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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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic." ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!" ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death" ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death", ">\n\nIs the West going to step up on making Russian language media and news bulletins to combat propaganda?" ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death", ">\n\nIs the West going to step up on making Russian language media and news bulletins to combat propaganda?", ">\n\nThe west should use Russia's own game against them, and flood their SoMe with the same type of dogshit that Russia does to the west.\nJust make a lot of troll accounts on VK and Telegram, and spread BS that undermines peoples faith in their authorities and causes as much division as possible." ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death", ">\n\nIs the West going to step up on making Russian language media and news bulletins to combat propaganda?", ">\n\nThe west should use Russia's own game against them, and flood their SoMe with the same type of dogshit that Russia does to the west.\nJust make a lot of troll accounts on VK and Telegram, and spread BS that undermines peoples faith in their authorities and causes as much division as possible.", ">\n\nWhy spread BS? truth is good enough" ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death", ">\n\nIs the West going to step up on making Russian language media and news bulletins to combat propaganda?", ">\n\nThe west should use Russia's own game against them, and flood their SoMe with the same type of dogshit that Russia does to the west.\nJust make a lot of troll accounts on VK and Telegram, and spread BS that undermines peoples faith in their authorities and causes as much division as possible.", ">\n\nWhy spread BS? truth is good enough", ">\n\nNope, it clearly isn't.\nRussians put a very low value on human life, and they really want to be a big and strong superpower, no matter the cost (there are lots of examples of this of people living in absolute awful conditions, and say that they still support Putin because he \"makes them stronger\"). So even when their stupid ass narrative(s) that is suppose to justify the war is inconsistent and overall makes no sense, it changes nothing. Support remains high.\nThey've had and still have access to alternate information sources, and even a lot of the people in poorer areas have smartphones & internet. \nSo attempts to start tearing down the reputation of the boyars should be attempted. Yes, its petty, but as Russia has shown in the west it is very effective." ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death", ">\n\nIs the West going to step up on making Russian language media and news bulletins to combat propaganda?", ">\n\nThe west should use Russia's own game against them, and flood their SoMe with the same type of dogshit that Russia does to the west.\nJust make a lot of troll accounts on VK and Telegram, and spread BS that undermines peoples faith in their authorities and causes as much division as possible.", ">\n\nWhy spread BS? truth is good enough", ">\n\nNope, it clearly isn't.\nRussians put a very low value on human life, and they really want to be a big and strong superpower, no matter the cost (there are lots of examples of this of people living in absolute awful conditions, and say that they still support Putin because he \"makes them stronger\"). So even when their stupid ass narrative(s) that is suppose to justify the war is inconsistent and overall makes no sense, it changes nothing. Support remains high.\nThey've had and still have access to alternate information sources, and even a lot of the people in poorer areas have smartphones & internet. \nSo attempts to start tearing down the reputation of the boyars should be attempted. Yes, its petty, but as Russia has shown in the west it is very effective.", ">\n\nChange Russians to Chinese and it's the same shit. \"Why do they hate us so much? Is it because our nation is strong and they are jealous of us? Why are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great? We need to go to America, the country that is ganging up with other countries to bully us.\" \nSweetie, nobody hates you, you're just a nobody. They hate your government but you thinking that your motherland is so great and that others should kowtow to you is not helping your case." ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death", ">\n\nIs the West going to step up on making Russian language media and news bulletins to combat propaganda?", ">\n\nThe west should use Russia's own game against them, and flood their SoMe with the same type of dogshit that Russia does to the west.\nJust make a lot of troll accounts on VK and Telegram, and spread BS that undermines peoples faith in their authorities and causes as much division as possible.", ">\n\nWhy spread BS? truth is good enough", ">\n\nNope, it clearly isn't.\nRussians put a very low value on human life, and they really want to be a big and strong superpower, no matter the cost (there are lots of examples of this of people living in absolute awful conditions, and say that they still support Putin because he \"makes them stronger\"). So even when their stupid ass narrative(s) that is suppose to justify the war is inconsistent and overall makes no sense, it changes nothing. Support remains high.\nThey've had and still have access to alternate information sources, and even a lot of the people in poorer areas have smartphones & internet. \nSo attempts to start tearing down the reputation of the boyars should be attempted. Yes, its petty, but as Russia has shown in the west it is very effective.", ">\n\nChange Russians to Chinese and it's the same shit. \"Why do they hate us so much? Is it because our nation is strong and they are jealous of us? Why are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great? We need to go to America, the country that is ganging up with other countries to bully us.\" \nSweetie, nobody hates you, you're just a nobody. They hate your government but you thinking that your motherland is so great and that others should kowtow to you is not helping your case.", ">\n\n\nWhy are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great?\n\nThat shit right there is definitely part of it.\np.s. Just as a heads up, at first I thought you were speaking first person rather than playing a part, you should probably use quotation marks to distinguish so it's clear." ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death", ">\n\nIs the West going to step up on making Russian language media and news bulletins to combat propaganda?", ">\n\nThe west should use Russia's own game against them, and flood their SoMe with the same type of dogshit that Russia does to the west.\nJust make a lot of troll accounts on VK and Telegram, and spread BS that undermines peoples faith in their authorities and causes as much division as possible.", ">\n\nWhy spread BS? truth is good enough", ">\n\nNope, it clearly isn't.\nRussians put a very low value on human life, and they really want to be a big and strong superpower, no matter the cost (there are lots of examples of this of people living in absolute awful conditions, and say that they still support Putin because he \"makes them stronger\"). So even when their stupid ass narrative(s) that is suppose to justify the war is inconsistent and overall makes no sense, it changes nothing. Support remains high.\nThey've had and still have access to alternate information sources, and even a lot of the people in poorer areas have smartphones & internet. \nSo attempts to start tearing down the reputation of the boyars should be attempted. Yes, its petty, but as Russia has shown in the west it is very effective.", ">\n\nChange Russians to Chinese and it's the same shit. \"Why do they hate us so much? Is it because our nation is strong and they are jealous of us? Why are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great? We need to go to America, the country that is ganging up with other countries to bully us.\" \nSweetie, nobody hates you, you're just a nobody. They hate your government but you thinking that your motherland is so great and that others should kowtow to you is not helping your case.", ">\n\n\nWhy are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great?\n\nThat shit right there is definitely part of it.\np.s. Just as a heads up, at first I thought you were speaking first person rather than playing a part, you should probably use quotation marks to distinguish so it's clear.", ">\n\nMy bad, will edit the quotation marks in. I'm just using whatever she said in the twitter video" ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death", ">\n\nIs the West going to step up on making Russian language media and news bulletins to combat propaganda?", ">\n\nThe west should use Russia's own game against them, and flood their SoMe with the same type of dogshit that Russia does to the west.\nJust make a lot of troll accounts on VK and Telegram, and spread BS that undermines peoples faith in their authorities and causes as much division as possible.", ">\n\nWhy spread BS? truth is good enough", ">\n\nNope, it clearly isn't.\nRussians put a very low value on human life, and they really want to be a big and strong superpower, no matter the cost (there are lots of examples of this of people living in absolute awful conditions, and say that they still support Putin because he \"makes them stronger\"). So even when their stupid ass narrative(s) that is suppose to justify the war is inconsistent and overall makes no sense, it changes nothing. Support remains high.\nThey've had and still have access to alternate information sources, and even a lot of the people in poorer areas have smartphones & internet. \nSo attempts to start tearing down the reputation of the boyars should be attempted. Yes, its petty, but as Russia has shown in the west it is very effective.", ">\n\nChange Russians to Chinese and it's the same shit. \"Why do they hate us so much? Is it because our nation is strong and they are jealous of us? Why are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great? We need to go to America, the country that is ganging up with other countries to bully us.\" \nSweetie, nobody hates you, you're just a nobody. They hate your government but you thinking that your motherland is so great and that others should kowtow to you is not helping your case.", ">\n\n\nWhy are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great?\n\nThat shit right there is definitely part of it.\np.s. Just as a heads up, at first I thought you were speaking first person rather than playing a part, you should probably use quotation marks to distinguish so it's clear.", ">\n\nMy bad, will edit the quotation marks in. I'm just using whatever she said in the twitter video", ">\n\nSlava Ukraini!" ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death", ">\n\nIs the West going to step up on making Russian language media and news bulletins to combat propaganda?", ">\n\nThe west should use Russia's own game against them, and flood their SoMe with the same type of dogshit that Russia does to the west.\nJust make a lot of troll accounts on VK and Telegram, and spread BS that undermines peoples faith in their authorities and causes as much division as possible.", ">\n\nWhy spread BS? truth is good enough", ">\n\nNope, it clearly isn't.\nRussians put a very low value on human life, and they really want to be a big and strong superpower, no matter the cost (there are lots of examples of this of people living in absolute awful conditions, and say that they still support Putin because he \"makes them stronger\"). So even when their stupid ass narrative(s) that is suppose to justify the war is inconsistent and overall makes no sense, it changes nothing. Support remains high.\nThey've had and still have access to alternate information sources, and even a lot of the people in poorer areas have smartphones & internet. \nSo attempts to start tearing down the reputation of the boyars should be attempted. Yes, its petty, but as Russia has shown in the west it is very effective.", ">\n\nChange Russians to Chinese and it's the same shit. \"Why do they hate us so much? Is it because our nation is strong and they are jealous of us? Why are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great? We need to go to America, the country that is ganging up with other countries to bully us.\" \nSweetie, nobody hates you, you're just a nobody. They hate your government but you thinking that your motherland is so great and that others should kowtow to you is not helping your case.", ">\n\n\nWhy are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great?\n\nThat shit right there is definitely part of it.\np.s. Just as a heads up, at first I thought you were speaking first person rather than playing a part, you should probably use quotation marks to distinguish so it's clear.", ">\n\nMy bad, will edit the quotation marks in. I'm just using whatever she said in the twitter video", ">\n\nSlava Ukraini!", ">\n\nHeróyam sláva!" ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death", ">\n\nIs the West going to step up on making Russian language media and news bulletins to combat propaganda?", ">\n\nThe west should use Russia's own game against them, and flood their SoMe with the same type of dogshit that Russia does to the west.\nJust make a lot of troll accounts on VK and Telegram, and spread BS that undermines peoples faith in their authorities and causes as much division as possible.", ">\n\nWhy spread BS? truth is good enough", ">\n\nNope, it clearly isn't.\nRussians put a very low value on human life, and they really want to be a big and strong superpower, no matter the cost (there are lots of examples of this of people living in absolute awful conditions, and say that they still support Putin because he \"makes them stronger\"). So even when their stupid ass narrative(s) that is suppose to justify the war is inconsistent and overall makes no sense, it changes nothing. Support remains high.\nThey've had and still have access to alternate information sources, and even a lot of the people in poorer areas have smartphones & internet. \nSo attempts to start tearing down the reputation of the boyars should be attempted. Yes, its petty, but as Russia has shown in the west it is very effective.", ">\n\nChange Russians to Chinese and it's the same shit. \"Why do they hate us so much? Is it because our nation is strong and they are jealous of us? Why are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great? We need to go to America, the country that is ganging up with other countries to bully us.\" \nSweetie, nobody hates you, you're just a nobody. They hate your government but you thinking that your motherland is so great and that others should kowtow to you is not helping your case.", ">\n\n\nWhy are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great?\n\nThat shit right there is definitely part of it.\np.s. Just as a heads up, at first I thought you were speaking first person rather than playing a part, you should probably use quotation marks to distinguish so it's clear.", ">\n\nMy bad, will edit the quotation marks in. I'm just using whatever she said in the twitter video", ">\n\nSlava Ukraini!", ">\n\nHeróyam sláva!", ">\n\nCan we be pretty sure about another mobilization coming this month?" ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death", ">\n\nIs the West going to step up on making Russian language media and news bulletins to combat propaganda?", ">\n\nThe west should use Russia's own game against them, and flood their SoMe with the same type of dogshit that Russia does to the west.\nJust make a lot of troll accounts on VK and Telegram, and spread BS that undermines peoples faith in their authorities and causes as much division as possible.", ">\n\nWhy spread BS? truth is good enough", ">\n\nNope, it clearly isn't.\nRussians put a very low value on human life, and they really want to be a big and strong superpower, no matter the cost (there are lots of examples of this of people living in absolute awful conditions, and say that they still support Putin because he \"makes them stronger\"). So even when their stupid ass narrative(s) that is suppose to justify the war is inconsistent and overall makes no sense, it changes nothing. Support remains high.\nThey've had and still have access to alternate information sources, and even a lot of the people in poorer areas have smartphones & internet. \nSo attempts to start tearing down the reputation of the boyars should be attempted. Yes, its petty, but as Russia has shown in the west it is very effective.", ">\n\nChange Russians to Chinese and it's the same shit. \"Why do they hate us so much? Is it because our nation is strong and they are jealous of us? Why are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great? We need to go to America, the country that is ganging up with other countries to bully us.\" \nSweetie, nobody hates you, you're just a nobody. They hate your government but you thinking that your motherland is so great and that others should kowtow to you is not helping your case.", ">\n\n\nWhy are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great?\n\nThat shit right there is definitely part of it.\np.s. Just as a heads up, at first I thought you were speaking first person rather than playing a part, you should probably use quotation marks to distinguish so it's clear.", ">\n\nMy bad, will edit the quotation marks in. I'm just using whatever she said in the twitter video", ">\n\nSlava Ukraini!", ">\n\nHeróyam sláva!", ">\n\nCan we be pretty sure about another mobilization coming this month?", ">\n\nWell I've seen a lot of Russian youtubers saying they just got mobilization summons like a day ago. Could be the Russians are just gonna be stealthy about it this time, instead of announcing it over loudspeakers, so people GTFO. Though if they do go about it officially, you can be certain they will close down the borders beforehand this time." ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death", ">\n\nIs the West going to step up on making Russian language media and news bulletins to combat propaganda?", ">\n\nThe west should use Russia's own game against them, and flood their SoMe with the same type of dogshit that Russia does to the west.\nJust make a lot of troll accounts on VK and Telegram, and spread BS that undermines peoples faith in their authorities and causes as much division as possible.", ">\n\nWhy spread BS? truth is good enough", ">\n\nNope, it clearly isn't.\nRussians put a very low value on human life, and they really want to be a big and strong superpower, no matter the cost (there are lots of examples of this of people living in absolute awful conditions, and say that they still support Putin because he \"makes them stronger\"). So even when their stupid ass narrative(s) that is suppose to justify the war is inconsistent and overall makes no sense, it changes nothing. Support remains high.\nThey've had and still have access to alternate information sources, and even a lot of the people in poorer areas have smartphones & internet. \nSo attempts to start tearing down the reputation of the boyars should be attempted. Yes, its petty, but as Russia has shown in the west it is very effective.", ">\n\nChange Russians to Chinese and it's the same shit. \"Why do they hate us so much? Is it because our nation is strong and they are jealous of us? Why are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great? We need to go to America, the country that is ganging up with other countries to bully us.\" \nSweetie, nobody hates you, you're just a nobody. They hate your government but you thinking that your motherland is so great and that others should kowtow to you is not helping your case.", ">\n\n\nWhy are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great?\n\nThat shit right there is definitely part of it.\np.s. Just as a heads up, at first I thought you were speaking first person rather than playing a part, you should probably use quotation marks to distinguish so it's clear.", ">\n\nMy bad, will edit the quotation marks in. I'm just using whatever she said in the twitter video", ">\n\nSlava Ukraini!", ">\n\nHeróyam sláva!", ">\n\nCan we be pretty sure about another mobilization coming this month?", ">\n\nWell I've seen a lot of Russian youtubers saying they just got mobilization summons like a day ago. Could be the Russians are just gonna be stealthy about it this time, instead of announcing it over loudspeakers, so people GTFO. Though if they do go about it officially, you can be certain they will close down the borders beforehand this time.", ">\n\nI've heard of this happening. All the russian youtubers that I follow all ready left. Who stayed?" ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death", ">\n\nIs the West going to step up on making Russian language media and news bulletins to combat propaganda?", ">\n\nThe west should use Russia's own game against them, and flood their SoMe with the same type of dogshit that Russia does to the west.\nJust make a lot of troll accounts on VK and Telegram, and spread BS that undermines peoples faith in their authorities and causes as much division as possible.", ">\n\nWhy spread BS? truth is good enough", ">\n\nNope, it clearly isn't.\nRussians put a very low value on human life, and they really want to be a big and strong superpower, no matter the cost (there are lots of examples of this of people living in absolute awful conditions, and say that they still support Putin because he \"makes them stronger\"). So even when their stupid ass narrative(s) that is suppose to justify the war is inconsistent and overall makes no sense, it changes nothing. Support remains high.\nThey've had and still have access to alternate information sources, and even a lot of the people in poorer areas have smartphones & internet. \nSo attempts to start tearing down the reputation of the boyars should be attempted. Yes, its petty, but as Russia has shown in the west it is very effective.", ">\n\nChange Russians to Chinese and it's the same shit. \"Why do they hate us so much? Is it because our nation is strong and they are jealous of us? Why are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great? We need to go to America, the country that is ganging up with other countries to bully us.\" \nSweetie, nobody hates you, you're just a nobody. They hate your government but you thinking that your motherland is so great and that others should kowtow to you is not helping your case.", ">\n\n\nWhy are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great?\n\nThat shit right there is definitely part of it.\np.s. Just as a heads up, at first I thought you were speaking first person rather than playing a part, you should probably use quotation marks to distinguish so it's clear.", ">\n\nMy bad, will edit the quotation marks in. I'm just using whatever she said in the twitter video", ">\n\nSlava Ukraini!", ">\n\nHeróyam sláva!", ">\n\nCan we be pretty sure about another mobilization coming this month?", ">\n\nWell I've seen a lot of Russian youtubers saying they just got mobilization summons like a day ago. Could be the Russians are just gonna be stealthy about it this time, instead of announcing it over loudspeakers, so people GTFO. Though if they do go about it officially, you can be certain they will close down the borders beforehand this time.", ">\n\nI've heard of this happening. All the russian youtubers that I follow all ready left. Who stayed?", ">\n\nI don't think you understand what the UN is" ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death", ">\n\nIs the West going to step up on making Russian language media and news bulletins to combat propaganda?", ">\n\nThe west should use Russia's own game against them, and flood their SoMe with the same type of dogshit that Russia does to the west.\nJust make a lot of troll accounts on VK and Telegram, and spread BS that undermines peoples faith in their authorities and causes as much division as possible.", ">\n\nWhy spread BS? truth is good enough", ">\n\nNope, it clearly isn't.\nRussians put a very low value on human life, and they really want to be a big and strong superpower, no matter the cost (there are lots of examples of this of people living in absolute awful conditions, and say that they still support Putin because he \"makes them stronger\"). So even when their stupid ass narrative(s) that is suppose to justify the war is inconsistent and overall makes no sense, it changes nothing. Support remains high.\nThey've had and still have access to alternate information sources, and even a lot of the people in poorer areas have smartphones & internet. \nSo attempts to start tearing down the reputation of the boyars should be attempted. Yes, its petty, but as Russia has shown in the west it is very effective.", ">\n\nChange Russians to Chinese and it's the same shit. \"Why do they hate us so much? Is it because our nation is strong and they are jealous of us? Why are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great? We need to go to America, the country that is ganging up with other countries to bully us.\" \nSweetie, nobody hates you, you're just a nobody. They hate your government but you thinking that your motherland is so great and that others should kowtow to you is not helping your case.", ">\n\n\nWhy are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great?\n\nThat shit right there is definitely part of it.\np.s. Just as a heads up, at first I thought you were speaking first person rather than playing a part, you should probably use quotation marks to distinguish so it's clear.", ">\n\nMy bad, will edit the quotation marks in. I'm just using whatever she said in the twitter video", ">\n\nSlava Ukraini!", ">\n\nHeróyam sláva!", ">\n\nCan we be pretty sure about another mobilization coming this month?", ">\n\nWell I've seen a lot of Russian youtubers saying they just got mobilization summons like a day ago. Could be the Russians are just gonna be stealthy about it this time, instead of announcing it over loudspeakers, so people GTFO. Though if they do go about it officially, you can be certain they will close down the borders beforehand this time.", ">\n\nI've heard of this happening. All the russian youtubers that I follow all ready left. Who stayed?", ">\n\nI don't think you understand what the UN is", ">\n\nDay CCCXIX, Part I. Thread CDLX." ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death", ">\n\nIs the West going to step up on making Russian language media and news bulletins to combat propaganda?", ">\n\nThe west should use Russia's own game against them, and flood their SoMe with the same type of dogshit that Russia does to the west.\nJust make a lot of troll accounts on VK and Telegram, and spread BS that undermines peoples faith in their authorities and causes as much division as possible.", ">\n\nWhy spread BS? truth is good enough", ">\n\nNope, it clearly isn't.\nRussians put a very low value on human life, and they really want to be a big and strong superpower, no matter the cost (there are lots of examples of this of people living in absolute awful conditions, and say that they still support Putin because he \"makes them stronger\"). So even when their stupid ass narrative(s) that is suppose to justify the war is inconsistent and overall makes no sense, it changes nothing. Support remains high.\nThey've had and still have access to alternate information sources, and even a lot of the people in poorer areas have smartphones & internet. \nSo attempts to start tearing down the reputation of the boyars should be attempted. Yes, its petty, but as Russia has shown in the west it is very effective.", ">\n\nChange Russians to Chinese and it's the same shit. \"Why do they hate us so much? Is it because our nation is strong and they are jealous of us? Why are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great? We need to go to America, the country that is ganging up with other countries to bully us.\" \nSweetie, nobody hates you, you're just a nobody. They hate your government but you thinking that your motherland is so great and that others should kowtow to you is not helping your case.", ">\n\n\nWhy are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great?\n\nThat shit right there is definitely part of it.\np.s. Just as a heads up, at first I thought you were speaking first person rather than playing a part, you should probably use quotation marks to distinguish so it's clear.", ">\n\nMy bad, will edit the quotation marks in. I'm just using whatever she said in the twitter video", ">\n\nSlava Ukraini!", ">\n\nHeróyam sláva!", ">\n\nCan we be pretty sure about another mobilization coming this month?", ">\n\nWell I've seen a lot of Russian youtubers saying they just got mobilization summons like a day ago. Could be the Russians are just gonna be stealthy about it this time, instead of announcing it over loudspeakers, so people GTFO. Though if they do go about it officially, you can be certain they will close down the borders beforehand this time.", ">\n\nI've heard of this happening. All the russian youtubers that I follow all ready left. Who stayed?", ">\n\nI don't think you understand what the UN is", ">\n\nDay CCCXIX, Part I. Thread CDLX.", ">\n\nHey guys i'm worried nationalist in Russia will chuck Putin out of a window, has Putin mastered falling :/" ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death", ">\n\nIs the West going to step up on making Russian language media and news bulletins to combat propaganda?", ">\n\nThe west should use Russia's own game against them, and flood their SoMe with the same type of dogshit that Russia does to the west.\nJust make a lot of troll accounts on VK and Telegram, and spread BS that undermines peoples faith in their authorities and causes as much division as possible.", ">\n\nWhy spread BS? truth is good enough", ">\n\nNope, it clearly isn't.\nRussians put a very low value on human life, and they really want to be a big and strong superpower, no matter the cost (there are lots of examples of this of people living in absolute awful conditions, and say that they still support Putin because he \"makes them stronger\"). So even when their stupid ass narrative(s) that is suppose to justify the war is inconsistent and overall makes no sense, it changes nothing. Support remains high.\nThey've had and still have access to alternate information sources, and even a lot of the people in poorer areas have smartphones & internet. \nSo attempts to start tearing down the reputation of the boyars should be attempted. Yes, its petty, but as Russia has shown in the west it is very effective.", ">\n\nChange Russians to Chinese and it's the same shit. \"Why do they hate us so much? Is it because our nation is strong and they are jealous of us? Why are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great? We need to go to America, the country that is ganging up with other countries to bully us.\" \nSweetie, nobody hates you, you're just a nobody. They hate your government but you thinking that your motherland is so great and that others should kowtow to you is not helping your case.", ">\n\n\nWhy are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great?\n\nThat shit right there is definitely part of it.\np.s. Just as a heads up, at first I thought you were speaking first person rather than playing a part, you should probably use quotation marks to distinguish so it's clear.", ">\n\nMy bad, will edit the quotation marks in. I'm just using whatever she said in the twitter video", ">\n\nSlava Ukraini!", ">\n\nHeróyam sláva!", ">\n\nCan we be pretty sure about another mobilization coming this month?", ">\n\nWell I've seen a lot of Russian youtubers saying they just got mobilization summons like a day ago. Could be the Russians are just gonna be stealthy about it this time, instead of announcing it over loudspeakers, so people GTFO. Though if they do go about it officially, you can be certain they will close down the borders beforehand this time.", ">\n\nI've heard of this happening. All the russian youtubers that I follow all ready left. Who stayed?", ">\n\nI don't think you understand what the UN is", ">\n\nDay CCCXIX, Part I. Thread CDLX.", ">\n\nHey guys i'm worried nationalist in Russia will chuck Putin out of a window, has Putin mastered falling :/", ">\n\nIt's the first thing you learn in Judo, isn't it?" ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death", ">\n\nIs the West going to step up on making Russian language media and news bulletins to combat propaganda?", ">\n\nThe west should use Russia's own game against them, and flood their SoMe with the same type of dogshit that Russia does to the west.\nJust make a lot of troll accounts on VK and Telegram, and spread BS that undermines peoples faith in their authorities and causes as much division as possible.", ">\n\nWhy spread BS? truth is good enough", ">\n\nNope, it clearly isn't.\nRussians put a very low value on human life, and they really want to be a big and strong superpower, no matter the cost (there are lots of examples of this of people living in absolute awful conditions, and say that they still support Putin because he \"makes them stronger\"). So even when their stupid ass narrative(s) that is suppose to justify the war is inconsistent and overall makes no sense, it changes nothing. Support remains high.\nThey've had and still have access to alternate information sources, and even a lot of the people in poorer areas have smartphones & internet. \nSo attempts to start tearing down the reputation of the boyars should be attempted. Yes, its petty, but as Russia has shown in the west it is very effective.", ">\n\nChange Russians to Chinese and it's the same shit. \"Why do they hate us so much? Is it because our nation is strong and they are jealous of us? Why are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great? We need to go to America, the country that is ganging up with other countries to bully us.\" \nSweetie, nobody hates you, you're just a nobody. They hate your government but you thinking that your motherland is so great and that others should kowtow to you is not helping your case.", ">\n\n\nWhy are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great?\n\nThat shit right there is definitely part of it.\np.s. Just as a heads up, at first I thought you were speaking first person rather than playing a part, you should probably use quotation marks to distinguish so it's clear.", ">\n\nMy bad, will edit the quotation marks in. I'm just using whatever she said in the twitter video", ">\n\nSlava Ukraini!", ">\n\nHeróyam sláva!", ">\n\nCan we be pretty sure about another mobilization coming this month?", ">\n\nWell I've seen a lot of Russian youtubers saying they just got mobilization summons like a day ago. Could be the Russians are just gonna be stealthy about it this time, instead of announcing it over loudspeakers, so people GTFO. Though if they do go about it officially, you can be certain they will close down the borders beforehand this time.", ">\n\nI've heard of this happening. All the russian youtubers that I follow all ready left. Who stayed?", ">\n\nI don't think you understand what the UN is", ">\n\nDay CCCXIX, Part I. Thread CDLX.", ">\n\nHey guys i'm worried nationalist in Russia will chuck Putin out of a window, has Putin mastered falling :/", ">\n\nIt's the first thing you learn in Judo, isn't it?", ">\n\nI'm biding my time, waiting for the counteroffensive!" ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death", ">\n\nIs the West going to step up on making Russian language media and news bulletins to combat propaganda?", ">\n\nThe west should use Russia's own game against them, and flood their SoMe with the same type of dogshit that Russia does to the west.\nJust make a lot of troll accounts on VK and Telegram, and spread BS that undermines peoples faith in their authorities and causes as much division as possible.", ">\n\nWhy spread BS? truth is good enough", ">\n\nNope, it clearly isn't.\nRussians put a very low value on human life, and they really want to be a big and strong superpower, no matter the cost (there are lots of examples of this of people living in absolute awful conditions, and say that they still support Putin because he \"makes them stronger\"). So even when their stupid ass narrative(s) that is suppose to justify the war is inconsistent and overall makes no sense, it changes nothing. Support remains high.\nThey've had and still have access to alternate information sources, and even a lot of the people in poorer areas have smartphones & internet. \nSo attempts to start tearing down the reputation of the boyars should be attempted. Yes, its petty, but as Russia has shown in the west it is very effective.", ">\n\nChange Russians to Chinese and it's the same shit. \"Why do they hate us so much? Is it because our nation is strong and they are jealous of us? Why are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great? We need to go to America, the country that is ganging up with other countries to bully us.\" \nSweetie, nobody hates you, you're just a nobody. They hate your government but you thinking that your motherland is so great and that others should kowtow to you is not helping your case.", ">\n\n\nWhy are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great?\n\nThat shit right there is definitely part of it.\np.s. Just as a heads up, at first I thought you were speaking first person rather than playing a part, you should probably use quotation marks to distinguish so it's clear.", ">\n\nMy bad, will edit the quotation marks in. I'm just using whatever she said in the twitter video", ">\n\nSlava Ukraini!", ">\n\nHeróyam sláva!", ">\n\nCan we be pretty sure about another mobilization coming this month?", ">\n\nWell I've seen a lot of Russian youtubers saying they just got mobilization summons like a day ago. Could be the Russians are just gonna be stealthy about it this time, instead of announcing it over loudspeakers, so people GTFO. Though if they do go about it officially, you can be certain they will close down the borders beforehand this time.", ">\n\nI've heard of this happening. All the russian youtubers that I follow all ready left. Who stayed?", ">\n\nI don't think you understand what the UN is", ">\n\nDay CCCXIX, Part I. Thread CDLX.", ">\n\nHey guys i'm worried nationalist in Russia will chuck Putin out of a window, has Putin mastered falling :/", ">\n\nIt's the first thing you learn in Judo, isn't it?", ">\n\nI'm biding my time, waiting for the counteroffensive!", ">\n\nBiden should announce that any further mobilization from Russia will be an escalation to trigger ATACMS and F-16s.\nIf Russia will introduce another 500k to 1mill to the battle field, then Ukraine needs absolutely all the help they can get and we really need to stop worrying about \"escalation\"... Russia has fully escalated. If they were going to use nukes, they would before wasting 1million lives." ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death", ">\n\nIs the West going to step up on making Russian language media and news bulletins to combat propaganda?", ">\n\nThe west should use Russia's own game against them, and flood their SoMe with the same type of dogshit that Russia does to the west.\nJust make a lot of troll accounts on VK and Telegram, and spread BS that undermines peoples faith in their authorities and causes as much division as possible.", ">\n\nWhy spread BS? truth is good enough", ">\n\nNope, it clearly isn't.\nRussians put a very low value on human life, and they really want to be a big and strong superpower, no matter the cost (there are lots of examples of this of people living in absolute awful conditions, and say that they still support Putin because he \"makes them stronger\"). So even when their stupid ass narrative(s) that is suppose to justify the war is inconsistent and overall makes no sense, it changes nothing. Support remains high.\nThey've had and still have access to alternate information sources, and even a lot of the people in poorer areas have smartphones & internet. \nSo attempts to start tearing down the reputation of the boyars should be attempted. Yes, its petty, but as Russia has shown in the west it is very effective.", ">\n\nChange Russians to Chinese and it's the same shit. \"Why do they hate us so much? Is it because our nation is strong and they are jealous of us? Why are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great? We need to go to America, the country that is ganging up with other countries to bully us.\" \nSweetie, nobody hates you, you're just a nobody. They hate your government but you thinking that your motherland is so great and that others should kowtow to you is not helping your case.", ">\n\n\nWhy are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great?\n\nThat shit right there is definitely part of it.\np.s. Just as a heads up, at first I thought you were speaking first person rather than playing a part, you should probably use quotation marks to distinguish so it's clear.", ">\n\nMy bad, will edit the quotation marks in. I'm just using whatever she said in the twitter video", ">\n\nSlava Ukraini!", ">\n\nHeróyam sláva!", ">\n\nCan we be pretty sure about another mobilization coming this month?", ">\n\nWell I've seen a lot of Russian youtubers saying they just got mobilization summons like a day ago. Could be the Russians are just gonna be stealthy about it this time, instead of announcing it over loudspeakers, so people GTFO. Though if they do go about it officially, you can be certain they will close down the borders beforehand this time.", ">\n\nI've heard of this happening. All the russian youtubers that I follow all ready left. Who stayed?", ">\n\nI don't think you understand what the UN is", ">\n\nDay CCCXIX, Part I. Thread CDLX.", ">\n\nHey guys i'm worried nationalist in Russia will chuck Putin out of a window, has Putin mastered falling :/", ">\n\nIt's the first thing you learn in Judo, isn't it?", ">\n\nI'm biding my time, waiting for the counteroffensive!", ">\n\nBiden should announce that any further mobilization from Russia will be an escalation to trigger ATACMS and F-16s.\nIf Russia will introduce another 500k to 1mill to the battle field, then Ukraine needs absolutely all the help they can get and we really need to stop worrying about \"escalation\"... Russia has fully escalated. If they were going to use nukes, they would before wasting 1million lives.", ">\n\nMaking threats is just weak.\nJust make the decision.\nBesides, this would just play into Putin's 'we are fighting the west, see they threaten us'. It's not like it would change Putin's decisions.\nWeak leaders threaten, strong leaders act." ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death", ">\n\nIs the West going to step up on making Russian language media and news bulletins to combat propaganda?", ">\n\nThe west should use Russia's own game against them, and flood their SoMe with the same type of dogshit that Russia does to the west.\nJust make a lot of troll accounts on VK and Telegram, and spread BS that undermines peoples faith in their authorities and causes as much division as possible.", ">\n\nWhy spread BS? truth is good enough", ">\n\nNope, it clearly isn't.\nRussians put a very low value on human life, and they really want to be a big and strong superpower, no matter the cost (there are lots of examples of this of people living in absolute awful conditions, and say that they still support Putin because he \"makes them stronger\"). So even when their stupid ass narrative(s) that is suppose to justify the war is inconsistent and overall makes no sense, it changes nothing. Support remains high.\nThey've had and still have access to alternate information sources, and even a lot of the people in poorer areas have smartphones & internet. \nSo attempts to start tearing down the reputation of the boyars should be attempted. Yes, its petty, but as Russia has shown in the west it is very effective.", ">\n\nChange Russians to Chinese and it's the same shit. \"Why do they hate us so much? Is it because our nation is strong and they are jealous of us? Why are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great? We need to go to America, the country that is ganging up with other countries to bully us.\" \nSweetie, nobody hates you, you're just a nobody. They hate your government but you thinking that your motherland is so great and that others should kowtow to you is not helping your case.", ">\n\n\nWhy are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great?\n\nThat shit right there is definitely part of it.\np.s. Just as a heads up, at first I thought you were speaking first person rather than playing a part, you should probably use quotation marks to distinguish so it's clear.", ">\n\nMy bad, will edit the quotation marks in. I'm just using whatever she said in the twitter video", ">\n\nSlava Ukraini!", ">\n\nHeróyam sláva!", ">\n\nCan we be pretty sure about another mobilization coming this month?", ">\n\nWell I've seen a lot of Russian youtubers saying they just got mobilization summons like a day ago. Could be the Russians are just gonna be stealthy about it this time, instead of announcing it over loudspeakers, so people GTFO. Though if they do go about it officially, you can be certain they will close down the borders beforehand this time.", ">\n\nI've heard of this happening. All the russian youtubers that I follow all ready left. Who stayed?", ">\n\nI don't think you understand what the UN is", ">\n\nDay CCCXIX, Part I. Thread CDLX.", ">\n\nHey guys i'm worried nationalist in Russia will chuck Putin out of a window, has Putin mastered falling :/", ">\n\nIt's the first thing you learn in Judo, isn't it?", ">\n\nI'm biding my time, waiting for the counteroffensive!", ">\n\nBiden should announce that any further mobilization from Russia will be an escalation to trigger ATACMS and F-16s.\nIf Russia will introduce another 500k to 1mill to the battle field, then Ukraine needs absolutely all the help they can get and we really need to stop worrying about \"escalation\"... Russia has fully escalated. If they were going to use nukes, they would before wasting 1million lives.", ">\n\nMaking threats is just weak.\nJust make the decision.\nBesides, this would just play into Putin's 'we are fighting the west, see they threaten us'. It's not like it would change Putin's decisions.\nWeak leaders threaten, strong leaders act.", ">\n\nExactly. NATOs actions should be their own, not in response to Russian games." ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death", ">\n\nIs the West going to step up on making Russian language media and news bulletins to combat propaganda?", ">\n\nThe west should use Russia's own game against them, and flood their SoMe with the same type of dogshit that Russia does to the west.\nJust make a lot of troll accounts on VK and Telegram, and spread BS that undermines peoples faith in their authorities and causes as much division as possible.", ">\n\nWhy spread BS? truth is good enough", ">\n\nNope, it clearly isn't.\nRussians put a very low value on human life, and they really want to be a big and strong superpower, no matter the cost (there are lots of examples of this of people living in absolute awful conditions, and say that they still support Putin because he \"makes them stronger\"). So even when their stupid ass narrative(s) that is suppose to justify the war is inconsistent and overall makes no sense, it changes nothing. Support remains high.\nThey've had and still have access to alternate information sources, and even a lot of the people in poorer areas have smartphones & internet. \nSo attempts to start tearing down the reputation of the boyars should be attempted. Yes, its petty, but as Russia has shown in the west it is very effective.", ">\n\nChange Russians to Chinese and it's the same shit. \"Why do they hate us so much? Is it because our nation is strong and they are jealous of us? Why are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great? We need to go to America, the country that is ganging up with other countries to bully us.\" \nSweetie, nobody hates you, you're just a nobody. They hate your government but you thinking that your motherland is so great and that others should kowtow to you is not helping your case.", ">\n\n\nWhy are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great?\n\nThat shit right there is definitely part of it.\np.s. Just as a heads up, at first I thought you were speaking first person rather than playing a part, you should probably use quotation marks to distinguish so it's clear.", ">\n\nMy bad, will edit the quotation marks in. I'm just using whatever she said in the twitter video", ">\n\nSlava Ukraini!", ">\n\nHeróyam sláva!", ">\n\nCan we be pretty sure about another mobilization coming this month?", ">\n\nWell I've seen a lot of Russian youtubers saying they just got mobilization summons like a day ago. Could be the Russians are just gonna be stealthy about it this time, instead of announcing it over loudspeakers, so people GTFO. Though if they do go about it officially, you can be certain they will close down the borders beforehand this time.", ">\n\nI've heard of this happening. All the russian youtubers that I follow all ready left. Who stayed?", ">\n\nI don't think you understand what the UN is", ">\n\nDay CCCXIX, Part I. Thread CDLX.", ">\n\nHey guys i'm worried nationalist in Russia will chuck Putin out of a window, has Putin mastered falling :/", ">\n\nIt's the first thing you learn in Judo, isn't it?", ">\n\nI'm biding my time, waiting for the counteroffensive!", ">\n\nBiden should announce that any further mobilization from Russia will be an escalation to trigger ATACMS and F-16s.\nIf Russia will introduce another 500k to 1mill to the battle field, then Ukraine needs absolutely all the help they can get and we really need to stop worrying about \"escalation\"... Russia has fully escalated. If they were going to use nukes, they would before wasting 1million lives.", ">\n\nMaking threats is just weak.\nJust make the decision.\nBesides, this would just play into Putin's 'we are fighting the west, see they threaten us'. It's not like it would change Putin's decisions.\nWeak leaders threaten, strong leaders act.", ">\n\nExactly. NATOs actions should be their own, not in response to Russian games.", ">\n\nAgreed" ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death", ">\n\nIs the West going to step up on making Russian language media and news bulletins to combat propaganda?", ">\n\nThe west should use Russia's own game against them, and flood their SoMe with the same type of dogshit that Russia does to the west.\nJust make a lot of troll accounts on VK and Telegram, and spread BS that undermines peoples faith in their authorities and causes as much division as possible.", ">\n\nWhy spread BS? truth is good enough", ">\n\nNope, it clearly isn't.\nRussians put a very low value on human life, and they really want to be a big and strong superpower, no matter the cost (there are lots of examples of this of people living in absolute awful conditions, and say that they still support Putin because he \"makes them stronger\"). So even when their stupid ass narrative(s) that is suppose to justify the war is inconsistent and overall makes no sense, it changes nothing. Support remains high.\nThey've had and still have access to alternate information sources, and even a lot of the people in poorer areas have smartphones & internet. \nSo attempts to start tearing down the reputation of the boyars should be attempted. Yes, its petty, but as Russia has shown in the west it is very effective.", ">\n\nChange Russians to Chinese and it's the same shit. \"Why do they hate us so much? Is it because our nation is strong and they are jealous of us? Why are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great? We need to go to America, the country that is ganging up with other countries to bully us.\" \nSweetie, nobody hates you, you're just a nobody. They hate your government but you thinking that your motherland is so great and that others should kowtow to you is not helping your case.", ">\n\n\nWhy are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great?\n\nThat shit right there is definitely part of it.\np.s. Just as a heads up, at first I thought you were speaking first person rather than playing a part, you should probably use quotation marks to distinguish so it's clear.", ">\n\nMy bad, will edit the quotation marks in. I'm just using whatever she said in the twitter video", ">\n\nSlava Ukraini!", ">\n\nHeróyam sláva!", ">\n\nCan we be pretty sure about another mobilization coming this month?", ">\n\nWell I've seen a lot of Russian youtubers saying they just got mobilization summons like a day ago. Could be the Russians are just gonna be stealthy about it this time, instead of announcing it over loudspeakers, so people GTFO. Though if they do go about it officially, you can be certain they will close down the borders beforehand this time.", ">\n\nI've heard of this happening. All the russian youtubers that I follow all ready left. Who stayed?", ">\n\nI don't think you understand what the UN is", ">\n\nDay CCCXIX, Part I. Thread CDLX.", ">\n\nHey guys i'm worried nationalist in Russia will chuck Putin out of a window, has Putin mastered falling :/", ">\n\nIt's the first thing you learn in Judo, isn't it?", ">\n\nI'm biding my time, waiting for the counteroffensive!", ">\n\nBiden should announce that any further mobilization from Russia will be an escalation to trigger ATACMS and F-16s.\nIf Russia will introduce another 500k to 1mill to the battle field, then Ukraine needs absolutely all the help they can get and we really need to stop worrying about \"escalation\"... Russia has fully escalated. If they were going to use nukes, they would before wasting 1million lives.", ">\n\nMaking threats is just weak.\nJust make the decision.\nBesides, this would just play into Putin's 'we are fighting the west, see they threaten us'. It's not like it would change Putin's decisions.\nWeak leaders threaten, strong leaders act.", ">\n\nExactly. NATOs actions should be their own, not in response to Russian games.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nGeneral SkyAdmiral Musk knows more about military stuff than our Generals. Many are saying how surprised they are at how much he knows." ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death", ">\n\nIs the West going to step up on making Russian language media and news bulletins to combat propaganda?", ">\n\nThe west should use Russia's own game against them, and flood their SoMe with the same type of dogshit that Russia does to the west.\nJust make a lot of troll accounts on VK and Telegram, and spread BS that undermines peoples faith in their authorities and causes as much division as possible.", ">\n\nWhy spread BS? truth is good enough", ">\n\nNope, it clearly isn't.\nRussians put a very low value on human life, and they really want to be a big and strong superpower, no matter the cost (there are lots of examples of this of people living in absolute awful conditions, and say that they still support Putin because he \"makes them stronger\"). So even when their stupid ass narrative(s) that is suppose to justify the war is inconsistent and overall makes no sense, it changes nothing. Support remains high.\nThey've had and still have access to alternate information sources, and even a lot of the people in poorer areas have smartphones & internet. \nSo attempts to start tearing down the reputation of the boyars should be attempted. Yes, its petty, but as Russia has shown in the west it is very effective.", ">\n\nChange Russians to Chinese and it's the same shit. \"Why do they hate us so much? Is it because our nation is strong and they are jealous of us? Why are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great? We need to go to America, the country that is ganging up with other countries to bully us.\" \nSweetie, nobody hates you, you're just a nobody. They hate your government but you thinking that your motherland is so great and that others should kowtow to you is not helping your case.", ">\n\n\nWhy are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great?\n\nThat shit right there is definitely part of it.\np.s. Just as a heads up, at first I thought you were speaking first person rather than playing a part, you should probably use quotation marks to distinguish so it's clear.", ">\n\nMy bad, will edit the quotation marks in. I'm just using whatever she said in the twitter video", ">\n\nSlava Ukraini!", ">\n\nHeróyam sláva!", ">\n\nCan we be pretty sure about another mobilization coming this month?", ">\n\nWell I've seen a lot of Russian youtubers saying they just got mobilization summons like a day ago. Could be the Russians are just gonna be stealthy about it this time, instead of announcing it over loudspeakers, so people GTFO. Though if they do go about it officially, you can be certain they will close down the borders beforehand this time.", ">\n\nI've heard of this happening. All the russian youtubers that I follow all ready left. Who stayed?", ">\n\nI don't think you understand what the UN is", ">\n\nDay CCCXIX, Part I. Thread CDLX.", ">\n\nHey guys i'm worried nationalist in Russia will chuck Putin out of a window, has Putin mastered falling :/", ">\n\nIt's the first thing you learn in Judo, isn't it?", ">\n\nI'm biding my time, waiting for the counteroffensive!", ">\n\nBiden should announce that any further mobilization from Russia will be an escalation to trigger ATACMS and F-16s.\nIf Russia will introduce another 500k to 1mill to the battle field, then Ukraine needs absolutely all the help they can get and we really need to stop worrying about \"escalation\"... Russia has fully escalated. If they were going to use nukes, they would before wasting 1million lives.", ">\n\nMaking threats is just weak.\nJust make the decision.\nBesides, this would just play into Putin's 'we are fighting the west, see they threaten us'. It's not like it would change Putin's decisions.\nWeak leaders threaten, strong leaders act.", ">\n\nExactly. NATOs actions should be their own, not in response to Russian games.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nGeneral SkyAdmiral Musk knows more about military stuff than our Generals. Many are saying how surprised they are at how much he knows.", ">\n\nLots of people are saying it" ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death", ">\n\nIs the West going to step up on making Russian language media and news bulletins to combat propaganda?", ">\n\nThe west should use Russia's own game against them, and flood their SoMe with the same type of dogshit that Russia does to the west.\nJust make a lot of troll accounts on VK and Telegram, and spread BS that undermines peoples faith in their authorities and causes as much division as possible.", ">\n\nWhy spread BS? truth is good enough", ">\n\nNope, it clearly isn't.\nRussians put a very low value on human life, and they really want to be a big and strong superpower, no matter the cost (there are lots of examples of this of people living in absolute awful conditions, and say that they still support Putin because he \"makes them stronger\"). So even when their stupid ass narrative(s) that is suppose to justify the war is inconsistent and overall makes no sense, it changes nothing. Support remains high.\nThey've had and still have access to alternate information sources, and even a lot of the people in poorer areas have smartphones & internet. \nSo attempts to start tearing down the reputation of the boyars should be attempted. Yes, its petty, but as Russia has shown in the west it is very effective.", ">\n\nChange Russians to Chinese and it's the same shit. \"Why do they hate us so much? Is it because our nation is strong and they are jealous of us? Why are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great? We need to go to America, the country that is ganging up with other countries to bully us.\" \nSweetie, nobody hates you, you're just a nobody. They hate your government but you thinking that your motherland is so great and that others should kowtow to you is not helping your case.", ">\n\n\nWhy are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great?\n\nThat shit right there is definitely part of it.\np.s. Just as a heads up, at first I thought you were speaking first person rather than playing a part, you should probably use quotation marks to distinguish so it's clear.", ">\n\nMy bad, will edit the quotation marks in. I'm just using whatever she said in the twitter video", ">\n\nSlava Ukraini!", ">\n\nHeróyam sláva!", ">\n\nCan we be pretty sure about another mobilization coming this month?", ">\n\nWell I've seen a lot of Russian youtubers saying they just got mobilization summons like a day ago. Could be the Russians are just gonna be stealthy about it this time, instead of announcing it over loudspeakers, so people GTFO. Though if they do go about it officially, you can be certain they will close down the borders beforehand this time.", ">\n\nI've heard of this happening. All the russian youtubers that I follow all ready left. Who stayed?", ">\n\nI don't think you understand what the UN is", ">\n\nDay CCCXIX, Part I. Thread CDLX.", ">\n\nHey guys i'm worried nationalist in Russia will chuck Putin out of a window, has Putin mastered falling :/", ">\n\nIt's the first thing you learn in Judo, isn't it?", ">\n\nI'm biding my time, waiting for the counteroffensive!", ">\n\nBiden should announce that any further mobilization from Russia will be an escalation to trigger ATACMS and F-16s.\nIf Russia will introduce another 500k to 1mill to the battle field, then Ukraine needs absolutely all the help they can get and we really need to stop worrying about \"escalation\"... Russia has fully escalated. If they were going to use nukes, they would before wasting 1million lives.", ">\n\nMaking threats is just weak.\nJust make the decision.\nBesides, this would just play into Putin's 'we are fighting the west, see they threaten us'. It's not like it would change Putin's decisions.\nWeak leaders threaten, strong leaders act.", ">\n\nExactly. NATOs actions should be their own, not in response to Russian games.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nGeneral SkyAdmiral Musk knows more about military stuff than our Generals. Many are saying how surprised they are at how much he knows.", ">\n\nLots of people are saying it", ">\n\nThe best people." ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death", ">\n\nIs the West going to step up on making Russian language media and news bulletins to combat propaganda?", ">\n\nThe west should use Russia's own game against them, and flood their SoMe with the same type of dogshit that Russia does to the west.\nJust make a lot of troll accounts on VK and Telegram, and spread BS that undermines peoples faith in their authorities and causes as much division as possible.", ">\n\nWhy spread BS? truth is good enough", ">\n\nNope, it clearly isn't.\nRussians put a very low value on human life, and they really want to be a big and strong superpower, no matter the cost (there are lots of examples of this of people living in absolute awful conditions, and say that they still support Putin because he \"makes them stronger\"). So even when their stupid ass narrative(s) that is suppose to justify the war is inconsistent and overall makes no sense, it changes nothing. Support remains high.\nThey've had and still have access to alternate information sources, and even a lot of the people in poorer areas have smartphones & internet. \nSo attempts to start tearing down the reputation of the boyars should be attempted. Yes, its petty, but as Russia has shown in the west it is very effective.", ">\n\nChange Russians to Chinese and it's the same shit. \"Why do they hate us so much? Is it because our nation is strong and they are jealous of us? Why are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great? We need to go to America, the country that is ganging up with other countries to bully us.\" \nSweetie, nobody hates you, you're just a nobody. They hate your government but you thinking that your motherland is so great and that others should kowtow to you is not helping your case.", ">\n\n\nWhy are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great?\n\nThat shit right there is definitely part of it.\np.s. Just as a heads up, at first I thought you were speaking first person rather than playing a part, you should probably use quotation marks to distinguish so it's clear.", ">\n\nMy bad, will edit the quotation marks in. I'm just using whatever she said in the twitter video", ">\n\nSlava Ukraini!", ">\n\nHeróyam sláva!", ">\n\nCan we be pretty sure about another mobilization coming this month?", ">\n\nWell I've seen a lot of Russian youtubers saying they just got mobilization summons like a day ago. Could be the Russians are just gonna be stealthy about it this time, instead of announcing it over loudspeakers, so people GTFO. Though if they do go about it officially, you can be certain they will close down the borders beforehand this time.", ">\n\nI've heard of this happening. All the russian youtubers that I follow all ready left. Who stayed?", ">\n\nI don't think you understand what the UN is", ">\n\nDay CCCXIX, Part I. Thread CDLX.", ">\n\nHey guys i'm worried nationalist in Russia will chuck Putin out of a window, has Putin mastered falling :/", ">\n\nIt's the first thing you learn in Judo, isn't it?", ">\n\nI'm biding my time, waiting for the counteroffensive!", ">\n\nBiden should announce that any further mobilization from Russia will be an escalation to trigger ATACMS and F-16s.\nIf Russia will introduce another 500k to 1mill to the battle field, then Ukraine needs absolutely all the help they can get and we really need to stop worrying about \"escalation\"... Russia has fully escalated. If they were going to use nukes, they would before wasting 1million lives.", ">\n\nMaking threats is just weak.\nJust make the decision.\nBesides, this would just play into Putin's 'we are fighting the west, see they threaten us'. It's not like it would change Putin's decisions.\nWeak leaders threaten, strong leaders act.", ">\n\nExactly. NATOs actions should be their own, not in response to Russian games.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nGeneral SkyAdmiral Musk knows more about military stuff than our Generals. Many are saying how surprised they are at how much he knows.", ">\n\nLots of people are saying it", ">\n\nThe best people.", ">\n\nGenius. Really great. Just the best ever." ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death", ">\n\nIs the West going to step up on making Russian language media and news bulletins to combat propaganda?", ">\n\nThe west should use Russia's own game against them, and flood their SoMe with the same type of dogshit that Russia does to the west.\nJust make a lot of troll accounts on VK and Telegram, and spread BS that undermines peoples faith in their authorities and causes as much division as possible.", ">\n\nWhy spread BS? truth is good enough", ">\n\nNope, it clearly isn't.\nRussians put a very low value on human life, and they really want to be a big and strong superpower, no matter the cost (there are lots of examples of this of people living in absolute awful conditions, and say that they still support Putin because he \"makes them stronger\"). So even when their stupid ass narrative(s) that is suppose to justify the war is inconsistent and overall makes no sense, it changes nothing. Support remains high.\nThey've had and still have access to alternate information sources, and even a lot of the people in poorer areas have smartphones & internet. \nSo attempts to start tearing down the reputation of the boyars should be attempted. Yes, its petty, but as Russia has shown in the west it is very effective.", ">\n\nChange Russians to Chinese and it's the same shit. \"Why do they hate us so much? Is it because our nation is strong and they are jealous of us? Why are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great? We need to go to America, the country that is ganging up with other countries to bully us.\" \nSweetie, nobody hates you, you're just a nobody. They hate your government but you thinking that your motherland is so great and that others should kowtow to you is not helping your case.", ">\n\n\nWhy are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great?\n\nThat shit right there is definitely part of it.\np.s. Just as a heads up, at first I thought you were speaking first person rather than playing a part, you should probably use quotation marks to distinguish so it's clear.", ">\n\nMy bad, will edit the quotation marks in. I'm just using whatever she said in the twitter video", ">\n\nSlava Ukraini!", ">\n\nHeróyam sláva!", ">\n\nCan we be pretty sure about another mobilization coming this month?", ">\n\nWell I've seen a lot of Russian youtubers saying they just got mobilization summons like a day ago. Could be the Russians are just gonna be stealthy about it this time, instead of announcing it over loudspeakers, so people GTFO. Though if they do go about it officially, you can be certain they will close down the borders beforehand this time.", ">\n\nI've heard of this happening. All the russian youtubers that I follow all ready left. Who stayed?", ">\n\nI don't think you understand what the UN is", ">\n\nDay CCCXIX, Part I. Thread CDLX.", ">\n\nHey guys i'm worried nationalist in Russia will chuck Putin out of a window, has Putin mastered falling :/", ">\n\nIt's the first thing you learn in Judo, isn't it?", ">\n\nI'm biding my time, waiting for the counteroffensive!", ">\n\nBiden should announce that any further mobilization from Russia will be an escalation to trigger ATACMS and F-16s.\nIf Russia will introduce another 500k to 1mill to the battle field, then Ukraine needs absolutely all the help they can get and we really need to stop worrying about \"escalation\"... Russia has fully escalated. If they were going to use nukes, they would before wasting 1million lives.", ">\n\nMaking threats is just weak.\nJust make the decision.\nBesides, this would just play into Putin's 'we are fighting the west, see they threaten us'. It's not like it would change Putin's decisions.\nWeak leaders threaten, strong leaders act.", ">\n\nExactly. NATOs actions should be their own, not in response to Russian games.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nGeneral SkyAdmiral Musk knows more about military stuff than our Generals. Many are saying how surprised they are at how much he knows.", ">\n\nLots of people are saying it", ">\n\nThe best people.", ">\n\nGenius. Really great. Just the best ever.", ">\n\nWhat are the chances the war drags on much longer than we think? Fighting has been in sprawling areas with little to no urban combat, guerrilla warfare, etc. Not a religious war so few suicide bombings/terrorist attacks. Just pure, conventional warfare. Ukraine is highly motivated and willing to fight. Hopefully we continue to supply Ukraine with increasingly better weapons and end the war by the fall." ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death", ">\n\nIs the West going to step up on making Russian language media and news bulletins to combat propaganda?", ">\n\nThe west should use Russia's own game against them, and flood their SoMe with the same type of dogshit that Russia does to the west.\nJust make a lot of troll accounts on VK and Telegram, and spread BS that undermines peoples faith in their authorities and causes as much division as possible.", ">\n\nWhy spread BS? truth is good enough", ">\n\nNope, it clearly isn't.\nRussians put a very low value on human life, and they really want to be a big and strong superpower, no matter the cost (there are lots of examples of this of people living in absolute awful conditions, and say that they still support Putin because he \"makes them stronger\"). So even when their stupid ass narrative(s) that is suppose to justify the war is inconsistent and overall makes no sense, it changes nothing. Support remains high.\nThey've had and still have access to alternate information sources, and even a lot of the people in poorer areas have smartphones & internet. \nSo attempts to start tearing down the reputation of the boyars should be attempted. Yes, its petty, but as Russia has shown in the west it is very effective.", ">\n\nChange Russians to Chinese and it's the same shit. \"Why do they hate us so much? Is it because our nation is strong and they are jealous of us? Why are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great? We need to go to America, the country that is ganging up with other countries to bully us.\" \nSweetie, nobody hates you, you're just a nobody. They hate your government but you thinking that your motherland is so great and that others should kowtow to you is not helping your case.", ">\n\n\nWhy are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great?\n\nThat shit right there is definitely part of it.\np.s. Just as a heads up, at first I thought you were speaking first person rather than playing a part, you should probably use quotation marks to distinguish so it's clear.", ">\n\nMy bad, will edit the quotation marks in. I'm just using whatever she said in the twitter video", ">\n\nSlava Ukraini!", ">\n\nHeróyam sláva!", ">\n\nCan we be pretty sure about another mobilization coming this month?", ">\n\nWell I've seen a lot of Russian youtubers saying they just got mobilization summons like a day ago. Could be the Russians are just gonna be stealthy about it this time, instead of announcing it over loudspeakers, so people GTFO. Though if they do go about it officially, you can be certain they will close down the borders beforehand this time.", ">\n\nI've heard of this happening. All the russian youtubers that I follow all ready left. Who stayed?", ">\n\nI don't think you understand what the UN is", ">\n\nDay CCCXIX, Part I. Thread CDLX.", ">\n\nHey guys i'm worried nationalist in Russia will chuck Putin out of a window, has Putin mastered falling :/", ">\n\nIt's the first thing you learn in Judo, isn't it?", ">\n\nI'm biding my time, waiting for the counteroffensive!", ">\n\nBiden should announce that any further mobilization from Russia will be an escalation to trigger ATACMS and F-16s.\nIf Russia will introduce another 500k to 1mill to the battle field, then Ukraine needs absolutely all the help they can get and we really need to stop worrying about \"escalation\"... Russia has fully escalated. If they were going to use nukes, they would before wasting 1million lives.", ">\n\nMaking threats is just weak.\nJust make the decision.\nBesides, this would just play into Putin's 'we are fighting the west, see they threaten us'. It's not like it would change Putin's decisions.\nWeak leaders threaten, strong leaders act.", ">\n\nExactly. NATOs actions should be their own, not in response to Russian games.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nGeneral SkyAdmiral Musk knows more about military stuff than our Generals. Many are saying how surprised they are at how much he knows.", ">\n\nLots of people are saying it", ">\n\nThe best people.", ">\n\nGenius. Really great. Just the best ever.", ">\n\nWhat are the chances the war drags on much longer than we think? Fighting has been in sprawling areas with little to no urban combat, guerrilla warfare, etc. Not a religious war so few suicide bombings/terrorist attacks. Just pure, conventional warfare. Ukraine is highly motivated and willing to fight. Hopefully we continue to supply Ukraine with increasingly better weapons and end the war by the fall.", ">\n\nThere's a non-zero chance ruZZia will just keep attacking once Ukraine reaches their 1991 borders. As long as the hostilities don't end you haven't \"lost\".\nOn the other hand if that happens Ukraine will likewise keep hitting high-value military targets deep inside russia too while becoming increasingly powerful." ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death", ">\n\nIs the West going to step up on making Russian language media and news bulletins to combat propaganda?", ">\n\nThe west should use Russia's own game against them, and flood their SoMe with the same type of dogshit that Russia does to the west.\nJust make a lot of troll accounts on VK and Telegram, and spread BS that undermines peoples faith in their authorities and causes as much division as possible.", ">\n\nWhy spread BS? truth is good enough", ">\n\nNope, it clearly isn't.\nRussians put a very low value on human life, and they really want to be a big and strong superpower, no matter the cost (there are lots of examples of this of people living in absolute awful conditions, and say that they still support Putin because he \"makes them stronger\"). So even when their stupid ass narrative(s) that is suppose to justify the war is inconsistent and overall makes no sense, it changes nothing. Support remains high.\nThey've had and still have access to alternate information sources, and even a lot of the people in poorer areas have smartphones & internet. \nSo attempts to start tearing down the reputation of the boyars should be attempted. Yes, its petty, but as Russia has shown in the west it is very effective.", ">\n\nChange Russians to Chinese and it's the same shit. \"Why do they hate us so much? Is it because our nation is strong and they are jealous of us? Why are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great? We need to go to America, the country that is ganging up with other countries to bully us.\" \nSweetie, nobody hates you, you're just a nobody. They hate your government but you thinking that your motherland is so great and that others should kowtow to you is not helping your case.", ">\n\n\nWhy are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great?\n\nThat shit right there is definitely part of it.\np.s. Just as a heads up, at first I thought you were speaking first person rather than playing a part, you should probably use quotation marks to distinguish so it's clear.", ">\n\nMy bad, will edit the quotation marks in. I'm just using whatever she said in the twitter video", ">\n\nSlava Ukraini!", ">\n\nHeróyam sláva!", ">\n\nCan we be pretty sure about another mobilization coming this month?", ">\n\nWell I've seen a lot of Russian youtubers saying they just got mobilization summons like a day ago. Could be the Russians are just gonna be stealthy about it this time, instead of announcing it over loudspeakers, so people GTFO. Though if they do go about it officially, you can be certain they will close down the borders beforehand this time.", ">\n\nI've heard of this happening. All the russian youtubers that I follow all ready left. Who stayed?", ">\n\nI don't think you understand what the UN is", ">\n\nDay CCCXIX, Part I. Thread CDLX.", ">\n\nHey guys i'm worried nationalist in Russia will chuck Putin out of a window, has Putin mastered falling :/", ">\n\nIt's the first thing you learn in Judo, isn't it?", ">\n\nI'm biding my time, waiting for the counteroffensive!", ">\n\nBiden should announce that any further mobilization from Russia will be an escalation to trigger ATACMS and F-16s.\nIf Russia will introduce another 500k to 1mill to the battle field, then Ukraine needs absolutely all the help they can get and we really need to stop worrying about \"escalation\"... Russia has fully escalated. If they were going to use nukes, they would before wasting 1million lives.", ">\n\nMaking threats is just weak.\nJust make the decision.\nBesides, this would just play into Putin's 'we are fighting the west, see they threaten us'. It's not like it would change Putin's decisions.\nWeak leaders threaten, strong leaders act.", ">\n\nExactly. NATOs actions should be their own, not in response to Russian games.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nGeneral SkyAdmiral Musk knows more about military stuff than our Generals. Many are saying how surprised they are at how much he knows.", ">\n\nLots of people are saying it", ">\n\nThe best people.", ">\n\nGenius. Really great. Just the best ever.", ">\n\nWhat are the chances the war drags on much longer than we think? Fighting has been in sprawling areas with little to no urban combat, guerrilla warfare, etc. Not a religious war so few suicide bombings/terrorist attacks. Just pure, conventional warfare. Ukraine is highly motivated and willing to fight. Hopefully we continue to supply Ukraine with increasingly better weapons and end the war by the fall.", ">\n\nThere's a non-zero chance ruZZia will just keep attacking once Ukraine reaches their 1991 borders. As long as the hostilities don't end you haven't \"lost\".\nOn the other hand if that happens Ukraine will likewise keep hitting high-value military targets deep inside russia too while becoming increasingly powerful.", ">\n\nYou might want to advance a little beyond the border, then; if Russia refuses to admit defeat and just keeps on shooting, so that there's going to be a shelled out frontier wasteland between the two sides, it might as well be entirely inside Russia, rather than straddling the actual border itself. It's not as if Putin will complain any more than he already does - the entire front line is inside Russia by his definition already!" ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death", ">\n\nIs the West going to step up on making Russian language media and news bulletins to combat propaganda?", ">\n\nThe west should use Russia's own game against them, and flood their SoMe with the same type of dogshit that Russia does to the west.\nJust make a lot of troll accounts on VK and Telegram, and spread BS that undermines peoples faith in their authorities and causes as much division as possible.", ">\n\nWhy spread BS? truth is good enough", ">\n\nNope, it clearly isn't.\nRussians put a very low value on human life, and they really want to be a big and strong superpower, no matter the cost (there are lots of examples of this of people living in absolute awful conditions, and say that they still support Putin because he \"makes them stronger\"). So even when their stupid ass narrative(s) that is suppose to justify the war is inconsistent and overall makes no sense, it changes nothing. Support remains high.\nThey've had and still have access to alternate information sources, and even a lot of the people in poorer areas have smartphones & internet. \nSo attempts to start tearing down the reputation of the boyars should be attempted. Yes, its petty, but as Russia has shown in the west it is very effective.", ">\n\nChange Russians to Chinese and it's the same shit. \"Why do they hate us so much? Is it because our nation is strong and they are jealous of us? Why are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great? We need to go to America, the country that is ganging up with other countries to bully us.\" \nSweetie, nobody hates you, you're just a nobody. They hate your government but you thinking that your motherland is so great and that others should kowtow to you is not helping your case.", ">\n\n\nWhy are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great?\n\nThat shit right there is definitely part of it.\np.s. Just as a heads up, at first I thought you were speaking first person rather than playing a part, you should probably use quotation marks to distinguish so it's clear.", ">\n\nMy bad, will edit the quotation marks in. I'm just using whatever she said in the twitter video", ">\n\nSlava Ukraini!", ">\n\nHeróyam sláva!", ">\n\nCan we be pretty sure about another mobilization coming this month?", ">\n\nWell I've seen a lot of Russian youtubers saying they just got mobilization summons like a day ago. Could be the Russians are just gonna be stealthy about it this time, instead of announcing it over loudspeakers, so people GTFO. Though if they do go about it officially, you can be certain they will close down the borders beforehand this time.", ">\n\nI've heard of this happening. All the russian youtubers that I follow all ready left. Who stayed?", ">\n\nI don't think you understand what the UN is", ">\n\nDay CCCXIX, Part I. Thread CDLX.", ">\n\nHey guys i'm worried nationalist in Russia will chuck Putin out of a window, has Putin mastered falling :/", ">\n\nIt's the first thing you learn in Judo, isn't it?", ">\n\nI'm biding my time, waiting for the counteroffensive!", ">\n\nBiden should announce that any further mobilization from Russia will be an escalation to trigger ATACMS and F-16s.\nIf Russia will introduce another 500k to 1mill to the battle field, then Ukraine needs absolutely all the help they can get and we really need to stop worrying about \"escalation\"... Russia has fully escalated. If they were going to use nukes, they would before wasting 1million lives.", ">\n\nMaking threats is just weak.\nJust make the decision.\nBesides, this would just play into Putin's 'we are fighting the west, see they threaten us'. It's not like it would change Putin's decisions.\nWeak leaders threaten, strong leaders act.", ">\n\nExactly. NATOs actions should be their own, not in response to Russian games.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nGeneral SkyAdmiral Musk knows more about military stuff than our Generals. Many are saying how surprised they are at how much he knows.", ">\n\nLots of people are saying it", ">\n\nThe best people.", ">\n\nGenius. Really great. Just the best ever.", ">\n\nWhat are the chances the war drags on much longer than we think? Fighting has been in sprawling areas with little to no urban combat, guerrilla warfare, etc. Not a religious war so few suicide bombings/terrorist attacks. Just pure, conventional warfare. Ukraine is highly motivated and willing to fight. Hopefully we continue to supply Ukraine with increasingly better weapons and end the war by the fall.", ">\n\nThere's a non-zero chance ruZZia will just keep attacking once Ukraine reaches their 1991 borders. As long as the hostilities don't end you haven't \"lost\".\nOn the other hand if that happens Ukraine will likewise keep hitting high-value military targets deep inside russia too while becoming increasingly powerful.", ">\n\nYou might want to advance a little beyond the border, then; if Russia refuses to admit defeat and just keeps on shooting, so that there's going to be a shelled out frontier wasteland between the two sides, it might as well be entirely inside Russia, rather than straddling the actual border itself. It's not as if Putin will complain any more than he already does - the entire front line is inside Russia by his definition already!", ">\n\nI think there was an Ukrainian official who hinted at something like this being planned." ]

