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[BamaATL 16593]

11 minutes ago, DaggerHorns said:

I know that we don’t want any escalation or any other increases in conflict but I want so badly to fly a dozen jets over the Black Sea eliminating every Russian ship in sight.

We'd do it with unmanned underwater drones and there would be virtually no evidence left.  But I like the sentiment, and can certainly get on board.  

[Parliament 14377]

27 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

Rumors floating that this might be exploring the bottom of the Black Sea

 

NVM

[The Dog 44191]

 

[KYHorn 17280]

33 minutes ago, The Dog said:

 

 

[atomheartbevo 90059]

We didn't see enough video to conclude what exactly it was.

But they had it under drone surveillance so they had something big planned for it, maybe planted (but if they can make the Russians think it's a missile strike it'll probably scare the Russians a bit and make them spread What Air Defense Doing out a little more.

Either way, this sums it up:

 

[BamaATL 16593]

18 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

We didn't see enough video to conclude what exactly it was.

But they had it under drone surveillance so they had something big planned for it, maybe planted (but if they can make the Russians think it's a missile strike it'll probably scare the Russians a bit and make them spread What Air Defense Doing out a little more.

Either way, this sums it up:

 

Either way works for me, I've been wondering if the Ukrainians would use Semtex and remote detonate buildings as they saw Wagner or MOD troops in buildings like this.  Semtex is cheap, easy to come by and very stable.  It would also be easy to hide.  

[Doc Sam Beckett 5807]

4 hours ago, DaggerHorns said:

I know that we don’t want any escalation or any other increases in conflict but I want so badly to fly a dozen jets over the Black Sea eliminating every Russian ship in sight.

My kingdom for someone, anyone, to start hitting targets in Russia 

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7 minutes ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

My kingdom for someone, anyone, to start hitting targets in Russia 

Julia Davis's videos would be even more off the rails than normal.  Or Russian state media would completely ignore it, for fear of making the population wonder what's going on.

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Speaking of Julia Davis

 

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Here's that same Russian a few months ago talking about where Russia was headed:

[Gatorubet 30413]

52 minutes ago, KYHorn said:

 

Could be this.  They used to have 500 of these.

 

[Armybrat 41005]

5 hours ago, BamaATL said:

 

Should’ve entered that one in the Texas Relays field events.

[KYHorn 17280]

1 hour ago, Gatorubet said:

Could be this.  They used to have 500 of these.

 

I would think you'd see something that big in the video, even despite the poor quality. 

[KYHorn 17280]

 

 

 

[Gatorubet 30413]

40 minutes ago, KYHorn said:

I would think you'd see something that big in the video, even despite the poor quality. 

[atomheartbevo 90059]

Playing Prigozhin off against Gerasimov is brilliant.  Knocking Wagner off the table reduces a potential threat to Putin's power (and killed a bunch of undesirable Russians in Putin's eyes). If it fails and can be pinned on Gerasimov, well he can take the fall for the entire last 13 months.

[KYHorn 17280]

 

 

 

 

[KYHorn 17280]

 

A sign?

[KYHorn 17280]

 

 

Edited April 2, 2023 by KYHorn

[KYHorn 17280]

 

[Bevo 13637]

23 minutes ago, KYHorn said:

 

A sign?

Yeah, it's starting this week.

[JesusSweatDuck 17814]

29 minutes ago, KYHorn said:

 

A sign?

If I remember correctly Melitopol is the choke point for all routes to Crimea 

[Schulz2.0 29054]

 

[Neonmoon 38130]

Another 147,000 we’re just announced to be called up to the meat grinder. 
 

Putins sole strategy is to outlast Europe’s money with continuous manpower 

Edited April 2, 2023 by Neonmoon

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[Mullet Free 39]

 

 

[Parliament 14377]

That is not ideal.

[Post Oak 20340]

2 hours ago, KYHorn said:

 

Checkmate NATO.

