Agent23
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Well, CRP has officially summoned the Autist Army to investigate.Seems rather well equipped for a run of the mill volunteer
Let us see what they dig up!
Well, CRP has officially summoned the Autist Army to investigate.Seems rather well equipped for a run of the mill volunteer
Also of note, the account started in February, but this post-combat footage started dropping scant days after the most recent foreign volunteer tragedy:Seems rather well equipped for a run of the mill volunteer
I don't think it can be said that Javelins are non-factors. If that were the case, the US and NATO wouldn't be trying to pour as many as possible into Ukraine to bleed out the Russians. They are clearly a tool that allows the Ukrainians to punch above their weight. I wonder (and I say this having no experience in tactics or war), if the Ukrainians are using their own vehicles as bait in addition to ambushes? Luring in green Russian conscripts with an old T-62 and then tagging a T-70 with a javelin may not be all that hard, especially in the heat of battle.
Regardless, javelins appear to be an important factor in this war.
You sound as if the Russian military has any reluctance to simply bomb a town or city into rubble. Russia will not allow Ukraine to switch sides to the West. If it has to, it will reduce western Ukraine into burning rubble. It has not yet reached the point where resistance is futile, but the momentum of the war is still on Russia's side. It's been few and far between in this war where Ukraine has been able to reverse a loss in land.
Except they refused to do that.By demanding and only accepting Rubles for his gas and ditching the dollar and demanding Rubles, Gold, or Bitcoin for Russian Goods and services, Putin is forcing Europe to play ball or freeze and starve.
So, they can be frozen happily.Except they refused to do that.
You have a strange view of what insanity is.If I was really driven into insanity, I couldn't even type and I would probably to pull a Redditor Legion move and get killed by Europhile Ukranian Nazis.
I'd like to know what you mean by "don't figure prominently". Clearly western powers think they are important, or they wouldn't make such an effort to send so many of them in particular. Clearly the Ukrainians think they are important, both in actual testimonials and observed use.Javelins don't figure prominently, nor do NLAWs, and the Russians have captured so many of them, they are even training their troops on them.
Are you claiming that these are considered by Ukrainians to be superior to Javlin and NLAW? Clearly it's not because of a lack of the weapons, because you just said they have them coming out their ears (to get captured in such numbers).UkA Forces I see, mostly use Stugna, Soviet-based ATGMs, and the trusty RPG series.
Even if you were right that Russia had the west firmly by the balls with its energy shipments, that wouldn't make it a first rate power any more than Saudi Arabia was. It'd make it a second rate power with good leverage.Russia is once again a 1st Rate Power. They have the critical resources the world needs to function and are demanding Rubles for it. OPEC knows which way the wind is blowing and is moving to get off the Petrodollar.
The US is utterly irrelevant and unable to translate military power into lasting socioeconomic-political outcomes and got militarily defeated by the Taliban. Any arguments to the contrary are nonsense.
Translation, Russia's real objective was wherever they are doing best. Everything else is a feint which means it's not bad if they're doing badly.A month in and its now clear what the RuA's first real objective was:
Sea of Azov, this was where they poured their resources in terms of reinforcement and air support. Everything else was a double feint designed to support this. If they actually overran their threatened goals, well and good. But it wasn't necessary for their real job of pinning and drawing out UkA away from the Sea of Azov.
Hmm, maybe someone should tell the Russian generals this:Now that Mariupol is wrapping up, the Russians will most likely move to begin the push on the Dnieper, maintaining their plan while not worrying overmuch about secondary fronts.
The war is going to have consequences on Ukraine's future for sure, but that's a problem for postwar when they're not being propped up by patriotic rage and NATO aid. What's propping up Russia? Their losses are very unsustainable. How fast do you think the pace of equipment destruction will taper off, to let Russia win before they run out of stuff made this century?Meanwhile their economic portion of the war continues to fuck Ukraine by systematically destroying the logistical, technical, and manufacturing nodes underpinning Ukraine's economical base with which to support their army to begin with. It also continues to ratchet up the pain on the US and EU which are already fractured and on the verge of open civil war due to Covid-19. By demanding and only accepting Rubles for his gas and ditching the dollar and demanding Rubles, Gold, or Bitcoin for Russian Goods and services, Putin is forcing Europe to play ball or freeze and starve. By attacking at the time of the year he did, he also stopped Ukraine's planting season and export of processed stores. Which is forcing the Middle East to toe his line or starve. These actions also caused the Russian Stock Market to surge and the Russian People to throw money into Russian Businesses.