[ "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.", ">\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?", ">\n\nI was thinking Canadian geese, but they migrate south, and not east across the Atlantic.", ">\n\nOne day closer to victory. Glory to Ukraine and all of its heroes!", ">\n\nOne day closer to Putin's death", ">\n\nIs the West going to step up on making Russian language media and news bulletins to combat propaganda?", ">\n\nThe west should use Russia's own game against them, and flood their SoMe with the same type of dogshit that Russia does to the west.\nJust make a lot of troll accounts on VK and Telegram, and spread BS that undermines peoples faith in their authorities and causes as much division as possible.", ">\n\nWhy spread BS? truth is good enough", ">\n\nNope, it clearly isn't.\nRussians put a very low value on human life, and they really want to be a big and strong superpower, no matter the cost (there are lots of examples of this of people living in absolute awful conditions, and say that they still support Putin because he \"makes them stronger\"). So even when their stupid ass narrative(s) that is suppose to justify the war is inconsistent and overall makes no sense, it changes nothing. Support remains high.\nThey've had and still have access to alternate information sources, and even a lot of the people in poorer areas have smartphones & internet. \nSo attempts to start tearing down the reputation of the boyars should be attempted. Yes, its petty, but as Russia has shown in the west it is very effective.", ">\n\nChange Russians to Chinese and it's the same shit. \"Why do they hate us so much? Is it because our nation is strong and they are jealous of us? Why are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great? We need to go to America, the country that is ganging up with other countries to bully us.\" \nSweetie, nobody hates you, you're just a nobody. They hate your government but you thinking that your motherland is so great and that others should kowtow to you is not helping your case.", ">\n\n\nWhy are our passports like shit and we need to apply Visas to travel when our motherland is so great?\n\nThat shit right there is definitely part of it.\np.s. Just as a heads up, at first I thought you were speaking first person rather than playing a part, you should probably use quotation marks to distinguish so it's clear.", ">\n\nMy bad, will edit the quotation marks in. I'm just using whatever she said in the twitter video", ">\n\nSlava Ukraini!", ">\n\nHeróyam sláva!", ">\n\nCan we be pretty sure about another mobilization coming this month?", ">\n\nWell I've seen a lot of Russian youtubers saying they just got mobilization summons like a day ago. Could be the Russians are just gonna be stealthy about it this time, instead of announcing it over loudspeakers, so people GTFO. Though if they do go about it officially, you can be certain they will close down the borders beforehand this time.", ">\n\nI've heard of this happening. All the russian youtubers that I follow all ready left. Who stayed?", ">\n\nI don't think you understand what the UN is", ">\n\nDay CCCXIX, Part I. Thread CDLX.", ">\n\nHey guys i'm worried nationalist in Russia will chuck Putin out of a window, has Putin mastered falling :/", ">\n\nIt's the first thing you learn in Judo, isn't it?", ">\n\nI'm biding my time, waiting for the counteroffensive!", ">\n\nBiden should announce that any further mobilization from Russia will be an escalation to trigger ATACMS and F-16s.\nIf Russia will introduce another 500k to 1mill to the battle field, then Ukraine needs absolutely all the help they can get and we really need to stop worrying about \"escalation\"... Russia has fully escalated. If they were going to use nukes, they would before wasting 1million lives.", ">\n\nMaking threats is just weak.\nJust make the decision.\nBesides, this would just play into Putin's 'we are fighting the west, see they threaten us'. It's not like it would change Putin's decisions.\nWeak leaders threaten, strong leaders act.", ">\n\nExactly. NATOs actions should be their own, not in response to Russian games.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nGeneral SkyAdmiral Musk knows more about military stuff than our Generals. Many are saying how surprised they are at how much he knows.", ">\n\nLots of people are saying it", ">\n\nThe best people.", ">\n\nGenius. Really great. Just the best ever.", ">\n\nWhat are the chances the war drags on much longer than we think? Fighting has been in sprawling areas with little to no urban combat, guerrilla warfare, etc. Not a religious war so few suicide bombings/terrorist attacks. Just pure, conventional warfare. Ukraine is highly motivated and willing to fight. Hopefully we continue to supply Ukraine with increasingly better weapons and end the war by the fall.", ">\n\nThere's a non-zero chance ruZZia will just keep attacking once Ukraine reaches their 1991 borders. As long as the hostilities don't end you haven't \"lost\".\nOn the other hand if that happens Ukraine will likewise keep hitting high-value military targets deep inside russia too while becoming increasingly powerful.", ">\n\nYou might want to advance a little beyond the border, then; if Russia refuses to admit defeat and just keeps on shooting, so that there's going to be a shelled out frontier wasteland between the two sides, it might as well be entirely inside Russia, rather than straddling the actual border itself. It's not as if Putin will complain any more than he already does - the entire front line is inside Russia by his definition already!", ">\n\nI think there was an Ukrainian official who hinted at something like this being planned.", ">\n\nWhoever that is? Maybe they don’t deserve advertising?" ]

