Is Ukraine about to have a war?
Sad news - it looks like the Kiwi mentioned in Nutty's post below has been killed in combat.
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/statu...428308992?s=20
https://twitter.com/MrFukkew/status/1636242282423656448
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/statu...428308992?s=20
https://twitter.com/MrFukkew/status/1636242282423656448
These guys need to be remembered as heroes helping heroes in a heroic struggle against a criminal, perverted gang led by an egotistical despot who cares only about his own skin, cares nothing for the citizens of Russia that he is shredding, and less for those having the misfortune to live in a country adjacent to Vlads syndicate of crime.
i te toenetanga o te ra, ka maharatia koe. moe pai, kua oti i a koe to mahi. Kia ora.
RIP
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A leader who messes up as badly as Putin has normally doesn't get to avoid the shallow ditch, jerry can and match retirement plan. In Vlads case, an opportunistic open upper floor window would be poetic, but the back ramp of a IL-76 carrying #200's would at least achieve terminal velocity, that velocity that Vlad is driving the Russian Federation towards dismemberment as he depletes the armed forces that have kept the peripheral vassal states within the sphere of Vlads Evil empire.
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That assumes the Russians had any interest in the term "logistics" or "preparation". Feb 24 2022 had Vlads invaders inside another country without the troops being told they were at war... seems assuming that Vlad is a master strategist might be overstating his skill at RISK.
A leader who messes up as badly as Putin has normally doesn't get to avoid the shallow ditch, gerry can and match retirement plan. In Vlads case, an opportunistic open upper floor window would be poetic, but the back ramp of a IL-76 carrying #200's would at least achieve terminal velocity, that velocity that Vlad is driving the Russian Federation towards dismemberment as he depletes the armed forces that have kept the peripheral vassal states within the sphere of Vlads Evil empire.
A leader who messes up as badly as Putin has normally doesn't get to avoid the shallow ditch, gerry can and match retirement plan. In Vlads case, an opportunistic open upper floor window would be poetic, but the back ramp of a IL-76 carrying #200's would at least achieve terminal velocity, that velocity that Vlad is driving the Russian Federation towards dismemberment as he depletes the armed forces that have kept the peripheral vassal states within the sphere of Vlads Evil empire.
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Details on RU 125mm smoothbore ammuntion variants here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/125_mm...ore_ammunition
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The Russian word for this is of course 'vranyo'. An official falsehood that no one believes or expects anyone to believe or imagines that isn't universally accepted as a falsehood. But it's the Party Line so...
It's a quite extraordinary insight into the mindset of an entire nation and explains to a great extent the incomprehension Westerners experience when viewing the almost universal unthinking acceptance of the Russian population of the most outrageous falsehoods from the Kremlin.
A population deprived of it's ability to think for itself.
What an utter abomination!
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And another one bites the dust 
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I also believe that Ukraine has the ability to close the Kertch bridge when they need to.
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Agreed, it’s a rail choke point preventing a rapid reinforcement of both troops and equipment.
Apparently slovakia is getting 12 AH-1Z's + hellfires from the US in exchange for the mig 29's to ukriane and about 350 million. So they got somewhere near a 150 million for the mig 29's. Not a bad deal overall for slovakia
https://www.sme.sk/minuta/23149332/z...ov-ah-1z-viper
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That assumes the Russians had any interest in the term "logistics" or "preparation". Feb 24 2022 had Vlads invaders inside another country without the troops being told they were at war... seems assuming that Vlad is a master strategist might be overstating his skill at RISK.
A leader who messes up as badly as Putin has normally doesn't get to avoid the shallow ditch, jerry can and match retirement plan. In Vlads case, an opportunistic open upper floor window would be poetic, but the back ramp of a IL-76 carrying #200's would at least achieve terminal velocity, that velocity that Vlad is driving the Russian Federation towards dismemberment as he depletes the armed forces that have kept the peripheral vassal states within the sphere of Vlads Evil empire.
A leader who messes up as badly as Putin has normally doesn't get to avoid the shallow ditch, jerry can and match retirement plan. In Vlads case, an opportunistic open upper floor window would be poetic, but the back ramp of a IL-76 carrying #200's would at least achieve terminal velocity, that velocity that Vlad is driving the Russian Federation towards dismemberment as he depletes the armed forces that have kept the peripheral vassal states within the sphere of Vlads Evil empire.
A look at recent high resolution imagery doesn't indicate spur lines, parallel main rail going over multiple new bridges to south east Kherson oblast from criminally occupied Crimea.
Hoping that this is less opaque.
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Sorry for being so obtuse, so, simply put, please explain on what factual basis that you would consider that Russia has shown competency in protecting the MSR and as you have specifically indicated, the rail line going through an obvious choke point?
A look at recent high resolution imagery doesn't indicate spur lines, parallel main rail going over multiple new bridges to south east Kherson oblast from criminally occupied Crimea.
Hoping that this is less opaque.
A look at recent high resolution imagery doesn't indicate spur lines, parallel main rail going over multiple new bridges to south east Kherson oblast from criminally occupied Crimea.
Hoping that this is less opaque.
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"Don't wake the Russian bear!?!"
I looked up natural bear predators and discovered that tigers are about the only top predator that can take them out. At the end of the list it said that actually other bears are their greatest threat.
Ukraine looks like she is being reborn as aleopard tiger, or perhaps a cousin bear.
I looked up natural bear predators and discovered that tigers are about the only top predator that can take them out. At the end of the list it said that actually other bears are their greatest threat.
Ukraine looks like she is being reborn as a
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They need full octane HIMARS, not the decaf stuff.
There are hundreds of MQ1s sitting idle. There are a lot of crews that would operate those for the Ukrainians, as it still seems to be a bit difficult to get the point through to the lords and masters in the west that the deaths of Ukrainians in defending both their country and Article 5 of the UN Charter obliges countries with capability to assist them. They are needlessly dying as the west has been equivocal on its support to their
The longer this goes on, the more harm the SMO does to the rest of the world as well as Ukrainians, and incidentally Russians, many of them who would prefer to be alive in their own beds rather than becoming part of the sunflower fields. Ukraine will forevermore be synonymous with sunflowers and Russian stupidity, as poppy are a reminder of 1914-
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And possibly a target you’d destroy closer to the time when you’re likely to attack perhaps? Don’t give them a reason to reinforce from the occupied territory whilst the bridge is out.
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Personally, I find the satire introduces a refreshing relief and welcome variety to a very serious and otherwise dry discussion.
It's a very British cultural theme in the greatest tradition of dark humour from Python to Blackadder to Spitting Image - even if not quite in the same league.
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Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
In Sevastopol, reports of heavy explosions in the area of the bay where missile carriers of the Black Sea fleet are located. Russians are reporting the possibility of a sea drone attack.
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Sorry for being so obtuse, so, simply put, please explain on what factual basis that you would consider that Russia has shown competency in protecting the MSR and as you have specifically indicated, the rail line going through an obvious choke point?
A look at recent high resolution imagery doesn't indicate spur lines, parallel main rail going over multiple new bridges to south east Kherson oblast from criminally occupied Crimea.
Hoping that this is less opaque.
A look at recent high resolution imagery doesn't indicate spur lines, parallel main rail going over multiple new bridges to south east Kherson oblast from criminally occupied Crimea.
Hoping that this is less opaque.
. As Winemaker said in his post 15593, I think you have confused my post and sfojimbo's