I learned from a movie that you are supposed to toss them in a garbage truck.

Germans got a lot of places, sometimes very fast. Doesn't mean they held onto it.

That's the power of legends. They don't have to be real, they only need to be believable.

Just made this one

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That’s why Trump was the best.

Everyone involved, or potentially involved is at a fraction of their cold war peak numbers.

I love my city.

Thats a damn shame....


Anywho...

Wasnt my post homie, but they are my opinions.

I don’t think you’ll see anyone complain over reposting the defiance of the personnel at Snake Island.  Those people should be remembered.

#BREAKING: Air raid sirens sounding in Lviv, western Ukraine

ELINT News  (@ELINTNews) February 25, 2022

To quote Winston Wolf, "Let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet."

There's no evidence that Russia has actually put into play a significant portion of their amassed forces yet. 58Teague posted as much earlier today.

I don't want to say Russia is pulling punches but I will say they aren't hitting with the full force they are certainly capable of. I suspect because they don't want to turn Kyiv into Chechnya v2. Their intention is to reintegrate Ukraine, not wipe it from the face of the map

Exhibit A: Their grid square removal tool:



And that's not adding in the SRBMs or even chemical munitions they could be letting loose.

If that firepower was leveled against Ukrainian cities, we'd certainly know it. As of now, they seem to be attempting their drunken, ham fisted version of surgical strikes.

You could die in a war.... or catch COVID.  Both reasons for level 4 do not travel.

Pretty similar risks

That island was not big enough to support their big brass balls

There's certainly no Shock and Awe in this campaign.

Never works like that in the real world. They love to flex their armaments but as mentioned before they can’t afford to field half of it in any effective way.

Hopefully more shocked and awe crap

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Eric Prince was on Tucker earlier tonight. He said the US is scheduled to decom 140 aircraft including A10's and other fighters. He suggested they could have been "loaned" to Ukraine with heavily skilled pilots earlier on (don't know if directly or indirectly). As a deterrent of course.

Yep, it doesn’t matter if it’s real or not.  Every time there is a Ukrainian Fulcrum in the air there can be claims of “The Ghost is with us” and things like that can be one hell of a motivator.

Indeed.  87% of GD’s toughguy internet commandos would do well to grow balls like those guys (and from the sound of it, girls) had.

I'm a Trump fan, but I am going to call BS on that one.

I have to agree. I am not overly impressed by what Russia has managed to accomplish thus far. They really have taken very little overall territory, and most of what they have taken is in areas where they have the greatest support in the far east and near Crimea.

Hell, Kyiv is what, about 90 miles from the border with Belarus? The Russian armored column that is supposedly "closing in" on Kyiv has still only covered about half of that distance and are now starting to meet fierce resistance. Their attempt to land an air assault brigade and seize an airfield near Kyiv turned into a disaster. And even if this force does make it to Kyiv, getting there and doing something with it once there are two very different things. You know Ukraine will defend their capital city with a ferocity unlike anything we've seen yet. A city of 2.88 million people, even if half or more have fled, is not going to be easy to take down or control. Any light infantry sent into the city will be vulnerable. Any armor sent into the city will downright be a sitting duck. And urban combat in general chews up and spits out the forces engaged in it.

And we don't fully know what Ukraine might have in reserve. They may be spread badly thin and fully engaged. But I would hope they've got a heavy brigade or two that is being held back as a reserve that can be used in a counterattack should forces try to seize Kyiv.

This fight is far from over. This war won't be over even if Kyiv falls. There are still large swaths of territory not under Russian control. I'd imagine Ukraine is still in control of 90% of its territory. And even if they capture most of the country, then comes the Iraq phase. IED's, small unit actions, ambushes, trying to deal with irregular forces that have the support and help of the local population. This then turns into another Afghanistan for them, where there will be few gains to make and few ways to gauge success. Instead, it will be a slow and steady stream of casualties and destroyed equipment. Days, weeks, months, years. The people will never totally give up. And you can bet your ass folks in the west will continue to ensure they get supplied with weapons, through Poland, Romania, Slovakia or some combination.

Yup. Real or not, every person it gets to pick up a rifle helps.

I'm just saying that this doesn't look nearly as violent and overwhelming as I expected. I wouldn't expect the typical person to be overly distressed by the footage we have seen so far. So will European governments really increase their military spending?

Of course, things might escalate soon - we'll see.

Location of Ivankiv, where the bridge was blown up, in relation to Kyiv.

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God bless Ukraine.

It's hard to cleanly take over a country when you don't want to use the usual tactics of shelling cities and then raping the survivors.

They've managed to move all of it into place, some from clear across their 11 time zones. Pressing the fire button really isn't that much of a stretch further.

Just hoping to keep overconfidence in check and the whole picture in perspective.

ETA: They are certainly not 10' tall and bulletproof but, they are a devious lot.