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[ "This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 78%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nUkraine has imposed sanctions on more than 100 Russian actors, musicians, and television personalities who Kyiv says are \"Propagandists of death\" for supporting the war in Ukraine.\nMykhaylo Podolyak, a senior adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said that the Russians had been blacklisted for supporting Russia's armed aggression in Ukraine.\nThe Security Service of Ukraine recently conducted searches at cathedrals and monasteries of the UOC-MP throughout Ukraine.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Ukraine^#1 sanctions^#2 Russian^#3 list^#4 decree^#5" ]

[ "This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 78%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nUkraine has imposed sanctions on more than 100 Russian actors, musicians, and television personalities who Kyiv says are \"Propagandists of death\" for supporting the war in Ukraine.\nMykhaylo Podolyak, a senior adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said that the Russians had been blacklisted for supporting Russia's armed aggression in Ukraine.\nThe Security Service of Ukraine recently conducted searches at cathedrals and monasteries of the UOC-MP throughout Ukraine.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Ukraine^#1 sanctions^#2 Russian^#3 list^#4 decree^#5", ">\n\nTymoshuck on the list from one of the best players for Shakhtar & Ukraine to a Russian Shill" ]

[ "This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 78%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nUkraine has imposed sanctions on more than 100 Russian actors, musicians, and television personalities who Kyiv says are \"Propagandists of death\" for supporting the war in Ukraine.\nMykhaylo Podolyak, a senior adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said that the Russians had been blacklisted for supporting Russia's armed aggression in Ukraine.\nThe Security Service of Ukraine recently conducted searches at cathedrals and monasteries of the UOC-MP throughout Ukraine.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Ukraine^#1 sanctions^#2 Russian^#3 list^#4 decree^#5", ">\n\nTymoshuck on the list from one of the best players for Shakhtar & Ukraine to a Russian Shill", ">\n\nThe former Bayern Munich player? Wtf happened to him? He was such a nice person back then." ]

[ "This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 78%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nUkraine has imposed sanctions on more than 100 Russian actors, musicians, and television personalities who Kyiv says are \"Propagandists of death\" for supporting the war in Ukraine.\nMykhaylo Podolyak, a senior adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said that the Russians had been blacklisted for supporting Russia's armed aggression in Ukraine.\nThe Security Service of Ukraine recently conducted searches at cathedrals and monasteries of the UOC-MP throughout Ukraine.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Ukraine^#1 sanctions^#2 Russian^#3 list^#4 decree^#5", ">\n\nTymoshuck on the list from one of the best players for Shakhtar & Ukraine to a Russian Shill", ">\n\nThe former Bayern Munich player? Wtf happened to him? He was such a nice person back then.", ">\n\nHe chose to stay as Zenit coach after war started" ]

[ "This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 78%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nUkraine has imposed sanctions on more than 100 Russian actors, musicians, and television personalities who Kyiv says are \"Propagandists of death\" for supporting the war in Ukraine.\nMykhaylo Podolyak, a senior adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said that the Russians had been blacklisted for supporting Russia's armed aggression in Ukraine.\nThe Security Service of Ukraine recently conducted searches at cathedrals and monasteries of the UOC-MP throughout Ukraine.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Ukraine^#1 sanctions^#2 Russian^#3 list^#4 decree^#5", ">\n\nTymoshuck on the list from one of the best players for Shakhtar & Ukraine to a Russian Shill", ">\n\nThe former Bayern Munich player? Wtf happened to him? He was such a nice person back then.", ">\n\nHe chose to stay as Zenit coach after war started", ">\n\nYeah that and he didn’t really say much about annexing Crimea.\nThen you have Yaroslavl Rakitsyi (butchered spelling)\nHe left Shakhtar after the annexing of Donbas for Zenit, was banned from international football with Ukraine made a pariah. Then had a change of heart when the war started. Zenit released him, Ukraine didn’t want him so he went to Turkey and just got released" ]

[ "This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 78%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nUkraine has imposed sanctions on more than 100 Russian actors, musicians, and television personalities who Kyiv says are \"Propagandists of death\" for supporting the war in Ukraine.\nMykhaylo Podolyak, a senior adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said that the Russians had been blacklisted for supporting Russia's armed aggression in Ukraine.\nThe Security Service of Ukraine recently conducted searches at cathedrals and monasteries of the UOC-MP throughout Ukraine.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Ukraine^#1 sanctions^#2 Russian^#3 list^#4 decree^#5", ">\n\nTymoshuck on the list from one of the best players for Shakhtar & Ukraine to a Russian Shill", ">\n\nThe former Bayern Munich player? Wtf happened to him? He was such a nice person back then.", ">\n\nHe chose to stay as Zenit coach after war started", ">\n\nYeah that and he didn’t really say much about annexing Crimea.\nThen you have Yaroslavl Rakitsyi (butchered spelling)\nHe left Shakhtar after the annexing of Donbas for Zenit, was banned from international football with Ukraine made a pariah. Then had a change of heart when the war started. Zenit released him, Ukraine didn’t want him so he went to Turkey and just got released", ">\n\nWhat, no Tucker ?" ]

[ "This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 78%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nUkraine has imposed sanctions on more than 100 Russian actors, musicians, and television personalities who Kyiv says are \"Propagandists of death\" for supporting the war in Ukraine.\nMykhaylo Podolyak, a senior adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said that the Russians had been blacklisted for supporting Russia's armed aggression in Ukraine.\nThe Security Service of Ukraine recently conducted searches at cathedrals and monasteries of the UOC-MP throughout Ukraine.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Ukraine^#1 sanctions^#2 Russian^#3 list^#4 decree^#5", ">\n\nTymoshuck on the list from one of the best players for Shakhtar & Ukraine to a Russian Shill", ">\n\nThe former Bayern Munich player? Wtf happened to him? He was such a nice person back then.", ">\n\nHe chose to stay as Zenit coach after war started", ">\n\nYeah that and he didn’t really say much about annexing Crimea.\nThen you have Yaroslavl Rakitsyi (butchered spelling)\nHe left Shakhtar after the annexing of Donbas for Zenit, was banned from international football with Ukraine made a pariah. Then had a change of heart when the war started. Zenit released him, Ukraine didn’t want him so he went to Turkey and just got released", ">\n\nWhat, no Tucker ?", ">\n\nThey've probably have no-one to blacklist as they silenced any opposition." ]

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[ "Many people on the internet see a snapshot of someone’s life and make harsh judgments and assumptions as if they’re perfect." ]

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[ "I know New Vegas gets its cock sucked A LOT, maybe even too much, but it ruined RPGs for me because of how good it was. I played a psycho killer and rarely sparred anyone. There was only like one essential NPC that I couldn’t kill. Game still kept on. In Skyrim it felt like everyone was essential." ]

[ "I know New Vegas gets its cock sucked A LOT, maybe even too much, but it ruined RPGs for me because of how good it was. I played a psycho killer and rarely sparred anyone. There was only like one essential NPC that I couldn’t kill. Game still kept on. In Skyrim it felt like everyone was essential.", ">\n\nWasteland series have more “create your story” than Skyrim. Skyrim has a very linear story with only two paths that lead you to the same end, but with different allies. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the game after 12 years, but it is not the best we will ever get. We will continue to get RPG games that will surpass it. \nStill, gotta love waking up from your drunken stupor, only to find out you married a hagraven. We couldn’t even have the decency to marry a giant or some random dragon." ]

[ "I know New Vegas gets its cock sucked A LOT, maybe even too much, but it ruined RPGs for me because of how good it was. I played a psycho killer and rarely sparred anyone. There was only like one essential NPC that I couldn’t kill. Game still kept on. In Skyrim it felt like everyone was essential.", ">\n\nWasteland series have more “create your story” than Skyrim. Skyrim has a very linear story with only two paths that lead you to the same end, but with different allies. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the game after 12 years, but it is not the best we will ever get. We will continue to get RPG games that will surpass it. \nStill, gotta love waking up from your drunken stupor, only to find out you married a hagraven. We couldn’t even have the decency to marry a giant or some random dragon.", ">\n\nThe original fallout was a remake of wastelands according to Brian Fargo. Also wastelands is based on the movie damnation alley. So it’s kinda funny the wastelands series is technically wastelands, fallout, fallout 2, wastelands 2, wastelands 3." ]

[ "I know New Vegas gets its cock sucked A LOT, maybe even too much, but it ruined RPGs for me because of how good it was. I played a psycho killer and rarely sparred anyone. There was only like one essential NPC that I couldn’t kill. Game still kept on. In Skyrim it felt like everyone was essential.", ">\n\nWasteland series have more “create your story” than Skyrim. Skyrim has a very linear story with only two paths that lead you to the same end, but with different allies. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the game after 12 years, but it is not the best we will ever get. We will continue to get RPG games that will surpass it. \nStill, gotta love waking up from your drunken stupor, only to find out you married a hagraven. We couldn’t even have the decency to marry a giant or some random dragon.", ">\n\nThe original fallout was a remake of wastelands according to Brian Fargo. Also wastelands is based on the movie damnation alley. So it’s kinda funny the wastelands series is technically wastelands, fallout, fallout 2, wastelands 2, wastelands 3.", ">\n\nIf your argument for why a game is good is “but mods tho!”, you’ve failed right out of the gate." ]

[ "I know New Vegas gets its cock sucked A LOT, maybe even too much, but it ruined RPGs for me because of how good it was. I played a psycho killer and rarely sparred anyone. There was only like one essential NPC that I couldn’t kill. Game still kept on. In Skyrim it felt like everyone was essential.", ">\n\nWasteland series have more “create your story” than Skyrim. Skyrim has a very linear story with only two paths that lead you to the same end, but with different allies. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the game after 12 years, but it is not the best we will ever get. We will continue to get RPG games that will surpass it. \nStill, gotta love waking up from your drunken stupor, only to find out you married a hagraven. We couldn’t even have the decency to marry a giant or some random dragon.", ">\n\nThe original fallout was a remake of wastelands according to Brian Fargo. Also wastelands is based on the movie damnation alley. So it’s kinda funny the wastelands series is technically wastelands, fallout, fallout 2, wastelands 2, wastelands 3.", ">\n\nIf your argument for why a game is good is “but mods tho!”, you’ve failed right out of the gate.", ">\n\nI agree as a game dev\nI really hate when I'm like why is this game good and the first thing people say is mod support\nLike skyrim was good because it allowed for multiple play styles, difficulties, had an engaging atmosphere, was easy to pick up, had levels of complexity with often a few ways to get a level done, interesting and engaging story, alot of interesting side quests, skill trees with interesting unlocks, sub classes (werewolf/vampire) and felt like a modern take on an old rpg\nBut also the game is not objectively the best. It depends largely what you are looking for in your rpg. For example dragon age is less replayable in it's game play but the story can go alot of different directions.\nIt's about what you consider important the fact is you can't have a visually stunning game, with alot of narrative freedom and alot of gameplay freedom it's just too much.\nSkyrim has a focus on gameplay freedom and Dragon Age focuses on the narrative freedom. Neither game is missing either element but something has to be your games focus. Budgets are not endless, fans don't want to wait forever and devs get exhausted." ]

[ "I know New Vegas gets its cock sucked A LOT, maybe even too much, but it ruined RPGs for me because of how good it was. I played a psycho killer and rarely sparred anyone. There was only like one essential NPC that I couldn’t kill. Game still kept on. In Skyrim it felt like everyone was essential.", ">\n\nWasteland series have more “create your story” than Skyrim. Skyrim has a very linear story with only two paths that lead you to the same end, but with different allies. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the game after 12 years, but it is not the best we will ever get. We will continue to get RPG games that will surpass it. \nStill, gotta love waking up from your drunken stupor, only to find out you married a hagraven. We couldn’t even have the decency to marry a giant or some random dragon.", ">\n\nThe original fallout was a remake of wastelands according to Brian Fargo. Also wastelands is based on the movie damnation alley. So it’s kinda funny the wastelands series is technically wastelands, fallout, fallout 2, wastelands 2, wastelands 3.", ">\n\nIf your argument for why a game is good is “but mods tho!”, you’ve failed right out of the gate.", ">\n\nI agree as a game dev\nI really hate when I'm like why is this game good and the first thing people say is mod support\nLike skyrim was good because it allowed for multiple play styles, difficulties, had an engaging atmosphere, was easy to pick up, had levels of complexity with often a few ways to get a level done, interesting and engaging story, alot of interesting side quests, skill trees with interesting unlocks, sub classes (werewolf/vampire) and felt like a modern take on an old rpg\nBut also the game is not objectively the best. It depends largely what you are looking for in your rpg. For example dragon age is less replayable in it's game play but the story can go alot of different directions.\nIt's about what you consider important the fact is you can't have a visually stunning game, with alot of narrative freedom and alot of gameplay freedom it's just too much.\nSkyrim has a focus on gameplay freedom and Dragon Age focuses on the narrative freedom. Neither game is missing either element but something has to be your games focus. Budgets are not endless, fans don't want to wait forever and devs get exhausted.", ">\n\nLmao" ]

[ "I know New Vegas gets its cock sucked A LOT, maybe even too much, but it ruined RPGs for me because of how good it was. I played a psycho killer and rarely sparred anyone. There was only like one essential NPC that I couldn’t kill. Game still kept on. In Skyrim it felt like everyone was essential.", ">\n\nWasteland series have more “create your story” than Skyrim. Skyrim has a very linear story with only two paths that lead you to the same end, but with different allies. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the game after 12 years, but it is not the best we will ever get. We will continue to get RPG games that will surpass it. \nStill, gotta love waking up from your drunken stupor, only to find out you married a hagraven. We couldn’t even have the decency to marry a giant or some random dragon.", ">\n\nThe original fallout was a remake of wastelands according to Brian Fargo. Also wastelands is based on the movie damnation alley. So it’s kinda funny the wastelands series is technically wastelands, fallout, fallout 2, wastelands 2, wastelands 3.", ">\n\nIf your argument for why a game is good is “but mods tho!”, you’ve failed right out of the gate.", ">\n\nI agree as a game dev\nI really hate when I'm like why is this game good and the first thing people say is mod support\nLike skyrim was good because it allowed for multiple play styles, difficulties, had an engaging atmosphere, was easy to pick up, had levels of complexity with often a few ways to get a level done, interesting and engaging story, alot of interesting side quests, skill trees with interesting unlocks, sub classes (werewolf/vampire) and felt like a modern take on an old rpg\nBut also the game is not objectively the best. It depends largely what you are looking for in your rpg. For example dragon age is less replayable in it's game play but the story can go alot of different directions.\nIt's about what you consider important the fact is you can't have a visually stunning game, with alot of narrative freedom and alot of gameplay freedom it's just too much.\nSkyrim has a focus on gameplay freedom and Dragon Age focuses on the narrative freedom. Neither game is missing either element but something has to be your games focus. Budgets are not endless, fans don't want to wait forever and devs get exhausted.", ">\n\nLmao", ">\n\nMy brother in Christ, people shit on Skyrim because of the memes, not the gameplay. And also, you don't 'create your own story', you follow a predetermined story from the getgo after you escape the tutorial beheading: Stormcloaks or Imperials, forcing you to slay your first dragon & becoming the dragonborn." ]

[ "I know New Vegas gets its cock sucked A LOT, maybe even too much, but it ruined RPGs for me because of how good it was. I played a psycho killer and rarely sparred anyone. There was only like one essential NPC that I couldn’t kill. Game still kept on. In Skyrim it felt like everyone was essential.", ">\n\nWasteland series have more “create your story” than Skyrim. Skyrim has a very linear story with only two paths that lead you to the same end, but with different allies. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the game after 12 years, but it is not the best we will ever get. We will continue to get RPG games that will surpass it. \nStill, gotta love waking up from your drunken stupor, only to find out you married a hagraven. We couldn’t even have the decency to marry a giant or some random dragon.", ">\n\nThe original fallout was a remake of wastelands according to Brian Fargo. Also wastelands is based on the movie damnation alley. So it’s kinda funny the wastelands series is technically wastelands, fallout, fallout 2, wastelands 2, wastelands 3.", ">\n\nIf your argument for why a game is good is “but mods tho!”, you’ve failed right out of the gate.", ">\n\nI agree as a game dev\nI really hate when I'm like why is this game good and the first thing people say is mod support\nLike skyrim was good because it allowed for multiple play styles, difficulties, had an engaging atmosphere, was easy to pick up, had levels of complexity with often a few ways to get a level done, interesting and engaging story, alot of interesting side quests, skill trees with interesting unlocks, sub classes (werewolf/vampire) and felt like a modern take on an old rpg\nBut also the game is not objectively the best. It depends largely what you are looking for in your rpg. For example dragon age is less replayable in it's game play but the story can go alot of different directions.\nIt's about what you consider important the fact is you can't have a visually stunning game, with alot of narrative freedom and alot of gameplay freedom it's just too much.\nSkyrim has a focus on gameplay freedom and Dragon Age focuses on the narrative freedom. Neither game is missing either element but something has to be your games focus. Budgets are not endless, fans don't want to wait forever and devs get exhausted.", ">\n\nLmao", ">\n\nMy brother in Christ, people shit on Skyrim because of the memes, not the gameplay. And also, you don't 'create your own story', you follow a predetermined story from the getgo after you escape the tutorial beheading: Stormcloaks or Imperials, forcing you to slay your first dragon & becoming the dragonborn.", ">\n\nYou're not forced - I recently did a play through where I skipped whiterun entirely and headed straight for riften. Became leader of the thieves guild and then did a decent chunk of the dark brotherhood and winterhold before finally going to whiterun. Didn't see a dragon in the entire time before I fought the first one, it changed the game. Highly recommend it!" ]

[ "I know New Vegas gets its cock sucked A LOT, maybe even too much, but it ruined RPGs for me because of how good it was. I played a psycho killer and rarely sparred anyone. There was only like one essential NPC that I couldn’t kill. Game still kept on. In Skyrim it felt like everyone was essential.", ">\n\nWasteland series have more “create your story” than Skyrim. Skyrim has a very linear story with only two paths that lead you to the same end, but with different allies. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the game after 12 years, but it is not the best we will ever get. We will continue to get RPG games that will surpass it. \nStill, gotta love waking up from your drunken stupor, only to find out you married a hagraven. We couldn’t even have the decency to marry a giant or some random dragon.", ">\n\nThe original fallout was a remake of wastelands according to Brian Fargo. Also wastelands is based on the movie damnation alley. So it’s kinda funny the wastelands series is technically wastelands, fallout, fallout 2, wastelands 2, wastelands 3.", ">\n\nIf your argument for why a game is good is “but mods tho!”, you’ve failed right out of the gate.", ">\n\nI agree as a game dev\nI really hate when I'm like why is this game good and the first thing people say is mod support\nLike skyrim was good because it allowed for multiple play styles, difficulties, had an engaging atmosphere, was easy to pick up, had levels of complexity with often a few ways to get a level done, interesting and engaging story, alot of interesting side quests, skill trees with interesting unlocks, sub classes (werewolf/vampire) and felt like a modern take on an old rpg\nBut also the game is not objectively the best. It depends largely what you are looking for in your rpg. For example dragon age is less replayable in it's game play but the story can go alot of different directions.\nIt's about what you consider important the fact is you can't have a visually stunning game, with alot of narrative freedom and alot of gameplay freedom it's just too much.\nSkyrim has a focus on gameplay freedom and Dragon Age focuses on the narrative freedom. Neither game is missing either element but something has to be your games focus. Budgets are not endless, fans don't want to wait forever and devs get exhausted.", ">\n\nLmao", ">\n\nMy brother in Christ, people shit on Skyrim because of the memes, not the gameplay. And also, you don't 'create your own story', you follow a predetermined story from the getgo after you escape the tutorial beheading: Stormcloaks or Imperials, forcing you to slay your first dragon & becoming the dragonborn.", ">\n\nYou're not forced - I recently did a play through where I skipped whiterun entirely and headed straight for riften. Became leader of the thieves guild and then did a decent chunk of the dark brotherhood and winterhold before finally going to whiterun. Didn't see a dragon in the entire time before I fought the first one, it changed the game. Highly recommend it!", ">\n\n\nelden ring good souls game but it’s not repayable imo.\n\nHow?" ]

[ "I know New Vegas gets its cock sucked A LOT, maybe even too much, but it ruined RPGs for me because of how good it was. I played a psycho killer and rarely sparred anyone. There was only like one essential NPC that I couldn’t kill. Game still kept on. In Skyrim it felt like everyone was essential.", ">\n\nWasteland series have more “create your story” than Skyrim. Skyrim has a very linear story with only two paths that lead you to the same end, but with different allies. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the game after 12 years, but it is not the best we will ever get. We will continue to get RPG games that will surpass it. \nStill, gotta love waking up from your drunken stupor, only to find out you married a hagraven. We couldn’t even have the decency to marry a giant or some random dragon.", ">\n\nThe original fallout was a remake of wastelands according to Brian Fargo. Also wastelands is based on the movie damnation alley. So it’s kinda funny the wastelands series is technically wastelands, fallout, fallout 2, wastelands 2, wastelands 3.", ">\n\nIf your argument for why a game is good is “but mods tho!”, you’ve failed right out of the gate.", ">\n\nI agree as a game dev\nI really hate when I'm like why is this game good and the first thing people say is mod support\nLike skyrim was good because it allowed for multiple play styles, difficulties, had an engaging atmosphere, was easy to pick up, had levels of complexity with often a few ways to get a level done, interesting and engaging story, alot of interesting side quests, skill trees with interesting unlocks, sub classes (werewolf/vampire) and felt like a modern take on an old rpg\nBut also the game is not objectively the best. It depends largely what you are looking for in your rpg. For example dragon age is less replayable in it's game play but the story can go alot of different directions.\nIt's about what you consider important the fact is you can't have a visually stunning game, with alot of narrative freedom and alot of gameplay freedom it's just too much.\nSkyrim has a focus on gameplay freedom and Dragon Age focuses on the narrative freedom. Neither game is missing either element but something has to be your games focus. Budgets are not endless, fans don't want to wait forever and devs get exhausted.", ">\n\nLmao", ">\n\nMy brother in Christ, people shit on Skyrim because of the memes, not the gameplay. And also, you don't 'create your own story', you follow a predetermined story from the getgo after you escape the tutorial beheading: Stormcloaks or Imperials, forcing you to slay your first dragon & becoming the dragonborn.", ">\n\nYou're not forced - I recently did a play through where I skipped whiterun entirely and headed straight for riften. Became leader of the thieves guild and then did a decent chunk of the dark brotherhood and winterhold before finally going to whiterun. Didn't see a dragon in the entire time before I fought the first one, it changed the game. Highly recommend it!", ">\n\n\nelden ring good souls game but it’s not repayable imo.\n\nHow?", ">\n\nSkyrim isnt even the best TES game....\nAnd Infinitly replayable is highly subjective, I played it for 80h and pretty much got all out of the game I could think. All guilds, main quest and all the sidequest/dungeons , after that you pretty much have seen all of the good content, which doesnt get better at the 2. playthrough." ]

