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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted on 7/20/24 at 8:55 pm to GOP_Tiger
Posted on 7/20/24 at 8:55 pm to GOP_Tiger
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Well, one of the good things happening in Louisiana is that our tax dollars are going to be better spent in teaching kids how to read. Ever since the LEAP tests were created, there's been accountability for teachers at grade 3 and up, but 1st and 2nd grade teachers weren't held accountable
Accountability my arse. For years if students didn’t pass that test they were held back. Grades didn’t matter, only the test scores from LEAP. I understand teachers can only do so much and they definitely aren’t created equal but LEAP in Louisiana when it started in the early 90’s never sat right with me. Passing classes didn’t matter in a school year when someone had to take the LEAP Test, only passing the test. Going through Jr High and High School in the 90’s I remember many who were held back still being taught by the same teachers in the same grade because of not passing a test that politicians came up with. That test changed the lives of lots of kids in Louisiana for the worst, not all but a good bit.
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Posted on 7/20/24 at 9:25 pm to gizmothepug
How many of your classmates were those valedictorians in NOLA? My wife taught English at Delgado for a semester and resigned. Her students could read at the 4th grade level and used to getting A's. When they all flunked her first test, she was threatened then the admin called her in to tell her to give no one less than a B because the needed the enrollment, for funding and the PELL grant tuitions money. She stayed to the end of the semester and the admin changed the grades she has given. So she resigned.
This post was edited on 7/20/24 at 9:38 pm
Posted on 7/20/24 at 9:38 pm to CitizenK
Standardized testing all shows the teaching staff where they are succeeding where not so much success. It is actually a grade of the teaching staff.
Posted on 7/20/24 at 9:57 pm to CitizenK
In the woods of Washington Parish in the 90’s, nobody gave a damn back then about those kids and the politicians still don’t. The only thing we knew about NOLA was the Saint’s and the local news. More than a handful of people in my class were 20 years old when we graduated HS in 99. All I know is kid’s that showed up to school, passed classes and then shite on by the state of Louisiana for not passing a test at the end of the year. Even today, once February rolls around it’s all about LEAP test prep until the test. I have one going on 22 and one that’s 11, the difference between the oldest and youngest when it comes to the second part of the school year is night and day.
Maybe teachers are being held accountable now, that’s why it’s all about that test for 3 months.
Maybe teachers are being held accountable now, that’s why it’s all about that test for 3 months.
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Posted on 7/20/24 at 10:18 pm to gizmothepug
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If tweet fails to load, click here. So what are yall going to do when they end the LARP?
Posted on 7/20/24 at 10:57 pm to OMLandshark
I remember the early 90's well when Ukraine had several hundred nukes left over from the collapse of the Soviet Union. It was a big deal with serious fear that some of those nukes could end up on the black market.
A deal was offered with America, UK and other NATO allies to guarantee Ukraine's independence if they gave up those nukes. They gave them up, but given some of our current short memories, perhaps they shouldn't have trusted us.
A deal was offered with America, UK and other NATO allies to guarantee Ukraine's independence if they gave up those nukes. They gave them up, but given some of our current short memories, perhaps they shouldn't have trusted us.
Posted on 7/20/24 at 11:23 pm to OMLandshark
So you haven't actually paid attention to Trump himself.
Posted on 7/21/24 at 1:00 am to CitizenK
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TDS’ers: Trump’s never even been to Ukraine!
Trump considering a trip to Ukraine.
TDS’ers: He’s just gonna force them to surrender!
You can’t even speak to these folks.
He is impressionable about things like this, so I hope he does go.
Posted on 7/21/24 at 6:01 am to CitizenK
It's early and maybe my coffee isn't strong enough....what's an MT-LB?
Posted on 7/21/24 at 6:29 am to ticklechain
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what's an MT-LB?
Watch the link.
Posted on 7/21/24 at 6:50 am to ticklechain
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what's an MT-LB?
Tracked, amphibious fighting vehicle.
