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[atomheartbevo 90631]

 

[B00M 6729]

8 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

Task and Purpose went from being a Youtuber to being a war correspondent in fucking Kursk.

 

I generally find T&P long winded and unoriginal but that was a really good watch. 

[Parliament 14593]

8 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

Task and Purpose went from being a Youtuber to being a war correspondent in fucking Kursk.

 

I was really impressed by the high morale of the troops. 

[Captainant 28504]

9 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

Task and Purpose went from being a Youtuber to being a war correspondent in fucking Kursk.

 

Fuckin LazerPig has been to Kiev and front-adjacent a few times too. Even got the air raid experience on tape while they were filming

[B00M 6729]

1 hour ago, Parliament said:

I was really impressed by the high morale of the troops. 

Yeah it’s very encouraging that they’ve been rotating troops. Occasionally read about guys stuck in places like aavdivka and chasiv yar for years, so hopefully the rotations described by T&P is more typical. 

[DDD Dad 14643]

On 12/10/2024 at 7:48 AM, InkaUtexas said:

One hooked me up with the key to making good adobo after a long lecture that not all vinegars are the same

[InkaUtexas 26859]

2 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

Already answered. Don't be Surly poor. Get good vinegar (cane) and soy sauce (light).

And I add potatoes to the pot. Making a batch today.

[AUS-97HORN 12049]

On 12/12/2024 at 9:10 PM, 0xdeadbeef said:

I'm finding it hard to believe we lost 1100 pieces of armor during the Gulf War. Some quick Google searches does not turn up a number anywhere close to that.  That makes me wonder what else is made up on that chart. 

 

On 12/12/2024 at 10:06 PM, elfenix said:

didn't look on wikipedia?

 

Kuwait:
420 killed
12,000 captured
≈200 tanks destroyed/captured
850+ other armored vehicles destroyed/captured

 

On 12/13/2024 at 6:12 AM, Chad Fuck said:

This stood out to me as well.
Wow. There you go.

 

That list is some idiots jizz factory dream of what constitutes an armor "loss" for the coalition of 1990. 

Kuwait was a member of the coalition practically in name only, they were a government-in-exile and all of those losses were lost BEFORE the coalition even voted to join together.  That invasion ended Aug 4th... with a decisive Iraq victory... any losses sustained in that conflict, while techically related, had absolutely zero to so with the coalition losses. 

 

Their primary contribution was the promise of cheaper oil to the west after their fields were returned, A very small number of Kuwait soldiers and armor escaped to Saudi Arabia... but that number is extremely low and were mostly morale builders in the vein of  "you didnt defeat all of us" sentiment that has been echoed in the past by the Free French forces in WW2 and the Belgians in WW2.... who are extremely proud of the 5% of the country on the West side of the Yser river that didnt get overtaken by the Germans in that war . 

The Kuwait invasion was an entirely seperate act to the actual attack/ invasion of Iraq that occured 5.5 months after the original invasion.  

that fucking stat should read as losses of the Iraq-Kuwait War of 1990.   And a 2nd entry for the Gulf War of 1991

 

The rest of the actual invasion coalition forces lost less than 100 armored vehicles combined. 

 

 

[atomheartbevo 90631]

4 hours ago, B00M said:

I generally find T&P long winded and unoriginal but that was a really good watch. 

And sometimes self-important, all of which accurately describes your typical 11B/infantryman.

 

Seriously, props to him for going to Kursk.  His comment about now knowing what it’s like to fight against himself (or rather another large country) was telling.  
 

3 hours ago, Captainant said:

Fuckin LazerPig has been to Kiev and front-adjacent a few times too. Even got the air raid experience on tape while they were filming

Yeah, it’ll be interesting to see if more of the milvloggers go over there.   The Funkers guy legally can’t, and a couple of the others, but most of them can.

[DDD Dad 14643]

2 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

Already answered. Don't be Surly poor. Get good vinegar (cane) and soy sauce (light).

And I add potatoes to the pot. Making a batch today.

Doesn’t look like a recipe to me. 

[MillerEP 30899]

https://www.threads.net/@_nickmelnick/post/DDkSV95IWRY?xmt=AQGzyqEcwdp9f7Xe4RyKrmWNAoos5ccM9Qe2286MyYOWVg

🇺🇦⚡️🇷🇺Last night, an agent of Ukraine's Main Directorate of Intelligence destroyed a Russian Su-30 fighter jet at the "Krymsk" airfield in the Krasnodar region.

