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For the love of Christ woman,  stop posting the same fucking thing every 20 mins just to make your neurotic self feel better.     Bring something useful to the thread other than your inane babbli

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I volunteered today. Log/Admin role to replace people for 30-60 days. The operation is in the west, or should the Orcs win will be pulled back behind the NATO wall. Either way the humanitarian effort

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1 hour ago, Bateshorn said:

Let me tl;dr this as my Latvian family would say about ethnic Russians in Latvia:

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I think the point of the thread is that they have every right to feel that way.

 

58 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Is that Mila’s voice or do they have a singer for Meg?  It’s extra salty if it’s mila.

 

That's what I'm wondering.

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Well at the very least you watched him fly

Butterfly in the sky

Orc can fly twice as high

Take a look

Out the Chinook

It's human rainbow...

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4 hours ago, Bateshorn said:

Let me tl;dr this as my Latvian family would say about ethnic Russians in Latvia:

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My best friend is working at one of the international schools in the Baltics and the parents of the Russian students that attend have complained about their kids getting "harassed" by the natives post UKR invasion. Attitude at the school has been "too bad - your country invaded Ukraine - what do you expect?"

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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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1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:

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

 

1 hour ago, BamaATL said:

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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4 hours ago, Rimbo said:

 

I think the point of the thread is that they have every right to feel that way.

 

 

That's what I'm wondering.

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Because I do have Latvian family, I will say this has been the policy of the Latvian government since the mid-ish 90s.  But because they were afraid of Russian invasion, they have basically not enforced the language requirement and allowed the Russian minority to flout the language law.  Now that Putin can’t bully the Baltic’s anymore, it’s FAFO. 

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5 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

 But because they were afraid of Russian invasion, they have basically not enforced the language requirement and allowed the Russian minority to flout the language law.  Now that Putin can’t bully the Baltic’s anymore, it’s FAFO. 

I don’t think the average superiority complex Russian has figured out yet that this is going to be their new normal.

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 Defeat. A thread 1/23

One important indicator for me is how often people in Russia talk about possible defeat. I must confess that it happens now really often, which is a dramatic turn from the early months of the war 2/23

For quite a while, nobody took the word “defeat” in their mouth, even if they considered the invasion to be an insane choice. That has changed 3/23

While majority in Russia remains detached and prefers to avoid bad thoughts, those who dare to think are increasingly accepting that the war is likely to end with a defeat 4/23

That applies perhaps mostly to those who tend to support Putin in this war for one reason or another (mainly because they fail to make difference between Putin’s and national interests). This is a mood I notice in people from various industries, all of them rather elevated 5/23

Similar mood flows over into the public sphere. Both Prigozhin and Kadyrov play their games, but between the lines they let out the shared assessment of the situation. Kadyrov says "it is very difficult", while Prigozhin warns of a looming catastrophe 6/23

The whole public fight between feudal warlords makes it extremely difficult to imagine this army achieving any success. Their language projects defeat, and this is what I often hear – “I don’t know how this can possibly end with a victory” 7/23

A recent confession from Andrey Kovalev, one of the major Russian developers, is indicative, too. Putin was feeding the rich people with the stories of how he is going to win it in the end, and now they seem to lose confidence 8/19

Video: CNN reporter breaks down Russian oligarch's 'warning' for Putin | CNN https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/05/08/russian-oligarch-criticizes-putin-war-ukraine-nc-vpx.cnn I am no military expert, but I have a better view of morale in the Russian army. It is very low, and the two motives to go to war remain (1) rare chance to earn some money and (2) submissiveness 9/23

I wouldn’t be surprised if the Russian army collapses after a couple of setbacks. I have no idea how likely that is (the Ukrainian offensive capabilities are often debated), but I consider it to be a distinct possibility 10/23

The state-controlled media are preparing the audience for possible setbacks. meduza.io/en/feature/202… 11/19

‘If Ukraine succeeds, it should be explainable’ How Moscow is instructing Russian propaganda outlets to cover Kyiv’s looming counteroffensive — Meduza The Ukrainian military is widely expected to launch its spring counteroffensive any day now, though what approach it will take and how the situation will unfold is anyone’s guess. According to Zelensk… https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/05/03/if-ukraine-succeeds-it-should-be-explainable Putin’s ability to recruit more soldiers remains significant but limited. Importantly, it is affected by the situation on the battlefield. Nobody wants to be part of a losing army, but that matters more for the sort of motivation dominant among the Russian soldiers 12/23

These are all early signs, of course, and Putin will be constantly killing the flames. In order to translate into action, these attitudes should rely on some vision of how the future might look like 13/23

