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Carth Dookie
Jan 28, 2013

BrassRoots posted:

Russian guys in my office love clowning on russia and putin. They think the war is loving stupid. One of them hangs out with the russian society which also has a bunch of ukrainian members. Lots of russians that get out got out for a reason. They think russia sucks.


Not surprising. Russia has a real brain drain problem (both in that people are leaving via emigration, and also now fertilizing Ukranian fields. :smith:)

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ZogrimAteMyHamster
Dec 8, 2015

The few Russians I know have all left Russia, most doing so shortly after Lil' Shitpants ordered the invasion.

That little baldy dwarf twat has destroyed his own country for nothing.

celewign
Jul 11, 2015

just get us in the playoffs

HonorableTB posted:

IIRC Turkey has already invoked that treaty and cut the Black Sea Fleet off from any reinforcements lol

https://twitter.com/Mr_Anderton_/status/1635731178836688897?s=20

lmao can't wait to see that

Spoiler - the video is going to be excellent. Those RU fighters get very very close when they start messing around. They’re total idiots.

I assume the air force has to remove some HUD elements from the video and cut some parts that might reveal sensor capability.

Devils Affricate
Jan 22, 2010
Erdogan would let the entire US fleet through the Bosporus if Biden promised him that the US would officially shut up forever about the Armenian genocide

Barudak
May 7, 2007

celewign posted:

Spoiler - the video is going to be excellent. Those RU fighters get very very close when they start messing around. They’re total idiots.

I assume the air force has to remove some HUD elements from the video and cut some parts that might reveal sensor capability.

Air Force releases a re-enactment tape where people are dressed up in rubber drone and plane suits over a miniature ocean set

A Pack of Kobolds
Mar 23, 2007



lol Steven Segal is a sex pervert who famously shat himself while trying to look tough so yeah he fits right in with putin

SpeedFreek
Jan 10, 2008
And Im Lobster Jesus!

Barudak posted:

Air Force releases a re-enactment tape where people are dressed up in rubber drone and plane suits over a miniature ocean set

Latex, might as well get freaky with it.

Rev. Bleech_
Oct 19, 2004

~OKAY, WE'LL DRINK TO OUR LEGS!~

Karate Bastard posted:

I agree, he is Russian.

Russian to the bathroom because he can't stop making GBS threads himself

EasilyConfused
Nov 21, 2009


one strong toad

HonorableTB posted:

IIRC Turkey has already invoked that treaty and cut the Black Sea Fleet off from any reinforcements lol

Yep, that's why the Moskva sinking was such a big deal, neither of her sisters can get any closer than the eastern Med.

HonorableTB
Dec 22, 2006

EasilyConfused posted:

Yep, that's why the Moskva sinking was such a big deal, neither of her sisters can get any closer than the eastern Med.

I smile a lot when I look at my Ukrainian postage stamp of the Moskva sinking, because it reminds me that a country that doesn't really have a navy has heretofore sank 18 Russian ships and boats :chanpop:

Soggy Muffin
Jul 29, 2003
Not a single mention of the drone incident on Foxnews.com
guess hating on trans people and minorities is more important than reporting on international incidents involving their beloved Putin

Pekinduck
May 10, 2008

BrassRoots posted:

Russian guys in my office love clowning on russia and putin. They think the war is loving stupid. One of them hangs out with the russian society which also has a bunch of ukrainian members. Lots of russians that get out got out for a reason. They think russia sucks.

My Russian coworker still has dual citizenship. Their passport is expiring but they feel weird just going to the consulate right now.

Barudak
May 7, 2007

SpeedFreek posted:

Latex, might as well get freaky with it.

Now, hold on, I think the right honorable senator from Kentucky has a point. I dont see why we cant make more of these videos featuring Americans from each of our great states.

