Ukraine War: Berth El Buk

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Rad Russian: Aug 15, 2007; Soviet Power Supreme!

Before the war, Russian required army service for all men aged 18 was mostly forced hard/slave labor. Very few get to actually do any real army stuff for that year, and usually, only those that can pay bribes get posted somewhere easy to oversee border security or something like that. If you're poor, it's basically a one-year prison labor camp (+ rape/abuse included).

Now at 18 you're obviously much more likely to actually get a gun and be sent to the front since there's an active war. If they need to replace the lost free labor they'll need to mobilize more people than what they're normally getting through the regular draft.

Rad Russian fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Aug 17, 2023

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Tai: Mar 8, 2006

lmao at lepers colony

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# ? Aug 17, 2023 17:09

zone: Dec 6, 2016

# ? Aug 17, 2023 17:13

Strategic Tea: Sep 1, 2012

Russian military not even FORKLIFT CERTIFIED, for shame

# ? Aug 17, 2023 17:25

naem: May 29, 2011

DandyLion posted:

I'd wager the golden egg is nuclear weapons tech, seeing as how NK is being primed to be one of russia's new world axis partners. Its the biggest paradigm shifting action they can enact and likely one of the few things NK would bend over backwards in support of russia for.

are they really going there? are we letting them?

# ? Aug 17, 2023 17:26

zone: Dec 6, 2016

https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1692157301740667355

quote:

Moscow mayor Sergey Sobyanin reported that about 45,000 of Moscow residents are participating in combat in the "special military operation".

Earlier journalist investigations and data accumulated from unofficial sources showed that a much smaller percentage of Russians from large cities (such as Moscow and St. Petersburg) served in the "SMO", compared to ethnic minorities in Russia, for example.

Experts supposed that this was done to preserve the sense of stability and "business as usual" and to ensure continued support of the Kremlin's regime.

What could Sobyanin's words mean?

1. A sort of warning regarding further mobilization in Russia that will now concern even those who previously felt safe.
2. An attempt to demonstrate transparency and sincerity of Russian authorities ahead of the upcoming elections.

Judging from the actions of Putin's regime, Russia is being prepared for a large and long war.

This explains the notices that were being passed around in Ulyanovsk, then. POCCNR is going to call for a general mobilization.

# ? Aug 17, 2023 17:28

Toxic Mental: Jun 1, 2019

Tai posted:

lmao at lepers colony

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# ? Aug 17, 2023 17:31

Strategic Tea: Sep 1, 2012

It really is that simple, you can just march an entire country to their deaths, starve them, whatever.

Democracy is an aberration and if we ever let it stop self replicating we're done for

# ? Aug 17, 2023 17:34

WAR CRIME GIGOLO: Oct 3, 2012; The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

Russians going to beat the West with a form of socialism that focuses on national mobilization and national pride.

You loving idiot westerners don't get it. Putin Is a socialist for his nation and is going to bring back the USSR but a national form of it.

Call it the NSSR. national socialist Soviet Republic!

# ? Aug 17, 2023 18:02

Disco Pope: Dec 6, 2004; Top Class!

I wish that scene from Bride of ReAnimator with the severed head with bat wings screaming "WEEEEEEST" was on YouTube, because I'd post it a lot.

# ? Aug 17, 2023 18:08

Pot Smoke Phoenix: Aug 15, 2007; Smoke 'em if you gottem!; Dinosaur Gum

Disco Pope posted:

I wish that scene from Bride of ReAnimator with the severed head with bat wings screaming "WEEEEEEST" was on YouTube, because I'd post it a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNcnudXLN2g

# ? Aug 17, 2023 18:14

beer_war: Mar 10, 2005

Disco Pope posted:

WaPo is reporting that Russia is close to being able to mass produce their own variation of the Shahed drone. Can't imagine that, combined with the possibility of more mobilisation would do anything but slow things down with meat shields and more attacks on infrastructure (and indeed, civillians) to create, if not a frozen conflict, at least a kind of sluggish one. Cool. Great.

Yeah, and it might be a big headache for Ukraine.

quote:

This was Russia�s billion-dollar weapons deal with Iran coming to life in November, 500 miles east of Moscow in the Tatarstan region. Its aim is to domestically build 6,000 drones by summer 2025 � enough to reverse the Russian army�s chronic shortages of unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, on the front line. If it succeeds, the sprawling new drone factory could help Russia preserve its dwindling supply of precision munitions, thwart Ukraine�s effort to retake occupied territory and dramatically advance Moscow�s position in the drone arms race that is remaking modern warfare.

[...]

The facility has reassembled drones provided by Iran but has itself manufactured only drone bodies, and probably for not more than 300 of the UAVs, the researchers concluded. Alabuga is unlikely to meet its target date for the 6,000 drones, they said.

Even so, David Albright, a former U.N. weapons inspector who helped lead the research team that studied the documents, said: �Alabuga looks to be seeking a drone developmental capability that exceeds Iran�s.�

[...]

�Russia has a credible way of building over the next year or so a capability to go from periodically launching tens of imported Shahed-136 kamikaze drones against Ukrainian targets to more regularly attacking with hundreds of them,� Albright told The Post.

If Alabuga sounds familiar to you, it was in the news earlier for using underage labor.

quote:

Students from the local polytechnic university were required to work at the Alabuga factory as part of their curriculum, the Russian news outlet Razvorot reported in July.

