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Posted: 10/27/2021 8:27:29 PM EDT
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This is now the active "shit News links, thanks to BerettaGuy: Originally Posted By BerettaGuy: LINKS TO UKRAINIAN NEWS SOURCES IN ENGLISH Kyiv Post Ukrainian News UKRInform EUROMAIDEN PRESS New Voice of Ukraine Kyiv Independent Ukraine World InterFax Ukraine UATV Ukrainian Journal Official Website of the President of Ukraine Ukrainian Ministry of Defense Save these links. I can't post all the headlines like I've done in the past - too much news and too often. View Quote Please @ me with additional stuff to be added here. I don't currently have time to properly curate this thread otherwise. New news link c/o berettaguy: Ukrainian Pravda https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/ Stop fake, anti - disinformation site: https://www.stopfake.org/en/main/ |
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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
View Quote That's crazy. And it's interesting to see how they've adapted so quickly. Edit to reiterate what Lightning_P38 just said. "It doesn't matter what you did before, what matters is that you stood to be counted when it mattered." |
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Originally Posted By stgdz: I think I saw a body fall too View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By stgdz: Originally Posted By Houlagan72: Originally Posted By NoMoAMMO: Originally Posted By Capta: KA-52 shot down - clear video. Might’ve made a hard landing under control, but definitely a kill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2k1FbjDhMA Missile hit knocked the flares out of the pod Kind of looks like it may have fired a couple of rockets too. I think I saw a body fall too Good shoot! |
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Originally Posted By THOT_Vaccine: There really was just two points of mobilization: 1) Take the attention off the failure of Russia to hold any ground at all 2) Solve the recruiting problem they have had since jump. I don't think they are after fielding a HUGE force in Ukraine. More likely they are looking to rotate out a bunch of exhausted and shell shocked dudes with fresh ones. The problem with even that theory is they they don't have the transport resources for resupply. Let alone rotating guys in and out. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By THOT_Vaccine: Originally Posted By Bassgasm: Originally Posted By Third_Rail: Originally Posted By DCPhoenix: All the conscription shit going on is wild. What’s the play here? Russia going to use conscripts to hold areas in Russia to free up “professionals” form elsewhere? Surely they’re not going to go full Stalingrad and human wave the frontlines?? Would you really bet against that? Has anything at any stage of this said "Russian rulers seem to have common sense" to you? Contrary to the folklore about "a Russki doesn't take a dump without a plan," there doesn't actually seem to be a cohesive strategy here. Furthermore, it doesn't really matter whether we're taking about 100k conscripts or 1M conscripts, the same problems exist. For extra fun, let's break this into two problems: Problem A- Does Russia have the basic ability to feed, uniform, and transport these conscripts at scale, and what are the costs? Problem B- Does Russia have the ability to train, equip, deploy, and command these conscripts in a manner that produces actual military value? The answer to Problem B is, for a variety of reasons, almost certainly a resounding no. That leads us to Problem A. Let's say Russia rounds up 250k dudes, gives them two weeks of training, and ships them off to the front. That's going to have a significant cost and logistical burden, no matter what. But if these conscripts can't produce value in combat, the result is negative value for the Russian military effort (and this is before considering things like political tension and social turmoil happening in Russia as a result). Is Russia dumb enough to overlook these problems and move forward with this strategy? Well... given the amount of evidence we've seen of them doing things like burdening their logistics by shipping inoperable vehicles and systems across the continent... yeah, they're dumb/crazy enough to do this. There really was just two points of mobilization: 1) Take the attention off the failure of Russia to hold any ground at all 2) Solve the recruiting problem they have had since jump. I don't think they are after fielding a HUGE force in Ukraine. More likely they are looking to rotate out a bunch of exhausted and shell shocked dudes with fresh ones. The problem with even that theory is they they don't have the transport resources for resupply. Let alone rotating guys in and out. The idea of #1 is hilarious to me. Conscription, particularly in the way Russia is doing it, amplifies their failure so far. If Russia has the capacity to rotate guys out, you would think they would be pulling back some veterans to train new guys, but I've seen reports that Russia has done the opposite by stripping out training cadres and sending those guys to the front. |
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View Quote Thanks for sharing. Even Erdogan recently said Russia needs to give Ukraine back all the territory they have taken, including Crimea, which I was surprised to hear him say. |
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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
View Quote What's really funny in a sad way is that to a lot of Russian troops those guys are specially trained. They got more than zero training. |
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Not fly enough to be halal....
