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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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12 | 2.97% |
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67 | 16.58% |
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94 | 23.27% |
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14 | 3.47% |
| 🐝 |
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87 | 21.53% |
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Ukraine also bad because it's a distraction from the true enemy of all humanity: China
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Mar 14, 2023 15:12
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Mar 14, 2023 15:12
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Frosted Flake posted:They’re literally paying Ukrainian pensions and salaries while claiming the cupboard is bare for very basic services at home. good
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Mar 14, 2023 15:27
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John Charity Spring posted:it's an industrial plant with a lot of big buildings and tunnels that's probably one of the most defensible parts of the town Azovstal 2???
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Mar 14, 2023 15:31
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Frosted Flake posted:They’re literally paying Ukrainian pensions and salaries while claiming the cupboard is bare for very basic services at home. I think complicating things: Ukrainian salaries have been slashed and both salaries/pensions have also been eaten up by inflation on top of that looking at random prices being shown in Ukrainian stores (prices are starting to look more like Russian prices in Rubles than pre-war prices), the Ukrainian people are having a pretty rough time just from an economic perspective. Obviously, the solution would be for the war to end but really the Ukrainians themselves are just being given enough to keep going unless they are soldiers directly on the frontline in a fighting capacity.
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Mar 14, 2023 15:32
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Atrocious Joe posted:Azovstal 2??? seems like it's not quite as extensive or defensible as Azovstal but something along those lines
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Mar 14, 2023 15:34
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Atrocious Joe posted:Azovstal 2??? some strange precursor civilisation left behind a series of fortress cities we can't know who they were but they were very advanced
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Mar 14, 2023 15:43
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i dunno if we're gonna see many more azovstals given that the azov guys were left to their fate and everybody knows it. kinda hard to sell something like that more than onceFrosted Flake posted:I don’t get why he’s teeing himself up like this it's actually quite simple, as long as big z gives a good show of being some defiant hero he is all but guaranteed a plumb spot on the grifting circuit once all this is over
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Mar 14, 2023 15:50
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Regarde Aduck posted:some strange precursor civilisation left behind a series of fortress cities The Aelyid? The Dwemer? The Protheans?
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Mar 14, 2023 15:52
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Al-Saqr posted:good idea big Z lets see how it works out Is it wishful thinking to think that the more fighting strength they commit to this obviously losing situation, the faster the war will be able to come to a close afterwards?
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Mar 14, 2023 15:52
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January 6 Survivor posted:
Every single goddamn time
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Mar 14, 2023 15:53
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Cookie Cutter posted:Is it wishful thinking to think that the more fighting strength they commit to this obviously losing situation, the faster the war will be able to come to a close afterwards? It would require Russia to land a knockout blow which the meteorology and hydrology don’t support now that they’re on the east side of the Dnieper and there’s still about two months of mud ahead. Beyond that, it would require pretty serious casualties and I don’t think the Russians will go for that either. Which means, the tempo is determined by Ukraine feeding forces into a grinder, not Russia taking advantage of it. Having said that, Ukraine might feed forces into a grinder until they collapse, I have no idea where their minds are at.
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Mar 14, 2023 16:06
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Organ Fiend posted:The Aelyid? the Isu
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Mar 14, 2023 16:06
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Frosted Flake posted:It would require Russia to land a knockout blow which the meteorology and hydrology don’t support now that they’re on the east side of the Dnieper and there’s still about two months of mud ahead. Beyond that, it would require pretty serious casualties and I don’t think the Russians will go for that either. Which means, the tempo is determined by Ukraine feeding forces into a grinder, not Russia taking advantage of it. We will see, but the situation is very much favoring the Russians who can continue to squeeze Bakhmut with fairly limited push back (so far at least) and have their enemy attempting to move forces back and forth under their guns. There isn’t a particular reason for the Russians to stop this either since they know that Bakhmut can’t only be held by green forces and that the Ukrainians are going to take heavy attrition in either direction. It seems like the Russians have also been able to probe further West without much of a pushback. If the Ukrainians attempt a counter-attack it is going to be against entrenched positions In unfavorable conditions (along with the other advantages the Russians have). For he Ukrainians, Bakhmut has become a political issue and they are going to keep feeding forces in probably until the Russians can find an opening. As for the big offensive, it probably depend on if the Ukrainians can hold a cohesive front line and if the Russians sense opportunity. They are in it for the long war but I don’t think they still stay put no matter what. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 16:26 on Mar 14, 2023 |
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Mar 14, 2023 16:19
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When you frame it like that, if the Ukrainians decided to fight their own Battle of the Bulge, Spring Awakening, attempt to relieve Budapest, then yes I agree that would shorten the war because they’d be exposing their remaining forces to Russian firepower. Remember it was a Ukrainian counterattack in 2015 that led to an entire mechanized brigade being destroyed in about 15 minutes as they came under Russian MRLS fire. More to the point, spectacular Ukrainian losses that don’t achieve a much celebrated result in the west won’t be made good with western aid, which relies on a narrative of their success.
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Mar 14, 2023 16:25
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sum posted:Western intelligence is now positing that the ragtag group of freelance divers operating off of a small boat used a magic super bomb to blow up Nord Stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyz_2DEah4o
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Mar 14, 2023 16:25
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Do you think if you offered to sell the Ukrainians Red Mercury you’d get murdered by the SBU or is there a chance you could get away with it?
