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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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94 | 23.27% |
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14 | 3.47% |
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87 | 21.53% |
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Also, an issue has been coming up, mines, the Russians always had more than the Ukrainians, but it seems more recently the Ukrainians have been coming up short. It very well may be that they had enough to lay fields around static lines but once Avdiivka fell and the Russian started to push more aggressively into areas that were never mined in the first place, they are having much more free range to take villages. You are starting to see this now as there isn't even passive defense really holding back from the Russians advancing to the north/north-west. It is also a good question how fortified the northern frontier is at this point as well.
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Apr 26, 2024 10:37
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Its still kinda baffling how after seeing the enormous power of the Russian defensive network in stopping their vaunted offensive cold in its tracks the Ukrainians didn't start fortifying their own defensive network for use as a backstop. They've got stronghold cities but no trench and minefield network connecting them. They just completely failed to plan for, well, failure
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Apr 26, 2024 10:41
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Nix Panicus posted:Its still kinda baffling how after seeing the enormous power of the Russian defensive network in stopping their vaunted offensive cold in its tracks the Ukrainians didn't start fortifying their own defensive network for use as a backstop. They've got stronghold cities but no trench and minefield network connecting them. They just completely failed to plan for, well, failure Admittedly, they didn't really have the manpower, equipment, mines etc to created layer defensive works, the best they could do is fortify some strong points and hope to slow the Russians down. The Russians in turn just hammered those strong points into oblivion, and they would slowly move up. The joke was "they were just fighting over fields" and essentially they were except the whole part the Ukrainians were pouring a bunch of resources into them because they know there wasn't much behind them. Avdiivka seems to be the first real break in that defensive line, much more than Bakhmut, the Ukrainians can't seem to catch their breath as the Russians take positions before the Ukrainians can fortify them. It is also getting to the point unless a serious new defensive network is established, Niu-York and the areas SW around Bakhmut are going to be threatened. The Russians are also making progress in the south as well, and if they can continue breaching positions, eventually the frontline from Vuhledar to Chasiv Yar may progressively open up and that is simply too large of an area for the Ukrainians to defend. This isn't really talking about any serious operations in the north either. That said, if they did anything up there, it makes more sense they would hit while the southern front was already crumbling and then push while the Ukrainians were already empty handed.
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Apr 26, 2024 10:50
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Regarde Aduck posted:Its simple, L'viv is mordor the Holo-Mordor...
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Apr 26, 2024 10:56
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Nix Panicus posted:Its still kinda baffling how after seeing the enormous power of the Russian defensive network in stopping their vaunted offensive cold in its tracks the Ukrainians didn't start fortifying their own defensive network for use as a backstop. They've got stronghold cities but no trench and minefield network connecting them. They just completely failed to plan for, well, failure Russia is using lancets and other drones to destroy Ukrainian engineering equipment. Kinda hard to build proper trenches when all you have is dudes with shovels sometimes
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Apr 26, 2024 11:05
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Sanlav posted:https://www.kyivpost.com/post/31697 i think i've talked about this before, but this is very indicative of how the west is completely unable to view foreign policy as an actual real thing as opposed to a way of posturing for their domestic audience
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Apr 26, 2024 11:05
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free as a BIRD
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Apr 26, 2024 11:06
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Cerebral Bore posted:i think i've talked about this before, but this is very indicative of how the west is completely unable to view foreign policy as an actual real thing as opposed to a way of posturing for their domestic audience Yeah, they're all talking with the voices in their head. Nix Panicus posted:Yeah a bunch of Ukrainians speak Russian as their first language, particularly in the east. Ukraine's language laws are a very real attempt at the kind of ethnic genocide the west keeps accusing China of doing, except nobody in the west gives a poo poo That's kinda overplayed imo. There's some significant harassment, but even the Azovs were speaking Russian. The actual cultural genocide is against soviet Ukraine. Pretending that the social system that eradicated illiteracy, produced by far the majority of cultural products in Ukrainian and in who's defense millions fought and died was an outside imposition while the real Ukrainians entered Ukraine in 1941 and now live in Toronto is just absurdly shameless.
