LukeFF
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11 hours ago, Huba said:
And a step back:
No, not really - all he was/is asking for is some proper oversight into how this money is going to be spent. Without going off into tangents, the U.S. has been spending a lot of money recently on weapons for Ukraine (while ignoring some other critical, domestic issues), so it's only rational that someone with some sense stood up and said, hold on, where exactly is this money going?
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8 hours ago, chuckdyke said:
Your sense of logic is beyond comprehension. Terror bombing and atrocities by ground forces prolong a war. The subjective motivation to be merciless is counterproductive. It is once again demonstrated by the defense of the steel works don't expect humane treatment from putin if you have the silly idea to surrender. The behaviour of Soviet forces reinforced the German will to resist and therefore prolonged the war as did the bombing of German cities. The argument I can do it because you can do it is refuted numerous times. The idea of taking away the will to fight is a lot more sophisticated than trying to mimic Ivan the Terrible.
And on this I fully agree.
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8 hours ago, panzermartin said:
But nobody will object that they had every right to do this in german territory as retaliation .
ROFL, no, no one has the right to rape and pillage as retaliation. That's the same sort of effed up logic we are seeing the Russians use right now in Ukraine.
C'mon, get your head on straight.
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On 5/6/2022 at 4:57 PM, panzermartin said:
I swear if I ever read again that the Red army was equally evil with the SS and the Wehrmacht that made my father starve as a kid and his friends getting killed while painting slogans on walls, I'm going to delete my account here. There was nothing evil with the T 34s rolling down the streets of Berlin in 1945....Their crew could have been Ukrainian, Polish, Czech... Too bad I once had fun making mods for CMBB. Some had crosses, some had red stars, noone was actually offended.
It's still a WW2 monument, not a stazi agent bust.
Yep - they raped and pillaged the more and more as they moved westward into German territory.
Sorry if that offends your sensibilities, but the Red Army of 1945 was hardly an army of saints on white horses spreading freedom and justice wherever it went.
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3 minutes ago, Cederic said:
No. That is a disgrace.
I've been to that war memorial - back when it was in East Berlin, and since reunification. I've also lived by a German war cemetery on the Siegfried Line, seen countless British war cemeteries, visited Verdun and seen war memorials from all sides from literally dozens of wars on several continents.
Do not ****ing disrespect war memorials.
Pfft, whatever. It's a monument to one of the most genocidal regimes the world has seen. The sooner it's torn down the better.
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2 hours ago, Combatintman said:
Points to note - consistent with what the likes of me, @LukeFFand other veterans have been saying for a while on the long list of buddy aid threads, the extraction attempt was epic, no weapons or ammunition were harvested and nobody tried to give buddy aid from the prone position.
Yes, this is a textbook example of how casualties are to be treated and evacuated under fire - drag the casualty out of the danger zone and provide as much cover as possible, through the form of covering fire, smoke grenades, etc. Videos like this show that this unit isn't your typical group of cannon fodder shoved into the line with insufficient training - it's pretty much the same way a US military unit would perform a battlefield evacuation.
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1 hour ago, DesertFox said:
More of the good stuff and I hope a very good supply of Excalibur too.
Right down the road from me.
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9 hours ago, Haiduk said:
Ohio and West Virginia too
https://en.defence-ua.com/industries/west_virginia_and_ohio_provide_m113_apcs_in_military_aid_to_ukraine-2666.html
I heard about 200 M113 only from West Virginia.
This is no problems with M113 more, than HMMWV M998 and Saxons AT-105. Our technical specialits create miracles )
The combined arms battalion I was in from 2007-08 in the California Army National Guard had M113s, but I don't know if they still have them. But yes, in general, the Army National Guard has a lot of really old equipment. Our trucks were from the late 70s/early 80s.
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5 hours ago, The_Capt said:
And that would be why we built this little chapel in the middle of all this, to try and navigate as true as course as we can. So far I gotta say our record is not bad...once we got past the whole Ukrainian Bio Black Sites/the CIA can hear me through my fillings, unpleasantness.
