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[MagicSoccerSpray 1725]

 

[Parliament 14079]

46 minutes ago, B00M said:

Good time for Japan to go ahead and win that war they’re still in with Russia 

Or for the Ukrainian navy to open a second front.

[Schulz2.0 28705]

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

Wow, if they are transferring conscripts from Siberia, that means they have no regular troops to spare.  They really are hurting for manpower.

Or they see seizing more of the Donbas as more important than defending part of Kursk. 

[InkaUtexas 25257]

1 minute ago, Schulz2.0 said:

Or they see seizing more of the Donbas as more important than defending part of Kursk. 

Don"t think so. It is still a separatist area vs. Motherland. And Kursk is a very historical place in the mind of the Russians.

Concerning China. Nope, don't want to see them expand. Want to see a small low level tit for tat war that keeps both focused and worried about each other.

[Napoleon 8587]

I’m getting a major STRIPES vibe from this one.

 

Perhaps it’s from one of the “6 Deleted Scenes”.

[Nivek 16741]

1 hour ago, BearSchlong said:

One of my favorites is “The geology of the Big Thicket.”

During the last ice age, the gulf coast was at Woodville.

South Austin's Mom has Big Thicket on her merkin.

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Holy shit, the Russians really did abandon their civilians.

On the other end of the spectrum, discussion of the Elites,

 

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Times Radio really puts out some good stuff

 

[KYHorn 16751]

 

🚨 Ukrainians scammed the Russian milbloggers 'Two Majors' of 1 million rubles

On August 9, "Two Majors" announced a collection for fighters in the Kursk area, including 7 Maviks, for a total of 1,800,000 rubles.

Ukrainians contacted the fund and convinced them that they could promptly deliver the Maviks, but an advance payment was required.

On August 13, the head of the " Two Majors" with over 1 million followers on Telegram transferred 999,990 rubles to the account of the fictitious company OOO "Digital ARS RUS".

On August 20, a unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine recorded a video with words of gratitude for the purchased equipment.
😆🤣

[InkaUtexas 25257]

So 11K USD. Nice.

[BamaATL 16592]

 

 

[General Specific 3186]

 
Ukrainians scammed the Russian milbloggers 'Two Majors' of 1 million rubles
On August 9, "Two Majors" announced a collection for fighters in the Kursk area, including 7 Maviks, for a total of 1,800,000 rubles.
Ukrainians contacted the fund and convinced them that they could promptly deliver the Maviks, but an advance payment was required.
On August 13, the head of the " Two Majors" with over 1 million followers on Telegram transferred 999,990 rubles to the account of the fictitious company OOO "Digital ARS RUS".
On August 20, a unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine recorded a video with words of gratitude for the purchased equipment.

Did the Nigerian Prince move to Ukraine?

[Grimas 657]

Got this from a friend in the Baltics. Zoom in is NSFW…

 

[Parliament 14079]

47 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

 

 

So if they can’t protect a valuable asset that’s been getting shwacked all week, their ability to air defend ANYTHING is down to about zero.

What all long range weapons are we still waiting to give Ukraine permission to use?  Seems like a few volley’s every night can do some serious work.

[BamaATL 16592]

7 minutes ago, Parliament said:

So if they can’t protect a valuable asset that’s been getting shwacked all week, their ability to air defend ANYTHING is down to about zero.

What all long range weapons are we still waiting to give Ukraine permission to use?  Seems like a few volley’s every night can do some serious work.

That they currently have, that I am aware of, it's ATACMS and the F-16s and ordinance associated with them.  There are other things we dangled out there that might be on the table to include JASSMs (surface to air cruise missiles, stealthy from what I've read, with longer range capability).  

[PTINS 3438]

On 8/19/2024 at 7:35 PM, KYHorn said:

This project was always a very low probability, before the SMO began. Pre war costs estimated at $50+ Billion.

Get the 2 worst business partners in the world on opposite sides of a contract, trying to get the other guy to put up the money. 

[PTINS 3438]

On 8/19/2024 at 8:36 PM, tx 3 putt said:

This "oil" facility doesn't look like anything in Russia, or the US for that matter.

