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🦋 | 15 | 3.71% | |
🦇 | 115 | 28.47% | |
🪰 | 12 | 2.97% | |
🐦 | 67 | 16.58% | |
dragonfly | 94 | 23.27% | |
🦟 | 14 | 3.47% | |
🐝 | 87 | 21.53% | |
Total: | 404 votes |
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gradenko_2000 posted:how does that work? if you have a barrel of "Iranian" oil, and then you add like, a drop of "Malaysian" oil, suddenly it's all Malaysian oil? It's called just making up whatever you want
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 08:08 |
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The Oldest Man posted:Problem: our shriveled tinydick empire can't afford actual guys with guns or tanks or whatever in the numbers needed to constitute a real military National security theater McAfee military Norton NATO
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 08:40 |
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The Oldest Man posted:Problem: our shriveled tinydick empire can't afford actual guys with guns or tanks or whatever in the numbers needed to constitute a real military where it falls apart is that western countries are not going to build a million flying lawnmowers, but rather like two dozen overengineered bespoke superdrones that need about as much maintenance as your average fighter jet
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 09:10 |
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https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1686977578488274944 putin... has weaponized grass
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 09:30 |
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1686977578488274944 Not fair to expect Ukraine to fight on a lawn that isn’t freshly mowed.
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 09:33 |
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Yeah I feel the idea of a drone "swarm" in western popular consciousness is like a networked flock of murder-starlings that all fly in constantly shifting formation going around obstacles, picking off individual infantrymen like in the Matrix Revolutions, to implement this would be so insanely costly compared to the cheaper and more straightforward, "an absolute poo poo load of cruise missiles"
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 09:34 |
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slava ukraini strongest army in the world, can beat all enemies except a moderate amount of shrubbery
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 09:36 |
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The Ukrainians must have slept through the lesson in which they were taught that they must have air and fire superiority to carry out a successful offensive. Now they are falling back into old Soviet antics, such as being the army at a material disadvantage. They should have listened better to their NATO trainers.
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 09:46 |
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sullat posted:Yeah the Social War no that was the opposite
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 09:46 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/SniperFella/status/1686669276936028160?t=yMJ1ahuXOy7Se45sJ4riNA&s=19 He was really eager to fight for the nazis, but wasn't allowed to on account of having had half his face blown off.
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 10:26 |
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1686977578488274944 are you kidding me with this poo poo
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 10:27 |
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CODChimera posted:are you kidding me with this poo poo General Weed
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 10:29 |
Cerebral Bore posted:slava ukraini strongest army in the world, can beat all enemies except a moderate amount of shrubbery We are the knights of lviv! We demand...a shrubbery!!
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 10:31 |
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Broke: General Winter Woke: General Mud Bespoke: General Shrub
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 10:35 |
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Man it's like clockwork. This thread and the War Nerd podcast were saying like 7 or 10 days ago that the new narrative would be the Ukrainians just can't overcome their innate slavic nature, too bad, and here we are edit: I'm referring to this, sorry https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/us/politics/ukraine-troops-counteroffensive-training.html quote:Ukrainian Troops Trained by the West Stumble in Battle icantfindaname has issued a correction as of 10:44 on Aug 3, 2023 |
# ? Aug 3, 2023 10:36 |
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OctaMurk posted:a transgender woman from nevada defending the actual nazi battalion and then becoming spokesperson of the ukrainian army, was one of the unexpected outcomes of this war Trans Goebbels is technically emancipation.
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 10:41 |
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Cuttlefush posted:he also got bigger contracts for his catering company Makes sense, he seems like the kind of guy who can get things done.
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 10:52 |
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best guy is definitely lauri torni first he fought in winter war then continuation war then eastern front in 1945 then finally got killed in vietnam
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 10:57 |
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 11:00 |
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twitter username rear end flag collection
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 11:01 |
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somewhat of an achievement to fight for the nazis three separate times
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 11:02 |
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Finns -> SS -> United States Army is like a pokemon evolution of Nazism
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 11:12 |
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Finns loving love getting the poo poo kicked out of them by communists. Like that heroic ubermensch who fought in the Winter War, joined the SS and died as a green beret in Vietnam
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 11:16 |
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Good news for Ukraine - Ukraine's air defence forces shot down all 15 ‘Shahed’ drones which the Russian Federation released over Ukraine during the night of 2 August 2023. https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...f08e5e4127cd8ff Ukraine claims to have shot down all 15 drones launched overnight 3h ago 08.05 BST Suspilne, Ukraine’s state broadcaster, citing the country’s air force, reports: “At night, air defence forces shot down all 15 ‘Shahed’ drones, which the Russian Federation released over Ukraine.”
