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15k referred to Afghanistan as could be seen in the sentence. Rather more than that have been lost in Ukraine.
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Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread
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Restrictions on the Swift messaging and sovereign debt repayment isn't the same.
Catch the shitpost, ass bandits
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One thing is for sure, it will never ever be more than 6 million.The 15000 KIA number was being reported on 6 weeks ago, which was 4 weeks into the war
How many Russian soldiers have died in the war in Ukraine?
Some say the country’s losses could rival those of its wars in Chechnya or Afghanistanwww.theguardian.com
Here's an article from the NYT a week before that claiming 7000 KIA
As Russian Troop Deaths Climb, Morale May Be an Issue - The New York …
archived 23 Mar 2022 12:27:43 UTCarchive.ph
I'm no maths genius but that means the Russians suffered 8000 dead between the 16th and 22nd March. OK
Here's a report a month ago claiming 18000 KIA
Russian military loses total 18,000 KIA since start of war, 147 planes, 134 helicopters
Since the beginning of the war, Russia's military has lost more than 18,000 soldiers in battles with the Armed Forces of Ukraine, AFU's General Staff has said.interfax.com.ua
Here's a report from last week claiming 26000 dead
Russian soldier 'admits 25,900 dead' in call intercepted by Ukraine
Ukraine's security service claims to have intercepted a call between two Russian soldiers, in which one confesses that 25,900 soldiers have been killed in the war after getting 'f***ed' in battle.www.dailymail.co.uk
The Ukies are saying it's 23000
Around 23,200 Russian troops killed in war, says Ukraine
190 Russian aircraft, 155 helicopters, 1,008 tanks, 2,445 armored vehicles destroyed, according to Ukrainian military - Anadolu Agencywww.aa.com.tr
General Staff: 23,000 Russian troops killed in Ukraine since Feb. 24.
Ukraine’s Armed Forces said on April 29 that Russia has also lost 986 tanks, 2,418 armored personnel carriers, 1,695 vehicles, 435 artillery systems, 151 multiple launch rocket systems, 73 anti-aircraft defense systems, 155 helicopters, 189 aircraft, 76 fuel tanks, and eight boats. Commentskyivindependent.com
But hold on a sec just today NATO have put the number back down to 15000
Up to 15,000 Russian soldiers dead in Ukraine, NATO says
Moscow has only acknowledged 498 military deaths; a pro-Kremlin paper reported nearly 10,000 deaths but later blamed the piece on their site being hacked.www.brusselstimes.com
Again I'm no maths whizz but it seems that anything between 8-11000 Russian soldiers have been resurrected or reanimated. It's Orthodox Easter and Christ is all merciful but a literal zombie army? Wow.
Or it might be they're talking absolute horse shit and they have no idea how many KIA the Russians have suffered. Officially the Russians are reporting around 1700 dead.
Spicey McHaggis
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The stasi on the eastern side did the same thing. Turns out practical considerations usually win out over moral ones, regardless of your system.
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Basically every new regime gets built on the foundations of the previous one, logistically speaking especially. You need time to form new personal and you can’t afford to waste expertise. I wouldn’t dwell too much on it.
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Calling Lviv, Lvov is about as cringe as calling Kiev, Kyiv. I know how we are choosing to spell things is a massive virtue signal in this shit show, but that probably just makes it more irritating.
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Just name it how it is supposed to be named - Lwów.
Jewish Porn Hoe
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Yes.
Point is that these people were mostly strivers who had not actual ideological commitments beyond maybe anti-communism (much of the German establishment thought they could play the Western Allies against the Soviet Union; they never understood the how deeply infiltrated the US and UK were with commies) and were already looking for new masters.
For example a few years ago they found documents confirming Franz Josef Strauß (2nd Federal Minister of Defense, Prime Minister of Bavaria, huge corrupt scumbag and Israel asskisser) had used his staff post at an anti-air artillery school to give intel about air defenses to the Allies. Literally all these people were compromised.
Many of these contacts were done over Switzerland, this is one of the reasons why archives of institutions like the BIS about this time period remain sealed (till 2050 I think).
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I don't know what the fuck Ukrainian SAM operators were doing while their country was getting bombed to shit today, but they managed to let enough Kalibrs and other cruising goodies get past them to shred half of the railway connections between Poland/Romania and Ukraine, a bunch other important railways, warehouses, airfields and other targets.
This comes in the wake of reports of mass fuel shortages for civilians, with gas stations around the country mostly shut down. As everyone knows, moving fuel by trucks is inefficient and inconvenient , so this is mostly done by railway. The Ukrainian military may soon face increasing shortages of fuel, which would force them to use their trucks, APCs and IFVs either a lot more sparingly, or straight up abandon them or turn them into gun emplacements.
For now, the entire country has essentially been under air raid sirens for the past 4 or 5 hours. We'll see the effect, if any, this has on the mobility of the UAF.
Anyway, here's another captured Ukrainian T-64, in the direction of Lyman. This one had incendiary ammunition and will most likely soon be put into service for the Russian side.
This comes in the wake of reports of mass fuel shortages for civilians, with gas stations around the country mostly shut down. As everyone knows, moving fuel by trucks is inefficient and inconvenient , so this is mostly done by railway. The Ukrainian military may soon face increasing shortages of fuel, which would force them to use their trucks, APCs and IFVs either a lot more sparingly, or straight up abandon them or turn them into gun emplacements.
