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Will Putin Invade Ukraine?

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

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Hydra009

#1020
Under a smokescreen, invaders blow up their own ammo cars

Quick order of events:

1) Train filled with military hardware and ammunition comes from Crimea to Kherson region

2) Russian troops deploy a smokescreen, thinking it will conceal their operation and hide them from attacks.  (It doesn't, btw)

3) Something explodes.  It's unclear how or why.  Careless handling of explosives?  Inept use of pyrotechnics to make the smokescreen?  Rough seas?

4) Russians scatter and pee themselves, falsely believing that they're under attack (they are under surveillance, though). Train immediately departs back to Crimea, aborting the whole unloading operation.

5) Ukrainians look on at the resulting chaos and burning wreckage with a mixture of confusion and bemusement, presumably while listening to Yakety Sax.

Don't know about this new crew of yours. They seem a bit skittish. Probably shouldn't tell them what happened to the last crew.


Hydra009

#1022
This happened months ago, but it's a helluva story.

A 72-year-old pensioner/retiree wanted to join the Ukrainian military but was too old to join.

Well, when the inavders came by, he hit a Russian convoy (Kadyrovites, no less) with a RPG and grenades.  Burned down a fuel truck.  Really gave them hell.


This guy is old and way past his prime and even so, he's out there chewing bubble gum and blowing stuff up like a one-man army.  And there are plenty of heroes just like him all over Ukraine.  There is zero chance Russia can conquer a people with that sort of courage and grit.


Hydra009

Also, Ukrainian forces blew up an invader command post at Chornobayivka

If that sounds familiar, this happens so often that I have to check both the date and the time of day to make absolutely sure that I'm not confusing it with previous strikes.

Honestly, when Ukraine recaptures it, it's going to be a bit of a letdown because it's like whack-a-mole where the mole predictably only comes out of one hole.

Chornobayivka airport has been bombed so much that I'm half-convinced that the Russians just sleep in the craters, thinking that it's impossible for lightning to strike the same place twice.

Hydra009

#1025
Russian cruelties are inflicted on those who can't fight back, even in the Motherland

No onscreen violence, but mean af and difficult to watch.  I can't put a spoiler tag on the video, so watch it or not at your own discretion.


Brainwashed soldier cluelessly recites known lies about Ukrainians.  Bus driver is totally without common human decency.  Bad scene all around.

Moral if the story:  Don't put your life in the hands of brutes and inhuman scum who will use you as cannon fodder - who will take your life, your mind, your heart, and/or your legs, and then discard you at the earliest opportunity.  Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men!  Act like it!

Cassia

My sweetheart always says if we can just get off that oil tit, all of these oily dictators will melt away. We are doing the math to put up solar panels for our studio/workshop. The breakeven for the house isn't so good (just because we are no spring chicks) unless the bill goes up some more.

Hydra009

#1027
That's not a silver bullet for dictators - North Korea for example does not produce oil in significant quantities.

But the general idea of democracies no longer funding dictatorships is a good start.

Another good one is diplomatic isolation.  No UN committees coming their way, no permanent seat at the UN security council, no inclusion in defensive pacts or trading blocs, etc.  Let them twist in the wind and see if these "strong men" are truly strong or simply parasites on much stronger states.

Dark Lightning

Quote from: Cassia on August 04, 2022, 09:38:55 PMMy sweetheart always says if we can just get off that oil tit, all of these oily dictators will melt away. We are doing the math to put up solar panels for our studio/workshop. The breakeven for the house isn't so good (just because we are no spring chicks) unless the bill goes up some more.

The manufacture of solar panels is quite petroleum intensive (not to mention the horrific waste from the mining of the materials), as is the refinement of uranium for fission power. The real solution is to live in a place where these things are not required. I remember sweating like a pig, in southern California as a kid. 100+ degree weather really stinks when one has NO air conditioning...even when it's a "dry heat". Not trying to be a party-pooper, just pointing out some facts. I am legit trying to figure out where to live without this threat. I suspect that there is no such place, without dependence on the system already in place, more's the pity.

SGOS

Quote from: Dark Lightning on August 04, 2022, 10:40:50 PMI remember sweating like a pig, in southern California as a kid. 100+ degree weather really stinks when one has NO air conditioning...even when it's a "dry heat". Not trying to be a party-pooper, just pointing out some facts. I am legit trying to figure out where to live without this threat. I suspect that there is no such place, without dependence on the system already in place, more's the pity.
We have come to rely on AC, fast transportation, and petroleum products.  It's very convenient. And it is because energy is cheap, even when gasoline cost more than $5/gallon, it's still dirt cheap, so we burn energy like there's no tomorrow and waste it, all the while adding carbon to the atmosphere.

Future generations, fuck off and die. But no one is going to "sweat like pig" today just so you can be comfortable later.

Hydra009

Ukrainian forces destroy 4 S-300 and a very rare air defense radar

This makes it much easier for Ukrainian forces to conduct air campaigns and shoot ballistic missiles at Russian positions in southern Ukraine.

Hydra009

Despite officially refusing Putin, Iran has handed over 46 drones to Putin, who is using them in Ukraine

Hydra009

A vehicle with 6 Russian officers and 5 soldiers was blown skyhigh by Ukrainian forces while moving.  All KIA without a doubt.

A second vehicle was nearby and took the turn a little too hard and flipped over despite not being damaged (watching your comrades be annihilated next to you must be distracting).  No idea what happened to them.

Hydra009


Hydra009

In Southern Ukraine, Ukrainian forces destroy:

6 ammunition depots
79 Russian troops
4 tanks
3 howitzers
22 armored/military vehicles
an artillery installation
a radar station

Impressive numbers.  Substantial attrition as well as some nice strategic targets (ammo depots, radar, artillery installation)