Русский корабль - иди нахуй

[MissingInAction 24697]

Called it.

[BamaATL 16592]

Some visual evidence

 

[KYHorn 16751]

 The Ukrainian drone attack on ammunition depots in Toropets, Tver Oblast, near the Estonian border, resulted in the detonation of 30,000 tonnes of explosives, which means 750,000 shells. According to EDF Col. Kiviselg, the ammunition had been transported to the depot shortly before the attack. The loss represents two to three months' worth of Russian ammunition supply.

[Parliament 14067]

How many shells/day is Russia using now?  15k?  So they took out 1.5 months of supply?

[HellesBier 184]

Didn’t know they had crawfish in Ukraine 

[BamaATL 16592]

All part of the 3 day plan, no doubt

 

[InkaUtexas 25188]

All part of the 3 day plan, no doubt
 

Well I guess that is about as useful as we thought. Crew thought they had it good. But now they get danger pay.

[InkaUtexas 25188]

All part of the 3 day plan, no doubt
 

Well I guess that is about as useful as we thought. Crew thought they had it good. But now they get danger pay.

[HellesBier 184]

I am buying some drones and they are going to engrave my name in them. They won’t be FPV but they will be ones they will drop greandes with. They will take a picture with it and your name. If anyone is interested you can DM me. Slava Ukraine.

[Brisketexan 104199]

Didn’t know they had crawfish in Ukraine 

Lots of Northern Europe does crawfish. Sweden LOVES them, they have big parties and everything. But it’s odd to me because 1) peak season for them is late summer (cold weather climate, takes longer for the crawfish to mature after winter dormancy), and 2) no freaking spice. They season the water with salt, beer, dill, and even some sugar. Dear god.

[bolverk 29198]

3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Lots of Northern Europe does crawfish. Sweden LOVES them, they have big parties and everything. But it’s odd to me because 1) peak season for them is late summer (cold weather climate, takes longer for the crawfish to mature after winter dormancy), and 2) no freaking spice. They season the water with salt, beer, dill, and even some sugar. Dear god.

Next, you're going to tell us they even frickin' pickle the little suckers.

[InkaUtexas 25188]

Next, you're going to tell us they even frickin' pickle the little suckers.

And put them in tiny cans.

[bolverk 29198]

10 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

And put them in tiny cans.

 

Edited September 22 by bolverk

[Braff Zacklin 13333]

7 hours ago, MagicSoccerSpray said:

Indubitably.

What hasn't been sold for profit by corrupt commanders has been slowly rusting and rotting away in silos.

 

1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

Lots of Northern Europe does crawfish. Sweden LOVES them, they have big parties and everything. But it’s odd to me because 1) peak season for them is late summer (cold weather climate, takes longer for the crawfish to mature after winter dormancy), and 2) no freaking spice. They season the water with salt, beer, dill, and even some sugar. Dear god.

This is your chance! Just as Johnny Appleseed propagandized his beloved pomes throughout the Midwest, you could be the Johnny Crawfish of Northern Europe, spreading Cajun spice and seasonings to Old World palates.

[Gatorubet 29947]

1 hour ago, Braff Zacklin said:

This is your chance! Just as Johnny Appleseed propagandized his beloved pomes throughout the Midwest, you could be the Johnny Crawfish of Northern Europe, spreading Cajun spice and seasonings to Old World palates.

Johnny Crawfish?? Boudreaux Crawfish I could see…

[Left Coast 862]

The NY Times Magazine today had a very interesting (and lengthy) story about a Russian officer and how he deserted the Russian military.

Lots of interesting insights into the corruption of the military, how Russians think, and the just abject suckage of everything on the Russian side of the “Special Military Operation”.

If you have 30+ minutes it’s extremely insightful into how fucked up Russia is.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/09/20/magazine/ukraine-russia-war-deserter.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20240922&instance_id=134963&nl=the-morning&regi_id=126775420&segment_id=178500&te=1&user_id=ef676bb5d96b21e35fc214ee034066fa

[RDCanecutter 26162]

1 hour ago, Gatorubet said:

Johnny Crawfish?? Boudreaux Crawfish I could see…

Ti Jean

[KYHorn 16751]

1 hour ago, Left Coast said:

The NY Times Magazine today had a very interesting (and lengthy) story about a Russian officer and how he deserted the Russian military.