 

https://www.threads.net/@spravdi.gov.ua/post/DDg38m9NBLi?xmt=AQGzyqEcwdp9f7Xe4RyKrmWNAoos5ccM9Qe2286MyYOWVg

Despite the Russian economy being in a state of collapse, Russians decided to spend over $1 billion sending one of the largest missile/drone barrages of the war onto the people of Ukraine.
All strikes were aimed at purely civilian targets, once again.

[InkaUtexas 26859]

6 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

Doesn’t look like a recipe to me. 

Have a potato. boil eat. According to this thread eat like russian.

[atomheartbevo 90631]

Just finished the video that I posted at the top of this page, and as always, I’d put this guy in the top three of vloggers in terms of knowledge about the situation, with Perdun being another, and my third rotating between a few people. 

For those of you who don’t know of him, Anders Puck Nielsen Is a military analyst at the Royal Danish Defence College with a specialty in Russia, and a Captain in the Royal Danish Navy, with secerL publications pre-Ukraine discussing how to counter/defeat Russia

https://dk.linkedin.com/in/anderspucknielsen/en

His website with his articles, book, videos, etc, https://www.logicofwar.com

This video is a good breakdown of what some in the West/USA maybe pushing in terms of “peace talks” and how we look at “victory” differently than Putin. Full transcript if you’d rather read, with the opening quoted below.

@InkaUtexas and @956 Worldwide have probably heard this stuff.

https://www.logicofwar.com/what-is-russias-plan-for-victory/

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In this video I discuss how Russia can achieve their war aims through peace negotiations. Many people in the West have a simplistic idea of what the war is about, and therefore they focus on the wrong issues in discussions about possible peace plans. This is a weakness that Russia can use to drive a wedge between Ukraine and the West in the negotiations that will probably be coming in the early months of 2025.

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I've made videos about Ukraine's plans for victory and how they envision the war ending in a way that's positive for them, but it's been a while since I've talked about it from the Russian perspective. So, in this video, I want to talk about how we should understand the Russian war effort and what their goals are. And it's an important conversation because many people in the West have misconceptions about what the Russians are fighting for, and therefore, they also have incorrect ideas about what a peace deal could look like. So, let's talk about it.

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The most important thing to understand about the war in Ukraine is that it's not a war about territory. It is by far the biggest misconception about the war that it's a conflict over who gets to keep the most territory once the war is over. If you look at the Western media, almost all the articles will be discussing the war in this way. That's why I keep stressing this point whenever I make these videos: it is simply wrong to understand it as primarily a war about territory.

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What the war is really about is political influence over all of Ukraine, and that's the key to understanding Russia's war aims as well. What it is they're fighting for. When Putin launched the invasion in 2022, he didn't have the ambition to conquer all of Ukraine and to make it a part of Russia. The goal was to achieve regime change in Ukraine and to insert a government that would be more favorable to Russia and that would be under Putin's control. So Ukraine would still formally be an independent country, but it would be a part of Russia's sphere of influence. It would be a part of what the Russians like to call the near abroad, where they have extended political influence and they can dictate the politics in the areas where they see a need to do so.

 

[Walser 1125]

Inka, 956, others...you guys are fucking awesome. I love getting thoughtful updates without having to navigate reddit and others.

I will be talking tomorrow for a few hours with my Ukrainian students. (conversational English) I Iook forward to it as they are very smart. We Telegram things to each other throughout the week and I love the music and food ideas they send me. Unfortunately. they do not like spicy foods. So we just have to agree to disagree on that.

[InkaUtexas 26859]

12 minutes ago, Walser said:

Inka, 956, others...you guys are fucking awesome. I love getting thoughtful updates without having to navigate reddit and others.

I will be talking tomorrow for a few hours with my Ukrainian students. (conversational English) I Iook forward to it as they are very smart. We Telegram things to each other throughout the week and I love the music and food ideas they send me. Unfortunately. they do not like spicy foods. So we just have to agree to disagree on that.

They have their own style of cooking. I tend to agree with them. Ever since that sriracha assault on American food we seem to have forgotten there are other tastes than burn your asshole.

[MillerEP 30899]

https://www.threads.net/@spravdi.gov.ua/post/DDkMct1NRnA?xmt=AQGzxIroVcmAheuX91JA86QgUUjDo5-03gU1ACaW4uGFcg

"Today, we have preliminary data that the Russians have begun using North Korean soldiers in their assaults. A significant number of them. There are already noticeable losses in this category." - Zelensky

 

https://www.threads.net/@euromaidanpress/post/DDkCbUsulsz?xmt=AQGzxIroVcmAheuX91JA86QgUUjDo5-03gU1ACaW4uGFcg

Frontline report: Russian Forces suffer heavy losses near Pokrovsk during intensified offensive
Geolocated footage reveals T-72 B1 tanks systematically eliminating Russian positions in houses and tree lines near Shevchenko

[NAVY 6965]

11 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

I don’t disagree with this dude, but that video had 1 minute worth of content that was repeated for 12 more 

[956 Worldwide 35588]

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

Just finished the video that I posted at the top of this page, and as always, I’d put this guy in the top three of vloggers in terms of knowledge about the situation, with Perdun being another, and my third rotating between a few people. 

