Russia Invades Ukraine. Again by captaincrunch

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Russia Invades Ukraine. Again

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Tuesday, October 17, 2023 6:13 AM

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I swear the news out of Russia is so fucking stupid. Russia doesn't want to be seen needing help from North Korea, Russia's little Padawan:

The Kremlin said on Tuesday there was "no proof" North Korea was sending supplies of weapons to Russia, after Washington released images purportedly showing arms shipments from Pyongyang.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un traveled to Russia last month and met President Vladimir Putin, sparking speculation among Western countries over the possibility of a potential arms deal.

"They report this all the time, without providing any proof," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian news agencies when asked about the reported arms shipments.

The White House said on Friday that North Korea had already delivered over 1,000 containers of military equipment and munitions to Russia in recent weeks for use in Ukraine.

While Russia said no agreements were signed during Kim's visit in September, Putin said he saw "possibilities" for military cooperation.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is expected to arrive in the reclusive country on Wednesday for a two-day visit. Details of the trip remain unclear.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/10/17/russia-says-no-proof-north-k
orea-sending-weapons-a82790

The Ukraine War is Dumb vs Dumber, but now it has added Dumbest North Korea.

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Tuesday, October 17, 2023 6:24 AM

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Russian Governor Denounced for Saying 'We Didn't Need' Ukraine War

Khanty-Mansiisk autonomous district Governor Natalia Komarova said “We didn’t need” Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine when asked about ill-equipped troops during a meeting with constituents Saturday.

Local activist Yury Ryabtsev filed a petition asking Russia’s Interior Ministry to launch a criminal probe into Komarova, according to the RFE/RL regional affiliate Sibir.Realii.

“Fifth column enemies of the SVO [special military operation] are awaiting their punishment,” Ryabtsev said in a social media post, the outlet said.

The Kremlin has sought total loyalty as it pursues what it calls a “special military operation” in Ukraine, which is entering its 20th month.

The Khanty-Mansiisk regional administration said Monday that Komarova’s words were taken out of context and that she supports the Russian troops.

“Russia did not prepare for a war with the West and was not interested in the conflict with Ukraine,” the administration said in a statement carried by local radio.

“This is exactly what the President [Vladimir Putin] has repeatedly said: an economic and sanctions war has been declared against us, while the Kyiv regime is also carrying out a physical extermination.”

Russia has launched thousands of misdemeanor cases for “discrediting” the Russian army since lawmakers outlawed the act days after Moscow's troops rolled into Ukraine in February 2022.

Repeat offenders risk being jailed for up to seven years, while those convicted of “spreading false information” — another crime under Russia's wartime censorship laws — face up to 15 years in prison.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/10/16/russian-governor-denounced-f
or-saying-we-didnt-need-ukraine-war-a82777

As a reminder for Signym, Russia had ten times the number of deaths compared to Germany during WWII because Russians are fucking stupid. Russia didn't land men on the moon because Russians are fucking stupid. Instead, Russia's moon missions blew up on the launch pad.

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Tuesday, October 17, 2023 8:41 AM

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Pax Americana isn’t declining. It never existed.

American power was at its peak in the '50s and '60s, when the US accounted for nearly half the world's economy and the Cold War made us the world's uncontested military leader as well.

But did that scare off the Soviet Union? It did not. They seized control of Eastern Europe after World War II. They blockaded Berlin. They invaded Hungary in the '50s and Czechoslovakia in the '60s. They fought proxy wars against the US in Korea, Vietnam, Congo, and Nicaragua. As bad as Vladimir Putin is, his record of military intervention pales in comparison to the Cold War USSR.

Hamas's attack on Israel, needless to say, is also nothing new. Israel has literally been at war since its founding, and terrorist groups have never been intimidated by American power.

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Tuesday, October 17, 2023 1:36 PM

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The Ukrainian military on Tuesday used U.S.-supplied longer-range missiles to strike nine Russian helicopters in eastern Ukraine, after Washington secretly shipped the weapons in recent weeks.

The delivery and use on the battlefield, confirmed by two people familiar with the move, marks a major ramp up of the administration’s defense of Ukraine, for the first time providing Kyiv’s forces with the ability to strike Russian targets far behind the front lines.

President Joe Biden had been hesitant to deliver the Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS, for fear of escalating the conflict. The transfer indicates the administration’s calculus has changed after a slow-moving Ukrainian counteroffensive. The two people who confirmed the transfer and usage in Ukraine were granted anonymity to discuss sensitive internal deliberations. The Wall Street Journal first reported the news that the missile had been transferred and used.

The acknowledgment that the ATACMS are in Ukrainian hands and already in use comes after months of secrecy around Biden’s decision to send the longer-range weapons. Ukraine announced Tuesday that its forces had destroyed nine Russian helicopters, as well as other military equipment, in an attack on the cities of Berdyansk and Luhansk in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/17/ukraine-uses-secretly-shipped
-u-s-missiles-to-launch-surprise-strike-00121932

Will the Crimean Bridge be next? Or at least soon? By Xmas 2023?

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023 9:25 AM

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Any significant changes are NOT likely to take place on the battlefield, with ‘Putin banking almost everything on a Trump return’, analysts say

The Ukraine war may remain a “stalemate” throughout 2024, military experts have told The Independent, as hopes fade for a major breakthrough in this year’s counteroffensive against Russia.

Delays in Western military aid handed Moscow time to build heavily fortified defences which have largely held up against months of intense assaults – and constraints in ammunition and weaponry now mean both armies may struggle to sustain the current pace of the war, some analysts believe.

With the prospect of a Middle East conflict likely to further stretch Washington – Ukraine’s largest backer – ahead of a US presidential election in November 2024, Vladimir Putin’s strategy may now be to preserve the current state of the front line and “wait it out”, Western experts say.

With just weeks likely left before seasonal weather changes dampen offensive efforts in Ukraine, Dr Patrick Bury of the University of Bath said: “There hasn’t been a breakthrough, there’s been tactical gains, low-level operational gains – but not strategic.”

“What this summer has shown is that [Ukraine] can fight at company level [of around 100 soldiers] but when you go the next level up to the battalion, they just don’t really have the coordinated experience to fight with all the moving parts”, said Dr Bury, a former Nato analyst and British Army captain.

While the US is due to start providing F-16 fighter jets next year, the sophistication of the Russian air force means Ukraine will still struggle to achieve air superiority, “and you need air superiority really to be able to free up the chance of large-scale manoeuvre”, he added.

Therefore “unless there’s significant widespread packages of training, new weapons and equipment”, Dr Bury said, “it’s looking like 2024 is a bit of a stalemate” – with any significant shifts instead likely to take place off the battlefield.

Agreeing that “we’re [already] seeing a stalemate now”, Dr Frank Ledwidge – a former military intelligence officer, now at the University of Portsmouth – questioned “whether any tactics would have worked against defenders who [Ukraine] didn’t outnumber three to one”.

“In the most basic military algorithms, you need an attack ratio of three [troops] to one, and the Ukrainians don’t have anything like that,” he said. “So barring any significant change in that force ratio there’s no reason really now to assume that future operations will be any different.”

Warning that there are “no game changers”, including F-16s, Dr Ledwidge likened the situation to the Western Front in 1917, adding: “Breakthroughs were made eventually in the First World War, but only when the Americans came in with two million soldiers.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-trump-ukraine-wa
r-map-b2431533.html

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023 11:59 AM

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Originally posted by second:
Any significant changes are NOT likely to take place on the battlefield, with ‘Putin banking almost everything on a Trump return’, analysts say

The Ukraine war may remain a “stalemate” throughout 2024, military experts have told The Independent, as hopes fade for a major breakthrough in this year’s counteroffensive against Russia.

Delays in Western military aid handed Moscow time to build heavily fortified defences which have largely held up against months of intense assaults – and constraints in ammunition and weaponry now mean both armies may struggle to sustain the current pace of the war, some analysts believe.

With the prospect of a Middle East conflict likely to further stretch Washington – Ukraine’s largest backer – ahead of a US presidential election in November 2024, Vladimir Putin’s strategy may now be to preserve the current state of the front line and “wait it out”, Western experts say.

With just weeks likely left before seasonal weather changes dampen offensive efforts in Ukraine, Dr Patrick Bury of the University of Bath said: “There hasn’t been a breakthrough, there’s been tactical gains, low-level operational gains – but not strategic.”

“What this summer has shown is that [Ukraine] can fight at company level [of around 100 soldiers] but when you go the next level up to the battalion, they just don’t really have the coordinated experience to fight with all the moving parts”, said Dr Bury, a former Nato analyst and British Army captain.

While the US is due to start providing F-16 fighter jets next year, the sophistication of the Russian air force means Ukraine will still struggle to achieve air superiority, “and you need air superiority really to be able to free up the chance of large-scale manoeuvre”, he added.

Therefore “unless there’s significant widespread packages of training, new weapons and equipment”, Dr Bury said, “it’s looking like 2024 is a bit of a stalemate” – with any significant shifts instead likely to take place off the battlefield.

Agreeing that “we’re [already] seeing a stalemate now”, Dr Frank Ledwidge – a former military intelligence officer, now at the University of Portsmouth – questioned “whether any tactics would have worked against defenders who [Ukraine] didn’t outnumber three to one”.

“In the most basic military algorithms, you need an attack ratio of three [troops] to one, and the Ukrainians don’t have anything like that,” he said. “So barring any significant change in that force ratio there’s no reason really now to assume that future operations will be any different.”

Warning that there are “no game changers”, including F-16s, Dr Ledwidge likened the situation to the Western Front in 1917, adding: “Breakthroughs were made eventually in the First World War, but only when the Americans came in with two million soldiers.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-trump-ukraine-wa
r-map-b2431533.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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I've been largely ignoring Second's posts on this topic as of late, but I did want to point out that he's now making posts quoting people who are advocating sending in 2 Million US soldiers to fight the war for Ukraine.