Lots of interesting insights into the corruption of the military, how Russians think, and the just abject suckage of everything on the Russian side of the “Special Military Operation”.

If you have 30+ minutes it’s extremely insightful into how fucked up Russia is.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/09/20/magazine/ukraine-russia-war-deserter.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20240922&instance_id=134963&nl=the-morning&regi_id=126775420&segment_id=178500&te=1&user_id=ef676bb5d96b21e35fc214ee034066fa

It's also in podcast format: 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-deserter-an-epic-story-of-love-and-war/id1767961533 

[Gatorubet 29947]

 

Quote

“When he looked back on it all, Ivan couldn't believe that there were still people in Russia who knew full well what was going on, what their future could hold, and yet stayed. Not because they supported the war, but because they genuinely continued to believe that it wouldn't affect them.

For so many years, Putin had offered them all protection, and now they just wanted to keep their heads down. A stupor of an existence. A voss.

This learned indifference to the obvious, to the grinding of the bones of their own. Ivan's parents, for whom Putin remained sacred, his friends outside the services, who just wanted to live their lives without being bothered by anything else, while fervent patriots, criminals, and regime opponents alike perished at the front. What remains of the country's opposition is now in exile, where they have been joined by those who awakened from this torpor.

Over and over again, for generations, Russia's greatest strength has been its habit of destroying itself. And the regime endures. Anna and Ivan grew up under the reign of Vladimir Vladimirovich.

They had never participated in a real election, never thought much about what the Kremlin did or[…]”

 

It seems to me that that when we criticize Russians for not doing more, we do this seemingly without considering that our lives in a western country with western cultural values - and western protections from horrific government abuse - are completely foreign to the Russian people.

Russia made sure that the Russian helicopter pilot who defected to Ukraine was assassinated in Spain. It does not enter our minds that if some family member violates a law - that the state will take it out on the remaining family members as a means of dissuading other people not to break the law. Unthinkable to us, Russians do not even question this reality.

To some extent our right to criticize how Russians respond to the situation ignores the fact that we are free to do so in a manner that has no negative consequences for ourselves AND our families, let alone negative consequences for the rest of our lives - including prison or death. 

After reading the entire lengthy article I have to say I am no longer as ghoulishly happy seeing Russians chased and killed by drones as I was previously.   Don’t get me wrong, I agree the drones need to kill them, but I no longer think of every Russian soldier as some sort of mindless, murderer- rapist.  Many of them are absolutely victims too.  We grow up knowing that we have a right to protest and nothing will happen to us if we do.  All they know is that 99% of the time the state will win and will grind everything down that stands in the way of what the state wants.  

It strikes me as incredibly sad that centuries later, Russia is still a land governed by a Czar and ruthless Boyers, who get to terrorize and trample (and thus control) the continually beaten down serfs into a state of zombie-like compliance. 

It also strikes me that such a land, with such a government, and such a people, should not be permitted to exist if the leaders of that dysfunctional society possess nuclear weapons.

Edited September 22 by Gatorubet

[Humpy 112]

It makes me happy to live here.

[MagicSoccerSpray 1725]

Quote

I think that many still cannot grasp entirely what's going on in Russia. The systematic destruction of major Russian ammunitions sites as well as oil & gas facilities will have a severe impact on the Russian war effort and the state itself. Estimations go as high that 40,000 tons in ammunition have been destroyed over the past few days, which accounts for 12% of Russian stockpiles, or the equivalent of 1 month in ammunition. Russian military blogger already fear a lack in ammunition. All gone just by 3 strikes and you can be sure that those are not some "drone debris" penetrating hardened buildings. That is something developed during this war and I'm sure that Ukrainians haven't even started, yet.

Russia relied in the past on its sheer size to outlast enemies and exploited this for its own imperial ambitions. This advantage in the past, however, has now become a liability in 21st century. You don't have to invade Russia to decisively disrupt Moscow's ambitions. You observe and then target the exposed nerve centers of which many are in range. Russians cannot protect all these areas. They never could. Even the air defense grid of Moscow, which is the densest in the entire country, was successfully overcome several times, and this is the primary nerve center.

