Holy shit.  Although we aren’t seeing locations posted, I bet a lot of the recent videos are Ukrainians cleaning up survivors of the recent failed attacks on Vuhledar.  I bet that’s a bunch of infantry from one of the BMPs that we saw the aftermath of in some other videos.

Man it looks worse than it was. I thought my eye was out because I couldn’t see. That’s all, I just remember thinking well fuck I’m a pirate now. But it was just a bleeder. I was later pissed because I found out the headache wasn’t from that but covid. And I had a vial of lidocaine but I smashed it in my pack and cut my finger looking for it so it wasn’t fun but I held my tongue because dudes there had it real bad and I gave my ampule of good stuff to them. The other funny thing is I’m like the eye pro Nazi and not everyone there gave a happy shit. I was like ochki optici but thought we’ll fuck there right again saftey sally looses his eye, slavo gets an rpg blast to the face and blinks it off.

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We did it right in this thread, like 3300 pages ago? "We should send F16s!" "No, it would take too long to train them up, even an experienced fighter pilot would take months to a year to get proficient at the new platform."

Well...

And to reiterate the "shoulda" case, if I were President, there would have been Ukrainian air & ground crews getting F16 training starting literally over a year ago. Shrug.

Heh.

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What a cool freaking pic!

That is old video. Arc Integrity just left Southampton, UK in route to Antwerpen, Belgium.


https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9332949

Just a guestimate on my part looking at the maps, nothing more.

I even sought a veteran marine fighter pilot instructor to ask how long a mig 29 to f16 training would take. He said that since they were single role pilots 3 months could be done, he also flew with East German dudes back in the late 90’s so he knew what it meant. He got to ride or fly a sukoi or something at some point. 3 months hard going to get a fully specked m29 pilot to a survivable mission capable level. He flew tiger 2es and harriers primarily and whatever that two engine trainer tb6 or whatever they are.

Sorry if a repost, but here is a link to Go Pro footage from English speaking forces fighting for Ukraine. Several more related videos available from the same source.

Combat GoPro - Wiping Out Russian Spetsnaz Team in CQB



ETA: Lots of classic M4's with KAC rails, grip pron

And if Crimea is existential, wouldn't that generate vastly greater effort and war support from Russia, making it much harder to take it?

I agree with the approach of cutting off Crimea and forcing them to rely on solely ferry and air resupply. But even that limited supply access isn't enough to starve them out or eliminate their ability to continue the fight. I also agree that putting Crimea under direct attack is going to reduce Russia's capacity to support other fronts. Would the DPR find themselves unsupported if Crimea were under imminent threat?

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Hell yeah! Welcome back!

"The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue their exercises on the border with the Republic of Belarus, this time they are taking place in the Chernobyl exclusion zone."

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"Ukrainian T-64BM1M with dynamic protection "Doublet" somewhere on the front line.

This version was created under a contract with the Republic of the Congo, and in order to reduce the cost, the tank was deprived of a thermal imager and guided missiles. The contract in 2014 was terminated and the tanks were sent to participate in the fighting in the southeast."

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That's about $4072.19.  How much ammo do you reckon was included with that deal?

IIRC, one of the things that the US "helped" Ukraine do in the early post-Soviet years was to get rid of nasty weapons like cluster munitions, air-launch missiles, and many more things that would have been incredibly useful to have around now. There are photos of Senators Lugar and Obama inspecting weapons stocks in Ukraine in the 90s. The US government expanded the threat reduction act to "help" Ukraine eliminate lots more weapons besides the nukes.

A got the story on the FL polish shitbird guy. There is truth and some of the common western volunteer issues there. Guy is shitcanned or will be but I can’t comment on specifics for a few weeks or so at least. Bottom line he was dirty but not not as bad as it sounds by WW3 standards but yes bad leadership in that one unit.

My previous comments about the crying and awol gwot guys referred to the dudes who ran after a few days or weeks or maybe month or two. They were not all Americans actually quiet a few were from other European places but plenty of Yanks. Many went awol with guns/armor etc after signing contracts. They also were responsible for getting a large cadre of very good English speaking officers killed by twittering and live-streaming their badasses on the gram. The Russians hit the leadership barracks mostly and hence the mass desertion, lack of leadership, etc. many Ukrainians heard about the attack, the speculated reason, the mass dissertion, with guns/armor ammo etc. and what do you expect. It did not foster a great environment of trust. It’s easy to get paranoid when you are under the command of someone you don’t understand, don’t trust, and you have high expectations (that will be let down) because it was France 1940. The Germans didn’t smash the maginot line, the went through neutral territory. Add the fact that at least a couple of the volunteers were double agents, spreading dissinformation like cannon fodder, you blokes are being sent to die rheeee. I give credit to the dudes who stayed the course and just trusted in god, that’s all you got. Your word is bond so the running men can say whatever, the reality is something else. You say yes means yes. No means no, follow that principle and life will probably work out for you as planned. Being a malingerer or spreading dissinformation, you might as well have helped the Russians.  No one was cannon fodder. Yaroviv had the best trained cadre outside of the Donbass. That’s where training to nato standards was done. The loss of SSGs and officers on the UA side was massive, they were giving you their best guys. You got the residual after a lot of good ones got vaporized.

