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Hahaha! We are about to find out.
My guess is ….no. | [
"New post can be found here",
">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!"
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Sounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then | [
"New post can be found here",
">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no."
] |
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Are you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?
Run. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop. | [
"New post can be found here",
">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then"
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Well, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.
The local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage. | [
"New post can be found here",
">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop."
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Im sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;) | [
"New post can be found here",
">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage."
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Nice camouflage color. | [
"New post can be found here",
">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)"
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Between captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack. | [
"New post can be found here",
">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color."
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Reply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:
Also, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced "newer" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)
Russia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.
The only real "advantage" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them. | [
"New post can be found here",
">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack."
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Just on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era. | [
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them."
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Ever since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit. | [
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era."
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The soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.
Not Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world. | [
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit."
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What do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face | [
"New post can be found here",
">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world."
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A lot of these are from the "regular" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague. | [
"New post can be found here",
">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face"
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"New post can be found here",
">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague."
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"New post can be found here",
">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace"
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"New post can be found here",
">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him."
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Putin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan
I just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war.
This cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking.
It is, more than anything, boring.
Fortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.
This fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is "Total War", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all.
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"New post can be found here",
">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him."
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That’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it. | [
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?"
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Can you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out.
And the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward.
I was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such.
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"New post can be found here",
">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it."
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The "Operation Desert Storm" and "Operation Desert Storm-Engineer" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles. | [
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people."
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Laser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target. | [
"New post can be found here",
">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles."
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i remember when i first saw this.
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"New post can be found here",
">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target."
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Animarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers"
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment."
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback"
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment"
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?"
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group."
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?"
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Anytime you see video of a "hit" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see. | [
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action."
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I noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles? | [
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see."
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Partly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring.
They’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left.
I’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical. | [
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?"
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I think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea.
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical."
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Typical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender."
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic."
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country."
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?"
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Rumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be.
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days"
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Why the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together. | [
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
">\n\nThe bot tally is now up to ~~50~~ ~~60~~ 70.\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov. \nThis round of sus bot activity started around 4 hours ago and it's still ongoing so you may see a few slip through.\nThe majority of the accounts have been attempting to submit posts or comments on other posts. A few have attempted to make comments on the live thread but were quickly removed. The comments were likely taken from other users on older threads.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine."
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Without equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded.
Ukraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields. | [
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together."
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields."
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I’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS. | [
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?"
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Tbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition. | [
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS."
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Russians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians
Good read on the “Putin’s War” mentality. | [
"New post can be found here",
">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition."
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality."
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Considering Russian history, not at all surprising | [
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general."
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Anyone remember early on "tank girl"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok. | [
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising"
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok."
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive."
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I totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark. | [
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive."
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Russia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian).
Sounds like complete BS. | [
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark."
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There you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.
I'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.
We know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets. | [
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS."
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets."
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians"
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?"
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack."
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Yes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.
They pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.
They could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.
Edit : If you see people saying, "They will run out of men" or "They will turn on there Goverment". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment. | [
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
">\n\nBasically, the accounts were all created on the same day so the easiest way to spot them is to check the account creation date followed by other things.\nSubmissions\nThe posts that are submitted are copied and resubmitted by the bot accounts. So one unsuspecting real person submits something and a few minutes later up to four bot accounts will attempt to submit the same exact article with small variations. For example, the edited title might end in an unnecessary exclamation point, question mark, period or semicolon. \nOriginal: \n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire'\n\nBots:\n\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire !\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire ?\nShelling booms around Bakhmut in 'Christmas ceasefire .\n\nComments\nThese are usually taken from other users on older threads. Sometimes these might be unrelated and taken from comments that are a year old on other subs.\nOther times, the comments are hard to spot and some are truly bizarre. Sometimes it's a statement that agrees or disagrees with another user's question. Sometimes it parrots the original user.\nExample bot comments:\n\nYes, that is exactly what the film is about.\nThe Finnish government has not yet decided what kind of defense materiel they will send to Ukraine, but they are considering sending Leopard 2 tanks.\nThe czars cared deeply for their soldiers because they were peasants.",
">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?"
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment."
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically."
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When they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a "peaceful" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting | [
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before."
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I don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.
Wartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine. | [
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting"
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine."
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Russia has no capacity to train that many people
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him."
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I think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.
Before there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline. | [
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh"
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I think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.
Couple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the "luxury" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence. | [
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline."
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I think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now.
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence."
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Ukraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.
The other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex.
By contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit.
Multiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game. | [
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing."
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game."
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?"
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Anyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet?
I'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished?
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words."
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I still don't understand why they decided an invasion was a good idea, when they could have used soft power influence through money and media misinformation campaigns.
Surely that would have been cheaper than a massive 3 day military operation, even if it were successful.
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words.",
">\n\nAnyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet? \nI'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished? \nJust asking questions."
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They had been using money, bribery, corruption and misinformation up until 2014 to subvert Ukrainian government and policies. Yanukovych rejecting the European alliance for the Russian sphere upended everything. The Ukrainians made it very clear they had no interest in the Russian world. They did not mind Russia but an alliance with them was a hell no and they were prepared to die and did die to make this clear.
Putin got the message. Soft power had failed and they had to physically intervene. Of course the physical power has also failed and where before the Ukrainians were neutral on Russia they actively hate them now and are currently removing every pro Russia thing or people from their country at a fast pace.
I guess the moral of the story is that not to try and force people into a world/life they don't want to be, especially especially in the modern world where people are now way more aware of their rights and the progress/development that is possible.
For the Ukrainian nationalists it's a dream come true, where before they had to tread lightly now they can really excise Russia from the Ukrainian world. Finally doing what their ancestors tried for centuries to do. The Russians walked right into that one. | [
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words.",
">\n\nAnyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet? \nI'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished? \nJust asking questions.",
">\n\nI still don't understand why they decided an invasion was a good idea, when they could have used soft power influence through money and media misinformation campaigns.\nSurely that would have been cheaper than a massive 3 day military operation, even if it were successful.\nPerhaps he started to believe the propaganda around his military might following his earlier actions in Georgia and Ukraine."
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks for al the mods hard work, any recommendations on how to recognize them?",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words.",
">\n\nAnyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet? \nI'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished? \nJust asking questions.",
">\n\nI still don't understand why they decided an invasion was a good idea, when they could have used soft power influence through money and media misinformation campaigns.\nSurely that would have been cheaper than a massive 3 day military operation, even if it were successful.\nPerhaps he started to believe the propaganda around his military might following his earlier actions in Georgia and Ukraine.",
">\n\nThey had been using money, bribery, corruption and misinformation up until 2014 to subvert Ukrainian government and policies. Yanukovych rejecting the European alliance for the Russian sphere upended everything. The Ukrainians made it very clear they had no interest in the Russian world. They did not mind Russia but an alliance with them was a hell no and they were prepared to die and did die to make this clear.\nPutin got the message. Soft power had failed and they had to physically intervene. Of course the physical power has also failed and where before the Ukrainians were neutral on Russia they actively hate them now and are currently removing every pro Russia thing or people from their country at a fast pace.\nI guess the moral of the story is that not to try and force people into a world/life they don't want to be, especially especially in the modern world where people are now way more aware of their rights and the progress/development that is possible. \nFor the Ukrainian nationalists it's a dream come true, where before they had to tread lightly now they can really excise Russia from the Ukrainian world. Finally doing what their ancestors tried for centuries to do. The Russians walked right into that one."
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words.",
">\n\nAnyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet? \nI'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished? \nJust asking questions.",
">\n\nI still don't understand why they decided an invasion was a good idea, when they could have used soft power influence through money and media misinformation campaigns.\nSurely that would have been cheaper than a massive 3 day military operation, even if it were successful.\nPerhaps he started to believe the propaganda around his military might following his earlier actions in Georgia and Ukraine.",
">\n\nThey had been using money, bribery, corruption and misinformation up until 2014 to subvert Ukrainian government and policies. Yanukovych rejecting the European alliance for the Russian sphere upended everything. The Ukrainians made it very clear they had no interest in the Russian world. They did not mind Russia but an alliance with them was a hell no and they were prepared to die and did die to make this clear.\nPutin got the message. Soft power had failed and they had to physically intervene. Of course the physical power has also failed and where before the Ukrainians were neutral on Russia they actively hate them now and are currently removing every pro Russia thing or people from their country at a fast pace.\nI guess the moral of the story is that not to try and force people into a world/life they don't want to be, especially especially in the modern world where people are now way more aware of their rights and the progress/development that is possible. \nFor the Ukrainian nationalists it's a dream come true, where before they had to tread lightly now they can really excise Russia from the Ukrainian world. Finally doing what their ancestors tried for centuries to do. The Russians walked right into that one.",
">\n\nThere was a reply that I think encapsulated it perfectly. “As a third party watching this it’s pure madness”"
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words.",
">\n\nAnyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet? \nI'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished? \nJust asking questions.",
">\n\nI still don't understand why they decided an invasion was a good idea, when they could have used soft power influence through money and media misinformation campaigns.\nSurely that would have been cheaper than a massive 3 day military operation, even if it were successful.\nPerhaps he started to believe the propaganda around his military might following his earlier actions in Georgia and Ukraine.",
">\n\nThey had been using money, bribery, corruption and misinformation up until 2014 to subvert Ukrainian government and policies. Yanukovych rejecting the European alliance for the Russian sphere upended everything. The Ukrainians made it very clear they had no interest in the Russian world. They did not mind Russia but an alliance with them was a hell no and they were prepared to die and did die to make this clear.\nPutin got the message. Soft power had failed and they had to physically intervene. Of course the physical power has also failed and where before the Ukrainians were neutral on Russia they actively hate them now and are currently removing every pro Russia thing or people from their country at a fast pace.\nI guess the moral of the story is that not to try and force people into a world/life they don't want to be, especially especially in the modern world where people are now way more aware of their rights and the progress/development that is possible. \nFor the Ukrainian nationalists it's a dream come true, where before they had to tread lightly now they can really excise Russia from the Ukrainian world. Finally doing what their ancestors tried for centuries to do. The Russians walked right into that one.",
">\n\nThere was a reply that I think encapsulated it perfectly. “As a third party watching this it’s pure madness”",
">\n\nOne day Russians are going to have to come to grips with the fact that no one else wanted this. It’s all on them. \nCrazy."
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words.",
">\n\nAnyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet? \nI'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished? \nJust asking questions.",
">\n\nI still don't understand why they decided an invasion was a good idea, when they could have used soft power influence through money and media misinformation campaigns.\nSurely that would have been cheaper than a massive 3 day military operation, even if it were successful.\nPerhaps he started to believe the propaganda around his military might following his earlier actions in Georgia and Ukraine.",
">\n\nThey had been using money, bribery, corruption and misinformation up until 2014 to subvert Ukrainian government and policies. Yanukovych rejecting the European alliance for the Russian sphere upended everything. The Ukrainians made it very clear they had no interest in the Russian world. They did not mind Russia but an alliance with them was a hell no and they were prepared to die and did die to make this clear.\nPutin got the message. Soft power had failed and they had to physically intervene. Of course the physical power has also failed and where before the Ukrainians were neutral on Russia they actively hate them now and are currently removing every pro Russia thing or people from their country at a fast pace.\nI guess the moral of the story is that not to try and force people into a world/life they don't want to be, especially especially in the modern world where people are now way more aware of their rights and the progress/development that is possible. \nFor the Ukrainian nationalists it's a dream come true, where before they had to tread lightly now they can really excise Russia from the Ukrainian world. Finally doing what their ancestors tried for centuries to do. The Russians walked right into that one.",
">\n\nThere was a reply that I think encapsulated it perfectly. “As a third party watching this it’s pure madness”",
">\n\nOne day Russians are going to have to come to grips with the fact that no one else wanted this. It’s all on them. \nCrazy.",
">\n\nYeah that isn't going to fly. The moment they try to limit that is the moment they lose Florida. The dynamics of giving something away to get the speakership is irrelevent due to the vote totals needed."
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The speaker only has as much power as they can get themselves when being voted in. McCarthy is probably the weakest speaker in the last 50 years, and he has even made promises he is likely to break.
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words.",
">\n\nAnyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet? \nI'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished? \nJust asking questions.",
">\n\nI still don't understand why they decided an invasion was a good idea, when they could have used soft power influence through money and media misinformation campaigns.\nSurely that would have been cheaper than a massive 3 day military operation, even if it were successful.\nPerhaps he started to believe the propaganda around his military might following his earlier actions in Georgia and Ukraine.",
">\n\nThey had been using money, bribery, corruption and misinformation up until 2014 to subvert Ukrainian government and policies. Yanukovych rejecting the European alliance for the Russian sphere upended everything. The Ukrainians made it very clear they had no interest in the Russian world. They did not mind Russia but an alliance with them was a hell no and they were prepared to die and did die to make this clear.\nPutin got the message. Soft power had failed and they had to physically intervene. Of course the physical power has also failed and where before the Ukrainians were neutral on Russia they actively hate them now and are currently removing every pro Russia thing or people from their country at a fast pace.\nI guess the moral of the story is that not to try and force people into a world/life they don't want to be, especially especially in the modern world where people are now way more aware of their rights and the progress/development that is possible. \nFor the Ukrainian nationalists it's a dream come true, where before they had to tread lightly now they can really excise Russia from the Ukrainian world. Finally doing what their ancestors tried for centuries to do. The Russians walked right into that one.",
">\n\nThere was a reply that I think encapsulated it perfectly. “As a third party watching this it’s pure madness”",
">\n\nOne day Russians are going to have to come to grips with the fact that no one else wanted this. It’s all on them. \nCrazy.",
">\n\nYeah that isn't going to fly. The moment they try to limit that is the moment they lose Florida. The dynamics of giving something away to get the speakership is irrelevent due to the vote totals needed.",
">\n\nThe problem is that the Speaker has the ability to effectively veto a bill by simply never allowing it to go the floor. At which point, it does not matter how many would vote for it."
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words.",
">\n\nAnyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet? \nI'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished? \nJust asking questions.",
">\n\nI still don't understand why they decided an invasion was a good idea, when they could have used soft power influence through money and media misinformation campaigns.\nSurely that would have been cheaper than a massive 3 day military operation, even if it were successful.\nPerhaps he started to believe the propaganda around his military might following his earlier actions in Georgia and Ukraine.",
">\n\nThey had been using money, bribery, corruption and misinformation up until 2014 to subvert Ukrainian government and policies. Yanukovych rejecting the European alliance for the Russian sphere upended everything. The Ukrainians made it very clear they had no interest in the Russian world. They did not mind Russia but an alliance with them was a hell no and they were prepared to die and did die to make this clear.\nPutin got the message. Soft power had failed and they had to physically intervene. Of course the physical power has also failed and where before the Ukrainians were neutral on Russia they actively hate them now and are currently removing every pro Russia thing or people from their country at a fast pace.\nI guess the moral of the story is that not to try and force people into a world/life they don't want to be, especially especially in the modern world where people are now way more aware of their rights and the progress/development that is possible. \nFor the Ukrainian nationalists it's a dream come true, where before they had to tread lightly now they can really excise Russia from the Ukrainian world. Finally doing what their ancestors tried for centuries to do. The Russians walked right into that one.",
">\n\nThere was a reply that I think encapsulated it perfectly. “As a third party watching this it’s pure madness”",
">\n\nOne day Russians are going to have to come to grips with the fact that no one else wanted this. It’s all on them. \nCrazy.",
">\n\nYeah that isn't going to fly. The moment they try to limit that is the moment they lose Florida. The dynamics of giving something away to get the speakership is irrelevent due to the vote totals needed.",
">\n\nThe problem is that the Speaker has the ability to effectively veto a bill by simply never allowing it to go the floor. At which point, it does not matter how many would vote for it.",
">\n\nThat used to be true, but one of the concessions is that it only takes a single Republican to call for a vote to remove the speaker. \nThe speaker only has as much power as they can get themselves when being voted in. McCarthy is probably the weakest speaker in the last 50 years, and he has even made promises he is likely to break.\nThe spending cap he promised is not going to sit well with Republicans who take donations from the defense industry."
