Ukraine

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/olex_scherba/status/1506019709275234316

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1506024208018649090

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1506023330566090759

[boutons_deux]

Ukraine update: Russia's equipment loss is catastrophic, and about to get worse

https://images.dailykos.com/images/1049345/story_image/FN4VIJcWUAMs8AR.jpeg?1647541128

Per the tracker from @oryxspioenkop (https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

Russia has lost 1502 vehicles, including 240 tanks and 449 A/IFVs

Ukraine has lost 373 vehicles, including 66 tanks and 113 A/IFVs

Russia has also lost a number of trucks, including 144 Ural-4320 and 173 KamAZ 6x6.https://t.co/nN5UzO9Cqk
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) March 17, 2022 (https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1504596192449241092?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/18/2086591/-Ukraine-update-Russia-s-equipment-loss-is-catastrophic-and-about-to-get-worse

[Ef-man]

More pootin gifts.

https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1505872578719764486

[boutons_deux]

BeTrayus explains how Ukraine keeps picking off Russian generals

. "What is going wrong for the Russians?" he asked David Petraeus, the retired four-star general and former CIA director.

"Well, an awful lot, actually," Petraeus said. "It's a stalemate, but we should note it's a bloody stalemate," not a truce.

"It's very, very uncommon" for U.S. generals to die in battle, Petraeus agreed, and "this is in the first three weeks, and these are quite senior generals."

"The bottom line is that their command and control has broken down,

their communications have been jammed by the Ukrainians, their secure coms didn't work (https://theweek.com/russo-ukrainian-war/1011411/ukraine-reportedly-found-and-killed-at-least-1-russian-general-by),

they had to go to single channel," then cellphones, then stolen cellphones,

Petraeus explained. "So what happens is the column gets stopped, an impatient general is sitting back there in his armored —or whatever — vehicle, he goes forward to find out what's going on because there's no initiative" among junior officers, "he gets up there, and

the Ukrainians have very, very good snipers, and they've just been picking them off, left and right.

And at least four of these five are absolutely confirmed, and I think the fifth we'll hear today."

https://theweek.com/russo-ukrainian-war/1011589/poll-republicans-less-hawkish-than-dems-on-ukraine

[Ef-man]

Get some!

https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1505839171084111875

[Thread]

[[[BeTrayus]]] explains how Ukraine keeps picking off Russian generals

. "What is going wrong for the Russians?" he asked David Petraeus, the retired four-star general and former CIA director.

"Well, an awful lot, actually," Petraeus said. "It's a stalemate, but we should note it's a bloody stalemate," not a truce.

"It's very, very uncommon" for U.S. generals to die in battle, Petraeus agreed, and "this is in the first three weeks, and these are quite senior generals."

"The bottom line is that their command and control has broken down,

their communications have been jammed by the Ukrainians, their secure coms didn't work (https://theweek.com/russo-ukrainian-war/1011411/ukraine-reportedly-found-and-killed-at-least-1-russian-general-by),

they had to go to single channel," then cellphones, then stolen cellphones,

Petraeus explained. "So what happens is the column gets stopped, an impatient general is sitting back there in his armored —or whatever — vehicle, he goes forward to find out what's going on because there's no initiative" among junior officers, "he gets up there, and

the Ukrainians have very, very good snipers, and they've just been picking them off, left and right.

And at least four of these five are absolutely confirmed, and I think the fifth we'll hear today."

https://theweek.com/russo-ukrainian-war/1011589/poll-republicans-less-hawkish-than-dems-on-ukraine

He's been a bag man for the boys downtown his whole life.

[Ef-man]

Yes, this is a T-90. :lol


https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1505981104494370825

[Ef-man]

What a shame!

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1505976094691934218

[Ef-man]

Hurry back now.

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1505972431198035977

[Thread]

https://i.insider.com/62349349c5cf2000184dc005?width=700

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/HAL96661/status/1506030019788816393

[spurraider21]

https://i.gyazo.com/676fc97aceb56795afd6c4d22504db7c.jpg

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/olex_scherba/status/1506016538033238016

[Ef-man]

Bio-labs! :lol

https://twitter.com/radeksikorski/status/1505936043803131906

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1505993487539486720

[hater]

https://i.insider.com/62349349c5cf2000184dc005?width=700

:lmao

[hater]

:lmao spurraider so mad Vladimirovich is winning :lmao

[Ef-man]

Civilians taking on russians and winning! :lol

RPG-18 (Mukha)


https://twitter.com/ResistUA/status/1504530428258103311

[Ef-man]

Good for parts.

https://twitter.com/BlessedCloudz/status/1505737140570783744

[SnakeBoy]

I see from your posts that defending Nazi's is an important topic for you! :lol

lol researching old posts

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[ChumpDumper]

:lmao spurraider so mad Vladimirovich is winning :lmao

:lmao hater so mad he's forever wrong about the easiest call of the decade :lmao

[hater]

lol researching old posts

https://media3.giphy.com/media/Sn1x12eSVXTji/giphy.gif?cid=790b761156c658bd8c558cd442dd91159695 d7031137ed3b&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g

:lmao

[hater]

:lmao hater so mad he's forever wrong about the easiest call of the decade :lmao

:lmao Chimp so mad Lavrov is winning :lmao

:lol

[ChumpDumper]

:lmao Chimp so mad Lavrov is winning :lmao

:lolI called a Russian win over Ukraine from the beginning.

You called no invasion.

You called no roads would be used.

You called it over in 3-5 days.

:lmao you are forever completely wrong and everyone here will always know it.

Does it hurt?

[hater]

:lmao

Ma niga Lavrov going pubes deep :lmao

https://twitter.com/RealPepeEscobar/status/1506026094373318671?s=19

[Ef-man]

lol researching old posts

https://media3.giphy.com/media/Sn1x12eSVXTji/giphy.gif?cid=790b761156c658bd8c558cd442dd91159695 d7031137ed3b&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g

Not denying your Nazi sensitivity. :tu

[GB20]

:lmao spurraider so mad Vladimirovich is winning :lmao
Hey Hater, do you want to call it that Putin is winning? Come on Hater call it right now.

[hater]

Hey Hater, do you want to call it that Putin is winning? Come on Hater call it right now.

I said Russia made a miscalculation. Due to economy, etc

I was probably wrong there too. But stucking to my call :lmao

But right now with 80k Ukranian soldiers surrounded in the cauldron and Zelensky qnd NATO leaving them for dead. Only a complete retard would disagree that Russia is winning :lmao :lmao

[boutons_deux]

Kremlin Parrots Lara Logan After She Connects Ukrainian Soldiers to Nazis and the Occult


https://am14.mediaite.com/med/cnt/uploads/2022/03/GettyImages-866723974-scaled-e1647902241859.jpg

Logan said she did not “buy” reporting which shows Russia has inflicted widespread devastation on Ukraine since its invasion of the country.

I’ve been covering wars now for 35 years.”

The former 60 Minutes correspondent went on to attack Ukrainian troops, linking them to Nazis and a Third Reich-era obsession with the occult (https://academic.oup.com/gh/article-abstract/30/4/528/574849?redirectedFrom=PDF).

https://www.mediaite.com/news/kremlin-echos-lara-logan-after-she-connects-ukrainian-soldiers-to-nazis-and-the-occult/

[Trill Clinton]

Crazy how quick the ST white supremacists and suspected white supremacists turned their back on their dear nazis.

[DMC]

lol researching old posts

https://media3.giphy.com/media/Sn1x12eSVXTji/giphy.gif?cid=790b761156c658bd8c558cd442dd91159695 d7031137ed3b&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g

:lmao

[DMC]

I said Russia made a miscalculation. Due to economy, etc

I was probably wrong there too. But stucking to my call :lmao

But right now with 80k Ukranian soldiers surrounded in the cauldron and Zelensky qnd NATO leaving them for dead. Only a complete retard would disagree that Russia is winning :lmao :lmao

Oh no, they are losing big time, just ask the Ukraine propaganda machine here. It's amazing how people will flat out deny the obvious and pretend a country who started the conflict by begging for help is somehow going to defeat Russia.

[DMC]

Crazy how quick the ST white supremacists and suspected white supremacists turned their back on their dear nazis.

You're out of your element here eh? White people killing each other, you must be so internally conflicted.

[ChumpDumper]

Oh no, they are losing big time, just ask the Ukraine propaganda machine here. It's amazing how people will flat out deny the obvious and pretend a country who started the conflict by begging for help is somehow going to defeat Russia.

No one here is saying Ukraine is winning militarily.

Just that your Putin has been exposed as incompetent and could lose rather hilariously.

[ElNono]

https://i.gyazo.com/676fc97aceb56795afd6c4d22504db7c.jpg

:lmao

[ElNono]

Hey Hater, do you want to call it that Putin is winning? Come on Hater call it right now.

:lmao

[ElNono]

Oh no, they are losing big time, just ask the Ukraine propaganda machine here. It's amazing how people will flat out deny the obvious and pretend a country who started the conflict by begging for help is somehow going to defeat Russia.

What's the obvious?

[Ef-man]

https://i.gyazo.com/676fc97aceb56795afd6c4d22504db7c.jpg

:lol

[DMC]

What's the obvious?

That a country like Ukraine doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of defeating Russia. Russia is on par with China and the US in military might. If Russia negotiates it will be because Putin got what he wanted. Sure he wanted it faster, so did GWB when he gave the famous battle won speech from that carrier, but it wasn't over even 20 years later. So if you're willing to call it a win when your entire country is flattened, because you captured a few tanks and trucks, well, you're not really interested in facts. If the US was invaded, the US would turn the tables like we did in Japan after Pearl Harbor, we wouldn't beg for help just because we paid someone's son absurd amounts to bang out 8balls and whores.

Not sure what you think a loss is, if that's a win.

And for sure chirpy will chirp in 3..2..

[ChumpDumper]

That a country like Afghanistan doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of defeating Russia.:lolK

[Thread]

:lmao

Ma niga Lavrov going pubes deep :lmao

https://twitter.com/RealPepeEscobar/status/1506026094373318671?s=19

Lavrov

[Thread]

https://i.insider.com/62349349c5cf2000184dc005?width=700

[ChumpDumper]

That a country like Ukraine doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of defeating Russia. Russia is on par with China and the US in military might. If Russia negotiates it will be because Putin got what he wanted. Sure he wanted it faster, so did GWB when he gave the famous battle won speech from that carrier, but it wasn't over even 20 years later. So if you're willing to call it a win when your entire country is flattened, because you captured a few tanks and trucks, well, you're not really interested in facts. If the US was invaded, the US would turn the tables like we did in Japan after Pearl Harbor, we wouldn't beg for help just because we paid someone's son absurd amounts to bang out 8balls and whores.

