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39 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

 

I imagine that NATO and/or defense companies are paying very handsomely for these types of vehicles.   That’s something else that’s lost in the shuffle - not only is Russia losing all kinds of money, vehicles, soldiers, etc., but they have been giving the West access to some of their best weapons.  

Master strategist.

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38 minutes ago, SquishMitten said:

Really confused at the lack of reporting on a possible assassination attempt. 

I'm doubting it ever happened until Russia comes out and denies it. Then it 100% fact.

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13 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

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I'm just gonna come out and say it...if that's Japan and that's the Kamchatka Penninsula...then the Kuril Islands are?...........you guessed............the Taint.

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After we put them on blast, they allowed themselves to get past their go/no-go date.  They basically had to go through with it even if it wasn't feasible at that juncture and hope that it would be successful.  They were spending something in the neighborhood of $100mm/day just trying to feed/fuel/arm the amassed force for what was at that point a Military Exercise.  That's an expensive fucking exercise for a country that was in the throws of a terrible recession coming off of COVID meltdown.  THe people would've been furious if all that money was wasted over nothing.  Turns out, they multiplied their waste by 1000-fold in 7 months and are about to lose all semblance of power they thought they had.  

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5 hours ago, Scheiss Meister said:

I counted thirteen men in the top Tweet.  I'm not familiar with the TO&E of a Russian motorized rifle platoon, but that's a squad in my old assed Marine infantry days, 1/3 of a platoon.  If that's all that's left, damn.

I suspect it never had very many more men than that. Seems like they've been running short-handed since the very start.

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Russian Army taking cues from Aggie.
 

“I only see 13 men, that’s not even close to a full platoon.”  
 

“Well, I think you’re discounting the fighting Russian spirit.  We don’t need 40 men.”

”okay, but that guy there is missing a leg and that one over there is dead.”   

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14 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

Sir Lawrence of Saddam?   
 

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“writes Sir Lawrence of Saddam”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Freedman

He just put out a new book, Command, that covers Saddam Hussein, Putin, etc.  

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/21/lawrence-freedman-autocracies-tend-to-make-catastrophic-decisions-thats-the-case-with-putin

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Command, a wide-ranging analysis of post-second world war conflicts by the leading strategic studies expert Lawrence Freedman, examines a series of well-known conflicts, from the Cuban missile crisis to the French defeat at the hands of the Viet Minh at Dien Bien Phu, through to the Falklands war and Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, up to the present war in Ukraine.

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“The big theme,” said Freedman, emeritus professor of war studies at King’s College London, “is that autocracies are very bad at this. A lot of most catastrophic decisions come from autocratic decision-making. That is certainly the case with Vladimir Putin but also Saddam Hussein and even [the Argentine military dictator Leopoldo] Galtieri during the Falklands war.”

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As Freedman’s book sets out to show, in key interactions between military and political leaders – which even in the best circumstances can be characterised by tensions and personal conflicts – it is the lack of open and often critical feedback that leads to bad decision-making.

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“Autocracies don’t have the feedback mechanism, and dig themselves in by believing that the advantage of autocracy is bold and decisive decision-making.

“While in certain circumstances you can tolerate quite a lot of bad decision-making and come out all right, because you have superior numbers, where it is very tight, one poor decision or bit of bad luck can put you out completely.”

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“Military force had been quite good for Putin up until now. He used it effectively in Chechnya, Crimea, Georgia and Syria. He used it in quite a limited fashion in Ukraine’s Donbas region in 2014 where those doing his dirty work wanted him to take an even more aggressive approach.

“But his approach to the current Ukraine conflict has clearly been deluded. You have to assume he didn’t realise the gamble he was taking. He genuinely thought Ukraine would crumble quite quickly, and it’s hard to know why. “Even those [foreign] analysts who thought Ukraine’s military might not do well didn’t believe that the Ukrainian people would succumb. But he did.

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“Experts on Ukraine in Russia don’t seem to have been consulted. It looks like Putin was talking to his mates in the FSB [the federal security service] and GRU [military intelligence ] who shared his prejudices. And the ranting speech he gave on 21 February [three days before Russia invaded] is still as good a guide as anything to believe what he thinks. It is clear from that that he finds it very hard to take Ukraine and its president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, seriously. I think he thought Zelenskiy would make a deal. He didn’t.”

At the heart of the problem, Freedman believes, is the rigidly hierarchical nature of the Kremlin’s decision-making and how those at the very top are immune to responsibility for mistakes.

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“There are no incentives to tell the truth on the ground to the higher command. The senior military – people such as defence minister Sergei Shoigu and chief of the general staff Valery Gerasimov – are all part of the inner circle. They’ve sacked lots of generals now they know that there’s a problem. But it’s not them that’s the problem. It’s always someone else.”

 

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Just now, atomheartbevo said:

Cool.  I’ll check it out.  Never heard of that moniker before and I found it funny 

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7 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

Cool.  I’ll check it out.  Never heard of that moniker before and I found it funny 

It was funny the way they phrased it.   The book is on my list as well, it’s a series of essays it looks like.

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3 minutes ago, Superhero said:

Saved you some time.

Ann Coulter says she can prove Donald Trump never mocked a reporter's  disability. (She can't.) - The Washington Post

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Reported for being offensive to those of us with obese, retarded siblings!

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