Not a great plan, sending in 2 Million of our battle-aged men when we've let in far more battle-aged men among the illegal invaders that have crossed the border under Joe Biden*'s watch.

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023 12:12 PM

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Any significant changes are NOT likely to take place on the battlefield, with ‘Putin banking almost everything on a Trump return’, analysts say

The Ukraine war may remain a “stalemate” throughout 2024, military experts have told The Independent, as hopes fade for a major breakthrough in this year’s counteroffensive against Russia.

Delays in Western military aid handed Moscow time to build heavily fortified defences which have largely held up against months of intense assaults – and constraints in ammunition and weaponry now mean both armies may struggle to sustain the current pace of the war, some analysts believe.

With the prospect of a Middle East conflict likely to further stretch Washington – Ukraine’s largest backer – ahead of a US presidential election in November 2024, Vladimir Putin’s strategy may now be to preserve the current state of the front line and “wait it out”, Western experts say.

With just weeks likely left before seasonal weather changes dampen offensive efforts in Ukraine, Dr Patrick Bury of the University of Bath said: “There hasn’t been a breakthrough, there’s been tactical gains, low-level operational gains – but not strategic.”

“What this summer has shown is that [Ukraine] can fight at company level [of around 100 soldiers] but when you go the next level up to the battalion, they just don’t really have the coordinated experience to fight with all the moving parts”, said Dr Bury, a former Nato analyst and British Army captain.

While the US is due to start providing F-16 fighter jets next year, the sophistication of the Russian air force means Ukraine will still struggle to achieve air superiority, “and you need air superiority really to be able to free up the chance of large-scale manoeuvre”, he added.

Therefore “unless there’s significant widespread packages of training, new weapons and equipment”, Dr Bury said, “it’s looking like 2024 is a bit of a stalemate” – with any significant shifts instead likely to take place off the battlefield.

Agreeing that “we’re [already] seeing a stalemate now”, Dr Frank Ledwidge – a former military intelligence officer, now at the University of Portsmouth – questioned “whether any tactics would have worked against defenders who [Ukraine] didn’t outnumber three to one”.

“In the most basic military algorithms, you need an attack ratio of three [troops] to one, and the Ukrainians don’t have anything like that,” he said. “So barring any significant change in that force ratio there’s no reason really now to assume that future operations will be any different.”

Warning that there are “no game changers”, including F-16s, Dr Ledwidge likened the situation to the Western Front in 1917, adding: “Breakthroughs were made eventually in the First World War, but only when the Americans came in with two million soldiers.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-trump-ukraine-wa
r-map-b2431533.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

I've been largely ignoring Second's posts on this topic as of late, but I did want to point out that he's now making posts quoting people who are advocating sending in 2 Million US soldiers to fight the war for Ukraine.

Not a great plan, sending in 2 Million of our battle-aged men when we've let in far more battle-aged men among the illegal invaders that have crossed the border under Joe Biden*'s watch.

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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.

That's one thing I appreciate about FFF.net: I don't have to scour the M$M for crap and propaganda when SECOND so kindly does it for me.

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023 12:36 PM

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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Pax Americana isn’t declining. It never existed.

American power was at its peak in the '50s and '60s, when the US accounted for nearly half the world's economy and the Cold War made us the world's uncontested military leader as well.

But did that scare off the Soviet Union? It did not. They seized control of Eastern Europe after World War II. They blockaded Berlin. They invaded Hungary in the '50s and Czechoslovakia in the '60s. They fought proxy wars against the US in Korea, Vietnam, Congo, and Nicaragua. As bad as Vladimir Putin is, his record of military intervention pales in comparison to the Cold War USSR.

Hamas's attack on Israel, needless to say, is also nothing new. Israel has literally been at war since its founding, and terrorist groups have never been intimidated by American power.

https://jabberwocking.com/pax-americana-isnt-declining-it-never-existe
d/

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TRANSLATION: We're not really losing bc we never really "won".
Don't let THUGR see this post!

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023 1:29 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Pax Americana isn’t declining. It never existed.

American power was at its peak in the '50s and '60s, when the US accounted for nearly half the world's economy and the Cold War made us the world's uncontested military leader as well.

But did that scare off the Soviet Union? It did not. They seized control of Eastern Europe after World War II. They blockaded Berlin. They invaded Hungary in the '50s and Czechoslovakia in the '60s. They fought proxy wars against the US in Korea, Vietnam, Congo, and Nicaragua. As bad as Vladimir Putin is, his record of military intervention pales in comparison to the Cold War USSR.

Hamas's attack on Israel, needless to say, is also nothing new. Israel has literally been at war since its founding, and terrorist groups have never been intimidated by American power.

https://jabberwocking.com/pax-americana-isnt-declining-it-never-existe
d/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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TRANSLATION: We're not really losing bc we never really "won".
Don't let THUGR see this post!

I think that the days of Ted trying to win Second's approval are certainly comin' to a middle.

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Thursday, October 19, 2023 3:51 AM

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Whatever Putin advises the US to NOT do is the thing that should be done the most:

US decision to supply Atacms missiles to Kyiv ‘just prolongs the agony’ for Ukraine, warns Putin

Vladimir Putin has warned Washington’s decision to supply the long-range army tactical missile systems (Atacms), whose use Kyiv confirmed on Tuesday, “just prolongs the agony” for Ukraine, saying the US is wading deeper into the conflict.

The Russian president, who was speaking earlier to journalists during a visit to China, was quoted by Reuters as saying:

"Firstly, this of course causes harm and creates an additional threat. Secondly, we will of course be able to repel these attacks. War is war.

But most importantly, it fundamentally lacks the capacity to change the situation on the line of contact at all … This is another mistake by the United States …"

Putin added:

"A mistake of a larger scale, as yet invisible but still of great importance, is that the United States is becoming more and more personally drawn into this conflict.

And let no one say that they have nothing to do with this. We believe they do."

Ukraine had repeatedly asked Washington for the long-range missiles to help it attack and disrupt supply lines, airbases and rail networks in Russian-occupied territory.

Several US media outlets reported that Ukraine had used the Atacms missiles in an overnight attack on Tuesday on two airbases in Russian-held territory.

Without mentioning the US missiles, Ukrainian special forces said they had carried out an overnight operation named “Dragonfly” striking a military airfield in Berdiansk and another one in the Luhansk region and resulting in “significant losses” on the Russian side.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/oct/18/russia-ukraine-war-
live-vladimir-putin-xi-jinping-beijing-us-missiles

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Thursday, October 19, 2023 4:11 AM

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

I've been largely ignoring Second's posts on this topic as of late, but I did want to point out that he's now making posts quoting people who are advocating sending in 2 Million US soldiers to fight the war for Ukraine.

Not a great plan, sending in 2 Million of our battle-aged men when we've let in far more battle-aged men among the illegal invaders that have crossed the border under Joe Biden*'s watch.

How was WWI won?
https://www.google.com/search?q=How+was+WWI+won

The conclusion was that tactics ever so slowly learned by the French over several years of suffering were the key. But France needed American manpower and artillery shells to turn the key. The US Army in France, initially, recapitulated every mistake the French had made and had a horrendous number of deaths, but the Americans didn't continue to do the wrong-headed ideas as long as the French had. Riflemen running directly toward German machine gun fire was probably the stupidest tactic ever devised by man. It gets even worse when the Generals decide that attacking Germany's strongest positions with fixed bayonets is noble while attacking the weakest German positions is cowardly. At first, American Generals made the same mistakes as the French had, until the French grew wiser, partially because the dumbest were dead. The Americans got wiser ten times faster than the French and did not require millions of deaths to learn simple ideas. The French told the Americans what the French had done wrong and the Americans eventually understood after only tens of thousands of Americans died rather than more than a million in the case of France.

Russia had the most deaths because it was the stupidest country fighting WWI:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_casualties

A higher death toll happened to Russians in WWII because they got dumber:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties

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Thursday, October 19, 2023 3:52 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Amazing how quickly this can be memory-hoked.

But, yep- Russia is still winning.

I'll let you know when Ukraine collapses.

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Thursday, October 19, 2023 3:54 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

I've been largely ignoring Second's posts on this topic as of late, but I did want to point out that he's now making posts quoting people who are advocating sending in 2 Million US soldiers to fight the war for Ukraine.

Not a great plan, sending in 2 Million of our battle-aged men when we've let in far more battle-aged men among the illegal invaders that have crossed the border under Joe Biden*'s watch.
How was WWI won?
https://www.google.com/search?q=How+was+WWI+won

The conclusion was that tactics ever so slowly learned by the French over several years of suffering were the key. But France needed American manpower and artillery shells to turn the key. The US Army in France, initially, recapitulated every mistake the French had made and had a horrendous number of deaths, but the Americans didn't continue to do the wrong-headed ideas as long as the French had. Riflemen running directly toward German machine gun fire was probably the stupidest tactic ever devised by man. It gets even worse when the Generals decide that attacking Germany's strongest positions with fixed bayonets is noble while attacking the weakest German positions is cowardly. At first, American Generals made the same mistakes as the French had, until the French grew wiser, partially because the dumbest were dead. The Americans got wiser ten times faster than the French and did not require millions of deaths to learn simple ideas. The French told the Americans what the French had done wrong and the Americans eventually understood after only tens of thousands of Americans died rather than more than a million in the case of France.

Russia had the most deaths because it was the stupidest country fighting WWI:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_casualties

A higher death toll happened to Russians in WWII because they got dumber:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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This is not a reply to my comment.

Try again.

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Thursday, October 19, 2023 6:44 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Amazing how quickly this can be memory-hoked.

But, yep- Russia is still winning.

I'll let you know when Ukraine collapses.

