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1 minute ago, RDCanecutter said:

Not cool to dox me bro...

Mustang driver?  Have you killed anybody when pulling out of a Cars and Coffee?

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    For the love of Christ woman,  stop posting the same fucking thing every 20 mins just to make your neurotic self feel better.     Bring something useful to the thread other than your inane babbli

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    I volunteered today. Log/Admin role to replace people for 30-60 days. The operation is in the west, or should the Orcs win will be pulled back behind the NATO wall. Either way the humanitarian effort

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1 minute ago, atomheartbevo said:

Mustang driver?  Have you killed anybody when pulling out of a Cars and Coffee?

[reads terms and conditions slowly]

...no.

2 minutes ago, Viper said:

Russia went alone, and is struggling to get even its vasal states to join in, with only Syrian mercenaries seeming to help as a quid pro quo for the defense of the Syrian govt in their civil war.

There’s talk that a lot of Syrians were joining up with the off chance they could slip into Europe via Ukraine and then try and stay there illegally, or however it works.  The fact that Russia is barely moving any of them to Ukraine makes me wonder if they are being carefully vetted.  

30 minutes ago, JesusSweatDuck said:

Now mix in hundreds of Switchblades and you have a great "terror at night" set of weapons

Interesting, considering the russian “night witches” of ww2. 

2 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Interesting, considering the russian “night witches” of ww2. 

As bad they RU forces are in the day, can you imagine them bumbling around in the dark?

 

1 minute ago, atomheartbevo said:

There’s talk that a lot of Syrians were joining up with the off chance they could slip into Europe via Ukraine and then try and stay there illegally, or however it works.  The fact that Russia is barely moving any of them to Ukraine makes me wonder if they are being carefully vetted.  

Honestly, having them do that would probably do more damage than putting them on the battlefield. There is already a narrative out there from Kremlin-y media that many of the Ukrainian refugees are really middle eastern men.  It is a way to turn people off of support for Ukrainians, since they aren’t really fleeing, they welcome Russia. And it’s a way to get Europe focused on Muslim migrants and fighting with each other.

And as with all narratives, there’s a kernel of truth.  Belarus and Russia had been chartering flights from Iraq and Syria and putting mostly working aged men in the Belarusian forests as a hybrid tactic against Europe. The Poles and Balts cracked down and refused them entry (with some justice, these were not real refugees and they had arrived in a safe country even if they were). Before I had COVID and was still at the border, to a person the volunteers told me that the first wave of refugees who arrived were indeed Middle Eastern men who were quickly shoved across the Belarus-Ukraine border right before or right after hostilities broke out and told to try their luck from Ukraine. They disappeared quickly into Europe. It makes sense, they were already migrants and were far quicker to the border than people running from war at points farther East. 
 

Thar wave was over quick though and now it’s all women and children and old people. 

Russia really loves sending in the wrong troops for jobs.

3 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

Russia really loves sending in the wrong troops for jobs.

THAT'S the Spetsnaz who are such badasses?!  I know they're being used for stuff they aren't directly trained for, but come on.

^This thread is rough. Putin deserves to hang in the Hague. 

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4 minutes ago, Parliament said:

THAT'S the Spetsnaz who are such badasses?!  I know they're being used for stuff they aren't directly trained for, but come on.

Discovery and History and Military channels all lied to us.  

2 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Discovery and History and Military channels all lied to us.  

My faith in ancient aliens is shaken by this.  

45 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

^TLDR: Most were public sector employees who were forced to be there, and students were given a free day off to attend or sit through normal class lectures, so of course they showed up.

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4 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

My faith in ancient aliens is shaken by this.  

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6 minutes ago, Parliament said:

THAT'S the Spetsnaz who are such badasses?!  I know they're being used for stuff they aren't directly trained for, but come on.

No, that’s Rosgvardia Spetznatz— Russia’s kind of national guard-paramilitary police force hybrid. As Rob Lee mentioned, they’re more like a SWAT team and aren’t trained for conventional, open warfare.

Spetznatz is an umbrella term. It comes from the Russian words for “special purpose.”  Russia’s special operations forces are “Spetznatz”.  So are elite Ministry of the Interior or National Guard units, which also have task forces that are trained for entirely different jobs. It is a mistake to think of every unit described as Spetznatz as something analogous to SEALS or Green Berets. 

19 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

Russia really loves sending in the wrong troops for jobs.

Saw this last night. there's some gold in the replies.

 

14 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

^This thread is rough. Putin deserves to hang in the Hague. 

