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15 | 3.71% |
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fizziester posted:Source: Washington Post Lmao look at all the once Russian "talking points" in this article which are now just commonly accepted history
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Feb 15, 2024 23:28
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Barely anyone denies anymore that Ukraine was far too slow to retreat from Bahkmut and lost a poo poo ton of men and material for it. Now it's just established fact, casually mentioned.
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Feb 15, 2024 23:29
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‘A lot higher than we expected’: Russian arms production worries Europe’s war plannersquote:Richard Connolly, an expert on Russia’s military and economy at the Royal United Services Institute thinktank in London, called it a “Kalashnikov economy”, which he said was “quite unsophisticated but durable, built for large-scale use and for use in conflicts”. there’s also a bit about “forced labour” by brining in students and convicts to make BMPs, and how thousands of people are now middle class but this is bad for some reason
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Feb 15, 2024 23:40
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https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1758259470092648519 Oh wow Rob that's crazy I wonder if tankies were saying this at the time?
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Feb 15, 2024 23:51
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Jel Shaker posted:‘A lot higher than we expected’: Russian arms production worries Europe’s war planners "Shrewd planning" is understanding the one truth that the US will always want to gently caress you.
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Feb 16, 2024 00:00
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https://twitter.com/bunny_d_warrior/status/1758259474433966193?s=20 Zelensky finally gave the withdrawal order. Might be too late now.
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Feb 16, 2024 00:00
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:https://twitter.com/bunny_d_warrior/status/1758259474433966193?s=20 Just posting this from my bathroom bunker
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Feb 16, 2024 00:01
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Phigs posted:Only Lenin is without sin. Should have trained his evasion stat up more
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Feb 16, 2024 00:10
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VoicesCanBe posted:Barely anyone denies anymore that Ukraine was far too slow to retreat from Bahkmut and lost a poo poo ton of men and material for it. Both Ukranian and Russian telegram channels are currently reporting that the retreat from Avdiivka pretty has turned into a messy rout under heavy fire, so it sounds an order of magnitude worse than Bakhmut.
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Feb 16, 2024 00:13
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Jel Shaker posted:‘A lot higher than we expected’: Russian arms production worries Europe’s war planners lol quote:In regions across Russia, that kind of money can be transformative. “The war has led to an unprecedented redistribution of wealth, with the poorer classes profiting from government spending on the military-industrial complex,” said Denis Volkov, the director of the Levada Center, a polling and sociological research firm in Moscow. “Workers at military factories and families of soldiers fighting in Ukraine suddenly have much more money to spend. Their income has increased dramatically.” I don't want to get into the trap of putins Russia being a socialist utopia, but can you imagine western military adventures ever leading to wealth transfer to the poor
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Feb 16, 2024 00:16
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Only the train part in Grand Central looks good, the subway part is still a dumpster fire. Also they lease out the classy part to retailers like Apple.
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Feb 16, 2024 00:19
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VoicesCanBe posted:Barely anyone denies anymore that Ukraine was far too slow to retreat from Bahkmut and lost a poo poo ton of men and material for it. i still think about the whole zalushnyyy firing and how for the first few days it was NUH UH FAKE NEWS! he's not fired he's not fired! stop spreading orkish disinformation! we would never do that! you're fired not him!........... ok yeah we fired him but who cares about that loser anyways
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Feb 16, 2024 00:23
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fire ur top general, orser new general to rush all the reserves into the meatgrinder, then have to withdraw whatever is left lol
