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[RDCanecutter 26198]

2 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

Gather round kids, let me take you back to Denton in the Spring of 1992.  It was very late in the evening, or early in the morning.  Somewhere in McConnell Hall, a very hungry Chad Fuck was looking for cheap eats, for...reasons.  I happened upon one Ashish [name withheld for further reasons] in the common area.  Ashish and I had absolutely nothing in common, except that we were both hungry and had enough pocket change to scrape together to get a couple of burritos from the Taco Bell.  I had a car, and it was on.  We had common cause for our quest.  

That Taco Bell spent the next 24 hours turning my insides into its bitch.  It was the absolute worst food poisoning I've ever had.  It was my own personal Russian invasion of Ukraine, except Russia was a burrito and my lower intestine was Ukraine.  

In sum, Taco Bell sucks. 

And people say Taco Bell isn't Mexican food...

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5 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

You mean the thread discussing which UCLA uniform is the best ever in all of CFB?

We need a “barf” reaction.

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19 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

It’s stunning how little the Russians care about their dead.  I’ve been checking out a friend’s project about some forts and trails during the 1860s and 1870s in the Dakotas/etc. and even then American soldiers would risk their lives to recover their dead or reinforce their fellow soldiers.  Multiple instances of them going out knowing they might die just to retrieve a body or try to find a missing trooper.  

It could be gruesome with the heavily mutilated bodies and dangerous when the Indians would use wounded troopers as bait for traps, etc.

Meanwhile the Russians are just mozying out, more concerned with loot than their buddies’ bodies.

The dead are dead. "Rescuing" the dead is noble, but it does not help the mission. On the contrary, dragging out a dead (or even severely wounded) soldier puts the mission in jeopardy.

We (USA) lost a lot more lives in Vietnam by being Noble while the other side was fighting for their life and trying to kill as many as they could, using our beliefs against us, as we were against them.

 

 

[RDCanecutter 26198]

So about this Russian manpower pinch, the thing I wonder is how long they can keep stripping away garrison forces in OldTransMordvinia and East Chingatumamastan, while simultaneously getting their shit pushed in by those Hohol bumpkins who also used to be under Russia's protection, I say how long before there are a bunch of new secessions of new republics who aren't afraid of the mangy old bear, and whose local mafias want their money unsanctioned again?

[Mantis Toboggan, MD 1499]

The dead are dead. "Rescuing" the dead is noble, but it does not help the mission. On the contrary, dragging out a dead (or even severely wounded) soldier puts the mission in jeopardy.
We (USA) lost a lot more lives in Vietnam by being Noble while the other side was fighting for their life and trying to kill as many as they could, using our beliefs against us, as we were against them.
 
 

Yeah, no. Leaving your dead and wounded to rot on the battlefield destroys morale.

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Gerasimov was absent from the May 9th parade. Oleksiy Arestovych says preliminary info suggests Gerasimov has been sacked. Whoever they replace him with is likely a big downgrade. Gerasimov is relatively competent. Fingers crossed. Arestovych's info is usually pretty reliable. 

Also rumors the Commander of the Black Sea Fleet sacked and arrested, as well as 3 more generals. 

A lot of Russian officers should be extremely nervous. We're at the point in musical chairs when they start removing 5-6 chairs at a time. 

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Oleksiy Arestovych, a military adviser to Ukraine's president, said “preliminary information” suggested Gen Gerasimov had been removed from his post while Vladimir Putin and his inner circle assessed whether he should be allowed to continue to lead the country’s armed forces.

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The Telegram feed alleged that the Commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Admiral Igor Osipov, had been removed from his post and arrested, while the Commander of the 6th Army, Lieutenant General Vladislav Ershov, had reportedly been fired, along with the commander of the tank army of the western military district, Lieutenant General Sergei Kisel and one of the deputy commanders, [and] Commander of the 22nd Army Corps of the Southern Military District, Major General Arkady Marzoev.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-russian-military-gerasimov-ukraine-b2077884.html?

