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Will Putin Invade Ukraine?

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

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Cassia

Quote from: Hydra009 on August 12, 2022, 01:52:42 PMBurn baby burn: Ukraine releases footage of strike against a Russian Grad multiple rocket launcher and ammo burning up

You can see the rocket launcher firing wildly as its ammo ignites before it's finally consumed in an inferno.

Slava Ukrayini!
I wonder if the drone (I assume) taking that crazy footage also provided fire control and/or initial targeting?

Hydra009

Quote from: Cassia on August 12, 2022, 04:41:05 PM I wonder if the drone (I assume) taking that crazy footage also provided fire control and/or initial targeting?
Almost certainly.

Hydra009

I talked to an ex-military person about that bizzare captured-while napping video.

 

Sleeping in the middle of the afternoon.  No sentries.  No booby traps.  Alone.  Bright red sleeping bag in the middle of the forest.  It seems too good to be true and too incompetent to be believable.

He insists that the soldier essentially gave up and then  intentionally created the conditions that would lead to his capture.  It's a surrender with plausible deniability.

Hydra009

In very minor news with long-term importance, Ukrainian schools will stop teaching Russian entirely.  They will also bolster their English curriculum and prioritize English as their go-to for international communications, their linga franca so to speak.

Hydra009

#1069
US officials say 500 Russian troops are killed/wounded in Ukraine every day

They had 190,000 troops at the start of the invasion and >40,000 have been killed according to Ukraine.  150,000 divided by 500...carry the one...that's less than a year's worth of troops, though obviously there have been reinforcements and it's not like militaries continue to function after their numbers drop super low, etc.  So don't quote me on the specifics.

The point is, Russian losses are completely unsustainable and not only can Russia mathematically not conquer Ukraine, it will not be able to hold onto territories it has conquered.

Ukrainian figures are a bit trickier since they aren't as well known, but we do know that they have been high though less than Russian casualties.  Somewhere between 100-200 killed per day.

But thanks to HIMARS and other weapon systems pouring in, Ukrainian casualties have dropped sharply, down to about 30 killed per day.

That's a HUGE difference!  And while obviously, any casualties at all is bad, Ukraine's military is faring much better than Russia's.

Ukraine is winning this war of attrition.

Cassia

Quote from: Hydra009 on August 13, 2022, 10:19:36 AMUS officials say 500 Russian troops are killed/wounded in Ukraine every day....
That's about the same number of Americans dying of Covid every day right now. Probably under reported, especially here in Floriduh. Almost everyone here has decided it is over. Even at my dentist office. If I die now, I'm gonna be pissed.

Hydra009

Russia is drafting a new tactic for countering HIMARS

Destroying the weapons platforms?  Nyet.

Intercepting the missiles?  Nyet.

Destroying western arms shipments en route?  Nyet.

BETTER.

Are you ready for the sheer tactical genius I'm about to lay on you?  Well, fasten the seatbelts on your Lada, because there are no antilock brakes on this ride!

Their latest tactical genius move is...*drumroll* don't bunch up so much

A 10-year-old korean boy playing Starcraft could tell you that!

These people are the laughingstocks of the whole world!

Cassia

Steven Seagal visits destroyed Ukrainian prison in support of Kremlin
Seagal, who supported Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea in Ukraine's south, was later granted Russian citizenship by President Vladimir Putin. Seagal was appointed as Russia's special envoy to the U.S. in 2018.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/steven-seagal-visits-destroyed-ukrainian-155522168.html

Hydra009

Quote from: Cassia on August 13, 2022, 12:28:44 PMSteven Seagal visits destroyed Ukrainian prison in support of Kremlin
More like washed-up actor and Putin toadie transported to war crimes site to broadcast propaganda in favor of the killers and criminals.

Hydra009

#1074

I saw a video where the Russians drove a tank down a road alone (combined arms, infantry support, what's that?) and wouldn't you know it, the tank got one-shotted by artillery or an anti-tank weapon or something.  It's difficult to tell exactly what happened.  One moment, the tank was there, the next it was the world's most expensive BBQ grill.

And I got to thinking, wtf were they trying to do with that solitary tank?  It makes no sense.

Apparently, they were doing what's called a probing action, trying to search through enemy territory looking for enemy forces, then retreat when there's trouble.  On paper, that makes sense.  In reality, not so much.

A lot of things have changed in the world since 1945.  Russia is fighting an enemy that has eyes in the sky 24/7, we're talking spy satellites, air recon, drone recon from drones build specifically for them, enough night vision goggles to start a Splinter Cell cosplay battallion, and a smorgasbord of advanced weapons from over a dozen countries to bring the hammer down on whatever they find.  Probing actions won't cut it.

Russian tactics used to work well...decades and decades ago.  Or against an enemy with subpar equipment and no intel.

The simple fact is that Russia cannot win against a near-peer adversary on a modern battlefield.

Hydra009

#1075


A picture is worth a thousand words, but I'll settle for grid coordinates.

It got hit, btw.  Just a "gesture of goodwill" from humanity to the crimes against humanity folks.  Gotta plant those seeds.  Hopefully, they'll take root.

Edit - their address was in one of the group photos, lol.  Say cheese!


Hydra009


Hydra009

Russian reaction to looming revocation of visas

They're taking it well.

Deep breaths, guys. One-two-three-HIMARS. Four-Five-Slava-Ukraine.

Hydra009

Wagner bodies litter battlefield

This happened at Bakmut, unrelated to the recent destruction of the Wagner HQ in Popasna, where Russian forces leaked their own coordinates and were then hit with a HIMARS strike.

Quotetheir uniforms allegedly bore "green armbands with Arab signs" as well as Grim Reaper patches with the slogan, "I don't believe in anything. I'm here for violence,"
Well, they got what they wanted.  Enough to last a lifetime.

QuoteMembers of the Wagner Group are neither elite forces nor well-trained commandos, but are instead "just another sort of cannon fodder," according to Russian military expert Pavel Luzin.

"They are after money. And they die for money. We haven't seen any advanced tactics from them," a Ukrainian soldier told RFE/RL
Oof.