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Mar 14, 2023 16:27
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Cerebral Bore posted:it's actually quite simple, as long as big z gives a good show of being some defiant hero he is all but guaranteed a plumb spot on the grifting circuit once all this is over he has to make it out alive for that and he is surrounded by some true believers who will make that difficult.
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Mar 14, 2023 16:30
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Frosted Flake posted:Do you think if you offered to sell the Ukrainians Red Mercury you’d get murdered by the SBU or is there a chance you could get away with it? the SBU or your wife?
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Mar 14, 2023 16:31
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 Looks like Zelensky got to go to the Oscars after all.
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Mar 14, 2023 16:33
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Frosted Flake posted:When you frame it like that, if the Ukrainians decided to fight their own Battle of the Bulge, Spring Awakening, attempt to relieve Budapest, then yes I agree that would shorten the war because they’d be exposing their remaining forces to Russian firepower. Remember it was a Ukrainian counterattack in 2015 that led to an entire mechanized brigade being destroyed in about 15 minutes as they came under Russian MRLS fire. More to the point, spectacular Ukrainian losses that don’t achieve a much celebrated result in the west won’t be made good with western aid, which relies on a narrative of their success. Well part of that narrative is the Russians are “losing” and if they can take such a strategic town that even people in the West have heard about on the news, it greatly complicates what they can selling. If the Russians are taking “near total” casualties but still moving toward taking cities the narrative gets a lot weaker. For the Russian side, they are happy with degrading the forces sent it, and since they are they for the long haul, the timing doesn’t matter as much.
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Mar 14, 2023 16:33
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Ukraine should think twice before engaging in a human wave attack, for while it may be tempting to fight fire with fire, the mental taint of the orcine hordes is opportunistic, and virile
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Mar 14, 2023 16:44
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January 6 Survivor posted:
incredible anton CHUDski
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Mar 14, 2023 16:45
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Neurolimal posted:Ukraine should think twice before engaging in a human wave attack, for while it may be tempting to fight fire with fire, the mental taint of the orcine hordes is opportunistic, and virile Yeah the strat doesn’t make sense if you don’t get WAAAUGH points
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Mar 14, 2023 16:46
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Neurolimal posted:Ukraine should think twice before engaging in a human wave attack, for while it may be tempting to fight fire with fire, the mental taint of the orcine hordes is opportunistic, and virile hehe mental taint
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Mar 14, 2023 16:52
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Cerebral Bore posted:i dunno if we're gonna see many more azovstals given that the azov guys were left to their fate and everybody knows it. kinda hard to sell something like that more than once The ones who were captured then traded back to Ukraine so they could be national heroes and then go back to fighting? Probably not the worst outcome for people at war tbh
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Mar 14, 2023 16:55
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Was it here or somewhere else I saw the comparison being made to Debaltsevo already? But going by yesterday's telegram. Ukrainian doomers expect something mid this week, Russian doomers mid next month.
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Mar 14, 2023 16:57
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Sound posted:The ones who were captured then traded back to Ukraine so they could be national heroes and then go back to fighting? Probably not the worst outcome for people at war tbh yeah that poo poo was hosed I don't have the psychotic 420th dimensional chess mind to understand why you would do that poo poo while the war was still going on just pissing on the deaths of your own troops, most of which died because the initial invasion was a shambles
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Mar 14, 2023 16:58
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You know they didn’t get nothing in return for those prisoners right, a lot of the guys returned to were pilots, who honestly are just more valuable.
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Mar 14, 2023 17:00
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Nix Panicus posted:Ukraine also bad because it's a distraction from the true enemy of all humanity: China Literally the Republican position lol.
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Mar 14, 2023 17:01
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As a middle aged man, I feel like the Ukrainian willingness to put middle aged men on the front lines sets an unhealthy precedent.
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Mar 14, 2023 17:05
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Regarde Aduck posted:yeah that poo poo was hosed wonder if there's gonna be any two timers
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Mar 14, 2023 17:07
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Ardennes posted:You know they didn’t get nothing in return for those prisoners right, a lot of the guys returned to were pilots, who honestly are just more valuable. I get it but Повёрнутые на Z войне 🇷🇺 posted:
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Mar 14, 2023 17:08
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Cuttlefush posted:wonder if there's gonna be any two timers Supposedly https://twitter.com/nikola_mikovic/status/1633935599898882049
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Mar 14, 2023 17:12
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oh god that guy
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Mar 14, 2023 17:13
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yeah i don't care if they got pilots back, put these war tourists down
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Mar 14, 2023 17:15
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Pistol_Pete posted:As a middle aged man, I feel like the Ukrainian willingness to put middle aged men on the front lines sets an unhealthy precedent. Get ready to die for profits
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Mar 14, 2023 17:18
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I mean the obvious conclusion the Russians are going to make is to not return any more prisoners.
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Mar 14, 2023 17:22
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35 was traditionally the cutoff in Western militaries. Still is for the FFL and RM. As for paroling POWs, tick that as another box in the Bruderkrieg chart. During the first half of the ACW there was a parole system and a good amount of released prisoners promptly rejoined their units. This led to the creation of POW camps, which I’m sure you have heard of. Andersonville being the most famous.
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Mar 14, 2023 17:22
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Did that change in the second half?
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Mar 14, 2023 17:23
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