Funny. I love it!

To be clear, I'm a Gas Processing guy, not an oil guy.  

Oil refineries take the nastiest liquid occurring in nature and make it useable. Its a dirty job that has to be done, and oily impurities and dust makes for some ugly pictures. 

Gas processing requires the understanding and proper application of technology to Newtonian Physics, and has a legacy of sharing best practices.  When you have that understanding, you can build stuff that works, and doesn't leak. And the pretty blue flame is kinda cool.

Another reason US facilities don't look like that, is that shit burns.

You can throw a lighted match on diesel and the fire will probably go out. (No Darwin entries, please!) But once it starts burning, and gets hot, it starts readily vaporizing, and the fire increases in intensity.

The tanks in nice little rows looks good n pictures, but there is one big reason not to put them too close together.

At some point the radiant heat ignites the vents on the tanks, or, the vaporization rate exceeds the tanks relief valve capacity, and you get  a BLEVE, a boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion. 

5 hours ago, TeeDubya said:

 

[Braff Zacklin 13354]

14 hours ago, Captainant said:

Literally thoughts and prayers lol. Amazing

It worked for Patton.

 

[Captainant 27239]

This video from Radio Free Europe just came across my feed, very interesting to see these russians have the war brought home for them. 

A really familiar sounding bit at 1:40 in the video:

"When did the war start for you?"

"August 6th"

"What about what was happening on the border before then, was it war?

"There was some kind of fighting, conflict. I'm not interested in politics. Since I'm retired I'm not interested in politics"

 

[TeeDubya 3358]

8 hours ago, Captainant said:

 

"There was some kind of fighting, conflict. I'm not interested in politics. Since I'm retired I'm not interested in politics"

 

“As long as there is food on the table and soldiers don’t steal my daughters, why should I care who is in charge?”

[Chad Fuck 17454]

“As long as there is food on the table and soldiers don’t steal my daughters, why should I care who is in charge?”

“And even if I did, I can’t do anything about it without getting thrown out a window? Best keep my head down and eat my borscht. Do you have any vodka or a cigarette?”

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This is going around the feeds.  Would be hilarious if they are taking out the Chechens because that would allow the Russians to retreat.

 

 

[Captainant 27239]

1 minute ago, atomheartbevo said:

This is going around the feeds.  Would be hilarious if they are taking out the Chechens because that would allow the Russians to retreat.

 

 

Killing a commander has a significantly more serious negative effect for russia than it does for most armies. They are extremely rigid in their operational and information model, and many units will just sit idle until a new commander is put in place

[BamaATL 16592]

Ever make a zig when you should have zagged?

 

[BamaATL 16592]

Congrats to Russia on obvious more successful air defense

 

[KYHorn 16751]

4 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

Congrats to Russia on obvious more successful air defense

 

Came here to post this. Here's the translation. A true Surly-esque poet. 

 

10/10 Dostoevsky moment with a Russian guy witnessing the Marinovka air base following a Ukrainian drone assault. “There it is flying by, fuck. Fucking flying over again, fuck. It’s all fucking fucked up! Everything. It’s fucked as fuck. They’re fucking bombing it since 2.30 am, and they still are fucking it now. It’s a serious tragedy, folks. This is serious stuff. It’s all fucking on fire. And it’s fucking smoke. It’s all fucking exploding. That’s it. The Oktyabrsky airfield is fucking fucked as fuck. That’s really something else. And all the new hangars, it’s all blown up in the air, fuck.” 

[KYHorn 16751]

A look at what the poor goats must endure:

 

 

[Gatorubet 29990]

11 hours ago, PTINS said:

At some point the radiant heat ignites the vents on the tanks, or, the vaporization rate exceeds the tanks relief valve capacity, and you get  a BLEVE, a boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion. 

[General Specific 3186]

Came here to post this. Here's the translation. A true Surly-esque poet. 
 
