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  1. Interesting video on Russia's response to China claiming some Russian islands on China's new map.
  2. Speaking as a retired artillery officer....three other reasons to explain this: 1. They have insufficient radios and field phones to communicate with the battery command post. 2. The clearing in the trees is too small for proper dispersion of the guns. Knowing that drones are sweeping treelines for targets, the russians may have chanced putting these guns into a small clearing in the middle of a forest with a trail going into the clearing for the tow vehicles. 3. They lack fire control calculators/computers to calculate fire patterns like converge, linear, etc. The spacing looks about right for just doing a common bearing and range shoot to all guns and the spacing of the guns is about right for overlapping lethal burst patterns.
  3. Hey. I am a retired gunnery officer. I resent resemble that remark.
  4. Ah....is that a cracking sound I hear? It would be fantastic for a break in the russian defences to get things really rolling.
  5. Looks like Prig was set up and things are in motion now. Get the popcorn out, this could get good.
  6. That is pretty blatant. Putin has played the plausible deniability angle with people being poisoned or going out window. But maybe that is entirely the point. He wants everyone to know he ordered the dirty deed.
  7. Lots of possibilities to consider. A. the plane crash was an accident. Least likely possibility in my opinion. B. It is Prig doing a ninja vanish as he got word that being near a window as in his future, so it was time to bail and live a quiet life in Africa. Not likely but possible. Wouldn't put it past the slippery bastard. C. Payback by the Generals affected by the purge. Possible. Proof will be seeing what machinations occur in the internal politics of Russian D. It was the Ukrainians. Highly possible, IMO. E. Putin ordered the hit. A bomb or Russian AD bought the plane down. It will be reported as an accident. I am leaning between D & E, with E topping the list. Putin is hearing people mutter about him being weak and the failed moon landing, which could of buoyed up his standing, sunk that chance. He senses the knives bring drawn and was forced to act.
  8. Serious grain of salt. My understanding is the cluster ammo is 155 rounds. Could be wrong on that. And the Ukr have better things to target than poultry.
  9. The KA-52 compilation video could be just as it describes.... but we know RU loves exaggerating and misinformation. I give equal weight to those being recycled training range videos. And possible attacks on Ukr decoys. We know those are a thing and it would not be surprising to me that Ukraine is using decoys or mockups in some way against the helicopters.
  10. Wow. That is some non sequitur. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is an anti-colonial struggle. Wut?
  11. At this point, I don't think anyone has clear idea of what the hell is going on. Just keep the popcorn machine popping and stand by....
  12. Color me confused. Various factions of liars hammered out a deal to resolve this situation and everyone is taking whatever agreement as gospel. Color me sceptical now. How does anyone trust anyone to see this deal through?
  13. Don't read too much into the poll. Studies show that many participants in polls don't understand the questions at times or the subject matter of the poll for that matter. They answer anyway and usually to the negative, even if they have no idea what is being asked, rather than admitting they don't know. That is why so much effort goes into making poll questions understandable and why unscrupulous pollsters can stack the deck with how questions are worded. If you asked someone for a opinion on NATO and they never heard of it, people are going to say NATO bad rather than say they have no idea what NATO is. Really good pollsters try to vette their respondents, such as asking early in the poll interview if the respondent has some familiarity with the poll subject. No point including that person in the poll pool if they are clueless to the poll subject. You don't know the fidelity and methodology of the poll. Maybe the results are accurate. Maybe the fidelity is outright rubbish.
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