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zone posted:https://twitter.com/TheDeadDistrict/status/1715399392029549029#m it is insanely funny and also insanely depressing that there are a lot of people who will look at that, go  and believe it without further question.
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Oct 20, 2023 17:28
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HonorableTB posted:it is insanely funny and also insanely depressing that there are a lot of people who will look at that, go The twist is code:code:
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Oct 20, 2023 17:38
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Being the distinguished internet armchair general that I am, it is clear to me that whatever army is on the offensive is the army that is going to suffer. Trying to push forward in a modern war where neither side has air superiority just seems like a hot mess. Guided rockets, artillery, drones and mines everywhere... Whether it's russians or ukrainians, it seems like it's near impossible to make a good push forward without tons of casualties
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Oct 20, 2023 17:40
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https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1715395692745674866?s=20 Not a military expert, but did the Russians try not losing so much equipment?
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Oct 20, 2023 17:40
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the risks they took for banan were calculated, but man were they bad at math
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Oct 20, 2023 17:43
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EorayMel posted:Didn't this guy get proven wrong on a dozen different assaults and made a huge whiny taking-my-ball-and-going-home exit back in 2022 or was it somebody else This is literal "they've hit their preset kill limit" reasoning. He is a delusional moron of the highest caliber and nothing he says should be taken seriously. He brief hiatus from the internet was because people found the creepy pedo fanfiction he wrote. Speaking of vatnik losers, remember Sarah Bils, aka Donbas Devushka, who turned out to be some nut from New Jersey and allegedly was the one who ratted out Gonzalo Lira? Someone did a writeup on her and oh boy, another real winner in Putin's troll corps: https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi/status/1715306499126305225#m https://nitter.unixfox.eu/P_Kallioniemi/status/1715306499126305225#m In short:
These are the people who orbit despots and populists who feed them promises of a "multi-polar world": disgraced losers who desperately want to believe that, in some hypothetical new order, they'll be the ones punching down instead of getting punched. The_Franz fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Oct 20, 2023 |
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Oct 20, 2023 17:45
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I'm just wondering if Armchair Copelord still has his Mao Zedong haircut lmao
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Oct 20, 2023 17:46
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beer_war posted:Europeans have enjoyed three decades of peace dividend since the fall of the Soviet Union. And America is a clusterfuck politically. Also, Putin probably considers this war a matter of life and death for himself. For Ukraine's allies the war is obviously an important issue, but maybe not quite that pressing. Hell, just yesterday there was a story that the US redirected thousands of artillery shells meant to go to Ukraine to Israel. Sure, yeah. I guess the thing that most vexed me was that this war has been going on for 18 months and production will only be ramping up sometime in 2024. But I know very little about these things and maybe they just take a lot of time to get going. tldr: Why not done?! Fabulous Knight fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Oct 20, 2023 |
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Oct 20, 2023 17:50
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The_Franz posted:In short: Man you'd have to be a total dumbass to rely on her for analysis. Just a complete rube. On that note, search for DD_Geopolitics on these forums. beer_war fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Oct 21, 2023 |
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Oct 20, 2023 17:50
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crossposting from the iVFW thread, this was a video of russian vehicles getting wrecked trying again to take that very important pile of dirt they could jsut go around and the targeted ad was  
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Oct 20, 2023 17:55
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Fabulous Knight posted:Sure, yeah. I guess the thing that most vexed me was that this war has been going on for 18 months and production will only be ramping up sometime in 2024. But I know very little about these things and maybe they just take a lot of time to get going. Some of it is probably that NATO never expected to fight a WW1 style grinding artillery war - it was either all out with the USSR and it'll be done in three days ± the end of the world as we know it, or smaller regional engagements where technological and air superiority allows complete domination. Sitting behind minefields and throwing tons of artillery grenades at each other for years on end was just not a plausible scenario. It still isn't, in a way - if NATO was directly involved in this, the long term production rates of artillery ammunition would not matter for the outcome. Computer viking fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Oct 20, 2023 |
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Oct 20, 2023 17:58
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war length estimation is like all other kinds of project estimation inasmuch as its subject to hofstadters law- takes longer than you think, even if you take into account hofstadters law. i see no serious reason why things couldnt take 10, 20 years. reconquista took 700 years. hundred years war was well named. kurds have been fighting to get kurdistan for also about a hundred years. and so on
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Oct 20, 2023 18:02
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zone posted:https://twitter.com/TheDeadDistrict/status/1715399392029549029#m It sounds plausible to me. The practice of counting their own vehicle losses as "vehicles destroyed" is admittedly a little unorthodox, but hey, you gotta do what you gotta do to get those numbers up for Monke, right? 