10/10 Dostoevsky moment with a Russian guy witnessing the Marinovka air base following a Ukrainian drone assault. “There it is flying by, fuck. Fucking flying over again, fuck. It’s all fucking fucked up! Everything. It’s fucked as fuck. They’re fucking bombing it since 2.30 am, and they still are fucking it now. It’s a serious tragedy, folks. This is serious stuff. It’s all fucking on fire. And it’s fucking smoke. It’s all fucking exploding. That’s it. The Oktyabrsky airfield is fucking fucked as fuck. That’s really something else. And all the new hangars, it’s all blown up in the air, fuck.” 

From the video, the only things missing are the OU storm chasers, and a twister! Kursk Oblast sux, and keeps Ukraine from falling off into the sea and ramming Turkey.

[Gatorubet 29990]

1 hour ago, KYHorn said:

 This is serious stuff. It’s all fucking on fire. And it’s fucking smoke. It’s all fucking exploding. That’s it. The Oktyabrsky airfield is fucking fucked as fuck. That’s really something else. And all the new hangars, it’s all blown up in the air, fuck.” 

That’s a damn shame.

https://theaviationist.com/2024/06/01/satellite-images-marinovka/

[PTINS 3438]

1 hour ago, KYHorn said:

Came here to post this. Here's the translation. A true Surly-esque poet. 

10/10 Dostoevsky moment with a Russian guy witnessing the Marinovka air base following a Ukrainian drone assault. “There it is flying by, fuck. Fucking flying over again, fuck. It’s all fucking fucked up! Everything. It’s fucked as fuck. They’re fucking bombing it since 2.30 am, and they still are fucking it now. It’s a serious tragedy, folks. This is serious stuff. It’s all fucking on fire. And it’s fucking smoke. It’s all fucking exploding. That’s it. The Oktyabrsky airfield is fucking fucked as fuck. That’s really something else. And all the new hangars, it’s all blown up in the air, fuck.” 

Marinovka Airbase, June 2022 photo, (~350 miles SE of Kharkiv), all the planes clustered close together, pre Pearl Harbor strategy.

Marinovka Airbase, April 2024 photo, some of the planes clustered close together,with the shiny new hangers built during the SMO.

Sounds like the Fucking Fucked Fuckers are all Fucked up.

You gotta love the irony of Russia having this massive military complex, protected by the thin veneer of a belief that no one would ever attack them. Over time, technology evolves, developing satellites with a 3 inch resolution, a GPS system that put the cross hairs in your ear hole, and guided munitions that can put it all together. And still, the belief that no one would ever attack them. The reality;

 

And then, one day, you launch a Special Military Operation, with a 3 day plan that includes sending in the troops, with their parade dress uniforms packed, but with no food or water. Yeah, Custer had a plan, too.

[jdhorn92 1535]

2 hours ago, KYHorn said:

Came here to post this. Here's the translation. A true Surly-esque poet. 

 

10/10 Dostoevsky moment with a Russian guy witnessing the Marinovka air base following a Ukrainian drone assault. “There it is flying by, fuck. Fucking flying over again, fuck. It’s all fucking fucked up! Everything. It’s fucked as fuck. They’re fucking bombing it since 2.30 am, and they still are fucking it now. It’s a serious tragedy, folks. This is serious stuff. It’s all fucking on fire. And it’s fucking smoke. It’s all fucking exploding. That’s it. The Oktyabrsky airfield is fucking fucked as fuck. That’s really something else. And all the new hangars, it’s all blown up in the air, fuck.” 

well that seems good. 

[Chad Fuck 17454]

Live map claiming this ship full of fuel got torched by a missile on the Crimean side of the ferry.

https://liveuamap.com/en/2024/22-august-the-burning-ferry-conro-trader-in-the-port-of-kavkaz

Edited August 22 by Chad Fuck

[KYHorn 16751]

33 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

Live map claiming this ship full of fuel got torched by a missile on the Crimean side of the ferry.

https://liveuamap.com/en/2024/22-august-the-burning-ferry-conro-trader-in-the-port-of-kavkaz

Neptune strikes again?

