danfrodo
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Some good little snippets here today. Some rather biting humor/satire. Some heartwarming xmas stuff. And a little thing about NK ammunition -- looks as good as we'd expect. Hopefully lots of shells are inaccurate and even more blow up in the barrel, with any luck ending the service life of the crew.
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2 hours ago, Kraft said:
Fortifications are being built on the quieter sections, this here is in Sumy
A great example of the insane waste or war. These are, of course, necessary defensive works. But what if the same levels of work were instead being spent on infrastructure like roads, water & sewage systems, schools, hospitals, etc. One of those days where i just want someone to kill Putin. Or some kind of local RU mutiny to spread.
Speaking of mutiny, I still hope against hope that some kind of small, company level mutiny could grow and spread to some kind of sector collapse. We've seen how in Prig mutiny most RU units just stood aside to see what would happen. I'd love to see this on the front. Don't need whole front to break, just a significant area that leads to other areas becoming untenable once UKR moves into the abandoned areas. RU soldiers at some point might realize they've got better survival chance by killing their officers and threatening anyone that comes at them. But then again, then they won't get paid. Of course, they don't get paid dead, either. And in many areas of the front they are most likely gonna be dead, and soon.
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40 minutes ago, The_Capt said:
Am I the only one who is getting a weird sense of Deja vu?
From which thing, pray tell?
@haiduk showed some really interesting bits from Krynky. I wonder if UKR had secondary/backup plan of using their bridgehead to kill lots of RU, assuming primary plan was for more territorial gain on left bank to get Kherson City out of RU artillery range. RU doing nice job of attacking and failing so far.
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Some stuff I hadn't seen here. Aftermath of the ambushed RU convoy in Kherson region. Cluster bombs are a significant health hazard.
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5 minutes ago, Phantom Captain said:
The fog makes it even worse! George, why in the 9 hells would the Germans attack blind, over this ground, in the fog!!!
Der fuhrer said so?
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57 minutes ago, Kraft said:
Shell shortage due to much of the supply going into Gaza
https://www.axios.com/2023/10/19/us-israel-artillery-shells-ukraine-weapons-gaza
I am hopeful because I can't see the Gaza need for 155mm continuing indefinitely.
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5 minutes ago, JonS said:
... but only if it comes as part of a 28-slide deck.
If you could read me the slides, word for word, that would great. And have each bullet point slow-reveal. And also spend weeks wordsmithing it because that is actual work. (I had manager 2 levels up that would spend day upon day wordsmithing slides instead of just putting the basics & supporting data there and then simply telling the dang story
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5 minutes ago, Letter from Prague said:
Does it protect from counter-battery fire if it slides far enough?
actually LOL'd at this, well done
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14 hours ago, Phantom Captain said:
I wish I knew! The fog is playing havoc with EVERYTHING. I'm guessing IS-2 though. I'm getting contacts in the fog but no spots. @FlammenwerferX was just lying in wait for that one.
Yeah, that really adds insult to injury when you're taking expensive losses and can't locate the perpetrator. good luck!
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some war stuff about the RU losses around Andiivka. A summary of things we already know but some nice charts & such.
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2 minutes ago, Phantom Captain said:
Thanks, I know excatly what you mean!
Ladies and Gentlemen, the "invincible" King Tiger.
Just like you said Dan, the reality sets in pretty quick.
Dang, that is a big hole in the side. T34/85? IS2?
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8 hours ago, Phantom Captain said:
Great pics as usual. The Great King Tiger2 emerging from the smoke. I still love these beasts. I remember when I was young & foolish and thought these things were nearly invincible. Then I played CM. Oh, turns out 60 tons of steel is a lot more fragile than one would think. Also at some point read how mechanically unreliable they were. Kinda wish I could go back to my starry-eyed ignorance and idolize these things like I used to.
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3 minutes ago, billbindc said:
This is pretty close to what I've observed as well. In foreign policy, China has completely alienated the Philippines after it had made enormous progress in suborning it to Chinese interests. It virtually drove Australia into much larger military commitments to the US alliance. Wolf warrior diplomacy induced Japan and South Korea into a trilateral pact with the US.
All of that is indeed quite stupid. What I see is a nation that has economic and military interests that on many levels it pursues rationally but that cannot stop itself from lunging emotionally almost systematically in ways that unite its opponents...who is anyone in their neighborhood. China, as a diplomat friends likes to say, has no friends.
