kraze
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Will they start killing each other already ffs
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23 minutes ago, Grigb said:
My argument is that nothing so far indicates any kind of violent strugle, which would be expected if the RU MOD feels really threatened. When RU MOD defends its turf, many people die.
On the other side, what we see is pathetic and pitiful. It's actually rather hillarious (like the chat with Evkurov and Alekseyv). Tough guy (zek) would not argue over Evkurov's allegedly irreconcilable tone (that is not true, Evkurov, like other Highlanders, speaks very quietly and nicely in RU when in an unknown setting).
Everything appears to be identical to the VGCHP coup (which was not a true coup) - practically identical rhetoric to save the Motherland, same minimal violence approach, same pathetic and pitiful performance of those involved.
I agree with you here. This is Russia. Without spilling a lot of blood nothing ever moves there.
And note that even GKCHP coup was way more violent than this, with tanks firing on parliament.
Here it looks like a show of force, flexing - "see, I have muscle - so give me stuff".
After all if Prigozhin is willing to negotiate - that's not really a coup isn't it.
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1 hour ago, kevinkin said:
Anti-Kremlin tycoon urges Russians to back Wagner boss
Anti-Kremlin figure Mikhail Khodorkovsky has urged Russians to support Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin who, as we've been reporting, has vowed to bring down Moscow's military leadership.Khodorkovsky, who was once Russia’s richest oligarch, said: "We need to help now, and then, if necessary, we will fight this one, too."
After falling out with Vladimir Putin, he spent 10 years in a Russian prison and recently called for tougher sanctions against the Russian president.
Khodorkovsky said it was important to back "even the devil" if he decided to take on the Kremlin.
Does this guy live in Russia? 10 years in jail, love to meet his accountants.
Well at least all these "good" russians start dropping all pretenses and openly support murderers, looters and rapists either side.
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Here's hoping they start shooting each other and this whole show won't just evaporate through talks.
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14 minutes ago, kimbosbread said:
Given the existing comms between Wagner and Ukraine for prisoner exchange, maybe we made a deal with Prigogine? He seems much less nutty than everybody else on the other side.
I hope not.
Because he is just as insane and barbaric and he is unhappy only because Ukraine still exists.
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I wouldn't believe a single word Prigozhin says. Especially now that he's "retconning" the missile strikes, it's arty and choppers now.
But I'm somewhat interested what this show really is about.
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1 hour ago, Kinophile said:
Javelin is a spear
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30 minutes ago, DesertFox said:
"No Russian Soldiers want to be in Ukraine"
does he or anyone really believe that at this point? Pretty sure if someone doesn't want to be somewhere and he's also armed with really really big guns - he will be elsewhere.
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3 hours ago, Fenris said:
Here's an example of this kind of RU material. This story was doing the rounds yesterday and piqued my interest. Very quickly picked up and telegraphed by all the usual channels as well as translated into many other languages. All of them included most of the important bits from this piece verbatim. I particularly liked the NATO deadline bit.
That Will guy has a tweet about Bush did 9/11, not quite sure if his target audience will somehow get any different world view than they already have.
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41 minutes ago, Centurian52 said:
As far as I know ATACMS is only slightly more capable than Storm Shadow (300km range vs 250km range). Storm Shadow is definitely good enough from a capability standpoint. But the key difference between ATACMS and Storm Shadow is that the US has thousands of ATACMS missiles, while the UK only had ~800 Storm Shadow missiles. ATACMS would, I think, eliminate any questions around the sustainability of Ukrainian long range strikes, and perhaps even allow them to increase the intensity of those strikes.
ATACMS is a ballistic missile. Which means it ain't getting shot down by russians. Granted they have trouble with shooting down Storm Shadows as well, seeing as how various colonels, and now a general, spontaneously combust in a myriad of HQs
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5 minutes ago, Der Zeitgeist said:
One thing I never understood:
Why do they even use VR-like goggles for the FPV drones? Wouldn't it be cheaper to just have the drone camera view on a smartphone or tablet screen?
Phone/tablet screens are to small. Awareness and feeling where you are (as a drone) is much better when it's full view. Hence why such an insane precision with them. Furthermore if it's two cameras - that's a 3D image which allows you discern details even better.
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1 minute ago, riptides said:
Well.... a negotiated cease fire on Ukraine's terms is welcome.
the problem here is that there's nobody to negotiate with, no matter the terms. There are no russians that want anything else other than Ukraine gone and our people to not exist anymore.
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4 minutes ago, TheVulture said:
So I expect we are can look forward to all the "totally not pro-Russian" mouthpieces in the western media to start up the line of "Russia is willing to have a cease fire and negotiate. Why are we supporting Ukrainian warmongers who want to keep the war going rather than have peace?"
I wonder how long it will take for similar sounding comments to start turning up all over the Web.
Been there en masse since day 1 of full scale invasion, even earlier than that in not so large quantities.