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Oct 20, 2023 18:24
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bob dobbs is dead posted:war length estimation is like all other kinds of project estimation inasmuch as its subject to hofstadters law- takes longer than you think, even if you take into account hofstadters law. i see no serious reason why things couldnt take 10, 20 years. On the other hand, recent US invasions of places have been every bit as fast as they thought they would be. Holding the countries afterwards is of course something else, but I don't think it was the artillery ammunition that was the problem in Iraq or Afghanistan.
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Oct 20, 2023 18:27
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Flyinglemur posted:crossposting from the iVFW thread, this was a video of russian vehicles getting wrecked trying again to take that very important pile of dirt they could jsut go around and the targeted ad was The ad for the mobile game at the bottom is loving hilarious in this context
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Oct 20, 2023 18:32
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The_Franz posted:This is literal "they've hit their preset kill limit" reasoning. He is a delusional moron of the highest caliber and nothing he says should be taken seriously. He brief hiatus from the internet was because people found the creepy pedo fanfiction he wrote. The "idiot" part of useful idiots has been exceptionally strong this war. I think I recall the Russians With Attitude account having a meltdown about the poor mental quality of their Western allies.
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Oct 20, 2023 18:57
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the US might be a mess politically but i guarantee you that the problem isn't that they're incapable of kicking out the shells required. even in peacetime the US has been expanding ammo production capabilities aggressively. one of the larger ammo plants in the US is just north of Kansas City, and they embarked on a plan that would triple its size and employment and almost 5x its overall capacity starting in like 2016 or something like that. first phase of the expansion went live earlier this year.
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Oct 20, 2023 19:05
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Tai posted:https://twitter.com/ArmchairW/status/1715217945968947557 Wasn't this guy some kind of pedophile?
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Oct 20, 2023 19:12
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Subscribe to my substack where I analyze satellite imagery of failed Ukrainian attacks and also tell you the top 5 items to steal from CVS when you need heroin money fast. Number 4 might surprise you.
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Oct 20, 2023 19:33
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:Wasn't this guy some kind of pedophile? I don't recall anything about him being a legit pedophile, but he is a big anime weirdo.
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Oct 20, 2023 19:34
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Ikasuhito posted:I don't recall anything about him being a legit pedophile, but he is a big anime weirdo. He wrote some weird anime military school fanfiction that had some skeevy stuff involving underage characters, but there's no evidence that he's an actual  like Ritter.
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Oct 20, 2023 19:37
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https://twitter.com/joewestnacl/status/1715336309647028405 Pack it up westoids
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Oct 20, 2023 19:38
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"destroyed" """vehicles""
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Oct 20, 2023 19:40
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Yeah dude just ignore the vatniks themselves talking about their heavy daily losses in that sector, like the guy who said more than 40 armored vehicles packed it in just today, I'm sure they appreciate your vote of confidence lmao
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Oct 20, 2023 19:42
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beer_war posted:https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1715395692745674866?s=20 that loaf did nothing wrong
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Oct 20, 2023 19:42
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spankmeister posted:https://twitter.com/joewestnacl/status/1715336309647028405 So Russia has been fighting over a town for nearly a decade and still hasn't secured it? Yeah I'm not sure that makes the point they'd like it to lmao
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Oct 20, 2023 20:47
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weg posted:So Russia has been fighting over a town for nearly a decade and still hasn't secured it? Yeah I'm not sure that makes the point they'd like it to lmao It's being defended by 12,000 NATO tanks and hundreds of thousands of Polish Knights Templar mercenaries (who are satanists). It takes time to grind through that but Russia is winning bigly every day.