[ "I know New Vegas gets its cock sucked A LOT, maybe even too much, but it ruined RPGs for me because of how good it was. I played a psycho killer and rarely sparred anyone. There was only like one essential NPC that I couldn’t kill. Game still kept on. In Skyrim it felt like everyone was essential.", ">\n\nWasteland series have more “create your story” than Skyrim. Skyrim has a very linear story with only two paths that lead you to the same end, but with different allies. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the game after 12 years, but it is not the best we will ever get. We will continue to get RPG games that will surpass it. \nStill, gotta love waking up from your drunken stupor, only to find out you married a hagraven. We couldn’t even have the decency to marry a giant or some random dragon.", ">\n\nThe original fallout was a remake of wastelands according to Brian Fargo. Also wastelands is based on the movie damnation alley. So it’s kinda funny the wastelands series is technically wastelands, fallout, fallout 2, wastelands 2, wastelands 3.", ">\n\nIf your argument for why a game is good is “but mods tho!”, you’ve failed right out of the gate.", ">\n\nI agree as a game dev\nI really hate when I'm like why is this game good and the first thing people say is mod support\nLike skyrim was good because it allowed for multiple play styles, difficulties, had an engaging atmosphere, was easy to pick up, had levels of complexity with often a few ways to get a level done, interesting and engaging story, alot of interesting side quests, skill trees with interesting unlocks, sub classes (werewolf/vampire) and felt like a modern take on an old rpg\nBut also the game is not objectively the best. It depends largely what you are looking for in your rpg. For example dragon age is less replayable in it's game play but the story can go alot of different directions.\nIt's about what you consider important the fact is you can't have a visually stunning game, with alot of narrative freedom and alot of gameplay freedom it's just too much.\nSkyrim has a focus on gameplay freedom and Dragon Age focuses on the narrative freedom. Neither game is missing either element but something has to be your games focus. Budgets are not endless, fans don't want to wait forever and devs get exhausted.", ">\n\nLmao", ">\n\nMy brother in Christ, people shit on Skyrim because of the memes, not the gameplay. And also, you don't 'create your own story', you follow a predetermined story from the getgo after you escape the tutorial beheading: Stormcloaks or Imperials, forcing you to slay your first dragon & becoming the dragonborn.", ">\n\nYou're not forced - I recently did a play through where I skipped whiterun entirely and headed straight for riften. Became leader of the thieves guild and then did a decent chunk of the dark brotherhood and winterhold before finally going to whiterun. Didn't see a dragon in the entire time before I fought the first one, it changed the game. Highly recommend it!", ">\n\n\nelden ring good souls game but it’s not repayable imo.\n\nHow?", ">\n\nSkyrim isnt even the best TES game....\nAnd Infinitly replayable is highly subjective, I played it for 80h and pretty much got all out of the game I could think. All guilds, main quest and all the sidequest/dungeons , after that you pretty much have seen all of the good content, which doesnt get better at the 2. playthrough.", ">\n\nIt's also fairly easy to level up so you can basically do anything with the same character so there's no point replaying with a different one." ]

[ "I know New Vegas gets its cock sucked A LOT, maybe even too much, but it ruined RPGs for me because of how good it was. I played a psycho killer and rarely sparred anyone. There was only like one essential NPC that I couldn’t kill. Game still kept on. In Skyrim it felt like everyone was essential.", ">\n\nWasteland series have more “create your story” than Skyrim. Skyrim has a very linear story with only two paths that lead you to the same end, but with different allies. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the game after 12 years, but it is not the best we will ever get. We will continue to get RPG games that will surpass it. \nStill, gotta love waking up from your drunken stupor, only to find out you married a hagraven. We couldn’t even have the decency to marry a giant or some random dragon.", ">\n\nThe original fallout was a remake of wastelands according to Brian Fargo. Also wastelands is based on the movie damnation alley. So it’s kinda funny the wastelands series is technically wastelands, fallout, fallout 2, wastelands 2, wastelands 3.", ">\n\nIf your argument for why a game is good is “but mods tho!”, you’ve failed right out of the gate.", ">\n\nI agree as a game dev\nI really hate when I'm like why is this game good and the first thing people say is mod support\nLike skyrim was good because it allowed for multiple play styles, difficulties, had an engaging atmosphere, was easy to pick up, had levels of complexity with often a few ways to get a level done, interesting and engaging story, alot of interesting side quests, skill trees with interesting unlocks, sub classes (werewolf/vampire) and felt like a modern take on an old rpg\nBut also the game is not objectively the best. It depends largely what you are looking for in your rpg. For example dragon age is less replayable in it's game play but the story can go alot of different directions.\nIt's about what you consider important the fact is you can't have a visually stunning game, with alot of narrative freedom and alot of gameplay freedom it's just too much.\nSkyrim has a focus on gameplay freedom and Dragon Age focuses on the narrative freedom. Neither game is missing either element but something has to be your games focus. Budgets are not endless, fans don't want to wait forever and devs get exhausted.", ">\n\nLmao", ">\n\nMy brother in Christ, people shit on Skyrim because of the memes, not the gameplay. And also, you don't 'create your own story', you follow a predetermined story from the getgo after you escape the tutorial beheading: Stormcloaks or Imperials, forcing you to slay your first dragon & becoming the dragonborn.", ">\n\nYou're not forced - I recently did a play through where I skipped whiterun entirely and headed straight for riften. Became leader of the thieves guild and then did a decent chunk of the dark brotherhood and winterhold before finally going to whiterun. Didn't see a dragon in the entire time before I fought the first one, it changed the game. Highly recommend it!", ">\n\n\nelden ring good souls game but it’s not repayable imo.\n\nHow?", ">\n\nSkyrim isnt even the best TES game....\nAnd Infinitly replayable is highly subjective, I played it for 80h and pretty much got all out of the game I could think. All guilds, main quest and all the sidequest/dungeons , after that you pretty much have seen all of the good content, which doesnt get better at the 2. playthrough.", ">\n\nIt's also fairly easy to level up so you can basically do anything with the same character so there's no point replaying with a different one.", ">\n\nI think when you typed \"best\" you meant to type \"accessible\"" ]

[ "I know New Vegas gets its cock sucked A LOT, maybe even too much, but it ruined RPGs for me because of how good it was. I played a psycho killer and rarely sparred anyone. There was only like one essential NPC that I couldn’t kill. Game still kept on. In Skyrim it felt like everyone was essential.", ">\n\nWasteland series have more “create your story” than Skyrim. Skyrim has a very linear story with only two paths that lead you to the same end, but with different allies. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the game after 12 years, but it is not the best we will ever get. We will continue to get RPG games that will surpass it. \nStill, gotta love waking up from your drunken stupor, only to find out you married a hagraven. We couldn’t even have the decency to marry a giant or some random dragon.", ">\n\nThe original fallout was a remake of wastelands according to Brian Fargo. Also wastelands is based on the movie damnation alley. So it’s kinda funny the wastelands series is technically wastelands, fallout, fallout 2, wastelands 2, wastelands 3.", ">\n\nIf your argument for why a game is good is “but mods tho!”, you’ve failed right out of the gate.", ">\n\nI agree as a game dev\nI really hate when I'm like why is this game good and the first thing people say is mod support\nLike skyrim was good because it allowed for multiple play styles, difficulties, had an engaging atmosphere, was easy to pick up, had levels of complexity with often a few ways to get a level done, interesting and engaging story, alot of interesting side quests, skill trees with interesting unlocks, sub classes (werewolf/vampire) and felt like a modern take on an old rpg\nBut also the game is not objectively the best. It depends largely what you are looking for in your rpg. For example dragon age is less replayable in it's game play but the story can go alot of different directions.\nIt's about what you consider important the fact is you can't have a visually stunning game, with alot of narrative freedom and alot of gameplay freedom it's just too much.\nSkyrim has a focus on gameplay freedom and Dragon Age focuses on the narrative freedom. Neither game is missing either element but something has to be your games focus. Budgets are not endless, fans don't want to wait forever and devs get exhausted.", ">\n\nLmao", ">\n\nMy brother in Christ, people shit on Skyrim because of the memes, not the gameplay. And also, you don't 'create your own story', you follow a predetermined story from the getgo after you escape the tutorial beheading: Stormcloaks or Imperials, forcing you to slay your first dragon & becoming the dragonborn.", ">\n\nYou're not forced - I recently did a play through where I skipped whiterun entirely and headed straight for riften. Became leader of the thieves guild and then did a decent chunk of the dark brotherhood and winterhold before finally going to whiterun. Didn't see a dragon in the entire time before I fought the first one, it changed the game. Highly recommend it!", ">\n\n\nelden ring good souls game but it’s not repayable imo.\n\nHow?", ">\n\nSkyrim isnt even the best TES game....\nAnd Infinitly replayable is highly subjective, I played it for 80h and pretty much got all out of the game I could think. All guilds, main quest and all the sidequest/dungeons , after that you pretty much have seen all of the good content, which doesnt get better at the 2. playthrough.", ">\n\nIt's also fairly easy to level up so you can basically do anything with the same character so there's no point replaying with a different one.", ">\n\nI think when you typed \"best\" you meant to type \"accessible\"", ">\n\nPeople only replay Skryrim for the mods." ]

[ "I know New Vegas gets its cock sucked A LOT, maybe even too much, but it ruined RPGs for me because of how good it was. I played a psycho killer and rarely sparred anyone. There was only like one essential NPC that I couldn’t kill. Game still kept on. In Skyrim it felt like everyone was essential.", ">\n\nWasteland series have more “create your story” than Skyrim. Skyrim has a very linear story with only two paths that lead you to the same end, but with different allies. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the game after 12 years, but it is not the best we will ever get. We will continue to get RPG games that will surpass it. \nStill, gotta love waking up from your drunken stupor, only to find out you married a hagraven. We couldn’t even have the decency to marry a giant or some random dragon.", ">\n\nThe original fallout was a remake of wastelands according to Brian Fargo. Also wastelands is based on the movie damnation alley. So it’s kinda funny the wastelands series is technically wastelands, fallout, fallout 2, wastelands 2, wastelands 3.", ">\n\nIf your argument for why a game is good is “but mods tho!”, you’ve failed right out of the gate.", ">\n\nI agree as a game dev\nI really hate when I'm like why is this game good and the first thing people say is mod support\nLike skyrim was good because it allowed for multiple play styles, difficulties, had an engaging atmosphere, was easy to pick up, had levels of complexity with often a few ways to get a level done, interesting and engaging story, alot of interesting side quests, skill trees with interesting unlocks, sub classes (werewolf/vampire) and felt like a modern take on an old rpg\nBut also the game is not objectively the best. It depends largely what you are looking for in your rpg. For example dragon age is less replayable in it's game play but the story can go alot of different directions.\nIt's about what you consider important the fact is you can't have a visually stunning game, with alot of narrative freedom and alot of gameplay freedom it's just too much.\nSkyrim has a focus on gameplay freedom and Dragon Age focuses on the narrative freedom. Neither game is missing either element but something has to be your games focus. Budgets are not endless, fans don't want to wait forever and devs get exhausted.", ">\n\nLmao", ">\n\nMy brother in Christ, people shit on Skyrim because of the memes, not the gameplay. And also, you don't 'create your own story', you follow a predetermined story from the getgo after you escape the tutorial beheading: Stormcloaks or Imperials, forcing you to slay your first dragon & becoming the dragonborn.", ">\n\nYou're not forced - I recently did a play through where I skipped whiterun entirely and headed straight for riften. Became leader of the thieves guild and then did a decent chunk of the dark brotherhood and winterhold before finally going to whiterun. Didn't see a dragon in the entire time before I fought the first one, it changed the game. Highly recommend it!", ">\n\n\nelden ring good souls game but it’s not repayable imo.\n\nHow?", ">\n\nSkyrim isnt even the best TES game....\nAnd Infinitly replayable is highly subjective, I played it for 80h and pretty much got all out of the game I could think. All guilds, main quest and all the sidequest/dungeons , after that you pretty much have seen all of the good content, which doesnt get better at the 2. playthrough.", ">\n\nIt's also fairly easy to level up so you can basically do anything with the same character so there's no point replaying with a different one.", ">\n\nI think when you typed \"best\" you meant to type \"accessible\"", ">\n\nPeople only replay Skryrim for the mods.", ">\n\n\"Best\" is poised to trigger endless debates, but as far as I am concerned, the truth is that since 2012, I haven't have as fun playing a RPG as I had playing Skyrim at the time." ]

[ "I know New Vegas gets its cock sucked A LOT, maybe even too much, but it ruined RPGs for me because of how good it was. I played a psycho killer and rarely sparred anyone. There was only like one essential NPC that I couldn’t kill. Game still kept on. In Skyrim it felt like everyone was essential.", ">\n\nWasteland series have more “create your story” than Skyrim. Skyrim has a very linear story with only two paths that lead you to the same end, but with different allies. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the game after 12 years, but it is not the best we will ever get. We will continue to get RPG games that will surpass it. \nStill, gotta love waking up from your drunken stupor, only to find out you married a hagraven. We couldn’t even have the decency to marry a giant or some random dragon.", ">\n\nThe original fallout was a remake of wastelands according to Brian Fargo. Also wastelands is based on the movie damnation alley. So it’s kinda funny the wastelands series is technically wastelands, fallout, fallout 2, wastelands 2, wastelands 3.", ">\n\nIf your argument for why a game is good is “but mods tho!”, you’ve failed right out of the gate.", ">\n\nI agree as a game dev\nI really hate when I'm like why is this game good and the first thing people say is mod support\nLike skyrim was good because it allowed for multiple play styles, difficulties, had an engaging atmosphere, was easy to pick up, had levels of complexity with often a few ways to get a level done, interesting and engaging story, alot of interesting side quests, skill trees with interesting unlocks, sub classes (werewolf/vampire) and felt like a modern take on an old rpg\nBut also the game is not objectively the best. It depends largely what you are looking for in your rpg. For example dragon age is less replayable in it's game play but the story can go alot of different directions.\nIt's about what you consider important the fact is you can't have a visually stunning game, with alot of narrative freedom and alot of gameplay freedom it's just too much.\nSkyrim has a focus on gameplay freedom and Dragon Age focuses on the narrative freedom. Neither game is missing either element but something has to be your games focus. Budgets are not endless, fans don't want to wait forever and devs get exhausted.", ">\n\nLmao", ">\n\nMy brother in Christ, people shit on Skyrim because of the memes, not the gameplay. And also, you don't 'create your own story', you follow a predetermined story from the getgo after you escape the tutorial beheading: Stormcloaks or Imperials, forcing you to slay your first dragon & becoming the dragonborn.", ">\n\nYou're not forced - I recently did a play through where I skipped whiterun entirely and headed straight for riften. Became leader of the thieves guild and then did a decent chunk of the dark brotherhood and winterhold before finally going to whiterun. Didn't see a dragon in the entire time before I fought the first one, it changed the game. Highly recommend it!", ">\n\n\nelden ring good souls game but it’s not repayable imo.\n\nHow?", ">\n\nSkyrim isnt even the best TES game....\nAnd Infinitly replayable is highly subjective, I played it for 80h and pretty much got all out of the game I could think. All guilds, main quest and all the sidequest/dungeons , after that you pretty much have seen all of the good content, which doesnt get better at the 2. playthrough.", ">\n\nIt's also fairly easy to level up so you can basically do anything with the same character so there's no point replaying with a different one.", ">\n\nI think when you typed \"best\" you meant to type \"accessible\"", ">\n\nPeople only replay Skryrim for the mods.", ">\n\n\"Best\" is poised to trigger endless debates, but as far as I am concerned, the truth is that since 2012, I haven't have as fun playing a RPG as I had playing Skyrim at the time.", ">\n\nBethesda's games simply play differently. You have way more freedom in your character story, routes, desires, etc. That's why I really dislike Fallout 4, because you don't have that freedom, your character is a good father, you can't neglect your child and that's not what those games mean to me.\nI really love bethesda and I think that Starfield and The Elder Scrolls VI will beat Skyrim, but I agree with you, it is one of the greatest games of all time." ]

[ "I know New Vegas gets its cock sucked A LOT, maybe even too much, but it ruined RPGs for me because of how good it was. I played a psycho killer and rarely sparred anyone. There was only like one essential NPC that I couldn’t kill. Game still kept on. In Skyrim it felt like everyone was essential.", ">\n\nWasteland series have more “create your story” than Skyrim. Skyrim has a very linear story with only two paths that lead you to the same end, but with different allies. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the game after 12 years, but it is not the best we will ever get. We will continue to get RPG games that will surpass it. \nStill, gotta love waking up from your drunken stupor, only to find out you married a hagraven. We couldn’t even have the decency to marry a giant or some random dragon.", ">\n\nThe original fallout was a remake of wastelands according to Brian Fargo. Also wastelands is based on the movie damnation alley. So it’s kinda funny the wastelands series is technically wastelands, fallout, fallout 2, wastelands 2, wastelands 3.", ">\n\nIf your argument for why a game is good is “but mods tho!”, you’ve failed right out of the gate.", ">\n\nI agree as a game dev\nI really hate when I'm like why is this game good and the first thing people say is mod support\nLike skyrim was good because it allowed for multiple play styles, difficulties, had an engaging atmosphere, was easy to pick up, had levels of complexity with often a few ways to get a level done, interesting and engaging story, alot of interesting side quests, skill trees with interesting unlocks, sub classes (werewolf/vampire) and felt like a modern take on an old rpg\nBut also the game is not objectively the best. It depends largely what you are looking for in your rpg. For example dragon age is less replayable in it's game play but the story can go alot of different directions.\nIt's about what you consider important the fact is you can't have a visually stunning game, with alot of narrative freedom and alot of gameplay freedom it's just too much.\nSkyrim has a focus on gameplay freedom and Dragon Age focuses on the narrative freedom. Neither game is missing either element but something has to be your games focus. Budgets are not endless, fans don't want to wait forever and devs get exhausted.", ">\n\nLmao", ">\n\nMy brother in Christ, people shit on Skyrim because of the memes, not the gameplay. And also, you don't 'create your own story', you follow a predetermined story from the getgo after you escape the tutorial beheading: Stormcloaks or Imperials, forcing you to slay your first dragon & becoming the dragonborn.", ">\n\nYou're not forced - I recently did a play through where I skipped whiterun entirely and headed straight for riften. Became leader of the thieves guild and then did a decent chunk of the dark brotherhood and winterhold before finally going to whiterun. Didn't see a dragon in the entire time before I fought the first one, it changed the game. Highly recommend it!", ">\n\n\nelden ring good souls game but it’s not repayable imo.\n\nHow?", ">\n\nSkyrim isnt even the best TES game....\nAnd Infinitly replayable is highly subjective, I played it for 80h and pretty much got all out of the game I could think. All guilds, main quest and all the sidequest/dungeons , after that you pretty much have seen all of the good content, which doesnt get better at the 2. playthrough.", ">\n\nIt's also fairly easy to level up so you can basically do anything with the same character so there's no point replaying with a different one.", ">\n\nI think when you typed \"best\" you meant to type \"accessible\"", ">\n\nPeople only replay Skryrim for the mods.", ">\n\n\"Best\" is poised to trigger endless debates, but as far as I am concerned, the truth is that since 2012, I haven't have as fun playing a RPG as I had playing Skyrim at the time.", ">\n\nBethesda's games simply play differently. You have way more freedom in your character story, routes, desires, etc. That's why I really dislike Fallout 4, because you don't have that freedom, your character is a good father, you can't neglect your child and that's not what those games mean to me.\nI really love bethesda and I think that Starfield and The Elder Scrolls VI will beat Skyrim, but I agree with you, it is one of the greatest games of all time.", ">\n\nSkyrim was shallow even for the time." ]

[ "I know New Vegas gets its cock sucked A LOT, maybe even too much, but it ruined RPGs for me because of how good it was. I played a psycho killer and rarely sparred anyone. There was only like one essential NPC that I couldn’t kill. Game still kept on. In Skyrim it felt like everyone was essential.", ">\n\nWasteland series have more “create your story” than Skyrim. Skyrim has a very linear story with only two paths that lead you to the same end, but with different allies. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the game after 12 years, but it is not the best we will ever get. We will continue to get RPG games that will surpass it. \nStill, gotta love waking up from your drunken stupor, only to find out you married a hagraven. We couldn’t even have the decency to marry a giant or some random dragon.", ">\n\nThe original fallout was a remake of wastelands according to Brian Fargo. Also wastelands is based on the movie damnation alley. So it’s kinda funny the wastelands series is technically wastelands, fallout, fallout 2, wastelands 2, wastelands 3.", ">\n\nIf your argument for why a game is good is “but mods tho!”, you’ve failed right out of the gate.", ">\n\nI agree as a game dev\nI really hate when I'm like why is this game good and the first thing people say is mod support\nLike skyrim was good because it allowed for multiple play styles, difficulties, had an engaging atmosphere, was easy to pick up, had levels of complexity with often a few ways to get a level done, interesting and engaging story, alot of interesting side quests, skill trees with interesting unlocks, sub classes (werewolf/vampire) and felt like a modern take on an old rpg\nBut also the game is not objectively the best. It depends largely what you are looking for in your rpg. For example dragon age is less replayable in it's game play but the story can go alot of different directions.\nIt's about what you consider important the fact is you can't have a visually stunning game, with alot of narrative freedom and alot of gameplay freedom it's just too much.\nSkyrim has a focus on gameplay freedom and Dragon Age focuses on the narrative freedom. Neither game is missing either element but something has to be your games focus. Budgets are not endless, fans don't want to wait forever and devs get exhausted.", ">\n\nLmao", ">\n\nMy brother in Christ, people shit on Skyrim because of the memes, not the gameplay. And also, you don't 'create your own story', you follow a predetermined story from the getgo after you escape the tutorial beheading: Stormcloaks or Imperials, forcing you to slay your first dragon & becoming the dragonborn.", ">\n\nYou're not forced - I recently did a play through where I skipped whiterun entirely and headed straight for riften. Became leader of the thieves guild and then did a decent chunk of the dark brotherhood and winterhold before finally going to whiterun. Didn't see a dragon in the entire time before I fought the first one, it changed the game. Highly recommend it!", ">\n\n\nelden ring good souls game but it’s not repayable imo.\n\nHow?", ">\n\nSkyrim isnt even the best TES game....\nAnd Infinitly replayable is highly subjective, I played it for 80h and pretty much got all out of the game I could think. All guilds, main quest and all the sidequest/dungeons , after that you pretty much have seen all of the good content, which doesnt get better at the 2. playthrough.", ">\n\nIt's also fairly easy to level up so you can basically do anything with the same character so there's no point replaying with a different one.", ">\n\nI think when you typed \"best\" you meant to type \"accessible\"", ">\n\nPeople only replay Skryrim for the mods.", ">\n\n\"Best\" is poised to trigger endless debates, but as far as I am concerned, the truth is that since 2012, I haven't have as fun playing a RPG as I had playing Skyrim at the time.", ">\n\nBethesda's games simply play differently. You have way more freedom in your character story, routes, desires, etc. That's why I really dislike Fallout 4, because you don't have that freedom, your character is a good father, you can't neglect your child and that's not what those games mean to me.\nI really love bethesda and I think that Starfield and The Elder Scrolls VI will beat Skyrim, but I agree with you, it is one of the greatest games of all time.", ">\n\nSkyrim was shallow even for the time.", ">\n\n\nSkyrim is a bare bones game. The engine is trash and it takes a lot of time to get it working right\n\n...Then it isn't the best rpg ever.\nNext!" ]

[ "I know New Vegas gets its cock sucked A LOT, maybe even too much, but it ruined RPGs for me because of how good it was. I played a psycho killer and rarely sparred anyone. There was only like one essential NPC that I couldn’t kill. Game still kept on. In Skyrim it felt like everyone was essential.", ">\n\nWasteland series have more “create your story” than Skyrim. Skyrim has a very linear story with only two paths that lead you to the same end, but with different allies. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the game after 12 years, but it is not the best we will ever get. We will continue to get RPG games that will surpass it. \nStill, gotta love waking up from your drunken stupor, only to find out you married a hagraven. We couldn’t even have the decency to marry a giant or some random dragon.", ">\n\nThe original fallout was a remake of wastelands according to Brian Fargo. Also wastelands is based on the movie damnation alley. So it’s kinda funny the wastelands series is technically wastelands, fallout, fallout 2, wastelands 2, wastelands 3.", ">\n\nIf your argument for why a game is good is “but mods tho!”, you’ve failed right out of the gate.", ">\n\nI agree as a game dev\nI really hate when I'm like why is this game good and the first thing people say is mod support\nLike skyrim was good because it allowed for multiple play styles, difficulties, had an engaging atmosphere, was easy to pick up, had levels of complexity with often a few ways to get a level done, interesting and engaging story, alot of interesting side quests, skill trees with interesting unlocks, sub classes (werewolf/vampire) and felt like a modern take on an old rpg\nBut also the game is not objectively the best. It depends largely what you are looking for in your rpg. For example dragon age is less replayable in it's game play but the story can go alot of different directions.\nIt's about what you consider important the fact is you can't have a visually stunning game, with alot of narrative freedom and alot of gameplay freedom it's just too much.\nSkyrim has a focus on gameplay freedom and Dragon Age focuses on the narrative freedom. Neither game is missing either element but something has to be your games focus. Budgets are not endless, fans don't want to wait forever and devs get exhausted.", ">\n\nLmao", ">\n\nMy brother in Christ, people shit on Skyrim because of the memes, not the gameplay. And also, you don't 'create your own story', you follow a predetermined story from the getgo after you escape the tutorial beheading: Stormcloaks or Imperials, forcing you to slay your first dragon & becoming the dragonborn.", ">\n\nYou're not forced - I recently did a play through where I skipped whiterun entirely and headed straight for riften. Became leader of the thieves guild and then did a decent chunk of the dark brotherhood and winterhold before finally going to whiterun. Didn't see a dragon in the entire time before I fought the first one, it changed the game. Highly recommend it!", ">\n\n\nelden ring good souls game but it’s not repayable imo.\n\nHow?", ">\n\nSkyrim isnt even the best TES game....\nAnd Infinitly replayable is highly subjective, I played it for 80h and pretty much got all out of the game I could think. All guilds, main quest and all the sidequest/dungeons , after that you pretty much have seen all of the good content, which doesnt get better at the 2. playthrough.", ">\n\nIt's also fairly easy to level up so you can basically do anything with the same character so there's no point replaying with a different one.", ">\n\nI think when you typed \"best\" you meant to type \"accessible\"", ">\n\nPeople only replay Skryrim for the mods.", ">\n\n\"Best\" is poised to trigger endless debates, but as far as I am concerned, the truth is that since 2012, I haven't have as fun playing a RPG as I had playing Skyrim at the time.", ">\n\nBethesda's games simply play differently. You have way more freedom in your character story, routes, desires, etc. That's why I really dislike Fallout 4, because you don't have that freedom, your character is a good father, you can't neglect your child and that's not what those games mean to me.\nI really love bethesda and I think that Starfield and The Elder Scrolls VI will beat Skyrim, but I agree with you, it is one of the greatest games of all time.", ">\n\nSkyrim was shallow even for the time.", ">\n\n\nSkyrim is a bare bones game. The engine is trash and it takes a lot of time to get it working right\n\n...Then it isn't the best rpg ever.\nNext!", ">\n\nMinecraft is the superior RPG! You can truly create your own story! Actually, you have to. You can do even more with the world through mods than skyrim mods can do! \nIt released (from early access) a week after skyrim. So you are objectively wrong!" ]

[ "I know New Vegas gets its cock sucked A LOT, maybe even too much, but it ruined RPGs for me because of how good it was. I played a psycho killer and rarely sparred anyone. There was only like one essential NPC that I couldn’t kill. Game still kept on. In Skyrim it felt like everyone was essential.", ">\n\nWasteland series have more “create your story” than Skyrim. Skyrim has a very linear story with only two paths that lead you to the same end, but with different allies. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the game after 12 years, but it is not the best we will ever get. We will continue to get RPG games that will surpass it. \nStill, gotta love waking up from your drunken stupor, only to find out you married a hagraven. We couldn’t even have the decency to marry a giant or some random dragon.", ">\n\nThe original fallout was a remake of wastelands according to Brian Fargo. Also wastelands is based on the movie damnation alley. So it’s kinda funny the wastelands series is technically wastelands, fallout, fallout 2, wastelands 2, wastelands 3.", ">\n\nIf your argument for why a game is good is “but mods tho!”, you’ve failed right out of the gate.", ">\n\nI agree as a game dev\nI really hate when I'm like why is this game good and the first thing people say is mod support\nLike skyrim was good because it allowed for multiple play styles, difficulties, had an engaging atmosphere, was easy to pick up, had levels of complexity with often a few ways to get a level done, interesting and engaging story, alot of interesting side quests, skill trees with interesting unlocks, sub classes (werewolf/vampire) and felt like a modern take on an old rpg\nBut also the game is not objectively the best. It depends largely what you are looking for in your rpg. For example dragon age is less replayable in it's game play but the story can go alot of different directions.\nIt's about what you consider important the fact is you can't have a visually stunning game, with alot of narrative freedom and alot of gameplay freedom it's just too much.\nSkyrim has a focus on gameplay freedom and Dragon Age focuses on the narrative freedom. Neither game is missing either element but something has to be your games focus. Budgets are not endless, fans don't want to wait forever and devs get exhausted.", ">\n\nLmao", ">\n\nMy brother in Christ, people shit on Skyrim because of the memes, not the gameplay. And also, you don't 'create your own story', you follow a predetermined story from the getgo after you escape the tutorial beheading: Stormcloaks or Imperials, forcing you to slay your first dragon & becoming the dragonborn.", ">\n\nYou're not forced - I recently did a play through where I skipped whiterun entirely and headed straight for riften. Became leader of the thieves guild and then did a decent chunk of the dark brotherhood and winterhold before finally going to whiterun. Didn't see a dragon in the entire time before I fought the first one, it changed the game. Highly recommend it!", ">\n\n\nelden ring good souls game but it’s not repayable imo.\n\nHow?", ">\n\nSkyrim isnt even the best TES game....\nAnd Infinitly replayable is highly subjective, I played it for 80h and pretty much got all out of the game I could think. All guilds, main quest and all the sidequest/dungeons , after that you pretty much have seen all of the good content, which doesnt get better at the 2. playthrough.", ">\n\nIt's also fairly easy to level up so you can basically do anything with the same character so there's no point replaying with a different one.", ">\n\nI think when you typed \"best\" you meant to type \"accessible\"", ">\n\nPeople only replay Skryrim for the mods.", ">\n\n\"Best\" is poised to trigger endless debates, but as far as I am concerned, the truth is that since 2012, I haven't have as fun playing a RPG as I had playing Skyrim at the time.", ">\n\nBethesda's games simply play differently. You have way more freedom in your character story, routes, desires, etc. That's why I really dislike Fallout 4, because you don't have that freedom, your character is a good father, you can't neglect your child and that's not what those games mean to me.\nI really love bethesda and I think that Starfield and The Elder Scrolls VI will beat Skyrim, but I agree with you, it is one of the greatest games of all time.", ">\n\nSkyrim was shallow even for the time.", ">\n\n\nSkyrim is a bare bones game. The engine is trash and it takes a lot of time to get it working right\n\n...Then it isn't the best rpg ever.\nNext!", ">\n\nMinecraft is the superior RPG! You can truly create your own story! Actually, you have to. You can do even more with the world through mods than skyrim mods can do! \nIt released (from early access) a week after skyrim. So you are objectively wrong!", ">\n\nMinecraft is a sandbox, not so much an RPG." ]

