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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:13:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By goneshootin: Apparently most of them are registered in Bermuda and they've already been stripped of being considered air worthy. It'll be interesting to see if they try to fly out of country with them. |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:14:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By hiyaboa: The missing part of the clip released yesterday of the tank getting knocked out in Mariupol.
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:14:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Shenanigunz: There's some missing parts there alright.  |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:16:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By m35ben: Spreading hearts and minds when Ruskie tankers become paratroopers |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:16:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Spade: Welp At least it was quick |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:17:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By doc540: when Ruskie tankers become paratroopers  |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:17:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RR_Broccoli: The only ways I can imagine this all seemed like a good idea was a) he believed his own bullshit b) China was colluding to do something and then backed out when they saw it going bad. Even 'the big guy' trying some back room deals wouldn't allow for "yeah that'll work!" type thinking. He listened to his yes men generals. Like Kennedy and the bay of pigs. |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:17:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By spydercomonkey: In the pre-NVG days, parachute flares were a huge thing for night fighting. Do Russian squads even have flare guns? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By spydercomonkey: Originally Posted By Spade: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: Originally Posted By Spade: Originally Posted By SpaceGuy: Paywalled, but I've gleaned a ton of info from comments and such. Ukrainians are using drones + bombs in the night via STARLINK of all things to fatally wreck the convoys. They have 50 squads of drone operators running missions all night long, because Russian NV/Thermal is so pitiful they can walk up and blow the convoys up. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/specialist-drone-unit-picks-off-invading-forces-as-they-sleep-zlx3dj7bb I just don't understand how it's 2022 and a supposedly modern military doesn't have real NVG capabilities. I remember reading articles years ago worrying that the US might have trouble in a near peer fight because of reliance on NVGs with active stuff like lasers and beacons, because a real enemy like the Russians could see them. I guess it wasn't an issue. It's not that our enemies don't have some decent night vision and thermal systems, the real secret is that every soldier in our military has access to it. Wearable goggles on the noggin, with an IR laser on your rifle make for some very rapid ends to arguments at night. If we would need to have more light discipline, we can do that too. I figure. It's just baffling to me. Every US soldier has optics, lasers, all that. Shit, I can have it probably overnighted from TNVC if I had the money to drop. And most Russian soldiers are running around like it's 1985. In the pre-NVG days, parachute flares were a huge thing for night fighting. Do Russian squads even have flare guns? By the state of my flare gun collection I'm going to guess "no". They sold an absolutely staggering quantity of flare guns as surplus in the last thirty years. |
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FL, USA
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:18:42 PM EDT
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That's kinda rough. Should have saved that round for another tank but I dont they knew the tank was knocked out or disabled.
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OR, USA
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:18:59 PM EDT
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109 empty strollers sit in a Lviv square, representing children killed in the war
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:19:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BerettaGuy: 1941 was when the US joined in as you know, still considered to be the beginning of the war. Yes they targeted Poles. Do you think that Polish occupation of western Ukraine was a cakewalk for Ukrainians? Poles were moved into Ukrainian villages (by the thousands) and Ukrainians had to give up their homes and farmland without compensation. Ukrainians were beaten, jailed, and sometimes executed for using the Ukrainian language and Cyrillic alphabet(especially in schools) and for being Orthodox- many were forced to convert to Roman Catholicism. My Ukrainian grandmother used to have to turn her head sometimes to hear because a police official held her down and rammed a stick into her ear to punish her. So when people say how brutal Ukrainians were to Poles, remember that the Poles enforced a totalitarian government on them. The only good thing that came of it was that Stalin was prevented from enacting the Holodomor on western Ukraine. Dude you can relax. I’m not speaking out against either side. I was born in NW Ukraine - Rivne Oblast. I know the history of what happened in my selo and many like it better than most here. |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:19:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By hiyaboa: The missing part of the clip released yesterday of the tank getting knocked out in Mariupol.
