The Ukraine war thread

[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.

[George K]

Who is the biggest supplier of weapons to Ukraine?

Answer:

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Russia has supplied more weapons to Ukraine than any other Western country.

Ukraine has captured 460 Russian main battle tanks, 92 self-propelled howitzers, 448 infantry fighting vehicles, 195 armored fighting vehicles and 44 multiple-launch rocket systems, according to Oryx.

[Aqua Letifer]

Getting closer?

https://www.rferl.org/a/ukrainians-nuclear-war-humor-russia-war/32063396.html

[George K]

[Renauda]

[Mik]

Someone tweeted that the irony is that's a 90's Ukrainian pop song.