Maquisard manqué
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13 minutes ago, dan/california said:
Be a great time for some issues with the trans Siberian railway. Is it clear if Russia is down to their war reserve stock levels? Or have they literally let so much ammo corrode and decay into uselessness that they are out out? Ukraine has used HIMARS brilliantly, but GMLRS won't hit the big Soviet depots out past the Urals.
The DPRK artillery stock is also a good one to start running down, it you think about the risk it poses to Seoul…
I wish for a way to do the same that didn’t require firing the ordinance at Ukrainians.
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3 hours ago, Battlefront.com said:
That's roughly 10,000 including logistics tail (I think for this sector that guy is named Yuri).
Haha, thanks for this! Laughing into my coffee…
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1 hour ago, Cederic said:
I'm disappointed by this.
Amusing as it is, OFFER THEM SURRENDER!
There's an entire division knowing they're cut off from supplies, cut off from retreat. Give them another option! Don't make them feel they have to fight for raw survival.
I agree with the sentiment but It’s surely for internal and NATO consumption rather than Russian troops’.
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26 minutes ago, hcrof said:
I get the impression that the battles in CM are very unusual compared with mobile warfare doctrine. Both NATO and warpac were not planning on fighting carefully balanced scenarios and take heavy casualties despite tactical genius by the commander. It was more like bomb the hell out of an area and then drive a tank battalion through it at speed for the breakthrough.
Careful dancing around with keyholed tanks on the offense may happen in reality but I don't think it is doctrine.
That’s very true and speaks to the challenge of a game - which needs to have balance and challenge. In RL, a close run thing would be something to avoid! You’d stack the deck in your favour in any way possible and ruthlessly exploit your advantage.
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1 hour ago, Billy Ringo said:
FWIW, my line of work for the past 30+ years is wholesale and retail supply chain/inventory management. I've worked with Russian supply chain consultants and a couple of large Russian retailers. The know how is there--I've seen them efficiently execute pretty advanced systems on the business side to get inventory to where it should be in the right quantities.
BUT, whether or not that expertise transfers to their military is an entirely different matter.
Good point. Russians can do logistics properly, it’s just whether the incentives are there for them to do so.
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1 hour ago, Battlefront.com said:
Definitely a soldier. He has his right leg wrapped in green plastic. He's seen falling out of the car as it goes backwards and is shown (presumably) dead at the very end of the video.
Steve
The 3rd video shows the aftermath and the car occupants getting out - or trying to. They are all in camouflage fatigues and boots as far as I can tell. Possibly some unseen and left in the car though.
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12 minutes ago, Combatintman said:
Christ on a bike ... that is truly shocking. If they'd bothered with cam nets they'd all fit under the same one.
What do you mean? It’s perfect parade-ground parallel parking.
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Apologies if this has already been posted. More barbaric terror for The Hague to consider.
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12 hours ago, Kinophile said:
Wife and I discovered it early. I'm Irish, we met at home some she's familiar with the comedy. God have we laughed at that show. Incredibly funny. We first saw Mat Berry on The IT Crowd.
Anyhow burble burble back on thread
Sir, I raise you Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace.
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1 hour ago, The_Capt said:
LOL! FFS, sure, I am a Ukrainian covert operative doing black bag jobs in Russia but I am definitely going to have my swastika flag and picture of Uncle Adolf with me at all times. What part of subtlety did they not teach at Russian internal security school?
Erm, subtle as in leaving obvious breadcrumbs leading back to Moscow? Like with Litvinenko, Salisbury etc etc?
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4 hours ago, FancyCat said:
According to FT, Putin is committed to taking more territory.
Not that I can pretend to see sense in anything the Russian govt are doing but why seize territory that, in the taking, you turn into a depopulated wasteland?
With their recon by BTG and attack by indiscriminate arty approach, the best they can now do is create a desolation and call it peace/victory.
Guess they wouldn’t be the first though. That quote is quite long in the tooth…
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20 minutes ago, The_Capt said:
So this is called a Black Elephant and we have danced around it margins a lot on this forum for obvious reasons. I am Canadian and try not to weigh in on any one nations politics - we have got enough silliness of our own and do not intend open up this can of worms but maybe we can look at the can.
The road to this war extends across the aisle, the world does not "happen" in the 4-8 year US administration cycles. If US readers of this walk away with one thing, let it be that. The US has enormous influence but in a highly complex system such as "war" the causes are rarely determined in a few short years of a presidential term. More succinctly "it is not all about you", and this applies to my own country as the political noise is trying to play this one as well.
Putin has been in power for over 20 years and the western failures leading to today are long and winding on both sides of the aisle. No one US president is responsible, they all are - kinda comes with the job.
As to the particular former administration, I will lean in slightly: listen to the advisors and spokes-people before this war and it gives a hint at what the actual policy might have been. I point to Col Macgregor as one of my favorites, a former military advisor to the White House and someone I take particular issue with, not only because he has consistently been wrong but also because he has sold out on a core principle of objective military advice. Look up and listen to his analysis and assessment on YouTube for those looking for a window at what advice would have been provided in this crisis...and I will leave it at that.
Hehe, that’s one way to say a lot without saying anything!
Out of likes…
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1 hour ago, dan/california said:
Sending the family a picture of the body, and a picture of the ID card does make the point rather thoroughly. The Russians can go home anytime. The only thing waiting for them in Ukraine is a zinc coffin, if there is enough left to bury, and the Russians bother to recover their dead.
