Karma Comedian posted:

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1635046274616692738?t=Nd9FUf2XHmiNcE71L6PzTA&s=19

Butterfly Valley posted:

??? It's supremely defensible, given the only route in is the 5km narrow Perekop isthmus, unless they want to make an extremely risky attempt at crossing the Syvash marshlands. Every assault has resulted in disproportionately high casualties for the attacking force. It would be reverse Bakhmut. Makes much more sense to get to the post-2014 border and blow the poo poo out of the Kerch bridge and just wait, although if/when that happens it's going to result in some extremely distressing humanitarian consequences.

Power Khan posted:

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1637153666720227391

zone posted:

Given the sort of rumblings among ultranationalists such as Girkin these days I think the home team (specifically the FSB, whose mouthpiece Girkin is) have begun running out of patience with Putler's follies.

Set posted:

I wish to note that as this article is a few months old, some of the numbers mentioned in the article are quite outdated. I also wish to note that the first two video interviews are in English, so if you want to hear what they have to say you can click through into the article to have a listen, but as usual I have also translated and written short descriptions of their interviews if you prefer reading.

Icochet posted:

Finland going solo was pretty spineless but just looking at a map Finland getting in does remove some of the urgency for Sweden

Karate Bastard posted:

Antti Kaikkonen smirks to the fourth wall and starts powering up

shadow puppet of a posted:

Should really rename the thing "Vlad Putin's Expanded, Stronger NATO Alliance"

Budzilla posted:

He knows what will be waiting for him when he goes back to Russia and he decides to jeopardise it all to buy some discount cigarettes? Am I missing something here or is he that loving stupid?

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

Finland is over 2%. Which shouldn't surprise anyone, considering.

armpit_enjoyer posted:

Interview aside, god drat if i can tell what emotion that smile is trying to communicate.

Nelson Mandingo posted:

People genuinely don't understand how powerful the US military really is after it's reformations in the 80's. There have been a lot of military stomps throughout history but it always came with heavy losses on both sides. The 1990 Gulf War was two of the largest militaries in the world fighting one another. Even Germany's incredibly successful blitzkrieg of France resulted in 40,000 casualties on their side.

Klyith posted:

But besides that, Russia still has attack subs and those are what I'd be worried about even more than missiles.

William Bear posted:

Whenever I see that his username is "Kadyrov_95", I think to myself, "Holy poo poo, this guy was born in 1995? He looks like poo poo!"

That's not true, of course, but what's the significance of the 95?

Blistex posted:

Coworker mentioned today that NATO weapons being used in Russia is going to be just like 9/11, and Russia's going to retaliate. My reply was that the US was able to retaliate conventionally because they have the military and money to project power for upwards of 20 years. Russia has nearly spent themselves into oblivion trying to "project power" against a smaller nation right on their border. He mentioned the nuclear option Russia has, and my take was that opening that bottle would be the end. They either go all out and commit suicide or they try it on a tactical level and NATO just destroys them conventionally. No nukes needed.

Confirm/Deny?

steinrokkan posted:

Remember when there actually were negotiations of some sort in the first months - and they ended up with the Ukrainian representative gunned down? That episode seems to have been largely forgotten

Toxic Mental posted:

Ukraine War: Thread for discussing how the holodomor thread defniitely DIDN'T happen

Thoughts?

zone posted:

To be fair, they didn't need that much men to organize a march on Moscow to begin with. Like 20,000-25,000 people were there in the Wagner march. What really made the difference was the heavy equipment at their disposal that let them shoot down all those planes and choppers. So assuming such conditions can be somehow repeated (seizing enough heavy equipment and air defense) it's still possible.

steinrokkan posted:

Unless I'm mistaken, conscription refers specifically to basic service, which is something that's normally done by kids out of high school, so 30 years seems quite high and scraping the bottom of the barrel of older Russians who managed to avoid conscription in the past.

Deki posted:

Most likely someone just went down the post count list and hit every non mod/IK

Tahirovic posted:

So local Swiss news kinda confused my brain. Nestle is all over the news crying because Russia took away their factories.
- Nestle factories in Russia got nationalised and Nestle lost a lot of money because they wanted to keep milking that market (circumventing sanctions)
- Russia got free factories

Hopefully Ukraine bombs those factories and relieves this pressure from my mind.

tiaz posted:

They aren't really similar statements, but Defmon gives the highly summary answer right there - too close to the front line. Artillery delivers hits from far away and can't really defend itself directly. Putting it too close to the front line risks losing it (whether captured or destroyed). Artillery does move forward as the front line moves forward, but they probably won't be positioned in Robotyne until the front line is well beyond Robotyne and it is considered safe.

mobby_6kl posted:

OctaMurk posted:

if everyone is wearing something different should we still call it a "uniform"

Tai posted:

Christ, there is geniune concern in Russia that the diesel/gasoline export ban was too late. Farmers might not be able to get the fuel to harvest all the crops due to the war sucking it up.

Also due to price caps on fuel in Russia, the Government might not have the funds to be able to pay the excess cash above the caps when farmers that do have access to fuel fill up their farm vehicles. Throw in that Russia needs food for it's war and it also needs that cash from exporting fuel that it no longer exports.

RDM posted:

I'm sure there's some ethnic region that will get zero food. Gives the "ackshwally it's not really a genocide" people something to argue about for the next 50 years.

Tai posted:

No worries the Brits and the French give zero fucks about hitting Crimea so they can just save Taurus for targets in mainland Ukraine

Toxic Mental posted:

Visiting America and dumping in our deep bowl waters must feel like absolute luxury to fully submerge your stinky putins

mobby_6kl posted:

The problem with this approach is that we'll have to re-take it at some point, probably with the exact same process but in reverse. Putin will also see this as validation that things are progressing and will want to keep going.

bad_fmr posted:

Russian MP Andrei Gurulyov says that Finland is being turned into a "second Ukraine" and claims that Finns increasingly have territorial claims on Petrozavodsk

PC LOAD LETTER posted:

10 aircraft with all the best missiles they can fire operating daily would wreck, or force into shut down, large amounts of Russian GBAD in 1 region inside of a month, greatly push back Russian air power, and make a real difference in the war for Ukraine.

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

It would be interesting to look into how this shift in their politics came about.

Der Kyhe posted:

This is the part that I actually find interesting; they went straight to anti-christian satanism and occultism, instead of trying something with the Finnish paganism. You'd think that the local ultra-nationalistic assholes would want to take Ukko, Väinämöinen, or other stuff from Kalevala or mentioned in Mythologia Fennica as their own, instead of just rambling something about Satan this and Satan that.