Russia's War Against Ukraine

[GDS_Starfury]

the results of last weeks Kerch port strike.   
russias losing a lot of ships to a country without a navy.   

[GDS_Starfury]

some really good cluster footage

https://twitter.com/i/status/1721624222047314060

[GDS_Starfury]

russian armor gets chewed up at night.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1721659524900123093

[Windigo]

both of those are now working the gaza tunnels.

Excellent. 

[JasonPratt]

Footage from Minority Report should be memed here.

[GDS_Starfury]

things are getting really busy down south and theres almost no reporting of it.

[GDS_Starfury]

https://twitter.com/i/status/1722905716724249021

[JasonPratt]

things are getting really busy down south and theres almost no reporting of it.

I'd like to think that lack was from a concern for op-sec. But there has been a big push in politics and diplomacy recently to insist that Ukraine's offensive has worse-than-failed and will never amount to anything so make peace already with your genocidal murderers OKAY?! A lot of moral-equivalence positioning as the justification for pressuring Ukraine (not Russia) to accept their rape and move on with their lives for as long as they might still have them. 

This is aside from any possibly legitimate concerns about strategic, operational, and (perhaps) tactical feasibility.

[JasonPratt]

Meanwhile, I guess legit!Putin (Legitlin?) is back in action? I've seen a couple of things presuming so, but haven't had the time or wherewithal to look into it farther.

[SirAndrewD]

things are getting really busy down south and theres almost no reporting of it.

I've seen a bit.  The Russians diverted an extra 40k troops to the meatgrinder in Adiivka and with that and their offensives in the north they've now gotten to the point where they have all their reserves committed. 

The general thought seems to be that if they can trade 5 to 1 or so casualties they can win through sheer exhaustion, especially as the West as indicated it might draw down aid commitments.  Their attacks aren't so much targeting anything strategically significant as they are just throwing troops at the Ukrainian defenses to achieve a body count.

That's left the Russians fairly thin in the areas where Ukraine still has initiative.  The crossing of the Dniper couldn't be countered by any of the forces that the Russians had shifted on the offensives to the center and north, so they've been having to pull heavily from the seemingly stable Robotyne salient.  The UAF is taking advantage and made a breakthrough north of Verbove and have gained a few kilometers to the east.  That's a lot of movement from when the UAF paused its operations in early September.   

[GDS_Starfury]

I dont know why the fact isnt being screamed that most of the military aid money going to Ukraine actually gets spent with American companies in America.  somewhere I saw a pie chart with 63%ish being spent here.  like the funding to ramp up arty production and build new factories.

[ArizonaTank]

I dont know why the fact isnt being screamed that most of the military aid money going to Ukraine actually gets spent with American companies in America.  somewhere I saw a pie chart with 63%ish being spent here.  like the funding to ramp up arty production and build new factories.

and as a bonus...since much of the work is sensitive, only US citizens can perform most of it. So no "off-shoring."

[GDS_Starfury]

https://twitter.com/i/status/1724893205819462125

[Crossroads]

It's been a while ...

https://twitter.com/MontayBayBay/status/1725159259015393449

[Crossroads]

Oh, there were wild boars, too. No one left behind 

https://twitter.com/MontayBayBay/status/1725273553820409923