War

Roger A. Shrubber said:

i wasn't talking about armies using chemical weapons on each other, i was talking about civilians poisoning enemy soldiers. i suppose i should have clarified, it might have sounded like i was suggesting using it as a military tactic, and i was not, i was advocating civilians using whatever means they have at hand to destroy their enemies...and i still would feed every russian in Ukraine a big fat rat poison pie

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With the atrocities coming out it ain't hard to understand why grandma who saw her son get shot, might just serve up something special to the Russians, many can speak Russian in Ukraine. Poison is the prefered weapon of women and leverages their skill and trust! I'm sure the Russians came back, but she wisely moved on, I hope! Fight for your country with a broken beer bottle, if that's all ya got, anything that kills them goes if you are a civilian witnessing atrocities and war crimes daily.

printer said:

I posted the translation earlier. It basically said they will need to reprogram Ukrainians into Russians and it will take generations.

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that equals into re-education camps......where have i seen that before.....and if they don't comply......the end

Talks about his bio, he's press officer now and started out as a cop in 2014 and worked his way up the NCO chain, he seems to have talent for PR and is educated. He speaks English very well.
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Day 40: Q & A

This fellow appears to have done his homework and worth a watch for those interested in the military aspects of this conflict, how it might turn out and why. Kinda long though, but in depth.
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Reservists and irregulars in Ukraine - "A people at war"

Anonymous takes revenge on Putin’s brutal Ukraine invasion by leaking personal data of 120,000 Russian soldiers
Hacker collective Anonymous announced on Twitter that it successfully breached and leaked the personal data of 120,000 Russian soldiers.

"All soldiers participating in the invasion of Ukraine should be subjected to a war crime tribunal," Anonymous said in the message.
The leak included personal information like dates of birth, addresses, passport numbers, and unit affiliation.

Anonymous also tweeted that it would take a while for society to forgive Russia for the atrocities in Ukraine spurred by Putin's invasion.

While Anonymous announced the leak on Sunday, it occurred in early March and first appeared on Pravda, a Ukrainian news outlet, days after the invasion began.
The outlet did not disclose the source of the leak but stated the "Center for Defense Strategies acquired this data from reliable sources," according to Newsweek.

This week, the Russian military has been facing even more scrutiny after concern was raised over alleged human rights abuses in Bucha. Reports suggested civilians were being abused and killed, and some say corpses have been found in yards, streets, and cars.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, Anonymous has been very outspoken about the war.

"The hacking will continue until Russia stops their aggression," Anonymous said.

Among its efforts to fight back, the collective has claimed it has disabled government, corporate, and news websites, hacked into a top censorship agency, and hacked into Russian TVs.
Other recent efforts include hacking into unsecured printers in Russia to spread anti-Kremlin propaganda.

In an interview with IBT, one of the collective members said they were instructing Russians on how to install open-source software to allow citizens to bypass the country's censorship, according to Raw Story.
This story was originally featured on Fortune.com

Moflow said:

Timofey Sergeytsev is a Nazi propagandist like goebbels.
Do people actually believe the shit he spouts?

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stop the steal!

Budzbuddha said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1510631109750673409

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it is not genocide, but it is the next worse thing. soldiers murdering civilians is a war crime, a crime against humanity.
if they can prove the orders came from putin, they will issue a warrant for him, he won't dare step outside of russia, there will be people waiting for him to slip up. with any luck, he does have some kind of fatal disease, thyroid cancer or something even more painful, if there is any justice, and his successor will be more amenable to the peace process, and less inclined to be a kleptocratic fascist dictator

Budzbuddha said:

Russian SU-35 - expensive loss for VLAD

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wow, all that wreckage is very close together, which seems to suggest it was moving slowly when it was hit, and probably at low altitude?
i would imagine if it was moving fast at high altitude it would have broken up a lot worse on impact, and the wreckage would have been strewn around a lot more.

