RuMoore Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 Can this pair not just get their own wee thread where they entertain each other all day long? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 2 minutes ago, RuMoore said: Can this pair not just get their own wee thread where they entertain each other all day long? What, and leave you to play with yourself? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuMoore Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 1 minute ago, TxRover said: What, and leave you to play with yourself? More just to spare everyone else from having to wade through the forum equivalent of nerd sexual tension that's clogging up the thread... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 1 minute ago, RuMoore said: More just to spare everyone else from having to wade through the forum equivalent of nerd sexual tension that's clogging up the thread... Comme ci comme ça. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 1 hour ago, TxRover said: You, sir, are an absolute buffoon, a brain damaged idiot. Putin’s “operation” IS the “war in Ukraine”…destroying his “most effective forces” IS his plan to absorb Wagner into the Russian Army. Now, just how that addle-pated hamster running in what passes for your brain conflated that into me “(making) a ridiculous claim about bumping off a mercenary rebel general 'not being rational' for an autocrat” is well beyond any analysis other than assuming you’ve lost it. Its bad enough that you ride in here and try to play the big brained boffin, sneering at the peasants and tossing out your “knowledge” like rubies, but then to even attempt to do that you have to either misrepresent, misquote or simply take out of context other posters comments. Four days didn’t do you nearly enough good, when for any rational being it might have caused no small amount of reflection. Emoji away, chum. ^^^ verge of tears There's little actual evidence to demonstrate that the Wagner group were the most effective units in the Russian forces. One of the likely motives for their faction's obliteration is their actual destruction of Russian military personnel. The obsession with Wagner is as much a Western fantasy as the 'Putin has cancer' theory and the Great Ukrainian Spring Offensive (both conveniently sidelined for now). The reality is simply more mundane than Twitter hot-takes can accommodate. Either way, there was absolutely zero prospect of the Wagner group ever participating as an independent combat unit in Ukraine again. What with their failed attempt to overthrow the Russian government and all. It is entirely rational for that loose end to be tied up from the Kremlin's perspective - which is why literally everyone except the biggest village idiot in Texas expected it to happen. If you don't want to be treated like a peasant then you shouldn't pollute the forum with your ill-informed slack-jawed yokel nonsense on a 24/7 basis. Otherwise your posts will be given precisely as much respect as they deserve. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 26, 2023 Share Posted August 26, 2023 It's been discovered the Estonian PM, Kaja Kallas, personally invested in a trucking company that facilitates trade between Russia and Estonia: https://archive.ph/CSw1x Given how much she's harnessed anti-Russia sentiment to boost her own political standing, this revelation has been galling for many. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted August 26, 2023 Share Posted August 26, 2023 2 hours ago, FreedomFarter said: It's been discovered the Estonian PM, Kaja Kallas, personally invested in a trucking company that facilitates trade between Russia and Estonia: https://archive.ph/CSw1x Given how much she's harnessed anti-Russia sentiment to boost her own political standing, this revelation has been galling for many. Her and Sanna Marin could put anthrax in the water supply and I'd still vote for them. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted August 26, 2023 Share Posted August 26, 2023 Good news for people worried about neo-Nazism in Ukraine. The commander of the Rusich Group, a Russian neo-Nazi battalion, has been captured in Finland. Yan Petrovsky has been fighting against Ukraine since 2014, the same year he was filmed torturing Ukrainian POWs and confessed to murdering them. He took part in the occupation of the Izyum region in the current war and was photographed with Russian members of Parliament in Kharkiv region before the territory was liberated by Ukrainian troops. Unsure what he was doing in Finland but hopefully he will now pay for his crimes. Rusich has become closely aligned to Wagner so this could be part of the fallout from the rebellion and Progozhin’s death. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted August 26, 2023 Share Posted August 26, 2023 15 hours ago, TxRover said: What, and leave you to play with yourself? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 Russian Telegram channel ‘FighterBomber’ has reported that Ukraine has used drones made of cardboard to hit a military airbase inside Russia. Literal paper aeroplanes. The channel is run by a former Russian Air Force pilot and still has links to the VKS. Quote Ukrainians] were the first to use Australian SYPAQ UAVs to attack an airfield. Such a drone can carry 4-5 kg of cargo in the kamikaze version. The engine may be electric. The main feature of this drone is its modularity and disposability, because it is made almost entirely of wax-impregnated paper and rubber bands, which together makes it almost invisible to the radar. Tonight, crests used them in a bunch, interspersing drones with warheads with empty drones. I don’t know exactly what engines were on the drones, but if there were electric trains, then they were not launched from Ukraine. Protection is standard. Jammers for GPS signal, Starlink frequencies and known drone control frequencies. Machine guns with tracers and night vision sights and teplokami. Searchlights. And of course gabions, sandbags and nets where possible. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 Unconfirmed reports of a large gathering of Russian troops ready for a counter offensive 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 1 hour ago, ICTChris said: Russian Telegram channel ‘FighterBomber’ has reported that Ukraine has used drones made of cardboard to hit a military airbase inside Russia. Literal paper aeroplanes. The channel is run by a former Russian Air Force pilot and still has links to the VKS. Fascinating Aussie project. 120km range, 1-3 hours endurance and 5kg payload. Launched from a small metal frame, using a pull line to reach launch speed. Would be nearly invisible to radar. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 1 hour ago, doulikefish said: Unconfirmed reports of a large gathering of Russian troops ready for a counter offensive Maybe they're going to run away. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurkst Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 22 minutes ago, TxRover said: Fascinating Aussie project. 120km range, 1-3 hours endurance and 5kg payload. Launched from a small metal frame, using a pull line to reach launch speed. Would be nearly invisible to radar. I had one of them in the 70s... Had a hole in one of the wings that meant it flew in a circle. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 2 hours ago, TxRover said: Fascinating Aussie project. 120km range, 1-3 hours endurance and 5kg payload. Launched from a small metal frame, using a pull line to reach launch speed. Would be nearly invisible to radar. If munitions were done by Amazon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted August 27, 2023 Share Posted August 27, 2023 23 minutes ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said: If munitions were done by Amazon. Only if you have Prime. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nkomo-A-Gogo Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 5 hours ago, ICTChris said: Russian Telegram channel ‘FighterBomber’ has reported that Ukraine has used drones made of cardboard to hit a military airbase inside Russia. Literal paper aeroplanes. The channel is run by a former Russian Air Force pilot and still has links to the VKS. Kamikaze origami. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 Der Spiegel investigation on the Nord Stream pipeline bombing. Very long read. https://www.spiegel.de/international/investigating-the-attack-on-nord-stream-all-the-clues-point-toward-kyiv-a-124838c7-992a-4d0e-9894-942d4a665778?sara_ref=re-so-tw-sh 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 1 hour ago, FreedomFarter said: Der Spiegel investigation on the Nord Stream pipeline bombing. Very long read. https://www.spiegel.de/international/investigating-the-attack-on-nord-stream-all-the-clues-point-toward-kyiv-a-124838c7-992a-4d0e-9894-942d4a665778?sara_ref=re-so-tw-sh Very interesting, and fairly well balanced. Takes a reasonable line of not dismissing the possibility of Russian work to plant evidence, but seems to point clearly to Ukraine…at face value. They’re pretty coy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty dingus Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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