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Bored As gently caress posted:Jake Tapper / CNN: Russia has taken over Chernobyl, confirmed by Ukraine govt I was just going to post the same: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/chernobyl-power-plant-captured-by-russian-forces-ukrainian-official-2022-02-24/ Someone educate me, I was under the assumption that the plant, while partially functional, shouldn't be seeing active "fighting" due to all the spicy air about. Other than being able to turn off the lights in some areas, what is the importance of this plant strategically? Everything so far seems like Putin wants all of Ukraine, not just those two regions.
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Terrifying Effigies posted:As mentioned, power infrastructure, plus there are two significant bridges at Pripyat and ChNPP (AFAIK the next ones downstream are in Kyiv proper), and the Russians apparently had a backup pontoon bridge set up on the Belarus side of the Exclusion Zone if the Ukrainians blew up the other two. Ah, bridges! Thank you for for the insight. My Ukraine/Russia geography is very rusty, I need to look at some more maps.
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Feb 24, 2022 19:43
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Is anyone watching Biden's speech right now, and if so, is it just me in thinking that he doesn't sound great right now? Seemed like he's mushing/slurring some words together at points. Agreeing with others that I think he was just tired. The speech itself sounded odd to me. Some phrasing sounded strange to me, but that might have been done intentionally to prevent saying specific things. Is anyone else curious about his (lack of) comment concerning China?
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Feb 24, 2022 20:10
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Feb 25, 2022 04:02
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orange juche posted:Ukrainian Soldier Blew Up Bridge and Himself to Stop Advance of Russian Troops, Kyiv Says I suspect Putin over estimated the morale of his forces while greatly underestimating the resolve and bravery of the Ukrainians. I would love to be a fly on the wall for the meetings of either country.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:The guy who runs the @goons_txt twitter account (mostly quotes from SA threads describing feats of supreme gooniness) broke character and posted this massive screed against CSPAM yesterday. Was it posted as a giant wall of text like that? This seems very unhinged.
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Feb 25, 2022 16:37
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:I saw another video on Twitter allegedly of a wounded Russian soldier who was telling people that they were told Ukraine tried to invade Russia, and the invasion was launched with almost no warning and they have no idea what the gently caress is going on. I've seen videos (with translation) of POWs saying similar. Not sure if it is propaganda or not. Based on what I am seeing, people have seriously overestimated the capabilities of the Russian military.
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Feb 25, 2022 17:29
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CommieGIR posted:https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/1497247647597486088?s=20&t=v9jh8XUgHXUmdQTtIwm8Ow I know very little about international/maritime law as it applies to this kind of situation. How quickly will these attacks draw action from various countries? Would a move like this on a US flagged merchant ship draw a kinetic response from us? Do merchant ship flags work like that?
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That Works posted:https://twitter.com/root_nomad/status/1497254180108570633?s=20&t=ebNXlOBL0KNVznT1cW7uNA drat, Russia can't have anything at all... First their planes and armor get wrecked, then no Eurovision, then no World Cup, THEN no porn?!?
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Notahippie posted:The maritime sector is weird because in most cases a ship is owned by a national of country A, flagged by country B, and crewed by countries C, D, and E (statistically those are the Philippines, India, and Ukraine as the big 3). So you get a diffusion of responsibility going on where all of those countries can either claim they care about the issue or alternately and more commonly, they tut-tut it while not feeling like they actually have to do anything about it. In this case I'd expect it to not be a big deal. Makes more sense now. Thanks for the explanation.
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Feb 25, 2022 20:39
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Pine Cone Jones posted:https://twitter.com/YourAnonTV/status/1497273131567828992?t=nHc68ZoPC4g3pMGLQEH9Qg&s=19 I was wondering what they were up to. I'm very interested in what else they start releasing.
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Feb 25, 2022 21:29
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I don't remember seeing this earlier. Looks like Ukraine has engaged full on gently caress you mode. https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1497112173734150145?t=U7e-l7FE542r7vBPmZr_xw&s=19
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Feb 26, 2022 00:17
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Ukraine is absolutely murdering the Russians. How much more will the troops put up with? https://twitter.com/ELINTNews/status/1497351717171699712?t=i2tsOR__CpDGxdk1CvhWYQ&s=09
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Feb 26, 2022 01:00
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Elon Musk is reportedly sending Starlink terminals to Ukraine as Russia appears to be disrupting Internet connectivity there. That implies any of their actions are based on real time intel. Russia hasn't acted rationally so far, why would they start using logic now?
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Feb 27, 2022 04:32
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People on Twitter are freaking out about this: https://twitter.com/Global_Mil_Info/status/1498074716246052864?t=Vs63yjadCC1YDuXCYmq3eg&s=19
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Feb 28, 2022 00:45
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aphid_licker posted:It's a they're gonna nuke Kyiv rumor / hysteria, not a they're giving up one. I think. I'm mostly seeing people talk about massive bombing campaigns and hoping for no nukes. Everyone seems to agree that it likely means new levels of destruction for the city.
