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It’s a potential problem, I agree. It depends on how much power they’ll be given when the war ends. I don’t think Europe (or any other country) will be able to fully eradicate the ideology tho, at least for decades to come.
Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread
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Shitposting break post, enjoy this cute T-18 tank from the VE parade
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I didnt knew there were any left. Did they pull it out of Kubinka?
Sexual Chocolate
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One unanswered question from this terrible war:
Why do Russian boy bands look like they want to stab you
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Because they weren't created in a lab like western ones. They're free range Slavic phenotype.
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Same with every other dipshit comedian. What makes this yawping idiot any different?
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American provided M577A2 155MM Artillery in action in Donbass. According to the background noise, they are doing counter artillery fire via drone recording.
Per war map, Ukraine has shelled the Russian town of Solokhy. Authorities are evacuating the village. Twitter is showing pictures of a huge fire in the distance.
Some memes
Per war map, Ukraine has shelled the Russian town of Solokhy. Authorities are evacuating the village. Twitter is showing pictures of a huge fire in the distance.
Some memes
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I posted about an attempted Russian river crossing last night that went horribly wrong, with dozens of AFVs left for the Ukrainians to pick up. What did the Russian do? Attempt a new crossing the SAME FUCKING PLACE. These fucking mongoloids are worse than literal niggers. Behold the retardation of at least 30 destroyed armed vehicles. 
Video in potato quality, TW;music
Followed by a T-723B blown up and filmed by a Chinese press crew WELL WITHIN Russian lines north of Mariupol from 6th of May. Consider the implications...
Video in potato quality, TW;music
Followed by a T-723B blown up and filmed by a Chinese press crew WELL WITHIN Russian lines north of Mariupol from 6th of May. Consider the implications...
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Notable, not so much for what help the UK could actually provide Sweden but more another step toward Sweden joining NATO. As things stand, believe Sweden could handle a Russian conventional attack.
Significant, if correct.
Was thinking about why Putin didn't declare a general mobilization a couple of days ago. In my opinion, Russia simply cannot successfully carry out a general mobilization at this time, not without making big changes and spending a lot of money. Looking at the quality of the troops presently in action, question how effective the Russian conventional training base would be in handling the likely hundreds of thousands who would show up. Would there be enough trainers? Enough facilities? Enough food/uniforms/medical care/housing? Would there be enough tanks? Most importantly, would there be enough trucks? What would be the age limits of those being mobilized? 30? 35? 40? Older men don't do that well in the field. Would retired military members, particularly officers, be recalled? How much training would the recalled personnel receive? Who will go after all those who don't report for mobilization? Like to think the staff planners are doing their job and have provided answers up the chain of command. Then someone Putin will listen to told him the actual lay of the land.
Like any other military operation, a mobilization requires a great deal of planning to have a chance of successful execution. Most militaries have "canned" mobilization plans. Russia may also have such plans on the shelf, but I just don't believe they can execute these plans effectively. Just don't get it...these people shouldn't be that stupid, suggest the system stifles them, just like the old Soviet system stifled people.
Significant, if correct.
Was thinking about why Putin didn't declare a general mobilization a couple of days ago. In my opinion, Russia simply cannot successfully carry out a general mobilization at this time, not without making big changes and spending a lot of money. Looking at the quality of the troops presently in action, question how effective the Russian conventional training base would be in handling the likely hundreds of thousands who would show up. Would there be enough trainers? Enough facilities? Enough food/uniforms/medical care/housing? Would there be enough tanks? Most importantly, would there be enough trucks? What would be the age limits of those being mobilized? 30? 35? 40? Older men don't do that well in the field. Would retired military members, particularly officers, be recalled? How much training would the recalled personnel receive? Who will go after all those who don't report for mobilization? Like to think the staff planners are doing their job and have provided answers up the chain of command. Then someone Putin will listen to told him the actual lay of the land.
Like any other military operation, a mobilization requires a great deal of planning to have a chance of successful execution. Most militaries have "canned" mobilization plans. Russia may also have such plans on the shelf, but I just don't believe they can execute these plans effectively. Just don't get it...these people shouldn't be that stupid, suggest the system stifles them, just like the old Soviet system stifled people.
