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  1. 5 hours ago, Anastasis said:

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    You see Brisket’s rules state that you adamantly want to shoot figurative “Nazis” in the face in our country, but you are willing to support literal Nazis abroad. It’s a fine line. 
     

    On 6/4/2023 at 10:26 AM, cactusflinthead said:

    Saw that too

    Who is giving rep to this asshole?

    Of course. 

    Time for a repost.

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    Good thing these rules aren’t international and merely apply to our own country. That would be difficult to reconcile for simple people making such absolute statements. 

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  2. 57 minutes ago, MagicSoccerSpray said:

     

    Nothing good? Really? Define "nothing good".

    Even if Ukraine expels Russia, hundreds of thousands have died. 
     

    39 minutes ago, statsman said:

    As a conservative, my issues with the MSM are over what it chooses to report or not report, not it’s accuracy. I disagree with your statement that the MSM is discredited. It is a source of information, and it reports accurately. 

    Imagine in 2023 trusting what the media tells you 

     

    1 hour ago, HOOKEM4 said:

    I always wondered what it was like to see the nazi sympathizers peddling shit while war crimes went unchecked. Now I know. There are not two sides to this. You need a new username. You are a repugnant scum. 

    I have no sympathy for the Russians.  Im just looking for realistic assessment of what’s going on in a very hostile environment.

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  3. 1 hour ago, BamaATL said:

    So you really think they are attacking hospitals and apartment buildings because they are doing well?  It might be because they are the biggest buildings in town when they hit them.  I'm sure occasionally they hit something of value militarily but it sure isn't often.  The electrical grid I understand, it made some sense, and bear in mind they likely had maps and drawings of most of its locations from the Soviet days (not real intel, just old info).  I guess they haven't hit supply trains coming into Ukraine because they are just performing good will gestures.  I suppose they like the challenge of Himars, or are looking forward to facing at least 9 brigades of western combined arms.  I guess that is possible, they have consistently shown themselves to be grossly incompetent, but maybe it's not that, maybe they just want a bigger challenge.  

    I think they are going to get to see.  While all that might be true, I'm guessing its far more likely that they don't have a fucking clue where the Ukrainians really are beyond the front lines and city based intel.  

    You literally said they weren’t even hitting military targets. It’s just dumb.  
     

    1 hour ago, Schulz2.0 said:

    The Ukrainian reporting has overwhelmingly been pretty accurate. The Russian narrative has been as reliable as the Iraqi information minister. You're treating the Ukrainian side as dubious because you're either willfully ignorant or completely retarded.

    I think it’s somewhere in the middle. You don’t. That’s fine. We had people here repping a post where someone claimed they couldn’t even hit military targets. Then the ultimate pro Ukrainian account admitted that was false. Makes you wonder. 
     

    1 hour ago, MissingInAction said:

    I'm sure the Taliban has a place for you in their admin department.

    You've got upper management written all over you.

    Just reporting Ukrainian accounts has y’all all mad. It’s silly. 
     

    1 hour ago, statsman said:

    My criticism of Mullet is that he presents a negative point and doesn’t complete the thought. He says that Russia is getting more missile through than Ukraine admits to and…what? What’s the conclusion to draw from that?

    My point is that this thread is largely dependent on the mainstream narrative which has often been discredited over the last few years on a variety of topics.
     

    You’re easily whipped up in a frenzy. I was the same the first week or so after the invasion. You could search back and see my posts sharing about the Ghost of Kiev and shit. Then I realized that was bullshit and It made me take a step back and look at things more critically. 
     

    I don’t know what’s going to happen in this war. I just know nothing good will come of it. 

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  4. 4 hours ago, washparkhorn said:

    Arch paleo-Republican Bruce Bartlett understands the silliness of the debt ceiling theater. Want to be brighter than 99% of Americans? Read and understand this. Good luck. 
     

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    He has some good points. It’s nitpicking but I’ll say the point about liquidity is not as ironclad as it once was. Fed has had to step in and Treasury has at least publicly signaled they wanted an established mechanism to do the same. 