Niiiiice! Another good Russian! |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:19:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By outofbattery: Putin’s end game now is the exact same one as someone who became convinced that a neighbor was a pushover and wouldn’t resist being robbed. The person did resist and their wife was killed. Putin is trying to figure out how to go back to just being an asshole antagonist that put up a fence on the wrong side of the property line and stole Amazon boxes. There is no way for Russia to ever rejoin the international community and be dealt with as before. He never,ever planned for this as anything other than a couple day war with no more Western reaction than scooping Crimea and causing the war in Donbass. This makes everything uncertain just like it’s impossible to know what an armed fugitive might do. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By outofbattery: Originally Posted By blueballs: Originally Posted By nickmemphis: I am no genius by any stretch, but I am one inqusitive curious sumbitch, worse than a killed cat, so I sure would love to to hear a cogent explanation of the endgame here. I mean what the fuck FVP is thinking. I am more or less insane and retarded myself, as you all well know, probably, and I can't think of one even in a world where you can buy unobtainium sponge at the corner grocery. And sans sarcasm, I am genuinely curious. I am fond of hypothetical thought experiments just to enhance my neural net, if for no other reason. Flowers For Motherfucking Algernon. Please just stop. Putin’s end game now is the exact same one as someone who became convinced that a neighbor was a pushover and wouldn’t resist being robbed. The person did resist and their wife was killed. Putin is trying to figure out how to go back to just being an asshole antagonist that put up a fence on the wrong side of the property line and stole Amazon boxes. There is no way for Russia to ever rejoin the international community and be dealt with as before. He never,ever planned for this as anything other than a couple day war with no more Western reaction than scooping Crimea and causing the war in Donbass. This makes everything uncertain just like it’s impossible to know what an armed fugitive might do. That is exactly right. In my opinion, there is no need to rush it. The Ukrainians will quite possibly defeat Russia. Nato and the west need to continue supplying arms and let Russia have the choice of whether to escalate or not. |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:20:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BerettaGuy: Fair enough. Thanks for supporting Ukrainians with your banner.  @BerettaGuy Of course. After all, I’m a Поліщук 😉 |
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OR, USA
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:22:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SilverBearX: That is exactly right. In my opinion, there is no need to rush it. The Ukrainians will quite possibly defeat Russia. Nato and the west need to continue supplying arms and let Russia have the choice of whether to escalate or not. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SilverBearX: Originally Posted By outofbattery: Originally Posted By blueballs: Originally Posted By nickmemphis: I am no genius by any stretch, but I am one inqusitive curious sumbitch, worse than a killed cat, so I sure would love to to hear a cogent explanation of the endgame here. I mean what the fuck FVP is thinking. I am more or less insane and retarded myself, as you all well know, probably, and I can't think of one even in a world where you can buy unobtainium sponge at the corner grocery. And sans sarcasm, I am genuinely curious. I am fond of hypothetical thought experiments just to enhance my neural net, if for no other reason. Flowers For Motherfucking Algernon. Please just stop. Putin's end game now is the exact same one as someone who became convinced that a neighbor was a pushover and wouldn't resist being robbed. The person did resist and their wife was killed. Putin is trying to figure out how to go back to just being an asshole antagonist that put up a fence on the wrong side of the property line and stole Amazon boxes. There is no way for Russia to ever rejoin the international community and be dealt with as before. He never,ever planned for this as anything other than a couple day war with no more Western reaction than scooping Crimea and causing the war in Donbass. This makes everything uncertain just like it's impossible to know what an armed fugitive might do. That is exactly right. In my opinion, there is no need to rush it. The Ukrainians will quite possibly defeat Russia. Nato and the west need to continue supplying arms and let Russia have the choice of whether to escalate or not. |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:25:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CS223: Wait till they hit the supply chain issues, "Igor why are there 200 missiles stacked in the warehouse and not at the air base?!!" "Sir, we are missing the gonculator valves, they are on back-order from Ukraine. We checked eBay, we found some in China but the seller only takes iTunes gift cards for payment."Everything is ball bearings nowadays. |
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SC, USA
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:25:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By PurpleOtter: 109 empty strollers sit in a Lviv square, representing children killed in the war https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2022/03/18/gettyimages-1239290649_wide-fbd2ae881052617d167f13e160829b915a30afef-s1200-c85.webp Nuland & Sullivan must be proud of what they've accomplished. |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:27:11 PM EDT
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Update: Putin accuses Ukraine of 'war crimes' in call with Macron.