Not sure what you think a loss is, if that's a win.

And for sure chirpy will chirp in 3..2..:lol you edited in that last part.

screensh:lolt

[DMX7]

https://i.gyazo.com/676fc97aceb56795afd6c4d22504db7c.jpg

:rollin

[hater]

Crazy how quick the ST white supremacists and suspected white supremacists turned their back on their dear nazis.

Lol black people have bo role in here :lmao

[ElNono]

That a country like Ukraine doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of defeating Russia. Russia is on par with China and the US in military might. If Russia negotiates it will be because Putin got what he wanted. Sure he wanted it faster, so did GWB when he gave the famous battle won speech from that carrier, but it wasn't over even 20 years later. So if you're willing to call it a win when your entire country is flattened, because you captured a few tanks and trucks, well, you're not really interested in facts. If the US was invaded, the US would turn the tables like we did in Japan after Pearl Harbor, we wouldn't beg for help just because we paid someone's son absurd amounts to bang out 8balls and whores.

Not sure what you think a loss is, if that's a win.

And for sure chirpy will chirp in 3..2..

Thanks. I would've agreed with your initial sentence when this war started, especially before seeing the EU and US coming together the way they have. And it's still possible that Russia ends up bombing Ukraine into submission.

What's not so clear to me anymore is that Russia can afford a 5 year (much less a 10 or 20 year) war. Right now it's clear to me that Ukraine will have an endless supply of weapons if they're willing to fight, whereas Russia is going to have a lot more problems in the long run in that area.

What I call a win or loss is what the purported objectives are. For Russia, despite being fairly vague in their statements, I think it's pretty clear they ultimately want to annex Donetsk and Luhansk, on top of Crimea. Possibly Mariupol as well to have a full corridor on the Black Sea, and at the end of the day choke the Ukrainian commerce.

For Ukraine, it's defending their sovereignty, including those lands. If we go by cities taken, and considering this supposed overwhelming force, I can't think Russia achieved their objectives so far, and at this point it certainly looks pretty embarrassing, tbh...

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https://i.insider.com/62349349c5cf2000184dc005?width=700

The Ayatollah, of rock & rolla!!!

Putin: "There has been too much violence. Too much pain. But I have an honorable compromise. Just walk away and I'll spare your lives. Just walk away and we'll give you a safe passageway in the wastelands. Just walk away and there will be an end to the horror."

[hater]

The Ayatollah, of rock & rolla!!!

Putin: "There has been too much violence. Too much pain. But I have an honorable compromise. Just walk away and I'll spare your lives. Just walk away and we'll give you a safe passageway in the wastelands. Just walk away and there will be an end to the horror."

Darwin waiting in the corner with a sledgehammer

[Ef-man]

Post of the year! :lol


https://i.gyazo.com/676fc97aceb56795afd6c4d22504db7c.jpg

[DMC]

Thanks. I would've agreed with your initial sentence when this war started, especially before seeing the EU and US coming together the way they have. And it's still possible that Russia ends up bombing Ukraine into submission.

What's not so clear to me anymore is that Russia can afford a 5 year (much less a 10 or 20 year) war. Right now it's clear to me that Ukraine will have an endless supply of weapons if they're willing to fight, whereas Russia is going to have a lot more problems in the long run in that area.

What I call a win or loss is what the purported objectives are. For Russia, despite being fairly vague in their statements, I think it's pretty clear they ultimately want to annex Donetsk and Luhansk, on top of Crimea. Possibly Mariupol as well to have a full corridor on the Black Sea, and at the end of the day choke the Ukrainian commerce.

For Ukraine, it's defending their sovereignty, including those lands. If we go by cities taken, and considering this supposed overwhelming force, I can't think Russia achieved their objectives so far, and at this point it certainly looks pretty embarrassing, tbh...

The war sucks but all in all I prefer to see Russia deplete its resources basically bombing itself than for the US to commit to another long, drawn out conflict with no resolution.

It only looks embarrassing because people think a war can be won video game style. Russia throws bodies at it just like WWII. They will win by attrition, even if the narrative minded folks want to say otherwise. You won't see a Ukrainian waving their flag at the Kremlin. Unlike the US, Russia doesn't weep at every soldier's funeral.

[hater]

The war sucks but all in all I prefer to see Russia deplete its resources basically bombing itself than for the US to commit to another long, drawn out conflict with no resolution.

It only looks embarrassing because people think a war can be won video game style. Russia throws bodies at it just like WWII. They will win by attrition, even if the narrative minded folks want to say otherwise. You won't see a Ukrainian waving their flag at the Kremlin. Unlike the US, Russia doesn't weep at every soldier's funeral.

Pretty much

Russia and Pudding already calculated a Ukraine win will cost 20, 30 or even 40k dead russians.

They already ok with that.

Dumb americans believe thats unthinkable as US junk food eaters would have a revolution if 10k overweight gringos die in a skirmish.

Ce la vi

[DMC]

nope. i correctly pointed out that the post you quoted did not have a double negative

then you threw a fit about it

probably should have just edited it instead of doubling down on a mistake

as usual, you have no actual takes on the substance

Take your L and move along. :lol

[ElNono]

The war sucks but all in all I prefer to see Russia deplete its resources basically bombing itself than for the US to commit to another long, drawn out conflict with no resolution.

It only looks embarrassing because people think a war can be won video game style. Russia throws bodies at it just like WWII. They will win by attrition, even if the narrative minded folks want to say otherwise. You won't see a Ukrainian waving their flag at the Kremlin. Unlike the US, Russia doesn't weep at every soldier's funeral.

I don't think the US needs to do anything other than provide Ukraine with what it needs. As long as this conflict remains Ukraine vs Russia, and Russia keeps bombing indiscriminately, this is the best free advertising NATO could ever have.

Ukraine is not looking to conquer Russia, so I don't know why you even mention the Ukrainian flag at the Kremlin. Ukraine simply wants to repel the invader, that would unequivocally be a win for them. It looks embarrassing exactly because of what you mentioned in your previous post. The fact that Russia still has to take over a major city despite the Ukraine not having a "snowball chance" as you put it, after a month in, is indeed embarrassing. A war of attrition, especially guerrilla type of warfare, is a big equalizer, as both Russia and the US have seen in Afghanistan.

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https://i.insider.com/62349349c5cf2000184dc005?width=700

The Ayatollah, of rock & rolla!!!

Putin: "There has been too much violence. Too much pain. But I have an honorable compromise. Just walk away and I'll spare your lives. Just walk away and we'll give you a safe passageway in the wastelands. Just walk away and there will be an end to the horror."

[Thread]

"Just walk away."

[DMC]

I don't think the US needs to do anything other than provide Ukraine with what it needs. As long as this conflict remains Ukraine vs Russia, and Russia keeps bombing indiscriminately, this is the best free advertising NATO could ever have.

Ukraine is not looking to conquer Russia, so I don't know why you even mention the Ukrainian flag at the Kremlin. Ukraine simply wants to repel the invader, that would unequivocally be a win for them. It looks embarrassing exactly because of what you mentioned in your previous post. The fact that Russia still has to take over a major city despite the Ukraine not having a "snowball chance" as you put it, after a month in, is indeed embarrassing. A war of attrition, especially guerrilla type of warfare, is a big equalizer, as both Russia and the US have seen in Afghanistan.
Just because Ukraine has lower goals doesn't mean their pounding = winning. I mean, if I approached a BJJ expert and broke his nose with one punch and he proceeded to kick the ever loving shit out of me, did I win? All I wanted was to break his nose. Yay I win, but he lost because he's an expert with a broken nose...

Along that same line..

Let’s discuss the legal use of force and proportional force to neutralize an attack and get to safety.

Something that we need to get out of the way first:

A martial artist, combat athlete, systems practitioner or whatever else they may choose to call their training has the same right to self-defense as anyone else. You are not (outside of the territory of Guam) a “deadly weapon”. You have the right to defend yourself or those in your charge against bodily harm.

With that being said, there is an escalation of force.

A scenario.

Scenario 1: The drunk guy at the bar.

You and your friends and/or romantic partner are at a bar, perhaps watching a game. There is a drunk man there, being loud and rambunctious. For some reason, this drunk person has taken an interest in you, your friends, or your romantic partner. He says a couple of choice things, you tell him to chill, and he pushes you not knowing that you are a trained martial artist.

Response 1: You roll with his push, take him into a hold, and tell the bartender to call the police. He’s unhurt, you’re unhurt. There are lots of witnesses to the fact that he pushed you. This is an appropriate use of force and ability. The chances of criminal charges are minimal.

Response 2: After he pushes you, you slam an elbow into his jaw, throw him to the ground, smack his head off the floor, elbow him until he’s unconscious. There are a lot of witnesses to the fact that he pushed you, there are also a lot of witnesses to the fact that you just did your best Jon Jones impression on this drunk fool. This is an inappropriate use of force and ability. The chances of criminal charges are very very high. You’re going to get arrested at the scene, no question. Your history of martial arts is going to be used as evidence, and the prosecutor is going to take it into account. Felonious charges will probably ensue.

Response 3: After he pushes you, you strike him once, right in the jaw, knocking him out. Lots of witnesses again. This is a legal grey area, and it could go either way. A lot is going to depend on the local law enforcement, the prosecutor and the like. 50/50 chances of criminal charges. You may be arrested. I would lawyer up hard in this case. Again, martial arts knowledge can be used as evidence, at least in the police reports.

Response 4: You get angry after he shoves you, and ask him “to step outside”. You both go out in the parking lot and fight. A fight in which the trained fighter/martial artist wins, in brutal fashion. You are both going to jail, full stop. Both are probably going to be charged with assault and battery, perhaps later felony charges, and there are plenty of civil liabilities here as well.

The point of this situation is quite simple, you are at a bar, with a drunk person, and he is causing issues. You asked him to calm down, he continued to talk, you told him to chill out, he walks over and shoves you. How you respond to his situation is all about proportional use of force, A shove is not a deadly force attack, and doesn’t warrant a deadly response. Response 1 is the correct response.

A better response is to simply get up and leave the bar, not to even be there for this kind of thing to happen. When it comes to self-defense an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of response.

A much more dire situation is if the drunk guy follows you outside, proceeds to attack you while threatening to rape your romantic partner (usually a girlfriend). I’ve had this happen to me. This is a deadly force situation. You now have the legal right to do whatever it takes to neutralize the threat, up to and including deadly force. The same is if he at any time produces a weapon, whether it be something he is carrying, such as a knife, pipe, or firearm, or a “weapon of opportunity”, like a chair or a rock. Anytime weapons come into play, the scene immediately shifts to deadly force.

