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Posted: 9/15/2024 8:37:03 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By lorazepam: Funny nobody made a comment on the 325 kph drone tests. I imagine they can catch a lot of stuff in the air.  Helis for sure, but having seen the “quads vs spotters” videos I wonder if cameras with manual guidance is adequate to hitting a moving target with that kind of closure rate. Maybe with AI guidance? |
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Posted: 9/15/2024 8:39:28 PM EST
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 Link to unrolled thread here. |
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Posted: 9/15/2024 8:42:01 PM EST
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 Disappointing Systems in Ukraine - From imprecise precision munitions to explosive IFVs |
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Posted: 9/15/2024 8:43:42 PM EST
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The Igor Girkin Support channel is ANGRY.
What happened to these fallen heroes and why The command of the army tyrants (Igor Viktorovich Puzik/Zloy) dealt with the inconvenient, "too smart" comrades of Igor Strelkov. As before with Murz. The steamroller of the soulless, in this case - bloody, bureaucracy cannot be stopped by romantics and lone heroes, no matter how professional and heroic they were in the war. In the end, they will roll everyone into the ground - everything beautiful and independent, sensible. If this steamroller is not stopped. Yuri Podolyaka is in a hurry to put the brakes on this wild scandal, that an investigation into Goodwin and Ernest will be conducted and asks not to rock the boat. But these heroic people died, deliberately went to an unjust death, not so that people would bite their tongues, waiting for the resignation of this Zloy or whatever his name is. But so that the country would know what is really happening at the front. Including so that it becomes clear to everyone, as Rybar writes, what exactly needs to be brought up at the next closed (?) meeting of war correspondents and war bloggers with the Minister of Defense. https://t.me/vizioner_rf/9369 Faces of the past Let's not oversimplify: regiment commander Zloy👆, who disposed of his best specialists and officers (Lieutenant Colonel Ernest, UAV guru Goodwin, etc.) and governor Bogomaz👆, who proposed to halve the number of students and thereby solve the problem with the country's workforce (otherwise the problem of migrants, they say, cannot be solved) - they are not fools or villains, they are just tired. Tired of fighting with time - for the past, of which they are a part. Tired - and broke down. Who is Igor Puzik/Zloy, Hero of the DPR, wounded three times in Mariupol? Flesh of the flesh of the DPR, what it has turned into over 8 years of hybrid war and several years of the real one. And this dirty, bloody, semi-legal world finds it difficult to fit in with the Russian army. The army of the mid-20th century, which decomposed into a bureaucratic function over 70 years without war. And then there are these smart guys. The retraining of such bright minds as Goodwin and Ernest against this background is simply monstrous. And most importantly, there is no place for them not only in the DPR NM, where they could still survive and fight in their own way. There is no place for them in the RF Armed Forces. Their "long-range reconnaissance" is not needed, the data from which is not sent to anyone, the UAV of which was shot down by its own Russian air defense. Too technological, an independent unit that does not fit into the "staffing" or anywhere. The end is logical, Goodwin's last will is clear - do not go to Africa, children, to walk in the Ministry of Defense. Brains are not needed here. This is the end of their entire project of a smart, honest war. There is no place for it either in the DPR or in the RF Ministry of Defense. There is no progress in the RF Armed Forces. It will only get worse, this war must be ended. This is the outcome of this story. But you can also brush it off. Who is Alexander Bogomaz, the Bryansk governor, the exhausted head of the border region, who has just turned his region into an electoral sultanate in favor of United Russia? Flesh of the flesh of the Bryansk land, state farm and farming, 10 years in the province, one of the richest latifundist governors in the country (along with his wife). From the land, from the administrative plough, he blurted out the truth - higher education has long lost its original meaning and has degraded. And neither the economy nor the state needs such and in such quantities. They need hard-working migrants, not dreamy students who do not know where to go after university with the "education" they received. But only "not down", where migrants begin to earn more than they do. Bogomaz is not given to understand that higher education now has a completely different function than providing qualified labor for factories, farms and the state: to give the opportunity to find oneself in the complex modern communication environment of universal services, to give the opportunity to fit into the future. Where there is no place for Bogomaz, Zloy and their superiors. But in the present there is no place for others: Goodvin and Ernest, Strelkov and Murz, Prigozhin and Bereg, the list can go on and on. Until the "regiments of the new order" like PMCs win, until universities turn into launch pads for a new communication culture, politics and economics, until the state and officials are limited to a service function, until this future arrives - the faces of the past will step on the faces of the future. Such is the nature of history. Such are the laws of change. If you want to find yourself in the future - don't get under the steamroller of the past. https://t.me/vizioner_rf/9370 In light of the Defense Minister's instruction (I quote) to promptly sort out the situation related to the information about the death of two servicemen with the call signs "Ernest" and "Goodwin" of the 87th separate rifle regiment, published by the Defense Ministry press service, I would like to point out the following points. As we all understand, the case managed to