By all accounts Russia seems to be turning to a defensive crouch now, in order to build up forces for a new assault in early 2023. The real question now is if Ukraine can make meaningful advances in the Kherson oblast. If it can then it will disrupt Russia's ability to launch further offensives. If...

Are you watching "boom porn" again? Yup. (apparently the Ukrainians have more known targets than Himars missiles... although they wasted twelve on the Daryivskyi bridge across the Ingulets river). Himars does not have the destructive power to destroy a large bridge like that. https://twitter.com/i/s...

There was a summary on the radio this morning from Dr Jack Watling senior research fellow for land warfare at the Royal United Services Institute (the world's oldest military thinktank)

https://www.rnz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=2018850607

Lol... "Russia is claiming". Absolutely no one takes Russias claims seriously; about anything. This is the most interesting part of all of this for me actually. Trying to parse all of the different claims coming out of this and get a sense of what might actually be going on. I'm not gonna take Ukra...

What are they going to take it with? The 60 year old tanks they've had to start using? Driven by the soldiers they've either press ganged into service or sent to the front as punishment? I guess they could do a general mobilisation but then they'd have to admit to the Russians at home that they've ...

Per the article Dot linked, I think all the west has to do is keep supplying Ukraine with arms. They'll exhaust Russia eventually. The Ukrainians have pretty much used all their soviet era ammunition and are now relying on western arms. The west have so far been giving them what has essentially bee...

Well it seems like the war is going in the wrong direction. Russia is expanding their goals and taking more territory. It's taken fuck all. It barely has more than it had in 2014. It's been a catastrophic failure so far for Russia and it's losing badly. That's interesting because they just declared...

puerile_polyp wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 22, 2022 8:29 am

Well it seems like the war is going in the wrong direction. Russia is expanding their goals and taking more territory.

It's taken fuck all. It barely has more than it had in 2014. It's been a catastrophic failure so far for Russia and it's losing badly.

You guys are still giving a shit about Republicans and democrats as we plunge into financial crisis and Russia and China are pouncing on the west's historical weakness. It's gonna get ugly. Ukraine is lost and Taiwan is on the block. Watch us try to fix our economy when the chips are cut off. I'm m...

Stratospheric aerosols from the Tongan eruption are turning the normally nondescript winter darkness in Antarctica into a spectacular nightscape. Apparent'y these photos are unedited. https://scontent.fhlz3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/293776154_5615844231762158_1206511136876405775_n.jpg?_nc_cat=10...