Ukrainian Defensive War against the Russian Invasion - Mark IV: The Partitioning of Discussion

Hungarians in Ukraine were just a prop and pretext for Orbán excepting 'we wuz kangz' irrendentism, where if Ukraine had collapsed, he likely would've tried to grab that bit.
I think you'll be hard pressed to find anyone in this thread who hates the fat nigger as much as I do but he was never an irredentist.

In fact he actually said multiple times in his speeches that Ukraine's collapse would be a "brutal disaster" for Hungary. He doesn't NOT want an Ukraine, he just wants a weak, dependent Ukraine firmly in Russia's sphere of interests and outside NATO/EU created by territorial concessions to Russia not by a total military victory.

He had a couple diplomatic oopsies mostly stemming from people from other countries deliberately misunderstanding the cultural significance of "Greater Hungary" symbology. Greater Hungary stickers, scarfs, old maps etc are similar to the confederate flag - it's a bit of a wignat thing if you overdo it, but it's mostly about heritage and history; because you fly the flag it doesn't mean you necessarily want to whip niggers and shoot and stab your fellow countrymen in a brutal civil war again.

Nearby countries are irrationally butthurt about this, Croatia especially can't spend 5 seconds without stomping their feet really hard and reiterating that they were never Hungarian territory, it was just a personal union. Croatians REALLY fucking hate us in recent times, and it's funnily extremely one sided unlike the Slovakia/Romania/Ukraine historical relations.

There's close to 0 support for irredentism among the population, even the most retarded 70 iq spiritually vantablack niggers realize that integrating a territory into the now poorest country into the EU, and that territory being multiple times poorer than the poorest Hungarian gypsyfuck backwater region BEFORE being ravaged by war is probably not a great idea, and that's before we factor in all of this ultimately resulting in us being kicked out of NATO and the EU simultaneously.

There was the spy fiasco in June 2025 but I think that was just Orban and co. selling information to the Russians, it wasn't part of a plan to invade Transcarpathial, don't worry!

Close to 0 is not 0 though so I'll talk about what IS there.

Toroczkai, the leader of the far right party Mi Hazánk (currently has 6 MPs in parliament who might as well be fucking garden gnomes considering TISZA has 2/3 constitutional supermajority so they can't fucking do anything) has advocated for "laying claim to Transcarpathia" multiple times. The party itself has horrible optics- the average 'I just want to grill!' centrist in Hungary thinks MHM is a bunch of retarded flat earther nazis (which isn't very far from the truth), they have never wielded and never will wield any institutional powers.

To be fair you can't blame these retards. I think the way Russian intelligence has infiltrated and turned the Hungarian far-right into Kremlin agents should be taught in books (as a cautionary tale). Toroczkai personally unveiled fucking Soviet statues and renamed streets after Gagarin and shit, inviting Russian (((diplomats))) like Anton Goriev to the ceremony [He was exposed as a GRU military intelligence officer and expelled from Slovakia for espionage].

A little history lesson on how the Hungarian (far) right became pro-Russia despite the heritage of 1848, 1956 and 1989:

Toroczkai and MHM came out of 'Jobbik' originally. Jobbik was founded in 2003, it started becoming super popular and this is when Orban started inching more and more towards right wing politics, stealing their thunder. Seeing this Jobbik decided to quadruple down and they started forming paramilitary anti-gypsy squads (they called it the Hungarian Guard), they started being openly antisemitic and anti-EU/NATO before it was cool. They were OBSESSED with revisionism, much more than anyone in current year and that includes MHM. The voterbase was mostly angry, rural voters who really hated gipsies and felt left behind by the other parties- the record % it got at an election was 20%, MHM currently received ~5.5% in both 2022 and 2026, just for comparison, Jobbik was infinitely more popular; and the most important part: it was quite anti-Russia before it made a sharp turn early on and became pro-Russia overnight.