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Russian military leaders ‘sacked and arrested’ amid heavy battlefield losses

Speculation about Valery Gerasimov comes after he was absent from Moscow Victory Day parade

Tom Batchelor5 hours ago

Chief of the Russian general staff, Valery Gerasimov, has been suspended amid the Kremlin’s faltering invasion, a senior Ukrainian official has claimed.

Oleksiy Arestovych, a military adviser to Ukraine's president, said “preliminary information” suggested Gen Gerasimov had been removed from his post while Vladimir Putin and his inner circle assessed whether he should be allowed to continue to lead the country’s armed forces. 

There has been no official confirmation of the reported sacking, although speculation about a purge of senior military commanders increased after Gen Gerasimov was absent from Russia’s annual Victory Day parade on Monday. 

Russian armed forces have suffered several major setbacks in their war, failing to take Kyiv early on and enduring heavy losses – both in lives and equipment. 

In the wake of their failure to seize the capital, Russian forces pulled back and regrouped – and switched their focus to Ukraine's eastern Donbas, a region where Moscow-backed separatists have fought Ukrainian troops for eight years. 

But Russia's advance there has been slow, too, and Western officials say Russia has not managed to take any cities. 

One of the most dramatic examples of Ukraine's ability to prevent easy victories is in Mariupol, where Ukrainian fighters holed up at a steel plant have denied Russia full control of the city. 

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (R) and chief of the general staff Valery Gerasimov attend a meeting with Russian President in Moscow on 27 February

(Alexey Nikolsky/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

A lack of Russian gains has led to speculation that Mr Putin is planning a purge of military leaders who are being blamed for the failures. 

Reports said a Telegram channel run by the Ukrainian interior ministry had claimed that two more commanders had been sacked due to battlefield losses. 

The Telegram feed alleged that the Commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Admiral Igor Osipov, had been removed from his post and arrested, while the Commander of the 6th Army, Lieutenant General Vladislav Ershov, had reportedly been fired, along with the commander of the tank army of the western military district, Lieutenant General Sergei Kisel and one of the deputy commanders, [and] Commander of the 22nd Army Corps of the Southern Military District, Major General Arkady Marzoev.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has not achieved the quick victory many believed he was expecting 

(EPA)

Ben Wallace, the British defence secretary, said last week that Russian military chiefs were “terrified they are about to be purged and pushed out”. 

“Be careful if you’re out in sole command of something in the Russian system, because it may not be for long,” Mr Wallace said. 

“There is a point of tension in the system. As much as they respect the former KGB man [Mr Putin] for being a strong leader, the Russian general staff are going to be made scapegoats for his mess.”

 

Edited May 13, 2022 by Pods

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3 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

He married a trophy wife and lives in Nashville now.  

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Zelenskyy has been saying this a lot over the past several days, perhaps to coincidence with May 9th, but either way, definitely sending a strong signal to the Russians.

 

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Edited May 13, 2022 by atomheartbevo

[0xdeadbeef 1617]

6 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

 

WHAT THE Fuck is a Yekaterinburg?   4th largest city in Russia?  Really?

Surprising how few of the 10 Top Russian cities I've heard of. 

Rank	City / Town	Russian	Federal subject	Federal district	Population		Change
					2021 estimate[1]	2010 Census[2]
1	Moscow	Москва	Moscow (federal city)[3]	Central	12,655,050	11,503,501	+10.01%
2	Saint Petersburg	Санкт-Петербург	Saint Petersburg (federal city)[4]	Northwest	5,384,342	4,879,566	+10.34%
3	Novosibirsk	Новосибирск	Novosibirsk Oblast	Siberia	1,620,162	1,473,754	+9.93%
4	Yekaterinburg	Екатеринбург	Sverdlovsk Oblast	Ural	1,495,066	1,349,772	+10.76%
5	Kazan	Казань	Republic of Tatarstan	Volga	1,257,341	1,143,535	+9.95%
6	Nizhny Novgorod	Нижний Новгород	Nizhny Novgorod Oblast	Volga	1,244,254	1,250,619	−0.51%
7	Chelyabinsk	Челябинск	Chelyabinsk Oblast	Ural	1,187,960	1,130,132	+5.12%
8	Samara	Самара	Samara Oblast	Volga	1,144,759	1,164,685	−1.71%
9	Omsk	Омск	Omsk Oblast	Siberia	1,139,897	1,154,119	−1.23%
10	Rostov-on-Don	Ростов-на-Дону	Rostov Oblast	South[5]	1,137,704	1,089,261	+4.45%

