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Post by longdistancekiddie on Feb 13, 2024 0:51:14 GMT
Russia damaged a couple of HIMARS, looks minor. Just four of these trucks massively swung the war in 2022. The republicans will probably try to cut off ammo and replacements because they've been so effective at defending democracy. Pictures all over the Internet of them completely burnt out. This iron dome doesn't seem to be that good
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 13, 2024 3:18:56 GMT
Russia damaged a couple of HIMARS, looks minor. Just four of these trucks massively swung the war in 2022. The republicans will probably try to cut off ammo and replacements because they've been so effective at defending democracy. Pictures all over the Internet of them completely burnt out. This iron dome doesn't seem to be that good Where are those pics?
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 13, 2024 3:21:02 GMT
I have you got over there and joined the foreign brigade yet,?. Thanks to Ukrainians we don't have to fight the Russians, just give them the weapons. That means voting to support politicians who will. If you think I'm not doing enough, how about we cut a deal where you donate £1 for every £2 I've donated?
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Post by LDE76 on Feb 13, 2024 8:28:41 GMT
This "if you want Ukraine to win, why aren't you over there fighting" has to be one of the stupidest, most illogical arguments going.
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on Feb 13, 2024 9:28:02 GMT
This "if you want Ukraine to win, why aren't you over there fighting" has to be one of the stupidest, most illogical arguments going. Is it more stupid and illogical than when he suggested that to end the war in Ukraine, Ukrainians should run away from the Russians?
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Post by adri2008 on Feb 13, 2024 11:00:22 GMT
Inevitable that a deal is going to be made at some point this year in my opinion. A war of attrition and Russia simply has more man power + western resolve is now weakening. It's an existential situation for Putin too - if he loses, he's at best replaced but more likely killed.
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Post by musik on Feb 13, 2024 17:18:35 GMT
While watching MacGyver, doing my wrist exercises and defrosting my freezer I also saw the latest Swedish headline News.
Putin's army have never been stronger and will increase the amount of soldier from the current 1 million soldiers to 1,5 million soldiers in 2026.
Russia are given huge support from China and got many new deals with Chinese manufacturers and distributors. They've also a good co-operation with Belarus, Iran, North Korea.
(source: aftonbladet dot se)
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Post by musik on Feb 13, 2024 17:21:05 GMT
On the Swedish news online yesterday it said the rich will leave Sweden when the war comes.
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Post by lordb on Feb 13, 2024 18:32:59 GMT
On the Swedish news online yesterday it said the rich will leave Sweden when the war comes. 'when the war comes' Blimey
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Post by cvillestokie on Feb 13, 2024 19:26:46 GMT
Biden and Democrats have negotiated a joint deal with Senate Republicans, doing a lot to control the US-Mexico border in exchange for money to replenish US army stocks and send aid to Ukraine. Right now it looks like House Republicans are planning to kill it. The GOP are a wonderful opposition party but they suck as human beings. Even without getting into Trump’s viagra-driven courtship of Putin, they can’t be seen to help Biden. It’s hardly shocking that they want the war in Ukraine to keep going. It pushes prices up while Biden is in power. The best way to keep the war going is to not let Ukraine collapse but also not provide enough support to truly damage Russia.
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Post by Veritas on Feb 13, 2024 20:56:15 GMT
After Vladimir Putin gave US interviewer Tucker Carlson his exhaustive version of Russia’s historical glory, a Mongolian leader has trolled Vladimir Putin over the size of defunct Eurasian empires. “After Putin’s talk. I found Mongolian historic map. Don’t worry. We are a peaceful and free nation"
Great intervention from Mongolia 👍
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 13, 2024 22:39:44 GMT
"Poland should eventually get nuclear weapons as a security measure, a top Polish general has said." - NewsweekCouldn't blame them. The MAGA Republican's have said the US is no longer an ally of democracy, and that the US' word and honour means nothing if they take power. You'd think Taiwan, S Korea, Japan and Saudi might want to join Poland as nuclear powers.
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Post by bayernoatcake on Feb 14, 2024 10:05:23 GMT
Another Ropucha class landing ship promoted to submarine hopefully.
