July 27, 20222 yr 9 minutes ago, SuperG.Girl said: @Cult Icon Do you believe the Russians can win this through? They won the war on Feb 24th. Unless they make a giant strategic blunder, or Ukraine has a giant strategic victory, they will win.
July 28, 20222 yr A Russian unit of fire per 152mm gun is 60 rounds. Russian brigades with their transport are organically equipped with 6 x units of fire or 12,960 rounds for 36 guns. Per combat battalion, that is 4320 rounds per 12 guns. If there are the functional equivalent of 100 combat battalions operating in the Ukraine that is 432,000 152mm rounds organically held by units before they need to reload and before logistical enhancement. The US/NATO deliveries of 155mm ammunition to Ukraine make a big deal out of 250,000 rounds but in reality, that is not much at all. US pentagon also has recently said that Ukraine fires 6000 artillery rounds a day. For Russia this ammunition pool is less than one week of artillery offensive. If Ukrainian politician claims that the Russians fire 50,000 artillery/rocket rounds a day of all types is accurate, they would burn through their organic load in 2 1/2 weeks (in addition to 120mm, 203mm, and rockets of various sizes), consistent to what happened earlier this month.
July 28, 20222 yr 23 hours ago, SuperG.Girl said: @Cult Icon Do you believe the Russians can win this through? Does this sissy look like he can win?
July 28, 20222 yr So much for the "destruction of the Russian economy". The Ruble is at its highest value in 5 years.... The guy has been "sanction-proofing" his economy. He doesn't give a shit if we don't buy his oil. He sells it to the Chinese, Indians or Iranians. Same for his natural gas (which normally tends to be more captive): he's been building pipelines to sell it to the East rather than the West.
July 28, 20222 yr 6 hours ago, Stromboli1 said: Does this sissy look like he can win? American news tend to present the world as they want it to be. Not as it is. That's why they rarely understand what happens in the world. It's been like this for decades. BTW, Putin is winning this battle, but he's crazy and unpredictable, so I'm not sure anyone will trust him blindly now (even his BRICS allies).
July 28, 20222 yr On 7/24/2022 at 2:02 PM, Cult Icon said: I don't envy political life, to always be obsessed with what others think of you and operating in the realm of delusion & fantasies. The trade-off for having wealth and influence is too steep. Sounds like hell to me. It is better to be a hidden billionaire, influencing things from the shadows lol. I agree it's hard to be a politician in 2022, but most of them (especially the young generation) chose to abide by the media rule. AOC is more of an influencer that a real politician. She craves for attention. And it works. Her followers listen to her for her beauty (not for her ideas, cause she really is a witless one). She can do whatever she wants, her simp army will always find her excuses. BTW, it's a proof that the so-called "patriarchy" doesn't exist. There are some ppl who are ready to follow dumb women like AOC, just because they're pretty.
July 28, 20222 yr On 7/24/2022 at 2:02 PM, Cult Icon said: I don't envy political life, to always be obsessed with what others think of you and operating in the realm of delusion & fantasies. The trade-off for having wealth and influence is too steep. Sounds like hell to me. It is better to be a hidden billionaire, influencing things from the shadows lol. Anyway, it's true that billionaires have more power. Bezos (who is the biggest douche in the universe) has many newspapers (including the WaPo) that aren't great businesses at face value, but they are great assets to manipulate and influence ppl's opinion in a covert manner. And this has tremendous value. That's why most billionaires abide by the woke rules. It's better to follow the current sect and zeitgeist, because it protects their power/influence.
July 28, 20222 yr 38 minutes ago, Enrico_sw said: American news tend to present the world as they want it to be. Not as it is. That's why they rarely understand what happens in the world. It's been like this for decades. BTW, Putin is winning this battle, but he's crazy and unpredictable, so I'm not sure anyone will trust him blindly now (even his BRICS allies). It's an informational war too in conjunction with regular warfare. I've never seen a leader do a magazine shoot, talk at award shows, etc while his country is at war. It's a proxy war between the US & Russia. The US has done everything in their power to help Ukraine except for putting boots on the ground. There's the political aspect too cause the Ukraine, Russia, & China have a lot of dirt on our president who is severely compromised in these conflicts.
July 28, 20222 yr On 7/19/2022 at 1:32 PM, SympathysSilhouette said: I don't think of myself as "woke". You're free to identify yourself as you want. It's 2022 and I believe in freedom. On 7/19/2022 at 1:32 PM, SympathysSilhouette said: I think the culture's current extreme obsession with how everything is supposedly too "woke" is idiotic. There's no obsession. There's just regular people fed up with the fact that powerful people (media, politicians) harass them with nonsensical theories and messages that are supposed to fill their lack of transcendence. Don't worry though, censorship forces will silence some of them, like they often do in proto-totalitarian environments. Twitter, Google, Facebook have been increasingly censoring dissensus. But censorship is an insatiable ogre... which might devour its children.
July 28, 20222 yr 26 minutes ago, Stromboli1 said: It's an informational war too in conjunction with regular warfare. I've never seen a leader do a magazine shoot, talk at award shows, etc while his country is at war. It's probably one of his biggest communication mistake. Putin is having an informational war too, it just doesn't work in the West.
July 29, 20222 yr Author On 7/28/2022 at 6:30 PM, Stromboli1 said: Does this sissy look like he can win? Zelensky is not a player. He's just a pawn .... and Vogue is such a disappointment like most women's magazines
July 29, 20222 yr Russian meme: The problem with maintaining a fantasy is that the 'house of cards' eventually will come down when reality takes over.