Of course, Russians will try to counter this development, but there is not really much what they can do. Dispersing the ammo sites in the occupied parts of Ukraine was one thing, to do this in all of Russia (west of the Ural mountains) is something completely different, and in fact not feasible at all. They have to locate those sites along the rail network, which in itself is already a critical bottleneck. Even without this headache, Russians already fail in logistics and this would push them over the edge.

Together with the mass casualties events in Ukraine, where thousands of Russian vehicles get burnt in on a monthly base and hundreds of Russians get destroyed on a daily base, it is only a question of time before all this will make Russia capsize. There won't be a single event or a single weapon system which will make Russia break. It will be a plethora of reasons. After that has materialized, we will look back and see how each and every puzzle piece contributed to this entire picture.

Putin is running of out time and we should keep Ukrainians capable of fighting and extend their capabilities in order to efficiently strike the Russian invaders respectively their country. Btw. this does not have to be only entire weapon systems. Even the steady supply of components can achieve this. I already mentioned in my post 2 days ago, how vital the Ukrainian war economy has become and we can see that in the destruction in major Russian facilities. I consider, however, Ukrainian drones and weapons as the long-term insurance policy for an Ukrainian victory, while the surplus of Western weapons systems such as ATACMS (and similar weapons), which are plenty in numbers and available on a short-term notice, immediate means which can be shipped.

Together with the new Ukrainian developments in drone technology, it will be the perfect storm for the Russian aggression, leading it to Russia's ultimate failure in conquering its neighbor and ending its imperial agenda once and for all.

 

[Captainant 27227]

4 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

 

It seems to me that that when we criticize Russians for not doing more, we do this seemingly without considering that our lives in a western country with western cultural values - and western protections from horrific government abuse - are completely foreign to the Russian people.

Russia made sure that the Russian helicopter pilot who defected to Ukraine was assassinated in Spain. It does not enter our minds that if some family member violates a law - that the state will take it out on the remaining family members as a means of dissuading other people not to break the law. Unthinkable to us, Russians do not even question this reality.

To some extent our right to criticize how Russians respond to the situation ignores the fact that we are free to do so in a manner that has no negative consequences for ourselves AND our families, let alone negative consequences for the rest of our lives - including prison or death. 

After reading the entire lengthy article I have to say I am no longer as ghoulishly happy seeing Russians chased and killed by drones as I was previously.   Don’t get me wrong, I agree the drones need to kill them, but I no longer think of every Russian soldier as some sort of mindless, murderer- rapist.  Many of them are absolutely victims too.  We grow up knowing that we have a right to protest and nothing will happen to us if we do.  All they know is that 99% of the time the state will win and will grind everything down that stands in the way of what the state wants.  

It strikes me as incredibly sad that centuries later, Russia is still a land governed by a Czar and ruthless Boyers, who get to terrorize and trample (and thus control) the continually beaten down serfs into a state of zombie-like compliance. 

It also strikes me that such a land, with such a government, and such a people, should not be permitted to exist if the leaders of that dysfunctional society possess nuclear weapons.

Notably, russias state disinformation efforts towards the US were primarily aimed at ramping up voter apathy and the feeling of being unable to affect any change. Along with many messages of the US constantly being under threat of outside invaders seeking to destroy our way of life - one of the main mobilization messages we hear out of russia nowadays. 

It's gonna be something else we have a bit more time separating historians and anthropologists from the active measures by russia, and we really get a full idea of the depth and breadth of their fuckeries

[MagicSoccerSpray 1725]

6 minutes ago, MagicSoccerSpray said:

 

https://archive.ph/uKWqY

[InkaUtexas 25188]

Notably, russias state disinformation efforts towards the US were primarily aimed at ramping up voter apathy and the feeling of being unable to affect any change. Along with many messages of the US constantly being under threat of outside invaders seeking to destroy our way of life - one of the main mobilization messages we hear out of russia nowadays. 
It's gonna be something else we have a bit more time separating historians and anthropologists from the active measures by russia, and we really get a full idea of the depth and breadth of their fuckeries

Or we could read Russian history. Say go back about 500+ years. The challenge would be to see when it was not fuckery. Sure. Certain degrees of fuckery. But fuckery nonetheless

[KYHorn 16751]

 

[Macanudo 12911]

10 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

Well I guess that is about as useful as we thought. Crew thought they had it good. But now they get danger pay.