That poses a difficult question. How a defeat might look like? 14/23

Putin has been pushing the idea that a defeat will mean the invasion of Russia, the country dismembered, the Russian women raped, children slaughtered and crucified, the foreigners ruling the land. Even Kovalev’s ends with stressing that defeat would be a catastrophe 15/23

Many Russians are convinced that the country is mortally threatened by the NATO forces. Several times I was told by the people I respect as cold-headed that this is all extremely bad, but what can we do – “if we don’t take Kyiv, they will take Moscow anyway” 16/23

The conversation about defeat is taking off in Russia, and it is important to untie the idea of defeat from the fears of catastrophe. Whose defeat it will be? This is another question 17/23

While there is no doubt that Russian people will take significant responsibility for this brutal assault on Ukraine – it is still important to discuss the differential responsibility. The defeat of Putin’s atrocious plans should be separated from the defeat of Russia 18/23

Russia has already lost when this war was launched – an unspeakable damage has been done to the country. Ending this war by recognizing internationally recognized borders of all countries is not a defeat for Russia, it is a beginning of the revival 19/23

It is no coincidence that Zombie TV tries to convince the audience that “everyone will go to the Hague is we lose”. 20/23

This is a lie, however, that shouldn't be supported. THEY will lose, and they will go to hell, and they know it. While WE have already lost when this war started, and we will have to rebuild the country and start restoring relationships with neighbors 21/23

This new emerging attitude offers new opportunities. Instead of trying to figure out what part of Ukraine will be enough for Putin (my answer is always Dresden), it is high time to think what are the costs and opportunities for Russia after Putin’s defeat and removal 22/23

This is a task for both the conversation between Russians and an international dialogue. There is no doubt Putin will do everything possible to preclude this conversation. But the sooner the solution emerges, the faster this war ends with justice 23/23 

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14 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

While majority in Russia remains detached and prefers to avoid bad thoughts, those who dare to think are increasingly accepting that the war is likely to end with a defeat 4/23

A lot of people still think Russia will pull this out somehow, that they are the still the fabled Red Army...but a lot of the 40-something and up Russians remember Afghanistan ....prior to the last year's main invasion, Russia had about 300,000 active duty soldiers. By the time the war in Afghanistan wound down in the 1980s (albeit the Soviets only had around 125,000 troops in Afghanistan at the peak), the Soviet/Red Army had around 3.6 million active duty troops (spread amongst the various Soviet Republics, Ukraine included), and those millions of active duty troops were actually trained and equipped.  And Afghanistan (and sanctions) hurt the Soviet economy in a big way, but not nearly as bad as here in 2023.

And here in 2023, Russia has a small fraction of the troops that the Soviets had available in the 80s, and Russian forces are being humiliated/killed on a daily basis, with a lot of it being filmed and distributed in a way that the 1980s Soviet society could not comprehend, since the Soviet government kept a lot of that stuff out of the public eye.  Yet, the Afghanistan veterans came back, and reports came through that things were not going well, and it weighed heavily on the public conscious.

Here in 2023, I'm wondering if a lot more Russians are getting a much more accurate picture of what's happening in Ukraine versus Soviet civilians and Afghanistan in the 1980s, even if it's not the most accurate.  Hell, I'm still trying to figure out Prigozhin's audience, but me thinks it's his own guys he's talking to, because there's no way his videos are getting to Putin.

My gut says that a lot more people have got to be aware that things are not going well. The fact that the Russian government publicized the hell out of the early gains, and then now we are at day 430-something of the 3-day Special Military Operation, and those Russians who care to watch the official state TV shows in the evening have now endured over 400 days of Russian government talking heads whining about how they are fighting NATO and there's a distinct lack of "we're gonna take Kyiv" and "we're gonna take Odessa", and instead threats of nuking Europe/America because Russia can't win conventionally.

I'm probably wrong, but shit, the Russian civilians have to be thinking about the fact that it's 400+ days into this war that was promised to be over quickly.

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17 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Prior to this war, how confident were we that our Patriots could take out those hypersonic missiles? 

This particular missile is basically just a normal ballistic missile. This is what the current Patriot system is designed to engage. So, I would say quite confident. A hypersonic weapon that can maneuver would be a much harder intercept, like supposedly Russia's Avanguad.

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Putin will kill them all and burn the Kaliningard to the ground before anything like this happens.,  Absolutely not happening as long as he is alive and Russia is mostly in tact.  The dissolution of Russia is the only way this happens.  (Though I am in favor of it).  

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4 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Screw it.  Let's put them in NATO.

Speaking of NATO, Japan is opening a NATO liaison office, the first one in Asia.   Japan is liable to wind up in NATO somehow.  NAPTO?

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/10/asia/japan-foreign-minister-hayashi-nato-intl-hnk/index.html

Way to fucking go Putin

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