July 17, 20232 yr 2 minutes ago, MidMoFo said: So Putin’s 3-day war is going on 17 MONTHS because Zelensky, Biden and NATO are falling apart and weak? He is a **** and doesn't even believe the stuff he is posting, he's just lonely and craves attention.
July 17, 20232 yr If you share zero hedge I immediately assume you're a feeble minded conspiracy moron.
July 17, 20232 yr I like that they can't wait for the Ukraine to shoot them down, so they just let them crash. Shame they can't get the parts.
July 17, 20232 yr 15 minutes ago, Toastrel said: I like that they can't wait for the Ukraine to shoot them down, so they just let them crash. Shame they can't get the parts. Interesting. First I've heard of this YAK130. Their lack of viable air attack options is probably the most surprising aspect of this whole fiasco.
July 17, 20232 yr 11 minutes ago, Toastrel said: I am loving this so very much! all of them stomping on Abra's snowflake heart.
July 17, 20232 yr 5 hours ago, MidMoFo said: So Putin’s 3-day war is going on 17 MONTHS because Zelensky, Biden and NATO are falling apart and weak? We now have the outlines of a U.S. face saving surrender. "We turned a 3 day war into an X month war". That is "victory" for the vanquished.
July 17, 20232 yr 4 minutes ago, Abracadabra said: We now have the outlines of a U.S. face saving surrender. "We turned a 3 day war into an X month war". That is "victory" for the vanquished. We? You are alone. Sure, you can blow Kz! but he won't let you borrow his zero turn mower.
July 17, 20232 yr 20 minutes ago, Toastrel said: We? You are alone. Sure, you can blow Kz! but he won't let you borrow his zero turn mower. I'm not interested in your initiation rituals. Whatever consecrations you make toward Kz is your own business. However, among the things you covet most, a zero turn mower is a bit odd.
July 17, 20232 yr 5 minutes ago, Abracadabra said: I'm not interested in your initiation rituals. Whatever consecrations you make toward Kz is your own business. However, among the things you covet most, a zero turn mower is a bit odd. I was being generous, to intimate that some other (person) might touch you, you filthy poltroon.
July 18, 20232 yr https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-unit-sent-families-video-commander-drunk-bakhmut-ukraine-war-2023-7 Russian soldiers sent their families a desperate video, saying they were being led by a 'drunk' commander and without the supplies to survive
July 18, 20232 yr Author Ukrainian Bradley IFV obliterates two Russian T-72 tanks in single battle Ukrainian troops, using an American infantry fighting vehicle M2 Bradley, effectively neutralized two Russian T-72 tanks during an intense battle on July 18. Hanna Maliar, the Deputy Minister of Defense, recounted the heroic efforts of the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade, including key figures such as the gunner "Prymara,” the BMP commander "Kach,” and the driver-mechanic "Bublik,” who operated on the Zaporizhzhya front. Https://news.yahoo.com/ukrainian-bradley-ifv-obliterates-two-094500376.html
July 18, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, DaEagles4Life said: Ukrainian Bradley IFV obliterates two Russian T-72 tanks in single battle Ukrainian troops, using an American infantry fighting vehicle M2 Bradley, effectively neutralized two Russian T-72 tanks during an intense battle on July 18. Hanna Maliar, the Deputy Minister of Defense, recounted the heroic efforts of the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade, including key figures such as the gunner "Prymara,” the BMP commander "Kach,” and the driver-mechanic "Bublik,” who operated on the Zaporizhzhya front. Https://news.yahoo.com/ukrainian-bradley-ifv-obliterates-two-094500376.html Suka blyat!!
July 19, 20232 yr Pilot of SU-25 who ejected over water drowned. No one bothered to rescue him. Plenty of boats and jet skis, but no one cared enough. Russia is just doing so much winning.
July 19, 20232 yr 7 hours ago, HazletonEagle said: why did he need saving? He couldnt swim? People on scooters and other tourist boats were nearby, but no one dared to come to his aid for some reason. Everyone stood and watched the pilot slowly sink, tangled in the slings of his parachute.
July 19, 20232 yr You'd think he'd have a knife on him to cut them away if he got tangled. Unless they gave him a butter knife because they were running low on real ones.