Posted on 7/21/24 at 7:19 am to CitizenK
Random tweets
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President Zelensky: "We can end the hot stage of the war before the end of this year ... It doesn't mean that all territories must be recaptured ... But we must be strong on the battlefield ... we need to take steps to force it to retreat ... this will give (us) better position at the negotiating table."
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???? #France has restricted Russian journalists' access to the 2024 #Olympics
The French authorities have denied some Russian journalists the right to cover the Olympic Games "out of caution," as well as fearing potential "spies." This was stated by French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin in an interview with Le Journal du Dimanche newspaper.
In general, according to Darmanin, 4,340 people were refused admission to work at the Olympics and the opportunity to attend events related to the Games out of 960,000 files checked by the special services. This includes volunteers, stadium workers, and members of sports delegations.
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Guerre d'Ukraine - Semaine 29 | 2024
Couleurs des étiquettes :
Ukraine
Gains (+ 0 km²) ??
Pertes (- 41.16 km²) ??
Russie | LPR | DPR
Gains (+ 34.89 km²) ??
Pertes (- 0 km²)
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#Poland calls on #EU to stress ties with U.S. to counter #Russian 'disinformation'
In a paper prepared for an EU foreign ministers' meeting on Monday, Poland calls for positive action ahead of the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 5 to counter what it describes as Russian "disinformation" aimed at sowing division between the EU and Washington.
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Hackers attacked dozens of Ukrainian and Russian Telegram channels and called for an end to the war
The cybercriminals left identical messages, during the military to lay down their arms and start looking for ways to achieve peace
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Zelenskyy: This night alone, the Russian army used almost 40 "Shahed" UAVs against Ukraine, and it is important to note that most of them were shot down by our sky defenders.
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?? Boris #Johnson believes that #Trump has the strength and bravery to save #Ukraine and end the war
"If #Nato is seen to have failed Ukraine, and if America is seen to have failed, then who will be confident that the alliance will stand up for its own members?
I believe that Trump can end it - on the right terms for Ukraine and the West. I stress that I cannot be sure exactly what he would do, if elected. But this is what he could do.
Trump could simply do what comes naturally to him - end the bureaucratic dither and delay; give the Ukrainians the permissions they need; and then, when #Putin has once again been pushed back, he could offer the deal.
Putin would have to pull back at least to the pre-invasion boundaries of 2022, and to avoid future conflict and uncertainty the rest of Ukraine would have to be recognised as a free country, able to choose its destiny within the #EU and Nato, and absolutely welcome to join as soon as possible," writes Johnson for the ??Daily Mail
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1/ Thousands of Russian volunteers who joined the forces of the Donetsk and Luhansk 'People's Republics' thave found themselves on the wanted list for desertion, due to bureaucratic errors by the Russian Ministry of Defence after Russia annexed the DPR and LPR in 2022.
The "Direct action?Z" Telegram channel reports on the plight now facing many ex-DPR/LPR volunteers, including some entire units still fighting on the front, following the decision of the Russian MOD to incorporate the DPR/LPR People's Militias into the Russian Armed Forces.
"Thousands of Russian volunteers who left for the Donbass in 2022 were denounced in the People's Republics as having left their units without permission. Criminal cases are opened against them, they are put on the wanted list.
"The "deserters" have been fighting at the front for years, dying and losing their health, but for the state they are only defendants in criminal cases and prosecutor's inspections."
The channel explains the background: "Even before the People’s Republics joined Russia, volunteers from the “mainland” fought in the ranks of the People’s Militia.[
"Their legal status was questionable; often they were not even properly registered in their units and did not receive the necessary allowances. But people came for ideological reasons, so they tolerated such twists and turns of bureaucracy.
On 1 January 2023, the People's Militias became part of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, and Russian volunteers were retroactively registered as ... mobilised. Apparently, everyone who had ever fought in the People's Militias was ‘mobilised’.
"The ‘mobilisation’ was carried out by the army corps of the DNR and LPR People's Militias, which is absurd and illegal in itself, as mobilisation orders are drawn up by military registration and enlistment offices at the place of registration.