[ "I know New Vegas gets its cock sucked A LOT, maybe even too much, but it ruined RPGs for me because of how good it was. I played a psycho killer and rarely sparred anyone. There was only like one essential NPC that I couldn’t kill. Game still kept on. In Skyrim it felt like everyone was essential.", ">\n\nWasteland series have more “create your story” than Skyrim. Skyrim has a very linear story with only two paths that lead you to the same end, but with different allies. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the game after 12 years, but it is not the best we will ever get. We will continue to get RPG games that will surpass it. \nStill, gotta love waking up from your drunken stupor, only to find out you married a hagraven. We couldn’t even have the decency to marry a giant or some random dragon.", ">\n\nThe original fallout was a remake of wastelands according to Brian Fargo. Also wastelands is based on the movie damnation alley. So it’s kinda funny the wastelands series is technically wastelands, fallout, fallout 2, wastelands 2, wastelands 3.", ">\n\nIf your argument for why a game is good is “but mods tho!”, you’ve failed right out of the gate.", ">\n\nI agree as a game dev\nI really hate when I'm like why is this game good and the first thing people say is mod support\nLike skyrim was good because it allowed for multiple play styles, difficulties, had an engaging atmosphere, was easy to pick up, had levels of complexity with often a few ways to get a level done, interesting and engaging story, alot of interesting side quests, skill trees with interesting unlocks, sub classes (werewolf/vampire) and felt like a modern take on an old rpg\nBut also the game is not objectively the best. It depends largely what you are looking for in your rpg. For example dragon age is less replayable in it's game play but the story can go alot of different directions.\nIt's about what you consider important the fact is you can't have a visually stunning game, with alot of narrative freedom and alot of gameplay freedom it's just too much.\nSkyrim has a focus on gameplay freedom and Dragon Age focuses on the narrative freedom. Neither game is missing either element but something has to be your games focus. Budgets are not endless, fans don't want to wait forever and devs get exhausted.", ">\n\nLmao", ">\n\nMy brother in Christ, people shit on Skyrim because of the memes, not the gameplay. And also, you don't 'create your own story', you follow a predetermined story from the getgo after you escape the tutorial beheading: Stormcloaks or Imperials, forcing you to slay your first dragon & becoming the dragonborn.", ">\n\nYou're not forced - I recently did a play through where I skipped whiterun entirely and headed straight for riften. Became leader of the thieves guild and then did a decent chunk of the dark brotherhood and winterhold before finally going to whiterun. Didn't see a dragon in the entire time before I fought the first one, it changed the game. Highly recommend it!", ">\n\n\nelden ring good souls game but it’s not repayable imo.\n\nHow?", ">\n\nSkyrim isnt even the best TES game....\nAnd Infinitly replayable is highly subjective, I played it for 80h and pretty much got all out of the game I could think. All guilds, main quest and all the sidequest/dungeons , after that you pretty much have seen all of the good content, which doesnt get better at the 2. playthrough.", ">\n\nIt's also fairly easy to level up so you can basically do anything with the same character so there's no point replaying with a different one.", ">\n\nI think when you typed \"best\" you meant to type \"accessible\"", ">\n\nPeople only replay Skryrim for the mods.", ">\n\n\"Best\" is poised to trigger endless debates, but as far as I am concerned, the truth is that since 2012, I haven't have as fun playing a RPG as I had playing Skyrim at the time.", ">\n\nBethesda's games simply play differently. You have way more freedom in your character story, routes, desires, etc. That's why I really dislike Fallout 4, because you don't have that freedom, your character is a good father, you can't neglect your child and that's not what those games mean to me.\nI really love bethesda and I think that Starfield and The Elder Scrolls VI will beat Skyrim, but I agree with you, it is one of the greatest games of all time.", ">\n\nSkyrim was shallow even for the time.", ">\n\n\nSkyrim is a bare bones game. The engine is trash and it takes a lot of time to get it working right\n\n...Then it isn't the best rpg ever.\nNext!", ">\n\nMinecraft is the superior RPG! You can truly create your own story! Actually, you have to. You can do even more with the world through mods than skyrim mods can do! \nIt released (from early access) a week after skyrim. So you are objectively wrong!", ">\n\nMinecraft is a sandbox, not so much an RPG.", ">\n\nElden Ring is better" ]

[ "I know New Vegas gets its cock sucked A LOT, maybe even too much, but it ruined RPGs for me because of how good it was. I played a psycho killer and rarely sparred anyone. There was only like one essential NPC that I couldn’t kill. Game still kept on. In Skyrim it felt like everyone was essential.", ">\n\nWasteland series have more “create your story” than Skyrim. Skyrim has a very linear story with only two paths that lead you to the same end, but with different allies. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the game after 12 years, but it is not the best we will ever get. We will continue to get RPG games that will surpass it. \nStill, gotta love waking up from your drunken stupor, only to find out you married a hagraven. We couldn’t even have the decency to marry a giant or some random dragon.", ">\n\nThe original fallout was a remake of wastelands according to Brian Fargo. Also wastelands is based on the movie damnation alley. So it’s kinda funny the wastelands series is technically wastelands, fallout, fallout 2, wastelands 2, wastelands 3.", ">\n\nIf your argument for why a game is good is “but mods tho!”, you’ve failed right out of the gate.", ">\n\nI agree as a game dev\nI really hate when I'm like why is this game good and the first thing people say is mod support\nLike skyrim was good because it allowed for multiple play styles, difficulties, had an engaging atmosphere, was easy to pick up, had levels of complexity with often a few ways to get a level done, interesting and engaging story, alot of interesting side quests, skill trees with interesting unlocks, sub classes (werewolf/vampire) and felt like a modern take on an old rpg\nBut also the game is not objectively the best. It depends largely what you are looking for in your rpg. For example dragon age is less replayable in it's game play but the story can go alot of different directions.\nIt's about what you consider important the fact is you can't have a visually stunning game, with alot of narrative freedom and alot of gameplay freedom it's just too much.\nSkyrim has a focus on gameplay freedom and Dragon Age focuses on the narrative freedom. Neither game is missing either element but something has to be your games focus. Budgets are not endless, fans don't want to wait forever and devs get exhausted.", ">\n\nLmao", ">\n\nMy brother in Christ, people shit on Skyrim because of the memes, not the gameplay. And also, you don't 'create your own story', you follow a predetermined story from the getgo after you escape the tutorial beheading: Stormcloaks or Imperials, forcing you to slay your first dragon & becoming the dragonborn.", ">\n\nYou're not forced - I recently did a play through where I skipped whiterun entirely and headed straight for riften. Became leader of the thieves guild and then did a decent chunk of the dark brotherhood and winterhold before finally going to whiterun. Didn't see a dragon in the entire time before I fought the first one, it changed the game. Highly recommend it!", ">\n\n\nelden ring good souls game but it’s not repayable imo.\n\nHow?", ">\n\nSkyrim isnt even the best TES game....\nAnd Infinitly replayable is highly subjective, I played it for 80h and pretty much got all out of the game I could think. All guilds, main quest and all the sidequest/dungeons , after that you pretty much have seen all of the good content, which doesnt get better at the 2. playthrough.", ">\n\nIt's also fairly easy to level up so you can basically do anything with the same character so there's no point replaying with a different one.", ">\n\nI think when you typed \"best\" you meant to type \"accessible\"", ">\n\nPeople only replay Skryrim for the mods.", ">\n\n\"Best\" is poised to trigger endless debates, but as far as I am concerned, the truth is that since 2012, I haven't have as fun playing a RPG as I had playing Skyrim at the time.", ">\n\nBethesda's games simply play differently. You have way more freedom in your character story, routes, desires, etc. That's why I really dislike Fallout 4, because you don't have that freedom, your character is a good father, you can't neglect your child and that's not what those games mean to me.\nI really love bethesda and I think that Starfield and The Elder Scrolls VI will beat Skyrim, but I agree with you, it is one of the greatest games of all time.", ">\n\nSkyrim was shallow even for the time.", ">\n\n\nSkyrim is a bare bones game. The engine is trash and it takes a lot of time to get it working right\n\n...Then it isn't the best rpg ever.\nNext!", ">\n\nMinecraft is the superior RPG! You can truly create your own story! Actually, you have to. You can do even more with the world through mods than skyrim mods can do! \nIt released (from early access) a week after skyrim. So you are objectively wrong!", ">\n\nMinecraft is a sandbox, not so much an RPG.", ">\n\nElden Ring is better", ">\n\nThe game you want is called oblivion or morrowwind." ]

[ "I know New Vegas gets its cock sucked A LOT, maybe even too much, but it ruined RPGs for me because of how good it was. I played a psycho killer and rarely sparred anyone. There was only like one essential NPC that I couldn’t kill. Game still kept on. In Skyrim it felt like everyone was essential.", ">\n\nWasteland series have more “create your story” than Skyrim. Skyrim has a very linear story with only two paths that lead you to the same end, but with different allies. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the game after 12 years, but it is not the best we will ever get. We will continue to get RPG games that will surpass it. \nStill, gotta love waking up from your drunken stupor, only to find out you married a hagraven. We couldn’t even have the decency to marry a giant or some random dragon.", ">\n\nThe original fallout was a remake of wastelands according to Brian Fargo. Also wastelands is based on the movie damnation alley. So it’s kinda funny the wastelands series is technically wastelands, fallout, fallout 2, wastelands 2, wastelands 3.", ">\n\nIf your argument for why a game is good is “but mods tho!”, you’ve failed right out of the gate.", ">\n\nI agree as a game dev\nI really hate when I'm like why is this game good and the first thing people say is mod support\nLike skyrim was good because it allowed for multiple play styles, difficulties, had an engaging atmosphere, was easy to pick up, had levels of complexity with often a few ways to get a level done, interesting and engaging story, alot of interesting side quests, skill trees with interesting unlocks, sub classes (werewolf/vampire) and felt like a modern take on an old rpg\nBut also the game is not objectively the best. It depends largely what you are looking for in your rpg. For example dragon age is less replayable in it's game play but the story can go alot of different directions.\nIt's about what you consider important the fact is you can't have a visually stunning game, with alot of narrative freedom and alot of gameplay freedom it's just too much.\nSkyrim has a focus on gameplay freedom and Dragon Age focuses on the narrative freedom. Neither game is missing either element but something has to be your games focus. Budgets are not endless, fans don't want to wait forever and devs get exhausted.", ">\n\nLmao", ">\n\nMy brother in Christ, people shit on Skyrim because of the memes, not the gameplay. And also, you don't 'create your own story', you follow a predetermined story from the getgo after you escape the tutorial beheading: Stormcloaks or Imperials, forcing you to slay your first dragon & becoming the dragonborn.", ">\n\nYou're not forced - I recently did a play through where I skipped whiterun entirely and headed straight for riften. Became leader of the thieves guild and then did a decent chunk of the dark brotherhood and winterhold before finally going to whiterun. Didn't see a dragon in the entire time before I fought the first one, it changed the game. Highly recommend it!", ">\n\n\nelden ring good souls game but it’s not repayable imo.\n\nHow?", ">\n\nSkyrim isnt even the best TES game....\nAnd Infinitly replayable is highly subjective, I played it for 80h and pretty much got all out of the game I could think. All guilds, main quest and all the sidequest/dungeons , after that you pretty much have seen all of the good content, which doesnt get better at the 2. playthrough.", ">\n\nIt's also fairly easy to level up so you can basically do anything with the same character so there's no point replaying with a different one.", ">\n\nI think when you typed \"best\" you meant to type \"accessible\"", ">\n\nPeople only replay Skryrim for the mods.", ">\n\n\"Best\" is poised to trigger endless debates, but as far as I am concerned, the truth is that since 2012, I haven't have as fun playing a RPG as I had playing Skyrim at the time.", ">\n\nBethesda's games simply play differently. You have way more freedom in your character story, routes, desires, etc. That's why I really dislike Fallout 4, because you don't have that freedom, your character is a good father, you can't neglect your child and that's not what those games mean to me.\nI really love bethesda and I think that Starfield and The Elder Scrolls VI will beat Skyrim, but I agree with you, it is one of the greatest games of all time.", ">\n\nSkyrim was shallow even for the time.", ">\n\n\nSkyrim is a bare bones game. The engine is trash and it takes a lot of time to get it working right\n\n...Then it isn't the best rpg ever.\nNext!", ">\n\nMinecraft is the superior RPG! You can truly create your own story! Actually, you have to. You can do even more with the world through mods than skyrim mods can do! \nIt released (from early access) a week after skyrim. So you are objectively wrong!", ">\n\nMinecraft is a sandbox, not so much an RPG.", ">\n\nElden Ring is better", ">\n\nThe game you want is called oblivion or morrowwind.", ">\n\nI've only ever played Skyrim on PS4 but I agree with this. I don't know how many times I've gotten lost in this game for hours doing totally random shit. Including spending 2 hours jumping to the very top peak on The Throat of the World just to see if I could. You can." ]

[ "I know New Vegas gets its cock sucked A LOT, maybe even too much, but it ruined RPGs for me because of how good it was. I played a psycho killer and rarely sparred anyone. There was only like one essential NPC that I couldn’t kill. Game still kept on. In Skyrim it felt like everyone was essential.", ">\n\nWasteland series have more “create your story” than Skyrim. Skyrim has a very linear story with only two paths that lead you to the same end, but with different allies. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the game after 12 years, but it is not the best we will ever get. We will continue to get RPG games that will surpass it. \nStill, gotta love waking up from your drunken stupor, only to find out you married a hagraven. We couldn’t even have the decency to marry a giant or some random dragon.", ">\n\nThe original fallout was a remake of wastelands according to Brian Fargo. Also wastelands is based on the movie damnation alley. So it’s kinda funny the wastelands series is technically wastelands, fallout, fallout 2, wastelands 2, wastelands 3.", ">\n\nIf your argument for why a game is good is “but mods tho!”, you’ve failed right out of the gate.", ">\n\nI agree as a game dev\nI really hate when I'm like why is this game good and the first thing people say is mod support\nLike skyrim was good because it allowed for multiple play styles, difficulties, had an engaging atmosphere, was easy to pick up, had levels of complexity with often a few ways to get a level done, interesting and engaging story, alot of interesting side quests, skill trees with interesting unlocks, sub classes (werewolf/vampire) and felt like a modern take on an old rpg\nBut also the game is not objectively the best. It depends largely what you are looking for in your rpg. For example dragon age is less replayable in it's game play but the story can go alot of different directions.\nIt's about what you consider important the fact is you can't have a visually stunning game, with alot of narrative freedom and alot of gameplay freedom it's just too much.\nSkyrim has a focus on gameplay freedom and Dragon Age focuses on the narrative freedom. Neither game is missing either element but something has to be your games focus. Budgets are not endless, fans don't want to wait forever and devs get exhausted.", ">\n\nLmao", ">\n\nMy brother in Christ, people shit on Skyrim because of the memes, not the gameplay. And also, you don't 'create your own story', you follow a predetermined story from the getgo after you escape the tutorial beheading: Stormcloaks or Imperials, forcing you to slay your first dragon & becoming the dragonborn.", ">\n\nYou're not forced - I recently did a play through where I skipped whiterun entirely and headed straight for riften. Became leader of the thieves guild and then did a decent chunk of the dark brotherhood and winterhold before finally going to whiterun. Didn't see a dragon in the entire time before I fought the first one, it changed the game. Highly recommend it!", ">\n\n\nelden ring good souls game but it’s not repayable imo.\n\nHow?", ">\n\nSkyrim isnt even the best TES game....\nAnd Infinitly replayable is highly subjective, I played it for 80h and pretty much got all out of the game I could think. All guilds, main quest and all the sidequest/dungeons , after that you pretty much have seen all of the good content, which doesnt get better at the 2. playthrough.", ">\n\nIt's also fairly easy to level up so you can basically do anything with the same character so there's no point replaying with a different one.", ">\n\nI think when you typed \"best\" you meant to type \"accessible\"", ">\n\nPeople only replay Skryrim for the mods.", ">\n\n\"Best\" is poised to trigger endless debates, but as far as I am concerned, the truth is that since 2012, I haven't have as fun playing a RPG as I had playing Skyrim at the time.", ">\n\nBethesda's games simply play differently. You have way more freedom in your character story, routes, desires, etc. That's why I really dislike Fallout 4, because you don't have that freedom, your character is a good father, you can't neglect your child and that's not what those games mean to me.\nI really love bethesda and I think that Starfield and The Elder Scrolls VI will beat Skyrim, but I agree with you, it is one of the greatest games of all time.", ">\n\nSkyrim was shallow even for the time.", ">\n\n\nSkyrim is a bare bones game. The engine is trash and it takes a lot of time to get it working right\n\n...Then it isn't the best rpg ever.\nNext!", ">\n\nMinecraft is the superior RPG! You can truly create your own story! Actually, you have to. You can do even more with the world through mods than skyrim mods can do! \nIt released (from early access) a week after skyrim. So you are objectively wrong!", ">\n\nMinecraft is a sandbox, not so much an RPG.", ">\n\nElden Ring is better", ">\n\nThe game you want is called oblivion or morrowwind.", ">\n\nI've only ever played Skyrim on PS4 but I agree with this. I don't know how many times I've gotten lost in this game for hours doing totally random shit. Including spending 2 hours jumping to the very top peak on The Throat of the World just to see if I could. You can.", ">\n\nSkyrim was the first RPG video game I ever played, and I think it spoiled others for me. None of them are nearly as good. Even if you completely remove mods it’s still the best.\nOnly Fallout New Vegas even comes close." ]

[ "I know New Vegas gets its cock sucked A LOT, maybe even too much, but it ruined RPGs for me because of how good it was. I played a psycho killer and rarely sparred anyone. There was only like one essential NPC that I couldn’t kill. Game still kept on. In Skyrim it felt like everyone was essential.", ">\n\nWasteland series have more “create your story” than Skyrim. Skyrim has a very linear story with only two paths that lead you to the same end, but with different allies. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the game after 12 years, but it is not the best we will ever get. We will continue to get RPG games that will surpass it. \nStill, gotta love waking up from your drunken stupor, only to find out you married a hagraven. We couldn’t even have the decency to marry a giant or some random dragon.", ">\n\nThe original fallout was a remake of wastelands according to Brian Fargo. Also wastelands is based on the movie damnation alley. So it’s kinda funny the wastelands series is technically wastelands, fallout, fallout 2, wastelands 2, wastelands 3.", ">\n\nIf your argument for why a game is good is “but mods tho!”, you’ve failed right out of the gate.", ">\n\nI agree as a game dev\nI really hate when I'm like why is this game good and the first thing people say is mod support\nLike skyrim was good because it allowed for multiple play styles, difficulties, had an engaging atmosphere, was easy to pick up, had levels of complexity with often a few ways to get a level done, interesting and engaging story, alot of interesting side quests, skill trees with interesting unlocks, sub classes (werewolf/vampire) and felt like a modern take on an old rpg\nBut also the game is not objectively the best. It depends largely what you are looking for in your rpg. For example dragon age is less replayable in it's game play but the story can go alot of different directions.\nIt's about what you consider important the fact is you can't have a visually stunning game, with alot of narrative freedom and alot of gameplay freedom it's just too much.\nSkyrim has a focus on gameplay freedom and Dragon Age focuses on the narrative freedom. Neither game is missing either element but something has to be your games focus. Budgets are not endless, fans don't want to wait forever and devs get exhausted.", ">\n\nLmao", ">\n\nMy brother in Christ, people shit on Skyrim because of the memes, not the gameplay. And also, you don't 'create your own story', you follow a predetermined story from the getgo after you escape the tutorial beheading: Stormcloaks or Imperials, forcing you to slay your first dragon & becoming the dragonborn.", ">\n\nYou're not forced - I recently did a play through where I skipped whiterun entirely and headed straight for riften. Became leader of the thieves guild and then did a decent chunk of the dark brotherhood and winterhold before finally going to whiterun. Didn't see a dragon in the entire time before I fought the first one, it changed the game. Highly recommend it!", ">\n\n\nelden ring good souls game but it’s not repayable imo.\n\nHow?", ">\n\nSkyrim isnt even the best TES game....\nAnd Infinitly replayable is highly subjective, I played it for 80h and pretty much got all out of the game I could think. All guilds, main quest and all the sidequest/dungeons , after that you pretty much have seen all of the good content, which doesnt get better at the 2. playthrough.", ">\n\nIt's also fairly easy to level up so you can basically do anything with the same character so there's no point replaying with a different one.", ">\n\nI think when you typed \"best\" you meant to type \"accessible\"", ">\n\nPeople only replay Skryrim for the mods.", ">\n\n\"Best\" is poised to trigger endless debates, but as far as I am concerned, the truth is that since 2012, I haven't have as fun playing a RPG as I had playing Skyrim at the time.", ">\n\nBethesda's games simply play differently. You have way more freedom in your character story, routes, desires, etc. That's why I really dislike Fallout 4, because you don't have that freedom, your character is a good father, you can't neglect your child and that's not what those games mean to me.\nI really love bethesda and I think that Starfield and The Elder Scrolls VI will beat Skyrim, but I agree with you, it is one of the greatest games of all time.", ">\n\nSkyrim was shallow even for the time.", ">\n\n\nSkyrim is a bare bones game. The engine is trash and it takes a lot of time to get it working right\n\n...Then it isn't the best rpg ever.\nNext!", ">\n\nMinecraft is the superior RPG! You can truly create your own story! Actually, you have to. You can do even more with the world through mods than skyrim mods can do! \nIt released (from early access) a week after skyrim. So you are objectively wrong!", ">\n\nMinecraft is a sandbox, not so much an RPG.", ">\n\nElden Ring is better", ">\n\nThe game you want is called oblivion or morrowwind.", ">\n\nI've only ever played Skyrim on PS4 but I agree with this. I don't know how many times I've gotten lost in this game for hours doing totally random shit. Including spending 2 hours jumping to the very top peak on The Throat of the World just to see if I could. You can.", ">\n\nSkyrim was the first RPG video game I ever played, and I think it spoiled others for me. None of them are nearly as good. Even if you completely remove mods it’s still the best.\nOnly Fallout New Vegas even comes close.", ">\n\nGo play Final Fantasy. Literally any of them are better than skyrim. Go play Persona or Shin Magami Tensei...\nSeriously. So many better RPG's out there than fucking skyrim lol. If you think skyrim is the be all end all of RPG's then you are very short sighted." ]

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[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi." ]

[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi.", ">\n\nNetanyahu has methodically weakened Israeli politics for 2 decades. Many good people left politics due to him." ]

[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi.", ">\n\nNetanyahu has methodically weakened Israeli politics for 2 decades. Many good people left politics due to him.", ">\n\nAlso, let's give it to him, he keeps it on track. I mean Likud, Shas, Yehudat haTora - they are around since forever, and their objectives - whatever they are - didn't change. As to the centrist parties (which is our hope to form a coalition) - I can't even keep track of what they are called, let alone of what their position is." ]

[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi.", ">\n\nNetanyahu has methodically weakened Israeli politics for 2 decades. Many good people left politics due to him.", ">\n\nAlso, let's give it to him, he keeps it on track. I mean Likud, Shas, Yehudat haTora - they are around since forever, and their objectives - whatever they are - didn't change. As to the centrist parties (which is our hope to form a coalition) - I can't even keep track of what they are called, let alone of what their position is.", ">\n\nHe's very very skilled at what he does. He's in a whole different ballgame as he's ruthless with literally no visible ideal other than straying in power. Other politicians in the so called left center are absolute jokes with egos and no carisma. And this is exactly the way he wanted it" ]

[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi.", ">\n\nNetanyahu has methodically weakened Israeli politics for 2 decades. Many good people left politics due to him.", ">\n\nAlso, let's give it to him, he keeps it on track. I mean Likud, Shas, Yehudat haTora - they are around since forever, and their objectives - whatever they are - didn't change. As to the centrist parties (which is our hope to form a coalition) - I can't even keep track of what they are called, let alone of what their position is.", ">\n\nHe's very very skilled at what he does. He's in a whole different ballgame as he's ruthless with literally no visible ideal other than straying in power. Other politicians in the so called left center are absolute jokes with egos and no carisma. And this is exactly the way he wanted it", ">\n\nWhich is why center-left must unite, form a coherent message people can understand and earn trust. As opposed to Avoda-Meretz fiasco or Raam's \"let me talk to my (real criminal) field commanders before I consider a vote\", and here-and-there Gantz - who under different circumstances might've been a very good figurehead as far as security is concerned." ]

[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi.", ">\n\nNetanyahu has methodically weakened Israeli politics for 2 decades. Many good people left politics due to him.", ">\n\nAlso, let's give it to him, he keeps it on track. I mean Likud, Shas, Yehudat haTora - they are around since forever, and their objectives - whatever they are - didn't change. As to the centrist parties (which is our hope to form a coalition) - I can't even keep track of what they are called, let alone of what their position is.", ">\n\nHe's very very skilled at what he does. He's in a whole different ballgame as he's ruthless with literally no visible ideal other than straying in power. Other politicians in the so called left center are absolute jokes with egos and no carisma. And this is exactly the way he wanted it", ">\n\nWhich is why center-left must unite, form a coherent message people can understand and earn trust. As opposed to Avoda-Meretz fiasco or Raam's \"let me talk to my (real criminal) field commanders before I consider a vote\", and here-and-there Gantz - who under different circumstances might've been a very good figurehead as far as security is concerned.", ">\n\nSorry but their all unimaginative, egotistical clowns with no possible coherence in their aims. Sadly that are too silly to set aside differences.\nIf I were a liberal Israeli I would demand their heads roll and new party leaders selected. Israel needs new blood to counter the old blood. Lapid is just a sad pale Netanyahu clone in the making. He's quite cringy" ]

[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi.", ">\n\nNetanyahu has methodically weakened Israeli politics for 2 decades. Many good people left politics due to him.", ">\n\nAlso, let's give it to him, he keeps it on track. I mean Likud, Shas, Yehudat haTora - they are around since forever, and their objectives - whatever they are - didn't change. As to the centrist parties (which is our hope to form a coalition) - I can't even keep track of what they are called, let alone of what their position is.", ">\n\nHe's very very skilled at what he does. He's in a whole different ballgame as he's ruthless with literally no visible ideal other than straying in power. Other politicians in the so called left center are absolute jokes with egos and no carisma. And this is exactly the way he wanted it", ">\n\nWhich is why center-left must unite, form a coherent message people can understand and earn trust. As opposed to Avoda-Meretz fiasco or Raam's \"let me talk to my (real criminal) field commanders before I consider a vote\", and here-and-there Gantz - who under different circumstances might've been a very good figurehead as far as security is concerned.", ">\n\nSorry but their all unimaginative, egotistical clowns with no possible coherence in their aims. Sadly that are too silly to set aside differences.\nIf I were a liberal Israeli I would demand their heads roll and new party leaders selected. Israel needs new blood to counter the old blood. Lapid is just a sad pale Netanyahu clone in the making. He's quite cringy", ">\n\nAs an Israeli liberal , the sense of hopelessness is insane now , Literally everyone started planning their escape from this place . I fear that people are so tired and desperate they dont want to fight anymore.....\n​\nand Netanyahu is doing everything he can to strenghten those negative feelings , He tries to dismantle the courts , He gave religious zealots positions from which they can affect the school curriculum and poision the heads of our kids . His ministers are cancelling every reform and change the last government did , even things that are undoubtedly positive just for the sake of eliminating every shred of evidence the last government happened . His mouthpieces are working full time trying to create internal conflicts inside the opposition . I honestly just want to leave but im a student in university and dont have the money anyway ." ]

[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi.", ">\n\nNetanyahu has methodically weakened Israeli politics for 2 decades. Many good people left politics due to him.", ">\n\nAlso, let's give it to him, he keeps it on track. I mean Likud, Shas, Yehudat haTora - they are around since forever, and their objectives - whatever they are - didn't change. As to the centrist parties (which is our hope to form a coalition) - I can't even keep track of what they are called, let alone of what their position is.", ">\n\nHe's very very skilled at what he does. He's in a whole different ballgame as he's ruthless with literally no visible ideal other than straying in power. Other politicians in the so called left center are absolute jokes with egos and no carisma. And this is exactly the way he wanted it", ">\n\nWhich is why center-left must unite, form a coherent message people can understand and earn trust. As opposed to Avoda-Meretz fiasco or Raam's \"let me talk to my (real criminal) field commanders before I consider a vote\", and here-and-there Gantz - who under different circumstances might've been a very good figurehead as far as security is concerned.", ">\n\nSorry but their all unimaginative, egotistical clowns with no possible coherence in their aims. Sadly that are too silly to set aside differences.\nIf I were a liberal Israeli I would demand their heads roll and new party leaders selected. Israel needs new blood to counter the old blood. Lapid is just a sad pale Netanyahu clone in the making. He's quite cringy", ">\n\nAs an Israeli liberal , the sense of hopelessness is insane now , Literally everyone started planning their escape from this place . I fear that people are so tired and desperate they dont want to fight anymore.....\n​\nand Netanyahu is doing everything he can to strenghten those negative feelings , He tries to dismantle the courts , He gave religious zealots positions from which they can affect the school curriculum and poision the heads of our kids . His ministers are cancelling every reform and change the last government did , even things that are undoubtedly positive just for the sake of eliminating every shred of evidence the last government happened . His mouthpieces are working full time trying to create internal conflicts inside the opposition . I honestly just want to leave but im a student in university and dont have the money anyway .", ">\n\nGood job taking these protests out of context. \nThey’re protesting against the Right Wing Governments proposed judicial reforms. Palestinians have little if anything to do with it." ]

[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi.", ">\n\nNetanyahu has methodically weakened Israeli politics for 2 decades. Many good people left politics due to him.", ">\n\nAlso, let's give it to him, he keeps it on track. I mean Likud, Shas, Yehudat haTora - they are around since forever, and their objectives - whatever they are - didn't change. As to the centrist parties (which is our hope to form a coalition) - I can't even keep track of what they are called, let alone of what their position is.", ">\n\nHe's very very skilled at what he does. He's in a whole different ballgame as he's ruthless with literally no visible ideal other than straying in power. Other politicians in the so called left center are absolute jokes with egos and no carisma. And this is exactly the way he wanted it", ">\n\nWhich is why center-left must unite, form a coherent message people can understand and earn trust. As opposed to Avoda-Meretz fiasco or Raam's \"let me talk to my (real criminal) field commanders before I consider a vote\", and here-and-there Gantz - who under different circumstances might've been a very good figurehead as far as security is concerned.", ">\n\nSorry but their all unimaginative, egotistical clowns with no possible coherence in their aims. Sadly that are too silly to set aside differences.\nIf I were a liberal Israeli I would demand their heads roll and new party leaders selected. Israel needs new blood to counter the old blood. Lapid is just a sad pale Netanyahu clone in the making. He's quite cringy", ">\n\nAs an Israeli liberal , the sense of hopelessness is insane now , Literally everyone started planning their escape from this place . I fear that people are so tired and desperate they dont want to fight anymore.....\n​\nand Netanyahu is doing everything he can to strenghten those negative feelings , He tries to dismantle the courts , He gave religious zealots positions from which they can affect the school curriculum and poision the heads of our kids . His ministers are cancelling every reform and change the last government did , even things that are undoubtedly positive just for the sake of eliminating every shred of evidence the last government happened . His mouthpieces are working full time trying to create internal conflicts inside the opposition . I honestly just want to leave but im a student in university and dont have the money anyway .", ">\n\nGood job taking these protests out of context. \nThey’re protesting against the Right Wing Governments proposed judicial reforms. Palestinians have little if anything to do with it.", ">\n\nLike, yes, but also the right wing in Israel is reporting it was about Arabs because someone was waving a Palestinian flag at the protests. So the right is using that fact to delegitamize them." ]

