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Voyager I posted:Tangentially related: I do historical fencing and am in the process of getting into historical armored combat as a part of it. A lot of the equipment for armored combat gets made in Russia or Ukraine, and I had an order from a Ukrainian smith get stuck in limbo at the start of the invasion. I figured if I was lucky it would spend the conflict in their storage shed and get shipped out when Ukraine was accessible to international transport, and if I was unlucky their storage shed would get hit by a bomb and that'd be that for me. It entered the postal service in Kyiv today, which is just blowing my mind. I cannot imagine what kind of dedication someone has to have to be doing this kind of business in the middle of an active warzone. They figured with Russia failing to enter Kyiv, they won't need that armour any time soon. I'm actually astonished that commercial postal service is still running. I thought everything would be geared up towards the war effort bringing supplies in and refugees out. Though by now, whoever is still in Kyiv right now probably have made the choice to stay.
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I don’t know if this got posted during the Iron Eagle chat, but Anonymous released an internal memo of Russians staging POW propaganda. https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/1508424057770889222?s=20&t=g4ncJhq3mAdFvDC-Y4tW_g Which is interesting because I’ve seen some questionable “Ukrainians shoot prisoners in the knee” videos popping up.
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Fragrag posted:They figured with Russia failing to enter Kyiv, they won't need that armour any time soon. There is bound to be some vehicles leaving that have space and weight available but no seating for people.
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:I don’t know if this got posted during the Iron Eagle chat, but Anonymous released an internal memo of Russians staging POW propaganda. I refuse to believe that whatever the KGB mutated into could do something so underhanded.
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Fragrag posted:They figured with Russia failing to enter Kyiv, they won't need that armour any time soon. In fairness, entering the postal system in Kyiv might not be the same thing as leaving Kyiv. It's possible that it just means the package has gone from their shed to the postal warehouse and will continue to sit there for the foreseeable future, which is fine (and hopefully means it's insured now).
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A.o.D. posted:I refuse to believe that whatever the KGB mutated into could do something so underhanded. I know, they seem like such upstanding lads. Who’d of thunk it?
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Pine Cone Jones posted:
Might as well get some hours in flying along the polish border and seeing how the equipment stacks up.
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:I don’t know if this got posted during the Iron Eagle chat, but Anonymous released an internal memo of Russians staging POW propaganda. Yeah, sorry, but at this point, believing a video of people getting shot in the legs on camera to be fake, but believing a random piece of printed paper to be true is wishful thinking. I mean, I absolutely get where you're coming from, but if the video was some SFX job, it'd have been debunked by industry experts by now. And if you believe it's a false flag of Russians masquerading as Ukrainians shooting real bullets at real Russian POWs, the necessary logistics for that are mind-boggling. And whatever's the truth, the chance that these POWs live to testify as to who shot them isn't exactly great.
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Hannibal Rex posted:Yeah, sorry, but at this point, believing a video of people getting shot in the legs on camera to be fake, but believing a random piece of printed paper to be true is wishful thinking. Or they were russians shooting ukrainian pows.
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There are people questioning the video’s veracity, though. Lots of people have pointed out that the blood is on the ground and not on the soldiers, there are no marks on the ground from bullet wounds, the tourniquets have no blood on them, etc. I can’t say one way or the other, but there has been speculation from the start that the video wasn’t legit.
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Voyager I posted:If it's a thousand dudes being sent into a shitshow that has already consumed a significant fraction of the initial 190k of the invasion force, that seems like a reasonably likely outcome. Honestly, I could see it. "The world is turning upside down around me but goddamn it, this is my life, and this is my job, and I refuse to let that fucker Putin take that away from me so I am going to do my goddamn job and live my goddamn life whatever the gently caress that fucker has to say about it."
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Pine Cone Jones posted:https://twitter.com/CavasShips/status/1508568709719277569?t=J3QXM85dstXuiEdgiaFZkg&s=19 Huh wonder if they are the ones who are based out of Whidbey Island. The noise they make practicing seems to be the primary political issue thereabouts.