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  5. 3 hours ago, BamaATL said:

    What is remarkable, is even with their dwindling supply and limited ability to produce more, they still don't target military targets.  This is incredibly stupid considering that somewhere the Ukrainians are mashing formations and these could be used to target them in lieu of civilians.  This says a couple of important things, 1 The Russian intel systems must be utter shit, I mean way worse than anyone thought to include satellite surveillance.  The Ukrainian work to hide their movements I"m sure are good, but what it really indicates is just how shitty the Russian abilities are and that they are generations upon generations behind in our satellite technology.  2.  It shows that a politician of a singular mentality is in control and not a seasoned military professional.  Putin knows only one way to try to get his way when things go to shit, and that's terrorism.  A real strategic thinker wouldn't waste resources in this way.  

    Really man? Talk about an information bubble.
     

    Counterpoint:

     

     

    But yeah they shot down 69 of the 65 drones sent.  There’s propaganda everywhere, from all sides. 

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  6. 31 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

     

    34 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    If Putin wanted to pull out of Ukraine, he could get on state media and say that the Special Military Operation achieved its objectives of denazifying Ukraine, and say that if Ukraine thinks about joining NATO, Russia will invade again.

    Agreed. He must think the job is not done and more gains are attainable.  
     

    Or he realized with the sanctions that his country is screwed long term so he’s all in. That’s one thing I think y’all discount. They’re all in. We’re not, nor should we be.
     

    Will that matter eventually? 

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  7. My daughter’s cheer team had an end of year party at Elsewhere Bar and Kitchen. It’s down on Jones across from a good sushi place we tried recently, Shiro.
     

    Anyway it was a cool place. Good vibes. Lots of misters. Beer and wine mostly. Plenty of draft options. Food was surprisingly good as well. Would recommend highly for afternoon or evening chilling outside with friends. 

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  8. 5 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Meanwhile, we have 8 months of Russia doing waves of call-ups and sending its recently mobilized to the front with a week or two of training, because they gutted their already shitty training infrastructure to get more units in the fight back in April of last year (normally in Russia, soldiers complete their advanced training at the units they are assigned to).  Russia gives no fucks about the mobilized and it shows

    Just this week we had two MSM stories talking about Ukraine sending in undertrained troops to combat. Or old ones (the 42 year old doctor that was a father of 3 resonated with me). Posters said oh that seems desperate. Yeah no shit. Makes me think it’s not going as swimmingly as portrayed here.  
     

    Those same stories talked about how Ukraine was losing good existing troops while Russia was losing prisoner conscripts. How is that a good or sustainable situation when you have a fraction of the population?
     

    I get that you and most posters here think Ukraine is mopping up the Russians. I just think it’s set up to surprise in the wrong direction if you look at how the reporting on the war has shifted. Frozen conflict, don’t expect a lot from the counteroffensive and so forth.

    2 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    But it also does not examine the political realities of Russia (as a realist Mearsheimer does not allow for domestic politics and issues to impact war/diplomacy). And it’s abundantly clear that Putin is highly averse to a full mobilization and full war economy. He is not in a war of survival (yet) and he also has real internal friction in both capacity and will if he tried to throw everything he had into this fight. Ukraine is not fighting all of Russia and likely never will be, they’re fighting all of Russia that Putin is willing and able to commit.

    You don’t think he’s in a war for survival? We’ve openly talked about regime change. We’ve said we want Ukraine to take back Crimea. Those are existential threats to Putin. This shit is just getting started. 

     

     

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  9. 1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    My guy, use your noggin and step outside of the world Mearsheimer created, where internally everything does make sense. What direction is the army that’s offing its enemies at a 4:1 clip moving? Backward? Inch by inch through a mid-sized city, reporting on how they have seized street corners? 

    I said I was skeptical of his thoughts on kill ratios. There’s not a lot of transparency around those numbers. 
     

    As far as where we stand now, the counteroffensive has been built up for many months. The last month or so has consisted of massive lowering of expectations and pleading for more weapons to even pull it off. To me that signals that people in the know see things turning. 

