The Ukraine war thread
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Hay @Renauda !
You mistake me for the real Renauda. An equine. She was into hay and oats. But not too much of the latter - Arabian through and through.
To answer your question. All my Russian contacts are against the special operation and have therefore gone to ground so to speak on discussing it openly. They are however worried as to what is next - they fear Stalin’s ghost in the wings for them.
Ukrainian contacts on the other hand are cautiously optimistic but recklessly vengeful.
wrote on 4 Oct 2022, 00:12 last edited by George K 10 Apr 2022, 00:13@Renauda said in The Ukraine war thread:
You mistake me for the real Renauda. An equine. She was into hay and oats.
No way I'd make that mistake. She's a lot prettier than you.
Probably a bit more even-tempered too.
recklessly vengeful
What a wonderful and scary description.
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@Renauda said in The Ukraine war thread:
You mistake me for the real Renauda. An equine. She was into hay and oats.
No way I'd make that mistake. She's a lot prettier than you.
Probably a bit more even-tempered too.
recklessly vengeful
What a wonderful and scary description.
wrote on 4 Oct 2022, 00:58 last edited by Renauda 10 Apr 2022, 01:03It is my now former Russian friends who have been living here for 25 or more years that concern me. Am afraid they have all drunk the Putin Kool-aide. FWIW, they can all get back to where they once belonged.
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wrote on 4 Oct 2022, 01:05 last edited by
@George-K said in The Ukraine war thread:
Elon Musk's poll...
Ukraine ambassador does not think much of the pol. LOL
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wrote on 4 Oct 2022, 01:31 last edited by Renauda 10 Apr 2022, 01:33
France, a fence picket up the ass since 1938….
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63090644
Am sure France will surrender before
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France, a fence picket up the ass since 1938….
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63090644
Am sure France will surrender before
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@bachophile interesting indeed. One common theme throughout this entire war has been the utter incompetence of the Russian military. Everything from strategy, tactics to supplies has been a boondoggle.
Is the Russian army really that incompetent?
Reading these threads makes it sound like the Ukrainians are master strategists, but I wonder if these recent successes are simply because the Russians are so bad.
If they are so bad, how did that happen?
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wrote on 5 Oct 2022, 12:01 last edited by
Well...Iran will not recognize annexation.
The Spokesperson of the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Nasser Kanaani, in response to journalists’ question regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran’s position on holding a referandum in Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions in Ukraine and the annexation of the regions to Russia, emphasized, “The Islamic Republic of Iran, as always and based on its principled positions, emphasizes the necessity of fully observing the principle of territorial integrity of countries as a fundamental rule of international law and respecting the principles and goals of the United Nations Charter.”
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wrote on 5 Oct 2022, 12:20 last edited by Jolly 10 May 2022, 12:21
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.
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wrote on 5 Oct 2022, 15:05 last edited by Mik 10 May 2022, 15:07
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?
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wrote on 5 Oct 2022, 19:22 last edited by bachophile 10 May 2022, 19:24
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wrote on 5 Oct 2022, 19:47 last edited by
You blame them?
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wrote on 5 Oct 2022, 20:00 last edited by
Hard to win a war with an army that doesn't want to fight it.
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wrote on 5 Oct 2022, 20:04 last edited by Mik 10 May 2022, 20:05
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.
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wrote on 5 Oct 2022, 21:03 last edited by Renauda 10 May 2022, 21:30
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”.