You shouldn’t be “fighting” though, if you are a martial artist, and want to fight, get in the ring or cage. You shouldn’t be walking into a parking lot, knowingly, to “duke it out”. Dueling is illegal, and that’s the way it is. Doing so will almost certainly result in legal issues, assault and battery mainly, and civil liabilities. While you may not be a “deadly weapon”, your history in martial arts and combat sports can and will be taken into account by law enforcement and especially by a complaining attorney. It’s better to completely avoid “fights” as a martial artist, and you should know better. A self-defense situation isn’t a “fight”, it’s just that; a sudden, and possibly deadly, a situation in which you must make responsible decisions about levels of force to defend yourself and neutralize the situation.

Having training, and knowing how to use it, is a massive responsibility. Combat ability is a burden as much as it is a privilege. There is no claiming ignorance of the damage something can do, there is know claiming, “going blank”, a half-decent attorney is going to shred that on the stand.

“You’re a trained martial artist?”

“Yes”

“And you told the police you ‘lost control and went blank’?”

“Yes, but you see, it’s-”

“Yes or no, please.”

“Yes.”

“According to reports with the local boxing commission you have 8 amateur mixed martial arts fights/according to your dojo’s records you’ve been training for 10-years?”

“That’s correct…”

“No further questions”

“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, how does a trained martial artist who has fought in a steel cage eight times/has ten years experience “lose control”, blank out, and clinically beat up my client, who is untrained, inexperienced…”

While the fault for the beginning of the conflict may be shared, the trained martial artist escalated the level of force used and caused damage in a conflict that could have been avoided.

“Judgement for the plaintiff in the amount of….”

Unless, of course, you have the money for a cracking legal team, in which case; was the fight worth it?

Don’t fight, simple as that. Don’t do it. Because training can and will be used against you as evidence, either by the state prosecutor or in civil litigation.

Defend yourself, absolutely. Neutralize a threat, even kill to protect your life or the lives of others, that is without question. But take these actions knowing the appropriate response. As a martial artist or combat athlete, you have taken on the responsibility and effort to learn something that is incredibly difficult, which means you take on the responsibility to learn how it should be applied. No excuses.

So in the end I win, even if I got my ass kicked, because he's in jail and I am free, even with a kicked ass.

[spurraider21]

The war sucks but all in all I prefer to see Russia deplete its resources basically bombing itself than for the US to commit to another long, drawn out conflict with no resolution.

It only looks embarrassing because people think a war can be won video game style. Russia throws bodies at it just like WWII. They will win by attrition, even if the narrative minded folks want to say otherwise. You won't see a Ukrainian waving their flag at the Kremlin. Unlike the US, Russia doesn't weep at every soldier's funeral.
It’s not because it’s video game style. It’s because we’ve seen the US “win” such wars with ease in Afghanistan and Iraq. I put win in quotes because we did defeat their military and topple their governments. I’m not saying they’re good things or that the ultimate outcome of long engagements was an accomplishment.

meanwhile russia easily swooped up crimea years ago so those expectations were there again. But russia folding against resistance isn’t unique. They couldn’t topple Afghanistan either.

[SnakeBoy]

Thanks. I would've agreed with your initial sentence when this war started, especially before seeing the EU and US coming together the way they have. And it's still possible that Russia ends up bombing Ukraine into submission.

What's not so clear to me anymore is that Russia can afford a 5 year (much less a 10 or 20 year) war. Right now it's clear to me that Ukraine will have an endless supply of weapons if they're willing to fight, whereas Russia is going to have a lot more problems in the long run in that area.

What I call a win or loss is what the purported objectives are. For Russia, despite being fairly vague in their statements, I think it's pretty clear they ultimately want to annex Donetsk and Luhansk, on top of Crimea. Possibly Mariupol as well to have a full corridor on the Black Sea, and at the end of the day choke the Ukrainian commerce.

For Ukraine, it's defending their sovereignty, including those lands. If we go by cities taken, and considering this supposed overwhelming force, I can't think Russia achieved their objectives so far, and at this point it certainly looks pretty embarrassing, tbh...

Looks like Ukraine will last maybe 5 or 6 more weeks not 5 years :lol

[SnakeBoy]

Libs watching Ukraine Nazi propaganda on twitter

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[DarrinS]

Libs watching Ukraine Nazi propaganda on twitter

https://media2.giphy.com/media/CO7xyiUlvkG6Q/giphy.gif?cid=790b7611f54e58750b9df1a3674e93553db6 8e79d9e67e64&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g


:lmao

[SnakeBoy]

The U.N. human rights office (OHCHR) said on Monday it had recorded 2,421 civilian casualties in Ukraine - 925 killed and 1,496 injured - as of midnight on March 20.

Pootin being more careful than we were in Iraq tbh

[Thread]

"Just walk away."

[Thread]

The U.N. human rights office (OHCHR) said on Monday it had recorded 2,421 civilian casualties in Ukraine - 925 killed and 1,496 injured - as of midnight on March 20.

Pootin being more careful than we were in Iraq tbh

Snakester

[ElNono]

Just because Ukraine has lower goals doesn't mean their pounding = winning. I mean, if I approached a BJJ expert and broke his nose with one punch and he proceeded to kick the ever loving shit out of me, did I win? All I wanted was to break his nose. Yay I win, but he lost because he's an expert with a broken nose...

Along that same line..

Let’s discuss the legal use of force and proportional force to neutralize an attack and get to safety.

...

So in the end I win, even if I got my ass kicked, because he's in jail and I am free, even with a kicked ass.

Ukraine has the goals it has because it was the country invaded, and wants to stop the invasion. They're not the ones going out there trying to conquer shit. You have to pin that on Russia that thought Ukraine would take the knee right away, and completely miscalculated.

What could possibly be the escalation from Russia at this stage that wouldn't look desperate? dropping a tactical nuke? using bioweapons?

[ElNono]

Looks like Ukraine will last maybe 5 or 6 more weeks not 5 years :lol

I heard here this was going to be over in 3-5 days, and we're a month in, so your mileage may vary, tbh

[ElNono]

Libs watching Ukraine Nazi propaganda on twitter

https://media2.giphy.com/media/CO7xyiUlvkG6Q/giphy.gif?cid=790b7611f54e58750b9df1a3674e93553db6 8e79d9e67e64&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g

Reminds me of Trumptards when Brandon took em to the cuckshed...

[Adam Lambert]

Looks like Ukraine will last maybe 5 or 6 more weeks not 5 years :lol

HAHAHAHAHA That's hilarious! Love to dunk on smaller countries getting destroyed!

Lmao Libs!

You're a fucking loser. What a sad angry little faggot. :lol

[Adam Lambert]

Just fascinating how much time some of you spend here taking indefensible positions for the attention.

[DarrinS]

HAHAHAHAHA That's hilarious! Love to dunk on smaller countries getting destroyed!

Lmao Libs!

You're a fucking loser. What a sad angry little faggot. :lol

:cry


https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/image.php?u=27316&dateline=1313765490

[Adam Lambert]

:cry


https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/image.php?u=27316&dateline=1313765490

Triggered by an avatar again. You prove my point.

[Thread]

HAHAHAHAHA That's hilarious! Love to dunk on smaller countries getting destroyed!

Lmao Libs!

You're a fucking loser. What a sad angry little faggot. :lol


Just fascinating how much time some of you spend here taking indefensible positions for the attention.


Triggered by an avatar again. You prove my point.

Get ya fuckin' your mother some more, Adam.

Chop/chop!!!

[SnakeBoy]

1505969973969178630

[ElNono]

1505969973969178630

EC: EU Funds to Hungary Withheld Due to Need to Strengthen Anti-Corruption Framework

https://hungarytoday.hu/coronavirus-covid-19-european-union-eu-commission-recovery-funds-hungary-child-protection-law/

tee hee

[Ef-man]

Reminds me of Trumptards when Brandon took em to the cuckshed...

:lol

And they still have not recovered!

[HemisfairArena]

Just breaking now,,,Ukraine starting to buckle and fold to Putin,,,

https://news.yahoo.com/live-updates-least-4-killed-061854967.html

[Ef-man]

Even India MSM is seeing the russians getting their asses kicked.

https://twitter.com/IndiaToday/status/1506141616851111936

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1506036810778136584

[Thread]

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1506036810778136584

"Just walk away."

[Thread]

https://i.insider.com/62349349c5cf2000184dc005?width=700

[Ef-man]

https://i.gyazo.com/676fc97aceb56795afd6c4d22504db7c.jpg

:lol

[SnakeBoy]

Vice President Kamala Harris’ national security adviser Nancy McEldowney is stepping down from her role to “focus on personal matters.”

McEldowney reportedly said in the memo that she was stepping down to “focus on some pressing personal matters.”

“This was a difficult decision because I am so deeply committed to the work we do and the crucial national interest we serve,” she wrote. “But after more than a year, this is the right decision for my family.”

https://c.tenor.com/6PpQdyTHY3QAAAAd/tenor.gif

[ElNono]

Just breaking now,,,Ukraine starting to buckle and fold to Putin,,,

https://news.yahoo.com/live-updates-least-4-killed-061854967.html

lol @ "just breaking now", he's been saying the same thing for over a week now... this is from 3 days ago:

But Mikhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, tweeted: “Our positions are unchanged. Ceasefire, withdrawal of troops & strong security guarantees with concrete formulas.”

https://news.yahoo.com/live-updates-least-4-killed-061854967.html

Putler wants to keep land though, and Ukraine ain't budging on that one.

[ElNono]

Vice President Kamala Harris’ national security adviser Nancy McEldowney is stepping down from her role to “focus on personal matters.”

McEldowney reportedly said in the memo that she was stepping down to “focus on some pressing personal matters.”

“This was a difficult decision because I am so deeply committed to the work we do and the crucial national interest we serve,” she wrote. “But after more than a year, this is the right decision for my family.”

https://c.tenor.com/6PpQdyTHY3QAAAAd/tenor.gif

There was a "shut up Nancy" joke there somwhere...

[daboom1]

https://i.insider.com/62349349c5cf2000184dc005?width=700

https://i.makeagif.com/media/7-12-2015/JJmNAq.gif

[ChumpDumper]

So telling that the ST "muh freedom" brigade really hate freedom when it comes right down to it.