 

 

[The Dog 44191]

 

[DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt 12301]

Kaboom

[locodos 5425]

2 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

Another 147,000 we’re just announced to be called up to the meat grinder. 
 

Putins sole strategy is to outlast Europe’s money with continuous manpower 

"Quantity has a quality all it's own"

 

But Ukraine has, or rather had, a population north of 40 million.  So, if they're willing to fight to the end we will see if Russia has the will/ability to burry them under a pile of bodies.

[Brisketexan 105587]

Love it. Gimme more.

[Nivek 17045]

Just a quick reminder, the Nazi's were using horses to move supplies.    

[Brisketexan 105587]

You have horses! What the fuck were you thinking?

[DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt 12301]

2 minutes ago, locodos said:

"Quantity has a quality all it's own"

 

But Ukraine has, or rather had, a population north of 40 million.  So, if they're willing to fight to the end we will see if Russia has the will/ability to burry them under a pile of bodies.

Despite the 3 or 4 talking points @atomheartbevo will repeat for the 700th time in response to your post, Russia most certainly has the “will” to keep the bodies piling up.

They have more bodies to throw at this war, but most importantly, a Russian is worthless. They inherently understand they have no value. You’ve heard that sentiment when mothers talk about the money they’ll receive if their son dies. What they’re saying is “my son is worthless, at least in death he’ll have some value.”

[cactusflinthead 27615]

Just now, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

more bodies to throw at this war

I want to see what happens when they start rounding them up in the cities. The hinterlands are not an endless resource. Depopulate the rural areas and someone still has to y'know get shit done. St Petersburg and Moscow have not been tapped. Let's see how popular that is.

[DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt 12301]

6 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

I want to see what happens when they start rounding them up in the cities. The hinterlands are not an endless resource. Depopulate the rural areas and someone still has to y'know get shit done. St Petersburg and Moscow have not been tapped. Let's see how popular that is.

They just sat back and let Stalin imprison and murder millions of their fellow citizens for decades.

There will be no popular uprising within Russian society. Get that fantasy out of your head.

[atomheartbevo 90059]

10 minutes ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

Despite the 3 or 4 talking points @atomheartbevo will repeat for the 700th time in response to your post, Russia most certainly has the “will” to keep the bodies piling up.

They have more bodies to throw at this war, but most importantly, a Russian is worthless. They inherently understand they have no value. You’ve heard that sentiment when mothers talk about the money they’ll receive if their son dies. What they’re saying is “my son is worthless, at least in death he’ll have some value.”

They can have the will as long as they stay away from Moscow and St Petersburg like @cactusflinthead mentioned above, but some of those outer regions are sparsely populated so those spigots are going to be turned off at some point.

Does it even matter? They rounded up 300,000 new conscripts last fall and still couldn't fucking take Bakhmut after all these months, and the latest 150,000 they rounded up are going to be even less trained and less equipped. 

[Horn Dog 10038]

3 hours ago, Schulz2.0 said:

 

 

3 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

Another 147,000 we’re just announced to be called up to the meat grinder. 
 

Putins sole strategy is to outlast Europe’s money with continuous manpower 

The 2023 Russian Bride Mail Order catalog is gonna look like a full set of encyclopedias (Gen Z- those are books)

[cactusflinthead 27615]

Yeah and he got there by an uprising. I never thought the Berlin Wall was going to come down either.

[atomheartbevo 90059]

4 minutes ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

They just sat back and let Stalin imprison and murder millions of their fellow citizens for decades.

There will be no popular uprising within Russian society. Get that fantasy out of your head.

Stalin had the Baltics, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, the 'Stans, to pull from/lean on. Putin doesn't have that luxury.

 

 

[bolverk 29824]

1 hour ago, Parliament said:

That is not ideal.