I say all this having been steered away from the FL from the start. I’m not in comms with them, and it’s all through assorted friends in Ukrainian units that have worked with some of the Eastern European/Eurasian parts of FL or had friends attached there.  I say this (having been nearbye during the great panick it wasn’t pretty) and at least having enough language and friends in UA and experience living there to go native. So my perspective is biased towards the UA guys. To be clear there are effective badass FL units but their is what 5k now and like 35k in total joined. Casualties are much less as a whole than in most UA units. Out of those 35k I think 300 or so max have been 200/300 (just a guess). It’s a shame because they could have been so much more if they’d just not had cell phones pinging, and used common sense in a war zone with ballistic missiles. I’m not sleeping in a building filled with soldiers there, ever ever. I would have gone outside and dug myself a worm hole to sleep in at Yaroviv. No way I’d have sat around shooting the shit in mass like that. No one prevented them from doing that.  That place has building no one knows about. Let so and so know we’re going to sleep in the ammo bunkers or whatever, be here at 0600. No they clumped up and live streamed and called mom. Call mom before you go into barracks in war. Common sense. Anyway rant over. We can move on from that, and I salute the fallen from all nations.

Don’t listen to what Russia says. Do what makes sense. They have 1.5 tenuous routes of supply to a dry barren rock with an indigenous population that hates them. They can’t do but so much. Crimea is like the mountains of Kurdistan or something. Little water, 100% dependence on supply from Russia. The Kerch bridge can’t do it now. The road from mauripol is not a good supply route especially if you get into himars range of Henichesk. It’s not defendable long term. It is however a platform to control the Black Sea. It’s critical to Ukraines survival or Russia will just shut down commerce and strangle the country.

The reason why it was “given” by the supreme soviet was because of cost. The cost of maintaining it was high and Ukraine provided energy, water, and infrastructure there. It was also to atone for the Stalinist genocides, a peace offering. Making that place inhabitable for more than a few hundred thousand is expensive. If Ukraine can put henichesk and Sabastopol under fires of some type the whole war changes. Donbass will wither.

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2aks mags and a couple cans of 7n6 I’d guess. Aks are cheap but it would depend on the buyer. A ambulance driver or volunteer could get one for free but for criminals I don’t know. I remember hearing an ak74 and some ammo could be had for 500$ at one time. Aks are everywhere.  It’s the other stuff that’s  troubling. That stuff should be in Bhakmut.

Ukrainians love to troll. Insert the t64 driver doing the Adolfo rant video. It’s a great way to show how stupid Russians are. They’ll probably say video is of German panzer grenadere waffen SS on TV aiming for Minsk.

Minsk, that’s the other paradigm shift that could change the war. Hmm a country that controls access to Kaliningrad, with almost no real defense, a population 80% against the leader, 50-100 thousand political prisoners, a golden opportunity that we are missing.

Every year that Minsk stays under Ruzz occupation is another year of brutal filtration, in essence we allow the blood vessel feeding a major tumor in europes body years of safe space. Bring back 80s diplomacy. Green light a liberation. Stir some shit up there solve three problems at once.

Ie get Belorussia under new popular leadership and Putins problems triple. He’d have to divert forces or give it up. He can’t do Ukraine by itself, stir up issues in its periphery that jeopardize Kaliningrad, Chechnya, Belorussia, Crimea and Ukraine will take a back seat which means victory on all fronts. Putin loosing any of those would pull down the strongman image, possibly red pill the Russian people and leadership.

Anyway, good night.

Welcome back present- whack ass Russians



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Washington hands leopards right? I get it. Absurdity all around. Us troops fighting with waffen ss panzergranadiers or American mercenaries driving Nazi German tanks from fascist Spain. What will the ubermenschen do next? Luxembourgian panzerfaust 3 in the hands of Polish Nazi hussars.

Yeah I heard they whipped em good in the south. It’s been expected. They swatted a hornets nest. Bhakmut unfortunately is the hard place. Man Wagners almost spent. We should be morally obligated to bomb the shit out of that organization starting in African, Syria, and Bhakmut. Just launch a 100 cruise missiles spread appropriately across their AOs. No one would cry except Assad and some African despots. The support element vdv and Khadyrovite  are also on the ropes but they have artillery and partially trained mobiks to feed in. It’s worse now and I didn’t think it got worse than what was happening a month ago.

They’re doing everything they can except throw the internal security brutes and police from Russia in. They can’t sustain any more soldiers there especially in contact. They might shift some forces but that would take weeks. If UA can get Sabastopol under fire and put pressure towards Tokmak it would fold. It’s doable but no marine otb stuff so not possible with weapons now.

It looks like she is due in Antwerp tomorrow.

https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9332949

Ok . . . that's a really rough one.  Holy shit what a horrible way to die.

It would be nice if the supposedly omnipotent CIA could pull of a little popular uprising in Minsk. That also might be enough to end or greatly reduce Russia's capacity for foreign militarist adventures.