re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Are you telling me that Russia brought absolutely zero air defense systems with then on this fight?

quote:

---

Are you telling me that Russia brought absolutely zero air defense systems with then on this fight?

---

Well, 4 days in and they don't have air superiority in any of the cities they're actively engaged in. On top of that, they can't seem to detect a drone tracking their convoys until something goes boom.

Take from that what you will.

quote:

---

I've also seen video of the direct results of one of these drone strikes. It cannot be posted here.

---

yeah, that one guy walking back to that tank/missile platform or whatever that was is probably not going to enjoy mardi gras.

it is crazy how video game-like those vids are, how they make watching a human die seem so removed from the aftermath. that said, invade a sovereign nation and you should not be surprised when they tell you to go frick yourself.

The Ukranians clearly have better drones than that Turkish piece of shite then because it’s not capable of carrying ordinance

quote:

---

And this from @sentdefender: quote: After the last few days of Ukrainian Air and Drone Strikes on Russian Logistics/Armor Columns why are they still not spreading out their Equipment, 1 Large Bomb or Rocket could blow up nearly half of this Convoy, they are clearly not learning or changing up their Tactics. quote: LINK

---

Holy shite. First sergeants the world over having a heart attack at that video.

As a bit of an aside, it’s also why I always roll my eyes at the “US military is too woke to be effective” bullshite I see on here and elsewhere. Besides vast equipment and spending advantages, we are so much better trained and so much more battle-tested compared to any serious competitor that it’s a joke. Yea, I don’t like that woke shite any more than the next guy, but it takes up like one hour a month and you go on your day.

Ill also make an educated guess and say that regular Chinese outfits wouldn’t look much better than this, either.

Some of this kind of stuff like this did make me look into history more of these two. Wondering why so many Ukrainians died in 1933 made me read more about the Holodmor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor?wprov=sfti1

The forgotten Holocaust: How Stalin starved four million to death in a grotesque Marxist experiment - which many in Russia STILL deny

quote:

---

Survival was a moral as well as a physical struggle. A woman doctor wrote to a friend in June 1933 that she had not yet become a cannibal, but was "not sure that I shall not be one by the time my letter reaches you." The good people died first. Those who refused to steal or to prostitute themselves died. Those who gave food to others died. Those who refused to eat corpses died. Those who refused to kill their fellow man died. Parents who resisted cannibalism died before their children did.

---

quote:

---

And behind it was not just one man — Stalin, who ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-Twenties to 1953 — but an entire warped ideology which sought to remake a peasant society according to a Utopian Communist blueprint.

Even now, in an age when we are regularly assailed by images of horror and suffering, the details of the Holodmor are heartbreaking.

Starving children, mass graves, vigilantes, even cannibalism: the famine saw human nature stripped to the bone.

‘I was so frightened by what had happened that I could not talk for several days,’ recalled one woman who escaped after her emaciated body was mistakenly thrown into a mass grave. ‘I saw dead bodies in my dreams. And I screamed a lot.’

Today, almost unbelievably, there are still those who deny the famine happened. Indeed, in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, the architect of the famine, Stalin, is routinely presented not as a monstrous tyrant but as an admirably strong leader who made Russia walk tall in the world.

A few years ago, Mr Putin even told a press conference there was nothing wrong with restoring the statues of a man who claimed millions of lives. Stalin, he claimed, was no different to England’s Parliamentarian leader Oliver Cromwell — a comparison simply grotesque in its inaccuracy.

---

quote:

---

Starting from the early 1930s, the Ukrainization policies were abruptly and bloodily reversed. "Ukrainian bourgeois nationalism" was declared to be the primary problem in Ukraine. Many Ukrainian newspapers, publications, and schools were switched to Russian. The vast majority of leading scholars and cultural leaders of Ukraine were purged, as were the "Ukrainianized" and "Ukrainianizing" portions of the Communist party. Major repression started in 1929–30, when a large group of Ukrainian intelligentsia was arrested and most were executed. In Ukrainian history, this group is often referred to as "Executed Renaissance" The terror peaked in 1933 during the Holodomor, four to five years before the Soviet-wide "Great Purge", which, for Ukraine, was a second blow. The vast majority of leading scholars and cultural leaders of Ukraine were liquidated, as were the "Ukrainianized" and "Ukrainianizing" portions of the Communist party.

---

quote:

---

Holy shite. First sergeants the world over having a heart attack at that video.

---

Russia will be forced to make some serious changes if those EU jets can get in the air and start doing work. They've been able to stage relatively unchecked in large numbers just like the video you just watched. If the Ukranians can take out some of those, there's no way Russia can continue doing what they are doing.

I think the fact that we’re still getting Twitter feeds and videos out of Ukraine is russias biggest failure s far.

I’d heard so much about russias vaunted EW/Cover capabilities prior to this invasion

quote:

---

I think the fact that we’re still getting Twitter feeds and videos out of Ukraine is russias biggest failure s far.

---

That's a surprise to me as well. I'm wondering if it is deliberate at this point.

quote:

---

Sounds more like a mildly talented operatic tenor.

---

It is rap....until I learn Ukranian/Russian. Don't go stepping on my narrative.

ETA: In all seriousness, he doesn't sound half bad.