For those of you who don’t know of him, Anders Puck Nielsen Is a military analyst at the Royal Danish Defence College with a specialty in Russia, and a Captain in the Royal Danish Navy, with secerL publications pre-Ukraine discussing how to counter/defeat Russia

https://dk.linkedin.com/in/anderspucknielsen/en

His website with his articles, book, videos, etc, https://www.logicofwar.com

This video is a good breakdown of what some in the West/USA maybe pushing in terms of “peace talks” and how we look at “victory” differently than Putin. Full transcript if you’d rather read, with the opening quoted below.

@InkaUtexas and @956 Worldwide have probably heard this stuff.

https://www.logicofwar.com/what-is-russias-plan-for-victory/

 

He’s right about what the core issue and aims of expanding the war in 2022 were— political control over Ukraine and a veto over its integration into western structures and communities.  Territory is secondary although it will be part of any negotiations; Russia annexed the four eastern oblasts but left their borders undefined for a reason.  Putin will be loathe to finish the war with less than he had when it began; it is important to him at home and it’s important to Ukrainians.  Significant losses will lead to dissatisfaction with the current Ukrainian government which he can exploit. But his real aim will be to drive a wedge between Ukraine and Europe and to leave it vulnerable to Russian manipulation.

At any negotiations the Russians will dig in and become obstreperous and implacable over issues they don’t really care as much about because it’s the way they do business; the goal is to wear down interlocutors and make any small concession seem like a massive loss so they can be even more intransigent on core issues. 

[DDD Dad 14643]

2 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

Have a potato. boil eat. According to this thread eat like russian.

TIL that adobo is just a boiled potato. 

[atomheartbevo 90631]

1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

He’s right about what the core issue and aims of expanding the war in 2022 were— political control over Ukraine and a veto over its integration into western structures and communities.

It’s why even though he could take Belarus at any time, he doesn’t need to thanks to Lukashenko.  If he had a Lukashenko in Ukraine in 2021, none of this happens.

[Brisketexan 106873]

It’s why even though he could take Belarus at any time, he doesn’t need to thanks to Lukashenko.  If he had a Lukashenko in Ukraine in 2021, none of this happens.

Bingo. The orange revolution caused this. When Putin lost his puppet, he was going to reassert dominion over Ukraine the easy way (install another puppet) or the hard way (war). That is the rule for Russia. Smart players see that and will always counter with that in mind.

[Macanudo 13312]

5 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Bingo. The orange revolution caused this. When Putin lost his puppet, he was going to reassert dominion over Ukraine the easy way (install another puppet) or the hard way (war). That is the rule for Russia. Smart players see that and will always counter with that in mind.

And then there's the U.S.   The lead paint chip eating kid sitting over in the corner sniffing our own farts.

[InkaUtexas 26859]

2 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

He’s right about what the core issue and aims of expanding the war in 2022 were— political control over Ukraine and a veto over its integration into western structures and communities.  Territory is secondary although it will be part of any negotiations; Russia annexed the four eastern oblasts but left their borders undefined for a reason.  Putin will be loathe to finish the war with less than he had when it began; it is important to him at home and it’s important to Ukrainians.  Significant losses will lead to dissatisfaction with the current Ukrainian government which he can exploit. But his real aim will be to drive a wedge between Ukraine and Europe and to leave it vulnerable to Russian manipulation.

At any negotiations the Russians will dig in and become obstreperous and implacable over issues they don’t really care as much about because it’s the way they do business; the goal is to wear down interlocutors and make any small concession seem like a massive loss so they can be even more intransigent on core issues. 

Though I agree it is more about the power vs. land impact, he does like certain things the Ukraine brings. It goes hand in hand a bit. Russia likes Ukraine. Wants to own it. Always has. Food. They want it and and they do not want others to have it (including those pesky Ukrainians). Russia is the petulant little kid on the block.

And now there are off shore reserves to add to that.

Russia always "justifies" their land grabs based on threat, never on reality. Fuckers have a history of keeping their population scared of the boogeyman and using that fear for external expansion and internal control.

@956 Worldwide, you know the region better than me. Are they still dealing with the Mongol lineage and feeling different? Thus they have to prove they are superior? Those I have worked with got pissed if you brought up that part of history. As if there were only two things in their history, beating Napoleon and Hitler.