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Pictured: Hungarian Guard, Jobbik's paramilitary wing, banned as a pseudo-terrorist organization since 2009. In 2013 the European Court of Human Right also upheld the ban saying it didn't violate the freedom of association.

Enter Kovács Béla. You might be wondering why the fuck am I writing about the biography of this random Hungarian (now) nobody and this Russian hoe, but please bear with me, I promise it will be good.

Kovács Béla was born in the winter of 1960 in Budapest. His biological mother was a poor Hungarian woman who lived in the countryside. This woman had a secret affair with a Soviet military intelligence officer stationed at a Red Army base in Hungary; the pregnancy was kept a secret (hence the birth happening in Budapest and not in bumfuck nowhere where she lived) and due to pressure from the father the mother gave up the baby into state oprhanage care. Five months old he was adopted by Kovács Béla Sr., who never told him about his true parents until adulthood. Additional fun facts: His birth registry contains textbook signs of KGB erasing traces of compromising evidence (such as an officer fathering a Hungarian child); the birth book was rebound in the 1980s and the father's name is missing, all extremely unusual.

Béla grew up in Tokyo where his father was a janitor in the Hungarian embassy. He attended an American school, learned English, Japanese, life is good. Enter Svetlana Istoshina.

She worked for Japanese public broadcasting as a hostess on a Russian-language TV show. Béla met her in 1979 and they 'fell in love' despite the age difference; Svetlana was almost a decade older than Béla, but even more importantly, at the time unbeknownst to him: she was married. In fact she wasn't just married to some rando, but to Omiya Masanori, who she met while he was working in the Soviet Union. Note: Masanori was working for a Japanese government agency, JICA; his expertise being nuclear power. [Curious.] They are still married to this day since she never divorced him, despite this she married her third active husband, Béla in 1986. Yes, third - after being with Béla for 4 years while still being married to Masanori, she married an Austrian man, Mario Schön (without Béla knowing). Mario Schön was an Austrian mafioso responsible for violent breakins in Vienna and selling heroin and morphine; he also had ties to the KGB [Organized crime in Austria was 'partnered' and infiltrated by the Soviets at the time, Soviet Intelligence assisted with smuggling in exchange for favors] The goal was obviously to get an Austrian passport that says "Svetlana Schön" (which she did). If you didn't pick up on it: Svetlana was a KGB courier. She kept flying all over the place, into Western Europe, Scandinavia, various Asian countries. It was extremely common for agents to marry in order to get another 'alias' and a non-Soviet passport that they can then travel with inconspicously to their heart's content. A Hungarian intelligence officer in Tokyo warned Kovács' adoptive father that Svetlana was working for the Soviets, which he then told his son, who didn't really care. After their marriage in 86 he went to study in the Soviet Union, became fluent in Russian and became a 'businessman'.

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The happy couple in a Japanese newspaper from 1975: Omiya Massanori and Svetlana Omiya.
"[...]The couple is living the life of newlyweds in Gamagori. Svetlana is still in school - although she has already earned the credits needed for her degree, she still has to write her thesis. Since this is her top priority right now, she is putting her Japanese studies on hold. Svetlana doesn’t speak Japanese at all yet, so the couple communicates with each other only in Russian. She hardly ever leaves their apartment
[except when she's a KGB courier flying to a different country every second day]. In the morning, after her husband leaves for work, she spends her time studying. When she gets tired, she listens to Soviet music. She follows this routine day after day. [...]

