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Der Kyhe
Jun 25, 2008

I find it actually a bit worrying that Russia didn't do anything noteworthy today, no showoff of any kind. But then again they also didn't do that much on December 24th or 25th, when Ukraine was having a western Christmas holidays opposed to Russian ones, or in the New Year's eve.

EDIT: 1 hour to midnight at Moscow.

Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Feb 24, 2023

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Pekinduck
May 10, 2008

Karate Bastard posted:

Traditional values, but what if the traditional values are poo poo and rear end and war, what then huh?

Always have been etc.

Ikasuhito
Sep 29, 2013

Haram as Fuck.


Since he pops up from time to time, I would like to bring up the Several rather trustworthy accounts consider Chuck's reporting, and the man himself, to be of dubious quality.

https://twitter.com/GeoConfirmed/status/1629152232414248962

Much of his less than stellar reporting is included beneath.

Karma Comedian
Feb 2, 2012

Ikasuhito posted:

Since he pops up from time to time, I would like to bring up the Several rather trustworthy accounts consider Chuck's reporting, and the man himself, to be of dubious quality.

https://twitter.com/GeoConfirmed/status/1629152232414248962

Much of his less than stellar reporting is included beneath.

Thanks!

zone
Dec 6, 2016
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1629166155746123778
Big Bad Russia scared of people leaving floral tributes again :rolleye:

Tuna-Fish
Sep 13, 2017

Kallikaa posted:

The thing is that Sweden has the short range version IRIS-T SLS , LVRBS 98 in local nomenclature, not the medium range IRIS-T SLM that Ukraine got from Germany. The Swedish defence minster wrote "Sweden will also supply much needed components to the IRIS-T air defence system. In cooperation with Germany this enables a boost of the capacity of IRIS-T in Ukraine".

What's being sent is a bit unclear.

Isn't the front end of both missiles identical, with the only different part being the rocket motor? If they can acquire the rocket motors from somewhere, conversion to longer range shouldn't be impossible.

Karma Comedian
Feb 2, 2012

Defmon thread!

https://twitter.com/DefMon3/status/1629214694413148162?t=cBwuY8t6Xhkkar-Y9PGOWw&s=19

Overview and weather:
https://twitter.com/DefMon3/status/1629214758074195969?t=mxwAre3r_dx658rCeIRiUA&s=19

Maps!
https://twitter.com/DefMon3/status/1629214799694565376?t=-P_36zYWX0URck0djeYJsw&s=19
https://twitter.com/DefMon3/status/1629214841817939968?t=qTCeI9FlEbhTZ6VJZWfRcw&s=19
https://twitter.com/DefMon3/status/1629214871823978496?t=Z5Kqhsq0EbaJtinmhYOptw&s=19

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

kalel posted:

is this too long for the thread title

“Finding beauty in even the deepest end of rear end”

Kallikaa
Jun 13, 2001

Tuna-Fish posted:

Isn't the front end of both missiles identical, with the only different part being the rocket motor? If they can acquire the rocket motors from somewhere, conversion to longer range shouldn't be impossible.

Possibly. Another option might be to use SLM tracking and command with the Swedish launchers and cheaper missiles.

There's also this:
https://www.armyrecognition.com/def...or_ukraine.html

KitConstantine
Jan 11, 2013

kalel posted:

is this too long for the thread title

:tipshat:

Roblo
Dec 10, 2007

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!

Perfect

Der Kyhe
Jun 25, 2008

...And its past midnight in Moscow.

So no anniversary-showoff of "power".

Deteriorata
Feb 6, 2005

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1629222198098464769

TEMPLE GRANDIN OS
Dec 10, 2003

...blyat
good kitty

WAR CRIME GIGOLO
Oct 3, 2012

The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

Look okay let's do some math the Russian population is 100 million people if we lose casualties at a 1 to 5 rate we will be able to grind down the entire Ukrainian population and be left with 20 million!!

kalel
Jun 19, 2012


you're a mensch* :tipshat:

*or whatever the Hebrew equivalent for women or non binary is

kalel fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Feb 24, 2023

jokes
Dec 20, 2012

Uh... Kupo?

WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:

Look okay let's do some math the Russian population is 100 million people if we lose casualties at a 1 to 5 rate we will be able to grind down the entire Ukrainian population and be left with 20 million!!

Russia doesn't have enough sausage and shampoo to compensate all those families

WAR CRIME GIGOLO
Oct 3, 2012

The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

jokes posted:

Russia doesn't have enough sausage and shampoo to compensate all those families

For your loved ones dying we will compensate you with an AK and three magazines

And a mobilization order

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

Famed Tank Grandpa David Willey and the Tank Museum dropped a video about the tanks being sent to Ukraine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vvG64vqLrw

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

Re: thread title and great warrior-poet "Witch", witch is also the ukrainian nickname of a certain bouncing betty type of russian mine that will blow your balls off.

Rad Russian
Aug 15, 2007

Soviet Power Supreme!
It would be nice to see a few Leopards and Bradleys arrive in the nick of time to save Bakhmut like the Rohirrim in the Two Towers.

With Russia gaining that additional village in the north of Bakhmut, it seems the situation is getting significantly worse.

Der Kyhe
Jun 25, 2008

Rad Russian posted:

It would be nice to see a few Leopards and Bradleys arrive in the nick of time to save Bakhmut like the Rohirrim in the Two Towers.

With Russia gaining that additional village in the north of Bakhmut, it seems the situation is getting significantly worse.

Well, its a matter of perspective. Yes, Russia got another village north of Bakhmut, but then again, they only got *a* village north of Bakhmut.

