BREAKING: INVASION HAS BEGUN..... Putin's "3-day war"... NOW... 1 YEAR 338 DAYS ...WAGNER HEAD SAYS GROUP STANDING DOWN AFTER CLAIMS OF DEAL
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Putin already said, years ago, that he wanted to put the old Soviet Union back together...problem is it's too late. Too many of those countries are in NATO.
They don't have the money, motivation..and now it seems, don't have the military expertise to occupy Ukraine.
Ukrainians have shown that won't be occupied.
I think if Putin could just keep those two separatists regions, he'd happily call off the invasion and spin it as a victory.
Watching this vid clip, I’m suspecting a lot of these American volunteers are just civilians with no military background, going over there to get themselves some “combat experience”.
They have been stocking up on all this military gear over the years for their backwoods CosPlay. Now they got a opportunity to try it out.
They have been stocking up on all this military gear over the years for their backwoods CosPlay. Now they got a opportunity to try it out.
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This shit is so crazy. No training for urban combat and extremely young crews = the bullshit we see from Russia
Russia Doesn't Train Troops for Urban Warfare. It's About to Learn the Consequences in Ukraine.
"Russian combined-arms doctrine has generally advised against making cities primary objectives."
There was a actually very similar video going around a while back of a small column of Russian tanks and armored vehicles under attack at night. I showed my wife and she asked me why the tank crew would run out in the middle of an attack with flashlights on. I had to explain that those weren't flashlights, but rather the escaped tank crew on fire running around before succumbing to their injuries. This shit is insane.
It gets better. Putin and his 4D chess has Erdogan looking like an adult and has Greece and Turkey working together. Also a no look assist for Macron's reelection. It is insane how poorly planned/executed this has been.
Man where are all these Putin nuthuggers who were making predictions a month ago. Like they just up and vanished for no good reason. I’m still waiting to see these master chess skills on display they say Putin got. Lol
Seems crazy to me that they'd volunteer, but could be more going over there now that they've seen the weaknesses of the russian infantry.
You'd have to be crazy to WANNA go to a war...
I've never been in the military, but from everything I've heard, combat changes you forever...
This ain't no video game. There's no reset.
It's all fun and games til you start seeing people's heads blown off and burnt corpses.
I sleep well at night...I'd like to keep it that way.
FUCKING SAVAGES.... I hope that Putin and all involved in attacks like this burn in hell for eternity....
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They will be back soon armed with blurry memes now that they have finally agreed on a "why" for all of this bullshit.
The crazy thing is that you have already seen the idiots on here with trial balloons of this dumb shit:
Russia is just defending itself
The West made Russia invade
This is about preventing further damage from Hunter Biden Soros Obama Gates bio labs where covid originated that also contain zionist Nazis
This is a pretty good read on their strategy: https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html
As simple and stupid as it is, it actually works as evidenced by the number of times the "free thinkers" on here parrot verbatim ridiculous thoughts and ideas straight from Pravda.
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I’m gonna put the cape on and head to Russia to save this one!
That reminds me..anyone heard from former BGOL member Ipnotic..?
Ukrainians claiming some wild shit on telegram but so far no one else has corroborated
The "reactivated" enemy equipment was completely plundered, the commander of the tank regiment of the invaders shot himself.
This was reported by the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
The message says that the occupiers are trying to restore the losses with the equipment removed from long-term storage. "In particular, at the airfield in the village of Klimovo, Bryansk region (35 km from the border of Ukraine), the enemy is deploying a repair and restoration base. Right now, the enemy's repair base is trying to "put into service" a significant amount of equipment that arrives from long-term storage warehouses. The state of this equipment is mostly extremely unsatisfactory, which makes it impossible to fully use it," Ukrainian intelligence notes.
At the same time, they point out that in Russia they often face the problem of the impossibility of restoring equipment after "reactivation" from warehouses — optical instruments and electronics containing precious metals have been completely stolen from combat vehicles.
"In particular, in the 4th tank division of the Russian Federation, it was found out that out of 10 "reactivated" tanks, only one is in a more or less operational condition. The rest are completely dismantled. Some of them do not even have engines. At present moment, the plan for transferring to the front of the equipment removed from storage has actually been disrupted. According to available information, the commander of the 13th tank regiment of the 4th tank division of the Russian Federation shot himself dead," the intelligence reports.