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words.",
">\n\nAnyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet? \nI'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished? \nJust asking questions.",
">\n\nI still don't understand why they decided an invasion was a good idea, when they could have used soft power influence through money and media misinformation campaigns.\nSurely that would have been cheaper than a massive 3 day military operation, even if it were successful.\nPerhaps he started to believe the propaganda around his military might following his earlier actions in Georgia and Ukraine.",
">\n\nThey had been using money, bribery, corruption and misinformation up until 2014 to subvert Ukrainian government and policies. Yanukovych rejecting the European alliance for the Russian sphere upended everything. The Ukrainians made it very clear they had no interest in the Russian world. They did not mind Russia but an alliance with them was a hell no and they were prepared to die and did die to make this clear.\nPutin got the message. Soft power had failed and they had to physically intervene. Of course the physical power has also failed and where before the Ukrainians were neutral on Russia they actively hate them now and are currently removing every pro Russia thing or people from their country at a fast pace.\nI guess the moral of the story is that not to try and force people into a world/life they don't want to be, especially especially in the modern world where people are now way more aware of their rights and the progress/development that is possible. \nFor the Ukrainian nationalists it's a dream come true, where before they had to tread lightly now they can really excise Russia from the Ukrainian world. Finally doing what their ancestors tried for centuries to do. The Russians walked right into that one.",
">\n\nThere was a reply that I think encapsulated it perfectly. “As a third party watching this it’s pure madness”",
">\n\nOne day Russians are going to have to come to grips with the fact that no one else wanted this. It’s all on them. \nCrazy.",
">\n\nYeah that isn't going to fly. The moment they try to limit that is the moment they lose Florida. The dynamics of giving something away to get the speakership is irrelevent due to the vote totals needed.",
">\n\nThe problem is that the Speaker has the ability to effectively veto a bill by simply never allowing it to go the floor. At which point, it does not matter how many would vote for it.",
">\n\nThat used to be true, but one of the concessions is that it only takes a single Republican to call for a vote to remove the speaker. \nThe speaker only has as much power as they can get themselves when being voted in. McCarthy is probably the weakest speaker in the last 50 years, and he has even made promises he is likely to break.\nThe spending cap he promised is not going to sit well with Republicans who take donations from the defense industry.",
">\n\nyou are giving republicans far too much credit. look what happened with Jan 6 and what they did to the ones who stood up to it"
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words.",
">\n\nAnyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet? \nI'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished? \nJust asking questions.",
">\n\nI still don't understand why they decided an invasion was a good idea, when they could have used soft power influence through money and media misinformation campaigns.\nSurely that would have been cheaper than a massive 3 day military operation, even if it were successful.\nPerhaps he started to believe the propaganda around his military might following his earlier actions in Georgia and Ukraine.",
">\n\nThey had been using money, bribery, corruption and misinformation up until 2014 to subvert Ukrainian government and policies. Yanukovych rejecting the European alliance for the Russian sphere upended everything. The Ukrainians made it very clear they had no interest in the Russian world. They did not mind Russia but an alliance with them was a hell no and they were prepared to die and did die to make this clear.\nPutin got the message. Soft power had failed and they had to physically intervene. Of course the physical power has also failed and where before the Ukrainians were neutral on Russia they actively hate them now and are currently removing every pro Russia thing or people from their country at a fast pace.\nI guess the moral of the story is that not to try and force people into a world/life they don't want to be, especially especially in the modern world where people are now way more aware of their rights and the progress/development that is possible. \nFor the Ukrainian nationalists it's a dream come true, where before they had to tread lightly now they can really excise Russia from the Ukrainian world. Finally doing what their ancestors tried for centuries to do. The Russians walked right into that one.",
">\n\nThere was a reply that I think encapsulated it perfectly. “As a third party watching this it’s pure madness”",
">\n\nOne day Russians are going to have to come to grips with the fact that no one else wanted this. It’s all on them. \nCrazy.",
">\n\nYeah that isn't going to fly. The moment they try to limit that is the moment they lose Florida. The dynamics of giving something away to get the speakership is irrelevent due to the vote totals needed.",
">\n\nThe problem is that the Speaker has the ability to effectively veto a bill by simply never allowing it to go the floor. At which point, it does not matter how many would vote for it.",
">\n\nThat used to be true, but one of the concessions is that it only takes a single Republican to call for a vote to remove the speaker. \nThe speaker only has as much power as they can get themselves when being voted in. McCarthy is probably the weakest speaker in the last 50 years, and he has even made promises he is likely to break.\nThe spending cap he promised is not going to sit well with Republicans who take donations from the defense industry.",
">\n\nyou are giving republicans far too much credit. look what happened with Jan 6 and what they did to the ones who stood up to it",
">\n\nAll wannabe authoritarians use religion as a weapon. It's the oldest and most successful play."
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words.",
">\n\nAnyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet? \nI'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished? \nJust asking questions.",
">\n\nI still don't understand why they decided an invasion was a good idea, when they could have used soft power influence through money and media misinformation campaigns.\nSurely that would have been cheaper than a massive 3 day military operation, even if it were successful.\nPerhaps he started to believe the propaganda around his military might following his earlier actions in Georgia and Ukraine.",
">\n\nThey had been using money, bribery, corruption and misinformation up until 2014 to subvert Ukrainian government and policies. Yanukovych rejecting the European alliance for the Russian sphere upended everything. The Ukrainians made it very clear they had no interest in the Russian world. They did not mind Russia but an alliance with them was a hell no and they were prepared to die and did die to make this clear.\nPutin got the message. Soft power had failed and they had to physically intervene. Of course the physical power has also failed and where before the Ukrainians were neutral on Russia they actively hate them now and are currently removing every pro Russia thing or people from their country at a fast pace.\nI guess the moral of the story is that not to try and force people into a world/life they don't want to be, especially especially in the modern world where people are now way more aware of their rights and the progress/development that is possible. \nFor the Ukrainian nationalists it's a dream come true, where before they had to tread lightly now they can really excise Russia from the Ukrainian world. Finally doing what their ancestors tried for centuries to do. The Russians walked right into that one.",
">\n\nThere was a reply that I think encapsulated it perfectly. “As a third party watching this it’s pure madness”",
">\n\nOne day Russians are going to have to come to grips with the fact that no one else wanted this. It’s all on them. \nCrazy.",
">\n\nYeah that isn't going to fly. The moment they try to limit that is the moment they lose Florida. The dynamics of giving something away to get the speakership is irrelevent due to the vote totals needed.",
">\n\nThe problem is that the Speaker has the ability to effectively veto a bill by simply never allowing it to go the floor. At which point, it does not matter how many would vote for it.",
">\n\nThat used to be true, but one of the concessions is that it only takes a single Republican to call for a vote to remove the speaker. \nThe speaker only has as much power as they can get themselves when being voted in. McCarthy is probably the weakest speaker in the last 50 years, and he has even made promises he is likely to break.\nThe spending cap he promised is not going to sit well with Republicans who take donations from the defense industry.",
">\n\nyou are giving republicans far too much credit. look what happened with Jan 6 and what they did to the ones who stood up to it",
">\n\nAll wannabe authoritarians use religion as a weapon. It's the oldest and most successful play.",
">\n\nElon Musk has been told he's a genius so many times by his closest supporters that he actually believes it. Therefore, he feels the need to interject his opinion into every topic even when he has absolutely no idea what he's talking about. This is a perfect example of that."
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words.",
">\n\nAnyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet? \nI'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished? \nJust asking questions.",
">\n\nI still don't understand why they decided an invasion was a good idea, when they could have used soft power influence through money and media misinformation campaigns.\nSurely that would have been cheaper than a massive 3 day military operation, even if it were successful.\nPerhaps he started to believe the propaganda around his military might following his earlier actions in Georgia and Ukraine.",
">\n\nThey had been using money, bribery, corruption and misinformation up until 2014 to subvert Ukrainian government and policies. Yanukovych rejecting the European alliance for the Russian sphere upended everything. The Ukrainians made it very clear they had no interest in the Russian world. They did not mind Russia but an alliance with them was a hell no and they were prepared to die and did die to make this clear.\nPutin got the message. Soft power had failed and they had to physically intervene. Of course the physical power has also failed and where before the Ukrainians were neutral on Russia they actively hate them now and are currently removing every pro Russia thing or people from their country at a fast pace.\nI guess the moral of the story is that not to try and force people into a world/life they don't want to be, especially especially in the modern world where people are now way more aware of their rights and the progress/development that is possible. \nFor the Ukrainian nationalists it's a dream come true, where before they had to tread lightly now they can really excise Russia from the Ukrainian world. Finally doing what their ancestors tried for centuries to do. The Russians walked right into that one.",
">\n\nThere was a reply that I think encapsulated it perfectly. “As a third party watching this it’s pure madness”",
">\n\nOne day Russians are going to have to come to grips with the fact that no one else wanted this. It’s all on them. \nCrazy.",
">\n\nYeah that isn't going to fly. The moment they try to limit that is the moment they lose Florida. The dynamics of giving something away to get the speakership is irrelevent due to the vote totals needed.",
">\n\nThe problem is that the Speaker has the ability to effectively veto a bill by simply never allowing it to go the floor. At which point, it does not matter how many would vote for it.",
">\n\nThat used to be true, but one of the concessions is that it only takes a single Republican to call for a vote to remove the speaker. \nThe speaker only has as much power as they can get themselves when being voted in. McCarthy is probably the weakest speaker in the last 50 years, and he has even made promises he is likely to break.\nThe spending cap he promised is not going to sit well with Republicans who take donations from the defense industry.",
">\n\nyou are giving republicans far too much credit. look what happened with Jan 6 and what they did to the ones who stood up to it",
">\n\nAll wannabe authoritarians use religion as a weapon. It's the oldest and most successful play.",
">\n\nElon Musk has been told he's a genius so many times by his closest supporters that he actually believes it. Therefore, he feels the need to interject his opinion into every topic even when he has absolutely no idea what he's talking about. This is a perfect example of that.",
">\n\nI have a coworker like that. In my head, I know him as the \"well actually\" guy."
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words.",
">\n\nAnyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet? \nI'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished? \nJust asking questions.",
">\n\nI still don't understand why they decided an invasion was a good idea, when they could have used soft power influence through money and media misinformation campaigns.\nSurely that would have been cheaper than a massive 3 day military operation, even if it were successful.\nPerhaps he started to believe the propaganda around his military might following his earlier actions in Georgia and Ukraine.",
">\n\nThey had been using money, bribery, corruption and misinformation up until 2014 to subvert Ukrainian government and policies. Yanukovych rejecting the European alliance for the Russian sphere upended everything. The Ukrainians made it very clear they had no interest in the Russian world. They did not mind Russia but an alliance with them was a hell no and they were prepared to die and did die to make this clear.\nPutin got the message. Soft power had failed and they had to physically intervene. Of course the physical power has also failed and where before the Ukrainians were neutral on Russia they actively hate them now and are currently removing every pro Russia thing or people from their country at a fast pace.\nI guess the moral of the story is that not to try and force people into a world/life they don't want to be, especially especially in the modern world where people are now way more aware of their rights and the progress/development that is possible. \nFor the Ukrainian nationalists it's a dream come true, where before they had to tread lightly now they can really excise Russia from the Ukrainian world. Finally doing what their ancestors tried for centuries to do. The Russians walked right into that one.",
">\n\nThere was a reply that I think encapsulated it perfectly. “As a third party watching this it’s pure madness”",
">\n\nOne day Russians are going to have to come to grips with the fact that no one else wanted this. It’s all on them. \nCrazy.",
">\n\nYeah that isn't going to fly. The moment they try to limit that is the moment they lose Florida. The dynamics of giving something away to get the speakership is irrelevent due to the vote totals needed.",
">\n\nThe problem is that the Speaker has the ability to effectively veto a bill by simply never allowing it to go the floor. At which point, it does not matter how many would vote for it.",
">\n\nThat used to be true, but one of the concessions is that it only takes a single Republican to call for a vote to remove the speaker. \nThe speaker only has as much power as they can get themselves when being voted in. McCarthy is probably the weakest speaker in the last 50 years, and he has even made promises he is likely to break.\nThe spending cap he promised is not going to sit well with Republicans who take donations from the defense industry.",
">\n\nyou are giving republicans far too much credit. look what happened with Jan 6 and what they did to the ones who stood up to it",
">\n\nAll wannabe authoritarians use religion as a weapon. It's the oldest and most successful play.",
">\n\nElon Musk has been told he's a genius so many times by his closest supporters that he actually believes it. Therefore, he feels the need to interject his opinion into every topic even when he has absolutely no idea what he's talking about. This is a perfect example of that.",
">\n\nI have a coworker like that. In my head, I know him as the \"well actually\" guy.",
">\n\nAs a well actually guy myself, I feel for you"
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words.",
">\n\nAnyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet? \nI'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished? \nJust asking questions.",
">\n\nI still don't understand why they decided an invasion was a good idea, when they could have used soft power influence through money and media misinformation campaigns.\nSurely that would have been cheaper than a massive 3 day military operation, even if it were successful.\nPerhaps he started to believe the propaganda around his military might following his earlier actions in Georgia and Ukraine.",
">\n\nThey had been using money, bribery, corruption and misinformation up until 2014 to subvert Ukrainian government and policies. Yanukovych rejecting the European alliance for the Russian sphere upended everything. The Ukrainians made it very clear they had no interest in the Russian world. They did not mind Russia but an alliance with them was a hell no and they were prepared to die and did die to make this clear.\nPutin got the message. Soft power had failed and they had to physically intervene. Of course the physical power has also failed and where before the Ukrainians were neutral on Russia they actively hate them now and are currently removing every pro Russia thing or people from their country at a fast pace.\nI guess the moral of the story is that not to try and force people into a world/life they don't want to be, especially especially in the modern world where people are now way more aware of their rights and the progress/development that is possible. \nFor the Ukrainian nationalists it's a dream come true, where before they had to tread lightly now they can really excise Russia from the Ukrainian world. Finally doing what their ancestors tried for centuries to do. The Russians walked right into that one.",
">\n\nThere was a reply that I think encapsulated it perfectly. “As a third party watching this it’s pure madness”",
">\n\nOne day Russians are going to have to come to grips with the fact that no one else wanted this. It’s all on them. \nCrazy.",
">\n\nYeah that isn't going to fly. The moment they try to limit that is the moment they lose Florida. The dynamics of giving something away to get the speakership is irrelevent due to the vote totals needed.",
">\n\nThe problem is that the Speaker has the ability to effectively veto a bill by simply never allowing it to go the floor. At which point, it does not matter how many would vote for it.",
">\n\nThat used to be true, but one of the concessions is that it only takes a single Republican to call for a vote to remove the speaker. \nThe speaker only has as much power as they can get themselves when being voted in. McCarthy is probably the weakest speaker in the last 50 years, and he has even made promises he is likely to break.\nThe spending cap he promised is not going to sit well with Republicans who take donations from the defense industry.",
">\n\nyou are giving republicans far too much credit. look what happened with Jan 6 and what they did to the ones who stood up to it",
">\n\nAll wannabe authoritarians use religion as a weapon. It's the oldest and most successful play.",
">\n\nElon Musk has been told he's a genius so many times by his closest supporters that he actually believes it. Therefore, he feels the need to interject his opinion into every topic even when he has absolutely no idea what he's talking about. This is a perfect example of that.",
">\n\nI have a coworker like that. In my head, I know him as the \"well actually\" guy.",
">\n\nAs a well actually guy myself, I feel for you",
">\n\nWell actually, you just feel for yourself, based on a study done by moleratical et AL, 1991"
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Arestovych in today's broadcast with Feygin says more HIMARS (specifies "vehicles") are coming as part of the $3b package recently announced - the one with the Paladins. No specific number mentioned.