[SaucyJack 3475]

5 hours ago, Zonahorn said:

I hope he is sick, and I hope it hurts.

3 hours ago, 686 said:

I personally have no problem with gore, but this isn’t a gore thread, so the preferred method is to warn folks who don’t like seeing people killed or mutilated bodies.

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Wow, bitching that other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States aren't sending their fair share of soldiers.  Trying to figure out how to lure poor people into the military.  Way to go state TV, there's no way you are making your audience feel confident in Putin's little shindig.

 

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2 minutes ago, 0xdeadbeef said:

WHAT THE Fuck is a Yekaterinburg?   4th largest city in Russia?  Really?

Surprising how few of the 10 Top Russian cities I've heard of. 

144 million people will do that for you, when they are spread out over a big fucking geographical area.

If Putin were the genius that people tried to make him out to be, he would have been giving land away to poor Europeans (or other immigrants from outside of Europe) to come and live/farm/etc. in Russia, as well as plugging his money back into building up Russia.

 

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Stug Bugs in the field. Somebody on twitter coined the name, wish I could take credit.

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[Deej 76395]

1 hour ago, RDCanecutter said:

So about this Russian manpower pinch, the thing I wonder is how long they can keep stripping away garrison forces in OldTransMordvinia and East Chingatumamastan, while simultaneously getting their shit pushed in by those Hohol bumpkins who also used to be under Russia's protection, I say how long before there are a bunch of new secessions of new republics who aren't afraid of the mangy old bear, and whose local mafias want their money unsanctioned again?

Apparently, Putin enjoys getting his shit pushed in as much as NowThis. 

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7 minutes ago, Deej said:

Apparently, Putin enjoys getting his shit pushed in as much as NowThis. 

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1 hour ago, Snacks said:

The dead are dead. "Rescuing" the dead is noble, but it does not help the mission. On the contrary, dragging out a dead (or even severely wounded) soldier puts the mission in jeopardy.

We (USA) lost a lot more lives in Vietnam by being Noble while the other side was fighting for their life and trying to kill as many as they could, using our beliefs against us, as we were against them.

 

 

The VC and NVA Regulars worked just as hard to recover their fallen as we did.  It is horrible for morale to think that the dead or wounded will be left to rot or be mutilated by the enemy.  Kipling wrote a verse about this: "And when you are lying on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out, to cut up what remains, just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains, so you go to your God like a soldier."

A real warrior will always recover the dead and wounded.  Those who don't have no valor, honor, or loyalty.

Edited May 13, 2022 by Scheiss Meister

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UA Tractor Brigade doing work today.

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Pussy Riot singer and girlfriend disguised themselves and fled Russia

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/10/world/europe/pussy-riot-russia-escape.html

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For that act of rebellion in 2012, she was sentenced to two years in prison for “hooliganism.” She remained determined to fight Mr. Putin’s system of repression, even after being jailed six more times since last summer, each stint for 15 days, always on trumped-up charges aimed at stifling her political activism.

But in April, as Mr. Putin cracked down harder to snuff out any criticism of his war in Ukraine, the authorities announced that her effective house arrest would be converted to 21 days in a penal colony. She decided it was time to leave Russia — at least temporarily — and disguised herself as a food courier to evade the Moscow police who had been staking out the friend’s apartment where she was staying. She left her cellphone behind as a decoy and to avoid being tracked.