[Side note: if you think it's really retarded that they would put a KGB agent on public television: yeah, it is, but it also happened surprisingly often, the KGB really liked publicity as a cover. If the name isn't familiar, Stanislav Levchenko also was a journalist in Tokyo as his cover, he and his wife regularly appeared on the Japanese television as one of the few whities on the island - nobody at the time even remotely suspected him of being a spy. He was a KGB agent who defected to the US in 1979, he was pretty much singlehandedly responsible for raping the KGB's entire spy network in the Japan of the 80s. He was sentenced to death by a Russian court in absentia and Russian KGB agents tied to the Richard Miller case tried to assassinate him, unsuccessfully. ]

After the USSR collapsed he returned to Hungary with his wife, Svetlana as wealthy businesspeople. He joined Jobbik in around 2004-2005, almost instantly taking over their foreign policy due to his international experience and him speaking Japanese and Russian. He was also throwing ridiculous amounts of money at Jobbik, as soon as he joined he became their biggest private donor and almost singlehandedly bankrolled the entire party. He started organizing trips to Moscow for the prominent Jobbik politicians, started introducing them to Russian diplomats, regular meetings with fucking Dugin, founded comically pro-Russia "Eurasian identity" larp organizations and circlejerks like the "Alliance of European National Movements". They also observed the (fake) referendums in Donetsk/Luhansk/Crimea.

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Pictured: (at the time) chairman Vona Gábor and Dugin.

The Eurasian bit isn't a joke, it's literally as if Jobbik's narrative was directly written by Dugin, who they openly praised; Vona Gábor has famously declared "I am Eurasian." They pushed the narrative that Hungary is this sacred bridge between the East and the West, they started the Neo-Turanist retardation [FIDESZ took the Neo-Turanism over by the way to this fucking day, this is why we are in the Turkic Council and Orban is best buddies with all these CIS potato shithole-stans], and they wanted an alternative "Eurasian EU" that includes Russia and Turkey. They were also super friendly to Islam (MHM, Jobbik's successor keeps this heritage by being deeply connected to Gulf countries) and to Turkey in particular. To my knowledge Jobbik in this sense is unique, there is no far-right political party in the region that was a similar unholy amalgamation of retarded Duginist ideology/had an infatuation with Islam (despite being anti-migration). Jobbik was regularly doing demonstrations against sanctions on Iran in 2010-11.
"We are the descendants of Attila, whose guiding principle is justice, who bravely resist evil, and who fear no one but Allah."
-Jobbik chairman "Vona Gábor" in 2013 at a Muslim conference in Turkey representing Jobbik, pledging his faith to Allah in Turkish, despite being a 'devout christian' at the same time.
Full video, Here's your based tradcath euro far-right party, sire.

Anyways, back to Kovács Béla. Kovács Béla, starting in 2004, from his early Jobbik days, had a nickname in the party: KGBéla. You don't need to speak Hungarian to understand, but I'll overexplain it: it's as if someone named "Benjamin" was called "KGBenjamin". Politicians were joking that seeing as he comes from Russia, has an infinite money glitch from unknown sources, knows every single Russian diplomat/politician/etc. personally, has a Russian wife he must be a KGB agent hehexd. It took Hungarian counter-intelligence 10 fucking years to realise that the joke wasn't a joke; later he was stripped of immunity, charged with espionage for Russia and sentenced to five years in prison for spying on the EU on behalf of Moscow. He fled to Russia and lives there ever since with his wife, Svetlana, happily, occasionally providing commentary on Hungarian politics on social media.

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Kovács Béla wearing a 'Greater Hungary' shirt with Jobbik branding

Back to Jobbik. In the wake of the scandal, one half of Jobbik's leadership (Vona Gábor) said that they need a major shift if they don't want to completely implode. They called this "de-demonization". They need to move towards the center, no more paramilitary larping, no jewhate, no gypsy hate, no islam larping and most importantly no pro-Russia bullshit. At this time Orban was positioning himself closer and closer to Russia anyway, so they didn't even get any extra voters for being the "pro-Russia party" because they weren't the only ones. Two things happened at this point: Orban inched further right yet again, to gobble up the vast majority of disgruntled Jobbik voters who now had their new favorite pro-Russia party; FIDESZ already started being niggers on EU, the Soros bit started ramping up so jew hate was back on the menu aswell, it was meant to be. The other thing that happened was the more radical base of Jobbik seeing the shift to the center as a betrayal. After Jobbik had a super disappointing result in the 2018 elections (despite the circumstances being as favourable for the party as it's ever going to get) there was a power struggle and hardliners like Toroczkai and Dúró were expelled from the party; the Jobbik refugees founded Mi Hazánk Mozgalom and Jobbik just died, the party barely even exists anymore, they couldn't even get the signatures to have a candidate in every electoral region.

