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15 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

August 2nd Paratroopers Day in Russia gonna be slightly different this year

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That looks like some mashup scene from Breaking Bad and the Blind Melon video.  

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Posted
8 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

I'm awful.

A part of me wants to take this, turn it into a GIF from right before he gets hit by the drone, have it show him flying about 20 feet through the air, and then freeze it and pop up these words "Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here."

Or maybe something like a Waylon Jennings outro from the Dukes of Hazzard.

Sometimes those Duke Boys can be a real pain in your backside

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4 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

I'm awful.

A part of me wants to take this, turn it into a GIF from right before he gets hit by the drone, have it show him flying about 20 feet through the air, and then freeze it and pop up these words "Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here."

I posted more than once I don't want to allow myself to be dehumanized by these videos and allow myself not to acknowledge the loss of human life.

I hate myself for it a little bit, but I could not stop laughing at that video. It's absolutely something out of a Monthy Python scene. 

Drill Sargeant:(In Russian Accent) "You will learn to take the drone explosion in your ass if you want to survive."

Private: "Wouldn't it be better not to get hit by the drone?"

Drill Sargeant: "What the fuck do you know Private!?!? Shut the fuck up and give me 50"

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7 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

I posted more than once I don't want to allow myself to be dehumanized by these videos and allow myself not to acknowledge the loss of human life.

I hate myself for it a little bit, but I could not stop laughing at that video. It's absolutely something out of a Monthy Python scene. 

Drill Sargeant:(In Russian Accent) "You will learn to take the drone explosion in your ass if you want to survive."

Private: "Wouldn't it be better not to get hit by the drone?"

Drill Sargeant: "What the fuck do you know Private!?!? Shut the fuck up and give me 50"

Rubles. Give me 50 rubles.

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4 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

I posted more than once I don't want to allow myself to be dehumanized by these videos and allow myself not to acknowledge the loss of human life.

I hate myself for it a little bit, but I could not stop laughing at that video. It's absolutely something out of a Monthy Python scene. 

Yep, I shouldn't laugh, and my second thought was to freeze it and put an Olympics logo on it and have some long jump scores listed.  The Olympics record is 29 feet and I'm pretty sure he cleared it.

9 minutes ago, Orange&White said:

Or maybe something like a Waylon Jennings outro from the Dukes of Hazzard.

Sometimes those Duke Boys can be a real pain in your backside

Or have the guy flying across a washed-out bridge in place of the General Lee.

Come to think of it, Boss Hogg really did rip everybody off there - it seemed like Hazzard County was full of washed-out bridges that were never repaired.

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35 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Yep, I shouldn't laugh, and my second thought was to freeze it and put an Olympics logo on it and have some long jump scores listed.  The Olympics record is 29 feet and I'm pretty sure he cleared it.

Or have the guy flying across a washed-out bridge in place of the General Lee.

Come to think of it, Boss Hogg really did rip everybody off there - it seemed like Hazzard County was full of washed-out bridges that were never repaired.

Should have been C(r)ook, Shelby County or Orleans Parrish. 

If you know, you know. 

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https://www.threads.net/@_nickmelnick/post/DF8gjuAoVcY?xmt=AQGz2rCsKPn_Qt2e6QniWvJaSGu47fRJ8qitKUSrB5fv4g

🐝A Ukrainian drone strikes the most advanced Russian tank, the T-90M, causing the ammunition to detonate and completely destroying the vehicle.🚭One crew member managed to escape, but it seems he was smoking in the wrong place.

 

https://www.threads.net/@spravdi.gov.ua/post/DF7rjHfRlQE?xmt=AQGzJchM5Zujs1gmgJiKmMm6cdvmGFjMEtRs2dCDlFrSuA

Russia's oil industry continues to face hardship as yet another refinery burns in the Russian region of Saratov.
Rosneft's Kreking refinery handles about 7.2 million tons/year, part of the cash machine that fuels Russia's expanding global terror.
And there will be more..

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Posted

Interesting.... The man has cojones.

"Security guarantees without America are not real security guarantees," he said.

Trump is keen for both sides to reach a deal, the terms of which are a source of concern in Ukraine.

Zelensky told the Guardian he would offer Russian President Vladimir Putin territory that Ukraine seized in Russia's Kursk region six months ago.

https://www.barrons.com/news/ukraine-prepared-to-offer-territory-swap-with-russia-zelensky-e01c0315

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Posted (edited)
On 7/12/2022 at 12:07 PM, MillerEP said:

 

literally no post that Miller EP is posting on this page shows up on my iPhone.  Very bizarre. It’s just a blank white screen or the thing that he quoted next to a white screen.

edit and just like that, they show up

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Posted
15 minutes ago, safe sex said:

It didn't have to be like this

Of course it didn't.

