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  1. Sean Penn talk not going away.
  2. The Israelis. They'd smoke the Russkie AF, but they aren't getting involved with Russia and risking escalation in/from Syria.
  3. Shit, that's a really good observation. Whatever is going on with him, Putin doesn't want to die.
  4. I'm sure they have a Bayaktar 2 waiting for these fuckers too.
  5. True, but also bitterly learned personal experience. 1 day of hard rain can cost 3 days of field work waiting for that shit to dry. It also makes it a bitch even walking around camp. It's fucking miserable. Yet another major Russian failure. That would have been frozen a month ago and they could have rolled over it.
  6. Good old bentonite. AKA the stuff that cat litter was usually made of. Swelling clay that is simultaneously sticky and slippery. It's fucking awful to walk, drive, or do anything else on. Everything gets stuck in bentonite. Nothing moves over it until it dries.
  7. Good, but they should have made the crab Switzerland.
  8. Fuck looters, but I hope they kept the cart. They are each going to need a couple of them to carry money to buy a loaf of bread, on the unlikely event they ever get home. At one point, 4 of the 7 clumped all together with no one looking out for ambush. Keep this up with this same lack of situational awareness and they are likely to fertilize sunflowers soon.
  9. There was clearly dissension before the war. Putin publicly confronted and castrated his spy chief in front of the cameras. He then released it to the public. He doesn't do that unless he is trying to suppress dissension.
  10. The Chechen war criminals were supposed to kill Zelensky, but got fucking wrecked and their general is now dead.
  11. There's been some discussion about why many of the Russian tanks don't have slat armor and whether it would help much against the drones, NLAW and Javelins. Doesn't look like it helped these guys much, though R/TankPorn says they are spaced too far apart.
  12. Was thinking the same thing. This makes the most sense if we DON'T have an inside man, but want him to think we do.
  13. The further from the Belarus border, the better, as long as it's hit before getting in range of Kyiv. They are still days out at this pace. Plenty of time.
  14. Going to have to be a lot more specific than just calling out "Bear Fucker" around the Russian Army.
  15. As bad as it looked, there is hope now. People are finally standing up to the single biggest destabilizing, anti-democratic force on the planet. Putin has vaporized years worth of infiltrating Western governments, years of drip-drip-drip appeasement polices. The greed, arrogance, evil and hubris of a small-minded narcissist, surrounded by sycophants laid bare for all to see. Putin couldn't have fucked this up this massively if he'd set out to do it on purpose, it's amazing.
  16. We had a mutual enemy. The Russians are never on anyone's side, but their own. Nations forget that at their own peril.
  17. From the comments.
  18. @JesusSweatDuck posted this earlier. Allegedly one of the Turkish drones.
  19. As many as he thinks it takes, if no one stops him. He's Littlefinger and would burn it all down to be crowned King of the Ashes.
  20. Agree, this is what Rubio was referring to. The only way they "take" the city by Monday is to commit wide spread, systemic war crimes and destroy it. That happens and there is no going back to normal for the oligarch/generals. Hope you fuckers like never leaving Russia again. Ever.
  21. Crypto I don't think Putin thought Germany would agree to any major sanctions, because of NS2. That caught him by surprise. I really don't think he foresaw losing access to Swift. Germany was extremely unlikely to go along until Putin announced he wanted to reform the Russian Empire/USSR. and then showed massive weakness. Hungary and Cyprus were solid no votes in Putin's back pocket
  22. When Russia labeled this a "special military operation", I didn't know they meant this kind of special.
  23. At this point, it's clear that atom is right on the night vision. So far at least, the Russians don't have the ability to fight at night. In addition to the MANPADS and Javelins, we need to get the Ukrainians more night vision equipment and let them start taking it to the Russians in the dark.
  24. It would have made sense for Putin to drum up expectations of conflict, only to walk them back, making the eastern territories official while the world breathed a sigh of relief. This is madness. All options have significant and unpredictable downside for him. It entirely possible he's blatantly and casually lied so long, he believes his own bullshit.
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