What is this madness? Russia cannot survive apart from both the west and China (well, maybe as a crippled shadow of its current self). To his credit, even a Putin gone mad knows this, which apparently puts him ahead of you.In this Putin is also sending a message to China, don't think you can use this time to screw me, we are either equal partners or you're my enemy as well.
The next step for Russia is to get its birthrates up, which means removing the Oligarchs who invested abroad. The other step is reintegrating the former SSRs back into the Russian fold and wooing Turkey out of NATO and into his camp, which if done, makes Europe indefensible.
So the entire 5 Shermans to a Panzer (not just the Panther) was true, and completely irrelevant as the Allies had a massive artillery and airpower advantage to where it didn't matter. Which is what the conversation should have been in the first place. But I digress.
And the contrast there just reflects poorly on Russia.I mean mercenaries have never been protected under the laws of war, so they are more announcing that they will treat foreign combatants by that.... coincidentally that is also why the US has been able to hold insurgents in gitmo indefinitely
As if the US didn't do the same against insurgents from foreign countries in Iraq? Or used fires and WP indiscriminately in urban areas without regard to civilian casualties?And the contrast there just reflects poorly on Russia.
When you forget to put on the Mauripol background . . .
Bimbo brain strikes again!
Did they kill people who surrendered?As if the US didn't do the same against insurgents from foreign countries in Iraq? Or used fires and WP indiscriminately in urban areas without regard to civilian casualties?
There is a bunch of stuff out there about US forces shooting wounded and torturing PoWs. They probably covered up actual massacres of PoWs.Did they kill people who surrendered?
See edit above.Riiiiight.....
Ok yes we do want the Russians to stop but we should not be ghoulish and celebrate the deaths of other men. I can sort of understand it if you are a Ukrainian and it’s in the moment still not a good look.I'm not celebrating their deaths no.
I mean mercenaries have never been protected under the laws of war, so they are more announcing that they will treat foreign combatants by that.... coincidentally that is also why the US has been able to hold insurgents in gitmo indefinitely
It’s still not a good idea because then they will fight to the death and inspire them to not take prisoners of their own. They should just say that mercs won’t be treated as honorable soldiers but as criminals instead and put in jail, but when have Russians ever been smart.As if the US didn't do the same against insurgents from foreign countries in Iraq? Or used fires and WP indiscriminately in urban areas without regard to civilian casualties?
Pointing out that in practice that is what the US did for years before this war and led to a world culture of these violations of international law is whataboutism? I'm pointing out that this IS the actual norm in practice. The US military certainly tries to pretend it isn't, something the Russians are simply more honest about, but there is a record of it doing so and violating all sorts of norms it claimed to uphold. I know you think this is gotcha question, but actions speak louder than words and in terms of actions the US does not live up to its supposed words except to make an example of enlisted when they get caught.So you're just playing a game of "whataboutism." Is it the official policy of the US military to not accept the surrender of "enemy mercenaries" or whatever you want to call them? Do you have them openly saying as much somewhere like we now have Russia doing? Do you have documented instances of such?
That hasn't happened in Russia? Dissent is stifled in the US too when it is for a popular enough cause or sanctioned enough by the media. Where are the protests for the January 6th rioters who have been detained in all sorts of illegal ways?The other thing is, how is this treated back in the home country? In the US, you have people protesting and fighting legal battles for the people being indefinitely detained. There has always been public outcry against the kind of incidents you have cited, and the people involved are punished for it if they get caught/outed. In Russia, you get arrested for trying to protest and fined if you speak out against what the government is doing.
Taken out of the context of him supposedly fighting Russians in Ukraine; if he were just any normal American threatening Tucker Carlson with bodily harm on social media, what would that tell you about their political allegiances and ideological inclinations? To me, it smacks of someone who is afraid of what Tucker is saying; otherwise, they wouldn't be threatening to silence him with force, unless they were simply a violent thug who reacts to everything with violence. Either way, not someone I would consider trustworthy enough to believe their stories of military conquest.So, he’s either a fake or a useful idiot based on his opinion of Tucker Carlson? That doesn’t seem like the most rational logic to me unless you have further proof.