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Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Tuesday, May 23, 2023 9:28 PM
Quote:Signym, when your comments on this page are strung together I realize that your favorite word is “shit”. And your favor stance is a Superiority Complex, an attitude of superiority concealing actual feelings of inferiority and failure, which is very Russian when you realize Russia has an economy smaller than Canada, a country that does NOT insist it will nuke the US. But then Canada didn’t get beaten by Finland, twice during WWII, while Russia got crushed into bloody slush. Russia has not yet recovered from what Finland did to it. Eighty years from now Russia won't have psychologically recovered from what Ukraine is doing to it.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
More shitcan material from SECOND.
He sure wastes a lot of time posting it.
It's a good thing I don't waste my time reading it
Signym wrote:
Instead of mouth-breathing bias, SECOND, why don't you look up some facts?
If I wanted to waste a lot of time, I could make an EPIC list of your fails. But I prefer to shitcan them instead
And even MORE shitcan material from
You didn't know how to digest the news that Kiev lost Bakhmut until the M$M told you what to think?
That's sad, THUGR.
Russian casualty figures via the M$M are fiction.
But hey, stay in your delusional world!
Bullshit. Once again, you expose your ignorance SECOND.
One unfortunate result of this war is that I've learned more about warfare than I ever wanted to. SECOND, of course, has learned nothing.
So indeed, what next?
NATO airstrikes into Russian-occupied Ukraine?
As far as I can tell, that would suit Russia just fine. All of this escalation by Ukraine and NATO has allowed Russia to demilitarize Kiev and, to a certain extent, NATO. The more money and weapons and volunteers that NATO commits to the fight, the more NATO will be drained.
I'm sure Russian spox will shake their fists and act outraged but I imagine secretly they would be thinking 'Come into my parlor' said the spider to the fly.
SECOND OTOH is so mentally moribund he may as well be in a coma. A self-induced one.
Dood, I don't give ISW enough credit to bother reading it, much less go into opposite-land over what they publish. It's shit-can material. Do YOU rummage in shitcans looking for edible tidbits? Apparently so!
"Institute for the Study of War": The neocon Kagan-Nuland family disinfo project.
A known neocon liar (SECOND) quotes known neocons liars (ISW).
= more shitcan food!
A big Fat Neocon Liar (SECOND) quotes a Big Fat Neocon Liar (Fiona Hill)
What more do I need to read to know that it's not worth reading?
You're a big time-saver, SECOND!
More scrambled brains from SECOND!
Hey SECOND, how in god's name do you imagine that anything you post makes a bit of sense to ... anyone?
You've got scrambled eggs in there, SECOND!
And everything you post is shit.
Oh, one more comment that I heard that I haven't taken the time to verify. what someone said about tha infamous video that Progozhin made with dead soldiers behind him?
"Those people weren't dead".
Dead soldiers are usually missing important parts... legs, arms, faces, chests... Sometimes there isn't left enough to fill a shopping bag, let alone a body bag. The comment was that they looked remarkably whole and un-wounded. I haven't seen the video myself, but if someone else has, let me know what you think.
Wait.
What?
I thought the whole point of NATO was defending against Russia.
You mean it's been a money-sucking bureaucracy for decades?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Tuesday, May 23, 2023 10:05 PM
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
More shitcan material from SECOND.
He sure wastes a lot of time posting it.
It's a good thing I don't waste my time reading it
SECOND: Signym, when your comments on this page are strung together I realize that your favorite word is “shit”. And your favor stance is a Superiority Complex
My favorite word on this page is "shit" bc that best describes your posts. I rarely use it elsewhere.
And I don't feel superior to everyone (like you do) but it's hard not to feel superior to you bc you're a hate-filled liar and malicious troll.
Capisce?
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
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Tuesday, May 23, 2023 11:00 PM
Here are some sources of info that, while not 100% reliable (no source ever is!) provide at least more realism on Ukraine, Russia, and miltary matters in general
The Duran
Hosted by Alexander Mercouris, Greek-born but educated and living in London and
Alex Christoforou, Cypriot-born American-raised and educated currently living in Cyprus
The Duran references western media, official readouts and reports from Britain, the USA, Russia, Ukraine, and China, private emails from across the globe (Sweden, India etc) Telegram channels from Ukraine and Russia ect for a broad-based view of events in Ukraine, the collective west, Russia and elsewhere.