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A friend drove her to the border with Belarus, and it took her a week to cross into Lithuania. In a studio apartment in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, she agreed to an interview to describe a dissident’s harrowing escape from Mr. Putin’s Russia.

By the time she arrived at Belarus’s border with Lithuania, she had a Lithuanian visa that she tried to use with her Russian domestic I.D., as Russia had confiscated her passport. By then she had been placed on Russia’s “wanted” list.

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In her first attempt to cross, Ms. Alyokhina was held by Belarusian border guards for six hours before being sent back. On her second try, the incredulous officer on duty just sent her away.

But on the third try, she got through. Ms. Alyokhina had allies outside the country working to find her a path to freedom. One was the Icelandic performance artist Ragnar Kjartansson, a friend who convinced a European country to issue Ms. Alyokhina a travel document that essentially gave her the same status as an E.U. citizen. The country’s officials asked that it not be named.

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The document was smuggled into Belarus for Ms. Alyokhina to use. While there, she avoided hotels or anywhere she would need to show proof of identity, which could tip off the people searching for her.

Ms. Alyokhina eventually boarded a bus to Lithuania with the document in hand. She laughed when she described how much better she was treated by the border guards when they thought of her as a “European,” rather than Russian.

 

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[The Dog 43714]

and the TB-2s just blew up another Russian landing craft at Snake Island. Give it up Putin:

They need to take out that big one and do another strafing run on that island.

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oh wait, there's more! Detsch posted another update:

Great minds think alike. Well done Ukraine.

[dimyh 1874]

4 hours ago, 686 said:

I personally have no problem with gore, but this isn’t a gore thread, so the preferred method is to warn folks who don’t like seeing people killed or mutilated bodies.

Can you also add a warning any time Mr. Chad Fuck starts talking about Taco Bell?

[Serak The Preparer 3421]

7 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

Classic @SydneyCarton

Reminds me of the good ole days.

You mean losing a race to closetojumping another surly poster?

[686 3383]

I want this guy in the fox hole behind mine. Sound On:

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[Slacks 6784]

3 hours ago, Mantis Toboggan, MD said:

Yeah, no. Leaving your dead and wounded to rot on the battlefield destroys morale.

During the battle, or later when the next trip comes through? 

If you win and hold the land, sure...  But during the fight? That is counterproductive.

[Gravy Train 973]

Don't think this has been posted yet, captured 26 y/o Russian contract describes how he entered the RU army, how brief his training was and that he had zero live-fire exercises with an AK-74 before he was trucked in over Belarus, past Chernobyl, and inserted into battle where his comrades FAFO.  During a civilian/resident raid north of Kyiv, his commanding officer pushed a UKR man off an 8th story window where he "learnt to fly,"

Shit gets real at 19:25 when he calls his mom with a few baited questions about the war and she spouts off straight RU propoganda.  Ukraine journalist is aside himself over the sheer mess of bullshit and generation gap.  

Two, maybe three full generations of Russia are completely fucked.

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2 hours ago, Scheiss Meister said:

The VC and NVA Regulars worked just as hard to recover their fallen as we did.  It is horrible for morale to think that the dead or wounded will be left to rot or be mutilated by the enemy.  Kipling wrote a verse about this: "And when you are lying on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out, to cut up what remains, just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains, so you go to your God like a soldier."

A real warrior will always recover the dead and wounded.  Those who don't have no valor, honor, or loyalty.

I agree... But tactically, it isn't additive. It's not.  

The NVA and VC getting their dead out didn't cause as many deaths for them as it did for us... And having said that, then doing it doesn't nullify what I said about whether or not it's helpful.  

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Met a Ukrainian journalist friend and got a small souvenir. She said the Snake Island run is all sold out and trading for crazy bucks, but these are still badass.

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5 hours ago, Snacks said:

During the battle, or later when the next trip comes through? 

