Putin Says U.S. Using Ukrainians as 'Cannon Fodder', Trying to Prolong War

Krivvan · 2022-08-17T05:06:05+00:00

It's definitely an Ali Express robot dog, it's not hard to verify that. But it also can't hold much weight so....

Krivvan · 2022-08-17T05:02:18+00:00

The article says several times that the UK and the Baltic states along with the US were the ones that were ringing the alarm bells. France and Germany were generally very skeptical. And Ukraine was in a position of frustration not knowing who to believe; asking for more heavy weapons if the threat was real but also not tanking the economy if the threat wasn't real or even if it was.

Krivvan · 2022-08-16T12:54:04+00:00

Whatever it is we will know eventually. And it's probably more helpful to let Russia try to figure it out on their own in the meantime.

Krivvan · 2022-08-16T12:16:12+00:00

There seem to be different estimates/observations, perhaps depending on how much damaged or likely damaged counts as destroyed. The lowest estimate I've seen was 8-9.

Krivvan · 2022-08-16T12:08:00+00:00

This one was actually far outside of HIMARS range, or rather the range of the GMLRS that we know Ukraine has for their HIMARS. Could maybe be an undisclosed ATACMS or sabotage though.

Krivvan · 2022-08-15T11:18:41+00:00

Doubt it's the Switchblade 300. That only fires a cone of shrapnel.

Krivvan · 2022-08-15T04:35:25+00:00

The word you're looking for is 'authoritarian' otherwise by your definition Putin is a communist.

Krivvan · 2022-08-15T00:43:00+00:00

I think that explanation gives a somewhat misleading impression. It's meant to disrupt a projectile or shaped charge, not cancel out any kind of explosion in general. If it really was simply canceling out an explosion then that explosion wouldn't be able to penetrate the tank in the first place.

What defeats this type of protection is a tandem charge which uses an explosion to intentionally set off the explosive reactive armor so that the actual shaped charge or projectile can penetrate the tank.

Krivvan · 2022-08-14T09:36:48+00:00

If it is really about militaries ability to defeat another, we haven’t fought another countries army since WW2.

I wasn't aware the first gulf war was before WW2.

Krivvan · 2022-08-14T00:42:18+00:00

They're just trying to backtrack the fact that they didn't actually know anything. The next stage would be the "I wasn't being an idiot, I was just trolling, you're the one mad that America is in decline" as if that was part of the topic at all.

↓ and there it is hahaha

Krivvan · 2022-08-14T00:37:13+00:00

If it is really about militaries ability to defeat another, we haven’t fought another countries army since WW2.

Yeah, there's nothing you can say that makes that line sound even remotely informed. Anything more you say just makes you sound even more insecure.

Krivvan · 2022-08-14T00:31:14+00:00

Do...you just not know anything about history? Do you think there was no organized opposing military in Iraq (both times), Korea, or Vietnam?

Do you think it was an insurgent force in Iraq that had the hundreds of tanks, armored vehicles, aircraft, SAM sites, and etc.? Do you think Saddam Hussein had zero military power? How exactly did he fight the Iran-Iraq war? With insurgents?

Russia is at the stage of attempting to defeat the Iraqi military. That wasn't the stage America failed at.

Krivvan · 2022-08-14T00:29:35+00:00

America steamrolled the invasions. The part that America failed at was the long-term occupation.

Russia is failing at the invasion part. They didn't even get to the hard part.

Krivvan · 2022-08-14T00:19:37+00:00

Conspiracy theorists often mention a few well-known messed up things hoping to shock people who had no knowledge of any history into then believing literally any random stupid thing.

They'll mention operation paperclip or MK Ultra or etc. and then from there try to get you to believe in pizzagate/QAnon or how television actually stands for tell-a-vision as some secret message to the sheep that it is a brainwashing device.

They don't realize that to people who already knew about such historical things that it just makes them look even more stupid and pathetic rather than secretly in the know which is what conspiracy theorists desperately want.

It works on people who go "wait, america isn't an absolutely perfect paragon that is incapable of having anyone in it do anything wrong? Well shit, then I guess anything could be true like how Putin is going to save America from Hollywood and the gay agenda!"

Krivvan · 2022-08-12T20:09:51+00:00

Linkshells are kinda dead for hunts. It's mostly done via discords now.

Krivvan · 2022-08-12T08:43:35+00:00

The worst case scenario here isn't doomsday.

Krivvan · 2022-08-12T08:42:24+00:00

Something between Fukushima to Chernobyl, but probably not quite as bad as Chernobyl.

Krivvan · 2022-08-11T22:10:46+00:00

Monkeypox doesn't even really come from monkeys in the first place. It's just named monkeypox because it was first discovered in monkeys.

Krivvan · 2022-08-11T21:29:40+00:00

It preys on people who want to feel superior for knowing "the truth" and not what "the man" tells you is the truth. They really believe that they are "doing their own research."

They don't realize that they're still sheep, just listening to a different shepard.

Krivvan · 2022-08-08T18:14:21+00:00

It would depend on exactly how they plan to "blow up" the plant. If they just detonate a bunch of random mines then they probably actually wouldn't achieve much. Maybe at worst a Fukushima level incident.

Not that they wouldn't be disasters, but people tend to overestimate potential nuclear power plant disasters a lot.

Krivvan · 2022-08-08T11:27:30+00:00

I suppose it would depend on a lot of details of exactly how they plan to "blow up" the power plant but I don't think it would result in enough to immediately kill everyone in the donbas region, and I don't think Russia would care much about all the cancer arising in their veterans. I envision it more as a salting the land thing.

Krivvan · 2022-08-08T11:21:29+00:00

You might be overestimating the potential fallout a bit if you think it would immediately destroy all Russian forces.

Krivvan · 2022-08-08T08:57:42+00:00

I mean, that's the appeal. The fun is the rabbit holes and tangents, otherwise it may as well just be a google search lookup.

Krivvan · 2022-08-07T21:51:15+00:00

Conscripts are being heavily pressured to sign contracts and go into Ukraine though. Sometimes just by shame, sometimes promise of money, sometimes just by bullying.

Also some reports from earlier in the war of conscripts being sent in regardless but I believe they were more isolated incidents likely from commanders trying to hide their lack of actual numbers.

But there are actual conscripts from the separatist regions.

Krivvan · 2022-08-06T20:51:17+00:00

And why do I see lonesome russian tanks in almost every video?

Apparently likely simply because of Russia's manpower problem in Ukraine.

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