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danfrodo

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  1. Goodness, what a rambunctious bunch of folks y'all have been last 24 hours. Then Steve comes in to save the day w some really good content, thanks much Steve. I will go back to my hopium of "if UKR can just kill a few more russians and their fancy gear then ....."
  2. Good lord that is really funny. I vaguely remember that one.
  3. Interesting article on why F16s matter. I suspect many here knew all this but I didn't. Says that F16s w proper radar could put an end to RU using gliding bombs w/o risk. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/26/2207737/-Ukraine-Update-Russian-glide-bombs-are-a-major-problem-F-16s-are-the-solution?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_7&pm_medium=web
  4. A blizzard in UKR today, as foretold by prophesy yesterday in LLF post. Gives some real Nov 1941 vibes, no? I don't see how it benefits either side much, though I suppose UKR army has better gear and conditions in general. Maybe helps side w more/better thermal sights? Maybe the ground will freeze long enough to allow vehicles.
  5. We all know & Putin also knows, I suppose, that NATO is not an offensive threat, which this validates. Good to know that RU is having to take such measures due to losses. Meanwhile, Haiduk, and LLF providing some very good content on the war today, thanks much. We see the RU losses at Andiivka and elsewhere and I continue to wonder whether this will ever make a significant difference. RU burns out huge amounts of men & material but if UKR can't capitalize on it I suppose it makes some sort of twisted sense for Putin to keep doing it.
  6. The above is a good example of how there's a lot of misleading headlines about UKR aid being cut off. There's some battles in some important aid provider govts, but aid is still flowing. Is it enough? It's never been as much as some of us would like, but it's still coming. We've seen over last couple weeks very large commitments from various EU countries and the US even lined up more stuff.
  7. Haiduk reports that Putin launched major attack w shaheds and UKR shot down 74 of 75. If true, this is an incredible achievement, and I really hope it's true. If the AD is that strong around expected targets then I suppose Putin will look for other, less protected targets -- probably civilians in cities & towns not protected.
  8. I think I did get better treatment from him once a couple years ago when I bit his head off (which I now regret), come to think of it. And so back to the war. Here's today's mix of sadness, disappointment, hopium, copium, and confirmation bias. Most of these videos seen here already, but a couple I think not. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/24/2207794/-Ukraine-Update-Russia-continues-meat-grinding-around-Avdiivka?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_5&pm_medium=web
  9. I said in the post I DON'T advocate suppressing what liars want to lie about. 'Right thinker'? I am nice to you and then you have to call me that? Jeebus, LLF. There is an often something called an evidence based reality, which is different than legislating falsehoods & prejudices.
  10. anti-vax 'communication'. You mean baseless lies and misinformation? And what suppression? At least in the US the lies were huge and everywhere and now there's big uptake in people not getting vaccinated for everything, not just covid. We've already seen, in the US, outbreaks in children of whooping cough in anti-vax clusters. And even a little polio. UKR is at war for survival and is completely within it's rights to censor things. In societies not under this kind of threat, I don't want censorship. I think it's best to counter lies w truth, though sometimes it takes a lot of people getting polio for them to figure out the truth I suppose.
  11. I was thinking about this subject this morning. Until we see lots of RU mass surrenders or mutinies, things will probably not change. I'll define mass surrender as 10+ soldiers at once. We'd need lots of those. Going into last winter I was sure the mobiks would be combat ineffective due to bad gear, bad field practice, bad supplies, bad commanders, lack of rotation & rest. But it turns out one doesn't need to be very combat effective to hold a hole when there's nowhere to else to go.
  12. Yeah, they'll say anything. I am not straying from facts. There's problems, it's a war, I'm not discounting the reporting. I was just musing on what comes next in some dumb F's twitter thread. So while I've got your attention.... What do you think of the Kherson business? I don't see how UKR gets very far but maybe this is just a low cost operation to stretch RU resources? What's your take?
  13. You misunderstand. Someone in congress or in pro-putin punditry land will say that based on these reports.
  14. To be followed by: "we completely want to support Ukraine, but since the HIMARS don't work we sadly must remove all aid going forward".
  15. Absolutely perfect picture, FlammenwerferX, thanks for sharing
  16. grab back of stuff here, some hopium that is sorely needed. Alleged RU collaborators/officials are fleeing Oleshky and allegedly supply line to kinburn spit has been interdicted. Also another RU soldier appeals to Putin. Who does he think put him there? It's like Jan 6 clowns who thought Trump would pardon them/pay their legal bills. Rubes. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/20/2207021/-More-Russian-stuff-blowing-up-Ukraine-s-offensive-across-the-Dnipro-has-Russia-panicking?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web
  17. You've got it totally wrong BillBinDC. Moscow wealth is definitely indicative of the state of the larger country. Just look at Pyongyang. Both of these countries have benevolent philosopher kings who care only for the well being of their people, especially the poorest and most marginalized. But seriously, yes, looking at luxury cars is not a good measure of anything. It's like when there's bad economy in US but "2nd home ownership is up!". Yes, for all those who can afford 2nd homes (btw, this was actually something someone said once during a tough recession)
  18. When I need a little pick-me-up.... I like to watch RU stuff blowing up. Lots of it here. UKR says huge losses today for RU, including 1300 troops. Cutting that in half to account for UKR bias still yields 650, which is a horrific day by any standards for RU. And lots of videos of RU stuff blowing up. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/16/2206185/-More-Russian-stuff-blowing-up-Russia-s-losses-continue-to-mount?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web
  19. 100% for sure on all points. I love having Stuart when I'm facing german infantry & AT guns. The vast majority of fights were not w panthers & tigers involved, so shermans did a great job overall. Except for some of those fights in Brit sector in Normandy facing all those panthers -- those are gawd awful w shermans.
  20. Christopher Robin then says "Silly old bear! they've got fossil fuels. Who cares about anything else?" And lots of blustery days for the 100 acre wood gang to enjoy up there.
  21. One of the best movies ever, Death of Stalin. I could watch Stalin die over & over & over. And Zhukov shooting Beria -- so incredibly blunt and to the point while the others are all jabbering. You do have JoJo Rabbit on your list also, I hope? I hope Putin soon joins Stalin in the 'died in puddle of his own urine' club
  22. well, you could just look for the red hat and the tshirt w trump's head on rambo's body hip-firing a heavy MG. But hey, I'm no Humint pro....
  23. I love having LLF here -- seriously, I mean it. Always knocks me off my comfort zone in one way or another, whether I end up agreeing or not. Sounds like he leads quite the interesting international life of business. Or life of crime, not sure Meanwhile, Denys Davydov on youtube says the RU Dniper pullback is fake news, so we just don't know and we're getting contradictory info. Davydov says maybe it's a PR trial balloon for actual pullback later, but that's just speculation.
  24. So you are thinking RU might re-position away from river to get out of artillery range? Interesting. If RU has arty shortage on this sector I can see how their forces would be getting clobbered and they'd want to pull back. I hope within a couple days we'll know more. I suppose RU would want to get UKR into position where it has to move arty onto left bank, where it would be more vulnerable due to restricted mobility for displacing after firing.
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