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T54s versus leopard 2s. Who wrote this alternate history crap, or is this some crazy scenario from the cesspool?

Oh sure just like there is no Antifa leadership, I’ll betcha you are part of the deep state! funny thing, I was once a member of a group that the FBI blamed for a lot of stuff. There were people in the group who were responsible but they were acting independently. The general members of the organization blamed hadn’t a clue. Even the state with all its intel networks never really understood that. Just easier to label the whole.

If only the partisans could carry out a hit making it look like the shooting turf war had started.

Blow the god damn bridge. Make supply truly difficult. Not even the whole bridge, just that RR line.

So computers are getting smarter slower and humans are dumber faster?

I think it is more about lessons learned. Being able to judge people’s real motivations for example. When I was younger my father warned me of things like that. Being more idealistic I just wrote off his lack of trust to a more conservative outlook. It took some painful lessons to learn what he had already learned. if you look for example of the recent experience for BLM and how folks in leadership took advantage of the organization financially. It is for so many folks in that movement a bitter betrayal. That in turn leads to folks being more conservative in who they trust.

Putin continues to hunt for his enemies https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/world/europe/putin-prigozhin-russia.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleSharePutin Moves to Punish Prigozhin Allies

And I had hair.

It takes a younger generation indignant at the status quo with little materially to lose and little appreciation for the long term consequences to push for change. It takes the older generation to keep things in perspective that in fact change is a constant and progress even if slow does occur. Having been on both ends of that experience, I prefer being on the older end.

satire aside it does look deliberate and sadly a Ukrainian in the employ of the GRU may have provided the target. https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukraine-says-caught-sleeper-agent-153820369.html

I think you way low balled that estimate. Now if you’d said the 30% who CAN’T read believe anything they hear I’d have been with you.

Not able to access much at the moment (cause I am busy drinking and eating my way through Barcelona!j but how much could this position be used to leverage the RA out of any of its defensive positions? And no I don’t think the RA figured this all out as I don’t credit the RA with much of a strategic vision these days.

Well getting them back across the border is the goal right? After that it becomes an international issue where sanctions would hopefully determine what the Russian state in whatever form it exists then concedes to its new global position ie the dog that just doodied all over the floor and needs to sit outside for a while. (After getting its face shoved in the doody)

Probably the better option for Ukraine as well. Likely the first target of a Russian nuke would be Kiev frankly.

NYT article on Prig and their own perspective. Not sure if paywalled one area of interest is other bits of Prig’s financial empire that were being undermined specifically his catering business to the Russian army https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/27/world/europe/prigozhin-wagner-russia-putin.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

One more reason to declare Russia a terrorist state.

terrain up north is terrible. A second front there is an even worse waste of RAs limited resources.

what a difference a day makes. I can actually keep up with this thread today..

This was my favorite line " the strengthening of crime, primarily criminal ethnic groups from migrants" Umm your primary criminal ethnic group is your freakin gov't.

lol it is working, so damned devious!!

so I am struggling to understand what the Wagner troops got out of this. The revolt was partly about MoD forcing PMCs to sign contracts and what they got out of the deal is contracts. So they risked everything to get what they already had? This stinks worse than the pot the kids smoke these days.

perhaps. Maybe even Prig was shocked at how weak Moscow turned out to be. it is as believable as anything else right now.

I can't see this thing being staged. Not when your army is facing a counter offensive and is already on the ropes.. but then this is Russia. I have to stop trying to make this rational.

Somebody should dub this.

Ukraine needs to make hay with this to drive the wedge deeper. Humiliate Putin. Contrast Zelensky staying versus Putin running. Start a whole bunch of memes Who is faster Putin or Zelensky? Putin, Zelensky doesn't run.