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i remember that western companies are pretty much the sole source of equipment for developing new wells, is it a similar story for bulk storage, or is that something fairly easily sourced from china?
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Jan 24, 2024 22:47
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Disco Pope posted:The POWs were just big sticks of hissing dynamite with smiley faces and Ukrainian jackets stuck on.  weg posted:This is gonna sound crazy so just hear me out. Russia shouldn't have invaded and taken anyone out of the country. reported for bloodlust  Zeromus posted:I dunno, I'm not a plane crash expert but that seemed like a pretty big explosion for a plane carrying 76 POW's and nothing else. Usually planes are filled with enough fuel to get them from point A to point B. How long after takeoff did the plane go down? it's not really that far out of line, it looks like the slow combustion you'd expect for fuel. iirc at least here in the west aircraft are supposed to carry enough fuel to reach the original destination airport, then a nominated alternate airport, then 30-45m after that, so reaching your original destination airport in something like a jet will still leave a nontrivial amount of fuel in the tanks. also sometimes they'll have 'extra' fuel to make weight and balance work out right, but I think that's less common, but who knows on soviet engineering.
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Jan 24, 2024 23:29
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zone posted:https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1750266231838441764#m Ukraine's strategy of reversing Russia's tit-for-tat attacks is brilliant. Early in the war, Russia practiced slapping down Ukraine after the defenders consistently took out specific high-value targets. Now when Russia sends drones to Kyiv, Ukraine sends drones to Moscow. When Russia attacks Ukraine's energy grid over the winter Ukraine attacks Russian energy assets, which are now more unprotected than Ukraine's.
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Jan 24, 2024 23:36
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You can hard boil so many eggs over those fires. It explains the egg prices
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Jan 24, 2024 23:50
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If they hadn't replaced all the ERA with egg cartons it would be easier to transport eggs, increasing overall egg availability.
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Jan 25, 2024 00:00
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Sedgr posted:If they hadn't replaced all the ERA with egg cartons it would be easier to transport eggs, increasing overall egg availability. You'd think someone in the Russian military would see an egg carton and draw the logical conclusion to pallets.
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Jan 25, 2024 00:12
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edit: accidental post
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Jan 25, 2024 00:12
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DiomedesGodshill posted:You'd think someone in the Russian military would see an egg carton and draw the logical conclusion to pallets. Maybe they don't use egg cartons. Like how in Canada milk comes in a bag instead of a carton. If you can bag milk, you can bag anything. Bullets, missiles, fuel, cans of pig noses. Pallets are so, like, 90's. I'm gonna take a break from the thread. There's so much suffering going on and it's all meaningless. Russia could have just not done this and everyone whould have had electricity and hot water in the middle of loving winter. But Putin had to Putin. RBA-Wintrow fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Jan 25, 2024 |
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Jan 25, 2024 00:25
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RBA-Wintrow posted:I'm gonna take a break from the thread. There's so much suffering going on and it's all meaningless. Russia could have just not done this and everyone whould have had electricity and hot water in the middle of loving winter. But Putin had to Putin. Yeah good idea, take a break, check out the I/P thread instead for a palate cleanser
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Jan 25, 2024 00:35
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 "Don't post BDA or bad things will happen to you"
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Jan 25, 2024 00:37
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Could I put ERA on my plane asking for a friend
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Jan 25, 2024 02:09
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If there is space left after they cover the plane in spare tires,Yes.
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Jan 25, 2024 02:24
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According to current Russian army doctrine you can do whatever you want as long as it looks dangerous, particularly to yourself if possible. We can't confirm or deny that Prigozhin put ERA on his jet.
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Jan 25, 2024 02:27
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weg posted:According to current Russian army doctrine you can do whatever you want as long as it looks dangerous, particularly to yourself if possible. Ah, so this whole war was just a Jackass skit that is long overstaying its welcome.
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Jan 25, 2024 02:35
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I'm Vladdy Moskva and welcome to Blyatass
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Jan 25, 2024 02:49
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Vaginaface posted:Could I put ERA on my plane asking for a friend is ERA in the room with us right now?
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Jan 25, 2024 02:56
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I would like to clarify that I would like this upcoming weekend's Russian airframe losses to result injuries not amounting to so much as a single pinched nerve or mouth-roof scalded by hot pizza cheese. I hope everyone ejects safely. But let those irreplaceable aluminum shitheap nineteen thousand flight hours without so much as a fresh coat of speed tape deathtraps hit the floor.
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Jan 25, 2024 07:46
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https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1750408827072106609#m
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Jan 25, 2024 08:02
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There were Ukrainian POWs in that gas plant. Also there were a few dozen Ukrainian POWs in that airboat production shop as well. They're highly explosive and flammable.
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Jan 25, 2024 08:08
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Toxic Mental posted:There were Ukrainian POWs in that gas plant. I mean, you're joking but at this point I wouldn't put it past Russia to use PoW's and Ukrainians from the occupied territories as forced labor, like Germany did in WW2.
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Jan 25, 2024 08:17
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Евге́ний Ви́кторович Приго́жин was a Ukrainian prisoner of war.
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Jan 25, 2024 08:30
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Евге́ний Ви́кторович Приго́жин was a Ukrainian prisoner of war. No native Russian would have diacritics in his name. I heard he even used ё instead of е sometimes. 100% Ukrainian spy.
