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reported. It is Sunday so hopefully he's finished lunch before having to deal with this.

yeah unfortunately he survived the fall. Guess even Satan didn't want him

even God is messing with Russians. Putin's Top Priest Collapses During Russian Church Ceremony (msn.com)

I meant for them to just end their own lives. In thinking about it I still wish they would just end their own lives.

Too bad they don't follow the example of Heaven's gate or Jim Jones and just put themselves out of our misery.

I wouldn't necessarily say they are painful setbacks. A Russian advance is not a setback in the sense that it is expected. The issue is the cost of that advance and it's strategic or even operational relevance. This push by Russia has none of the above other than cost. While we'd all love Ukraine to be hammering the Russians and advancing that isn't the current strategic situation. Patience

yikes... Russian colonel who carried Putin's nuclear codes briefcase found shot (msn.com)

I think it was Steve that did a similar analysis of what kinds of opportunities for corruption exist at different levels of rank in the Russian Army. This pretty much aligns with that with the addition of a few good personal examples.

welll.. it is!

I can't believe anyone thinks after the fiasco of the past 120 days that Putin has a "long term" any plan. Trashing your army and letting your economy sink into the pit isn't a plan for anything except someone deciding to vacate your skull. Another 180 days of rolling t62s out of storage and watching all your precision weapons stocks, UAVs etc get increasingly scarce as Ukraine is rearming with NATO weapons... This isn't a plan. it maybe a hope, but only because it is his only option.

I think he was going the opposite direction. Instead maybe 2-2.5 WIA per KIA as the death rate is higher proportionally. I asked a similar question in that vein earlier as we had a hospital report on casevac and the number who had died amongst those actually evac'd. To that number we'd have to add those who died in the field. Sum of all that.. we have no idea.

Having just lost a ship to harpoons the Russians and showing their usual tactic. Get rid of UKR weapons by providing targets. stupid fkrs. Somebody high up must have just learned the chess move of sacrificing a pawn and now apply it to everything.

yeah just one more reason to divorce ourselves from Russia as much as possible. Pariah state

There are some other trends that will also influence this like increased urbanization and 3 D printing. Both are moving us towards a battlefield that is more small unit/infantry centric, will allow for some level of self sufficiency in certain capabilities- like printing small drones as needed and make ISR difficult for an attacking force. With the increased capability and lethality of anti-air and anti-armor the shift doesn't bode well for a world where resources like water are going to cause an increase in political stress and conflict.

note incoming artillery rounds were intercepted by the ground and successfully "destroyed".

what was that percentage of the number of deaths in that hospital list Haiduk posted and how does that compare to NATO expectations of survival rates for troops that have been casevac'd?

sad thing for Russia is they don't have enough forces available to even threaten Lithuania. So much for Imperial ambitions.

Lithuania enforces EU sanctions on goods to Russia’s Kaliningrad (msn.com)

depends on the source and even then it can be all over the map. I get a digest of headlines via MSN. A lot of them are Newsweek/Business Insider/ WSJ, Wash Post and NT Times.. The same grouping can in some articles say something very similar to what you posted and another set say the complete opposite. a lot of op ed pieces and those you can see the bias of the author and their consistency at either "the sky is falling Ukraine is gonna lose" or "Russia is collapsing". You can pretty much find a whole slew of articles to support your own viewpoint whatever it may be. It is like a buffet of headlines. Pick your favorites.

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WSJ saying that that Russian tug was hit be a Harpoon missile. Ukraine Uses Western Harpoon Missile System to Sink Russian Tugboat (msn.com)

training center dude... guess the new recruits just get handed a weapon and pointed west. Well maybe handed a weapon.

Hmm.. isn't that how Red Storm Rising started - a fire and destruction at a refinery... No! Not toilet paper! The shortages we experienced during the onset of Covid almost brought down western civilization!!

Kharkiv? WTF is the RU Army thinking? What possible reason makes sense for launching an attack there?

I'll wait till we see confirmation somewhere else