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 11:21 |
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Cerebral Bore posted:somewhat of an achievement to fight for the nazis three separate times looks like it was actually six times
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 11:21 |
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Good news for Ukraine - Russia has added Norway to its list of countries deemed to be "unfriendly" to Russia's diplomats, thereby alienating one more country against Russia and towards Ukraine. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/03/russia-ukraine-live-updates.html Russia adds Norway to list of countries ‘unfriendly’ to its diplomats 34 MIN AGO Russia added Norway to its list of countries deemed to be “unfriendly” to its diplomats, Russian state news agency Tass reported. The designation is defined as “foreign countries committing unfriendly actions against Russian diplomatic and consular missions abroad,” Tass wrote. This limits the number of consular and embassy staff, both local and foreign, that the country can hire within Russia. Norway’s staff limit number has been set at 27. Countries added to the Russian list in previous years include the U.S., U.K., Canada, Japan, South Korea, Australia, a number of European countries and others that support sanctions against Russia. “The list approved by the government is not definitive and may be expanded, taking into account the ongoing hostile actions by foreign countries against Russian missions abroad,” Tass cited a government ministry as saying.
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 11:24 |
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1686977578488274944 'touch grass' lol
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 11:26 |
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Good news for Ukraine - Russia has spent a lot of time and money on static defences, which is a complete waste in the face of the agile and fluid strategic and tactical maneuvers that the versatile and clever Ukrainian military is famed for. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/03/russia-ukraine-live-updates.html Number of mines planted by Russia on Ukrainian land is ‘utterly mad,’ official says 2 HOURS AGO The volume of landmines that Russian forces have planted on Ukrainian territory is “utterly mad,” said Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s security council. The many months Russian troops have been holding on to occupied territory have given them a substantial amount of time to lay their defenses. “The enemy has prepared very thoroughly for these events,” Danilov told Ukrainian national television. “The number of mines on the territory that our troops have retaken is utterly mad. On average, there are three, four, five mines per square meter.” He stressed that Ukrainian forces’ advances are moving more slowly than expected for a reason. Many observers have expressed worry that Ukraine’s planned counteroffensive is making far less progress than hoped. “No one can set deadlines for us, except ourselves,” Danilov said. “There is no fixed schedule.”
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 11:27 |
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mawarannahr posted:lol "let's do disinfo more openly" lol this just popped up recently too: https://twitter.com/upholdreality/status/1686822317429506059?s=20
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 11:28 |
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Good news for the Ukraine of the Baltic - The United States has approved a $395 million upgrade package for M270A2 MLRS to Finland, which had previously defeated the mighty Soviet Army with but a single sniper, so imagine what they could do now with their new weapons? https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/03/russia-ukraine-live-updates.html State Department approves $395 million weapons sale to Finland 19 HOURS AGO The U.S. State Department approved a potential foreign military sale worth $395 million to Finland for an upgrade package for M270A2 Multiple Launch Rocket System, or MLRS. The State Department said the principal contractors are Lockheed Martin in Grand Prairie, Texas; Chelton Inc., in Marlow, United Kingdom; Leonardo DRS in Arlington, Virginia; and Loc Performance Products, Inc., in Plymouth, Michigan. “The proposed sale will improve Finland’s capability to meet current and future threats, and will enhance interoperability with U.S. forces and other allied forces,” the State Department wrote in a release. “Finland will have no difficulty absorbing this upgrade into its armed forces,” the release added.
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 11:32 |
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1686977578488274944 This is from the country that famously explained that the current delays across the rails service were due to it being Autumn, and leaves were unexpectedly falling on the rail tracks.