Doesn't that assume they weren't already getting danger pay serving on that rust bucket?

[BamaATL 16592]

42 minutes ago, KYHorn said:

 

A drone version of a wild weasel.  

[TeeDubya 3358]

5 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

 

After reading the entire lengthy article I have to say I am no longer as ghoulishly happy seeing Russians chased and killed by drones as I was previously.   Don’t get me wrong, I agree the drones need to kill them, but I no longer think of every Russian soldier as some sort of mindless, murderer- rapist.  Many of them are absolutely victims too.  We grow up knowing that we have a right to protest and nothing will happen to us if we do.  All they know is that 99% of the time the state will win and will grind everything down that stands in the way of what the state wants.  

It’s like the video of the drone operators released last week.  They got crosswise with their commander and were ordered into a meat wave assault (and died).

before they left on the assault, they recorded the video, but said how they would fulfill their duty, and not cause trouble….

[BamaATL 16592]

10 minutes ago, TeeDubya said:

It’s like the video of the drone operators released last week.  They got crosswise with their commander and were ordered into a meat wave assault (and died).

before they left on the assault, they recorded the video, but said how they would fulfill their duty, and not cause trouble….

We can look at the history of Russia and point to all the bad it entails, which is all true, but we also have consider the here and now, as well the future; which is ultimately in the hands of the global community.  As it currently exists, Russia really isn't good at anything beyond exporting energy and to a much lesser extant raw materials.  Truth be told, they are completely dependent on the energy needs of the world in order for their current system to even work as badly as it does.  Without break thrus and investment in energy alternatives, we will continue to be at the peril of regimes like Russia, Venezuela, and many different bad actors in the Middle East (who are also overly dependent upon energy exportation), At the end of the day, energy independence isn't just critical for the United States, to be honest, it's critical for all the world's nations, as it provides a layer of stability and prevents bad actors to having access to as much wealth as they do now.  Whether each of us like it or not, whenever each of us fills up at the pump, or heats our houses, etc, we are all helping to prop up these sorts of regimes.  None of us would choose to do this, but at current, there aren't enough practical options available for us to choose not only on our own, but also collectively.  

You can add in the need for all this in an overall climate perspective, but I actually think the more pressing issue at the moment is to limit these sorts of bad actors from a seemingly unlimited piggy bank.  That isn't to say that the climate aspect of this isn't critical, it is to me, but right now that seems like sauce for the goose.  I do believe we are making headway on all this, and as it ultimately relates to the Russian people, the reality is, no matter the outcome of this conflict, the days of this model of "government" are numbered because eventually, like many other countries, they will find themselves without a chair when the music stops (relax Oil and Gas folks, it won't stop entirely, but change and slow).  

[SL Xpress 7503]

20 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

We can look at the history of Russia and point to all the bad it entails, which is all true, but we also have consider the here and now, as well the future; which is ultimately in the hands of the global community.  As it currently exists, Russia really isn't good at anything beyond exporting energy and to a much lesser extant raw materials.  Truth be told, they are completely dependent on the energy needs of the world in order for their current system to even work as badly as it does.  Without break thrus and investment in energy alternatives, we will continue to be at the peril of regimes like Russia, Venezuela, and many different bad actors in the Middle East (who are also overly dependent upon energy exportation), At the end of the day, energy independence isn't just critical for the United States, to be honest, it's critical for all the world's nations, as it provides a layer of stability and prevents bad actors to having access to as much wealth as they do now.  Whether each of us like it or not, whenever each of us fills up at the pump, or heats our houses, etc, we are all helping to prop up these sorts of regimes.  None of us would choose to do this, but at current, there aren't enough practical options available for us to choose not only on our own, but also collectively.  