[daboom1]

https://i.insider.com/62349349c5cf2000184dc005?width=700

https://i.makeagif.com/media/7-12-2015/JJmNAq.gif

[ElNono]

Kyiv: President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that Ukraine could not fulfil "Russian ultimatums," claiming Moscow was seeking to "destroy" his country.

"Ukraine cannot fulfil Russian ultimatums. We should be destroyed first, then their ultimatum would be fulfilled," he told local media. He said Moscow wanted Ukraine to "hand over" Kharkiv, Mariupol and Kyiv, adding that neither the people of those cities "or me, as president, can do this."

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/ukraine-russia-crisis-ukraine-cannot-fulfill-russian-ultimatums-says-president-zelensky-2835107

[Thread]

So telling that the ST "muh freedom" brigade really hate freedom when it comes right down to it.

"Just walk away."

[RandomGuy]

The U.N. human rights office (OHCHR) said on Monday it had recorded 2,421 civilian casualties in Ukraine - 925 killed and 1,496 injured - as of midnight on March 20.

Pootin being more careful than we were in Iraq tbh

0/10 trolling. Not in the slightest bit funny, and no one thinks you believe this is accurate.

Seriously shitty trolling effort. You ok?

[RandomGuy]

Libs watching Ukraine Nazi propaganda on twitter


0/10 Again, the fact that even you aren't dumb enough to fall for the "Ukranian nazi" schtick makes it fall flat. smh

[RandomGuy]

Looks like Ukraine will last maybe 5 or 6 more weeks not 5 years :lol

Ukraine will outlast Russia.

Russias time table for the collapse of its invasion will be about that time frame, somewhat less than two months.

[hater]

:lmao

Jerusalem Post skewers Comedian

Religious Zionist MK Simcha Rothman took issue with Zelensky’s reference to Ukrainians who saved Jews and tweeted: “I don’t understand Ukrainian, but if the translation I heard is accurate, Zelensky asked us to treat the Ukrainians like they treated us 80 years ago. I’m sorry, but I think we will have to reject that request. We are, after all, a moral nation.”

Israelis know the history of the Holocaust very well. The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police rounded up Jews to be massacred in Babyn Yar, Lviv and Zhytomyr. About 80,000 Ukrainians volunteered for the SS, compared with 2,600 Ukrainians documented as having saved Jews. And before that, some of the worst pogroms in Jewish history were perpetrated in what is now Ukraine.

[hater]

:lmao Stupidistan

https://twitter.com/SchopenhauerOn/status/1505962569344954368?s=20

[hater]

Animal Nazis

https://twitter.com/vicktop55/status/1506166246122958848?s=19

[RandomGuy]

That a country like Ukraine doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of defeating Russia. Russia is on par with China and the US in military might.


:rollin

Russia certainly isn't on par with the US in combat aircraft.
They don't let their pilots fly enough to know how to do their jobs.
The aircraft they do have is all about a generation behind the US in avionics.
Even when they get the birds in the air, there is no clear line of command as to their missions.

Russia isn't on par with the US in terms of communication and control.
The billions they spent on upgrading their encrypted comms got flushed down the toilet of corruption and incompetence.
They have no unified command structure for this invasion.
They are using off the shelf walkie talkies, and single channel comms.

Russia isn't on par with teh US in terms of logistics.
Their logistics units clock in at about 1/4 that of their western counterparts.
Generals and on down steal fuel to sell and line their pockets.
The rations they have sent their troops to the field expired years ago, more money lining someone's pockets.


Russia isn't on par with the US in terms of an NCO backbone for their units.
Lack of discipline in small unit maneuver.
Lack of discipline in simple maintenance.
Lack of use of combined arms.
Lack of initiative when plans go wrong.

It goes on and on.

I have a hard time trying to figure out what your basis is for that. Nukes?

Russia's defense industry collapsed after the USSR did, and was never really replaced because of endemic corruption.

That won't change. Their equipment losses are gone, and won't be replaced for years, if not decades. They literally can't make this stuff anymore in any quantity.

smh

[RandomGuy]

Cheers :tu

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And you still believe US governments lies that russia will invade anyday now :lmao
Lemming


Aint no invasion gonna happen.
[b]Regardless there will be no russian boots on ukranian soil. All this invasion talk is propaganda for internal US consumption.


...
I stand by my call. Russia wont invade ukraine anytime soon. Their invasion is not imminent as retard US claims.
...
Cheers :tu



There wont be any invasion. Russia will discoose their next steps to the public in response to NATO rejection of their proporsals.




If you check Putins speech he clearly says all this has been planned months in advance. They are just executing the plan now.
[bullshit russian propaganda talking point omitted, because fuck Putin, that's why-RG]
When how and where is all up to Russia. [b]My guess is this will go slowly and methodically. Like a Boa constrictor. :lol


:lol
[B][insert current Russian propaganda talking point #1 here]:tu
and
[insert Russian propaganda talking point #2 here]:tu
You guys are brainwashed for not believing this stuff. :lmao


:lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao

Fucking clown. smh


[repeats bullshit Russian propaganda talking point #1]


:lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao

[Trill Clinton]

1505839536944910339

[RandomGuy]

Russia is on par with China and the US in military might.


https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/industry.htm


Up to 90% of all machine tools are imported to Russia from abroad.


...Like it or not, but its machine tool industry and its machine tool industry in Russia in fact is no more. However, there are no people who could work on these machines.

As recognized by the general director of "Uralvagonzavod" Oleg Sienko in 2015, "we really did not have and do not have enough skilled workers



The present condition of Russia's defense sector is critical, and the reasons are well known. One is the aging of highly qualified production personnel, many of whom are approaching retirement age. Engineering school graduates are unwilling to take jobs in the defense sector because of low wages. No worker replacements are trained anywhere in the country either. Earlier, it was taboo to draft workers from defense factories into the army. Now this privilege is abandoned, and graduates of the few surviving vocational schools seek employment elsewhere, but not in the defense sector where receiving a foreign travel passport is a problem.

Another problem is the aging of the equipment in the defense industry: its production lines and machine tools have long passed the 30-year limit. Many key technologies have been lost as have co-production links. The uncontrolled growth of energy costs is outstripping inflation and is well above the deflators provided by the Economic Development and Trade Ministry. It was obvious that the 2006-2015 government defense order would fall short in both the range and quality of products ordered

Not in training, not in capability, not in production.

This is not the USSR, but a pale, sad shadow.

Right-wing nationalist populism and crony capitalism hollowed it out. A cautionary tale, but one your ideological blinders will force you to ignore.

[RandomGuy]

1505977761726406663

Interesting it got leaked.

10,000+16,000 + ??? deserted/captured = 26,000+ or more than 10% of their total troops counts.

That puts their combat units at the edge of being completely exhausted.

[RandomGuy]

The war sucks but all in all I prefer to see Russia deplete its resources basically bombing itself than for the US to commit to another long, drawn out conflict with no resolution.

It only looks embarrassing because people think a war can be won video game style. Russia throws bodies at it just like WWII. They will win by attrition, even if the narrative minded folks want to say otherwise. You won't see a Ukrainian waving their flag at the Kremlin. Unlike the US, Russia doesn't weep at every soldier's funeral.

:lol "modern Russia is just like the USSR in WW2" :nope

Russian generals have had to lead from the front because its amateur army can’t move otherwise.

“That is the mark of an undisciplined and unprofessional army that is poorly led and poorly trained, and to make up for it, [they] push the generals into the field,” said Foggo, the retired U.S. admiral. “They’re out there, and they’re kind of winging it. This is breaking down into an undisciplined rabble.”
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/21/russia-generals-dead-ukraine/

The average Russian soldier today has zero motivation compared to his ww2 counterpart, even less training. Given their equipment losses, any conscripts will be ill-motivated, untrained riflemen that will be going up against highly-motivated ukrainian civilians of roughly the same training level.

Numbers count for something, but there is no scenario under which Russia will achieve its goals. Their operations increasingly reek of desperation, and the disorganization of their army will get worse with attrition.

[hater]

Brave patriot :tu

God bless him :tu

https://twitter.com/EnglerYves/status/1506071941232353284?s=19

[Ef-man]

https://i.gyazo.com/676fc97aceb56795afd6c4d22504db7c.jpg

:lol

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1506209853785747456

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1506280394299215874

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1506281076825763851

[RandomGuy]

Russia is on par with China and the US in military might.

:lmao

1506113379118764033

[Thread]

https://i.insider.com/62349349c5cf2000184dc005?width=700

[Thread]

1505839536944910339

"Yah, the check is in the mail, little girl, yah."

[hater]

"Yah, the check is in the mail, little girl, yah."

:lmao

Using children for war propaganda :lmao

Sick fucks

[hater]

https://i.insider.com/62349349c5cf2000184dc005?width=700

:lol

[ChumpDumper]

:lol look how tiny Putin is!

[hater]

Thisisfine.gif


https://twitter.com/mywaypress/status/1506298640339546115?s=19

[hater]

:lol look how tiny Putin is!

:lol mini vodka

[hater]

Zelensky is a midget too :lmao

These 2 retards should just fight it put in a cage match

Sadly I think the Comedian would get crucified :lol

[hater]

Lavrov :tu

“We will [never again] be under the slightest illusion that the West could be a reliable partner,” the Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov has said. “We will do everything so as never, in any way, to be dependent on the West in those areas of our life which have a decisive significance for our people.”

Those words are bound to reverberate across the world, with dramatic implications for the West. As Wolfgang Münchau has warned: “For a central bank to freeze the accounts of another central bank is a really big deal… As a direct result of these decisions, we have turned the dollar and the euro, and everything that is denominated in those currencies, into de facto risky assets”. At the very least, it will inevitably push countries to diversify their reserves and increase their yuan holdings, in order to loosen the West’s grip on their economies and bolster their economic resilience and self-sufficiency. Even if it doesn’t push countries straight into Beijing’s arms, as is already happening with Russia, it will likely lead to the emergence of two increasingly insulated blocs: a US-dominated Western bloc and a China-dominated East-Eurasian one.

[hater]

West defaults :lol


As a direct result of these decisions, we have turned the dollar and the euro, and everything that is denominated in those currencies, into de facto risky assets. The probability of default of a dollar or euro denominated asset can no longer be credibly put at zero. With a single decision, we have created a tail risk.

Of course, no credit rating agency in the world would ever acknowledge freezing central bank assets as a formal default. They will, of course, not downgrade the entire US economy to junk status. Nobody is going to pay them any fee income for that. Nor will freezing central bank assets ever trigger collateral default swaps, financial instruments that constitute a form of default insurance.