Sweet Moon of Alabama -
What does this have to do with the CM games?
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Have you read the manual?
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Apologies if it's already been posted here (haven't had the chance to read all the new posts yet), but this a very good analysis about what happened to the Moskva. Basically, it came down to gross negligence and nothing to do with the drone distracting the ship's crew:
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1 hour ago, The_Capt said:
This got me to remembering. Recall back in the good old days when the pro-Russian crowd called this all propaganda? Sigh, I wish they were right. They are all pretty much gone now, not sure if we will see them again.
I will miss the accusations of being pro-US and short changing the Russians/Soviets. The arguments about crappy T-72 spotting…harkens to a kinder gentler time…January.
I had a look at some of the last posts of members like @Sgt.Squarehead the other day - hoo boy, those didn't age well at all.
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2 hours ago, Battlefront.com said:
I'd bet you everything I own that they did not. In fact, there were reports BEFORE the war that they were having difficulties sourcing chips just like everybody else.
Steve
That's a really good point - if major industrial corporations (say, auto manufacturers) had/have a hard time sourcing chips, then Russia is no exception. I know the company I used to work for that I referenced above can't build chips fast enough for their customers.
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2 hours ago, sburke said:
Putin gave his troops 3 days worth of supply. Why would he even have considered stockpiling chips? And which chips? They aren't universal. I really wish folks would stop bandying around this expression as if they are a plug and play component that can be used in anything. It hurts my brain.
As someone who worked for 3-plus years for a major semiconductor manufacturer and is friends with an engineer who's worked for said company for 20-plus years, I wholly concur.
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13 minutes ago, billbindc said:
Imaginative tactics, morale and aggression are going a long, long way in this war.
Yes, I like to call it the old "hey, look over here!" trick.
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@Battlefront.com, I wouldn't spend too much of your time debating Erwin. It's like talking to a wall.
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5 hours ago, Haiduk said:
Man, Reddit moves fast:
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I'd love for this topic to be about the war and not a coffee house academic discussion about the differences between the political Left and Right.
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7 minutes ago, sburke said:
Every time I think I am getting a bit hardened to the reality of how brutal this war is I see something else that just leaves me gaping.
It just kills me seeing stuff like this. My son is but a year older than her.
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2 hours ago, danfrodo said:
Hey all, I might get in trouble for this but I'm gonna do it anyway.
While we are all very concerned about the deaths in UKR it's also important to remember the other slaughter that's been going on for two years. Another covid wave, very contagious, is on the way. I know this crowd skews a bit older so lots of folks here are more at risk.
If you aint vaxxed, get vaxxed. If you aint boosted, get boosted. Only 50% of americans are boosted, though 75% are vaxxed. Immune system resistance wanes over time, particularly w Pfizer (moderna better in this respect). At Omicron peak we were losing ~2500 americans a day (~4000 per day at the pre-vaccine covid peak last year). That nearly all those omicron deaths were PREVENTABLE is a tragedy. And that tragedy is driven by propaganda, much of it spawned from Russia and percolated thru facebook. So if you want to give a big FU to Putin, get your shots!
I don't want to lose any of you excellent Combat Mission aficionados.
Hong Kong has a huge percentage of old people who refuse to get vaxxed, it's gonna be a bloodbath.
Thanks, I will take my vacation now.
Just stay out of the topic if you're going to post something like that here.