Before anyone says "yeah, but Arestovych..." don't. We've all heard it before, we all know. Believe it or don't, it's no skin off my nose. | [
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words.",
">\n\nAnyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet? \nI'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished? \nJust asking questions.",
">\n\nI still don't understand why they decided an invasion was a good idea, when they could have used soft power influence through money and media misinformation campaigns.\nSurely that would have been cheaper than a massive 3 day military operation, even if it were successful.\nPerhaps he started to believe the propaganda around his military might following his earlier actions in Georgia and Ukraine.",
">\n\nThey had been using money, bribery, corruption and misinformation up until 2014 to subvert Ukrainian government and policies. Yanukovych rejecting the European alliance for the Russian sphere upended everything. The Ukrainians made it very clear they had no interest in the Russian world. They did not mind Russia but an alliance with them was a hell no and they were prepared to die and did die to make this clear.\nPutin got the message. Soft power had failed and they had to physically intervene. Of course the physical power has also failed and where before the Ukrainians were neutral on Russia they actively hate them now and are currently removing every pro Russia thing or people from their country at a fast pace.\nI guess the moral of the story is that not to try and force people into a world/life they don't want to be, especially especially in the modern world where people are now way more aware of their rights and the progress/development that is possible. \nFor the Ukrainian nationalists it's a dream come true, where before they had to tread lightly now they can really excise Russia from the Ukrainian world. Finally doing what their ancestors tried for centuries to do. The Russians walked right into that one.",
">\n\nThere was a reply that I think encapsulated it perfectly. “As a third party watching this it’s pure madness”",
">\n\nOne day Russians are going to have to come to grips with the fact that no one else wanted this. It’s all on them. \nCrazy.",
">\n\nYeah that isn't going to fly. The moment they try to limit that is the moment they lose Florida. The dynamics of giving something away to get the speakership is irrelevent due to the vote totals needed.",
">\n\nThe problem is that the Speaker has the ability to effectively veto a bill by simply never allowing it to go the floor. At which point, it does not matter how many would vote for it.",
">\n\nThat used to be true, but one of the concessions is that it only takes a single Republican to call for a vote to remove the speaker. \nThe speaker only has as much power as they can get themselves when being voted in. McCarthy is probably the weakest speaker in the last 50 years, and he has even made promises he is likely to break.\nThe spending cap he promised is not going to sit well with Republicans who take donations from the defense industry.",
">\n\nyou are giving republicans far too much credit. look what happened with Jan 6 and what they did to the ones who stood up to it",
">\n\nAll wannabe authoritarians use religion as a weapon. It's the oldest and most successful play.",
">\n\nElon Musk has been told he's a genius so many times by his closest supporters that he actually believes it. Therefore, he feels the need to interject his opinion into every topic even when he has absolutely no idea what he's talking about. This is a perfect example of that.",
">\n\nI have a coworker like that. In my head, I know him as the \"well actually\" guy.",
">\n\nAs a well actually guy myself, I feel for you",
">\n\nWell actually, you just feel for yourself, based on a study done by moleratical et AL, 1991",
">\n\nTouché"
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words.",
">\n\nAnyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet? \nI'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished? \nJust asking questions.",
">\n\nI still don't understand why they decided an invasion was a good idea, when they could have used soft power influence through money and media misinformation campaigns.\nSurely that would have been cheaper than a massive 3 day military operation, even if it were successful.\nPerhaps he started to believe the propaganda around his military might following his earlier actions in Georgia and Ukraine.",
">\n\nThey had been using money, bribery, corruption and misinformation up until 2014 to subvert Ukrainian government and policies. Yanukovych rejecting the European alliance for the Russian sphere upended everything. The Ukrainians made it very clear they had no interest in the Russian world. They did not mind Russia but an alliance with them was a hell no and they were prepared to die and did die to make this clear.\nPutin got the message. Soft power had failed and they had to physically intervene. Of course the physical power has also failed and where before the Ukrainians were neutral on Russia they actively hate them now and are currently removing every pro Russia thing or people from their country at a fast pace.\nI guess the moral of the story is that not to try and force people into a world/life they don't want to be, especially especially in the modern world where people are now way more aware of their rights and the progress/development that is possible. \nFor the Ukrainian nationalists it's a dream come true, where before they had to tread lightly now they can really excise Russia from the Ukrainian world. Finally doing what their ancestors tried for centuries to do. The Russians walked right into that one.",
">\n\nThere was a reply that I think encapsulated it perfectly. “As a third party watching this it’s pure madness”",
">\n\nOne day Russians are going to have to come to grips with the fact that no one else wanted this. It’s all on them. \nCrazy.",
">\n\nYeah that isn't going to fly. The moment they try to limit that is the moment they lose Florida. The dynamics of giving something away to get the speakership is irrelevent due to the vote totals needed.",
">\n\nThe problem is that the Speaker has the ability to effectively veto a bill by simply never allowing it to go the floor. At which point, it does not matter how many would vote for it.",
">\n\nThat used to be true, but one of the concessions is that it only takes a single Republican to call for a vote to remove the speaker. \nThe speaker only has as much power as they can get themselves when being voted in. McCarthy is probably the weakest speaker in the last 50 years, and he has even made promises he is likely to break.\nThe spending cap he promised is not going to sit well with Republicans who take donations from the defense industry.",
">\n\nyou are giving republicans far too much credit. look what happened with Jan 6 and what they did to the ones who stood up to it",
">\n\nAll wannabe authoritarians use religion as a weapon. It's the oldest and most successful play.",
">\n\nElon Musk has been told he's a genius so many times by his closest supporters that he actually believes it. Therefore, he feels the need to interject his opinion into every topic even when he has absolutely no idea what he's talking about. This is a perfect example of that.",
">\n\nI have a coworker like that. In my head, I know him as the \"well actually\" guy.",
">\n\nAs a well actually guy myself, I feel for you",
">\n\nWell actually, you just feel for yourself, based on a study done by moleratical et AL, 1991",
">\n\nTouché",
">\n\nArestovych in today's broadcast with Feygin says more HIMARS (specifies \"vehicles\") are coming as part of the $3b package recently announced - the one with the Paladins. No specific number mentioned.\nBefore anyone says \"yeah, but Arestovych...\" don't. We've all heard it before, we all know. Believe it or don't, it's no skin off my nose."
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words.",
">\n\nAnyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet? \nI'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished? \nJust asking questions.",
">\n\nI still don't understand why they decided an invasion was a good idea, when they could have used soft power influence through money and media misinformation campaigns.\nSurely that would have been cheaper than a massive 3 day military operation, even if it were successful.\nPerhaps he started to believe the propaganda around his military might following his earlier actions in Georgia and Ukraine.",
">\n\nThey had been using money, bribery, corruption and misinformation up until 2014 to subvert Ukrainian government and policies. Yanukovych rejecting the European alliance for the Russian sphere upended everything. The Ukrainians made it very clear they had no interest in the Russian world. They did not mind Russia but an alliance with them was a hell no and they were prepared to die and did die to make this clear.\nPutin got the message. Soft power had failed and they had to physically intervene. Of course the physical power has also failed and where before the Ukrainians were neutral on Russia they actively hate them now and are currently removing every pro Russia thing or people from their country at a fast pace.\nI guess the moral of the story is that not to try and force people into a world/life they don't want to be, especially especially in the modern world where people are now way more aware of their rights and the progress/development that is possible. \nFor the Ukrainian nationalists it's a dream come true, where before they had to tread lightly now they can really excise Russia from the Ukrainian world. Finally doing what their ancestors tried for centuries to do. The Russians walked right into that one.",
">\n\nThere was a reply that I think encapsulated it perfectly. “As a third party watching this it’s pure madness”",
">\n\nOne day Russians are going to have to come to grips with the fact that no one else wanted this. It’s all on them. \nCrazy.",
">\n\nYeah that isn't going to fly. The moment they try to limit that is the moment they lose Florida. The dynamics of giving something away to get the speakership is irrelevent due to the vote totals needed.",
">\n\nThe problem is that the Speaker has the ability to effectively veto a bill by simply never allowing it to go the floor. At which point, it does not matter how many would vote for it.",
">\n\nThat used to be true, but one of the concessions is that it only takes a single Republican to call for a vote to remove the speaker. \nThe speaker only has as much power as they can get themselves when being voted in. McCarthy is probably the weakest speaker in the last 50 years, and he has even made promises he is likely to break.\nThe spending cap he promised is not going to sit well with Republicans who take donations from the defense industry.",
">\n\nyou are giving republicans far too much credit. look what happened with Jan 6 and what they did to the ones who stood up to it",
">\n\nAll wannabe authoritarians use religion as a weapon. It's the oldest and most successful play.",
">\n\nElon Musk has been told he's a genius so many times by his closest supporters that he actually believes it. Therefore, he feels the need to interject his opinion into every topic even when he has absolutely no idea what he's talking about. This is a perfect example of that.",
">\n\nI have a coworker like that. In my head, I know him as the \"well actually\" guy.",
">\n\nAs a well actually guy myself, I feel for you",
">\n\nWell actually, you just feel for yourself, based on a study done by moleratical et AL, 1991",
">\n\nTouché",
">\n\nArestovych in today's broadcast with Feygin says more HIMARS (specifies \"vehicles\") are coming as part of the $3b package recently announced - the one with the Paladins. No specific number mentioned.\nBefore anyone says \"yeah, but Arestovych...\" don't. We've all heard it before, we all know. Believe it or don't, it's no skin off my nose.",
">\n\nI mean it’s not a secret. It’s literally on the list the Pentagon released of what was in the package."
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words.",
">\n\nAnyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet? \nI'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished? \nJust asking questions.",
">\n\nI still don't understand why they decided an invasion was a good idea, when they could have used soft power influence through money and media misinformation campaigns.\nSurely that would have been cheaper than a massive 3 day military operation, even if it were successful.\nPerhaps he started to believe the propaganda around his military might following his earlier actions in Georgia and Ukraine.",
">\n\nThey had been using money, bribery, corruption and misinformation up until 2014 to subvert Ukrainian government and policies. Yanukovych rejecting the European alliance for the Russian sphere upended everything. The Ukrainians made it very clear they had no interest in the Russian world. They did not mind Russia but an alliance with them was a hell no and they were prepared to die and did die to make this clear.\nPutin got the message. Soft power had failed and they had to physically intervene. Of course the physical power has also failed and where before the Ukrainians were neutral on Russia they actively hate them now and are currently removing every pro Russia thing or people from their country at a fast pace.\nI guess the moral of the story is that not to try and force people into a world/life they don't want to be, especially especially in the modern world where people are now way more aware of their rights and the progress/development that is possible. \nFor the Ukrainian nationalists it's a dream come true, where before they had to tread lightly now they can really excise Russia from the Ukrainian world. Finally doing what their ancestors tried for centuries to do. The Russians walked right into that one.",
">\n\nThere was a reply that I think encapsulated it perfectly. “As a third party watching this it’s pure madness”",
">\n\nOne day Russians are going to have to come to grips with the fact that no one else wanted this. It’s all on them. \nCrazy.",
">\n\nYeah that isn't going to fly. The moment they try to limit that is the moment they lose Florida. The dynamics of giving something away to get the speakership is irrelevent due to the vote totals needed.",
">\n\nThe problem is that the Speaker has the ability to effectively veto a bill by simply never allowing it to go the floor. At which point, it does not matter how many would vote for it.",
">\n\nThat used to be true, but one of the concessions is that it only takes a single Republican to call for a vote to remove the speaker. \nThe speaker only has as much power as they can get themselves when being voted in. McCarthy is probably the weakest speaker in the last 50 years, and he has even made promises he is likely to break.\nThe spending cap he promised is not going to sit well with Republicans who take donations from the defense industry.",
">\n\nyou are giving republicans far too much credit. look what happened with Jan 6 and what they did to the ones who stood up to it",
">\n\nAll wannabe authoritarians use religion as a weapon. It's the oldest and most successful play.",
">\n\nElon Musk has been told he's a genius so many times by his closest supporters that he actually believes it. Therefore, he feels the need to interject his opinion into every topic even when he has absolutely no idea what he's talking about. This is a perfect example of that.",
">\n\nI have a coworker like that. In my head, I know him as the \"well actually\" guy.",
">\n\nAs a well actually guy myself, I feel for you",
">\n\nWell actually, you just feel for yourself, based on a study done by moleratical et AL, 1991",
">\n\nTouché",
">\n\nArestovych in today's broadcast with Feygin says more HIMARS (specifies \"vehicles\") are coming as part of the $3b package recently announced - the one with the Paladins. No specific number mentioned.\nBefore anyone says \"yeah, but Arestovych...\" don't. We've all heard it before, we all know. Believe it or don't, it's no skin off my nose.",
">\n\nI mean it’s not a secret. It’s literally on the list the Pentagon released of what was in the package.",
">\n\nLoads of loaded posts seeking doubt today, Russia must be struggling."
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words.",
">\n\nAnyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet? \nI'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished? \nJust asking questions.",
">\n\nI still don't understand why they decided an invasion was a good idea, when they could have used soft power influence through money and media misinformation campaigns.\nSurely that would have been cheaper than a massive 3 day military operation, even if it were successful.\nPerhaps he started to believe the propaganda around his military might following his earlier actions in Georgia and Ukraine.",
">\n\nThey had been using money, bribery, corruption and misinformation up until 2014 to subvert Ukrainian government and policies. Yanukovych rejecting the European alliance for the Russian sphere upended everything. The Ukrainians made it very clear they had no interest in the Russian world. They did not mind Russia but an alliance with them was a hell no and they were prepared to die and did die to make this clear.\nPutin got the message. Soft power had failed and they had to physically intervene. Of course the physical power has also failed and where before the Ukrainians were neutral on Russia they actively hate them now and are currently removing every pro Russia thing or people from their country at a fast pace.\nI guess the moral of the story is that not to try and force people into a world/life they don't want to be, especially especially in the modern world where people are now way more aware of their rights and the progress/development that is possible. \nFor the Ukrainian nationalists it's a dream come true, where before they had to tread lightly now they can really excise Russia from the Ukrainian world. Finally doing what their ancestors tried for centuries to do. The Russians walked right into that one.",
">\n\nThere was a reply that I think encapsulated it perfectly. “As a third party watching this it’s pure madness”",
">\n\nOne day Russians are going to have to come to grips with the fact that no one else wanted this. It’s all on them. \nCrazy.",
">\n\nYeah that isn't going to fly. The moment they try to limit that is the moment they lose Florida. The dynamics of giving something away to get the speakership is irrelevent due to the vote totals needed.",
">\n\nThe problem is that the Speaker has the ability to effectively veto a bill by simply never allowing it to go the floor. At which point, it does not matter how many would vote for it.",
">\n\nThat used to be true, but one of the concessions is that it only takes a single Republican to call for a vote to remove the speaker. \nThe speaker only has as much power as they can get themselves when being voted in. McCarthy is probably the weakest speaker in the last 50 years, and he has even made promises he is likely to break.\nThe spending cap he promised is not going to sit well with Republicans who take donations from the defense industry.",
">\n\nyou are giving republicans far too much credit. look what happened with Jan 6 and what they did to the ones who stood up to it",
">\n\nAll wannabe authoritarians use religion as a weapon. It's the oldest and most successful play.",
">\n\nElon Musk has been told he's a genius so many times by his closest supporters that he actually believes it. Therefore, he feels the need to interject his opinion into every topic even when he has absolutely no idea what he's talking about. This is a perfect example of that.",
">\n\nI have a coworker like that. In my head, I know him as the \"well actually\" guy.",
">\n\nAs a well actually guy myself, I feel for you",
">\n\nWell actually, you just feel for yourself, based on a study done by moleratical et AL, 1991",
">\n\nTouché",
">\n\nArestovych in today's broadcast with Feygin says more HIMARS (specifies \"vehicles\") are coming as part of the $3b package recently announced - the one with the Paladins. No specific number mentioned.\nBefore anyone says \"yeah, but Arestovych...\" don't. We've all heard it before, we all know. Believe it or don't, it's no skin off my nose.",
">\n\nI mean it’s not a secret. It’s literally on the list the Pentagon released of what was in the package.",
">\n\nLoads of loaded posts seeking doubt today, Russia must be struggling.",
">\n\nThey’re nervous. Mud is hardening."
