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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
Speaking of raccoons, there is a “Combat Raccoon” Ukrainian military squad that has some good merch on Saint Javelin:
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
Long read but a good summary of Russia’s strategic mistakes to date and corrections: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/what-russia-got-wrong-moscow-failures-in-ukraine-dara-massicot
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
This is a good read: https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/us-led-security-assistance-ukraine-working “Observing training and assistance first-hand, our view is that Ukrainian military success is a function of low-level ingenuity and creativity, as well as high motivation and morale.”
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The Gun Owner’s thread
Dury’s in San Antonio
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
Good article from Meduzza: Russian prisoners less interested in signing with Wagner of late, and the wardens are not cool with Wagner taking the best inmate labor (ha!) https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/02/08/less-charismatic-than-prigozhin
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
He’s a nut, but until some governmental entity publishes any substantive findings and formal accusations, conspiracy theories will continue to circulate. Unless there is a reckoning in the Kremlin at some point, we may never know. In reading up on this stuff more, it seems like Russia has probably done this before: “two explosions on the Mozdok–Tbilisi natural gas pipeline in North Ossetia on January 22, 2006. The explosions suspended gas supply to Georgia at a time when the weather was particularly cold, leading to allegations of deliberate energy blackmail carried out by the Russian government The explosions took place with the backdrop of the 2006 Russia-Ukraine gas crisis that same month. They also coincided with sabotage on electricity lines just several miles from the pipeline, which descended large parts of Georgia into darkness. Due to these suspicious coincidences, Georgia accused Russia of conducting deliberate acts of sabotage with the aim of forcing the nation into surrendering its pipelines to Gazprom – the Russian state-owned monopoly.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Russia%E2%80%93Georgia_energy_crisis
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The Gun Owner’s thread
The whole collection was sold to Dury’s in San Antonio before I posted it, sorry. I think they are opening up a bigger online sales operation via GB.
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
That’s probably the simplest/most likely explanation.
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
Hersh is definitely “out there” and his theory is questionable because he has only one anonymous source, etc. But it is interesting to me that: there is still no official word on who blew up the pipelines; it took skill that only a few actors could pull off; the winners and losers as a result of the action are pretty clear; whoever gave the “go-ahead” was either very confident they wouldn’t get caught / didn’t care / has very high risk tolerance. I think those are reasons a lot of folks (myself included) think it’s very unlikely the US did it: we’re bad at keeping secrets and it would probably get leaked; Russia (and Germany?) would demand and be owed compensation; political fallout very risky; etc. That’s why Russia was such a likely actor (its their infrastructure, they can keep secrets, Putin has no fear even if it does come out). Only problem is it’s a little hard to define how Russia benefitted from them being blown up.
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
Long article quoting anonymous sources saying the US placed and remote detonated bombs on the Nordstream pipelines. Kinda reads like fan fiction and Seymour Hersh may be a nut but I guess seemingly plausible: https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream?utm_medium=android If true, impressive that our guys pulled it off but extremely risky politically.
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
Good listen here. Canadian sniper killed 18 Russians in two days, says it was kinda bothersome, too many human waves, just “too easy” shooting obviously non-professionals. Shots from around 500m to 1800m. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the-decibel/article-a-canadian-sniper-on-the-battle-for-bakhmut-ukraine/
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
One of the replies in the thread was wondering if this is being released now to communicate something inside Russia. Like Wagner (maybe Russian Army?) conveying to Putin and the general public: “the US completely annihilated our superior attacking force with Reapers, Apaches, F-16s, and stationary/aerial artillery in Syria. A little US artillery is already in Ukraine (fucking us up daily) and they’re talking about Reapers and F-16s now, if you wait till those weapons, etc. are in theater to finish this thing up, we’re fucked”
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
If I’m Lockheed, I’m having 20 of these coolers done up for the Poles and the boys at the Pentagon.
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
Ukraine just helped Lockheed to I think literally execute this sales pitch:
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The Gun Owner’s thread
@crimsonlonghorn I think you’re getting a good deal - my Farmers agent said: “Scheduling the highest valued rifle ($6k) will run $71/year, no deductible and all-risk type coverage. If we then add $14K to gun value coverage the premium increases by a total of $175 (full term premium change).” I’ll keep shopping it.
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The Gun Owner’s thread
Good info, thanks! Sounds like you’re good to go for another $100k.
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The Gun Owner’s thread
I called my insurance agent and he’s working up some options for me, maybe an endorsement to cover them all, maybe scheduling some of the more expensive ones. Mostly for theft, my homeowners personal property limit should cover them for fire, etc.
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The Gun Owner’s thread
At least your guy did something secure (sea container with vault door). I just cant imagine >$500k of guns in a residential garage. In addition to the easy theft, I mean what if your wife/kids catch the house on fire, etc? How do you travel without constantly worrying about your stuff?
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The Gun Owner’s thread
I was thinking something more like “investment strategies” or “maintenance inventory”. Guaranteed she’ll never open those.
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The Gun Owner’s thread
I started a spreadsheet awhile back too and then had the same “oh shit” thought you did and stopped updating it. Maybe just keep the data of make, model, and serial. Also need to use an under the radar name for the sheet instead of something obvious like “gun inventory” that I used.
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The Gun Owner’s thread
I was a a little like “bro why didn’t you call me?”, but my buddy said the guy was very paranoid about word getting out about this collection in a not-so secure arrangement, and didn’t want people coming to look, which I understand. In his position I probably would have considered armed security or something until I could get things more safely stored. I asked if it was insured and buddy said insurance status was unknown. (Yikes!) It did make me think about calling my insurance agent for my little ~$20k collection, I think the maximum for firearms in my homeowners policy is about $1k.
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The Gun Owner’s thread
Don’t know about those boxes in particular, but there were multiple Citoris in every caliber they made. Actually a lot of .410s in the collection. Buddy was able to buy a nice No. 1 and Red Label out of the collection both with great stocks:
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The Gun Owner’s thread
Fancy Browning 22 (there were several of these) and a fancy maple 1100:
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The Gun Owner’s thread
Here’s a little better view of the upper part of one of the storage lockers, looks to be all pistols still in boxes, wish it was better resolution:
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The Gun Owner’s thread
Here’s a revolver storage shelf: