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2 hours ago, B-Man said:
Yup. I think it's safe to say that everyone in this thread hopes Ukraine is doing as well as they're telling us they're doing.
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34 minutes ago, All_Pro_Bills said:
Hey.. I don't make policy. I just try to interpret what's going on the best I can. I'm sticking to my basic premise this war could have been avoided with a genuine effort and desire from all parties to reach some mutually agreeable compromise. Its a shameful waste of life and a cause of much unnecessary suffering. But all the involved parties only see conditions and circumstances through the lens of their interests and views, dig in their heels, and fail to understand or assess the interests and positions from the other guys viewpoint.
Russia's said it over and over again. They don't want peace, they want to win. For them, winning is erasing Ukraine and Ukrainians from the history books through torture, murder, reeducation and deportation. Ukraine's offered concessions for peace, Russia has rejected them all. Zelensky called Putin personally the day before the invasion because he thought it was a bluff and wanted to negotiate more. Putin didn't pick up the phone.
One side wants to annihilate the other side, and says so repeatedly. What I don't understand are people saying "well they really should find common ground and wrap this thing up". Great, what's the common ground between a free country vs. we're going to destroy you utterly and have fun doing it?
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1 hour ago, TSOL said:
33 billion huh? Might as well just make Ukraine the 51st state.
So far as new states go...you could do worse...
Hopefully most of that gets paid with seized assets from Putin-friendly oligarchs.
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1 hour ago, sherpa said:
This thing has got to wind down in the next month.
How?
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5 hours ago, Tiberius said:
Revisiting this exchange, let's not go crazy and think this shows some kind of critical fault line in Russian society based on the war. But it's where Russian conservatism has jumped the shark from conservatism to fascism. Old dude didn't get all those medals, ribbons and white hair delivering pizza. Still, young guy in the slick network gettup jumps right down his throat because he might be telling the naked emperor that he's naked. And the emperor can never be naked because that's the party line and you tow the party line.
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13 minutes ago, All_Pro_Bills said:
I believe they're also referring to conventional and nuclear hyper-sonic weapons which fly at speeds of about 3,600 MPH. I'd deffer to the expertise of others but from what I understand there is no reliable defense against those types of offensive missiles.
FWIW, I think that's exactly what they mean too.
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4 hours ago, Tiberius said:
The egghead screaming at the guy with all the medals is trying so hard to look like Tucker Carlson.
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2 hours ago, Niagara Bill said:
Today Russian TV reporting joked about their new rockets eliminating UK and NYC. State media is controlled by Putin, so do we take this as a direct threat?
Not a day goes by without Russia crying wolf about their nuclear arsenal. Whenever they start fantasizing about nuking all their enemies, what I hear is Fredo is smart and he wants respect.
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3 minutes ago, Tiberius said:
I think the smaller profile was also a way (they hoped) to reduce target size for anti-tank guns.
Yup. This war has me reading a lot of stuff, re-reading a lot of stuff with new perspective...and if you asked my woman, reading way too much about Soviet era weapons systems.
Doesn't help one of my coworkers is a Tanker in the Reserves.
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7 hours ago, ALF said:
Russia's tanks in Ukraine have a 'jack-in-the-box' design flaw. And the West has known about it since the Gulf war
Russian tanks with their tops blown off are just the latest sign that Russia's invasion of Ukraine isn't going to plan.
Hundreds of Russian tanks are thought to have been destroyed since Moscow launched its offensive, with British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace on Monday estimating it had lost as many as 580.
The problem relates to how the tanks' ammunition is stored. Unlike modern Western tanks, Russian ones carry multiple shells within their turrets. This makes them highly vulnerable as even an indirect hit can start a chain reaction that explodes their entire ammunition store of up to 40 shells.
The resulting shockwave can be enough to blast the tank's turret as high as a two-story building, as can be seen in a recent video on social media.
Drummond said exploding munitions are causing problems for almost all of the armored vehicles Russia is using in Ukraine. He gave the example of the BMD-4 infantry fighting vehicle, typically manned by up to three crew and able to carry another five soldiers. He said the BMD-4 was a "mobile coffin" that was "just obliterated" when hit by a rocket.
But the design flaw with its tanks should be particularly galling for Moscow as the problems have been so widely telegraphed.
They came to the attention of Western militaries during the Gulf wars against Iraq in 1991 and 2003, when large numbers of the Iraqi army's Russian-made T-72 tanks suffered the same fate -- turrets being blown from their bodies in anti-tank missile strikes.https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/europe/russia-tanks-blown-turrets-intl-hnk-ml/index.html
Hooooo boy yeah. Russia uses 3 man tank crews and replace the loader crewman with an automatic loading system. The automatic loader stores the ammunition in a "carousel" around the turret ring, instead of a sealed off compartment in the back of the turret. So as a Russian tank fires, the carousel clicks around like a cylinder in a revolver. It's a great idea for keeping your tanks small and your crew sizes small, but the crew is also sitting in the middle of a ring of 125 mm shells if the tank gets hit.
