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TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017



So some confusion for me: there are two Rostovs in Russia

One is Rostov on Don, near Ukraine, the other is Rostov, north of Moscow

Which one are we talking about here?

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Der Kyhe
Jun 25, 2008

khwarezm posted:

If things actually get hot in Russia, is there any prospect that the Ukrainians could leverage this? Like their offensive is still ongoing right?

Some Internet sources are saying that Bakhmut of all places is a ghost town of Russian forces and Ukrainian army is preparing to move in.

^^^^ Rostov on Don.

Dandywalken
Feb 11, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 5 hours!

khwarezm posted:

If things actually get hot in Russia, is there any prospect that the Ukrainians could leverage this? Like their offensive is still ongoing right?

no that would be rude

MegaZeroX
Dec 11, 2013

"I'm Jack Frost, ho! Nice to meet ya, hee ho!"



khwarezm posted:

If things actually get hot in Russia, is there any prospect that the Ukrainians could leverage this? Like their offensive is still ongoing right?

If it goes hot, and isn't just like Prigozhin and a few friends, but a significant force, then yeah, its a really big deal that its hard to see how it wouldn't result in significant gains for the Ukrainians. Even if it remains cold, it will gently caress with Russian morale

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

R.I.P.idura leucophrys

Dandywalken posted:

no that would be rude

As the old military saying goes, "never inrerrupt your enemy, it's bad manners"

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

I better not wake up tomorrow to president preggozhin! I'm warning you guys, no pregozhin president!

wilderthanmild
Jun 21, 2010

Posting shit




Grimey Drawer
That ASTRA telegram is posting basically anything they get, including videos of supposed bombing in Kursk which seems far fetched. I don't think I'd put any credit in anything they post.

Molothecat
Jul 25, 2007

Wrath, hate, pain, and death!

Der Kyhe posted:

This isn't actually just Russia's thing: Keep in mind that in Catch-22 the bombing squadron got a commendation for missing their target because they weren't told that the town they were supposed to bomb was already taken by allied troops. The book is a work of fiction, but that book and Apocalypse: Now are generally considered to be fairly accurate depictions of the wars they are written to happen in.

now this is political commentary i can sink my teeth into

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

TulliusCicero posted:

So some confusion for me: there are two Rostovs in Russia

One is Rostov on Don, near Ukraine, the other is Rostov, north of Moscow

Which one are we talking about here?

The one in Illinoi that's inexplicably pronounced "Rastiv"

Sir John Falstaff
Apr 13, 2010

Der Kyhe posted:

So basically this means that A) this coup thing didn't happen, but an army corps sized unit was just allowed to leave the front because the general is having a hissy fit or B) this is bullshit on top of bullshit on top of bullshit?

I think B is much more likely than anything else.

Raskolnikov2089
Nov 3, 2006

Schizzy to the matic
https://twitter.com/SkyAboveUkraine/status/1672397974750605313

supposedly the column

Im also hearing reports that Putin is increasingly isolated.

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD
Holy loving poo poo. I take back what I said last night. He trying to commit suicide and take as many people with him as possible.

Der Kyhe
Jun 25, 2008

Molothecat posted:

now this is political commentary i can sink my teeth into

They both depict the incredible mess that running a war is fairly accurately, and that isn't just my opinion on them. Its completely believable that Russian missile units and air forces are still doing the ordered terror strikes while there is some sort of mutiny going on in the Rostov-on-Don area between the MoD and Wagner forces.

Toxic Mental
Jun 1, 2019

The Nazis are coming from inside Baba's Yaga Hut

pro starcraft loser
Jan 23, 2006

Stand back, this could get messy.

Imagine being in Ukraine high command watching this poo poo

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:
Goddamn

Toxic Mental
Jun 1, 2019

pro starcraft loser posted:

Imagine being in Ukraine high command watching this poo poo

https://twitter.com/JYSexton/status/884798748152483840?s=20

Willo567
Feb 5, 2015

Cheating helped me fail the test and stay on the show.

MegaZeroX posted:

If it goes hot, and isn't just like Prigozhin and a few friends, but a significant force, then yeah, its a really big deal that its hard to see how it wouldn't result in significant gains for the Ukrainians. Even if it remains cold, it will gently caress with Russian morale

Weren't Wagner only in Bakhmut?

