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#67901
1 hour ago, SL Xpress said:

As an aside, I see people getting excited about the use of ATACMS to take out the Kerch bridge, and rightfully so, but that's target B for me. I want to see them used to take out the airfields in Berdyansk and Crimea. 

If Russia can be pushed back to operate their air power deep inside their own country, it changes the dynamics of the battlefield for this counter offensive dramatically. Russia has terrible air refueling capability. 

And on that note, a fuel depot was apparently hit in Berdyansk this morning:

Helicopters quickly flew out of Berdyansk airport after this mornings strikes.

 

Kerch would kind of be a cherry on top, the damage they could do to command centers and bases the Russians consider to be sanctuary areas would be pretty valuable. The fear of having no place to run or hide would good.  

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#67902
6 hours ago, MagicSoccerSpray said:

 

 

 

 


The Bradley was a success and always was. As funny and entertaining as Pentagon Wars was, it was nothing more than an exercise in cynical post modern mental masturbation contrarianism. Lazer Pig, a youtuber who works in UK defense analysis, has a funny video about the Pentagon Wars book writer, James Burton. Start at 8:03:

 

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#67906
16 minutes ago, The Dog said:

LOL

[nerd]In old Star Wars paperbacks, they called these sorts of hacked-together-from-scrap things "uglies"[/nerd] I think it's still pretty apropos 

#67908
15 hours ago, MagicSoccerSpray said:

 

FYI he's gay

 

 

Name an analyst who was? Hodges and Hertling were the only ones close IIRC.

So? What does that have to do with his terrible ties? Most gay guys I know are pretty fashion conscious, as well. Not looking like they raided the closet of someone who died in the 80s.

#67910
1 hour ago, InkaUtexas said:

Fuck yeah, DM me if heading over and will link you up with my brother in Kenya. 

 

 

#67911
3 hours ago, SL Xpress said:

Here's some cheerful news about Russia pulling personnel out of the nuclear power plant. I wonder why?

❗️The Russians are reducing their presence at #Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate reports.The Russian representatives of #Rosatom have already left, and Ukrainian employees of the plant who signed contracts with Rosatom are being advised…

"The Russians are reducing their presence at #Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate reports. The Russian representatives of #Rosatom have already left, and Ukrainian employees of the plant who signed contracts with Rosatom are being advised to evacuate by July 5. Meanwhile, the number of military patrols in #Enerhodar is gradually decreasing."

Another article from the Kyiv Independent. No less cheery!

Military intelligence: Russian occupation forces 'gradually leaving' Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant (kyivindependent.com)

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Russian occupation forces stationed at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant are "gradually leaving" the premises amid the rising threat of Russia's sabotage attack, Ukraine's military intelligence reported on June 30.

Among the first to leave the station were three officials from Russia's state-owned nuclear company Rosatom, who had managed Russian-installed personnel at the plant, reads the report.

Ukrainian employees who previously signed a contract with Rosatom were advised to evacuate before July 5, while the personnel remaining at the station were instructed to "blame Ukraine in case of any emergencies," the Ukrainian intelligence agency wrote.

As of today, the head of the plant's legal department, the chief inspector, and the deputy in charge of the plant's supplies are known to have evacuated to Russian-occupied Crimea.

The number of Russian military patrols is also decreasing in the city of Enerhodar, which hosts the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

On June 23, Ukraine's military intelligence head Kyrylo Budanov told the New Stateman that Russia had completed preparations for an attack on the nuclear power plant, mined the plant's cooler, and placed the equipment loaded with explosives near four of the six power units.

According to the Institute for the Study of War, Russia may be signaling its readiness to sabotage the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant to prevent a Ukrainian counteroffensive in the area.

 

No bueno.

Then the Poland tweet about wanting nukes.

No bueno.

#67912
16 hours ago, YGIFS said:

I would love to see their facial expressions when we play next at Kyle Field, if we wore shirts that said, "College Station:  the Mozambique of Texas"  

I'm guessing there'd be some confusion.  

Derp t sip derp

#67916

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So? What does that have to do with his terrible ties? Most gay guys I know are pretty fashion conscious, as well. Not looking like they raided the closet of someone who died in the 80s.
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#67920

Only if they get lucky. Those are relatively small, unguided rockets. And without a computer targeting system that would be found in a helo, accuracy is pretty much non-existent. Not like firing a grenade launcher where you can make a pretty good guess as to it's trajectory, these are really for shooting targets maybe a mile or two away. Good luck eyeballing that.