So if this is not classified as a default in a legal sense, what kind of default is it then? Think of it as a default on money’s most important promise: that it allows its holders to engage in legal transactions. There are, of course, other ways for governments and central banks to debase money, through inflation for example. But we can hedge against inflation, whereas there is no hedge against the freezing of your accounts.

I hear you say: maybe this is a price worth paying to stop a dictator from waging war. Unfortunately, it won’t. Europe is still paying Putin some €800m each day for oil and gas.

As I argued last week, an oil and gas embargo is the sanction that would have made an impact in the short-term, severely constraining his ability to replenish military stock he is using up now. The west chose the central bank sanctions because they were least inconvenient in the short run. But we did so without even considering the long-term consequences.

We are resorting to the only problem-solving method we know: kicking the can down the road. Until we hit a brick wall.

[RandomGuy]

[some bullshit bootlicking that no one will read]

Motti

1506265327973376009

1506238470985064453

1505881010956902403

We will see what happens. UKR has started more than one counter attack.

I was wondering when this was going to happen. RUS has lost enough for any hope of offensive to be lost, and will now be on the back foot defending against well-supplied, highly motivated counterattacks.

The civilian night vision goggles that are finding their way into UKR hands will make the night time rather nasty for RUS. They will not get sleep, have little food, and will run out of rifle ammo, because the supply trucks seem to be mostly tasked with artillery ammo.

Arty don't mean much when the infantry in front of them evaporate.

Слава Україні!

[Thread]

According to unconfirmed but realistic looking reports

tee, hee.

[RandomGuy]

:lol look how tiny Putin is!

Petition launched for maker of Vladimir Putin’s $13,000 jacket to denounce him


A petition has been launched calling for the maker of the jacket worn by Russian President Vladimir Putin during a rally in Moscow to denounce him and his invasion of Ukraine.

Mr Putin took the stage at the Luzhniki World Cup stadium in Moscow on Friday 18 March in a $13,000 [£10,200] Loro Piana puffer jacket. The rally was in commemoration of Russia’s 2014 invasion of Crimea.

Echo of Moscow radio correspondent Karine Orlova launched a change.org petition, saying that “Loro Piana should publicly denounce Vladimir Putin”.

“Anyone who likes anything Western is a national traitor, declared Putin and two days later appeared dressed in a $10K Loro Piana coat at a rally in Moscow promoting war in Ukraine. Putin has long been a fan of the brand – time to end this. Please, sign,” she tweeted on 19 March.

:lol
https://news.yahoo.com/petition-launched-maker-vladimir-putin-143739688.html

[ChumpDumper]

Zelensky is a midget too :lmao

These 2 retards should just fight it put in a cage match

Sadly I think the Comedian would get crucified :lol

:lmao hater trying to both sides height.

[steak n eggs]

https://i.insider.com/62349349c5cf2000184dc005?width=700
Wasted opportunity.

[RandomGuy]

Russia is on par with China and the US in military might.

“I have seen paintball teams with more tactical sense than this.”

1504729966977568776


The video, which was originally published on Telegram, appears to show Russian troops dismounting from a column of vehicles while under fire. Contrary to how U.S. troops respond to an ambush, the soldiers in the clip take a very different approach. There is little, if any, return fire and few of the soldiers take up covered positions. If there’s a leader present, he doesn’t appear to be identifying the enemy’s location. And while it’s a short video, the Russian soldiers don’t seem to be in any hurry to move out and “destroy the enemy,” as U.S. forces might. In short, it’s a clusterfuck.


The video starts with a number of troops in a lackadaisical retreat from a truck to an armored vehicle. At least a couple of people are in the prone position, aiming under one of the trucks, but there doesn’t appear to be anyone actually returning fire.

“That’s a goat rope,” said one Marine who served in Marine Forces Special Operations Command from 2006-2018.


“Just seeing how they’re handling their weapons, you know that nobody knows what they are doing,” said the MARSOC Marine. “If you are going to pull back from one vehicle to another, where is the base of fire? Where is the maneuver element?”

Going from a bad situation to an even worse one, this squad then finds itself bunched up and wedged between an armored vehicle and the guardrail on the side of the road. Granted, a firefight is a chaotic environment, but you don’t even need to have graduated from basic training to understand that it’s always better to spread out — or “maintain dispersion,” as every veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan was told countless times before and during their deployments.

That armored personnel carrier could be of some use, but it doesn’t seem to be doing much of anything. And given the number of anti-tank weapons flowing into Ukraine, having an entire squad huddle directly behind one might not be the best idea for cover and concealment.

Video appears to show Russian troops caught in ambush and doing everything wrong
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/video-russian-troops-ambush-ukraine-everything-wrong/


:rollin "on par" :lmao

[hater]

:lmao nazis

https://twitter.com/AmetReloads/status/1506284495724597259?s=19

[RandomGuy]

Cheers :tu

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And you still believe US governments lies that russia will invade anyday now :lmao
Lemming


Aint no invasion gonna happen.
[b]Regardless there will be no russian boots on ukranian soil. All this invasion talk is propaganda for internal US consumption.


...
I stand by my call. Russia wont invade ukraine anytime soon. Their invasion is not imminent as retard US claims.
...
Cheers :tu



There wont be any invasion. Russia will discoose their next steps to the public in response to NATO rejection of their proporsals.




If you check Putins speech he clearly says all this has been planned months in advance. They are just executing the plan now.
[bullshit russian propaganda talking point omitted, because fuck Putin, that's why-RG]
When how and where is all up to Russia. [b]My guess is this will go slowly and methodically. Like a Boa constrictor. :lol


:lol
[B][insert current Russian propaganda talking point #1 here]:tu
and
[insert Russian propaganda talking point #2 here]:tu
You guys are brainwashed for not believing this stuff. :lmao


:lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao

Fucking clown. smh


[repeats bullshit Russian propaganda talking point #1]


:lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao

[Isitjustme?]

facts don't care about your feelings.

Lol Tucksucker here is also a Ben Shapiro acolyte as well. Sad!

[Isitjustme?]

1506141229825736712

[hater]

:lmao

https://twitter.com/DNy1818/status/1505711955096522755?s=19

[Thread]

Wasted opportunity.

Not if it satisfied my need to see Biden's face smushed in the ca-ca.

[hater]

:lol

https://twitter.com/i24NEWS_EN/status/1505841423136006146?s=19

[Thread]

:lmao nazis

https://twitter.com/AmetReloads/status/1506284495724597259?s=19

:lmao

[steak n eggs]

Not if it satisfied my need to see Biden's face smushed in the ca-ca.

No nuclear war yet and Putin looks weak in front of the whole world. I’d say Joe is doing just fine.

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/April_Shorty_/status/1506314913710436352

[Ef-man]

Who knew.

https://twitter.com/AosmanZeynep/status/1506314934988197896

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/ExPJoker/status/1506316037842776068

[Ef-man]

Smart man.

https://twitter.com/knittingknots/status/1506318313395302404

[Ef-man]

Achievable If.

https://twitter.com/knittingknots/status/1506316486171893770

[Ef-man]

Nice prize.

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1506306740421341193

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1506266194650841094

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1506213111279333384

[Ef-man]

Lada manufacturer. This may be a good thing.

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1506215422185648129

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1506110975711363074

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/robcrilly/status/1506320604974178312

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/1505964356927995907

[RandomGuy]

:lmao

Using children for war propaganda :lmao

Sick fucks

https://thebarentsobserver.com/sites/default/files/resize/z-severomorsk-1000x739.jpg
The local Youth Army (Yunarmiya) unit in Severomorsk lines up in a “Z.” Photo: Yunarmiya Murmansk

[Thread]

No nuclear war yet and Putin looks weak in front of the whole world. I’d say Joe is doing just fine.

...you have nary other choice, n.

[Thread]

https://i.insider.com/62349349c5cf2000184dc005?width=700

[Trill Clinton]

https://i.makeagif.com/media/2-05-2021/09ulmZ.gif

[boutons_deux]

Is the West Just Going to Let Putin Level Ukraine?

Putin’s Back is Against the Wall — But He’s More Dangerous Now Than Ever

This pattern.

And it holds a grim portent for the future, because if you understand the pattern, it goes like this.

The Ukrainians resist.

They grind the Russian military to a halt and wear it down to shreds.

In response, Putin, desperate, escalates even further.

And that means that Putin is going to escalate again. Because that is what he’s done every time.

So where does Putin escalate from here?

There are really only a few options left.

One is that Putin shells more cities even harder, and turn them into Mariupols, Aleppos, Groznys

— and simply stops caring about his own losses, just seeing them as cannon fodder. That’s the least bad one.

The next is that, to clear centers of major resistance, like Kyiv, he resorts to chemical and biological weapons.

And the final one is that to send a message that nobody can ignore, he drops a nuke on a city.

Those are the only escalations left.

For the Ukrainians, the spectre of the Holocaust is an everyday reality.

As I discussed yesterday (https://eand.co/world-war-iii-and-the-future-of-our-civilization-5540e877c5d9), Russia’s current account is still flush with cash,

which is vivid and undeniable proof that our

sanctions based approach is not working.

Russia is losing this war thanks to the incredible bravery and stolid resistance of the Ukrainians — 100% — not because we have hurt it yet.

And so we are going to have to do more.

“don’t provoke Putin to escalate!” That is the opposite of what it really says.

What the pattern of escalation that Putin is resorting to really says is that he is going to escalate, regardless.

If we want him to lose, he is just…going to escalate.

That is what he is, who he is, his strategy, his set of choices.

But if we know that he is going to escalate harder the more he loses, then we have nothing to lose, either.

We aren’t “provoking” him — it’s just what he’s going to do. The price of winning this war is going to be escalation from a desperate Putin.

And the only way that we limit that escalation is to win it on our terms, as fast as we can.

We know that he’s going to escalate.

We can’t win this war in any other way. This is who he is.

And so we are going to have to accept that, and realise that there is no realistic way out of that escalation, and it’s the price of victory.

https://eand.co/is-the-west-just-going-to-let-putin-level-ukraine-8310c0d2e069

That's some interesting gamesmanship. Worth considering

He will not give an order to retreat, to withdraw

Pootin will escalate to nuking a city, without NATO intervention, because he's losing badly.

[ElNono]

:lmao Stupidistan

https://twitter.com/SchopenhauerOn/status/1505962569344954368?s=20

:lol so Russia has been warning NATO, but invades a non-NATO country...

Stupidistan indeed :lmao

[Big Empty]

“I have seen paintball teams with more tactical sense than this.”