[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi.", ">\n\nNetanyahu has methodically weakened Israeli politics for 2 decades. Many good people left politics due to him.", ">\n\nAlso, let's give it to him, he keeps it on track. I mean Likud, Shas, Yehudat haTora - they are around since forever, and their objectives - whatever they are - didn't change. As to the centrist parties (which is our hope to form a coalition) - I can't even keep track of what they are called, let alone of what their position is.", ">\n\nHe's very very skilled at what he does. He's in a whole different ballgame as he's ruthless with literally no visible ideal other than straying in power. Other politicians in the so called left center are absolute jokes with egos and no carisma. And this is exactly the way he wanted it", ">\n\nWhich is why center-left must unite, form a coherent message people can understand and earn trust. As opposed to Avoda-Meretz fiasco or Raam's \"let me talk to my (real criminal) field commanders before I consider a vote\", and here-and-there Gantz - who under different circumstances might've been a very good figurehead as far as security is concerned.", ">\n\nSorry but their all unimaginative, egotistical clowns with no possible coherence in their aims. Sadly that are too silly to set aside differences.\nIf I were a liberal Israeli I would demand their heads roll and new party leaders selected. Israel needs new blood to counter the old blood. Lapid is just a sad pale Netanyahu clone in the making. He's quite cringy", ">\n\nAs an Israeli liberal , the sense of hopelessness is insane now , Literally everyone started planning their escape from this place . I fear that people are so tired and desperate they dont want to fight anymore.....\n​\nand Netanyahu is doing everything he can to strenghten those negative feelings , He tries to dismantle the courts , He gave religious zealots positions from which they can affect the school curriculum and poision the heads of our kids . His ministers are cancelling every reform and change the last government did , even things that are undoubtedly positive just for the sake of eliminating every shred of evidence the last government happened . His mouthpieces are working full time trying to create internal conflicts inside the opposition . I honestly just want to leave but im a student in university and dont have the money anyway .", ">\n\nGood job taking these protests out of context. \nThey’re protesting against the Right Wing Governments proposed judicial reforms. Palestinians have little if anything to do with it.", ">\n\nLike, yes, but also the right wing in Israel is reporting it was about Arabs because someone was waving a Palestinian flag at the protests. So the right is using that fact to delegitamize them.", ">\n\nI wouldn't say it's necessarily a false flag but it does hurt the popular perception of the protests. Many Israelis consider Netanyahu to be a crook with dictatorial aspirations but do not believe any concessions should be made to the Palestinians. Previous government has proven that any coalition capable of ousting Netanyahu can't agree on any other crucial issue including national security and foreign policy. The conservative-to-radical rightwing parties can provide such a consensus and have the numbers for a solid majority if they join up with Bibi's moderate right party but they require a lot of concessions in return, from supporting contested settlements to letting the religious orthodoxy control important facets of everyday life. Any potential for a coalition that can unite the moderates and exclude the radicals from both flanks has been thoroughly undermined by Bibi in person." ]

[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi.", ">\n\nNetanyahu has methodically weakened Israeli politics for 2 decades. Many good people left politics due to him.", ">\n\nAlso, let's give it to him, he keeps it on track. I mean Likud, Shas, Yehudat haTora - they are around since forever, and their objectives - whatever they are - didn't change. As to the centrist parties (which is our hope to form a coalition) - I can't even keep track of what they are called, let alone of what their position is.", ">\n\nHe's very very skilled at what he does. He's in a whole different ballgame as he's ruthless with literally no visible ideal other than straying in power. Other politicians in the so called left center are absolute jokes with egos and no carisma. And this is exactly the way he wanted it", ">\n\nWhich is why center-left must unite, form a coherent message people can understand and earn trust. As opposed to Avoda-Meretz fiasco or Raam's \"let me talk to my (real criminal) field commanders before I consider a vote\", and here-and-there Gantz - who under different circumstances might've been a very good figurehead as far as security is concerned.", ">\n\nSorry but their all unimaginative, egotistical clowns with no possible coherence in their aims. Sadly that are too silly to set aside differences.\nIf I were a liberal Israeli I would demand their heads roll and new party leaders selected. Israel needs new blood to counter the old blood. Lapid is just a sad pale Netanyahu clone in the making. He's quite cringy", ">\n\nAs an Israeli liberal , the sense of hopelessness is insane now , Literally everyone started planning their escape from this place . I fear that people are so tired and desperate they dont want to fight anymore.....\n​\nand Netanyahu is doing everything he can to strenghten those negative feelings , He tries to dismantle the courts , He gave religious zealots positions from which they can affect the school curriculum and poision the heads of our kids . His ministers are cancelling every reform and change the last government did , even things that are undoubtedly positive just for the sake of eliminating every shred of evidence the last government happened . His mouthpieces are working full time trying to create internal conflicts inside the opposition . I honestly just want to leave but im a student in university and dont have the money anyway .", ">\n\nGood job taking these protests out of context. \nThey’re protesting against the Right Wing Governments proposed judicial reforms. Palestinians have little if anything to do with it.", ">\n\nLike, yes, but also the right wing in Israel is reporting it was about Arabs because someone was waving a Palestinian flag at the protests. So the right is using that fact to delegitamize them.", ">\n\nI wouldn't say it's necessarily a false flag but it does hurt the popular perception of the protests. Many Israelis consider Netanyahu to be a crook with dictatorial aspirations but do not believe any concessions should be made to the Palestinians. Previous government has proven that any coalition capable of ousting Netanyahu can't agree on any other crucial issue including national security and foreign policy. The conservative-to-radical rightwing parties can provide such a consensus and have the numbers for a solid majority if they join up with Bibi's moderate right party but they require a lot of concessions in return, from supporting contested settlements to letting the religious orthodoxy control important facets of everyday life. Any potential for a coalition that can unite the moderates and exclude the radicals from both flanks has been thoroughly undermined by Bibi in person.", ">\n\nJews are great people. \nNetenyahu's government is a human right disaster." ]

[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi.", ">\n\nNetanyahu has methodically weakened Israeli politics for 2 decades. Many good people left politics due to him.", ">\n\nAlso, let's give it to him, he keeps it on track. I mean Likud, Shas, Yehudat haTora - they are around since forever, and their objectives - whatever they are - didn't change. As to the centrist parties (which is our hope to form a coalition) - I can't even keep track of what they are called, let alone of what their position is.", ">\n\nHe's very very skilled at what he does. He's in a whole different ballgame as he's ruthless with literally no visible ideal other than straying in power. Other politicians in the so called left center are absolute jokes with egos and no carisma. And this is exactly the way he wanted it", ">\n\nWhich is why center-left must unite, form a coherent message people can understand and earn trust. As opposed to Avoda-Meretz fiasco or Raam's \"let me talk to my (real criminal) field commanders before I consider a vote\", and here-and-there Gantz - who under different circumstances might've been a very good figurehead as far as security is concerned.", ">\n\nSorry but their all unimaginative, egotistical clowns with no possible coherence in their aims. Sadly that are too silly to set aside differences.\nIf I were a liberal Israeli I would demand their heads roll and new party leaders selected. Israel needs new blood to counter the old blood. Lapid is just a sad pale Netanyahu clone in the making. He's quite cringy", ">\n\nAs an Israeli liberal , the sense of hopelessness is insane now , Literally everyone started planning their escape from this place . I fear that people are so tired and desperate they dont want to fight anymore.....\n​\nand Netanyahu is doing everything he can to strenghten those negative feelings , He tries to dismantle the courts , He gave religious zealots positions from which they can affect the school curriculum and poision the heads of our kids . His ministers are cancelling every reform and change the last government did , even things that are undoubtedly positive just for the sake of eliminating every shred of evidence the last government happened . His mouthpieces are working full time trying to create internal conflicts inside the opposition . I honestly just want to leave but im a student in university and dont have the money anyway .", ">\n\nGood job taking these protests out of context. \nThey’re protesting against the Right Wing Governments proposed judicial reforms. Palestinians have little if anything to do with it.", ">\n\nLike, yes, but also the right wing in Israel is reporting it was about Arabs because someone was waving a Palestinian flag at the protests. So the right is using that fact to delegitamize them.", ">\n\nI wouldn't say it's necessarily a false flag but it does hurt the popular perception of the protests. Many Israelis consider Netanyahu to be a crook with dictatorial aspirations but do not believe any concessions should be made to the Palestinians. Previous government has proven that any coalition capable of ousting Netanyahu can't agree on any other crucial issue including national security and foreign policy. The conservative-to-radical rightwing parties can provide such a consensus and have the numbers for a solid majority if they join up with Bibi's moderate right party but they require a lot of concessions in return, from supporting contested settlements to letting the religious orthodoxy control important facets of everyday life. Any potential for a coalition that can unite the moderates and exclude the radicals from both flanks has been thoroughly undermined by Bibi in person.", ">\n\nJews are great people. \nNetenyahu's government is a human right disaster.", ">\n\nThey haven't done anything yet..." ]

[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi.", ">\n\nNetanyahu has methodically weakened Israeli politics for 2 decades. Many good people left politics due to him.", ">\n\nAlso, let's give it to him, he keeps it on track. I mean Likud, Shas, Yehudat haTora - they are around since forever, and their objectives - whatever they are - didn't change. As to the centrist parties (which is our hope to form a coalition) - I can't even keep track of what they are called, let alone of what their position is.", ">\n\nHe's very very skilled at what he does. He's in a whole different ballgame as he's ruthless with literally no visible ideal other than straying in power. Other politicians in the so called left center are absolute jokes with egos and no carisma. And this is exactly the way he wanted it", ">\n\nWhich is why center-left must unite, form a coherent message people can understand and earn trust. As opposed to Avoda-Meretz fiasco or Raam's \"let me talk to my (real criminal) field commanders before I consider a vote\", and here-and-there Gantz - who under different circumstances might've been a very good figurehead as far as security is concerned.", ">\n\nSorry but their all unimaginative, egotistical clowns with no possible coherence in their aims. Sadly that are too silly to set aside differences.\nIf I were a liberal Israeli I would demand their heads roll and new party leaders selected. Israel needs new blood to counter the old blood. Lapid is just a sad pale Netanyahu clone in the making. He's quite cringy", ">\n\nAs an Israeli liberal , the sense of hopelessness is insane now , Literally everyone started planning their escape from this place . I fear that people are so tired and desperate they dont want to fight anymore.....\n​\nand Netanyahu is doing everything he can to strenghten those negative feelings , He tries to dismantle the courts , He gave religious zealots positions from which they can affect the school curriculum and poision the heads of our kids . His ministers are cancelling every reform and change the last government did , even things that are undoubtedly positive just for the sake of eliminating every shred of evidence the last government happened . His mouthpieces are working full time trying to create internal conflicts inside the opposition . I honestly just want to leave but im a student in university and dont have the money anyway .", ">\n\nGood job taking these protests out of context. \nThey’re protesting against the Right Wing Governments proposed judicial reforms. Palestinians have little if anything to do with it.", ">\n\nLike, yes, but also the right wing in Israel is reporting it was about Arabs because someone was waving a Palestinian flag at the protests. So the right is using that fact to delegitamize them.", ">\n\nI wouldn't say it's necessarily a false flag but it does hurt the popular perception of the protests. Many Israelis consider Netanyahu to be a crook with dictatorial aspirations but do not believe any concessions should be made to the Palestinians. Previous government has proven that any coalition capable of ousting Netanyahu can't agree on any other crucial issue including national security and foreign policy. The conservative-to-radical rightwing parties can provide such a consensus and have the numbers for a solid majority if they join up with Bibi's moderate right party but they require a lot of concessions in return, from supporting contested settlements to letting the religious orthodoxy control important facets of everyday life. Any potential for a coalition that can unite the moderates and exclude the radicals from both flanks has been thoroughly undermined by Bibi in person.", ">\n\nJews are great people. \nNetenyahu's government is a human right disaster.", ">\n\nThey haven't done anything yet...", ">\n\nConsidering Netanyahu has been in power previously, people are allowed to make judgement calls on his prior actions and assume that a new term would be more of the same." ]

[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi.", ">\n\nNetanyahu has methodically weakened Israeli politics for 2 decades. Many good people left politics due to him.", ">\n\nAlso, let's give it to him, he keeps it on track. I mean Likud, Shas, Yehudat haTora - they are around since forever, and their objectives - whatever they are - didn't change. As to the centrist parties (which is our hope to form a coalition) - I can't even keep track of what they are called, let alone of what their position is.", ">\n\nHe's very very skilled at what he does. He's in a whole different ballgame as he's ruthless with literally no visible ideal other than straying in power. Other politicians in the so called left center are absolute jokes with egos and no carisma. And this is exactly the way he wanted it", ">\n\nWhich is why center-left must unite, form a coherent message people can understand and earn trust. As opposed to Avoda-Meretz fiasco or Raam's \"let me talk to my (real criminal) field commanders before I consider a vote\", and here-and-there Gantz - who under different circumstances might've been a very good figurehead as far as security is concerned.", ">\n\nSorry but their all unimaginative, egotistical clowns with no possible coherence in their aims. Sadly that are too silly to set aside differences.\nIf I were a liberal Israeli I would demand their heads roll and new party leaders selected. Israel needs new blood to counter the old blood. Lapid is just a sad pale Netanyahu clone in the making. He's quite cringy", ">\n\nAs an Israeli liberal , the sense of hopelessness is insane now , Literally everyone started planning their escape from this place . I fear that people are so tired and desperate they dont want to fight anymore.....\n​\nand Netanyahu is doing everything he can to strenghten those negative feelings , He tries to dismantle the courts , He gave religious zealots positions from which they can affect the school curriculum and poision the heads of our kids . His ministers are cancelling every reform and change the last government did , even things that are undoubtedly positive just for the sake of eliminating every shred of evidence the last government happened . His mouthpieces are working full time trying to create internal conflicts inside the opposition . I honestly just want to leave but im a student in university and dont have the money anyway .", ">\n\nGood job taking these protests out of context. \nThey’re protesting against the Right Wing Governments proposed judicial reforms. Palestinians have little if anything to do with it.", ">\n\nLike, yes, but also the right wing in Israel is reporting it was about Arabs because someone was waving a Palestinian flag at the protests. So the right is using that fact to delegitamize them.", ">\n\nI wouldn't say it's necessarily a false flag but it does hurt the popular perception of the protests. Many Israelis consider Netanyahu to be a crook with dictatorial aspirations but do not believe any concessions should be made to the Palestinians. Previous government has proven that any coalition capable of ousting Netanyahu can't agree on any other crucial issue including national security and foreign policy. The conservative-to-radical rightwing parties can provide such a consensus and have the numbers for a solid majority if they join up with Bibi's moderate right party but they require a lot of concessions in return, from supporting contested settlements to letting the religious orthodoxy control important facets of everyday life. Any potential for a coalition that can unite the moderates and exclude the radicals from both flanks has been thoroughly undermined by Bibi in person.", ">\n\nJews are great people. \nNetenyahu's government is a human right disaster.", ">\n\nThey haven't done anything yet...", ">\n\nConsidering Netanyahu has been in power previously, people are allowed to make judgement calls on his prior actions and assume that a new term would be more of the same.", ">\n\nNo one assumes it will be the same. His current actions hint otherwise" ]

[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi.", ">\n\nNetanyahu has methodically weakened Israeli politics for 2 decades. Many good people left politics due to him.", ">\n\nAlso, let's give it to him, he keeps it on track. I mean Likud, Shas, Yehudat haTora - they are around since forever, and their objectives - whatever they are - didn't change. As to the centrist parties (which is our hope to form a coalition) - I can't even keep track of what they are called, let alone of what their position is.", ">\n\nHe's very very skilled at what he does. He's in a whole different ballgame as he's ruthless with literally no visible ideal other than straying in power. Other politicians in the so called left center are absolute jokes with egos and no carisma. And this is exactly the way he wanted it", ">\n\nWhich is why center-left must unite, form a coherent message people can understand and earn trust. As opposed to Avoda-Meretz fiasco or Raam's \"let me talk to my (real criminal) field commanders before I consider a vote\", and here-and-there Gantz - who under different circumstances might've been a very good figurehead as far as security is concerned.", ">\n\nSorry but their all unimaginative, egotistical clowns with no possible coherence in their aims. Sadly that are too silly to set aside differences.\nIf I were a liberal Israeli I would demand their heads roll and new party leaders selected. Israel needs new blood to counter the old blood. Lapid is just a sad pale Netanyahu clone in the making. He's quite cringy", ">\n\nAs an Israeli liberal , the sense of hopelessness is insane now , Literally everyone started planning their escape from this place . I fear that people are so tired and desperate they dont want to fight anymore.....\n​\nand Netanyahu is doing everything he can to strenghten those negative feelings , He tries to dismantle the courts , He gave religious zealots positions from which they can affect the school curriculum and poision the heads of our kids . His ministers are cancelling every reform and change the last government did , even things that are undoubtedly positive just for the sake of eliminating every shred of evidence the last government happened . His mouthpieces are working full time trying to create internal conflicts inside the opposition . I honestly just want to leave but im a student in university and dont have the money anyway .", ">\n\nGood job taking these protests out of context. \nThey’re protesting against the Right Wing Governments proposed judicial reforms. Palestinians have little if anything to do with it.", ">\n\nLike, yes, but also the right wing in Israel is reporting it was about Arabs because someone was waving a Palestinian flag at the protests. So the right is using that fact to delegitamize them.", ">\n\nI wouldn't say it's necessarily a false flag but it does hurt the popular perception of the protests. Many Israelis consider Netanyahu to be a crook with dictatorial aspirations but do not believe any concessions should be made to the Palestinians. Previous government has proven that any coalition capable of ousting Netanyahu can't agree on any other crucial issue including national security and foreign policy. The conservative-to-radical rightwing parties can provide such a consensus and have the numbers for a solid majority if they join up with Bibi's moderate right party but they require a lot of concessions in return, from supporting contested settlements to letting the religious orthodoxy control important facets of everyday life. Any potential for a coalition that can unite the moderates and exclude the radicals from both flanks has been thoroughly undermined by Bibi in person.", ">\n\nJews are great people. \nNetenyahu's government is a human right disaster.", ">\n\nThey haven't done anything yet...", ">\n\nConsidering Netanyahu has been in power previously, people are allowed to make judgement calls on his prior actions and assume that a new term would be more of the same.", ">\n\nNo one assumes it will be the same. His current actions hint otherwise", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nTel Aviv - Thousands of Israelis protested on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government, regarded as the most right-wing in Israeli history, an AFP correspondent said.\nProtesters brandished signs with slogans including \"Democracy in danger\" and \"Together against fascism and apartheid\" in the coastal city of Tel Aviv.\nSome waved Israeli and rainbow flags while others held a large banner reading \"Crime minister\" - a slogan widely used by Israelis during regular demonstrations against Netanyahu in past years.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Israeli^#1 includes^#2 protested^#3 Netanyahu^#4 against^#5" ]

[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi.", ">\n\nNetanyahu has methodically weakened Israeli politics for 2 decades. Many good people left politics due to him.", ">\n\nAlso, let's give it to him, he keeps it on track. I mean Likud, Shas, Yehudat haTora - they are around since forever, and their objectives - whatever they are - didn't change. As to the centrist parties (which is our hope to form a coalition) - I can't even keep track of what they are called, let alone of what their position is.", ">\n\nHe's very very skilled at what he does. He's in a whole different ballgame as he's ruthless with literally no visible ideal other than straying in power. Other politicians in the so called left center are absolute jokes with egos and no carisma. And this is exactly the way he wanted it", ">\n\nWhich is why center-left must unite, form a coherent message people can understand and earn trust. As opposed to Avoda-Meretz fiasco or Raam's \"let me talk to my (real criminal) field commanders before I consider a vote\", and here-and-there Gantz - who under different circumstances might've been a very good figurehead as far as security is concerned.", ">\n\nSorry but their all unimaginative, egotistical clowns with no possible coherence in their aims. Sadly that are too silly to set aside differences.\nIf I were a liberal Israeli I would demand their heads roll and new party leaders selected. Israel needs new blood to counter the old blood. Lapid is just a sad pale Netanyahu clone in the making. He's quite cringy", ">\n\nAs an Israeli liberal , the sense of hopelessness is insane now , Literally everyone started planning their escape from this place . I fear that people are so tired and desperate they dont want to fight anymore.....\n​\nand Netanyahu is doing everything he can to strenghten those negative feelings , He tries to dismantle the courts , He gave religious zealots positions from which they can affect the school curriculum and poision the heads of our kids . His ministers are cancelling every reform and change the last government did , even things that are undoubtedly positive just for the sake of eliminating every shred of evidence the last government happened . His mouthpieces are working full time trying to create internal conflicts inside the opposition . I honestly just want to leave but im a student in university and dont have the money anyway .", ">\n\nGood job taking these protests out of context. \nThey’re protesting against the Right Wing Governments proposed judicial reforms. Palestinians have little if anything to do with it.", ">\n\nLike, yes, but also the right wing in Israel is reporting it was about Arabs because someone was waving a Palestinian flag at the protests. So the right is using that fact to delegitamize them.", ">\n\nI wouldn't say it's necessarily a false flag but it does hurt the popular perception of the protests. Many Israelis consider Netanyahu to be a crook with dictatorial aspirations but do not believe any concessions should be made to the Palestinians. Previous government has proven that any coalition capable of ousting Netanyahu can't agree on any other crucial issue including national security and foreign policy. The conservative-to-radical rightwing parties can provide such a consensus and have the numbers for a solid majority if they join up with Bibi's moderate right party but they require a lot of concessions in return, from supporting contested settlements to letting the religious orthodoxy control important facets of everyday life. Any potential for a coalition that can unite the moderates and exclude the radicals from both flanks has been thoroughly undermined by Bibi in person.", ">\n\nJews are great people. \nNetenyahu's government is a human right disaster.", ">\n\nThey haven't done anything yet...", ">\n\nConsidering Netanyahu has been in power previously, people are allowed to make judgement calls on his prior actions and assume that a new term would be more of the same.", ">\n\nNo one assumes it will be the same. His current actions hint otherwise", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nTel Aviv - Thousands of Israelis protested on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government, regarded as the most right-wing in Israeli history, an AFP correspondent said.\nProtesters brandished signs with slogans including \"Democracy in danger\" and \"Together against fascism and apartheid\" in the coastal city of Tel Aviv.\nSome waved Israeli and rainbow flags while others held a large banner reading \"Crime minister\" - a slogan widely used by Israelis during regular demonstrations against Netanyahu in past years.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Israeli^#1 includes^#2 protested^#3 Netanyahu^#4 against^#5", ">\n\nIt's good that Israeli citizens are protesting against the new government. Civil society will need to hold firm to keep Netanyahu's cronies from taking over institutions." ]

[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi.", ">\n\nNetanyahu has methodically weakened Israeli politics for 2 decades. Many good people left politics due to him.", ">\n\nAlso, let's give it to him, he keeps it on track. I mean Likud, Shas, Yehudat haTora - they are around since forever, and their objectives - whatever they are - didn't change. As to the centrist parties (which is our hope to form a coalition) - I can't even keep track of what they are called, let alone of what their position is.", ">\n\nHe's very very skilled at what he does. He's in a whole different ballgame as he's ruthless with literally no visible ideal other than straying in power. Other politicians in the so called left center are absolute jokes with egos and no carisma. And this is exactly the way he wanted it", ">\n\nWhich is why center-left must unite, form a coherent message people can understand and earn trust. As opposed to Avoda-Meretz fiasco or Raam's \"let me talk to my (real criminal) field commanders before I consider a vote\", and here-and-there Gantz - who under different circumstances might've been a very good figurehead as far as security is concerned.", ">\n\nSorry but their all unimaginative, egotistical clowns with no possible coherence in their aims. Sadly that are too silly to set aside differences.\nIf I were a liberal Israeli I would demand their heads roll and new party leaders selected. Israel needs new blood to counter the old blood. Lapid is just a sad pale Netanyahu clone in the making. He's quite cringy", ">\n\nAs an Israeli liberal , the sense of hopelessness is insane now , Literally everyone started planning their escape from this place . I fear that people are so tired and desperate they dont want to fight anymore.....\n​\nand Netanyahu is doing everything he can to strenghten those negative feelings , He tries to dismantle the courts , He gave religious zealots positions from which they can affect the school curriculum and poision the heads of our kids . His ministers are cancelling every reform and change the last government did , even things that are undoubtedly positive just for the sake of eliminating every shred of evidence the last government happened . His mouthpieces are working full time trying to create internal conflicts inside the opposition . I honestly just want to leave but im a student in university and dont have the money anyway .", ">\n\nGood job taking these protests out of context. \nThey’re protesting against the Right Wing Governments proposed judicial reforms. Palestinians have little if anything to do with it.", ">\n\nLike, yes, but also the right wing in Israel is reporting it was about Arabs because someone was waving a Palestinian flag at the protests. So the right is using that fact to delegitamize them.", ">\n\nI wouldn't say it's necessarily a false flag but it does hurt the popular perception of the protests. Many Israelis consider Netanyahu to be a crook with dictatorial aspirations but do not believe any concessions should be made to the Palestinians. Previous government has proven that any coalition capable of ousting Netanyahu can't agree on any other crucial issue including national security and foreign policy. The conservative-to-radical rightwing parties can provide such a consensus and have the numbers for a solid majority if they join up with Bibi's moderate right party but they require a lot of concessions in return, from supporting contested settlements to letting the religious orthodoxy control important facets of everyday life. Any potential for a coalition that can unite the moderates and exclude the radicals from both flanks has been thoroughly undermined by Bibi in person.", ">\n\nJews are great people. \nNetenyahu's government is a human right disaster.", ">\n\nThey haven't done anything yet...", ">\n\nConsidering Netanyahu has been in power previously, people are allowed to make judgement calls on his prior actions and assume that a new term would be more of the same.", ">\n\nNo one assumes it will be the same. His current actions hint otherwise", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nTel Aviv - Thousands of Israelis protested on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government, regarded as the most right-wing in Israeli history, an AFP correspondent said.\nProtesters brandished signs with slogans including \"Democracy in danger\" and \"Together against fascism and apartheid\" in the coastal city of Tel Aviv.\nSome waved Israeli and rainbow flags while others held a large banner reading \"Crime minister\" - a slogan widely used by Israelis during regular demonstrations against Netanyahu in past years.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Israeli^#1 includes^#2 protested^#3 Netanyahu^#4 against^#5", ">\n\nIt's good that Israeli citizens are protesting against the new government. Civil society will need to hold firm to keep Netanyahu's cronies from taking over institutions.", ">\n\nI would like to point out this headline is a bit misleading. The vast majority of the protesters were about the government's attempt to undermine the balance of powers, nothing you do with the Palestinians" ]

[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi.", ">\n\nNetanyahu has methodically weakened Israeli politics for 2 decades. Many good people left politics due to him.", ">\n\nAlso, let's give it to him, he keeps it on track. I mean Likud, Shas, Yehudat haTora - they are around since forever, and their objectives - whatever they are - didn't change. As to the centrist parties (which is our hope to form a coalition) - I can't even keep track of what they are called, let alone of what their position is.", ">\n\nHe's very very skilled at what he does. He's in a whole different ballgame as he's ruthless with literally no visible ideal other than straying in power. Other politicians in the so called left center are absolute jokes with egos and no carisma. And this is exactly the way he wanted it", ">\n\nWhich is why center-left must unite, form a coherent message people can understand and earn trust. As opposed to Avoda-Meretz fiasco or Raam's \"let me talk to my (real criminal) field commanders before I consider a vote\", and here-and-there Gantz - who under different circumstances might've been a very good figurehead as far as security is concerned.", ">\n\nSorry but their all unimaginative, egotistical clowns with no possible coherence in their aims. Sadly that are too silly to set aside differences.\nIf I were a liberal Israeli I would demand their heads roll and new party leaders selected. Israel needs new blood to counter the old blood. Lapid is just a sad pale Netanyahu clone in the making. He's quite cringy", ">\n\nAs an Israeli liberal , the sense of hopelessness is insane now , Literally everyone started planning their escape from this place . I fear that people are so tired and desperate they dont want to fight anymore.....\n​\nand Netanyahu is doing everything he can to strenghten those negative feelings , He tries to dismantle the courts , He gave religious zealots positions from which they can affect the school curriculum and poision the heads of our kids . His ministers are cancelling every reform and change the last government did , even things that are undoubtedly positive just for the sake of eliminating every shred of evidence the last government happened . His mouthpieces are working full time trying to create internal conflicts inside the opposition . I honestly just want to leave but im a student in university and dont have the money anyway .", ">\n\nGood job taking these protests out of context. \nThey’re protesting against the Right Wing Governments proposed judicial reforms. Palestinians have little if anything to do with it.", ">\n\nLike, yes, but also the right wing in Israel is reporting it was about Arabs because someone was waving a Palestinian flag at the protests. So the right is using that fact to delegitamize them.", ">\n\nI wouldn't say it's necessarily a false flag but it does hurt the popular perception of the protests. Many Israelis consider Netanyahu to be a crook with dictatorial aspirations but do not believe any concessions should be made to the Palestinians. Previous government has proven that any coalition capable of ousting Netanyahu can't agree on any other crucial issue including national security and foreign policy. The conservative-to-radical rightwing parties can provide such a consensus and have the numbers for a solid majority if they join up with Bibi's moderate right party but they require a lot of concessions in return, from supporting contested settlements to letting the religious orthodoxy control important facets of everyday life. Any potential for a coalition that can unite the moderates and exclude the radicals from both flanks has been thoroughly undermined by Bibi in person.", ">\n\nJews are great people. \nNetenyahu's government is a human right disaster.", ">\n\nThey haven't done anything yet...", ">\n\nConsidering Netanyahu has been in power previously, people are allowed to make judgement calls on his prior actions and assume that a new term would be more of the same.", ">\n\nNo one assumes it will be the same. His current actions hint otherwise", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nTel Aviv - Thousands of Israelis protested on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government, regarded as the most right-wing in Israeli history, an AFP correspondent said.\nProtesters brandished signs with slogans including \"Democracy in danger\" and \"Together against fascism and apartheid\" in the coastal city of Tel Aviv.\nSome waved Israeli and rainbow flags while others held a large banner reading \"Crime minister\" - a slogan widely used by Israelis during regular demonstrations against Netanyahu in past years.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Israeli^#1 includes^#2 protested^#3 Netanyahu^#4 against^#5", ">\n\nIt's good that Israeli citizens are protesting against the new government. Civil society will need to hold firm to keep Netanyahu's cronies from taking over institutions.", ">\n\nI would like to point out this headline is a bit misleading. The vast majority of the protesters were about the government's attempt to undermine the balance of powers, nothing you do with the Palestinians", ">\n\nWhat balance of powers? The Bagatz members weren't elected by anyone, literally a group of people electing their successors, with a very clear agenda. The reforms are very well needed. There's absolutely no reason a group of people can do whatever they want. \nIf that seems legitimate to you, then why do we even go to elections? After all it's that tiny group of people that decides what laws to pass" ]