#67922
8 minutes ago, SquishMitten said:

Like this

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12 minutes ago, SquishMitten said:

Think it's a helicopter rocket pod

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#67923
him too much, etc. it’s a fools errand and won’t work. War is not scriptable, nor are Ukrainian and Russian actions. Best to aid Ukraine to win the war as quickly and efficiently as possible. Then deal with the aftermath.
For those who might have missed this article yesterday… https://t.co/2gVqV72QW0

ppob pimping his Foreign Affairs articles

#67924
There is actually a debate playing out in Ukr military. There are those who say it focus should be on delegation; others who say soldiers have to be pushed to fight and commanded. Gen Syrsky is a proponent of second camp

hmmmm

VaporiZed

 

#67925
22 hours ago, MillerEP said:
A very pleasant review of Z Generation - a "pacy" read about Russian fascism, online indoctrination, doublethink, and performativity - just in time for American release day on Saturday! https://t.co/TI8RbEjFIM
Results of the SBU unit 'A' past week:➡️5 tanks➡️3 self propelled guns Gvozdika➡️2 AD systems➡️2 D-30 howitzers➡️1 EW system➡️16 APVs➡️23 various types of vehicles➡️6 firing positions/dug outs➡️+- 100 men personnelEffective.

 

Man, the first scene of the video would have been an excellent time to see the tungsten shotgun

#67926
Putin has been accused of stealing over 19,000 Ukrainian children

😡😡😡😡😡

Putin must die.

#67927
Glad to see Biden belatedly rethinking the ban on ATACMs, which makes no sense. So many supposed “red lines” already crossed. Just give Ukraine the damn missiles. https://t.co/v81wIO1BxA

 

#67928

 

What a difference 18 months makes https://t.co/uLL6Qz0eLC

 

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#67929
5 minutes ago, Rimbo said:
him too much, etc. it’s a fools errand and won’t work. War is not scriptable, nor are Ukrainian and Russian actions. Best to aid Ukraine to win the war as quickly and efficiently as possible. Then deal with the aftermath.
For those who might have missed this article yesterday… https://t.co/2gVqV72QW0

ppob pimping his Foreign Affairs articles

That tweet re: Biden admin is spot on IMO. I know folks here have praised this admin for how they’ve handled this but I’m more and more disappointed frankly. Asking UKR to take back their country and defeat the Russians without giving them to tools they need is frustrating…and that they have taken this stance based on their hope that Putin will somehow lose the war but remain in power is stupid.

#67930
Can’t find the tweet rn, but I predicted about a week ago that the ruble would be worth less than a penny by Fall. At this rate though, we might see it happen before August. russia is so fucked

^Keep falling. 

#Tinder has stopped working in #Russia.

 

#67931

https://twitter.com/KrzysztofJano15/status/1674836639669944324?s=20

^Weeeeeeeeee!

Нас кормят на убой (с) глава банды чёрных риэлторов по кличке "Буря"https://t.co/RSJTpMrwX6 #255мсп #штормZ #всрф #Гурьев

We are fed to the slaughter (c) the head of a gang of black realtors named "Storm"

#67932
1 hour ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

That tweet re: Biden admin is spot on IMO. I know folks here have praised this admin for how they’ve handled this but I’m more and more disappointed frankly. Asking UKR to take back their country and defeat the Russians without giving them to tools they need is frustrating…and that they have taken this stance based on their hope that Putin will somehow lose the war but remain in power is stupid.

Biden seems to be still, more or less, on the "help but don't help too much because nukes are scary."

There's more to say on the different GOP responses to that, but it gets borderline CR.

#67933
1/ Russia's deepening economic problems have resulted in a collapse in commodities earnings, drastic cuts in federal government spending and rail freight yards being clogged with thousands of Chinese shipping containers that are sitting empty for want of goods to export. ⬇️

 

#67936

Nice longcat thread from my new future ex wife on Gerasimov:

There are a lot of discissions about the disappearance of Russian Chief of the General Staff Army General Valery Gerasimov following Wagner’s rebellion.Sharing some of @TheStudyofWar's observations about Gerasimov's appearances & Putin's approach to military command changes.🧵 https://t.co/sibERmrIck
Gerasimov has previously not appeared in public for long periods of time, particularly between the summer of 2022 and his reemergence in the winter of 2023 in the weeks leading up to his appointment to overall theater commander.

 

➡️There are couple of things we have learned from previous 19 military command changes in Russia since the start of the full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022. Here are some excerpts from our April 30 report. https://t.co/nh6U5keBTS

 

Putin also routinely avoids outright dismissing officials and instead temporarily demotes them in order to encourage them to seek to regain his favor and to retain options for future appointments.

 

The regular and rotational nature of replacing officials may work in an authoritarian system only concerned with retaining the institutional power of the Kremlin, but this style of rule is detrimental to creating an effective and stable military command structure.

 

Putin's repeated command changes demonstrated that Putin values loyalty over competency - and Gerasimov had shown his loyalty to Putin throughout the war.

 

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#67940
50 minutes ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

I've probably asked this before but is there any chance our defense/intel/state communities have decided that dragging this out somehow benefits the US? I feel like that is China's position on the flip side, it is possible we think the same?

It absolutely benefits us the longer the war goes on.

We are watching one of our enemies implode before our very eyes. The entire world, especially Gyna, is witnessing our decades old equipment wiping the map with russian blood.