The "reactivated" enemy equipment was completely plundered, the commander of the tank regiment of the invaders shot himself.
This was reported by the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
The message says that the occupiers are trying to restore the losses with the equipment removed from long-term storage. "In particular, at the airfield in the village of Klimovo, Bryansk region (35 km from the border of Ukraine), the enemy is deploying a repair and restoration base. Right now, the enemy's repair base is trying to "put into service" a significant amount of equipment that arrives from long-term storage warehouses. The state of this equipment is mostly extremely unsatisfactory, which makes it impossible to fully use it," Ukrainian intelligence notes.
At the same time, they point out that in Russia they often face the problem of the impossibility of restoring equipment after "reactivation" from warehouses — optical instruments and electronics containing precious metals have been completely stolen from combat vehicles.
"In particular, in the 4th tank division of the Russian Federation, it was found out that out of 10 "reactivated" tanks, only one is in a more or less operational condition. The rest are completely dismantled. Some of them do not even have engines. At present moment, the plan for transferring to the front of the equipment removed from storage has actually been disrupted. According to available information, the commander of the 13th tank regiment of the 4th tank division of the Russian Federation shot himself dead," the intelligence reports.
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CNN team hears blasts and air raid sirens, sees smoke near Lviv
Smoke rises above Lviv, Ukraine on March 26
CNN's John Berman saw smoke rising from behind a hill near the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, Ukraine, on Saturday afternoon following a series of three blasts.
"We don't see any strikes in the city itself per se, but smoke rising from the horizon back behind that hill following three large blasts," Berman told viewers.
Earlier, the CNN team heard air raid sirens.
US President Joe Biden is in Warsaw, which is 400 kilometers (roughly 250 miles) from Lviv.
(8) CNN team hears blasts and air raid sirens, sees smoke near Lviv
Smoke rises above Lviv, Ukraine on March 26
CNN's John Berman saw smoke rising from behind a hill near the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, Ukraine, on Saturday afternoon following a series of three blasts.
"We don't see any strikes in the city itself per se, but smoke rising from the horizon back behind that hill following three large blasts," Berman told viewers.
Earlier, the CNN team heard air raid sirens.
US President Joe Biden is in Warsaw, which is 400 kilometers (roughly 250 miles) from Lviv.
(8) CNN team hears blasts and air raid sirens, sees smoke near Lviv
The Kremlin has been accused of using ethnic minority troops as “cannon fodder” in Ukraine amid evidence that non-Russian soldiers form a grossly disproportionate share of the mounting deaths in Vladimir Putin’s invasion force.
Analysis of Russian casualty figures and social media posts suggests that soldiers recruited from the outer reaches of the former Soviet Union, including the largely Muslim North Caucasus, make up as much as a third of known military fatalities and in some cases up to 50 per cent of the wounded in the war in Ukraine.
Anecdotal evidence from the battlefields of Ukraine suggests that many of Russian dead left on the frontline are wearing white bands on their uniforms, denoting non-regular Russian units. These units largely consist of ethnic minorities such as the Muslim republics of Dagestan or Ingushetia or far-flung locations like Buryatia, whose inhabitants are of Mongolian origin. Minorities account for about 20 per cent of the Russian population.
The Kremlin and its senior generals have long relied on strongarm tactics and factors such as poverty and lack of social mobility to recruit disproportionately among minorities and in rural areas.
Kamil Guleev, an expert on the Russian military at the Washington-based Wilson Centre think-tank, said: “The [ethnic] minority factor in the Russian army is vastly underrated when discussing the course of the Ukrainian war. Ethnic minorities are not so much a minority there. Judging from the casualty lists, minorities are wildly over-represented on the battlefields as cannon fodder.”
Mr Galeev, who produced the figure based on the Rostov hospital list, said there was disparate but considerable evidence that minority recruits were paying a disproportionate price on Ukraine’s battlefields. The Astrakhan region in southern Russia is 68 per cent ethnic Russian and 15 per cent Kazakh, yet a list of Ukraine fatalities from the region was 85 per cent Kazakh.
inews.co.uk
For comparison, this is from 2005 regarding US War casualties:
Whites, who constitute 67% of the active-duty and reserve forces, accounted for 71% of the fatalities. African Americans are 17% of the overall force and were 9% of the fatalities. Hispanics are 9% of the force and were 10% of the fatalities.