Why does Macron even answer the damn phone? |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:27:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mnd6563: Do we still pay farmers in the US to NOT plant crops? Maybe we should plant the shit out of every field we have and make a nice dent in that trade imbalance we've been running for decades... Oh, and Drill Baby Drill!!! we give farmers subsidies to do crop rotations. this actually increases the crop yields and prevents soil decay. |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:28:05 PM EDT
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OR, USA
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:28:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mnd6563: Update: Putin accuses Ukraine of 'war crimes' in call with Macron. Why does Macron even answer the damn phone? |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:29:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mnd6563: Update: Putin accuses Ukraine of 'war crimes' in call with Macron. Why does Macron even answer the damn phone? Because he can’t wait to sell French avionics and thermal tank sights to Putin when this is all over. |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:30:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By PurpleOtter: While I concur, my only misgiving is that the Ukrainians are the ones paying in blood. WE better dam well make it up to them when this is all over. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By PurpleOtter: Originally Posted By SilverBearX: Originally Posted By outofbattery: Originally Posted By blueballs: Originally Posted By nickmemphis: I am no genius by any stretch, but I am one inqusitive curious sumbitch, worse than a killed cat, so I sure would love to to hear a cogent explanation of the endgame here. I mean what the fuck FVP is thinking. I am more or less insane and retarded myself, as you all well know, probably, and I can't think of one even in a world where you can buy unobtainium sponge at the corner grocery. And sans sarcasm, I am genuinely curious. I am fond of hypothetical thought experiments just to enhance my neural net, if for no other reason. Flowers For Motherfucking Algernon. Please just stop. Putin's end game now is the exact same one as someone who became convinced that a neighbor was a pushover and wouldn't resist being robbed. The person did resist and their wife was killed. Putin is trying to figure out how to go back to just being an asshole antagonist that put up a fence on the wrong side of the property line and stole Amazon boxes. There is no way for Russia to ever rejoin the international community and be dealt with as before. He never,ever planned for this as anything other than a couple day war with no more Western reaction than scooping Crimea and causing the war in Donbass. This makes everything uncertain just like it's impossible to know what an armed fugitive might do. That is exactly right. In my opinion, there is no need to rush it. The Ukrainians will quite possibly defeat Russia. Nato and the west need to continue supplying arms and let Russia have the choice of whether to escalate or not. We didn't invade them, we didn't tell Russia to invade them, and we've given them over a billion dollars worth of weapons. What do WE have to make up for? |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:31:38 PM EDT
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At this juncture what are considered reliable sources for war status information?
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:31:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Yobro512: He listened to his yes men generals. Like Kennedy and the bay of pigs. It is rather something else,Putin told his yes men to tell him what he wanted to hear. It’s not a figurative echo chamber when only one is talking.  Vladimir Putin dresses down Russia's spy chief - BBC News |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:32:03 PM EDT
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Mail man just dropped this off.
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:32:03 PM EDT
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OR, USA
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:32:25 PM EDT
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A video has appeared on the Internet of how the pilot of a Ukrainian attack aircraft sent a downed plane to an enemy column. Relevant footage was published by Censor.NET on Thursday, March 17. The video showed a fragment of the bombing of a column of Russian occupiers by Ukrainian pilots. One of the Ukrainian planes is lined up, after which our pilot directs his car at the Russians and ejects. The Ukrainian military piloted an Su-25 attack aircraft of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. On board you can see the number "30". According to preliminary data, this battle took place in the Kherson region at the beginning of the Russian military invasion of Ukraine. The second half of the video shows a broken column of occupiers. Apparently, this is the same column that was attacked by Ukrainian aircraft, and on which the downed Ukrainian attack aircraft fell. The pilot of the Ukrainian attack aircraft sent the downed plane to the enemy column |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:32:41 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:32:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Obo2: we give farmers subsidies to do crop rotations. this actually increases the crop yields and prevents soil decay. Thanks, I know nothing about farming obviously. Good info to know. |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:34:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chokey:
Nothing would make me happier than to see a rocket landing in the middle of that group. A future fucking Putin is in there somewhere. Fuck Russia. |
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OR, USA
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:34:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CenterMass762: We didn't invade them, we didn't tell Russia to invade them, and we've given them over a billion dollars worth of weapons. What do WE have to make up for? |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:34:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Star_Scream: Mail man just dropped this off. https://i.imgur.com/D1D8tZW.jpeg American knife this time. Gonna need a link there bud |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:35:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By weptek911: Because he can’t wait to sell French avionics and thermal tank sights to Putin when this is all over. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By weptek911: Originally Posted By mnd6563: Update: Putin accuses Ukraine of 'war crimes' in call with Macron. Why does Macron even answer the damn phone? Because he can’t wait to sell French avionics and thermal tank sights to Putin when this is all over. Sad but probably true. The French are nearly as bad as the Russians when it comes to arming questionable groups. |
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FL, USA
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:35:59 PM EDT
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The Italian type 212 and Greek type 214 U-boats would decimate every asset in the med if things went NATO hot
The Nuke subs would be fodder and the only Kilo class that would have a prayer (a long shot at that) would be retrofitted AIP boats and have not seen any reports an AIP is even in the med for Ivan Ivan would have to launch missiles within minutes to do anything to our NATO forces in the med before those superior U-boats eliminated the surface ships as well as the subs. They would never hear them until it was too late |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:36:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mnd6563: Grocery store in Kyiv, photo taken today, posted by reliable source: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/191966/B1DD674E-DE05-4785-A3B8-201973B034C8_jpe-2317704.JPG I wish my grocery stores were that nice... ...and that well stocked... |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:36:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By PurpleOtter: I suppose it's the culpability of letting things get this bad. It should have never come to this. Don't read to much into my post, just venting. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By PurpleOtter: Originally Posted By CenterMass762: We didn't invade them, we didn't tell Russia to invade them, and we've given them over a billion dollars worth of weapons. What do WE have to make up for? It's all good. Governments suck at everything, for sure. |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:37:02 PM EDT
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this looks fake to me |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:37:06 PM EDT
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Looks like a Benny Hill skit. 
