February 25, 20223 yr Just now, Mike31mt said: Covid? Climate change? I mean, you guys are full on rooting for Putin in this fight. You've picked your side.
February 25, 20223 yr 18 minutes ago, pallidrone said: Dear Sir or Madam, I see the point has completely eluded you. Considering the previous correspondence from you this has not come as a shock to anyone. The response was not to compare writing on a messageboard to actually voting in an election, but a comparison of the way people vote to the way people can communicate. Each process has changed from their original intentions and generally have improved in the way that they operate. However, we should not as a society stick to a specific way and then mock an updated way because a political party or any group, in general, has decided it is against their best interest. I implore you in future writing to address me with the proper cadence within each post as to which I can properly respond back. Cordially, Pallidrone Yeah, we should just go to an even more convenient method of voting and allow everyone to do it on an iPhone app or something. After all, there's not obvious reason in-person voting is superior. Verifying who people are before they vote is completely unimportant to a democracy, anyway.
February 25, 20223 yr 2 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: Are those eerie casualties Russian? If so I have to believe there are some guerilla forces that are out there operating independently looking for opportunities. Actually believe it or not the guerilla action has been on the Russian side. They sent a few saboteurs through the lines in captured equipment. There’s videos floating around of one of the trucks being ran off the road by the Ukrainians and also all the Russians ended up dead. Ukrainian official social media were posting license plates of the stolen trucks within hours. Makes me think we’ve got beau coup intel On the Russians and and we’re feeding it to the Ukrainians. From what I can tell of the ones where whole convoys are just stopped, I’m imagining it to be shoulder launched missiles from the Ukrainian side or helicopter hits from the Russians. I mean watching the videos it legit looks like scenery from an apocalypse movie.
February 25, 20223 yr 3 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: Put the link to the article please. I want to see the context of that statement. Bottom line was NATO relations were strained under Trump. Who cares about their f'ing relations? Youre missing the point. Are they ready to fight and kill people or not? Trump made them more ready to fight and kill. Sorry he made the Euro softies feel bad about it, but now you see why its not a f'ing joke that they needed to hold their end of the bargain. Ish is all rainbows and sunshine until it's not. I bet none of you are laughing about the Space Force now are you? Its called acknowledging reality and running the country like a serious adult. We don't have that now
February 25, 20223 yr Just now, Bill said: Actually believe it or not the guerilla action has been on the Russian side. They sent a few saboteurs through the lines in captured equipment. There’s videos floating around of one of the trucks being ran off the road by the Ukrainians and also all the Russians ended up dead. Ukrainian official social media were posting license plates of the stolen trucks within hours. Makes me think we’ve got beau coup intel On the Russians and and we’re feeding it to the Ukrainians. From what I can tell of the ones where whole convoys are just stopped, I’m imagining it to be shoulder launched missiles from the Ukrainian side or helicopter hits from the Russians. I mean watching the videos it legit looks like scenery from an apocalypse movie. Despite what many hear think, our intelligence services are very good, and have access to unimaginable amounts of data. The problem, as always, is analysis.
February 25, 20223 yr 5 minutes ago, VanHammersly said: I mean, you guys are full on rooting for Putin in this fight. You've picked your side. No youre rooting for Putin Plus youre ugly Now what?
February 25, 20223 yr 12 minutes ago, Bill said: I don't want to get ahead of things, but I'm starting to get the impression that the Russian military is not as mighty as was thought. For certain this could be owed to simply a lack of much will on the part of the Russian regulars to engage in this sort of war against those who many consider near-countrymen, while on the Ukrainian side you have an army and armed populace that is literally fighting for their homeland. I don't doubt that given time Russia can overcome. But it may be some combination of a pyyrhic victory or an extended quagmire. Edit: could also of course be propaganda.
February 25, 20223 yr Seems to me that any kind of prolonged ground fighting would be a huge blow to Putin.
February 25, 20223 yr 3 minutes ago, Bill said: Actually believe it or not the guerilla action has been on the Russian side. They sent a few saboteurs through the lines in captured equipment. There’s videos floating around of one of the trucks being ran off the road by the Ukrainians and also all the Russians ended up dead. Ukrainian official social media were posting license plates of the stolen trucks within hours. Makes me think we’ve got beau coup intel On the Russians and and we’re feeding it to the Ukrainians. From what I can tell of the ones where whole convoys are just stopped, I’m imagining it to be shoulder launched missiles from the Ukrainian side or helicopter hits from the Russians. I mean watching the videos it legit looks like scenery from an apocalypse movie. Yes agreed This is something we're doing right.