give such a loud resonance due to the fact that Ernest and Goodwin were well-known specialists in professional circles, many knew them personally (I met Goodwin and Yozhik in June of this year.) Meanwhile, the assault group sent to Lesovka early in the morning of September 11 included five specialists from that same long-range aerial reconnaissance crew: Ernest, Goodwin, Sokrat, Shock, and Rif. In addition, the regiment commander was also eager to send Zhenya Yozhik on this one-way assault (thank God, she is now relatively safe). At the same time, the assault group itself consisted of at least 12 people (I know this figure as of the day the group received the combat mission). The "North Wind" channel, which Goodwin hosted, now indicates that 14 people died on the mission. That is, in addition to the deliberate sending of Ernest's crew to slaughter, we have another example of an unsupported meat assault, and in this case as a result of a false report on the capture of Lesovka. Further, based on the available data, including a certificate prepared by Ernest himself, and reports from other servicemen (see, for example, here and here), the regiment commander Puzik (Zloy) was generally noted for criminal abuse of office and poor organization of combat work. To understand the state of the regiment (I quote): "This dispatch [of Ernest's crew to the assault] is a personal score. But the guys are dying. The losses are enormous. He has worn down the regiment. There is no one left. The battalion commander was wounded in Lesovka, the deputy battalion commanders are five hundred. They are driving the disabled and all the rest. There is no regiment. It is not capable of completing this task." However, the matter is not limited to this particular regiment. There are similar signals about the blatantly irresponsible attitude towards specialists in the 1st Slavyansk Motorized Rifle Brigade, to which the 87th Specialized Regiment is operationally subordinate, including the disbandment of the UAV operator group of the 268th Rifle Battalion and the transfer of engineers from the 1st Reserve Battalion of the brigade to the infantry. Plus, combat work in the brigade during the SVO was basically organized in such a way that the once famous 1st Slavyansk Motorized Rifle Brigade was completely transformed (literally) into a meat factory. Moreover, at the level of the entire 51st Donetsk Combined Arms Army (former 1st Donetsk Army Corps), which includes the 1st Slavyansk Motorized Rifle Brigade, there is a very eloquent message: "We don't need smart people, we are smart ourselves. We need assaults, meat" (quotes from great commanders). In general, the frankly criminal practice of sending valuable specialists to the assault infantry (both due to a shortage of personnel and as a result of personal hostility on the part of commanders) is, in principle, systemic in the active army. Unsupported meat assaults, carried out in an emergency mode, including due to false reports about the capture of certain positions and settlements, are also a systemic problem, as is sending poorly treated wounded, sick, disabled and simply untrained fighters to such assaults due to a shortage of personnel. This case, as I have already said above, has highlighted almost the entire complex of problems within and around our active army. With the proper approach to the investigation (considering the reaction of the Minister of Defense), it could become a precedent for the systematic clearing of all these Augean stables. https://t.me/philologist_zov/1403 🇷🇺🪖 About the "spanking" of transfer to assaults The Russian segment discusses the death of UAV soldiers from the First Slavic Brigade with the call signs "Ernest" and "Goodwin": for criticizing the command, the crew, according to them, was forcibly disbanded and sent to an assault unit, which perished during the capture of Ukrainsk in the Pokrovsky direction. Unfortunately, since the appearance of the "Storm" units, a pernicious practice has appeared in some parts of the Russian army: instead of glorifying the feat of the assault troops, who recapture territories on their shoulders and with their lives, they are turned into convicts and people who "will die anyway" in certain units. This means that they should be treated as a residual principle. As a repressive instrument, this works exclusively to the detriment of the crew: rogue commanders remain in power, and truth-telling fighters and officers die. Of course, based on the results of military operations, they can award a departmental or state award, but who needs it? 📌This is where the more terrible problem comes from: why don't people go to the front? Because people are afraid to end up in a unit where the "Storm" squad is a meat grinder and destroyer of truth-tellers. And it doesn't matter that this only applies to a small part of the units. "Soldier Radio", retelling such cases, works so hard that it reaches not only those hesitant to come to the front in Moscow, but also in Kamchatka and Sakhalin. Just today, Dania Bezsonov @NeoficialniyBeZsonoV and I discussed that this is the problem that needs to be brought up at the next meeting of war correspondents and war bloggers with the Minister of Defense. ❓There are just some doubts: what if after this they start approving the “procedure for transferring a serviceman to an assault unit,” “instructions for staffing the Storm units,” and “methodological manual for recruiting personnel to assault aircraft”? Because, alas, the problem here needs to be treated in other, bolder ways. Which no one has yet developed or come up with. #VSRF #Russia https://t.me/rybar/63492 |
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Posted: 9/15/2024 8:47:39 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By weptek911: How did he get his passport back? Or is he traveling on a Russian one now? That’s in DC IIRC. |
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Posted: 9/15/2024 8:48:17 PM EST
[Last Edit: HIPPO]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By HIPPO: Saw some statements from UA recently that they could only plus up by 4 brigades vs 14 planned due, at least in part, from lack of equipment from partners/allies. Had to stand-up leg INF units instead. There is more to it, but that was one nugget that stood out. See if I can find it and will post for the class. Article link here. |
