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LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

Sergg posted:

https://twitter.com/bogy0/status/1654809214110384128

https://twitter.com/IvanKuhn8/status/1654840079766962179

Check it out. Ramzan Kadryov is wearing a pulse oximeter while giving his speech about replacing Prighozin with his own troops.

pulse ox goes on finger tips usually, I think it's a click counter:

if you look closely it's the exact same model, p sure.

LifeSunDeath fucked around with this message at 16:33 on May 6, 2023

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LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day


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LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

the banality of evil

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
cool video about taking out observation cameras and counter drone ops with a lot of explanation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw0sQ7FzUKE
poo poo is like spy vs spy

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
https://i.imgur.com/tfDilLm.mp4
lol

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
have they found out exactly who blew up that undersea pipeline yet?

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

Moon Slayer posted:

For real, I got a chance to see the Stele of Thonis-Heracleion, which lay face down in clay and mud for 2300 years and looks like it was laser-carved yesterday.

can you imagine pulling something like this out of the ocean? it looks brand new.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

fatherboxx posted:

There is a very harrowing story about soviet afghan veteran sapper Valery Radchikov who lost his legs there clearing a minefield but volunteered for another tour (and somehow got cleared for it). He became a media star in late 80s because Soviets wanted an uplifting patriotic story - with that he became the founder of a veteran affairs foundation in the 90s. There he abused his position to launder millions of dollars in customs fraud. When he was ousted, he first blew up his successor in a hit job by mining an elevator and then blew up his funeral killing 14 people.

wow sounds like the plot of The Specialist

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/us/politics/russia-spy-assassination.html

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

spankmeister posted:

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1672314259907158028

If this isn't the Chef talking coup then idk what is.

it sounds like he's saying he's going to march to moscow and regime change, but he also says he wants to maintain presidential authority, is he threatening putin or someone else?

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

WarpedLichen posted:

Would the African stuff also have fell under the MOD umbrella if they had their way

thought the whole point of wagner was to use it for illegitimate warfare abroad, they're expendable and somewhat deniable.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
about how far are they from moscow by tank?

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

i'm actually really surprised RU has any helicopters left at this point.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

Dog Friday posted:

Accepting any "deal" at this stage from Putin would surely be suicide for Prigozhin?

there is no world where both of them coexist freely in russia after this.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
well if they wipe out wagner it will be a little denazification of russia for sure.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
maybe putin and priggy will have a duel or something, it's gonna be the lamest steven segal-esq fake fighting situation you've ever seen.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

Djarum posted:

https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1672667310551597056

Tweet from Rubio. I agree in the assessment there.

I will never hand it to rubio for anything. This is a bit of a stretch since priggy isn't in moscow chilling rn.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

with a rebel yell she QQd posted:

So, looks like there will be no speech... at all. "Putin will not make any further comment on the issue. The invasion of Ukraine will continue as normal."

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
would be really hard to spin the legitimacy of this war to the russian people after all this. I know they'll try but like goddamn, poo poo is backfiring hardcore. like someone else said even if the coup fails civil war follows.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
hell of a retirement plan priggy's got

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

Irony Be My Shield posted:

Yeah it's really hard to argue that Ukrainian resistance is futile when Putin's regime was so obviously on the brink of collapse.

the only people ever arguing that were russian trolls and paid off US Politicians (assets). nothing will stop them from continuing to push obvious lies.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
Prigozhin was clearly in a position where he thought he was about to be eliminated not just fired, otherwise I doubt he would done something to be called a massive traitor by little P man.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

Failed Imagineer posted:

That's pretty cheap, the US should just pay Wagner 1.3bn to turn on Putin

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

Gort posted:

I wonder if Prigozhin just doesn't have full control of his forces. He wanted to effectively go on strike from the war in Ukraine to prevent him losing his forces to the regular army, but some of his subordinates decided to take over Rostov and before he knew it he was leading a coup. Eventually he was able to get them to stop.

