The Ukraine war thread

[George K]

Thread on how warfare has changed. It must've been @jolly who, years ago, posted about how an overwhelming number of semi-autonomous drones can disable just about anything.

Game of Drones:

[Jolly]

Posted the other day about an autonomous robotic armored vehicle the U.S. Army is currently testing. It's a tracked vehicle designed to keep up with and protect armored columns from drones.

Measure/Counter-measure.

[jon-nyc]

[Mik]

If this is their beefed-up professional army under Putin, it is difficult to imagine their nukes being much better. 31 years after the USSR collapsed.

I guess the question Putin has to ask himself is 'Do I feel lucky?'.

Well do ya, punk?

[Mik]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-s-new-offensive-is-fueled-by-captured-russian-weapons/ar-AA12CIDc?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=366af961d0cd4346841e111bd9e067fa

[George K]

@Mik Interesting article

A while ago, I posted that Ukraine supposedly has more tanks now than it did at the beginning of the conflict, because of captured Russian material.

[bachophile]

Surrender

[Jolly]

You blame them?

[Mik]

Hard to win a war with an army that doesn't want to fight it.

[Mik]

I'll say it again - this has gone so spectacularly bad for Putin that it is quite imaginable that this is what we wanted all along. There's a whole lot of advanced military strategic and tactical thinking going into Ukraine.

[George K]

The mobilized:

[Renauda]

I get it that Putin is giving Kadyrov a chance to put up or shut up. Still it shows the Russian public that Putin is scraping the barrel:

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/10/05/putin-makes-chechnyas-kadyrov-an-army-general-a78992

On the other hand maybe he’ll be deployed to the front where he will ingloriously die by way of a targeted Ukrainian drone or artillery ordinance. Either way I hope he dies “not well”.

[Mik]

He's been beating on the Chechens since he was prime minister.

[Renauda]

@Mik

Hate to say it but a lot of Chechens earned a beating. Collectively they have a bad reputation through all the former Soviet republics, not just Russia. They are particularly despised in Ukraine and Georgia.

[Mik]

It makes me suspicious of Kadyrov getting behind this obvious failure.

[Renauda]

@Mik

Kadyrov is a hatchet man, an assassin, one of Putin’s ethnic Capos.

As I say when the time comes for him to die, he’ll die and it will not be well.

[Mik]

That would be nice.

[jon-nyc]

You know he’ll be a target. Of NATO intelligence too.

[George K]

[Renauda]

Graffiti seen on bridge in Ulan Bator, Mongolia:

Россия, не связывайся с монголами. Чингиз уже надрал тебе задницу. Мы сделаем это снова.

Translation: Russia, do not get involved with Mongols. Genghiz already kicked your ass. We will do it again.