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Jan 25, 2024 08:38
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poor waif posted:No native Russian would have diacritics in his name. I heard he even used ё instead of е sometimes. 100% Ukrainian spy. I saw him type smiles with a colon, like he's not even slavic
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Jan 25, 2024 08:55
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Jan 25, 2024 09:04
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... but its a slav vs slav war tho
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Jan 25, 2024 09:13
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this poo poo seems to be happening a lot more often recently
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Jan 25, 2024 09:23
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I can slav squat but it hurts my knees too quickly to be viable. I gots dem bitch knees.
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Jan 25, 2024 09:32
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This war was such bullshit and I want to go back to gungame on counterstrike
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Jan 25, 2024 09:34
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Just Another Lurker posted:Russian Bladerunner intro... much disappointment. Blyatrunner.
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Jan 25, 2024 09:38
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weg posted:I'm Vladdy Moskva and welcome to Blyatass
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Jan 25, 2024 09:49
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I had to take a break from war news because it's all loving heartbreaking, can anyone give me a short situation status? Is it just a deadlock on the front?
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Jan 25, 2024 12:44
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https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1750475699712876718?s=20 A foolish mistake cost a number of enemy drone operators their lives when they were at their training ground.
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Jan 25, 2024 13:09
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bob dobbs is dead posted:... but its a slav vs slav war tho I heard from the troops that they're mostly fighting African-American Norwegians.
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Jan 25, 2024 13:16
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Anders posted:I had to take a break from war news because it's all loving heartbreaking, can anyone give me a short situation status? Is it just a deadlock on the front? https://ecfr.eu/publication/beyond-the-counter-offensive-attrition-stalemate-and-the-future-of-the-war-in-ukraine/ quote:- Russia and Ukraine are engaged in a war of attrition – which on current projections Russia is set to win.
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Jan 25, 2024 13:20
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Anders posted:I had to take a break from war news because it's all loving heartbreaking, can anyone give me a short situation status? Is it just a deadlock on the front? Russian army is making slight advances across certain areas in the east of the frontline, which is good for their daily propaganda, but in practice means getting soldiers to put a flag on rubble and then get striked by Ukranian artilery. Over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.
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Jan 25, 2024 13:31
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Yeah for as much as this is a war of attrition (which to be fair, Russia can win), the real question is what happens after- even if Russia did win a conventional military victory, they are in no way prepared for the actual hard part, which is the occupation. Just look at the USA's own efforts in the Middle East or Southeast Asia: Plenty of conventional military victories, but the strain of actually having and supporting boots on the ground defeated the greatest military machine on the planet. From what I hear, the actual breaking point for Russia is the next American election- if the right-wing claim victory, they could claw back some measure of victory because you know Republicans would roll over for big strong fash daddy.
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Jan 25, 2024 14:01
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CommissarMega posted:Yeah for as much as this is a war of attrition (which to be fair, Russia can win), the real question is what happens after- even if Russia did win a conventional military victory, they are in no way prepared for the actual hard part, which is the occupation. Just look at the USA's own efforts in the Middle East or Southeast Asia: Plenty of conventional military victories, but the strain of actually having and supporting boots on the ground defeated the greatest military machine on the planet. From what I hear, the actual breaking point for Russia is the next American election- if the right-wing claim victory, they could claw back some measure of victory because you know Republicans would roll over for big strong fash daddy. Its easy to do an occupation if you just genocide and displace the existing population.
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Jan 25, 2024 14:11
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Anders posted:I had to take a break from war news because it's all loving heartbreaking, can anyone give me a short situation status? Is it just a deadlock on the front? Ukraine seems to be politically paralyzed in how to carry out mobilization so they're running low on men. Congress's unwillingness to pass aid to Ukraine has left them extremely low on ammunition. Neither problem is permanent but things look pretty bleak at the moment.
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Jan 25, 2024 14:52
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Burns posted:Its easy to do an occupation if you just genocide and displace the existing population. Its pretty clear Russia's leadership knew they would need to liquidate a large number of active resisters (plus any elites that could not be co-opted - hence all those mobile crematoriums), and then begin a sustained campaign of violence and oppression to brutalise the remaining democratic leaning Ukrainians, until they were either disillusioned and disempowered into submission, or gave up and left the country. And creating a wave of millions of Ukrainian refugees into Europe is an absolute win-win for Putin and definitely part of his strategy. It: 1: casts out the 'undesirable population' who cannot be reconciled to Russian occupation and Russification 2: directly erodes Western sympathy and material support for Ukraine and Ukrainians, due to the populist backlash against refugees. This lightens the costs of occupation, and I'm sure Russia would love to push a 'Western betrayal' narrative to Ukrainians to try to make it easier to absorb and assimilate them. 3: leads to a surge in support for the far right, further weakening and fracturing Europe - thus creating more opportunities for Russia to extend its influence and sphere of domination. There is no way any of this wasn't part of Putin's thinking.
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Jan 25, 2024 14:54
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Bashez posted:Ukraine seems to be politically paralyzed in how to carry out mobilization so they're running low on men. Its more Ukraine is not willing to sacrifice what economy and workforce they have left, unlike Russia - But that isn't working out in Russia's case either given current trends in Russian industry. Its not bleak, its not great either, but Russia still isn't making significant progress and even assuming an attrition war - Russia does not have the forces, training, or even logistics to return to large scale maneuvering anytime soon.
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