1504729966977568776
Tank made of aluminum? :rollin:rollin:rollin






Video appears to show Russian troops caught in ambush and doing everything wrong
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/video-russian-troops-ambush-ukraine-everything-wrong/


:rollin "on par" :lmao:rollin dont trust to get in their own aluminum tanks ha ha ha

[RandomGuy]

Achievable If.

https://twitter.com/knittingknots/status/1506316486171893770

Look up the term "Motti"

Looks like they have a good chance at trapping a large number of RUS formations in a kettle. Near Kiev (history is rhyming...)

[ElNono]

West defaults :lol

As a direct result of these decisions, we have turned the dollar and the euro, and everything that is denominated in those currencies, into de facto risky assets. The probability of default of a dollar or euro denominated asset can no longer be credibly put at zero. With a single decision, we have created a tail risk.

Of course, no credit rating agency in the world would ever acknowledge freezing central bank assets as a formal default. They will, of course, not downgrade the entire US economy to junk status. Nobody is going to pay them any fee income for that. Nor will freezing central bank assets ever trigger collateral default swaps, financial instruments that constitute a form of default insurance.

So if this is not classified as a default in a legal sense, what kind of default is it then? Think of it as a default on money’s most important promise: that it allows its holders to engage in legal transactions. There are, of course, other ways for governments and central banks to debase money, through inflation for example. But we can hedge against inflation, whereas there is no hedge against the freezing of your accounts.

I hear you say: maybe this is a price worth paying to stop a dictator from waging war. Unfortunately, it won’t. Europe is still paying Putin some €800m each day for oil and gas.

As I argued last week, an oil and gas embargo is the sanction that would have made an impact in the short-term, severely constraining his ability to replenish military stock he is using up now. The west chose the central bank sanctions because they were least inconvenient in the short run. But we did so without even considering the long-term consequences.

We are resorting to the only problem-solving method we know: kicking the can down the road. Until we hit a brick wall.

:lol imaginary defaults
:lol alternative facts

[RandomGuy]

:rollin dont trust to get in their own aluminum tanks ha ha ha

Many primitive troop carriers were/are in a trade off between weight and armor. The one I drove in the US army (command post carrier) was. it would stop rifle ammo, and small machine gun fire, but not much more.

[hater]

https://i.insider.com/62349349c5cf2000184dc005?width=700

:lol

[Ef-man]

https://i.gyazo.com/676fc97aceb56795afd6c4d22504db7c.jpg

:lol

[ElNono]

1504729966977568776

That's an MT-LB, first introduced in 1950, seen a refresh in 1990 (MT-LBM).

[hater]

Juega juegos estupidos, chaval

https://twitter.com/LloydGB1962/status/1505982240211320841?s=19

[hater]

Coño

https://twitter.com/OldPrague/status/1506342578706337798?s=19

[hater]

Play dumb games. Win retarded prizes

https://twitter.com/GideonChrisost1/status/1504143178613596163?s=19

[RandomGuy]

[some bullshit]


Who is Russia’s top field commander in Ukraine? The US isn’t sure.
Washington – The US has been unable to determine if Russia has designated a military commander responsible for leading the country’s war in Ukraine, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter — something that current and former defense officials say is likely a key contributor to the apparent clumsiness and disorganization of the Russian assault.

Without a top, theater-wide commander on the ground in or near Ukraine, units from different Russian military districts operating in different parts of Ukraine appear to be competing for resources rather than coordinating their efforts, according to two US defense officials.

Units participating in different Russian offensives across Ukraine have failed to connect, these sources say, and in fact, appear to be acting independently with no overarching operational design.
https://jewishnews.com/2022/03/22/who-is-russias-top-field-commander-in-ukraine-the-us-isnt-sure/


Without a unity of command, they risk being defeated in detail. It is looking like UKR has finally glommed on to this.

RUS has exhausted itself militarily and does not appear able to sustain any offensive operations. UKR is now counterattacking in a few places, and may possibly be encircling a large RUS formation NW of Kyev.

The images of large columns of marching Russian POWs would be worth the effort/losses it would take to get them. They are freezing, starving, and low on ammo, per intercepted calls. The irony of a Russian army without winter clothes/tents... :lmao

[RandomGuy]

Play dumb games. Win retarded prizes


-------------------------------------------------------------


And you still believe US governments lies that russia will invade anyday now :lmao
Lemming


Aint no invasion gonna happen.
Regardless there will be no russian boots on ukranian soil. All this invasion talk is propaganda for internal US consumption.


...
I stand by my call. Russia wont invade ukraine anytime soon. Their invasion is not imminent as retard US claims.
...
Cheers :tu



There wont be any invasion. Russia will discoose their next steps to the public in response to NATO rejection of their proporsals.




If you check Putins speech he clearly says all this has been planned months in advance. They are just executing the plan now.
[bullshit russian propaganda talking point omitted, because fuck Putin, that's why-RG]
When how and where is all up to Russia. [b]My guess is this will go slowly and methodically. Like a Boa constrictor. :lol


:lol
[B][insert current Russian propaganda talking point #1 here]:tu
and
[insert Russian propaganda talking point #2 here]:tu
You guys are brainwashed for not believing this stuff. :lmao


:lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao

Fucking clown. smh


[repeats bullshit Russian propaganda talking point #1]


:lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao

[hater]

Lol nazis

https://twitter.com/RealPepeEscobar/status/1506280760256475144?s=19

[Thread]

https://i.insider.com/62349349c5cf2000184dc005?width=700

[ElNono]

Play dumb games. Win retarded prizes

https://twitter.com/GideonChrisost1/status/1504143178613596163?s=19

Nothingburger...

VW will ramp up Wolfsburg output after Ukraine supply disruption

BERLIN -- Volkswagen is ramping up production at its main plant in Wolfsburg, Germany, starting from next week, after a two-week pause caused by parts shortages due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The automaker will resume some output of the Golf hatchback on Tuesday, a company spokesperson told Automotive News Europe.

Initially, production will start with one shift, rising to a two-shift operation a week later.

...

So far, VW's plants in Emden and Osnabrück plants have not been affected by the supply chain disruption. That is likely to remain the case, Vollmer said. "In Emden, we are getting through as things stand at the moment," he said.

Ukraine still producing

Suppliers from Ukraine are continuing to deliver components on a reduced scale, purchasing boss Murat Aksel said.

At the same time, VW is building up secondary locations in other regions. However, the automaker does not want to withdraw from Ukraine despite the current problems. VW is building up new capacities at other locations as a safety buffer.

https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/vw-will-ramp-wolfsburg-output-after-ukraine-supply-disruption

[hater]

https://i.insider.com/62349349c5cf2000184dc005?width=700

:lol

[ElNono]

https://i.gyazo.com/676fc97aceb56795afd6c4d22504db7c.jpg

:lol

[spurraider21]

https://i.gyazo.com/676fc97aceb56795afd6c4d22504db7c.jpg

[hater]

Freedom :tu

https://twitter.com/alex_andropulos/status/1506315849333973004?s=19

[hater]

:lmao cnn

:lol nazi lovers

https://twitter.com/baggott_rob/status/1506367387590967306?s=19

[hater]

Brave patriot :tu

https://twitter.com/Nate6Wallace/status/1505687081963638797?s=19

[ChumpDumper]

Nothingburger...

VW will ramp up Wolfsburg output after Ukraine supply disruption

BERLIN -- Volkswagen is ramping up production at its main plant in Wolfsburg, Germany, starting from next week, after a two-week pause caused by parts shortages due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The automaker will resume some output of the Golf hatchback on Tuesday, a company spokesperson told Automotive News Europe.

Initially, production will start with one shift, rising to a two-shift operation a week later.

...

So far, VW's plants in Emden and Osnabrück plants have not been affected by the supply chain disruption. That is likely to remain the case, Vollmer said. "In Emden, we are getting through as things stand at the moment," he said.

Ukraine still producing

Suppliers from Ukraine are continuing to deliver components on a reduced scale, purchasing boss Murat Aksel said.

At the same time, VW is building up secondary locations in other regions. However, the automaker does not want to withdraw from Ukraine despite the current problems. VW is building up new capacities at other locations as a safety buffer.

https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/vw-will-ramp-wolfsburg-output-after-ukraine-supply-disruption

:lol hater wrong again

[ElNono]

Brave patriot :tu

https://twitter.com/Nate6Wallace/status/1505687081963638797?s=19


So telling that the ST "muh freedom" brigade really hate freedom when it comes right down to it.

:lol

[hater]

:lmao

https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1505624825917853700?s=19

[CosmicCowboy]

Hater, I gotta ask...are you just trolling?

[spurraider21]

Russian military has lost more than 10% of combat force sent to Ukraine (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/03/22/ukraine-russia-invasion-live-updates/7123227001/)

literally decimated

[spurraider21]

Hater, I gotta ask...are you just trolling?
wishful thinking. he's a putin stan

[Thread]

https://i.insider.com/62349349c5cf2000184dc005?width=700

[velik_m]

Hater, I gotta ask...are you just trolling?

He's not. He's your typical conspiracy nut, who believes he's one of the few smart ones who can see "the truth", while the rubes are being blinded by the MSM. The more he's wrong, the more he will dig in, because if he admits he's wrong, that would mean he's the rube and he'd rather be delusional than wrong. Latching on any bit of news or tweet from dubious sources, that somehow proves they were right all along. It the same trap as people behind q-anon, anti-wax, stolen elections crowd have fallen for and it's mostly the same people also.

It's kind of sad, but also kind of funny.

[hater]

Hater, I gotta ask...are you just trolling?

Trolling what?



Didnt u post this on page 1?


I pretty much see Putin's point. We would be pretty pissed off if Mexico and Russia hooked up and started putting troops on our southern border. That's what admitting Ukraine to NATO would be like.



:lol

[hater]

https://i.insider.com/62349349c5cf2000184dc005?width=700

:lol

[hater]

He's not. He's your typical conspiracy nut, who believes he's one of the few smart ones who can see "the truth", while the rubes are being blinded by the MSM. The more he's wrong, the more he will dig in, because if he admits he's wrong, that would mean he's the rube and he'd rather be delusional than wrong. Latching on any bit of news or tweet from dubious sources, that somehow proves they were right all along. It the same trap as people behind q-anon, anti-wax, stolen elections crowd have fallen for and it's mostly the same people also.

It's kind of sad, but also kind of funny.

Iraq WMDs


4 years of Russia hoax

2 years of Falsuchi (wear no masks wear 1 mask wear 4 masks :lol)

And now who knows how many years of Russianboogeyman

Blah blah blah

All these were lies. 100% lies

Sorry u still believe your lying government :lmao. U must love bending over and being wipped to please your significant other :lol

[Ef-man]

Hater, I gotta ask...are you just trolling?

