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  1. 2 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    And that’s a KO on the Kerch bridge even if Ukraine doesn’t advance any further, right?

    By about 296 km from Kherson, and between 260 and 270 km right at the front lines in Zaporizhzhia, in certain spots.  So yes, if range is as advertised, and gps guided to a few meters, it's a kill shot.  Hitting it in a three or so spots would be crippling.  

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  2. 1 hour ago, statsman said:

    I guess it’s not as much fun discussing how Ukraine’s air defense can run out of munitions in May, with far too few Patriots in replacement, setting up a scenario where Russia can have air superiority, and deliver more accurate bombardments of Ukrainian positions. 
     

    It’s also not fun to think that there could be accurate privileged Russian info in the docs, setting up our assets in Russia for arrests and executions. 
     
    It’s more fun to imagine that it’s all a feint, and that we have in actuality given Ukraine what they need to overwhelm the Russians and have this all finished by early summer. 

    Saw and interesting take from Ben Hodges on all this yesterday.  Also, I'm still not sure what to make about a report that seemingly out of the blue showed up on of all things a minecraft discord room for a Philapino youtube guy.  The entire thing is odd.  

     

  3. 10 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    And as someone who has come up with some of the dumbest shit OF ALL TIME at a bar.....yeah.  Concur.  Which, again, makes me think that the DUMBEST thing I've ever done is skip out on any opportunity to part these morons from a shitload of their well-earned disability checks, SS payments, etc.  I mean, not only can we rip them off blind, we have a goddamned moral obligation to do so.

    I mean, I would be MORTIFIED if someone who would have been protected by my MS-13 insurance ends up victimized by one of the MS-13 roving hoards that terrorize all white people.  That would be AWFUL, and I don't know how I could sleep at night.

    Along those lines:

     

     

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  4. If it's bait, some of it has to be true, and I have no idea if it is or isn't.  For example, the part about the Ukrainians running out of s300's shouldn't surprise anyone, they've been defending their skies for over a year.  However, it only tells part of the story, as more and more western air defense is in country.  To Atom's point, any tech geek guy should be able to put that together.  The bigger thing about this particular part might be that they only need to convince an audience of one (Putin).  If he is convinced that the Ukrainian air defense is weak, perhaps he will order sorties that leads to more shoot downs of higher end aircraft.  

    The other thing is, while there are oddly specific details about Russian locations, troop compliments, etc, there isn't much in the way about the Ukrainians.  It does in some cases paint an unflattering of Ukrainian strength, but that may well also be an attempt to play to an audience of one.  Putin has a history of ignoring his advisors, so if he gets something he thinks tells him what he wants to hear, he may well believe it.  

     

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  5. 6 hours ago, Victor Lazlo said:

    Yep, I’m sure you’ve got it all figured out.

    Let’s just hope the Russkies don’t read Surly. Otherwise, the offensive is dead on arrival.

    Edited to say, I was being a dick, you might be right. But I hope the people in charge use some imagination to create an offensive that can’t be stopped. Wherever that may take them.

    Oh I don't know, freely admit that.  If the Ukrainians have shown us anything, they are full of surprises.  They have also shown that they can be strategically clever and feint well, a la the Kharkiv offensive.  What I was looking for is at least from a map standpoint anything that looks like opportunity that we haven't been considering.   If the Russian MOD or Wagner are reading this site for advice, I'd say they have much bigger problems to contend with.  The other thing that stood out is that fighting into Russian fortifications is sort of like determining that you have to fight on Russian dictated terms.  I would think it would make more sense to fight on your own terms and dictate to the enemy, if possible. 

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  6. 4 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    I thought perhaps it was basically a bit.  I even understood well how his rejection by polite Manhattan society drove him.  I did not understand how fundamentally stupid he was.  I thought maybe that was my bias at work.  HOWEVER, I didn't watch him debate or campaign, which probably would have revealed to me that he was as bad as I thought and worse.

    He's really a glowing example of how you give a personality-disordered moron a lot of money and they can be "successful."

    He was always a dimwit, a 2 bit huckster whose father funneled nearly a billion dollars to, who in turn didn't ever come close to even beating inflation; in fact, he continually lost it all.  I get the appeal of an outsider for political purposes, but why on earth anyone ever thought this guy is beyond me.  He's low rent, with no integrity, and he's never shown to be anything else in his entire life.  Every power player in the finance world had run away from him for near 30 years, yet he markets himself as a business genius.  He's wealthy (only from inheritance and theft) trash.   

    If I've learned much in the is world, one thing I know for sure is this, people that actually are doing well financially don't run around yelling it at everyone.  They also don't brag about something as stupid as having a gold plated toilet, because at the end of the day, it's a fucking toilet.  The toilet is thing I can never get over, he legitimately thinks that buying something like that equates class, and that somehow he bought class.  He didn't, his gaudiness has always showed that he has no class, and that mere concept to him is completely foreign.  Money is important as a means to survival and even ability to live as you please, but it's never been the be all of the world, and it's in no way indicative of truth worth as a human.  At the end of the day, money or no money, he's worthless; an empty blow hard in a suit with zero class, dignity, or redeeming qualities to humanity as a whole.  He isn't an embarrassment to just Republicans, or the office of the President of the United States, or even to all Americans; rather he's an embarrassment to all of humanity.  

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  7. In looking at the Russian defensive fortifications and upgrades, may be we all looking at the wrong area for the counter attack.  Many of us believe it will rally at either Mariupol or Melitopol, or perhaps both.  Given the fortifications, I started considering that perhaps the Ukrainians will look for other areas of opportunity.  We I compared this fortification map with deep state map of Russian troop locations I noticed something.  Just north of Vuhledar, there is a corridor with few Russian troops and if the fortification map is to be believe it looks to be lightly fortified.  I wonder if the first strike could be directly at this corridor, with the idea of splitting the fronts into North and South, vs East and West.  Given the geography of the area, with bridges and wetlands, it would be a short strike about 65 km to the Russian border and could serve split their army.  Additionally, it doesn't appear they would need lots of people to hold this area.  The real advantage would be that it could open a corridor to the south that evades the existing fortifications by going around them from the north and the east, which it doesn't appear the Russians are expecting.  The rally point for this might be Novotroitske.  

    Just a thought, I'm just looking for points of opportunity.  

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  8. 22 minutes ago, Hook1997 said:

    I use to work with a couple guys that said they were leaving meeting with some clients one day and we’re driving down some backroad and saw a half naked lady running down the road.  Evidently she had caught her husband fucking the dog, again and they had got into a fight….   

    I was unaware that Cesar Milan was married.  

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  9. 7 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    I live in a world where there is a "Zuckerberg General Hospital," and it's a not a gag......

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    I believe our species had a decent run, but it's time to hand the reins over to another one.

    Zuckerberg Hospital for people that don't feel so good and shit.  

    Sponsored by the Sackler Family Trust.  

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  10. 13 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

    Ancient Law of the Sea, Sir. Predates any Alleged National Corporations, Sir. A Person has the right to Benefit from any Found Bounty, Sir. A Non-Baker can hand you a loaf of Bread and that does not make the Loaf any less Bread or the Non-Baker a Baker.

    Sir.

    Please be seated Mr. Buffett

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