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:39:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mnd6563: Grocery store in Kyiv, photo taken today, posted by reliable source: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/191966/B1DD674E-DE05-4785-A3B8-201973B034C8_jpe-2317704.JPG Probably better than Moscow. |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:39:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By NwG: That explains some things. I bet he had a handful of detent springs. They will never be found. |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:39:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chokey:
this looks fake to me |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:39:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By PurpleOtter: While I concur, my only misgiving is that the Ukrainians are the ones paying in blood. WE better dam well make it up to them when this is all over. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By PurpleOtter: Originally Posted By SilverBearX: Originally Posted By outofbattery: Originally Posted By blueballs: Originally Posted By nickmemphis: I am no genius by any stretch, but I am one inqusitive curious sumbitch, worse than a killed cat, so I sure would love to to hear a cogent explanation of the endgame here. I mean what the fuck FVP is thinking. I am more or less insane and retarded myself, as you all well know, probably, and I can't think of one even in a world where you can buy unobtainium sponge at the corner grocery. And sans sarcasm, I am genuinely curious. I am fond of hypothetical thought experiments just to enhance my neural net, if for no other reason. Flowers For Motherfucking Algernon. Please just stop. Putin's end game now is the exact same one as someone who became convinced that a neighbor was a pushover and wouldn't resist being robbed. The person did resist and their wife was killed. Putin is trying to figure out how to go back to just being an asshole antagonist that put up a fence on the wrong side of the property line and stole Amazon boxes. There is no way for Russia to ever rejoin the international community and be dealt with as before. He never,ever planned for this as anything other than a couple day war with no more Western reaction than scooping Crimea and causing the war in Donbass. This makes everything uncertain just like it's impossible to know what an armed fugitive might do. That is exactly right. In my opinion, there is no need to rush it. The Ukrainians will quite possibly defeat Russia. Nato and the west need to continue supplying arms and let Russia have the choice of whether to escalate or not. Uh, We are making it up to them right now by supporting them and keeping them from being subjugated for the rest of this century by their bad neighbor. I am fine with this. |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:42:01 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:42:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chokey:
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:43:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By whollyshite: Lots of begging... Not like they were talking to each other the whole time. Each sentence and response have to be translated both ways and the interpreters had a hell of a time understanding the senile old man's ramblings with mouthful of pudding. |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:43:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By dillydilly: @BerettaGuy Of course. After all, I’m a Поліщук 😉 Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By dillydilly: Originally Posted By BerettaGuy: Fair enough. Thanks for supporting Ukrainians with your banner. @BerettaGuy Of course. After all, I’m a Поліщук 😉 Ha! I'm a Boiko (or Boyko)! |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:43:50 PM EDT
[Last Edit: glklvr]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chokey:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOJYsn7X0AUZlGz?format=jpg&name=large
[redoctober]This constitutes the bulk of the Soviet surface fleet.[/redoctober] |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:45:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mnd6563: Grocery store in Kyiv, photo taken today, posted by reliable source: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/191966/B1DD674E-DE05-4785-A3B8-201973B034C8_jpe-2317704.JPG Looks nice. Russians will probably hit it with a cruise missile tonight or tomorrow because it looks nice. |
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Posted: 3/18/2022 1:46:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mal_means_bad: Fireballs usually don't cast shadows. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mal_means_bad: Originally Posted By Chokey:
this looks fake to me Huh? |
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