Russian Special Military Operation in the Ukraine - Mark IV: The Partitioning of Discussion

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CarlosDanger said:
Found some footage on Kaotic, said to be from Bakhmut. A couple of Ukrainians shot and seem to be in bad shape.
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Battle of Bakhmut, Ukrainian army under fire

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kuuu said:
Ukrop's POV of fighting Wagner in Artemovsk.
Operator gets shot in the arm, asks for a tourniquet and one of the khokhols dies where he stood - got shot in the heart.
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YumeNoHero said:
NATO has deployed Weapon of Indiscriminate Cringe.
Why does it always have to come back to Harry Porter for fuck's sake. Considering troons are up in arms about TRANS GENOCIDE if you even interact with the franchise somehow, that's not going to make NATO looks good in troons' eyes.
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NATO just went full-blown INSECTUS CONSUMUS
 
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YumeNoHero said:
NATO has deployed Weapon of Indiscriminate Cringe.
Why does it always have to come back to Harry Porter for fuck's sake. Considering troons are up in arms about TRANS GENOCIDE if you even interact with the franchise somehow, that's not going to make NATO looks good in troons' eyes.
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Because for many years Lord Voldemort was seen as the ultimate evil until Thanos came around.
 
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WhiskeyJack said:
Do you think the guy realizes that if the "40%" of destroyed HIMARS are decoys, and the remaining 100% are real HIMARS, that means that Ukraine has zero remaining HIMARS and the decoys accomplished effectively nothing? He's literally arguing that his company is pointless.
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Russia also seems to count gear as "destroyed" that was merely disabled, but returns to the field after repairs.
 
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Don’t forget that losing the Ukraine will leave The Chosen without a plan B and with Iran getting closer to a nuke, Isreel is on borrowed time.

I think this is the real reason for the US going Glenn Close on Ukraine.
namelesstacotruck said:
America cant back down. They are all in on Ukraine being the symbol of the American hegemony and that Russia cant defy them.

When McConnell says nothing is more important than Ukraine. He is correct when you mean the US Federal Government. They lose Ukraine, they lose Taiwan, they lose the ability to bully Iran, and they lose leverage on the Saudi's, and then they lose the petro dollar and the American Empire falls.

Shifting gears, the way Russia conducts the war at this point makes sense to me. When your enemy has their entire supply chain, medical resources, training system, intelligence apparatus and leadership structure out of country where you cant touch them, making them spend time and energy sending stuff to the east and focusing on diminishing the one asset they cant replace and turning it into body bags is pretty optimal. Especially when they dont have to worry about little things like "having an economy". Territory still matters but alot less than against a normal opponent.
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I have such things to show you… if you think this is bad, might as well KY. It will get worse and IRL, not in a TV screen, monitor or printed media.

These, my friend, are the salad days: no roving band of cannibals, supermarkets that are stocked and menial jobs, available entertainment.

It will be downhill from here on in.
prolapsed_cranium said:
Bad stuff happens everywhere, all the time.....since man has been alive.

This is normal. We now get to see it streamed live and in 4K. A year from now it'll be a different situation full of suffering that we'll be discussing.
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VargReallyDidNothingWrong said:
Dune more like Jewn. The Harkonnens are like Israel. They came to the desert, displaced the native population (Fremen = Palestinians), took all the natural resources for themselves, looked down on the Fremen as savages, constantly expanded their influence... They're even sponsored by an ultra-wealthy and nearly-all-powerful entity (the Padishah Emperor aka the United States)

Harkonnen more like Harkonberg
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I've never thought about Dune in that context but you're 100% right, fucking hell.
 
