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[Kel Varnsen 8539]

6 minutes ago, Message Board User said:

 

That seemed like something big

[crash_davis 23114]

so what is this?

 

[cactusflinthead 27601]

11 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

I dig the look but man Americans sure are the kings of useless platitudes. 

It's especially frustrating seeing how weirdly inept this Russian invasion is and that a relatively small American force as part of a NATO coalition could have ruined this whole thing for Putin already. 

Instead we have toothless platitudes and cowering to Putin's empty threat of nukes when standing up to aggression a long time ago could have prevented this stuff from Russia by now. 

John Prine had some words about it.

 

It's a nice gesture. Not terribly unlike the Turks singing at Putin. A lot of things could have been different. 

 

[Constant 6746]

Just heard a distant explosion on the live feed. 

[OU Sucks 8885]

1 minute ago, crash_davis said:

so what is this?

 

A really big CPU fan

[SimonBolivar 10958]

Just now, OU Sucks said:

A really big CPU fan

Overclocking for WoW Gold Farmers.

[crash_davis 23114]

 

[Parliament 14262]

This is gonna take Putin down. Maybe he planned to soft-pedal the start, but there's NO way he wanted a bunch of his shit to get blowed up.  Russia is a paper tiger (other than their nukes of course) and this is gonna take him down.  That, of course, makes him even more dangerous.  Whatever level of rationality he started out with, he's gonna start giving that up real soon.

[BrickTop 477]

Have a feeling there are exponentially more ManPads in Kyiv than the Russians think, yea they prob took out all the fixed AA batteries they could find, but as just seen Russian planes start falling with regularity they’re gonna just say fuck it and flatten it with artillery.

[crash_davis 23114]

 

[TwiceHorn 31507]

9 minutes ago, Message Board User said:

 

What's bizarre to me is you hear all these aircraft, and we know they are there from things like the above.

WTF are they doing?  They don't seem to be bombing anything with any great enthusiasm.

[Harrison Stafford 3335]

17 minutes ago, USNALonghorn said:

Putin = late era Mack?

Putin = dying star

[Chad Fuck 17686]

so what is this?
 

Scrap.

[ShaggyBevo RIP 3868]

28 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

I don't know where he's getting his numbers from on the tanks/APCs, but even half those numbers are noteworthy.

And I could see the APCs getting knocked out like crazy with Javelins/etc.  Even 65 APCs would be close to carrying 500 troops (I'm assuming some of them are not actually APCs, but configured for anti-air or whatever).  I'm not saying they killed 500 Russians in those APCs, but just putting it in perspective.

And if they've taken out 65 APCs (or more), that's spread out over a large area, which means a lot of APC drivers would know of APCs that got hit, and they might be skittish about where they go.

 

Losing a tank an hour is what stood out to me. Russian can't take that for a 72 hours.

[Immaculate Vibes 114]

 

[Doc Reeves 6434]

17 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

 

 

Thank goodness it missed the playground. I’m sure there were no children in the apartment buildings.

 

[sasquatch69 603]

18 minutes ago, USNALonghorn said:

Putin = late era Mack?

“It scares you to death.”

[F250 28788]

4 minutes ago, dcbc said:

Right.  Non state sponsored (at least openly) group.  I don't remember the stories of 2003 independent group hacking in conjunction with the Iraq invasion.

 

I discussed this previously, it's best to think of these groups as modern Pirates/Privateers. Often they wreck shop on their own and occasionally they attack other nations with the tacit approval of another nation.

I will add that Anonymous is full of clowns and the Russian groups are more Blackbeard "I want pirate booty and will sink French ships on behalf of the crown."

 

[Buzzrock 14926]

24 hour news channels need to get their “personalities” off the air when real shit is happening. It’s painful to watch. Put some real war correspondents on.

[atomheartbevo 89735]

5 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

Neither Russia nor China is world leading cutting edge in anything except strength in numbers and the will to do evil in ways that most countries won’t.  

I suspect there was a big element of overconfidence here by Putin, but eventually I fear that will to do evil will take over with more intensity and turn the tide more decisively for Russia.  But he’s still gravely miscalculated how easy occupying the Ukraine would be.  This is a larger, more advanced nation than Iraq and Afghanistan with all kinds of Western contacts and supply lines.  It’s a population that is used to relative freedom and that is majority hostile to Russia as a “liberator”.   Consider how much of a clusteruck Iraq was, and then consider most of those people actually were on our side.  

This was madness by Putin.

Yeah, it's not "if" but when he will take Kyiv.  