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Post by LDE76 on Feb 14, 2024 12:00:46 GMT
I finally managed to find some time to finish Shaun Pinner's book, "Live, Fight, Survive". I'd definitely recommend it to anyone interested in reading about one man's experiences of fighting on the front-line in Ukraine and his subsequent captivity. I won't go into detail but as you'd expect, it's by turns harrowing, shocking and downright infuriating, although not devoid of moments of humour. The first 100 pages include an introduction which explains how the author ended up in the Ukrainian marines and then go on to cover his time fighting in and around Mariupol. I think he does a good job of capturing the chaos and confusion which must have reigned supreme during the first days of the Russian invasion and describing the desperate, sometimes close-quarters combat in which he participated; you just know that however horrific it appears to the reader, the hell in which those in the trenches existed, and continue to exist, can never truly be appreciated. The rest of the book is devoted to Pinner's capture by DPR separatists, his interrogation, torture (physical and psychological), incarceration, trial and eventual release. I defy any decent person not to experience anger or pangs of contempt while taking in the events surrounding his farcical trial, or to shake their heads in disbelief at the antics of the prisoners' (Pinner, Aiden Aslin and other captured foreign volunteers) court-appointed "defence" lawyer. One thing I did find particularly interesting, if not surprising, is a conversation between Pinner and one of his captors. The guard, a DPR separatist, tells the author that while he desires independence from Ukraine, he never wanted to be ruled or annexed by Russia either; what he really sought was for Donetsk to become its own sovereign state. I wonder how many others in the breakaway regions shared/share this aspiration? After all, history shows us that previously-independent nations which have experienced Russian hegemony have, sooner or later, moved to sever those ties. I will read Aiden Aslin's account, "Putin's Prisoner", at some point but for now, I'll switch to something a bit lighter, like the new Alan Partridge book. www.amazon.co.uk/Live-Fight-Survive-ex-British-resistance/dp/0241668085/ref=sr_1_1?crid=KVEFKYIY2LK9&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.xkhnoRZ2icPbK_VMP-Nu9nR5-XnWFqfzCzK4yUGsQDDGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.3izgz7cmlDhzGZ5MKhdQQuQJcIcODFCEHW1KxPkC7tc&dib_tag=se&keywords=live+fight+survive+shaun+pinner&qid=1707907332&s=books&sprefix=live+fight%2Cstripbooks%2C764&sr=1-1
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Post by musik on Feb 14, 2024 16:42:32 GMT
In the news flow this morning.
According to hbl dot fi (a Finnish newspaper, but it was a pay site so I didn't link), it said in short: Estonia warn for the Russian mobilisation all along the Finnish border.
And down below also about Germany who sincerely belive in a large scale war within five year.
Just basically the headlines, but. Maybe it has been more on this in other papers or sources?
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 14, 2024 17:07:20 GMT
In the news flow this morning. According to hbl dot fi (a Finnish newspaper, but it was a pay site so I didn't link), it said in short: Estonia warn for the Russian mobilisation all along the Finnish border. And down below also about Germany who sincerely belive in a large scale war within five year. Just basically the headlines, but. Maybe it has been more on this in other papers or sources? Yeah, NATO intelligence officers have been warning about this sort of thing. If we don't support Ukraine to win, and trump wins the US election, then the chances are high that Putin will invade a NATO member. The expectation is he'll take a bit of the Baltics and then his western allies and idiots will say "we need to have peace! There should be a cease fire" and if we listen to them like people are listening on Ukraine, Then NATO is meaningless and he can just gobble up Europe piece by piece. The only ways to be sure to stop it is to help Ukraine (cheap), build up our armies massively (super expensive) or for NATO countries to agree to nuke Moscow if we even believe russians are behind the "separatists" that pop up in the Baltics.
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Post by LDE76 on Feb 14, 2024 18:06:00 GMT
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 14, 2024 19:33:24 GMT
Lol.
Russia has lost 3 Ropucha class large landing ships in 3 months.
They've been building one new landing ship every 2-3 years.
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Post by musik on Feb 14, 2024 20:09:02 GMT
I read today Russia's GDP (Gross Domestic Product) has increased more than the rest of the world, like EU's for instance, thanks to what the war has brought.
I see no end to that.
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Post by scfcno1fan on Feb 14, 2024 21:24:49 GMT
In the news flow this morning. According to hbl dot fi (a Finnish newspaper, but it was a pay site so I didn't link), it said in short: Estonia warn for the Russian mobilisation all along the Finnish border. And down below also about Germany who sincerely belive in a large scale war within five year. Just basically the headlines, but. Maybe it has been more on this in other papers or sources? Yeah, NATO intelligence officers have been warning about this sort of thing. If we don't support Ukraine to win, and trump wins the US election, then the chances are high that Putin will invade a NATO member. The expectation is he'll take a bit of the Baltics and then his western allies and idiots will say "we need to have peace! There should be a cease fire" and if we listen to them like people are listening on Ukraine, Then NATO is meaningless and he can just gobble up Europe piece by piece. The only ways to be sure to stop it is to help Ukraine (cheap), build up our armies massively (super expensive) or for NATO countries to agree to nuke Moscow if we even believe russians are behind the "separatists" that pop up in the Baltics. But how can Russia mobilise along the Finnish border? Aren’t they struggling to get enough men for Ukraine?
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Post by Northy on Feb 14, 2024 21:29:39 GMT
Not looking good in Avdiika
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 14, 2024 21:38:22 GMT
But how can Russia mobilise along the Finnish border? Aren’t they struggling to get enough men for Ukraine? Yeah I don't think they can do anything serious while invading Ukraine. Ukraine is destroying the Russian army quickly, but as soon as there's a cease fire or peace then Russia is now in war mode and will rapidly build up its army. E.g. Ukraine is taking out like 1200 russian tanks per year. As soon as that stops, the russian tank force will start growing again until they're ready to attack. If they're allowed to keep an inch of ukraine and there's not a huge NATO army parked on Russia's borders then Putin will have been told he can conquer more land if he just holds on. So he'll probably try again.
