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Cimber posted:Maintainence of those aircraft is a bitch. I would not be surprised if it was a parts failure causing the crash. Can't import the stuff easily now. Not to mention I wonder how many of the parts are not in stock and they are making due with substandard replacements.
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bulletsponge13 posted:SU35 crashed after takeoff in Russia, crashing into an apartment building, killing at least 14. Huh, where did you see that? Haven't seen that reported myself, which is kind of strange for major stuff like planes.
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Mzuri posted:Clark and Ding claim another victory with their flashlight Oh God I had memory holed that
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Voyager I posted:Always great for morale when your commander advocates for you and the organization responds by firing them. SECNAV glances around the room sweatily
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Mzuri posted:Clark and Ding claim another victory with their flashlight Best book in the series!
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OddObserver posted:Huh, where did you see that? Haven't seen that reported myself, which is kind of strange for major stuff like planes. Went back to get a link and didn't realize it was a repost of the October incident. My bad.
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this massicot thread is a good read and covers the widespread sense of 'what the actual gently caress is going on with russian military leadership' from nearly all sides right now. hell, even prominent russian military accounts that were extremely pro-MoD during the wagner mutiny seem very unhappy with how Popov was treated https://twitter.com/MassDara/status/1679528294943735808
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Russian hobbits are like "okay we had first (pmc) mutiny, what about second (official armed forces) mutiny?"
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Herstory Begins Now posted:this massicot thread is a good read and covers the widespread sense of 'what the actual gently caress is going on with russian military leadership' from nearly all sides right now. hell, even prominent russian military accounts that were extremely pro-MoD during the wagner mutiny seem very unhappy with how Popov was treated What are people who don't have a twitler supposed to do?
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:What are people who don't have a twitler supposed to do? https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1679528294943735808.html
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in a well actually posted:How does he like his office at 8th and I? Hes out and went into wildcat mining.
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Thanks but also good God, ad blocker required.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:What are people who don't have a twitler supposed to do? https://nitter.1d4.us/MassDara/status/1679528294943735808
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The damage of a coup is not necessarily in the physical damage it does, but in the damage it does to the structures of power. The military is divided and the issues at the front have been laid bare by Prig's mutiny, and the government trying to cover it up is exposing even more cracks in the structure. Prig may have laid the groundwork for the collapse of the Ukraine war by causing the military to split as it has, Russian commanders saying "actually, Prig had a point regarding ammo shortfalls and poor rotation/relief" and getting shitcanned for it is very visible to the troops. Also, removing competent leadership for speaking against the government line means you no longer have that competent leadership directing troops, reducing unit effectiveness.
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Voyager I posted:Always great for morale when your commander advocates for you and the organization responds by firing them. Worked(*) for the USN and Crozier!
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Midjack posted:Worked(*) for the USN and Crozier! The Trump administration had a lot in common with Putin's.
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A.o.D. posted:The Trump administration had a lot in common with Putin's. including more than a few bank accounts
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orange juche posted:The damage of a coup is not necessarily in the physical damage it does, but in the damage it does to the structures of power. The military is divided and the issues at the front have been laid bare by Prig's mutiny, and the government trying to cover it up is exposing even more cracks in the structure. Prig may have laid the groundwork for the collapse of the Ukraine war by causing the military to split as it has, Russian commanders saying "actually, Prig had a point regarding ammo shortfalls and poor rotation/relief" and getting shitcanned for it is very visible to the troops. Also, removing competent leadership for speaking against the government line means you no longer have that competent leadership directing troops, reducing unit effectiveness. Remembering reading the Iraqi Perspectives Project analysis of the onion ring of military organisations Saddam set up to coup proof his regime. Putin's Russia still more resembles a medieval court squatting on top of a modern state, but interesting to see if it starts to go down that road.
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Arrath posted:Russian hobbits are like "okay we had first (pmc) mutiny, what about second (official armed forces) mutiny?" 
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:What are people who don't have a twitler supposed to do? Ignore it, wait for someone to write something meaningful about it, and infer the original Twitter content.
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https://news.yahoo.com/russian-submarine-commander-shot-dead-191200876.htmlquote:Stanislav Rzhitsky, the deputy head of the local mobilization department and captain of a Black Sea Fleet submarine, was shot and killed in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai, Russian news agency TASS reported on July 10. Is this the same guy that was shot because he was on Strava?
