Scooby Doo
Well-known member
The funny thing about this is that FO USA vs China is kinda accurate, that Russia was never a sever military threat to a power like the US.
Russian Invasion of Ukraine 2022
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Eight Lancet Loitering Munition Strike Montage!
Speaking of Lancets, reportedly Russia is short of qualified Lancet Drone Operators unlike Ukraine.
As for these Ukrainian Drone Operators, Continuing to Only Publish their best successess. In this case two Russian tanks were caught with their hatches open.
Russian Drone was Downed with another unique form of munition, this being a 76mm naval shell.
Speaking of Lancets, reportedly Russia is short of qualified Lancet Drone Operators unlike Ukraine.
As for these Ukrainian Drone Operators, Continuing to Only Publish their best successess. In this case two Russian tanks were caught with their hatches open.
Russian Drone was Downed with another unique form of munition, this being a 76mm naval shell.
Scooby Doo
Well-known member
Jeesh they send one Russian soldier to scout out the trenches (No one supporting him) and no one throws a grenade down the trench after their comrade is downed?
The Russian soldiers really do have bad leadership and equipment.
Edit: Props to the Ukranian soldier moving positions to not get pinned down.
There is two videos of that soldier. Another one has him using a version of a PKM, the PKT to also fight against Russians.
That man is duty bound to protect his country
UK Ministry of Defense Estimates Russian Casualties Almost One Year Into This War as Being around Forty to Sixty Thousand Dead and 175-200,000 total casualties.Artillery likely has caused a large portion of the casualties and the ratio of dead to wounded is so high due to rudimentary medical services offered to Russian forces.
BBC is able to corroborate the death of over 14,000 Russian military personnel based on open sources.
France to send Akeron Anti-Tank Missile Systems to Ukraine
Israel to donate $200 million to the development of Ukrainian Medical Infrastructure.
Foreign Workers Being Used to Build Trenches for Russian Forces in Southern Ukraine. Also reportedly not getting promised compensation either.
BBC is able to corroborate the death of over 14,000 Russian military personnel based on open sources.
France to send Akeron Anti-Tank Missile Systems to Ukraine
Israel to donate $200 million to the development of Ukrainian Medical Infrastructure.
Foreign Workers Being Used to Build Trenches for Russian Forces in Southern Ukraine. Also reportedly not getting promised compensation either.
In the wake of the UK MoD alledging that Russian KIA could be upwards of 40-60,000 it seems like a significant portion of those KIA were likely Wagner recruited prisoners. Russian NGO's estimating some Wagner penal forces suffered 80% casualties in a span of a few months time.
meduza.io
Scene Outside of a Mariupol State University successfully liberated of books apparently.
Ukrainian Paratroopers Apparently took out another Russian T-90M Tank, this time with a Javelin in the Donetsk Oblast. According to Oryx, Russia has lost eight T-90M or T-90S tanks destroyed, three captured, two abandoned and three damaged.
Russian BMP-1 Struck by Top-Attack style Anti-Tank Rocket Launcher Munition somewhere in the Donetsk Oblast.
Rare Sighting of a Literal One of a Kind Ukrainian BTR-60 Modernization, the BTR-60KhM Khorunzhiy APC.
Russia Behind Bars: Wagner Group’s losses 80 percent of 50K inmate-recruits — Meduza
Out of the 50,000 conscripts recruited by the Wagner Group among the convicts kept in Russian prisons, 40,000 are either dead or missing, and only 10,000 are still fighting in Ukraine, says Olga Romanova, the head of Russia Behind Bars, a charity advocating prisoners’ rights.
Scene Outside of a Mariupol State University successfully liberated of books apparently.
Ukrainian Paratroopers Apparently took out another Russian T-90M Tank, this time with a Javelin in the Donetsk Oblast. According to Oryx, Russia has lost eight T-90M or T-90S tanks destroyed, three captured, two abandoned and three damaged.
Russian BMP-1 Struck by Top-Attack style Anti-Tank Rocket Launcher Munition somewhere in the Donetsk Oblast.
Rare Sighting of a Literal One of a Kind Ukrainian BTR-60 Modernization, the BTR-60KhM Khorunzhiy APC.
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Tiamat
I've seen the future...
Erasing a cultural identity by dumping/destroying/burning books....where have we seen that before...?
bintananth
behind a desk
If those numbers are accurate they're worse than what the Union and Confederate doctors managed during the American Civil War.