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Apr 26, 2024 11:17
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Cao Ni Ma posted:Russia is using lancets and other drones to destroy Ukrainian engineering equipment. Kinda hard to build proper trenches when all you have is dudes with shovels sometimes Russia took Bakhmut with nothing but shovels
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Apr 26, 2024 11:27
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Nix Panicus posted:Russia took Bakhmut with nothing but shovels orks are built different
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Apr 26, 2024 11:28
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gradenko_2000 posted:the Holo-Mordor... 
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Apr 26, 2024 11:30
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genericnick posted:Yeah, they're all talking with the voices in their head. The Uyghur genocide has considerably less evidence for it than Ukraine's cultural genocide against ethnic Russians. Its just a fun thing to notice
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Apr 26, 2024 11:31
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Weka posted:I haven't been keeping up so sorry if it's been covered but drat that's insanely hosed up. T-minus like two days before Chrystia Freeland proposes something similar here
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Apr 26, 2024 11:53
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Sanlav posted:https://www.kyivpost.com/post/31697 ???
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Apr 26, 2024 11:54
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Apr 26, 2024 11:59
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Sanlav posted:https://www.kyivpost.com/post/31697  
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Apr 26, 2024 12:20
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It is a good question what the Ukrainians are even going to get in the next 6 months beyond bits of pieces of equipment and maybe a couple old F-16s. Supposedly, a fair amount of the artillery shells they are getting is DPICM ammo as well which has clearly underperformed. Maybe the Germans will eventually give them a Patriot battery.
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Apr 26, 2024 12:31
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It's an illusion, Michael. Tricks are something a whore does for money.
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Apr 26, 2024 12:34
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Oh, look, it's the European Parliament
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Apr 26, 2024 12:39
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PhilippAchtel posted:Oh, look, it's the European Parliament
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Apr 26, 2024 12:40
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PhilippAchtel posted:Oh, look, it's the European Parliament those two Irish MPs are cool but otherwise lol
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Apr 26, 2024 12:41
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PhilippAchtel posted:Oh, look, it's the European Parliament
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Apr 26, 2024 12:43
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:Not that you'd be able to trap someone in the contradiction, but this undermines the popular and existential conflict against genocide canard. According to an ex-military colleague of mine (did a tour as recon in Afghanistan, didn't get shelled by modern artillery so not a veteran in my book) it is because they are cowards, op.
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Apr 26, 2024 12:50
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AP is reporting that Ukraine withdrew the Abrams tanks from the front lmao
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Apr 26, 2024 12:51
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:I feel like everybody learned history wrong as a joke during the Cold War and now they hold two of the more dangerous ideas in human history, even without nuclear weapons: that negotiation to prevent a war, and negotiation during a war or to end a war are bad and wrong. From Russia's perspective, how could you possible negotiate with another party which flatly doesn't understand leverage?
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Apr 26, 2024 12:54
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Orange Devil posted:From Russia's perspective, how could you possible negotiate with another party which flatly doesn't understand leverage? Or they just can't accept the state of that leverage as it actually exists. DC expects the Kremlin to come in on its knees, begging for peace. It is just that the fundamentally live in a fantasy world and can't help but gaslight themselves further and further into it. If anything it makes sense if the Kremlin has a slow but forceful approach enough not violent, to actually wake the West up from its addled stupor, but still make measurable gains. Eventually, that isn't going to be enough though, and so there is a certain point when rubber will meet the road. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 13:14 on Apr 26, 2024 |
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Apr 26, 2024 13:05
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DC expects everyone to come in on their knees, kowtowing. That's what I mean with not understanding leverage.
