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oh yeah, that was a fun one. Maybe I should re-play it. Been a long time.

I've been wondering just how Putin sees things. He seems quite confident he can hold the territory. He's just fine burning up whatever poor saps he can conscript trying to grab relatively insignificant land. Perhaps he's just trying to wear down UKR units and doesn't care the cost, as he's got more coming and is confident his mines & FBVs & artillery are more than enough to hold UKR at bay. Seems he feels time is on his side? We may not agree, but it sure seems he feels that way as he runs a war of attrition, slowly trying to wear down UKR will. And of course buying off as many foreign politicians as possible through third party cut outs -- yes, I am looking at you, Mike Johnson, MTG, et al. But the degradation of RU AD, survelliance & airpower makes me wonder if there's something that could help UKR on the ground? Will UKR start having the ability to deliver huge glide bombs on RU assets unscathed through depleted RU AD?

ChrisL is kind of a badass. He actually knows things.

Thank goodness we live in world so free of strife & suffering& real problems that this kind of stuff is all that people have to get upset about. What a wonderful world.

Or one just makes it disappear. BLocks mention on RU social media, news doesn't cover it. Or they do cover it and say it was UKR terrorist scheme, poisoning the eggs in transit.

nice aggregation of war status here: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/1/11/2216826/-Ukraine-Invasion-Day-688-freezing-temps-constrain-operations-on-the-front?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web Very cold currently, snow on the ground. Not a lot of good news, nothing alarming either, just more stuff that points to stalemate and attrition it seems.

And autocracies can do really stupid things much faster than democracies. No checks on power, no diversity in thought while making decisions, and no internal accountability. The external accountability can be a tad painful. It certainly cuts both ways.

Go @benpark go!

Hopefully we'll get another person of reason and sound judgement who also thinks earth is 6000 years, amongst the many wise beliefs of mike johnston. But maybe we'll get an improvement as the current speaker is somewhat flawed as he thinks the earth is round and goes around the sun. American taliban.

If Trump gets back in power he will be full-on pro-Putin. I am saying this based on nothing more concrete than all of Trump's actions and words to this point. Oh, and the fact that he knows how much RU-funded propaganda helps him. I am always confused when people think Trump would do otherwise, when the evidence for him helping Putin is so overwhelming. Note: this not at all directed at you Butschi. Your post just reminded me of this rather odd thing where folks think somehow Trump would keep supporting UKR.

my dog sometimes pees on the floor when excited. I just did the same. Embarrassing but an authentic emotional moment at least UTAH BEACH BATTLES!!!!! F YES! And new FB & CW & FI! Heading over to pre-order land right now aaaaand..... ordered

OK, I'll just admit I don't get it. This indicates UKR makes new BTR4 w some kind of new turret on top?

This is all true, but I look at it a little more glass half full: new cars are harder to work on, but they don't break nearly as much so not as big of a deal. When I was young a car hitting 100k miles was on its last legs, having required a lot of repairs along the way. Today one expects nothing except routine maintenence before 100k miles. I greatly prefer the latter. Of course, one could do the german tank design method in WW2 where you had both complexity and unreliability.

I wonder who is funding this guy? Maybe he just found a niche where he could get followers in conspiracy land by pretending to be a serious, objective, fact based person while just putting out propaganda. It's a great gig if you can pull it off, just ask Tucker, et al. Just need to have no morals and absolutely no concern about how much you damage the world -- plenty of those folks around.

I still play, currently doing the old Courage Conquers campaign from CMFB. But ready for some new goodies. Or promises of new goodies.

So there's hope? Oh Joy!

Jan 1, 2024 and no email from Steve on what is going one w BFC on anything, engine 5 or otherwise. I am deeply saddened.

Ye old RU stuff blowing up. It may be kinda sick, but I like watching those bent on murder getting blown up. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/12/31/2214678/-More-Russian-stuff-blowing-up-New-Year-s-in-Ukraine?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web I saw a post somewhere today showing an RU train w a dozen or so IFVs of various flavors, allegedly stuck waiting because RRoad was out. I was bummed to see fresh IFVs for RU, then realized it was basically one day's worth given current RU losses.

Thanks for saying this, I was going thru the posts from my overnight and waiting for someone to point this out. The last thing RU needs is getting NATO countries angrier by killing some Poles or any other NATO citizens. Stupidest thing that Putin could do, I'd say -- oh, wait, we're talking about Putin, so sure, he might do that. But seriously why would this be on purpose? What positive outcome for RU would be possible?

just because it makes me feel good. As the thread says, RU stuff blowing up. Also looks like the murderers of surrendering UKR soldiers lived about 30 minutes after their cowardly, despicable deed. Plus some good footage I think mostly not seen here yet. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/12/28/2214204/-More-Russian-stuff-blowing-up-Another-Russian-politician-falls-out-of-a-window?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web

I've been leaning this way for a long time. General opinion on forum seemed to be that things would be worse, not better, for the world. But right now we have a megalomaniac who is so 18th-century land crazy that he is willing to destroy his own economy, tries to sabotage the world economy, is constantly trying to undermine every democracy, is a serial mass murderer, child kidnapper, and threatens every country in Europe w attack, including nukes. I am firmly in the camp of "I'll take my chances with RU coup/breakup".

Thanks all. So I am hearing F16 would be useful if it had the long range radar and the right missiles. And actually existed w trained pilots ready to go, at the front. Would be really fun if this were the case

Dumb question of the day: does the RU loss of 5 jets indicate some use of F16s? If it is possible, in what way would F16s be able to do this? I thought they wuz just airplanes that would be shot out of the sky if they actually tried to accomplish anything useful. But then again, I have a well known tank bias.

Whoa, we have an FAA veteran here? Great to hear from actual expert. Thanks for setting us straight, Vet0369.

uhhhh, corruption? Graft and corruption in many industries don't have quite the immediate, catastrophic consequences that would occur with aircraft maintenence. Charging for but pretending to replace expensive components when required. Or using substandard components because so much cheaper. Not running proper tests but signing off as if it was done, because running tests costs labor & time. Over time, and not a very long time, corruption in maintenence would start showing up thru mix of planes having issues in the sky, some disasterous, some not.