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Fun fact this ship was named for Tsaezar Kunikov, who died 81 years ago on this date fighting for the Soviets in WW2. Not sure if just a pure coincidence or if the Ukrainians are adding an extra fuck you to the Ruskies.

Vid of a couple Russian tanks running into each other. Because that's what happens when vodka is your sponsor for driver's ed. We just need to build a half dozen roundabouts near Advika and that Russian tank stockpile will be zero by the 4th of July. Just in time for one of my new favorite pastimes: turret tossing fireworks.

My only sure-fire prediction is that Russia will lose another boat to a country that doesn't even have a navy.

Late entry for Russian babushka of the year. Shame there are not enough people like her to smack some sense in all the vatniks.

God damn inflation! Now the Fed's fiscal plan is fucking with my college football!

I bet Russian air defense is just licking its chops over some fresh meat.

Despite all the shit going on in the world there are still some amazing people.

A nice graphic of the Russian airbases located in Crimea. Still a long way off but interesting to see potential targets once UA gets in range.

This is just another sign of how tenuous Putin's position is. The inability to call up a mass mobilization is going to jeopardize his entire war. Sure they have some strong positions but expecting their current roster to hold out for 6-8 months is stupifying. They may have some shadow recruiting to bolster some of their lines but they need some more meat if they can expect to hold on against the steady UA advance. It is almost a parallel dilemma with the West...we have been risking failure by not committing all the necessary equipment up front, while Putin cannot commit the necessary bodies from the start to guarantee success.

Agreed that taking Tokmak is going to be tough. Russia knew it was going to be a key focal point and built up their defensive lines in the area. My hopes in the spring was that UA would be able to get a breakthrough east of Tokmak, then push west flanking most of the defensive obstacles before completely securing the town. Then as UA would push south to Melitopol they would also clear the left bank of the Dniepro (this was before the dam was blown) and get pontoon bridges setup to shorten their logistic tail. They wouldn't attack Melitopol just yet, merely surround it for a long term siege. The rest of the push wasn't to necessarily get to the Azov sea but push close enough south to get the highway north out of Crimea under fire control and get the Kerch bridge in missle range. That would effectively cut them off from any supplies. All of this to force a long winter for Putin. To make him and the rest of his leadership sweat the budgeting period heading into 2024. To keep the political momentum hitting on both sides. Threatening Crimea would be a huge blow to the Russian psyche. Plus the positive gains would keep that pro-Ukrainian support still pumping. Then in 2024 would be the big campaign to liberate the entire south. Alas that's not to be...too much hopium on my side. Not to say that Ukraine is now losing, just that the timeline is not the same. 2023 could just be a large shaping operation with a focus on attrition. Hopefully we can get into Tokmak before year end.

I have also heard (and no idea if valid or not) that the rasputitsa is not as severe once you get south of Tokmak. The soil shifts more to a sandy composition which limits the mud. So if they could actually reach Tokmak then UA may still be able to continue offensive operations in the south. The big question remains on how soon they could actually secure Tokmak. I believe they are still 25-30 kms out.

Which I hope is another miscalculation and part of Putin's hubris. That eventually the economic woes begin to squeeze those in Moscow and St Petersberg. These are the ones that have been living with a higher level of prosperity than the backwoods citizens used to wiping their ass in an outhouse. Once those big city folks find their standard of living plummeting off a cliff then they might generate enough grumbling to embolden someone with enough connections to coordinate a coup on vova Putin. At least that is my most plausible dream to see that fuckwad dead and buried. Or at a minimum just dead. Hopefully the car bomb is big enough that there is nothing left to bury.

Aussies putting in work on anti-drone systems or possibly the next Mad Max movie.

Wish I still had the photo but had an awesome shot with me and 2 Dallas Mavericks girls. It was a business trip with me and my manager scouting solutions in a big sales expo at the AAC. I won a raffle for a free iPad and was lucky enough to pose with two blonde hotties on each side. My manager snapped a beautiful pic: me proudly clutching the iPad in the middle with each girl perfectly framed for max cleavage...and my head completely cutoff. Priorities man. Priorities!

Yep, from what I've been hearing is that the current Polish leadership party is very conservative and right-wing which is great for anti-Russian sentiment but it is not immune from needing to posture for its constituents. Their party gets a lot of support from their agricultural industries which is upset about their local grain prices sinking due to Ukrainian grain flooding in due to all of the troubles with normal shipping lanes. So the Poles are just trying to score some political points before the upcoming election. Also the one Polish minister's comments about no longer sending military gear was taken out of context. That comment was in the context that it was factually true that the Poles were no longer sending military aid but that was because they had already sent over all the aid that they had pledged. They had already cleared out all of their old Soviet stock. It had nothing to do with grain price grumbles. Remember this when reading headlines: the Russia media and their Ruzzbots are going to look at any slight chance of infighting and make sure to amplify it as part of their disinformation campaigns.

Yeah but did you think of this? Checkmate Putin!

Kadyrov confirmed dead...statues have already been elected in his honor.

Yeah took me a moment but then I knew something was fishy as AHB didn't throw in any memes in his post.

Any bugs or performance issues? I played DOS2 after it cleared early access and it took several months before they patched up a bunch of bugs and added some QOL changes. I know BG3 has a bigger budget and staff, plus even more institutional knowledge at this point, but I'm still curious if I should let it ferment a little longer. Been hearing nothing but praises so far.

Here's a nice clip showing some of the behind scenes production of the US factory. Hope we can do some more to help revitalize some of our production lines.

That is some shitastic casting for the Russian remake of Hanibal Lector. He's like the Lada of leading men.

Maybe they were just fishing...with grenades. Same as my grandad in WW2. He was in Burma working as an ambulance driver, mainly because he could fix things if it broke down. Don't think he saw much action but apparently he did show some valor at one of the fishing ponds. Typical grabass GIs decided to start chucking some grenades in there to see if they could catch any fish but he was too close and caught a little bit of shrapnel. Nothing serious but his CO liked him and wrote him up for a purple heart anyways. So that's my grandad's CSB.