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This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...

Christie suspensions were on the earliest T-34s, but they went to torsion bar as the subsequent designs got heavier.
The one the Germans feared the most, the JS-2, was a torsion bar suspension.
You seem to know a lot about military stuff. Are you in the military?
 
I'm not going to post any, but starting to see a lot of video coming out of captured Russian soldiers. Being interrogated, being allowed to call their parents, etc.

Seems like a concerted effort to continue to erode support in Russia.
 
I'm not going to post any, but starting to see a lot of video coming out of captured Russian soldiers. Being interrogated, being allowed to call their parents, etc.

Seems like a concerted effort to continue to erode support in Russia.
Letting them call mommy is a brilliant strategy. Ukraine should give those phone numbers to the US for safe keeping.

Make them call Russian media as well.
 
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Yikes.

This kind of thing is why I'm fairly pessimistic about how soon you see anyone in military high command or in Putin's inner circle turning on him. I have to imagine that every single individual that Putin allows to be around him or in a high military position has a perennial laser sight on their family at all times...it must come with the position.

I don't think you see people (that matter) turn on Putin until it gets so bad that they'd even risk the deaths of their families to save their country from its apparent fate.
 
I'm not going to post any, but starting to see a lot of video coming out of captured Russian soldiers. Being interrogated, being allowed to call their parents, etc.

Seems like a concerted effort to continue to erode support in Russia.
Ukraine is smart enough to know they’re not likely to win a full scale conflict if Putin chooses to go all in. They have to win the PR battle and get Putin to back down instead.
 


Yikes.

This kind of thing is why I'm fairly pessimistic about how soon you see anyone in military high command or in Putin's inner circle turning on him. I have to imagine that every single individual that Putin allows to be around him or in a high military position has a perennial laser sight on their family at all times...it must come with the position.

I don't think you see people (that matter) turn on Putin until it gets so bad that they'd even risk the deaths of their families to save their country from its apparent fate.
That’s ok. It’s preferable to get Putin but not absolutely necessary.
 
Any history aficionado that followed WW2 understands this. The IS-2 tank was slow to reload and fire though.
Especially early on, it’s fascinating to look back and see how close the Germans came to winning in that first campaign, based almost entirely on superior leadership/training, even though the Russians had the better hardware in many areas, but poor leadership.
 
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I'm just spit ballin here but any of you remember Beslan or the Moscow theaters? Jus sayin.
 
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There’s a very distinct difference today in how information is acquired of disseminated.

Walter Cronkite or Edward Murrow are not walking through those doors anytime soon. There are countless “blue check” personalities on Twitter who do a fine job of distorting the truth and masquerading as media members, which unfortunately has become the norm. Also, I’d rather just hear those news or facts. I don’t really care what Tucker Carlson’s or Don Lemon’s opinions are.
Walter and Ed didn't have fox attacking them constantly and blatantly spreading lies.
 
I'm not up on the Chechens are there some that are fighting with Ukraine? I saw the Georgians are fighting against Russia and some have been there since 2008 but admittedly don't know much about the Chechens...
There are chechen stooges that work for Moscow who are now being sent to Ukraine. Principally because Muslims and war criminals and blah blah. These are run by Putin's thug Kadorav. This is how that midget came into power in the first place by crushing the break out in Chechnya. But hey I am all about shish kabobs so please bring them in.
 
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