Oh, and when they got pissed I would remind them that the real Russian heroes were Georgian and that is why they wanted to conquer it so bad.

[InkaUtexas 26859]

2 hours ago, DDD Dad said:

TIL that adobo is just a boiled potato. 

Sorry Mom, I just woke up from a football watching nap. I am on it. Will post on the food forum under the title DDD likes Filipino thighs.

[Schulz2.0 29280]

[MillerEP 30899]

https://www.threads.net/@jakebroe/post/DDlaCsRhc1F?xmt=AQGzd8O2o_iAEo4aFuTI0RwEBCqd-7H7_Nnk2j_ROXV5QQ

Russia's ships that had to flee their naval base in Syria are now under-fueled and under-supplied drifting in the Mediterranean Sea without a plan of how they will get home. That's hilarious.

 

https://www.threads.net/@ukrpravda_eng/post/DDl0IadMvmv?xmt=AQGzd8O2o_iAEo4aFuTI0RwEBCqd-7H7_Nnk2j_ROXV5QQ

🔥Drones attack Chechen capital, likely targeting bases of riot police and special forces – video

[MillerEP 30899]

https://www.threads.net/@kyivindependent_official/post/DDkhrSEx4-B?xmt=AQGzd8O2o_iAEo4aFuTI0RwEBCqd-7H7_Nnk2j_ROXV5QQ

⚡️Ukraine sending humanitarian aid to Syria to prevent 'food crisis,' Zelensky says.
"We are ready to help Syria prevent a food crisis ... I have instructed the government to organize food deliveries in cooperation with international organizations and partners willing to help."
 

https://www.threads.net/@theaviationist/post/DDkJKYPMuxk?xmt=AQGz1zg71iue5cMuqQLgH6KgiWBzgs7IfN0fyjgZ7wCUvA

Russian Forces Leave Bases in Syria Eyeing Expansion in Libya
Following the quick downfall of Syria’s Assad regime, Moscow, which had a fairly large military presence in Syria, has been reevaluating the strategy in the Middle East

 

^Libya it is then I guess.

[PRONG HORN 3219]

 

Blamed on weather 

 

 

[General Specific 3507]

Doesn’t look like a recipe to me. 

First, you start with a rue!

[Johnny Chimpo 489]

2 hours ago, PRONG HORN said:

 

Blamed on weather 

 

 

Queue up an oil spill environmental mess. You can already see the oil floating around them in the water there. 

[InkaUtexas 26859]

2 hours ago, MillerEP said:

https://www.threads.net/@kyivindependent_official/post/DDkhrSEx4-B?xmt=AQGzd8O2o_iAEo4aFuTI0RwEBCqd-7H7_Nnk2j_ROXV5QQ

⚡️Ukraine sending humanitarian aid to Syria to prevent 'food crisis,' Zelensky says.
"We are ready to help Syria prevent a food crisis ... I have instructed the government to organize food deliveries in cooperation with international organizations and partners willing to help."
 

https://www.threads.net/@theaviationist/post/DDkJKYPMuxk?xmt=AQGz1zg71iue5cMuqQLgH6KgiWBzgs7IfN0fyjgZ7wCUvA

Russian Forces Leave Bases in Syria Eyeing Expansion in Libya
Following the quick downfall of Syria’s Assad regime, Moscow, which had a fairly large military presence in Syria, has been reevaluating the strategy in the Middle East

 

^Libya it is then I guess.

Yeah. Can anyone explain this flight pattern of an IL? Pilot drunk? Started watching him last night. There was some interesting shit but this one caught my eye.

[B00M 6729]

 

[KYHorn 17613]

 

Edited December 15 by KYHorn

[KYHorn 17613]

 

 

[KYHorn 17613]

Zelenskyy is backing out of signing a deal with the US on REEs. Smart move to use this as part of a deal with Trump to show the Ukrainians are not just takers and to give Trump an early win

Edited December 15 by KYHorn

[Parliament 14593]

17 minutes ago, KYHorn said:

They DO know what they're doing.  UKA machine guns open up to kill these guys and in doing so expose their position.  Russian arty/drones/etc home in from there.

4 minutes ago, KYHorn said:

 

#elonmusk

[InkaUtexas 26859]

3 minutes ago, Parliament said:

They DO know what they're doing.  UKA machine guns open up to kill these guys and in doing so expose their position.  Russian arty/drones/etc home in from there.

#elonmusk

Did a quick search. Most of the deposits appear to be in the east. Makes ya wonder.