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Posted: 9/15/2024 8:56:09 PM EST
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Quote HistoryI've been saying this also, although at times, like during the last debate, Trump has me very worried... Trump knows he will not be able to hold good faith negotiations (assuming he gets elected) by publicly cutting off one side or the other. Granted I wish he would publicly fuck Russia and tell Ukraine they will have 100% effort for 12 months (.vs the Xiden plan of getting 1% effort indefinitely). I also think another big side is the large amount of. brainwashed "R's" that are isolationists and will support no foreign involvements. Trump will need them. Same as the evangelicals and the pro-choice moderates. Trump cannot make definitive statements without pissing off one side or the other. Single-issue voters are a curse. |
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Posted: 9/15/2024 9:00:25 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GXiiU4sWEAAAxtV?format=jpg&name=large Hell, this happening even in Israel today would be big news! No one in DC cares because it goes against the narrative. |
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Posted: 9/15/2024 9:01:51 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Brok3n: These things have been all over OSINT lately and inevitably the Russians field a copy of a new UKR invention not long after. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Brok3n: Originally Posted By 4xGM300m:
1:40 video These things have been all over OSINT lately and inevitably the Russians field a copy of a new UKR invention not long after. Think someone on here posted a link to a video where a couple of Russians were cutting the back off an artillery illumination shell and pulling out a magnesium based parachute flare. I'm guessing the Ukrainians did the same and these are magnesium, not thermite. |
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Posted: 9/15/2024 9:02:39 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GoldenMead: Over the next few months Ukraine is going to be critically short on interceptors for the patriot. As I’ve pointed out we don’t make enough to meet Ukraine’s needs not even close enough. ACTACMS will be drying up as well the pentagon and White House already said so. If any of the reporting is true they will be getting few if anymore storm shadow missiles going forward. Ukraine is probably conserving it’s current inventory of these missiles while they pray America gives them the go ahead to strike Russia. Once all the ATACMs, etc are depleted, the US will give permission to use them inside Russia...unless Russia can move everything out of range first... |
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Posted: 9/15/2024 9:02:39 PM EST
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Here it is interesting how the British strategists themselves assess Putin's threats.
Spoiler: Well, how do they assess them? They laugh. For an objective perception of the statements of British military sources regarding the Russian "red lines", I give the original: “Putin has been issuing these threats for more than two years and has never done anything about them. In the first 18 months they threatened nuclear retaliation 38 times. When we put tanks in, he said that he would target NATO bases. How’s that going?” The Storm Shadow missiles have already been used against Russian targets in Crimea, rendering the Black Sea fleet practically useless. The source said: “Storm Shadows annihilated Putin's Black Sea navy headquarters in Crimea and killed about 300 people. We’ve already crossed the line. Putin’s red lines have evaporated”. And I didn’t know that we promised to use nuclear weapons 38 TIMES (!!!). In this manner, by the third anniversary of the start of the Russian Central Military District in the UAE, we will break the record of the meme "the hundred and first Chinese warning. https://t.me/zimovskyAL/32823 |
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Posted: 9/15/2024 9:06:15 PM EST
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Simonyan teases the West, writes Al Jazeera.
'Russia is reveling in the US accusations of waging an information war... Margarita Simonyan took the accusations against her with equanimity. She went all in and openly took responsibility for waging an information war against the US. According to analysts, this situation clearly demonstrates that Russia can exert influence on those Americans who do not trust the state and mainstream media.' I am guilty. I am teasing. https://t.me/margaritasimonyan/14274 |
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Posted: 9/15/2024 9:09:01 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Ryan_Scott: He’s a nutter. No doubt. BUT it's not a good look for Ukraine support. The idiot who shot Fico in Slovakia/Slovenia a few months ago was also a pro-Ukraine nutter. |
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Posted: 9/15/2024 9:15:12 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jwnc: Silly Carmel! All of the replacement illegals will be citizens by then and be able to fund all the military that we require and pay off the deficit with their minimum wage/day labor jobs. Came to post this also. All those Syrians and Afghans will be falling all over themselves to serve in the Army and to pay taxes to support their adoptive homeland. After they get their bottom surgeries and PHD's in Gender Studies...Green on blue killing will be all the rage...in Basic and AIT... |
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Posted: 9/15/2024 9:15:30 PM EST
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The State Duma Committee has approved a bill on exemption from criminal punishment at the trial stage of those mobilized or who have signed a contract for military service
