Aragorn2002

A stupid simple version is already completed, and I'm sure youll see it soon. It works great. 

New stuff for the Stalingrad Mod V-2

As there are no Barns used in the Stalingrad i've made them into a factory building.

Also i've adapted the Indie buildings to fir Stalingrad better.

The grain Silo is ok but the main office part needs to be about 12 -14 stories high?

A Soviet patrol near the western Railway.

Love this new indie factory office building.
 

Coming on Nicely, new buildings and uniforms edited...
 

Yeah, no way it was West.
I think this really really shows the disconnect in thinking between Russia and the West.
Putin is already saying this is existential war for Russia, he is already saying his objective is to destroy the West, and his people - whether random Russians or weirdos and traitors and useful idiots everwhere in the world - are already believing it. He is already doing everything in his power to do that too - from propaganda to interfering with elections to financing fascist parties to helping Hamas to working with Iran and China to assassinating people in other countries to attacking food to cause famine in Africa because refugee crisis empower Western Fascist to whatever else I have lost track.
Russia already escalated as high as they dared. If they could do worse, if they could do something more despicable, if they could do something more monstrous, they would have done it years ago.
I remember all these red lines - nuclear war if West gives Ukraine Javelins, nuclear war if West gives Ukraine tanks, nuclear war if West gives Ukraine planes, nuclear West gives Ukraine gets HIMARS, nuclear war if Ukraine attacks Russian warships, nuclear war if Ukraine fires missiles into Russia ... So really I think if West shot down Russian plane they would do nothing like every time before.
At the same time, the Western decision makers think (or behave as if they thought) that Russia is a country and not a mafia, and that they are not actually at (hybrid) war with us, and that they can be reasoned with and that keeping some kind of "civilized behavior" with Russia is something that makes sense. This is of course wrong - Russia only understands strength and considers humanity a weakness to be exploited - being civilized or nice only makes you hurt.
So no way it really was West - if West had balls to engage Russia directly, our current conversation topic on this forum would be "do you think the warlord Ivanov will also take south of Moscow?" and not "it's not good that Ukraine is losing ground and people because West decided to not supply them with enough ammo but what can you do, it could be worse".
...
Anyway, one thing I wanted to say: This actually is an existential war for Russia in a way. It is existential for Putin, sure, but as we came to understood during the war and as we discussed a few times, the common (but by no means only) mindset in common Russians is "things are ****, they used to get better and now they don't, but you know what, at least we are a badass empire". They might be even deluding themselves into thinking that things being bad is a voluntary sacrifice for that badass empire. Lot of people are willing to suffer a lot for being part of something they consider greater than themselves.
Being decisively shown that Russia is not in fact a cool badass empire they be proud of even if they don't themselves have indoor toilets might really break their worlds. Whatever comes out of that would not be Russia as we know it anymore. This is not existential war for Russia because they will end up in mass graves or enslaved if they lose (like it is for Ukrainians), but it is existential for the Russian imperial mindset.

Turkey is a good option in many ways, but but if I was UKR Gov I'd be very leery of its links and communications with Russia. Turkey has its own geopolitical priorities and maintaining comms and links with Russia is normal and sensible, but still, a little too close... 
 

Meanwhile, amid protests, military equipment moves freely to and from Ukraine as it constantly did from the start of the war. Despite various colliding interests, theatrics for camera, housewives histerias and propaganda of dependant media outlets no vital military shipment was blocked. Dogs bark, caravan goes forward.
MIG29's are apparently (still) going to Ukraine. Btw. there are constant appeals not to record movements of troops and military vehicles; somebody may have problems cause of this clip that is now widely shared in Rusnet. Several weeks ago we also had another wave of arrests of people who registered shipments and tried to install cameras on roads.

Every western armor maker should be patting themselves on the back for the fact that Ukrainian tankers want more of their stuff for the fact that their survivability increases. We sent 31 M1s to Ukraine, we should send the Marine Corps' M1s to Ukraine. Iraq got 120 M1s!  😭

So back to the war.  We all know and love the NYT but do we have any in-country reports on how the withdrawal from Adiivka really went?
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/us/politics/ukraine-prisoners-avdiivka-russia.html
 

https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-february-20-2024
ISW has not seen any indication of that. Besides the cenit position 

and his translated suicide note
 
 

Not out in the open, no. But there is enough proof that they made their choice, like joint naval drills with Russia or sending military equipment to Putin. I don't believe in Chinese 'neutrality'. Weakening the West is definitely to their advantage. But like before with Russia,  the masses still need to realize that China is just another ruthless and dangerous dictatorship and even more threatening. Not that the evidence is hard to find, but no one is as blind as he who doesn't want to see. Germany is still investing heavily in China, so they belong to that category. Same as Holland and most Western countries, I suspect. Long way to go.
 

Not out in the open, no. But there is enough proof that they made their choice, like joint naval drills with Russia or sending military equipment to Putin. I don't believe in Chinese 'neutrality'. Weakening the West is definitely to their advantage. But like before with Russia,  the masses still need to realize that China is just another ruthless and dangerous dictatorship and even more threatening. Not that the evidence is hard to find, but no one is as blind as he who doesn't want to see. Germany is still investing heavily in China, so they belong to that category. Same as Holland and most Western countries, I suspect. Long way to go.
 

Not out in the open, no. But there is enough proof that they made their choice, like joint naval drills with Russia or sending military equipment to Putin. I don't believe in Chinese 'neutrality'. Weakening the West is definitely to their advantage. But like before with Russia,  the masses still need to realize that China is just another ruthless and dangerous dictatorship and even more threatening. Not that the evidence is hard to find, but no one is as blind as he who doesn't want to see. Germany is still investing heavily in China, so they belong to that category. Same as Holland and most Western countries, I suspect. Long way to go.
 

Estonia on guard. 
 

Sleeping indeed. I'm convinced there's a sick 'master plan' behind all this, which was thought out in Moscow and Peking. We can expect a lot more 'conflicts' and 'incidents'. Cold War all over again.

Sleeping indeed. I'm convinced there's a sick 'master plan' behind all this, which was thought out in Moscow and Peking. We can expect a lot more 'conflicts' and 'incidents'. Cold War all over again.

Here's the Morris C9B SPAA. A slightly reworked version of my mod for CMFI.

While we wait the modding master to perhaps arise once again, I couldn't help myself.

So here's the first of a few mods of weathered vehicles for the Downfall module. Don't know how many I am going to make, but it certainly won't be all the new Downfall units.
Here's a Dropbox link for the Pershing - but it will only be temporary until the files have become available on https://www.thefewgoodmen.com/cm-mod-warehouse/



 

Sleeping indeed. I'm convinced there's a sick 'master plan' behind all this, which was thought out in Moscow and Peking. We can expect a lot more 'conflicts' and 'incidents'. Cold War all over again.

Sleeping indeed. I'm convinced there's a sick 'master plan' behind all this, which was thought out in Moscow and Peking. We can expect a lot more 'conflicts' and 'incidents'. Cold War all over again.

Sleeping indeed. I'm convinced there's a sick 'master plan' behind all this, which was thought out in Moscow and Peking. We can expect a lot more 'conflicts' and 'incidents'. Cold War all over again.

Bra jobbat Sverige! 🇸🇪

Please make it happen. 🙂
 
 
 

Another video appeared of russians executing 3 Ukrainian PoWs this time.
That makes 6 on Zenit and 5 filmed by drone in 2 days.

Looks like every one of our allies is shaming us.  Thanks Japan and thanks Germany for doing the right thing.