But it was always going to be.

Because humanity.  Including the United States, and the prior administration.

 

The menu of options in this century is "suck, more suck, or all the suck."  Those are your choices.  "Maybe not sucking" is not on the menu.  Not even the secret menu.

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Posted
7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

"To go into."

Praytell....where exactly did Ukraine....go?  I mean, I get this guy -- they were just sitting there, asking for it.

Ukraine shouldn't have been existing where Russian soldiers wanted to go. 

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Posted
2 hours ago, Dahobbs said:

@Laxtonto I guess this is the carrot, give Russia part of Ukraine. 

The 2014 borders were never going to happen, without Ukraine making gains into Crimea. The failure/unwillingness/not being permitted to do any measurable advance over the Dnipro sealed that. This has been an ongoing complaint of mine for over a year now.

Worse, the loss of most of Donetsk (which once again Ukraine had the opportunity to counterattack and split Luhansk via the Svatore salient but did not) leaves them in the negative in the land trade game.

Any argument against that last year or so of operational failures and slow loss of territory has made their bargaining position way worse than it was 12 months ago is now moot.

I don't have to like it, but from a negotiations standpoint what is there to "trade" to get back to the 2014 borders? Kurst might get you back Melitpol. Not pushing to Belgorod was a mistake.

 

 

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3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

As critical as I am of our current regime, and as much as I expect them to betray Ukraine and bend over for Russia.....we have plenty of posts on this and the CR thread by posters around here (including me) acknowledging that the final resolution to this war is almost certainly going to involve some Ukrainian territory staying in Russian hands.

That's just real talk.  Now, whether member of the US presidential cabinet should be fucking SAYING that out loud is another question.

Ukraine needs to keep the parts of Kursk they took at this point.

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Zelenskyy knows how the options play out and that any "talks" Trump hosts will go nowhere.  He's hosting these conversations in attempt to accomplish a campaign statement and doesn't care about supporting Europe.

https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/02/12/transcript-an-interview-with-volodymyr-zelensky 

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VZ: I’m sure there isn’t a ready plan yet. Why? Because a plan can’t be purely American. Because the war is happening here. And without our joint work, without consulting us, I think it can’t be complete. President Trump’s team probably has some developments. I’m sure they do, because it’s a very important issue for them.

And we haven’t seen those developments yet. We haven’t seen them, and we haven’t heard any proposals. That’s it. I think February will be the month when this work begins. I think President Trump is dealing with domestic issues in the United States, and I think that’s his priority. At least, that’s what we see in the public domain, and I don’t have any other information.

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VZ: I’m just not sure that Putin has some number of conversations with Trump. I’m not sure that this is happening. Their teams are probably in contact. But for me, you know why the work of Trump’s team differs from the work of the previous administration?

First of all, everyone was contacting the Russians. And there’s more information about this in the media now than there was under the previous administration. So, the American and Russian intelligence services were communicating. Representatives of the administrations, presidents, they definitely communicated.

We know this, it was behind the scenes, away from the public eye, from almost the whole world. But they still communicated. And therefore, if teams are talking about something somewhere, I’m not surprised. Just like our teams communicate in various ways.

They have different messages, etc, they discuss certain things. Well, that’s it. But the question is whether there’s any decision-making. And that’s what we’re talking about when we say that it’s very dangerous if decisions are made about us without Ukraine. Dangerous for everyone: for the world, for Ukrainians, for Europe, and for the USA.

And why? Because Trump, I think, needs to help Ukraine win this. And he wants this. That’s how I understand it. Again, from open sources. And this is how I understand it after our conversations with him. And Putin can’t be trusted. If a plan is developed without Ukraine, who will follow this plan? No one.

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VZ: Honestly, I think that the vice-president of the United States today is focused on domestic issues. I think, in principle, this team is more concerned with the domestic politics of America and Americans than with international politics.

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And that Putin won’t end this war for us. I think no one understands what war is until it comes to your home. I don’t want to scare anyone. It will come. I’m just telling you the facts.

As the world is slowly stopping Putin today, slowly, too slowly, it will come. And that’s a fact. I recently gave an example. I just received it from the Security Service, from two of my intelligence services. I always get it from several sources, then I look, analyse, and I can share information when I see a large number of coincidences.