[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi.", ">\n\nNetanyahu has methodically weakened Israeli politics for 2 decades. Many good people left politics due to him.", ">\n\nAlso, let's give it to him, he keeps it on track. I mean Likud, Shas, Yehudat haTora - they are around since forever, and their objectives - whatever they are - didn't change. As to the centrist parties (which is our hope to form a coalition) - I can't even keep track of what they are called, let alone of what their position is.", ">\n\nHe's very very skilled at what he does. He's in a whole different ballgame as he's ruthless with literally no visible ideal other than straying in power. Other politicians in the so called left center are absolute jokes with egos and no carisma. And this is exactly the way he wanted it", ">\n\nWhich is why center-left must unite, form a coherent message people can understand and earn trust. As opposed to Avoda-Meretz fiasco or Raam's \"let me talk to my (real criminal) field commanders before I consider a vote\", and here-and-there Gantz - who under different circumstances might've been a very good figurehead as far as security is concerned.", ">\n\nSorry but their all unimaginative, egotistical clowns with no possible coherence in their aims. Sadly that are too silly to set aside differences.\nIf I were a liberal Israeli I would demand their heads roll and new party leaders selected. Israel needs new blood to counter the old blood. Lapid is just a sad pale Netanyahu clone in the making. He's quite cringy", ">\n\nAs an Israeli liberal , the sense of hopelessness is insane now , Literally everyone started planning their escape from this place . I fear that people are so tired and desperate they dont want to fight anymore.....\n​\nand Netanyahu is doing everything he can to strenghten those negative feelings , He tries to dismantle the courts , He gave religious zealots positions from which they can affect the school curriculum and poision the heads of our kids . His ministers are cancelling every reform and change the last government did , even things that are undoubtedly positive just for the sake of eliminating every shred of evidence the last government happened . His mouthpieces are working full time trying to create internal conflicts inside the opposition . I honestly just want to leave but im a student in university and dont have the money anyway .", ">\n\nGood job taking these protests out of context. \nThey’re protesting against the Right Wing Governments proposed judicial reforms. Palestinians have little if anything to do with it.", ">\n\nLike, yes, but also the right wing in Israel is reporting it was about Arabs because someone was waving a Palestinian flag at the protests. So the right is using that fact to delegitamize them.", ">\n\nI wouldn't say it's necessarily a false flag but it does hurt the popular perception of the protests. Many Israelis consider Netanyahu to be a crook with dictatorial aspirations but do not believe any concessions should be made to the Palestinians. Previous government has proven that any coalition capable of ousting Netanyahu can't agree on any other crucial issue including national security and foreign policy. The conservative-to-radical rightwing parties can provide such a consensus and have the numbers for a solid majority if they join up with Bibi's moderate right party but they require a lot of concessions in return, from supporting contested settlements to letting the religious orthodoxy control important facets of everyday life. Any potential for a coalition that can unite the moderates and exclude the radicals from both flanks has been thoroughly undermined by Bibi in person.", ">\n\nJews are great people. \nNetenyahu's government is a human right disaster.", ">\n\nThey haven't done anything yet...", ">\n\nConsidering Netanyahu has been in power previously, people are allowed to make judgement calls on his prior actions and assume that a new term would be more of the same.", ">\n\nNo one assumes it will be the same. His current actions hint otherwise", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nTel Aviv - Thousands of Israelis protested on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government, regarded as the most right-wing in Israeli history, an AFP correspondent said.\nProtesters brandished signs with slogans including \"Democracy in danger\" and \"Together against fascism and apartheid\" in the coastal city of Tel Aviv.\nSome waved Israeli and rainbow flags while others held a large banner reading \"Crime minister\" - a slogan widely used by Israelis during regular demonstrations against Netanyahu in past years.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Israeli^#1 includes^#2 protested^#3 Netanyahu^#4 against^#5", ">\n\nIt's good that Israeli citizens are protesting against the new government. Civil society will need to hold firm to keep Netanyahu's cronies from taking over institutions.", ">\n\nI would like to point out this headline is a bit misleading. The vast majority of the protesters were about the government's attempt to undermine the balance of powers, nothing you do with the Palestinians", ">\n\nWhat balance of powers? The Bagatz members weren't elected by anyone, literally a group of people electing their successors, with a very clear agenda. The reforms are very well needed. There's absolutely no reason a group of people can do whatever they want. \nIf that seems legitimate to you, then why do we even go to elections? After all it's that tiny group of people that decides what laws to pass", ">\n\nI hope THIS gets some media attention" ]

[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi.", ">\n\nNetanyahu has methodically weakened Israeli politics for 2 decades. Many good people left politics due to him.", ">\n\nAlso, let's give it to him, he keeps it on track. I mean Likud, Shas, Yehudat haTora - they are around since forever, and their objectives - whatever they are - didn't change. As to the centrist parties (which is our hope to form a coalition) - I can't even keep track of what they are called, let alone of what their position is.", ">\n\nHe's very very skilled at what he does. He's in a whole different ballgame as he's ruthless with literally no visible ideal other than straying in power. Other politicians in the so called left center are absolute jokes with egos and no carisma. And this is exactly the way he wanted it", ">\n\nWhich is why center-left must unite, form a coherent message people can understand and earn trust. As opposed to Avoda-Meretz fiasco or Raam's \"let me talk to my (real criminal) field commanders before I consider a vote\", and here-and-there Gantz - who under different circumstances might've been a very good figurehead as far as security is concerned.", ">\n\nSorry but their all unimaginative, egotistical clowns with no possible coherence in their aims. Sadly that are too silly to set aside differences.\nIf I were a liberal Israeli I would demand their heads roll and new party leaders selected. Israel needs new blood to counter the old blood. Lapid is just a sad pale Netanyahu clone in the making. He's quite cringy", ">\n\nAs an Israeli liberal , the sense of hopelessness is insane now , Literally everyone started planning their escape from this place . I fear that people are so tired and desperate they dont want to fight anymore.....\n​\nand Netanyahu is doing everything he can to strenghten those negative feelings , He tries to dismantle the courts , He gave religious zealots positions from which they can affect the school curriculum and poision the heads of our kids . His ministers are cancelling every reform and change the last government did , even things that are undoubtedly positive just for the sake of eliminating every shred of evidence the last government happened . His mouthpieces are working full time trying to create internal conflicts inside the opposition . I honestly just want to leave but im a student in university and dont have the money anyway .", ">\n\nGood job taking these protests out of context. \nThey’re protesting against the Right Wing Governments proposed judicial reforms. Palestinians have little if anything to do with it.", ">\n\nLike, yes, but also the right wing in Israel is reporting it was about Arabs because someone was waving a Palestinian flag at the protests. So the right is using that fact to delegitamize them.", ">\n\nI wouldn't say it's necessarily a false flag but it does hurt the popular perception of the protests. Many Israelis consider Netanyahu to be a crook with dictatorial aspirations but do not believe any concessions should be made to the Palestinians. Previous government has proven that any coalition capable of ousting Netanyahu can't agree on any other crucial issue including national security and foreign policy. The conservative-to-radical rightwing parties can provide such a consensus and have the numbers for a solid majority if they join up with Bibi's moderate right party but they require a lot of concessions in return, from supporting contested settlements to letting the religious orthodoxy control important facets of everyday life. Any potential for a coalition that can unite the moderates and exclude the radicals from both flanks has been thoroughly undermined by Bibi in person.", ">\n\nJews are great people. \nNetenyahu's government is a human right disaster.", ">\n\nThey haven't done anything yet...", ">\n\nConsidering Netanyahu has been in power previously, people are allowed to make judgement calls on his prior actions and assume that a new term would be more of the same.", ">\n\nNo one assumes it will be the same. His current actions hint otherwise", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nTel Aviv - Thousands of Israelis protested on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government, regarded as the most right-wing in Israeli history, an AFP correspondent said.\nProtesters brandished signs with slogans including \"Democracy in danger\" and \"Together against fascism and apartheid\" in the coastal city of Tel Aviv.\nSome waved Israeli and rainbow flags while others held a large banner reading \"Crime minister\" - a slogan widely used by Israelis during regular demonstrations against Netanyahu in past years.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Israeli^#1 includes^#2 protested^#3 Netanyahu^#4 against^#5", ">\n\nIt's good that Israeli citizens are protesting against the new government. Civil society will need to hold firm to keep Netanyahu's cronies from taking over institutions.", ">\n\nI would like to point out this headline is a bit misleading. The vast majority of the protesters were about the government's attempt to undermine the balance of powers, nothing you do with the Palestinians", ">\n\nWhat balance of powers? The Bagatz members weren't elected by anyone, literally a group of people electing their successors, with a very clear agenda. The reforms are very well needed. There's absolutely no reason a group of people can do whatever they want. \nIf that seems legitimate to you, then why do we even go to elections? After all it's that tiny group of people that decides what laws to pass", ">\n\nI hope THIS gets some media attention", ">\n\nIt wont really, Because if the Israel-US/British relationship, the main stream media will always be pro-Israel. Netanhyu was more closer to the US and UK." ]

[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi.", ">\n\nNetanyahu has methodically weakened Israeli politics for 2 decades. Many good people left politics due to him.", ">\n\nAlso, let's give it to him, he keeps it on track. I mean Likud, Shas, Yehudat haTora - they are around since forever, and their objectives - whatever they are - didn't change. As to the centrist parties (which is our hope to form a coalition) - I can't even keep track of what they are called, let alone of what their position is.", ">\n\nHe's very very skilled at what he does. He's in a whole different ballgame as he's ruthless with literally no visible ideal other than straying in power. Other politicians in the so called left center are absolute jokes with egos and no carisma. And this is exactly the way he wanted it", ">\n\nWhich is why center-left must unite, form a coherent message people can understand and earn trust. As opposed to Avoda-Meretz fiasco or Raam's \"let me talk to my (real criminal) field commanders before I consider a vote\", and here-and-there Gantz - who under different circumstances might've been a very good figurehead as far as security is concerned.", ">\n\nSorry but their all unimaginative, egotistical clowns with no possible coherence in their aims. Sadly that are too silly to set aside differences.\nIf I were a liberal Israeli I would demand their heads roll and new party leaders selected. Israel needs new blood to counter the old blood. Lapid is just a sad pale Netanyahu clone in the making. He's quite cringy", ">\n\nAs an Israeli liberal , the sense of hopelessness is insane now , Literally everyone started planning their escape from this place . I fear that people are so tired and desperate they dont want to fight anymore.....\n​\nand Netanyahu is doing everything he can to strenghten those negative feelings , He tries to dismantle the courts , He gave religious zealots positions from which they can affect the school curriculum and poision the heads of our kids . His ministers are cancelling every reform and change the last government did , even things that are undoubtedly positive just for the sake of eliminating every shred of evidence the last government happened . His mouthpieces are working full time trying to create internal conflicts inside the opposition . I honestly just want to leave but im a student in university and dont have the money anyway .", ">\n\nGood job taking these protests out of context. \nThey’re protesting against the Right Wing Governments proposed judicial reforms. Palestinians have little if anything to do with it.", ">\n\nLike, yes, but also the right wing in Israel is reporting it was about Arabs because someone was waving a Palestinian flag at the protests. So the right is using that fact to delegitamize them.", ">\n\nI wouldn't say it's necessarily a false flag but it does hurt the popular perception of the protests. Many Israelis consider Netanyahu to be a crook with dictatorial aspirations but do not believe any concessions should be made to the Palestinians. Previous government has proven that any coalition capable of ousting Netanyahu can't agree on any other crucial issue including national security and foreign policy. The conservative-to-radical rightwing parties can provide such a consensus and have the numbers for a solid majority if they join up with Bibi's moderate right party but they require a lot of concessions in return, from supporting contested settlements to letting the religious orthodoxy control important facets of everyday life. Any potential for a coalition that can unite the moderates and exclude the radicals from both flanks has been thoroughly undermined by Bibi in person.", ">\n\nJews are great people. \nNetenyahu's government is a human right disaster.", ">\n\nThey haven't done anything yet...", ">\n\nConsidering Netanyahu has been in power previously, people are allowed to make judgement calls on his prior actions and assume that a new term would be more of the same.", ">\n\nNo one assumes it will be the same. His current actions hint otherwise", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nTel Aviv - Thousands of Israelis protested on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government, regarded as the most right-wing in Israeli history, an AFP correspondent said.\nProtesters brandished signs with slogans including \"Democracy in danger\" and \"Together against fascism and apartheid\" in the coastal city of Tel Aviv.\nSome waved Israeli and rainbow flags while others held a large banner reading \"Crime minister\" - a slogan widely used by Israelis during regular demonstrations against Netanyahu in past years.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Israeli^#1 includes^#2 protested^#3 Netanyahu^#4 against^#5", ">\n\nIt's good that Israeli citizens are protesting against the new government. Civil society will need to hold firm to keep Netanyahu's cronies from taking over institutions.", ">\n\nI would like to point out this headline is a bit misleading. The vast majority of the protesters were about the government's attempt to undermine the balance of powers, nothing you do with the Palestinians", ">\n\nWhat balance of powers? The Bagatz members weren't elected by anyone, literally a group of people electing their successors, with a very clear agenda. The reforms are very well needed. There's absolutely no reason a group of people can do whatever they want. \nIf that seems legitimate to you, then why do we even go to elections? After all it's that tiny group of people that decides what laws to pass", ">\n\nI hope THIS gets some media attention", ">\n\nIt wont really, Because if the Israel-US/British relationship, the main stream media will always be pro-Israel. Netanhyu was more closer to the US and UK.", ">\n\nI think it's alright to be pro-Israel in the sense of supporting a constitutional democracy in the Levant.\nNetinyahu and the extremists are a threat to Israel just the same as Hamas's rockets.\nSupport Israel, Netinyahu." ]

[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi.", ">\n\nNetanyahu has methodically weakened Israeli politics for 2 decades. Many good people left politics due to him.", ">\n\nAlso, let's give it to him, he keeps it on track. I mean Likud, Shas, Yehudat haTora - they are around since forever, and their objectives - whatever they are - didn't change. As to the centrist parties (which is our hope to form a coalition) - I can't even keep track of what they are called, let alone of what their position is.", ">\n\nHe's very very skilled at what he does. He's in a whole different ballgame as he's ruthless with literally no visible ideal other than straying in power. Other politicians in the so called left center are absolute jokes with egos and no carisma. And this is exactly the way he wanted it", ">\n\nWhich is why center-left must unite, form a coherent message people can understand and earn trust. As opposed to Avoda-Meretz fiasco or Raam's \"let me talk to my (real criminal) field commanders before I consider a vote\", and here-and-there Gantz - who under different circumstances might've been a very good figurehead as far as security is concerned.", ">\n\nSorry but their all unimaginative, egotistical clowns with no possible coherence in their aims. Sadly that are too silly to set aside differences.\nIf I were a liberal Israeli I would demand their heads roll and new party leaders selected. Israel needs new blood to counter the old blood. Lapid is just a sad pale Netanyahu clone in the making. He's quite cringy", ">\n\nAs an Israeli liberal , the sense of hopelessness is insane now , Literally everyone started planning their escape from this place . I fear that people are so tired and desperate they dont want to fight anymore.....\n​\nand Netanyahu is doing everything he can to strenghten those negative feelings , He tries to dismantle the courts , He gave religious zealots positions from which they can affect the school curriculum and poision the heads of our kids . His ministers are cancelling every reform and change the last government did , even things that are undoubtedly positive just for the sake of eliminating every shred of evidence the last government happened . His mouthpieces are working full time trying to create internal conflicts inside the opposition . I honestly just want to leave but im a student in university and dont have the money anyway .", ">\n\nGood job taking these protests out of context. \nThey’re protesting against the Right Wing Governments proposed judicial reforms. Palestinians have little if anything to do with it.", ">\n\nLike, yes, but also the right wing in Israel is reporting it was about Arabs because someone was waving a Palestinian flag at the protests. So the right is using that fact to delegitamize them.", ">\n\nI wouldn't say it's necessarily a false flag but it does hurt the popular perception of the protests. Many Israelis consider Netanyahu to be a crook with dictatorial aspirations but do not believe any concessions should be made to the Palestinians. Previous government has proven that any coalition capable of ousting Netanyahu can't agree on any other crucial issue including national security and foreign policy. The conservative-to-radical rightwing parties can provide such a consensus and have the numbers for a solid majority if they join up with Bibi's moderate right party but they require a lot of concessions in return, from supporting contested settlements to letting the religious orthodoxy control important facets of everyday life. Any potential for a coalition that can unite the moderates and exclude the radicals from both flanks has been thoroughly undermined by Bibi in person.", ">\n\nJews are great people. \nNetenyahu's government is a human right disaster.", ">\n\nThey haven't done anything yet...", ">\n\nConsidering Netanyahu has been in power previously, people are allowed to make judgement calls on his prior actions and assume that a new term would be more of the same.", ">\n\nNo one assumes it will be the same. His current actions hint otherwise", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nTel Aviv - Thousands of Israelis protested on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government, regarded as the most right-wing in Israeli history, an AFP correspondent said.\nProtesters brandished signs with slogans including \"Democracy in danger\" and \"Together against fascism and apartheid\" in the coastal city of Tel Aviv.\nSome waved Israeli and rainbow flags while others held a large banner reading \"Crime minister\" - a slogan widely used by Israelis during regular demonstrations against Netanyahu in past years.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Israeli^#1 includes^#2 protested^#3 Netanyahu^#4 against^#5", ">\n\nIt's good that Israeli citizens are protesting against the new government. Civil society will need to hold firm to keep Netanyahu's cronies from taking over institutions.", ">\n\nI would like to point out this headline is a bit misleading. The vast majority of the protesters were about the government's attempt to undermine the balance of powers, nothing you do with the Palestinians", ">\n\nWhat balance of powers? The Bagatz members weren't elected by anyone, literally a group of people electing their successors, with a very clear agenda. The reforms are very well needed. There's absolutely no reason a group of people can do whatever they want. \nIf that seems legitimate to you, then why do we even go to elections? After all it's that tiny group of people that decides what laws to pass", ">\n\nI hope THIS gets some media attention", ">\n\nIt wont really, Because if the Israel-US/British relationship, the main stream media will always be pro-Israel. Netanhyu was more closer to the US and UK.", ">\n\nI think it's alright to be pro-Israel in the sense of supporting a constitutional democracy in the Levant.\nNetinyahu and the extremists are a threat to Israel just the same as Hamas's rockets.\nSupport Israel, Netinyahu.", ">\n\nExcellent. 👌🏻" ]

[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi.", ">\n\nNetanyahu has methodically weakened Israeli politics for 2 decades. Many good people left politics due to him.", ">\n\nAlso, let's give it to him, he keeps it on track. I mean Likud, Shas, Yehudat haTora - they are around since forever, and their objectives - whatever they are - didn't change. As to the centrist parties (which is our hope to form a coalition) - I can't even keep track of what they are called, let alone of what their position is.", ">\n\nHe's very very skilled at what he does. He's in a whole different ballgame as he's ruthless with literally no visible ideal other than straying in power. Other politicians in the so called left center are absolute jokes with egos and no carisma. And this is exactly the way he wanted it", ">\n\nWhich is why center-left must unite, form a coherent message people can understand and earn trust. As opposed to Avoda-Meretz fiasco or Raam's \"let me talk to my (real criminal) field commanders before I consider a vote\", and here-and-there Gantz - who under different circumstances might've been a very good figurehead as far as security is concerned.", ">\n\nSorry but their all unimaginative, egotistical clowns with no possible coherence in their aims. Sadly that are too silly to set aside differences.\nIf I were a liberal Israeli I would demand their heads roll and new party leaders selected. Israel needs new blood to counter the old blood. Lapid is just a sad pale Netanyahu clone in the making. He's quite cringy", ">\n\nAs an Israeli liberal , the sense of hopelessness is insane now , Literally everyone started planning their escape from this place . I fear that people are so tired and desperate they dont want to fight anymore.....\n​\nand Netanyahu is doing everything he can to strenghten those negative feelings , He tries to dismantle the courts , He gave religious zealots positions from which they can affect the school curriculum and poision the heads of our kids . His ministers are cancelling every reform and change the last government did , even things that are undoubtedly positive just for the sake of eliminating every shred of evidence the last government happened . His mouthpieces are working full time trying to create internal conflicts inside the opposition . I honestly just want to leave but im a student in university and dont have the money anyway .", ">\n\nGood job taking these protests out of context. \nThey’re protesting against the Right Wing Governments proposed judicial reforms. Palestinians have little if anything to do with it.", ">\n\nLike, yes, but also the right wing in Israel is reporting it was about Arabs because someone was waving a Palestinian flag at the protests. So the right is using that fact to delegitamize them.", ">\n\nI wouldn't say it's necessarily a false flag but it does hurt the popular perception of the protests. Many Israelis consider Netanyahu to be a crook with dictatorial aspirations but do not believe any concessions should be made to the Palestinians. Previous government has proven that any coalition capable of ousting Netanyahu can't agree on any other crucial issue including national security and foreign policy. The conservative-to-radical rightwing parties can provide such a consensus and have the numbers for a solid majority if they join up with Bibi's moderate right party but they require a lot of concessions in return, from supporting contested settlements to letting the religious orthodoxy control important facets of everyday life. Any potential for a coalition that can unite the moderates and exclude the radicals from both flanks has been thoroughly undermined by Bibi in person.", ">\n\nJews are great people. \nNetenyahu's government is a human right disaster.", ">\n\nThey haven't done anything yet...", ">\n\nConsidering Netanyahu has been in power previously, people are allowed to make judgement calls on his prior actions and assume that a new term would be more of the same.", ">\n\nNo one assumes it will be the same. His current actions hint otherwise", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nTel Aviv - Thousands of Israelis protested on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government, regarded as the most right-wing in Israeli history, an AFP correspondent said.\nProtesters brandished signs with slogans including \"Democracy in danger\" and \"Together against fascism and apartheid\" in the coastal city of Tel Aviv.\nSome waved Israeli and rainbow flags while others held a large banner reading \"Crime minister\" - a slogan widely used by Israelis during regular demonstrations against Netanyahu in past years.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Israeli^#1 includes^#2 protested^#3 Netanyahu^#4 against^#5", ">\n\nIt's good that Israeli citizens are protesting against the new government. Civil society will need to hold firm to keep Netanyahu's cronies from taking over institutions.", ">\n\nI would like to point out this headline is a bit misleading. The vast majority of the protesters were about the government's attempt to undermine the balance of powers, nothing you do with the Palestinians", ">\n\nWhat balance of powers? The Bagatz members weren't elected by anyone, literally a group of people electing their successors, with a very clear agenda. The reforms are very well needed. There's absolutely no reason a group of people can do whatever they want. \nIf that seems legitimate to you, then why do we even go to elections? After all it's that tiny group of people that decides what laws to pass", ">\n\nI hope THIS gets some media attention", ">\n\nIt wont really, Because if the Israel-US/British relationship, the main stream media will always be pro-Israel. Netanhyu was more closer to the US and UK.", ">\n\nI think it's alright to be pro-Israel in the sense of supporting a constitutional democracy in the Levant.\nNetinyahu and the extremists are a threat to Israel just the same as Hamas's rockets.\nSupport Israel, Netinyahu.", ">\n\nExcellent. 👌🏻", ">\n\nWait, when did Netanyahu come back into power? I’m completely confused here." ]

[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi.", ">\n\nNetanyahu has methodically weakened Israeli politics for 2 decades. Many good people left politics due to him.", ">\n\nAlso, let's give it to him, he keeps it on track. I mean Likud, Shas, Yehudat haTora - they are around since forever, and their objectives - whatever they are - didn't change. As to the centrist parties (which is our hope to form a coalition) - I can't even keep track of what they are called, let alone of what their position is.", ">\n\nHe's very very skilled at what he does. He's in a whole different ballgame as he's ruthless with literally no visible ideal other than straying in power. Other politicians in the so called left center are absolute jokes with egos and no carisma. And this is exactly the way he wanted it", ">\n\nWhich is why center-left must unite, form a coherent message people can understand and earn trust. As opposed to Avoda-Meretz fiasco or Raam's \"let me talk to my (real criminal) field commanders before I consider a vote\", and here-and-there Gantz - who under different circumstances might've been a very good figurehead as far as security is concerned.", ">\n\nSorry but their all unimaginative, egotistical clowns with no possible coherence in their aims. Sadly that are too silly to set aside differences.\nIf I were a liberal Israeli I would demand their heads roll and new party leaders selected. Israel needs new blood to counter the old blood. Lapid is just a sad pale Netanyahu clone in the making. He's quite cringy", ">\n\nAs an Israeli liberal , the sense of hopelessness is insane now , Literally everyone started planning their escape from this place . I fear that people are so tired and desperate they dont want to fight anymore.....\n​\nand Netanyahu is doing everything he can to strenghten those negative feelings , He tries to dismantle the courts , He gave religious zealots positions from which they can affect the school curriculum and poision the heads of our kids . His ministers are cancelling every reform and change the last government did , even things that are undoubtedly positive just for the sake of eliminating every shred of evidence the last government happened . His mouthpieces are working full time trying to create internal conflicts inside the opposition . I honestly just want to leave but im a student in university and dont have the money anyway .", ">\n\nGood job taking these protests out of context. \nThey’re protesting against the Right Wing Governments proposed judicial reforms. Palestinians have little if anything to do with it.", ">\n\nLike, yes, but also the right wing in Israel is reporting it was about Arabs because someone was waving a Palestinian flag at the protests. So the right is using that fact to delegitamize them.", ">\n\nI wouldn't say it's necessarily a false flag but it does hurt the popular perception of the protests. Many Israelis consider Netanyahu to be a crook with dictatorial aspirations but do not believe any concessions should be made to the Palestinians. Previous government has proven that any coalition capable of ousting Netanyahu can't agree on any other crucial issue including national security and foreign policy. The conservative-to-radical rightwing parties can provide such a consensus and have the numbers for a solid majority if they join up with Bibi's moderate right party but they require a lot of concessions in return, from supporting contested settlements to letting the religious orthodoxy control important facets of everyday life. Any potential for a coalition that can unite the moderates and exclude the radicals from both flanks has been thoroughly undermined by Bibi in person.", ">\n\nJews are great people. \nNetenyahu's government is a human right disaster.", ">\n\nThey haven't done anything yet...", ">\n\nConsidering Netanyahu has been in power previously, people are allowed to make judgement calls on his prior actions and assume that a new term would be more of the same.", ">\n\nNo one assumes it will be the same. His current actions hint otherwise", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nTel Aviv - Thousands of Israelis protested on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government, regarded as the most right-wing in Israeli history, an AFP correspondent said.\nProtesters brandished signs with slogans including \"Democracy in danger\" and \"Together against fascism and apartheid\" in the coastal city of Tel Aviv.\nSome waved Israeli and rainbow flags while others held a large banner reading \"Crime minister\" - a slogan widely used by Israelis during regular demonstrations against Netanyahu in past years.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Israeli^#1 includes^#2 protested^#3 Netanyahu^#4 against^#5", ">\n\nIt's good that Israeli citizens are protesting against the new government. Civil society will need to hold firm to keep Netanyahu's cronies from taking over institutions.", ">\n\nI would like to point out this headline is a bit misleading. The vast majority of the protesters were about the government's attempt to undermine the balance of powers, nothing you do with the Palestinians", ">\n\nWhat balance of powers? The Bagatz members weren't elected by anyone, literally a group of people electing their successors, with a very clear agenda. The reforms are very well needed. There's absolutely no reason a group of people can do whatever they want. \nIf that seems legitimate to you, then why do we even go to elections? After all it's that tiny group of people that decides what laws to pass", ">\n\nI hope THIS gets some media attention", ">\n\nIt wont really, Because if the Israel-US/British relationship, the main stream media will always be pro-Israel. Netanhyu was more closer to the US and UK.", ">\n\nI think it's alright to be pro-Israel in the sense of supporting a constitutional democracy in the Levant.\nNetinyahu and the extremists are a threat to Israel just the same as Hamas's rockets.\nSupport Israel, Netinyahu.", ">\n\nExcellent. 👌🏻", ">\n\nWait, when did Netanyahu come back into power? I’m completely confused here.", ">\n\nA little bit ago. A month maybe?" ]

[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi.", ">\n\nNetanyahu has methodically weakened Israeli politics for 2 decades. Many good people left politics due to him.", ">\n\nAlso, let's give it to him, he keeps it on track. I mean Likud, Shas, Yehudat haTora - they are around since forever, and their objectives - whatever they are - didn't change. As to the centrist parties (which is our hope to form a coalition) - I can't even keep track of what they are called, let alone of what their position is.", ">\n\nHe's very very skilled at what he does. He's in a whole different ballgame as he's ruthless with literally no visible ideal other than straying in power. Other politicians in the so called left center are absolute jokes with egos and no carisma. And this is exactly the way he wanted it", ">\n\nWhich is why center-left must unite, form a coherent message people can understand and earn trust. As opposed to Avoda-Meretz fiasco or Raam's \"let me talk to my (real criminal) field commanders before I consider a vote\", and here-and-there Gantz - who under different circumstances might've been a very good figurehead as far as security is concerned.", ">\n\nSorry but their all unimaginative, egotistical clowns with no possible coherence in their aims. Sadly that are too silly to set aside differences.\nIf I were a liberal Israeli I would demand their heads roll and new party leaders selected. Israel needs new blood to counter the old blood. Lapid is just a sad pale Netanyahu clone in the making. He's quite cringy", ">\n\nAs an Israeli liberal , the sense of hopelessness is insane now , Literally everyone started planning their escape from this place . I fear that people are so tired and desperate they dont want to fight anymore.....\n​\nand Netanyahu is doing everything he can to strenghten those negative feelings , He tries to dismantle the courts , He gave religious zealots positions from which they can affect the school curriculum and poision the heads of our kids . His ministers are cancelling every reform and change the last government did , even things that are undoubtedly positive just for the sake of eliminating every shred of evidence the last government happened . His mouthpieces are working full time trying to create internal conflicts inside the opposition . I honestly just want to leave but im a student in university and dont have the money anyway .", ">\n\nGood job taking these protests out of context. \nThey’re protesting against the Right Wing Governments proposed judicial reforms. Palestinians have little if anything to do with it.", ">\n\nLike, yes, but also the right wing in Israel is reporting it was about Arabs because someone was waving a Palestinian flag at the protests. So the right is using that fact to delegitamize them.", ">\n\nI wouldn't say it's necessarily a false flag but it does hurt the popular perception of the protests. Many Israelis consider Netanyahu to be a crook with dictatorial aspirations but do not believe any concessions should be made to the Palestinians. Previous government has proven that any coalition capable of ousting Netanyahu can't agree on any other crucial issue including national security and foreign policy. The conservative-to-radical rightwing parties can provide such a consensus and have the numbers for a solid majority if they join up with Bibi's moderate right party but they require a lot of concessions in return, from supporting contested settlements to letting the religious orthodoxy control important facets of everyday life. Any potential for a coalition that can unite the moderates and exclude the radicals from both flanks has been thoroughly undermined by Bibi in person.", ">\n\nJews are great people. \nNetenyahu's government is a human right disaster.", ">\n\nThey haven't done anything yet...", ">\n\nConsidering Netanyahu has been in power previously, people are allowed to make judgement calls on his prior actions and assume that a new term would be more of the same.", ">\n\nNo one assumes it will be the same. His current actions hint otherwise", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nTel Aviv - Thousands of Israelis protested on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government, regarded as the most right-wing in Israeli history, an AFP correspondent said.\nProtesters brandished signs with slogans including \"Democracy in danger\" and \"Together against fascism and apartheid\" in the coastal city of Tel Aviv.\nSome waved Israeli and rainbow flags while others held a large banner reading \"Crime minister\" - a slogan widely used by Israelis during regular demonstrations against Netanyahu in past years.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Israeli^#1 includes^#2 protested^#3 Netanyahu^#4 against^#5", ">\n\nIt's good that Israeli citizens are protesting against the new government. Civil society will need to hold firm to keep Netanyahu's cronies from taking over institutions.", ">\n\nI would like to point out this headline is a bit misleading. The vast majority of the protesters were about the government's attempt to undermine the balance of powers, nothing you do with the Palestinians", ">\n\nWhat balance of powers? The Bagatz members weren't elected by anyone, literally a group of people electing their successors, with a very clear agenda. The reforms are very well needed. There's absolutely no reason a group of people can do whatever they want. \nIf that seems legitimate to you, then why do we even go to elections? After all it's that tiny group of people that decides what laws to pass", ">\n\nI hope THIS gets some media attention", ">\n\nIt wont really, Because if the Israel-US/British relationship, the main stream media will always be pro-Israel. Netanhyu was more closer to the US and UK.", ">\n\nI think it's alright to be pro-Israel in the sense of supporting a constitutional democracy in the Levant.\nNetinyahu and the extremists are a threat to Israel just the same as Hamas's rockets.\nSupport Israel, Netinyahu.", ">\n\nExcellent. 👌🏻", ">\n\nWait, when did Netanyahu come back into power? I’m completely confused here.", ">\n\nA little bit ago. A month maybe?", ">\n\nThe government was sworn-in a week and a half ago." ]