July 30, 20222 yr On 7/28/2022 at 5:42 PM, Enrico_sw said: American news tend to present the world as they want it to be. Not as it is. That's why they rarely understand what happens in the world. It's been like this for decades. BTW, Putin is winning this battle, but he's crazy and unpredictable, so I'm not sure anyone will trust him blindly now (even his BRICS allies). The US can't admit that they failed to prepare Ukraine sufficiently these past 8 years or accurately predict Russian actions, or that Ukraine ground force will die in the Donbass. They already committed to a certain 'outcome', the Pentagon's message is tailored to it as well as the MIC funded US " think tanks" like the neocon/corrupt ISW. I suspect that Putin/Russian leadership are playing evil 4-D chess, if he destroys the Ukrainian armed forces he would have destroyed the 2nd biggest army in Europe with a 200K man army. Unprecedented in military history. Russian military deception - Wikipedia Ukrainian military deaths are now definitely in the tens of thousands, and according to Ukraine's defense minister, probably under 100,000 dead. If minimum 200 Ukr are KIA/MIA per day for 156 days this would be 31,200 dead/mia and up to 218,400 casualties. Ukrainian deaths, according to their politicians, range from 600 killed a day to 30 killed a day.
July 30, 20222 yr On 7/28/2022 at 6:04 PM, Enrico_sw said: Anyway, it's true that billionaires have more power. Bezos (who is the biggest douche in the universe) has many newspapers (including the WaPo) that aren't great businesses at face value, but they are great assets to manipulate and influence ppl's opinion in a covert manner. And this has tremendous va I was more thinking about 'old money', pillars of the community. People who journalists don't follow and nobody knows their name except maybe local town/county news. But they have billions, hundreds of millions, or tens of millions of dollars to make their dreams happen. Bezos is very much a public figure. People like Soros and Koch would prefer to be mostly anonymous, I think. (rather than the subject of conspiracy theories).
July 30, 20222 yr 9 minutes ago, Cult Icon said: I was more thinking about 'old money', pillars of the community. People who journalists don't follow and nobody knows their name except maybe local town/county news. But they have billions, hundreds of millions, or tens of millions of dollars to make their dreams happen. Bezos is very much a public figure. People like Soros and Koch would prefer to be mostly anonymous, I think. (rather than the subject of conspiracy theories). There are tons of conspiracy theories on Soros. My macroeconomics teacher (who was a very much left leaning) was talking about him all the time (he hated him, but he was at traditional leftist, he had nothing to do with today's nutcases). But there's no conspiracy with Soros: everything is clear. He's a billionaire douche who wants to give meaning to his life with transcendent projects. In his case, his utopia (dystopia) his clear: destructing traditional European values. What will emerge from his dystopia is very unclear (women who thinks they are men and vice versa: I don't call this progress). But hey, people are free to believe in dystopia; they usually end up in mass killings.
July 31, 20222 yr 23 hours ago, Enrico_sw said: But there's no conspiracy with Soros: everything is clear. He's a billionaire douche who wants to give meaning to his life with transcendent projects. In his case, his utopia (dystopia) his clear: destructing traditional European values. What will emerge from his dystopia is very unclear (women who thinks they are men and vice versa: I don't call this progress) I had an intern that was a fan of Soros..he was also an aspiring politician. When we are 21 years old, anything seems possible, anything to do with power seems desirable with no real drawbacks. Soros is so incredibly obsessed with his interpretation of Karl Popper's "Open Society" concept that he would spend tens of billions of his fortune to do so.
August 1, 20222 yr Not surprising as there are some 50 Russian airfields in Belarus.. The Russian forces, after a few quiet days restarted the artillery offensive, slowly creeping forward with many force recon probes, directing airstrikes and artillery strikes. Berestovoe was destroyed, turned into a dead town and was recorded here: There is a huge cluster of Ukrainian forces now, literally two echelons of forces soaking up the firepower. I doubt that the Russians would be satisfied with another 2-2 1/2 weeks of bombing. This bombing might go on for another two cycles, a month. Or more.
August 1, 20222 yr A lot of photos have surfaced of elite Russian soldiers recently. Russian special forces (SSO) operatives Special Operations Forces (Russia) - Wikipedia Spoiler The first picture is of two 40th Naval Infantry brigade marines, battledress has groin armor like US troops a few years into Iraq. The rest are Spetnaz, frequently used as infiltration and recon troops that guide artillery, airstrikes, and missiles. They also wear groin armor and tend to have better small arms with optics. The final photo has a GM-94 which is 3-shot grenade launcher. Paratroops. Some of the paras have a full armored suit with shoulder and groin plates. Series of photos of the infamous Wagner mercenaries. Last week they took a bombed-out powerplant on the Sevesk defense line. They do not appear to be well armored like US troops in Iraq. The Russians like to use these PMC and the Chechen guard for close combat. These photos are of Russian National Guard "Spetnaz", who first attacked Ukraine on Feb 23rd. These militarized police are more like SWAT team types if I'm not mistaken: These are more of them, taken months later: Unknown Overall, the Russian army in the Ukraine is incredibly irregular/diverse in appearance.
August 2, 20222 yr tons more appeared today: Unknown, the first probably Russian Guard (militarized police), with the black uniforms and the tactical shield. One soldier has an anti-drone EMP gun. Spoiler Russian Spetznaz, good close ups of their battledress. Rifle grenades carried in 5-pouch packs. Russian Guard (militarized police) Spetnaz
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