Why?

I used to live and work in Venezuela under the Chavez regime.

Fun. I wonder why more people did t move down there.

Oh boy, a live one.

Believe me, I know people who actually live there. It's bad.

There are a lot of "rights" that you supposedly have in Russia that exist on paper, but the reality is much different.

You need to have a permit to own a hunting rifle, and the local government official can revoke it at any time, for any reason. Ammo is very hard to get, since basically all Russian ammo is made by the government. If you know who to bribe, you can get it, but it costs.

You can't dig an outhouse hole without a permit. Personal property is arbitrarily taxed at various rates depending on the locality, and the whims of whatever government official happens to be in charge at the time.

Some things are completely out of reach for individuals.
These are things that my missionaries have first hand experience with:

Want to own an airplane? Sorry. Only government and corporations can do that.

Want to own multiple vehicles? Ok, you have to pay an "excess tax" on them

Want to stock up on fuel? You are an enemy of the state, and depriving your fellow citizens of prosperity!

Russia is a collectivist socialist society, with an integrated welfare state and universal healthcare. These systems don't work very well, but they are a part of the central government nonetheless.

Every part of your life is government directed, and all you do is looked at through the lens of "societal good"

It's something that American Democrats can only dream of.

That's why I like this war in Ukraine. Leftists trying to out do themselves, and both getting destroyed in the process. It's a beautiful thing!

Are they pagan? Or Buddhist? Or Muslim? I'm confused.

Where is this myth of Russia being some super hardcore Christian country coming from?

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It is the M1A1 model pre DU upgrade. Judging by the hole made by the penetrator I'm not sure the DU armor would have stopped it. From the video of it getting hit it looks like the tank was hung out to dry without wingmen or infantry support. No tank lives long on a battlefield in those conditions.

He is 100% not American. His accent is subtle,  but as a native Russian and fluent American English speaker, I can easily pick up.


This is a propaganda hit peace.

That said, the lady that was flipping it the bird, I hope her drunk husband beats her on the regular...

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Not quite and no.  Overall, despite the differences in gun laws between states, Russia has more restrictive laws, and getting a handgun is next to impossible for the average person, so I've read.  I read that some government workers who carry them as part of their job are allowed to keep the handgun they carried after retiring.

I like the NEW giant US flag on the side of it...

Those stars and stripes must ruffle feathers.

You gotta get there for the clicks no different than NBC.

The problem is matching the original turret to the proper tank. Joe Schmo might not mind, but some of y'all will pitch a fit if the numbers don't match.

I wonder if they got that American Flag decal from TEMU...

lol

Russia is the only country I ever heard of where you can be arrested for putting flowers on a dead man's grave.  the dead man's name is Alexei Navalny, his crime was exposing Putin's corruption and attempting to run against him in an election.  the first time Navalny was poisoned and nearly died but received life saving care in Germany, then he flew back to Russia, was arrested at the airport and sent to the gulag where he died after only a short period of time due to unknown causes.  I don't think traveller's medical insurance is much help...good luck.

Guy puts hand on wrecked tank that has depleted uranium dust all over it.

Right. Yeah sure the Rooskies are gonna let the one "American" climb all over the tank. While the Muscovities have to stand behind railings. Lol

Evan gershkowitz



Nato was on the Russian border before the war.

Now because of the addition of Finland and Sweden it’s on the border even more.

4d chess move, Putin


Christian Russia where Putin mandates Covid vaccines and the abortion rate is the highest in Europe and even over America?



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It’s weird how the Russians are so damned good at Subversion, that they managed to turn All the Liberals and Half the Right wing of America, into simpering sycophants.    

And yet they suck so bad at this type of propaganda.  

It’s bizarre.   They have to power to convince many scared and demoralized people, that Russia is the True Defender of Christianity (tm).    

And yet, they don’t understand that a video like this, looks like pure desperate incompetence, to anyone who isn’t an idiot.

Cool video. I subscribed to his channel. lol.

So instead they start a war causing Finland/Sweden to join NATO one being literally on their border. Well played Russia.

It's rare to see this level of brainwashed stupidity even in GD, but here it is.  

Fuck Russia.

lol

Hopefully he licks his hands later.

Notice how he is on the other side of the barricades, touching and inspecting the war trophies. I saw that and decided it was pure propaganda.

Russia has had more KIAs in the last three years than the US post WW2.

Keep up the good work Ukraine.

Nothing like seeing a superpower get decimated in a border war.

Ouch. That hits home.

The war solely started because Putin wanted his empire.

I guess he shouldn’t have broken the ceasefire and launched a new conflict

Ugh, amen!

How many did we leave in Iraq?
Half funny, half serious.

Bet Nicholas Cage could get one from there to russia.

Agree.

Having an example in no way means you can recreate it.

Yeh because we're smart we only invade much smaller, weaker, technologically inferior countries.  You know the bad part we can't even beat those people.   As John Mearsheimer recently said America has the reverse of the Midas touch.   Everything we touch turns to shit.   All we do is lose wars.  Haven't won one since WW2.  

The most telling thing in this article is this quote "if you were HALF A MILE behind the front line (in Iraq or Afghanistan) you could have a barbecue, a sandwich and a drink".   It amazes me how many peoples only conception of war is Iraq and Afghanistan hell even Vietnam.    Those conflicts weren't shit compared to this.   Yes people died and were wounded but those conflicts were a joke compared to this.  

