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Scheiss Meister

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  1. What a pussy.
  2. Take solace. Getting shanked is still on the table.
  3. I don't speak or generally understand Russian or Ukranian, but I think that I caught the narrator of the second video saying something that sounds like "lend leasat rachistat". Sounds like "Russian lend lease" to me. I love it. (Those who speak whichever language he was speaking, please forgive my undoubtedly horrible spelling.)
  4. America's Greatest Delusionist
  5. @Prepuce of Doom In the Marine Corps there are no "dust bunnies"; they are "ghost turds". Do with this what you will.
  6. Set up internment centers with basic food and shelter, allow no communication with Russia and no contact with the locals, shoot escapees on sight. It might work.
  7. While there is logic to this line of reasoning, after a bit of thought I believe that every neighboring country that allows these draft dodgers to stay is setting themselves up for future trouble. These guys will be sucking up resources from the places "hosting" them and chasing the local women. Both of these will make them unwelcome, and locals will start letting them know. Meanwhile, some of the men will get family members to join them. These people will be typically Russian, and let everyone know about their superiority. Eventually there will be the question, "When are you going home?" Any answer will be not soon enough, and you'll have another population of Russians complaining that they are being "mistreated", laying the groundwork for the next round of Russian meddling. No, better to go ahead and send them back now.
  8. As an SFA alum, Ax 'em Jacks, but damn. That's gonna sting for a while.
  9. Well, colonel, sucks to be you, doesn't it?
  10. No, more like confident and focused is great; cocky and looking past the task at hand, not so much. We've all seen it in sports and other fields of endeavor. It is no different in war.
  11. General, there are still Russian troops, professional and otherwise, holding all or large parts of five of your oblasts. While that quote is good copy, I hope that you are better focused than that.
  12. I was more tired than I thought when I posted that. You are correct when you say that the mobilized troops are in for some tough sledding and will have many disadvantages. I'm just saying that a lot of these posts sound like the "aggy will go 5 and 7 this year" posts on the football threads. They are supported and informed by the authors' wishes more than reality. How the majority of the press ganged troops will respond is hard to know. Their society is very different from ours, with different goals and expectations. It is entirely logical to believe that they will mutiny, and that may well be the end result of this experiment in stupidity, but there is no way to know how rapidly that will happen. Planning based on the hopes that the Russians will collapse easily is unwise. That's what the Russians thought about Ukraine, and here we are. Russia is sending men to war with severely inadequate training, old equipment that has not been maintained and is in short supply, and is stripping labor from strategically vital industries, further complicating the resupply issues. They will be under trained, under equipped, under fed, have poor morale, and be poorly led. They will not succeed in the end. But they are throwing so many bodies forward that it will have an effect just from the inertia of the act. We don't know where or how they will be used. Putin may be thinking of attacking from the north again, forcing Ukraine to realign forces to meet them. As has been pointed out, does Ukraine have enough bullets to kill them or enough resources to hold them as prisoners? I guess I'm saying that I think that there's a lot that can still go Russia's way, and we need to keep realistic expectations.
  13. "Quantity has a quality of it's own" has long been a Russian tactic. I don't think these mobilized troops will be enough to win, but they will complicate things for Ukraine. And don't count too much on mass mutiny once they get to Ukraine. Once you have been shot at, you tend to be more pissed at those shooting at than those who put you into that situation. There have already been reports of mutiny and even firefights between Russian units, but no collapse has occurred. That said, these poor saps are going to be under trained, under equipped, and under fed going into winter. This isn't going to be pretty. For them or Ukraine.
  14. Well that's just her all over.
  15. From somewhere I'd rather not be... FIGHT!!!
  16. Mine did, but it was a hassle because I don't dial onto the AOL anymore, so all of my emails went to the wrong places.
  17. Good article, but not one that I had read before.
  18. I'm reading "Texas Pasts", a book about how Texas history has been skewed by the myths that were taught to Texas school children to ingraine the political and social constructs of various times. Let's just say that the Texas history "facts" that most have been taught have only a passing acquaintance with the reality of what actually happened. It can be confusing and difficult to try to discern fact from myth.
  19. If I can find the books/articles where I read those, I'll pass the titles on to you.
  20. I was thinking of appealing for donations, not government collection, but you raise an excellent point. I won't CR it with the rest of my thought.
  21. No mention of Scott Joplin in Texarkana. Invalid map.
  22. I've got friends and acquaintances who claim to have thousands of rounds of 5.56 NATO and 7.62 x 39. The US could probably supply a year's worth of ammo for Ukraine just from private collections.
  23. Dude. I'm old and operating on short sleep. And like @nnm said, I've seen some shit, man.
  24. Then, by all means, let's help Ukraine make it "all of their troops are dead".
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