TLDR.: Orban isn't an irredentist, he's arguably even worse; he's extremely calculated in his collaboration with the Russians which is why he wants a castrated Ukraine in Russia's orbit, not a wartorn Transcarpathia annexed with every other neighboring country turning up the Hungarophobia to 11 and Hungary being kicked out of most atlantic alliance networks. The actual irredentist retards are Toroczkai's MHM bunch, born out of the unholy wedding of a traitor to Hungary and his KGB honeytrap waifu. Hungary is still paying the price today. If KGBéla hadn’t infiltrated and radicalized Jobbik the way he did, Orbán’s pro-Russia, pro-Turkey, neo-Turan grift probably wouldn’t have as deep a root as it has.

What a fucking mess, glad it's behind us now.
 
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Truly, what does Putin even hope to accomplish at this point? He can't win this war and he's not stupid enough to try using the nukes. Is he just trying to hold on until he falls over dead to avoid the humiliation of admitting he torpedoed everything he spent decades working towards?
To be completely serious:
He expects to outlast the EU and the US. Putin expects he can remain retarded longer than the US/EU can avoid budget problems. His hope is there will be a political or economic event that will sap the ability of the US/EU to support Ukraine, and then force them to make a deal.
If it wasn't bleeding Russia white trying to hold Ukraine down, I would say it wasn't the worst strategy.

Problem with jet trainers like the L-39NG Skyfox is the relatively small number of them built. Leading to the problem of deciding what's more important, training pilots or using them as drone hunters. Until someone puts in the order(s) and pony up the cash for more trainers to be built, that will remain the problem.
There is also avionics (a training craft doesn't have the best radar in the world, imagine), load-out, and loiter issues.

You act like this is not literally what they're doing with the Yak-52, a trainer prop plane from the 1970s, which started this whole side discussion in the first place.
That is fair, and I think a big chunk of what we need to do to is separate "Onesy, Twosey Smekalka watching one or two targets or approaches" and a organized program of wide deployment.

The Yak-52 is cheap to operate and has excellent loiter, Ukraine has some on hand.

Honestly the An-12s (or were they 8s?) Ukraine is mounting the miniguns would be plenty fine for the task with better gunner ergo and better avionics for hunting drones.

Propeller driven AAMs....
props are easier to build and maintain than turbines or chemical engines.

Do we know yet what was in it for the norks? Cash? combat experience? do we have the exact terms of whatever arrangement they had
Don't ask what was is it for the norks (supporting one of their last allies; China is not a Nork Ally, and previous Kims were well aware of that. China and Best Korea are useful to each other, and Nork leadership has acceded to US demands to entice China. But the Norks are Russia's allies - they are useful to Russia as a "I'm not touching you!" when it comes to nuclear proliferation and weapons transfers. And more importantly, Nrth Korea requires no military commitment from Russia.).
Ask what was in it for Kim. Which was a lot of cash in unsanctioned accounts, and probably some care packages from Russia.

No one knows the exact terms of the deal. The only thing we know it that Norks used the same loop hole the US used to send pilots to help the UK. Basically the Norks allowed "volunteers" in their armed services to go to russia, get equipped by russia (avoiding any issues with arms transfer), but because it was "volunteers" it wasn't escalation.

We SUSPECT that Russia ended the deal because of US/EU pressure that they would do the same for Ukraine and flood the country with more of those Polish-French mercenaries that were dying 495,237,237 to the hour. But only for realsies this time.