In some cases, people were registered as contract soldiers, but without signing a contract with the RF Ministry of Defense and taking an oath."
As a result, the channel says, "people who had been fighting for a long time in other units, who had gone home after serious injuries or at the end of their service, suddenly found out that the investigative bodies of the People's Republics had opened criminal cases against them for leaving their unit without permission.
A soldier without an eye, with one hand that doesn’t work, a soldier with shrapnel in his head – all of them have complaints from the authorities.
A soldier who has served the specified period of time, resigned from his unit and is already in civilian life is still registered as mobilised in full contradiction with the current legislation.
Those who are unable to mount a competent defence soon receive suspended sentences and end up as stormtroopers – along with other shtrafniks [punished soldiers]. Some manage to organise a legal defence and the cases against them are closed for lack of evidence of a crime."
Direct action?Z notes that many of the accused volunteers are still serving in the Russian armed forces or the Redut mercenary force, despite simultaneously facing prosecution for desertion from the same.
We also know about an entire unit that, together with its commander, was registered as deserters. Meanwhile, the unit is successfully fighting, holding its part of the front near Chasiv Yar".
The channel describes the situation as "a monstrous absurdity and arbitrariness, the only purpose of which is to create the appearance of legal grounds for the indefinite retention of volunteers who originally went for a limited period of service."
It calls on "Russian society: humanitarian workers, military officers, public opinion leaders to speak out publicly about Problem-500 and, together with us, try to influence the situation in order to close this issue immediately for all the People’s Militia volunteers." /end
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Posted on 7/21/24 at 7:34 am to IAmNERD
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Tracked, amphibious fighting vehicle.
and more. It is used as a "tow truck" for artillery, even to recover self propelled platforms. It has also been a platform for some of Russia's "Mad Max" type weapons they've tried out in Ukraine such as helicopter rocket pods, naval guns, make do wanna be Gephards, etc...
Posted on 7/21/24 at 7:44 am to Lee B
Posted on 7/21/24 at 7:51 am to AU86
What is the mental illness that compels you to spam a Ukraine thread with random political videos that have zero to do with Ukraine?
Posted on 7/21/24 at 8:04 am to CitizenK
The fact that Russia is beginning to run low of MT-LBs is not, in and of itself, that important. The MT-LB is a generalist vehicle that performs no single essential function that cannot be done with other Russian armored vehicles.
However, the fact that Russian stockyards have been almost completely denuded of MT-LBs is a harbinger of Russia's future loss of combat power, as the MT-LB is only the first of a number of armored vehicles whose inventory is being depleted.
What happens when the stock of BMPs is exhausted? When Russian troops run low on artillery (and barrels)? When remaining air defense assets get spread even thinner?
Those are the questions that loom over the future of the Russian combat effort.
Side note: the MT-LB was manufactured in Kharkiv, which is why Russia won't make any more of them.
However, the fact that Russian stockyards have been almost completely denuded of MT-LBs is a harbinger of Russia's future loss of combat power, as the MT-LB is only the first of a number of armored vehicles whose inventory is being depleted.
What happens when the stock of BMPs is exhausted? When Russian troops run low on artillery (and barrels)? When remaining air defense assets get spread even thinner?
Those are the questions that loom over the future of the Russian combat effort.
Side note: the MT-LB was manufactured in Kharkiv, which is why Russia won't make any more of them.
Posted on 7/21/24 at 9:17 am to GOP_Tiger
To follow up on my previous post, here's a new report on Russia's artillery inventory. Chrome should translate it for you.
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Russia is NOT going to "run out" of artillery. Not at all. But Russia has recently sent large numbers of M-46 guns (first manufactured in 1951) to the front. It stands to reason that the Russian military would prefer to be using newer, better artillery pieces.
Here are some conclusions from the article:
Estimates of Russia's ability to produce new barrels for its artillery range from 50 to 200 per year. That shockingly low number is a result of both:
1) the lack of the very specific machine tools needed, and
2) the extreme metallurgical difficulty of producing the kind of steel that can handle the strain of an explosion inside it.