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1 hour ago, John Kettler said:
Holien,
Definitely don't appreciate that label, and as my post should've made abundantly clear, am absolutely no fan of Putin. It's readily demonstrable that both warring sides are lying, making determining the truth that much more difficult. Ukraine has been several times caught now using ARMA video to depict Russian air attacks, and Russia has made up all sorts of stuff, repurposed video, etc. In checking to see what I could turn up pro or con on some of the issues raised by you, I found this, which cites a range of sources, some unambiguously Left (The Nation), that paints quite the picture of things not being at all like what we've been told. Among sources quoted are The Economist, Deutsche Welle, and Al Jazeera. One bombshell in this article is that the CIA had training teams working with Ukrainian Far Rght forces, including Azov, starting in 2015, for ops against the Separatists. The article talks about warnings given (posted to Telegram) of provocations (aka false flags) that would be done by Azov in Mariupol. It also talks about the lack of evidence, as described in The Economist, ref the bombing of the Mariupol Theater and notes reports to the Russians from fleeing refugees that Azov blew it up. A few days ago, there was at least one report by Ukrainian villagers that a Ukrainian tank rolled in and shot up their village, much to the consternation of the locals. I don't have specifics yet on this, but I now find myself wondering whether this might've been Azov at work. Believe this article will give you and others here much to think about as to what's really going on, who's involved and why. But my basic test is this: Who benefits and how? The below article is more than enough to convince me we're not even close to having the full story. And I would like to point out that before the invasion there was a ton of press coverage of Nazis in Ukraine, a topic that vanished as soon as Russia invaded, yet it is precisely one of Putin's stated objectives to de-Nazify Ukraine, which assuredly must mean that part of that declared mission has to consist of wiping out Azoz and other Far Right paramilitaries. From what I've seen to date, Azov seems to be doing quite well.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/03/neo-nazis-in-ukraine-fake-incidents-to-gain-more-western-support.html?cid=6a00d8341c640e53ef0278807100f1200d
Regards,
John KettlerJohn, just stop it already. You've more than earned the right to be called out on your citing of dubious sources that are full of BS. If you don't appreciate the label, then slow down, step away from the keyboard, and CRITICALLY THINK about the information being presented.
And, you want to know why you can't be taken seriously? Let's take a look at that page you just linked to, called "Moon of Alabama." At the top of the page it says it's the recipient of the "Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism." Okay, so what's this all about? Hmm...
...oh yeah, look another dubious news source:
It looks like this illustrious Serena Shim Award is given to pro-Assad content creators and was created by a pro-Assad group in 2019. You do know about Assad, right? Surely you know about what he's done through the years, Mr. Threat Analyst?
But hey, don't take my word for it - Bellingcat wrote a whole article about this dubious group:
QuoteWhile obscure, and not to be confused with the “AIPAC” that supports the state of Israel, the association behind this latest journalism award made headlines for their generosity just last year, when former Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich disclosed that he’d been paid $20,000 to speak at a 2017 pro-Assad conference in the United Kingdom. Kucinich was running for governor at the time of the admission, which helped cost him the race.
QuoteThe award, and the money that comes with it, was also given to several websites and blogs that routinely promote pro-Assad conspiracy theories, including Information Clearing House — an anti-Semitic website that has published columns arguing mass shootings are “false flag” attacks; Moon of Alabama, which maintains that the Zika virus was framed for birth defects actually caused by pesticides; Black Agenda Report, which argues the revolution in Sudan was a regime-change operation; and SouthFront — in a video, the site says the Serena Shim Award will aid its “struggle against the neoliberal globalist dystopia” (CORRECTION: Paul Antonopoulos was previously incorrectly identified as the founder of SouthFront in this piece — he is, in fact, the managing editor of Fort Russ News. Bellingcat apologizes for this error).
John, John, John, once again you've shown that the websites you quote from frankly suck.
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27 minutes ago, John Kettler said:
Believe I have two significant developments to report.
Nope, no - all of this was reported long ago.
How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
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Sure, but like @purpheart23 was pointing out, all I'd like to see is some oversight as well about where this money is going (as with any spending bill that comes up before Congress). It doesn't really matter to me in the long run if it was a conservative, liberal, or a senator of any other political stripe making the point. Politicians are going to be politicians and thus will always grandstand to one extent or the other, but it doesn't necessarily mean that the point they are making is a bad one.