Yes and Yes. North Korea has always known its at a supreme institutional disadvantage to the Americans by not having actual combat veterans in the ranks. Getting paid to get some of that combat experience was a nice bonus. It was a total shit show though, and the Norks are insisting their troops not participate in any more Russian meat waves.
Its probably "you have to pay us more if you want to use our troops in meatwaves".
There was also issues with....due to near constant famine levels of food insecurity in Best Korea, their soldiers are nearly all manlets. They had issues with Russian uniforms and carrying even a moblik's combat load.

That goes without saying, no way would any actual antiques from 80 years ago be viable combat platforms. The whole idea of why WWII designs would even be considered was how most of them would fare in relatively low-altitude dogfighting, but they'd need modernization since aviation technology for prop planes has evolved over those same 80 years.

Which is why something like the T-6 Texan II with guns would be the most ideal since that plane came out in the 2000s and is still in active production. Or, more likely for jets power, the L-39NG Skyfox since that is a modernized Warsaw Pact era trainer from Czechoslovakia that already has membership in the Ukrainian Air Force.
Honestly Ukraine is on the right track with using F-16s with short range guided hydra kits - an F-16 won't have issues with jet-powered shaheeds, so its future proofed and it has enough getup to do something about SAM locks. There is also lots of parts, lots of pilots and training to build off of, and with a big fleet it means you find things like Radar upgrades or convince a contractor its worth the investment to help devolop and integrated a drone-killer package.

I thin the only issue is they aren't exactly cheap to operate though not the worse, some issues with loiter/speed, and mainly just they don't have a lot of them. Like if you could get a variable wing F-16.

TLDR.: Orban isn't an irredentist, he's arguably even worse; he's extremely calculated in his collaboration with the Russians which is why he wants a castrated Ukraine in Russia's orbit, not a wartorn Transcarpathia annexed with every other neighboring country turning up the Hungarophobia to 11 and Hungary being kicked out of most atlantic alliance networks. The actual irredentist retards are Toroczkai's MHM bunch, born out of the unholy wedding of a traitor to Hungary and his KGB honeytrap waifu. Hungary is still paying the price today. If KGBéla hadn’t infiltrated and radicalized Jobbik the way he did, Orbán’s pro-Russia, pro-Turkey, neo-Turan grift probably wouldn’t have as deep a root as it has.
Again:
Jesus christ how is it everytime you post its somehow worse than the last "Jesus christ" post you made?
 
Refinery at Tuapse continues to burn, cinematically:
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Jesus and that's just from falling debris of the drone + parts of the missile Russia used to shoot it down. Imagine if Ukraine has actually managed to get drone to strike the refinery facility instead of just have some burning debris fall near by due to stronk russian air defense.
 
I think you'll be hard pressed to find anyone in this thread who hates the fat nigger as much as I do but he was never an irredentist.
Early in the war, Russia had a dream map of Eastern Europe, probably initially prepared by Medvedev:
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It appears that Russia had the idea to pay off a few countries with chunks of Ukraine, maybe leverage their greed to create a fracture in NATO. I showed this map to someone from Poland, and he said the same thing you did: no one in Poland save a few weirdos has any interest in taking pieces of Ukraine.

This could be a case where Russia misread the countries of eastern Europe, in the same way they misread Ukraine and thought it would fold and greet their Russian brothers with open arms. I'm imagining some incompetent GRU lackeys reporting to Putin that a few land bribes would totally get neighboring countries to switch sides.
 
Norks unveiled a memorial for the troops killed in Kursk. 1144 is the number of people they put on the memorial.

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Woah, anyone else remember that good like 3-4 month period where everyone and their fucking cousin would call you a retard/schizoid/conspiracy theorist if you suggested that troops from the DPRK were even present in Ukraine? And being told "that's PREPOSTEROUS, of course STRONGK Russia doesn't need any assistance from a pissant regime like North Korea!"? I certainly do.