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fizziester posted:https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/15/ukraine-avdiivka-oleksandr-syrsky-russia/ Source: New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/world/europe/ukraine-war-avdiivka-russia.html Losing Ground, Ukraine Seeks New Positions Around Avdiivka By Marc Santora Marc Santora is reporting from Kyiv. He has made several reporting trips to positions near Avdiivka to chronicle the horrific fighting over the town. Feb. 15, 2024 Updated 12:29 p.m. ET Ukrainian soldiers are withdrawing from positions in the shattered town of Avdiivka after advancing Russian forces breached a critical supply line and threatened to encircle scores of Ukrainian soldiers, Ukrainian military officials and soldiers said on Thursday. Dmytro Lykhovii, a spokesman for Ukrainian forces fighting in the area, said the Ukrainians were “maneuvering” and “sometimes withdrawing to more advantageous positions and sometimes repelling enemy advances.”... ... Signs of Ukraine’s deteriorating hold on Avdiivka have been evident for several weeks. Ukraine recently rotated out soldiers from the 110th Brigade, which had played a vital role in the defense of the city for two years but were exhausted and severely depleted after months of brutal combat. Soldiers from the elite Third Assault Brigade were sent in to shore up Ukraine’s forces but noted that they were being sent into a situation that was already “extremely critical.”... ... With the Ukrainians forced to conserve ammunition, small bands of Russian assault units were able to amass within the city itself... ... Another soldier fighting in the city said it was “just horrible” and the “only thing to do is pray.” __________________________________________________ Source: Ukrainska Pravda https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/02/15/7442079/ White House: Russia may capture Avdiivka as Ukrainians run out of artillery shells EUROPEAN PRAVDA, UKRAINSKA PRAVDA — THURSDAY, 15 FEBRUARY 2024, 21:59 Source: Kirby said this at a briefing at the White House on 15 February, European Pravda writes. The White House spokesperson said that "incredibly intense fighting" was taking place in the east of Ukraine, singling out Avdiivka. Quote: "Unfortunately, we are getting reports from the Ukrainians that the situation is critical, with the Russians continuing to press Ukrainian positions every single day. Avdiivka is at a risk of falling under Russian control," he added. Kirby said that this is largely due to Ukraine's lack of artillery shells and Russia's superiority in manpower. __________________________________________________ Source: Ukrainska Pravda https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/02/15/7441948/ Avdiivka is hell: 3rd Separate Assault Brigade reports critical situation in Avdiivka TETIANA LOZOVENKO — THURSDAY, 15 FEBRUARY 2024, 09:44 Source: 3rd separate assault brigade Quote: "Avdiivka is hell. The Third Separate Assault Brigade confirms that it has been urgently redeployed to reinforce Ukrainian troops in the area of Avdiivka. The situation in the city at the time of the brigade's deployment was extremely critical... ... At the same time, the objective situation in Avdiivka remains precarious and unstable. The enemy continues to actively rotate its troops and deploy new forces and equipment to the city."
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Feb 16, 2024 00:56
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:https://twitter.com/bunny_d_warrior/status/1758259474433966193?s=20 Zelenskyy is doing everything he can to ensure that his warriors have enough managerial and technological capabilities to save as many Ukrainian lives as possible the day after he ordered his general to send thousands of them into the cauldron.
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Feb 16, 2024 00:58
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Looking back on it, the Russian retreat from Kherson was probably one the best executed operations in this war.
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Feb 16, 2024 01:05
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OctaMurk posted:oh so .. . Literally everything? Not elan!
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Feb 16, 2024 01:11
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Starsfan posted:Zelenskyy is doing everything he can to ensure that his warriors have enough managerial and technological capabilities to save as many Ukrainian lives as possible the day after he ordered his general to send thousands of them into the cauldron. This shitshow would be funny if it weren't for the thousands of lives being wasted on these pointless last stands. If every major battle goes this way then it's just delaying the inevitable.
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Feb 16, 2024 01:15
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antipattern posted:it's just delaying the inevitable. been this from day 0 of the war Pener Kropoopkin posted:https://twitter.com/bunny_d_warrior/status/1758259474433966193?s=20 here comes the woodchipper
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Feb 16, 2024 01:16
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fizziester posted:Ukraine on verge of losing Avdiivka, strategic city long targeted by Russia western media using the S-word. Its over.
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Feb 16, 2024 01:22
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lmfao @ the anonymous gbs/reddit guy callibg in to nytimes “The Russians are throwing everything they have left just to symbolically take the city,” a Ukrainian soldier said when reached by phone, insisting on anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. “From a strategic point of view, the city no longer matters. And it’s only advantageous for us to hold it to make the losses for the Russkies as high as possible. Another soldier fighting in the city said it was “just horrible” and the “only thing to do is pray.”