July 19, 20232 yr Ukraine and the West are facing a devastating defeat -Telegraph Quote Since Putin’s tanks crossed into Ukrainian territory last year, three options have been on the table for how this war would end: victory for one side or the other, a frozen conflict or a negotiated settlement. The public comments made this week by Oleksiy Arestovych, a former advisor to Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff, appear to indicate the last may be more likely than previously thought. Arestovych raised the prospect of Ukraine making territorial concessions in return for the rest of the country receiving the most cast-iron security guarantee there is: Nato membership. These comments have proved highly controversial. Not only would such an outcome be unpalatable to many in Kyiv and other European capitals, raising it as a possibility highlights a growing uncertainty about the long-term sustainability of the war – particularly amongst Ukraine’s western backers. Arestovych’s suggestion comes at a crucial time. The long-planned counter-offensive, now in its second month, has run into several problems – not least that Kyiv is still waiting for approximately half of the western military equipment promised earlier in the year. Meanwhile, its forces are under increasing pressure to commit its reserves as Russian troops – despite reports of low morale across the front – remain dug-in, seemingly committed to defending every inch of Ukrainian ground captured since last year. As Russian minefields take their toll on western-supplied tanks and Ukrainian sappers, their forces have so-far retaken approximately five miles of the sixty miles they need to split the land-bridge connecting Russia to Crimea. The land between Mariupol in the east and Melitopol to the west is seen as the vital ground to achieving this. It is incredibly tough going for the Ukrainians. They lack the air cover and advanced jets to protect their ground forces from Russian attack helicopters and fighters. Their soldiers, meanwhile must negotiate miles of minefields, tank-traps and then ultimately the heavily dug Russian trench networks. This gruelling endeavour was always going to take longer than the occasionally impatient international audience was prepared to wait for. It is a military effort of immense proportions, where mass, manpower, morale, equipment, stocks, logistics, grit and luck all play vital roles. So far, the Ukrainians are displaying all of these military qualities. The variable that isn’t on their side is time. In war, time is perhaps the cruellest factor one cannot change. We saw this in NATO’s operation in Afghanistan, where the Taliban took great delight in the retelling of a famous Afghan proverb; ”you may have the watches, but we have the time”. Summer will soon begin to roll into autumn. Indeed, we are already half-way through the season. The fighting will begin to grind to a cold halt as the freezing winter saps troops’ ability to conduct high-intensity warfare. This will only give Russia more time to further build up its defences, as it did last winter. By this point in the West, meanwhile, all eyes will be on the upcoming US election, with more political attention diverted by the UK’s general election. Kyiv knows it has a shortened window of opportunity to capitalise on its battlefield initiative and take back as much ground as it can. If Kyiv fails in its battlefield endeavours to split that land bridge, and retake much of its own territory by winter, then vocal calls of territorial concessions for marginal political outcomes will likely become far more prevalent – not just in Ukraine but likely from western capitals, as so-called "war-fatigue” begins to bite, international stockpiles of equipment and ammunition wither and politicians begin to worry about domestic budgets ahead of national elections. While much fighting remains to be done across Ukraine’s southern farmlands over the coming months, governments across the west must be prepared for the grim prospect of territorial concessions as one potential political outcome of a failed counter-offensive. Whether a Putinist Kremlin would respect such a deal if Kyiv were to receive security pledges short of full Nato membership is extremely doubtful. Regardless, this would surely be a favoured outcome for China’s ruling "wolf warrior” foreign policy elite. Beijing would be utterly delighted if the war were to end with Ukraine divided, Russian troops permanently in the Donbas harassing Kyiv and Europe, and Nato fractured on political lines. Such an outcome would be a gift to China as Xi Jinping begins to ramp up his own imperialistic and extra-territorial ambitions across the Indo-Pacific – and a devastating defeat for the West. Robert Clark is the director of the Defence and Security Unit at Civitas. Prior to this he served in the British Army You know it's getting bad when the jack-toothed fudge-packers throw in the towel.
July 19, 20232 yr PragueCNN — It was a rare moment when the publicly visible Kremlin matched the reality behind closed doors. That is according to the head of Britain’s Mi6, who in a rare speech in Prague, gave the first confirmation from western intelligence that the boss of private military group Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin did indeed strike a deal with Putin to end his advance on Moscow during the failed rebellion of June 24. And he had, it seemed, been welcomed into the Kremlin to meet Putin days later. The Mi6 chief, known as C, also expressed some bafflement at the tremors around the Kremlin during that weekend, and the speed in which loyalties were spurned and returned. "If you look at Putin’s behaviors on that day”, Moore said of June 24, "Prigozhin started off I think, as a traitor at breakfast. He had been pardoned by supper and then a few days later, he was invited for tea. So, there are some things and even the chief of MI6 finds that a little bit difficult to try and interpret, in terms of who’s in and who’s out.” Moore also gave a rare indication of the continued health and whereabouts of Prigozhin himself, whose characteristically profane and frequent audio messages published on Telegram have recently stopped. Asked by CNN if Prigozhin was "alive and healthy”, Moore replied the Wagner leader was still: "floating around”, per his agency’s understanding. Western intelligence agencies have been reticent to comment on the failed rebellion, for fear of providing a false backbone to Russia’s familiar excuse for internal dissent - that it is arranged and fuelled by western spies. Yet the on-camera speech provided an opportunity for Moore’s expression to convey how shocking the weakness betrayed by Putin that weekend had been. "He really didn’t fight back against Prigozhin”, Moore said. "He cut a deal to save his skin, using the good offices of the leader of Belarus”, he said, referring to the intervention of Belarusian President Alexander Lukshenko who struck the deal. "So even I can’t see inside Putin’s head”, he added. "He has to have realized, I am sure that something that is deeply rotten in the state of Denmark - to quote Hamlet - and he had to cut this deal.” Moore added it was difficult to make "firm judgments” about the fate of Wagner itself, as a mercenary group, but they "do not appear to be engaged in Ukraine”, and that there "appears to be elements of them in Belarus.” Moore chose the city of Prague, which he remarked as the last European capital to have Russian tanks roll into it before Ukraine, as a venue for a speech. He began with an unusually open appeal to Russians "silently appalled by the sight of their armed forces pulverizing Ukrainian cities, expelling innocent families from their homes, and kidnapping thousands of children” to spy for the United Kingdom. "I invite them to do what others have already done this past 18 months and join hands with us. …Their secrets will always be safe with us, and together we will work to bring the bloodshed to an end.” It was an abnormally public appeal that fit the upended global geopolitics forged by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. While Moore maintained that China is "absolutely complicit in the invasion” because of its continued support of the Kremlin head, he added that Iran’s support for Russia has caused division in its most senior officials. "Iran is clearly keen to make as much cash as it can out of this situation”, he said. And while Iran is notably selling drones that usually hit civilian targets, he added: "It will sell anything it can spare and it thinks it can get away with.”
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