[Macanudo 13312]

1 hour ago, General Specific said:

First, you start with a rue!

You'll roux the day you said that.

[Parliament 14593]

22 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Did a quick search. Most of the deposits appear to be in the east. Makes ya wonder.

Do YoUr OwN rEsAeRcH

[InkaUtexas 26859]

3 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Do YoUr OwN rEsAeRcH

No, that is why I post here.

 

[AnTiM 1694]

56 minutes ago, KYHorn said:

 

 

Apparently they have learned nothing in 75 years.

[Nivek 17404]

Do YoUr OwN rEsAeRcH

Shitter engaged.

[atomheartbevo 90631]

So two fuel tankers that supply Russian forces in the Crimea area sank. 

 

I guess it could be drunk/incompetent Russian crews in bad weather.

 

[Parliament 14593]

Never assign malice to what can be explained by stupidity.

[956 Worldwide 35588]

On 12/14/2024 at 6:14 PM, InkaUtexas said:

Though I agree it is more about the power vs. land impact, he does like certain things the Ukraine brings. It goes hand in hand a bit. Russia likes Ukraine. Wants to own it. Always has. Food. They want it and and they do not want others to have it (including those pesky Ukrainians). Russia is the petulant little kid on the block.

And now there are off shore reserves to add to that.

Russia always "justifies" their land grabs based on threat, never on reality. Fuckers have a history of keeping their population scared of the boogeyman and using that fear for external expansion and internal control.

@956 Worldwide, you know the region better than me. Are they still dealing with the Mongol lineage and feeling different? Thus they have to prove they are superior? Those I have worked with got pissed if you brought up that part of history. As if there were only two things in their history, beating Napoleon and Hitler.

Oh, and when they got pissed I would remind them that the real Russian heroes were Georgian and that is why they wanted to conquer it so bad.

I don’t think they are self-conscious about the Mongol admixture so much as they are self-conscious about the supposed lost centuries under the Tatar yoke. The Russian cultural milieu has kind of swung between westernizers who what to ape the west by force and slavophiles who believe they have some special mission to spiritually enlighten the west. 
 

Right now neo-slavophilia is in fashion because Putin needs a great civilizational conflict.  And on some level, it’s a motivator as Putin fears the example of a large Slavic, Orthodox nation successfully adopting western values and democracy and integrating. But the slavophilia, which was once useful as agitprop to undermine the Habsburgs, remains gibberish for the rubes. 

[InkaUtexas 26859]

33 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

I don’t think they are self-conscious about the Mongol admixture so much as they are self-conscious about the supposed lost centuries under the Tatar yoke. The Russian cultural milieu has kind of swung between westernizers who what to ape the west by force and slavophiles who believe they have some special mission to spiritually enlighten the west. 
 

Right now neo-slavophilia is in fashion because Putin needs a great civilizational conflict.  And on some level, it’s a motivator as Putin fears the example of a large Slavic, Orthodox nation successfully adopting western values and democracy and integrating. But the slavophilia, which was once useful as agitprop to undermine the Habsburgs, remains gibberish for the rubes. 

Gracias.

I used to marvel at how the Serbs could celebrate defeat. Kosovo Polje for all.

[RDCanecutter 26869]

On 12/12/2024 at 9:10 PM, 0xdeadbeef said:

I'm finding it hard to believe we lost 1100 pieces of armor during the Gulf War. Some quick Google searches does not turn up a number anywhere close to that.  That makes me wonder what else is made up on that chart. 

Probably lost 1100, repaired 1050. Chart appears ate up with the dumbass as mentioned earlier about El Alamein.

[B00M 6729]

36 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

I don’t think they are self-conscious about the Mongol admixture so much as they are self-conscious about the supposed lost centuries under the Tatar yoke. The Russian cultural milieu has kind of swung between westernizers who what to ape the west by force and slavophiles who believe they have some special mission to spiritually enlighten the west. 
 

Right now neo-slavophilia is in fashion because Putin needs a great civilizational conflict.  And on some level, it’s a motivator as Putin fears the example of a large Slavic, Orthodox nation successfully adopting western values and democracy and integrating. But the slavophilia, which was once useful as agitprop to undermine the Habsburgs, remains gibberish for the rubes. 

this thread can be humbling at times 

[Chad Fuck 18134]

Gracias.
I used to marvel at how the Serbs could celebrate defeat. Kosovo Polje for all.

Ahem. The Alamo, anyone?

[Gatorubet 30710]

41 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Gracias.

I used to marvel at how the Serbs could celebrate defeat. Kosovo Polje for all.

The Irish are also pretty good at celebrating wins and losses that  happened many hundreds of years ago.