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Cannon_Fodder
Jul 17, 2007

"Hey, where did Steve go?"
Design by Kamoc

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1635956444372582402

I'm trying very hard to not roll my eyes completely back into my head here.

In the latest episode of Rus Housewives...

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Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

Why the gently caress would you be posted abroad in the FSB and not defect threats to your family ?

But really, what does Muscovy have to offer the professional class? D grade holidays in Dubai so they can pass a week pretending to live in a country that pretends to be comparable to even the most desperate western democracy?

Tai
Mar 8, 2006
Guns don't kill, it's people!

I'll take my pay cheque now please NRA

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

Strategic Tea posted:

Why the gently caress would you be posted abroad in the FSB and not defect threats to your family ?


Maybe because you think Ukrainians have to be exterminated?


e:

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1635956444372582402

I'm trying very hard to not roll my eyes completely back into my head here.
This also seems like another version of "they tricked us into invading :qq:"

mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 14:14 on Mar 15, 2023

Barudak
May 7, 2007

steinrokkan posted:

It's specifically not mobiks. How they plan to achieve that goal without mobilization is anyone's guess.

Enhanced Motivation Techniques

Dwesa
Jul 19, 2016

Maybe I'll go where I can see stars

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1635956444372582402

I'm trying very hard to not roll my eyes completely back into my head here.

"And it's astonishing when you put their faces next to the messages. These are completely regular people that you might have seen sipping Martinis on a holiday in your European town."

That's not really surprising, even here in (supposedly) European country, majority of people supporting Russia are just regular people. There might be some neonazis or tankies, but most toxic FB profiles that put that "laughing with tears" reactions under articles about Russian war crimes or that are calling for extermination of liberals are usually some middle-aged folks, women and men with profile picture with their grandchildren and so on.

Dwesa fucked around with this message at 14:25 on Mar 15, 2023

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

The average middle aged, middle class, 1.5 car, non urbanite homeowner is the absolute bane of democracy everywhere.

They're in the west too, just asking questions about vaccine safety and getting furious about public bathrooms

Doctor Butts
May 21, 2002

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

I was gonna say they could recreate some of it in ARMA, but with ARMA physics the jet would likely simultaneously nuke itself while launching itself into low Earth orbit while the drone gets away unscathed.

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

Doctor Butts posted:

I was gonna say they could recreate some of it in ARMA, but with ARMA physics the jet would likely simultaneously nuke itself while launching itself into low Earth orbit while the drone gets away unscathed.

So what you're saying is they SHOULD release a reenactment using ARMA?

zone
Dec 6, 2016

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1635997006358360064
you and your lancets can get hosed :troll:

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

That's the joke, you can stop lancets with cope nets

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

Power Khan posted:

That's the joke, you can stop lancets with cope nets

It's not a cope net if it actually works :eng101:

WAR CRIME GIGOLO
Oct 3, 2012

The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

Can we probate anyone who calls it a war

It's a peace keeping operation!!!!!!!!

A special military operation...of peace

armpit_enjoyer
Jan 25, 2023

my god. it's full of posts

Doctor Butts posted:

I was gonna say they could recreate some of it in ARMA, but with ARMA physics the jet would likely simultaneously nuke itself while launching itself into low Earth orbit while the drone gets away unscathed.

See, that's what I thought happened at first; the jet pilot was simply trying to desync ram the drone.

WAR CRIME GIGOLO
Oct 3, 2012

The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov claimed that the Soviet Union was not dropping bombs on Finland, but merely "airlifting food" to "starving" Finns.

Schweinhund
Oct 23, 2004

:derp:   :kayak:                                     

they should be teaching them how to load a musket

zone
Dec 6, 2016

https://www.fmn.dk/da/nyheder/2023/ukraine-fond-finansierer-stor-ny-donationspakke/

quote:

Contents of upcoming Danish donation package IX:

Ammunition for handguns and rifles: 5.56mm ammunition

Additional donation of 12.7mm heavy machine guns

Additional donation of larger quantity of anti-tank mines (50.000 sent previously)

Propellant charges, arrestor tubes and incendiary tubes for 155mm artillery ammunition.

Additional missiles for air defense (probably Sidewinders for NASAMS)

Bomb disposal robots: 21 pcs. bomb disposal robots

Purchase of non-lethal material via NATO for up to DKK 100.0 million.

15 pcs. military (hardened) generators

8,000 pieces of hats and 15,000 sets of rain gear

9 pcs. mobile workshop solutions for the repair of larger military vehicles and tanks

6 pieces. hangar tents
The Danish armed forces have started to pack and prepare the donations so that the material can be handed over to Ukraine as soon as possible.

This is first package funded through the new 1.09BN USD fund for Ukraine that Denmark also announced earlier today.

Rev. Bleech_
Oct 19, 2004

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


change their national anthem to "Hell March" played on a plastic child's kazoo

Cthulu Carl posted:

It's not a cope net if it actually works :eng101:

more like Nope net

Shaman Tank Spec
Dec 26, 2003

*blep*



zone posted:

https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1635945263759077376
e: A new recruitment drive for another 400,000 mobiks has been issued in Russia. Where did the last 300,000 go? :thunkin:

So wait you're telling me that taking all your trained specialists, giving them rusty AK-47s (or Mosin-Nagants) and flak jackets filled with moldy cardboard, and shoving them into the meat grinder was a BAD idea?! When will this Ukrainian propaganda cease?!

