Comrade Blyatlov posted:

Bojo, Ireland, and.... mmmm..... Luxembourg

Cythereal posted:

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1534557959367311362

whoopsie

Tiny Timbs posted:

This has a nice bonus of turning into a claymore for anyone unlucky enough to be on foot near the thing when it takes a hit.

Cythereal posted:

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1534557959367311362

whoopsie

cult_hero posted:

It's so tough to prove and evidence seems so ephemeral, but I swear I saw reports this morning of DPR forces fielding T-54/55's with ad hoc cope cages....

psydude posted:

The Economist mentioned they're welding them to the tops of T-62s. Maybe that was it?

psydude posted:

My money's on France, Germany, and Italy.

Mzuri posted:

I'll wager France, Germany, and The Netherlands. Although Italy isn't a bad guess either.

Britain trying to block someone from joining a club they themselves crashed spectacularly out of would be in character for the current government.

psydude posted:

E2: In that case there's no way Turkey is ever getting in

CommieGIR posted:

If its about recognition, Britain has already said that's up to Ukraine, I doubt this is enough to squeeze a freebie out of the UK, especially when they've openly said "If you chose to travel and fight for another country in a war zone that's on you"

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“Mlechnik” is considered a hellish place among conscripts. Parents of soldiers who served in the 64th Brigade in 2017-2019 say that the food in the unit is poor , it is cold in the barracks, and the uniforms issued are old and out of size. “Before some inspections, some of the soldiers are hidden in the baths, forests and other places for some reason. Maybe they don’t want to frighten the inspectors with the soldiers’ appearance since their uniforms, boots and physical condition leave much to be desired, » says the mother of one of the conscripts.

Field exercises are held twice a year at the training ground, where there are no basic living conditions. In winter and summer, the soldiers live in tents and wash themselves in an earthen pit, where they also wash their clothes. Because of all this, the recruits often fall ill, but there is no medical unit in the brigade. A nurse instructor treats the soldiers with the most primitive medicines, like paracetamol.

But the worst thing in “Mlechnik” is beatings and extortion. Both conscripts and officers engage in it. Soldiers from the national republics get into gangs and harass fellow conscripts: they take away their cash, bank cards and cell phones. In 2019, for example, a conscript from “Mlechnik” was sentenced to 1.5 years in prison for bullying and extorting a fellow soldier.

Not only do senior enlisted personnel not stop their subordinates, they themselves participate in the bullying. In February 2022, a senior warrant officer and a sergeant beat six privates. The drunken warrant officer checked the numbers on the soldiers’ bedside tables and slippers and beat those whose numbers did not match with a stick. One of the conscripts asked the sergeant to stop the warrant officer, but he joined in the torture.

Due to the fact that conscripts have no one to complain to, they try to run away from the unit or get a medical discharge — “they eat chlorine and swallow needles” . Sometimes soldiers go to extreme measures. For example, in 2014 conscript Alexei Snakin committed suicide. Major Nikolai Chabanov beat him with a broom handle, forced him to wear a bulletproof vest and gas mask all day long, and shortly before his death, he put Alexei “on a clock”, telling him to buy him a new computer. The court first sentenced Chabanov to a suspended sentence, and only after the intervention of human rights activists was the major sentenced to 3.5 years in a colony with deprivation of the right to hold senior positions for two years.

The “Mlechnik” servicemen show cruelty not only to fellow soldiers. In 2015, in the garrison in Knyaz-Volkonsky, a group of servicemen beat a passerby to death. The witness was the unit’s cook, who was passing by and stood up for the victim. He tried to call for help, but the crowd turned on him. “I went to the officer on duty. The chief warrant officer came out, the military police were here, and they were beating me in front of them, » he later told reporters. The cook eventually shot one of the attackers with a traumatic weapon and dragged the battered man to his car, where he died before medics arrived.