The New Atlas
Hosted by Brian Berletic, a former Marine "Electro-Optical Ordnance Repairman" currently living in Thailand and working as an industrial design engineer
Berletic is particularly knowledgable about weapons capabilities, training,and logistics requirements and regularly comments on western weaponry supplied to Ukraine and their potential impact on the direction of the war
Military Summary Channel
Hosted by "Dima", a pro-Ukrainian Belarusian
Dima tracks the day-to-day ebb and flow of the front line in Ukraine. His maps are particularly valuable, especially his "short summary" format
I would have recommended Gonzalo Lira, a Chilean-born American citizen living in Karkhov, not bc he did a lot of reporting on Ukraine and the war but bc he hosted a "round table" discussion with (usually) interesting guests, but he was arrested by Ukrainian SBU https://news.yahoo.com/pro-russian-blogger-gonzalo-lira-172900103.html
Simplicius The Thinker
https://simplicius76.substack.com/archive
Occasional but often insightful military analysis
Also
Sonar21, Larry Johnson former CIA and security specialist
https://sonar21.com/
Dances wih Bears, John Helmer
https://johnhelmer.org/
Moon of Alabama, "B", former German military
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
Again, I would have recommended The Saker, Swiss expat of Russian descent, former NATO military analyst, but he shut down his blog bc of the security threat to his family
Seymour Hersch, publishes the ugly naked truth
Colonel Douglas MacGregor, a strongly conservative pro-American retired Colonel, in interviews on various programs
Pepe Escobar, a Brazilian reporter who specialized in Central Asia but who travels the world
Andrei Martyanov, a Russian expat living on the USA who was trained as a USSR commander. If you can get past his accent and obvious and repeated disdain for the USA military he has interesting things to say about strategy and logistics
Anway, there are lots of sources of better info than CNN/MSNBC/NYT/WaPo etc
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Wednesday, May 24, 2023 12:22 AM
Quote:Signym, you are being childish. Why not go all the way and write: "I'm rubber, you're glue, whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you"? The old Ruskies did that so often toward the US that it was assigned a new word in the dictionary: whataboutism. But it was just full-grown Ruskies acting like emotionally traumatized children. It made the Ruskies feel better, but the rest of the world knew that the Ruskies never even halfway recovered from the psychological damage caused by Lenin/Stalin murdering 62 million Ruskies followed by Hitler killing more millions, but nowhere near as many as Stalin killed. My advice to Ruskies: give up alcohol and grow up. It is way past time. And while the Ruskies are suffering growing pains from their new maturity, without alcohol to ease the pain, they should go back home, leaving Ukraine and the rest of the world in peace.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
More shitcan material from SECOND.
He sure wastes a lot of time posting it.
It's a good thing I don't waste my time reading it
SECOND: Signym, when your comments on this page are strung together I realize that your favorite word is “shit”. And your favor stance is a Superiority Complex
My favorite word on this page is "shit" bc that best describes your posts. I rarely use it elsewhere.
And I don't feel superior to everyone (like you do) but it's hard not to feel superior to you bc you're a hate-filled liar and malicious troll.
Capisce?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Wednesday, May 24, 2023 1:23 AM
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
More shitcan material from SECOND.
He sure wastes a lot of time posting it.
It's a good thing I don't waste my time reading it
SECOND: Signym, when your comments on this page are strung together I realize that your favorite word is “shit”. And your favor stance is a Superiority Complex
SIGNY: My favorite word on this page is "shit" bc that best describes your posts. I rarely use it elsewhere.
And I don't feel superior to everyone (like you do) but it's hard not to feel superior to you bc you're a hate-filled liar and malicious troll.
Capisce?
SECOND: Signym, you are being childish... The old Ruskies...
Why not just call me "Russian troll" and "Trumptard", troll? You seem.to specialize in libel and insinuation (bc you're too chickenshit to libel directly, anymore. You must have consulted a lawyer) You OTOH have amply demonstrated your lying, hate-filled, malicious nature. You've even bragged about it.
You're droll, troll.
****
BTW, your "figures" on the # of people who died under Stalin aren't supported by any other historian. Your claim would have had Stalin literally wiping out most of Russia's population... a claim not supported by demography . Your source is tainted,like you are.
https://u.osu.edu/mclc/2018/02/08/who-killed-more-hitler-stalin-or-mao/
*****
Now, with all of those sources of info available to you, there's no excuse for posting shit.
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Wednesday, May 24, 2023 1:51 AM
From Moon of Alabama
THE F-16 v THE MIG-29, comparison of takeoff airfield requirements
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The Ukrainian Air Force, to my knowledge, has had to use guerilla airfield tactics to keep the Russians guessing as to where they are operating from. This is to prevent Moscow from targeting the aircraft/impromptu airfield from drone attacks and air strikes, destroying stationary aircraft or the rendering the “runway” unusable. Soviet-built aircraft are sublimely suited to this.
