War

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While playing by the "rules" of proxy war (ole Joe is an old hand), America and NATO are attacking Russia on a few fronts. The state department has done more damage to Russia than the US military could, if they didn't use nukes, they are more valuable than the army. The CIA and NSA have gone to war too and are drooling over the possibilities in the heart of Vlad's empire and all the Human intelligence it will bring. I'll bet even the US and UK navies want in on the action and will supply drones and anti ship missiles that can be fired from mobile trucks and targeting using from data from drones or have them paint targets with lasers. They will want to cut off Vlad's forces in Crimea from seaborn support preempt amphibious invasion by sinking them at sea. Starve supplies from getting to Crimea and the army in the south and there is fucked.

 

[cannabineer]

The bastards sent a DOG into space with no plan for it to return just so they could say they sent a dog into space

It's still there- RIP Laika

No. Decayed in ‘58. A cremation, so to speak.

 

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Someone make a meme:
Have you noticed that Vlad's diplomats are acting and speaking like Trump's lawyers?

 

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Even I and Hitler agree about the war in Ukraine...

Hitler's thoughts on Russia's invasion of Ukraine

 

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I think the ambush was anti tank weapons not artillery, too accurate and no craters in the road, also I saw the distinctive blast pattern of an NLAW. I think some of the attacks on cities were long range rockets. This will lead to improved AA defense and must have cost Russia some losses.
Russian airstrikes hit new targets in Ukraine

Russia has widened its military offensive in western Ukraine, hitting military targets in the cities of Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk for the first time. Three Russian airstrikes also hit the eastern industrial city of Dnipro.

 

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The stupider Vlad gets, the worse it will be for Russia and the longer the pain. There are few wealthy Russians any more and there will be little capital, it has been seized and will be given to the Ukrainians, all of it.
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Russia's richest businessman tells Putin: Don't take us back to 1917

Russia's richest businessman has warned the Kremlin against confiscating assets of companies that have fled in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine, saying such a step would set the country back more than 100 years.

www.cnn.com

 

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What The Media Doesn't Show About Western Support For Ukraine — And Can't

Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski discuss what the media doesn't — and can't — show about the Western world's support for Ukraine, and why. "There's a lack of proper context in news, in what Americans are seeing and what Americans are reading," Joe says. The "massive amount of weapons that are moving from Poland into Ukraine" have to be handled quietly by the government, and news media is not invited. "It's giving Americans a skewed sense."

 

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I think round two will find some nasty surprises for the Russians, as Ukrainian military power rapidly grows. Vlad will be broke soon. Vindman want's Vlad's ass!
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Col. Vindman: ‘We’re Getting Ready For A Second Offensive’

Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman says Russian forces do not have enough combat power to take Kyiv, but warns that Putin will resort to aerial bombardments of the city

 

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Russian military a 'bit more of a paper tiger' than thought: former Canadian special forces officer

A retired former JTF2 officer says Russia's invasion of Ukraine so far shows an 'utterly inept command and control of the military operation.' 'The vaunted Russian military may not be as invincible as we've believed for a number of decades,' he says.

 

[AntoMaria7]

,,Vladimir Putin's security service descended on the headquarters of the Russian Federal Security Service, under the leadership of Service 5, and arrested 2 high-ranking officers. A Russian journalist has revealed Putin's accusations against them in connection with the war in Ukraine. Specifically, Vladimir Putin's Protection Service arrested General Colonel Sergei Beseda, who has been in charge of the 5th Service Directorate of the FSB since 2009, as well as his deputy, Anatoli Boliukh.”
If this is true i really hope they have like a prison brake plan

 

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Those 16,000 Syrian fighters will be tracked every inch of the way to the Ukrainian border and the CIA probably knows, or will know where they are deployed and how they will get there. This information will be passed on to the Ukrainians and they will have a reception for them long before they get to Kyiv. It could be an ambush(s), it could be a drone strike(s), or it could be a missile strike from many miles away. They will know they are coming, where they are at every moment and will try to kill as many as they can before they reach Kyiv.