For whites, the percentage of deaths was the lowest since the Defense Department began keeping such statistics. In Korea, 80% of fatalities were white, in Vietnam, 86%, and in the Persian Gulf War, 76%.
The statistical report was requested by Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, and Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.). The majority of the report deals with a racial breakdown of U.S. forces by job category and rank for each of the services.
Skelton and Rangel wanted the report to further discussion of the nation’s all-volunteer approach to military service.
Rangel has suggested the nation may need to return to a draft so that the burden of military service in wartime is equally shared.
The report appears to support the contention that service in the military reserves is most attractive to young men living in low- or medium-income families in rural communities.
www.latimes.com
Analysis of Russian casualty figures and social media posts suggests that soldiers recruited from the outer reaches of the former Soviet Union, including the largely Muslim North Caucasus, make up as much as a third of known military fatalities and in some cases up to 50 per cent of the wounded in the war in Ukraine.
Anecdotal evidence from the battlefields of Ukraine suggests that many of Russian dead left on the frontline are wearing white bands on their uniforms, denoting non-regular Russian units. These units largely consist of ethnic minorities such as the Muslim republics of Dagestan or Ingushetia or far-flung locations like Buryatia, whose inhabitants are of Mongolian origin. Minorities account for about 20 per cent of the Russian population.
The Kremlin and its senior generals have long relied on strongarm tactics and factors such as poverty and lack of social mobility to recruit disproportionately among minorities and in rural areas.
Kamil Guleev, an expert on the Russian military at the Washington-based Wilson Centre think-tank, said: “The [ethnic] minority factor in the Russian army is vastly underrated when discussing the course of the Ukrainian war. Ethnic minorities are not so much a minority there. Judging from the casualty lists, minorities are wildly over-represented on the battlefields as cannon fodder.”
Mr Galeev, who produced the figure based on the Rostov hospital list, said there was disparate but considerable evidence that minority recruits were paying a disproportionate price on Ukraine’s battlefields. The Astrakhan region in southern Russia is 68 per cent ethnic Russian and 15 per cent Kazakh, yet a list of Ukraine fatalities from the region was 85 per cent Kazakh.
Putin accused of using troops from ethnic minority backgrounds in Russia as cannon fodder
Evidence from the frontline and casualty lists suggests ethnic minority troops from far-flung corners of the former Soviet Union have suffered a disproportionate share of fatalites and injuries among Vladimir Putin's invasion force
inews.co.uk
For comparison, this is from 2005 regarding US War casualties:
Whites, who constitute 67% of the active-duty and reserve forces, accounted for 71% of the fatalities. African Americans are 17% of the overall force and were 9% of the fatalities. Hispanics are 9% of the force and were 10% of the fatalities.
For whites, the percentage of deaths was the lowest since the Defense Department began keeping such statistics. In Korea, 80% of fatalities were white, in Vietnam, 86%, and in the Persian Gulf War, 76%.
The statistical report was requested by Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, and Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.). The majority of the report deals with a racial breakdown of U.S. forces by job category and rank for each of the services.
Skelton and Rangel wanted the report to further discussion of the nation’s all-volunteer approach to military service.
Rangel has suggested the nation may need to return to a draft so that the burden of military service in wartime is equally shared.
The report appears to support the contention that service in the military reserves is most attractive to young men living in low- or medium-income families in rural communities.
Whites Account for Most of Military's Fatalities
African Americans are 17% of the troops and were 9% of the dead, a study says. Hispanics, who are 9% of force, were 10% of those killed.
www.latimes.com
They do but he ad libs. He just isn't as gifted an orator as Obama with his ad libs:
It's actually surprising that the russian response has been so tame so far. They usually push back more fiercely on things like this but it is still very early:
White House: Biden Was Not Discussing Regime Change in Russia in His Speech in Poland
During his much-advertised "major" speech in Poland, the American president praised Ukraine's fight against Russian troops carrying out a special military operation on its territory and called on the West to prepare for a long...
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He reads from a teleprompter.
Biden suffers from stuttering from when he was a child. He has overcome it but it comes back every now and then.
He has brought it up in discussion in the past.