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 15, 2024 4:05:41 GMT
Avdiivka continues to worsen.
Parts of the 3rd Assault Brigade, an extremely elite unit were sent in to try and salvage things. It's hard to see what they can do though, I'm scared Zelenskyy and Syrskyi have gone Russian style and are throwing away troops stupidly.
With republicans strangling Ukraine there's a massive shortage of all types of ammo including anti-air missiles. So dozens of air bombs are dropped on avdiivka every day.
The fall of the city looks inevitable, a first victory for the Putin-north korea-republican alliance.
Ukraine's soldiers are being heroic though. Russia tried to blitz the city and capture it in October. They have delayed things by 4 months and taken out 600+ russian vehicles and tens of thousands of russian soldiers there.
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Post by musik on Feb 15, 2024 4:10:04 GMT
Yeah, NATO intelligence officers have been warning about this sort of thing. If we don't support Ukraine to win, and trump wins the US election, then the chances are high that Putin will invade a NATO member. The expectation is he'll take a bit of the Baltics and then his western allies and idiots will say "we need to have peace! There should be a cease fire" and if we listen to them like people are listening on Ukraine, Then NATO is meaningless and he can just gobble up Europe piece by piece. The only ways to be sure to stop it is to help Ukraine (cheap), build up our armies massively (super expensive) or for NATO countries to agree to nuke Moscow if we even believe russians are behind the "separatists" that pop up in the Baltics. But how can Russia mobilise along the Finnish border? Aren’t they struggling to get enough men for Ukraine? Not at all, they will increase their army staff by 50% in numbers in just two years. And China are reportedly supporting them hugely all they can, when it comes to whatever they need. They clearly seem to have a mutual enemy.
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 15, 2024 4:12:28 GMT
But how can Russia mobilise along the Finnish border? Aren’t they struggling to get enough men for Ukraine? Not at all, they will increase their army staff by 50% in numbers in just two years. And China are reportedly supporting them hugely all they can, when it comes to whatever they need. They clearly seem to have a mutual enemy. No need to panic yet! Russia's army is being used up in Ukraine, they've been pulling defence forces from all over. Air defence from Kaliningrad, vehicles from arctic units, tanks from the Japanese islands they're occupying etc. Haven't seen any Chinese-supplied tanks or ammo yet either. But the Chinese are happy to sell drones and trucks.
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Post by musik on Feb 15, 2024 6:27:22 GMT
First side news here today:
According to some American politician, Russia wants to put nuclear weapons up in the sky.
However, they are not meant to be used for bombing places on Earth, only to fight and attack satellites.
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 15, 2024 15:28:12 GMT
The main chunk of Avdiivka is almost entirely cut off.
IMO Ukraine needs to get their soldiers out.
There are masses of russian corpses all around Avdiivka, one video has a russian soldier saying his brigade lost 3,000 people so far and just showing wrecks and corpses.
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Post by Northy on Feb 15, 2024 17:15:57 GMT
The main chunk of Avdiivka is almost entirely cut off. IMO Ukraine needs to get their soldiers out. There are masses of russian corpses all around Avdiivka, one video has a russian soldier saying his brigade lost 3,000 people so far and just showing wrecks and corpses. Yes, they've already taken the main supply road, only side roads now to get out of. Although they have sent support troops in as a counter in that northern district, I cant see them taking it back anytime soon.
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Post by hcstokie on Feb 15, 2024 18:04:19 GMT
The main chunk of Avdiivka is almost entirely cut off. IMO Ukraine needs to get their soldiers out. There are masses of russian corpses all around Avdiivka, one video has a russian soldier saying his brigade lost 3,000 people so far and just showing wrecks and corpses. Yes, they've already taken the main supply road, only side roads now to get out of. Although they have sent support troops in as a counter in that northern district, I cant see them taking it back anytime soon. I think it’s time to withdraw, move back a few miles and replicate the attrition again. There’s literally nothing left of the village. It’s served its purpose, but Ukraine shouldn’t start to throw more troops in if the casualty rate starts to even up. They need distance between them and the Russians to allow them to use their drones. That’s what wrecked Russia on the approach to the town. You can’t use them when it’s close quarters fighting, so they’d be best to get some distance and start the process again.
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 15, 2024 19:23:40 GMT
I think hcstokie and Northy are right. Ukraine needs to hold good defences where the casualties are extra bad for russia and good for Ukraine. That means falling back when the situation gets as bad as it is in Avdiivka right now.
Russia has lost as many tanks attacking Avdiivka in 4 months as they build new in an entire year. They're throwing away the future to look strong for now in the hope Western allies will defect or surrender.
The Republican Party and North Korea threw in hard with Russia at a bad time. E.g. if the republicans had betrayed Ukraine in 6 months instead, Ukraine would have had a bigger stockpile of ammo and European supplies would be much higher.
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