Alabuga also has sought to recruit young people for menial assembly-line positions, with glitzy ads promising �a career of the future� and subsidized housing. One ad posted on Alabuga�s Telegram channels invites women ages 16 to 22 to relocate to the site and �build a promising career in the largest center for training specialists in the UAV production,� with a wage starting at $550 a month.

At the same time, the individual said, some workers have been uncomfortable with the idea of developing drones to pummel Ukraine and discontented by what they view as long work hours and poor management. To keep staffers and lure talent from rival manufacturers, Alabuga boosted salaries, budget documents show, with some key workers earning 10 times the median Russian salary. Management created obstacles to prevent employees from quitting, including seizing passports and requiring workers to seek sign-off before leaving their positions, according to the individual.

Full article is here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/08/17/russia-iran-drone-shahed-alabuga/

# ? Aug 17, 2023 18:25

Disco Pope: Dec 6, 2004; Top Class!

Pot Smoke Phoenix posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNcnudXLN2g

Not available in the UK, but thank you, I'll share it anyway.

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Toxic Mental: Jun 1, 2019

UK rightly protecting you from the video nasties

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HonorableTB: Dec 22, 2006

Lol at the LC

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# ? Aug 17, 2023 18:53

RDM: Apr 6, 2009; I LOVE FINLAND AND ESPECIALLY FINLAND'S MILITARY ALLIANCES, GOOGLE FINLAND WORLD WAR 2 FOR MORE INFORMATION SLAVA UKRANI

Gonna spend $500 on biden avs so the nerds understand the real problem in Ukraine is America, actually

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Dandywalken: Feb 11, 2014

You better not!!!

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appropriatemetaphor: Jan 26, 2006

A load of JEB! avatars as like Emperor Palpatine would have owned

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81723_2: Aug 17, 2023

$10 a bullet

# ? Aug 17, 2023 19:41

Molothecat: Jul 25, 2007; Wrath, hate, pain, and death!

"Why are all these posters allowed to repeatedly deny genocides, both past and present?" - is the wildest probe reason ever.

Great moderating all around. Wouldn't wanna hurt the genocide defenders' feelings. loving idiots.

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# ? Aug 17, 2023 19:56

Seth Pecksniff: May 27, 2004; can't believe shrek is fucking dead. rip to a real one.

If you have moderation issues with other forums, take them to those mods. Otherwise, shut it.

# ? Aug 17, 2023 20:06

Shinjobi: Jul 10, 2008; Gravy Boat 2k

Some motherfuckers always trying to ice-skate uphill

Without maps

# ? Aug 17, 2023 20:14

TulliusCicero: Jul 29, 2017

Throwing more and more untrained people with weapons from the 19th-20th century should absolutely solve Russia's problem yeah

Lmao at this clowncar of a state

They don't even have proper equipment for their numbers now

TulliusCicero fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Aug 17, 2023

# ? Aug 17, 2023 20:19

EorayMel: May 30, 2015; WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Fran�ais.

If you get a Russian ration, don't ask what the meat is...

# ? Aug 17, 2023 20:25

zone: Dec 6, 2016

EorayMel posted:

If you get a Russian ration, don't ask what the meat is...

Looks like something out of loving Stalker, of all things.

# ? Aug 17, 2023 20:30

EorayMel: May 30, 2015; WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Fran�ais.

zone posted:

Looks like something out of loving Stalker, of all things.

Wait until you see the bacon

# ? Aug 17, 2023 20:30

Lassitude: Oct 21, 2003

EorayMel posted:

If you get a Russian ration, don't ask what the meat is...

Placenta is a renewable resource

# ? Aug 17, 2023 20:32

Oscar Wilde Bunch: Jun 12, 2012; Grimey Drawer

zone posted:

Looks like something out of loving Stalker, of all things.

Turn it over and the label just says fried protein. What protein? That doesn�t matter. Dig the trench.

# ? Aug 17, 2023 20:32

EorayMel: May 30, 2015; WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Fran�ais.

Here's the bacon btw

# ? Aug 17, 2023 20:35

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

Well I think I now prefer the homeopathic beef stew

# ? Aug 17, 2023 20:40

Burns: May 10, 2008

UA will probably need more cluster munitions going forward.

# ? Aug 17, 2023 20:43

Sedgr: Sep 16, 2007; Neat!

Long pork is the wrong pork.

Putin is a real piece of poo poo.

# ? Aug 17, 2023 20:51

Tuna-Fish: Sep 13, 2017

WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:

They're mobilizing men in the Moscow region.

To be clear, they haven't done that yet. What they are doing right now is ordering men to show up at enlistment offices, verify their information, and then try hard to sell them military contracts, including vague threats that if they don't take the contracts and there is later a general mobilization, their position will be worse than if they sign a contract now.

This is not proof that they are actually going to mobilize. It does make later mobilization easier, because of up-to-date information, so it might hint at it, but the whole mobilization talk could just be trying to swindle people into voluntarily enlisting.

# ? Aug 17, 2023 20:53

Arivia: Mar 17, 2011

EorayMel posted:

Here's the bacon btw

that looks horrible. the other one looked normal for all the russian ration reviews i've seen on youtube.

# ? Aug 17, 2023 20:55

Aramis: Sep 22, 2009

Arivia posted:

that looks horrible. the other one looked normal for all the russian ration reviews i've seen on youtube.

On the other hand, that's exactly what I'd expect can-cooked bacon to look like. Reheating it enough to melt the gelatin should at least make it look like food. Still a fundamentally misguided idea, mind you.

The other can, on the other hand, is inexcusable on all fronts.

# ? Aug 17, 2023 21:08