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[Schulz2.0 29283]

 

 

[bolverk 30350]

24 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

I hate to give them credit or anything, but that's actually not a bad idea.

[vtaenz 603]

28 minutes ago, bolverk said:

I hate to give them credit or anything, but that's actually not a bad idea.

Once reached though, could they not just unlink a few cars then use a tracked vehicle to push or pull them over?

[DDD Dad 14656]

4 hours ago, Armybrat said:

Didn’t he have a cracker named after him, or was vice-versa?

If anyone would know I would think it to be you.

[bolverk 30350]

3 minutes ago, vtaenz said:

Once reached though, could they not just unlink a few cars then use a tracked vehicle to push or pull them over?

I didn't say it was impregnable. The train certainly seems like a more formidable obstacle than the dragon's teeth they've been using, but I don't know shit about fuck.

[Gatorubet 30743]

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 The continuous structure of goods wagons stretches along a branch from the railway station in Olenivka to Volnovakha and has about 2100 wagons of various types. The construction of this "railwagon centipede" began in July 2023. For construction, apparently, railwagons were stolen from temporarily occupied territories.

My question is, was there really 30 KM Of rail wagons in the occupied territories?

I know nothing about this, but I do know that Russians are stupid.  What are the odds that 20 KM came from Russian rail systems, probably rail systems in the provinces -  as Putin does not give a shit if goods are supplied to the Asian untermensch?

[bolverk 30350]

19 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

My question is, was there really 30 KM Of rail wagons in the occupied territories?

I know nothing about this, but I do know that Russians are stupid.  What are the odds that 20 KM came from Russian rail systems, probably rail systems in the provinces -  as Putin does not give a shit if goods are supplied to the Asian untermensch?

I guess it's possible, given that we've learned so much about the reliance on trains instead of trucking for just about everything in the former Soviet Union. Big interstate-type freeways don't really seem to be a thing there yet.

[Brisketexan 106948]

30KM?  There hasn't been a train that long run in that neck of the woods since South Austin's mom's study-abroad year in Belogrod.

[Pescado_Rojo 19590]

Earlier in this thread we had a discussion about how critical trains were to Russian supply efforts and how eliminating rolling stock would be good for Ukraine as Russia would have a difficult time replacing it. Now they've got 30km worth of cars they can fill with sand or gravel and use for defense? And blocking a rail line with it? Are they giving up on supplying units on that rail axis? Is that a rail line with no strategic value like a spur line or something?

[Chopper 17432]

Ruzzia tries to break the world record for how may orcs they can cram into an armored vehicle. Things go badly.

 

Edited February 12 by Chopper

[Chopper 17432]

Almost like a scene from a movie, the Ukes conduct a casualty evacuation using a small boat and draw heavy fire.

 

[Deej 77852]

8 hours ago, Schulz2.0 said:

 

 

We call that "Charlie Strong-ing" them.

[vtaenz 603]

5 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Earlier in this thread we had a discussion about how critical trains were to Russian supply efforts and how eliminating rolling stock would be good for Ukraine as Russia would have a difficult time replacing it. Now they've got 30km worth of cars they can fill with sand or gravel and use for defense? And blocking a rail line with it? Are they giving up on supplying units on that rail axis? Is that a rail line with no strategic value like a spur line or something?

Same thought I had. I thought the loss of a car was greater than the loss of part of the rail line.

[atomheartbevo 90662]

More on the ammo stuff:

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius together with Rheinmetall-CEO Armin Papperger as well as dignitaries of politics and the military attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the newest ammunition factory in Unterlüß, Germany.

The brand new factory will have a projected capacity of 200,000 artillery shells per year when fully operational. In 12 months the first assembly lines capable of producing 50,000 shells per year will be operational.

In addition, around 1,900 tons of RDX explosives and components of rocket artillery for the future artillery systems will be manufactured.

In 2025 Rheinmetall using all its factories in Germany, Spain, Hungary, Australia and South Africa will have the capacity to produce 700,000 artillery shells per year.

