Jump to content

Русский корабль - иди нахуй

Eastwood

By Eastwood
in Daily Texan

 Share

Recommended Posts

KYHorn

KYHorn 17057

Posted
Posted (edited)

Quickly approaching the time where Wagner completes the offensive and likely hands over responsibility of defending it to the regular army so that they can be blamed when it falls.

 

 

Edited by KYHorn
  • Hook 'Em 2
  • Fuck Around and Find Out 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • Replies 86.4k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

  • atomheartbevo

    8620

  • MillerEP

    7298

  • Schulz2.0

    3645

  • InkaUtexas

    3007

Popular Days

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Popular Posts

AUS-97HORN
AUS-97HORN

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

closetohumping
closetohumping
InkaUtexas
InkaUtexas

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

Posted Images

Rimbo

Rimbo 25933

Posted
Posted
3 hours ago, troph said:

Good read but he doesn’t really say why Ukraine will push Russia all the way back. 

Hertling's guesses have proven to be better than many folks' facts.

He has more or less predicted the war to this point based on his experiences as the head of US forces in Europe, having seen both the Ukraine military and Russian shitshow firsthand.

  • Hook 'Em 2
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
SL Xpress

SL Xpress 7513

Posted
Posted
7 hours ago, Rimbo said:

 

That's a great article.

If I had omnipotent power over everything that's written and said in the west about the upcoming offensive, I would make it so people were consistently downplaying the objectives that could be achieved with the upcoming counteroffensive. It does Ukraine very little good to talk about how successful it's going to be, even by someone as knowledgeable and prescient as Mark Hertling. In some ways even especially by him. I don't have that power, and there is some good served by giving out a positive narrative about Ukraine's capabilities and Russia's deficiencies. It's just in my opinion that whatever good is done by buoying spirits in the West as we wait for it to transpire are not as beneficial as lowering expectations so that what Ukraine does accomplish is seen as a spectacular success, whatever that is. 

But that's just me.

I'll also say in reading that article it made me wonder if Douglas MacArthur wrote a similar letter prior to his landings at Inchon. Probably not. 

  • Hook 'Em 2
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
SL Xpress

SL Xpress 7513

Posted
Posted
5 hours ago, Rimbo said:

 

More Hertling, for those too lazy to read his op ed piece.

It takes like 30 seconds. It's not some kind of deep dive. People love to complain about how long my posts are. I do not understand the perception that reading takes so much time and energy. Or that skipping over it is such a chore. 

Not really attacking your post, because it's relevant. It just constantly shocks me at how relevant it is. 

  • Hook 'Em 4
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Rimbo

Rimbo 25933

Posted
Posted
54 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

It takes like 30 seconds. It's not some kind of deep dive. People love to complain about how long my posts are. I do not understand the perception that reading takes so much time and energy. Or that skipping over it is such a chore. 

Not really attacking your post, because it's relevant. It just constantly shocks me at how relevant it is. 

Well, the added bit in the CNN blurb is "Some of the things we're seeing now pale in significance." That's an interesting sentiment that wasn't in the Op Ed.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
956 Worldwide

956 Worldwide 34715

Posted
Posted
7 hours ago, Dahobbs said:

 

 

Was coming to post this. Hopefully not destroyed and I’d not expect perfect clarity on this. 
 

If true, my first concern is loss of life and second concern is if it will be replaced. This would be a classic reminder that the enemy gets a vote and that sending things to a war means they may get lost. But we’d be learning SO much about how adversaries would target our AD in the future. 
 

A deployed Patriot battery has a massive footprint and blasts TONS of radiation. They’re really hard to hide. 

  • Hook 'Em 3
  • Like 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Dahobbs

Dahobbs 17534

Posted
Posted (edited)
17 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Also— a full Patriot battery deployed spreads out over a square kilometer and several vehicles. So an open ? on as to what exactly was “got”’ if anything. A radar would be a worse than a launcher. 

The video that showed the "destruction" wasn't very convincing. There is a single flash after the launcher appears to stop firing. However, the flash is pretty consistent with the flash that occurs with a defensive missile launch. My best guess is that it was either a missile launch failure or a missile being launched in a direction that the camera doesn't see. We also have no way of knowing if it was a patriot battery. At either rate, it really didn't seem like an explosion from a target being destroyed. Kinzhal and kalibr have a large warheads. 

Edited by Dahobbs
  • Hook 'Em 3
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
troph

troph 24797

Posted
Posted
8 hours ago, Rimbo said:

Hertling's guesses have proven to be better than many folks' facts.

He has more or less predicted the war to this point based on his experiences as the head of US forces in Europe, having seen both the Ukraine military and Russian shitshow firsthand.

