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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?

Yes

Oh, this is a correct angle I think China's play acting should be humored in the nature of peace but it has to be real. I think sanctifying the inviolability of national borders ain't in their interest unless they can create a fiction about Taiwan.

[points at nose]

awww... Turn that sucker into an aircraft carrier.

Sorry you are suffering but Vladimir Putin is merely serving the historical forces which require Russia to have an autocrat which according to some is a legitimate for of government among many types.

For my money, Biden, Austin, Sullivan and Blinken have been playing the Stradivarius in this crisis. They can't do more than they have without changing the dynamic for the worse. Look at the alliance. Its strong. its got the free-riders stepping up in big ways and vocally. Germany spending $100B on defense with an SPD government!? unfreekingbelievable. Trump shit on the alliance and created resentment. He shoved member leaders out of his way at conferences. He sent his children in to shake down those who sought influence. He allowed the dumbest forces in American politics to destroy the fabric of internal order in the country to the point where Putin thought January 6th was the true face of the country.

Elect Trump and allow him to fellate Putin

Smashy smashy