Russia's War Against Ukraine

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GDS_Starfury

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Banzai Cat - There is no "partial credit" in grammar. Like anal sex. It's either in, or it's not.

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GDS_Starfury

Toonces - Don't ask me, I just close my eyes and take it.

Gus - I use sweatpants with flannel shorts to soak up my crotch sweat.

Banzai Cat - There is no "partial credit" in grammar. Like anal sex. It's either in, or it's not.

Mirth - We learned long ago that they key isn't to outrun Star, it's to outrun Gus.

Martok - I don't know if it's possible to have an "anti-boner"...but I now have one.

Gus - Celery is vile and has no reason to exist. Like underwear on Star.


Gusington

Point blank artillery impact?  :shocked:


слава Україна!

We can't live under the threat of a c*nt because he's threatening nuclear Armageddon.

-JudgeDredd

GDS_Starfury

Toonces - Don't ask me, I just close my eyes and take it.

Gus - I use sweatpants with flannel shorts to soak up my crotch sweat.

Banzai Cat - There is no "partial credit" in grammar. Like anal sex. It's either in, or it's not.

Mirth - We learned long ago that they key isn't to outrun Star, it's to outrun Gus.

Martok - I don't know if it's possible to have an "anti-boner"...but I now have one.

Gus - Celery is vile and has no reason to exist. Like underwear on Star.


Gusington

^Anyone else see a Punisher-like skull in that image, with its right eye bashed in?


слава Україна!

We can't live under the threat of a c*nt because he's threatening nuclear Armageddon.

-JudgeDredd

JasonPratt

Quote from: Gusington on March 25, 2023, 05:03:06 PM^Anyone else see a Punisher-like skull in that image, with its right eye bashed in?

I was just about to nominate a few extra style decimals for that!
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JasonPratt

Meanwhile it is 26 hours after Star made his "escort" joke and I feel both relief and also disappointment at the lack of inventive replies...
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JasonPratt

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Quote from: Gusington on March 24, 2023, 06:45:20 PMPoint blank artillery impact?  :shocked:

Speaking of, this video may be taken down, not sure, but when I first saw it, it seemed to show a 30 to 50 yard proximity to a Russian base reaaallly forward observing at HIMARS-local-time. Correction, I hope: it just requires a Reddit account.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/121v8nb/himars_strike_on_russian_command_positions_%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%B2/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Site is supposed to be Svatove.
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JasonPratt

Did someone want to know where the T-90s are?

This was from a couple of days ago, but half of the remaining Russian T-90s are with the Wagner group rolling up to Bakhmut.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/120yc2d/wagner_t90ms_near_bakhmut_23032023/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

By 'half' I mean 'five' (though you'd be forgiven for thinking I meant 'four' -- the last one is almost off frame at some distance back on the road.)

And by 'half' I mean 'one third'...  :evil:
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JasonPratt

Lenin and Trotsky especially will be glad to know that blocking squads are still.... man I can't even make a joke about it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/121j88d/they_are_dumped_into_the_trenches_like_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Those are some hard shellshocked thousand-yard stares.
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GDS_Starfury

Quote from: JasonPratt on March 25, 2023, 10:27:43 PMMeanwhile it is 26 hours after Star made his "escort" joke and I feel both relief and also disappointment at the lack of inventive replies...

where was the joke?
Toonces - Don't ask me, I just close my eyes and take it.

Gus - I use sweatpants with flannel shorts to soak up my crotch sweat.

Banzai Cat - There is no "partial credit" in grammar. Like anal sex. It's either in, or it's not.

Mirth - We learned long ago that they key isn't to outrun Star, it's to outrun Gus.

Martok - I don't know if it's possible to have an "anti-boner"...but I now have one.

Gus - Celery is vile and has no reason to exist. Like underwear on Star.


FarAway Sooner

We've been hearing this "They're ruining their best formations" chatter out of Western analysts for a while, but this is the first time I'm hearing it from a pro-Russian commentator who seems to have some real bona fides.  It's a little unclear to me if he's a former or current Russian general.

https://www.newsweek.com/russias-forces-making-no-progress-key-offensive-former-commander-1790354

At first I was thinking that Russia's apparent lack of control of the Russian information sphere was a bug in Putin's program and even a sign of weakness.  But, as I study it more closely, I'm coming to believe that it's a feature. 

Russian commentators are allowed to be critical of individual generals and military decisions, but I'm not aware that any internal Russian commentators are allowed to be critical of the war's purpose or of Putin himself.  That consistency suggests that the Russians do have control of the information space, as they've not been afraid to lie blatantly on certain other topics (e.g., Ukrainian atrocities). 

It also speaks to Putin's calculations that he can't risk any particular military figure or group becoming powerful enough to challenge him.  Even if that limits his military's effectiveness in the short term.

Putin's clearly settled in for the long game now, hoping that NATO will tire of supporting Ukraine and/or the Ukrainian people will grow tired of being bombed. 

GDS_Starfury

Im pretty comfortable about where the Wests head is at with the Ukraine.
Toonces - Don't ask me, I just close my eyes and take it.

Gus - I use sweatpants with flannel shorts to soak up my crotch sweat.

Banzai Cat - There is no "partial credit" in grammar. Like anal sex. It's either in, or it's not.

Mirth - We learned long ago that they key isn't to outrun Star, it's to outrun Gus.

Martok - I don't know if it's possible to have an "anti-boner"...but I now have one.

Gus - Celery is vile and has no reason to exist. Like underwear on Star.


JasonPratt

Bill Whittle just got finished researching, producing, and filming a new documentary on what Lenin and his crew did to Russia with Stalin after him and so on down to the 90s, and upon returning from filming it he gave a bit of interesting un-trivial trivia about Putin's grandfather with whom Putin lived for the first 13 years of his life.

Putin's grandfather was the private cook for Lenin for three or four years, and then Stalin's private cook for 20 years; so he got to be absolutely immersed in the insular propaganda of the Soviet Union from its development out of post-medieval peasantry to a nuclear superpower (all thanks to true Communism, per the propaganda).

Those are the glorious stories Putin heard about in his formative years all the time, about people who regarded a million deaths (or any at all) as a statistic to bring about the glory of themselves, cough, Russia. And while they didn't succeed in taking over Germany on the way to taking over Europe and then the world, they did get to keep the personal power they craved.
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JasonPratt

Quote from: GDS_Starfury on March 26, 2023, 02:16:02 AM
Quote from: JasonPratt on March 25, 2023, 10:27:43 PMMeanwhile it is 26 hours after Star made his "escort" joke and I feel both relief and also disappointment at the lack of inventive replies...

where was the joke?

More of an amusing observation.
ICEBREAKER THESIS CHRONOLOGY! -- Victor Suvorov's Stalin Grand Strategy theory, in lots and lots of chronological order...
Dawn of Armageddon -- narrative AAR for Dawn of War: Soulstorm: Ultimate Apocalypse
Survive Harder! -- Two season narrative AAR, an Amazon Blood Bowl career.
PanzOrc Corpz Generals -- Fantasy Wars narrative AAR, half a combined campaign.
Khazâd du-bekâr! -- narrative dwarf AAR for LotR BfME2 RotWK campaign.
RobO Q Campaign Generator -- archived classic CMBB/CMAK tool!