Yeah just would have liked deeper analysis but then to  earlier points ain’t nobody got time to read that.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Brisketexan

Brisketexan 105139

Posted
Posted
5 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

Weird that Russia's MOD doesn't know that the Kinzhal is not a hypersonic glide vehicle at all. It is a ballistic missile. The only hypersonic glide vehicle Russia has is (allegedly) the Avangard. 

I'm pretty sure "Hypersonic Glide" is a Radiohead song.  I'm not sure, because I don't get Radiohead.  Like, at all.

  • Hook 'Em 1
  • Haha 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites
GoPokes83

GoPokes83 2240

Posted
Posted

I realize there’s a war going on, but Zelenskyy’s cultivated this look of being straight off the front, with khaki’s and a sweater/sweatshirt when he travels to other countries. Put on a suit man, you can still be President of a country at war while wearing one. Baby rant over…

  • Hook 'Em 1
  • Haha 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • Popular Post
Dahobbs

Dahobbs 17534

Posted
  • Popular Post
Posted
5 minutes ago, GoPokes83 said:

I realize there’s a war going on, but Zelenskyy’s cultivated this look of being straight off the front, with khaki’s and a sweater/sweatshirt when he travels to other countries. Put on a suit man, you can still be President of a country at war while wearing one. Baby rant over…

🙄

  • Hook 'Em 9
  • Haha 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • Popular Post
KYHorn

KYHorn 17057

Posted
  • Popular Post
Posted (edited)
2 hours ago, GoPokes83 said:

I realize there’s a war going on, but Zelenskyy’s cultivated this look of being straight off the front, with khaki’s and a sweater/sweatshirt when he travels to other countries. Put on a suit man, you can still be President of a country at war while wearing one. Baby rant over…

Bad take, imo. It's important in its messaging and symbolism- to those in his country who are suffering and for whom life is dramatically different than it was 400+ days ago, and to others around the world as a reminder that Ukraine is still a country under attack and in desperate need of assistance. A suit doesn't send that message- it says "good as new" and "business as usual".

Edited by KYHorn
  • Hook 'Em 21
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Pato del Muerto

Pato del Muerto 52498

Posted
Posted (edited)

I don’t know what constitutes a hypersonic missile, but right now wiki calls it hypersonic and says it’s claimed top velocity is Mach 10-13. 
But I didn’t bother to follow the citing on the page so…

 

and here’s a Reuters article calling them hypersonic 

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/air-defence-systems-repelling-attacks-ukraine-early-tuesday-officials-2023-05-16/

Edited by Pato del Muerto
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Chad Fuck

Chad Fuck 17681

Posted
Posted
36 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

I'm pretty sure "Hypersonic Glide" is a Radiohead song.  I'm not sure, because I don't get Radiohead.  Like, at all.

 

34 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Close...it's actually a Funkadelic song.

You're both wrong.

It's a lube for special operations that was being developed by @NowThis.

  • Haha 4
  • Drool 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Rimbo

Rimbo 25933

Posted
Posted
3 hours ago, troph said:

Yeah just would have liked deeper analysis but then to  earlier points ain’t nobody got time to read that.

 

I think it's more the case that:

1. if he knew specifics, OpSec requires him not to share, and

2. He's already spent the last few years pounding home the point that he's seen both these armies up close and personal, and that, plus his training and experience, is what leads him to his conclusions.

UA is well trained, well led, well supplied and above all, highly motivated. Orcs are the opposite of these, to an extreme.

He's also made the point that this is why democratic regimes are more powerful militarily than authoritarian ones.

 

3 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Is that a parody account or a moron propagandist?

 

Who can tell any more?

 

1 hour ago, The Dog said:

 

☝️and more from Darth Putin because he's been absolutely on fire today

  • Hook 'Em 1
  • Haha 5
Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • Popular Post
DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt

DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt 12301

Posted
  • Popular Post
Posted
1 hour ago, GoPokes83 said:

I realize there’s a war going on, but Zelenskyy’s cultivated this look of being straight off the front, with khaki’s and a sweater/sweatshirt when he travels to other countries. Put on a suit man, you can still be President of a country at war while wearing one. Baby rant over…

You have historically shitty takes about pretty much everything. Take a lap.

  • Hook 'Em 12
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
 Share
Go to topic listing


Football ... Basketball ... Baseball ... Other Sports ... Futbol ... 🤫995🤫 ... Gambling ... Movies & TV ... Music ... Hobbies ... Lulz ... Food & Travel ... Daily Texan ... Business and Markets ... Cloak Room ... Help ... For Sale ... Board Discussion ... Subscribe!... Donate!... Advertise... COOKIE MONSTER!

×
×
  • Create New...