Ukraine War: Berth El Buk

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grumplestiltzkin: Jun 7, 2012; Ass, gas, or grass. No one rides for free.

god please help me posted:

BREAKING NEWS: Putin about to poo poo his pants again.

Let's see you try to take a solid poo poo while living on a "nothing but horse cum" diet.

Putin is a giant piece of (liquidy) poo poo

# ? Jul 1, 2023 08:03

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# ? May 28, 2024 04:56

zone: Dec 6, 2016

https://twitter.com/GlasnostGone/status/1675047461503614979
Interesting that they mention that this time the mobiks are damaging their weapons. Anyone remember if this was mentioned before?

# ? Jul 1, 2023 09:50

Anders: Nov 8, 2004; I'd rather score...

... but I'll grind it good for you

HonorableTB posted:

lmao yeah i am starting to get Concerned about this plant. bad news bears poo poo

AFAIK, the plant uses technology that will prevent nuclear radiation from spreading the way Chernobyl did no matter what its subjected to. The breach of the dam is probably way worse than what they�ll be able to do with the nuclear plant

But I�m just an idiot on the Internet, so what do I know

# ? Jul 1, 2023 10:07

aniviron: Sep 11, 2014

You are broadly correct. ZNPP is similar to western designs from the late 70s, so bad situations look like Three Mile Island, which killed literally 0 people including excess cancer deaths, and Fukushima, which did cause deaths but very few - more people died as a result of the evacuation from the exclusion zone than will ever wind up dying from cancer long term there.

The one caveat is that while those are nearly worst-case normal failure modes from western reactor designs, the possibility of deliberate sabotage would obviously have worse ramifications than an accident. The most likely scenarios however still limit the damage to the plant itself and the immediate area.

# ? Jul 1, 2023 10:43

zone: Dec 6, 2016

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1675041985554415616
Peg Leg Pegov posted a report. None of which sounds very good for Russia.

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1675051837102206977
Bakhmut Demon reports that Ukraine made 700m gains to the north of the ruined city.

# ? Jul 1, 2023 10:47

zone: Dec 6, 2016

https://twitter.com/PStyle0ne1/status/1675021067679674368
Is this the fourth or fifth time they "eliminated" the bridgehead?

# ? Jul 1, 2023 11:17

khwarezm: Oct 26, 2010; Deal with it.

https://twitter.com/Tinkzorg/status/1674841459516751872
You can really say just anything on Twitter.

# ? Jul 1, 2023 13:40

zone: Dec 6, 2016

khwarezm posted:

https://twitter.com/Tinkzorg/status/1674841459516751872
You can really say just anything on Twitter.

A riot happening over police brutality is the same as a mercenary boss rebelling against his paymaster. I am very smart.

# ? Jul 1, 2023 13:42

Randarkman: Jul 18, 2011

khwarezm posted:

https://twitter.com/Tinkzorg/status/1674841459516751872
You can really say just anything on Twitter.

I mean that person has a north korean flag in their name, and is also swedish. Why anything they have to say should even be mentioned is beyond me.

# ? Jul 1, 2023 13:42

Plan R: Oct 5, 2021; For Romeo

Just out of curiosity has anybody read or heard about this?

"The 28-year-old vice president of the Russian Loko-Bank, Kristina Bajkova, died after falling from the window of her Moscow apartment on the eleventh floor.
The circumstances of her death have not yet been fully clarified and are being investigated by the police, Russian media reports."

the article is Czechish -- https://www.novinky.cz/clanek/zahranicni-evropa-dalsi-pad-z-okna-mlada-viceprezidentka-ruske-banky-je-po-smrti-40436413

# ? Jul 1, 2023 13:46

zone: Dec 6, 2016

It was already posted a couple days ago in the thread.

# ? Jul 1, 2023 13:48

redshirt: Aug 11, 2007

These daily Ukraine gaines sounds like if Twitter existed during WW1.

"Regained Trench AB-3 after heavy fighting, 30 yards of territory under control"

# ? Jul 1, 2023 13:53

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

redshirt posted:

These daily Ukraine gaines sounds like if Twitter existed during WW1.

"Regained Trench AB-3 after heavy fighting, 30 yards of territory under control"

Even when the western front collapsed in 1918 and the Germans went into full irreversible retreat, daily gains by the Entente were initially measured in hundreds of meters. Ultimately "territory gained" isn't all that useful as an indicator in absence of context

# ? Jul 1, 2023 13:55

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

redshirt posted:

These daily Ukraine gaines sounds like if Twitter existed during WW1.

"Regained Trench AB-3 after heavy fighting, 30 yards of territory under control"

I say, these German lads are right fools and bounders what?

# ? Jul 1, 2023 13:55

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

redshirt posted:

These daily Ukraine gaines sounds like if Twitter existed during WW1.