For every battlefied death roughly three died of disease and six were listed as "wounded or missing" ... of whom about 80% of the wounded survived at a time when a doctor washing his hands and tools was the exception instead of the rule.
It's kinda sad that Russians have developed into being complete and utter sheep for their leaders. A lot of the conscripts are depressed and drinking vodka, complaining to their loved ones... and they're not doing anything else.
A few have basically either gone AWOL or outright fragged their CO's, but the majority are still doing what they're told, even when they know it's certain death.
They're fucking sheep.
One tiny, tiny part of me feels bad for them because most don't want to be there, and they're literally being fed into a grinder. I've heard the intercepted recordings between conscripts and loved ones back in Russia proper, and they just want to go home. They hate Putin. They hate the military. Yet they're still there, like lambs to the slaughter.
Then the rest of me remembers what a lot of these conscripts and soldiers have done. Their atrocities. Their looting. Their raping and pillaging like fucking savages. Women and children in mass graves. Children being abducted to be "Russianized" in some remote shithole, and basically "vanished" if they want to go home and not accepting (proverbial) "glorious Russian cock down throat".
They're acting exactly like the Nazis did, right down to burning books, erasing culture, and trying to "Germanify" Polish kids that had "Aryan blood" in them (blue eyes, blond/blonde hair, et cetera).
And whatever sympathy I had is squashed.
A few have basically either gone AWOL or outright fragged their CO's, but the majority are still doing what they're told, even when they know it's certain death.
They're fucking sheep.
One tiny, tiny part of me feels bad for them because most don't want to be there, and they're literally being fed into a grinder. I've heard the intercepted recordings between conscripts and loved ones back in Russia proper, and they just want to go home. They hate Putin. They hate the military. Yet they're still there, like lambs to the slaughter.
Then the rest of me remembers what a lot of these conscripts and soldiers have done. Their atrocities. Their looting. Their raping and pillaging like fucking savages. Women and children in mass graves. Children being abducted to be "Russianized" in some remote shithole, and basically "vanished" if they want to go home and not accepting (proverbial) "glorious Russian cock down throat".
They're acting exactly like the Nazis did, right down to burning books, erasing culture, and trying to "Germanify" Polish kids that had "Aryan blood" in them (blue eyes, blond/blonde hair, et cetera).
And whatever sympathy I had is squashed.
United Kingdom States It Will Supply Ukraine with Long Range Weapons and Train Ukrainian Pilots up to NATO Standards.
First Documented Loss of a Russian 2B26 Grad 122mm MRL, reportedly struck by an Excalibur artillery shell.
A slightly older model Dutch Military Truck, a DAF YA-328, found in Ukrainian Service.
Likely sighting of US Avenger Air Defense Systems on their way to Ukraine via Poland.
Michael Kofman offered some analysis on the ongoing Russian Winter Offensive and it's potential consequences in a short thread.
In brief Russia's offensives have cost a great deal of lives and material, including a likely depletion of artillery in the near future for little gain. Bakhmut maybe abandoned by Ukrainian forces but there's a secondary defensive line likely already established. The attacks by the VDV near Kreminna might compel the Ukrainians to not assault Kreminna from the Lyman direction in the future.
Due to Russian mobilization the manpower advantage Ukraine had has equalized more thus making Kharkiv style counteroffensives unlikely and more grinding Kherson style ones more of the norm if undertaken. He doubts the influx of Western Armored vehicles will give Ukraine more offensive power but used to backfill Ukrainian losses. Russia might wait on future offensives, likely in the Donbass, until the Summer.
First Documented Loss of a Russian 2B26 Grad 122mm MRL, reportedly struck by an Excalibur artillery shell.
A slightly older model Dutch Military Truck, a DAF YA-328, found in Ukrainian Service.
Likely sighting of US Avenger Air Defense Systems on their way to Ukraine via Poland.
Michael Kofman offered some analysis on the ongoing Russian Winter Offensive and it's potential consequences in a short thread.
In brief Russia's offensives have cost a great deal of lives and material, including a likely depletion of artillery in the near future for little gain. Bakhmut maybe abandoned by Ukrainian forces but there's a secondary defensive line likely already established. The attacks by the VDV near Kreminna might compel the Ukrainians to not assault Kreminna from the Lyman direction in the future.
Due to Russian mobilization the manpower advantage Ukraine had has equalized more thus making Kharkiv style counteroffensives unlikely and more grinding Kherson style ones more of the norm if undertaken. He doubts the influx of Western Armored vehicles will give Ukraine more offensive power but used to backfill Ukrainian losses. Russia might wait on future offensives, likely in the Donbass, until the Summer.