A place that is mostly a Russian graveyard; Ukraine can withdraw if it gets too bad for them.

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat
I wish we could sell them another hill at the same price

is something you could say after the enemy buried 100000 soldiers to get a drat hill

after the enemy put 100000 undesirables through a meat grinder not so much

p sure russia would happily grind 100000 more to get another

KitConstantine
Jan 11, 2013

Zelensky troll game on point
https://twitter.com/RomeoKokriatski/status/1629181949305552896?t=50yb7GrqkpWhc3-N1VT1sw&s=19

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse
https://twitter.com/RowerowaDroga/status/1629222931824889858

https://twitter.com/ennolenze/status/1629080178969268224

It's real lol

William Bear
Oct 26, 2012

"That's what they all say!"
I'm sure they're flattered (by the being called "cuties" and "charming" part, not the death camp part)

https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1627683845167321089?s=20

Der Kyhe
Jun 25, 2008

...And now its midnight also in Kyiv. So no Russian action on the anniversary of their 3-day operation.

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat
It's coming on day 368.

It was always a three day and a year operation, you see

DiomedesGodshill
Feb 21, 2009

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/OlgaOfUzhhorod/status/1628778489930297345
In the latest entry of gifts given to the families of departed mobiks comes..... shaving cream and shampoo. I wonder if they'll let those families even keep these gifts, given we found out already they took back the (fake) fur coats.

I'm constantly bewildered by these stunts. Who films these and thinks "Yep, this is a great look for us"? Moreover who the gently caress watches these and think "Oh nice" or "Well that seems fair compensation for a killed relative in a totally justified military operation"?

How can any Russian see these and not be saddened and/or livid?

I would think that if modern western nations treated fallen soldiers' families this badly people would be furious and out in the streets. I guess that's the power of Putin's private police/military? I guess they can't do anything about it. :(

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

jokes posted:

Russia doesn't have enough sausage and shampoo to compensate all those families
How do you think they make more sausage

Karate Bastard posted:

It's coming on day 368.

It was always a three day and a year operation, you see
Putin continues to be a master strategist

free hubcaps
Oct 12, 2009


Lol, isn't Russian big z's first language?

Borscht
Jun 4, 2011
Re: India
I think most westerners really underestimate how uninterested even highly educated indians are in global politics outside their immediate region or even in history beyond learning the names of the freedom fighters. I'm currently in Hyderabad and one of the things that always floors me is that nobody, literally not a single person gives a poo poo about anything that has happened in the last 100 years that isn't covered in their rather flimsy secondary school history curriculum.
For instance:
I know several people whom were born in the 50s who don't know a thing about operation polo. I would think that if the Indian government rolled into your city and put 100,000 people to the sword 7 years before you were born you would have at least heard something. The narrative here is just fundamentally different. Not that I understand even what that narrative is but if I figure it out ill let yall know.

HolHorsejob
Mar 14, 2020

Portrait of Cheems II of Spain by Jabona Neftman, olo pint on fird

Der Kyhe posted:

...And its past midnight in Moscow.

So no anniversary-showoff of "power".

Tbf, the 1 year anniversary of a 3-day Very Special Military Operation is a rather ignominious occasion. Like the 10 year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.

Toxic Mental
Jun 1, 2019

free hubcaps posted:

Lol, isn't Russian big z's first language?

He's not going to give anyone in Moscow a soundbite if he can help it.

Der Kyhe
Jun 25, 2008

Borscht posted:

Re: India
I think most westerners really underestimate how uninterested even highly educated indians are in global politics outside their immediate region or even in history beyond learning the names of the freedom fighters. I'm currently in Hyderabad and one of the things that always floors me is that nobody, literally not a single person gives a poo poo about anything that has happened in the last 100 years that isn't covered in their rather flimsy secondary school history curriculum.
For instance:
I know several people whom were born in the 50s who don't know a thing about operation polo. I would think that if the Indian government rolled into your city and put 100,000 people to the sword 7 years before you were born you would have at least heard something. The narrative here is just fundamentally different. Not that I understand even what that narrative is but if I figure it out ill let yall know.

IMHO the Indian subcontinent with Pakistan, India and Bangladesh (that used to be East Pakistan) is it's own ball of odd politics that may or may not do something or it does not. Although India going for "strong leader"-type of politics isn't a welcome turn of events. They could easily rival China, they could easily start a world war, they can easily make any number of things but they seem to mostly focus on hating each other.

EDIT: EU used to be this exact same poo poo between France, Germany, (UK,) and the rest, but thanks to Tsar Putin, it seems that we found a common ground. At least mostly and for now. Tsar Putin, he remains the master strategist who plays 5-dimentional chess while soiling himself.

Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Feb 24, 2023

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat

Toxic Mental posted:

He's not going to give anyone in Moscow a soundbite if he can help it.

The only word in russian I know is djetmaros, so that's what they would get out of me.

Toxic Mental
Jun 1, 2019

Not sure if this was posted or not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4bSkuMpR2Q

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse
https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1629201236070215690

https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1629201240612605953

https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1629201244974620674

etc.

Tai
Mar 8, 2006
that Chinese map is a good start. I think Ukraine probably needs to lose Odessa too to prevent them ever thinking about aggression again

Lmao not even trying to keep the mask on.

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Oscar Wilde Bunch
Jun 12, 2012

Grimey Drawer

Tai posted:

that Chinese map is a good start. I think Ukraine probably needs to lose Odessa too to prevent them ever thinking about aggression again

Lmao not even trying to keep the mask on.

Ukraine should respond that based on China's plan that if Taiwan had a referendum to be independent that has to be respected right?

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