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Difference is they were caught and prosecuted, perhaps not sufficiently though, a general also took the fall for it. Liberal democracies are not perfect, neither are people I'm afraid. When America goes to war and needs warm bodies, standards are lowered and this is the result, along with militia members trained in combat arms. With such people also comes PTSD, they are more vulnerable than most, but it gets everybody sooner or later, with enough of shit happening and friends dying in their arms.

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no, there's no difference, no excuse. American soldiers treated prisoners of war like animals, and it was wrong, and nothing will make that kind of behavior right. only TWO of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay were ever convicted, out of 779...there are still 39 prisoners there, held indefinitely...only ten of those have been charged...

Roger A. Shrubber said:

no, there's no difference, no excuse. American soldiers treated prisoners of war like animals, and it was wrong, and nothing will make that kind of behavior right. only TWO of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay were ever convicted, out of 779...there are still 39 prisoners there, held indefinitely...only ten of those have been charged...

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Bush was bad, I don't give him a free pass, I hated his guts, but then came Trump, however many of the people in Trump's WH were in Dubya's before, at least in the beginning of the clown show. When America has a democratic government it behaves more civilized, like a liberal democracy. Often democratic presidents are stuck with military and economic disasters by the republicans. But they'll git the brown folks and trigger the libs and it is cold civil war and they are willing to make sacrifices, as long as "they" don't git any. THEY IS TAKE'N OVER!

Blow the dog whistle and near half the population climbs aboard the bus on the road to perdition, driven by a psycho and drooling idiot. In this POS they put their children's safety and yours's too and most of the assholes would vote for him in 2024, or think about it, 74 million moral failures voted for him in 2020 after a real good look, they have no excuses and no cover. They have been exposed and guess what, it's the same bunch who tried to kill everybody with covid, anti vaxx bullshit and don't like masks. Same bunch who sucked Putin's ass too, I believe I detect a pattern, let's just keep it simple and call them stupid assholes.

Roger A. Shrubber said:

wow, all that wreckage is very close together, which seems to suggest it was moving slowly when it was hit, and probably at low altitude?
i would imagine if it was moving fast at high altitude it would have broken up a lot worse on impact, and the wreckage would have been strewn around a lot more.

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A flat-spin impact would leave that sort of wreck.

There was a jet trainer here that went in not so long ago. Somewhere I have a pic of a flatbed trailer with the still-connected wreck on it.

Tanks and helos: How Ukraine can inform military modernization efforts
We only know big [platforms], and we are two generations late in adopting the smaller, more effective, more efficient tools of war.

— Vice Adm. Bob Harward (ret.), Shield AI executive vice president of international business and a former member of the U.S. National Security Council


The Ukrainian battlefield should inform U.S. and allied military modernization efforts. We all started with a plan, and it’s time to take in recent information and adjust accordingly.


Brandon Tseng is the co-founder and chief growth officer of Shield AI, as well as a former U.S. Navy SEAL.

Here's potential ships for the Ukrainian Navy, Russian money pays for the ships, repairs and preparation, these might be perfect for Ukraine's future needs. If they drive Russia out or have a peace, it would be a green light for them and Turkey perhaps to acquire these surplus ships. Perhaps Uncle Sam has something more appropriate in his vast arsenal though, America could create a Ukrainian navy from surplus equipment and this is and example of that, who knows, if there is lot's of Russian money it is a way to unload these ships for a profit and the military contractor makes money too.
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Of the 16 ships the Navy hopes to decommission early, nine are Freedom-variant littoral combat ships. All of them will need their combining gears replaced, as the Navy discovered a classwide defect in late 2020. Lockheed Martin and subcontractor RENK developed a replacement combining gear system, which the Navy approved in November. However, the Navy will bear some amount of the cost of the replacement effort.


Issues with the propulsion system on the littoral combat ship Little Rock, shown here, have raised concerns of a class-wide issue with the complicated drive train. (MC2 Amanda Battles/U.S. Navy)

Looks more like a maser than a laser, but probably uses both. Dunno how it deals with EMP proof stuff, or even if stuff can be shielded, it dumps a lot of apparently microwave energy in a tight beam on the target area.