It's hard to imagine how people can do this to other people.  Indoctrination is incredibly powerful.

 

4 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

Saw this last night. there's some gold in the replies.

 

I'm no war veteran, but even I can spot a lot of errors there.  Just the speed at which they're taking cover is baffling.

2 minutes ago, Zonahorn said:

MOAR

I surprised we haven't heard more of this, I don't recall seeing that anything in the US has been seized of yet.  

2 minutes ago, Zonahorn said:

MOAR

I like the idea of turning all seized properties into refugee housing for displaced Ukrainians.

 

Spetznatz is an umbrella term. It comes from the Russian words for “special purpose.”
So, I mean, strictly speaking........THIS is "spetznatz," right?
 
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7 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

I surprised we haven't heard more of this, I don't recall seeing that anything in the US has been seized of yet.  

I'm surprised some enterprising counties haven't done this yet...

33 minutes ago, Parliament said:

THAT'S the Spetsnaz who are such badasses?!  I know they're being used for stuff they aren't directly trained for, but come on.

Spetsnaz means "special forces" in general and is a generic term.  There are a number of units of various capacity that would fall under this designation

Just heard Ret. Gen Jack Keane (who is for me the absolute best analyst in the universe on military stuff/this thing) say that he expects a little more Russian success for a few reasons.  All of their offenses have been stopped and Ukraine has done a mutherfuggin' brilliant job of cutting supply lines etc.  But he says that the best-led and equipped Russian troops and hardware are making their way from Moscow (they're so good they defend the city) into Belarus and the border to start ramping up the offensive again, and this time it might be more difficult for Ukraine to stop.  They've also been shelling pretty heavily in the west near Lviv where Ukrainian jet repair/maintenance facilities are - if they can't knock 'em all down they'll try to mess up their ability to regroup.  He expects a pretty savage movement within the next few days.  Plus if Mariupol falls, which is most likely, the land bridge to the Crimea and the naval strength is bridged, essentially giving the eastern sliver of Ukraine to Russia.  One strength Russia does have is that they have a pinpoint view of the entire sky as their sophisticated equipment/tech for their radar/air geo of course is back in Russia.  He expects the fighting to escalate esp. if Ukraine gets resupplied with missles and the like.

Doesn't sound hopeful, but looks like now's the time to go full throat to Moscow if their elite forces have to be peeled off to supplement their septic tank of a military operation so far.

1 minute ago, phdhorn said:

Just heard Ret. Gen Jack Keane (who is for me the absolute best analyst in the universe on military stuff/this thing) say that he expects a little more Russian success for a few reasons.  All of their offenses have been stopped and Ukraine has done a mutherfuggin' brilliant job of cutting supply lines etc.  But he says that the best-led and equipped Russian troops and hardware are making their way from Moscow (they're so good they defend the city) into Belarus and the border to start ramping up the offensive again, and this time it might be more difficult for Ukraine to stop.  They've also been shelling pretty heavily in the west near Lviv where Ukrainian jet repair/maintenance facilities are - if they can't knock 'em all down they'll try to mess up their ability to regroup.  He expects a pretty savage movement within the next few days.  Plus if Mariupol falls, which is most likely, the land bridge to the Crimea and the naval strength is bridged, essentially giving the eastern sliver of Ukraine to Russia.  One strength Russia does have is that they have a pinpoint view of the entire sky as their sophisticated equipment/tech for their radar/air geo of course is back in Russia.  He expects the fighting to escalate esp. if Ukraine gets resupplied with missles and the like.

Doesn't sound hopeful, but looks like now's the time to go full throat to Moscow if their elite forces have to be peeled off to supplement their septic tank of a military operation so far.

There's no call for insulting septic tanks.  But yeah, not great news.

26 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

It comes from the Russian words for “special purpose.” 

 

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44 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

^This thread is rough. Putin deserves to hang in the Hague. 

Or something like this.  I'm not picky.

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1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

NCOs are the backbone of our entire military. Specifically, NCOs who know how to get exactly what they need from those below them and above them the vast majority of the time.

1 minute ago, Eastwood said:

NCOs are the backbone of our entire military. Specifically, NCOs who know how to get exactly what they need from those below them and above them the vast majority of the time.

Truth.  And I've actually used that as an analogy for young lawyers who show up fresh out of law school (like a fresh Lt. out of West Point).  You may think you know something.  You're bright, and we like your potential.  But if you want to learn, and perform well from the get-go, listen to your sergeants -- legal assistants, veteran secretaries, etc.