[YGIFS 19458]

On 2/11/2024 at 9:21 PM, Schulz2.0 said:

What in the ever loving fuck.

Well the reboot of ‘NYPD Blue’ seems weird as fuck.  

[statsman 5693]

https://www.wsj.com/world/russia-buying-musks-starlink-systems-in-arab-countries-ukraine-says-a0185f55?st=037xvm0bxqei717&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink

[statsman 5693]

Two years into Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, families of the roughly 6,000 Ukrainian prisoners of war are facing a near-total information blackout about the status of their loved ones
https://www.wsj.com/world/russias-silence-on-ukrainian-pows-compounds-the-agony-for-families-98b43845?st=13c6y86cu9o9gvu&reflink=share_mobilewebshare

[Parliament 14599]

Huh.  Turns out the Russians are aholes.  Guess I didn't know that.

[Schulz2.0 29283]

Mud season 

 

 

Edited February 13 by Schulz2.0

[Viper 12221]

1 hour ago, statsman said:

https://www.wsj.com/world/russia-buying-musks-starlink-systems-in-arab-countries-ukraine-says-a0185f55?st=037xvm0bxqei717&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink

Not sure what the solution is here. They're obviously buying them through third parties in other countries, much like Ukraine does in Germany and other EU countries. They're already geofenced to only work at the frontline (which is why they stopped working for Ukraine when they advanced too quickly). There's probably too many and distribution too decentralized to be able to whitelist them. Reports are that the Russians are using up all the bandwidth to prevent the Ukrainians from using them for drone video feeds 

[Schulz2.0 29283]

Ukraine building weapons domestically.

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/13/1229974838/ukraine-weapons-industry-russia-war

[Schulz2.0 29283]

 

 

[Neonmoon 38130]

Well Putin is against it…so

[Viper 12221]

I guess @Brisketexan and Putin do have something in common afterall

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/13/russia-puts-estonian-prime-minister-kaja-kallas-on-wanted-list

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Russia puts Estonian prime minister Kaja Kallas on wanted list

Lithuanian minister also among those accused of ‘destroying Soviet monuments’, as Tallinn fears Russian military buildup

 

Moscow has put the Estonian prime minister, Kaja Kallas, and other Baltic states officials on a wanted list, as Tallinn warns of an imminent Russian military buildup along its border.

The Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said the Estonian state secretary, Taimar Peterkop, the Lithuanian culture minister, Simonas Kairys, and Kallas were accused of “destroying monuments to Soviet soldiers”, a reference to the removal of Soviet-era second world war memorials

“This is only the start,” Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel. “Crimes against the memory of the world’s liberators from nazism and fascism must be prosecuted.” Russian authorities have not revealed the exact charges against the three.

Moscow has placed senior Ukrainian officials and generals on its wanted list since the start of the war, but Kallas is the first known head of government to be sought by Moscow.

The Estonian prime minister has been one of the strongest supporters of Ukraine, leading efforts to increase military assistance to Kyiv and tighten sanctions against Russia.

Kallas called Russia’s move “nothing surprising”. She wrote on X: “The Kremlin now hopes this move will help to silence me and others – but it won’t. The opposite. I will continue my strong support to Ukraine. I will continue to stand for increasing Europe’s defence.”

Moscow’s decision to add Kallas to its wanted list will further increase tension in the region at a time when many western capitals have sounded the alarm over a growing military threat from Russia.

When asked by reporters about Kallas on Tuesday, Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said the Estonian leader “took hostile acts against our country and historical memory”.

The removal of Soviet-era monuments has been a delicate issue in Estonia, a former Soviet republic from 1944 until 1991 where nearly a quarter of the population of 1.3 million people are ethnic Russians.

The process has accelerated since Russian troops invaded Ukraine, with Kallas pledging to remove all communist monuments in public spaces. “We have decided … Soviet monuments must be removed from public spaces and we will do it as quickly as possible,” Kallas said in the summer of 2022 when officials removed a Soviet tank memorial from Narva, a largely Russian-speaking city close to the Russian border.