You go back and listen to his State of the Union closely and you can hear it and where he catches himself.
Reading these posts is like listening to UFC fight fans talk about how Conor McGregor was beating Floyd up in the first two rounds.
Anyone who actually was trying to be objective, saw that Conor never had a chance to win the fight. And that any punches that he landed were not hurting Floyd, and would have no impact on the eventual outcome, which is a knockout.
Can’t wait to see what this thread is like when Zelensky and his Nazi soldiers surrender.
BTW, I’m definitely not for Russians. I’m more like fuck them both, let’s not spread propaganda for either, and let them all kill each other and leave us our of it.
Anyone who actually was trying to be objective, saw that Conor never had a chance to win the fight. And that any punches that he landed were not hurting Floyd, and would have no impact on the eventual outcome, which is a knockout.
Can’t wait to see what this thread is like when Zelensky and his Nazi soldiers surrender.
BTW, I’m definitely not for Russians. I’m more like fuck them both, let’s not spread propaganda for either, and let them all kill each other and leave us our of it.
Whats this about Zelensky and his Nazi soldiers?
White House backtracks on Sleepy Joe's claim that Putin can’t stay in power
In his speech in Warsaw today, Joe Biden said of Vladimir Putin: ‘For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.’ This comes after Biden condemned Putin as a war criminal and ‘a butcher’. So, what did Biden mean by this? At first blush, it looks like a call for either a palace coup or a popular uprising in Russia – the two ways that Putin could be ousted from power. But the White House has been quick to downplay the remark, telling US reporters: ‘The President’s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbours or the region. He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change.’
Biden, who has done an effective job at rallying the US’s European and Asian allies in this crisis, would have been better off not saying Putin cannot remain in power. It is confusing to utter a line that must be clarified within an hour of the speech being delivered. Putin will also use it to try and claim that the West is attempting to change the government in Russia. It would have been better for Biden to stick to his message that the US will defend all Nato territory and that democracy will, eventually, triumph over autocracy.
The White House might be keen to stress that this was not a call for regime change in Russia. But it is clear the proxy war between Russia and Nato is intensifying. Putin’s response to Biden being in Poland today was to strike Lviv – the nearest major city to the Polish border in Ukraine. It is also increasingly hard to imagine the sanctions on Russia being scrapped while Putin remains in charge.
www.spectator.co.uk
In his speech in Warsaw today, Joe Biden said of Vladimir Putin: ‘For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.’ This comes after Biden condemned Putin as a war criminal and ‘a butcher’. So, what did Biden mean by this? At first blush, it looks like a call for either a palace coup or a popular uprising in Russia – the two ways that Putin could be ousted from power. But the White House has been quick to downplay the remark, telling US reporters: ‘The President’s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbours or the region. He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change.’
Biden, who has done an effective job at rallying the US’s European and Asian allies in this crisis, would have been better off not saying Putin cannot remain in power. It is confusing to utter a line that must be clarified within an hour of the speech being delivered. Putin will also use it to try and claim that the West is attempting to change the government in Russia. It would have been better for Biden to stick to his message that the US will defend all Nato territory and that democracy will, eventually, triumph over autocracy.
The White House might be keen to stress that this was not a call for regime change in Russia. But it is clear the proxy war between Russia and Nato is intensifying. Putin’s response to Biden being in Poland today was to strike Lviv – the nearest major city to the Polish border in Ukraine. It is also increasingly hard to imagine the sanctions on Russia being scrapped while Putin remains in charge.
White House backtracks on Biden's claim that Putin can’t stay in power
In his speech in Warsaw today, Joe Biden said of Vladimir Putin: ‘For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.’ This comes after Biden condemned Putin as a war criminal and ‘a butcher’. So, what did Biden mean by this? At first blush, it looks like a call for either a palace coup or
www.spectator.co.uk
The Ukrainian army is filled with outright Nazis. They have swaktzika tattoos and openly terrorize Black people. There’s an entire brigade called the Azov brigade. They are the main ones fighting Russia in the east (the ones that are ‘stealing’ tanks and being cheered on by the people in this post).
The Nazis have been doing outreach to the US and Germany and have been recruiting white supremacists to go fight for Ukraine.
It’s not really reported on, because it fucks up the narrative that we should run to help Ukraine.
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