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VAQ-134 is out of Whidbey, yes.
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Kamil Galeev posted an interesting thread about how the Ukranians should be using their influence to encourage Russian dissenters to sabotage the railroads. He'd alluded to the reliance on the railroad in earlier threads and it really got me thinking about how impossible it would be to guard the entire Trans-Siberian. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1508255063420112901.html
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Hannibal Rex posted:Yeah, sorry, but at this point, believing a video of people getting shot in the legs on camera to be fake, but believing a random piece of printed paper to be true is wishful thinking. One of the greatest things I've ever seen on youtube was this like hour long vlog from 10 or 15 years ago where an old school practical effects guy broke down in great detail how the moon landings had to be real because faking it would've tripled the budget e: ah nice it's still up https://youtu.be/_loUDS4c3Cs shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Mar 29, 2022 |
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It used to be on SG Collins personal YouTube channel under the name "Moon Hoax Not", but I'm glad it's rehosted for posterity.
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Huh, looks like the whole poisoning story is bollocks and Bellingcat being unreliable. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Huh wonder if they are the ones who are based out of Whidbey Island. The noise they make practicing seems to be the primary political issue thereabouts. Don’t loving move next to a military airbase then complain about those noise. Those assholes are literally the worst.
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Crab Dad posted:Don’t loving move next to a military airbase then complain about those noise. Those assholes are literally the worst. When I was stationed at NAS oceana there was lots of complaints about the noise from the f-18s and then the base commander threatened to put the Base on lockdown again. I guess it had happened a year or two before with lots of complaints and they had just kept everybody on base for 2 weeks and the local economy stopped complaining so hard.
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Thats the wildest part about people complaining about jet noise. Havelock, NC would at best be a gas station and some trailer parks if it wasn't for MCAS Cherry Point.
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Mira Mesa would be a pile of scrub canyons if it weren't for NAS Miramar, but when I grew up there you'd hear someone proudly brag about living next to Top Gun within 3 sentences of them also complaining about flyover noise. It was a slower version of the paradigm that's killing local racetracks across the country: thing (that makes noise) exists, people move near thing, people complain about thing's noise, people try to shut thing down. I will say, I never had an issue with the flyovers until the Blue Angels did a pass in preparation for the airshow that was so loving low I shook loose a turdlet while I was mowing the lawn. They were actually low enough I could read the loving flight lead's name stenciled under the cockpit.
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GD_American posted:Mira Mesa would be a pile of scrub canyons if it weren't for NAS Miramar, but when I grew up there you'd hear someone proudly brag about living next to Top Gun within 3 sentences of them also complaining about flyover noise. It was a slower version of the paradigm that's killing local racetracks across the country: thing (that makes noise) exists, people move near thing, people complain about thing's noise, people try to shut thing down. It's the same with people who move next to gun ranges and then try to shut them down.
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:Huh, looks like the whole poisoning story is bollocks and Bellingcat being unreliable.  (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:Huh, looks like the whole poisoning story is bollocks and Bellingcat being unreliable. cspam is that way ----> (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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GD_American posted:Mira Mesa would be a pile of scrub canyons if it weren't for NAS Miramar, but when I grew up there you'd hear someone proudly brag about living next to Top Gun within 3 sentences of them also complaining about It was a slower version of the paradigm that's killing local racetracks across the country: thing (that makes noise) exists, people move near thing, people complain about thing's noise, people try to shut thing down. I went to high school in Poway, a high school originally built in the middle of nowhere. 30 or 40 years after the school was built a bunch of new construction popped up surrounding it. Those people all complained about the noise from 6ish home football games a season.
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Hm. Shot Chaser I'm glad we're not the only ones having to walk back statements.
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Can plane people tell me what's going on with this F-15 and accompanying refueler I saw on ADS-B Exchange just now? I don't remember seeing U.S. fighters flying this close to Ukraine since the war started. Some kind of recon?
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Mental Hospitality posted:Can plane people tell me what's going on with this F-15 and accompanying refueler I saw on ADS-B Exchange just now? I don't remember seeing U.S. fighters flying this close to Ukraine since the war started. Some kind of recon? They've been flying that close, they just haven't been advertising their locations. There's been AWACS and EW aircraft all along the border from the get-go.