This is what I find so mind boggling, that a dictator can be so incredibly emotionally driven. To become dictator they make ruthless, clever, calculated, rational decisions. Then they become dictator and suddenly they lose their minds. In RU, how was a country of 144 million w nukes and a huge supply of easily made money (fossil fuels) not enough? But it seems once they hit what should've been the pinnacle of power they suddenly need to grasp for more. I was one of the knuckleheads who thought "attacking UKR is insane, it won't happen". Learned my lesson. Sanity is no guide for what dictators will do.
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Ukraine has suffered and continues to suffer terrible losses, but it survives and will continue to survive this war that was intended as Ukrainian extermination.
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Yeah, the 'RU is winning' stuff is so shallow it's hard to put words to it, like this is some kind of sporting event w a scoreboard. Since day 4 of this epic debacle, Putin has done nothing but desperately try to salvage something, anything. from an utter disaster and the cost is absolutely astronomical relative to the gain. Maybe does hold the current gains, but the costs continue to accrue meaning he aint done paying yet, so every day it becomes more of an absurdly ruinous affair. It's like he bought a house where the costs of keeping the house go up more & more every month.
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Various war stuff, some already seen here, some not. And lots about animals in the war at the bottom. Incredible mouse infestation in one position, awful. The misery and murder goes on. Speeding RU Lt hits a group of RU soldiers crossing the road. As a fellow human, I would normally feel sorry for them, but it's some guys that won't be killing UKR folks going forward at least.
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2 hours ago, Harmon Rabb said:
Another war this war kind of reminds me is the Winter war. In the minds of a lot of people because a much smaller state like Finland still remained independent after it it won the war, but the truth is it also had to give up some territory in the east to the USSR. To this day I see memes related to that war.
Anyway, the part of your post I quoted I agree with and it is what really concerns me, I think we can agree that militarily this war was a disaster for Russia but internally it will be seen as a great victory. This concerns me because while Russia will not be invading anyone anytime soon after this, eventually they can rebuilt. Unlike Perun I'm no expert in military procurement so I don't know how long that will take. If the lesson Russians get from this is they can take territory by force what is to stop them from trying to do this again somewhere else, I'm thinking one of the former USSR central Asian republics where due to geography we will not be able to help them like we helped Ukraine. Hopefully by that time we will do the right think and accept Moldova and Ukraine into NATO and close Europe to Russia. Don't think Putin or whoever may replace him in the future will try to "finish the job" if Ukraine is under the NATO flag.
To close this post up I will share my favorite Finnish meme, just to lighten this post up a little.
This should be in forum post hall of fame. Great one.
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15 minutes ago, Vet 0369 said:
I’m getting really tired of folks parroting what they are told by the media and political groups. First of all, Trump is not under incitement by the Federal Government. He is however under indictment by a State Government for violating Georgia election laws, so, based on Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution, “and he shall have power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.” Too bad the charges he faces are violations of State laws. Article IV, Section 1 states “Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the Public Acts, Records, and Judicial Proceedings of every other State.”
So yes, it would end up before the U.S. Supreme Court. However, I must disagree with your characterization that the Court is Political. This Court rules on what the text of the Constitution actually says, verses what previous Courts wanted it to say.
You do know that Trump is under multiple FEDERAL indictments? Along with civil suits and has already been found guilty of fraud in NYState (by summary judgement). And yes, he is facing state indictments.
And no, the supreme court is NEVER just doing what he text of the constitution says. If that were true we wouldn't need a supreme court because we'd instead just read the constitution. They must interpret the constitution, because it doesn't perfectly cover everything that happens in the world, especially 200+ years later.
And let's not get started on 'strict interpretation' of founding fathers intent. The founding fathers intent is that Justice Thomas is a slave and Justice Comey-Barret is chattel. So if they want to play the intent game, they are saying they want to be enslaved and rightless.
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1 hour ago, Artkin said:
Low cost, carbon fiber? Wtf lol
and why do I need a kamikaze drone to land???? In case no target found?
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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 ....."
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Good lord that is really funny. I vaguely remember that one.
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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.
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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.
Combat photography: Photos from the front..
in Combat Mission Red Thunder
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Can't wait to see how this turns out. Looks like a T34/76? If it was a T34/85 I'd bet on the russian. But here I think I'll still bet on the tiger despite the initial angle & sighting advantage of the T34.