Following a Decree by Putin, Russia is unifying and digitizing its many databases across multiple government agencies so that future mobilizations will be performed far more smoothly since the previous mobilizations resulted in thousands of those technically ineligible for military service to end up serving as mobiks and thousands of others evading patriotic service in defending Russia.
President Biden Visiting Kyiv.
FPV Racing Drone Operator Attempting to Guide The Loitering Munition Into a Russian T-80BV Tank. Helps illustrate the difficulties of these homemade drone strikes even if they are potentially successful sometimes.
Russian Soldiers Using a Laser Designator To Guide Krasnopol Laser Guided Artillery Rounds.
Reportedly possible fissures in the Wagner PMC - Russian MoD Relationship at the moment. Wagner's Leader Prigozhin is on audio whining about how he has to beg the Russian MoD for ammunition and blames the Russian elites.
President Biden Visiting Kyiv.
FPV Racing Drone Operator Attempting to Guide The Loitering Munition Into a Russian T-80BV Tank. Helps illustrate the difficulties of these homemade drone strikes even if they are potentially successful sometimes.
Russian Soldiers Using a Laser Designator To Guide Krasnopol Laser Guided Artillery Rounds.
Reportedly possible fissures in the Wagner PMC - Russian MoD Relationship at the moment. Wagner's Leader Prigozhin is on audio whining about how he has to beg the Russian MoD for ammunition and blames the Russian elites.
Reports that the recent Political Controversy and Developments in Moldova could be used as an excuse for Russian forces to intervene militarily in Moldova. This comes in the wake of Putin cancelling a decree recognizing Moldova's sovereignty due to Moldova's "Anti-Russian agenda." The Moldovan Prime Minister and other senior government officials also voiced concerns of a potential Russian-backed coup starting last week.
foreignpolicy.com
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www.reuters.com
Moldova Accuses Russia of Coup Plot
Moldova says it’s confirming what Ukraine discovered. Russia says Moldova is distracting citizens.
foreignpolicy.com
Putin cancels decree underpinning Moldova's sovereignty in separatist conflict
President Vladimir Putin revoked on Tuesday a 2012 decree that in part underpinned Moldova's sovereignty in resolving the future of the Transdniestria region - a Moscow-backed separatist region which borders Ukraine and where Russia keeps troops.
www.reuters.com
Well, the alternative to flying planes into the hypothetically captured by saboteurs airfield over NATO is to fly them over Ukraine...
Which implies that Russians will either launch the most effective SEAD campaign in the war by far, and far from their airbases at that, or more VDV will end up in the Black Sea.
LordsFire
Internet Wizard
This is a very stupid game for Putin to be playing right now.
As long as the war is 'just' in Ukraine, a lot of people can convince themselves that the war is 'over there,' contained in some 'other place' that they don't have to worry about touching them.
Pushing it out to the far side of Ukraine is going to make a lot of people, especially in that part of Europe, get a hard wake-up call that no, this isn't about Ukraine 'really being part of Russia' or some BS like that. It's flat expansionism.
It also would create a new wave of public awareness about the war, making it the new big thing in the news all over again, and that's the last thing the Russians need.
As long as the war is 'just' in Ukraine, a lot of people can convince themselves that the war is 'over there,' contained in some 'other place' that they don't have to worry about touching them.
Pushing it out to the far side of Ukraine is going to make a lot of people, especially in that part of Europe, get a hard wake-up call that no, this isn't about Ukraine 'really being part of Russia' or some BS like that. It's flat expansionism.
It also would create a new wave of public awareness about the war, making it the new big thing in the news all over again, and that's the last thing the Russians need.
King Arts
Well-known member
Umm what? Is this guy under a rock Belarus is already friendly with russia
Tiamat
I've seen the future...
That’s not enough. Russia wants Belarus reintegrated with Russia.
EDIT: If Russia takes control of Belarus that allows it to exploit the potential Suwalki Gap utilizing its holdout in Kaliningrad. Poland could find a chunk of its own northeast territory cut off along with the Baltic States if thr proverbial balloon goes up.
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Carrot of Truth
War is Peace
Pretty sure Russia wanting to reclaim the old Soviet borders has been something of an open secret for awhile now.
Tiamat
I've seen the future...
Oh, without a doubt. Current events have just shined a bigger light on this now and framed it in perspective.