March 9, 20223 yr 12 minutes ago, Boogyman said: If they had this much trouble invading a neighbor, can you imagine the level of fail "invading" us? Can they even "reach"? The Bering Straight is not the route any military in history would want to traverse for an invasion.
March 9, 20223 yr Thread on what happened with the MiG-29 clownshow... Basically the deal was agreed to in secret but Poland officials started blabbing and now it's all a circus.
March 9, 20223 yr Ukraine says it successfully attacked Russian vehicles in Kyiv thanks to a Telegram tip Natalie Musumeci Tue, March 8, 2022, 11:23 AM The image tweeted by the Security Service of Ukraine.Security Service of Ukraine Ukraine forces attacked Russian vehicles thanks to a tip on Telegram, officials said Tuesday. The vehicles were targeted outside Kyiv, according to the Security Service of Ukraine. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has intensified as Russian troops reportedly shell civilian areas. Ukrainian forces successfully attacked Russian vehicles in the capital city of Kyiv thanks to a public tip made through the encrypted messaging app Telegram, Ukraine's top law-enforcement agency said on Tuesday. The Security Service of Ukraine said in a tweet that it was able to effectively target Russian convoys near Kyiv because of messages sent to an official Telegram bot account called "STOP Russian War." "Your messages about the movement of the enemy through the official chatbot … bring new trophies every day," the government agency tweeted. "This time we received the coordinates of enemy vehicles marked 'V' in Kyiv region," it added. "The result is on this photo: fiery 'greetings' to the invaders," the Security Service of Ukraine wrote alongside a photo showing several military vehicles among plumes of black smoke. Russian President Vladimir Putin launched Russia's invasion of Ukraine in the early-morning hours of February 24, targeting several key cities with military strikes. Ukrainian forces have since put up a strong resistance to the Russian troops amid the war that has left hundreds of Ukrainian civilians, including children, dead, according to the United Nations. Ukrainian and international officials have accused Russia of targeting civilian populations with shelling and bombardments. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video message on Tuesday that Ukrainian forces "destroy the invaders wherever we can." But he said Russian troops "still have enough machinery to kill." "There are still enough missiles for terror," he added.
March 9, 20223 yr Why Russian attacks in Ukraine are likely to get more deadly Niamh Cavanagh and Sam Matthews Fri, March 4, 2022, 12:57 PM Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted Thursday that his invasion of Ukraine was "going to plan,” and experts warn that the failure of Russian forces to swiftly achieve victory in the first eight days of the war could mean the worst is yet to come for civilians. "Russia has a substantial air and missile advantage over Ukraine,” Scott Boston, a senior defense analyst at the nonprofit organization RAND, told Yahoo News. "If Russian leadership, if Vladimir Putin, continues to double down on this and insist that Kyiv is to be taken, there is still a great deal of violence left that Russia can resort to.” Trying to predict exactly how the war will play out, or whether Putin might be compelled to agree to a ceasefire, is difficult. If history is a guide, however, the Russians may simply try to force Ukraine into submission, no matter how long that ultimately takes. Destroyed Russian armored vehicles in the Ukrainian city of Bucha, west of Kyiv, on Friday. (Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images) During a nearly 11-week campaign, from December 1994 through February 1995, Russian forces laid siege to the Chechen city of Grozny. When it was done, estimates put the civilian death toll at between 25,000 and 30,000. Beginning in 2012, Russian forces aided the Syrian government in a relentless, four-year attack on the Syrian city of Aleppo that left an estimated 31,000 civilians dead. What’s playing out now in Ukrainian cities, experts say, bears a striking resemblance to those two conflicts. Charles Lister, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution's Doha Center, said the images of the bombing of Kharkiv are "like Aleppo all over again.” Sergiy Orlov, the deputy mayor of Mariupol, said on Wednesday that his city was witnessing a "human catastrophe,” with entire districts of its outlying areas having been leveled by Russian bombs and artillery fire. Medics have not been allowed to retrieve the dead as the Kremlin attempts to bomb towns and cities into submission, he said. Philip Reeker, the U.S. chargé d’affaires to the U.K., warned that "medieval tactics are certainly what we can expect [from Putin]. That is exactly what President Putin and the Russian military have in mind.” In terms of military might, Russia has the clear advantage over Ukraine in the conflict. Its tanks alone outnumber those of the Ukrainian forces by a margin of 3 to 1, according to the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. As for military aircraft, Ukraine has 200 attack aircraft, including helicopters and 27 warships, while Russia has at least 1,300 aircraft and 34 warships. et nine days into the war, the level of resistance being mounted by Ukraine has taken many experts by surprise. "We expected to see certain things, and we didn’t see them,” Boston said. "You’ve seen Ukrainian civilians walking out, blocking the movement of Russian armored vehicles. We see them walking right up to the Russians in some cases.” Boston said Putin may have simply miscalculated how to execute his assault on Ukraine. "We saw an initial set of cruise and ballistic missile strikes take place,” Boston said. "But it was not followed up by a large-scale airstrike campaign, like one might expect. Parts of this operation look a lot like how they tried to execute the Crimea operation.” Unlike in 2014, when Putin swiftly seized the Crimean Peninsula, Ukrainians are now fighting back, keeping Kremlin-led forces out of most major cities. "One crucial difference is that the Ukrainians are shooting back this time,” Boston said. "So it seems to have caught whoever made the plan off guard.”