HonorableTB
Dec 22, 2006
Russian losses as of 3-14-23. Parenthesis figures are losses in the last 24 hours

Personnel: ~643,160 casualties (+2960)
- killed: ~160,540
- wounded: ~481,260
- prisoner: ~1,000

Armored combat vehicles: 6,789 (+15)

Tanks: 3,484 (+10)

Artillery: 2,519 (+16)

Aircraft: 304

Helicopters: 289

Ships and boats: 18

https://www.minusrus.com/en

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Isnt nearly 3k casualties like 3 times higher than the last highest day? What in the gently caress happened

Edit: Oh its casualties not killed.

HonorableTB
Dec 22, 2006

Barudak posted:

Isnt nearly 3k casualties like 3 times higher than the last highest day? What in the gently caress happened

Human wave attacks into prepared positions without adequate artillery and air support.

Also, RU is attacking across the front, broadly. Bakhmut is just the place getting all the attention right now; their offensive has been along the entire front. Bakhmut also just happens to be the only place they've seen any kind of success, as limited as that has been

WAR CRIME GIGOLO
Oct 3, 2012

The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

Barudak posted:

Isnt nearly 3k casualties like 3 times higher than the last highest day? What in the gently caress happened

Edit: Oh its casualties not killed.

Yeah even then this is like bad. 3K people in hospital beds. What kind of loving condition are these things in.
Also how many get executed for deserting aka getting wounded that aren't counter into the #? Probably a few at least. How many then get crippling infections and then aren't able to return to combat for months. Or forever.


It's hugely bad. Going into breaking down casualty rate any longer would just be grim. It's all percentages that matter.

3000 wounded is like 3.5 BTGS getting capped a day.

HonorableTB
Dec 22, 2006

WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:

Yeah even then this is like bad. 3K people in hospital beds. What kind of loving condition are these things in.
Also how many get executed for deserting aka getting wounded that aren't counter into the #? Probably a few at least. How many then get crippling infections and then aren't able to return to combat for months. Or forever.


It's hugely bad. Going into breaking down casualty rate any longer would just be grim. It's all percentages that matter.

3000 wounded is like 3.5 BTGS getting capped a day.

I have an easy answer for you gigolo

they dont get medical care because they dont really bother recovering their wounded and dead

you dont need 3k hospital beds when maybe 300 of the 3000 causalities make it back to the rear

Stink Billyums
Jul 7, 2006

MAGNUM

HonorableTB posted:

Russian losses as of 3-14-23. Parenthesis figures are losses in the last 24 hours

Personnel: ~643,160 casualties (+2960)
- killed: ~160,540
- wounded: ~481,260
- prisoner: ~1,000

Armored combat vehicles: 6,789 (+15)

Tanks: 3,484 (+10)

Artillery: 2,519 (+16)

Aircraft: 304

Helicopters: 289

Ships and boats: 18

https://www.minusrus.com/en

that's like 2% of the fighting age male population dead or injured, even with a fairly liberal interpretation of "fighting age"

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

Stink Billyums posted:

that's like 2% of the fighting age male population dead or injured, even with a fairly liberal interpretation of "fighting age"

Don’t forget the 900000+ who left the country when mobilization was announced.

Vire
Nov 4, 2005

Like a Bosh
Didn't see if this was posted anywhere else but yeah they aren't even pretending anymore:

https://news.yahoo.com/kremlin-claims-no-conditions-peace-103246444.html

Karma Comedian
Feb 2, 2012

This is a video of one of those fpv RPG drones in action, it's disabling an observation camera, so it's machine on machine violence:
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1635620593847484419?t=ZQkrOsDdCSjC4Zhaf4kB9Q&s=19
There are also maps:
https://twitter.com/DefMon3/status/1635726255420243969?t=OXWbsQFVtzf2VldoKylSGg&s=19
https://twitter.com/DefMon3/status/1635726293496115202?t=9jsSHV9WTbpFw0xH2v7oVQ&s=19
https://twitter.com/DefMon3/status/1635727403946491904?t=rhxkUEGjl-RL0CsMae3TQw&s=19
Here's something I saw, I don't know the veracity
https://twitter.com/BenDoBrown/status/1635676522391515142?t=ifhRxdqWSf01o-z4wm3CrQ&s=19
And some ISW article round ups for you all:

quote:

