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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    TBF, the Germans were certain they would take Stalingrad in less than a week and considering how sh!t the Soviets were in defending it, they almost did. The thing is though that the Kremlin DNGAF about losses at that point and so basically kept attacking and attacking and attacking which kept...
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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    Mice were part of the issue from what I've read / watched (Tikhistory's Battlestorm Stalingrad is on the level of the best documentaries I've ever watched), but they were given very early war hand me downs in pretty much all things from the tanks (that did get chewed up by mice) to a few 40mm AT...
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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    Honestly he's just a Marxist - Leninist, it automatically excludes EVERYTHING ELSE.
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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    I really don't think you have much to worry about for Molotov Ribbentrop 2 especially from the Ukrainian side considering how bad the blood is between Ukrainians and Russians now.
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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    So? Again, doesn't owe Ukraine or Russia jack spit and he's no longer CEO of twiXter so that's the purview of the WEF stooge lady he was pretty much forced to install.
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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    It was something. The Ukrainian government and their boosters have treated Elon like a POS for over a year when they should've said 'thank you for your support at the time of greatest need i.e. the first days' but instead we get stuff just like what I first responded to. Elon doesn't owe Ukraine...
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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    https://www.independentsentinel.com/elon-musk-made-ukraines-kill-list-for-15-minutes/ He made a list... maybe it was 'just a joke' :cautious:
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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    Musk is not Ukrainian nor has he taken any oaths to protect Ukraine AFAIK. He did Ukraine a solid in providing Starlink at the start of the war when the Russians trashed Ukraine's comms network but TBPH the Zelinsky Admin have been at their worst in being both discourteous and ungrateful for the...
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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    I can't recall NATO having committed a campaign of terror and repression that where the arrest, torture and murder of hundreds of thousands IN ADDITION TO the open conflict and the rise of ISIL actual child sex slavers as an acceptable alternative to a lot of Syrians anytime recently. That he...
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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    I'd seen reports of Ukraine War vets being attacked in Russian cities on the Ukraine subreddit and largely dismissed them as either straight Ukrainian propaganda or otherwise taking one or two minor incidents and blowing them out of proportion... but this... seriously... WTAF.
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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    The Kremlin is full of corrupt, vicious AF mofos who would chuck you out a window if you inconvenienced them in the slightest and were within reach... but you're dangerously underestimating them if you think they wouldn't be delighted if Ukraine's backers forced Kyiv to deal and thus the front...
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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    Russia already pared back their 3 day war dream when they 'annexed' the eastern and southern provinces that they partially / mostly occupied. The only Russian commander to have actually taken territory since Jan 1 2023 is dead and his forces destroyed / disbanded and they've gone almost wholly...
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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    1. Mines are pretty much the easiest things in the war to mass produce, by some reports the two sides have mined an area the size of Florida. If the Moskva and the ships of the Black Sea Fleet are utterly irreplaceable for Russia and each loss is grievous... mines are the antithesis of that. 2...
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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    Been hearing about 'a lot going on' since the offensive began, y'know what hasn't been going on very much? Retaking territory. And it's been a year and a half since the war started, as badly atrophied as Russia's industry probably is / was, they've had a year and a half to gear up for newly...
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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    And if they can actually exploit the break through, good for them, but they broke through days ago and from all maps haven't been able to do much of anything since Russia just redeployed tons of fodder and some of their better units to the area and from all evidence Ukraine doesn't have the...
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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    Honestly, it'd be one thing if Ukraine had retaken a single large settlement in this counteroffensive, but seeing a dead Challenger 2 less than 10km from the front line 2 months ago sends a message that the Ukrainians aren't gonna overcome the Russian tactic of just slamming cannon fodder onto...
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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    I really don't think Ukrainians have been Zap Brannigan'ing it like the Russians did at Vuhledar, we would've seen a lot more shots of destroyed Ukrainian vehicles if that was the case and the Russians would be crowing about piles of bodies the same as they did with the Leopard tanks and...
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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    With the trench networks and minefields both sides have put up on all the major front lines and the complete and utter disregard for civilians because either they've been evacuated or it's Russia and their TOS-1A's and such DNGAF?... There is little to no place for VBIEDs. And all involved have...
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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    Considering the scale of Ukrainian and Russian operations over the last year, I'd say both sides actual killed / wounded are closer to half the numbers Kyiv / Moscow puts out about their opponent... and as things are going both sides can sustain this pace basically indefinitely (well...
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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    Considering how much those two loathe each other, I could easily see LP's interpretation of any 'teenagers' comment to be 13... and if younger that's fine too... while Gonzalo means over the age of consent whatever that is... or was reminiscing about when he was a teen or something.
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