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Scheiss Meister

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  1. Go 'Horns, Texas Fight Whip Oklahoma asses Bring home The Gold Hat
  2. My daughter thought that Sammy Sosa was the greatest (her Little League team was the Cubs) until we went to an Astros game against the Cubs and she and several other kids tried to get an autograph. He ran over like he was going to do so, then swerved off, pointing and laughing. That tempered her adulation a lot, but when she learned that he took steroids, that tore it. All this time later, if he was on fire, I don't think she'd piss on him to put him out.
  3. That cat wishes a motherfucker would.
  4. Cue AC/DC "Highway to Hell" at full volume.
  5. Ferris Beuller, you're my hero!
  6. That second one made me think of "Viva Max". 1970 indie comedy about a Mexican general who takes the Alamo. Not great film, but funny.
  7. Beauty is skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone, so it just might affect the quality.
  8. I just put on Theme From "The Endless Summer" by the Sandels for a nice little shot of peace. It never fails me.
  9. Can you show me the last logical decision that Putin has made? From where I sit, he hasn't made a logical decision since January.
  10. Beyond this, the lack of supplies for the new arrivals will utterly shatter what morale is left. Russians will be stealing essential supplies and equipment, such as cold weather gear and first aid kits, from each other. There will be fights between Russian troops, and unit cohesion will be strained, to say the least. You have to trust the man beside you, and theft destroys that.
  11. And those well fed, fit, and properly equipped Ukrainian soldiers are seen providing medical care and water to POWs. A far cry from the torture, decapitations, and dismemberment that Russians visit on POWs. That video rolling around through the newly mobilized Russians will have them thinking that surrender is immeasurably better than fighting.
  12. What a pussy.
  13. Take solace. Getting shanked is still on the table.
  14. I don't speak or generally understand Russian or Ukranian, but I think that I caught the narrator of the second video saying something that sounds like "lend leasat rachistat". Sounds like "Russian lend lease" to me. I love it. (Those who speak whichever language he was speaking, please forgive my undoubtedly horrible spelling.)
  15. America's Greatest Delusionist
  16. @Prepuce of Doom In the Marine Corps there are no "dust bunnies"; they are "ghost turds". Do with this what you will.
  17. Set up internment centers with basic food and shelter, allow no communication with Russia and no contact with the locals, shoot escapees on sight. It might work.
  18. While there is logic to this line of reasoning, after a bit of thought I believe that every neighboring country that allows these draft dodgers to stay is setting themselves up for future trouble. These guys will be sucking up resources from the places "hosting" them and chasing the local women. Both of these will make them unwelcome, and locals will start letting them know. Meanwhile, some of the men will get family members to join them. These people will be typically Russian, and let everyone know about their superiority. Eventually there will be the question, "When are you going home?" Any answer will be not soon enough, and you'll have another population of Russians complaining that they are being "mistreated", laying the groundwork for the next round of Russian meddling. No, better to go ahead and send them back now.
  19. As an SFA alum, Ax 'em Jacks, but damn. That's gonna sting for a while.
  20. Well, colonel, sucks to be you, doesn't it?
  21. No, more like confident and focused is great; cocky and looking past the task at hand, not so much. We've all seen it in sports and other fields of endeavor. It is no different in war.
  22. General, there are still Russian troops, professional and otherwise, holding all or large parts of five of your oblasts. While that quote is good copy, I hope that you are better focused than that.
  23. I was more tired than I thought when I posted that. You are correct when you say that the mobilized troops are in for some tough sledding and will have many disadvantages. I'm just saying that a lot of these posts sound like the "aggy will go 5 and 7 this year" posts on the football threads. They are supported and informed by the authors' wishes more than reality. How the majority of the press ganged troops will respond is hard to know. Their society is very different from ours, with different goals and expectations. It is entirely logical to believe that they will mutiny, and that may well be the end result of this experiment in stupidity, but there is no way to know how rapidly that will happen. Planning based on the hopes that the Russians will collapse easily is unwise. That's what the Russians thought about Ukraine, and here we are. Russia is sending men to war with severely inadequate training, old equipment that has not been maintained and is in short supply, and is stripping labor from strategically vital industries, further complicating the resupply issues. They will be under trained, under equipped, under fed, have poor morale, and be poorly led. They will not succeed in the end. But they are throwing so many bodies forward that it will have an effect just from the inertia of the act. We don't know where or how they will be used. Putin may be thinking of attacking from the north again, forcing Ukraine to realign forces to meet them. As has been pointed out, does Ukraine have enough bullets to kill them or enough resources to hold them as prisoners? I guess I'm saying that I think that there's a lot that can still go Russia's way, and we need to keep realistic expectations.
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