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Based Boy
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Wait, aren't it Russians who bombed pontoon bridges of UAF on 7 of May?I posted about an attempted Russian river crossing last night that went horribly wrong, with dozens of AFVs left for the Ukrainians to pick up. What did the Russian do? Attempt a new crossing the SAME FUCKING PLACE. These fucking mongoloids are worse than literal niggers. Behold the retardation of at least 30 destroyed armed vehicles.
Video in potato quality, TW;music
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Second video looks like the place, but i can't really tell because of camera mode. Is there any close up or on the ground view of the place? Or video of the strike?
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Yeah, instead of getting these women far, far away from Ukraine and into a country with better mental health and childcare resources, let's just recreate Josef Mengele in the 21st century"Help Ukrainian women by sending money for abortions!"
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Nah, the first video is totally different and using some PGM, possibly laser guided shells. The second looks like a cruise missile.
Notice the lack of massive amounts of armor in both videos.
Edit* some context, but who knows valid these claims are, but was retweeted by a credible person.
Edit** The incident was "confirmed" by a Wagner affiliated telegram account - Reverse side of the medal. Looks like a real clusterfuck !
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Based Boy
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I agree with that, just feels like place look similar on the second video. In terms of with what strikes were carried out, do you have some video of the strike that i missed? Like with TB2 drone or something like this? I knew Russians went on pontoon bridge bombing campaign to deny UAF reinforcements somewhere in Donbass, so i thought it might be related. It's so hard to tell for me what vehicle belongs to which side in this conflict, i can't really tell whether it's Ukrainian vehicles or Russian ones. I wish there was some on the ground recording to truly confirm.
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There will probably come a 4k gloating video within days, as this was a significant loss for the Russians. I posted some "confirmation" above.
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Never mind waiting for NATO. The way Russia is performing in Ukraine, Sweden and Finland don't need to wait for NATO. The could settle the Karelia Question once and for all. #Justice4viipuri.
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I guess. Just strange to see so many vehicles in such a close proximity, whether they are Ukrainians or Russian. Would not surprise me, considering Deep Battle retardation Russians had pulled in their attempt to bum-rush Kijow to force another Afghanistan surrender. Don't think Ukrainians are much better ether, considering they sent at least 5 helicopters to their doom to try and evacuate Azov members.
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Russia tried to seize a city of several million people by cramming an entire army group down a two lane road from a little used border checkpoint. Of course they would have tried to zerg rush over the one part of the little Dneiper they managed to bridge. it would have worked too, were it not for the fact that they still don't have air superiority. The Ukrainian Air Force is still flying fighter jets, never mind the drones. With the Arrival of the American M777's, its even worse. Ukraine's artillery now outranges the Russians. its why you are getting videos of artillery shells slamming into Russian Artillery and Villages. The US 155MM howitzer is no fucking joke. A trained monkey can land hundreds of pounds of high explosive with pin point accuracy using basic Newtonian math with those things.
I said at the start, Russia had a time limit here. Time ran out awhile ago. It boggles my mind that Putin still has not gone to the Russian people and told them his special military operation is now a full on war, and they will have to bear every burden to see it through. Russia is not going to win this by half measures.
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I posted some of these in the other thread, unless the site crashed before the videos were posted. I’d take it with a grain of salt since the videos could be curated and the channel is pro-Ukraine but I hope future historians have access to phone calls like these on both sides. It’s interesting to see the perspective of some of the individuals involved, assuming the translations are accurate.
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It very well might be true that it turns out to be just like any potential detractor claims after Pearl Harbor (Not that there were really any documented ones). If it does, I'll gladly admit I was wrong. However, it still stands to point out that the America and Europe of today are not the same ones of the Greatest Generation, and I'm not only talking about mindset or demographics.
America in 1940 and 1941 (When Lend-Lease production began scaling up) still had a historical unemployment rate of approximately 10%, compared to current Bureau of Labor estimates of 3.6%. The airplanes, tanks, and naval vessels of the day were still largely mechanical in nature (Electro-mechanical firing computers didn't become prominent until later in the war, and the US Navy didn't use any at the time). This naturally meant that for the most part, all they required was steel, aluminum, rubber (Which along with oil was one of the reasons Japan even invaded Borneo and the rest of SEA), and oil to manufacture and operate (Of course, chromium and tungsten were needed as well, but that's another story). Comparatively, the equipment of today requires far more complicated and manufactured materials to be manufactured themselves, some of which simply don't exist anymore. For instance, NASA's own rocket delivery systems are effectively on a ticking clock to uselessness because they, alongside the control systems on the ground, require electronics that were last manufactured in the early 1990's AT BEST, which has forced the administration to resort to spending increasingly high prices for them off of Ebay. This same fate is what led to the retirement of the SR-71. Other systems require the all-important semi-conductor to operate, which of course is almost completely manufactured in Taiwan. Let's not forget what many of the optics and electronics of today require to function: Rare earths, 60% of which come from China. I will admit the gap has been decreasing since 2012 or so as the US finally got off its ass and reopened the mines (which still takes a few years to do for one, mind you), however.