Israeli Official Issues Warning to Putin on Russian State TV

An Israeli politician issued a warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin amid the ongoing wars in Israel and Ukraine.

Amir Weitmann, the head of the libertarian caucus in Israel's Likud Party, appeared on Russia's state-run RT News network this week and spoke about fighting between Israel and Hamas militants, as well as Russia's war with Ukraine.

While speaking about recent claims relating to al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, Weitmann criticized Russia, saying that "we're gonna finish this war, we're going to win because we're stronger. After this, Russia will pay the price, believe me, Russia will pay the price."

"Russia is supporting the enemies of Israel. Russia is supporting Nazi people who want to commit genocide on us and Russia will pay the price," Weitmann said. "We're gonna win this war. Afterwards, we're not forgetting what you're doing, we're not forgetting, we will come, we will make sure Ukraine wins. We will make sure that you pay the price for what you have done, you as Russia."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israeli-official-issues-warning-t
o-putin-on-russian-state-tv/ar-AA1iwENX?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=EDGEXST&cvid=7d47470521ea49698b0a8bd6e1fdaf5e&ei=19

Yep...

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Thursday, October 19, 2023 10:34 PM

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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Amazing how quickly this can be memory-hoked.
But, yep- Russia is still winning.
I'll let you know when Ukraine collapses.

THUGR:
Quote:
Israeli Official Issues Warning to Putin on Russian State TV
An Israeli politician issued a warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin amid the ongoing wars in Israel and Ukraine.
Amir Weitmann, the head of the libertarian caucus

A military expert, I'm sure.

Quote:

Quote:
in Israel's Likud Party, appeared on Russia's state-run RT News network this week and spoke about fighting between Israel and Hamas militants, as well as Russia's war with Ukraine.

While speaking about recent claims relating to al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, Weitmann criticized Russia, saying that "we're gonna finish this war, we're going to win because we're stronger. After this, Russia will pay the price, believe me, Russia will pay the price."

"Russia is supporting the enemies of Israel. Russia is supporting Nazi people who want to commit genocide on us and Russia will pay the price," Weitmann said. "We're gonna win this war. Afterwards, we're not forgetting what you're doing, we're not forgetting, we will come, we will make sure Ukraine wins. We will make sure that you pay the price for what you have done, you as Russia."

Yep...

Son, do you really think that Israel can beat Russia?
Dood, it would be like watching a Chihuahua attack a bear.

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Thursday, October 19, 2023 11:47 PM

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Originally posted by THG:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Amazing how quickly this can be memory-hoked.

But, yep- Russia is still winning.

I'll let you know when Ukraine collapses.

Israeli Official Issues Warning to Putin on Russian State TV

An Israeli politician issued a warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin amid the ongoing wars in Israel and Ukraine.

Amir Weitmann, the head of the libertarian caucus in Israel's Likud Party, appeared on Russia's state-run RT News network this week and spoke about fighting between Israel and Hamas militants, as well as Russia's war with Ukraine.

While speaking about recent claims relating to al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, Weitmann criticized Russia, saying that "we're gonna finish this war, we're going to win because we're stronger. After this, Russia will pay the price, believe me, Russia will pay the price."

"Russia is supporting the enemies of Israel. Russia is supporting Nazi people who want to commit genocide on us and Russia will pay the price," Weitmann said. "We're gonna win this war. Afterwards, we're not forgetting what you're doing, we're not forgetting, we will come, we will make sure Ukraine wins. We will make sure that you pay the price for what you have done, you as Russia."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israeli-official-issues-warning-t
o-putin-on-russian-state-tv/ar-AA1iwENX?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=EDGEXST&cvid=7d47470521ea49698b0a8bd6e1fdaf5e&ei=19

Yep...

T

Dude. Half of your fucking party is supporting Hamas terrorists right now.

What are you worried about Russia for?

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Chaos erupts as pro-Palestinian protesters demand ceasefire at the Capitol; at least 3 allegedly assault cops

https://nypost.com/2023/10/18/chaos-erupts-as-pro-palestinian-proteste
rs-take-to-the-capitol-at-least-three-arrested/

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Hundreds of Pro-Palestinian protesters converged on the US Capitol complex Wednesday, demanding a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Capitol Police, which tightened security in advance of the protests said an unspecified amount of demonstrators were arrested, including at least three on charges of assaulting a police officer.

Emotions were tense as the largely progressive crowd felt betrayed by President Biden and other leading Democrats for backing Israel’s bid to eliminate the terrorist threat in the Gaza Strip.

“I think the White House and everyone thinks we’re just gonna sit back and let this just continue to happen. No!” Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) declared to a sea of activists outside the Cannon House Office Building.

As Biden Turns against Israel, Netanyahu Must Stand Strong

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20068/biden-turns-against-israel

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On Sunday, U.S. President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan all announced that the United States expects Israel to permit "humanitarian aid" into Gaza.

The implications of this position are devastating for Israel. According to reports, there are "hundreds of trucks" lined up on the border in Egypt, poised to enter the Gaza Strip carrying so-called "humanitarian aid." These trucks, if permitted to enter, will not be inspected in any significant way. There is no reason to believe they are carrying baby formula and foodstuffs that will be delivered to the needy. There is every reason to believe they are carrying war materiel and jihadist fighters who have arrived to augment Hamas.

To the extent that there is food in the trucks, who will it feed? The hostages? The infirm? Who will the medicine be delivered to? The hostages? Will the fuel in the trucks be used in refrigerators to feed the captive Israelis?

Of course not.

Hamas is Gaza. All the "ministries" in Gaza are Hamas. All hospitals are Hamas. Hamas's military headquarters is located under Shifa Hospital.

So whatever and whoever is in the trucks carrying "humanitarian aid," all of it will be delivered to Hamas and will be distributed to benefit Hamas.

The idea that it could be otherwise is absurd. And the fact that the Biden administration is arguing this absurdity is an outrage.

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Ukraine's Counteroffensive Is More Successful Than You Think

The focus on the stalled land war obscures major successes in Crimea and the Black Sea.

By Oz Katerji, a British Lebanese freelance journalist focusing on conflict, human rights, and the Middle East, and Vladislav Davidzon, the European culture correspondent at Tablet. | October 20, 2023, 1:59 PM

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/10/20/ukraine-crimea-black-sea-countero
ffensive-russia-fleet-navy-drones-war/

Recent coverage of the war in Ukraine in the Western media has focused heavily on Kyiv’s land offensive, especially attempts to push toward the Black Sea coast. Much of the scrutiny, rightly or wrongly, has been on Kyiv’s lack of significant progress so far this year, with nothing comparable to last year’s breakthrough offensives in Kharkiv and Kherson.

While some of this criticism may be justified, the almost singular Western focus on territorial breakthroughs has distracted from the fact that Ukraine is fighting a medium- to long-term war on multiple fronts against a significantly larger and heavily entrenched foe. What’s more, the lack of a major Ukrainian land advance obscures the very real battlefield successes Ukraine has had in other theaters of the conflict—most notably in Russian-occupied Crimea and the Black Sea.

A crucial part of Kyiv’s long-term plan for the war is to push Russia out of the Crimean Peninsula and the rest of the Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine’s coastline. Since the start of the full-scale invasion, Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, headquartered at the Crimean port of Sevastopol, has been a critical component of Moscow’s war effort. Russian warships operating out of Sevastopol have enforced a blockade of Ukraine’s coastline and launched cruise missiles to rain hell onto Ukrainian cities and infrastructure.

But over the last several months, Ukraine has achieved a series of startling victories in and around Crimea, including missile strikes against the Kerch Strait bridge and multiple daring attacks on the Black Sea Fleet itself—with major impacts on the Russians’ ability to operate on the peninsula and in the western Black Sea.

In September, the Ukrainians carried out a series of missile strikes against Russian naval assets in Sevastopol, including a landing ship, a submarine, and the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet itself—reportedly while several high-ranking commanders were inside. Some of these strikes were carried out using Storm Shadow cruise missiles recently supplied by Britain and France. The Ukrainians have also ratcheted up their strikes against Russian logistics, repair, and infrastructure hubs on the peninsula with the intent of degrading Russia’s ability to support its fleet. Earlier this month, Kyiv claimed responsibility for two further attacks on the Russian fleet, using a new type of sea drone to strike the Russian cruise missile carrier Buyan and carrying out a sabotage attack on the Pavel Derzhavin, a Russian patrol ship. These strikes came after the Ukrainians had methodically attrited Russian anti-missile defense structures in Crimea over the previous weeks.

These successes constitute a major breakthrough for Ukraine. Its strikes against Crimea have now made it all but impossible for the Russian Black Sea Fleet to continue to operate freely in the western Black Sea. The Russian Navy has responded by moving its warships farther east, to the naval base in Novorossiysk, a port city on the Russian mainland. The effect is to push the Russian fleet farther and farther into the eastern recesses of the Black Sea—a step toward Kyiv’s long-term objective of removing the Russians from the occupied peninsula by rendering it unfeasible for operations. This combination of attrition and displacement has had the effect of diminishing the Russian fleet’s capacity to patrol the waters near the Ukrainian ports, partially relieving pressure on the international shipping lanes in the Black Sea. This could allow Kyiv to achieve another goal of these operations: opening up Odesa’s three deep-water ports to international merchant shipping for grain and other goods.

The Russian blockade of the Ukrainian ports had been alleviated by a Turkish and U.N. deal brokered in the summer of 2022 that had allowed certain amounts of Ukrainian goods—especially grain—to be exported through civilian shipping corridors. Moscow had been offered limited sanctions relief in exchange. The Kremlin withdrew from the agreement in July 2023, reestablished a blockade of all commercial shipping flowing to Odesa, and began a series of drone and missile strikes against Ukrainian grain export facilities. The cumulative effect of the blockade was to make insurance prices for shipping in and out of Ukraine spike and allow Russian grain exports to start dominating the markets. In August, Kyiv’s response was to institute an alternative humanitarian sea corridor that ran closely along the Ukrainian coast and would be protected by the navies of NATO members Bulgaria and Romania. The gamble that Russian threats to interdict shipping were a bluff and that they would not fire on internationally flagged ships paid off. By now, 32 intrepid international vessels have left Ukraine’s ports for Africa and elsewhere with their holds full of grain.