https://t.me/ZOV_Voevoda/20397 Some are for mobilizing prisoners, and now defendants. Some are against. Plurality of opinions on this issue is normal. Let's be honest. Not everyone behind bars is a marginal. There are people who have made a mistake and realized everything. There are also complete scum, of course. Personally, I think it's right to call up prisoners. But only after they've served at least part of their sentence. So that they understand the gravity of the crime committed. How this will work with defendants, I don't understand yet, but we'll see. https://t.me/ZOV_Voevoda/20398 I know many examples personally. And now, having been with the infantry, I saw those who were released, through a contract with Evgeny Viktorovich. Now the guys have signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense, having already been "cleansed". Normal guys. No different from others. With state awards, and even with two already. https://t.me/ZOV_Voevoda/20399 |
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Posted: 9/15/2024 9:18:36 PM EST
[Last Edit: HIPPO]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: No doubt. BUT it's not a good look for Ukraine support. The idiot who shot Fico in Slovakia/Slovenia a few months ago was also a pro-Ukraine nutter. |
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Posted: 9/15/2024 9:22:32 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Prime: Here it is interesting how the British strategists themselves assess Putin's threats. Spoiler: Well, how do they assess them? They laugh. ... snip ... ... we will break the record of the meme "the hundred and first Chinese warning. https://t.me/zimovskyAL/32823 Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Prime: Here it is interesting how the British strategists themselves assess Putin's threats. Spoiler: Well, how do they assess them? They laugh. ... snip ... ... we will break the record of the meme "the hundred and first Chinese warning. https://t.me/zimovskyAL/32823 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China's_final_warning "China's final warning" (Russian: последнее китайское предупреждение, romanized: posledneye kitayskoye preduprezhdeniye) is a Russian ironic idiom originating from the Soviet Union that refers to a warning that carries no real consequences. |
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Posted: 9/15/2024 9:26:27 PM EST
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1357ET Yesterday
The VChK-OGPU learned details of a new attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces with an "entry" deep into the Kursk region. According to the chronology transmitted to the General Staff, new forces were added to the morning breakthrough of the Ukrainian Armed Forces today. At 17:15, 5 vehicles of the Ukrainian forces were spotted. They entered the Glushkovsky district and turned right towards Vesyoloye. Then, about 20 minutes later, tanks were spotted there. They were moving in a full column. Further information is fragmentary (the Ukrainian Armed Forces entered with the support of UAVs and electronic warfare). Some of the vehicles landed infantry in the Kulbakinsky village council. In the settlement of Medvezhye, there was a mix of Ukrainian infantry. https://t.me/vchkogpu/50940 0730ET The Russian Defense Ministry admitted that in the past 24 hours alone, there were six attempts by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to break through the Russian border in the direction of the settlements of Novy Put, Vesyoloye and Medvezhye. https://t.me/vchkogpu/50955 |
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Posted: 9/15/2024 9:28:04 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryOriginally Posted By JTF: Originally Posted By Prime: Here it is interesting how the British strategists themselves assess Putin's threats. Spoiler: Well, how do they assess them? They laugh. ... snip ... ... we will break the record of the meme "the hundred and first Chinese warning. https://t.me/zimovskyAL/32823 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China's_final_warning "China's final warning" (Russian: последнее китайское предупреждение, romanized: posledneye kitayskoye preduprezhdeniye) is a Russian ironic idiom originating from the Soviet Union that refers to a warning that carries no real consequences. Excellent 🙏 |
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Posted: 9/15/2024 9:35:46 PM EST
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🎉 The situation on the fronts as of the end of 15.09.
What is known at the moment: ▪️A video of the beginning of the airborne counteroffensive on the western flank of the Kursk Bulge, which began on September 9, has been published; ▪️Marines of the 810th Brigade captured the Tunguska air defense missile and gun system of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, pushing back the occupiers; ▪️The village of Borki has been liberated. The video was recorded by the soldiers who took part in this; ▪️The enemy does not abandon attempts to advance in the Glushkovsky district, where they are actively met; ▪️Another bridge, this time in Pokrovsk itself, was destroyed; ▪️In the Ugledar direction, fighting continues on the territory of the Yuzhnodonbasskaya #1 and Yuzhnodonbasskaya #3 mines, where the main shaft was blown up; ▪️Russian soldiers also made some progress in Maksimalyanovka, and fighting continues in the village of Ostroye; ▪️Advancement is reported in the direction of Kamenskoye in the Zaporizhia region. https://t.me/warhistoryalconafter/184754 Fairly Impressive video. Ugledar direction, footage @voin_dv During the clearing of the mine "Yuzhnodonbasskaya No. 3" it was discovered that the enemy had heavily mined the main shaft of the mine. It was not possible to clear all this, so it was decided to blow it up. Two majors https://t.me/dva_majors/52696 |
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Posted: 9/15/2024 9:40:42 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: No doubt. BUT it's not a good look for Ukraine support. The idiot who shot Fico in Slovakia/Slovenia a few months ago was also a pro-Ukraine nutter. He was actually pro Russian. |
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Posted: 9/15/2024 9:40:46 PM EST
[Last Edit: Easterner]
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Med Team Alpha having some fun in our last training session. That quad looks familiar.