Demands for Ukraine to cease resisting and get genocided were voiced by everyone from Hungary to Red Cross. -
1 hour ago, Battlefront.com said:
Well, that's what I get for giving a mass murdering fascist leader some benefit of the doubt!
That said, the video really posted out of context with current events. So not deep fake, just another in massively long list of confused/deceptive postings.
Steve
granted for the past year especially those putin's words bear all too literal context now.
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24 minutes ago, Battlefront.com said:
Be VERY alert to Deep Fakes. We've already seen a recent mass use of a Putin Deep Fake, so my money is this is another one. They are going to be increasingly common.
Steve
That's not a deep fake, that's Putin's comments during invasion of Crimea in early March of 2014
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13 minutes ago, FancyCat said:
tbf to the UN, the P5 are supposed to be guarantors of things like UN mandated humanitarian and military actions, as Russia is a member of the P5, well….paralysis is the name of the game for Russia.
Not to be fair to the UN - they themselves automatically decided Russia = USSR (which it is and is even more damning to the UN) back in 1991 and gave russians all the same powers and the seat USSR absolutely abused. Because what could possibly go wrong? I guess since Russia now had democratic McDonald's in Moscow and only bombed Moldova right away it was OK.
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42 minutes ago, Anon052 said:
The silence of UN and ICRC is damning. No international help from NGOs at the moment.
Ugh, people go to work at UN not to resolve some world problems, it's an international VIP club, where you just chill at the bar all day talking to people from all over the world. There has not been any major war since 60s and no wars of genocide since 40s, that's like 3 generations of UN deputies away. What else is there to do all day for the past so many years?
After so much time of just being a poster organization people who work at UN have zero clue about responsibility and are not competent in resolving major conflicts, they are there to look good and talk good - and I'm not joking here sadly. -
Meanwhile russians are shelling evacuation spots in Kherson, while some people are arguing that Russia didn't do it.
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Wonder which large caliber Ukrainian sniper rifle is it?
looks like .50 cal to me
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2 minutes ago, billbindc said:
As noted, a European agency with one source they couldn't corroborate told the CIA a plan existed but wouldn't allow the story to be checked.
<psst! Have you seen the American plans to invade Canada yet?>
I did that in HoI4. It's doable. They probably stole my savegame.
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1 hour ago, panzermartin said:
Don't know if he is in russian payroll as many claim, but each of his points are sound. Especially these ones:
1.The russian fortified left bank is more affected. Minefields are gone, trenches are gone, fortifications are gone... Why they would blow a dam *after* they have fortified those positions and flood them with water? They must have already killed some of their troops.
2. Once the water dries out( and the hot summer is ideal for that) Ukraine will have much better chances to reach and reinforce breakthroughs to the south.
3.Ukraine has targeted the dam before with high precision weapons like HIMARS.
I'm sorry, also the Nord Stream latest reveals contradicts the belief the Russians did that in the first place.
So, I'm being more than skeptical now...
Yes because Ukraine is so evil it would just drown its own people and deny itself the ability to easily liberate south of Kherson area. Because it carefully targeted a bridge (and never a dam itself) with high precision HIMARS as not to cause any damage to the dam itself previously.
Now why would russians, who themselves openly threatened to blow up the dam if Ukraine tries to cross way back in October 2022 and stated time and again that they mined it - do it? Nah, russians certainly care about poor people on occupied territories, not like that "Kyiv regime". And especially they care about their own soldiers as evidenced by 200k+ losses in a war of genocide.
So poor russian soldiers, who fully controlled the dam, with tears in the eyes watched as evil Ukrainian saboteurs planted tons of explosives under the dam because it's the only way to destroy it as the thing is made to... you know... withstand thousands of tons of water pressure and that's why it can't be destroyed by any goddamn arty.
I feel you man. Guilty as charged.
Now let's talk about elite Ukrainian divers opening a portal to northern seas to blow up a pipe. -
13 minutes ago, TheVulture said:
Lets be honest - the Russian's would cheerfully do this to any actual Russians inside Russia too (except maybe in Moscow).
And indeed they are. They are shelling their own territories using rocket arty and dropping bombs from planes in Belgorod oblast like it's nothing. Heck russian soldiers are looting russian shops and apartments there. What a twist.
It's just back to the question of what "russian" is. It's neither ethnicity nor nationality. Because Russia is an old empire, meaning it did a lot of ethnicity mixing over centuries like empires do to delete identities - there's no dominant ethnicity or nationality they would consider their own. So, of course, people from freshly occupied territories are even less human beings to them then people that were always part of the empire.
Hence their brutality towards their "own" Novaya Tavolzhanka and Shebekino. And if need be they would level Moscow too, don't have any doubt about that. In fact they already did that once in history. -
3 hours ago, panzermartin said:
Oh my, they are all leading themselves to a wider self annihilation each passing day. I hope at least the nuclear plant stays safe.
If the Russians had planned to blow up the dam, there must have been a months long preparation to secure water supply in Crimea, especially since summer is here?
Crimea is an occupied Ukrainian territory. Why would russians suddenly care if local population has drinking water?
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