Ukraine has also undertaken successful commando raids by small teams of elite naval infantry to achieve its objectives. In Crimea, Ukraine managed to destroy or disable Russian anti-air missile installations in preparation for bombardment of the peninsula. Among other objectives, these actions allowed Ukraine to retake strategically located oil and gas drilling rigs captured by the Russians at the start of the war, which they had used for maritime radar surveillance. The fact that Kyiv only has a limited arsenal of Western-provided precision long-range missiles means that the Ukrainians have had to be very resourceful with their deployment, including by eliminating as much of Russia’s air defense as possible before launching them.

At the same time, the Ukrainians have also been successful in developing a new generation of sophisticated, locally made sea drones capable of striking past the defenses of the Russian fleet. The Russian anti-missile and traditional ship defense systems have proved incapable of offering protection against this new generation of sea drones, including the Ukrainian “Sea Baby” series of partially submerged attack drones. Representing a tiny fraction of the cost of an advanced Russian battleship, landing ship, or submarine, these relatively inexpensive and quickly constructed drones have proved themselves to be a radical innovation.

By the end of the summer, the Ukrainians had proved not only capable of sinking or maiming serious Russian naval assets, but also of making the further use of Sevastopol unsustainable for the Black Sea Fleet. The British Ministry of Defense assessed that Russia had “relocated many of its prestige assets—including cruise missile capable ships and submarines—from Sevastopol to operating and basing areas further east, such as Novorossiysk.” Furthermore, on Oct. 5, the leader of the Russian-occupied Georgian region of Abkhazia, which is located even farther east than Novorossiysk, made public statements that his Moscow-backed region would soon host a “permanent point of deployment” for the Russian Navy. Such a base would be located almost at the very eastern end of the Black Sea, suggesting that the Russians have concluded that stationing naval assets anywhere near Ukraine and its now heavily mined shoreline is untenable.

These successes have had the effect of severely restricting Russia’s range of mobility in the Black Sea. British Armed Forces Minister James Heappey said, “The functional defeat of the Black Sea Fleet, and I would argue that is what it is, because it has been forced to disperse to ports from which it cannot have an effect on Ukraine, is an enormous credit.”

Given that the total liberation of Crimea is a key objective for Kyiv, these significant Ukrainian successes must be put into the same context as the other developments in this multifront conflict—something that much of the Western press and commentariat have failed to do. By effectively dislodging the Russian Black Sea Fleet from Sevastopol and unilaterally opening a grain shipment corridor, Kyiv has achieved stunning successes with only limited naval capabilities. While Ukraine is still a long way from hoisting its flag over Simferopol, the Crimean capital, this kind of progress would have been unthinkable last year.

The success of Ukrainian naval operations against the Russian fleet has been all the more remarkable as Ukraine functionally no longer has a navy. Since 2014, the Russians have sunk, captured, or incapacitated all major Ukrainian warships except the flagship frigate Hetman Sahaidachny, which the Ukrainians themselves scuttled in early 2022 to prevent it from falling into Russian hands. Ukrainians have begun to routinely crack jokes about the mighty Russian Black Sea Fleet being sunk by a nation with no navy, but Russian naval officers are unlikely to be smiling.

The Ukrainian military has proved itself capable of incorporating new equipment into its arsenal quickly and to devastating effect—whether that be homegrown sea drones or Anglo-French-supplied missiles. If Western governments want to see more successes on the battlefield, providing Ukraine with more and longer-range missiles to continue denying Russia the freedom to move in Crimea would be a good place to start. Either way, Western observers should stop focusing only on the land war and put these remarkable Ukrainian achievements into the context they deserve. Otherwise, arguing in favor of providing Kyiv with the tools it needs to liberate its territories will be harder than it needs to be.

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Stalin's Millennials: Nostalgia, Trauma, and Nationalism

Perspectives: “Russia is going to wake up to a very difficult reality”

A Q&A with Georgian author Tinatin Japaridze | Oct 20, 2023

https://eurasianet.org/perspectives-russia-is-going-to-wake-up-to-a-ve
ry-difficult-reality

I wrote this book because of what my family had gone through under Stalin and the trauma I inherited from them. I thought, “Once I’ve gotten everything on paper, I can really forget about it.”

Unfortunately, the war made me realize that the distance that I thought I had achieved was an illusion. The Russian playbook, whether we call it Russian or Soviet, is still very much there, and it has not really been updated. One of the reasons why I thought that Russia was not going to invade was that I thought Russian authorities had learned from past mistakes. And I was very, very wrong. That was absolutely not the case.

Eurasianet: One of the things you write in your book is that there has been no de-Stalinization process. Not only that, there has not been a reckoning with the Soviet past.

TJ: We tend to view Russia as a direct inheritor of all of the Soviet legacies, good and bad. They did not deal with the repercussions, the implications, the guilt, the trauma, just like the Georgians and Ukrainians and other post-Soviet countries did not necessarily deal with the trauma, the victimhood. The attitude was “If we don’t talk about it, it’ll go away.” It is very true for my native Georgia to a point where, if you brought up the Soviet period, a lot of people would say, “I just don’t want to talk about it.” Not because it is still painful, but people just did not want to acknowledge that those 70 years actually happened.

I think that was somewhat true for Ukraine too until they no longer could ignore what had happened. We saw very recently images of Ukrainians taking down the Soviet insignia from various monuments. I see it as one of the ways that the country is starting to come to terms with what has happened. In Russia’s case, they have not reckoned with that period because someone would have had to take responsibility.

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What do you care?

Your Democrat Party uses the Stalin playbook as their Bible.

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Saturday, October 21, 2023 12:52 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
What do you care?

Your Democrat Party uses the Stalin playbook as their Bible.

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The life expectancy chart shows Russia and the USA both had a recent decrease in years lived. What is the common cause? Large numbers of stupid Russians and even stupider Trumptards making poor life style decisions: smoking, drinking, obesity, illegal drugs, suicide, etc. Even the stupidest person typically has total control of what they eat, drink, breath, inject, and vote for, so it is unsurprising when the stupidest make pretty darn bad (and life shortening) decisions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy

Being a Trumptard will shorten your life, as will stupidly playing Russian Roulette by fighting with Ukraine.

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Saturday, October 21, 2023 1:18 PM

We're still going to pretend that nobody who votes Democrat smokes, drinks, eats themselves obese, partakes in illegal drugs or commits suicide, huh?

Delusional.

Also, heard that bullshit lie out of you a thousand times already. *yawn*

Get fucked, idiot.

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Saturday, October 21, 2023 2:03 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
We're still going to pretend that nobody who votes Democrat smokes, drinks, eats themselves obese, partakes in illegal drugs or commits suicide, huh?

Delusional.

Also, heard that bullshit lie out of you a thousand times already. *yawn*

Get fucked, idiot.

This will be kind of subtle for you, but I know black people who would never vote for Trump because they are strongly aware of how much the Republican party detests them. The subtle part is that they live like a Trumptard and have the same low life expectancy.

To a decent American, liberty is the freedom to do what you ought, not what you want. But to a typical American, Trumptard or black who will have a shortened life span, Liberty is for doing what they want, not what they ought. They confuse the idea of Liberty as the freedom to be licentious. They want to smoke, drink, overeat, lie to their wife, cheat on their taxes, break rules when they can't be detected, etc. and they go at full speed doing what they want, not what they ought. That is their idea of Liberty and they will pay for their confusion about the difference between want and ought with their life.

Russians want Ukraine but they ought, according to international law, to leave Ukraine to be itself. Doing what they want will shorten Russians' lives.

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Saturday, October 21, 2023 5:06 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
We're still going to pretend that nobody who votes Democrat smokes, drinks, eats themselves obese, partakes in illegal drugs or commits suicide, huh?

Delusional.

Also, heard that bullshit lie out of you a thousand times already. *yawn*

Get fucked, idiot.
This will be kind of subtle for you, but I know black people

Liar. You don't know any black people.

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Saturday, October 21, 2023 5:35 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Amazing how quickly this can be memory-hoked.
But, yep- Russia is still winning.
I'll let you know when Ukraine collapses.

THUGR:
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Israeli Official Issues Warning to Putin on Russian State TV
An Israeli politician issued a warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin amid the ongoing wars in Israel and Ukraine.
Amir Weitmann, the head of the libertarian caucus

A military expert, I'm sure.

Quote:

Quote:
in Israel's Likud Party, appeared on Russia's state-run RT News network this week and spoke about fighting between Israel and Hamas militants, as well as Russia's war with Ukraine.

While speaking about recent claims relating to al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, Weitmann criticized Russia, saying that "we're gonna finish this war, we're going to win because we're stronger. After this, Russia will pay the price, believe me, Russia will pay the price."

"Russia is supporting the enemies of Israel. Russia is supporting Nazi people who want to commit genocide on us and Russia will pay the price," Weitmann said. "We're gonna win this war. Afterwards, we're not forgetting what you're doing, we're not forgetting, we will come, we will make sure Ukraine wins. We will make sure that you pay the price for what you have done, you as Russia."

Yep...

Son, do you really think that Israel can beat Russia?

Where's the Su-57? The war in Ukraine is what fifth-generation fighter jets were made for, but Russia's Felon has largely been missing in action

Russian state media has touted the Su-57 fighter jet as a formidable, fifth-generation aircraft.
It's the type of jet that would theoretically thrive in the Ukraine war, but it's been mostly absent.
Aviation experts and Western intel say Russia may not want to risk any reputational damage.
Russia's air force has yet to break through Ukraine's formidable air defenses and achieve air superiority, which is somewhat surprising given that the Russians supposedly have something the Ukrainians do not — a fifth-generation fighter jet.