I remember when NATO announced they were going to train Ukrainian soldiers.  Everybody was like "oh shit its all over for the Russians when they get their combined arms warfare training".   My very first thought was, "Exactly how many members of any NATO military including the US military have any EXPERIENCE whatsoever attacking heavily fortified defensive lines covered by artillery, air power, drones, tanks,  missiles?  Oh yeh that's right ABSOLUTELY ZERO".  

One thing that gets on my nerves is when I see people in the West trashing the Ukrainians for not fighting the way we tell them to fight.   As if anybody in the WEST has a fucking clue what they are talking about telling people who ACTUALLY fight in the war how to do it while they are sitting on their fat asses in nice warm cozy offices and homes.  

I remember about 6 months into the conflict watching an interview with a former American soldier who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan and went to Ukraine.  He didn't last long at all.   He thought it was gonna be like Iraq and Afghanistan.  He said once he got there he realized what it was really like and got the fuck out of dodge.    A quote by an SAS guy fighting for Ukraine summed it up pretty good.  He said "The worst day in Iraq or Afghanistan was better than the best day in Ukraine".  Sums it up pretty good.  


https://www.businessinsider.com/us-forgot-how-to-fight-real-war-veteran-in-ukraine-2024-5

Laughs in Pakistani gun market.

That is funny.  

The most embarrassing part of all, was when Putin’s soldier was bragging about uncovering all of our “secrets”.    

They got the secrets to our A bomb and H bomb within a couple years, but today’s Russia doesn’t have spies who could get the M-1 tank data 30 years ago?  

They couldn’t Buy an M1 from Saudi Arabia or Iraq?  
  It doesn’t even make any sense.

Its interesting to see for sure.

Yeah, his accent is only a step above the Russians the Chicoms get to play US soldiers in their recent Korean War propaganda films.

Russian intelligence ops directed at Christian conservatives in the west.

The Russian Orthodox church is compromised by the Russian Deep State(formerly the KGB) and has been since the Soviet era. But, yeah, it's a bastion of Christianity.

And?  Why in the ever loving blue fuck would we even risk that kind of technology transfer to a geopolitical adversary?  

You can’t fight an adversary, without risking technological transfer.    You Know we’ve sold them to other countries, right?

You’ve heard Russia has a lot of oil money, yes?

They can Buy M-1 tanks worldwide.

Not many American journalists would recognize a burned out AK magazine.

They already have their own Trophy style APS. Except they can't afford to issue it out nearly as much as we can. Or like otherv things... they can't mass produce it.

Technology is far beyond the point of like even trying to copy a B-29 versus all the software, chips and circuit design and engineering. They couldn't even maje a good B-29 copy when the Soviets had a much more comparable industrial capability to our own. We're way ahead of them in that now.

Our latest armor technology packages are a heavily guarded, highly classified secret and DoD takes that shit almost if not outright as seriously as nuke weapons technology.  The composition of the armor in an Abrams has changed many, many times since 1980 and our allies don’t get what our tank crews use.  

Iraq was sold M1A1s through FMS that were originally made with older, obsolete armor but which are or were at the time still better than anything else in the region.  I believe those tanks were M1A1s produced between 1986 and 1988 and lacked DU.  DU was added to the production line starting sometime in 1988.  M1A1s with DU were called HAs (Heavy Armor).  Whether Iraqi tanks had the more advanced armor from the late 1980s stripped before delivery, I do not know.

Egypt fabricates M1A1s from “knock down” (pre-fab) kits but the armor isn’t what goes into tanks used by the U.S. Army.  Not even close.

The FCS with FLIR or thermal isn’t as critical of a secret as the armor because it just isn’t that difficult to design.  Expensive?  Yes.  Not on the level of aircraft avionics, however.  I’ve worked with F-15Es and what they can do when delivering a Mk82, LGBU, or a JDAM made me feel like a caveman lol.

Abrams hulls and turrets begin life as a hull structure or turret structure as the basis of each, with appropriate armor packages installed and sealed from view by the welded outer armor plate that forms the shape of the tank.  In some places, the thickness of the armor is measured in feet and in others, not so much.  As tanks are sent back for rebuild, old armor arrays can be cut out and the turrets and hulls stripped to the basic structures, re-machined back into spec and rebuilt back up with the latest armor packages.  

The Abrams crew (note that I didn’t say the entire tank) is well protected against everything but top attack, and research is being feverishly conducted now to find a practical way to defeat munitions delivered from above.  

Some of the info in the newspapers that FMC for example was pushing out IRT development of advanced M2/M3 Bradley IFV armor in the early 1980s was really out there.  It must have been adopted because I can’t find jack or shit about it now.  I assume the Abrams utilized something similar in concept and I can only speculate that it’s far beyond anything the Soviets developed when fused silica was incorporated into their T-64 and T-72 MBTs to defeat HEAT munitions.

There’s a reason why the Russians invested in and use ERA and we largely don’t (and yes I’m aware of the TUSK kit).  We developed ERA as a stop gap and moved on.  The Russians chose it as a cheaper alternative to advanced composite armor arrays used by western nations.

Read my post above.

I wouldn’t be so quick to be careless with our technology.  They can always cooperate with other nations with shared interests like China to develop countermeasures to make our weapons less effective.  We don’t need that.

I believe in giving lethal aid to the Ukrainians, but let’s not give away the farm while doing so.

Notice the turrets were still on the captured tanks.