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words.",
">\n\nAnyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet? \nI'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished? \nJust asking questions.",
">\n\nI still don't understand why they decided an invasion was a good idea, when they could have used soft power influence through money and media misinformation campaigns.\nSurely that would have been cheaper than a massive 3 day military operation, even if it were successful.\nPerhaps he started to believe the propaganda around his military might following his earlier actions in Georgia and Ukraine.",
">\n\nThey had been using money, bribery, corruption and misinformation up until 2014 to subvert Ukrainian government and policies. Yanukovych rejecting the European alliance for the Russian sphere upended everything. The Ukrainians made it very clear they had no interest in the Russian world. They did not mind Russia but an alliance with them was a hell no and they were prepared to die and did die to make this clear.\nPutin got the message. Soft power had failed and they had to physically intervene. Of course the physical power has also failed and where before the Ukrainians were neutral on Russia they actively hate them now and are currently removing every pro Russia thing or people from their country at a fast pace.\nI guess the moral of the story is that not to try and force people into a world/life they don't want to be, especially especially in the modern world where people are now way more aware of their rights and the progress/development that is possible. \nFor the Ukrainian nationalists it's a dream come true, where before they had to tread lightly now they can really excise Russia from the Ukrainian world. Finally doing what their ancestors tried for centuries to do. The Russians walked right into that one.",
">\n\nThere was a reply that I think encapsulated it perfectly. “As a third party watching this it’s pure madness”",
">\n\nOne day Russians are going to have to come to grips with the fact that no one else wanted this. It’s all on them. \nCrazy.",
">\n\nYeah that isn't going to fly. The moment they try to limit that is the moment they lose Florida. The dynamics of giving something away to get the speakership is irrelevent due to the vote totals needed.",
">\n\nThe problem is that the Speaker has the ability to effectively veto a bill by simply never allowing it to go the floor. At which point, it does not matter how many would vote for it.",
">\n\nThat used to be true, but one of the concessions is that it only takes a single Republican to call for a vote to remove the speaker. \nThe speaker only has as much power as they can get themselves when being voted in. McCarthy is probably the weakest speaker in the last 50 years, and he has even made promises he is likely to break.\nThe spending cap he promised is not going to sit well with Republicans who take donations from the defense industry.",
">\n\nyou are giving republicans far too much credit. look what happened with Jan 6 and what they did to the ones who stood up to it",
">\n\nAll wannabe authoritarians use religion as a weapon. It's the oldest and most successful play.",
">\n\nElon Musk has been told he's a genius so many times by his closest supporters that he actually believes it. Therefore, he feels the need to interject his opinion into every topic even when he has absolutely no idea what he's talking about. This is a perfect example of that.",
">\n\nI have a coworker like that. In my head, I know him as the \"well actually\" guy.",
">\n\nAs a well actually guy myself, I feel for you",
">\n\nWell actually, you just feel for yourself, based on a study done by moleratical et AL, 1991",
">\n\nTouché",
">\n\nArestovych in today's broadcast with Feygin says more HIMARS (specifies \"vehicles\") are coming as part of the $3b package recently announced - the one with the Paladins. No specific number mentioned.\nBefore anyone says \"yeah, but Arestovych...\" don't. We've all heard it before, we all know. Believe it or don't, it's no skin off my nose.",
">\n\nI mean it’s not a secret. It’s literally on the list the Pentagon released of what was in the package.",
">\n\nLoads of loaded posts seeking doubt today, Russia must be struggling.",
">\n\nThey’re nervous. Mud is hardening.",
">\n\nAnd amx-10, bradleys and maraders on their way"
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Is Medved just pathetic as a hype man or is that just me mad at Russia? Seriously this guy is more pathetic than Tate worshipers. I’d like to make a motion to change Medveds name to “the human speed bump”
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words.",
">\n\nAnyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet? \nI'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished? \nJust asking questions.",
">\n\nI still don't understand why they decided an invasion was a good idea, when they could have used soft power influence through money and media misinformation campaigns.\nSurely that would have been cheaper than a massive 3 day military operation, even if it were successful.\nPerhaps he started to believe the propaganda around his military might following his earlier actions in Georgia and Ukraine.",
">\n\nThey had been using money, bribery, corruption and misinformation up until 2014 to subvert Ukrainian government and policies. Yanukovych rejecting the European alliance for the Russian sphere upended everything. The Ukrainians made it very clear they had no interest in the Russian world. They did not mind Russia but an alliance with them was a hell no and they were prepared to die and did die to make this clear.\nPutin got the message. Soft power had failed and they had to physically intervene. Of course the physical power has also failed and where before the Ukrainians were neutral on Russia they actively hate them now and are currently removing every pro Russia thing or people from their country at a fast pace.\nI guess the moral of the story is that not to try and force people into a world/life they don't want to be, especially especially in the modern world where people are now way more aware of their rights and the progress/development that is possible. \nFor the Ukrainian nationalists it's a dream come true, where before they had to tread lightly now they can really excise Russia from the Ukrainian world. Finally doing what their ancestors tried for centuries to do. The Russians walked right into that one.",
">\n\nThere was a reply that I think encapsulated it perfectly. “As a third party watching this it’s pure madness”",
">\n\nOne day Russians are going to have to come to grips with the fact that no one else wanted this. It’s all on them. \nCrazy.",
">\n\nYeah that isn't going to fly. The moment they try to limit that is the moment they lose Florida. The dynamics of giving something away to get the speakership is irrelevent due to the vote totals needed.",
">\n\nThe problem is that the Speaker has the ability to effectively veto a bill by simply never allowing it to go the floor. At which point, it does not matter how many would vote for it.",
">\n\nThat used to be true, but one of the concessions is that it only takes a single Republican to call for a vote to remove the speaker. \nThe speaker only has as much power as they can get themselves when being voted in. McCarthy is probably the weakest speaker in the last 50 years, and he has even made promises he is likely to break.\nThe spending cap he promised is not going to sit well with Republicans who take donations from the defense industry.",
">\n\nyou are giving republicans far too much credit. look what happened with Jan 6 and what they did to the ones who stood up to it",
">\n\nAll wannabe authoritarians use religion as a weapon. It's the oldest and most successful play.",
">\n\nElon Musk has been told he's a genius so many times by his closest supporters that he actually believes it. Therefore, he feels the need to interject his opinion into every topic even when he has absolutely no idea what he's talking about. This is a perfect example of that.",
">\n\nI have a coworker like that. In my head, I know him as the \"well actually\" guy.",
">\n\nAs a well actually guy myself, I feel for you",
">\n\nWell actually, you just feel for yourself, based on a study done by moleratical et AL, 1991",
">\n\nTouché",
">\n\nArestovych in today's broadcast with Feygin says more HIMARS (specifies \"vehicles\") are coming as part of the $3b package recently announced - the one with the Paladins. No specific number mentioned.\nBefore anyone says \"yeah, but Arestovych...\" don't. We've all heard it before, we all know. Believe it or don't, it's no skin off my nose.",
">\n\nI mean it’s not a secret. It’s literally on the list the Pentagon released of what was in the package.",
">\n\nLoads of loaded posts seeking doubt today, Russia must be struggling.",
">\n\nThey’re nervous. Mud is hardening.",
">\n\nAnd amx-10, bradleys and maraders on their way",
">\n\nUkraine and friendly volunteers were able to turn Russian troops into punching bags using just jeeps! Imagine how much more they can do to free their country with tanks and heavier vehicles."
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words.",
">\n\nAnyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet? \nI'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished? \nJust asking questions.",
">\n\nI still don't understand why they decided an invasion was a good idea, when they could have used soft power influence through money and media misinformation campaigns.\nSurely that would have been cheaper than a massive 3 day military operation, even if it were successful.\nPerhaps he started to believe the propaganda around his military might following his earlier actions in Georgia and Ukraine.",
">\n\nThey had been using money, bribery, corruption and misinformation up until 2014 to subvert Ukrainian government and policies. Yanukovych rejecting the European alliance for the Russian sphere upended everything. The Ukrainians made it very clear they had no interest in the Russian world. They did not mind Russia but an alliance with them was a hell no and they were prepared to die and did die to make this clear.\nPutin got the message. Soft power had failed and they had to physically intervene. Of course the physical power has also failed and where before the Ukrainians were neutral on Russia they actively hate them now and are currently removing every pro Russia thing or people from their country at a fast pace.\nI guess the moral of the story is that not to try and force people into a world/life they don't want to be, especially especially in the modern world where people are now way more aware of their rights and the progress/development that is possible. \nFor the Ukrainian nationalists it's a dream come true, where before they had to tread lightly now they can really excise Russia from the Ukrainian world. Finally doing what their ancestors tried for centuries to do. The Russians walked right into that one.",
">\n\nThere was a reply that I think encapsulated it perfectly. “As a third party watching this it’s pure madness”",
">\n\nOne day Russians are going to have to come to grips with the fact that no one else wanted this. It’s all on them. \nCrazy.",
">\n\nYeah that isn't going to fly. The moment they try to limit that is the moment they lose Florida. The dynamics of giving something away to get the speakership is irrelevent due to the vote totals needed.",
">\n\nThe problem is that the Speaker has the ability to effectively veto a bill by simply never allowing it to go the floor. At which point, it does not matter how many would vote for it.",
">\n\nThat used to be true, but one of the concessions is that it only takes a single Republican to call for a vote to remove the speaker. \nThe speaker only has as much power as they can get themselves when being voted in. McCarthy is probably the weakest speaker in the last 50 years, and he has even made promises he is likely to break.\nThe spending cap he promised is not going to sit well with Republicans who take donations from the defense industry.",
">\n\nyou are giving republicans far too much credit. look what happened with Jan 6 and what they did to the ones who stood up to it",
">\n\nAll wannabe authoritarians use religion as a weapon. It's the oldest and most successful play.",
">\n\nElon Musk has been told he's a genius so many times by his closest supporters that he actually believes it. Therefore, he feels the need to interject his opinion into every topic even when he has absolutely no idea what he's talking about. This is a perfect example of that.",
">\n\nI have a coworker like that. In my head, I know him as the \"well actually\" guy.",
">\n\nAs a well actually guy myself, I feel for you",
">\n\nWell actually, you just feel for yourself, based on a study done by moleratical et AL, 1991",
">\n\nTouché",
">\n\nArestovych in today's broadcast with Feygin says more HIMARS (specifies \"vehicles\") are coming as part of the $3b package recently announced - the one with the Paladins. No specific number mentioned.\nBefore anyone says \"yeah, but Arestovych...\" don't. We've all heard it before, we all know. Believe it or don't, it's no skin off my nose.",
">\n\nI mean it’s not a secret. It’s literally on the list the Pentagon released of what was in the package.",
">\n\nLoads of loaded posts seeking doubt today, Russia must be struggling.",
">\n\nThey’re nervous. Mud is hardening.",
">\n\nAnd amx-10, bradleys and maraders on their way",
">\n\nUkraine and friendly volunteers were able to turn Russian troops into punching bags using just jeeps! Imagine how much more they can do to free their country with tanks and heavier vehicles.",
">\n\nIs Medved just pathetic as a hype man or is that just me mad at Russia? Seriously this guy is more pathetic than Tate worshipers. I’d like to make a motion to change Medveds name to “the human speed bump”\nEdit. Nice to get downvoted. Hey fsb you suk."
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My theory is Putin considers him a threat since he would be an obvious choice to replace Putin since he was President during a good and prosperous time in Russia's history (2008-2012). So Putin tells him to be more extreme so that there is no viable alternatives for moderate/liberal Russians to support. If Medvedev came out as anti-war, then all a sudden he is a sane alternative to Putin and Putin will introduce him to a 4th story window. | [
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words.",
">\n\nAnyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet? \nI'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished? \nJust asking questions.",
">\n\nI still don't understand why they decided an invasion was a good idea, when they could have used soft power influence through money and media misinformation campaigns.\nSurely that would have been cheaper than a massive 3 day military operation, even if it were successful.\nPerhaps he started to believe the propaganda around his military might following his earlier actions in Georgia and Ukraine.",
">\n\nThey had been using money, bribery, corruption and misinformation up until 2014 to subvert Ukrainian government and policies. Yanukovych rejecting the European alliance for the Russian sphere upended everything. The Ukrainians made it very clear they had no interest in the Russian world. They did not mind Russia but an alliance with them was a hell no and they were prepared to die and did die to make this clear.\nPutin got the message. Soft power had failed and they had to physically intervene. Of course the physical power has also failed and where before the Ukrainians were neutral on Russia they actively hate them now and are currently removing every pro Russia thing or people from their country at a fast pace.\nI guess the moral of the story is that not to try and force people into a world/life they don't want to be, especially especially in the modern world where people are now way more aware of their rights and the progress/development that is possible. \nFor the Ukrainian nationalists it's a dream come true, where before they had to tread lightly now they can really excise Russia from the Ukrainian world. Finally doing what their ancestors tried for centuries to do. The Russians walked right into that one.",
">\n\nThere was a reply that I think encapsulated it perfectly. “As a third party watching this it’s pure madness”",
">\n\nOne day Russians are going to have to come to grips with the fact that no one else wanted this. It’s all on them. \nCrazy.",
">\n\nYeah that isn't going to fly. The moment they try to limit that is the moment they lose Florida. The dynamics of giving something away to get the speakership is irrelevent due to the vote totals needed.",
">\n\nThe problem is that the Speaker has the ability to effectively veto a bill by simply never allowing it to go the floor. At which point, it does not matter how many would vote for it.",
">\n\nThat used to be true, but one of the concessions is that it only takes a single Republican to call for a vote to remove the speaker. \nThe speaker only has as much power as they can get themselves when being voted in. McCarthy is probably the weakest speaker in the last 50 years, and he has even made promises he is likely to break.\nThe spending cap he promised is not going to sit well with Republicans who take donations from the defense industry.",
">\n\nyou are giving republicans far too much credit. look what happened with Jan 6 and what they did to the ones who stood up to it",
">\n\nAll wannabe authoritarians use religion as a weapon. It's the oldest and most successful play.",
">\n\nElon Musk has been told he's a genius so many times by his closest supporters that he actually believes it. Therefore, he feels the need to interject his opinion into every topic even when he has absolutely no idea what he's talking about. This is a perfect example of that.",
">\n\nI have a coworker like that. In my head, I know him as the \"well actually\" guy.",
">\n\nAs a well actually guy myself, I feel for you",
">\n\nWell actually, you just feel for yourself, based on a study done by moleratical et AL, 1991",
">\n\nTouché",
">\n\nArestovych in today's broadcast with Feygin says more HIMARS (specifies \"vehicles\") are coming as part of the $3b package recently announced - the one with the Paladins. No specific number mentioned.\nBefore anyone says \"yeah, but Arestovych...\" don't. We've all heard it before, we all know. Believe it or don't, it's no skin off my nose.",
">\n\nI mean it’s not a secret. It’s literally on the list the Pentagon released of what was in the package.",
">\n\nLoads of loaded posts seeking doubt today, Russia must be struggling.",
">\n\nThey’re nervous. Mud is hardening.",
">\n\nAnd amx-10, bradleys and maraders on their way",
">\n\nUkraine and friendly volunteers were able to turn Russian troops into punching bags using just jeeps! Imagine how much more they can do to free their country with tanks and heavier vehicles.",
">\n\nIs Medved just pathetic as a hype man or is that just me mad at Russia? Seriously this guy is more pathetic than Tate worshipers. I’d like to make a motion to change Medveds name to “the human speed bump”\nEdit. Nice to get downvoted. Hey fsb you suk.",
">\n\nI've heard the argument, which sounds correct, that he's making himself acceptable to ultra nationalists when it's time for Putin to go."