For now, the entire country has essentially been under air raid sirens for the past 4 or 5 hours. We'll see the effect, if any, this has on the mobility of the UAF.
Anyway, here's another captured Ukrainian T-64, in the direction of Lyman. This one had incendiary ammunition and will most likely soon be put into service for the Russian side.
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I mean, the city does have more in common with Budapest then it does Moscow. So yeah.
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Reminder - A few days ago the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that a 25y old Danish citizen was killed in Ukraine
www.thelocal.dk
Pro-Russia accounts claimed this was Storm Balderson:
But your average Kiwi reader by now knows that storm is 34-36 years old and that doesn't match 25 so bogus.
To denounce these rumors Storm himself took the effort to make a video about this and post it on his TikTok:
So we know now that Storm isn't in Valhalla (yet). And thanks to this vid we also know:
- He has a tiktok account; a thing which is only used by teenagers or pedos.
- that he follows social media and probably searches his own name "Storm Balderson"
- he acts like a 12y old kid when he finds a post he doesn't like but pretends he doesn't care.
- He's hard hearing or doesn't know math. (20,000$ --> 25,000$)
More Storm Balderson adventures:
www.tiktok.com
Edit - his yt channel; last upload was 2 years ago:
Danish citizen dies in Ukraine conflict
The family of a 25 year old Danish man has confirmed he has been killed in Ukraine, according to the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Pro-Russia accounts claimed this was Storm Balderson:
But your average Kiwi reader by now knows that storm is 34-36 years old and that doesn't match 25 so bogus.
To denounce these rumors Storm himself took the effort to make a video about this and post it on his TikTok:
So we know now that Storm isn't in Valhalla (yet). And thanks to this vid we also know:
- He has a tiktok account; a thing which is only used by teenagers or pedos.
- that he follows social media and probably searches his own name "Storm Balderson"
- he acts like a 12y old kid when he finds a post he doesn't like but pretends he doesn't care.
- He's hard hearing or doesn't know math. (20,000$ --> 25,000$)
More Storm Balderson adventures:
TikTok
Edit - his yt channel; last upload was 2 years ago:
Spicey McHaggis
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I suspect most of their heavy duty long range systems are gone or out of missiles and they're primarily relying on manpads at this point. Even if the western countries have given them some of their long range systems, that takes time to train people on. Not just the operators, but mechanics and other support personnel. There's only so many systems in nato nations inventories that the ukies have existing training on, and most of those are pretty dated by now. Also cruise missile shoot downs are a real pain in the ass even if they do have working systems.
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Russia’s now standing up to the Jews, just when I think they can’t get anymore based.
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They used the old Cold War method of briefcases full of physical cash smuggled across the border. Back in the day, they used to do it via Turkey. No idea where they do it now, but the principle is sound as long as you have enough physical cash on hand and can tolerate potential losses due to banditry.
Big difference is that the Cold War transfers were mostly one-offs. Sustained bond payments are probably going to be infeasible to maintain over the long term.
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Imagine making it easier for the RAF to terror bomb your people. I mean shit I'm a slav who's family experienced the horrors of Axis occupation first hand but the RAF's Terror bombing (and the USAF's terror bombing over Japan) were totally beyond the pale. The Americans didn't want to kill civilians so much as damage Germany's capacity to make war, the RAF's GOAL was to murder civilians to break their morale.
The funny part about reddit bugmen justifying it is that the terror bombing had the exact opposite effect, even the US's bombing of Industrial targets saw German war production increase every year of the war. It was only the Soviets taking the Romanian oil fields that crippled German industry late in the war.
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Not really.
Like any society, people that actually cared about politics is a very tiny bit vocal fraction of the population and that fraction was sole constituency of the He-Man Saddam Hater’s Club. Saddam was pretty brutal with these guys and that’s not an overstatement.
Looking at the state of Iraq post-Saddam, makes one understand why he was that way with the blood flowing freely until Iran took over and pacified the area.
The rest of the population in Saddam’s Iraq was left alone (Christian, atheist, etc) as long as one didn’t get into politics.
If you were smart enough to get into University in Iraq, Saddam would pay your salary wether or not you got a job upon graduation.
Once they took out Saddam, all hell broke lose with the typical losers being, of course, the poorest that used to at least enjoy Safety and stability in Iraq along with electrical power and other utilities that were destroyed and never rebuilt by America were the most affected.
Killing Saddam served the State Department’s stated goal of doing away with nationalistic governments. Same as Egypt, same as Lybia.
They tried with Assad but he had learned from his neighbors and still stands.
Jewish Porn Hoe
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AFAIR the intel helped prepare for the main Darmstadt air raid which led to ~12000 civilian casualties.
And yeah, save for a select few bombings something like 70% of factories were up and running immidiatly a few days after bombings, with only a few having real impact (glue factory impacting wooden plane production; synthetic fuel plants).
Stuff like this is why the Allies on both sides concluded in non-public analysis that nuclear war would be survivable.
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Twitter showing attack on Russian command post that killed a Russian general.
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Is it just me or is the first explosion larger than the other ones?
Spicey McHaggis
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Looks like the first one directly hit something where the rest mainly seemed to hit dirt.
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