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    How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?

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    33 minutes ago, Battlefront.com said:

    CBC interview with Canadian volunteer recently back from the front:

     

    He mentions Wali a lot, so here is an interview with him (Google translated). It gives some perspective of the war from the point of view of a foreign volunteer, not all good.

    ""It's a war of machines", where the "extremely brave" Ukrainian soldiers suffer very heavy losses from shelling, but "miss many opportunities" to weaken the enemy because they lack knowledge technical military, he summarizes. “If the Ukrainians had the procedures we had in Afghanistan to communicate with the artillery, we could have caused carnage,” he believes."


    https://www-lapresse-ca.translate.goog/actualites/2022-05-06/retour-du-tireur-d-elite-wali/la-guerre-c-est-une-deception-terrible.php?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

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    How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?

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    It also seems like they aren't concerned with stopping the war completely. The translation of the email as shown in that thread:

    "We demand:
    - Release Alexey Navalny @navalny  and other political prisoners.
    - Withdraw forces of the 249th Separate Special Motorized Battalion "South" of the North Caucasus District of the Rosgvardia and SOBR "Akhmat" from the territory of Ukraine.
    - Removal of Ramzan #Kadyrov from participating in the command of the special military operation in Ukraine.
    - Refusal to announce general mobilization of Russian citizens to replenish the special operation forces.

    Russia will be free!"
    (END OF TRANSLATION)    "

    Assuming it is real, why would they want only those particular units withdrawn?

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    How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?

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    He also has a tweet about Starlink indicating he got it recently. I just saw another tweet where a Ukrainian commander thanks Musk for Starlink. Has Starlink now been distributed en masse to units? And how susceptible to Russian jamming will Starlink be (having read Ukrainian comments about the prevalence of jamming)?

     

     

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    How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?

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    39 minutes ago, The_Capt said:

    I know we are in early days here but this whole thing has a half-hearted feel to it.  I am left wondering why Russia is going through all this theatre when it can simply draw new lines on the ground, shift the goal-post and come up with whatever fabricated "victory" it wants, just like Putin did in Mariupol.   

    I read an opinion that people around Putin want the war to continue to give them time to cover their backsides after their failings.

    "Putin’s domestic political base consists of two rival power blocs: the intelligence apparatus and the military. Both have suffered major blows to their credibility during the war. However, as they continue to jockey for Putin’s favour, both also have a vested interest in prolonging the conflict in some form."

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/20/putin-ukraine-russia-humiliated-military-intelligence-war

     

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    How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?

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    14 minutes ago, c3k said:

    Someone, in this thread, posted a picture of a horde of "journalists" clustered around a cat and rabidly filming it, while they were in the midst of some destruction in a Ukrainian city. To them, the cat was more important than anything else in that situation.

    It's strange. Some people in this thread have decried press taking a picture of a cat as representative of vacuous MSM manipulation. But they don't seem to mind being manipulated by a picture of the press taking a picture of a cat. That picture was a snapshot, a moment in time. I highly doubt that people who have risked their lives to actually be there would spend their whole time photographing just a cat. How do you rabidly photograph anyway?

    But war is conducted by humans and it is human to be drawn to life and comforted by it among such tragic destruction. Maybe it even helps with morale.

    Here is another thread about a cat. By an adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. I suppose he should be doing more important things too than being compassionate to an innocent creature.

     

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    3 hours ago, Ultradave said:

    In the Chernobyl cleanup a LOT of topsoil was removed to remove the contamination as much as possible, at least put it all in one area. That would have been MUCH harder to do in the middle of a forested area and I don't know if that was even done or just set off as a higher level exclusion zone.

    Someone earlier had said the forest was replanted. This appears to be the case:

    "The forest hit hardest by the nuclear blasts was a pine plantation that stood directly in the path of the most deadly debris. Pines are extremely sensitive to radiation, and the trees turned rust-orange before they died; workers nicknamed the plantation the “Red Forest.” As part of the effort to contain the radioactive material, they bulldozed it, buried the trees in more than 5 million square yards of topsoil, and covered the area with more than a foot of sand. Then they replanted it with pines. As the new trees grew, radiation in the soil suppressed an enzyme that contributes to the classic single-stem conifer shape, resulting in an expanse of odd-looking, bushy dwarf pines."

    https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/08/chernobyl-fires/615067/

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    7 minutes ago, akd said:

    Okay, for sure then.  The closest apparent “hit” to the destroyed ship appears to be the Tochka booster coming down.

    Also, none of these explosions or their aftermath is seen in the video taken from the other side that shows the first small smoke plume from the ship.
    It's possible this video is from the Tochka attack that the Russians shot down a day or two ago.

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    How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?

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    18 minutes ago, DesertFox said:

    One theorie from the thread below:

    If Russian airlines are anything like Russian military; the higher-ups have been embezzling maintenance funds for decades & the cash flow has stopped for quick repairs.

     

    Four out of the five planes mentioned are leased planes from Boeing and Airbus, which very likely have stringent contracts for maintenance that would make embezzling much more difficult. Though Russia is perhaps considering allowing outside firms to maintain airliners, which would be a different matter, especially without ready access to spare parts.

     

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