February 25, 20223 yr 4 minutes ago, Bacarty2 said: Can you imagine some of this stuff happening in America telling the men to stay in the country and fight Handing out guns People signing up for bloodbanks We'd fight so much with ourselves if this happened the attacking country wouldnt need to do anything No way, we'd pull together and unite, I still have faith When ish gets real---really real, things would be brought into perspective and our American arse kicking DNA would kick in We wouldn't need to hand out guns or ammo
February 25, 20223 yr Just now, JohnSnowsHair said: I don't want to get ahead of things, but I'm starting to get the impression that the Russian military is not as mighty as was thought. For certain this could be owed to simply a lack of much will on the part of the Russian regulars to engage in this sort of war against those who many consider near-countrymen, while on the Ukrainian side you have an army and armed populace that is literally fighting for their homeland. I don't doubt that given time Russia can overcome. But it may be some combination of a pyyrhic victory or an extended quagmire. Don’t get me wrong, the Russian military is good, but they’re not good good. Their strength always lied in numbers and leaders not afraid to shoot people for disobedience. Russians are a tough people, but tough in a different way. I am reminded of a report I read of captured intel from a journal of a killed fighter in Afghanistan. He said when you fought the Russians, you targeted the leader, and when he was down the unit would just become wholly incompetent and could be defeated, but when you hit an American leader, someone would randomly spring up and start leading the unit and they were harder to fight for that reason.
February 25, 20223 yr 3 minutes ago, Mike31mt said: No youre rooting for Putin Plus youre ugly Now what? Statistically speaking, it's very likely a third of your teeth are missing and your high school diploma is equivalent to my kids 6th grade education. Plus you are rooting for Putin. Now what, twerp? "Rootin' for Putin". I bet you trumplicans think that has a great ring to it. You are welcome for that.
February 25, 20223 yr 15 minutes ago, Bill said: A couple weeks ago I saw a pic from a Russian fighter pilot on an intercept of a US aircraft. There was a legit commercial Garmin handheld unit tied to the dash. Aren't gps pings from our military satellites? Does Russia have its own?
February 25, 20223 yr 23 minutes ago, Mike31mt said: And its still total bull ish Trump didnt weaken US democracy. To blame him on that and just assume its truth is hilarious. Somehow he weakened it so much that things played out exactly as they should and he was voted out. Our democracy is fine, stop parroting this propaganda. And again, where is NATO now? Why did Putin invade all these other countries before Trump? This is nonsense. Its an excuse to avoid admitting that Trump was a truly effective foreign policy POTUS. Just admit it. No one will get you. Wrong
February 25, 20223 yr 3 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: I don't want to get ahead of things, but I'm starting to get the impression that the Russian military is not as mighty as was thought. For certain this could be owed to simply a lack of much will on the part of the Russian regulars to engage in this sort of war against those who many consider near-countrymen, while on the Ukrainian side you have an army and armed populace that is literally fighting for their homeland. I don't doubt that given time Russia can overcome. But it may be some combination of a pyyrhic victory or an extended quagmire. Edit: could also of course be propaganda. I think it's a combination of factors: 1. The Russian military isn't as strong and advanced as its reputation would indicate. It's a bunch of old equipment, and the soldiers themselves are mainly young kids that aren't dedicated to the cause of re-establishing an empire that they never saw. Russia's advantage has always been in numbers and resolve, not technology. 2. The west seems to really have great intel sources, and they are feeding that to the Ukrainians. 3. Ukraine isn't just going to roll over -- these are proud people. Now is the time for NATO to start supplying these guys with weapons.
February 25, 20223 yr 5 minutes ago, Mike030270 said: Graphic Reveal hidden contents From 2014 apparently
February 25, 20223 yr 4 minutes ago, Mike030270 said: Graphic Hide contents IIRC the red arm bands are worn by rebel troops from Donetsk taking place in the invasion and Russian troops have been wearing white. You can see the white arm bands in the CNN clip from the airport. Essentially these dead guys are undertrained militia.
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