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Feb 16, 2024 01:31
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I’m definitely here on the front lines and we are totally killing so many of them on the way out of our fortress that it’s a win, actually.
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Feb 16, 2024 01:37
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Freezer posted:Looking back on it, the Russian retreat from Kherson was probably one the best executed operations in this war. Evacuating your entire force in the area along with tens of thousands of civilians over two bridges while actively taking artillery fire is probably one of the most impressive feats ever executed in modern warfare and is the sort of thing militaries across the globe should be studying. Alas, it was done by orks so no one west of Kyiv is ever going to acknowledge it.
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Feb 16, 2024 01:41
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“avdiivka is gay anyway and we never liked it”
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Feb 16, 2024 01:42
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He said: “The Russians have been paying for this for years. They’ve been subsidising the defence industry, and many would have said wasting money for the event that one day they need to be able to scale it up. So it was economically inefficient until 2022, and then suddenly it looks like a very shrewd bit of planning.” That differs significantly from western, especially European, arms manufacturers, who generally run lean operations that work across borders and are designed to maximise profit for shareholders.
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Feb 16, 2024 01:43
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Homeless Friend posted:He said: “The Russians have been paying for this for years. They’ve been subsidising the defence industry, and many would have said wasting money for the event that one day they need to be able to scale it up. So it was economically inefficient until 2022, and then suddenly it looks like a very shrewd bit of planning.” Interesting. First time I'm hearing about this.
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Feb 16, 2024 01:57
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strategically encircled
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Feb 16, 2024 01:58
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OctaMurk posted:fire ur top general, orser new general to rush all the reserves into the meatgrinder, then have to withdraw whatever is left lol Anyone remember who was in charge in Severodonetsk? The city they lost but then charged back in because it was a trap all along and then lost it anyway after trapping more force on the wrong side of destroyed bridges.
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Feb 16, 2024 02:00
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Homeless Friend posted:lmfao @ the anonymous gbs/reddit guy callibg in to nytimes
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Feb 16, 2024 02:00
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Homeless Friend posted:lmfao @ the anonymous gbs/reddit guy callibg in to nytimes Reddit is still talking about how it's not time to evacuate yet because they are still totally trading 10 to 1.
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Feb 16, 2024 02:01
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No war but the narrative war
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Feb 16, 2024 02:02
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Freezer posted:Looking back on it, the Russian retreat from Kherson was probably one the best executed operations in this war. I think one of the relieving brigade getting double or maybe triple tapped around Selydove might have altered their views.
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Feb 16, 2024 02:04
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https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1758233670907818399/
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Feb 16, 2024 02:10
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1stGear posted:Evacuating your entire force in the area along with tens of thousands of civilians over two bridges while actively taking artillery fire is probably one of the most impressive feats ever executed in modern warfare and is the sort of thing militaries across the globe should be studying. Alas, it was done by orks so no one west of Kyiv is ever going to acknowledge it. hell, it's not much but I'll acknowledge it, that sounds bad rear end
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Feb 16, 2024 02:12
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this is such a goofy war, which is a strange thing to say about so many casualties, but every now and then there's news of a big breakthrough and the map shows like one rural neighborhood switched hands.
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Feb 16, 2024 02:18
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Incredibly funny if Stuart Little Z is sending Azov off to Avdiivka to die now that Zaluzhnyi isn't there to protect them
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Feb 16, 2024 02:19
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:“avdiivka is gay anyway and we never liked it”
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Feb 16, 2024 02:21
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supersnowman posted:Reddit is still talking about how it's not time to evacuate yet because they are still totally trading 10 to 1. well yeah at this point of the retreat they might be trading 10 to 1, just don’t ask which side is the 10
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Feb 16, 2024 02:22
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if you care about ukraine, you need to spend less time jerking off over tactics on the internet and more time voting—not just for whatever your local political parties throw your way, but at the level of whatever counts as a primaries in your country—and you need to make the case to every eligible voter around you that this is a just cause that they should support for whatever reason, be that altruistic or selfish that’s ukraine’s only path to victory that doesn’t involve the country’s collapse before eventually—after years of unspeakable struggle and hardship—winning an insurgency
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lmfao that rules
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