It's not that big of a deal. Remember to keep in mind that GRHorn/Satoshi/Immaculate Vibes/Mullet Free has posted only what he perceives as negative events, especially in regard to energy, happening to the West in relation to its support for Ukraine. Last year, he consistently posted tweets implying that Europe would run out of natural gas this winter, leading to strife in the western alliance. He also hinted at his support for the break up of the EU, which I know is not necessarily a popular entity among a certain faction in the US, but we should recognize it has been indispensable in keeping the peace on that continent.

Note the tweeted response below.

From the WSJ article:

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The oil purchases, while tiny and authorized by the U.S., represent a break in the unity of U.S.-led efforts to impose a global $60-a-barrel cap on purchases of Russian crude oil.

The cap works because oil-buying nations, even if they aren’t aligned with the U.S., generally need to use insurance and other services from companies based in the U.S. or one of its allies. The G-7, the European Union and Australia have agreed to rules forbidding those companies from furnishing services if a buyer of Russian oil is paying more than $60 a barrel. 

The nations last year granted an exception to the cap through Sept. 30 for oil purchased by Japan from the Sakhalin-2 project in Russia’s Far East. 

An official of Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Tokyo wanted to ensure access to Sakhalin-2’s main product, natural gas, which is liquefied and shipped to Japan. “We have done this with an eye toward having a stable supply of energy for Japan,” the official said.

He said a small quantity of crude oil is extracted alongside the natural gas at Sakhalin-2 and needs to be sold to ensure liquefied natural gas, or LNG, production continues. “The price is decided by negotiations between the two parties,” he said.

 

Please put him on ignore, or at the very least, understand that he is not an ally to the Ukrainian cause nor the western alliance.

[DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt 12301]

4 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Stalin had the Baltics, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, the 'Stans, to pull from/lean on. Putin doesn't have that luxury.

 

 

Are you talking about the war where they racked up 10 million+ soldiers KIA?

[Mullet Free 39]

7 minutes ago, bolverk said:

He also hinted at his support for the break up of the EU

That’s a lie. 
 

8 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Last year, he consistently posted tweets implying that Europe would run out of natural gas this winter, leading to strife in the western alliance.

We got lucky with a warm winter. And the Europeans did a good job topping off supplies at a high cost. Will still be worth following for a couple more years until more supply comes online. 

[atomheartbevo 90059]

We missed this little milestone a few days ago.  This is a staggering number, and given how their enlisted basic training/advanced training works (relies heavily on officers and on upper/advanced training being completed at their permanent unit), and how much junior officers handle the roles that NCOs in the West do, this continues to show how degraded Russian forces are.  We lost 2,400 total Americans, officer and enlisted, in Afghanistan over 20 years, and they've lost nearly that many just in officers in 13 months).

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[cactusflinthead 27615]

8 minutes ago, Mullet Free said:

That’s a lie. 

Do we need to go find receipts for your opinion on Brexit? We're going to have to go to CR for this.

[Mullet Free 39]

1 minute ago, cactusflinthead said:

Do we need to go find receipts for your opinion on Brexit? We're going to have to go to CR for this.

The British voted to leave as was their right. Didn’t bother me at all either way. 

[tx 3 putt 77944]

100% twitter is suppressing Ukraine stories. I’m getting zero Ukraine tweets, except for people I follow 

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11 minutes ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

Are you talking about the war where they racked up 10 million+ soldiers KIA?

Was talking more about how the various factions/ethnic groups/etc. were purged, played against each other, etc., but sure, we can toss in WWII. And if we want to talk about WWII, Stalin had 194 million to pull from.  Putin has to pull from 50 million less (and maybe even smaller - as Zeihan and others have noted, we don't have accurate population accounts because it's a state secret in Russia).

Putin sent 200,000 troops into Ukraine in February of 2022.  Ukraine, a country of well over 40 million.

Putin mobilized 300,000 additional conscripts last fall, and yet Russia couldn't do shit over the past few months.

Do you see where this is going?  Another 150,000 won't mean shit.