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 11:40 |
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Good news for Ukraine - Ukraine's weapons industry produced twice as many mortars and artillery rounds last month as it did for all of 2022 https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/08/02/world/russia-ukraine-news In Urgent Need of Ammunition, Ukraine Speeds Its Own Production Published Aug. 2, 2023 Updated Aug. 3, 2023, 6:02 a.m. ET Ukraine’s need for ammunition has only grown more urgent as it pursues a counteroffensive in what is now the 18th month of war with Russia. The United States and its allies have sent millions of rounds of ammunition to Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion began early last year. But faced with dwindling stockpiles and a Western weapons industry that has struggled to keep pace with the demand,[spoiler] officials in Ukraine and across the Biden administration, NATO and the European Union [spoiler]are searching for new sources of ammunition to quickly deliver. One is in Ukraine itself. The country’s nascent weapons industry produced twice as many mortars and artillery rounds last month as it did for all of 2022, a top government official said on Wednesday, with the counteroffensive against Russia hinging on whether the military will have enough ammunition to keep fighting. Ukraine’s minister for strategic industries, Alexander Kamyshin, declined, on security grounds, to otherwise quantify or provide details of the ammunition manufactured in July. In a telephone interview on Wednesday, he described the amount only as “an important input to the counteroffensive.” “I am sure the defense industry will become the backbone of security during the wartime,” he said, predicting that “we will be the locomotive for economic revival after the war is over.” “But I don’t focus much on that now,” he said. “For me, it’s important to bring more armaments to my army to force Russians out.” It is not clear how much ammunition Ukraine produced before the war began. For competitive reasons, weapons manufacturers generally do not disclose how many systems or how much ammunition they produce in any given year. Ukraine has long been in danger of[spoiler] running [spoiler]out of ammunition in the war, as each side continually pounds the other with mortars, rockets and other artillery. Recent estimates suggest that Ukraine was burning through as much as 8,000 rounds of ammunition each day in the counteroffensive that began in early June. One military analyst who recently visited the front lines, Michael Kofman of the Carnegie Endowment, said on Wednesday that the estimate was “plausible.” When Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union, its defense industry was one of the country’s largest employers, but shrank over the past 30 years in the absence of robust military budgets. As recently as 2021, the Ukrainian weapons producer Luch Design Bureau could deliver no more than 800 missiles out of an order for 2,000 to the Defense Ministry, according to the Foreign Policy Research Group. Mr. Kamyshin said there were “hundreds” of weapons manufacturing facilities in Ukraine, most of which were now focused on producing ammunition and drones. Building armored vehicles, like personnel carriers, is also underway, and Ukraine’s industry has recently begun to produce munitions for drones, he said. Most of the newly made Ukrainian ammunition is Soviet-era caliber, Mr. Kamyshin said, meaning it will fit many of the cannons and rocket launchers that Ukraine’s military has long used, but not the billions of dollars in Western weapons systems that NATO states have sent since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. Last month, the Biden administration decided to send cluster munitions to Ukraine to make up for shortages of 155-millimeter rounds as troops inch forward to reclaim Russian-held territory in Ukraine’s south and southeast. Cluster munitions are widely banned around the world because they can cause indiscriminate harm to civilians, especially children, who may set off unexploded rounds long after the fighting has ended. Without the cluster munitions, Mr. Kofman said, “the offensive would culminate early” — whenever Ukraine runs out of ammunition.
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 11:43 |
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1686977578488274944 lmao
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 11:45 |
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Good news for fans of Canadian punk rock bands - You are also welcome to partake of good news for Ukraine.