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The developments in congress, and the fact there will be Hunter Biden "show trials " won't make this war any simpler.
Thinking back, first major indication that Zelensky is a brilliant leader was the foresight he had in refusing Trump's "quid Pro quo". Consider for a moment how difficult that decision was - a lot of vital aid was on the line, he didn't know who would be elected next, and all they had to do was provide some slight nod to fuel the speculation. We're at the point where thinking about the next election can't be avoided. I expect that's why we saw that US visit when it happened, and there will be less overt pro-Biden optics for Ukraine in the next phase of the war. | [
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words.",
">\n\nAnyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet? \nI'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished? \nJust asking questions.",
">\n\nI still don't understand why they decided an invasion was a good idea, when they could have used soft power influence through money and media misinformation campaigns.\nSurely that would have been cheaper than a massive 3 day military operation, even if it were successful.\nPerhaps he started to believe the propaganda around his military might following his earlier actions in Georgia and Ukraine.",
">\n\nThey had been using money, bribery, corruption and misinformation up until 2014 to subvert Ukrainian government and policies. Yanukovych rejecting the European alliance for the Russian sphere upended everything. The Ukrainians made it very clear they had no interest in the Russian world. They did not mind Russia but an alliance with them was a hell no and they were prepared to die and did die to make this clear.\nPutin got the message. Soft power had failed and they had to physically intervene. Of course the physical power has also failed and where before the Ukrainians were neutral on Russia they actively hate them now and are currently removing every pro Russia thing or people from their country at a fast pace.\nI guess the moral of the story is that not to try and force people into a world/life they don't want to be, especially especially in the modern world where people are now way more aware of their rights and the progress/development that is possible. \nFor the Ukrainian nationalists it's a dream come true, where before they had to tread lightly now they can really excise Russia from the Ukrainian world. Finally doing what their ancestors tried for centuries to do. The Russians walked right into that one.",
">\n\nThere was a reply that I think encapsulated it perfectly. “As a third party watching this it’s pure madness”",
">\n\nOne day Russians are going to have to come to grips with the fact that no one else wanted this. It’s all on them. \nCrazy.",
">\n\nYeah that isn't going to fly. The moment they try to limit that is the moment they lose Florida. The dynamics of giving something away to get the speakership is irrelevent due to the vote totals needed.",
">\n\nThe problem is that the Speaker has the ability to effectively veto a bill by simply never allowing it to go the floor. At which point, it does not matter how many would vote for it.",
">\n\nThat used to be true, but one of the concessions is that it only takes a single Republican to call for a vote to remove the speaker. \nThe speaker only has as much power as they can get themselves when being voted in. McCarthy is probably the weakest speaker in the last 50 years, and he has even made promises he is likely to break.\nThe spending cap he promised is not going to sit well with Republicans who take donations from the defense industry.",
">\n\nyou are giving republicans far too much credit. look what happened with Jan 6 and what they did to the ones who stood up to it",
">\n\nAll wannabe authoritarians use religion as a weapon. It's the oldest and most successful play.",
">\n\nElon Musk has been told he's a genius so many times by his closest supporters that he actually believes it. Therefore, he feels the need to interject his opinion into every topic even when he has absolutely no idea what he's talking about. This is a perfect example of that.",
">\n\nI have a coworker like that. In my head, I know him as the \"well actually\" guy.",
">\n\nAs a well actually guy myself, I feel for you",
">\n\nWell actually, you just feel for yourself, based on a study done by moleratical et AL, 1991",
">\n\nTouché",
">\n\nArestovych in today's broadcast with Feygin says more HIMARS (specifies \"vehicles\") are coming as part of the $3b package recently announced - the one with the Paladins. No specific number mentioned.\nBefore anyone says \"yeah, but Arestovych...\" don't. We've all heard it before, we all know. Believe it or don't, it's no skin off my nose.",
">\n\nI mean it’s not a secret. It’s literally on the list the Pentagon released of what was in the package.",
">\n\nLoads of loaded posts seeking doubt today, Russia must be struggling.",
">\n\nThey’re nervous. Mud is hardening.",
">\n\nAnd amx-10, bradleys and maraders on their way",
">\n\nUkraine and friendly volunteers were able to turn Russian troops into punching bags using just jeeps! Imagine how much more they can do to free their country with tanks and heavier vehicles.",
">\n\nIs Medved just pathetic as a hype man or is that just me mad at Russia? Seriously this guy is more pathetic than Tate worshipers. I’d like to make a motion to change Medveds name to “the human speed bump”\nEdit. Nice to get downvoted. Hey fsb you suk.",
">\n\nI've heard the argument, which sounds correct, that he's making himself acceptable to ultra nationalists when it's time for Putin to go.",
">\n\nMy theory is Putin considers him a threat since he would be an obvious choice to replace Putin since he was President during a good and prosperous time in Russia's history (2008-2012). So Putin tells him to be more extreme so that there is no viable alternatives for moderate/liberal Russians to support. If Medvedev came out as anti-war, then all a sudden he is a sane alternative to Putin and Putin will introduce him to a 4th story window."
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If it took the current speaker 15 tries to get enough votes to just get the gavel, then there is next to zero chance that any "hunter Biden trials" happen. Or that the very few MAGA's in congress will be able to stop, or even seriously hinder the flow of aid. They have too few votes, and there are too many other congresspersons who serious want aid to continue for reasons ranging from goodwill, to just personal greed. | [
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words.",
">\n\nAnyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet? \nI'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished? \nJust asking questions.",
">\n\nI still don't understand why they decided an invasion was a good idea, when they could have used soft power influence through money and media misinformation campaigns.\nSurely that would have been cheaper than a massive 3 day military operation, even if it were successful.\nPerhaps he started to believe the propaganda around his military might following his earlier actions in Georgia and Ukraine.",
">\n\nThey had been using money, bribery, corruption and misinformation up until 2014 to subvert Ukrainian government and policies. Yanukovych rejecting the European alliance for the Russian sphere upended everything. The Ukrainians made it very clear they had no interest in the Russian world. They did not mind Russia but an alliance with them was a hell no and they were prepared to die and did die to make this clear.\nPutin got the message. Soft power had failed and they had to physically intervene. Of course the physical power has also failed and where before the Ukrainians were neutral on Russia they actively hate them now and are currently removing every pro Russia thing or people from their country at a fast pace.\nI guess the moral of the story is that not to try and force people into a world/life they don't want to be, especially especially in the modern world where people are now way more aware of their rights and the progress/development that is possible. \nFor the Ukrainian nationalists it's a dream come true, where before they had to tread lightly now they can really excise Russia from the Ukrainian world. Finally doing what their ancestors tried for centuries to do. The Russians walked right into that one.",
">\n\nThere was a reply that I think encapsulated it perfectly. “As a third party watching this it’s pure madness”",
">\n\nOne day Russians are going to have to come to grips with the fact that no one else wanted this. It’s all on them. \nCrazy.",
">\n\nYeah that isn't going to fly. The moment they try to limit that is the moment they lose Florida. The dynamics of giving something away to get the speakership is irrelevent due to the vote totals needed.",
">\n\nThe problem is that the Speaker has the ability to effectively veto a bill by simply never allowing it to go the floor. At which point, it does not matter how many would vote for it.",
">\n\nThat used to be true, but one of the concessions is that it only takes a single Republican to call for a vote to remove the speaker. \nThe speaker only has as much power as they can get themselves when being voted in. McCarthy is probably the weakest speaker in the last 50 years, and he has even made promises he is likely to break.\nThe spending cap he promised is not going to sit well with Republicans who take donations from the defense industry.",
">\n\nyou are giving republicans far too much credit. look what happened with Jan 6 and what they did to the ones who stood up to it",
">\n\nAll wannabe authoritarians use religion as a weapon. It's the oldest and most successful play.",
">\n\nElon Musk has been told he's a genius so many times by his closest supporters that he actually believes it. Therefore, he feels the need to interject his opinion into every topic even when he has absolutely no idea what he's talking about. This is a perfect example of that.",
">\n\nI have a coworker like that. In my head, I know him as the \"well actually\" guy.",
">\n\nAs a well actually guy myself, I feel for you",
">\n\nWell actually, you just feel for yourself, based on a study done by moleratical et AL, 1991",
">\n\nTouché",
">\n\nArestovych in today's broadcast with Feygin says more HIMARS (specifies \"vehicles\") are coming as part of the $3b package recently announced - the one with the Paladins. No specific number mentioned.\nBefore anyone says \"yeah, but Arestovych...\" don't. We've all heard it before, we all know. Believe it or don't, it's no skin off my nose.",
">\n\nI mean it’s not a secret. It’s literally on the list the Pentagon released of what was in the package.",
">\n\nLoads of loaded posts seeking doubt today, Russia must be struggling.",
">\n\nThey’re nervous. Mud is hardening.",
">\n\nAnd amx-10, bradleys and maraders on their way",
">\n\nUkraine and friendly volunteers were able to turn Russian troops into punching bags using just jeeps! Imagine how much more they can do to free their country with tanks and heavier vehicles.",
">\n\nIs Medved just pathetic as a hype man or is that just me mad at Russia? Seriously this guy is more pathetic than Tate worshipers. I’d like to make a motion to change Medveds name to “the human speed bump”\nEdit. Nice to get downvoted. Hey fsb you suk.",
">\n\nI've heard the argument, which sounds correct, that he's making himself acceptable to ultra nationalists when it's time for Putin to go.",
">\n\nMy theory is Putin considers him a threat since he would be an obvious choice to replace Putin since he was President during a good and prosperous time in Russia's history (2008-2012). So Putin tells him to be more extreme so that there is no viable alternatives for moderate/liberal Russians to support. If Medvedev came out as anti-war, then all a sudden he is a sane alternative to Putin and Putin will introduce him to a 4th story window.",
">\n\nThe developments in congress, and the fact there will be Hunter Biden \"show trials \" won't make this war any simpler. \nThinking back, first major indication that Zelensky is a brilliant leader was the foresight he had in refusing Trump's \"quid Pro quo\". Consider for a moment how difficult that decision was - a lot of vital aid was on the line, he didn't know who would be elected next, and all they had to do was provide some slight nod to fuel the speculation. We're at the point where thinking about the next election can't be avoided. I expect that's why we saw that US visit when it happened, and there will be less overt pro-Biden optics for Ukraine in the next phase of the war."
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words.",
">\n\nAnyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet? \nI'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished? \nJust asking questions.",
">\n\nI still don't understand why they decided an invasion was a good idea, when they could have used soft power influence through money and media misinformation campaigns.\nSurely that would have been cheaper than a massive 3 day military operation, even if it were successful.\nPerhaps he started to believe the propaganda around his military might following his earlier actions in Georgia and Ukraine.",
">\n\nThey had been using money, bribery, corruption and misinformation up until 2014 to subvert Ukrainian government and policies. Yanukovych rejecting the European alliance for the Russian sphere upended everything. The Ukrainians made it very clear they had no interest in the Russian world. They did not mind Russia but an alliance with them was a hell no and they were prepared to die and did die to make this clear.\nPutin got the message. Soft power had failed and they had to physically intervene. Of course the physical power has also failed and where before the Ukrainians were neutral on Russia they actively hate them now and are currently removing every pro Russia thing or people from their country at a fast pace.\nI guess the moral of the story is that not to try and force people into a world/life they don't want to be, especially especially in the modern world where people are now way more aware of their rights and the progress/development that is possible. \nFor the Ukrainian nationalists it's a dream come true, where before they had to tread lightly now they can really excise Russia from the Ukrainian world. Finally doing what their ancestors tried for centuries to do. The Russians walked right into that one.",
">\n\nThere was a reply that I think encapsulated it perfectly. “As a third party watching this it’s pure madness”",
">\n\nOne day Russians are going to have to come to grips with the fact that no one else wanted this. It’s all on them. \nCrazy.",
">\n\nYeah that isn't going to fly. The moment they try to limit that is the moment they lose Florida. The dynamics of giving something away to get the speakership is irrelevent due to the vote totals needed.",
">\n\nThe problem is that the Speaker has the ability to effectively veto a bill by simply never allowing it to go the floor. At which point, it does not matter how many would vote for it.",
">\n\nThat used to be true, but one of the concessions is that it only takes a single Republican to call for a vote to remove the speaker. \nThe speaker only has as much power as they can get themselves when being voted in. McCarthy is probably the weakest speaker in the last 50 years, and he has even made promises he is likely to break.\nThe spending cap he promised is not going to sit well with Republicans who take donations from the defense industry.",
">\n\nyou are giving republicans far too much credit. look what happened with Jan 6 and what they did to the ones who stood up to it",
">\n\nAll wannabe authoritarians use religion as a weapon. It's the oldest and most successful play.",
">\n\nElon Musk has been told he's a genius so many times by his closest supporters that he actually believes it. Therefore, he feels the need to interject his opinion into every topic even when he has absolutely no idea what he's talking about. This is a perfect example of that.",
">\n\nI have a coworker like that. In my head, I know him as the \"well actually\" guy.",
">\n\nAs a well actually guy myself, I feel for you",
">\n\nWell actually, you just feel for yourself, based on a study done by moleratical et AL, 1991",
">\n\nTouché",
">\n\nArestovych in today's broadcast with Feygin says more HIMARS (specifies \"vehicles\") are coming as part of the $3b package recently announced - the one with the Paladins. No specific number mentioned.\nBefore anyone says \"yeah, but Arestovych...\" don't. We've all heard it before, we all know. Believe it or don't, it's no skin off my nose.",
">\n\nI mean it’s not a secret. It’s literally on the list the Pentagon released of what was in the package.",
">\n\nLoads of loaded posts seeking doubt today, Russia must be struggling.",
">\n\nThey’re nervous. Mud is hardening.",
">\n\nAnd amx-10, bradleys and maraders on their way",
">\n\nUkraine and friendly volunteers were able to turn Russian troops into punching bags using just jeeps! Imagine how much more they can do to free their country with tanks and heavier vehicles.",
">\n\nIs Medved just pathetic as a hype man or is that just me mad at Russia? Seriously this guy is more pathetic than Tate worshipers. I’d like to make a motion to change Medveds name to “the human speed bump”\nEdit. Nice to get downvoted. Hey fsb you suk.",
">\n\nI've heard the argument, which sounds correct, that he's making himself acceptable to ultra nationalists when it's time for Putin to go.",
">\n\nMy theory is Putin considers him a threat since he would be an obvious choice to replace Putin since he was President during a good and prosperous time in Russia's history (2008-2012). So Putin tells him to be more extreme so that there is no viable alternatives for moderate/liberal Russians to support. If Medvedev came out as anti-war, then all a sudden he is a sane alternative to Putin and Putin will introduce him to a 4th story window.",
">\n\nThe developments in congress, and the fact there will be Hunter Biden \"show trials \" won't make this war any simpler. \nThinking back, first major indication that Zelensky is a brilliant leader was the foresight he had in refusing Trump's \"quid Pro quo\". Consider for a moment how difficult that decision was - a lot of vital aid was on the line, he didn't know who would be elected next, and all they had to do was provide some slight nod to fuel the speculation. We're at the point where thinking about the next election can't be avoided. I expect that's why we saw that US visit when it happened, and there will be less overt pro-Biden optics for Ukraine in the next phase of the war.",
">\n\nIf it took the current speaker 15 tries to get enough votes to just get the gavel, then there is next to zero chance that any \"hunter Biden trials\" happen. Or that the very few MAGA's in congress will be able to stop, or even seriously hinder the flow of aid. They have too few votes, and there are too many other congresspersons who serious want aid to continue for reasons ranging from goodwill, to just personal greed."