And if this is going as badly as it looks, the Russian officers/NCOs are going to be chewed out, which means they are going to get absolutely brutal on their conscripts and there's going to be a lot of dead Ukrainian civilians.

Putin cannot afford to back down on this at all.  Could be a pyrrhic victory.

 

 

['stache 21823]

2 minutes ago, Parliament said:

This is gonna take Putin down. Maybe he planned to soft-pedal the start, but there's NO way he wanted a bunch of his shit to get blowed up.  Russia is a paper tiger (other than their nukes of course) and this is gonna take him down.  That, of course, makes him even more dangerous.  Whatever level of rationality he started out with, he's gonna start giving that up real soon.

I legitimately worry that if he is losing he’ll say fuck it and go nuclear. He’ll have nothing to lose at that point.

[Kel Varnsen 8539]

3 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

What's bizarre to me is you hear all these aircraft, and we know they are there from things like the above.

WTF are they doing?  They don't seem to be bombing anything with any great enthusiasm.

Maybe it's Ukrainian CAS

[Constant 6746]

More loud explosions heard. I think Kyiv is kicking off. 

[JerrysJheriCurl 977]

Reposting from a week ago, because still applicable.

[Doc Reeves 6434]

Just now, ShaggyBevo RIP said:

Losing a tank an hour is what stood out to me. Russian can't take that for a 72 hours.

 

That is the tempo of vicious fighting

[OU Sucks 8885]

4 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

What's bizarre to me is you hear all these aircraft, and we know they are there from things like the above.

WTF are they doing?  They don't seem to be bombing anything with any great enthusiasm.

It's the Ghost Of Kyiv.  He clears the skies of Russian fighters and says Take the Loss, Putin.

Edited February 25, 2022 by OU Sucks

[Immaculate Vibes 114]

 

[staboner 4984]

17 minutes ago, Hate said:

Holy shit if true. We may be witnessing the crumbling of Russia as any kind of world power. 

i've been waiting on the defections. these mofos were out in he cold for what 1 to 2 months? being told what exactly? i am sure morale is all over the fucking place. 

[SimonBolivar 10958]

1 minute ago, Immaculate Vibes said:

 

I hope it's because Finland is invading Murmansk. 

['stache 21823]

Just now, Immaculate Vibes said:

 

If Ukraine takes an upper hand I wonder if NATO would go ahead and send in force to take them out for good. I doubt it, I just hope Ukraine can fend them off on their own with whatever help we’re supplying.

[ShaggyBevo RIP 3868]

22 minutes ago, Handcruser said:

I can totally see us communicating in real time with Ukraine of what’s going on, where to shoot, when to hold back, etc. I’m sure the intel that the US/UK/etc is providing is flat out allowing them to do work and, in turn, giving them confidence.

Keep fighting Ukraine. All of Surly supports you.

Russia not jamming coms or take down power is a huge fail.

[SimonBolivar 10958]

Ukraine claiming they've killed 800 Russians. Dubious but they seem proud.

 

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Ukrainian military claims that since the beginning of fighting with Russia they have killed 800 men, shot down 7 planes, 6 helicopters, destroyed 30 tanks, and destroyed 130 other vehicles

 

Edited February 25, 2022 by SimonBolivar

[Immaculate Vibes 114]

 

 

Edited February 25, 2022 by Immaculate Vibes

[StruggleBus 3922]

14 minutes ago, Lobo said:

Yeah, but least Covid'll be over.

Covid’ll

[Constant 6746]

About an hour and a half til sunrise in Kyiv. 

[UT_OB1 2224]

4 minutes ago, Immaculate Vibes said:

 

How do you engage a cruise missile?  Is it flying at a speed that a plane could shoot it down or someone on the ground  could take it out?

[Handcruser 2805]

How do you engage a cruise missile?  Is it flying at a speed that a plane could shoot it down or someone on the ground  could take it out?

SAMS

[FartingMonk 3608]

3 minutes ago, UT_OB1 said:

How do you engage a cruise missile?  Is it flying at a speed that a plane could shoot it down or someone on the ground  could take it out?

Put a ring on it.

 

But no.  It's tough like really tough. Dude has no idea what he is saying

 

 

 

 

Edited February 25, 2022 by FartingMonk

[SimonBolivar 10958]

Gonna be a bloody day in Kyiv. Russians are 20 miles from town.

[F250 28788]

1 minute ago, ShaggyBevo RIP said:

Russia not jamming coms or take down power is a huge fail.

 

 

[phdhorn 6224]

2 minutes ago, UT_OB1 said:

How do you engage a cruise missile?  Is it flying at a speed that a plane could shoot it down or someone on the ground  could take it out?