If you win and hold the land, sure...  But during the fight? That is counterproductive.

You keep saying this, but the historical record is completely against you on this.  A great example is the 1st Marine Division at Frozen Chosin.  It becomes part of a unit's legend how they treat their wounded and dead. 

A big part of this is you don't know who is wounded or KIA or MIA.  You can't leave them behind.  

Good armies take care of their wounded and collect their dead.  Period.

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On the one hand, applaud Turkey backing Ukraine and keeping them supplied with drones, helped by Russians killing a bunch of Turks not long ago.

On the other hand, fuck them if they try to hold this up, given their past behaviors with Russia.

 

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[Superhero 8697]

23 hours ago, Post Oak said:

I've said it once and I'll say it again. 

This woman.  This woman is my kind of woman.

 

I’ll just leave this here. 

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8 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

On the one hand, applaud Turkey backing Ukraine and keeping them supplied with drones, helped by Russians killing a bunch of Turks not long ago.

On the other hand, fuck them if they try to hold this up, given their past behaviors with Russia.

 

Finland and Sweden “home to many terrorist organizations”? What the fuck is this guy talking about.

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6 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

On the one hand, applaud Turkey backing Ukraine and keeping them supplied with drones, helped by Russians killing a bunch of Turks not long ago.

On the other hand, fuck them if they try to hold this up, given their past behaviors with Russia.

 

 

1 minute ago, Auto Driller said:

Finland and Sweden “home to many terrorist organizations”? What the fuck is this guy talking about.

It’s all about that Gulan dude. Erdogan is terrified of him as a political rival. 

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Just now, atomheartbevo said:

 

Russia is spending a lot of time and effort renaming streets and schools and opening banks in occupied territory. I guess it’s a coping mechanism.

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Every accusation a confession 

 

[Armybrat 40646]

11 hours ago, Mantis Toboggan, MD said:

Yeah, no. Leaving your dead and wounded to rot on the battlefield destroys morale.

Yeah, but sometimes there isn’t anyone left alive on their side to remove the dead, and the victors have to do the dirty work. 
(photo taken by my dad after the Battle of Attu - Summer, 1943)

 

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Damn, visually confirmed  losses of 100 T-72B3 Obr. 2016s, 

 

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Apparently not allowed to retreat into Russia, LOL

 

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Meanwhile, in Russia, the Brittney Griner thing is still weird as fuck   

 

[Chad Fuck 17455]

9 hours ago, Gravy Train said:

Don't think this has been posted yet, captured 26 y/o Russian contract describes how he entered the RU army, how brief his training was and that he had zero live-fire exercises with an AK-74 before he was trucked in over Belarus, past Chernobyl, and inserted into battle where his comrades FAFO.  During a civilian/resident raid north of Kyiv, his commanding officer pushed a UKR man off an 8th story window where he "learnt to fly,"

Shit gets real at 19:25 when he calls his mom with a few baited questions about the war and she spouts off straight RU propoganda.  Ukraine journalist is aside himself over the sheer mess of bullshit and generation gap.  

Two, maybe three full generations of Russia are completely fucked.

The exasperation on their faces.  The defeated look, the slumped shoulders.  One has to assume there's a significant part of the Russian soldiers who are in a similar situation.  

At the same time, mom probably grew up with knowing anything negative that would be said would go straight to the FSB and she may have just paid the price for even speaking with her son.  Hard to know if she believes what she's saying, like a Russian Fox gargler, or it's a play to save her both of their skins from the internal police apparatus.

[JesusSweatDuck 17780]

15 hours ago, ATexanAbroad said:

you know how I know america will never win another war, because you consider that "hardcore graphic"

Seems they should have pulled those pigs off the smoker a little earlier

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49 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Apparently not allowed to retreat into Russia, LOL

 

These “Luhansk People’s Republic” traitors are learning the hard way that Russia never gave a fuck about them. Useful idiots.