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Rumor is gaining steam. There would have to be a HUGE pile of credible evidence for me to believe this. It is rather hilarious what NAFO is doing with this though.
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Coyote with 40 people crammed into a minivan gets into a chase with DPS, Paco over estimates his driving abilities and *whmmo!* the Astrovan of Immigration becomes a Pinata of Pain, hurling broken bodies like so many tasty pieces of cheap candy...
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Do Romanian .mil jets normally fly into/out of Moldova?
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Russians flee, protest as mobilization announced |
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“If by chance you were to ask me which ornaments I would desire above all others in my house, I would reply, without much pause for reflection, arms and books.”
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Originally Posted By Capta: Drone hit on two sleeping Russians. Russian soldiers, just go home. Nothing in Ukraine is worth dying like this. https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/xla0hn/accurate_grenade_drop_on_two_sleeping_russian/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 [...] View Quote Jesus. The visibility into this war is nuts. |
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Never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be. - Adm James Stockdale
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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdM754BaEAEOMsw?format=jpg&name=medium View Quote probably more of a mobilization than the russian people were led to believe |
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Originally Posted By Bassgasm: The idea of #1 is hilarious to me. Conscription, particularly in the way Russia is doing it, amplifies their failure so far. If Russia has the capacity to rotate guys out, you would think they would be pulling back some veterans to train new guys, but I've seen reports that Russia has done the opposite by stripping out training cadres and sending those guys to the front. View Quote Yeah it seems obvious to you and me, right? I believe we've done that since WW2. Commander Josh shoots down 6 Jap fighters. "HEY! Let's send Commander Josh back to the Fighter Pilot Training facility and teach new pilots what he and his unit learned... and raise the overall standard of our pilots." But the totalitarian regimes just kept sending those guys right back out until they died and couldn't teach anybody anything anymore. |
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Originally Posted By Jozsi: There is a facebook group for Orcky expats in Budapest..... whining about the setup and I've been kicked out now as they all trying to figure out ways for their brothers....cousins....uncles....in getting out of Ockyland. View Quote I hope not too many end up in Budapest. |
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Originally Posted By GTLandser: BASED POLAND /media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/B926BC70-2451-4EC1-A889-3A3C070B9F9D-404.gif View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By GTLandser: BASED POLAND /media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/B926BC70-2451-4EC1-A889-3A3C070B9F9D-404.gif One take away from that is if Vlad does decide to nuke UA, nothing will happen in response. |
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Originally Posted By ArmyInfantryVet: Yeah it seems obvious to you and me, right? I believe we've done that since WW2. Commander Josh shoots down 6 Jap fighters. "HEY! Let's send Commander Josh back to the Fighter Pilot Training facility and teach new pilots what he and his unit learned... and raise the overall standard of our pilots." But the totalitarian regimes just kept sending those guys right back out until they died and couldn't teach anybody anything anymore. View Quote The kill counts of those half dozen surviving German fighter aces, tho. |
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Never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be. - Adm James Stockdale
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Originally Posted By ArmyInfantryVet: Yeah it seems obvious to you and me, right? I believe we've done that since WW2. Commander Josh shoots down 6 Jap fighters. "HEY! Let's send Commander Josh back to the Fighter Pilot Training facility and teach new pilots what he and his unit learned... and raise the overall standard of our pilots." But the totalitarian regimes just kept sending those guys right back out until they died and couldn't teach anybody anything anymore. View Quote Totalitarian regimes need to keep militaries week so they aren’t a threat to them…or anyone else. |
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Originally Posted By bikedamon: Jesus. The visibility into this war is nuts. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By bikedamon: Originally Posted By Capta: Drone hit on two sleeping Russians. Russian soldiers, just go home. Nothing in Ukraine is worth dying like this. https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/xla0hn/accurate_grenade_drop_on_two_sleeping_russian/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 [...] Jesus. The visibility into this war is nuts. War is some fucked up shit. It's crazy the effort we pour into killing each other. |