And the "Retard Right" [which has started to sound more and more like Bolsheviks as time goes on] claims to be "anti-communist", meanwhile they're all in for Putin who just so happens to pal around with every fucking tinpot Bolshevik dictator on the planet. I have no idea how the fuck one can maintain that level of cognitive dissonance and still claim that they have a coherent world view. I don't know why they even bother claiming to be rightoids, they have very obviously horsehoe'd themselves back around to Bolshevism.
 
If you haven’t seen it already…
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What you really want is a synchronized machine gun firing *through* the propellor of a nice manoeuvrable biplane such as a Fokker or Sopwith Camel from ~1915. No cone of fire, but a simple iron sight on the engine cowling for intuitive aiming by the pilot at slow and non-evasive targets such as Shaheds.
When will people get over this heavier than air flight humbug?
Zeppelins firing full broadsides is the answer to every problem.
 
When will people get over this heavier than air flight humbug?
Zeppelins firing full broadsides is the answer to every problem.
For real though, a high altitude balloon would be an interesting way of carrying drones further into enemy territory and acting as a radio repeater for them.

The Japanese famously bombed the US mainland in this way in WW2, and all they had was incendiaries and clockwork timers.
 
Woah, anyone else remember that good like 3-4 month period where everyone and their fucking cousin would call you a retard/schizoid/conspiracy theorist if you suggested that troops from the DPRK were even present in Ukraine? And being told "that's PREPOSTEROUS, of course STRONGK Russia doesn't need any assistance from a pissant regime like North Korea!"? I certainly do.
They're just Tuvians who can look very asian despite being totally white, NAFOtard
Le 56% burger mad because he doesn't know what a white christian nation's population is supposed to look like. :smug:
*injects some more krokodil*

And the "Retard Right" [which has started to sound more and more like Bolsheviks as time goes on] claims to be "anti-communist", meanwhile they're all in for Putin who just so happens to pal around with every fucking tinpot Bolshevik dictator on the planet. I have no idea how the fuck one can maintain that level of cognitive dissonance and still claim that they have a coherent world view. I don't know why they even bother claiming to be rightoids, they have very obviously horsehoe'd themselves back around to Bolshevism.
to be 100% fair to the retard right, the US are "friends" with several commie leaders currently. But nada from them when you see Russia having high level military meetings with "Death to America" chanting nations; the top 1% of vatniggers will say "Muh Saudis/9-11", ignoring that the KSAgovernment kicked out bin laden instead of having Bid Laden celebration day.

Early in the war, Russia had a dream map of Eastern Europe, probably initially prepared by Medvedev:
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It appears that Russia had the idea to pay off a few countries with chunks of Ukraine, maybe leverage their greed to create a fracture in NATO. I showed this map to someone from Poland, and he said the same thing you did: no one in Poland save a few weirdos has any interest in taking pieces of Ukraine.

This could be a case where Russia misread the countries of eastern Europe, in the same way they misread Ukraine and thought it would fold and greet their Russian brothers with open arms. I'm imagining some incompetent GRU lackeys reporting to Putin that a few land bribes would totally get neighboring countries to switch sides.
I think the idea was less a pay off and more a combination of "See? we aren't trying to conquer Ukraine for selfish gain, we are just trying to unite Ethnic groups" + ensure Ukraine would never ever be able to take revenge.

TBCF to your Polish friend, there is some Yook/Pole friction over their borders I forget the details on, but its a few sqKM of border regions, not to the level of an entire oblast.
Poles and Ukraine in general don't have the best relations, and I forget all the sticking points but it can be summarized as: Poland dislikes/distrusts Ukraine more than they like generating dead Russians, and they really love the idea of dead russians.

Poland iirc is one of the primary skeptics of "If we give Ukraine 2000 bradleys to fight russia now, they'll have 2000 bradleys to fight someone else later"

For real though, a high altitude balloon would be an interesting way of carrying drones further into enemy territory and acting as a radio repeater for them.