 

  

 

 

 

Edited August 22 by KYHorn

[MillerEP 30307]

https://www.threads.net/@mx_ukr/post/C--psQrPkuS?xmt=AQGzdRsZDpdlDTpH5Yg3eYdsncas3LDTgTMgUycB5HFnSw

Footage stated to show the 🇷🇺 "Marinovka" airfield in the Volgograd region this morning
Looks like those cluster munitions did a bang up job
It is reported. a SU-34 was destroyed.

 

https://www.threads.net/@meanwhile_in_ua/post/C-9kbSYMYlN?xmt=AQGzdRsZDpdlDTpH5Yg3eYdsncas3LDTgTMgUycB5HFnSw

Moscow faces ongoing blackouts due to a severe electricity shortage, media reports say.
The main problem is difficulties in maintaining foreign turbines at Russian thermal power plants caused by Western sanctions.

 

^Sanctions work.

[MillerEP 30307]

Sorta related, but when I saw this I couldn't help but bust out laughing:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/21/technology/us-fbi-russia-election-disinformation.html

U.S. Investigating Americans Who Worked With Russian State Television
The F.B.I. raided the homes of two prominent commentators on Russian state television channels as part of an effort to blunt attempts to influence November’s election.

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The Department of Justice has begun a broad criminal investigation into Americans who have worked with Russia’s state television networks, signaling an aggressive effort to combat the Kremlin’s influence operations leading up to the presidential election in November, according to American officials briefed on the inquiry.

This month, F.B.I. agents searched the homes of two prominent figures with connections to Russian state media: Scott Ritter, a former United Nations weapons inspector and critic of American foreign policy, and Dimitri K. Simes, an adviser to former President Donald J. Trump’s first presidential campaign in 2016. Prosecutors have not announced charges against either of the men.

More searches are expected soon, some of the officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss investigations. Criminal charges are also possible, they said.

The investigation comes in the wake of the Biden administration’s official intelligence findings that Russia’s state news organizations, including the global news channel RT, are working with its intelligence agencies to sway elections around the world.

Those efforts include November’s contest between Mr. Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. For a third time, according to the officials and public statements, the Kremlin’s propaganda apparatus has thrown itself behind Mr. Trump’s candidacy, creating online news outlets and fake videos to denigrate President Biden and, more recently, Ms. Harris.

The investigation so far has focused on potential violations of the economic sanctions imposed on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine and a law that requires the disclosure of lobbying efforts on behalf of foreign governments.

The government’s investigation is politically fraught, reprising the furiously partisan debate over Russia’s influence in the 2016 presidential campaign. By targeting Americans working with news organizations, even if they are state-run, the inquiry could also bump up against the First Amendment’s protection of rights to free speech.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence warned on July 29 that Russia was exploiting “witting and unwitting Americans” to create and spread narratives that were favorable to the government of President Vladimir V. Putin.

“These personalities,” the office said in a statement, “post content on social media, write for various websites with overt and covert ties to the Russian government, and conduct other media efforts.”

The government investigation is not targeting ordinary Americans who watch Russian state media or post about it online, but rather is focused on individuals intentionally spreading disinformation from Moscow, some of the officials said.

Mr. Ritter, who has worked as a contributing writer for RT, said in a telephone interview that an hourslong search of his house in Delmar, N.Y., on Aug. 7 seemed to be an effort to intimidate him for expressing his political views about the United States, Russia and the war in Ukraine.

F.B.I. agents and state police seized mobile phones, computers and hard drives but did not arrest him. “It’s an absolute frontal assault on the Constitution of the United States,” he said.

The extent of the crackdown remains unclear, and the Justice Department and other officials across Washington declined to discuss it when asked. In recent months, however, the Biden administration has grown increasingly alarmed by Russia’s influence operations targeting the United States — and seems willing to act more forcefully.

Last month, the Justice Department moved to shut down a furtive campaign aimed at sowing discord in the United States and other countries and spreading Russian propaganda about the war in Ukraine.

Working with the governments of Canada and the Netherlands, as well as with officials at Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, the department took down 968 inauthentic accounts. The Russians created and operated the accounts using commercially available artificial intelligence tools.