Estonia has been anxious to avoid some of the unrest it faced in 2007 after it removed a statue in Tallinn known as the Bronze Soldier, which led to two nights of rioting and looting, followed by a major cyber-attack that Estonian officials blamed on Russia.

The country has also moved to counter pro-Russian narratives about the war in Ukraine by banning from cable television four Russian channels, a major source of news for many older ethnic Russians.

Tensions remain high, and on Tuesday Estonia’s foreign intelligence service warned that Russia intended to double the number of its troops stationed along its border with the Baltic states and Finland as part of preparations for a potential military conflict with Nato within the next 10 years.

Kaupo Rosin, the director general of the Estonian service, told reporters before publication of his agency’s annual report: “Russia has chosen a path which is a long-term confrontation … and the Kremlin is probably anticipating a possible conflict with Nato within the next decade or so.

“We will highly likely see an increase of manpower, about doubling perhaps. We will see an increase in armed personnel carriers, tanks, artillery systems over the coming years.”

Rosin said a military attack by Russia was “highly unlikely” in the short term, partly because Russia had to keep troops in Ukraine, but he called on Europe to get prepared by rearming.

“If we are not prepared, the likelihood [of a military Russian attack] would be much higher than without any preparation,” Rosin added.

In an interview with the conservative journalist Tucker Carlson last week, Putin dismissed western warnings, saying his country had “no interest in Poland, Latvia or anywhere else”.

Russia has put several dozen Baltic politicians of various levels on the wanted list, including the former Latvian interior minister Marija Golubeva, according to data first analysed by the Russian independent outlet Mediazona.

Latvia has similarly announced plans to remove its Soviet memorials from public spaces, and it drew Moscow’s ire last year when it demolished a nearly 80-metre obelisk erected during the Soviet rule of Latvia.

All three Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – had already expelled Russian diplomats from their countries amid tensions over the conflict in Ukraine. Relations with Moscow have remained tense since they gained independence during the collapse of the Soviet Union, which they have viewed as an occupying power.

 

[Braff Zacklin 13676]

I don't think the threat of invasion from Russia carries the weight that it did, say, prior to February of 2022.

[Viper 12221]

7 minutes ago, Braff Zacklin said:

I don't think the threat of invasion from Russia carries the weight that it did, say, prior to February of 2022.

Not to Europe as a whole, but for the small Baltic states, Russia can do a lot of damage to them in the short term with sheer numbers and artillery and drones, but that's only if they can get a ceasefire with Ukraine and rebuild their supplies.

[Chad Fuck 18156]

45 minutes ago, Viper said:

Not to Europe as a whole, but for the small Baltic states, Russia can do a lot of damage to them in the short term with sheer numbers and artillery and drones, but that's only if they can get a ceasefire with Ukraine and rebuild their supplies.

This.  They still aren't out of Ukraine (obvs) and they have done a hell of a lot of damage and much of it irreversible (in human terms).  Of course, Ukraine wasn't a NATO member, but even so, the example is before of us what could be.

 

[bolverk 30350]

Just now, Chad Fuck said:

I agree with you, but too late.

Let me amend that. Anyone who, after having invited Russia to attack any of our NATO allies, should never be in a position of American leadership.

[DDD Dad 14656]

nm.

Edited February 13 by DDD Dad

[bolverk 30350]

 

 

[Bevo 13900]

Arming 70 year old Russians - what could go wrong?

[Brisketexan 106948]

9 minutes ago, Bevo said:

Arming 70 year old Russians - what could go wrong?

I mean, is this really new?

 

Of course, that dude in the center is probably only 37 years old, so......

[Gatorubet 30743]

“Natasha! Go wake up grandpa. It’s time for him to deploy!”

[Schulz2.0 29283]

 

[Schulz2.0 29283]

Probably getting close to the point where Ukraine will either have to abandon Avdiivka or take a large amount of casualties. Remember that Syryski is supposedly the guy that wanted to stick it out in Bakhmut even when the casualty ratio fell to around 1:1.