Khabarovsk Krai ranks third in Russia in terms of the number of sentences handed down in cases of non-statutory relations in the army . In second place is Primorsky Krai, which has its own “hell’s kitchen” — the village of Sergeevka. The 127th Motorized Rifle Division of the 5th Combined Arms Army, which also fought on the Kyiv front, is stationed there.

In 2018, 20-year-old contract serviceman Roman Sapegin escaped from the unit in Sergeyevka. He reported bullying, beatings and extortion by fellow servicemen from the Caucasus: “They take away phones and bank cards.” The last straw for him was the episode when a sergeant forced a private to wash the toilet bowl with his bare hands and severely beat him for refusing.

“Last year, a sentry in our unit shot himself at night, two more conscripts were run over to death by an Ural truck right on the firing range, and another soldier hanged himself, » he said.

In 2017, soldiers from Yakutia and Dagestan had a fight in the unit. After the video of the fight hit the web, an inspection was to come to the garrison from Moscow. The instigators of the brawl were sent home two days before the end of service, and the remaining servicemen were warned: “No one saw anything, maybe just a couple of people got into a fight, and that was it” .

Strange things sometimes happen in the settlement. In September 2018, a headless uniformed corpse was found near the Sergeevka unit. A year earlier, another decapitated body was found in neighboring Ussuriysk, where units of the 127th Division are also stationed, and it turned out to be Artillery Major Andrei Golovlev, who had disappeared in the summer of that year.

Lovely Joe Stalin posted:

It is (or should be) a problem for the Foreign Secretary, as she was publicly advising people to go and fight. Until her civil servants and colleagues pointed out that has been illegal under our law for over a century.

Liz Truss is a loving idiot.

Suicide Watch posted:

- HOW TO COMMIT DOMESTIC SABOTAGE IN THE REAR OF THE OCCUPIER

RFC2324 posted:

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Suicide Watch posted:

Just direct them to the nearest Taco Bell

Nuclear Tourist posted:

Cannot get over how absolutely wild it is to see a rep from Ireland, of all countries, being so overtly sympathetic to an imperialist power waging a war of conquest against a smaller, outgunned neighbor.



https://twitter.com/NaomiOhReally/status/1534837681724837891?t=rswCVAphKkZBgDCephWGPg&s=19

Gaius Marius posted:

This ain't the first time this has happened. Check what they were up to in WWII

Madurai posted:

Tangential, but relevant:

https://twitter.com/sumlenny/status/1535582101621420032

Alchenar posted:

Clare Daly is... well look, you could retitle every section of her wikipedia page after Early Life as 'Controversies' and nobody would notice anything off with the article.

psydude posted:

Does she just represent a particularly stupid district, or what?

Because yeah, you'd think Ireland would be more sympathetic to the plight of a neighboring country fighting off an aggressor bent on stamping out their culture.

Nuclear Tourist posted:

Cannot get over how absolutely wild it is to see a rep from Ireland, of all countries, being so overtly sympathetic to an imperialist power waging a war of conquest against a smaller, outgunned neighbor.



https://twitter.com/NaomiOhReally/status/1534837681724837891?t=rswCVAphKkZBgDCephWGPg&s=19

Wikipedia posted:

In the 1980s Daly was a member of the Labour Party as a teenager but was expelled alongside other members after being accused of being Trotskyists infiltrating the party using the tactic of entryism.

A.o.D. posted:

How the gently caress is Trotskyism in any way compatible with Neo Stalinists? I don't have the mental framework to understand modern (post-modern?) leftism.

therobit posted:

The new left just hates the west, and that is their entire identity. If someone is opposed to the west, they must be good.

Madurai posted:

Tangential, but relevant:

https://twitter.com/sumlenny/status/1535582101621420032

Beefeater1980 posted:

It’s quite hard to reconcile English language nationalist fiction to other language nationalist fiction because the US and UK collectively won the 19th and 20th centuries; their flavour of dickwaving fiction isn’t revanchist.

Most countries have tons of “no actually this is how we won” popular fiction because nobody is immune to the seductive lure of feeling like a military winner. It’s equally dumb in every case.