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Madurai posted:https://news.yahoo.com/russian-submarine-commander-shot-dead-191200876.html Yes
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Madurai posted:https://news.yahoo.com/russian-submarine-commander-shot-dead-191200876.html
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https://geopolitics-decanted.simple...sive-and-wagner This recent podcast is interesting. It's in two parts - the Kofman/Lee conversation was recorded on the train trip to Kyiv. It's the second part of the podcast. The first part was recorded after the return to the US. What I found really noteworthy that in this post-Kyiv part, it's the first time I've heard someone with pretty good insight into the military situation sound not just cautious, but rather deflated about the offensive and Kyiv's long term prospects of retaking more territory. Progress is slow, casualties are high, Western ammunition production doesn't ramp up fast enough, and Russia may be recruiting as many as 20,000 fresh mobiks each month to rebuild their army and hold the frontline.
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https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1679893186620141582 20k Mobiks aren't going to be holding a lot of ground when they have 2 guns.
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how the hell can they not supply their people with the most produced weapon in human history? Yes I know what the answer is but still, this boggles the mind.
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Logistics is hard! I'm sure they have literal tons of ammo, but without the trucks and drivers to bring it to the front not much they can do.
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I remember Salon as a moderately useless ostensibly progressive site, but apparently they've gone tankie https://www.salon.com/2023/07/08/they-lied-about-afghanistan-they-lied-about-iraq-now-theyre-lying-about-ukraine/ Beginning of paragraph 3: quote:The Russian invasion of Ukraine was a war crime, (holds breath) quote:although and then we're off to the races. quote:The war will only be solved through negotiations that allow ethnic Russians in Ukraine to have autonomy and Moscow's protection, as well as Ukrainian neutrality, which means the country cannot join NATO. Who is this cat?  Huh. Oh wait there's more  yeppppppppppppppppppp
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It was. You missed a hilarious gnashing of teeth when it died last March after the invasion and there was a piteous screaming of hundreds of grifters suddenly cut loose.
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GD_American posted:I remember Salon as a moderately useless ostensibly progressive site, but apparently they've gone tankie paragraph 3? those are rookie numbers, check this out quote:OPINION: Let me be crystal clear: Russia is the aggressor, and it is absolutely right that we should stand united to condemn its war crimes in Ukraine. https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/127958027/condemn-russia-but-dont-romanticise-war
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A.o.D. posted:how the hell can they not supply their people with the most produced weapon in human history? Because it was sold at US gun shows and fired into old dishwashers in Appalachia and the like since before the genesis of TFR.
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Hannibal Rex posted:https://geopolitics-decanted.simple...sive-and-wagner I kinda wish folks would focus more on demanding tangible policy than celebrating dubious gains. Ukraine needs more arms, more munitions, and, honestly, it might not hurt to start building a consensus behind and capacity for a real Western intervention—should Ukraine ask for it. Western countries should be aggressively advancing their ability to work as a cohesive force and shoring up political support at home against the pervasive rot of decades of Russian influence ops. It's hard to see that happening as it's nigh impossible to shake elites out of a one-step-forward-two-steps-back incrementalism, but still.
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Hannibal Rex posted:https://geopolitics-decanted.simple...sive-and-wagner Kofman is a more recognizably wise person, but I've never had much faith in Rob Lee. It stems from when the 2022 invasion happened and he was on a podcast where they talked endlessly that it was impossible for Russia to invade, they were just bluffing for Rational Russian Reasons, and besides Russia would win in a few days anyways. And then the next day the invasion kicked off and they deleted that episode. (It wasn't on the FPRI website, it was some leftie podcast). Weirdly, it was a complete contrast to his actual writings on the topic, so I guess he was influenced by the podcast he was on. But I kinda lost faith since he went on a podcast that couldn't even leave its episode up after being shown to be wrong.
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Kchama posted:Kofman is a more recognizably wise person, but I've never had much faith in Rob Lee. It stems from when the 2022 invasion happened and he was on a podcast where they talked endlessly that it was impossible for Russia to invade, they were just bluffing for Rational Russian Reasons, and besides Russia would win in a few days anyways.
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