Der Zeitgeist
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12 minutes ago, Ts4EVER said:
That seems like a bad move, to be honest.
But did he even say that? We need a better source than this account, which often posts outright disinformation.
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On 7/9/2022 at 3:47 PM, Aragorn2002 said:
Any relatively new title would be highly appreciated.
Outside your preferred timeframe, but anyway:
I greatly enjoyed reading "The Billion Dollar Spy" by David E. Hoffmann, which tells the story of Adolf Tolkachev, a Soviet engineer who worked as a CIA agent in the early 80s and gave up detailed information about various Soviet missile and radar systems.
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9 minutes ago, Jammason said:
What would they nuke, Tom Clancy version: False flag suitcase bomb in Sevastopol. “The evil Nazis have destroyed one of our cities, and now we are justified in destroying a Ukrainian city of our choosing.” … and they take out Kyiv.
Why Sevastopol? The false flag offering would have to be significant to justify the response, and it has the benefit of being a justifiable (sellable) target given its role in Crimea’s complicated history. It’s also NOT in the mainland, so the domestic audience can get very angry at Ukraine without feeling as though the Kremlin failed to protect them.
This is the “last ditch” of a Kremlin sure they were going to lose Crimea.
But again, this is only in the Tom Clancy world.
I must say, on the entire nuclear issue:
One good thing this war has shown is that nukes don't help. Sure, they can prevent the West from directly intervening, but they don't help you win a war by themselves. You can be the strongest nuclear power on earth but in the end, it's all just useless holes in the ground with missiles and warheads in them, a huge waste of money and resources with no military application whatsoever, even in the greatest war your country has ever fought.
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16 minutes ago, Beleg85 said:
Some bad things happens right now directly in Donetck city...is that incendiary?Worth to observe, may be false flag.
These are 9M22S thermite incendiary munitions, fired by Grad MRLs. Russia used these in Syria and also in Ukraine. Not sure if any uses by the Ukrainian army have been documented so far.
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1 hour ago, Harmon Rabb said:
Good to know.
That's an overspecific denial.
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14 minutes ago, Harmon Rabb said:If these war crime trials do happen they should be interesting.
Especially with the war still running and Putin still in power. I don't think we ever had a constellation like this with war crime trials before. Not much they can do about it, though. Can't exactly invade the Netherlands.
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23 minutes ago, Harmon Rabb said:Putin meeting Khamenei in Iran.
Just aesthetically speaking what a strange photograph.
Just like in Lord of the Rings, how they filmed Gandalf and Bilbo with these forced perspective tricks.
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3 minutes ago, akd said:
They must have had reason to believe there was something valuable sheltering under the bridge there. What else would be the point of a strike with GMLRS in that location?
It's a message.
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22 minutes ago, Haiduk said:
This guy is civil volunteer, supplying SOF units and he claims German MARS-2 launchers already two days work in Ukraine
Hmmm, interesting. Our government didn't announce yet when they were supposed to arrive.
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5 hours ago, Bearstronaut said:
I’m wondering if eventually we reach a point where the Russians decide that going after NATO supply points in Poland is worth it to them.
I think it's more likely they'll go for sabotage actions against the energy sector. We already had the unexplained explosion at the LNG terminal in Freeport, Texas, and I wouldn't be surprised to see more "incidents" like this when the European energy crisis really starts during the winter.
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2 minutes ago, keas66 said:
It's kind of amazing that we are still even conversing with Russian patriots on this forum still . It's kind of like if the Invasion of Normandy was going on and some folks back in the UK were arguing with Goebels on a chat forum about whether the Bombings of German Cities was or was not okay as a response to German Aggression . Maybe it is - maybe it isn't - but if you are involved in a total war - the whole "He said / She said" arguments are a utter waste of time .
This.
I like to bring up this leaflet the Royal Air Force dropped over Germany during WW2. "Remember with every bomb: Hitler started this war." (The German version rhymes more nicely, though.)
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52 minutes ago, DMS said:
Yeah, but you don't notice deaths from this side of a front line. Not because you don't care, but because this deaths are not shown to you. Donetsk is shelled by weeks, dozens of civilians are killed. But nobody posted the photos and this "didn't happen". No offence, Russian media also don't show civilian deaths in Ukraine cities.
This "both sides" whataboutism is entirely pointless in a war where one side is engaged in an aggressive war of conquest against a defending neighbouring country. It's a useless distraction, and a transparent attempt to create moral equivalency where no such thing can exist.
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45 minutes ago, panzermartin said:It looks they are at least able to harass the treelines accurately, and reproduce this CM like linear barrage pattern with what looks like rocket artillery.
I was going to say, my linear artillery missions in CM are never as accurate as this one.
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1 minute ago, Huba said:
If that's true, I wonder what DE got in return.