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VZ: There will be no ceasefire just for the sake of a ceasefire. A ceasefire can be part of the end of the hot phase of a war. And then you need to understand what the security guarantees are. Without a security guarantee, a ceasefire just so that Putin can come in two months. No, it is impossible. And so, the hot stage of the war will end. If it ends, then martial law will end, probably. 

 

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Posted
1 hour ago, Dahobbs said:

Hegseth says NATO membership for Ukraine is dead. Fuck everything. We are abandoning Ukraine. 

Maybe it's just me, but I'm okay with Ukraine not being in NATO (at least in the near future) as long as we continue to funnel them weapons, even if not boots on the ground. 

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4 minutes ago, Saint Austin said:

Maybe it's just me, but I'm okay with Ukraine not being in NATO (at least in the near future) as long as we continue to funnel them weapons, even if not boots on the ground. 

Maybe. But that's a pretty huge leverage point with Russia. Giving it up for nothing signals exactly what is happening. Only a sucker would believe otherwise. 

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Or leave NATO as is. Let the Eastern countries form an Anti-russia warsaw pact. I mean, it is not like Portugal is going to do shit if Russia attacks Finland.

The US can join as an Observer, etc. Nations can be part of multiple groups. We are.

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18 minutes ago, Saint Austin said:

Maybe it's just me, but I'm okay with Ukraine not being in NATO (at least in the near future) as long as we continue to funnel them weapons, even if not boots on the ground. 

We are not going to continue giving them weapons.

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19 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

We are not going to continue giving them weapons.

Thankfully Ukraine is now capable of producing what they need as long as Europe can keep them financially afloat. 

We just look like giant stupid pussies. 

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This sucks but I don’t see a good way out of a long/forever WW1 slog.  Seems to my uninformed brain Ukraine’s gonna hafta play the long game.  Kill all the Russians they can, right up to the armistice, take whatever “peace” the US gives them, then rearm as well as possible, while letting the vodka, PTSD, inflation, deflation, sanctions and hopefully AIDS-cancer whittle at Russia’s physical ability to fight.  Putin and his fuckwad successors will send more conscripts in a few years to finish the job.  Gotta make sure there aren’t many.

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11 hours ago, B00M said:

Thankfully Ukraine is now capable of producing what they need as long as Europe can keep them financially afloat. 

We just look like giant stupid pussies. 

The second part I agree with.  The first part, I don't think so.  

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Posted
15 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

"To go into."

Praytell....where exactly did Ukraine....go?  I mean, I get this guy -- they were just sitting there, asking for it.

Those Baylor co-eds shouldn't have gone into those football players. 

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2 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

The second part I agree with.  The first part, I don't think so.  

Russia is running on fumes. Ukraine is now producing 4 million drones per year and striking deep into Russia every night. No matter what our fat fucking regard claims to negotiate, Ukraine isn’t quitting, and at least Poland and the Baltics are ready to nut up if the US pusses out. 

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3 minutes ago, B00M said:

Russia is running on fumes. Ukraine is now producing 4 million drones per year and striking deep into Russia every night. No matter what our fat fucking regard claims to negotiate, Ukraine isn’t quitting, and at least Poland and the Baltics are ready to nut up if the US pusses out. 

I don't think Ukraine is quitting, but there's no way Ukraine and Europe can - at least right now - produce the amount of shells they need without the US.  Hell, even the US can't produce what they need right now. That's more what I had in mind.

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From what I've been reading from people I follow. The mood in Ukraine is a bit sour, they see this as a sign that they won't even be invited to the peace talks over their own Country, but outwardly trying to put on a brave face. So they see it as their worst fears coming true, a forced bad peace where they give everything and get nothing in return but a Minsk 3. Europe is their only hope, that either Europe can a) force it so Ukraine can be in the room when negotiations take place, b) force it so both Europe and Ukraine can be in the room, or c) that somehow they can garner enough political will to help provide troops. People on the ground though have been saying they'll keep on fighting though as a long as it takes even if we pull support because they see it for what it is, a matter of their own survival. 

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From the VZ interview article I posted above, the real concern is any sort of negotiated ceasefire will eventually lead to more sham elections for Putin to install his puppets:

https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/02/12/transcript-an-interview-with-volodymyr-zelensky
 

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VZ: There will be no ceasefire just for the sake of a ceasefire. A ceasefire can be part of the end of the hot phase of a war. And then you need to understand what the security guarantees are. Without a security guarantee, a ceasefire just so that Putin can come in two months. No, it is impossible. And so, the hot stage of the war will end. If it ends, then martial law will end, probably. I don’t know, I guess. Because, look, my point is that if there is no martial law, then the parliament should hold elections. Announce the date etc, and take its legislative steps.

 

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