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Very specific concessions for bills that have zero hope of ever making it through the Senate. Assuming the rules package even gets agreed upon with them intact (as it doesn’t appear to be so)
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words.",
">\n\nAnyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet? \nI'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished? \nJust asking questions.",
">\n\nI still don't understand why they decided an invasion was a good idea, when they could have used soft power influence through money and media misinformation campaigns.\nSurely that would have been cheaper than a massive 3 day military operation, even if it were successful.\nPerhaps he started to believe the propaganda around his military might following his earlier actions in Georgia and Ukraine.",
">\n\nThey had been using money, bribery, corruption and misinformation up until 2014 to subvert Ukrainian government and policies. Yanukovych rejecting the European alliance for the Russian sphere upended everything. The Ukrainians made it very clear they had no interest in the Russian world. They did not mind Russia but an alliance with them was a hell no and they were prepared to die and did die to make this clear.\nPutin got the message. Soft power had failed and they had to physically intervene. Of course the physical power has also failed and where before the Ukrainians were neutral on Russia they actively hate them now and are currently removing every pro Russia thing or people from their country at a fast pace.\nI guess the moral of the story is that not to try and force people into a world/life they don't want to be, especially especially in the modern world where people are now way more aware of their rights and the progress/development that is possible. \nFor the Ukrainian nationalists it's a dream come true, where before they had to tread lightly now they can really excise Russia from the Ukrainian world. Finally doing what their ancestors tried for centuries to do. The Russians walked right into that one.",
">\n\nThere was a reply that I think encapsulated it perfectly. “As a third party watching this it’s pure madness”",
">\n\nOne day Russians are going to have to come to grips with the fact that no one else wanted this. It’s all on them. \nCrazy.",
">\n\nYeah that isn't going to fly. The moment they try to limit that is the moment they lose Florida. The dynamics of giving something away to get the speakership is irrelevent due to the vote totals needed.",
">\n\nThe problem is that the Speaker has the ability to effectively veto a bill by simply never allowing it to go the floor. At which point, it does not matter how many would vote for it.",
">\n\nThat used to be true, but one of the concessions is that it only takes a single Republican to call for a vote to remove the speaker. \nThe speaker only has as much power as they can get themselves when being voted in. McCarthy is probably the weakest speaker in the last 50 years, and he has even made promises he is likely to break.\nThe spending cap he promised is not going to sit well with Republicans who take donations from the defense industry.",
">\n\nyou are giving republicans far too much credit. look what happened with Jan 6 and what they did to the ones who stood up to it",
">\n\nAll wannabe authoritarians use religion as a weapon. It's the oldest and most successful play.",
">\n\nElon Musk has been told he's a genius so many times by his closest supporters that he actually believes it. Therefore, he feels the need to interject his opinion into every topic even when he has absolutely no idea what he's talking about. This is a perfect example of that.",
">\n\nI have a coworker like that. In my head, I know him as the \"well actually\" guy.",
">\n\nAs a well actually guy myself, I feel for you",
">\n\nWell actually, you just feel for yourself, based on a study done by moleratical et AL, 1991",
">\n\nTouché",
">\n\nArestovych in today's broadcast with Feygin says more HIMARS (specifies \"vehicles\") are coming as part of the $3b package recently announced - the one with the Paladins. No specific number mentioned.\nBefore anyone says \"yeah, but Arestovych...\" don't. We've all heard it before, we all know. Believe it or don't, it's no skin off my nose.",
">\n\nI mean it’s not a secret. It’s literally on the list the Pentagon released of what was in the package.",
">\n\nLoads of loaded posts seeking doubt today, Russia must be struggling.",
">\n\nThey’re nervous. Mud is hardening.",
">\n\nAnd amx-10, bradleys and maraders on their way",
">\n\nUkraine and friendly volunteers were able to turn Russian troops into punching bags using just jeeps! Imagine how much more they can do to free their country with tanks and heavier vehicles.",
">\n\nIs Medved just pathetic as a hype man or is that just me mad at Russia? Seriously this guy is more pathetic than Tate worshipers. I’d like to make a motion to change Medveds name to “the human speed bump”\nEdit. Nice to get downvoted. Hey fsb you suk.",
">\n\nI've heard the argument, which sounds correct, that he's making himself acceptable to ultra nationalists when it's time for Putin to go.",
">\n\nMy theory is Putin considers him a threat since he would be an obvious choice to replace Putin since he was President during a good and prosperous time in Russia's history (2008-2012). So Putin tells him to be more extreme so that there is no viable alternatives for moderate/liberal Russians to support. If Medvedev came out as anti-war, then all a sudden he is a sane alternative to Putin and Putin will introduce him to a 4th story window.",
">\n\nThe developments in congress, and the fact there will be Hunter Biden \"show trials \" won't make this war any simpler. \nThinking back, first major indication that Zelensky is a brilliant leader was the foresight he had in refusing Trump's \"quid Pro quo\". Consider for a moment how difficult that decision was - a lot of vital aid was on the line, he didn't know who would be elected next, and all they had to do was provide some slight nod to fuel the speculation. We're at the point where thinking about the next election can't be avoided. I expect that's why we saw that US visit when it happened, and there will be less overt pro-Biden optics for Ukraine in the next phase of the war.",
">\n\nIf it took the current speaker 15 tries to get enough votes to just get the gavel, then there is next to zero chance that any \"hunter Biden trials\" happen. Or that the very few MAGA's in congress will be able to stop, or even seriously hinder the flow of aid. They have too few votes, and there are too many other congresspersons who serious want aid to continue for reasons ranging from goodwill, to just personal greed.",
">\n\nYa, it'd be really, really wishful thinking to believe anything but the reasoning behind McCarthy winning even on the 15th is because he offered very specific concessions moving forward on everything from government spending, entitlement reform and Ukraine aid."
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words.",
">\n\nAnyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet? \nI'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished? \nJust asking questions.",
">\n\nI still don't understand why they decided an invasion was a good idea, when they could have used soft power influence through money and media misinformation campaigns.\nSurely that would have been cheaper than a massive 3 day military operation, even if it were successful.\nPerhaps he started to believe the propaganda around his military might following his earlier actions in Georgia and Ukraine.",
">\n\nThey had been using money, bribery, corruption and misinformation up until 2014 to subvert Ukrainian government and policies. Yanukovych rejecting the European alliance for the Russian sphere upended everything. The Ukrainians made it very clear they had no interest in the Russian world. They did not mind Russia but an alliance with them was a hell no and they were prepared to die and did die to make this clear.\nPutin got the message. Soft power had failed and they had to physically intervene. Of course the physical power has also failed and where before the Ukrainians were neutral on Russia they actively hate them now and are currently removing every pro Russia thing or people from their country at a fast pace.\nI guess the moral of the story is that not to try and force people into a world/life they don't want to be, especially especially in the modern world where people are now way more aware of their rights and the progress/development that is possible. \nFor the Ukrainian nationalists it's a dream come true, where before they had to tread lightly now they can really excise Russia from the Ukrainian world. Finally doing what their ancestors tried for centuries to do. The Russians walked right into that one.",
">\n\nThere was a reply that I think encapsulated it perfectly. “As a third party watching this it’s pure madness”",
">\n\nOne day Russians are going to have to come to grips with the fact that no one else wanted this. It’s all on them. \nCrazy.",
">\n\nYeah that isn't going to fly. The moment they try to limit that is the moment they lose Florida. The dynamics of giving something away to get the speakership is irrelevent due to the vote totals needed.",
">\n\nThe problem is that the Speaker has the ability to effectively veto a bill by simply never allowing it to go the floor. At which point, it does not matter how many would vote for it.",
">\n\nThat used to be true, but one of the concessions is that it only takes a single Republican to call for a vote to remove the speaker. \nThe speaker only has as much power as they can get themselves when being voted in. McCarthy is probably the weakest speaker in the last 50 years, and he has even made promises he is likely to break.\nThe spending cap he promised is not going to sit well with Republicans who take donations from the defense industry.",
">\n\nyou are giving republicans far too much credit. look what happened with Jan 6 and what they did to the ones who stood up to it",
">\n\nAll wannabe authoritarians use religion as a weapon. It's the oldest and most successful play.",
">\n\nElon Musk has been told he's a genius so many times by his closest supporters that he actually believes it. Therefore, he feels the need to interject his opinion into every topic even when he has absolutely no idea what he's talking about. This is a perfect example of that.",
">\n\nI have a coworker like that. In my head, I know him as the \"well actually\" guy.",
">\n\nAs a well actually guy myself, I feel for you",
">\n\nWell actually, you just feel for yourself, based on a study done by moleratical et AL, 1991",
">\n\nTouché",
">\n\nArestovych in today's broadcast with Feygin says more HIMARS (specifies \"vehicles\") are coming as part of the $3b package recently announced - the one with the Paladins. No specific number mentioned.\nBefore anyone says \"yeah, but Arestovych...\" don't. We've all heard it before, we all know. Believe it or don't, it's no skin off my nose.",
">\n\nI mean it’s not a secret. It’s literally on the list the Pentagon released of what was in the package.",
">\n\nLoads of loaded posts seeking doubt today, Russia must be struggling.",
">\n\nThey’re nervous. Mud is hardening.",
">\n\nAnd amx-10, bradleys and maraders on their way",
">\n\nUkraine and friendly volunteers were able to turn Russian troops into punching bags using just jeeps! Imagine how much more they can do to free their country with tanks and heavier vehicles.",
">\n\nIs Medved just pathetic as a hype man or is that just me mad at Russia? Seriously this guy is more pathetic than Tate worshipers. I’d like to make a motion to change Medveds name to “the human speed bump”\nEdit. Nice to get downvoted. Hey fsb you suk.",
">\n\nI've heard the argument, which sounds correct, that he's making himself acceptable to ultra nationalists when it's time for Putin to go.",
">\n\nMy theory is Putin considers him a threat since he would be an obvious choice to replace Putin since he was President during a good and prosperous time in Russia's history (2008-2012). So Putin tells him to be more extreme so that there is no viable alternatives for moderate/liberal Russians to support. If Medvedev came out as anti-war, then all a sudden he is a sane alternative to Putin and Putin will introduce him to a 4th story window.",
">\n\nThe developments in congress, and the fact there will be Hunter Biden \"show trials \" won't make this war any simpler. \nThinking back, first major indication that Zelensky is a brilliant leader was the foresight he had in refusing Trump's \"quid Pro quo\". Consider for a moment how difficult that decision was - a lot of vital aid was on the line, he didn't know who would be elected next, and all they had to do was provide some slight nod to fuel the speculation. We're at the point where thinking about the next election can't be avoided. I expect that's why we saw that US visit when it happened, and there will be less overt pro-Biden optics for Ukraine in the next phase of the war.",
">\n\nIf it took the current speaker 15 tries to get enough votes to just get the gavel, then there is next to zero chance that any \"hunter Biden trials\" happen. Or that the very few MAGA's in congress will be able to stop, or even seriously hinder the flow of aid. They have too few votes, and there are too many other congresspersons who serious want aid to continue for reasons ranging from goodwill, to just personal greed.",
">\n\nYa, it'd be really, really wishful thinking to believe anything but the reasoning behind McCarthy winning even on the 15th is because he offered very specific concessions moving forward on everything from government spending, entitlement reform and Ukraine aid.",
">\n\nVery specific concessions for bills that have zero hope of ever making it through the Senate. Assuming the rules package even gets agreed upon with them intact (as it doesn’t appear to be so) \nIf they want to pass anything these next two years, the moderates are going to find bipartisanship more appealing the longer this shitshow goes on."
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
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">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words.",
">\n\nAnyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet? \nI'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished? \nJust asking questions.",
">\n\nI still don't understand why they decided an invasion was a good idea, when they could have used soft power influence through money and media misinformation campaigns.\nSurely that would have been cheaper than a massive 3 day military operation, even if it were successful.\nPerhaps he started to believe the propaganda around his military might following his earlier actions in Georgia and Ukraine.",
">\n\nThey had been using money, bribery, corruption and misinformation up until 2014 to subvert Ukrainian government and policies. Yanukovych rejecting the European alliance for the Russian sphere upended everything. The Ukrainians made it very clear they had no interest in the Russian world. They did not mind Russia but an alliance with them was a hell no and they were prepared to die and did die to make this clear.\nPutin got the message. Soft power had failed and they had to physically intervene. Of course the physical power has also failed and where before the Ukrainians were neutral on Russia they actively hate them now and are currently removing every pro Russia thing or people from their country at a fast pace.\nI guess the moral of the story is that not to try and force people into a world/life they don't want to be, especially especially in the modern world where people are now way more aware of their rights and the progress/development that is possible. \nFor the Ukrainian nationalists it's a dream come true, where before they had to tread lightly now they can really excise Russia from the Ukrainian world. Finally doing what their ancestors tried for centuries to do. The Russians walked right into that one.",
">\n\nThere was a reply that I think encapsulated it perfectly. “As a third party watching this it’s pure madness”",
">\n\nOne day Russians are going to have to come to grips with the fact that no one else wanted this. It’s all on them. \nCrazy.",
">\n\nYeah that isn't going to fly. The moment they try to limit that is the moment they lose Florida. The dynamics of giving something away to get the speakership is irrelevent due to the vote totals needed.",
">\n\nThe problem is that the Speaker has the ability to effectively veto a bill by simply never allowing it to go the floor. At which point, it does not matter how many would vote for it.",
">\n\nThat used to be true, but one of the concessions is that it only takes a single Republican to call for a vote to remove the speaker. \nThe speaker only has as much power as they can get themselves when being voted in. McCarthy is probably the weakest speaker in the last 50 years, and he has even made promises he is likely to break.\nThe spending cap he promised is not going to sit well with Republicans who take donations from the defense industry.",
">\n\nyou are giving republicans far too much credit. look what happened with Jan 6 and what they did to the ones who stood up to it",
">\n\nAll wannabe authoritarians use religion as a weapon. It's the oldest and most successful play.",
">\n\nElon Musk has been told he's a genius so many times by his closest supporters that he actually believes it. Therefore, he feels the need to interject his opinion into every topic even when he has absolutely no idea what he's talking about. This is a perfect example of that.",
">\n\nI have a coworker like that. In my head, I know him as the \"well actually\" guy.",
">\n\nAs a well actually guy myself, I feel for you",
">\n\nWell actually, you just feel for yourself, based on a study done by moleratical et AL, 1991",
">\n\nTouché",
">\n\nArestovych in today's broadcast with Feygin says more HIMARS (specifies \"vehicles\") are coming as part of the $3b package recently announced - the one with the Paladins. No specific number mentioned.\nBefore anyone says \"yeah, but Arestovych...\" don't. We've all heard it before, we all know. Believe it or don't, it's no skin off my nose.",
">\n\nI mean it’s not a secret. It’s literally on the list the Pentagon released of what was in the package.",
">\n\nLoads of loaded posts seeking doubt today, Russia must be struggling.",
">\n\nThey’re nervous. Mud is hardening.",
">\n\nAnd amx-10, bradleys and maraders on their way",
">\n\nUkraine and friendly volunteers were able to turn Russian troops into punching bags using just jeeps! Imagine how much more they can do to free their country with tanks and heavier vehicles.",
">\n\nIs Medved just pathetic as a hype man or is that just me mad at Russia? Seriously this guy is more pathetic than Tate worshipers. I’d like to make a motion to change Medveds name to “the human speed bump”\nEdit. Nice to get downvoted. Hey fsb you suk.",
">\n\nI've heard the argument, which sounds correct, that he's making himself acceptable to ultra nationalists when it's time for Putin to go.",
">\n\nMy theory is Putin considers him a threat since he would be an obvious choice to replace Putin since he was President during a good and prosperous time in Russia's history (2008-2012). So Putin tells him to be more extreme so that there is no viable alternatives for moderate/liberal Russians to support. If Medvedev came out as anti-war, then all a sudden he is a sane alternative to Putin and Putin will introduce him to a 4th story window.",
">\n\nThe developments in congress, and the fact there will be Hunter Biden \"show trials \" won't make this war any simpler. \nThinking back, first major indication that Zelensky is a brilliant leader was the foresight he had in refusing Trump's \"quid Pro quo\". Consider for a moment how difficult that decision was - a lot of vital aid was on the line, he didn't know who would be elected next, and all they had to do was provide some slight nod to fuel the speculation. We're at the point where thinking about the next election can't be avoided. I expect that's why we saw that US visit when it happened, and there will be less overt pro-Biden optics for Ukraine in the next phase of the war.",
">\n\nIf it took the current speaker 15 tries to get enough votes to just get the gavel, then there is next to zero chance that any \"hunter Biden trials\" happen. Or that the very few MAGA's in congress will be able to stop, or even seriously hinder the flow of aid. They have too few votes, and there are too many other congresspersons who serious want aid to continue for reasons ranging from goodwill, to just personal greed.",
">\n\nYa, it'd be really, really wishful thinking to believe anything but the reasoning behind McCarthy winning even on the 15th is because he offered very specific concessions moving forward on everything from government spending, entitlement reform and Ukraine aid.",
">\n\nVery specific concessions for bills that have zero hope of ever making it through the Senate. Assuming the rules package even gets agreed upon with them intact (as it doesn’t appear to be so) \nIf they want to pass anything these next two years, the moderates are going to find bipartisanship more appealing the longer this shitshow goes on.",
">\n\nIt’s incredible to me that the world’s second most powerful air force still doesn’t have air superiority over Europe’s poorest country. And we just gave Ukraine air defense weapons. What an absolute joke of a military."
