yet Maduro is still 'running' the country in the same way Sears still has a CEO. The only way that Ukraine wins this war is to prolong the conflict as long as possible. There is no way that I see that Putin will be removed from power.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Putin has loving lost it. Coming this spring: showers during lull periods and fresh-baked bread twice a day. For everyday regular Russian people in the
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Ragtime All The Time posted:how much would it suck to be the next guy down the line when this guy with the crazy muzzlebrake starts dumping belts??? Did Shima join the foreign legion?
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Ragtime All The Time posted:how much would it suck to be the next guy down the line when this guy with the crazy muzzlebrake starts dumping belts??? its okay we sent them a bunch of 3M earplugs
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Marshal Prolapse posted:The way it flies, kind of reminds me of the lovely flying saucers, in plan nine from outer space. Back in like 2014-2015, there were a bunch of Syrian insurgent groups that got hooked up with TOW missiles, and they filmed just about every strike on Assad’s forces. Those guys were even less tactically proficient than the crop of aspiring sunflower seeds currently attacking Ukraine, and it was surreal watching something that looked like a dancing beach ball of death bouncing toward a crowd of massed infantry before seeing a big boom and chunks of people blown everywhere with a few survivors staggering away. War sucks.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Back in like 2014-2015, there were a bunch of Syrian insurgent groups that got hooked up with TOW missiles, and they filmed just about every strike on Assad’s forces. Those guys were even less tactically proficient than the crop of aspiring sunflower seeds currently attacking Ukraine, and it was surreal watching something that looked like a dancing beach ball of death bouncing toward a crowd of massed infantry before seeing a big boom and chunks of people blown everywhere with a few survivors staggering away. Ugh I remember the video of a bunch of guys on a balcony or something getting gibbed
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A Festivus Miracle posted:I keep seeing this endless meme either expecting, encouraging, or assuming that Putin is going to die via a bullet from one of his cronies. This is the outcome I'm envisioning as well. There are some notable exceptions, but Soviet and Russian leaders have a long and proud history of staying in power until they sometimes quite literally die of old age despite instigating multiple horrific bloodbaths. I hope this all ends soon, but I'm bracing for years of looking at my twitter feed and seeing apartment blocks being blown to bits by rocket artillery and wrecked Russian tanks. Nuclear Tourist fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Mar 5, 2022 |
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Proud Christian Mom posted:gibbed It's an older code Sir, but it checks out
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Putin has loving lost it. He said almost the exact same poo poo in 2014 after the first round of sanctions when he announced the initial import replacement policy. As you can see, Russia has been doing great, even thriving, under sanctions, and this will be just as effective.
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The Ukrainians apparently re-took the nuclear power plant according to India today.
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CainFortea posted:I don't know how to pronounce those, so I'll take your word for it. it's just a direct transliteration of journalist, basically
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https://twitter.com/remingtonarms/status/1499884903676186633?s=21 *insert Remington joke* That is cool though. Commercial arms and ammo production in this country could probably be supplying Ukraine small arms ammo for quite awhile.
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Softface posted:He said almost the exact same poo poo in 2014 after the first round of sanctions when he announced the initial import replacement policy. As you can see, Russia has been doing great, even thriving, under sanctions, and this will be just as effective. The 2014 sanctions were barely sanctions. We quite literally froze their foreign currency reserves this time around.
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psydude posted:The 2014 sanctions were barely sanctions. We quite literally froze their foreign currency reserves this time around. Pre-invasion, it was completely unclear if Europe would even support *any* sanctions because of how energy-dependant they are on Russia. But apparently Biden and the administration had been doing the legwork since November to come up with a basic sanctions package, then the loving thing just accelerated so hard that companies are getting the gently caress out without prompting. And even some of the biting sanctions scheduled to hit in months are having these effects: https://twitter.com/KT_So_It_Goes/status/1499938177221644294 And it's less that Putin has lost his mind, his tolerance for risk is just sky-high, his advisor circle is drastically smaller (and dumber), and he's insulated from sanctions pain and misjudged what the world would do.
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facialimpediment posted:NATO appears to be logisticsing the gently caress out of the resupply effort while Western Ukraine isn't being harassed by Russian fighters yetz: 20 years of sending everything from lobster to bullets to the middle of Central Asia has no doubt helped.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:https://twitter.com/remingtonarms/status/1499884903676186633?s=21 Figures that even in the middle of a long standing ammo shortage, still no one is buying remington ammo so they have a million rounds to send.
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