adebisi lives posted:

Remember when he live tweeted going through Kurt Eichenwalds underwear drawer?

https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/852980830930685952?t=6V_k2gQO-2bcpXMGZ0L0pQ&s=19

adebisi lives posted:

Remember when he live tweeted going through Kurt Eichenwalds underwear drawer?

https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/852980830930685952?t=6V_k2gQO-2bcpXMGZ0L0pQ&s=19

AnimeIsTrash posted:

hes the low iq journalist we need, but not the one we deserve

Военная хроника posted:

AFU offensive in Kherson may be halted due to NATO mistake: details

According to the Military Chronicle, the AFU plans to use small infantry units for a breakthrough in the Beryslav direction, equipped with French-made VAB light armored personnel carriers and British Husky TSVs supplied to replace the BTR-70 and BTR-80 8×8 vehicles lost in combat.

By early November, the 28th Mountain Assault Brigade, 60th Infantry Brigade and 46th Brigade of the AFU had been equipped with these types of vehicles by 90%. According to radio intercepts, the command of the 46th Brigade doubts the effectiveness of these vehicles against Russian artillery and in late October appealed to the AFU General Staff with a request to cancel the attack on Beryslav without heavy weapons cover.

According to the Military Chronicle, it became known from radio intercepts of the 46th AFU brigade that the command of this unit was ready to attack in the Beryslav direction only if supported by the 17th AFU Tank Brigade. However, this formation has less than half of the tanks required by the brigade's standard structure in combat ready condition.

Serious damage to French and British APCs in the AFU concentration areas is caused by Giatsint-S and Msta-B guns, as well as 203 mm Malka special power gun division from the AFU artillery arm on the left bank of the Dnieper River.

The Russian Armed Forces artillery's combat operations on the Beryslav direction exacerbated another problem of the AFU - poor availability of spare parts and specialized tires for foreign-made armored personnel carriers.

Due to a mistake made by the NATO shippers of the equipment, the VAB and Husky TSV APCs, as well as the American FMTV M1083 (M777 howitzer transports with a protected cabin) were delivered to Ukraine without spare tires. Fragments of 152mm shells hitting the wheels repeatedly resulted in the armored vehicles having to be scrapped.

The use of third-party rubber and a different size led to transmission overheating, engine failures, and off-road problems.

Before the anticipated November offensive, losses in light armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces could reach 70%. After that, Ukrainian troops risk losing the ability to maneuver tactically and will be forced to switch to passive defense.

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KomradeX posted:

Any word about Belarus?

Majorian posted:

Who else but Michael would hear about Kurt's tentacle rape creepiness and think, "I'll bet I can one-up that"? Man's a got dang prodigy.

PawParole posted:

very bloody battle going on rn

Al-Saqr posted:

where is this battle and for which town or city is it?

Al-Saqr posted:

where is this battle and for which town or city is it?

bonelessdongs posted:

It wasn't tentacle rape it was underage incest, which is less abhorrent than the actual CP he paid for in the past

Majorian posted:

Outlandish, no - just not super-duper likely, IMO, with the seasonal window closing so rapidly.

Majorian posted:

Ick, bad stuff all around. Didn't he blame his wife for having a tentacle rape tab open once though too? I thought I remembered that very specifically but I'm not about to Google it.

Danann posted:

_{(from t.me/milchronicles/1279, via tgsa)}

history rhymes itself again

Al-Saqr posted:

so did you make sure your grand dad knew his grandson thought he was a piece of poo poo?

genericnick posted:

Wait, I thought we were talking about end results not what's going to happen before the mud freezes.

Majorian posted:

I think everything's going to be firmly ground to a halt once the mud thaws in spring. I don't think Russia's going to carry out a winter offensive since, at least for now, most of the newly mobilized troops are apparently being deployed to bolster Russian defenses. I think Russia will try to start a new offensive after the thaw, strengthened by newer waves of recruits, but there's a good chance Ukraine will be dug in enough and have enough support from NATO to just turn it into another bloody stalemate. That's just my instinct on what's going to happen; we'll see how far off I am before long, I'm sure.

Marzzle posted:

imagine micheal tracey limiting himself to a single woman, denying his essence to the throngs of the "unfucked" lining up at his doorstep...

mags posted:

he had the tab open he said because his wife didnt believe him that such a thing exists and he and his kids ( ) were trying to tell her it was real

mags posted:

he had the tab open he said because his wife didnt believe him that such a thing exists and he and his kids ( ) were trying to tell her it was real

Majorian posted:

THAT'S it, thanks!


In the meantime, in Makiivka, ~9ish miles from Donetsk city:

https://twitter.com/ChuckPfarrer/status/1589334148745158656

Danann posted:

things that totally happened

Majorian posted:

Which part do you doubt, and why?

Gravid Topiary posted:

as the one penguin said to the other penguin, never trust a seal (they were fit-testing n-95 respirators)

Truga posted:

oh my god the top reply
https://twitter.com/lingerence/status/1526602174104584194

speng31b posted:

https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1580288288912420864

Majorian posted:

Which part do you doubt, and why?