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Originally Posted By Prime: Talk about a dude who’s seen some shit. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/203719/0DC6DEBD-9021-4324-81EF-4324C5F4411E-2534671.jpg Our Artem Dyblenko is at home! In the course of a large-scale exchange, Ukraine freed from Russian captivity the general director of the information agency "Ukrainian Media Group" Artem Dyblenko ("Crime.NET" and NikLife publications). Since 2014, Artem has been defending Ukraine in the ATO zone, including holding the defense of Donetsk Airport together with other "cyborgs". At the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, he went to the defense of Mariupol in the ranks of the 36th separate brigade of marines. In the ranks of the defenders of "Azovstal", he defended the city from the Russian invaders. For his military merits, Dyblenko twice became a Knight of the Order "For Courage". Now he, along with other Heroes of Azovstal, has been returned home. We are proud of our Hero and happy that he is home ❤️🇺🇦 View Quote He's a stud for sure! Honest question and I'm not trying to belittle them, but if Ukraine doesn't have a Navy, how can they have Marines? |
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Originally Posted By DPeacher: He's a stud for sure! Honest question and I'm not trying to belittle them, but if Ukraine doesn't have a Navy, how can they have Marines? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By DPeacher: Originally Posted By Prime: Talk about a dude who’s seen some shit. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/203719/0DC6DEBD-9021-4324-81EF-4324C5F4411E-2534671.jpg Our Artem Dyblenko is at home! In the course of a large-scale exchange, Ukraine freed from Russian captivity the general director of the information agency "Ukrainian Media Group" Artem Dyblenko ("Crime.NET" and NikLife publications). Since 2014, Artem has been defending Ukraine in the ATO zone, including holding the defense of Donetsk Airport together with other "cyborgs". At the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, he went to the defense of Mariupol in the ranks of the 36th separate brigade of marines. In the ranks of the defenders of "Azovstal", he defended the city from the Russian invaders. For his military merits, Dyblenko twice became a Knight of the Order "For Courage". Now he, along with other Heroes of Azovstal, has been returned home. We are proud of our Hero and happy that he is home ❤️🇺🇦 He's a stud for sure! Honest question and I'm not trying to belittle them, but if Ukraine doesn't have a Navy, how can they have Marines? Ukraine does have a Navy. However, their fleet is almost non-existent in size. Mainly patrol boats and other small vessels now, until other larger ships arrive. |
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Originally Posted By ArmyInfantryVet: Yeah it seems obvious to you and me, right? I believe we've done that since WW2. Commander Josh shoots down 6 Jap fighters. "HEY! Let's send Commander Josh back to the Fighter Pilot Training facility and teach new pilots what he and his unit learned... and raise the overall standard of our pilots." But the totalitarian regimes just kept sending those guys right back out until they died and couldn't teach anybody anything anymore. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By ArmyInfantryVet: Originally Posted By Bassgasm: The idea of #1 is hilarious to me. Conscription, particularly in the way Russia is doing it, amplifies their failure so far. If Russia has the capacity to rotate guys out, you would think they would be pulling back some veterans to train new guys, but I've seen reports that Russia has done the opposite by stripping out training cadres and sending those guys to the front. Yeah it seems obvious to you and me, right? I believe we've done that since WW2. Commander Josh shoots down 6 Jap fighters. "HEY! Let's send Commander Josh back to the Fighter Pilot Training facility and teach new pilots what he and his unit learned... and raise the overall standard of our pilots." But the totalitarian regimes just kept sending those guys right back out until they died and couldn't teach anybody anything anymore. Yep. And while the Russians seem poised to desperately throw hundreds of thousands of untrained conscripts into the grinder, the Ukrainians have somehow managed to rotate men to Poland and elsewhere to be trained by US/NATO troops. That's quite the disparity. |
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"I haven't met one burnt end or rib that I haven't liked." -Andy Reid
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Originally Posted By ArmyInfantryVet: Can anyone confirm? But I've seen some videos say "partial" mobilization is a complete farce. The Russians will take as many Russians to Conscription as their military deems necessary. So the 300k Ukraine is just a start View Quote |
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vidi vici veni
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Originally Posted By Capta: Drone hit on two sleeping Russians. Russian soldiers, just go home. Nothing in Ukraine is worth dying like this. https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/xla0hn/accurate_grenade_drop_on_two_sleeping_russian/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 France and Ukraine working on more CAESARs: https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/news/2022/09/22/7147313/ View Quote How the HELL is that one guy still alive? |
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Daddy loves you. Now go away.
