Harmon Rabb

After reading the last few pages I have a sudden urge to give the ignore feature a try. Let the record show, this is the first time I have ever used this feature on this forum.

AFU HIMARS doing its thing. Filmed by a RU drone.

Thank goodness no one was hurt. Sad thing is forget the right procedure for clearing a weapon. Some people don't even know that ejecting a magazine is not enough to clear a semi-automatic pistol. I have heard stories of some people killing themselves because of this mistake. I own a few firearms and I support civilian ownership of firearms, but this all reminds me of how important firearms education is.

US charges Russians with war crimes for allegedly torturing American in Ukraine (The Guardian) Very interesting legal news.

Apparently His last post on Telegram before he died. Define irony.

I like tall skyscrapers as much as the next guy. When I visit any large city in North America I make a point of visiting the tallest skyscrapers. So far the U.S. Bank Tower in L.A. is my favorite. But from what I heard about Dubai, while it is a place a lot of people go for work and business. It is kind of overrated as a vacation destination purely for pleasure. Never went myself so I can't confirm but now that they are hosting a murdering war criminal, I will also never visit it.

Not that I would want to sit down and have a beer with this guy, but I kinda agree with what he is saying here. One of the goals of Russia's invasion from the very beginning was to attack not just Ukraine but also attack our rule-based world order. I wish more people who support appeasement or don't think this war is worth spending money on, could hear this guy talk. As someone who follows this war on social media to get all those war clips that I post here, I still feel a lot of people just don't seem to get it.

President Zelenskyy mentions this news.

AFU assault and the aftermath of the assault. Video shows some RU KIAs at the end.

Correct, I did not mean to suggest that these were the first Ukrainians trained to use this system. Here is a photo from June 2023 that I liked, showing AFU personnel with the system.

With some of discussions we have been having here lately, I would say this video is highly relevant.

Good stuff Germany. Ukraine will need these air defence assets for the winter.

At this point I feel General Petraeus and General Hodges can do a podcast on this war together. They seem to have similar views.

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.

Alright folks, I need some sleep. This is gonna be my last post for the day. I leave you with some optimistic clips of the international community showing solidarity with Ukraine I found on Twitter today, but did not want to post individually.

Fingers crossed this report is accurate, the less of these things flying the better.

Clever, the renamed TV channels are like the icing on the cake.

Zeleban is not a Russian troll. I have been following his posts for over a year and he seems like a really honest guy who just says what he thinks. I do not agree with a few things he said in the last few pages but in the grand scheme of things lets not forget he is actually living in Ukraine right now. He sees this war in a way us who just follow it on the Internet cannot, so lets give him a break for passionately voicing his opinions even if we do not agree with some of those opinions.

Another one of those things I would not think I would ever see in my life . Neat.

Another area to watch is Bashkortostan, Good Times Bad Times made a very informative video about it recently. Thing is I think this sort of scenario can happen anyway regardless if the West wants Russia to start breaking up or not. When people think of the potential breakup of the Russian Federation, I think a lot of people thing Chechnya first due to its history being one of the reasons Putin came to power in the first place. But it seems Bashkortostan is also an interesting region to observe. I’m no Zbigniew Brzezinski but I think that a lot of us here will see some areas of Russia break up in our lifetimes if not a total collapse of the country. As The_Capt always points out in his trademark eloquent and fact-based posts when this topic comes up, this will not be a world of sunshine and unicorns. We will have some serious issues to deal with and I hope our leaders are taking this possibility seriously, especially in Europe.

President Pavel is a decorated military officer and in my opinion a hero for what he did in the 90s. I'm sure some folks from Czechia and France who read this forum know what I am talking about. I think his opinion is worth reading. Source: Czech president: Western military support for Ukraine insufficient for high-intensity operation (The Kyiv Independent)

Russian poor bloody infantry walk through the mud while RU helicopters pop flares in the background. Ukraine needs more long range weapons like ATACAMS to permanently ground these things. Personally I would not mind Ukraine be able to strike Russian helicopters inside real Russia also using such long range assets. Not just the parts of Ukraine that supposedly "democratically" voted to become a part of the Russian Federation after Putin's "special military operation".

Leopard in the snow. Snow Leopard?

Calling all fans of military engineering. I like these custom Ukrainian vehicles a lot more than the budget Bond/Mad Max BMW I posted yesterday. Very interesting.

I like you Zeleban, but god I hope you are wrong and Mike Johnson is right in this case.