Uncle Sam's latest and greatest, not too much secret about it I suppose, how it works generally is pretty basic physics. Making it work effectively and reliably is the tough part! It's bound to be part of the future military, now more than ever. They won't be sending these to Ukraine, it's not even out of R&D, but close.
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Hitting drones with Thor's hammer | MilTech

Roger A. Shrubber said:

wow, all that wreckage is very close together, which seems to suggest it was moving slowly when it was hit, and probably at low altitude?
i would imagine if it was moving fast at high altitude it would have broken up a lot worse on impact, and the wreckage would have been strewn around a lot more.

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I've seen videos of them flat spinning in after getting hit with a Stinger or starstreak at low altitude, they have little forward movement and the descending terminal velocity is low so they land at lower speeds. Sometimes controls or control surfaces are hit forcing the plane into a flat spin that rapidly kills forward velocity, while the orientation presents a lot of wind resistance and slows the descent.

Expert analysis of the days tactical and strategic situation. The Russians are moving back to the borders in the north, or have been forced back in many cases. The Russians aren't the only ones moving troops around, the Ukrainians are too, while trying to drive and spook the Russians on their retreat. Their large reserves are helping a lot with defending territory taken, security and countless other things that might tie down regular troops and equipment. It along with a civilian population supplying and organizing a lot of the logistics and services puts a lot of men in the field, women too are doing close combat and of course support.

They can probably get to the east, if that's where they are going by road, faster than the Russians who have far more wounds to lick too, can travel around Ukraine by rail to the east. They might want to be careful if their troop trains pass near the Ukrainian border, in range of their attack helicopters or even drones. A 70lb bomb dropped from a drone in front of a speeding train or simply set one down on the tracks ahead of it to blow up when it passes with a GPS way point mission. A major derailment or two on the mainline in Russia to the east of Ukraine could slow things down a lot, more if it happened on a bridge over a river say. I used to work in the rail business and visited train wrecks, derailments at speed are often five stories high and make a real mess. A military train, or one carrying troops arms and equipment is a legitimate military target, say 20 miles inside Russia. Anything on that line these days is going to war anyway.

Ukraine War: How the weather could hamper Russian offensive

Roger A. Shrubber said:

it is not genocide, but it is the next worse thing. soldiers murdering civilians is a war crime, a crime against humanity. . . . . . .

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There was a legal expert on the Newshour tonight. He was saying what has happened so far does not meet the legal definition of genocide. And while war crimes and crimes against humanity have occurred, it is going to be real hard to prove it went very far up the chain of command. What we need to concentrate on is that this is a crime of aggression. That will be the easiest to prove.

Roger A. Shrubber said:

no, there's no difference, no excuse. American soldiers treated prisoners of war like animals, and it was wrong, and nothing will make that kind of behavior right.

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Well said. My daddy did the walking tour of France in 1944, He got shot and ended up spending the rest of the war in a German POW camp. He didn't talk about it until a short while before he died. But the thing that he always came back to was how the dogs were used to threaten them everyday. When I saw those pictures of American soldiers doing the same thing, it got all over me.

Another pissed off retired general, who thinks Ukraine can win, if we give them what they need and stop being such pussies! I see with the atrocities the flood gates of arms have opened wider and the pace of delivery quickened. Anybody holding up those soviet tanks going to Ukraine and not working 24/7 to do it will have a blow torch applied to their ass by someone. I see other retired generals singing the same tune, some from other NATO countries. The experts are in agreement, the Ukrainians bought enough time and with additional help are just getting into their stride.

All those soldiers who are in the north are gonna be somewhere else soon and hit it like a ton of bricks at high speed. My guess it will be in the south while they await extra armor and other things to go east, into the heavily fortified areas. An attack on Kherson could draw a lot of troops away from Mariupol and the east, and then an attack on Mariupol could keep them from coming back to support the east. One way or another the south needs to be isolated from the east and the forces in the south will head west, if their entrance to Crimea is threatened or appears to be, reducing numbers in the east. Hopefully uncle Sam's drone jamming and defense gear arrived and the Russians might be drone blind over critical areas of operation.
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'Ukraine can win if we do what’s right’: retired US intelligence officer