No but the Russians more or less systematically try to make every single problem worse. From Le Pen, to Assad, to who knows how many African dictators, they pick the worst actor on a given stage and back them. Sometime they back them a lot, sometimes jus enough to keep them from sinking. But there goal is alway more chaos, more disruption of the rules based order, and hey if there is some money to be made in blood diamonds or whatever, that's cool too.
Sorry, is that an American talking about people taking sides in Africa and maybe cosying up to warlords? Heavens! I suppose you’re right. No American administration would stoop to that!
Have you heard of the Cold War?
Edit: and yet the point about Putin playing the angle each time he can is true, and stooping as low as he can in terms of cruelty. He remains however small and not anything like the Soviets in terms of actual reach or ability. You do him too much credit…
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2 hours ago, sburke said:
Much as I really love bashing Russia, blaming them for most of the world's problems is a stretch.
@kraze This. You’re right that were Russia a functioning democracy acting in the interests of its population, then a lot would be better in the world, not least everything mattering in Ukraine right now. But Russia is nowhere near important or powerful enough to be the cause of the hugely varied local and global forces driving international migration.
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14 minutes ago, kraze said:
The tone is such that the upcoming even larger refugee crisis is already fueled in large part by stubbornly keeping on feeding the beast.
Without oil and gas money (which account for about 70% of their income) Russia would quickly collapse within just a few months saving millions from suffering. Even middle eastern troubles are mostly because of Russia feeding every single terrorist organization it can find - from Hesbollah to Taliban.
There is a strong connection between refusing to let go even of coal until August and Africa being threatened by famine.
I’m not sure I follow. Are you saying that if EU counties stopped buying Russian fuels then there would be no issue with world food prices? Or that it would clear up quicker because the war would be over sooner?
If so, that’s a bit of a stretch, to put it mildly. Neither Ukrainian exports nor Russian will recover quickly from this. Russia’s (larger) exports are also likely to remain embargoed - until Putin goes too.
So there’s no way the rest of the world/consumers of Russian wheat, fuel & materials is aligned with Ukraine’s plight. They will want to buy from Russia again/already asap and are angry with the US & friends for making their lives harder. Sure, the same countries don’t think much of Russia for its wanton and egregious aggression, but they are as self interested as the rest.
Only the US and EU pretend to be anything other than self interested.
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23 minutes ago, panzermartin said:
I don't understand the tone sorry. The refugee crisis is a humanitarian disaster since the West decided to violently intervene in Middle east and Afghanistan but without really investing in a long term plan for the day after.
I don’t like the tone (or dismissiveness over implications for the global south) but at the same time, I can see why he’s pissed: DE and FR are dragging their heels in support to Ukraine compared to others.
The EU and NATO looks like a cosy and exclusive club: good to be in but not overly trustworthy if you’re not in.
Migration is another thread (potentially) but it’s not another sphere in which the EU, or any rich country, has covered itself in glory. The irony is that at the moment, the US, UK and EU look selfishly focussed on their back yard and only interested in Ukraine. Everyone else in the G20 or UN general assembly now looks on the massive efforts being made in Ukraine as selfishness: as unsatisfactory as it might be to Ukraine, it’s more than has been done for any other crisis.
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Re the very low number of Moskva sailors pulled out of the drink, would it have had its full complement after the damage and while under tow (if it was)?
I Guess “full complement” is also unlikely on any given day for the Russian military, given what we’ve seen in the thread already.
I just can’t think you’d keep the whole crew on if there was a significant chance of it sinking. Damage Control and extra teams on the same duty, yes, but otherwise I’d assume you’d get as many others off the ship as possible. But then, I’m a land lubber - and someone who gives more than a fig for human life. The latter not being something one could rationally accuse the Russian high command of.
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3 minutes ago, amadeupname said:
So I guess the work on every CM title has just stopped so we can pretend we're defense analysts now?
I have read everything in this thread from one crackhead schizoposting about crisis actors and ancient alien bullsh*t to several of you speculating about the possible deployments of WMD's and other such nonsense.
Can we please get back to creating more content for the game?Interesting approach to trolling the thread. Demanding work on the game like a spoilt brat…
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Re US arms shipments, it’s good to see heavy stuff making the bill of materials but the reaper drones thing seems very far fetched. If anything needs extensive training and infrastructure it’s aircraft, even drones. I guess the only way it works in the short term is US pilots flying from the base in Nebraska (or wherever). Otherwise this sounds like speculation by the companies themselves: sure, we can provide expensive weapon systems… at US tax payer cost.
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36 minutes ago, Aragorn2002 said:
But it ain't impossible, ain't it? Reminded me of general Sikorsky at the time.
But that’s a minimum requirement for any decent conspiracy theory. Can’t be quickly proven wrong, even if it makes no sense at all, so it wriggles in to the mind through pre-existing doubts, preconceptions and biases.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61083402
Sadly this is partly why Boris is making such an effort is I engage with Ukraine over the war. Without it (and the browny points he accrues from it) he would be out.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61071243
Pretty harrowing. I know it’s not new allegations but for the BBC to put it up i take it as verified and credible.
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Come on guys, it’s a special military operation, not a war! Let alone ww3…
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44 minutes ago, Kraft said:
Good comic and a good rejoinder. I’m feeling uncomfortable!
Just to be clear, I said the above about the fellowship conscious that the Rohirim and Gondorians did almost all the fighting!
How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
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I’m with you on this. If you’re not in the trenches, I don’t think you have the same right to shed basic respect for humanity. When you’re half way round the world looking at this through twitter scopes, not personally implicated in this, I feel we actually have a responsibility not to drop decent values.
That does presuppose the existence or possession of said values, which isn’t evident or granted of course.