The high-threat environment in Ukraine, where pilots in older aircraft are having to fly low to the ground to skirt enemy radars for fear of being shot out of the sky by a surface-to-air missile, is exactly what fifth-generation stealth fighters were made for.

So where has Russia's much-touted Su-57 been all this time?

The Su-57 — known by NATO as 'Felon' — has largely been missing in action beyond possibly firing missiles from Russian territory last year. Western intelligence and aviation experts say Russia's reluctance to employ the aircraft in combat suggests Moscow may not be confident in the jet's purported stealth capabilities and technology and likely wants to avoid any potential reputational damage that could come from losing one of these aircraft to Kyiv's surface-to-air missile systems.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/where-s-the-su-57-the-war-in-ukra
ine-is-what-fifth-generation-fighter-jets-were-made-for-but-russia-s-felon-has-largely-been-missing-in-action/ar-AA1iBKRU?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=EDGEXST&cvid=907b3384e5b24454b95c53bb4e842c02&ei=26

Too funny comrade, too funny.

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Saturday, October 21, 2023 8:30 PM

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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Amazing how quickly this can be memory-hoked.
But, yep- Russia is still winning.
I'll let you know when Ukraine collapses.

THUGR:
Quote:
Israeli Official Issues Warning to Putin on Russian State TV
An Israeli politician issued a warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin amid the ongoing wars in Israel and Ukraine.
Amir Weitmann, the head of the libertarian caucus

A military expert, I'm sure.

Quote:

Quote:
in Israel's Likud Party, appeared on Russia's state-run RT News network this week and spoke about fighting between Israel and Hamas militants, as well as Russia's war with Ukraine.

While speaking about recent claims relating to al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, Weitmann criticized Russia, saying that "we're gonna finish this war, we're going to win because we're stronger. After this, Russia will pay the price, believe me, Russia will pay the price."

"Russia is supporting the enemies of Israel. Russia is supporting Nazi people who want to commit genocide on us and Russia will pay the price," Weitmann said. "We're gonna win this war. Afterwards, we're not forgetting what you're doing, we're not forgetting, we will come, we will make sure Ukraine wins. We will make sure that you pay the price for what you have done, you as Russia."

Yep...

Son, do you really think that Israel can beat Russia?

Where's the Su-57? The war in Ukraine is what fifth-generation fighter jets were made for, but Russia's Felon has largely been missing in action

Russian state media has touted the Su-57 fighter jet as a formidable, fifth-generation aircraft.
It's the type of jet that would theoretically thrive in the Ukraine war, but it's been mostly absent.
Aviation experts and Western intel say Russia may not want to risk any reputational damage.
Russia's air force has yet to break through Ukraine's formidable air defenses and achieve air superiority, which is somewhat surprising given that the Russians supposedly have something the Ukrainians do not — a fifth-generation fighter jet.

The high-threat environment in Ukraine, where pilots in older aircraft are having to fly low to the ground to skirt enemy radars for fear of being shot out of the sky by a surface-to-air missile, is exactly what fifth-generation stealth fighters were made for.

So where has Russia's much-touted Su-57 been all this time?

The Su-57 — known by NATO as 'Felon' — has largely been missing in action beyond possibly firing missiles from Russian territory last year. Western intelligence and aviation experts say Russia's reluctance to employ the aircraft in combat suggests Moscow may not be confident in the jet's purported stealth capabilities and technology and likely wants to avoid any potential reputational damage that could come from losing one of these aircraft to Kyiv's surface-to-air missile systems.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/where-s-the-su-57-the-war-in-ukra
ine-is-what-fifth-generation-fighter-jets-were-made-for-but-russia-s-felon-has-largely-been-missing-in-action/ar-AA1iBKRU?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=EDGEXST&cvid=907b3384e5b24454b95c53bb4e842c02&ei=26

Too funny comrade, too funny.

T

TED. DUMMY. YOUR OWN PARTY IS SUPPORTING THE ENEMIES OF ISRAEL.

You have no opinion on this though?

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Saturday, October 21, 2023 9:58 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Now, how did THAT happen??
The dratted double!

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Saturday, October 21, 2023 10:01 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Where's the F-35?

In the hangar, of course. Getting fixed... again.

Quote:
The number of major F-35 flaws is shrinking, but the Pentagon is keeping details of the problems under wraps
July 2021

WASHINGTON — As the F-35 program inches its way through operational testing, the number of critical technical deficiencies is slowly dwindling, dropping from 11 critical deficiencies in January to seven in July.

https://www.defensenews.com/smr/hidden-troubles-f35/2021/07/16/the-num
ber-of-major-f-35-flaws-is-shrinking-but-the-pentagon-is-keeping-details-of-the-problems-under-wraps/

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The inside story of two supersonic flights that changed how America operates the F-35

WASHINGTON — The F-35 pilot who flew the two infamous supersonic missions that inflicted damage to the jet’s stealth coating and tail wants to set the record straight.

. . .

The Defense Department considers the issue “closed” as of December 2019 despite no plan to correct the problem. The F-35 Joint Program Office explained that “the operator value provided by a complete fix does not justify the estimated cost of that fix.”

https://www.defensenews.com/smr/hidden-troubles-f35/2020/05/22/the-ins
ide-story-of-two-supersonic-flights-that-changed-how-america-operates-the-f-35/

So don't, yanno, fly it too fast or it'll break.

That's not counting the software downloads that take hours.

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Saturday, October 21, 2023 11:02 PM

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So don't, yanno, fly it too fast or it'll break.

That's not counting the software downloads that take hours.

Or the monthly subscription costs for heated seats and additional horsepower.

No worries though. They can just ask Second to post a link for the mods to unlock that stuff for free.

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Sunday, October 22, 2023 8:27 AM

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Oct 21 - Marcus Keupp maintains that Russia can no longer gain the upper hand in this conflict. While hostilities continue, strategically, the war is already lost for Russia.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/renowned-military-economist-ru
ssia-can-no-longer-win-the-war/ar-AA1iDzyH

What was Keupp saying in March?

Marcus Keupp, ETH Zurich Military Economist predicts Russia losing this Year: "There is no other course" [In German] March 16, 2023

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkrainianConflict/comments/128jxdx/marcus_keu
pp_eth_zurich_military_economist/

ETH military economist Marcus Keupp believes he can calculate the end of the Ukraine war. He spreads this prophecy in the media. Is such a prediction serious, and why would a scientist risk their reputation?

Mr. Keupp, how would you describe the current war situation in Ukraine? What is the situation in the contested area of Bachmut?

Today is day 386 of the three-day "special operation" of the Russian armed forces. Seriously: Since January, we have seen the last Russian initiative that is still possible in this war in the Donbass. This initiative is doomed to fail because the Russians are gradually running out of material and personnel. The situation around Bachmut also has no strategic significance for the overall front line. Ukraine is also currently finishing training its tank crews in Germany and Poland. This means that we can expect a Ukrainian counteroffensive with Western tanks in mid-April.

How will it look like?

Ukraine will probably advance from Zaporizhia via Melitopol to the Black Sea coast, thus dividing the front into two parts. With a swing to the west, they could then encircle the Russian forces between Melitopol and Nova Kakhovka. In addition, they could place HIMARS missile systems on the coast and thus attack the military installations on the Crimea and cut off logistics. That will be the moment when the Russian defeat becomes apparent. That is my prediction. That's why I also said: Russia will have militarily lost the war by October. The military situation will be comparable to 1944 when the European war was lost for the Axis powers.

You rely mainly on numbers: you say that up to 600 Russian soldiers are killed every day. The Russians lose 5 tanks and 6 armored personnel carriers every day. Where do you get these numbers from?

I'll give you an example with the tanks. There are good estimates available for this. One comes from the Swedish Defense Agency FOI. The other is the estimate from IISS in London. These institutes estimate there are about 2,900 operational Russian combat tanks. Now you have to set this against the loss rate. For this, I use the Oryx blog. Today, we are at 1,845 tanks that Russia has lost - about 5 per day of war. The remaining reserve of 1,055 tanks is therefore still sufficient for a maximum of 211 days of war. And this doesn't even take into account the technology effect - Russia is mobilizing increasingly older tanks, while Ukraine is receiving modern Western systems.

And where do the Oryx data come from?

Oryx is a collective that analyzes Russian losses. It is the best data source on Russian losses available. There are various individuals behind it, who are based in Poland and Turkey and count the losses. This source is probably still conservative because it only counts what is actually geo-located in pictures or videos.

And suppose Russia still has more reserves?

What could the Russians possibly have left? They have the myth of an alleged wonder weapon: the Armata T-14 battle tank, which we have not yet seen on the battlefield. In the spring offensive, we will see pictures of Western Leopard 2 and Challenger 2 tanks that can shoot significantly further than Russian tanks and thus eliminate them from a distance. If you add up the technology boost among the Ukrainians, the Russian loss rate, and the depleting resources, then no other outcome is conceivable than a Russian defeat.

You believe that Russia will not use nuclear weapons. How can you be sure of this?

Nuclear weapons are a psychological weapon that Putin is using deliberately. Especially in Germany, it has an impact. Just mentioning it creates the typical German discourse of fear. I don't need to explain to you that a nuclear war cannot be won. Any nuclear use would immediately lead to escalation, even in conventional terms. Putin cannot have any interest in that.

However, the war is still characterized by many uncertainties: weather, soldiers' morale, material, and ultimately political decisions. Do you have no doubts?

You can verify these numbers. There is a large open-source intelligence community to which I belong, which obtains satellite images or asks other people what they have observed on-site. We have pictures from the population and data from experts. War analysis has changed radically. Previously, we had military experts who made claims. Or we had formulas or theoretical models with which something was calculated. Today, you can see almost in real-time what is happening on the front line. This war is the most documented war in all of human history, not least because of social media.