 https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_7iqJbIhG5/?igsh=NDBmb253ejBheGNp  Attached File |
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Posted: 9/15/2024 9:51:08 PM EST
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~35 mins ago |
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Posted: 9/15/2024 9:53:51 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By HIPPO: ~35 mins ago I don't even know why we bother there. |
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Posted: 9/15/2024 9:54:37 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: I've been saying this also, although at times, like during the last debate, Trump has me very worried... Trump knows he will not be able to hold good faith negotiations (assuming he gets elected) by publicly cutting off one side or the other. Granted I wish he would publicly fuck Russia and tell Ukraine they will have 100% effort for 12 months (.vs the Xiden plan of getting 1% effort indefinitely). I also think another big side is the large amount of. brainwashed "R's" that are isolationists and will support no foreign involvements. Trump will need them. Same as the evangelicals and the pro-choice moderates. Trump cannot make definitive statements without pissing off one side or the other. Single-issue voters are a curse. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: I've been saying this also, although at times, like during the last debate, Trump has me very worried... Trump knows he will not be able to hold good faith negotiations (assuming he gets elected) by publicly cutting off one side or the other. Granted I wish he would publicly fuck Russia and tell Ukraine they will have 100% effort for 12 months (.vs the Xiden plan of getting 1% effort indefinitely). I also think another big side is the large amount of. brainwashed "R's" that are isolationists and will support no foreign involvements. Trump will need them. Same as the evangelicals and the pro-choice moderates. Trump cannot make definitive statements without pissing off one side or the other. Single-issue voters are a curse. That Trump’s intention is “good faith negotiations” is an assumption. The debate was well in line with his previous “I’ll end the war with a phone call” nonsense. There continues to be no definitive policy but a lot of negative implication. I’ll also suggest that the MAGA movement will believe whatever Trump tells them. So if tomorrow, he came out and made a case for the brave Ukrainian freedom fighters needing and getting all of our support, all the MAGA Ukraine hate would vanish overnight and people would find reasons to explain that they were really always for Ukraine. Supporting Ukraine won’t cost him a single vote. |
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Posted: 9/15/2024 10:05:39 PM EST
[Last Edit: Capta]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By HIPPO: the dude seemed to cover the waterfront, Haley/Vivek, Taiwan, AFG, DJT, felony conviction/prohibited person, former fed, etc. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By HIPPO: Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: No doubt. BUT it's not a good look for Ukraine support. The idiot who shot Fico in Slovakia/Slovenia a few months ago was also a pro-Ukraine nutter. Yeah, total nutcase who will be seen as whatever is most convenient by whomever is looking at him. It is a bad deal in the big picture though. Political violence is unacceptable in the US, and the rhetoric on both sides is pushing violence as a solution. On the left, news headlines frequently dramatically overplay news regarding some Trump action/speech/position. Tell it like it is, but be accurate. I think this contributes towards a climate of political violence. And in GD for example, even before the assassination attempts you could find any number of threads with posters suggesting opponents of Trump need to be disappeared, or fantasizing about shooting their neighbors, or various other thinly veiled references to violent solutions. It’s bad news and I don’t blame one side exclusively. |
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Posted: 9/15/2024 10:32:16 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Prime: Venezuela says it arrested 6 foreigners allegedly involved in a plot to kill Maduro Venezuelan interior minister Diosdado Cabello said the foreign citizens were part of a CIA-led plot to overthrow the Venezuelan government. Sept. 15, 2024, 9:45 AM EDT / Source: The Associated Press By The Associated Press Three Americans, two Spaniards and a Czech citizen were arrested Saturday after Venezuelan officials accused them of coming to the South American country to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro. The arrests were announced on state television by Diosdado Cabello, the nation’s powerful interior minister. Cabello said the foreign citizens were part of a CIA-led plot to overthrow the Venezuelan government and kill several members of its leadership. In the television program, Cabello showed images of rifles that he said were confiscated from some of the plotters of the alleged plan. The arrest of the American citizens included a member of the Navy, who Cabello identified as Wilbert Joseph Castañeda Gomez. Cabello said that Gomez was a navy seal who had served in Afghanistan, Iraq and Colombia. Spain’s embassy in Venezuela did not reply to a request for comment on the arrests of its citizens. The U.S. State Department late Saturday confirmed the detention of a U.S. military member and said it was aware of “unconfirmed reports of two additional U.S. citizens detained in Venezuela.” “Any claims of U.S. involvement in a plot to overthrow Maduro are categorically false. The United States continues to support a democratic solution to the political crisis in Venezuela,” the statement said. The announcement of the arrests comes just two days after the U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions on 16 allies of Maduro who were accused by the U.S. government of obstructing voting during the disputed July 28 Venezuelan presidential election, and carrying out human rights abuses. Earlier this week, Spain’s parliament recognized opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez as the winner of the election, angering Maduro allies who called on the Venezuelan government to suspend commercial and diplomatic relations with Spain. Tensions between Venezuela’s government and the U.S. have increased as well following the election, whose result sparked protests within Venezuela in which hundreds of opposition activists were arrested. Venezuela’s Electoral Council, which is closely aligned with the Maduro administration, said Maduro won the election with 52% of the vote, but did not provide a detailed breakdown of the results. Opposition activists, however, surprised the government by collecting tally sheets from 80% of the nation’s voting machines. The tally sheets collected by the opposition were published online, and they indicate that Gonzalez won the election with twice as many votes as Maduro. Despite international condemnation over the election’s lack of transparency, Venezuela’s supreme court, which has long backed Maduro, confirmed his victory in August. Venezuela’s attorney general then filed conspiracy charges against Gonzalez, who fled to Spain last week after it became clear he would be arrested. Maduro has dismissed requests from several countries, including the leftist governments of Colombia and Brazil, to provide tally sheets that prove he won the election. Maduro, who has been in power since 2013, has long claimed the U.S. is trying to overthrow him through sanctions and covert operations. The Maduro administration has previously used Americans imprisoned in Venezuela to gain concessions from the U.S. government. In a deal conducted last year with the Biden administration, Maduro released 10 Americans and a fugitive wanted by the U.S. government to secure a presidential pardon for Alex Saab, a close Maduro ally who was held in Florida on money laundering charges. According to U.S. prosecutors, Saab had also helped Maduro to avoid U.S. Treasury sanctions through a complex network of shell companies. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/venezuela-arrested-6-foreigners-alleged-plot-assassinate-maduro-rcna171192 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GXg_94aXcAAKs-M?format=jpg&name=medium That's what Eric Prince was teasing? 
