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FartingMonk

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  1. And I totally get that. It was like that when I was in. When your dudes are happy your job is easier. It doesn't take a nerd with a spreadsheet who touts KPIs and performance goals to figure that out. But staying alive is a helluva motivation. If they were that then we should be seeing mass desertion and POWs. I mean at this moment we have 200 thousand Russian troops who are very unmotivated just lollygagging in Ukraine with apparently the Ukrainian super army just sitting there saying yeah man. Shell us and bomb us at your leisure. It's just making me question the fog of war I guess that is there. What are they waiting for? Would I send my army in and confront the Russian army straight on? Hell no. But if they are sitting there I would shell them and demotivate the shit out of them.
  2. And that's what perplexes me. I respect your opinion because obviously you are the Ukraine expert but if Russia brought in 200,000 people to fight and the Ukranians have 200,000 people fighting that are actual military. And we have estimates that Russia have lost 10-15k soldiers. That's 7 percent of their total unit in two weeks. That's bad really fucking bad. So why can't Ukraine win. Are their numbers worse?
  3. Nah. And that's where I'm coming from. Even before this started I was in on this thread and I said hey the Russian top units match ours. Even their "rangers" maybe a step behind but they are still formidable. The rest yeah they suck donkey balls. I figured the Ukrainians to be similar even with western advisers. Even with billions in aid how much of that is grifted. I figured up to 50-60 percent. And yeah you're going to have some outstanding units. But stuff that I'm reading like their National guard and regular army battalions rocking the shit out of Russia surprised me. Hell, it might be all the other failures of countries we have "trained up" to fight and they will. One of my best friends was a military advisor for Iraq and he said those were the most useless guys in the world no matter what you taught them. Their trained JOs that get sent to school at Benning were even worst. He said maybe 5 out of 100 were worth a shit. The Afghanistan guys said the same thing. The guys getting sent to Colombia say the same thing. Name a country and they will say the same thing. Hell even the guys coming back from Korea say the same thing. They say those guys are professionals but are fucking rigid. So what makes the Ukranians so special that they can fight and be so damn good at it. Especially when there are certain factions including you saying we have no advisors there at all. So they are some sort of outlier? It just makes me wonder how the same dudes who were actually doing a good job in Donbas until the Russians came in and said sit down little brother you still can't do shit to us are all of a sudden beating the hell out of them. And then with a 200 thousand strong army, we are getting presented with this picture of oh yeah, it's a rag tag bunch of dudes who got together to shoot these Russians up. Where is this 200 thousand man army, did they split up into small cohesive fighting units and force multiply when need to? Because that's Ranger stuff. It takes more than 8 years of sending JOs to school in the US to make stuff like that happen.
  4. No doubt. It's like American Ninja 9: Kick Vlad in the Face
  5. I wish I can get a clearer picture of the battlefield in Ukraine. One minute it's Ukrainians partisan farmers wiping out entire columns. Then it's Ukrainian commandos doing ninja stuff to top notch Russian killers, then it's Ukrainian regulars encircling and killing battalions. Now it's Russian generals getting hit by 1500 meter sniper shots. 6 months ago if asked about Ukraine and you would hear it was one of the most corrupt and inept countries to exist. But all this time they were hiding some super army.
  6. I just have a hatred for all things Saudi. Can't say I've ever met a Saudi I liked. To keep it on topic what is it that Ivan Drago says If he dies he dies?
  7. I can't wait for his father to pass and the wahabbis are no longer bound by honor to be aligned with the House of Saud.
  8. Because the minute Putin decides he wants to end his shenanigans and quit playing warmonger. The sanctions go away. We may talk tough about the sanctions but as soon as Putin says oh I give up. They cut it. No one wants to sacrifice long term for a country they don't even know where it is. Hell give it 3 more weeks when the next big news event shows up and all of a sudden Ukraine goes away. If those jets somehow do make it which I say doesn't. And they end up destroying that entire convoy to Kyiv. That's going to reverberate back to Moscow and soldiers desert. That's the short term.
