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Lets say that you'll hear about some of this soon enough. Casualty figures are dramatically higher than what Russia is claiming.

Ok, heard some amazing things about the degree to which Russia is getting mauled. Its not going well for them.

VDV is the airborne troops. These are the Russian forces that are trying to fight.

This is a Russian Air Defense system that was coming online just as I left active duty. We were very afraid of these.

This cannot be real I had heard that Belarus was the worst military in Europe but this is appalling.

Hearts and minds . . .

This is a demonstration of warfighting capability make no mistake. if russia tried to do a tactical road march this distance it would result in 80% of the convoy being left on the side of the road.

WOW

good news

Interesting shabby treatment by Russian authorities toward their soldiers

Interesting.

She seems nice.

Good books came out of it though.

Thread to explain the cognitive dissonance among the conscripts and some of the professionals in the Russian army. The first 1/3rd if you will. The other 2/3rds are also suffering dissonance as well. However, the adrenaline junkies in the special forces and airborne are suffering from the fact that they are being flung headlong into suicidal attacks. The group of mercenaries (e.g., chechens) who are in this to feed their bloodlust are probably just fine.

Levels of esoteric knowledge on military tires reached that makes the average Comiccon discussion of Marvel Canon seem trivial

The video of that speech he gives where the crowd turns on him is amazing.

I don't want to be too optimistic. Too many will die. ("the good seems fucking cheap") But, plenty of evidence that Russia is going to have trouble over the long haul. Another thing to be wary of. Russia has plenty of vectors to bring in sanctions busting resources. Blocking those will be work for the Free World.

we've known that the convoy was a signifier of inept battle drill and logistics and this guy's thread indicates it also is a signifier of Potemkin village preventative maintenance as well. The Russian Army that can't rely on any truck tires coming from overseas is fuQQed

World historical genius

Used to be

I think most professional military embrace the melting pot. There are the bone heads who cling to their racist comforts but that stuff tends to dissipate in combat when you find out that some of those people you had prejudice against actually fight like wildcats.

That is not true. What percentage of the ground forces are whites? Start at that number.

It is worth a moment's reflection on this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alisher_Usmanov#Portfolio_investments Who knew Zuckerberg had such Russian friends?