"Regained Trench AB-3 after heavy fighting, 30 yards of territory under control"

700 meters is almost half a mile. Does that make it feel different?

# ? Jul 1, 2023 14:09

Justa Dandelion: Nov 27, 2020; [sobbing] Look at the circles under my eyes. I haven't slept in weeks!

WithoutTheFezOn posted:

700 meters is almost half a mile. Does that make it feel different?

Roughly how many hot dogs is that?

# ? Jul 1, 2023 14:11

NoiseAnnoys: May 17, 2010

Justa Dandelion posted:

Roughly how many hot dogs is that?

just one really big one.

# ? Jul 1, 2023 14:12

spankmeister: Jun 15, 2008

Plan R posted:

Just out of curiosity has anybody read or heard about this?

"The 28-year-old vice president of the Russian Loko-Bank, Kristina Bajkova, died after falling from the window of her Moscow apartment on the eleventh floor.
The circumstances of her death have not yet been fully clarified and are being investigated by the police, Russian media reports."

the article is Czechish -- https://www.novinky.cz/clanek/zahranicni-evropa-dalsi-pad-z-okna-mlada-viceprezidentka-ruske-banky-je-po-smrti-40436413

Yes, it was all over my twitter feed and even made it to the news here (NL), and of course it was posted itt.

# ? Jul 1, 2023 14:16

zone: Dec 6, 2016

https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1675119533709836294
Just look at this pathetic propaganda leaflet.

# ? Jul 1, 2023 14:20

Lockback: Sep 3, 2006; All days are nights to see till I see thee; and nights bright days when dreams do show me thee.

Low effort, Russian Chick Tract.

# ? Jul 1, 2023 14:25

khwarezm: Oct 26, 2010; Deal with it.

PRIGOZHIN�S FOLLY The Russian �revolt� that wasn�t strengthens Putin�s hand

Hersh is back with, you guessed it, the scare quotes revolt actually being good for tactician mastermind Putin, brought to you by the same unimpeachable anonymous sources that can't be verified in any way that said that Nord Stream was blown up by US special forces and the Norwegians.

Choice bits:

quote:

We now know that the chronically unstable Prigozhin�s revolt fizzled out within a day, as he fled to Belarus, with a no-prosecution guarantee, and his mercenary army was mingled into the Russian army. There was no march on Moscow, nor was there a significant threat to Putin�s rule.

Pity the Washington columnists and national security correspondents who seem to rely heavily on official backgrounders with White House and State Department officials. Given the published results of such briefings, those officials seem unable to look at the reality of the past few weeks, or the total disaster that has befallen the Ukraine military�s counter-offensive.

So, below is a look at what is really going that was provided to me by a knowledgeable source in the American intelligence community:

�I thought I might clear some of the smoke. First and most importantly, Putin is now in a much stronger position. We realized as early as January of 2023 that a showdown between the generals, backed by Putin, and Prigo, backed by ultra-nationalist extremists, was inevitable. The age-old conflict between the �special� war fighters and a large, slow, clumsy, unimaginative regular army. The army always wins because they own the peripheral assets that make victory, either offensive or defensive, possible. Most importantly, they control logistics. special forces see themselves as the premier offensive asset. When the overall strategy is offensive, big army tolerates their hubris and public chest thumping because SF are willing to take high risk and pay a high price. Successful offense requires a large expenditure of men and equipment. Successful defense, on the other hand, requires husbanding these assets.

�Wagner members were the spearhead of the original Russian Ukraine offensive. They were the �little green men�. When the offensive grew into an all-out attack by the regular army, Wagner continued to assist but reluctantly had to take a back seat in the period of instability and readjustment that followed. Prigo, no shy violet, took the initiative to grow his forces and stabilize his sector.

�The regular army welcomed the help. Prigo and Wagner, as is the wont of special forces, took the limelight and took the credit for stopping the hated Ukrainians. The press gobbled it up. Meanwhile, the big army and Putin slowly changed their strategy from offensive conquest of greater Ukraine to defense of what they already had. Prigo refused to accept the change and continued on the offensive against Bakhmut. Therein lies the rub. Rather than create a public crisis and court-martial the rear end in a top hat [Prigozhin], Moscow simply withheld the resources and let Prigo use up his manpower and firepower reserves, dooming him to a stand-down. He is, after all, no matter how cunning financially, an ex-hot dog cart owner with no political or military accomplishments.

�What we never heard is three months ago Wagner was cycled out of the Bakhmut front and sent to an abandoned barracks north of Rostov-on-Don [in southern Russia] for demobilization. The heavy equipment was mostly redistributed, and the force was reduced to about 8,000, 2,000 of which left for Rostov escorted by local police.