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  10. 40 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    I’ve seen the talk, he’s inside a fact-free bubble. He easily makes up shit like a 1:2 kill ratio in favor of the Russians and then adds to it and saying “but maybe it’s even 1:3 or 1:4, my ‘friends’ think so.” And it’s totally out of wack with the demonstrated performance of Russia on the battlefield (heavy losses of previously seized territory and months long battle for a few kilometers). Or what they are doing, which does not at all resemble preparation for an offensive. 
     

    News: No one who cites “friends” as part of their battlefield assessment should be listened to. 

    I was skeptical of his kill ratio as well, but the general point on artillery imbalance made sense to me in the type of war this has become. 
     

    As far as his “friends” go, he’s been an international speaker on foreign relations for decades. I’m guessing he wasn’t referring to his buddies at the pub in Chicago, but maybe you’re right. 

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  11. 4 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Mearsheimer is an IR dork who has his THEORYYYYYYY and a desperate need to be a contrarian in print. 

    Well, with regards to Ukraine he’s been right on some key points going all the way back to being one of the only people arguing for Ukraine to keep their nukes in the 90s for Russian deterrence. Whoopsie. 
     

    Here’s his latest talk with a Q&A. It’s long and I believe Brisket complained about the length last time. 
     

    The key points 

    A peace deal is unattainable. The two sides in current conditions will never agree on territory or Ukrainian neutrality conditions. 
     

    While Ukraine had the advantage most of 2022, things are turning in Russia’s favor after their mobilization. He believes Russia wins the war of attrition due advantage in population size and volume of artillery. His prediction is Russia takes another 4 ethnically Russian-heavy oblasts, including Odesa, leaving Ukraine a rump state. 
     

    TL;Dw 

    It’s going to get worse. 

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  12. 1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Jeffrey Sachs is a real garbage person for lots of reasons and it’s exhausting to have to continually slap down shit that he and other “smart people” have to say about the war. 
     

    He’s an economist and expert on sustainable development. Things he isn’t: a Russia scholar, a Ukraine scholar, a speaker of any of the regional languages, a security scholar, a military practitioner, a diplomat, a diplomatic historian, a Cold War expert, an intelligence practitioner. Why the fuck do people who have no frame of reference offered space to bloviate? 

    Where does Mearsheimer fall?

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  13. 45 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Well, being that around only 1 in 5 Americans is even a Twitter user....the percentage of respondents with firsthand knowledge is small, and when you layer in the fact that the vast majority of those are infrequent/casual users (I'm among them), they don't see a whole lot of change in their Twitter experience. 

    These things were all true at the time of each of the polls by the same service. There’s been a significant shift. One this thread will disagree with and have trouble understanding, but that doesn’t nullify it. 

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  14. 14 minutes ago, Chopper said:

    Like the typical idiot who can't handle two independent thoughts, you read too much into it. Do you think most Democrats are following whatever the fuck elron is up to? This may come as news to you, but most aren't on twitter and they don't watch faux news. Some (gasp!) still think tesla is "cool." That's the thing that's been discussed - active and aware Democrats were primarily the people buying tesla vehicles. Now the company's rep is down with State Farm.

    They also had questions on approval/disapproval of his handling of Twitter where the numbers have improved fwiw. So many fascists. 

  15. 1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Yikes. This is brutal. What this smells of to me: the Army directed the conscription and training units to deliver X number of troops to Bakhmut on X day, some money changed hands to get the original draftees out of training and fighting, and then these guys got grabbed up and delivered as a substitute. I have a difficult time believing it’s a general practice or directive. 
     

    I posted it before the war— it is absolutely true that Ukraine was absolutely besieged by corruption, nearly all of it encouraged by and inherited from Russia/USSR.  It is extremely hard to change mentalities and practices all the way down the line and war offers chances for  heroism, but also all the grift and bribes you can hope for. 

    The New Yorker piece I shared had similar stories. One was a doctor and father of 3 that was drafted into infantry. He had a month of tutorials and marching training and claimed he shot 30 practice rounds total in training. They're obviously short on manpower while others train elsewhere in Europe.

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