Nope, he is just naturally cucked and will not quit any authoritarian type dictator.

[Ef-man]

Post of the year.


https://i.gyazo.com/676fc97aceb56795afd6c4d22504db7c.jpg

[Isitjustme?]

https://i.imgur.com/0eMR7pS.jpg

[Ef-man]

https://i.gyazo.com/676fc97aceb56795afd6c4d22504db7c.jpg

[Thread]

https://i.insider.com/62349349c5cf2000184dc005?width=700

[Thread]

Iraq WMDs


4 years of Russia hoax

2 years of Falsuchi (wear no masks wear 1 mask wear 4 masks :lol)

And now who knows how many years of Russianboogeyman

Blah blah blah

All these were lies. 100% lies

Sorry u still believe your lying government :lmao. U must love bending over and being wipped to please your significant other :lol

Tell it, hater.

Testify!!!

[ChumpDumper]

The worst thing about the Trumptards here is that they all end up being boring trolls who do nothing but endlessly repeat their shticks that were never entertaining nor effective in the first place.

[Isitjustme?]

1506338630608039936

[RandomGuy]

The worst thing about the Trumptards here is that they all end up being boring trolls who do nothing but endlessly repeat their shticks that were never entertaining nor effective in the first place.

Eyup. Part and parcel of checking your brain at the door.

[Ef-man]

:lol Hater level stupidity!

https://twitter.com/Guderian_Xaba/status/1506132545313947650

[RandomGuy]

1506352358070136848

New toys that the Russian "military" is not getting.

[hater]

1506338630608039936

:tu

TULSI

[RandomGuy]

1506394141579694086

[Ef-man]

Tik Tok troops.

https://twitter.com/CheekyBlinders_/status/1506394099720597505

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/TheFanVoice/status/1506393351565807616

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/knittingknots/status/1506316486171893770

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1506394141579694086

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1506388957805916173

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1506387591087730691

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1506384815582584837

[Ef-man]

More money, more money, more money!!!

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1506380954981515268

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1506376917745905670

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1506374224075759623

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1506372909794791427

[Ef-man]

Death on call!

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1506342278591352842

[Ef-man]

The King of Battle spares no one!

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1506363039716679684

[Ef-man]

You can run, but you cannot hide!

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1506371635754029059

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1506336823899045896

https://i.gyazo.com/676fc97aceb56795afd6c4d22504db7c.jpg

[hater]

:lmao Pierced Organ

https://twitter.com/JosiahHammer1/status/1506308674435923970?s=19

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/keskival/status/1506399340927111177

[Thread]

https://i.insider.com/62349349c5cf2000184dc005?width=700

[boutons_deux]

170K Russian IT Specialists Could Emigrate by April – Industry

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/03/22/170k-russian-it-specialists-could-emigrate-by-april-industry-a77034

====================

‘This is a mess’:

anxious Russians grab cash and plot emigration

Western sanctions send rouble tumbling and create long queues at cash machines around Moscow

https://www.ft.com/content/424d8ed3-34ce-4729-8d9c-eebf0c7f5d4d

[boutons_deux]

My future is taken away from me’:

Russians flee to escape consequences of Moscow’s war

Growing numbers of Russians are leaving the country,

fearful of possible martial law and the war’s consequences

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/03/people-leaving-russia-ukraine-war

[Ef-man]

Odessa preparing to rock and roll!

https://twitter.com/GlobalNewsEU/status/1506340006125834242

[Ef-man]

https://i.gyazo.com/676fc97aceb56795afd6c4d22504db7c.jpg

[boutons_deux]

‘I see bad times ahead.’

Sanctions start to get real for Russians.


https://images.csmonitor.com/csm/2022/03/0314%20SANCTIONS%20BANK.jpg?alias=standard_900x600 nc


Barely two weeks ago, most Russians enjoyed relatively prosperous, consumerist lives,

with access to goods and services familiar to anyone in the West.

They were able to travel, use their Russia-based bank cards in just about every country, order services online, and, like billions of the world’s denizens,

communicate on universal platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

But Russia’s so-called special military operation in Ukraine has stirred up a blizzard of economic and financial penalties in response. Amid that storm – which includes the decision of brands like McDonald’s, Ikea, and Coca-Cola, as well as 300 more, to leave or “pause” their activities in Russia – and Moscow’s retaliatory measures,

Russians’ place in the interconnected global economy seems about to end, perhaps permanently.
The Monitor has talked to more than a dozen Russians to try to gauge their initial experiences, and attitudes, about what looks to be an onrushing long, drawn-out, and life-changing crisis. Several “average” people agreed to speak frankly on condition their surnames not be used.

A few well-known analysts spoke on the record, provided no political opinions that might be illegal under a new law on “fake news” (https://pressgazette.co.uk/russia-fake-news-law/) be attributed to them.

The emerging picture suggests that everyone is aware that an economic storm is about to hit their lives.
It’s still early days. A drive around Moscow finds mostly scenes of normality, and little resembling panic.
https://www.spurstalk.com//images.csmonitor.com/csm/2022/03/0314%20SANCTIONS%20BANK.jpg?alias=standard_100x67
(https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2022/0315/I-see-bad-times-ahead.-Sanctions-start-to-get-real-for-Russians)
Grocery stores have well-stocked shelves and only minor price increases so far.

Most important, customers are still able to pay with their domestic bank cards – even if they bear the logo of recently departed Visa or Mastercard – thanks to a Russian project begun at the dawn of the sanctions regime eight years ago to develop a self-sufficient Russian payment system (https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2014/0328/A-new-Russian-bank-card-Priceless-for-the-Kremlin), which is now up and running.

There are lines in pharmacies, where supplies of imported medications are being snapped up, but so far no signs of panic-buying of staple foods – even though legal limits have already been put in place (https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/03/06/russian-shops-to-limit-food-sales-to-counter-black-market-a76788) on amounts that can be purchased.

It is mostly those with Western connections such as family, business interests, or travel plans who have started to seriously notice the economic woes. For some, it’s the feelings of universal censure and isolation (https://postsocialism.org/2022/03/08/shame-and-demoralization-a-letter-about-collateral-damage-in-russia/) that hit hardest.

Nadezhda, a 40-something TV producer, says the plunging ruble, ban on receiving foreign currency, and skyrocketing interest rates (now at an eye-watering 20%) are all sources of concern.

“But right now I am feeling terrible about my daughter, who had to cancel her birthday trip abroad because the skies are suddenly closed,” she says. “She lost her money, but much worse is how it made her feel. ... I suppose we can get along without our favorite fast foods, games, and movies.

It’s nothing compared to what those people in Ukraine are going through.

But what about the future? Unemployment and social marginalization will lead to more crime. That’s my biggest fear.”

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2022/0315/I-see-bad-times-ahead.-Sanctions-start-to-get-real-for-Russians

[boutons_deux]

Pootin knows he absolutely CANNOT lose, so he will keep losing, and then escalate to nuking a Ukraine city, whether NATO intervenes or not.

[hater]

Pootin knows he absolutely CANNOT lose, so he will keep losing, and then escalate to nuking a Ukraine city, whether NATO intervenes or not.

Sure, Jan

[boutons_deux]

‘We strike at night, when the Russians sleep’ —

How Ukraine is stalking Russian armor with drones

https://taskandpurpose.com/uploads/2022/03/21/Ukraine-drones.jpeg?auto=webp&width=1440&height=810

The past several weeks have seen heavy and brutal combat (https://taskandpurpose.com/news/russia-ukraine-armor-combat-bmp-t-72-btr-4/), cities under siege and civilian casualties (https://taskandpurpose.com/news/russia-possible-war-crimes-ukraine/), convoys ambushed (https://taskandpurpose.com/news/video-russian-troops-ambush-ukraine-everything-wrong/), Russian tanks and trucks destroyed (https://taskandpurpose.com/analysis/russia-invasion-ukraine-strategic-failures/).

But for a fleet of Ukrainian drones, it’s a target-rich environment.

“We strike at night, when the Russians sleep,”

Russian troops are dispersing into towns and villages in an attempt to avoid artillery strikes, Honchar told The Times of London.

However, that doesn’t protect them from Ukraine’s drone operators, who are piloting anything they can get their hands on, from consumer drones found at Wal-Mart, to the now-vaunted Bayraktar TB2 (https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-middle-east-africa-libya-europe-ecb9e820ea4bddb4464d7e8cb40e82fc) Turkish aircraft. Before the invasion, Ukraine reportedly had around 20 Bayraktar drones (https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoints/ukraine/2022/03/03/ukraine-receives-more-armed-drones-amid-russian-invasion/),

but the country is now using everything up to and including cheap, commercially bought drones to drop munitions on Russian targets.

“In the night it’s impossible to see our drones,” said an Aerorozvidka soldier to the Times of London.

“We look specifically for the most valuable truck in the convoy and then we hit it precisely and we can do it really well with very low collateral damage — even in the villages it’s possible. You can get much closer at night.”

Braggadocio aside, the drones have been able to penetrate what was thought (https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-can-t-russia-stop-ukraine-s-air-attacks-) to be a sturdy air defense network.

the unit is now flying up to 300 missions (https://www.businessinsider.com/ukrainian-drone-unit-strikes-russian-targets-while-they-sleep-the-times-2022-3) a day, targeting Russian convoys along the frontlines.

Often working off the Starlink (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/specialist-drone-unit-picks-off-invading-forces-as-they-sleep-zlx3dj7bb) satellite system, the drones have continued to strike at Russian targets.

“We have an in-house team of military software developers who follow a NATO standard to develop our situational awareness system,”

“Based on the information we task our 50 teams in the field to either hit the targets identified or provide additional reconnaissance to some special parameters.

Or to provide artillery with their eyes — they do the coordination of artillery fire.”

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/ukraine-russia-destroying-tanks-drones/

[boutons_deux]

Putin's Bombers Could Devastate Ukraine But He's Holding Back. Here's Why

Russia is causing less damage and killing fewer civilians than it could, U.S. intelligence experts say.

If Russia were more intentionally destructive, the clamoring for U.S. and NATO (https://www.newsweek.com/topic/nato) intervention would be louder.

And if Russia were all-in, Putin might find himself with no way out.