It's been done:

[Wulaw Horn 19123]

20 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

Neither Russia nor China is world leading cutting edge in anything except strength in numbers and the will to do evil in ways that most countries won’t.  

I suspect there was a big element of overconfidence here by Putin, but eventually I fear that will to do evil will take over with more intensity and turn the tide more decisively for Russia.  But he’s still gravely miscalculated how easy occupying the Ukraine would be.  This is a larger, more advanced nation than Iraq and Afghanistan with all kinds of Western contacts and supply lines.  It’s a population that is used to relative freedom and that is majority hostile to Russia as a “liberator”.   Consider how much of a clusteruck Iraq was, and then consider most of those people actually were on our side.  

This was madness by Putin.

Yep. The Russians are overrated pussies and the Chinese are even more overrated. Communism doesn’t work. It hollows out society and based upon lies heaped on top of lies. They lie to themselves and they don’t even know it. 
We were shocked to find out how dismal shit was for them when the USSR fell and since then their country has been raped by a thuggish oligarchy and they’ve put no effort into building up the population. Their economy is about the size of Texas but not as diversified. This isn’t a great power- it’s a tin horn dictator who talks a lot of shit but he has nukes. 
China is same same but even worse because they are still commies ruthlessly suppressing dissent and lying to themselves about literally everything. 
for all that people talk shit on here about Americans and America and how stupid, lazy, whatever you want to say bad we are the average American runs circles around the average peasant from Russia or China and we wouldn’t uphold the average American as anything other than an incompetent moron around these parts. 
The fact that they have nukes makes this shit hard to solve, but yeah- not impressed nor am I worried about the Chico’s getting frisky if we decide to shut them down. 

[pops 7005]

10 minutes ago, 'stache said:

I legitimately worry that if he is losing he’ll say fuck it and go nuclear. He’ll have nothing to lose at that point.

He goes nuke and that affects nato countries and the world ends. Fine by me. Just give me a heads up and I'm heading to the neighbor down the street that has been flirting with me. 

[Buzzrock 14926]

I legitimately worry that if he is losing he’ll say fuck it and go nuclear. He’ll have nothing to lose at that point.

This is my concern dude

[F250 28788]

1 minute ago, Wulaw Horn said:

Yep. The Russians are overrated pussies and the Chinese are even more overrated. Communism doesn’t work. It hollows out society and based upon lies heaped on top of lies. They lie to themselves and they don’t even know it. 
We were shocked to find out how dismal shit was for them when the USSR fell and since then their country has been raped by a thuggish oligarchy and they’ve put no effort into building up the population. Their economy is about the size of Texas but not as diversified. This isn’t a great power- it’s a tin horn dictator who talks a lot of shit but he has nukes. 
China is same same but even worse because they are still commies ruthlessly suppressing dissent and lying to themselves about literally everything. 
for all that people talk shit on here about Americans and America and how stupid, lazy, whatever you want to say bad we are the average American runs circles around the average peasant from Russia or China and we wouldn’t uphold the average American as anything other than an incompetent moron around these parts. 
The fact that they have nukes makes this shit hard to solve, but yeah- not impressed nor am I worried about the Chico’s getting frisky if we decide to shut them down. 

Dude put down the whiskey.

 

 

[Brisketexan 105161]

Gonna be a bloody day in Kyiv. Russians are 20 miles from town.

That’s when it gets real. That will be shittacular.

All of that said, we’re seeing the Russian military engage with a modern fighting force, albeit a not very stout one….and it’s showing us that Russia is not an offensive threat. NATO would mop the floor with them. As would any number of NATO nations. As in, I think France alone might take them, and easily.

Putin is showing his junk here, and it’s not nearly as impressive as his enslaved concubines told him it was.

Here’s hoping for a lot more dead Russians soon.

[ShaggyBevo RIP 3868]

19 minutes ago, Kel Varnsen said:

That seemed like something big

That a hell of a lot of fuel. Paratrooper transport?

[staboner 4984]

6 minutes ago, ShaggyBevo RIP said:

Russia not jamming coms or take down power is a huge fail.

[squeegeedegg 723]

6 minutes ago, UT_OB1 said:

How do you engage a cruise missile?  Is it flying at a speed that a plane could shoot it down or someone on the ground  could take it out?

They travel at subsonic speeds, so yes, any method of anti-air can bring down a cruise missile if they have the proper guidance

['stache 21823]

1 minute ago, pops said:

He goes nuke and that affects nato countries and the world ends. Fine by me. Just give me a heads up and I'm heading to the neighbor down the street that has been flirting with me. 

Same, school mom that I get mad vibes from, who cares at that point, let’s get it on already!