How transparent can numbers on Russian reserves be?

There are all sorts of propaganda numbers floating around, like 12,000 to 15,000 operational Russian tanks. I looked at that and come up with a figure of around 3,000 operational tanks at the time of the 2022 invasion. There can't be more than that. Why would the Russians reactivate outdated equipment like the T-62 and T-55 if they still have much better tanks in their garage? It doesn't make sense.

Would China be able to quickly arm Russia?

How would that work? The war material would have to be transported to the front by train. For a Russian fire frequency of 50,000 artillery shells per day along the entire front - as in the summer of 2022 - you would need a freight train of 1,600 tons per day via the Trans-Siberian Railway. This would not only be logistically very difficult, but these trains would also be immediately visible on satellite images, and secondary sanctions would then be imposed against China.

And yet we are constantly surprised, not least of all after the start of the Russian invasion. When was the last time you were in Ukraine and saw the situation on the ground?

Since 2012, I have been studying Russia, the Russian army, the local arms industry, and in particular, the Northeast Passage. I also published a book on this topic in 2015. Since the invasion in Donbass in the summer of 2014, I have refrained from traveling to Russia because it has become clear to me that the Putin regime no longer takes into account law and order.

Do you speak Russian?

I do speak some Russian for everyday use, but I would certainly not call myself an Eastern Europe or Russia expert. There are others who know much more about civil society than I do. My primary concern is to provide an economic and military assessment of the situation.

If your predictions are correct, then the Russians should be aware of the impending defeat. Why do they continue the war anyway? Are they guided by an irrational belief in victory?

Putin has unleashed dynamics that he can no longer control. In Russian culture, it is very important to show strength outwardly. Otherwise, you will quickly be questioned. What Putin is doing in the war actually has nothing to do with the war but rather with securing his internal system of rule.

How can you exclude the possibility that the oligarch-funded special troops will continue their wars with or without Putin and destabilize the region? This would mean that there would be no end to the war as you predict, let alone an orderly retreat.

I cannot exclude this possibility, on the contrary. There is not only the Wagner group, but also the Slavic Corps - from which Wagner emerged - and Patriot - Schoigu's private force. Gazprom has also just founded its own private army, "Staf-Zentr." In addition, there are four or five others. It is no coincidence that air defense systems are currently being installed everywhere in Moscow. This is preparation for internal conflicts.

What scenarios are you considering?

Russian oligarchs or military officials could certainly come up with the idea of eliminating Putin with a few targeted ballistic missiles and taking power themselves. But if Putin wants to prevent this, he would have to withdraw Russian troops from Ukraine to forcibly secure the internal stability of his regime. Even so, the end of the war could come earlier than expected. So there is no contradiction.

The Russian side is often attributed with opacity. Does this give the Russians a strategic advantage?

On the propaganda front, this gives them a massive advantage. They falsify statistics, tell fairy tales. Russia has been very successful in doing this for the past twenty years. Someone like me, who states this soberly, is now perceived as an exotic or speculator. This shows how deeply Russian propaganda has infiltrated Europe.

If propaganda supposedly has such a strong effect, couldn't it also be that Western politics loses patience, seeks a speedy peace and thus undermines your military scenario of a Russian defeat?

The military situation documents a brutal, objective reality that does not submit to political discourse. Power relations are negotiated on the battlefield. The result is measured in destroyed systems and dead people. It sounds cruel, but that's the way it is. It does not matter whether it is the Germans or the French, at least not in the political sense. Both Scholz and Macron come from a long tradition of friendship with Russia, even though both states now support Ukraine with weapons. I don't listen to political discourse anymore. What counts for me are the objective facts. And I observe them in actual combat. There is absolutely no indication that Western military support would diminish, even if in the media the appeasers are disproportionately represented.

In this conversation, you give the impression that Europe is very pro-Russian. However, the reality is the opposite: large majorities in the West support Ukraine.

Not in Germany and France. But one should not overestimate this, because Germany is not a militarily decisive power. On the contrary, Germany would be best off fully transferring its weapon systems to Ukraine. Then the Russian aggression would be neutralized, and the currently dilapidated Bundeswehr could be transformed into an army for the 21st century. Fortunately, the security of Europe does not depend on Germany, otherwise we would already be part of the new Russian empire.

Do you consider yourself to be an outsider in Germany?

Fortunately, I can say that I have not spent the majority of my adult life in Germany and am therefore immune to the strange emotional culture of debate there. I am alternately called a hyper-realist and a NATO warmonger. I can live with that. I think that in twenty years, we will look back with horror at some German politicians and the Schröder and Merkel governments. We will shudder with pleasure and say, thankfully, it turned out well in the end.

What do you mean exactly?

Think about what would have happened if the war had only come in ten years: even more Russian money in Europe, Nord Stream 2 completed, Germany getting 70 percent of its energy from Russia. Would the Germans still have supported Ukraine then? It sounds cynical, but luckily this war is happening now.

On February 24, the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. Former German Brigadier General Erich Vad said on television that Putin would win this war, and it would last 'a few days and no more.' Former US General Ben Hodges prophesied that the war would end in the summer of 2022. What did you think when you heard that?

I assume that some members of the former political and military elites in Germany have been working for Russian interests or are still lobbying for them. This will be a very interesting topic for the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, because providing economic or propagandistic support for war crimes is also punishable. When a German officer is retired, he no longer has a duty to behave well. He can then criticize the government, criticize the Bundeswehr, and make predictions and value judgments. But the oath he took to the Federal Republic still applies for life.

Do you also get annoyed with these colleagues because they damage the reputation of your field?

I get annoyed because they - consciously or naively - spread the Kremlin's narrative and are guided by emotional sentiments instead of relying on historical and military facts. There are reasonable military experts, such as Markus Reisner or Gustav Gressel in Austria, who see the course of the war as more conservative or pessimistic than I do. I can live with that. History will judge us. In October, one can check if what I said was true. In ten years, one can look at me with historical distance.

Does the thought that the war might not be over by fall make you nervous? Then your expertise, your calculation system would have failed.

No, because I don't believe in the Russian propaganda narrative. I look at: What does Russia really look like? Don't go to Moscow, go to Smolensk or Pskov. That already tells you a lot about the Russian reality. If you have seen these places, you no longer believe in Russian strength.

In your interviews, you give journalists and the public exactly what they want to hear: the war will end soon, the Ukrainians will win, the Russians will withdraw. This scenario is tempting because it corresponds to our desires. How do you immunize yourself against wishful thinking?

I'm not so sure that everyone really wants this outcome. But I've constantly adjusted my assessment to the situation. And I always ask myself the same question: Is what I'm saying still true? I wasn't as optimistic at the beginning of this war as I am now. Even in the summer of 2022, I said: Ukraine is successfully resisting the invasion, but it's too early to claim they can win. One must remain critical of oneself. I try to read and analyze material for several hours every day. As a scientist, I have a reputation to lose.

You are a military economist at ETH and train Swiss officers. Why do you risk your reputation with risky predictions?

We are in a historic hour, in which you cannot stand aside. Either you stand against this regime, or you become a collaborator of it. In February 2022, I asked myself: Do you speak out now, or do you remain silent? And then I decided: I do not tolerate this empire projecting its power into the West, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, and that power should rule over law again. I will use my analytical skills to accompany this war as objectively and fact-based as possible. And this means in particular addressing the Kremlin's imperialist policies, which ultimately aim against the West. You can't do this without any danger.

What do you mean by that?

If something were to happen to me, it would be the crowning achievement of an analyst's life. Don't you think Switzerland is a safe space. Geneva is full of Russian agents, just like Vienna and Berlin. Officially, they are of course "cultural attachés". I can't stress it enough: the only thing the Russians respect is strength. So you can either collaborate - even through tacit tolerance - or resist.

So, there is an emotional component in your engagement after all?

As far as I'm concerned, the historians may laugh at me in ten years. Maybe the war will already be over in August. Then the trolls on the internet will say: He was much too conservative. But I cannot remain silent at this hour.

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Oct 21 - Marcus Keupp maintains that Russia can no longer gain the upper hand in this conflict. While hostilities continue, strategically, the war is already lost for Russia.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/renowned-military-economist-ru
ssia-can-no-longer-win-the-war/ar-AA1iDzyH

What was Keupp saying in March?

Apparently you didn't know the answer to that back in march, because your dumb ass has been fearmongering a nuclear strike.

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You believe that Russia will not use nuclear weapons. How can you be sure of this?

Nuclear weapons are a psychological weapon that Putin is using deliberately. Especially in Germany, it has an impact. Just mentioning it creates the typical German discourse of fear. I don't need to explain to you that a nuclear war cannot be won. Any nuclear use would immediately lead to escalation, even in conventional terms. Putin cannot have any interest in that.

Yeah. That's EXACTLY what I told you whenever you'd bring it up.

As for his numbers, there's no proving any of them. This isn't tracking how movies do in the box office where there are actual receipts. By his own admission this is statistics he gets from the Swedish Defense Agency FOI and IISS in London. I'll invite you to look on a map and tell me where Sweeden and the UK are located in relation to Russia.

SPOILER ALERT: We're in Indiana and Texas. We can make up numbers just as easy as they can. Ukraine has lost a Bajillion tanks!

Yup. Posting an article in October to blow a guy that makes stuff up when he isn't analyzing made up data who invited you to blow him come October in an interview he did in March is pretty dumb.