Prominent Russian milbloggers are reamplifying a longstanding Russian information operation that seeks to weaponize religion to discredit Ukraine. The Ukrainian Ministry of Culture issued a decision on March 9 stipulating that the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra Reserve will terminate its lease agreement with the Kremlin-affiliated Ukrainian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP), meaning that the UOC MP will need to vacate the premises of the lower Lavra by March 29. The Ukrainian government did not renew the UOC MP’s expired lease on the upper Lavra and allowed the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) to hold Christmas services at the Lavra on January 7, as ISW previously reported. Two prominent milbloggers responded on March 14 to the latest decision requiring the UOC MP to vacate the lower Lavra by March 29 and exploited the story to accuse Kyiv of repressing freedom of religion within Ukraine. Former Russian officer and convicted war criminal Igor Girkin claimed with no evidence that Kyiv will likely stage a military takeover of the Lavra because Ukrainian authorities are bent on “bloodily pitting the Russians on both sides of an artificial border” against one another. Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) commander and former DNR Security Minister Alexander Khodakovsky accused Ukraine of causing a “church frenzy” to divide the UOC MP and OCU dioceses and encouraged Ukrainian authorities to see past Ukrainian and Russian distinctions and exercise “restraint and Christian patience.” Khodakovsky’s comment is remarkable because it is Russia’s rejection of the validity of seeing any distinctions between Russians and Ukrainians that was one of the justifications for the illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine in the first place.

Both Girkin’s and Khodakovsky’s renewed exploitations of the Lavra issue are based on a misrepresentation of events and disingenuously seek to portray Kyiv as attacking religious liberty in Ukraine. The UOC MP is the Kremlin-controlled Russian Orthodox Church’s subordinate element in Ukraine and provided material support for Russia’s illegal invasion of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine in 2014. The UOC MP is not an independent religious organization but rather an extension of the Russian state and an instrument of Russian hybrid warfare. By misrepresenting the Ukrainian government’s decision to reduce the Kremlin-controlled UOC MP’s influence in Ukraine, Russian milbloggers are amplifying a known information operation attempting to delegitimize the Ukrainian state and turn international public opinion against Ukraine.

sounds bad posted:

Russian authorities continue measures to mobilize the struggling Russian defense industrial base (DIB) for a protracted war effort, including measures that will force the Kremlin to choose between having skilled workers in the DIB and skilled military personnel fighting in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed during a March 14 visit to an aviation production plant in Ulan-Ude, Buryatia, that the DIB suffers from a lack of adequately trained personnel and announced a series of reforms to attract more specialists to work at military production plants, including the reallocation of federal assets to housing and increasing pay. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu visited Tactical Missile Corporation in Moscow Oblast and called on the plant to double production even after announcing that the plant had met the requirements of the state defense order. Putin also announced that the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade has prepared a list of unspecified specialties to defer from military service, which may suggest that the Kremlin is prioritizing using skilled workers in the production of Russian weapons over having skilled soldiers fight in Russia’s military.[10] Russian news outlets Interfax and RBK, the latter citing a Russian federal official, reported that the Russian Ministry of Finance is also considering issuing war bonds. The United Kingdom Ministry of Defense (UK MoD) assessed that Putin’s March 3 presidential decree on government oversight of the DIB sets conditions for the Russian Ministry of Trade and Industry to bypass DIB managers at enterprises that fail to meet Russia’s production standards. The Ukrainian Foreign Intelligence Service reported that Russian defense enterprises significantly decreased their hiring standards and now accept workers without experience and with histories of drug use, criminal records, and bankruptcy. ISW has previously reported on Russia’s struggle to rejuvenate its DIB amid labor shortages and Western sanctions and its ensuing lack of success in this endeavor.

quote:

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki stated on March 14 that Poland could supply MiG-29 multirole fighters to Ukraine within four-to-six weeks. Morawiecki stated that Poland is ready to give Ukraine an unspecified proportion of its total fleet of 28 MiG-29 fighters to Ukraine as part of an international coalition. Slovak Defense Minister Jaroslav Nad previously signaled Slovakia’s support for providing Ukraine MiG-29 aircraft on March 9. The Ukrainian Air Force operates MiG-29s and would be able to use them in counteroffensive operations if Ukraine receives them with enough time in advance of its next counteroffensive.

