Ukraine War Thread Part 2
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A Tour around a captured KAMAZ, they’re about $1.5 mil each.
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Ok, that whole "running out of missiles" thing was produced last year. People just found OUT about it recently and so in their minds it is a recent thing. We have been providing RIM-7 missiles to Ukraine for Buk since January:…
https://t.co/AelpBLjxuB
https://t.co/AelpBLjxuB
A Russian troop shortage? I wonder if they have a box in the trenches for him to stand on..
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/stat...C92fLuh-ktAAAA
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/stat...C92fLuh-ktAAAA
Nutloose,
The velocity of the rounds exiting the barrel of that rifle he's holding is the same as a 6'8" weightlifter holding the same rifle. My guess is low CG and profile benefits him far better in many situations than the tall guy as well. I've read of many like him as "tunnel rats" going below to kill in Viet Nam. In the Pacific in WWII, the video is also probably a good example of the size comparisons of the island Infantry combatants throughout the war. The tall guys took their lumps from the short Japanese as well.
I'm just a Civvy, but my guess is 99% of the fights this guy might find himself in aren't boxing matches.
Take care!
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-put...220033457.html
Exclusive: Putin's plans to keep the Baltics in check
The Russian Presidential Administration’s strategy documents for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania show a Kremlin “out of touch” with realities in the NATO and EU member states at its doorstep.
Exclusive: Putin's plans to keep the Baltics in check
The Russian Presidential Administration’s strategy documents for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania show a Kremlin “out of touch” with realities in the NATO and EU member states at its doorstep.
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
What’s not to like…
Great, mercenary infighting.
Wagner PMC fighters threatened to shoot mercenaries from Gazprom's Potok PMC. The mercenaries from Wagner directly complain to Prigozhin.
Great, mercenary infighting.
Wagner PMC fighters threatened to shoot mercenaries from Gazprom's Potok PMC. The mercenaries from Wagner directly complain to Prigozhin.
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/st...HhlFHGKbTPQr_A
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They're now claiming there is treason in Russia as Wagner runs short of ammo.... Gazprom PMC, I hope British Gas don't get ideas
Prickozhim is now worried everyone who is anyone in Russia now want their own PMC for future power struggles back home, and that they are trying to reduce Wagners size...Keep sending them to Ukraine, They will help with that..
Prickozhim is now worried everyone who is anyone in Russia now want their own PMC for future power struggles back home, and that they are trying to reduce Wagners size...Keep sending them to Ukraine, They will help with that..
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Google maps have updated Mariupols maps showing the destruction..
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In same breath talks of the failure of Ukraine Govt/ military to defend with mines, eastern Ukraine, allowing Russian forces to take Donbas with ease. He says corruption is rife and is more concerning for long term health of the country than Russian expansionism
Depressing.
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Russia in some parts are using thermal blankets.
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BBC report on Ukraine drones
Detailed update report on Ukraines use of drones.
There is something absurd about cramming troops into narrow trenches that are so easy to identify by your enemy using a $1k toy adapted to drop munitions into this confined space.
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There is something absurd about cramming troops into narrow trenches that are so easy to identify by your enemy using a $1k toy adapted to drop munitions into this confined space.
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More Russian defence trenches dug along the left bank of the Dnipro
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I never thought of this, but British vehicles supplied to Ukraine are favoured because......
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"This is going to end in hell": Russian oligarchs believe that Russian authorities are leading the country into abyss.
While the Kremlin pretends that everything is under control, the oligarchs start talking openly about the upcoming catastrophe….
While the Kremlin pretends that everything is under control, the oligarchs start talking openly about the upcoming catastrophe….
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IMHO several things point to a general breakdown.
1/
The Russian Army, their general powerbase is no longer as it was and probably would struggle to defend the outlying states from insurrection and dissent, along with their overseas commitments such as Syria etc.
2/
Their budget is in tatters, funding a war that it looks like they can no longer afford, their main earners in Gas and Oil a shadow of its former self and with that other large earner, Nuclear energy to also be hit by sanctions, it will get worse. Militarily, I do not think they will have the budget to replace their material losses any time soon..
3/
Conscription, the way it was handled was woofully inept, engineers, those responsible in key infrastructure, heating, power, water, food, production etc were whisked off the streets and sent to be slaughtered in their thousands decimating the factories and infrastructure required to run the Country back home, people that will take two generations to replace.
4/
Police, the latest to be conscripted from the likes of Moscow, meaning a rise in crime, and with the returning prisoners released for serving in Ukraine, a larger criminal base of trained and possibly armed thugs released from prison and finding a lack of police to keep a lid on things.
5/
Conscripted youth slaughtered on the fields of Ukraine for what, Putins vanity, meaning those jobs I mentioned in three will have to skip 2 generations, as the youth that would have filled them is also gone, meaning the generation after them will need to take their place.
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High end skills, such as in computing, finance, etc, lost to the country when those with the funds, saw the writing on the wall and fled early on, probably never to return.
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Finally, a Country now cut off from the world by just about everyone they used to trade with, who will not wish to trade with nor operate in Russia for a significant time into the future. A Country that is a pariah in the world and far from strengthening it's place and position in the World, has destroyed it and the myth that the Russian Military once had, they have bolstered the Wests resolve and brought NATO back together bigger and stronger than before as no one could have envisioned, and strengthened the cooperation of European countries and the USA.
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