Instead, his goal is to take enough territory on the ground to have something to negotiate with,

while putting the government of Ukraine in a position where they have to negotiate.

https://www.newsweek.com/putins-bombers-could-devastate-ukraine-hes-holding-back-heres-why-1690494

[hater]

The Saker:

Day 26 of “Operation Z” in the Ukraine

Next, according to Chechen sources, Chechen special operations have entered the Azovstal factory in Mariupol. This is too important a claim to be accepted yet, but there are many indirect reports which seem to confirm the veracity of this claim. If so, then that means that most of the residential areas of Mariupol have now been liberated from the Nazi terrorists of the Azov battalion. If the combat operation inside or near the Azovstal buildings is still going on, well that means that very soon Mariupol will be denazified which, considering that the Nazi forces inside the city were just about the most evil and yet quite combat capable units available to the Ukronazi regime, the final liberation of Mariupol will mean a huge difference for the entire operation.

[hater]

What about the events on the front line?

I won’t into details here but I will offer a few bullet points

Very heavy combats near Avdeevka and Mariupol.
Combat pretty much everywhere the line of contact, which result in slow positional warfare with artillery exchanges and very careful mopping up building by building and even room by room.
On average Russian forces advance between 5 and 20 kilometers per day, which is rather fast against a defense in depth prepared for years.
The key cities of Kiev and Odessa are almost completely blocked, but not fully surrounded yet.
The Black Sea fleet basically controls the entire Ukie coast and all of the Black Sea itself.
The Black Sea fleet also prevents any resupply of Odessa from Romania.
Russia has full air superiority over the entire Ukie airspace
The Ukies are STILL firing both Tochka-U and Grad/Smrech missiles in the general direction of liberated cities just to create as many casualties as possible, but the Russians have become very skilled at not only shooting down these missiles (the destruction ratio has gone up very sharply) but also a destroying the key Ukrainian ammo dumps were they hide those missiles (this is what happened with the big building in downtown Kiev which the Russians totally vaporized with one perfectly aimed Iskander missile.

And, finally, I want to share something very important with you: the Ukronazi forces cannot resupply or rotate themselves. Why?

Because moving around when the air is full of Mi-24/35s, Mi-28Ns, and Ka-52s in “free hunting” mode requires a type of courage very few people have.
Because most roads are carefully monitored by multi-sensor Russian reconnaissance/intelligence capabilities
Because more big roads (you cannot use small dirt roads to resupply or rotate effectively) are either already physically controlled by the Russians or are “shot through”, which in Russian indicate that while Russian soldiers have reached each other and hugged they can shoot at any location from these roads from any side.

So it does not matter how motivated the Ukrainians are. Even with we assume 100% of the Ukrainians are well trained, well-armed and would rather die than retreat or surrender, they still need many TONS of stuff (food, ammo, water, MRE, medicine, batteries, petroleum, diesel, lubricants, oil and many more things!) EVERY DAY. Just to give you an idea, read this pretty decent discussion of some aspects of logistics by the US military.

So once the Ukies are blocked by Russians, it is essentially over for them. Anybody with a basic understanding of modern warfare can confirm that to you.

[hater]

Southfront:

Units of the Russian Armed Forces, DPR and LPR are still working to achieve the declared goal of the full liberation of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.

All eyes are now on the city of Mariupol. Fierce street fighting continues there with daily progress by Russian and DPR forces. Both sides suffer casualties on a daily basis.

While clashes continue on the outskirts of the town of Ugledar which had mostly fallen under the control of the DPR and the Russian Armed Forces after a series of clashes, the Russian units are surrounding the region from the west.

On March 22, Russian units took control of the village of Urozhainoe, moving towards the town of Velikaya Novoselka. Units of the 128th separate assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine deployed in the area had to step back.

At the same time, the advance of DPR forces towards Kurakhovo continues. According to the Russian Ministry of Defence, last night, DPR units destroyed a company of the Ukrainian 53rd separate mechanized brigade and units of the assault battalion of the 54th separate mechanized brigade. After several days of fierce clashes, the DPR took control over the villages of Slavnoye, Trudovskaya, Mine Cheluskintsev and Maryinka. They are yet to secure these areas, but these are the first significant successes of the DPR in the area in recent days.

Breaking out the Ukrainian defenses, DPR forces are aimed to end the shelling on civilians in the city of Donetsk. As long as Kyiv troops remain near Donetsk and Lugansk, they will continue to intentionally strike civilian targets there.

On March 21, local authorities in the city of Makeevka reported that at least two Ukrainian Tochka-U ballistic missiles were launched on residential areas. Both missiles were intercepted by DPR air-defense forces.

Over the past 24 hours, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have opened fire on the territory of the DPR 32 separate times.

During the day, 1 civilian was killed, 32 people were injured as a result of the shelling of the territory of the DPR.

To the north, a grouping of the DPR troops and the Ukrainian 25th Airborne Brigade are fighting for control of the towns of Kamenka, Novoselovka Vtoraya and Verkhnetoretskoye.

Units of the LPR People’s Militia are moving deep into the Ukrainian defense in the area of the town of Popasnaya. They managed to take control over the settlements of Kalinovo, Novoaleksandrovka, Stepnoye, Boguslavskoye. Units of the 30th separate mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces were forced to slowly retreat.

Forces of the LPR and Russia have been advancing in the Severodonetsk-Lysichansk region. After the fall of Rubezhnoe, Kyiv troops focused on the defense of the southern part of Severodonetsk and the center of Lysichansk. On March 22, the AFU armory located in a supermarket building in Severodonetsk, was destroyed.

Meanwhile, Russian forces are working to expand their control in the Kyiv region from the eastern and western directions to the capital. In the west, Russian units blocked the town of Irpen from the north, west and south and besieged the town of Makariv from 3 sides. The highway ‘E40’ leading from Kyiv city to the west was cut off there.

The next important point capturing of which would allow to block Kyiv from the southwest is the town of Boyarka. Russian forces are advancing on it from the north and northwest.

On the eastern bank of the Dnipro River, positional fighting continued near Brovary. Russian forces established full control over the Velika Dmitriivka-Peremoga-Lukashi line.

The most active operations are ongoing in the region of Donbass. Advances in other areas play rather secondary role. The situation in the rest of operational areas remains in the state of ‘tactical pause’. Russian forces avoid storming large cities. In their turn, Kyiv’s forces use residential areas and civilians as “human shields” to deploy their artillery systems and conduct massive fire on Russian servicemen. The Russians respond with precise artillery and air strikes on Ukrainian units hiding in the cities.

[DMX7]

:lmao Pierced Organ

https://twitter.com/JosiahHammer1/status/1506308674435923970?s=19

Thank God President Biden is not listening to people like this regarding the war.

[Thread]

Sure, Jan

:rollin

[pgardn]

Sure, Jan

Heater?

Have the 16,000 Syrian fighters arrived yet? HELP!

They could be used for the Russian infantry who are walking home or surrendered.
Hater "The Syrians are coming, the Syrians are coming!"
So instead, dissidents from Belarus are joining the fight against the Russians. Their wonderful satellite state is fed up.

What a cluster fk. Could have never happened, should have never, hater predicted it would NOT happen.

So... What Happens? IT happens.
And its good for absolutely no one.
A midget infused with Vodka is a dangerous thing.

[Thread]

Heater?

Have the 16,000 Syrian fighters arrived yet? HELP!

They could be used for the Russian infantry who are walking home or surrendered.
Hater "The Syrians are coming, the Syrians are coming!"
So instead, dissidents from Belarus are joining the fight against the Russians. Their wonderful satellite state is fed up.

What a cluster fk. Could have never happened, should have never, hater predicted it would NOT happen.

So... What Happens? IT happens.
And its good for absolutely no one.
A midget infused with Vodka is a dangerous thing.

I ain't complainin', peeg. He made Biden back down, turned him into a backdoor gunrunner.

[pgardn]

I ain't complainin', peeg. He made Biden back down, turned him into a backdoor gunrunner.

You aint complaining?

You are constantly complaining.

[pgardn]

Biden is your president Thread.
Get over it.
The rules you cook up dont matter.

[Thread]

You aint complaining?

You are constantly complaining.

Don't be purposely obtuse, peeg. I bolded your shit.

[Ef-man]

https://i.gyazo.com/676fc97aceb56795afd6c4d22504db7c.jpg

[Thread]

Biden is your president Thread.
Get over it.
The rules you cook up dont matter.

He ain't my President. No way. He doesn't want me, and I hate him with every fiber of my being.

And I ain't ever gettin' over it. Never. It's my religion.

They matter to me and that's enough for me.

[Thread]

https://i.insider.com/62349349c5cf2000184dc005?width=700

[pgardn]

Don't be purposely obtuse, peeg. I bolded your shit.

Well I am gonna break it to you.
This does absolutely nothing to make Biden look bad.
Most likely the opposite. And we need a younger president than orange slush and old joe.

Maybe you will be digging Pete B. in a couple of years.

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1506394141579694086

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1506336180614402048

[Thread]

Well I am gonna break it to you.
This does absolutely nothing to make Biden look bad.
Most likely the opposite. And we need a younger president than orange slush and old joe.

Maybe you will be digging Pete B. in a couple of years.

I ain't buying that bunk no matter how many times it's been offered to me.

I want one man in there, one President. President Trump. All other's, R & D alike can pound salt/go to hell. I want nothing to do with any of 'em. I found Shangri La. I ain't ever settling for less as long as I live.

[pgardn]

I ain't buying that bunk no matter how many times it's been offered to me.

I want one man in there, one President. President Trump. All other's, R & D alike can pound salt/go to hell. I want nothing to do with any of 'em. I found Shangri La. I ain't ever settling for less as long as I live.

Then you will never be happy.
Because there will never be a narcissistic, lying, egomaniac like orange man again as president.
So you have established an upper boundary by your rules. Its time to get relativity in order. Expect everything worse.
Damn. Take refuge in sports again somehow.

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1506388957805916173

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1506510547033939968

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1506210857918898181

[Ef-man]

Let it burn.

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1506512658996027403

[Ef-man]

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1506455035328319489

[Thread]

Then you will never be happy.
Because there will never be a narcissistic, lying, egomaniac like orange man again as president.
So you have established an upper boundary by your rules. Its time to get relativity in order. Expect everything worse.
Damn. Take refuge in sports again somehow.

So be it. I bore witness as they dragged Trump out into the street and high tech lynched him for no other reason than making President. I'm neither forgettin', nor forgivin', peeg.

& I ain't comin' back in from the cold and back into the fold, everPERIOD

[RandomGuy]

https://i.insider.com/62349349c5cf2000184dc005?width=700

1506369684945391624

:lmao

[RandomGuy]

https://i.makeagif.com/media/2-05-2021/09ulmZ.gif

:lmao

[RandomGuy]

Russia is on par with China and the US in military might.

1506258324098101248

:rollin "on par"