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Personnel numbers are going to be tough to verify from a 3rd Party. Bakhmut is something out of 1917 right now, but if Wagner and the LPR/DNR are leading the charge, then the guys being killed are from Putin's surplus population; convicts, seperatist fighters from Luhansk and Donetsk, and Mobiks drawn from rural Siberia, White Russia, and the ethnic republics like Buriyatia and Dagestan. Not "real" Russians from the rich, educated, politically well-connected St. Petersburg-Moscow heartland. The KIA that really count for Ukraine are from Russia's shock troops: Chechens, VDV, Naval Infantry, and also prestige units like 1st Guards Tank Army. Guys who are functionally irreplaceable because their skills and morale are the product of months or years of peacetime training and maneuvers, or who it actually hurts to lose because they're recruited from politically relevant populations. Nobody really knows why Russia wants Bakhmut so badly. Everybody is looking at the same maps, and has been for months, and it's not like Russia won their war when they took the fortress towns of Sevierodonetsk and Lysychansk in a similar campaign. *shrugs* Anyway, here's a solid read by RUSI, a UK based defense policy think tank offering some preliminary analysis on the war from February to July. Lots of interesting details. One of the deciding factors for Russia invading was a determination by the Putin's security services that Ukrainians were largely apathetic, apolitical, and only really motivated by economic gains. In other words, so long as Russia offered Ukrainians a better chance to keep their wealth or grow their wealth, they wouldn't mind the change in management or how it was done. Ya know, because everyone who isn't part of Putin's Russia is a shallow, materialistic egomaniac with no core beliefs. AKA the Neocon Playbook. Enjoy. Preliminary Lessons in Conventional Warfighting from Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: February–July 2022 by Mykhaylo Zabrodskyi, Jack Watling, Oleksandr V Danylyuk and Nick Reynolds

So wait a minute. He was fine to play a week ago, but he isn't now?

To be fair, the Dolphins haven't seen that much white powder since they left Miami.

Yeah, union dues continue to be the best investment I've ever made.

Cian Fahey. He lives under a flat rock somewhere on the internet.

They've got ABM capability. Iran's helping replenish the stocks of short and medium range ballistic missiles Russia's been burning through. Iran's versions are just their take on the original Soviet/Russian missiles they bought. That's what they're for, that and shooting down the Russian Airforce.

Tua and McD are the newest version of McVay and Goff. Tua doesn't need to study film or photos, because he's only ever going to do two things. That's throw the ball where McD tells him to throw it, or throw the ball to the spot on the field indicated in the playbook.

Yeah, the fifth one is usually pretty good.

The team is not perfect. Therefore the team is terrible. Fire everyone and trade Josh to New England for half a pack of Kools and a skunk PBR.

The Chargers really rolled the clock back with their game plan on D. The beat speed with size and technique, they didn't try to match speed with speed. Hit them early, hit them often, always jam at the line

Gaaaaaaaarrrrrbage call + makeup call = what do we pay these refs for.

Tyreek Hill is Questionable to return.

Herbert's instincts in the pocket tonight... it's like he's got spider sense or something. If he had gone through a proper throwing motion, Van Ginkel strip sacks him and somehow he knew.

Why did Denver waste all those TOs? WTF were they thinking?

Oh no, poor Tommy, that's terrible, woe is him, we're all very sympathetic over here I can tell you.

You'll get no objections from me. Whatever happens this year, get Kromer his guys in the off season. Kromer's an asset. Utilize him.

You've got it. And you haven't drank yourself to death since Harry Kane's spot kick, so you've got that going for you as well.

Words of ***** wisdom here. The panicking is out of hand.

DL won the game today. That's good to see.

I never thought i would see a Gordon Wood pull on this message board. Well done.

Victory formation for Cinci!

Success over time is the best indicator of talent. Tua's got 2/3s of season with the best WRs in the league and a mad scientist coach. Film always catches up with scheme.

New poster trying to be edgy.

This Bills team, with McBeane and JA have a lot left to do. Like get a Lombardi. At no point though should they worry about being kind, gentle or magnanimous to the Patriots. Without Brady, Belichick is a . 500 coach. As a GM, he couldn't sell lemonade on a sidewalk in August.

Exactly. They need another...18 or so years of this before we're square. Just the way things are, unfortunately. If the Pats need somebody to feel sorry for them or show pity, there's plenty of other places to look.