  9. There is a better chance of me going there and ended the war by releasing a deadly biological attack than the Polish MIGs ending up in Ukranian hands. It's a pipe dream. So the Poles send it to Ramstein and then what? We arm it and give it to Ukranian pilots? Fly it through German airspace? And then let them fly back to Ramstein? Like get the fuck out of here. If this doesn't get the Russians to declare war on NATO then it gets them to shut off German oil really fucking fast.
  10. Haha. I may have done the same thing. Said he was more about engagement and his seizing of oligarch wealth was necessary because it belonged to the Russians. And for it to go back into the sovereign investment fund would lead to a pro western Russia. Then he kept the money. And that's when I knew I was wrong. Oh so wrong...
  11. Just be glad it ain't Chinese coke. A source who I've known since elementary school told me there was pee pee in it.
  12. Never fail to take advantage when an opportunity presents itself.
  13. Haha. Poland with the ultimate power move. Hey we will send all the MIGs we have to Germany. What the US wants to do with it is up to them.
  14. Those things are conditioners. It helps with fission but not needed. It's like shampoo. You still get clean hair but without the conditioner you might not get that extra shine. As far as I know helium does not contain the property to act as any sort of poison. It can't swallow neutrons. And if it does. It turns into tritium which is an isotope of helium.
  15. So deadliest missiles in the western fleet is a sub launched D5 right? Now Google D5 test fail. Those are the public ones that are acknowledged. The rest it is between us an the nuclear nations that know.
  16. That is a great interpretation of how the nukes work and are maintained. Through testing they come up with a "will work 100 percent of the time" bases on calculations and testing. Will it work after that? Yeah but it's an unexplored realm that hasn't been scientifically proven. Now that we have high powered computers. They get better with how long. We have to remember nuclear weapons were developed with very basic computers. So yeah I would agree with you. Those nukes are going to work. Unless 60 years of sitting there had wires get wet or ants for in there and chewed up the wires. Or the wire gets so brittle. But the actual core. Yeah it will make something go boom. Like if a crane said rated for 10 tons. Does it mean it can only lift 10 tons? No we only tested to 10 tons. As far as their conventional stuff. It is the question. What the fuck are you waiting for. It is sort of like the question you asked earlier. Well if this thing is going to go to waste if I don't use it. Why not use it.
  17. Soak in butter milk bones and wrap at 130 degrees. My personal favorite recipe comes from 99 ways to Wok Your Dog
  18. It takes weeks and weeks to set something up like that. If you're gonna do that then I would go with the Home Alone route and just set traps everywhere
  19. And that's what led Putin into his current predicament. He wanted shock and awe. The US military made it so fucking easy. He decided that was his new strategy. He doesn't know much effort and adaptation of tech and material it took. It took the military fighting with Congress saying we didn't need any new tanks and we don't want them.
  20. I think at this point if I put on my Harry Potter cape and started throwing out Unforgivable curses with a stick I could get a Russian battalion to surrender
  21. The secure comms thing is a huge head scratcher. After the AWACS incident on Hainan island back in the early 2000s. Every country especially China and Russia were thought to have changed comms. We gave away our playbook and hell even as an oil worker we have secure comms overseas. It doesn't make sense either but I think he just completely neglected his army because his air force and navy don't broadcast on open channels
  22. Yeah. But it's not a random lob. They level city blocks for funzies
  23. But then that's a question you ask yourself. Now why in the hell would the Russians waste a perfectly good cruise missile on an apartment building that has absolutely no significance. Or lob a shell at a park? Maybe the helicopters they had flying overhead got lit up by a stinger in that area. Just maybe. This is an insurgency. The Russians are doing very bad shit but don't think they aren't getting goaded into firing some "cut that shit out" shots too. Iraqis did that shit all the time. Hey I'm gonna lob a few missiles at you from the mosque. I double dog dare you to level the mosque. They ain't wrong they ain't right. It's war. Remember a few weeks ago you were advocating blowing up the power plants to get the world's attention. Is something like this really above fighting dirty when it is for your countrys survival
  24. Yeah. They jam up the route for resupply for the Ukrainians. Open up the entrance for themselves to move in. And they can watch all the movement inside the city.
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