This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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I get this post. Yes, I'm old.
Don't squeeze the paste out of the tube please. FINISH THEM.
You’re also battling our government which is trying to crush it.
OK, time to eat dinner. I'll be back in an hour and catch up with the 20 new pages of posts...
#1 They're not fighting against Iraqi's but a European nation with modern equipment and a stronger desire to defend their homeland against an ancient enemy
#2 The Russians don't seem to be as well-trained in many aspects as the US troops were, weren't as better equipped and obviously lack the air superiority the American ground forces did as well. I don't recall Iraqi's having such advanced drones either. I could be wrong though
May be very well defended and so far Ukraine can't get to it. (Russia can't be inept all the time?)
I am utterly surprised by this thread. Besides a few assholes on both sides injecting political nonsense into it this thread it is fabulous. I have given @gonegolfing more likes in this thread than I have given in any thread/post he has ever posted in.
Well done gentlemen/gentlewoman.
They'd be lost even if they still had PornHub.
"There's no buffering or lost connection now! Not used to this, what do we do??"
"Fap faster, Comrade!"
This is notable because their fued over people with golfing in their name runs deep.
I’ve watched and listened to the networks a few times over the last few days and it’s stuff I’ve seen on here hours before, or shots from rooftops talking for 30 minutes about possible strikes 20 miles away. So much better to see all this stuff coming in real time, even if some of it is inaccurate.
Wrong. You agreed with him 5 years ago.
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When is the last time you bought something with a Spanish Piece of Eight?
Starting to wonder if this is a calculation by putin. Either we send in NATO air support to obliterate it and then boom WW3 or he gets to take Kyiv rather easily it seems.
5 million rubles... so $5K?
Better than dying senselessly, that's for sure.
He's been paranoid like this for a while. Has Covid messed with him that much mentally?
You are correct. In most cases I don’t want to be associated with him. However in this thread I will give props to @gonegolfing with his useful/helpful posts.
I think there are 2 possibilities. Ukraine doesn't have the resources or possibly the Russians are taking the cheese so to speak.
Unfortunately I think the former may be more likely but I'm trying to convince myself of the latter. For the latter to work there would have to be a lot of trust in intelligence. The Ukrainians would have had to be disciplined in baiting the Russians and allowing them to think they were lacking resources and this would have assumed risk and losses in order to be convincing. But Russians haven't been willing to commit if you could frustrate the Russians draw them out get them to take the trap then you could land a devastating blow. Might be wishful thinking.
Maybe the Ukrainians have expended a lot of their ability to do that. I would assume that resupply would not be instantaneous. I have no military experience, so just speculation on my part.
That table is so long the people at the other end of it probably feel like their on a conference call, with Putin, while in another country.
I know a like whore when I see one!
Asked my nephew the same question today.
Background - master sargent, 2 tours bagram, 1 romania/ukraine, 1 central command kuwait, etc,etc.
His thinking - cat/mouse.
Russians waiting for three things - roads( fields not frozen impacting) not in control , the negotiations, and air cover problems. They also
His prediction - bombing for 1-2 days. They don’t want to shell their own troops.
He also thinks the survival rate of anyone in that convoy is about 10%. They are doomed.
Hope so.
I can't get over the coordination and cooperation of the West.
Not saying what he's saying isn't true, and could end up being the case .... but that guy's a real Debbie Downer.
So the 40 mile long caravan seems real odd. Any chance it’s a big convoy of dudes getting ready to surrender in touch with Ukraine?
Great thread, staggering events. Question for anybody with expertise. What the hell is is a “thermobaric” weapon? Supposedly the Russians are working to get these into Kiev, maybe as early as tonight.
**** Russia. And that Putin you rode in on.
Can you imagine if you were so blood thirsty that you wanted to merk Russian troops Ukrainian government would welcome you and possibly pay you.
Wonder what percentage military/resistance are Ukrainian vs other nationalities
Wonder what percentage military/resistance are Ukrainian vs other nationalities