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Here's a heaping dose of fresh cringe from the Atlantic.
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The War in Ukraine Is the End of a World

A shroud is settling over the dreams many of us had at the end of the 20th century.
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The War in Ukraine Is the End of a World - The Atlantic

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The United Nations, as I once wrote, is a squalid and dysfunctional organization, but it is still one of the greatest achievements of humanity. It was never designed, however, to function with one of its permanent members running amok as a nuclear-armed rogue state, and so today the front line of freedom is in Ukraine. But democracy is under attack everywhere, including here in the United States, and so I will celebrate the courage of Ukraine, the wisdom of NATO, and the steadfastness of the world’s democracies. But I also hear the quiet rustling of a shroud that is settling over the dreams—and perhaps, illusions—of a better world that for a moment seemed only inches from our grasp.
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make_it_so said:
can carry a shitload of ordnance and can fly low and slow enough to provide actual fucking effective CAS. US grunts love these things for a reason.
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Then, they would love UAV's just as much. Since those can do exactly this also.

It's not that A-10 is a bad plane. It is however built around a very wasteful Gatling gun and ammo storage in terms of space and weight. Not to mention recoil ...a plane that carries it has to absorb. But yet the Sucking doesn't stop there !

Take the A-10 Pilots Coloring Book, The fact that the GUA-8 could only reliably destroy 60's era T-62 tank from the rear. Where it would find itself the most shot at by auto cannons of IFV's and not to mention supporting SPAAGs should say to you something.

Or a hail Mary shot against the T-62 upper side of the hull which requires a slant range of at least 1500 feet, 320 Ktas and 3 degrees dive at that for actual penetration.

Good luck with that in actual combat against anyone who aren't sand niggers. Also did I also mention GAU-8 sucks accuracy wise !?

The A-10 gun is more like shooting a shotgun than a rifle,” Bush says. “We fired into an area—the tank itself—rather than a specific spot
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Now compare it to Su-25 GSh-30-2 auto-cannon. A fairly lightweight and small system, firing a less potent round with a smaller ammo storage. The GSh-30-2, wasn't built around the Su-25, nor was it Su-25's main weapon. The Su-25's main weapons are rockets, guided and unguided along with bombs.

And while like I said. The GSh-30-2 fired less potent rounds in term of penetration. For softer targets GSh-30-2 will do the job just as well as GUA-8. Not to mention GSh-30-2 is more accurate.

There is also the fact when A-10 came into service. It was barebones. While the Su-25 had at least some Gucci shit like a proper nav and Klen-PS rangefinder and target designator.

Ultimately the A-10 would get Gucci shit in piecemeal upgrades, albeit rangefinder and target designator in form of targeting pod. While Su-25 stagnated post SU collapse. Not getting its planned follow-up models like the Su-25T and TM for various reasons. Nor a very deep modernization of the fleet. Until the current Su-25SM3 standard.


Both though modernized especially with DIRCM systems would still be relevant enough today. Though with modern UAV's around it's a question if you really need a manned plane for CAS in contested and AA-saturated space.
 
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Badungus Kabungus said:
Here's a heaping dose of fresh cringe from the Atlantic.
www.theatlantic.com

The War in Ukraine Is the End of a World

A shroud is settling over the dreams many of us had at the end of the 20th century.
www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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The War in Ukraine Is the End of a World - The Atlantic

archived 24 Feb 2023 00:39:21 UTC
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"By Tom Nichols"

Yet another Bush-era Neocon crying that the delusion of foreverwar and perpetual 1990's dominance is crashing against the rocks of the real world.
 
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Activating maximum Clownworld.

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moocow said:
Oh god another one? How badly did they butcher the books this time?


They're ESL boomers grabbing at random pop culture references from a dartboard full of Current Year™ calendars from different years who've never once heard of any of the shit they're including in the post.
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When all they have is the Millennial reference pool to work with, no wonder they posted cringe. This is why 19th century Britain taught their schoolboys stuff like "Horatius At the Bridge".

Though I do find your implication especially interesting, that ESL boomers are so deracinated from their own culture that the only heroes they can recall are from poorly remembered American soyjak media, kinda like how Pajeets copy American trends from 5 to 10 years ago.
 
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