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Posted: 9/16/2024 12:38:36 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By zaphar: Think someone on here posted a link to a video where a couple of Russians were cutting the back off an artillery illumination shell and pulling out a magnesium based parachute flare. I'm guessing the Ukrainians did the same and these are magnesium, not thermite. Not sure if it was posted, but it appears to be an aluminum container that they pack with thermite. It kills the drone when it runs out and melts it. There were pictures of it on twitter. I figured it got posted here. |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 12:43:34 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Prime: The State Duma Committee has approved a bill on exemption from criminal punishment at the trial stage of those mobilized or who have signed a contract for military service https://t.me/ZOV_Voevoda/20397 Some are for mobilizing prisoners, and now defendants. Some are against. Plurality of opinions on this issue is normal. Let's be honest. Not everyone behind bars is a marginal. There are people who have made a mistake and realized everything. There are also complete scum, of course. Personally, I think it's right to call up prisoners. But only after they've served at least part of their sentence. So that they understand the gravity of the crime committed. How this will work with defendants, I don't understand yet, but we'll see. https://t.me/ZOV_Voevoda/20398 I know many examples personally. And now, having been with the infantry, I saw those who were released, through a contract with Evgeny Viktorovich. Now the guys have signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense, having already been "cleansed". Normal guys. No different from others. With state awards, and even with two already. https://t.me/ZOV_Voevoda/20399 Lol, the post viet nam military was packed full of go to jail, or go in the military. It was the beginning of the post draft volunteer service. |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 1:23:58 AM EST
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Posted: 9/16/2024 2:47:22 AM EST
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Posted: 9/16/2024 3:02:45 AM EST
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      RuAF received a new batch of the Su-57 5th generation fighter jets. Nice stealth rivets. 
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Posted: 9/16/2024 3:29:26 AM EST
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    From the Orcs. A Tor-M1 surrounded by the anti-drone net |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 4:54:55 AM EST
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 Orc T-80BVM obr.2022 with camouflage |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 5:54:07 AM EST
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2:20 video in tweet. |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 6:15:15 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Capta: We agree on a fair amount of stuff, but we’ll have to agree to disagree on this. I didn’t vote for Trump in either 2016 or 2020 because I looked at him very closely and determined he was not a conservative. I voted third party both times and am proud to say so. If I didn’t vote for him then, I sure as hell ain’t going to now. Now let’s keep the thread within the realm of reasonably related to the OP. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Capta: Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: Originally Posted By Capta: It’s a protest vote. Neither party’s candidate is fit to serve, so I will hold them both accountable. I still consider voting third party, but whomever that is has as much chance of winning as Barry Goldwater. Goldwater was an actual conservative, a morally upright and God-fearing man, and a hard-core anti-communist. If you’re gonna make a statement, make one with style. I may even have T-shirts printed if anyone is interested. If you are going to fuck America by throwing away your vote and helping a commie, do it in style and write in LBJ. Make sure you take a picture of your ballot and post it here so we can all laugh at you since no one else in the world will ever see it. p.s. Kamala will hold YOU accountable like the rest of us. I got dibs on the bottom bunk at the dnc GULAG. We agree on a fair amount of stuff, but we’ll have to agree to disagree on this. I didn’t vote for Trump in either 2016 or 2020 because I looked at him very closely and determined he was not a conservative. I voted third party both times and am proud to say so. If I didn’t vote for him then, I sure as hell ain’t going to now. Now let’s keep the thread within the realm of reasonably related to the OP. You'd rather have *another* nation-ruining leftist gain the White House, than vote for Trump? Foolish. |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 6:28:37 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/6n6MLeZ.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/fz8reY7.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/TUPozIG.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/clnkMPM.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/utIwFRA.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/PbGCdAj.jpeg Nice stealth rivets. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/6n6MLeZ.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/fz8reY7.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/TUPozIG.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/clnkMPM.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/utIwFRA.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/PbGCdAj.jpeg RuAF received a new batch of the Su-57 5th generation fighter jets. Nice stealth rivets. lol, those tail nozzles too. |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 6:55:09 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/6n6MLeZ.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/fz8reY7.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/TUPozIG.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/clnkMPM.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/utIwFRA.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/PbGCdAj.jpeg Nice stealth rivets. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/6n6MLeZ.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/fz8reY7.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/TUPozIG.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/clnkMPM.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/utIwFRA.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/PbGCdAj.jpeg RuAF received a new batch of the Su-57 5th generation fighter jets. Nice stealth rivets. UAC transferred a batch of Su-57 to the troops. Judging by the video, there are at least 2 in this batch, but according to the takeoffs, there are as many as 3 aircraft. This is good. It was stated that Su-35S were also transferred, but they were not shown to us in the video. I hope that these are new aircraft, and not aircraft after repair, modernization or restoration. https://t.me/fighter_bomber/18075 |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 6:59:33 AM EST