Now you might say "Wrangel, you're just a dirty communist in disguise with this defeatist nonsense! American industry can just go brrrr just like '41!". First off, you'd be wrong on the initial charge. Secondly, you'd also be (somewhat less) wrong on the other. Part of what made American military manufacturing capabilities so great during the war was the flexibility of the manufacturing base itself. Industrial plants originally making automobiles for consumer use were converted to instead use their assembly lines to put those very same engines into Willys', M3's, and GMC CCKW's rather than domestic Fords and Chryslers. Plants were expanded and cleared out to put the same riveters and welders that made Buicks towards making B-17's. Henry Kaiser (of Kaiser Permanente fame) put his steel works towards streamlining convoy manufacture, creating the famous "Liberty Ships" as a result. Millions of the unemployed now had a chance to reenter the workforce again under something potentially more permanent than the Public Works Administration and get to manufacturing guns, shells, and vehicles in these expanded and reopened factories (This would be the part where I cite an employment breakdown by industry, but the BLS keeps the 1940's reports in with the Library of Congress which currently has all connections occupied, so we'll just have to make do with the 1910 breakdown instead). Compared to the industry of even 1910, which had 32.4% of the population employed in manufacturing, the American employment of 2015 has merely a near quarter of that number at 8.7%. Sure, the population may have tripled since then, but the number of manufactured goods has exploded exponentially in turn, and with that exponential increase, also increasingly specialized. A domestic Super Soaker factory can't manufacture an NLAW in nearly as short a time as seen in 1941. Hell, I don't even want to try going into detail about just how many different factories are needed for manufacturing an NLAW or Hellfire missile compared to manufacturing armaments 80 years ago, the difference is that astoundingly great. On top of that, America today doesn't have the high single digit/low double digit percentages of Americans out of work, and I have reservations that Biden and the American public would be willing to forcefully drag people out of the service industries to work in factories (existence of said munition-capable plants notwithstanding). Let's not talk about the potential ramifications of what doing what FDR did (Tripling the US military budget to afford the titanic ramp up of production) would have today, especially since that alone came with a 10% inflationary increase, and God knows what the equivalent would translate into on top of the existing inflationary issues for a modern economy, populace, and workforce; nor shall we talk about how Pearl Harbor saw most of the battleships get refloated anyway (IE: Recovered and not just captured or sold off on the black market like many videos already posted have shown occur with the AFU's equipment.).
The fact stands that the West of before and of today are very much different beasts. While I'm certain the military-industrial complex may not have changed much in their pursuit of taxpayer-funded profit, they'll find their habitat has changed quite significantly in terms of workforce, as have their dietary habits: Gone are the days of the 300,000 Green Planes of Lincoln during WWII, now is the era of the 15,000 Gunmetal Gray Planes of Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan...
Just how replaceable would an equivalent loss of say... 3 (if you want to be proportional) or 9 (If outright replacing the BB's excluding Utah) Nimitz-class carriers be today? Keep in mind that as of right now, we only have one shipbuilder (The largest industrial employer in all of Virginia, at that) capable of building aircraft carriers in the country, only 3 other shipyards overall for the entire Navy, and the time needed to build, launch, and properly commission a replacement.
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Did they have to blur soldiers so nobody finds out that they are not ukrainians operating it?
The Embassy of Poland in Moscow is covered in red paint by activists.
Ukraine. Odessa. A policeman forces a veteran to leave the city square "Tell me what I fought for?"-asked the veteran
Neat view of Victory Day celebration crowd
Kadyrov of course also marched
"I appeal to the entire international community. On behalf of my 2nd Battalion & our entire regiment & all the Mariupol defenders. To those respecting the Geneva Convention & the rules of warfare: help wounded soldiers. They need qualified help. They deserved it.”- Azov Fighter
Meanwhile Russians in Mariupol
Grade A Trolling by Lavrov
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