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Originally Posted By Capta: Drone hit on two sleeping Russians. Russian soldiers, just go home. Nothing in Ukraine is worth dying like this. https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/xla0hn/accurate_grenade_drop_on_two_sleeping_russian/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 View Quote But just watching average Joes dying in a muddy hole is hard. They are just men that in many cases got tossed into a woodchipper by a dictator. Seeing things like this make me want to go with the Curtis LeMay methodology. Make war as horrible and brutal as possible to get it over with faster. The faster we equip Ukraine to win, the fewer deaths that will occur in the long run on both sides. |
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"This is the Way"
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Quite a few boys lining up at the recruitment offices in some of the videos that have been posted.
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Daddy loves you. Now go away.
Ruthless ruler of cubicle B300.2C.983 |
Originally Posted By Zhukov: How the HELL is that one guy still alive? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Zhukov: Originally Posted By Capta: Drone hit on two sleeping Russians. Russian soldiers, just go home. Nothing in Ukraine is worth dying like this. https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/xla0hn/accurate_grenade_drop_on_two_sleeping_russian/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 France and Ukraine working on more CAESARs: https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/news/2022/09/22/7147313/ How the HELL is that one guy still alive? I think they both died. I think the guy trying to hug Mr Tourniquet was badly injured by the blast while Mr Tourniquet either had more injuries than what he was trying to tie off, or he didn't get it tied off in time. Pretty brutal/surreal to see him starting to flag. |
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Don't know if it's been posted, but here's Jordan Peterson's take recently:
‘Naïve’ to think Russia will lose war, says Dr Jordan Peterson His reckoning with the environment lobby at the end of the video is BRUTAL. |
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Daddy loves you. Now go away.
Ruthless ruler of cubicle B300.2C.983 |
Originally Posted By bikedamon: I think they both died. I think the guy trying to hug Mr Tourniquet was badly injured by the blast while Mr Tourniquet either had more injuries than what he was trying to tie off, or he didn't get it tied off in time. Pretty brutal/surreal to see him starting to flag. View Quote Are those concussion or fragmentation grenades? Must the former, because there's very little blood. |
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Daddy loves you. Now go away.
Ruthless ruler of cubicle B300.2C.983 |
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Originally Posted By ArmyInfantryVet: Yeah it seems obvious to you and me, right? I believe we've done that since WW2. Commander Josh shoots down 6 Jap fighters. "HEY! Let's send Commander Josh back to the Fighter Pilot Training facility and teach new pilots what he and his unit learned... and raise the overall standard of our pilots." But the totalitarian regimes just kept sending those guys right back out until they died and couldn't teach anybody anything anymore. View Quote US and allies often sent lead aces back to instruction duties. Axis and other opponents only rarely have done so. |
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Slava Ukraini! "The only real difference between the men and the boys, is the number and size, and cost of their toys."
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“If by chance you were to ask me which ornaments I would desire above all others in my house, I would reply, without much pause for reflection, arms and books.”
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Originally Posted By _disconnector_: I want Ukraine to win this. I want Russia to get spanked *hard* . . . But just watching average Joes dying in a muddy hole is hard. They are just men that in many cases got tossed into a woodchipper by a dictator. Seeing things like this make me want to go with the Curtis LeMay methodology. Make war as horrible and brutal as possible to get it over with faster. The faster we equip Ukraine to win, the fewer deaths that will occur in the long run on both sides. View Quote |
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Coyote with 40 people crammed into a minivan gets into a chase with DPS, Paco over estimates his driving abilities and *whmmo!* the Astrovan of Immigration becomes a Pinata of Pain, hurling broken bodies like so many tasty pieces of cheap candy...
