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texastough

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  1. Just watched "Winter on Fire" about that. Truly remarkable and inspiring. I wish Anonymous would broadcast it in every Russian household 24/7
  2. It seems like Ukraine is running a brilliant PR campaign to rally both its own people and international support. If everything we are seeing is to be believed: -- Russia's wins or gains boil down to taking territory mostly unopposed, shooting down a few Ukrainian aircraft, some missile hits on strategic targets in Ukraine, some Spetznaz wins on certain installations. They've taken a few towns or cities but then lost them again. They've shelled civilian areas in cities. They've fired up a few prohibited weapons. -- Ukraine has seemingly won every close range engagement. It has shot down a number of Russian aircraft and even attacked aircraft bases on Russian and/or Belarusian soil. It seems Ukraine is often allowing the Russian front to pass, and then destroying supply chains. It has stopped Russian advances in many areas and maintains control of key cities despite heavy bombardment. Russia's casualties appear to be more than 5 times greater than Ukraine's. -- Russia seems to be on a serious budget, with limited numbers of the really scary weapons/missiles, and much of its armaments outdated. Most Russian forces are green, ill trained and ill equipped. Failed to gain air superiority. -- Ukraine is getting the good stuff (armaments) that is perfectly suited for this kind of warfare. Ukraine has built a real functioning military, likely receiving a lot of training from ex special forces type military contractors and perhaps allied forces. Lots of foreigners with combat experience joining the cause. Ukraine civilians taking up arms. Its military plus fighting age citizenry vastly outnumber the Russians. -- Russian morale is nonexistent, with many conscripts getting lost, surrendering, deserting, running out of food and fuel, abandoning equipment, very shaky communications with chain of command, no real plan. -- In contrast, Ukrainians are dragging their nuts all over the Russians, changing street signs to tell the Russians to fuck off, music videos with St Javelin and Baryaktar etc., "I feel so bad, its like a video game, the Russians keep coming and I keep killing them." Etc. Clearly Ukrainian morale is through the roof and they're metal as fuuuck. (I can see why, just watched "Winter on Fire.") They have some super hot women too. -- Ukraine has an ENORMOUS advantage in intel. I don't think this can be overstated. Most of the Russian army seems to be sticking to the playbook that was drawn up months ago, and many of them are getting blown up. The Ukrainians can not only see Russian movements in near real time, but apparently can pick up their comms as well. -- Ukraine of course has the advantage of knowing their own terrain, has been making preparations, can pick and choose where and when to engage -- Ukraine has been playing up the civilian casualty angle and the war crimes angle I really cannot wait to see how close to the truth this ^^^ story is. But, Putin's aggression based on the most transparent of pretenses along with Ukraine's valiant fight as the hero underdog defending its homeland has turned the civilized entire world (Venzuela, N.K., and a few others are not part of the civilized world) against Putin and they have imposed crushing sanctions and are cutting off ALL ties of any form with Russia. One of the stories of this war will be the use or manipulation of the info sphere. For the sake of discussion, lets say the above is accurate. If so, I don't see how Ukraine does not rout Russia in a matter of days. Russia has now committed virtually all of its forces, and they have generally bogged down and stopped moving. With Ukraine's intel it can identify where Russia poses the biggest threat -- its Spetznaz and scarier weapons. Ukraine forms kill squads to take out those threats, blow up the cluster bomb and thermobaric launchers, artillery, etc. Ukraine blocks supply chains. Russian conscripts are hungry and don't want to fight, so the Ukrainians round them up. War over. Then, I fully expect Putin, seeing no way out of this war and knowing he cannot remain in power, to try to launch nukes. But my prediction is that through either the refusal of subordinates to follow that order, or malfunctioning Russian nuke systems, we all live until the next pandemic. I know Putin has no honor in any recognizable sense, but the only honorable way out for him is suicide.
  3. FTR that was not directed at you. Just reading a bunch of posts like "WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ARMING UKRAINE AND STOPPING PUTIN LONG AGO!!!" Wut? Where have these people been? Not only ignores Ukraine's relatively recent history, but a response would include stuff like, we were set to send arms and such a few years ago but we didn't because reasons . . . and the other thread is for that kind of discussion
  4. I am normally not a thread police, but all the "we should have done XYZ differently" is driving me nuts. Most of the posts are uninformed garbage and the only way to respond/discuss goes CR in no time. Pretty please can we stick to whats happening now in Ukraine?