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psydude posted:They've been flying that close, they just haven't been advertising their locations. There's been AWACS and EW aircraft all along the border from the get-go. Ah. I've seen a couple of those planes show up on that site before, just not the fighter escorts until now.
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Any good write ups about why Mariupol can’t be countertacked yet?
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Lemme just say I watched that video of captives being shot and it was loving horrible and imo there's no loving way it was faked. People "not being bloody enough" doesn't make up for all the nasty as gently caress details that are in that video  e] Also all the prisoners in that video either died or wasted a shitload of hospital resources that could have been spent on civilians, the whole thing is loving horrific. Radical 90s Wizard fucked around with this message at 09:17 on Mar 29, 2022 |
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shame on an IGA posted:If you love 80s action schlock and have a curiosity how it looked to the rest of the world, Wolf Warrior II is a Wild. Fuckin. Ride. Just in general the wolf warrior movies are super worth watching, because China is on an 80s kick and it’s never gonna give it up, never gonna let it down.
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:I don’t know if this got posted during the Iron Eagle chat, but Anonymous released an internal memo of Russians staging POW propaganda. This (a) purports to be a secret document signed by a Very Important Person; and (b) conveniently addresses a recent event (allegations that Ukrainians have been mistreating POWs). Absent outside corroboration, this one’s a fake.
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Alan Smithee posted:Any good write ups about why Mariupol can’t be countertacked yet? I've been wondering the same. From what I can surmise, it's very difficult for Ukraine to counter attack owing to the terrain surrounding Mauripol and its close proximity to Russia and Russian-controlled areas. Basically, Russia can continue to easily funnel troops from Crimea, the Sea of Azov, and Donetsk (areas where they already had substantial logistics hubs) into the area to offset their insane losses. This was also clearly one of Russia's top strategic goals from the outset (creating a continuous land corridor from Crimea to Donetsk), while its strategic value to Ukraine is minimal (at least compared to other areas). It wouldn't make a lot of sense for them to spend the resources to counterattack when they're fighting the Russians on far more strategic fronts (Kyiv, Sumy, Mykolaiv/Kherson). With reports that Russia is starting to redeploy units from NE Ukraine to (presumably) focus on the Donbass, it may free up more Ukrainian forces to counter attack, but I expect the top priority is going to be taking back Kherson to block MSRs from Crimea, and shoring up defenses in the Donbass. Russia may also take another crack at Kyiv, but they're going to end up ceding a lot of territory with the retrograde operation they're conducting to consolidate forces. psydude fucked around with this message at 09:48 on Mar 29, 2022 |
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shame on an IGA posted:One of the greatest things I've ever seen on youtube was this like hour long vlog from 10 or 15 years ago where an old school practical effects guy broke down in great detail how the moon landings had to be real because faking it would've tripled the budget A seriously good watch. 
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Mental Hospitality posted:Can plane people tell me what's going on with this F-15 and accompanying refueler I saw on ADS-B Exchange just now? I don't remember seeing U.S. fighters flying this close to Ukraine since the war started. Some kind of recon? As the others said. Also saw a post/tweet re som Russian/Belarusian fighters flying towards the Polish border in a more aggressive manner than seen before. So it might be a bit of a case of showing everyone that yes we are def here too.
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Cugel the Clever posted:Feel free to actually post a reference instead of zero-effort shitposting about it Bad probe imo (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Thread is about Ukraine conflict, not posting / modding, if you have issues with someone’s post hit the report button or reach out to an IK / Mod. If you have issues with a probe or something, reach out to the IK or mod, we’re all very approachable.
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Alan Smithee posted:Any good write ups about why Mariupol can’t be countertacked yet? I think it's simply too deep into areas controlled by Russian forces.  e: image from https://twitter.com/HoansSolo/status/1508713676466966528/photo/2 glynnenstein fucked around with this message at 13:50 on Mar 29, 2022 |
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