[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi.", ">\n\nNetanyahu has methodically weakened Israeli politics for 2 decades. Many good people left politics due to him.", ">\n\nAlso, let's give it to him, he keeps it on track. I mean Likud, Shas, Yehudat haTora - they are around since forever, and their objectives - whatever they are - didn't change. As to the centrist parties (which is our hope to form a coalition) - I can't even keep track of what they are called, let alone of what their position is.", ">\n\nHe's very very skilled at what he does. He's in a whole different ballgame as he's ruthless with literally no visible ideal other than straying in power. Other politicians in the so called left center are absolute jokes with egos and no carisma. And this is exactly the way he wanted it", ">\n\nWhich is why center-left must unite, form a coherent message people can understand and earn trust. As opposed to Avoda-Meretz fiasco or Raam's \"let me talk to my (real criminal) field commanders before I consider a vote\", and here-and-there Gantz - who under different circumstances might've been a very good figurehead as far as security is concerned.", ">\n\nSorry but their all unimaginative, egotistical clowns with no possible coherence in their aims. Sadly that are too silly to set aside differences.\nIf I were a liberal Israeli I would demand their heads roll and new party leaders selected. Israel needs new blood to counter the old blood. Lapid is just a sad pale Netanyahu clone in the making. He's quite cringy", ">\n\nAs an Israeli liberal , the sense of hopelessness is insane now , Literally everyone started planning their escape from this place . I fear that people are so tired and desperate they dont want to fight anymore.....\n​\nand Netanyahu is doing everything he can to strenghten those negative feelings , He tries to dismantle the courts , He gave religious zealots positions from which they can affect the school curriculum and poision the heads of our kids . His ministers are cancelling every reform and change the last government did , even things that are undoubtedly positive just for the sake of eliminating every shred of evidence the last government happened . His mouthpieces are working full time trying to create internal conflicts inside the opposition . I honestly just want to leave but im a student in university and dont have the money anyway .", ">\n\nGood job taking these protests out of context. \nThey’re protesting against the Right Wing Governments proposed judicial reforms. Palestinians have little if anything to do with it.", ">\n\nLike, yes, but also the right wing in Israel is reporting it was about Arabs because someone was waving a Palestinian flag at the protests. So the right is using that fact to delegitamize them.", ">\n\nI wouldn't say it's necessarily a false flag but it does hurt the popular perception of the protests. Many Israelis consider Netanyahu to be a crook with dictatorial aspirations but do not believe any concessions should be made to the Palestinians. Previous government has proven that any coalition capable of ousting Netanyahu can't agree on any other crucial issue including national security and foreign policy. The conservative-to-radical rightwing parties can provide such a consensus and have the numbers for a solid majority if they join up with Bibi's moderate right party but they require a lot of concessions in return, from supporting contested settlements to letting the religious orthodoxy control important facets of everyday life. Any potential for a coalition that can unite the moderates and exclude the radicals from both flanks has been thoroughly undermined by Bibi in person.", ">\n\nJews are great people. \nNetenyahu's government is a human right disaster.", ">\n\nThey haven't done anything yet...", ">\n\nConsidering Netanyahu has been in power previously, people are allowed to make judgement calls on his prior actions and assume that a new term would be more of the same.", ">\n\nNo one assumes it will be the same. His current actions hint otherwise", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nTel Aviv - Thousands of Israelis protested on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government, regarded as the most right-wing in Israeli history, an AFP correspondent said.\nProtesters brandished signs with slogans including \"Democracy in danger\" and \"Together against fascism and apartheid\" in the coastal city of Tel Aviv.\nSome waved Israeli and rainbow flags while others held a large banner reading \"Crime minister\" - a slogan widely used by Israelis during regular demonstrations against Netanyahu in past years.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Israeli^#1 includes^#2 protested^#3 Netanyahu^#4 against^#5", ">\n\nIt's good that Israeli citizens are protesting against the new government. Civil society will need to hold firm to keep Netanyahu's cronies from taking over institutions.", ">\n\nI would like to point out this headline is a bit misleading. The vast majority of the protesters were about the government's attempt to undermine the balance of powers, nothing you do with the Palestinians", ">\n\nWhat balance of powers? The Bagatz members weren't elected by anyone, literally a group of people electing their successors, with a very clear agenda. The reforms are very well needed. There's absolutely no reason a group of people can do whatever they want. \nIf that seems legitimate to you, then why do we even go to elections? After all it's that tiny group of people that decides what laws to pass", ">\n\nI hope THIS gets some media attention", ">\n\nIt wont really, Because if the Israel-US/British relationship, the main stream media will always be pro-Israel. Netanhyu was more closer to the US and UK.", ">\n\nI think it's alright to be pro-Israel in the sense of supporting a constitutional democracy in the Levant.\nNetinyahu and the extremists are a threat to Israel just the same as Hamas's rockets.\nSupport Israel, Netinyahu.", ">\n\nExcellent. 👌🏻", ">\n\nWait, when did Netanyahu come back into power? I’m completely confused here.", ">\n\nA little bit ago. A month maybe?", ">\n\nThe government was sworn-in a week and a half ago.", ">\n\nAbout time the younger generation stepped up!" ]

[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi.", ">\n\nNetanyahu has methodically weakened Israeli politics for 2 decades. Many good people left politics due to him.", ">\n\nAlso, let's give it to him, he keeps it on track. I mean Likud, Shas, Yehudat haTora - they are around since forever, and their objectives - whatever they are - didn't change. As to the centrist parties (which is our hope to form a coalition) - I can't even keep track of what they are called, let alone of what their position is.", ">\n\nHe's very very skilled at what he does. He's in a whole different ballgame as he's ruthless with literally no visible ideal other than straying in power. Other politicians in the so called left center are absolute jokes with egos and no carisma. And this is exactly the way he wanted it", ">\n\nWhich is why center-left must unite, form a coherent message people can understand and earn trust. As opposed to Avoda-Meretz fiasco or Raam's \"let me talk to my (real criminal) field commanders before I consider a vote\", and here-and-there Gantz - who under different circumstances might've been a very good figurehead as far as security is concerned.", ">\n\nSorry but their all unimaginative, egotistical clowns with no possible coherence in their aims. Sadly that are too silly to set aside differences.\nIf I were a liberal Israeli I would demand their heads roll and new party leaders selected. Israel needs new blood to counter the old blood. Lapid is just a sad pale Netanyahu clone in the making. He's quite cringy", ">\n\nAs an Israeli liberal , the sense of hopelessness is insane now , Literally everyone started planning their escape from this place . I fear that people are so tired and desperate they dont want to fight anymore.....\n​\nand Netanyahu is doing everything he can to strenghten those negative feelings , He tries to dismantle the courts , He gave religious zealots positions from which they can affect the school curriculum and poision the heads of our kids . His ministers are cancelling every reform and change the last government did , even things that are undoubtedly positive just for the sake of eliminating every shred of evidence the last government happened . His mouthpieces are working full time trying to create internal conflicts inside the opposition . I honestly just want to leave but im a student in university and dont have the money anyway .", ">\n\nGood job taking these protests out of context. \nThey’re protesting against the Right Wing Governments proposed judicial reforms. Palestinians have little if anything to do with it.", ">\n\nLike, yes, but also the right wing in Israel is reporting it was about Arabs because someone was waving a Palestinian flag at the protests. So the right is using that fact to delegitamize them.", ">\n\nI wouldn't say it's necessarily a false flag but it does hurt the popular perception of the protests. Many Israelis consider Netanyahu to be a crook with dictatorial aspirations but do not believe any concessions should be made to the Palestinians. Previous government has proven that any coalition capable of ousting Netanyahu can't agree on any other crucial issue including national security and foreign policy. The conservative-to-radical rightwing parties can provide such a consensus and have the numbers for a solid majority if they join up with Bibi's moderate right party but they require a lot of concessions in return, from supporting contested settlements to letting the religious orthodoxy control important facets of everyday life. Any potential for a coalition that can unite the moderates and exclude the radicals from both flanks has been thoroughly undermined by Bibi in person.", ">\n\nJews are great people. \nNetenyahu's government is a human right disaster.", ">\n\nThey haven't done anything yet...", ">\n\nConsidering Netanyahu has been in power previously, people are allowed to make judgement calls on his prior actions and assume that a new term would be more of the same.", ">\n\nNo one assumes it will be the same. His current actions hint otherwise", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nTel Aviv - Thousands of Israelis protested on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government, regarded as the most right-wing in Israeli history, an AFP correspondent said.\nProtesters brandished signs with slogans including \"Democracy in danger\" and \"Together against fascism and apartheid\" in the coastal city of Tel Aviv.\nSome waved Israeli and rainbow flags while others held a large banner reading \"Crime minister\" - a slogan widely used by Israelis during regular demonstrations against Netanyahu in past years.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Israeli^#1 includes^#2 protested^#3 Netanyahu^#4 against^#5", ">\n\nIt's good that Israeli citizens are protesting against the new government. Civil society will need to hold firm to keep Netanyahu's cronies from taking over institutions.", ">\n\nI would like to point out this headline is a bit misleading. The vast majority of the protesters were about the government's attempt to undermine the balance of powers, nothing you do with the Palestinians", ">\n\nWhat balance of powers? The Bagatz members weren't elected by anyone, literally a group of people electing their successors, with a very clear agenda. The reforms are very well needed. There's absolutely no reason a group of people can do whatever they want. \nIf that seems legitimate to you, then why do we even go to elections? After all it's that tiny group of people that decides what laws to pass", ">\n\nI hope THIS gets some media attention", ">\n\nIt wont really, Because if the Israel-US/British relationship, the main stream media will always be pro-Israel. Netanhyu was more closer to the US and UK.", ">\n\nI think it's alright to be pro-Israel in the sense of supporting a constitutional democracy in the Levant.\nNetinyahu and the extremists are a threat to Israel just the same as Hamas's rockets.\nSupport Israel, Netinyahu.", ">\n\nExcellent. 👌🏻", ">\n\nWait, when did Netanyahu come back into power? I’m completely confused here.", ">\n\nA little bit ago. A month maybe?", ">\n\nThe government was sworn-in a week and a half ago.", ">\n\nAbout time the younger generation stepped up!", ">\n\nProblem is, unlike in other countries, the younger generation is more right wing." ]

[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi.", ">\n\nNetanyahu has methodically weakened Israeli politics for 2 decades. Many good people left politics due to him.", ">\n\nAlso, let's give it to him, he keeps it on track. I mean Likud, Shas, Yehudat haTora - they are around since forever, and their objectives - whatever they are - didn't change. As to the centrist parties (which is our hope to form a coalition) - I can't even keep track of what they are called, let alone of what their position is.", ">\n\nHe's very very skilled at what he does. He's in a whole different ballgame as he's ruthless with literally no visible ideal other than straying in power. Other politicians in the so called left center are absolute jokes with egos and no carisma. And this is exactly the way he wanted it", ">\n\nWhich is why center-left must unite, form a coherent message people can understand and earn trust. As opposed to Avoda-Meretz fiasco or Raam's \"let me talk to my (real criminal) field commanders before I consider a vote\", and here-and-there Gantz - who under different circumstances might've been a very good figurehead as far as security is concerned.", ">\n\nSorry but their all unimaginative, egotistical clowns with no possible coherence in their aims. Sadly that are too silly to set aside differences.\nIf I were a liberal Israeli I would demand their heads roll and new party leaders selected. Israel needs new blood to counter the old blood. Lapid is just a sad pale Netanyahu clone in the making. He's quite cringy", ">\n\nAs an Israeli liberal , the sense of hopelessness is insane now , Literally everyone started planning their escape from this place . I fear that people are so tired and desperate they dont want to fight anymore.....\n​\nand Netanyahu is doing everything he can to strenghten those negative feelings , He tries to dismantle the courts , He gave religious zealots positions from which they can affect the school curriculum and poision the heads of our kids . His ministers are cancelling every reform and change the last government did , even things that are undoubtedly positive just for the sake of eliminating every shred of evidence the last government happened . His mouthpieces are working full time trying to create internal conflicts inside the opposition . I honestly just want to leave but im a student in university and dont have the money anyway .", ">\n\nGood job taking these protests out of context. \nThey’re protesting against the Right Wing Governments proposed judicial reforms. Palestinians have little if anything to do with it.", ">\n\nLike, yes, but also the right wing in Israel is reporting it was about Arabs because someone was waving a Palestinian flag at the protests. So the right is using that fact to delegitamize them.", ">\n\nI wouldn't say it's necessarily a false flag but it does hurt the popular perception of the protests. Many Israelis consider Netanyahu to be a crook with dictatorial aspirations but do not believe any concessions should be made to the Palestinians. Previous government has proven that any coalition capable of ousting Netanyahu can't agree on any other crucial issue including national security and foreign policy. The conservative-to-radical rightwing parties can provide such a consensus and have the numbers for a solid majority if they join up with Bibi's moderate right party but they require a lot of concessions in return, from supporting contested settlements to letting the religious orthodoxy control important facets of everyday life. Any potential for a coalition that can unite the moderates and exclude the radicals from both flanks has been thoroughly undermined by Bibi in person.", ">\n\nJews are great people. \nNetenyahu's government is a human right disaster.", ">\n\nThey haven't done anything yet...", ">\n\nConsidering Netanyahu has been in power previously, people are allowed to make judgement calls on his prior actions and assume that a new term would be more of the same.", ">\n\nNo one assumes it will be the same. His current actions hint otherwise", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nTel Aviv - Thousands of Israelis protested on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government, regarded as the most right-wing in Israeli history, an AFP correspondent said.\nProtesters brandished signs with slogans including \"Democracy in danger\" and \"Together against fascism and apartheid\" in the coastal city of Tel Aviv.\nSome waved Israeli and rainbow flags while others held a large banner reading \"Crime minister\" - a slogan widely used by Israelis during regular demonstrations against Netanyahu in past years.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Israeli^#1 includes^#2 protested^#3 Netanyahu^#4 against^#5", ">\n\nIt's good that Israeli citizens are protesting against the new government. Civil society will need to hold firm to keep Netanyahu's cronies from taking over institutions.", ">\n\nI would like to point out this headline is a bit misleading. The vast majority of the protesters were about the government's attempt to undermine the balance of powers, nothing you do with the Palestinians", ">\n\nWhat balance of powers? The Bagatz members weren't elected by anyone, literally a group of people electing their successors, with a very clear agenda. The reforms are very well needed. There's absolutely no reason a group of people can do whatever they want. \nIf that seems legitimate to you, then why do we even go to elections? After all it's that tiny group of people that decides what laws to pass", ">\n\nI hope THIS gets some media attention", ">\n\nIt wont really, Because if the Israel-US/British relationship, the main stream media will always be pro-Israel. Netanhyu was more closer to the US and UK.", ">\n\nI think it's alright to be pro-Israel in the sense of supporting a constitutional democracy in the Levant.\nNetinyahu and the extremists are a threat to Israel just the same as Hamas's rockets.\nSupport Israel, Netinyahu.", ">\n\nExcellent. 👌🏻", ">\n\nWait, when did Netanyahu come back into power? I’m completely confused here.", ">\n\nA little bit ago. A month maybe?", ">\n\nThe government was sworn-in a week and a half ago.", ">\n\nAbout time the younger generation stepped up!", ">\n\nProblem is, unlike in other countries, the younger generation is more right wing.", ">\n\nIn other countries security issues aren't a big deal like in Israel, and the differences in right/left are mostly economically/socially differences, so there's not much to compare. Good thing that the younger generation wants to actually live in a safe place." ]

[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi.", ">\n\nNetanyahu has methodically weakened Israeli politics for 2 decades. Many good people left politics due to him.", ">\n\nAlso, let's give it to him, he keeps it on track. I mean Likud, Shas, Yehudat haTora - they are around since forever, and their objectives - whatever they are - didn't change. As to the centrist parties (which is our hope to form a coalition) - I can't even keep track of what they are called, let alone of what their position is.", ">\n\nHe's very very skilled at what he does. He's in a whole different ballgame as he's ruthless with literally no visible ideal other than straying in power. Other politicians in the so called left center are absolute jokes with egos and no carisma. And this is exactly the way he wanted it", ">\n\nWhich is why center-left must unite, form a coherent message people can understand and earn trust. As opposed to Avoda-Meretz fiasco or Raam's \"let me talk to my (real criminal) field commanders before I consider a vote\", and here-and-there Gantz - who under different circumstances might've been a very good figurehead as far as security is concerned.", ">\n\nSorry but their all unimaginative, egotistical clowns with no possible coherence in their aims. Sadly that are too silly to set aside differences.\nIf I were a liberal Israeli I would demand their heads roll and new party leaders selected. Israel needs new blood to counter the old blood. Lapid is just a sad pale Netanyahu clone in the making. He's quite cringy", ">\n\nAs an Israeli liberal , the sense of hopelessness is insane now , Literally everyone started planning their escape from this place . I fear that people are so tired and desperate they dont want to fight anymore.....\n​\nand Netanyahu is doing everything he can to strenghten those negative feelings , He tries to dismantle the courts , He gave religious zealots positions from which they can affect the school curriculum and poision the heads of our kids . His ministers are cancelling every reform and change the last government did , even things that are undoubtedly positive just for the sake of eliminating every shred of evidence the last government happened . His mouthpieces are working full time trying to create internal conflicts inside the opposition . I honestly just want to leave but im a student in university and dont have the money anyway .", ">\n\nGood job taking these protests out of context. \nThey’re protesting against the Right Wing Governments proposed judicial reforms. Palestinians have little if anything to do with it.", ">\n\nLike, yes, but also the right wing in Israel is reporting it was about Arabs because someone was waving a Palestinian flag at the protests. So the right is using that fact to delegitamize them.", ">\n\nI wouldn't say it's necessarily a false flag but it does hurt the popular perception of the protests. Many Israelis consider Netanyahu to be a crook with dictatorial aspirations but do not believe any concessions should be made to the Palestinians. Previous government has proven that any coalition capable of ousting Netanyahu can't agree on any other crucial issue including national security and foreign policy. The conservative-to-radical rightwing parties can provide such a consensus and have the numbers for a solid majority if they join up with Bibi's moderate right party but they require a lot of concessions in return, from supporting contested settlements to letting the religious orthodoxy control important facets of everyday life. Any potential for a coalition that can unite the moderates and exclude the radicals from both flanks has been thoroughly undermined by Bibi in person.", ">\n\nJews are great people. \nNetenyahu's government is a human right disaster.", ">\n\nThey haven't done anything yet...", ">\n\nConsidering Netanyahu has been in power previously, people are allowed to make judgement calls on his prior actions and assume that a new term would be more of the same.", ">\n\nNo one assumes it will be the same. His current actions hint otherwise", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nTel Aviv - Thousands of Israelis protested on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government, regarded as the most right-wing in Israeli history, an AFP correspondent said.\nProtesters brandished signs with slogans including \"Democracy in danger\" and \"Together against fascism and apartheid\" in the coastal city of Tel Aviv.\nSome waved Israeli and rainbow flags while others held a large banner reading \"Crime minister\" - a slogan widely used by Israelis during regular demonstrations against Netanyahu in past years.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Israeli^#1 includes^#2 protested^#3 Netanyahu^#4 against^#5", ">\n\nIt's good that Israeli citizens are protesting against the new government. Civil society will need to hold firm to keep Netanyahu's cronies from taking over institutions.", ">\n\nI would like to point out this headline is a bit misleading. The vast majority of the protesters were about the government's attempt to undermine the balance of powers, nothing you do with the Palestinians", ">\n\nWhat balance of powers? The Bagatz members weren't elected by anyone, literally a group of people electing their successors, with a very clear agenda. The reforms are very well needed. There's absolutely no reason a group of people can do whatever they want. \nIf that seems legitimate to you, then why do we even go to elections? After all it's that tiny group of people that decides what laws to pass", ">\n\nI hope THIS gets some media attention", ">\n\nIt wont really, Because if the Israel-US/British relationship, the main stream media will always be pro-Israel. Netanhyu was more closer to the US and UK.", ">\n\nI think it's alright to be pro-Israel in the sense of supporting a constitutional democracy in the Levant.\nNetinyahu and the extremists are a threat to Israel just the same as Hamas's rockets.\nSupport Israel, Netinyahu.", ">\n\nExcellent. 👌🏻", ">\n\nWait, when did Netanyahu come back into power? I’m completely confused here.", ">\n\nA little bit ago. A month maybe?", ">\n\nThe government was sworn-in a week and a half ago.", ">\n\nAbout time the younger generation stepped up!", ">\n\nProblem is, unlike in other countries, the younger generation is more right wing.", ">\n\nIn other countries security issues aren't a big deal like in Israel, and the differences in right/left are mostly economically/socially differences, so there's not much to compare. Good thing that the younger generation wants to actually live in a safe place.", ">\n\nThis is very encouraging. Israel is an important theatre in the global fight against fascism; progress there represents enormous hope for progress elsewhere. \nIt is interesting that Israel's arch enemy Iran is simultaneously undergoing a popular revolt against fascistic leadership." ]

[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi.", ">\n\nNetanyahu has methodically weakened Israeli politics for 2 decades. Many good people left politics due to him.", ">\n\nAlso, let's give it to him, he keeps it on track. I mean Likud, Shas, Yehudat haTora - they are around since forever, and their objectives - whatever they are - didn't change. As to the centrist parties (which is our hope to form a coalition) - I can't even keep track of what they are called, let alone of what their position is.", ">\n\nHe's very very skilled at what he does. He's in a whole different ballgame as he's ruthless with literally no visible ideal other than straying in power. Other politicians in the so called left center are absolute jokes with egos and no carisma. And this is exactly the way he wanted it", ">\n\nWhich is why center-left must unite, form a coherent message people can understand and earn trust. As opposed to Avoda-Meretz fiasco or Raam's \"let me talk to my (real criminal) field commanders before I consider a vote\", and here-and-there Gantz - who under different circumstances might've been a very good figurehead as far as security is concerned.", ">\n\nSorry but their all unimaginative, egotistical clowns with no possible coherence in their aims. Sadly that are too silly to set aside differences.\nIf I were a liberal Israeli I would demand their heads roll and new party leaders selected. Israel needs new blood to counter the old blood. Lapid is just a sad pale Netanyahu clone in the making. He's quite cringy", ">\n\nAs an Israeli liberal , the sense of hopelessness is insane now , Literally everyone started planning their escape from this place . I fear that people are so tired and desperate they dont want to fight anymore.....\n​\nand Netanyahu is doing everything he can to strenghten those negative feelings , He tries to dismantle the courts , He gave religious zealots positions from which they can affect the school curriculum and poision the heads of our kids . His ministers are cancelling every reform and change the last government did , even things that are undoubtedly positive just for the sake of eliminating every shred of evidence the last government happened . His mouthpieces are working full time trying to create internal conflicts inside the opposition . I honestly just want to leave but im a student in university and dont have the money anyway .", ">\n\nGood job taking these protests out of context. \nThey’re protesting against the Right Wing Governments proposed judicial reforms. Palestinians have little if anything to do with it.", ">\n\nLike, yes, but also the right wing in Israel is reporting it was about Arabs because someone was waving a Palestinian flag at the protests. So the right is using that fact to delegitamize them.", ">\n\nI wouldn't say it's necessarily a false flag but it does hurt the popular perception of the protests. Many Israelis consider Netanyahu to be a crook with dictatorial aspirations but do not believe any concessions should be made to the Palestinians. Previous government has proven that any coalition capable of ousting Netanyahu can't agree on any other crucial issue including national security and foreign policy. The conservative-to-radical rightwing parties can provide such a consensus and have the numbers for a solid majority if they join up with Bibi's moderate right party but they require a lot of concessions in return, from supporting contested settlements to letting the religious orthodoxy control important facets of everyday life. Any potential for a coalition that can unite the moderates and exclude the radicals from both flanks has been thoroughly undermined by Bibi in person.", ">\n\nJews are great people. \nNetenyahu's government is a human right disaster.", ">\n\nThey haven't done anything yet...", ">\n\nConsidering Netanyahu has been in power previously, people are allowed to make judgement calls on his prior actions and assume that a new term would be more of the same.", ">\n\nNo one assumes it will be the same. His current actions hint otherwise", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nTel Aviv - Thousands of Israelis protested on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government, regarded as the most right-wing in Israeli history, an AFP correspondent said.\nProtesters brandished signs with slogans including \"Democracy in danger\" and \"Together against fascism and apartheid\" in the coastal city of Tel Aviv.\nSome waved Israeli and rainbow flags while others held a large banner reading \"Crime minister\" - a slogan widely used by Israelis during regular demonstrations against Netanyahu in past years.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Israeli^#1 includes^#2 protested^#3 Netanyahu^#4 against^#5", ">\n\nIt's good that Israeli citizens are protesting against the new government. Civil society will need to hold firm to keep Netanyahu's cronies from taking over institutions.", ">\n\nI would like to point out this headline is a bit misleading. The vast majority of the protesters were about the government's attempt to undermine the balance of powers, nothing you do with the Palestinians", ">\n\nWhat balance of powers? The Bagatz members weren't elected by anyone, literally a group of people electing their successors, with a very clear agenda. The reforms are very well needed. There's absolutely no reason a group of people can do whatever they want. \nIf that seems legitimate to you, then why do we even go to elections? After all it's that tiny group of people that decides what laws to pass", ">\n\nI hope THIS gets some media attention", ">\n\nIt wont really, Because if the Israel-US/British relationship, the main stream media will always be pro-Israel. Netanhyu was more closer to the US and UK.", ">\n\nI think it's alright to be pro-Israel in the sense of supporting a constitutional democracy in the Levant.\nNetinyahu and the extremists are a threat to Israel just the same as Hamas's rockets.\nSupport Israel, Netinyahu.", ">\n\nExcellent. 👌🏻", ">\n\nWait, when did Netanyahu come back into power? I’m completely confused here.", ">\n\nA little bit ago. A month maybe?", ">\n\nThe government was sworn-in a week and a half ago.", ">\n\nAbout time the younger generation stepped up!", ">\n\nProblem is, unlike in other countries, the younger generation is more right wing.", ">\n\nIn other countries security issues aren't a big deal like in Israel, and the differences in right/left are mostly economically/socially differences, so there's not much to compare. Good thing that the younger generation wants to actually live in a safe place.", ">\n\nThis is very encouraging. Israel is an important theatre in the global fight against fascism; progress there represents enormous hope for progress elsewhere. \nIt is interesting that Israel's arch enemy Iran is simultaneously undergoing a popular revolt against fascistic leadership.", ">\n\n\nIt is interesting that Israel's arch enemy Iran is simultaneously undergoing a popular revolt against fascistic leadership. \n\nMay both protest movements succeed" ]

[ "So why is the opposition in Israel so fucking bad?\nThey can't get a candidate to dehtrone Bibi.", ">\n\nNetanyahu has methodically weakened Israeli politics for 2 decades. Many good people left politics due to him.", ">\n\nAlso, let's give it to him, he keeps it on track. I mean Likud, Shas, Yehudat haTora - they are around since forever, and their objectives - whatever they are - didn't change. As to the centrist parties (which is our hope to form a coalition) - I can't even keep track of what they are called, let alone of what their position is.", ">\n\nHe's very very skilled at what he does. He's in a whole different ballgame as he's ruthless with literally no visible ideal other than straying in power. Other politicians in the so called left center are absolute jokes with egos and no carisma. And this is exactly the way he wanted it", ">\n\nWhich is why center-left must unite, form a coherent message people can understand and earn trust. As opposed to Avoda-Meretz fiasco or Raam's \"let me talk to my (real criminal) field commanders before I consider a vote\", and here-and-there Gantz - who under different circumstances might've been a very good figurehead as far as security is concerned.", ">\n\nSorry but their all unimaginative, egotistical clowns with no possible coherence in their aims. Sadly that are too silly to set aside differences.\nIf I were a liberal Israeli I would demand their heads roll and new party leaders selected. Israel needs new blood to counter the old blood. Lapid is just a sad pale Netanyahu clone in the making. He's quite cringy", ">\n\nAs an Israeli liberal , the sense of hopelessness is insane now , Literally everyone started planning their escape from this place . I fear that people are so tired and desperate they dont want to fight anymore.....\n​\nand Netanyahu is doing everything he can to strenghten those negative feelings , He tries to dismantle the courts , He gave religious zealots positions from which they can affect the school curriculum and poision the heads of our kids . His ministers are cancelling every reform and change the last government did , even things that are undoubtedly positive just for the sake of eliminating every shred of evidence the last government happened . His mouthpieces are working full time trying to create internal conflicts inside the opposition . I honestly just want to leave but im a student in university and dont have the money anyway .", ">\n\nGood job taking these protests out of context. \nThey’re protesting against the Right Wing Governments proposed judicial reforms. Palestinians have little if anything to do with it.", ">\n\nLike, yes, but also the right wing in Israel is reporting it was about Arabs because someone was waving a Palestinian flag at the protests. So the right is using that fact to delegitamize them.", ">\n\nI wouldn't say it's necessarily a false flag but it does hurt the popular perception of the protests. Many Israelis consider Netanyahu to be a crook with dictatorial aspirations but do not believe any concessions should be made to the Palestinians. Previous government has proven that any coalition capable of ousting Netanyahu can't agree on any other crucial issue including national security and foreign policy. The conservative-to-radical rightwing parties can provide such a consensus and have the numbers for a solid majority if they join up with Bibi's moderate right party but they require a lot of concessions in return, from supporting contested settlements to letting the religious orthodoxy control important facets of everyday life. Any potential for a coalition that can unite the moderates and exclude the radicals from both flanks has been thoroughly undermined by Bibi in person.", ">\n\nJews are great people. \nNetenyahu's government is a human right disaster.", ">\n\nThey haven't done anything yet...", ">\n\nConsidering Netanyahu has been in power previously, people are allowed to make judgement calls on his prior actions and assume that a new term would be more of the same.", ">\n\nNo one assumes it will be the same. His current actions hint otherwise", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nTel Aviv - Thousands of Israelis protested on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government, regarded as the most right-wing in Israeli history, an AFP correspondent said.\nProtesters brandished signs with slogans including \"Democracy in danger\" and \"Together against fascism and apartheid\" in the coastal city of Tel Aviv.\nSome waved Israeli and rainbow flags while others held a large banner reading \"Crime minister\" - a slogan widely used by Israelis during regular demonstrations against Netanyahu in past years.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Israeli^#1 includes^#2 protested^#3 Netanyahu^#4 against^#5", ">\n\nIt's good that Israeli citizens are protesting against the new government. Civil society will need to hold firm to keep Netanyahu's cronies from taking over institutions.", ">\n\nI would like to point out this headline is a bit misleading. The vast majority of the protesters were about the government's attempt to undermine the balance of powers, nothing you do with the Palestinians", ">\n\nWhat balance of powers? The Bagatz members weren't elected by anyone, literally a group of people electing their successors, with a very clear agenda. The reforms are very well needed. There's absolutely no reason a group of people can do whatever they want. \nIf that seems legitimate to you, then why do we even go to elections? After all it's that tiny group of people that decides what laws to pass", ">\n\nI hope THIS gets some media attention", ">\n\nIt wont really, Because if the Israel-US/British relationship, the main stream media will always be pro-Israel. Netanhyu was more closer to the US and UK.", ">\n\nI think it's alright to be pro-Israel in the sense of supporting a constitutional democracy in the Levant.\nNetinyahu and the extremists are a threat to Israel just the same as Hamas's rockets.\nSupport Israel, Netinyahu.", ">\n\nExcellent. 👌🏻", ">\n\nWait, when did Netanyahu come back into power? I’m completely confused here.", ">\n\nA little bit ago. A month maybe?", ">\n\nThe government was sworn-in a week and a half ago.", ">\n\nAbout time the younger generation stepped up!", ">\n\nProblem is, unlike in other countries, the younger generation is more right wing.", ">\n\nIn other countries security issues aren't a big deal like in Israel, and the differences in right/left are mostly economically/socially differences, so there's not much to compare. Good thing that the younger generation wants to actually live in a safe place.", ">\n\nThis is very encouraging. Israel is an important theatre in the global fight against fascism; progress there represents enormous hope for progress elsewhere. \nIt is interesting that Israel's arch enemy Iran is simultaneously undergoing a popular revolt against fascistic leadership.", ">\n\n\nIt is interesting that Israel's arch enemy Iran is simultaneously undergoing a popular revolt against fascistic leadership. \n\nMay both protest movements succeed", ">\n\nAmen" ]