Russia's War Against Ukraine

[Con]

this is the world we live in.

Could be worse - could have been an add for viagra

[Pete Dero]

I am sorry, but I have a reputation to maintain here along with grog tradition and decorum (pressure from Gus you know?), but if you have a loving partner and can see/touch her boobs once in a while... who cares about impending destruction of the planet in Nuclear Armageddon?

They didn't make the song "Dancing with a smile on my face'.

[SirAndrewD]

Stop....

Were gonna get into a loop of our youth....

[Gusington]

This is it boys. This is war.

Brought you by Viagra, Dominos and Putin.

[ArizonaTank]

This is it boys. This is war.

Brought you by Viagra, Dominos and Putin.

Channeling Major Kong.

"Well boys I reckon this is it. Nooclear combat toe to toe with the Rooskies"

[Pete Dero]

This is the sign of the times, piece of more to come  ::).

[JasonPratt]

Jeff Schogol at Task and Purpose, goes into some detail about why Putin will magnify his disaster if he really mobilizes 300K reservists:

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/russia-mobilization-reserve-ukraine-war/

This is purely focused on the condition of Russian reservists and their equipment right now (not on other problems like a catastrophic lack of logistics to support them). To say the least, they aren't bringing up guys who have been going through pre-elite paratroop assault training with multiple obstacle course grades and live jumps over the past ten years. ;)

[Con]

A small poignant and powerful piece on the aftermath at the personal level
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukraines-retaken-battlefields-soldiers-recover-070218952.html

[Anguille]

Makes me think of this:

Sacrifice of the youngs from two countries for nothing.

[Pete Dero]

This is purely focused on the condition of Russian reservists and their equipment right now

Russian soldiers don't need equipment.  You pick up the weapon from the guy who died in front of you.

I wonder what they have left as tanks.  The first army of 180.000 has had them destroyed or had to leave them behind.  How much can they hand out to the new army of 300.000 ?
If moral is low today wait until those new 'volunteers' show up.
Personally I think non of them will ever reach the front lines.


And as for drafting only those with military backgrounds :  some of those who spoke out in the protest yesterday against Putin's order have been ordered to go and die for his invasion.  Some of the protesters detained in Moscow have subsequently been given draft notices while in lock-up, according to the monitoring group OVD.info and Mediazona. The wife of one jailed protester told MediaZona that authorities filmed as they presented her husband with a draft notice and told him he had to take it "because he is a citizen of the Russian Federation and is obliged to appear tomorrow at the commissariat."

[JasonPratt]

So those drafted protestors had no military training background, even the minimal stuff mentioned in the article?

I ask because 'drafting protestors asap, mua ha ha' and 'calling up reservists with problematic levels of military training' are not mutually exclusive categories.

[FarAway Sooner]

This has been a bizarre series of "keep our kleptocrats in power" exercises that keep orbiting further and further away from reality.  At some point, the dissonance will be overwhelming, but at that point, it's unclear what will break.  It's pretty obvious that Putin will let the streets run red with the blood of his people before stepping back from his Imperial Dream.

My sense is that the whole Russian decision making apparatus has broken down in the last six months, and now Putin is just going grasping from straw to bloody straw.  At some point, the roof is going to cave in when he pulls one straw too many, but it's unclear what the human cost of that will be--in Russian, in Ukraine, and globally.

I feel like I'm watching a bizarre IRL sequel to the novelty PC game of a couple years ago, Stalin, Calm Down.

I wonder what Steam is doing with all the Russian development teams on their platform?  Happily collecting payments for their products and passing that problem along to the publishers, I assume...

[Windigo]

This is purely focused on the condition of Russian reservists and their equipment right now

Russian soldiers don't need equipment.  You pick up the weapon from the guy who died in front of you.

I wonder what they have left as tanks.  The first army of 180.000 has had them destroyed or had to leave them behind.  How much can they hand out to the new army of 300.000 ?
If moral is low today wait until those new 'volunteers' show up.
Personally I think non of them will ever reach the front lines.


And as for drafting only those with military backgrounds :  some of those who spoke out in the protest yesterday against Putin's order have been ordered to go and die for his invasion.  Some of the protesters detained in Moscow have subsequently been given draft notices while in lock-up, according to the monitoring group OVD.info and Mediazona. The wife of one jailed protester told MediaZona that authorities filmed as they presented her husband with a draft notice and told him he had to take it "because he is a citizen of the Russian Federation and is obliged to appear tomorrow at the commissariat."

Aren't they supposed to have some t-90s still kicking around?

[Crossroads]

Aren't they supposed to have some t-90s still kicking around?

At this rate the first T-55s will hit the frontlines in approximately three month's time.

[GDS_Starfury]

Ive already seen video evidence of mothballed T-62s being transported to staging areas.  L:-)