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 11:45 |
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1686977578488274944 US shipping $5 billion of tactical lawnmowers to Ukraine
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 11:49 |
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DuPont’s ceo must be cumming in his pants at the chance to sell agent orange again
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 11:52 |
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https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-russians-fail-advance-are-well-dug-2023-08-03/ Ukraine says Russians fail to advance but are well dug in August 3, 2023 4:11 AM UTC · Updated 4 hours ago Aug 3 (Reuters) - Russian forces have made no headway along the front lines, but are entrenched in heavily mined areas they control, making it difficult for Ukrainian troops to move east and south, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday. Russian accounts of the fighting on the frontline said 12 Ukrainian attacks had been repelled in Donetsk region - a focal point of Russian advances for months. Much of Russian military activity focused on air attacks that damaged grain infrastructure in Ukraine's Danube port of Izmail. Russia's Defence Ministry also said its forces had destroyed a Ukrainian naval drone that tried to attack a Russian warship escorting a civilian vessel in the Black Sea. Ukrainian forces launched a drive in June to retake occupied areas and have been pressing southward toward the Sea of Azov to sever a land bridge between occupied eastern Ukraine and the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula. Kyiv also says it has retaken areas near Bakhmut, an eastern city seized by Russian forces in May after months of battles. Deputy Ukrainian Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said Russian forces had "tried quite persistently to halt our advance in the Bakhmut sector. Without success." Russian forces, she wrote on the Telegram messaging app, were beefing up reserves and equipment in three areas further north, where heavy fighting has also been reported in recent weeks. Oleksiy Danilov, the Secretary of Ukraine's Security Council, said Russian forces had ample time in months of occupation to prepare defences and lay extensive minefields. "The enemy has prepared very thoroughly for these events," he told national television. "The number of mines on the territory that our troops have retaken is utterly mad. On average, there are three, four, five mines per square metre." Danilov restated assertions by President Volodymyr Zeleskiy that the advances, while slower than hoped, could not be rushed as human lives were at stake.[spoiler] "No one can set deadlines for us, except ourselves... there is no fixed schedule," he said. "I have never used the term counter-offensive. There are military operations and they are complex [spoiler]difficult and depend on many factors." Russia's Defence Minister, in its account of the fighting, said Ukrainian forces had made unsuccessful attempts to advance in several sectors in both southern and northern parts of Donetsk region. It also said Russian forces had launched strikes on towns around Bakhmut, including Kurdyumovka on the city's southern fringes and Chasiv Yar, the first major town to the west.
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 11:54 |
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fizzy posted:https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-russians-fail-advance-are-well-dug-2023-08-03/ Bad news for the credibility of Oleksiy Danilov, the Secretary of Ukraine's Security Council - He had previously used the term counter-offensive on not less than https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-counteroffensive-russia-war-oleksiy-danilov-interview-6e8e4fec0916bf10a9bcd642374103f9 Ukraine official: We will launch counteroffensive when ready BY HANNA ARHIROVA Published 2:24 AM GMT+8, April 18, 2023 KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A top Ukrainian official said Monday that Ukraine will launch its counteroffensive against Russian troops when it’s ready, adding that it’s only a matter of time before the country achieves the necessary level of military preparedness to do so. Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, told The Associated Press in an interview in Kyiv that Ukraine’s allies are helping the government to achieve the level of technical equipment necessary to launch the attack, delivering heavy armored vehicles and ammunition. But he also expressed frustration that sometimes officials from allied countries “promise one thing and do a completely different one.” He didn’t elaborate. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-65725004 Oleksiy Danilov interview: Ukraine counter-offensive 'ready to begin' 27 May Ukraine is ready to launch its long-expected counter-offensive against Russian forces, one of the country's most senior security officials has told the BBC. Oleksiy Danilov would not name a date but said an assault to retake territory from President Vladimir Putin's occupying forces could begin "tomorrow, the day after tomorrow or in a week". He warned that Ukraine's government had "no right to make a mistake" on the decision because this was an "historic opportunity" that "we cannot lose". As secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, Mr Danilov is at the heart of President Volodymyr Zelensky's de facto war cabinet. His rare interview with the BBC was interrupted by a phone message from President Zelensky summoning him to a meeting to discuss the counter-offensive. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-has-not-yet-launched-counteroffensive-senior-security-official-2023-06-07/ Ukraine has not yet launched counteroffensive, senior security official says By Sergiy Karazy June 7, 20238:23 PM GMT+8 KYIV, June 7 (Reuters) - Ukraine has not yet launched a planned counteroffensive to win back territory occupied by Russia, and its start will be obvious to everyone when it happens, a senior security official said on Wednesday. Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council, dismissed statements by Russian officials who have said the counteroffensive has already begun. "All of this is not true. When all this will begin, it will be decided by our military," Danilov told Reuters in an interview. "When we start the counteroffensive, everyone will know about it, they will see it." fizzy has issued a correction as of 12:00 on Aug 3, 2023 |
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bad news for forums poster fizzy - pro-slava credentials in doubt after casting aspersions on heroic ukrainian official
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# ? Aug 3, 2023 12:00 |
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Pistol_Pete posted:A telling article in the FT, really bringing home what FF and others have said about the state of western armed forces and how that relates to neo-liberal ideology. In the West's mad dash to privatize everything they are constantly blindsided by the simple fact that pursuit of profit might not be good for overall military effectiveness. And that the latter can and will be sacrificed for the former.
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