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Posted on 9/28/26 at 12:59 am to Coeur du Tigre
In the Russian mind, barbarism is not a bug but a feature.
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Posted on 9/28/26 at 7:30 am to Coeur du Tigre
You realize of course that when Patton referred to “the Russian” he was referring not only to residents of what is today the Russian Federation but also to Ukrainians and Belarusians because there was no distinction whatsoever between East Slavic peoples in the American mind of the time.
Posted on 9/28/26 at 7:46 am to T1gerNate
Operation Vivaldi: Ukraine attacks Russian troops with kamikaze armoured vehicles and captures over 250 soldiers – photos, video
STANISLAV POHORILOV — 28 September, 10:49
Captured Russian troops. Photo: screenshot from a video by the 3rd Army Corps
Brigadier General Andrii Biletskyi, commander of the 3rd Army Corps, has reported that Russian forces lost 2,000 personnel during the third stage of the Vivaldi military operation, with more than 250 Russian soldiers taken prisoner.
Source: 3rd Army Corps
Quote from Biletskyi: "The enemy lost 2,000 personnel, and more than 250 Russian soldiers were taken prisoner. This is how Vivaldi's third season ended, marking a turning point in the entire operation."
Details: Biletskyi said the main objective of the third stage of the operation was Nove, a key Russian hub on the bridgehead. He explained that whoever controls the high ground around the settlement holds the initiative on the bridgehead.
He reported that to break through Russian defences, the 3rd Army Corps used its own innovation: Soviet BTR-60 armoured personnel carriers converted into robotic kamikaze vehicles. They were used to destroy the Russians' strongest fortifications.
"Russian troops surrendered in entire units, along with their officers, pilots and artillerymen," the commander of the 3rd Army Corps said.
Ukrainska Pravda
STANISLAV POHORILOV — 28 September, 10:49
Captured Russian troops. Photo: screenshot from a video by the 3rd Army Corps
Brigadier General Andrii Biletskyi, commander of the 3rd Army Corps, has reported that Russian forces lost 2,000 personnel during the third stage of the Vivaldi military operation, with more than 250 Russian soldiers taken prisoner.
Source: 3rd Army Corps
Quote from Biletskyi: "The enemy lost 2,000 personnel, and more than 250 Russian soldiers were taken prisoner. This is how Vivaldi's third season ended, marking a turning point in the entire operation."
Details: Biletskyi said the main objective of the third stage of the operation was Nove, a key Russian hub on the bridgehead. He explained that whoever controls the high ground around the settlement holds the initiative on the bridgehead.
He reported that to break through Russian defences, the 3rd Army Corps used its own innovation: Soviet BTR-60 armoured personnel carriers converted into robotic kamikaze vehicles. They were used to destroy the Russians' strongest fortifications.
"Russian troops surrendered in entire units, along with their officers, pilots and artillerymen," the commander of the 3rd Army Corps said.
Ukrainska Pravda
Posted on 9/28/26 at 7:46 am to T1gerNate
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Posted on 9/28/26 at 8:11 am to cypher
The reporting may be true I am not doubting that it is, but that photo is definitely AI generated.
Posted on 9/28/26 at 8:14 am to T1gerNate
He wasn't talking about map points. He was talking about Stalin. Stalin was the USSR.
Posted on 9/28/26 at 8:24 am to goatmilker
Yes and Stalin was also not Russian. That quote gets taken out of context by people with lunatic ethnic grievances against Russians, which you seem to agree is incorrect and foolish.
Posted on 9/28/26 at 8:51 am to T1gerNate
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but that photo is definitely AI generated.
video of captured Russians at 1:00
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video of captured Russians at 1:00
Looks real.
Posted on 9/28/26 at 12:30 pm to T1gerNate
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Yes and Stalin was also not Russian. That quote gets taken out of context by people with lunatic ethnic grievances against Russians, which you seem to agree is incorrect and foolish.
What part of they invaded a sovereign country and are getting millions of people killed do you consider to be 'lunatic ethnic grievances'?! And no, before you go down THAT road, it that wasn't the Ukrainians.
I don't know who, specifically, Patton was talking about but it absolutely 100% applies to the Russians up to the very minute I write this and not to the Ukrainians.
This is what we are talking about when people on this board call you guys sympathizers. You willingly ignore the sickening amount of carnage going on right in front of your eyes and the openly acknowledged reasons behind it to play word games, change the conversations, redirect, ANYTHING but acknowledge the Russians, or at least the ones in the Kremin, to be barbaric, soulless, power-obsessed killers, something they themselves not only admit but even bask in glory at being.
If Patton were alive today to see this, he'd be leading the charge against Putin and his cronies, not standing by clapping them on or apologizing for them by making pedantic arguments that shame all of us.
Posted on 9/28/26 at 12:45 pm to T1gerNate
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You realize of course that when Patton referred to “the Russian” he was referring not only to residents of what is today the Russian Federation but also to Ukrainians and Belarusians because there was no distinction whatsoever between East Slavic peoples in the American mind of the time.
Why would there be a distinction at the time? The USSR encompassed 15 independent countries today. Also at that time, Stalin was the face of USSR. I'm not surprised there was no real effort at making the distinction even though there were distinct cultural differences across the USSR.
That leads to questions that still bug me. You don't have to, of course, but I'm still curious.
You've put "Ukraine" and "Kyiv" in quotation marks in previous posts. You made a point to state that its Galicia and not Ukraine that's desired independence from Russia. When it was asked "Can Russia make Ukrainians believe that they're really just western Russians?" your response was "they are".