 

[Viper 12221]

Good interview of the Russian ambassador. Anyone find the whole thing?

 

[Bevo 13900]

1 hour ago, Gatorubet said:

“Natasha! Go wake up grandpa. It’s time for him to deploy!”

 

Edited February 14 by Bevo

[bolverk 30350]

26 minutes ago, Viper said:

Good interview of the Russian ambassador. Anyone find the whole thing?

 

Why, why, why can't American teevee journalists be as good as British ones? Is it their education and training? Is it because a bunch of them were Mass Comm majors and not Journalism ones? Is it just that the BBC doesn't, I assume, have to worry about offending advertising money? All of the above?

[atomheartbevo 90662]

3 hours ago, Bevo said:

Arming 70 year old Russians - what could go wrong?

 When do they raise it to 75?

[Gatorubet 30743]

9 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

 When do they raise it to 75?

Life expectancy for a Russian man is 64. Life expectancy for an American man is about 73. 

Russian men in their mid 60s are about as healthy as American men in their mid 70s.     If they call up 60-year-olds in Russia and send them to do meat rushes,  a shit ton of them are gonna die.   

I also wonder logistically how you take a bunch of chronic alcoholics in their 60s and then send them to Ukraine without vodka.   I would guess they would start hallucinating and going into DTs if suddenly cut off hootch.   But more likely, they’ll do what Russians do and steal or sell their gear to buy vodka.   God, I really hope they call up the olds. 

[Gatorubet 30743]

1 hour ago, Bevo said:

 

Sanfordski and Son - “ it’s the big one Elizabeta!!”

[CHIEF 5228]

1 hour ago, Parliament said:

So America has a demographic problem with all these old boomers.  All they do is use resources and vote wrong, let alone breaking Social Security.

What I'm saying is maybe we shouldn't discount this idea.

Wow, what a cunt. Even if you were joking, it still isn't fucking funny. You are usually a good poster. 

CHIEF

[RPM 26653]

And another one. 

 

Edited February 14 by RPM

[956 Worldwide 35598]

 Good thread below about the attack at that link.

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11669]

Music in those tweets 

 

[B00M 6735]

Oh boy, now Musk is a useful idiot. At this point it’s gotta be inevitable that Tesla fails because this doofus can’t stay out of politics. 

[Storm the Field 5367]

15 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

I mean, is this really new?

 

Of course, that dude in the center is probably only 37 years old, so......

Russian Hans Moleman.

 

[NorthLoop 14498]

10 hours ago, CHIEF said:

Wow, what a cunt. Even if you were joking, it still isn't fucking funny. You are usually a good poster. 

CHIEF

JFC Relax, Boomer. 

[PTINS 3527]

On 2/12/2024 at 2:54 PM, Pescado_Rojo said:

Earlier in this thread we had a discussion about how critical trains were to Russian supply efforts and how eliminating rolling stock would be good for Ukraine as Russia would have a difficult time replacing it. Now they've got 30km worth of cars they can fill with sand or gravel and use for defense? And blocking a rail line with it? Are they giving up on supplying units on that rail axis? Is that a rail line with no strategic value like a spur line or something?

Per a Google Map screenshot, the "Tsar Train" from Olenivka to Volnovakha (shown in magenta) is on the existing main RR between Donetsk to Mariupol (light blue). This is the only pre-war RR serving Mariupol from the North (Donetsk) and East (Russia). It appears there are parallel tracks, so the line may not be completely blocked. 

There were earlier posts of Russia constructing 2 new RR, one along the coast between Rostov and Mariupol (red line) and one new east-west line kinda in the middle of nowhere, spurring off from the Rostov-Donetsk line running southeast from Donetsk. Ukraine had previously attacked a bridge crossing on this new line. No idea if either line was constructed or operational.

Geographically, everything east of the "tzar Train" towards the coast appears to be coastal plain/agriculture, void of any significant population or industry. Not obvious why they would put a rail barrier here, other than it prevents casual movements across open country. 

[Braff Zacklin 13676]

5 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Black Sea Fleet gradually becoming a flotilla.