The situation just doesn't make any sense from a "Putin is in 100% control of his organisations and Prigozhin is in 100% control of Wagner" standpoint

I'm certain that prigozhin has more cache with his troops than putin has with MoD troops, because putin is an aloof elitist, not literally on the ground holding a gun like priggy. But priggy missed his one shot, there's zero chance he's marching on moscow again after this. Also all his men are probably getting put in prison to keep any future uprisings from happening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmgi7DqURvg

LifeSunDeath fucked around with this message at 15:03 on Jun 28, 2023

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

Tomn posted:

It occurs to me that in a weird way, Prigozhin does demonstrate that Putin's still unlikely to be overthrown for now because while he CAN be overthrown, there still isn't anyone who can be confident that they'll be able to keep hold of the throne after they chuck Putin off it. Which of course is by design, since prior to now Putin has been careful to make sure nobody has the popular support or connections to be able to hypothetically take over. The Russian state may be weak, but which of the Russian elites has the will to push it over? Prigozhin didn't - is there anyone who does?

That being said now that Prigozhin has demonstrated it's possible, there might be a lot of rethinking of the risk/reward analysis involved in trying to accrue the necessary backing to stay at the top. Putin's likely to be extra-paranoid about any signs that anyone is doing so right now, though, so...?

power doesn't care if things descend into chaos. if putin is weakened, powers can start nibbling at the edges of russia, internally things may shift and collapse, maybe it takes 3 more leaders before one isn't killed in the process of gaining power, who knows. or maybe the systemic apathy in russia is so strong nothing will change and putin will live out his days making everyone miserable.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

FMguru posted:

The paint could just be a morale measure - sailors idling in port are getting antsy at feeling vulnerable, the bosses put them to work painting camouflage on their ships. Paint is cheap, soldiers are kept busy, and they feel like they're doing something that might help them in a fight or an attack. If the camouflage actually provides some protection against a bombing raid or drone attack, well that's just a nice bonus.

"If we paint a target on our ships it's like reverse psychology, no one's gonna want to shoot at them."

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12247271/Vice-president-Russian-bank-falls-death-Moscow-apartment-latest-mysterious-fatality.html
looong list in the article of executives who've met similar fate recently

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

Arglebargle III posted:

Ezra Klein did an interview with a Russia expert on his podcast who said western intelligence believes that shoigu and what's his face at the mod were supposed to be in rostov, and basically the coup failed as soon as it leaked. Prigozhin went anyway but Moscow was never supposed to be an objective.

Have you heard this anywhere?

supposedly the FSB found out 2 days prior and got them out of there. surprised putin bothered leaving moscow but he is a spineless coward so it makes sense.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
New AA dropped
https://v.redd.it/d2btmfy26z9b1/DASH_1080.mp4

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
it's gonna run out of ammo really fast so doubt you could get a bead on a long range target like a plane, but it's got a shotgun effect so you'd get a few good bursts at a drone no problem.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
the US also firebombed tokyo to dust before they nuked.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

Fork of Unknown Origins posted:

That seems to create a bad situation where Russia has a good reason (from their standpoint) to never leave.

they're never going to leave on their own anyway because it'll be suicide for putin. they're gonna have to be stopped.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
thankfully the enemy is very stupid
https://i.imgur.com/Q6ZzM9O.mp4

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
POV almost getting your drone missiled
https://v.redd.it/vij5yw8yxvbb1/DASH_720.mp4

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

that was fast but some gopniks have moved in.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

Scratch Monkey posted:

Interesting note:



Do trench clearing teams really have a big flag on their backs while they move?

mostly just armbands, sometimes not even that. I'm actually confused on the green armbands, not sure what it means. Mostly seeing yellow or blue bands.

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LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

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PainterofCrap posted:

They should drop bags of red paint on them

hit em with tactical moulage missiles.

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