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Posted: 9/16/2024 7:02:20 AM EST
[Last Edit: Capta]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By fervid_dryfire: You'd rather have *another* nation-ruining leftist gain the White House, than vote for Trump? Foolish. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By fervid_dryfire: Originally Posted By Capta: Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: Originally Posted By Capta: It’s a protest vote. Neither party’s candidate is fit to serve, so I will hold them both accountable. I still consider voting third party, but whomever that is has as much chance of winning as Barry Goldwater. Goldwater was an actual conservative, a morally upright and God-fearing man, and a hard-core anti-communist. If you’re gonna make a statement, make one with style. I may even have T-shirts printed if anyone is interested. If you are going to fuck America by throwing away your vote and helping a commie, do it in style and write in LBJ. Make sure you take a picture of your ballot and post it here so we can all laugh at you since no one else in the world will ever see it. p.s. Kamala will hold YOU accountable like the rest of us. I got dibs on the bottom bunk at the dnc GULAG. We agree on a fair amount of stuff, but we’ll have to agree to disagree on this. I didn’t vote for Trump in either 2016 or 2020 because I looked at him very closely and determined he was not a conservative. I voted third party both times and am proud to say so. If I didn’t vote for him then, I sure as hell ain’t going to now. Now let’s keep the thread within the realm of reasonably related to the OP. You'd rather have *another* nation-ruining leftist gain the White House, than vote for Trump? Foolish. No, I simply don’t distinguish between nation-ruining leftists and nation-ruining rightists. A bad candidate doesn’t become a good candidate because he’s your candidate. |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 7:02:58 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/6n6MLeZ.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/fz8reY7.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/TUPozIG.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/clnkMPM.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/utIwFRA.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/PbGCdAj.jpeg Nice stealth rivets. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/6n6MLeZ.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/fz8reY7.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/TUPozIG.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/clnkMPM.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/utIwFRA.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/PbGCdAj.jpeg RuAF received a new batch of the Su-57 5th generation fighter jets. Nice stealth rivets. The plane is as stealthy as my car ... lol |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 7:03:44 AM EST
[Last Edit: Prime]
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‼️THEY DIED FOR RUSSIA‼️
Three days ago, the entire crew of the Su-30 died in the Black Sea during a combat mission. The first two days there was hope that the guys would be found, but now we can say that they did not have time to eject and the iron bird went under water along with two Heroes, forever becoming a monument to Russian officers. ‼️👉ONE LEFT HIS WIFE and a 3-year-old daughter! ‼️👉The second has a single mother. There was no father. We will not bring the guys back, but we have the right tradition - to help the families of the deceased, for the time being, until they receive benefits from the State. And this is not just money. This is our opportunity to show that the guys died - for a reason and the people appreciate it. ‼️Let's collect at least 500 thousand for each family. Together with my colleagues: @Aviahub34 @ZOV_Voevoda @helifriends 👉 Don't pass by! : 2202206296822799 Kirill Fedorov BTC: bc1qqrlhxpf4w9lgwlnznc4zvumdepagm8s0mfv4x6 P.S. I will mention all channels that support with a repost in the MANDATORY report. P.P.S. If suddenly there is more money, then we will send everything to help the front, so that there are fewer tragic losses! P.P.P.S. Personally, I am sending 10,000 to the collection account for families from my personal money. Russia Will Win! No one will be forgotten! ❤️🇷🇺😁 https://t.me/warhistoryalconafter/184732 |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 7:23:14 AM EST
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Posted: 9/16/2024 7:28:33 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Capta: No, I simply don’t distinguish between nation-ruining leftists and nation-ruining rightists. A bad candidate doesn’t become a good candidate because he’s your candidate. You occupy a narrow territory that is hated by both leftists and conservatives. You want to do the same country destroying things the dems do, but you want your pack of grifters doing it not them. Whether we call it a limousine liberal or chamber of commerce establishment republican: Big gov't and big corporation over the individuals' rights. Keeping the grift going at all costs. But at the DC cocktail parties ya'll don't talk about abortion or the lgbtq agenda, instead toasting to open borders and foreign interventions. |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 7:32:38 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Lieh-tzu: Russia is accredited and accepted as the successor State to the USSR. As such, they inherit USSR's permanent seat on UNSC. There is precedent for changing credentialed representation, as when the UN GA voted to recognize PRC instead of RoC. RoC was a permanent UNSC member, but it was transferred to PRC. So the precedent exists. The UN GA could vote to transfer the USSR's seat to Ukraine as a successor state to USSR which everyone agrees no longer exists. But unless and until that happens, Russia has it. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Lieh-tzu: Originally Posted By fervid_dryfire: Excuse me, but- how can the security council be permanent when the USSR ceased to be in it?  Russia is accredited and accepted as the successor State to the USSR. As such, they inherit USSR's permanent seat on UNSC. There is precedent for changing credentialed representation, as when the UN GA voted to recognize PRC instead of RoC. RoC was a permanent UNSC member, but it was transferred to PRC. So the precedent exists. The UN GA could vote to transfer the USSR's seat to Ukraine as a successor state to USSR which everyone agrees no longer exists. But unless and until that happens, Russia has it. That was intended as a rhetorical question but I appreciate the additional information nonetheless. |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 7:34:08 AM EST
