Originally Posted By SWIRE:

"unnamed sources".  US DoD sources state Russia's is operating with 80-85% of what they started with.

Originally Posted By realwar:
Ukrainian resistance group has named itself after the 'Wolverines' from the film

The leader of the group spoke in early March about his band of fighters

The Canadian-born lawyer said his fighters were defending democracy

He said it was formed for over-60s who still want to fight Russian invasion

Named it after the 'Wolverines' group depicted in the 1984 'Red Dawn' movie


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Originally Posted By mbinky:
I love seeing Zelinsky everywhere.  Especially because I know it pisses off all the Russians and their enablers.  

Putin is such a friggin' coward.  But then from what I've seen this last month and a half the majority of Russians are cowards.  

What a pathetic nation.  When this is all said and done I hope there is a hundred thousand dead Russians fertilizing the farmland in Ukraine.

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Originally Posted By Zhukov:

As much as I want people on the right to win elections world-wide, this is a prime example that they're not all good persons. Gotta be more careful who you cheer for.

Life imitates art. For recent proof of this centuries-old maxim, look no further than this photo of an abandoned Russian infantry fighting vehicle in Ukraine with the word  "Wolverines" scrawled on the side in white spray paint in an apparent homage to the 1984 Cold War-era action flick "Red Dawn."

The photo was shared to Twitter on Thursday in response to a tweet by NPR's White House correspondent, Scott Detrow, who wrote that "We were driving too fast to get a clear picture  but we just drove past a destroyed Russian tank with WOLVERINES spraypainted across it." Fortunately, Oleg Tolmachev, the head of production for Ukrainian oil and gas company Naftogaz, had seen the exact same thing and snapped a photo of it.

The vehicle appears to be a Russian BMP-2, an infantry fighting vehicle that fulfills a similar role to the U.S. Army's Bradley Fighting Vehicles. The BMP-2's awkward forward tilt suggests that it suffered damage prior to its eventual abandonment and newfound transformation into a monument to 1980s pop culture in an active warzone.

So yes, remarkably, somewhere in Ukraine, a piece of Russian armor is now a meme for a movie about a bunch of high school students in Colorado who fend off a Russian invasion thanks to some good ole' fashioned American grit, ingenuity, a fuckton of 7.62mm ammo, rocket-propelled grenades, and a surprisingly solid grasp of insurgent warfare.

Directed by John Milius, "Red Dawn" stars Patrick Swayze, Thomas Howell, Charlie Sheen, Lea Thompson, and Jennifer Grey, among others, as Colorado teens whose small-town lives are upended by a Soviet invasion of the United States. After establishing military control of the town of Calumet, the Soviet invaders find themselves occupiers. In response, a resistance forms.  Made up mostly of teenagers and young adults, they don the mantle of "Wolverines" after the town's high school mascot and set about sowing chaos and confusion among the Soviet force's ranks.

As anyone with access to a history book can tell you  and as Russian forces might discover if they attempt to establish a permanent presence in Ukraine  occupations breed insurgencies, and insurgencies are nearly impossible to defeat with conventional military means. Every citizen is a potential combatant, and fighters blend seamlessly into the populace. They have an inherent home-field advantage, not just through a deep personal knowledge of the terrain, but of the people and culture. As such, they also tend to enjoy considerable local support.

Originally Posted By M-1975:

Missile hit a residential building in Kharkiv pic.twitter.com/WvI7u7KbVP

OSINTtechnical  (@Osinttechnical) April 9, 2022

Originally Posted By HIPPO:

NEW: Russia’s first default in a century looks all but inevitable now: Bloomberg

Ragip Soylu  (@ragipsoylu) April 9, 2022

Originally Posted By 556therapy:
I’m sick of seeing Zellinsky everywhere. He’s the only dude that can be all over the so called war zone and never risk getting harmed by anything. The Austrian president came to visit in Kyiv and they strolled around town.

Are the Russians so pathetic that they can’t find this guy already? Seems like all they’d have to do is schedule a tv interview with him.

Originally Posted By M-1975:

Missile hit a residential building in Kharkiv pic.twitter.com/WvI7u7KbVP

OSINTtechnical  (@Osinttechnical) April 9, 2022

Originally Posted By HIPPO:

In five weeks of combat, Russia may have lost 25 percent of its initial attacking force. What does this mean for military operations? https://t.co/dpg67xZamk

CSIS  (@CSIS) April 8, 2022

Originally Posted By HIPPO:

?? CNN: Quarter of Russian forces in Ukraine 'effectively inoperable.'

CNN quoted an unnamed European official, who said that 29 Russian battalion tactical groups are out of order.

The Kyiv Independent  (@KyivIndependent) April 9, 2022

Originally Posted By mbinky:


Yup.  Like listening to Gen Milley.  

"Kabul can hold out for months".  Falls in 72 hours.

"Kyiv will fall in 72 hours".  Holds out for months.  

We aren't promoting our best.

Originally Posted By mbinky:
To the people who think we may be getting played.  These are the words directly from the mouths of the Russian government.

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Russia’s Ukraine Propaganda Has Turned Fully Genocidal

Egged on by the language of annihilation and extermination, Russian soldiers have become willing executioners.

“On Feb. 26, only two days into the war, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti published an op-ed titled “The Coming of Russia and of the New World.” Its author, without a trace of irony, praises Russian President Vladimir Putin for the timely “solution of the Ukrainian question.” A few hours later, the article was removed and is now only available in web archives. It’s unclear why it was removed—whether because of its uncomfortable proximity to the lexicon of systematic mass murder or because it described a plan for dismantling Ukrainian statehood after a successful invasion presented itself as an accomplished fact when, in reality, Russian forces were being routed.”

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If you don't think that this can happen (AGAIN), read the book "Ordinary Men"

It can happen and it will happen.  Again.

Ordinary Men

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev announced that the five principles they presented for the normalization of interstate relations between the two countries were accepted by Armenia.

In the statement, it was stated that Aliyev told Putin that "Armenia accepts these principles".
Azerbaijan's normalization proposals

Azerbaijan presented the following proposals to Armenia for the normalization of relations:

• Mutual recognition by states of each other's sovereignty, territorial integrity, inviolability of international borders and political independence.
• Mutual confirmation that States have no territorial claims against each other and that they have a legal obligation not to make such claims in the future.
• To refrain from threatening each other's security, threats to political independence and territorial integrity, and the use of force and other situations incompatible with the purposes of the UN Charter.
• Setting borders and establishing diplomatic relations.
• Opening transportation and communication lines, establishment of other relevant communication networks and cooperation in the fields of interest.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said, "There is nothing unacceptable in Azerbaijan's offers." had made a statement.