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">\n\nSounds like their take on Zelensky's Points on Invincibility - similar collection of emergency supplies for the public. This is very classy of Kazakhs.\nThank you Kazakhstan!",
">\n\n\"Under the guidance of Anglo-Saxon IT terrorists\"\nHey Ælfræd, the server ist brocen. Doeth out?\nAskee Wulfnoð to makee on a of.",
">\n\nPray tell, haþ ðe Danes ravaged our bit-lands þrough ðe digitiferous æþer again?",
">\n\nWhat does sagging mean in this context?",
">\n\nLosing momentum",
">\n\nRussia's military and its proxies are absolute scum.",
">\n\nFrom 24.02.2022 to 08.01.2023 (Day 319) estimated Russian losses so far (change since previous day):\n111170 (+430) Personnel\n3069 (+3) Tanks\n6130 (+5) Armored Personnel Vehicles\n2065 (+3) Artillery Systems\n431 (+0) MLRS\n217 (+0) Anti-aircraft Warfare Systems\n285 (+0) Aircraft\n272 (+0) Helicopters\n1849 (+5) UAV operational-tactical level\n723 (+0) Missiles\n16 (+0) Warships / Boats\n4801 (+3) Other vehicles\n183 (+1) Special Equipment",
">\n\nThe numbers went down quite a bit. I guess those big ass numbers in troops and equipment was thanks to Soledar?",
">\n\nThe Russian military is an extreme case, but this is a problem in many hierarchical organizations. \nNobody gets rewarded for passing bad news up the chain, so managers at each level tweak reports to make themselves look better. By the time information gets to the top of the pyramid, it's unrecognizable.\nThere are ways to mitigate this problem, like having officers who report directly to top brass at the front to give unfiltered reports, but if Russia is doing that sort of thing, we don't know about it.",
">\n\nObligatory example from the early internet.",
">\n\nhopefully with IFVs we can speed run the next 58% before summer",
">\n\nIf the numbers are correct its less than 58% since not all loses are confirmed visually",
">\n\nAlso I believe those figures are based on reported active service tanks by the Russians. I can almost guarantee a significant number of those active service tanks don't exist and some commander make some rubles off the ghost tanks.",
">\n\nYes, but they’ve definitely also restored a good number.",
">\n\nThis is why secondary sanctions are needed. Even though the sanctions still harm Russia (middle men in India and other countries to inflate prices) it's still dangerous to allow it.",
">\n\nIs that the baddie Donetsk administration or the good guy Donetsk administration?",
">\n\ngood guy",
">\n\nRussia tries to avoid losing those. They lose the most when Ukraine is pushing and the frontlines move and the pilots find out when missiles are incoming.",
">\n\nAnother ~~dozen~~ ~~30~~ 40 bot accounts were taken care of during the past hour.\nEach of the sus accounts began posting on the sub one right after the other. You may have had a sense of déjà vu if you briefly saw multiple duplicate posts on the sub's new queue.\nNone of the sus account's posts or comments are visible on the sub. It's likely that the accounts are farming post and comment karma. \nEach of the sus accounts were created around the first week of December 2022 within minutes of each other. The majority began showing activity within the past hour. Several others began showing activity within the past few days.\nEdit:\nMost of today's batch of sus accounts were created on 5 Dec or 28 Nov.\n\nIf you see a troll, bot or spam account--report it.\nYou can click the \"report\" link if you find one those comments. Thanks if you already do this.\n🚜\n^Also, ^don't ^name ^any ^users ^in ^any ^comments ^as ^this ^can ^be ^seen ^as ^a ^type ^of ^personal ^attack.",
">\n\nWell done, you work is much appreciated!",
">\n\nPrevious post\nDay 317-319 of my updates from Kharkiv.\nThe past couple of days were somewhat quiet, but not entirely. Yesterday around 11pm Russians launched 2-4 missiles from Belgorod, at least 2 of which landed in Merefa. They aimed at an oil refinery, which ended up being empty, so they just wasted their missiles as usual, but sadly they did manage to kill 1 person and injure 1 more. Today was also not the quietest day, as artillery duels along our border are happening very frequently, one of those was only about 2 hours ago.\nAs expected, Russians didn’t care about their “Christmas ceasefire” either, as during it not only were they attacking us, but they also claimed that they captured Soledar, which turned out to be wrong and it is still contested as it was before, but it just shows that they can never be trusted. It was funny seeing that even Russian puppets from LPR/DPR were pretty much saying that ceasefire that Putin wanted is a stupid idea and that they won’t be doing it. They didn’t even try to play along with their master Putin, which is pretty surprising, I thought they would be more loyal to him.\nThe new military aid package from the US is just enormous, almost 400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. It’s so weird that Russians didn’t respond to it in any way, they have been very silent after it was announced. Where are the usual nuclear threats? Where did the red line go? Did they finally understand that their threats are completely worthless and nobody cares about them, so now we can get any new weapon we want and they won’t mind? Maybe they were preoccupied with their “operation retribution” where they hit 2 roads with missiles and claimed that they killed 600 soldiers? But even Russians called them out on that lie, so it was yet another failure.\nI wasn’t able to post in the last 3 days because I caught some virus again and couldn’t stand up from bed to go to my pc, but I’m already feeling better now, so I’m going back to writing my updates daily as usual.",
">\n\n400 vehicles is basically an entire small army. \nIt's also a rounding error when the US does weapons inventory.\nKeep the faith. As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, we will make sure it has the weapons.",
">\n\nReportingFromUkraine brings good news from Soledar.\nQuick question though. how big is a platoon in Ukraine's army? Apparently two were sent to help reinforce the city. It's also awesome to hear that air support is doing its thing.",
">\n\nAs with any army, it certainly depends on the type of platoon (tank, rifle, etc) but I think we should assume motor rifle or mechanized rifle, so probably 30-40 men in a platoon -- similar to Russia or U.S.",
">\n\nM109s are now on the table?? Wow between this, towed M777s and HIMARS the US Army is getting an invaluable look at how their artillery handles a modern armored conflict (M109s are apparently getting replaced by the ERCA program soon but still.) Also seems to justify the Army's belief that long range precision fires was the single most important modernization program for the service.",
">\n\nThey're not just on the table - they're part of the new aid package that was just announced.",
">\n\nIs anyone keeping track of the amount of armor being given to Ukraine. I have a sneaking suspicion that when all tanks and AFVs are added up, all these nations will have contributed the equivalent of an armored brigade combat team.",
">\n\nOverall? More than a brigade. Poland gave 300 tanks in the beginning of the war.\nAt this point the Allies might have finally exceeded Russian donations to the Ukrainian army.",
">\n\nUkraine might end up with the single largest active mechanised combat force in Eurasia at this stage.",
">\n\nThey need it.",
">\n\nMargaret Thatcher on Putin in 2000: \"I looked at the pictures of Mr. Putin trying to look for a trace of humanity. I should have known better.\"",
">\n\nGeorge W Bush thought he had found it.",
">\n\nI bumped into a video of Christopher Hitchens on that a few years back. Said basically you don't have to be a mastermind to see that Bush was too stupid to go beyond, \"He's wearing a cross, so he's religious and he will never do anything bad\" and how easy it was for Putin to manipulate him.",
">\n\nPutin has a really touching story to go along with that cross he wears. He trots it out for those he thinks will be vulnerable to it. He certainly was aware of BushII's religiosity, and used it against him.",
">\n\nAs a Ukrainian, huge respect to Greece for requesting that Germany delivers Marders (originally for them) to Ukraine instead.",
">\n\nAs a Greek I'm very glad about this decision. This is what is fair.",
">\n\nHabeck was always in favor of sending tanks. But he is from the Green party, the holdout is the SPD and chancellor Scholz. Unless he changes his mind it won't happen, no matter how many other politicians are in favor of it.",
">\n\nRussia probably isn't making a big deal about IFVs getting sent to Ukraine as that would cause more panic among the Russian population when they announce the next wave of mobilization this week.",
">\n\nI’d be pissed if I was a Russian mobilized without weapons armor and training against a 25mm auto cannon armored vehicle",
">\n\nBut were there 600 Ukrainian bodies in those holes?\n\n/s",
">\n\nEvaporated! Just before the hypersonic missile explodes, the builtin laser toasted all the bodies.\nRussia has all the latest tech!11\n(/s)",
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">\n\nThanks, I'll try and keep an eye out too.",
">\n\nOh wow, I wonder if they learnt their lesson not to store their soldiers in the same place as their ammo this time?!",
">\n\nHahaha! We are about to find out.\nMy guess is ….no.",
">\n\nSounds like it’s going to be 50 Bradleys a month then",
">\n\nAre you a Russian male between the ages of 16 and 60?\nRun. Or you will die in Ukraine. Full stop.",
">\n\nWell, the ammunition stored in the building also played a part and the reason for the high casualty and severity of injuries.\nThe local watching them gather probably couldn't believe Ukraine's luck when they called it in. And yes imo it's obvious it was a civilian maybe from across the road or something as the UAF knew the exact moment to hit to cause maximum damage.",
">\n\nIm sure they are gonna see them again very soon ;)",
">\n\nNice camouflage color.",
">\n\nBetween captured Russian equipment, domestic production, and foreign aid, those amounts are definitely achievable. The only question is how long it will take and when to launch the counterattack.",
">\n\nReply to compareing Russian tanks to Western tanks from last thread that was locked:\nAlso, it's not just what's better, it's how old the designs are in use. Russia is fielding very old models, and it hasn't produced \"newer\" models in any impactful qualities. (Not withstanding Putins parades)\nRussia has a very small military budget (also not taking into account its corruption), and its R&D capabilities are not even comparable to the many countries combined in the West.\nThe only real \"advantage\" Russia has its it's total lack of care for killing Russians to achieve its goal. This is unprecedented in the modern era. So Putin is willing to throw people into whatever tanks they have, in whatever state, and essentially kamikaze them.",
">\n\nJust on your last point I've been struggling to wrap my head around this coming from New Zealand. It's unbelievable. If we have a single military personnel die on the line of duty the whole nation is in mourning. It's crazy and you are right it really is unprecedented in the modern era.",
">\n\nEver since the days of Lenin, it's been beaten in to the minds of Russians that war is a meat grinder. That their lives are bullets, to be spent as the State sees fit.",
">\n\nThe soviets didn't change the Russian imperialist culture. It's still a serfdom as it was under the soviets and the czars. The soviets did a good job of putting lipstick on a pig but the Russian culture is rotten to the core. Without a mass mao style re-education or a complete and humiliating defeat in war, it will never change.\nNot Ukraine fighting them off hummiliating. I mean WW2 style total war, total destruction with their empire completely dismantled and their people and cultures forced to accept their place in this world.",
">\n\nWhat do you know , you send convicts to war and they will commit crimes surprised Pikachu face",
">\n\nA lot of these are from the \"regular\" russian army. When putin is removed, any new Russia will need to address each of these crimes. Be it in a year or 50 years, these people will face the Hague.",
">\n\nDodik awarded Putin with the Order of the Republic of Srpska on a necklace",
">\n\nIt suits him.",
">\n\nA noose would suit & look better on him.",
">\n\n\nPutin continues to use religion as a weapon of war, says former Maj Gen Mick Ryan\n\nI just thought for a good long while and I'm hard pressed to find — no wait, I cannot think of a single thing that Putin has available to him that he does not use as a weapon of war. \nThis cynical, self-serving view that anything and everything is just a tool to get what you want is so fucking monotonous and one-dimensional. The scheming is relentless, increasingly desperate, and by this point thoroughly predictable. Just think of the worst junkie excuse for why he needs a little money from you pretending it isn't to cop more dope. You can even see Putin's hands shaking. \nIt is, more than anything, boring. \nFortunately this snakepit of amoral ego and greed has corrupted everyone in it who has risen to any amount of power, and then from the top downwards right through to the lowest peon looking for someone he can fuck over to get ahead.\nThis fuck-who-you-can-I-got-mine attitude does not even make for a good criminal enterprise, and for a country? Fuggataboutit. What you end up with is \"Total War\", but the shitty, off-brand cereal version that your chain-smoking alcoholic mother insists is just as good — no better — and you should shut your stupid mouth and appreciate she made you dinner at all. \nWe are very lucky they are so stupid, you know?",
">\n\nThat’s antisocial personality disorder for you. Seeing this episode, I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a grading system for it.",
">\n\nCan you put an entire country into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Stay tuned for next season when we find out. \nAnd the problem with personality disorders is that the defensive walls are built so well they usually don't see anything in need of fixing so no work can get done. It'll be a serious challenge going forward. \nI was thinking more about BPD, but in real life these things blur the presentations all the time. And I do think it isn't like a personality disorder, but it really is, and will need to be best treated as such. \nGod help us all. They have special therapies for the therapists who deal with these people.",
">\n\n\nM2A2 ODS/ODS-E\nThe \"Operation Desert Storm\" and \"Operation Desert Storm-Engineer\" improvements were based on lessons learned during the first Gulf War in 1991. The major improvements included an eye-safe laser rangefinder (ELRF), a tactical navigation system (TACNAV) incorporating the Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) and the Digital Compass Systems (DCS), a missile countermeasure device designed to defeat first-generation wire-guided missiles, and the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Battlefield Command Information System. The internal stowage was further improved and a thermal imaging system was added for the driver. The infantry squad was again increased to seven men, six of whom sat facing each other on two 3-man benches in the passenger compartment, with the seventh back in the position behind the turret. An MRE ('Meal, Ready-to-Eat') heater was added to the vehicle to assist in the preparation of food while in the field or warzone. With the retirement of the Dragon missile, the vehicle had the option of carrying some Javelin anti-tank missiles.",
">\n\nLaser range finder plus GPS means immediate coordinates to send artillery of any spotted target.",
">\n\ni remember when i first saw this. \nIt made me laugh - ammo , ammo , ammoooo ...keeps being given rocket launchers",
">\n\nAnimarchy History posted a new video: Patriot to Ukraine! Can it Stop Russia? Feat. A Patriot Instructor @habitual_linecrosser\nTreat this as a mix of interview, analysis and infotainment.",
">\n\n\"Do not take my jokes about crypto as financial advice\"\nGuy is dryer than the Australian outback",
">\n\n... which is mostly covered with 3 feet of water at this moment",
">\n\nwould you rather fight one duck sized horse or 100 horse sized ducks?",
">\n\nOh Russians fell for this one big time. Lost artillery unit and at least 180 killed, including this recon group.",
">\n\nIsn’t that an attack on UN Forces?",
">\n\nDoesn't matter. Russia sits on the security council and would just deny it happened and veto any action.",
">\n\nAnytime you see video of a \"hit\" on an armored vehicle where the clip stops with the vehicle still engulfed in the fireball, it's pretty safe to assume the strike was a failure. If the vehicle was destroyed, they would never have edited the clip in that manner. This is ridiculously common to see.",
">\n\nI noticed that the daily casualty list averages about 400 infantry a day but only 10-25 tanks and IFVs. Could this be a sign that Russia is running out of vehicles?",