Majorian posted:

Eh, I get that, but it seems in-line with other reports of what's going on on the ground:

https://twitter.com/WarMonitor3/status/1589337881705078786

Рыбарь posted:

🖇🇷🇺🇺🇦 About "the deaths of hundreds of mobilized," "elephant radio" and problems with troop management

A publication appeared online about a mobilized man from Voronezh, who claims that his entire battalion was killed in one morning near Makiivka in the LNR. The casualty figures increase as the story goes on: first the fighter's wife says that "more than half the battalion" died, then he himself reports 41 survivors out of 570, and later that "at least one battalion" had been completely defeated there earlier.

🔻How much of this can be true?

To begin with, the death of as many as five hundred men in defense in just one day in a single small area is an extraordinary event. And the hundreds of corpses lying compactly after an artillery bombardment would certainly have been caught by the lenses of the enemy's fighters and copters.

Surprisingly, no shocking footage has ever appeared on the net. Judging by their own internal reports, the AFU themselves are clearly not aware of the sensational event.

🔻So where did the huge numbers from the story of a kind of eyewitness come from?

▪️The basis of such reports is often "elephant radio" - a hodgepodge of rumors from the front lines. This is where stories of Baltic snipers, an underground airfield in Khmelnitsky and a battalion of Poles near Kupyansk come from. On the other side of the front it is the same - the ubiquitous "Chechen divisions" and the Chinese in Donbass.

▪️A similar thing is happening with casualties, where with each new link in the "tainted telephone" the number of killed and wounded is becoming less and less like the real figure. As a result, the death of two people can eventually be transformed into "half a company of guys went down.

▪️Lack of organization plays an important role in stories about the death of entire battalions per battle. Due to the lack of communication, a soldier may honestly believe that all neighboring units are already defeated and dead.

That is why a man who was mobilized for the first time under fire and the chaos in the command of the troops can in all seriousness tell about the enormous losses. Even if he has not personally seen dozens of corpses. And the "elephant radio" adds more details and gradually brings the figures up to hundreds of killed per day.

❗️The most effective way to deal with such stories is to eliminate problems with the organization. When every commander at least knows his location and has contact with headquarters, and when his unit will not consist entirely of untrained mobilized men who are not even afraid of being court-martialled for fleeing their positions.

Otherwise the media space will be flooded with "eyewitness accounts" of divisions destroyed in a day. This will be willingly used by Western and Ukrainian resources with foreign-agent publications to spread panic in the army and society.
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Danann posted:

Lostconfused posted:

But we do poo poo on those source every time anyone chooses to post them.

Tankbuster posted:

So if I say an entire regiment was anal vored then it counts?

Majorian posted:

You're absolutely free to post that if you want, yes. I will not stop you or punish you for doing so.

Majorian posted:

I think you're conflating two stories that are not actually directly related. The story about the ~570 conscripts who were supposedly almost completely wiped out happened a couple of days ago, and is only being talked about now. I agree that there's reason to doubt the narrative of that incident that's going around twitter right now.

However, the tweet from Chuck Pfarrer is about what's happening right now, ie: offensives and counteroffensives between the Russians and the Ukrainians in and around Makiivka. The same is true of the Warmonitor3 tweet. I agree with you that neither of those two sources are 100% credible, but 100% credibility is hardly something we require ITT when it comes to posting sources and using them to sketch out for ourselves what's actually going on on the frontlines.

Блокнот Пропагандиста posted:

Exclusive! How the U.S. Defense Department is studying the Russian style of information warfare

The editorial staff of Propagandist Notepad (http://t.me/designersmil) received materials from the Russian Strategic Initiative (RSI), a unit of the US Defense Department based in Stuttgart, Germany, which is engaged in studying Russia. The military is actively engaging Western scientists. For example, in May of this year RSI held a conference on "Information, War and Ukraine. Changes in Russian information warfare tactics were studied. According to K. Keegan of Harvard, Russia's information space can be divided into open, gray and hidden instruments of influence

Keegan believes that prior to the SWO, Russian information warfare materials were thrown in from anonymous channels and then distributed to the audience through the involvement of major media outlets. Now, supposedly, everyone is following the "Official Russian Narrative," which is only developing locally

It's always nice when the enemy is deluded😁

Tankbuster posted:

An entire regiment was anal vored.

Majorian posted:

I think everything's going to be firmly ground to a halt once the mud thaws in spring. I don't think Russia's going to carry out a winter offensive since, at least for now, most of the newly mobilized troops are apparently being deployed to bolster Russian defenses. I think Russia will try to start a new offensive after the thaw, strengthened by newer waves of recruits, but there's a good chance Ukraine will be dug in enough and have enough support from NATO to just turn it into another bloody stalemate. That's just my instinct on what's going to happen; we'll see how far off I am before long, I'm sure.