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The nationalist pro-war Russian information space is reckoning with the possibility of a major demographic decline by weaponizing anti-migrant rhetoric. The Russian Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) published a new demographic forecast for the Russian Federation on October 20 that predicts that Russia's population will decrease to 138.77 million people by January 1, 2046.[15] Rosstat estimated that the rate of natural population decline will exceed 600,000 people per year between 2024-2032 but will slow to 400,000 people per year from 2032-2046.[16] Several Russian commentators seized on these statistics and warned that they portend “demographic catastrophe” if restorative measures are not undertaken immediately.[17] One Russian source blamed Russia’s declining population on migrants and called for ethnic Russians to immediately increase the national birthrate, as well as to automate many production systems to replace migrant labor.[18] ISW has previously reported on instances of vocal Russian nationalist enclaves within the pro-war information space amplifying anti-migrant rhetoric to explain away and try to remedy reports of Russian demographic transitions.[19] Such rhetoric is particularly noteworthy as the Russian force generation apparatus is increasingly exploiting migrant and other ethnic minority communities as a mobilization resource, which ISW outlines in the force generation section of today’s update.[20]

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-october-22-2023

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Russian authorities are intensifying mobilization efforts targeting Central Asian migrant communities. Russian opposition outlets reported on October 22 that Russian riot police conducted a raid on a mosque in Kotelniki, Moscow Oblast on October 20, detained several dozen worshippers, took them on buses to military registration and enlistment offices, and forced them to sign military service contracts.[75] Russian singer and TV show finalist Mamut Useinov stated that he was among the detainees and reported that Russian authorities threatened him and other detainees with imprisonment if they did not sign one-year military service contracts.[76] Useinov stated that authorities told the detainees that they would fight in Ukraine but did not specify a timeline for their deployment.[77] A Russian insider source relatedly claimed on October 22 that the Russian command sent an order to all departments of the Main Directorate of the Investigative Committee to “identify naturalized citizens of the Russian Federation who arrived from Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries and are evading military service” and demanded that the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) provide lists of the names and addresses of naturalized citizens from CIS states.[78] The insider source noted that the Investigative Committee and police are raiding hostels, apartments, catering units, and mosques using these lists and taking detainees straight to military registration offices.[79] Several Russian sources praised the raid, underlining intense xenophobic sentiment towards Central Asian migrants, and claimed that naturalized migrants have a duty to serve Russia.[80] Investigative Committee Head Alexander Bastrykin has notably pushed for the targeted mobilization of migrants from Central Asia and the Caucasus, claiming that migrants have a "constitutional responsibility to protect the country that received them."[81]

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-october-22-2023

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Ukraine’s American-Made M39 Missiles May Have Wrecked 21 Russian Helicopters In A Single Operation

David Axe | Oct 22, 2023, 05:58pm EDT
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/10/22/ukraines-american-mad
e-m39-missiles-may-have-wrecked-21-russian-helicopters-in-a-single-operation/?sh=6afdcf494f23

The damage from Ukraine’s first-ever strike with American-supplied M39 missiles, targeting a pair of helicopter bases in Russian-occupied southern and eastern Ukraine, likely resulted in greater damage than even the Ukrainian defense ministry initially claimed.

Far greater.

The Ukrainians claimed the Oct. 17 attack, which reportedly saw three of the M39s strike airfields outside Berdyansk in southern Ukraine as well as in Luhansk Oblast in the east, destroyed nine Russian helicopters.

In fact, the M39 raid put out of action 21 helicopters, according to an analysis of commercial satellite imagery by GeoConfirmed, an open-source intelligence practitioner on the social-media site formerly known as Twitter.

“This is probably the biggest blow to the Russian air force since the beginning of the war,” GeoConfirmed commented.

A second analysis, by Ukrainian analysis team Frontelligence Insight, aligns with GeoConfirmed’s assessment. “While their number slightly exceeds our team's public estimate, it's important to note that their estimate is based on solid grounds.”

To confirm a destroyed or significantly damaged helicopter, the analysts looked for satellite imagery depicting scorch marks around the known recent location of a parked helicopter. They cross-referenced the overhead imagery with photos and videos from Russian social media—and also looked for evidence of the Russians hauling away, from either airfield, damaged and unflyable helicopters.

Some observers have questioned the analysts’ tallies. “The challenge arises from the limitations of commercially available imagery, which do not provide the resolution needed to detect hundreds of small scorch marks around helicopters in Berdyansk,” Frontelligence Insight conceded. “In the case of Luhansk airport, it's much easier since you can clearly see it from our higher-resolution imagery.”

And GeoConfirmed stressed that its count, while perhaps shockingly high, is consistent with the destructive power of the M39 missile.

The M39 Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS, is a two-ton, 13-foot ballistic missile with a solid rocket motor and a warhead containing 950 Msubmunitions. Fired by a tracked or wheeled launcher, the 1990s-vintage missile ranges as far as 100 miles under inertial guidance.

An M39 usually should strike within 50 yards or so of its aim-point. This isn’t super-accurate by modern standards, but it’s accurate enough considering that the M39 is an area weapon.

As the missile plummets toward its target, it spins and pops open, scattering 950 steel-and-tungsten bomblets across an area of potentially tens of thousands of square feet. Each M74 submunition has the explosive power of a hand grenade.

A submunition warhead is perfect for striking large installations crowded with unprotected equipment. An airfield, for example, with its fragile airplanes, helicopters, fuel bowsers and support equipment.

It’s not for no reason that, when it tested the M39, the U.S. Army aimed the missile at a mock airfield where the service parked old helicopters and trucks. Footage of the test depicts submunitions tearing into the vehicles.

Accurately aim an M39 at an airfield the size of the one outside Berdyansk, and you’ll sprinkle submunitions across half of it. “This whole airfield is covered with little holes,” GeoConfirmed explained.

The Russians flew dozens of helicopters from Berdyansk alone: it’s possible most of them were on the ground as the bomblets rained down. That’s why GeoConfirmed and Frontelligence Insight were comfortable standing by their new, much higher tallies of Russian losses from the Oct. 17 raids.

The M39, when used as the Americans intend, is perfect for wrecking helicopters. And the Russians offered the Ukrainians ideal targets: two airfields fewer than a hundred miles from the front line, and packed with rotorcraft.

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Nobody cares.

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Nobody cares.

More accurately: Nobody who is stupid cares.

One in 10 Russian equipment losses since Kyiv launched a counteroffensive in the summer occurred in the past 10 days, coinciding with intensifying clashes in the war-torn town of Avdiivka. It is day 607 of the 3-day war (Russia's prediction).

Moscow's forces lost 201 pieces of equipment in the past 10 days, and 2,156 units of equipment since Ukraine's counteroffensive began in early June, reported Agentstvo, a Russian investigative site launched in 2021.

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-equipment-vehicle-losses-counteroffens
ive-ukraine-avdiivka-1836808

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Monday, October 23, 2023 10:42 AM

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Where's the F-35?

In the hangar, of course. Getting fixed... again.

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The number of major F-35 flaws is shrinking, but the Pentagon is keeping details of the problems under wraps
July 2021

WASHINGTON — As the F-35 program inches its way through operational testing, the number of critical technical deficiencies is slowly dwindling, dropping from 11 critical deficiencies in January to seven in July.

https://www.defensenews.com/smr/hidden-troubles-f35/2021/07/16/the-num
ber-of-major-f-35-flaws-is-shrinking-but-the-pentagon-is-keeping-details-of-the-problems-under-wraps/

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The inside story of two supersonic flights that changed how America operates the F-35

WASHINGTON — The F-35 pilot who flew the two infamous supersonic missions that inflicted damage to the jet’s stealth coating and tail wants to set the record straight.

. . .

The Defense Department considers the issue “closed” as of December 2019 despite no plan to correct the problem. The F-35 Joint Program Office explained that “the operator value provided by a complete fix does not justify the estimated cost of that fix.”

https://www.defensenews.com/smr/hidden-troubles-f35/2020/05/22/the-ins
ide-story-of-two-supersonic-flights-that-changed-how-america-operates-the-f-35/

So don't, yanno, fly it too fast or it'll break.

That's not counting the software downloads that take hours.

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Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM

Advanced air craft have kinks to work out. The fact is the world is buying up different versions of the F35. Fact, nobody wants what Russia is selling.

The F35 with the updated Block 4 software, and with the software updates still planned, leaves Russian and Chinese aircraft in the dust. So far behind they are in the stone age.

Russia is in a hot war with Ukraine. In a year and a half, Russia still cannot gain air superiority. So you don't have to take my word for it comrade signym, that's proof right there Russia can't even out fly a third rate Airforce. Too funny...

T

Watch this if you think you can take it.

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Ukraine’s American-Made M39 Missiles May Have Wrecked 21 Russian Helicopters In A Single Operation

David Axe | Oct 22, 2023, 05:58pm EDT
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/10/22/ukraines-american-mad
e-m39-missiles-may-have-wrecked-21-russian-helicopters-in-a-single-operation/?sh=6afdcf494f23

The damage from Ukraine’s first-ever strike with American-supplied M39 missiles, targeting a pair of helicopter bases in Russian-occupied southern and eastern Ukraine, likely resulted in greater damage than even the Ukrainian defense ministry initially claimed.

Far greater.

In fact, the M39 raid put out of action 21 helicopters, according to an analysis of commercial satellite imagery by GeoConfirmed, an open-source intelligence practitioner on the social-media site formerly known as Twitter.

“This is probably the biggest blow to the Russian air force since the beginning of the war,” GeoConfirmed commented.

A second analysis, by Ukrainian analysis team Frontelligence Insight, aligns with GeoConfirmed’s assessment. “While their number slightly exceeds our team's public estimate, it's important to note that their estimate is based on solid grounds.”

The M39 Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS, is a two-ton, 13-foot ballistic missile with a solid rocket motor and a warhead containing 950 M submunitions. Fired by a tracked or wheeled launcher, the 1990s-vintage missile ranges as far as 100 miles under inertial guidance.

An M39 usually should strike within 50 yards or so of its aim-point. This isn’t super-accurate by modern standards, but it’s accurate enough considering that the M39 is an area weapon.