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1635945263759077376
e: A new recruitment drive for another 400,000 mobiks has been issued in Russia. Where did the last 300,000 go? :thunkin:

Idk what the real numbers of casualties are, but this country is on it's 2nd wave of mobilization now. Where's the initial invasion force of ~+200k AND the 1st wave of mobbiks?

Icon Of Sin
Dec 26, 2008



Power Khan posted:

Idk what the real numbers of casualties are, but this country is on it's 2nd wave of mobilization now. Where's the initial invasion force of ~+200k AND the 1st wave of mobbiks?

Growing sunflowers, as foretold by a babushka who was absolutely done with everyone’s poo poo.

free hubcaps
Oct 12, 2009

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3901047-ukraine-foreign-ministry-invites-desantis-to-visit-following-territorial-dispute-comments/

Can't wait for chamberlain to be president!

Dandywalken
Feb 11, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!
200k vs 120k casualties doesnt sound as one-sided as people are acting it is.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Its probably an attempt to go "Look at that you little poo poo."

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD

Power Khan posted:

Idk what the real numbers of casualties are, but this country is on it's 2nd wave of mobilization now. Where's the initial invasion force of ~+200k AND the 1st wave of mobbiks?

Russia doesn't value human life at all so it doesn't matter where they are. They're gone and they need more. Don't think about it.

DiomedesGodshill
Feb 21, 2009

What do new tanks drivers drive if there are no tanks to drive?

HonorableTB
Dec 22, 2006
My casualty figures were exaggerated I'm sure but now Russia's on its second wave of mobilization and the previous waves of mobiks/initial invasion force clearly got liquidated along the line so its not that exaggerated.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

DiomedesGodshill posted:

What do new tanks drivers drive if there are no tanks to drive?

Ladas

Pekinduck
May 10, 2008

fatherboxx posted:

I have bad news to them, there has been a number of those in recent years

Ah, but a chud isn't gonna know that.

Tigey
Apr 6, 2015

zone posted:

Contents of upcoming Danish donation package IX:

8,000 pieces of hats

Wait what

Icochet
Mar 18, 2008

I have a very small TV. Don't make fun of it! Please don't shame it like that~

Grimey Drawer
Danish hats are loving brutal

Shaman Tank Spec
Dec 26, 2003

*blep*



Dandywalken posted:

200k vs 120k casualties doesnt sound as one-sided as people are acting it is.

I'm not sure it's also terribly accurate considering a bunch of agencies have been briefing about Russian and Ukrainian casualties being 5:1. But maybe I'm misremembering, or it was about a specific area or battle.

Icon Of Sin
Dec 26, 2008



Shaman Tank Spec posted:

I'm not sure it's also terribly accurate considering a bunch of agencies have been briefing about Russian and Ukrainian casualties being 5:1. But maybe I'm misremembering, or it was about a specific area or battle.

That was Bakhmut in particular, at least recently.

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

DiomedesGodshill posted:

What do new tanks drivers drive if there are no tanks to drive?

You've heard about the trained artillery men who were given an AK and got assigned to infantry for suicide assaults. It's the same deal, I imagine.

EorayMel
May 30, 2015

WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Français.

Tigey posted:

Wait what

Every aid package should have at least 8,000 pieces of hats.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

EorayMel posted:

Every aid package should have at least 8,000 pieces of hats.

Are those... pope hats?

WAR CRIME GIGOLO
Oct 3, 2012

The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

1:5 ratio is pretty standard for cracking nuts (fortified defensive areas) of course Russia is not losing those men "efficiently" for lack of a better term.


Meters gained to losses are very bad for Russia. Because they have to keep losing that 1:5 for the foreseeable few weeks which is 1000 per day at this point.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

When I want to relax, I read an essay by Engels. When I want something more serious, I read Corto Maltese.

Tigey posted:

Wait what

Same logic behind Van Halen and the brown m&ms, I say with full confidence.

Bernard McFacknutah
Nov 13, 2009
I think there is a very large amount of conjecture, guess work, and drawing conclusions from really vague sources like Ursula Von Der Leye's speech where she had likely mis-spoken and announced 100k Ukrainian combat deaths by December, or as I saw online last night, an allegedly reliable Youtube channel with more than a million subscribers trying to extrapolate real Russian losses from the bullshit casualty figures the Kremlin announced last April (Assuming they had been honest, announced 7k deaths across 3 months, making 28k for the year....)

It's probably a lot more useful to look at the actions both sides are taking to replenish, replace, and refit. Looking at that, Russia are at the very least taking crippling losses in equipment and infantry, and formations that were professional manoeuvre and combined arms trained and equipped are now reconstituted with mobilised (conscripted) light infantry. A big unknown element are losses through contracts ending (how effective are the Russians at stoploss), desertion, and malingering from both sides. You could easily have wastage on the Russian side that meets or exceeds battlefield fatalities. I suspect you will have a not inconsiderable number of Ukrainian soldiers who have also decided that this war isn't for them, but I would wager it's a much smaller portion.

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Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

Dandywalken posted:

200k vs 120k casualties doesnt sound as one-sided as people are acting it is.

That depends if they're real. It doesn't check out. Ukraine is still picky who they recruit vs. what's been said above.

Bakhmut turned into a political shitfest against all warnings. They're not trading there like they used to, and god help the guys that have to be pulled out over the completely muddy dirtroads when it gets worse.

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