 

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,,Vladimir Putin's security service descended on the headquarters of the Russian Federal Security Service, under the leadership of Service 5, and arrested 2 high-ranking officers. A Russian journalist has revealed Putin's accusations against them in connection with the war in Ukraine. Specifically, Vladimir Putin's Protection Service arrested General Colonel Sergei Beseda, who has been in charge of the 5th Service Directorate of the FSB since 2009, as well as his deputy, Anatoli Boliukh.”
If this is true i really hope they have like a prison brake plan

How big is Vladimir Putin's security service?
What if someone in internal security arrested or killed those who come to arrest them, someone with their own small armed force and then spread the word for citizens to surround them like Yeltsin?

 

[hanimmal]

Interesting.

Maybe Putin does go full Trump as a way to exit this war. Just claim that the people he arrests all lied to him and tricked him into this slaughtering of the Ukrainian people and that he is taking them all out to fix the problem that 'they' made.

 

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,,Vladimir Putin's security service descended on the headquarters of the Russian Federal Security Service, under the leadership of Service 5, and arrested 2 high-ranking officers. A Russian journalist has revealed Putin's accusations against them in connection with the war in Ukraine. Specifically, Vladimir Putin's Protection Service arrested General Colonel Sergei Beseda, who has been in charge of the 5th Service Directorate of the FSB since 2009, as well as his deputy, Anatoli Boliukh.”
If this is true i really hope they have like a prison brake plan

Hey, maybe like Hitler took over command of the army in WW2, Vlad the former spy will take over direct control of the FSB! He is a spy and do what ya know, it is the only tool he has and when the only tool you have is a hammer, then you tend to perceive your problems as a series of nails. It could be paranoia, or it could be a sign of good mental health, as Vlad takes action to save his ass, probably a bit of both. It could be a sign he is getting new information and adapting, he adapted his PR image and will soon be swapping spit on camera. Vlad has gotten much closer to his people, on camera at least and does not want Russians or those around him to think he is mad, that could be fatal!

 

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It will also make it harder for Russia to attack our infrastructures, power, data and financial, we can more easily monitor every packet of data going into and coming out of the place.

Uh, ...kind of what the article says?

 

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Uh, ...kind of what the article says?

A summary for those to lazy to read.

 

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It is obvious why Vlad needs to crack down and censor shit and he will need to do much more to staunch the flow of information in this day and age. Vlad lives in fear, another sign he is rational! Imagine what would happen if all those independent newspapers and TV stations were allowed to broadcast and foreign news services too? Zelenskiy's story and rhetoric on TV would galvanize them along with the humanitarian catastrophe going on next store in Ukraine with their large Russian speaking population and ties. Zelenskiy was a TV celebrity in Russia and a native Russian speaker who is a master of PR and propaganda and speaks very well. He would be a hero there too and they have memories of invasion and he would invoke them too. Vlad would be fucked in a month, Zelenskiy would defeat him in his own country using media alone. Two weeks and honest western style reporting on the Russian army and the war would be a catastrophe for the government and Vlad.
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Russian State TV Pundits Call On Putin To End Ukraine Attacks

Journalists Molly Schwartz, Julia Davis and Michael Wasiura join MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss the “radical change” in Vladimir Putin’s propaganda as some pundits on Russian state TV called for Putin to end the war as harsh sanctions and growing protests destabilize life in Russia.

 

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I was thinking that all those explosive reactive armor bricks covering many of the Russian tanks would make excellent claymore mines with bag of scrap metal on one side and a rock or piece of metal on the other. Figure out how to detonate them and locals could line the roadways with them in some places. You could fucking near pave a mile of road with the reactive armor bricks of a destroyed tank regiment! But I imagine America has given the Ukrainians lot's or regular claymore mines. The problem the Russians will have increasingly is they will run into these kinds of ambushes and IED's too from partisans, irregular troops and locals, not to mention the Ukrainian army.
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Ukraine Army destroys column of enemy vehicles in Kharkiv Region.