">\n\nPartly, but recently it’s been terrible armor weather and too muddy for operations of heavy things off-road. I think they’re also trying to hoard what’s available for strategic reserve forces needed to counter the expected Ukrainian offensive moves and also for their own delusional offensive ops in spring. \nThey’re russian so they’re fine sending the rural poors and prison scum to die in droves in Bakhmut as a substitute for proper combined-arms. It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but they don’t have many options left. \nI’m almost of the opinion now there won’t be another attack on Kyiv/the north and whatever is left will be concentrated in the Donbas and Crimea in an attempt to maintain (or steal more of) those regions and bleed UA into a negotiated “peace” via the slow-burn strategy. A massive dice-role from the north is too risky and could lead to the regime heads on pikes much sooner than the protracted conflict option. Survival and power retention are their motives. Russia gonna russia though so they’ll probably do the opposite of what’s logical.",
">\n\nI think Ukrainians are past negotiating for a return to the status quo. Their anger will last generations if not forever. They’re aiming to retake all land including Crimea. \nThe only negotiation I see them accepting is an unconditional Russian surrender.",
">\n\nTypical russian cope. “No ukraine didn’t kill a bunch of Russians in a base last week! BuT wE jUsT dId!”\nPathetic.",
">\n\nIf \"no u\" was a country.",
">\n\nНет, ты ?",
">\n\nBig if true, i hope they are right!\n\n!RemindMe 240 days",
">\n\nRumors that Ukraine is on the move in Kreminna direction and Russia is pulling troops from Soledar to Kreminna. The ground is frozen or about to be. \nTake it with a grain from a salt mine.",
">\n\nWhy the hell didn't they split up into groups of 3 or 4? At one point they were bracketed by arty fire and still huddled together.",
">\n\nWithout equipment, It’s clear to see how much it can affect those on the field Ukraines vs Russian. That’s why we see so many Russians relying heavily on roads to have a sense of direction, despite being predictable to artillery fire and they never stop to help each other, another potential contributor to them grouping up to not get abandoned should they get hit if you’ve seen the videos where those in charge beat/kill men who retreat with wounded. \nUkraine is fortunate these killers don’t invest in their men, valuing them no more than meat shields.",
">\n\nremember that one week everyone was really worried about the russians blowing up the Dnieper dam? do they even still hold it?",
">\n\nI’m glad people bring up old shit from time to time, as it really exposes how much BS comes out of the Kremlin and prepares us for the next wave of fearmongering BS.",
">\n\nTbf there are always options on the table that aren’t used. Plus iirc Ukraine said Russia May use it as a false flag. So it’s possible calling Russia out acted as an extra deterrent similar to other potential false flags that were exposed but never came to fruition.",
">\n\nRussians Have Little Compassion for the Ukrainians\nGood read on the “Putin’s War” mentality.",
">\n\nThey seem to have little compassion for human life in general.",
">\n\nConsidering Russian history, not at all surprising",
">\n\nAnyone remember early on \"tank girl\"? I'm curious how she's doing and hope that she's ok.",
">\n\nI did a little looking around and I think you mean her?\n_princeska_13 on TikTok. She posted something 8hrs ago so she's alive.",
">\n\nThanks! It was a fun video just popped into my head and I was curious. Glad to hear she's alive.",
">\n\nI totally get it. The downside to putting familiar faces on this war is that you fear for the worst if they ever go dark.",
">\n\nRussia now claiming they destroyed 600 Ukrainians housed in a hostel in a missile strike today (according to the guardian). \nSounds like complete BS.",
">\n\nThere you go. We can now confirm that Ukraine's strike on Makiivka killed 600.\nI'd like a really complete report from someone of the full extent of the damage in Kromatorsk, but Ukrinform is reporting that they blew out the windows of two schools and hit a few apartment buildings.\nWe know what 600 casualties looks like from Makiivka; A building completely levelled by rockets.",
">\n\nExactly. \nI predict that Russian propagandists will claim the pics from Makiivka are in fact from Kramatorsk and that the 600 KIAs were in fact Ukrainians",
">\n\nHow many Sims games were found?",
">\n\nAround 600. One for each jewish-biomutant-nazi-soldier. That's how they quantified the casualties of the attack.",
">\n\nDo Russia have enough minorities to throw in new 500k \"soldiers\" in to the war? Or will Putin be forced to call in people from the big cities this time around?",
">\n\nYes. Russian forces work a little differently to Western nations, which you are probably used to.\nThey pull from any age below 50 and any height/weight, etc, to maximise the recruitment pool.\nThey could very easily pull a few million men for battle. They won't be as competent as NATO forces, and each death or even being absent from the economy is painful, but that won't bother them.\nEdit : If you see people saying, \"They will run out of men\" or \"They will turn on there Goverment\". They are flat wrong. The only way Russia stops attacking Ukraine is when enough of them die that Russians don't want to go because death is so imment.",
">\n\nThis not really true.\nRussia cannot pull a few millions without collapsing logistically, socially and economically.",
">\n\nYep. But reality has never influenced their decision making before.",
">\n\nWhen they were fighting to protect their country from invasion yes. But now they're technically in a \"peaceful\" period and not at war. So they're fighting for what? To steal land, so they won't be as motivated to die fighting",
">\n\nI don't understand how numbers like that are even theoretically possible. Russia has no capacity to train that many people in such a short time, they don't have anywhere near the amount of properly trained officers to have any meaningful control over that crowd, they lack vehicles, they are struggling with logistics as it is, and the majority of Russians are unmotivated and have absolutely no desire to go and die for no good reason.\nWartime economy makes no sense either, they can't conjure up factories, tools and technologies they lack out of thin air, they can't seriously be hoping to outproduce US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and the rest of the countries supplying Ukraine.",
">\n\nPutin gets to stay in power until next summer, that's all that matters to him.",
">\n\n\nRussia has no capacity to train that many people\n\nlol. \"russia\" & \"training\" in the same sentence... always makes me laugh",
">\n\nI think that the announcement of the Bradleys coming could have an immediate impact in the field, even before their arrival.\nBefore there were delivery dates that the Ukrainians thought that they could rely on they would have had to be very careful with what they had. But I think that they can be a lot less risk-averse with their Soviet equipment now that the switch-over to NATO equipment is on a real timeline.",
">\n\nI think Ukraine is being very judicious with the pieces they have in the battlefield. I don't see a change in that posture from cautious to reckless.\nCouple of reasons, their people can probably mcguiver the old soviet stuff for another decade just based on the equipment captured. NATO supplied arms are not infinite. They have adopted western thinking in how they view their troops, again not meat but valuable resources. They really don't have the \"luxury\" of taping into an uneducated, repressed population that doesn't value their own existence.",
">\n\nI think that there are a lot more levels than just ‘cautious’ and ‘reckless’. I think that they could probably let the reins out a little more now. \nBut yeah. They’re pretty cautious, and they seem to know what they’re doing.",
">\n\nUkraine is using a corrosive strategy. They force Russia to pay tremendously for every inch of ground that they are able to gain. They don’t have to change their posture with their current equipment in order to continue doing that. If anything, the promise of new vehicles from the West in the near future makes the corrosion strategy even more effective in the immediate.\nThe other piece to consider is that logistically, UAF had an easier time supporting the Soviet equipment over the patchwork blanket that they’ve put together from international aid. And obviously it’s amazing stuff that they’ve been getting, but adding new equipment means new training, expertise, maintenance requirements, etc- that’s getting very complex. \nBy contrast, there was a Ukrainian with Soviet military experience who used a scavenged Soviet grenade launcher to hold off an entire armored column at Bucha during the start of the war. The UAF wouldn’t let him fight with them because of his age, but he convinced some guys to give him an old launcher they’d grabbed off some dead Russians. The dude ambushed and disabled 4 armored vehicles and then called in their position to the artillery squad. A 70-year old dude just up and did that because he knew the kit. \nMultiply that across the entire military and no, it doesn’t make sense to start getting loosey-goosey with your shit. It’s not a Civ game.",
">\n\nThis is the first time I heard about the 70 year old guy; do you have a link to an article about it?",
">\n\nThis is what they're talking about, I saw it as well some months back. I think there was a few articles written about it too but the guy seems pretty awesome so might as well hear it in his own words.",
">\n\nAnyone happen to know if Russia completed its denazification special 3 day operation yet? \nI'm very concerned that this has taken 2 orders of magnitude longer than Putin told all of us. Shouldn't they be wrapping up already and proclaiming mission accomplished? \nJust asking questions.",
">\n\nI still don't understand why they decided an invasion was a good idea, when they could have used soft power influence through money and media misinformation campaigns.\nSurely that would have been cheaper than a massive 3 day military operation, even if it were successful.\nPerhaps he started to believe the propaganda around his military might following his earlier actions in Georgia and Ukraine.",
">\n\nThey had been using money, bribery, corruption and misinformation up until 2014 to subvert Ukrainian government and policies. Yanukovych rejecting the European alliance for the Russian sphere upended everything. The Ukrainians made it very clear they had no interest in the Russian world. They did not mind Russia but an alliance with them was a hell no and they were prepared to die and did die to make this clear.\nPutin got the message. Soft power had failed and they had to physically intervene. Of course the physical power has also failed and where before the Ukrainians were neutral on Russia they actively hate them now and are currently removing every pro Russia thing or people from their country at a fast pace.\nI guess the moral of the story is that not to try and force people into a world/life they don't want to be, especially especially in the modern world where people are now way more aware of their rights and the progress/development that is possible. \nFor the Ukrainian nationalists it's a dream come true, where before they had to tread lightly now they can really excise Russia from the Ukrainian world. Finally doing what their ancestors tried for centuries to do. The Russians walked right into that one.",
">\n\nThere was a reply that I think encapsulated it perfectly. “As a third party watching this it’s pure madness”",
">\n\nOne day Russians are going to have to come to grips with the fact that no one else wanted this. It’s all on them. \nCrazy.",
">\n\nYeah that isn't going to fly. The moment they try to limit that is the moment they lose Florida. The dynamics of giving something away to get the speakership is irrelevent due to the vote totals needed.",
">\n\nThe problem is that the Speaker has the ability to effectively veto a bill by simply never allowing it to go the floor. At which point, it does not matter how many would vote for it.",
">\n\nThat used to be true, but one of the concessions is that it only takes a single Republican to call for a vote to remove the speaker. \nThe speaker only has as much power as they can get themselves when being voted in. McCarthy is probably the weakest speaker in the last 50 years, and he has even made promises he is likely to break.\nThe spending cap he promised is not going to sit well with Republicans who take donations from the defense industry.",
">\n\nyou are giving republicans far too much credit. look what happened with Jan 6 and what they did to the ones who stood up to it",
">\n\nAll wannabe authoritarians use religion as a weapon. It's the oldest and most successful play.",
">\n\nElon Musk has been told he's a genius so many times by his closest supporters that he actually believes it. Therefore, he feels the need to interject his opinion into every topic even when he has absolutely no idea what he's talking about. This is a perfect example of that.",
">\n\nI have a coworker like that. In my head, I know him as the \"well actually\" guy.",
">\n\nAs a well actually guy myself, I feel for you",
">\n\nWell actually, you just feel for yourself, based on a study done by moleratical et AL, 1991",
">\n\nTouché",
">\n\nArestovych in today's broadcast with Feygin says more HIMARS (specifies \"vehicles\") are coming as part of the $3b package recently announced - the one with the Paladins. No specific number mentioned.\nBefore anyone says \"yeah, but Arestovych...\" don't. We've all heard it before, we all know. Believe it or don't, it's no skin off my nose.",
">\n\nI mean it’s not a secret. It’s literally on the list the Pentagon released of what was in the package.",
">\n\nLoads of loaded posts seeking doubt today, Russia must be struggling.",
">\n\nThey’re nervous. Mud is hardening.",
">\n\nAnd amx-10, bradleys and maraders on their way",
">\n\nUkraine and friendly volunteers were able to turn Russian troops into punching bags using just jeeps! Imagine how much more they can do to free their country with tanks and heavier vehicles.",
">\n\nIs Medved just pathetic as a hype man or is that just me mad at Russia? Seriously this guy is more pathetic than Tate worshipers. I’d like to make a motion to change Medveds name to “the human speed bump”\nEdit. Nice to get downvoted. Hey fsb you suk.",
">\n\nI've heard the argument, which sounds correct, that he's making himself acceptable to ultra nationalists when it's time for Putin to go.",
">\n\nMy theory is Putin considers him a threat since he would be an obvious choice to replace Putin since he was President during a good and prosperous time in Russia's history (2008-2012). So Putin tells him to be more extreme so that there is no viable alternatives for moderate/liberal Russians to support. If Medvedev came out as anti-war, then all a sudden he is a sane alternative to Putin and Putin will introduce him to a 4th story window.",
">\n\nThe developments in congress, and the fact there will be Hunter Biden \"show trials \" won't make this war any simpler. \nThinking back, first major indication that Zelensky is a brilliant leader was the foresight he had in refusing Trump's \"quid Pro quo\". Consider for a moment how difficult that decision was - a lot of vital aid was on the line, he didn't know who would be elected next, and all they had to do was provide some slight nod to fuel the speculation. We're at the point where thinking about the next election can't be avoided. I expect that's why we saw that US visit when it happened, and there will be less overt pro-Biden optics for Ukraine in the next phase of the war.",
">\n\nIf it took the current speaker 15 tries to get enough votes to just get the gavel, then there is next to zero chance that any \"hunter Biden trials\" happen. Or that the very few MAGA's in congress will be able to stop, or even seriously hinder the flow of aid. They have too few votes, and there are too many other congresspersons who serious want aid to continue for reasons ranging from goodwill, to just personal greed.",
">\n\nYa, it'd be really, really wishful thinking to believe anything but the reasoning behind McCarthy winning even on the 15th is because he offered very specific concessions moving forward on everything from government spending, entitlement reform and Ukraine aid.",
">\n\nVery specific concessions for bills that have zero hope of ever making it through the Senate. Assuming the rules package even gets agreed upon with them intact (as it doesn’t appear to be so) \nIf they want to pass anything these next two years, the moderates are going to find bipartisanship more appealing the longer this shitshow goes on.",
">\n\nIt’s incredible to me that the world’s second most powerful air force still doesn’t have air superiority over Europe’s poorest country. And we just gave Ukraine air defense weapons. What an absolute joke of a military.",
">\n\nYou mean the US navy?"
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