Today's Key Takeaways posted:

• Prominent Russian milbloggers are reamplifying a longstanding Russian information operation that seeks to weaponize religion to discredit Ukraine.
• Russian authorities continue measures to mobilize the struggling Russian defense industrial base (DIB) for a protracted war effort.
• Russian Su-27 jets forced down a US MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Black Sea in international airspace.
• Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki stated on March 14 that Poland could supply MiG-29 multirole fighters to Ukraine within four-to-six weeks.
• Ukrainian sources reported that Russian forces continue building defenses along Russia’s border with Ukraine in order to pin Ukrainian troops to northern border areas.
• Russian forces conducted limited ground attacks northeast of Kupyansk and along the Svatove-Kreminna line.
• Russian forces advanced within Bakhmut and continued ground attacks along the Avdiivka–Donetsk City frontline and in western Donetsk Oblast.
• Russian forces continue fortifying rear areas in Russian occupied Zaporizhia Oblast.
• United Russia Secretary Andrey Turchak announced on March 14 that the Russian State Duma will consider a law simplifying the legal recognition of missing Russian soldiers as dead.
• Ukrainian partisans injured the Deputy Head of the Nova Kakhovka Occupation Military Administration in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack.


Karma Comedian fucked around with this message at 05:16 on Mar 15, 2023

DiomedesGodshill
Feb 21, 2009


I said it once and I'll say it again. I've been dancing for a LONG time and she is fantastic while he is a spaz. Not sure what lead Seagal to go all in on Russia. So weird.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

zone
Dec 6, 2016

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/articles/2023/03/13/7393096/
Here's an excellent long form article on how the FSB has been acting in Ukraine, from before Maidan to the present time during the war.

Toxic Mental
Jun 1, 2019

A Pack of Kobolds posted:

lol Steven Segal is a sex pervert who famously shat himself while trying to look tough so yeah he fits right in with putin

Is that a reference to this incredible video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aCMTpJx2cs

Ups_rail
Dec 8, 2006

by Fluffdaddy
So with the drone russia knocked it out.

US complains

And russia just goes "what you gonna do? sanction us?"

zone
Dec 6, 2016

https://t.me/strelkovii/4210
Huh, that's interesting. Apparently Strelkov's great grandpap participated in, and was wounded, during the Brusilov Offensive. When he went back home he became a deputy commissar, but later ended up being exiled.

quote:

My paternal great-grandfather was found, wounded at the front in 1916. First name and patronymic and county are identical. In the future - according to family legends - after returning from the front, he was the county police commissar, then (later) he was dispossessed and exiled ("to meet")

Wounded July 20, 1916 near Kovel. 80th Infantry Division (XXX Army Corps) as part of the Special Army.
It turns out that he participated and was wounded in the Brusilovsky Breakthrough

HonorableTB
Dec 22, 2006

zone posted:

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/articles/2023/03/13/7393096/
Here's an excellent long form article on how the FSB has been acting in Ukraine, from before Maidan to the present time during the war.

Don't pass this by, it's a great article

Carth Dookie
Jan 28, 2013

Toxic Mental posted:

Is that a reference to this incredible video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aCMTpJx2cs

I'm upset you beat me to it, but glad its posted anyway. Its great.


Thank you Steven Seagal for being so poo poo and a Russian shill thus making that video tangentally related. lol and lmao.

