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ASAPI posted:I've seen statements like this a few times now and they confuse me. I'm not sure the exact breakdown of Russian conscripts vs contract soldiers (what we could consider a normal enlistment) physically present in Ukraine right now, but as recently as post-Crimea, doctrinally, the Russian mil uses conscripts for jobs that aren't expected to involve direct combat - truck drivers, cooks, other trades, etc. Contract soldiers fulfill the infantry role. Essentially, someone who wanted to be infantry would need to volunteer for it, although many volunteers are likely motivated simply by desire to have better pay and living conditions compared to conscript life. This is from a War College professor's briefing written a solid half decade ago, so it's entirely possible the conscripts are being used in a more frontline role than they were in 2015.
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https://twitter.com/firstsquawk/status/1501261009385787396?s=21 So does that mean he’s turning off the pipelines? Edit: https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1501263231947612162?s=21 Marshal Prolapse fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Mar 8, 2022 |
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Marshal Prolapse posted:https://twitter.com/firstsquawk/status/1501261009385787396?s=21 Oh look, he made the choice FOR Germany.
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CommieGIR posted:Oh look, he made the choice FOR Germany. Yeah, it’s pretty lol. Man Merkle hosed that country. I wonder if there’s a specific exemption for China in his decree? Still congrats on turning your country into the largest version of North Korea ever.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:https://twitter.com/firstsquawk/status/1501261009385787396?s=21 So uh. I'm gonna guess you can't run a modern country with no imports and no exports. Are there even any examples of countries that have actually operated that way? I can't think of any historical ones.
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:So uh. I'm gonna guess you can't run a modern country with no imports and no exports. Juche time bitches! Ahahahaha https://twitter.com/firstsquawk/status/1501269166740758532?s=21
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Wow we should look at who's been pushing crypto lately? Oh wow it was made up by a loving ghost? And loved by billionaires and criminals? And while Nvidia is being ransomed to remove GPU mining limiters? drat can't believe this could happen right now Wasabi the J fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Mar 8, 2022 |
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MiG Party at Rammstein! https://twitter.com/Charles_Lister/status/1501268895939837954
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Poland just announced that they're officially onboard with trading their MiG-29 fleet to Ukraine (via US intermediaries) in exchange for secondhand US jets to backfill. https://www.gov.pl/web/diplomacy/st...anes-to-ukraine E:f;b
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:So uh. I'm gonna guess you can't run a modern country with no imports and no exports. Pre-Edo era Japan?
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Source for the Russian Export Ban https://ria.ru/20220308/putin-1777185533.html Decree itself http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001202203080005
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ChubbyChecker posted:Looks like that some netfuckery is afoot. Moscow is going to have some power problems shortly I suspect...or wherever Cyber Command decides to gently caress them.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:MiG Party at Rammstein! Holy poo poo it's happening. Could this also see expedited delivery of the F-35s that Poland has on order, or just us scraping up some spare F-16s to supplement their current fleet? psydude posted:How many MiG-29s does Poland have? 23 according to Wikipedia.
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ChubbyChecker posted:Looks like that some netfuckery is afoot. I noticed a bunch of stuff being slow/not working, figured it's this. Good times.
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Arrath posted:23 according to Wikipedia. Well that's certainly a number.
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psydude posted:How many MiG-29s does Poland have? 20-30ish IIRC.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:MiG Party at Rammstein! 
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ChubbyChecker posted:Looks like that some netfuckery is afoot. Thats a lot of major services suffering major outages at a suspicious time. I don't think we have odds on this being a weakwristed "cyberattack" vs some knockon effect from yet another AWS outage.