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Apr 26, 2024 13:07
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VoicesCanBe posted:AP is reporting that Ukraine withdrew the Abrams tanks from the front lmao $10 million apiece doesn't seem outrageous until you start losing them
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Apr 26, 2024 13:08
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Dokapon Findom posted:$10 million apiece doesn't seem outrageous until you start losing them There are have been Abrams lost before, but the Russians easily taking them out on video isn't really helping. It is very doubtful a layer of DU is going to help either.
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Apr 26, 2024 13:15
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Russian armored assault in 2025: 
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Apr 26, 2024 13:37
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The Abrams are waiting for the American shed attachments. Plz ask Home depot expedite the order.
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Apr 26, 2024 13:38
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quote:The Abrams is a gas guzzler. It requires twice as much fuel as the Leopards that Germany sent. quote:The shame here is that Ukraine started using the Abrams in increasingly more desperate situations due to lack of overall supply the last few months due to the US political maneuvering. quote:I mean, we've sent 31 and they have only lost 5. Considering how heavily Russia targets them, that's not bad. I would also bet that the crews survived from most of the destroyed ones as well. That's what I got as of yet when I mentioned they got pulled but not German tanks.
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Apr 26, 2024 14:08
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Nix Panicus posted:The Uyghur genocide has considerably less evidence for it than Ukraine's cultural genocide against ethnic Russians. Its just a fun thing to notice Lmao, fair
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Apr 26, 2024 14:24
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Russian tanks built like brick shithouses.
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Apr 26, 2024 14:27
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Orange Devil posted:According to an ex-military colleague of mine (did a tour as recon in Afghanistan, didn't get shelled by modern artillery so not a veteran in my book) it is because they are cowards, op. There was someone at the army hospital getting outpatient treatment for being a pharmacy aide on KAF, handing out medication to people who were suffering from PTSD.* I don't want to disparage them, but I think maybe our idea of what cowardice is or isn't could use some adjustment. * Which obviously is upsetting, I understand. There are degrees though. supersnowman posted:I mean, we've sent 31 and they have only lost 5. Considering how heavily Russia targets them, that's not bad. I would also bet that the crews survived from most of the destroyed ones as well. People taking this as axiomatic when we can see catastrophic hits and flames pouring out of the hatches of the crew compartment is a good argument for the power of narratives. DJJIB-DJDCT has issued a correction as of 14:37 on Apr 26, 2024 |
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Apr 26, 2024 14:34
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great things happening etc. etc. https://www.twitter.com/postsocialismus/status/1783738353352839332#m https://www.twitter.com/Volod_Ishchenko/status/1782303975250755981#m genericnick has issued a correction as of 14:41 on Apr 26, 2024 |
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Orange Devil posted:From Russia's perspective, how could you possible negotiate with another party which flatly doesn't understand leverage? Appeal to British nostalgia? 
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:There was someone at the army hospital getting outpatient treatment for being a pharmacy aide on KAF, handing out medication to people who were suffering from PTSD.* I don't want to disparage them, but I think maybe our idea of what cowardice is or isn't could use some adjustment. Cowardice is when the thralls don't do what they are commanded to do, which is die. Also, I wonder how much of the Abrams tanks being withdrawn is just the hits they are taking on the front lines, but there may not be enough operational enough for a variety of reasons (probably the first being the turbine engine) to be especially useful.
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Apr 26, 2024 14:43
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Top Ukrainian ‘fact-checker’ arrested for assault on Grayzone contributor They went after Moss Robeson lol
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Ardennes posted:Cowardice is when the thralls don't do what they are commanded to do, which is die. To lead Ruthenians into combat, you need men who learned their trade through horseplay among the fellows at the Theresianische Militärakademie, wearing sashes around their waists, sabres drawn, commanding them in German. I don't understand why this is proving so difficult. You can easy get away with losing an entire army two, maybe three times, if you have that kind of leadership. DJJIB-DJDCT has issued a correction as of 14:51 on Apr 26, 2024 |
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