�Putin fully backed the army who let Prigo make a fool of himself and now disappear into ignominy. All without raising a sweat militarily or causing Putin to face a political standoff with the fundamentalists, who were ardent Prigo admirers. Pretty shrewd.�

# ? Jul 1, 2023 14:35

spankmeister: Jun 15, 2008

As if we needed more confirmation that Hersh is completely off his rocker and none of his claims should be taken seriously.

# ? Jul 1, 2023 14:41

The_Franz: Aug 8, 2003

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1675119533709836294
Just look at this pathetic propaganda leaflet.

"Ukraine shoots the wounded, not like the Russians who care for their soldiers"

*Looks back at the person who will shoot me if I retreat*

# ? Jul 1, 2023 14:55

Oscar Wilde Bunch: Jun 12, 2012; Grimey Drawer

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1675119533709836294
Just look at this pathetic propaganda leaflet.

It�s like the ultimate Russia says we don�t do it, ergo it�s exactly what we do.

Also, where do I go to schedule my bath Satan?

# ? Jul 1, 2023 14:56

Pookah: Aug 21, 2008; 🪶Caw🪶

Beelzebubble bath

# ? Jul 1, 2023 14:57

Cthulu Carl: Apr 16, 2006

"Ukrainians are gay in bathtubs together!"

"Huh? Dude what are you talking about? No one cares about being gay in a bathtub."

"Well.. Then.. They GAY in a bathtubs.... With uh.... SATAN... and HITLER! Got 'em."

# ? Jul 1, 2023 15:01

Turrurrurrurrrrrrr: Dec 22, 2018; I hope this is "battle" enough for you, friend.

NoiseAnnoys posted:

just one really big one.

The SMO's ultimate goal is the creation of the worlds biggest and most horriblest hot dog.

# ? Jul 1, 2023 15:06

Anders: Nov 8, 2004; I'd rather score...

... but I'll grind it good for you

Randarkman posted:

I mean that person has a north korean flag in their name, and is also swedish. Why anything they have to say should even be mentioned is beyond me.

Especially since the Swedish-North Korean Friendship Association disbanded in the mid 90s over a disagreement about the first Paris Commune

# ? Jul 1, 2023 15:08

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Having a bath with Hitler and the devil because i'm Ukranian.

# ? Jul 1, 2023 15:11

Cugel the Clever: Apr 5, 2009; I LOVE AMERICA AND CAPITALISM DESPITE BEING POOR AS FUCK. I WILL NEVER RETIRE BUT HERE'S ANOTHER 200$ FOR UKRAINE, SLAVA

quote:

“Putin fully backed the army who let Prigo make a fool of himself and now disappear into ignominy. All without raising a sweat militarily or causing Putin to face a political standoff with the fundamentalists, who were ardent Prigo admirers. Pretty shrewd.”

Ukraine War: Losing 7 military aircraft to own my chef. Pretty shrewd.

# ? Jul 1, 2023 15:13

The_Franz: Aug 8, 2003

Anders posted:

Especially since the Swedish-North Korean Friendship Association disbanded in the mid 90s over a disagreement about the first Paris Commune

It's always fun to watch those North Korean tourism videos where members of those "<insert country here>-North Korea Friendship Association" clubs go to visit, and watch as reality sets in as they are constantly bombarded with propaganda, can't go anywhere without a handler, get chastised for taking an unauthorized photo of some random road, face uncomfortable silence if they ask the wrong questions, and realize that someone went through their luggage while they were out of their room.

# ? Jul 1, 2023 15:17

Plan R: Oct 5, 2021; For Romeo

https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/vice-guide-to-north-korea/56815b6132382b833c2230ad

^^^ is interesting. Especially the tea-house part.

e: Goose-stepping has been out of style for, what, eighty years?

# ? Jul 1, 2023 15:21

staberind: Feb 20, 2008; but i dont wanna be a spaceship; Fun Shoe

grumplestiltzkin posted:

GBS>Ukraine War: Look at this prigs tiny balls

this needs legs.
Also, man, russian propaganda used to be bleeding edge, like, we used it everywhere to depict fully automated gay space communism when fully automated gay space communism was cool, (its still cool, shut up)

staberind fucked around with this message at 15:33 on Jul 1, 2023

# ? Jul 1, 2023 15:31

NoiseAnnoys: May 17, 2010

staberind posted:

this needs legs.

no, that's war gonzo.

# ? Jul 1, 2023 15:32

Rust Martialis: May 8, 2007; At night, Bavovnyatko quietly comes to the occupiers’ bases, depots, airfields, oil refineries and other places full of flammable items and starts playing with fire there

Plan R posted:

https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/vice-guide-to-north-korea/56815b6132382b833c2230ad

^^^ is interesting. Especially the tea-house part.

e: Goose-stepping has been out of style for, what, eighty years?

Soviets goosestepped too.