March 9, 20223 yr https://www.yahoo.com/news/poland-offers-fighter-jets-us-205750664.html WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Pentagon said Tuesday that Poland's offer to give its MiG-29 fighter jets to the U.S. so they can be passed to Ukraine raises serious concerns for the NATO alliance and the plan is not "a tenable one.” Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said in a statement that the prospect of jets departing from a U.S./NATO base in Germany to fly into airspace contested with Russia in the Ukraine war is concerning. He said it's not clear to the U.S. that there is a substantive rationale for it. The U.S., he said, will continue to talk to Poland about the matter.
March 9, 20223 yr The hyperbole I'm reading here is crazy. The U.S. and Russia both have the capabilities of inflicting massive amounts of damage on the other.
March 9, 20223 yr 9 minutes ago, Procus said: The hyperbole I'm reading here is crazy. The U.S. and Russia both have the capabilities of inflicting massive amounts of damage on the other. Only in Nuclear war can they both. From a conventional stand point, Russia can’t do jack squat to US.
March 9, 20223 yr 1 minute ago, barho said: Only in Nuclear war can they both. From a conventional stand point, Russia can’t do jack squat to US. You sir, are sadly mistaken. While it may not seem like much, i have no doubt Russian subs can hit lots of US targets with conventional warheads. Especially if you don't care about the people on the subs.
March 9, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, jsdarkstar said: They may try Moldavia next. However, The Russians won't take Kyiv. They can surround it. But to control it, they have to engage in Ubran Combat. They will sustain heavy losses going house to house, building to building trying to take control. They don't have the man power for it, they don't have the belief in the mission to pull it off. Remember Kandahar. Urban combat results in heavy losses. Something the Russian People are not prepared for. Or they starve them out…
March 9, 20223 yr 35 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: I like the conclusion tweet @mayanh8 lol Presumably we have back channels open between our militaries and intel agencies. Good chance we were told it would result in nuclear retaliation.
March 9, 20223 yr 13 minutes ago, Toastrel said: You sir, are sadly mistaken. While it may not seem like much, i have no doubt Russian subs can hit lots of US targets with conventional warheads. Especially if you don't care about the people on the subs. That is why we have a ton of Virginia class subs. Good luck getting close enough
March 9, 20223 yr 5 minutes ago, Abracadabra said: The model is Aleppo, not Kandahar. What is Aleppo?
March 9, 20223 yr 4 minutes ago, Kz! said: 😬😬😬 As soon as they release the wuhan info 14 minutes ago, Blazehound said: What is Aleppo? Barrel bombs and war crimes
March 9, 20223 yr 49 minutes ago, Toastrel said: You sir, are sadly mistaken. While it may not seem like much, i have no doubt Russian subs can hit lots of US targets with conventional warheads. Especially if you don't care about the people on the subs. That's not the same as a land invasion with enough troops to hold territory. There is zero risk of Russia doing that.
March 9, 20223 yr 23 minutes ago, wyote said: That's not the same as a land invasion with enough troops to hold territory. There is zero risk of Russia doing that. No, it is not. I do believe they have the power to hurt us on our own soil. Others may have differing opinions.
March 9, 20223 yr Author Who wants to guess where we get our oil from in the short term https://twitter.com/Fxhedgers/status/1501381380894171142?t=id5rf8fwRgQ8C3qPJK6kSQ&s=19
March 9, 20223 yr 7 minutes ago, DaEagles4Life said: Who wants to guess where we get our oil from in the short term https://twitter.com/Fxhedgers/status/1501381380894171142?t=id5rf8fwRgQ8C3qPJK6kSQ&s=19 Iran, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia? In other words, other dictatorships? If only we had the ability to produce energy domestically…oh wait
March 9, 20223 yr 5 hours ago, jsdarkstar said: A Russian warship that attacked Snake Island where Ukrainian soldiers cursed out invaders has reportedly been destroyed A Russian warship that attacked Snake Island has reportedly been destroyed by Ukrainian forces. Military sources told The Times UK that the Vasily Bykov was destroyed. It's the same ship that Ukrainian soldiers told to "go F yourself," sources told The Times. A Russian warship that attacked Ukraine's Snake Island last month has reportedly been destroyed. Ukrainian military sources told the Times UK that the large patrol corvette — named Vasily Bykov — was hit by Ukrainian rockets early Monday morning local time. "Ship was destroyed, it is confirmed," one Ukrainian military source told The Times. Military sources told The Times that Vasily Bykov was one of one of two ships that attacked Snake Island last month, in an incident in which Ukrainian soldiers told the Russian ships to "go F yourself." Well….. did they ever go F themselves?
March 9, 20223 yr 14 minutes ago, DaEagles4Life said: Who wants to guess where we get our oil from in the short term https://twitter.com/Fxhedgers/status/1501381380894171142?t=id5rf8fwRgQ8C3qPJK6kSQ&s=19 Works for me. Better Venezuela than Russia.
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