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Grand Fromage posted:I noticed a bunch of stuff being slow/not working, figured it's this. Good times. Discord wasn't loading for me at all a few minutes ago and this explains it. Marshal Prolapse posted:https://twitter.com/firstsquawk/status/1501261009385787396?s=21 Owning
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psydude posted:Well that's certainly a number. And what's the usual rule of thumb, figure no more than half are combat capable, a quarter are undergoing routine stuff and the remaining quarter are torn apart in depot somewhere? Arrath fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Mar 8, 2022 |
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:MiG Party at Rammstein! Rammstein is the band, the air base is at Ramstein (which the band named itself after).
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Hannibal Rex posted:Rammstein is the band, the air base is at Ramstein (which the band named itself after). No, Rammstein themselves are the proxy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeQM1c-XCDc
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:So uh. I'm gonna guess you can't run a modern country with no imports and no exports. Spain tried, from the end of the civil war until 1959 and Albania and India tried until 1991. It's not a coincidence the years they stopped mark the beginning of massive economic booms.
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Ukraine Trolling is Just Sublime https://twitter.com/Armia_fm/status/1501276400938098693?s=20&t=l1lsfa52oxpdbmpr9_bxpA "2nd Army in the World, they said."
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M_Gargantua posted:Thats a lot of major services suffering major outages at a suspicious time. I don't think we have odds on this being a weakwristed "cyberattack" vs some knockon effect from yet another AWS outage. Discord and Spotify are largely on GCP, but AWS and Facebook properties also saw simultaneous upswings. I still think yet another BGP fuckup or major east coast fiber cut is more likely though, versus Russia launching a wet fart of a cybernuke. Stuff is mostly coming back now too.
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ANOTHER AIRBORNE ATTACK  https://twitter.com/pmakela1/status/1501249293763682307?s=20&t=l1lsfa52oxpdbmpr9_bxpA
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Marshal Prolapse posted:ANOTHER AIRBORNE ATTACK That report is pretty sketch. A claim of 3 choppers carrying 120 people supported by a video of trucks on a road?
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mlmp08 posted:That report is pretty sketch. A claim of 3 choppers carrying 120 people supported by a video of trucks on a road? I've seen that road footage a day or three ago, it is old.
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mlmp08 posted:That report is pretty sketch. A claim of 3 choppers carrying 120 people supported by a video of trucks on a road? Yeah, I suspect it was just attached to show a general vibe of "gently caress around and find out."
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psydude posted:Does Russia even have medium-lift helos capable of fitting that many people like the Chinook? Yes, the Mi-26 can carry up to 90 pax. edit: Actually they could be using Mi-38s which can hold up to 40. For reference a Chinook's capacity is listed at 33. Low elevation in Ukraine so maybe they can squeeze even more in there. bees everywhere fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Mar 8, 2022 |
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psydude posted:Does Russia even have medium-lift helos capable of fitting that many people like the Chinook? Mi-26 - Wikipedia says 316 built but no breakdown by operator and there are a lot. Over 17,000 Mi-8s were built on the other hand. The Mi-8 can nominally carry 24 passengers.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:I read A Taste of War that had more info on how different WWII armies managed food and cooking. I don't recall exactly how Germany and the Soviets managed it although I would assume the Soviets had some dedicated logistics people so they didn't have to throw truck drivers and train engineers into trenches as a matter of policy. On the light hearted side there were photos of grinning Australian sailors who got to visit US ships and had heaping plates of food including ice cream, on the flip side Japanese infantry on islands were given sacks of rice and expected to figure it out, leading to tens of thousands of Japanese non-combat deaths. My grandpa, a west Texas dirt farmer kid who joined up to serve in WWII because it meant he could actually eat, would wax poetically about the wonders of actually getting enough food while with the navy. He *loved* the ship he was on just for the chow hall. When the fridges broke halfway to Guam it was all you could eat ice cream and fried chicken every day. Then all you could drink melted ice cream with fried chicken. *Then* it was just fried chicken that you were careful about biting into on account of the steadily growing ring of black around the bone. To bring this back around to the actual topic, seems like my company's gotten most of our folks out of Ukraine... save for the native residents that decided to stay behind and fight.
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