Son of Rodney
Feb 22, 2006

ohmygodohmygodohmygod

https://news.yahoo.com/kremlin-claims-no-conditions-peace-103246444.html

Imagine still telling ukraine they should try to negotiate with these dipshits.

zone
Dec 6, 2016

Son of Rodney posted:

https://news.yahoo.com/kremlin-claims-no-conditions-peace-103246444.html

Imagine still telling ukraine they should try to negotiate with these dipshits.

noooo you don't get it, it's the evil West and that cokehead Zelensky forcing Ukraine to fight to the last man and woman, poor Russia just wanted peace /sarcasm

Nelson Mandingo
Mar 27, 2005




Son of Rodney posted:

https://news.yahoo.com/kremlin-claims-no-conditions-peace-103246444.html

Imagine still telling ukraine they should try to negotiate with these dipshits.

B-b-b-but he doesn't MEAN the WORDS that he says!! America!!

No I understand the default idea is a peace agreement is genuinely preferable. The pointless dying stops. But Russian elites literally openly say that the only way to solve this problem is through military means. Outright. So unless you have the opinion that Russia should just get everything it wants, the only rational and ethical thing left to do as a westerner is to support Ukraine financially and militarily.

Yet somehow this opinion makes me a bloodthirsty banderite.

Nelson Mandingo fucked around with this message at 08:19 on Mar 15, 2023

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat
It absolutely does not.

zone
Dec 6, 2016

Nelson Mandingo posted:

B-b-b-but he doesn't MEAN the WORDS that he says!! America!!

No I understand the default idea is a peace agreement is genuinely preferable. The pointless dying stops. But Russian elites literally openly say that the only way to solve this problem is through military means. Outright. So unless you have the opinion that Russia should just get everything it wants, the only rational and ethical thing left to do as a westerner is to support Ukraine financially and militarily.

Yet somehow this opinion makes me a bloodthirsty banderite.

Minsk II was to buy time for the bandera nazi government to train and arm themselves to attack poor Russia, so we attacked them first
We are a peaceful country that has never attacked anyone else in our lives
I am Peter the Great and want to expand Russia's territories
We are an imperialist nation, so what? we are openly saying it now
Russia bad but have you considered America even worse?
What about the Iraq War and Afghanistan?
Oh, so you don't care about what's happening in Xinjiang to the Uyghurs?
and other lies Russia and multipolar world simps and morons say to themselves to justify supporting the imperialist conquest and genocide of Ukraine.

Potrzebie
Apr 6, 2010

I may not know what I'm talking about, but I sure love cops! ^^ Boy, but that boot is just yummy!
Lipstick Apathy

Toxic Mental posted:

Is that a reference to this incredible video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aCMTpJx2cs

While not related to Ukraine, this was amazing and Bobby Fingers is now my favourite content creator.

zone
Dec 6, 2016

https://twitter.com/matosalka/status/1635695374181576712
Slovaks are sending their Migs over to Ukraine, no questions asked.

Roblo
Dec 10, 2007

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!

Ups_rail posted:

So with the drone russia knocked it out.

US complains

And russia just goes "what you gonna do? sanction us?"

The Yanks don't care. It's just an opportunity to put more pressure on Russia, and potentially embarrass them if possible.

karoshi
Nov 4, 2008

"Can somebody mspaint eyes on the steaming packages? TIA" yeah well fuck you too buddy, this is the best you're gonna get. Is this even "work-safe"? Let's find out!

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/matosalka/status/1635695374181576712
Slovaks are sending their Migs over to Ukraine, no questions asked.

:nice: I will assume this 29s have all the right electronics to control NATO weapons.

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD
I just saw a CGI re-enactment of the incident over the Black Sea today. Not even mad at those Russian pilots, it was 100% funny what they did.

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BrassRoots
Jan 9, 2012

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere - John Coltrane

Funky See Funky Do posted:

I just saw a CGI re-enactment of the incident over the Black Sea today. Not even mad at those Russian pilots, it was 100% funny what they did.

Did they throw a pie in its face?

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