The Soviets wanted smaller, lighter tanks to keep them cheap and mobile. They figured in a WWIII type scenario, getting there first, with the most and the biggest guns trumped ergonomics and crew survivability.
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6 hours ago, B-Man said:
*Clutches Pearls*. How dare Joe Biden escalate against a country whose only policy is escalation! Cooler heads need to come together, and tell other people to give up their land and liberty so we can be safe! My lord the Federalist author is happy to turn over Ukrainian civilians for rape, torture, murder and "reeducation", but for the love of God don't arm them, people might get killed and Russia might get angry! It's perfectly alright to feed Ukrainians into Russia's police dungeons, filtration camps and mass graves if it leads to peace, but for them to die fighting their would-be conquerors is some kind of moral swamp we have to climb out of?
What a joke.
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6 hours ago, Tiberius said:
"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them"-Sir Arthur Harris
"There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare"-Sun Tzu
Man, all those deals full of Ukrainian concessions that Russia left on the table a month ago so they could get their Short Victorious War...
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2 hours ago, Doc said:
Shut up bloody peasant! Oh, what a giveaway.
Power derives from a popular mandate from the masses, not some farcical aquatic ceremony.
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1 hour ago, Tiberius said:
It's like the black knight scene in Monty Python's Holy Grail
Sad. And why not? His pet patriarch will bless anything he does.
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17 hours ago, Tiberius said:
Russia might be heading for turmoil
Man, it's like Russia is going through all the stages of the Vietnam experience in fast forward.
There's growing chatter that May 9th will be Russia's formal declaration of war against Ukraine instead of the big victory celebration. The much vaunted offensive in the Donbass is doing what everyone though it would so far, which is gain ground here and there and achieve very, very little.
Now if Russia is going to declare war on May 9th, expect some kind of insane gesture to try and "reset" the situation. Like Russia also declaring war on Finland or Sweden, or the Baltics. Quite possibly on us, so they can have a life-or-death "struggle for survival" that's entirely of their own making, due to their own stupidity.
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39 minutes ago, Tiberius said:
This is the first I’m hearing of it. Did you see the two oligarchs that killed their families and themselves? Something is up
What the ***** is up with that country.
I might just watch Tucker Carlson tonight, so he can go on explaining why Russia's "interests" need to be respected or whatever he's on about
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31 minutes ago, Tiberius said:
I'm behind on this part of the Ukraine war news. So critically important bits of Russian industry have all started catching fire at the same time?
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Per Russia, their losses are:
KIA, 13,441
MIA, 7,000
WIA, no number given.
116 Sailors when down with the Moskva, 100+ are still missing and at this point are probably lost at sea. Make of this what you can.
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2 hours ago, SoCal Deek said:
So I guess the question is why doesn’t the west seem to know that?
We only just learned. Instead of knocking over some tiny, 3rd world country, Russia thought it could roll over a real military supported by a determined, patriotic people and their government.
Of the three things I mentioned, the bluff part was the most important. Nobody, not Bush, Obama, or Trump ever called it, and Biden only got to call it by accident.
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2 hours ago, Tiberius said:
Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a message to the West as he oversaw a planned test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile on Wednesday — a move that comes as Russia renews its campaign to take eastern Ukraine.
The weapon will “provide food for thought to those who in the heat of frenzied aggressive rhetoric try to threaten our country,” Putin said in televised remarks. The Pentagon said Wednesday the United States was properly notified of the test, which it said did not come as a surprise to Washington.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/20/russia-ukraine-war-news-mariupol-live-updates/
A fraud of a superpower based on petrodollars, mountains of rusting Soviet weapons and a few hi tech toys, and bluffing.
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Kreminna was a tough hold. All the roads are on the west and northwest sides, with farmland or impassible terrain everywhere else. The defenders wouldn't have had the easy access to supplies, reinforcements, and very predictable escape routes.
If the Ukrainians did any counter attacking around Izyum, they were probably more like raids. Or spoiling attacks to throw off Russian preparations rather than attempts to retake the city. The Russians are attacking from the very same places they supposedly captured.
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Heading into Day 2 of The Big Attack, news is very sparse from the front. Ukraine has confirmed that North African mercs have been killed in Russian service. There's video of their bodies for anybody that wants to look for it. The city of Kaminna was taken by the Russians, population about 18k before the war.
It's right on the front lines, so Russia's making *some* progress through Ukraine's defences. More people falling into Russian hands is very bad for them, but Ukraine has some space to trade if it increases the burdens of Russian logistics.
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If you get a chance, check out Attack on Europe where they're documenting vehicle losses of all types from both sides.
It's an eye opener, and the post the proof they're using to make the determinations right there for you to see. I don't know if they scrub/edit out KIA, so be warned now.
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Pats' fans melting down over 1st rd pick, Video of McVay laughing at the pick... Brutal!
in The Stadium Wall
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Except he has outside of NE without either of those guys?