The Japanese famously bombed the US mainland in this way in WW2, and all they had was incendiaries and clockwork timers.
Didn't all that investment lead to death of a single little girl?
IIRC they never actually mannaged to bomb the US. One of them was caught on the edge of a storm, blown well ahead of schedule, and crashed on the oregon coast where a girl found it and set it off. There is an "um AXSHULLY" to the story but I forget what it is now.

the idea was pretty ingenious. They used the airstream to estimate the speed of the balloon, and had an altimeter set to drop "items" when it hit a certain altitude. The first 12 or so (the estimated time to cross the pacific) were sandbags to reduce weight from gas loss, and the final thing to drop was a bomb. It just really ignored they massively mistimed the crossing and only a couple ever made it near the US coast and most bombed the ocean., but weather and cheap construction claimed the majority.

When will people get over this heavier than air flight humbug?
Zeppelins firing full broadsides is the answer to every problem.
I know you are shitposting but as airships would the ideal solution to a loitering patrol I'll give an earnest response:

the issue with an airship is it is slower than a drone and presents a very unique silhouette, so they would be ok for static defense until you realize that Russia would likely adapt and be able to send drones with their swarms to go after airships.
 
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Two Russian helicopters getting destroyed some 150km from the frontline. The more impressive kill is the Mi-28 HAVOC, which doesn't see as much use as the KA-52.

Also looks like one Ivan was working on the Mi-8 when the raid took place and heroically shielded the engine compartment with his body.

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Early in the war, Russia had a dream map of Eastern Europe, probably initially prepared by Medvedev:
That random remaining little sliver of Ukraine seems kinda pointless. Reminds me of the kind of shit the AI pulls in HoI IV peace deals.

Woah, anyone else remember that good like 3-4 month period where everyone and their fucking cousin would call you a retard/schizoid/conspiracy theorist if you suggested that troops from the DPRK were even present in Ukraine? And being told "that's PREPOSTEROUS, of course STRONGK Russia doesn't need any assistance from a pissant regime like North Korea!"? I certainly do.
I do, it was hilarious because you got to see their cope firmware update in real time. There are no Norks in Ukraine. -> Okay there are Norks in Ukraine but they're only doing support roles to free up Russian regulars -> Okay there are Norks on the front but they're 1337 special operators there to learn/train new tactics, not just doing meatwaves -> Okay yes there are Norks doing meatwaves but here's why that's a good thing
 
Trump has a 1,5h call with Putin. Few hours later, Trump posts this:

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Really makes you think
Nothing burger and related to Iran, not Russia.

Merz was pushing for a reopening of the Straight of Homoz strait of Hormuz and end of the conflict by offering Iran some diplomatic praise of "being stronger than expected" and "skilled negotiators". It was pretty bullshit but Trump was most displeased so we have this.

My expectation is that this will be like Portugal "reviewing their purchase" of F-35s last march; they generated a bunch of headlines and thre was a lof Euro bluster about "Europe breaking away from the US"....then resumed the purchase process 2 months later in June.
So Trump will say "We're reviewing our troop deployments in germany" lots of headlines, and then the report will come back "Force deployment in germany is pretty much near the lower end of what we need, and we don't recommend any troop draw down lest it harm our ability to accomplish force projection and other geopolitical objectives". Then in off chance anyone remembers this past 90 days, Trump will say "Well, I asked our generals about that - and we have the best generals, by the way, and the best military with the best equipment and the best troops, I'm thankful for our troops every day. But I asked them about pulling out our Army, because Germany wants us to protect them because they can't do it themselves, but they keep praising Iran for being strong so maybe they can see how strong they without us to protect them. But our Generals said I shouldn't do it, so I didn't. But we're still looking at it, still looking into it. Its a terrible deal for the US, and they keep hitting us with Tarriffs. Thank you for your attention to this matter, by the way."
 