You can add in the need for all this in an overall climate perspective, but I actually think the more pressing issue at the moment is to limit these sorts of bad actors from a seemingly unlimited piggy bank.  That isn't to say that the climate aspect of this isn't critical, it is to me, but right now that seems like sauce for the goose.  I do believe we are making headway on all this, and as it ultimately relates to the Russian people, the reality is, no matter the outcome of this conflict, the days of this model of "government" are numbered because eventually, like many other countries, they will find themselves without a chair when the music stops (relax Oil and Gas folks, it won't stop entirely, but change and slow).  

I think that is a nice way to think about things.

My way of thinking about things is there are always going to be murderous regimes. There were murderous regimes before fossil fuels gained any kind of importance. There are murderous regimes who gain prominence without exporting fossil fuels. If ever the global community finds an energy resource that creates independence from fossil fuels, there will still be murderous regimes. Heck, some people would argue the United States has been a murderous regime. 

To me history is about my values and way of life versus your's. Plenty of times that conflict has an existential nature. When it doesn't, it can be an eternal strife. The hope is that the strife can be contained to one that doesn't involve trying to eliminate the enemy from the face of the planet. For example, a conflict contained in the economic realm. Or Olympics and the World Cup. Or whatever. 

But there will always be people who feel a calling towards having power over others. Many of those people end up running countries. We're not going to end those aspirations, nor the success of the people who pursue them, by eliminating or seriously reducing fossil fuel as a source of income. There's nothing that says the United States won't be run by an authoritarian regime someday. I feel like we take our democracy for granted at times, when it's really more fragile than we choose to admit. 

That said, some cultures are petri dishes seemingly designed for a brutally repressive authoritarian regime to take root. Russia is probably Exhibit A for that. 

I don't think anything less than being conquered by another nation, a la Japan and Germany, could substantially change the mindset of enough of the Russian people to make a difference. The end of the Cold War certainly did nothing. 

Right now more than the end of fossil fuels as a substantial revenue source, I'd just like to see the US arm Ukraine to the teeth, allow them to take the kid gloves off in terms of striking into Russia with the weapons being provided, and allow them to win this war. Which they can do. Russia is demoralized, with a terrible infrastructure, a poorly run military, and a place where loyalty and a lack of threat for regime change takes precedence over competence. This is still very winnable if the support is there. My primary concern is and has always been the isolationist tendency for Americans not to actually give a shit for what is going on overseas, and how that plays out in politics. Much more so than the continued value of fossil fuels for Russia and Venezuela.

There are plenty of awful exploitative regimes that make money on fossil fuels that the US government supports. That's just how it is. But we have a chance to do the right thing in stark good and evil, black and white contrast. I hope we do more, and no more 6 month blocking of funds because a rabid minority won't allow a bill with overwhelming bipartisan support make it to the floor. 

[F250 28599]

11 hours ago, Braff Zacklin said:

Indubitably.

What hasn't been sold for profit by corrupt commanders has been slowly rusting and rotting away in silos.

 

This is your chance! Just as Johnny Appleseed propagandized his beloved pomes throughout the Midwest, you could be the Johnny Crawfish of Northern Europe, spreading Cajun spice and seasonings to Old World palates.

As someone that attempted to bring the savory spices of Mexican food to Europe, I would advise against it. I was nearly arrested for war crimes against European buttholes. Apparently, telling them to eat ice cream to cool it off on the way out was not appreciated.

Edited September 23 by F250

[MillerEP 30307]

https://www.threads.net/@24hoursofukraine/post/DAOpw-vNXvF?xmt=AQGzNmOnv3E9RtL8KSFdFjiX-9WDcVwXCUFAMfMyfOO16A

Fireeeeeeeeeee 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
russian city of Vladimir is on flames. One of russia's more expensive electric transmission hubs is located there, connecting Kallinin NPP to point east & Moscow.

 

https://www.threads.net/@noelreports/post/DAOOm8xtDRj?xmt=AQGzkSdGApWQUkP47MEWJN2pxlebbXuupYeR_MrQ3obyBw

Renewed clashes are reported in New-York, as Russians again try to push and take control over the town which was partially recaptured by the 12th Brigade Azov recently.
 

[Brisketexan 104199]

As someone that attempted to bring the savory spices of Mexican food to Europe, I would advise against it. I was nearly arrested for war crimes against European buttholes. Apparently, telling them to eat ice cream to cool it off on the way out was not appreciated.

