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texastough

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  1. I think she broke the crazy scale on the hot/crazy matrix
  2. that would work, and they are also supposed to grow out of cow pies
  3. I don't think the smell of predators deters snakes. But predators like cats and dogs can kill or drive away rodents. That in turn results in fewer snakes around, since they are generally looking for food. Edit to add, this is to @Steel Shank, get your dog the snake vaccine at the vet. Its cheap and it works.
  4. Fair but I guarantee he has FSB and other intel reporting on the military (and on eachother and everyone else for that matter). I am skeptical that Putin is truly in the dark about this stuff.
  5. You don't think Shoigu is going to inform Putin about Prigozin's rants?
  6. More truth from one of his retweets: "they mobilized hundreds of thousands and threw a jaw-dropping amount of armored vehicles into a furnace for this [the miniscule Russian 2023 gains]. sheer insanity, a military gone mad"
  7. well worth a read https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/09/opinion/putin-ukraine-war.html
  8. You know some gamesmanship is going on with the telegraphing of the counteroffensive. When it truly begins is probably a matter of semantics, because if it hasn't "started" already, there are at least lots of shaping actions happening for the "start" of the offensive. My own .02 cents is that Ukraine is going to do a version of shock and awe on some sector of the front line at some point, and that is what will go down in history as the start of the counteroffensive. IMO Ukraine will have picked say a 50 mile sector of the front line and essentially mapped out all the Russian defensive layers. When Ukraine moves, first they send a shit ton of drones, artillery, rockets to take out AD, other key positions and serve as suppressing cover, while Ukraine moves with all the shiny new armor and some air support. If done well it could panic the Russians and collapse a much larger area a la Kharkiv.
  9. cobra obviously
  10. Pretty good thread on why Russia can't increase arms production. TLDR: their arms factories are severely undermanned for several reasons, and sanctions prevents them from getting certain key components they can't make themselves like chips.
  11. MillerEP has been the main guy here doing work, wtf are you talking about? You think we'd rather read your useless comments?
  12. I'd throw Girkin in too as someone who has been critical enough you'd think would earn a free flight out of a tall window somewhere. I don't really understand the calculus, but by playing the MOD against PMC's, it might be to focus the Russian populace on those guys (as potential scapegoats later) and also to keep them rabid to continue the war.
  13. Sometimes we talk, sometimes we walkabout in the woods, sometimes we get naked, etc. Fucking incredible
  14. MDMA saved my marriage. Wife and I are opposites emotionally so when we got into conflict she would go to 11 and I would just shut down. Talk therapy helped, but our therapist strongly recommended X for us. I had never tried it, but it has been fucking incredible. You can (and want to) talk to eachother about ANYTHING, including shit that normally would result in WW3. If anyone is interested I'm happy to go into more detail.
  15. Any more bullshit about someone's support for Russia/Putin being CR and I'll probably neg. I'm right on the line. Seriously, wtf is remotely close to CR, given the context of this thread? I normally don't do call outs but that was a super sandy vag comment
  16. any link to that clip about synchronized swimming? Couldn't find anything with a google search but I don't know the name of the show/movie
  17. Western or red striped ribbon snake
  18. Try Chris Johnson at Living Waters
  19. I've had luck on the free section of craigslist with people trying to get rid of rocks/boulders
  20. IMO, all you need to understand Bakhmut is to look at the battle for Severodonetsk. That was an artillery duel with the Russians having a big numerical superiority in guns, so they were levelling the town slowly and inching forward to capture the rubble. The Ukrainians defended for a long time, because they were very slowly tactically retreating and then hammering the Russians when they advanced. While AFU eventually gave up the ground, the attrition on the Russian side lead to the highly successful Kharkiv offensive that liberated way more dirt than they had given up attriting the Russians. Bakhmut is a different sort of battle due to Russia's current artillery shortage but I think the same principle still applies. Destroy as much Russian equipment and personnel as possible while preparing for the offensive. As one of Ukraine's soldiers mentioned, if they didn't fight them in Bakhmut, they would just have to fight them somewhere else. Now, if Bakhmut falls with a significant amount of Ukrainian forces surrounded/killed/captured, its a different story. But I think it fits with what has worked for Ukraine so far.
  21. WRT Bakhmut, before everyone goes sandy vag keyboard general, they need to remember that Ukraine has both been masterful at head-faking the Russians, and at "withdrawing" only to draw Russians into predetermined kill zones. This reminds me a lot of the severodonetsk battle, which Russia eventually "won" but it left them so weakened that the Kharkiv front line collapsed. I think its an intentional strategy by Ukr.
  22. I'm gonna go with Okie Land Thieves!
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