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Feb 28, 2022 01:00
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For those of you wondering if Belarus is going to join: https://twitter.com/ELINTNews/status/1498128760075431946?t=ijgyE10HhN8L77cwlvvLFg&s=19
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Caconym posted:This is just insane to me. Ukrainian drone taking out a loving SAM, are the Russians just tugging them around for lols, or are they just always moving and this never able to deploy them properly, or don't they have any targeting network up at all? If the BUK is meant to be static why aren't they leapfrogging them to have a functioning umbrella up? I know nothing about air defence, but drat. This has me confused as well. It seems like a no brainer to us, which means someone, somewhere, has figured this out in Russia. Where are these people? Is the military just not following orders? I expected a certain level of dysfunction from the Russian military. This is beyond what I expected, it is almost like a comedy skit.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Quick question to those with military experience: Are there special rules for just putting out indirect fire into an urban area? Say general prohibitions on indiscriminate shelling of a major urban center? In general, yes. Will Putin adhere to those norms? Hasn't yet! Will his indiscriminate shelling of civilians change much? Unfortunately not. We are happy to look the other way for some reason whenever Russia likes to play war crimes. Everyone is afraid of engaging with the guy who has nukes. People are freaking out just thinking about that possibility. Right now, we are content to continue along the proxy war route it seems. Not gonna lie, it seems rather effective at turning Russian equipment into scrap. Edit: to support my claims, Geneva Conventions say artillery is OK, but not when it isn't "targeted" and not when used "indiscriminately" . Basically, you need a "military reason" to destroy a city block of apartments. Relevant info/site: https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docindex/v2_rul_rule71 ASAPI fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Feb 28, 2022 |
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Right and that’s a valid point, but I was thinking more long range artillery and rocket fire. In the situation you are replying to, it works like this: "Dude in building is shooting at us" We shoot back, either killing dude or not. If dude is still alive, has buddies in the same building, or starts some more serious poo poo we call it in. Building explodes from artillery/missile/rocket/guided bomb. Lather, rinse, repeat. In that example, all munitions used are "long range". Artillery/rocket/missile guys get a grid location, bombs get it painted, with a few mix/match for various systems. The people shooting these things rarely, if ever, see what they are shooting at
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It is interesting seeing everyone milling about during some of those shots. They had no clue there was an UAV anywhere near them. They believed that they had air superiority.
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Feb 28, 2022 20:31
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CommieGIR posted:https://twitter.com/markito0171/status/1498425709546586115?s=20&t=OEEVr7WMobWXA6zc5IwtwA At this rate the Ukrainians are going to come out of this with an upgraded military.
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Uhhhh.... This would be the proverbial "it" correct? Ukraine being a full EU member would drastically change the boundaries of this war, right?
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Any idea of what this could be that was used or would an ammo dump getting hit likely produce an explosion like that? This looks like an ammo depot going. If you look closely, there are secondary explosions that leave a trail like a rocket or RPG. There was likely fuel in the mix as well.
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Hannibal Rex posted:https://support.google.com/maps/thread/152809911/terrorists-use-google-maps-tags-to-adjust-the%20fires-please-help I saw somewhere that google had already wiped some locations. Maybe I misread.
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Looks like the original announcement added an extra "0" to the number, but still an impressive win. https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1498815037628108801?t=D79aqcoDDR-VNhDoBnvQJA&s=19
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I have no military knowledge. How ridiculous is the Russian loss of equipment up to this point? I don't have anything to compare it to, so I have no sense of the order of magnitude. The Russian losses up to this point are impressive. If half of what we are hearing is true, it would be impressive. I don't think I have seen a military fail this badly before.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I, uh, don't think that's up to us anymore. Agreed. Putin is going to launch nukes if he wants to. We know he doesn't care how things get done as long as he gets his way. We don't have a choice anymore on the nuke question. Putin is achieving what Best Korea wants to achieve. We let nations dangle their nukes like a get out of jail free card.
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Well, this is sobering: https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1499019151586832384 I am also seeing claims that Ukraine has taken back Chernobyl, but nothing confirming it yet.
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Naked Bear posted:poo poo, I take it back. I kind of wish I had a truck to try this with now. Our trucks had a premade kit on it with an adapter to fill tires. We would use it to fill up the tires on our antenna trailer.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:That's really the best alternate use of truck air. Any half decent unit will have a maintenance team running around anyhow, handling the bigger problems and dragging around a trailer mounted compressor. That was exactly what we had. Fit in a little box with some other tools or some such.
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:What happened to the giant Russian armored convoy anyway? I haven’t heard updates but given the track record probably out of gas or stuck in some insane traffic/wreckage snarl? It is still stuck last I checked (last night). I'm not sure if Ukraine is "helping" their situation or not, but it looks like they may not need to.
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psydude posted:Oh good, Russia is now deliberately sinking Civilian ships. This one was Estonian. At this point, are they trying to force a move from other powers? Is their navy just sinking whatever they can find? I know it is futile to apply logic to the Russian actions, but this is really confusing to me on both a tactical and strategic level.
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So Russia is getting super frisky with ships now it seems. On a scale of one to WW3, where are we? https://twitter.com/EstonianWorld/status/1499378883296116736
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pmchem posted:I don’t think he considers Ukraine the “West”. This is the start of a possibly big escalation. The start?!? I thought the "start" was sometime during the invasion, the sinking of random ships, the threat of downing the ISS, the threats to other countries for even thinking about resisting, or any other action they have taken in the past week. I'm having a harder and harder time seeing how we stay out of this.
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Interesting that Rubio of all people is also saying it won't be that bad. I'm actually a little impressed with how factual the tweets I have seen from have been. https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1499546355479588888?t=jFbKhCHAEpTZJDyQoMTMmg&s=19
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facialimpediment posted:He probably got yelled at after he basically claimed Putin was nuts based on "open-source" nonsense. I've only seen a few of his tweets, but the ones that I have seen seem to be spot on. Hopefully this behavior continues.
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We just peaked! https://twitter.com/EndGameWW3/status/1499575779117649938?t=BgNExwp92QXiCunUzdJdMA&s=19 Edit: Beaten!
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Giving them intel from the RC-135s, Global Hawks, satellites, lethal aid, and This has been bugging me. I was under the assumption that Russia was at least a near peer when it came to signal, intel, and the like.
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ain't nothing. If the Russians had even a fraction of the intel capacity we're "donating" to the Ukrainians this would be a MUCH different war.