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    How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?

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    How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?

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    2 hours ago, Battlefront.com said:

    This is typical of both publications.  Their OpEd (both of which is what you cited) contributors tend to skew left day in and out, though they have a lot of middle and even moderate right contributors.  Left is inherently cautious about war and very cautious, even paranoid, about nuclear war.  It is exactly these voices that have allowed the policy of appeasement to proceed almost unscathed over the past 8 years in particular. 

    Stereotyping for a bit... the right wanted appeasement so it could make money, the left wanted appeasement because it's better than war.  When both the right and the left support a common policy, regardless of how they got there, it's pretty much a given it will be the dominant position for their government.  Which is why Russia has funded both right and left influencers.  Both work towards supporting Russia's aims even if they are clueless about it.

    Steve

    For a bit of a contrast:

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/to-yield-to-putins-nuclear-threats-would-be-to-yield-the-free-worlds-future

    and:

     

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    How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?

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    45 minutes ago, womble said:

    That isn't "carried by the NYT". That's the Asia Times "quoting" the NYT. And I trust the Asia Times "quoting" about as far as I could spit Vladimir Putin.

    However, if you have been reading the opinion pieces from the NYT and The Washington Post lately, you can't help notice that they are increasingly expressing their worries about the actions of the West in support of Ukraine and/or the defeat of Putin risking a nuclear war.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/05/11/ukraine-war-expansion-risks-nuclear/

    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/14/opinion/ukraine-russia-putin-biden.html
     

     

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    How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?

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    11 minutes ago, SeinfeldRules said:

    I'm going to take a minute before work to address this Twitter thread by Trent. I only caught the first part of his thread in my responses yesterday, and I think the rest of what he posted is a perfect example of him taking isolated situations and extrapolating them to create sexy scenarios for public consumption with little additional evidence. In this thread he takes examples of shell burst patterns to build this idea of Ukraine using a vast network of distributed, digital howitzers to shoot and scoot across the battlefield. The tactic is certainly feasible on paper - it's been around in doctrine since WW1, the US Army calls it a "roving gun" - but hardly unique to Ukraine. The AFATDS system and digital howitzers that we use are literally designed to facilitate this function. And while Ukraine may be using a digital system to route and process fire missions, but from what I've seen the vast majority of their howitzers (and definitely not the 122mm D-30s he references) lack the digital systems to make it truly effective to the extent he describes. Trent uses a lot of questionable assumption to build this idea of Ukrainian artillery supremacy that is honestly not backed by the data I'm seeing. If he has more sources to back his claims I would love to see them, because none of his thread passes the sniff test for this artillery officer.

    Please don't take this as a slight on you Grey Fox or anyone who found Trent's thread interesting, this is just professionally frustrating to see someone the public "trusts" peddling such poorly sourced information in such a confident manner. Now I get to see his thread linked in every Reddit and Twitter thread featuring artillery talking about something that is almost certainly not happening, at least not to the extent that Trent describes.

    Perhaps it's a PsyOp designed to strike fear into the hearts of all Russian vehicle crews?

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    How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?

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    6 minutes ago, Suleyman said:

    I like this Wali guy, sounds like he’s very experienced. I feel bad for those two Ukrainian soldiers who died brutally. Assuming the tanks were out of range of Javelins, that means it was a T-72B3 since the gunner has better optics for targeting. Can’t lie I don’t even want to talk about that engagement. That was brutal and I feel bad for the soldiers who died. 

    According to this article,
    https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-russia-canadian-forces-1.6443048
    Wali is a famous Canadian sniper:
    https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/wali-alive-despite-russian-disinformation-1.6393191

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    How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?

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    Here's some comic relief, depending upon your point of view ...

    People familiar with Russian culture are probably aware how much superstition plays a role in society, even in modern Russia.  Here's an article from the Russian tabloid, Komsomolskaya Pravda.  (Google translation, of course)

    https://www-kp-ru.translate.goog/daily/27387/4581000/?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
    The consequences of the eclipse: Numerologist called the two most dangerous days in May 2022
    Numerologist Farida Krasavkina advises avoiding any conflicts and quarrels on May 1 and 10

     

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    How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?

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    Posted · Edited by cesmonkey
    typo

    Long term-lurker to this thread, here.  I played the original Combat Mission and recently bought CMBS.

    It's interesting to look at how some of the regional Russia newspapers are reporting on the war dead coming home to their particular regions.  Two examples:

    https://baikal-journal.ru/2022/04/28/tut-vsyo-propahlo-mertveczami/
    "Everything here smells of the dead" - according to Google translation.

    https://www.e-osetia.ru/news/3375492/spisok-pogibsih-v-ukraine-iz-osetii
    22:00, April 21
    List of those killed in Ukraine from Ossetia     - according to Google translation.

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