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Will Putin Invade Ukraine?

Started by Cassia, January 20, 2022, 01:29:34 PM

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Hydra009

I've just learned that the 4 million statistic is just the total of how many left Russia, and doesn't distinguish between Russians who have left temporarily and those who have left permanently.  Sort of an important difference. :/

Apologies for the misleading headline.

Hydra009



I've seen more successful river crossings in Oregon Trail

Cassia

Quote from: Hydra009 on May 11, 2022, 02:05:05 PMI've seen more successful river crossings in Oregon Trail
Looks like they were easy pickins....maybe stuck in mud and too bunched up when they got struck.

Hydra009

Yep.

And you can see a couple of them without turrets and also a turret lying on the ground far away from either tank.

Hydra009

#574
You saw the picture, here's the 1000 words

Russia lost at least 32 armored vehicles in a failed river crossing.

Yikes!  I'm going to need to invent new words/phrases to describe how disasterous this campaign has been.

1) Törichtkrieg
2) La grande quête des imbéciles suicidaires
3) Saltar de un acantilado mientras finge volar
4) Provocantes tauri et mori sicut stultus

Basically,  I'm looking for a phrase that involves folly, self-destruction through hubris, completely avoidable and yet deliberate chosen, and is such a horrible fate that even the Devil says "Glad I'm not that guy".  I'm disappointed that there's no shorthand word for it.

Dark Lightning

If it weren't for all the people dying, that theme music from the old Benny Hill show would be apropos.

Hydra009

#576

Mr.Obvious

Quote from: Hydra009 on May 11, 2022, 10:53:35 PMYou saw the picture, here's the 1000 words

Russia lost at least 32 armored vehicles in a failed river crossing.

Yikes!  I'm going to need to invent new words/phrases to describe how disasterous this campaign has been.

1) Törichtkrieg
2) La grande quête des imbéciles suicidaires
3) Saltar de un acantilado mientras finge volar
4) Provocantes tauri et mori sicut stultus

Basically,  I'm looking for a phrase that involves folly, self-destruction through hubris, completely avoidable and yet deliberate chosen, and is such a horrible fate that even the Devil says "Glad I'm not that guy".  I'm disappointed that there's no shorthand word for it.

Sadomasochistische oorlogsvoering?
"If we have to go down, we go down together!"
- Your mum, last night, requesting 69.

Atheist Mantis does not pray.

Cassia


Hydra009

#579
At what's being dubbed the Donets Disaster, Ukrainian forces had reconned the area, predicted the Russians would make a crossing there, and set up multiple artillery sustems targeting the area.

The Russians tried to create a pontoon bridge at the exact spot that was predicted.  The Ukrainians waited until as many forces as possible were on that bridge, then gave them hell.  The few vehicles that made it across were subsequently destroyed.  The only Russian survivors were either far from the bridge or ones that panicked under withering artillery fire and jumped out of their vehicles to swim to safety and even a lot of those didn't make it.

Russia lost almost an entire battalion in that one crushing bombardment.  Aspiring generals are going to have to study this battle at West Point. It's going to go down in history as the next Battle of Tsushima.

Hydra009

So... don't tell the Russians but apparently their cell phones are tracked by Ukraine.  So Ukrainian forces can just pull up a map and see in near real time exactly where Russians troops are 24/7.


Hydra009

Some Z-brand copium (now with 200% more brilliant feints)



If you lose half your army every time you cross a river, you might as well go march into an active volcano.

Hydra009

#582
High-octane copium: 

Russian state media sure is mad about their big victory, which is more than a little strange.

They previously claimed that they shot down more than Ukraine's entire drone inventory, so an additional 30 is a bit...non-credible.

Also, the Ukrainians haven't had troops on Snake Island since early in the war when it was famously captured and Russian troops were stationed there.  So where did the alleged Ukrainian soldiers come from?  Did they teleport to the island?

And don't get me started on the alleged ships.

Oh Russian state media, never change.  Because your obvious lies are so transparent that it's a reliable source of comedy for the entire world.


Hydra009

#584
Lights Out!  Guerilla movement takes root in Crimea

From the start of the war and especially when the battle for Kyiv failed and Ukrainian forces have vowed to blow up the bridge, Russians have started packing up and leaving the peninsula.  At the same time, local Ukrainians have become considerably less hospitable.  They know about the genocides.

I've seen footage of locals puncturing the tires of apparently unguarded military vehicles.  They've also put flyers on the windshields of Putin allies politely informing them that their affiliations are known and that they'd better leave soon for their own safety.

Afaik, there has not yet been violence, but that's just a matter of time.  And should the Donbas front collapse and Ukrainian forces start to close in on Crimea, I have little doubt that they will be greatly aided by partisans.  Especially if the Ukrainians finally make good on their bridge threat and Crimea is cut off from easy reinforcement.  (Sea reinforcement seems increasingly unfeasible due to a rapidly shrinking Black Sea fleet)