This conflict has and still is setting the tone for the next 50 years of global stability and power.

When it's all over the US will be sitting at the top once again. Like we ever left, but there won't be any questions about who is king cock of the block.

#67941
1 hour ago, Rimbo said:

Nice longcat thread from my new future ex wife on Gerasimov:

There are a lot of discissions about the disappearance of Russian Chief of the General Staff Army General Valery Gerasimov following Wagner’s rebellion.Sharing some of @TheStudyofWar's observations about Gerasimov's appearances & Putin's approach to military command changes.🧵 https://t.co/sibERmrIck
Gerasimov has previously not appeared in public for long periods of time, particularly between the summer of 2022 and his reemergence in the winter of 2023 in the weeks leading up to his appointment to overall theater commander.

 

➡️There are couple of things we have learned from previous 19 military command changes in Russia since the start of the full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022. Here are some excerpts from our April 30 report. https://t.co/nh6U5keBTS

 

Putin also routinely avoids outright dismissing officials and instead temporarily demotes them in order to encourage them to seek to regain his favor and to retain options for future appointments.

 

The regular and rotational nature of replacing officials may work in an authoritarian system only concerned with retaining the institutional power of the Kremlin, but this style of rule is detrimental to creating an effective and stable military command structure.

 

Putin's repeated command changes demonstrated that Putin values loyalty over competency - and Gerasimov had shown his loyalty to Putin throughout the war.

 

Chicks named Kateryna are the "Christies" of that part of the world, and you know damn well how I feel about chicks named Christie.

#67942
1 hour ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

I've probably asked this before but is there any chance our defense/intel/state communities have decided that dragging this out somehow benefits the US? I feel like that is China's position on the flip side, it is possible we think the same?

I see some value to it: bleeding an army out until they essentially do not have one to do these types of actions for another 20 years and forcing the population's hand in making change in their governing systems being the biggest. I'd love to see the data set our government is working with guiding our decision making. Maybe they think if we give Ukraine all they need to take over their territory too quickly, Putin could regroup in some way. Or maybe this buys time for the rest of Europe to ramp up production of their military. 

:shrug:

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#67943

https://twitter.com/UkraineINtoucH/status/1674845690076200974?s=20

We're a long way off an operational encirclement, but would be incredibly ironic if, after all the empty talk of large scale Russian encirclements of Ukrainian troops in the JFO, Ukraine managed to pull it off on the Russians. https://t.co/kg3LPBqu90

 

 

#67944
🇪🇺 EU Leaders Backed Plan to Use Russian Frozen Assets for Ukraine's Benefit – Bloomberg https://t.co/CfDEs0UIua
Orbán complained that Ukraine has already received $76 billion in the space of a year and a half and now is bound to receive $55 billion more.Photo: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP via Getty Images

 

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#67945
3 hours ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

That tweet re: Biden admin is spot on IMO. I know folks here have praised this admin for how they’ve handled this but I’m more and more disappointed frankly. Asking UKR to take back their country and defeat the Russians without giving them to tools they need is frustrating…and that they have taken this stance based on their hope that Putin will somehow lose the war but remain in power is stupid.

Well, I’ve always had issues with how Democratic administrations tend to prosecute war ever since the end of WWII. 

Having said that, Biden’s administration has been Bush-like in the way elder Bush rallied the world to kick Iraq out of Kuwait. They’re not analogous except for how Biden has helped galvanize support. I’ve been impressed. Compare that to how Obama handled the annexation of Crimea and the installation of thugs in Donbas (no Cloak Room - he was under a mandate to get us out of conflicts - not get us into new ones) or Trump’s narrative around the conflict specifically and NATO in general. 

Its okay to be disappointed until you compare the Biden administration to any other. This has been the most active administration in supporting Ukraine we could hope for, and I for one choose to remain grateful regardless of any differences I have. 

Not to say I think you’re wrong, because I don’t. I just have a different perspective on it. 

#67946
1 hour ago, Rimbo said:

Biden seems to be still, more or less, on the "help but don't help too much because nukes are scary."

Which is EXACTLY what he should be doing.  I support Ukraine, but I also support the continued existence of mankind.  So yeah, that's the play.  If this was similar to Kuwait/Iraq it would be different, but less oil and more nukes.

1 hour ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

I've probably asked this before but is there any chance our defense/intel/state communities have decided that dragging this out somehow benefits the US? I feel like that is China's position on the flip side, it is possible we think the same?

Gotta give all that TB time to work!

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#67948
The destruction of Russian sabotage reconnaissance group somewhere on the banks of the Dnipro river. Near Kherson.https://t.co/mIJtBT5Qle

 

Warning orcs get blowed up.

#67950
16 minutes ago, butthurt said:
The destruction of Russian sabotage reconnaissance group somewhere on the banks of the Dnipro river. Near Kherson.https://t.co/mIJtBT5Qle

 

Warning orcs get blowed up.

Holyyyyyy shit.

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