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Originally Posted By TheHunstman: Small kitchen fire? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By TheHunstman: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
Small kitchen fire? Gas leak Jimmy. |
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vidi vici veni
I don't give a fuck. My name is Dave. TRUMP 2024 m~:#er |
Originally Posted By Zhukov: Are those concussion or fragmentation grenades? Must the former, because there's very little blood. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Zhukov: Originally Posted By bikedamon: I think they both died. I think the guy trying to hug Mr Tourniquet was badly injured by the blast while Mr Tourniquet either had more injuries than what he was trying to tie off, or he didn't get it tied off in time. Pretty brutal/surreal to see him starting to flag. Are those concussion or fragmentation grenades? Must the former, because there's very little blood. HE frag rounds. |
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In the real world off-campus, good marksmanship trumps good will.
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Just imagine the consequences when thousands of angry, reluctant conscripts with two week training when they have to face professional, well commanded Ukrainian units with accurate arty.
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"People, ideas, and hardware...in that order!" Col John Boyd
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Sub hunt?
Edit - MH-60R over international waters off Kaliningrad |
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Kay : A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it.
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Originally Posted By m35ben: I'll have to watch this later but they a normally good . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hZoQ4xebGw View Quote That YT series is pretty good. I wish they'd ditch the background music though. |
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Originally Posted By Capta: Drone hit on two sleeping Russians. Russian soldiers, just go home. Nothing in Ukraine is worth dying like this. https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/xla0hn/accurate_grenade_drop_on_two_sleeping_russian/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 France and Ukraine working on more CAESARs: https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/news/2022/09/22/7147313/ View Quote Imagine waking up from a nap to your leg getting blown off by a drone which then watches you cry and make the decision to lay there and die. Should have stayed home. |
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Remorse is for the dead
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Originally Posted By HIPPO:
View Quote Does anyone see any evidence of the mortuary part of this claim? Not seeing anything in the pictures, but I'm just a guy on the internet. Maybe so, here's a video for comparison.
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“If by chance you were to ask me which ornaments I would desire above all others in my house, I would reply, without much pause for reflection, arms and books.”
Baldassare Castiglione |
Originally Posted By HIPPO:
View Quote Do they get counted KIA a second time? |
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Originally Posted By Easterner: Why not. It is Thursday after all. всем пиздес I'll drink to that with my new friend Bayraktar! https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/526834/IMG_20220922_195202_jpg-2535228.JPG View Quote You should sell some to us supporters to finance the war effort. |
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Originally Posted By burnka871: Imagine waking up from a nap to your leg getting blown off by a drone which then watches you cry and make the decision to lay there and die. Should have stayed home. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By burnka871: Originally Posted By Capta: Drone hit on two sleeping Russians. Russian soldiers, just go home. Nothing in Ukraine is worth dying like this. https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/xla0hn/accurate_grenade_drop_on_two_sleeping_russian/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 France and Ukraine working on more CAESARs: https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/news/2022/09/22/7147313/ Imagine waking up from a nap to your leg getting blown off by a drone which then watches you cry and make the decision to lay there and die. Should have stayed home. People making excuses about them and Putler need to always understand that THEY HAVE CHOICES. Someday, I am going to do a video interview with my neighbor who is ex Soviet army from a region in the USSR where they have a Finno Ugric tribe that is cousins to Hungarians. He was in Afghanistan and after 3 months he said FUCK THIS SHIT and took off. Ended up in Hungary and has been here ever since. What is my point.. you have a choice....you have options...... this man walked all the way from Afghanistan to Hungary somehow during the Commie times and got away with it. He told me, everyone just ASSUMED he was on leave...and nobody checked if he was a deserter. Same for entering Hungary. YOU HAVE A CHOICE.. you can walk away from it... |
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I heard the other day Israel was supplying Ukraine with anti-drone tech. |
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It's not stupid, it's advanced!!
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Originally Posted By Zhukov: Don't know if it's been posted, but here's Jordan Peterson's take recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnxxELn00gk His reckoning with the environment lobby at the end of the video is BRUTAL. View Quote Quoted so I can find it when I can watch. |
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KF7WNX If you want a picture of the future, imagine Clownshoes stomping on a human face—for ever.
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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
I heard the other day Israelbwas supplying Ukraine with anti-drone tech. View Quote Hard to believe they'd be out in the field so quick. They downed two yesterday, so whatever they're doing they're getting better at it. |
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“If by chance you were to ask me which ornaments I would desire above all others in my house, I would reply, without much pause for reflection, arms and books.”
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