Refinery at Tuapse continues to burn, cinematically:
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It's like a shitty Pompeii remake.
Early in the war, Russia had a dream map of Eastern Europe, probably initially prepared by Medvedev:
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It appears that Russia had the idea to pay off a few countries with chunks of Ukraine, maybe leverage their greed to create a fracture in NATO. I showed this map to someone from Poland, and he said the same thing you did: no one in Poland save a few weirdos has any interest in taking pieces of Ukraine.

This could be a case where Russia misread the countries of eastern Europe, in the same way they misread Ukraine and thought it would fold and greet their Russian brothers with open arms. I'm imagining some incompetent GRU lackeys reporting to Putin that a few land bribes would totally get neighboring countries to switch sides.
I find it highly unlikely that countries like Hungary, even under Putin cocksleeves, would ever trade EU gibs for a piece of land.
 
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@Ghostse If nothing else, Trump intentionally going back and forth on whether U.S. troops being withdrawn or not will reap a bountiful harvest for U.S. pharmaceuticals on their license indigestion and heart burn medication and salt for us from the Krauts and euros.
 
Tsar Vladimir I is reportedly scaling down on the Victory Day parade this year. This time, the parade won’t feature any tanks or any other kind of military equipment for the first time since 2007. Needless to say, it is Khokholistan’s fault that Russia is forced to use their old tanks in the war that they started.
Russia’s traditional parade marking the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II will take place next week without tanks, missiles and other military equipment, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

It will be the first time in nearly two decades — and in Russia’s 4-year-old war in Ukraine — that no military equipment will rumble through Moscow’s Red Square on May 9, the day Russia celebrates its most important secular holiday. The Kremlin has used it to showcase its military might and global clout, and it is a source of patriotic pride.

Victory Day parades on Red Square have involved military equipment and various weaponry every year since 2008. Smaller parades are held elsewhere across the country, including in cities like St. Petersburg.

The ministry cited the “current operational situation” as a reason for excluding military equipment, as well as cadets, from this year’s parade on the 81st anniversary of the victory. Ukraine has launched drone attacks deep inside Russia to counter Moscow’s more than 4-year-old invasion.

While the ministry did not elaborate, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Wednesday blamed Ukraine, accusing it of “terrorist activity,” in an apparent reference to the drone strikes. In recent months, attacks have reached locations deep inside Russia, like the Baltic port of Ust-Luga to the north of Moscow, the Samara region near the border with Kazakhstan, and the Perm region in the Ural mountains.

“All measures are being taken to minimize the danger,” he told reporters.

The parade will feature “servicemen from higher military educational institutions of all kinds and certain service branches of the Russian Armed Forces” and a traditional military aircraft flyover, the ministry said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told U.S. President Donald Trump in a phone call later Wednesday that he was ready to declare a ceasefire with Ukraine for the Victory Day holiday, according to presidential adviser Yuri Ushakov.

Ushakov said the Trump had supported the idea as the holiday marked “our common victory over fascism” in World War II.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-victory-day-parade-3c0e2619140194148dd94c730775ee3f
https://archive.is/AAF7a

@Silence of the Troons remembers when Kreml propagandist Margarita Simonyan was gloating about how Russia was soon going to hold a Victory Day parade in Kyiv.
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This is a standard parade rehearsal.

They just decided to hold the parade in Kyiv this year.
https://nitter.net/M_Simonyan/status/1496748547395497987#m
https://archive.is/ciJMR
 
Tsar Vladimir I is reportedly scaling down on the Victory Day parade this year. This time, the parade won’t feature any tanks or any other kind of military equipment for the first time since 2007. Needless to say, it is Khokholistan’s fault that Russia is forced to use their old tanks in the war that they started.
I was really hoping in 2024 that Ukraine would do something absolutely hilarious when there was all that massed hardware. Looks like Putin isn't fully confident in his pantsir towers.

This is what victory looks like, khohol child. Enjoy gulag.
 
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