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Oct 20, 2023 21:21
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Just Another Lurker posted:Request a title change: Ukraine War: Avdiivka, a strange coke hill to die on. FTFY
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Oct 20, 2023 21:30
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The Winged Hussars are just out of frame, charging.
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Oct 20, 2023 21:33
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spankmeister posted:https://twitter.com/joewestnacl/status/1715336309647028405 I wonder if the vehicles rolling over mines, getting murked by ATGM's or clusters of tanks getting artied are old videos too
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Oct 20, 2023 22:08
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Fabulous Knight posted:Sure, yeah. I guess the thing that most vexed me was that this war has been going on for 18 months and production will only be ramping up sometime in 2024. But I know very little about these things and maybe they just take a lot of time to get going. Production takes time to ramp up. Nothing sits idle in a factory - if they have to wind down production of X, they're going to tear down part of that line and repurpose the machines and space to make something else. If a machine isn't actively doing something then that represents potential profit lost. And then you need to go on a hiring spree and train up a bunch of new employees, there's lots of contracting stuff within the government that needs to be fulfilled - nobody foresaw that we'd be in a state where we're seeing Actual Wartime Attrition levels of munitions being shot off. Aaand, 'why not just go all in and expand the facility' - this is a very specific situation and nobody has any idea how long it's going to go on for. Rushing to build up a whole new line to make artillery shells or w/e means investing millions into a brand new asset, and if Russia or Ukraine suddenly surrender tomorrow that's going to be drat near company sinking, because there's no way to solicit enough contracts to ever pay it off. Also they're still likely battling material shortages too. Anything with Titanium has been pretty heavily impacted, as two of the world's largest producers of it are literally Ukraine and Russia iirc. As well as a bunch of general alloying elements that go into the various different steel compositions... And then also the cherry on top is this is all being effectively done for charity. There are very important political/resource/etc motivations for making sure Ukraine keeps their independence and Russia fucks off, but they aren't directly giving the US a dime for all the aid they're getting sent. That's a hard sell to politicians, especially also when half of them are corrupt shitbags on Moscow's dime and also are invested in cutting the war effort because Biden Bad etc. tl;dr it's complicated
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Oct 20, 2023 22:41
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it's gonna be so uncool to pick russia in video games forever take that putin
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Oct 20, 2023 22:42
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HonorableTB posted:Russian modern infantry would still be spearmen in this scenario ive seen russian tanks get taken out by javelins but this is ridiculous! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROX9V4bKqKs
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Oct 20, 2023 23:18
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After a long day on the front, sitting down to some canned pig snout reminds me why we fight. https://twitter.com/osint_69/status/1715470408210608449
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Oct 20, 2023 23:28
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Charlz Guybon posted:If true, Russian ability to respond with attack helicopters to Ukranian armored movements has been gutted 
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Oct 20, 2023 23:29
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the popes toes posted:After a long day on the front, sitting down to some canned pig snout reminds me why we fight. 
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Oct 20, 2023 23:33
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vladimir vladimirovich, my name is sergei. i am a mobik from blyatislava and our unit was sent into combat with only cans of pig snout. we are not deserters,
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Oct 20, 2023 23:35
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i mean was there not pig snout in the can labeled pig snout and not water or wood pulp or party confetti? great patriotic war heroes won with less!!!
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Oct 20, 2023 23:41
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the popes toes posted:After a long day on the front, sitting down to some canned pig snout reminds me why we fight. Steve1989MREInfo needs to get on this
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