And now the shit hits the fan. Comrade signym, can you see me laughing?

T

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Ukraine’s American-Made M39 Missiles May Have Wrecked 21 Russian Helicopters In A Single Operation

David Axe | Oct 22, 2023, 05:58pm EDT
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/10/22/ukraines-american-mad
e-m39-missiles-may-have-wrecked-21-russian-helicopters-in-a-single-operation/?sh=6afdcf494f23

The damage from Ukraine’s first-ever strike with American-supplied M39 missiles, targeting a pair of helicopter bases in Russian-occupied southern and eastern Ukraine, likely resulted in greater damage than even the Ukrainian defense ministry initially claimed.

Far greater.

In fact, the M39 raid put out of action 21 helicopters, according to an analysis of commercial satellite imagery by GeoConfirmed, an open-source intelligence practitioner on the social-media site formerly known as Twitter.

“This is probably the biggest blow to the Russian air force since the beginning of the war,” GeoConfirmed commented.

A second analysis, by Ukrainian analysis team Frontelligence Insight, aligns with GeoConfirmed’s assessment. “While their number slightly exceeds our team's public estimate, it's important to note that their estimate is based on solid grounds.”

The M39 Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS, is a two-ton, 13-foot ballistic missile with a solid rocket motor and a warhead containing 950 M submunitions. Fired by a tracked or wheeled launcher, the 1990s-vintage missile ranges as far as 100 miles under inertial guidance.

An M39 usually should strike within 50 yards or so of its aim-point. This isn’t super-accurate by modern standards, but it’s accurate enough considering that the M39 is an area weapon.

And now the shit hits the fan. Comrade signym, can you see me laughing?

T

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Monday, October 23, 2023 11:10 AM

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Nobody cares.
More accurately: Nobody who is stupid cares.

Only stupid people care.

FIFY

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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody cares.
More accurately: Nobody who is stupid cares.

Only stupid people care.

FIFY

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The Russians got beaten very quickly by Finland in a 1939. The result was Germany soon invaded the incompetently run Soviet Union. In 2023, Russians are again showing that they are incompetent, but because it will take years for Ukraine to beat sense into Russians, rather than only months for Finland to beat up Russians, NATO won't be invading Russia soon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War

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Monday, October 23, 2023 12:06 PM

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Originally posted by second:
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Nobody cares.
More accurately: Nobody who is stupid cares.

Only stupid people care.

FIFY

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The Russians got beaten very quickly by Finland in a 1939. The result was Germany soon invaded the incompetently run Soviet Union. In 2023, Russians are again showing that they are incompetent, but because it will take years for Ukraine to beat sense into Russians, rather than only months for Finland to beat up Russians, NATO won't be invading Russia soon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War

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lol

Fuck NATO and their war by proxy. Fuck the Biden* Administration and their war by proxy.

Fuck Ukraine.

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023 6:23 AM

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Russia's domestic production of artillery shells, supplemented by increased ammunition imports from North Korea, will likely allow Russian forces to sustain sufficient rates of artillery fire in Ukraine in 2024, albeit at a relatively lower level than during 2022. Estonian Defense Forces Intelligence Center Head Colonel Ants Kiviselg stated on October 20 that Russia still has around four million artillery shells remaining, which Russian forces can use for "low intensity" warfare for an additional year.[1] Kiviselg noted that there are reports that North Korea has shipped up to 1,000 containers of ammunition to Russia, each containing between 300-500 pieces of artillery ammunition.[2] Kiviselg estimated that North Korea may have therefore provided between 300,000-500,000 pieces of ammunition to Russia, which can last up to one month at the current daily rate of consumption of around 10,000 shells a day.[3] Ukrainian military analyst Colonel Petro Chernyk reported on October 23 that Russian forces are currently firing between 10,000-15,000 shells a day, significantly lower than rates of fire in summer 2022 of 45,000-80,000 shells per day.[4] However, Western sources and satellite imagery have confirmed that North Korean deliveries, likely mostly comprised of artillery shells, have drastically increased since Russian and North Korean authorities likely began more official military-technical cooperation in September, as ISW previously reported, and North Korea is likely to provide further deliveries.[5] Based on Western estimates of Russian artillery production capacity and continued North Korean artillery exports, Russia will likely be able to maintain generally sufficient rates of fire in the foreseeable future. While an overall decrease in Russian fire rates could impede the ability of Russian forces to conduct large scale offensive operations, Russian forces are unlikely to face widespread shortages which would chronically undermine defensive operations, and the drop in the rate of fire will not inherently provide Ukrainian forces an advantage. The degree to which Ukraine’s international partners sustain Ukraine’s ability to sustain an effective weight of fire relative to Russian forces will be a key determiner of respective capabilities in 2024.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-october-23-2023

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023 9:36 AM

Ukraine's fucked.

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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023 12:03 PM

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Ukraine's fucked.

You got it wrong. It is Russia that is fucked:

"A real slaughter of Russians. The last day was a real nightmare"
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-real-slaughter-of-russians-the-
last-day-was-a-real-nightmare/ar-AA1iJi3A

The Russians are repeating their experience in WWII of fighting incompetently:

20,000,000 to 27,000,000 Russians died in WWII. For comparison
6,900,000 to 7,400,000 Germans died and
419,400 Americans died.

In WWII, the Russians didn't even know how many of them died plus/minus 3.5 million. They waste themselves and can't count, even in 2023.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023 10:45 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

PRICELESS!

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023 10:59 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Meanwhile, in REAL NEWS...

Russians captured the slag hill just outside of the Avdiivka coke plant, an important position bc it's THE vantage point over Avdiivka and surrounds. Russians also captured two rail lines leading into Avdiivka from the north. Apparently they switched tactics, from tanks and armored vehicles to drones.

Also, in addition to unleashing their new air-to-air missile (R37M) which has accounted for a dozen or so kills of Ukrainian military aircraft in the past week, Russia has also unleashed their third version of the Geran drone, with a range of 120 km and a 17 kg explosive charge.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM

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Wednesday, October 25, 2023 12:04 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
PRICELESS!

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM

Zelensky will be dead by this time next year.

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Wednesday, October 25, 2023 6:10 AM

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Russian official accuses CIA, MI6 of involvement in Crimean bridge drone attack

Nate Ostiller, The Kyiv Independent news desk
Tue, October 24, 2023 at 7:38 AM CDT

A Russian official in occupied Crimea claimed that the CIA, MI6, and Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) collaborated to attack the Crimean bridge with naval drones, Russian state-run media Ria Novosti said on Oct. 24.

Vladimir Konstantinov, a Russian proxy official in Crimea, alleged that the July 2023 strike directly involved the U.K. and U.S. intelligence agencies, claiming that Ukraine could not have carried out the attack on its own. The SBU took credit for the attack in August, saying that 'Sea Baby' experimental marine drones had been used to damage the bridge.

Konstantinov cited the Oct. 23 article by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), which detailed the SBU's high-profile assassinations of Russian targets, as evidence.

The WSJ article said that the attack on the Crimean bridge used "naval drones that were developed as part of a top secret operation involving the CIA and other Western intelligence services."

However, Konstantinov neglected to reference the earlier part of the paragraph, which says that U.S. officials were notified in advance of the attack, and raised concerns that it could cause an escalation. It does not say that either the CIA or MI6 were directly involved in either planning or carrying out the drone strike.

U.S. sources consulted for the WSJ article said that U.S. intelligence also had no involvement in the assassinations carried out by Ukrainian agencies and that their cooperation focused mainly on developing skills in gathering intelligence.

"We never involved our international partners in covert operations, especially behind the front lines," a former senior Ukrainian security official reportedly said.

Konstantinov disputed these aspects of the article, saying that it was just trying to hide that Ukraine only follows the orders of its Western allies.

The SBU declined to comment on the WSJ article, saying it "would be possible to discuss details regarding its special operations only after Ukraine's victory over Russia."

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-10-24/kremlin-ukrainia
n-special-services-are-under-control-of-u-s-and-uk

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Wednesday, October 25, 2023 6:48 AM

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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Meanwhile, in REAL NEWS...

Russians captured the slag hill just outside of the Avdiivka coke plant, an important position bc it's THE vantage point over Avdiivka and surrounds. Russians also captured two rail lines leading into Avdiivka from the north. Apparently they switched tactics, from tanks and armored vehicles to drones.

Also, in addition to unleashing their new air-to-air missile (R37M) which has accounted for a dozen or so kills of Ukrainian military aircraft in the past week, Russia has also unleashed their third version of the Geran drone, with a range of 120 km and a 17 kg explosive charge.

Why did 27 million Russians die in WWII? In 2023: “It was pure chaos, the amount of troops they were sending into the assault was pretty ridiculous. It doesn't seem like the Russians even knew what they were doing, it doesn't seem like it was planned out very well, at least the ground troops didn't have a clue.”

Record Russian armor, personnel losses in failed attempt to take Avdiivka by storm

https://news.yahoo.com/none-made-sense-understanding-russia-213145335.
html

If Russia has tens of millions of retards to sacrifice to the war gods, as it had in WWII, victory is assured. But in 2023, if Russia does not have tens of millions of retards, victory is uncertain . . .

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Wednesday, October 25, 2023 11:50 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Meanwhile, in REAL NEWS...

Russians captured the slag hill just outside of the Avdiivka coke plant, an important position bc it's THE vantage point over Avdiivka and surrounds. Russians also captured two rail lines leading into Avdiivka from the north. Apparently they switched tactics, from tanks and armored vehicles to drones.

Also, in addition to unleashing their new air-to-air missile (R37M) which has accounted for a dozen or so kills of Ukrainian military aircraft in the past week, Russia has also unleashed their third version of the Geran drone, with a range of 120 km and a 17 kg explosive charge.

Really...

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