Neurolimal posted:

mono-e-mono

AnimeIsTrash posted:

the sherman gang tags that keep on posting itt are the biggest war crime

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April 21, 2022, 1:08 p.m. ET
Michael Schwirtz

Inside the Azovstal plant, a Ukrainian sergeant prays for rescue.

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — Staff Sgt. Leonid Kuznetsov of the Ukrainian National Guard is running out of time.

He and his comrades holding out in the Azovstal steel factory in Mariupol have only light weapons — machine guns, pistols — to defend themselves against Russian tanks, jets and artillery. They are holed up in a small, reinforced-cement bunker with peeling blue paint on the walls and about two meters of earth over their heads.

Even if the shelling that has been their constant companion for weeks comes to an end with Vladimir V. Putin’s order on Thursday to end the assault on the factory, the Russian president’s decision to blockade the last bastion of Ukrainian resistance “so that a fly can’t get through” could be a death sentence.

“I’m alive and healthy for now, but the situation is very difficult,” said Sergeant Kuznetsov, who is 25. “We’re at the end of our food and water. We have about 1,000 civilians at the factory. I can’t say how many soldiers we have. There are many, many wounded and not enough medicine. The smallest injury can be fatal; there are not even simple bandages.”

The Russian military’s destruction of Mariupol will be recorded in history as one of the singular calamities of Mr. Putin’s disastrous war in Ukraine. A vivacious seaside town of about half a million people has been turned to a charred and pockmarked hellscape, the bodies of soldiers, civilians and their pets littering the once leafy avenues.

On Thursday, Russia’s defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, announced to Mr. Putin that the ruined city was now fully under Russian control, save for the besieged steel plant. There are few buildings left standing and most of the city’s residents, those who have not been killed in weeks of nearly incessant shelling, have fled.

The zone of Ukrainian control in Mariupol has narrowed to suffocating bunkers under the steel plant like the one where Sergeant Kuznetsov and his fellow soldiers remain, running out of everything, including reserves of hope.

“We’re hoping for help,” he said. “If we don’t get it, we won’t make it out of this factory. We will die here with weapons in our hands defending Ukraine.”

Sergeant Kuznetsov communicated with a reporter by text using the chat app Telegram, and sent a short video of himself sitting in the bunker with a few fellow soldiers nearby. He has an internet connection thanks to Starlink, the satellite internet provider created by Elon Musk.

Sergeant Kuznetsov chose to join the military after college because he thought that was what a man was supposed to do, his wife, Maria Kuznetsova said in an interview. “It’s his character,” she said. “He thinks that a man must serve to protect his family.”

Ms. Kuznetsova, 23, said she met her future husband when they were students at Mariupol State University. They married a few years later and now have a year-old son named David. Sergeant Kuznetsov served for three years, then retired in December and filed an application to become a police officer.

Then, on Feb. 24, the war broke out.

Ms. Kuznetsova said she repeatedly begged her husband not to rejoin the military, and initially thought she had talked him out of it.

“It’s difficult to let your beloved man go,” she said. “But every day he talked about it, and then quickly gathered up his things and went.”

Sergeant Kuznetsov said he was posted to different regions in the city before eventually being assigned to the Azovstal steel plant. For weeks it served as both a military base and a refuge for the families of soldiers and steel workers, as Ukrainian defenders in other parts of the city were killed or forced to retreat.

With no one else left to fight, Russian forces turned their entire might against the factory in recent days, pummeling it day and night with airstrikes, artillery and rockets.

Sergeant Kuznetsov said more than 500 people were suffering from various injuries and there were many, many dead. A number of people sheltering inside have been killed by cave-ins caused by the shelling, he said.

He estimated that he and his fellow soldiers could hold out for another day, perhaps two.

“I ask the whole world to do everything possible to stop the military aggression against independent Ukraine,” he said. “Punish everyone who is responsible for the military action on our territory.”

Ms. Kuznetsova accused the Ukrainian government of abandoning the troops left in the factory complex, though rescuing them would require resources Ukraine can ill afford to spare as its army tries to withstand a new Russian offensive in the east.

Surrender to the Russian forces, Ms. Kutnetsova said, was also out of the question. “It’s a big risk. They could just shoot him.”

Ms. Kuznetsova was able to evacuate with their son on March 20 and is now living in the relative safety of western Ukraine. When they spoke, on Wednesday, she said he had made it clear that the situation was dire.

“He has no way out,” she said. “He hopes that everything will turn out all right, but he told me to be prepared for any outcome.”

On Thursday evening, Sergeant Kuznetsov, who had not sent a message in 24 hours, finally texted. The situation was grim. Despite Mr. Putin’s order, he said, Russian forces had moved to within 20 meters of where he and his comrades had taken refuge, and continued to pound their location from the air.

“We have a day or two if the fight isn’t that intense,” he said. “If it is, it all may end within 12 hours.”

FallenGod posted:

BrotherJayne posted:

What's wrong with Sherman tags?

Popy posted:

what kind of orcs are we talkin here. Like is it the warhammer kind of ork, or Warcraft demon/elemental spirit worshiping kind, or LoTR orcs.

Is Kadyrov Grimgor Ironhide?

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/OzKaterji/status/1492823074420445184?s=20&t=5WJLnpxwl0X68ZcwpJbMDA

BrotherJayne posted:

What's wrong with Sherman tags?

Loucks posted:

lol

BrotherJayne posted:

? Someone better explain. Until such a time, Sherman's statue shall proudly stand on my bookshelf, snuggled up with Castro

BrotherJayne posted:

? Someone better explain. Until such a time, Sherman's statue shall proudly stand on my bookshelf, snuggled up with Castro

M_Gargantua posted:

oh so youre just using nazi as a catch all for nationalists, ultranationalists, and fascists all together

Azathoth posted:

if one says that Ukraine is a nazi state and Russia is a far right nationalist state, that is a distinction without a difference

euphronius posted:

Russia isn’t a nationalist state

it’s literally the most famous multi national state and number 1 example of a multi national state

M_Gargantua posted:

i am still very much pro-nazi shooting in my bloodlust

Azathoth posted:

if one says that Ukraine is a nazi state and Russia is a far right nationalist state, that is a distinction without a difference

Loucks posted:

I have been assured by Sherman taghavers that surely the devastation he wrought on the south affected only Bad People (racist white slavers)

Popy posted:

drat bro get sherman away from castro

BrotherJayne posted:

War is war, you'd think that would e well understood by now

Weka posted:

Hello friend, I was wondering who, currently in Ukraine, counts as a nazi for you.

The difference as I see it is that when Roma camps are raided and forced to move, there are less murders in the second option, atleast afaik. If Ukraine continues on it's political path I only see this getting worse.


Oh and I thought of the name for my blog of warzone pants making GBS threads.

Blood and soiled.

BrotherJayne posted:

War is war, you'd think that would e well understood by now

“Sherman” posted:

we must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women, and children

“Sherman” posted:

The more Indians we can kill... the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of these Indians, the more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers.

Endman posted:

Austria-Hungary was way cooler imo

Atrocious Joe posted:

This is enlightening.

Russia is a provider of raw goods like oil, gas, and agricultural products to the US and it's client states. Citizens of the US believe that Putin should be overthrown. Therefore, Russia is a victim of US imperialism.

euphronius posted:

Russia isn’t a nationalist state

it’s literally the most famous multi national state and number 1 example of a multi national state