So much of good leadership and performance is humility, and trusting people BELOW you on the totem pole.  Russian soldiers in the field don't follow that.  Putin doesn't follow it.  And it shows.

19 minutes ago, JMFP said:

I'm surprised some enterprising counties haven't done this yet...

I thought Harris and Travis were pretty adept at seizing property…

9 minutes ago, 27-25 said:

Or something like this.  I'm not picky.

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I have long said that we need more Esso stations.....

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8 minutes ago, Eastwood said:

NCOs are the backbone of our entire military. Specifically, NCOs who know how to get exactly what they need from those below them and above them the vast majority of the time.

Small sample size of one internet douchebag but, starting from when I was a shithead 18-1/2 years old private and fresh out of AIT, the percentage of SGTs-1SGs that had me thinking "damn, he/she is squared away" was a lot higher than for 1LTs-MAJs. And not just in the "pressed BDUs and shiny boots" way, but in the "they quickly picks thing up, gets their troops, and can cajole, coerce, etc. just right to get done what needs to be done" kind of way.

I'm 40 years old, 16 years out, and a few laughably douchey degrees older, but I still often go back to the core lessons I picked up from my NCOs. No surprise that the Ukeleles are kicking ass if they have NCOs like ours. [Note: I am 3/8 Ukrainian so I get a pass on the "Ukelele" thing, fuckers.]

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2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Truth.  And I've actually used that as an analogy for young lawyers who show up fresh out of law school (like a fresh Lt. out of West Point).  You may think you know something.  You're bright, and we like your potential.  But if you want to learn, and perform well from the get-go, listen to your sergeants -- legal assistants, veteran secretaries, etc.

So much of good leadership and performance is humility, and trusting people BELOW you on the totem pole.  Russian soldiers in the field don't follow that.  Putin doesn't follow it.  And it shows.

When I was sixteen I knew everything, apparently I've been getting dumber the more experience I have.  

3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Truth.  And I've actually used that as an analogy for young lawyers who show up fresh out of law school (like a fresh Lt. out of West Point).  You may think you know something.  You're bright, and we like your potential.  But if you want to learn, and perform well from the get-go, listen to your sergeants -- legal assistants, veteran secretaries, etc.

So much of good leadership and performance is humility, and trusting people BELOW you on the totem pole.  Russian soldiers in the field don't follow that.  Putin doesn't follow it.  And it shows.

Did you just compare our brave servicemembers to lawyers?

Just now, Parliament said:

Did you just compare our brave servicemembers to lawyers?

Only the snot-nosed Lieutenants fresh outta school......so it seems appropriate.

1 minute ago, Parliament said:

Did you just compare our brave servicemembers to lawyers?

VERY low ASVAB score, VERY high LSAT score...

1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

Only the snot-nosed Lieutenants fresh outta school......so it seems appropriate.

As an ex-private and ex-biglaw lawyer, I can say the analogy kinda holds, even though I picked on you a couple posts above.

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5 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

When I was sixteen I knew everything, apparently I've been getting dumber the more experience I have.  

Most brilliant person in the world: Brisket, age 15-24 or so.

Dumbest person in the world: Brisket's dad, that exact same time period.

Biggest transformation n human history: Brisket's dad got a shitload smarter around the time Brisket turned 24.  It was the damndest thing.

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31 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

So, I mean, strictly speaking........THIS is "spetznatz," right?
 
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6 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Most brilliant person in the world: Brisket, age 15-24 or so.

Dumbest person in the world: Brisket's dad, that exact same time period.

Biggest transformation n human history: Brisket's dad got a shitload smarter around the time Brisket turned 24.  It was the damndest thing.

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2 hours ago, BabaYaga said:

This is still so stunning.  How ill prepared they were.  How bereft of any actual, actionable intel they had.  Bears repeating, but our GW1 forces using tech from that time period would beat the ever living shit out of this modern Russian group.

 

37 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

So, I mean, strictly speaking........THIS is "spetznatz," right?
 
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Shoutout to @MillerEP and the others that put translations of Cyrillic embeds directly under the embed. It makes this thread a LOT easier to follow. (And now I'll quit gumming up the thread, as my hypocrisy does know bounds.)

14 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Did you just compare our brave servicemembers to lawyers?

I think he was comparing current Russian soldiers to lawyers - 5,000 in a burial pit is a good start.

(ok,ok, joke, sheesh!)

LOL just watch Mad Vlad at his "rally" badly misquoting John 15:13, " Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends."

...So? Put up or shut up, dipshit.

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