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
https://twitter.com/Sputnik_Not/status/1672396046557691909

El Jebus
Jun 18, 2008

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Willo567 posted:

Weren't Wagner only in Bakhmut?

They handed it off to Russian military not too long ago.

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD

Raskolnikov2089 posted:

https://twitter.com/SkyAboveUkraine/status/1672397974750605313

supposedly the column

Im also hearing reports that Putin is increasingly isolated.

Is this, to date, the only visual confirmation of any kind of columns of troops moving in Russia.

Phlegmish
Jul 2, 2011




lol

peanut
Sep 9, 2007


absolutely shocked that paid foreign mercenaries would betray loyalties for their own convenience

El Jebus
Jun 18, 2008

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Funky See Funky Do posted:

Is this, to date, the only visual confirmation of any kind of columns of troops moving in Russia.

I think so? At least the only one claiming to be the Wagner convoy so far.

Randarkman
Jul 18, 2011

peanut posted:

absolutely shocked that paid foreign mercenaries would betray loyalties for their own convenience

They're Russians.

Pontificating Ass
Aug 2, 2002

What Doth Life?
prigozhin wilin fr

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017



So... 3 things could be happening:

1. There really is a coup, and Russia and Pirogi are lying about it constantly

2. Ukraine psyoped their way into taking Bakhmut, and possibly starting a coup

3. Pirogi is attacking Russia with meme armies that don't exist, and everyone is so stupid there they can't figure it out, AND they lost Bakhmut due to idiocy

Lol at all of them

Randarkman
Jul 18, 2011

Willo567 posted:

Weren't Wagner only in Bakhmut?

It was just their most prominent deployment I think.

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

HonorableTB posted:

lmao gigolo was right, what the gently caress

Randarkman
Jul 18, 2011

TulliusCicero posted:

So... 3 things could be happening:

1. There really is a coup, and Russia and Pirogi are lying about it constantly

2. Ukraine psyoped their way into taking Bakhmut, and possibly starting a coup

3. Pirogi is attacking Russia with meme armies that don't exist, and everyone is so stupid there they can't figure it out, AND they lost Bakhmut due to idiocy

Lol at all of them

4. Any of the above and Prigozhin's account has been hacked.

Der Kyhe
Jun 25, 2008

TulliusCicero posted:

So... 3 things could be happening:

1. There really is a coup, and Russia and Pirogi are lying about it constantly

2. Ukraine psyoped their way into taking Bakhmut, and possibly starting a coup

3. Pirogi is attacking Russia with meme armies that don't exist, and everyone is so stupid there they can't figure it out, AND they lost Bakhmut due to idiocy

Lol at all of them

The FSB arrest warrant seems to be legit, so its Prig doing his Hail Mary move here, most likely.

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017



HonorableTB posted:

lmao gigolo was right, what the gently caress

New thread title

appropriatemetaphor
Jan 26, 2006

holy hell lol.

well best of luck to wagner

weg
Jun 6, 2006

Reassisted Retrogression
If this is a Ukrainian cyber psyop to have Russia kill its own forces I'm gonna lose my poo poo lol.

If it's not Putin will hopefully lose his.

zone
Dec 6, 2016

https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1672392872241295360
Now Razvozhaev is making GBS threads himself.

Nobody Interesting
Mar 29, 2013

One way, dead end... Street signs are such fitting metaphors for the human condition.


zone posted:

https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1672392872241295360
Now Razvozhaev is making GBS threads himself.

bad bigly

Der Kyhe
Jun 25, 2008

pro starcraft loser posted:

Imagine being in Ukraine high command watching this poo poo

I mean, do they even have treatment for people who laugh themselves unconscious?

Grammarchist
Jan 28, 2013

I log off for one day and suddenly it's an "Oops All Nazis" Free-For-All from the Dnipr to the Urals.

zone
Dec 6, 2016

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1672395843041734661
The Satanists are behind all of this apparently, according to this washed up pillock

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Three Olives
Apr 10, 2005

Don't forget Hitler's contributions to medicine.
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1672402289393295360

:stare:

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