News:

Welcome to our site!

Main Menu

Will Putin Invade Ukraine?

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

Previous topic - Next topic

SGOS

Quote from: Hydra009 on September 13, 2022, 11:02:32 PM
You can just call in your surrender and go home.  This is so weird.  But what happens when you go home?

Cassia

Quote from: SGOS on September 14, 2022, 07:08:15 AMYou can just call in your surrender and go home.  This is so weird.  But what happens when you go home?
I expect not too much as they are just contractors...Putler didn't have the balls to mobilize and declare war for fear of internal revolt. These contract warriors are often the poorest of the poor. He used the giant wealth gap he caused to further exploit them.

Hydra009

Georgia looking into expelling Russian troops from their borders, which would effectively mean war with Russia.

Definitely an opportune time.  Either that or accept indefinite Russian control, partial loss of sovereignty, and potentially, further aggression.

Hydra009

Russia cancels upcoming deployments into Ukraine

Terrible timing, but it does make some sense.  There have been catastrophic morale and willingness issues, so many newly deployed units either refuse to fight or desert, leaving generals with very little to work with.  It would be prudent to resolve those issues prior to deployment.

Also, there's the problem of medical care or lack thereof:

QuoteDoctors are "recommended" to give permission for planned surgical interventions only after the end of the "special operation" or with the permission of the patient's commander. According to intelligence information, there was a case of a serviceman with a ruptured eardrum and contusion being discharged from the hospital in 3 days with a diagnosis of otitis. He was refused surgery and advised "not to get a sore ear."
Surgery only at the end of the special operation?  When is that?!

Also, otitis is ear infection/inflammation.  A ruptured eardrum is just a tiny bit more serious than an ear infection!

Hydra009

A Hundred Wrecked Tanks In A Hundred Hours: Ukraine Guts Russia's Best Tank Army

QuoteA hundred wrecked or captured tanks in a hundred furious hours. That's how much destruction the Ukrainians inflicted on the Russian 4th Guards Tank Division, part of the elite 1st Guards Tank Army, the Russian army's best armor formation.
Russia's finest.

Unbeliever

And I see where Ukraine is building wooden replicas of American missile launchers, which is causing Russia to waste ordinance trying to degrade Ukrainian weapons.

🤣
God Not Found
"There is a sucker born-again every minute." - C. Spellman

Hydra009

Quote from: Unbeliever on September 14, 2022, 05:48:27 PMAnd I see where Ukraine is building wooden replicas of American missile launchers, which is causing Russia to waste ordinance trying to degrade Ukrainian weapons.

🤣
Not just regular ordinance, but Kalibr missiles, a powerful and accurate but expensive and extremely limited missile.  To blow up wooden decoys.

Unbeliever

Man, just thinking about it gives me wood...

💥
God Not Found
"There is a sucker born-again every minute." - C. Spellman

Dark Lightning

I served 4 years in the US Navy and another 27 years in defense as a civilian contractor. (not a combatant) We were convinced of the massive ability of the USSR up until the Berlin wall came down. They pretty much augured in after that. There is a "paper" somewhere online that explains why a dictator can't make a decent bridge (i.e., that doesn't collapse). One company I worked at was pulling some shenanigans with the quality of a process. I was working with people on a process that relied on that the afore-mentioned process, and was told that there were certain parameters for test that had to be performed within a certain time window, or the parts wouldn't pass inspection. I immediately went to my supervisor and told him. It turned into a great big investigation, with government people, and all. Point is, we have a process in this country to call out shoddy workmanship, and make the processes and products better. This mindset doesn't exist in Russia, and we're seeing the result. I suspect that that mindset that the Russians have is starting to come to roost in the US, the way a lot of (R) assholes are acting. Pork barrel is one thing, but trashing the whole country so that one can rule is another.

Hydra009

A dictator inherently can't trust other people, yet has to rely on them.  It's an inherently unstable system. 

Democracy gets ragged on a lot (frequently, by people who can't have it, so it's kind of a fox & grapes situation) as mob rule or rule by dumb people, but it's helpful to have lots of eyes on a problem, because individual people have blind spots.  It turns out that the best person to make the rules for us is us.  Who knew?

Hydra009

#1300


That's Zelenskyy at recently-liberated Izyum.  Putin can't even walk outside without soon diving back in his Fuhrerbunker.

Unbeliever

I expect that Zelenskyy will go down in history as one of histories all-time best loved national leaders.
God Not Found
"There is a sucker born-again every minute." - C. Spellman

the_antithesis

Quote from: Hydra009 on September 14, 2022, 09:56:31 PMA dictator inherently can't trust other people, yet has to rely on them.  It's an inherently unstable system.


Hydra009


Hydra009

Here's a headline I never thought I'd type: Putin worried about alcohol addiction of Russia's top leadership

When faced with ruin and death, alcoholism is not surprising.

Apparently the problem isn't so much the drinking as it is being noticeably drunk in  public; a source of public ridicule and contempt.

In Putin's Russia, it is much worse to be noticeably incompetent than to be unnoticeably incompetent.