When my daughter cooked for her Swedish flatmates, some complained that the food was a touch spicy because she used onions.
ONIONS. Are too spicy. FFS.

[Bevo 13465]

45 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

I'd just like to see the US arm Ukraine to the teeth, allow them to take the kid gloves off in terms of striking into Russia with the weapons being provided, and allow them to win this war.

 

I'm not so sure that is what our leadership wants. Ukraine manpower is getting awfully low as we wait to provide jets and disallow our weapons or the UK's weapons from being used inside Russia. Moreover, the main reason the incursion into Russia was successful was because they kept it a secret from the West and the main reason the previous offensive was unsuccessful was because the West and Russia were well aware of where and when the attack would take place.

[BamaATL 16592]

37 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

I think that is a nice way to think about things.

My way of thinking about things is there are always going to be murderous regimes. There were murderous regimes before fossil fuels gained any kind of importance. There are murderous regimes who gain prominence without exporting fossil fuels. If ever the global community finds an energy resource that creates independence from fossil fuels, there will still be murderous regimes. Heck, some people would argue the United States has been a murderous regime. 

To me history is about my values and way of life versus your's. Plenty of times that conflict has an existential nature. When it doesn't, it can be an eternal strife. The hope is that the strife can be contained to one that doesn't involve trying to eliminate the enemy from the face of the planet. For example, a conflict contained in the economic realm. Or Olympics and the World Cup. Or whatever. 

But there will always be people who feel a calling towards having power over others. Many of those people end up running countries. We're not going to end those aspirations, nor the success of the people who pursue them, by eliminating or seriously reducing fossil fuel as a source of income. There's nothing that says the United States won't be run by an authoritarian regime someday. I feel like we take our democracy for granted at times, when it's really more fragile than we choose to admit. 

That said, some cultures are petri dishes seemingly designed for a brutally repressive authoritarian regime to take root. Russia is probably Exhibit A for that. 

I don't think anything less than being conquered by another nation, a la Japan and Germany, could substantially change the mindset of enough of the Russian people to make a difference. The end of the Cold War certainly did nothing. 

Right now more than the end of fossil fuels as a substantial revenue source, I'd just like to see the US arm Ukraine to the teeth, allow them to take the kid gloves off in terms of striking into Russia with the weapons being provided, and allow them to win this war. Which they can do. Russia is demoralized, with a terrible infrastructure, a poorly run military, and a place where loyalty and a lack of threat for regime change takes precedence over competence. This is still very winnable if the support is there. My primary concern is and has always been the isolationist tendency for Americans not to actually give a shit for what is going on overseas, and how that plays out in politics. Much more so than the continued value of fossil fuels for Russia and Venezuela.

There are plenty of awful exploitative regimes that make money on fossil fuels that the US government supports. That's just how it is. But we have a chance to do the right thing in stark good and evil, black and white contrast. I hope we do more, and no more 6 month blocking of funds because a rabid minority won't allow a bill with overwhelming bipartisan support make it to the floor. 

I can agree with much of this, but with a caveat,  right now, we have Russia, who without the financial ability to do what they are doing, wouldn't have the means to wage war, at least certainly not on this scale.  It isn't that they are good having resources or even using them (I'm sure the oil and gas folks here can attest to that), it's that they happen to have it.  As a result, they've bought global influence, financed weaponry, and now are engaged in an awful pointless and cruel war.  If we weren't (and I mean we as a global we) unwittingly financing this for the past 30 plus years, quite frankly they wouldn't have the means, even if they had the will to do so.   Was any of this done during that time period with the world as complicit partners in all this, no, not at all.  However, when you spend like we have (again, the global we), rather than invest in internal options and alternatives, you find yourself potentially at the whim of someone like Putin.  

Competing for resources is always a thing, and there isn't anything to suggest that we are anywhere near the end of that.  However, having huge imbalances is what has lead us inexorably here, especially when there have always been alternatives available to us.  

It's going to take a long time to undo what has been done, no doubt about it.  If there is one thing I hope that is learned out of this entire mess, it's that if we ever see such a drastic imbalance (say for example Europe vs Russia in energy, I look at the US differently, because we are energy independent, and have been for a while) we need to recognize collectively that it's a recipe for trouble.  