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 Ukranian Leopard 1A5, 2024. |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 7:39:36 AM EST
[Last Edit: 4xGM300m]
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Posted: 9/16/2024 7:44:53 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DK-Prof: The old (LoBrau) thread was aggressively moderated by the mods in order to try to keep it on track because lots of people complained about people trolling or trying to derail the thread. The moderation essentially took two forms. One was to boot people who were just posting pro-Russian stuff. The other was to avoid the thread being derailed by constant arguments about Trump, politics, etc. Eventually, the new thread was created because too many people were unhappy with the strict moderation of the old thread. Since then, the OP (LoBrau) of the old thread requested that aggressive moderation of the old thread ends, which we have been happy to implement. Ultimately, nobody WANTED strict moderation to keep trolls out and to keep the thread from being derailed. The mods HATE having to spent tons of time babysitting threads like this, and would much rather NOT have to deal with it. The mods and staff are thrilled to NOT have to deal with it. Unfortunately, by the time that word got out that mods were no longer aggressively moderating the old thread, I think most people had become accustomed to the new thread, and people never really returned to it. It's a shame, and I would love to see it return to prominence. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DK-Prof: Originally Posted By walkinginadangerzone: Originally Posted By Lieh-tzu: Originally Posted By fervid_dryfire: If my posting rights were reinstated I'd go back to that thread. I still have a tab of it open, right next to this one. Hope abounds for some unlocking to happen and activity there again- it's a 5,000-page thread!...it shouldn't go to waste. Go see the thread now; it's mostly a ghost town. It was wrong to moderate that great thread into the ground- apparently some mods clearly don't appreciate the consequences when they make huge thread-wrecking decisions by taking things too far. Moderation powers should be wielded like a scalpel, not a freaking broadsword, or claymore.  That's my rant; no poll incoming.  Mods don't act without approval of staff, that's been stated on a number of occasions. I don't know why that thread was allowed to be literally moderated to death, but that's what happened. Keeping election talk out along with trolls was a good thing. But there was much more than that going on. The weird thing is that it wasn't always like that. The first 15-18 months of that thread went just fine with an occasional troll getting booted. Then something happened and it completely changed. Oh well. I still think that thread stands as an excellent comprehensive resource for the first 18 months of the 2022 invasion. It's too bad it can't be catalogued and indexed with a table of contents. I wonder if Subnet or Goatboy could extract the entire thread and make an archive of it. It would be great to do topical searches of it. Heck, I'd like to find one of the songs that got posted in early 2022. You'll asked for it to be moderated more heavily. You'll got what you'll wanted, even if it was unknowingly asking for a safe space. The old (LoBrau) thread was aggressively moderated by the mods in order to try to keep it on track because lots of people complained about people trolling or trying to derail the thread. The moderation essentially took two forms. One was to boot people who were just posting pro-Russian stuff. The other was to avoid the thread being derailed by constant arguments about Trump, politics, etc. Eventually, the new thread was created because too many people were unhappy with the strict moderation of the old thread. Since then, the OP (LoBrau) of the old thread requested that aggressive moderation of the old thread ends, which we have been happy to implement. Ultimately, nobody WANTED strict moderation to keep trolls out and to keep the thread from being derailed. The mods HATE having to spent tons of time babysitting threads like this, and would much rather NOT have to deal with it. The mods and staff are thrilled to NOT have to deal with it. Unfortunately, by the time that word got out that mods were no longer aggressively moderating the old thread, I think most people had become accustomed to the new thread, and people never really returned to it. It's a shame, and I would love to see it return to prominence. Does that also mean that people who were banned from commenting in that thread (like me) are getting their posting ability reinstated there? @DK-Prof Because I would be delighted to help keep that thread alive again. |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 7:55:48 AM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By lorazepam: Not sure if it was posted, but it appears to be an aluminum container that they pack with thermite. It kills the drone when it runs out and melts it. There were pictures of it on twitter. I figured it got posted here. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By lorazepam: Originally Posted By zaphar: Think someone on here posted a link to a video where a couple of Russians were cutting the back off an artillery illumination shell and pulling out a magnesium based parachute flare. I'm guessing the Ukrainians did the same and these are magnesium, not thermite. Not sure if it was posted, but it appears to be an aluminum container that they pack with thermite. It kills the drone when it runs out and melts it. There were pictures of it on twitter. I figured it got posted here. From my hard drive, lost the original source: 
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