In affidavits released with the announcement, officials explicitly linked the effort to Russia’s Federal Security Service and RT.

Russia’s state television networks broadcast in English and other foreign languages, acting as a global megaphone for the views of Mr. Putin, who routinely depicts the United States and its allies as a hegemonic power bent on world domination.

Mr. Ritter, who traveled to Russia and to occupied parts of Ukraine in January, said the warrant to search his home made reference to an investigation that involved the Foreign Agents Registration Act, the federal law that requires Americans to disclose lobbying and political activities on behalf of foreign governments.

Mr. Simes, a Soviet-born American citizen, is being investigated for, among other crimes, violations of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the legal foundation for imposing economic sanctions, some of the officials said.

On Aug. 13, agents descended on a wooded 132-acre estate near the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia that Mr. Simes and his wife had bought in July 2021, according to Rappahannock News, a local newspaper that first reported the search.

Mr. Simes, 76, has been a fixture of American foreign policy debates in Washington since he emigrated from the Soviet Union as a young man in 1973.

He served as an informal adviser on Soviet affairs to President Richard M. Nixon, who, in 1994, appointed him to a think tank he founded, now known as the Center for the National Interest.

In 2016, Mr. Simes hosted Mr. Trump, then a presidential candidate, for a speech in which he called for improved relations with Mr. Putin’s government. He also introduced Mr. Trump to the Russian ambassador at the time.

Mr. Simes also passed on to Mr. Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner what he believed to be incriminating information that the Russians knew about former President Bill Clinton, the husband of Mr. Trump’s Democratic opponent at the time, according to the final report of the investigation by Robert S. Mueller III into Russia’s interference in the 2016 campaign.

Although Mr. Simes was interviewed by Mr. Mueller’s investigators and cited repeatedly in the report in 2019, he was not accused of wrongdoing. He stepped down from the Center for the National Interest in 2022, and, according to an interview on Friday on Sputnik, another of Russia’s television networks, he has been in Russia since October 2022.

Since 2018, he has hosted a weekly talk show, “The Big Game,” on one of Russia’s state television broadcasters, Channel One.

In the interview on Sputnik, Mr. Simes said that he did not know the reason for the search, but speculated that it was an attempt to stifle anyone who would improve relations between Russia and the United States. He said his bank accounts had been frozen, except one where his Social Security checks were deposited, and expressed concern that agents had seized paintings in his home from Soviet and Russian avant-garde artists.

“It clearly is an attempt to intimidate, not only somebody from Russia, but just anyone who goes against official policies and particularly against the deep state,” Mr. Simes, who could not immediately be reached for comment, said during the interview.

Since 2017, the Department of Justice has required RT to register as a foreign agent, not as a news organization, reflecting the government’s control over its operations. There is no clear legal precedent that dictates whether journalists working for a news organization would fall under the requirements of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

Mr. Ritter, in the interview, said he had been a contributing writer for RT, among other news organizations, since 2020. He said he was paid per article — a sum he described as an industry norm of $150 to $300 — but faced no more editorial control than what editors typically did in assigning and editing work.

When the war in Ukraine broke out in 2022, he became an outspoken defender of Russia’s invasion, often reflecting Russia’s effort to blame the United States and NATO for the conflict.

“The only reason why I can believe that they’re doing this,” he said, “is if there’s some national security interest where they believe somehow I am actively conspiring with Russia against the interests of the United States, that I have become more than just a propagandist, that I become something more like, you know, a weapon of disinformation.”

Steven Lee Myers covers misinformation and disinformation from San Francisco. Since joining The Times in 1989, he has reported from around the world, including Moscow, Baghdad, Beijing and Seoul. More about Steven Lee Myers

Julian E. Barnes covers the U.S. intelligence agencies and international security matters for The Times. He has written about security issues for more than two decades. More about Julian E. Barnes

 

 

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[Schulz2.0 28705]

2 hours ago, PTINS said:

Marinovka Airbase, June 2022 photo, (~350 miles SE of Kharkiv), all the planes clustered close together, pre Pearl Harbor strategy.