For ex, the MiG-29 “Fulcrum” uses automatic Foreign Object Debris (FOD) covers that close for initial start up (vid). Meanwhile louvres located at the top of the wing-root open to provide alternate air intake to the jet engines. Upon take off, once the weight on wheels (WoW) switch in the nose gear detects it is off the ground, the louvers cycle closed and the FOD covers on the primary intake retract, allowing max airflow to the engines once the danger of FOD damage has passed. This ingenious design allows the Fulcrum to operate, not only from unimproved runways or even highways, but even from grass fields. The wing itself and the distance to the ground preventing small stones and debris from getting sucked into the delicate engines.
I cannot stress how dangerous and debilitating FOD is to aircraft. A single rock, bolt, nut, or minor road debris can have a cataclysmic effect on a modern high-performance jet engine. It may not even happen immediately, the damage could happen on take off, then progressively get worse during flight as the blades, now potentially bent or unbalanced begin to self-destruct the engine internals. Even if a MiG-29 happens to shell out an engine because of the careless placement of a bolt or tool by a mechanic or the ingestion of a bird during flight or take off, the MiG HAS TWO ENGINES which are isolated in separate bays, preventing the destruction of one engine from FOD-ing out the second.
The F-16, by contrast, is definitely not suited for this style of airfield. The bottom of the intake lip sits approximately 30” from the ground with no provision of alternate intake. In addition, all the suction flow of that air comes from the sides, fore, and ground since no air can be ingested from above the engine (that’s where the fuselage is). With no provision for FOD protection or alternate, high-mounted intakes during the entire time spent on the ground, this calls for rigid and inflexible FOD control measures from the location of engine start, to taxiing routes to the runway.
In the USAF, this meant hundreds of maintainers walking at arms-length intervals two to three times a day with eyes on the ground looking for any and every piece of debris that could be ingested by the multi-million dollar vacuum cleaner with only ONE engine we were charged with maintaining. In addition, an almost constant procession of street-cleaners rumbled up and down the flightline, taxiways and runway. Everything had to be spotless lest we risk the aircraft, or worse, the pilots.
Imagine the preparation it would take to complete this process on a 10,000 foot long straight highway, in the dark, while trying to be as inconspicuous as possible so as not to draw the attention of collaborators or Russian spies. You couldn’t hop from highway to highway or run from unimproved airfields like the Ukrainian Air Force can do with MiG-29s, you’d be handcuffed or at the very least less mobile. Imagine a disused Soviet airfield that suddenly had all its weeds plucked from the cracks in the concrete, concrete patched, the runway spotless. What signal does that send? “F-16s could, will, or are operating from here.”
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/f-16s-to-ukraine.html#more
There's a lot more in that article, but I thought this section was particularly funny.
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Wednesday, May 24, 2023 4:00 AM
Quote:Russia said you are full of baloney about the F-16. If the F-16 is as bad as you claim, Russia would be encouraging the US to send as many as possible in order to humiliate the US. Or, maybe, Russia is using reverse psychology to trick the US into doing who knows what. There is no way to tell other than send the F-16 and see how well or badly these weapons perform when flown by Ukrainians on suicide missions against the Kerch Strait Bridge. Banzai!
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
From Moon of Alabama
THE F-16 v THE MIG-29, comparison of takeoff airfield requirements
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/f-16s-to-ukraine.html#more
There's a lot more in that article, but I thought this section was particularly funny.
Russia has warned Western countries that supplying Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets would carry “colossal risks”, after US President Joe Biden announced the US would support the delivery of warplanes.
As G7 leaders met for the second day of the summit in Japan, Russian deputy foreign minister Alexander Grushko accused Western countries of “still adhering to the escalation scenario”.
“It involves colossal risks for themselves,” he added. “In any case, this will be taken into account in all our plans, and we have all the necessary means to achieve the goals we have set.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-colossal-risks-
f16-ukraine-b2342646.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Wednesday, May 24, 2023 4:23 AM
Fuck Ukraine.
#Rootin4Putin.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Wednesday, May 24, 2023 4:32 AM
Quote:Only the Russians support Trump. I see why. Criminals stick together in gangs because crime is more entertaining than honestly working as individuals for a living. Firefly proved that.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Fuck Ukraine.
#Rootin4Putin.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Wednesday, May 24, 2023 4:44 AM
Get fucked, retard.
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