You also stated the referendum for independence was from the Soviet Union and not the Russian Federation (which you stated didn't exist at the time). Not sure why it matters that Ukraine didn't also seek independence from an entity that didn't exist yet and said entity officially recognized Ukraine as an independent nation when they (Russ. Fed.) came into being.
Now you've made a response that indicates Ukrainians (and Belarussians) are distinctly not Russian (perhaps you mean they are both).
So, what's you overall take on Ukraine as a nation?
Are they a legitimate nation in your estimation?
Are they a separate, distinct population?
Do they or should they belong to (or be part) of the Russian Federation?
Posted on 9/28/26 at 1:09 pm to SparkyWilson
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Now you've made a response that indicates Ukrainians (and Belarussians) are distinctly not Russian (perhaps you mean they are both).
So, what's you overall take on Ukraine as a nation?
Are they a legitimate nation in your estimation?
Are they a separate, distinct population?
Do they or should they belong to (or be part) of the Russian Federation?
I don't really see a good argument that Ukranians aren't a distinct ethnic group with a rich history at bare minimum unless you started reading history only going back as far as the start of the USSR.
Ukraine as a nation state is somewhat more contentious in a historical sense but even so they've been a nation in their current form as long as the current Russian Federation has. Some argument that they are equivalent to like a US state in reference to Russia is not accurate either, and either way that hasn't been the case in closing on 4 decades so clearly they have the right and expectation to not be invaded by bloodthirsty tyrants.
Posted on 9/28/26 at 1:13 pm to cypher
quote:Putin's post election strategy to test NATO Oilprice.com
Putin’s key problem, having been in power for effectively 26 years, is the ‘Tiger-Rider Paradox’ (‘He who rides a tiger can never dismount’), which explains that an autocrat accumulates so many enemies, commits so many atrocities, and strips away so many legal protections during their rule that the act of stepping down is a death sentence for him. The Russian president’s most immediate problem is that his armed forces reached the critical negative replacement rate -- meaning that there are more dead and wounded per month than can be replaced through recruitment -- back at the beginning of the year. As it stands now, Russia is suffering roughly 34,000 casualties a month, while its aggressive volunteer recruitment programs are only pulling in roughly 27,000 new recruits a month. Moreover, there are now 8 Russian casualties for every 1 Ukrainian casualty, up from a ratio of roughly 3:1 earlier in the conflict. At least as bad from the public morale perspective for Putin is that Ukraine’s extraordinary development of its own drone and missile capabilities means that it is now able to keep hitting any target it wants inside Russia up to 1,200 miles, putting over 70% of the Russian population within Ukraine’s crosshairs. Perhaps most notably here, Kyiv has launched dozens of targeted long-range drone attacks against Russia’s largest e–commerce giant, Wildberries, since mid–July 2026, in an economic and logistical campaign to dismantle the supply chains supporting the Russian military and its civilian population. Moreover, the last day of the 2026 election saw 450 drones targeted directly at Moscow and its immediate surroundings.
Posted on 9/28/26 at 1:29 pm to bigjoe1
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Moreover, there are now 8 Russian casualties for every 1 Ukrainian casualty, up from a ratio of roughly 3:1 earlier in the conflict.
Ukraine literally just said in the past month that they need 30k recruits per month just to maintain current levels.
Posted on 9/28/26 at 1:41 pm to VolSquatch
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Ukraine literally just said in the past month that they need 30k recruits per month just to maintain current levels.
Casualties at 8:1- no way to confirm
Military retirees- no one knows if service terms are expiring or how many are expiring
All these numbers are highly speculative.
Posted on 9/28/26 at 1:54 pm to doubleb
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Casualties at 8:1- no way to confirm
Military retirees- no one knows if service terms are expiring or how many are expiring
All these numbers are highly speculative.
The outright BS is usually easy to spot but we just won't know the numbers until after it's over because no one has any incentive to provide legitimate information.
Even high quality media is incentivized to report numbers they don't even believe because they don't want to lose access to other information. And it's a win for them anyway because they can generate their clicks and also won't be held to account when the numbers turn out to be bunk because they are getting them from "legitimate" sources.
I hold to the standard that Russia is losing more men than Ukraine as the aggressor. Trends seem to show both sides are having manpower concerns to at least some extent. Anything more specific than that, I will be skeptical of.
Posted on 9/28/26 at 2:02 pm to VolSquatch
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On September 27th, the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck the dry cargo bulk carrier "Aroyat," which was heading to a Russian port.
After the strike, a fire broke out in the stern of the ship. The crew consisted of 7 Egyptian, 6 Syrian, and 3 Turkish sailors. There are casualties among the crew.
In 2023, this same ship, almost exactly 3 years later, was one of the first to pass through the maritime corridor to Ukraine, where it was loaded with grain for Egypt.
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Yeah, if we were arguing about whether the ratio was 3:2 or 4:3, then it could be a useful discussion.
But anyone saying 8:1 is just doing pretty useless propaganda—ain't nobody got time for that.
But anyone saying 8:1 is just doing pretty useless propaganda—ain't nobody got time for that.
Posted on 9/28/26 at 2:07 pm to Coeur du Tigre
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Ukraine sees no positive signs of a ceasefire covering grain exports via the Black Sea in the coming months due to strikes in the region, - Bloomberg
Ukraine Agriculture Minister said Russia has rejected all proposals from Kyiv's partners, and the situation remains critical.
Ukraine has increased exports using alternatives to the Black Sea, but analysis shows a maximum of 50% of agricultural commodities can be exported via these routes.
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