[F250 28599]

11 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

When my daughter cooked for her Swedish flatmates, some complained that the food was a touch spicy because she used onions.
ONIONS. Are too spicy. FFS.

I used rather bland jalapenos and for the brave some chile piquin that I brought from my mom's garden.

This was me at the table when I realized their European guts were not accustomed to the heat and what would happen later.

[SL Xpress 7503]

3 hours ago, Bevo said:

 

I'm not so sure that is what our leadership wants. Ukraine manpower is getting awfully low as we wait to provide jets and disallow our weapons or the UK's weapons from being used inside Russia. Moreover, the main reason the incursion into Russia was successful was because they kept it a secret from the West and the main reason the previous offensive was unsuccessful was because the West and Russia were well aware of where and when the attack would take place.

I feel like in the last half of the 20th century the Democratic party has a history of being concerned about escalation, and the Republican party has a history of going all in as much as possible. Currently I feel like the Democratic party is willing to help Ukraine, while there are substantial powerful influences in the Republican party that wants to hand over Crimea and the Donbas to Russia and be done with this thing already. The way the war has been prosecuted by the Democrats feels on par with the civilian oversight in other post WWII conflicts. That's not to say they haven't been right at times. But to me it feels like a consistent approach to conflict.

The main thing to me has been artillery. Not the only thing, but the main thing. That blockage for funding left the Ukrainian artillery holding their dicks in their hands, which was the primary contributor to Russian success. That was absolutely a minority of Republicans pretty much entirely responsible for that. 

I still feel like the previous offensive was experiencing startling success against entrenched positions given the complete lack of airpower, until the funding dried up. It wasn't dramatic success, but there was success. I think the expectations were way out of line in the first place. 

[TeeDubya 3358]

9 hours ago, SL Xpress said:

I think that is a nice way to think about things.

My way of thinking about things is there are always going to be murderous regimes.

 

10 hours ago, BamaATL said:

We can look at the history of Russia and point to all the bad it entails, which is all true, but we also have consider the here and now, as well the future; which is ultimately in the hands of the global community

Both well-thought-out discourses.  Thank you….since the Slavic tribes, even before Kievan Rus’ 

 

 

8 hours ago, F250 said:

I used rather bland jalapenos and for the brave some chile piquin that I brought from my mom's garden.

This was me at the table when I realized their European guts were not accustomed to the heat and what would happen later.

 

 

Edited September 23 by TeeDubya

[Evil Bill Obrien 3095]

 

Gotta love a good troll job 

[MissingInAction 24697]

[Gatorubet 29947]

On 9/22/2024 at 7:57 AM, BamaATL said:

Some visual evidence

 

Putin: “ We have to show the world and Ukraine that we meant business. I want a Sarmat test launch on the 20th.”

Scientist: “ Comrade President, that is just a week! We need more time to make sure we have a successful launch.  Things are very complicated.”

Putin: “Either the Sarmat flies on the 20th or you fly out a window…..”

probably

[Parliament 14067]

That’s a sexy machine there.

[Chad Fuck 17442]

1 hour ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

 

Gotta love a good troll job 

[KYHorn 16751]

 

 

 The blue-collar workers at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania, USA, receive a humble word of gratitude from Ukraine‘s President Zelenskyy. They and their families are part of a struggle which is happening on a global scale. God bless them all! God bless America! 

[AUS-97HORN 11577]

10 minutes ago, KYHorn said:

 

 

 

you all wanted the details on how we got Skynet....

 

this is exactly how we fucking end up with Skynet.

Edited September 23 by AUS-97HORN

[Parliament 14067]

Eh.  Wave some bacon in front of him and he goes down easy.

[b_p 452]

ATACMS... Sorry, debris from ATACMS that had been intercepted by Russian air defenses.... doing work

[Post Oak 20171]

2 hours ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

 

Gotta love a good troll job 

Hello Jaanika.

[Evil Bill Obrien 3095]

2 hours ago, KYHorn said:

 

 

I mean we are just some scaling up and visual clean up (bye bye rotors) away from full on star wars shit in real life...

[MissingInAction 24697]

Yea, but can you fuck it?