Marinovka Airbase, April 2024 photo, some of the planes clustered close together,with the shiny new hangers built during the SMO.

Sounds like the Fucking Fucked Fuckers are all Fucked up.

You gotta love the irony of Russia having this massive military complex, protected by the thin veneer of a belief that no one would ever attack them. Over time, technology evolves, developing satellites with a 3 inch resolution, a GPS system that put the cross hairs in your ear hole, and guided munitions that can put it all together. And still, the belief that no one would ever attack them. The reality;

 

And then, one day, you launch a Special Military Operation, with a 3 day plan that includes sending in the troops, with their parade dress uniforms packed, but with no food or water. Yeah, Custer had a plan, too.

[Hefeweizen 5305]

That’ll buff right out.

[SpiralOut 1806]

2 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

That’s a damn shame.

https://theaviationist.com/2024/06/01/satellite-images-marinovka/

[Party_Taco 3661]

Oh fuck yes! Now get the rest of those aluminum hangers!

[RDCanecutter 26176]

5 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

This is going around the feeds.  Would be hilarious if they are taking out the Chechens because that would allow the Russians to retreat.

 

 

In some Russian soldier's memoir that I read decades ago, he said that whoever knocked out the blocking detachments could roll over Russia.

I always wonder why the more numerous troops on the front lines didn't rise up against the blocking detachments themselves, but I guess that answers why they work.

[RDCanecutter 26176]

5 hours ago, KYHorn said:

A look at what the poor goats must endure:

 

 

One. One. One. One...

[crash_davis 23076]

2 hours ago, KYHorn said:

Neptune strikes again?

 

  

 

 

Video of the ship before it became a submarine. 

https://streamable.com/dgqloa

[Parliament 14079]

That may not be repairable.

[jdhorn92 1535]

28 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

In some Russian soldier's memoir that I read decades ago, he said that whoever knocked out the blocking detachments could roll over Russia.

I always wonder why the more numerous troops on the front lines didn't rise up against the blocking detachments themselves, but I guess that answers why they work.

My gut tells me they have an A team, B team etc...they put the loyalists together with the good armaments and what little in the way of good supplies they have...they give the scrubs feathered in with the regulars certain assignments.  They likely have a couple hundred thousand of the sufficiently trained army men. Then the rest is the scrubs and they give them shit.  They use the blocking brigades to keep the worst of the bunch (convicts, scripts, foreigners, ne'er do wells) in place and more or less dont count on them doing much accept cannon fodder, placeholders etc...from what I've been able to ascertain from this thread , and reading One Soldiers War, they mix in plenty of the  scrubs with the A team to use as needed for sniffing out the enemy positions and don't need the blocking brigade as the regulars keep them in the front using techniques such as alcohol, threat of torture, bullying and outright beatings.  Complete fubar in that entire outfit, like a big neighborhood bully that all it takes in someone to punch them in the face and depants them.  Which i pray is happening or will happen.

Edited August 22 by jdhorn92
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[Gatorubet 29990]

3 minutes ago, jdhorn92 said:

and reading One Soldiers War, they mix in plenty of the  scrubs with the A team to use as needed for sniffing out the enemy positions and don't need the blocking brigade as the regulars keep them in the front.

That book alone has done more to help me understand what’s going on over there than any other thing I’ve read.  

it also supports when we need to nuke the entirety of Russia from orbit

[jdhorn92 1535]

Just now, Gatorubet said:

That book alone has done more to help me understand what’s going on over there than any other thing I’ve read.  

it also supports when we need to nuke the entirety of Russia from orbit

No doubt, when all of this started, I did the same based on a rec on this thread.  Very telling piece. I had read some on Stalin while reading Patton's book and the ethos of the Russian soldier always intrigued me.

For those that have not read it, as @Gatorubet noted, it is a first hand account of what it is like to be in the Russian army, it will blow you away.  Louis Gossett Jr making Richard Gere do pullups and pushups in the rain is romper room as a comparison.

[MissingInAction 24708]

3 hours ago, KYHorn said:

Neptune strikes again?

 

  

 

 

 

Id love to see those tanks go off like a string of black cats l.