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52 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Speaking of tridents, Russia is angry that Ukraine replaced the Soviet-era symbols on the Motherland statue with a trident:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/07/europe/kyiv-statue-motherland-trident-symbol-intl/index.html

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So...

1) Cyborgs lead Ukraine

2) Mother cannot be renamed. She is one.  And the only thing you can do with it is to love.

 

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Ukrainian forces have launched a surprise assault near Kozachi Laheri, south of the Dnipro River and east of Kherson city. The operation most likely started 2 days ago, but OPSEC prevented reporting of it for good reason.

Multiple pro-Russian sources express their "concern" of the situation, since a bridgehead has been established. Some Russian sources even claim of a strike as deep as 800m and the first line of Russian defence broken.

It will be interesting to see how this will play out, but even if it is only a small Ukrainian strike force then it will already be useful when it compels Russian troops to redeploy back to Kherson and away from the Zaporizhzhia frontlines. 

 

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keep in mind the largest best combat formation in kherson is the 7th airborne division.  the issue is that the russians have been taking units and troops away from that area to move north to try and block the thrust from the 9,10, and 11 corps (UKR). 

now the russians are reporting losses in kherson where the 7th was pulled back and replaced with BARS and reserve forces

who would ever have predicted this.. abut 3 months ago.... who???

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Ukrainian forces have launched a surprise assault near Kozachi Laheri, south of the Dnipro River and east of Kherson city. The operation most likely started 2 days ago, but OPSEC prevented reporting of it for good reason.

Multiple pro-Russian sources express their "concern" of the situation, since a bridgehead has been established. Some Russian sources even claim of a strike as deep as 800m and the first line of Russian defence broken.

It will be interesting to see how this will play out, but even if it is only a small Ukrainian strike force then it will already be useful when it compels Russian troops to redeploy back to Kherson and away from the Zaporizhzhia frontlines.

 

I wonder if this is related to the boat attack that someone posted yesterday.

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26 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

Now do MBTs and F-16s.

And ATAACMS

The Russian economy has proven FAR more resilient than anticipated.  Gonna collapse, but in its own time:

Nearly 18 months after the Ukraine war started, Russia's economy appears to be humming along — baffling economists who predicted catastrophic outcomes following sweeping sanctions against Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

While some economists have questioned the quality and veracity of Russian data releases, a New York Times report on Monday offered a nuanced picture of the country's wartime economy and how it's helping drum up popular support for Vladimir Putin.

Russia's economic strength so far is due to the Kremlin's measures — the Times reported that Putin is boosting the production of military equipment and raising pensions, salaries, and other benefits for people who are not well-off. The state is also subsidizing mortgages.

Soldiers fighting the war are also earning far higher salaries than average earnings in poorer regions of Russia, the Times reported. For instance, Russia was offering a minimum of 160,000 rubles, or about $1,740, in monthly wages for contract soldiers last September — three times the national average, Reuters reported at the time.

Large payouts for those who died in the war — for example, a 5 million rubles payout for families of Wagner Group fighters who died in the war — are circulating in the economy. 

https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-war-economy-government-boom-crash-sanctions-ukraine-invasion-2023-8

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14 hours ago, The Dog said:

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Even though she is no longer PM, I heart her so, so, so much.

6 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

And just like the soviet union went broke and dissolved while trying to keep up economically in the arms race, Russia is going to eventually go broke as well. Again, an economy roughly equivalent to Italy.

Putin had a tremendous piggy bank, saved because of all that oil revenue. Like a trust fundbaby going through expensive foreign cars and a ton of cocaine, eventually the fucking-around economically will result in a finding-out economy.

This.  So long as western resolve isn't undermined by a 5th column (a real risk -- both the US and UK have a strong Russian-aligned 5th column working within their existing power/governance structure), the west can easily outlast Russia's economy, which will survive right up until it doesn't, and collapses.

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14 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

 

Putin had a tremendous piggy bank, saved because of all that oil revenue. Like a trust fundbaby going through expensive foreign cars and a ton of cocaine, eventually the fucking-around economically will result in a finding-out economy.

So he's the Johnny Manziel of Russia.  Got it.

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11 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

And just like the soviet union went broke and dissolved while trying to keep up economically in the arms race, Russia is going to eventually go broke as well. Again, an economy roughly equivalent to Italy.

Putin had a tremendous piggy bank, saved because of all that oil revenue. Like a trust fundbaby going through expensive foreign cars and a ton of cocaine, eventually the fucking-around economically will result in a finding-out economy.

Yeah--I don't understand what is so mysterious about the resiliency of the Russian economy.  The Russian government is spending its reserves.  No shit that is keeping the economy going.

The question is: what happens when those reserves run out.  Presumably, they'll start borrowing.  Or maybe they'll just start printing rubles.  But in either event, the economic consequences are going to be significant.  I mean, for one thing, they're going to have a shockingly high cost of borrowing.  Between the danger of western sanctions and the (significant) possibility of non-repayment, I can't imagine the interest rate lenders are going to demand.

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Just now, Ghost of LL said:

Yeah--I don't understand what is so mysterious about the resiliency of the Russian economy.  The Russian government is spending its reserves.  No shit that is keeping the economy going.

The question is: what happens when those reserves run out.  Presumably, they'll start borrowing.  Or maybe they'll just start printing rubles.  But in either event, the economic consequences are going to be significant.  I mean, for one thing, they're going to have a shockingly high cost of borrowing.  Between the danger of western sanctions and the (significant) possibility of non-repayment, I can't imagine the interest rate lenders are going to demand.

Also with the slower rebound of the China economy, trying to limit oil supplies to keep prices high might hurt their main allies rebound a little more. 

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18 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

I'm sure 3/4 of the Asian continent going into total economic collapse won't have any ripple effects.

 

Three-quarters of the Asian continent's land mass, but a tiny fraction of the continent's population and economy.

I don't think anybody is predicting China's economy to collapse.  It's having a slow recovery.  But its recovery is aided by deep discounts on Russian energy. 

That's not going to change.  Even if Russia were to limit supplies--and Russia really doesn't have any leverage to limit supplies to China; they need the money--that supply would be provided by Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

And if Russia were to limit supplies to a degree the Chinese found unacceptable, the Chinese have other ways of dealing with that problem.

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56 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

That seems like a small amount of money for what's supposed to be an economic power. Am I missing something? That's all less than what a "rational" person would buy twitter for

Their national budget ($327 billion) is about the same size as Texas ($321 billion). 

California, Texas, and New York state all have larger GDP individually than Russia. 

It's not an economic power. It's a "mouse that roars". 

https://www.ipi.org/ipi_issues/detail/russias-minuscule-economy-the-mouse-that-roars#:~:text=The United States%2C by contrast,New York (%241.7 trillion).

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