That means that replacement barrels will come almost exclusively from cannibalization.
More conclusions from the study:
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Russia is NOT going to "run out" of artillery. Not at all. But Russia has recently sent large numbers of M-46 guns (first manufactured in 1951) to the front. It stands to reason that the Russian military would prefer to be using newer, better artillery pieces.
Here are some conclusions from the article:
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The degradation of the enemy's artillery component should be - and is gradually becoming - a consequence of the long-term and painstaking work of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In fact, we are talking about the fact that the mass transition of the occupation army to less effective artillery produced in 1930-50. is a relatively foreseeable prospect for the next year. A further reduction in the "self-propelled" component in the artillery component, a decrease in the quality of barrels, the age of systems that are beginning to be deconserved, as a result, will bring "degradation" closer.
Degradation should lead to:
- To the loss of maneuverability (when the % of self-propelled guns in the occupying army will continue to decrease);
- Decrease in the quality of counter-battery warfare (range/accuracy);
Increased enemy losses among artillerymen due to the higher risk of losing a counter-battery duel due to the reasons mentioned above;
- Increased ammunition consumption to hit the target due to the type/condition/quality of artillery. Increase in ammunition consumption, decrease in barrel life.
- If the probability that Iran or North Korea will supply artillery to Russia is subjectively mediocre, then the probability that these countries will supply the "latest" artillery is extremely low due to a number of factors. Therefore, the supply of artillery from these countries can affect the indicator of "quantity" rather than "quality".
We cannot agree with the opinion that we will see the enemy 100% depletion of artillery stocks from storage bases for at least the next 3 years. But we can say that the quality of this artillery will steadily decrease until the thesis "grandfathers fought" is put into practice.
Estimates of Russia's ability to produce new barrels for its artillery range from 50 to 200 per year. That shockingly low number is a result of both:
1) the lack of the very specific machine tools needed, and
2) the extreme metallurgical difficulty of producing the kind of steel that can handle the strain of an explosion inside it.
That means that replacement barrels will come almost exclusively from cannibalization.
More conclusions from the study:
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The timing of exhaustion is quite difficult to determine. As for self-propelled artillery, it will be possible to speak more precisely in 2025, since the "bottleneck" is not in the number of systems, but in the speed of their recovery. The accumulation and increase in the percentage of systems that have been withdrawn from the front, in unusual places such as arsenals, will be evidence that the recovery capabilities of factories do not keep up with the rate of losses - even with the transformation of large arsenals into repair and restoration shops. This, in turn, will reinforce the tendency to replace the shortage of self-propelled artillery with more primitive artillery, such as towed artillery, which is much faster to restore. Actually, this is gradually happening.
For example: at one point of permanent deployment of tank regiment X, towed howitzers were spotted, although the tank regiment should have been equipped with 2 batteries of self-propelled guns. That is, units that should be equipped with self-propelled artillery are equipped with towed artillery, which is faster to restore, but which has lower efficiency and quality.
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Therefore, we are unlikely to see the deployment of "trebuchets" in Russian artillery units - but their artillery will be much less mobile, accurate, with higher ammunition costs to hit a target unit, with a shorter resource of barrels due to their age, with a shorter service life and a longer recovery time. All this will affect the ability of the occupying forces to conduct counter-battery combat, which, with the proper number of the latest mobile weapons in service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine, should give a higher percentage of success in counter-battery duels and a better ability to suppress enemy means of cover in specific areas of the front if necessary.
Posted on 7/21/24 at 1:07 pm to AU86
Not meaning to further derail the thread (which I will not do from now on)... but no, we're not stuck with him. He's no longer running for a second term.
Posted on 7/21/24 at 1:13 pm to Lee B
Goodbye stumbin’, bumblin’ Biden. Kamala is even worse. The Democrats really have some shitty options right now. Trump coming back to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in January.
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