  5. After this it might need to be called Eastern Ukraine
  6. Thats hilarious but that last place I'd want to be in Ukraine right now is in a Russian tank (edit referring to the "how to drive a russian tank vid ^)
  7. Definitely a complicated case, Maude. You know, a lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta what-have-you's
  8. This seems to imply we can listen to Putin's orders to his commanders? Is that to fuck with his head because if we really can intercept those comms, why would we admit that?
  9. I've been catching up on this thread for the last couple hours and every time I found myself shaking my head at the dumb, it was one of your posts
  10. Have you been drinking tonight? You might want to read for a while and stay away from the keyboard. I'm referring to every one of your posts i've read today
  11. Yeah the postgame analysis of all this, after the dust and misinfo settles, will be fascinating. Particularly all the different types of aid (not just weapons but detailed intel) the Ukrainians are getting, and of course there will be some incredible stuff about Ukrainian citizens engaging with the invaders
  12. Sure, he allows them to keep their status as oligarchs who still are still billionaires despite giving him half. But for fucks sake, being guilty of hoarding resources is not in the same universe of Putin's guilt. And I still have no idea where you got the idea that any of them would willingly die for Putin.
  13. Where do you get that? My understanding is that most of the Oligarchs hate his fucking guts, but he has them by the balls. When he took power he demanded half of the Oligarchs' wealth or else he'd kill them and their family and friends etc. He can do it because of his iron grip on the KGB, military, etc. Which is also why it would be an enormous risk to plot an assassination from within. They wouldn't know who is really a spy for Putin.
  14. No, but what I really wish is that we had taught Ukrainian with a Ukrainian accent to a bunch of SpecOps the last few years, and we send them in with Ukrainian uniforms on. Fuck up the rooskies good, but so we don't start WW3 if if any get captured dead or alive.
  15. Because it aligns with the bullshit story Putin was telling about why he had to invade
  16. Its way more than Putin being "content with the level of chaos Trump provided." Putin was using him to lay the groundwork for this exact thing. That is why Trump chose trying to withhold military aid to Ukraine as the lever to dirty up Biden. He could have chosen a dozen different things but went with that because it would advance both his and Putin's interests. Trying to withdraw from NATO, obviously another one that would have completely removed any constraint on Putin's ambitions.
  17. I'm starting to wonder if this is what they were all told to say in case of capture.
  18. As if we needed more proof, the fact that the red team and their dear leader are sucking Putin's dick as all this is unfolding, absolutely confirms he is a traitor and Putin's puppet. And I know the last five years should have killed any hope, but I still find myself incredulous that his base will go along. Most of the ex-military guys I know personally are in MAGA echo chambers, but I still can't believe they're ok with it.
  19. I think that guy is a russian troll, someone referenced his old user name who was a CR troll, call out the bullshit but otherwise don't engage
  20. Maybe a Putin headfake? Part of the strategy of keeping enemies off balance, sending out conflicting messaging, etc?
  21. Might be a dumb question but what are we looking at here? Is a soccer coach flying somewhere for an interview with a new club?
  22. I have been reading just about every post for weeks. I saw a lot of "wtf is Putin's end game?" type posts and not a lot of good explanations. So I appreciate the historical and cultural context to this that he and many others have been providing. And for instance I didn't appreciate the difference in what Nazi means to the west vs. what it means to Russians wrt Ukraine. I'm sure the knowledgeable guys know that stuff well, but why bitch about it? Even if its already been discussed, I mean shit on this site posters rehash shit constantly.
  23. Did you see Putin's unhinged declaration of war on all of Ukraine yesterday?
  24. I don't get the vitriol for your posts. They don't come across as argumentative and those of us not as well informed about the region appreciate them. Thank you
  25. Meh, they're only calling for .2 inches of rain. Cold but not that cold. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't want to get jammed by a fastball on Saturday, but if the forecast holds I don't see it being cancelled.
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