Maybe they promised us Klitschko as new Ambassador to Germany.
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7 minutes ago, Butschi said:
I don't think Spain can legally give those Leos to Ukraine without German consent. So if real this really could be a test that was agreed on within NATO.
Reznikov apparently had a conversation with German MoD Lambrecht today. Maybe something was agreed on there.
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17 minutes ago, Harmon Rabb said:Good news if true. The only other source for this story that I was able to find after a quick Google News search is this web page.
The "Visegrad24" account is mostly about bashing Western Europe (especially Germany) from an Eastern Europe (especially Polish, and specifically PiS/Fidesz-party) perspective.
It tries very hard to look like a reputable online news site, but it's actually an account that mostly posted pro-PiS and pro-Orban propaganda before the war.
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2 minutes ago, DesertFox said:
I really wonder why UKR hasn´t started to blow up the railheads already and all lines leading into UKR territory from the east.
I guess it simply isn't all that easy to do. They had some success with sabotage teams blowing up some bridges and embankments a few months ago, but it takes some serious munitions to cut a rail line via air or missile attack. Maybe if they get unitary ATACMs, who knows....
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1 minute ago, FancyCat said:
I want to bring up from my prior post the assessment by the U.S on Russian logistics. Is this a Russian logistical failing or a Soviet failing, the reference of a lack of doctrine on munitions and safe storage has me quite perplexed that the "2nd most advanced" military in the world stores ammo like this.
There were some interesting discussions about this on Twitter. A big factor seems to be the complete lack of mechanization and containerization in their logistics. They don't even use pallets most of the time, so everything gets carried around by hand. Also, they're highly dependent on rail trainsport. Taken together, this all leads to these huge centralised depot locations.
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1 minute ago, Taranis said:
According to russians :
source Le MondeThat casualty count might be accurate and seems to match with the pictures and videos from the scene around the explosion (some collapsed buildings, lots of broken glass in the apartment blocks). There were probably a lot of people injured who were watching from their windows and then hit by the blast wave.
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Looks like Reznikov was right.
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The German military put another video up with the commander of the German artillery school in Idar-Oberstein, providing some insights into the training of the Ukrainians on the PzH 2000. Unfortunately only in German:
Some notable details:
- The Ukrainians were trained in Germany using their own app-based fire direction systems.
- The guys getting trained were all from active artillery units that were already engaged in combat.
- There is ongoing contact between the Ukrainian PzH 2000 battalion now engaged in combat and the Germans. So far, they were quite successful, particularly with the SMArt 155 munitions, and the PzH 2000 were also hit with counter-battery fire a few times already, without much damage, apparently.
- One challenge was memorizing the computerized fire control systems on the PzH 2000 in a foreign language. Some labels inside the vehicle were taped over with cyrillic markings.
- One problem is the big variety of systems that Ukraine is now receiving from the West, that all have different tactical considerations, training aspects and logistical footprint.
- The different Western 155mm systems use different types of munition, that are not necessarily compatible, because the fire control systems inside the different guns are configured to particular munitions.
- To help with that, the Ukrainian PzH 2000 received a software update with the ballistics data of all the different 155mm types now available to Ukraine (German, French, Czech, Polish, US...)
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11 hours ago, Rice said:
The reality is no one in the consumer base would actually care if they released the planned module or other planned modules during the conflict.
I completely disagree. All it takes is one ignorant article in a tabloid or wherever and BFC could be in a world of hurt. Selling DLC with a Russian campaign that lets the consumer play the Invasion of Ukraine might even be construed as supporting a war of aggression in some countries (like Germany), which could lead to serious legal troubles, a ban on sales, or anything else that a small company wouldn't want to take a chance with.
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7 hours ago, The_Capt said:
Which raises the question of: why did the RA waste the month of Jun at Severodonetsk? They were in Popasna at the end of May and instead of putting all this weight on that axis to do exactly what they are doing now, they smashed their face against Severodonetsk - which has zero operational value.
I think from the Russian perspective, it's pretty simple. Taking Severodonetsk and Lysychansk completes the political objective of "liberating" the entire "Luhansk People's Republic". With the entire Oblast now taken, they can move towards setting up administrations, hold elections or whatever else they might want to do with it.
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7 minutes ago, Huba said:
Not according to this guy, who's as trustworthy as "Twitter experts" get. And hello back, haven't see you around for a while
Yes, I needed a bit of a "vacation", so to speak and got out of the constant drumbeat of Twitter, Telegram, Discord and forum threads about the war for a month or so. I highly recommend it to clear one's head.
How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
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It's like I said several times already. Germany is scared of "Alleingänge". If you want weapons from them, increase the pressure until not delivering stuff becomes the "Alleingang".