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Russian Generals dropping like flies

46XiJCAB46XiJCAB Member Posts: 20,967
edited April 2022 in Tug Tavern
Reports are that up to 7 Russian generals have been KIA thus far. Seems that the Russian Army decided to rely upon cell towers in Ukraine for their communications. The Ukrainian military has been intercepting their communications and then pinpointing their locations, then dropping missiles on their heads.

Also reports of Russian soldiers shooting themselves to get sent home. Sabotaging their own equipment and even, reportedly, shooting down one of their own aircraft on purpose. Looks like 200K Russians having a time with 600K Ukrainian soldiers.

Home team battling their ranked opponent.
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  • WestlinnDuckWestlinnDuck Member Posts: 15,731 Standard Supporter
    46XiJCAB said:

    Reports are that up to 7 Russian generals have been KIA thus far. Seems that the Russian Army decided to rely upon cell towers in Ukraine for their communications. The Ukrainian military has been intercepting their communications and then pinpointing their locations, then dropping missiles on their heads.

    Also reports of Russian soldiers shooting themselves to get sent home. Sabotaging their own equipment and even, reportedly, shooting down one of their own aircraft on purpose. Looks like 200K Russians having a time with 600K Ukrainian soldiers.

    Home team battling their ranked opponent.

    "Over rated, Over rated"
  • SoutherndawgSoutherndawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,322 Founders Club

    Gotta say, I'm surprised by how inept the Russians have been. Would like @Swaye to weigh in.
  • AtomicPissAtomicPiss Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 64,595 Founders Club
    I've got to think Taiwan is off the table now for the self-conscious CCP
  • AtomicPissAtomicPiss Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 64,595 Founders Club
    Kaepsknee said:

    No one outside the Ukraine really knows who is winning and who is losing in Ukraine.

    Exactly
  • SwayeSwaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,547 Founders Club
    edited April 2022


    Gotta say, I'm surprised by how inept the Russians have been. Would like @Swaye to weigh in.

    I can't say honestly. I can't trust any reporting of anything over there so it is hard to draw concrete inferences about exactly what, militarily, is the problem. My best guess is a combination of conscripted forces on the Russian side who are not fully willing participants, invading at the wrong time of year keeping the Russians on roads, hugely incompetent staffing throughout Russian logistics and fierce determination (and Green Beret insurgency training they are using effectively) on the part of the Ukranians.

    The whole thing has shocked me. I studied the Russian military closely (air power especially) for years and have been shocked at what a paper tiger they actually are. They just are not a functional or tough military, like 99% of military analysts assumed. It's shocking, and also has to be incredibly humbling for Putin. All he has really accomplished in ruining his economy and disrupting his home base completely is the worldwide knowledge now that the Russian military is a joke. Without nukes the French would wipe the floor with them in a week. Think about that....
  • SwayeSwaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,547 Founders Club
    edited April 2022

    This is what happens when you ain’t played nobody and are over ranked. Russia is like Oklahoma, facing an underfunded K-State that they’re too soft for. But the longer the game goes the better their odds, that’s how Russohoma gets Ws. Their proudest pre-WWII moment was defeating Napoleon: by retreating back and burning Moscow to the ground. Haha take that you frogs, good luck finding food so deep in our self destroyed country.

    In the last 24 hours Russia claims two Ukrainian helicopters flew a sortie into Russian territory. To a border town used as a staging area, and hit the fuel depot there with missiles. Ukraine denies. Video shows helicopters. If Russia did it as a false flag attack I’d have expected some civilian deaths.

    Russian troops pulled back from Chernobyl. Six dozen of them with radiation sickness, one dead from it. They were surprised at how little resistance they had met there back in February. The Ukrainians didn’t think anyone was stupid enough to march an army, complete with tanks and digging trenches, through soil that’s holding 35 years of undisturbed radiation.

    As the Ukes retake areas around Kyiv they’re finding dead civilians everywhere. Some of them with hands tied behind their back. Between the 5,000+ at Mariupol and the destruction of Kharkiv and Chernigiv the numbers of dead Civilians are going to be staggering. The town of Irpin, once one of the nicer suburbs of Kyiv is just rubble and stray dogs that have been fattened on Russian meat. They mostly only exfil the officers corps(es) back to Russia. I went to a nightclub in Irpin once when I was 16, took some ecstasy, got head from a slut ~10 years older than me, went back on the dance floor and realized that semen shows up under a black light pretty vividly - it’s sad to see such innocent memories stained. Telegram has some brutal war imagery.

    When they empty the pockets of the dead Russian soldiers there’s almost always jewelry, just piles of rings. One abandoned APC was stuffed with loot - but really shitty loot. Toys, new in the box frying pans, welding equipment, and my favorite; a bag of transitional post-USSR currency (Karbovanets aka Coupons) that Ukraine hasn’t used since 1998, in bills that were worth pennies then have been literally worthless since 1998. A common refrain in the videos are Ukrainian soldiers asking just how poor are these Russians. Some of the POWs are shocked at how much better Ukrainian peasants have it, let alone the middle class. Those guys would be fighting their own government if they knew how Moscow and Piter are compared to the rest of Russia.

    I have been wondering just how bad the war crimes actually are there. Your description aligns with what my best guess would have been. Massive frustration at their own shrimp dicks has them acting out badly. When militaries are humiliated is usually when atrocities occur (Japanese exlcuded). If there is evidence of civilian executions it will be interesting to see how the world will handle it. The problem is, we aren't going to go fight Russia to be able to get to any of the leaders who will be charged at the Hague. All responsible will live out their days in some shit village in Russia.
  • UW_Doog_BotUW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 16,210 Swaye's Wigwam
    https://youtu.be/_3fZQmMZ4kY

    This guy has some fantastic analysis of why Ukraine is giving Russia such a hard time.
  • PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 44,868 Standard Supporter
    edited April 2022

    https://youtu.be/_3fZQmMZ4kY

    This guy has some fantastic analysis of why Ukraine is giving Russia such a hard time.

    The Throbber had Russia in his Final Four but right now St. Peters is ahead of them at halftime in a second round game.

    BTW, fuck Coach K.


  • RaceBannonRaceBannon Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 107,737 Founders Club
    Seems like the EU and NATO and the US mid term election team flapped their gums for 5 weeks while brave Uranians are fighting and dying and possibly winning, A tie at least seems certain

    There was never a good option for no fly zones, fighter jets, or a nuclear exchange.

    We talked about the home field advantage at the start of the season. And how the NIL deals for the Red Machine players weren't enough
  • 46XiJCAB46XiJCAB Member Posts: 20,967
    Swaye said:

    No person in history uses more words to say less than her.
    Armstrong & Getty were playing clips of a woman on Tik Tok that does an impersonation of Harris that's so spot on you'd think it was her.
  • Pitchfork51Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,086
    The more that Harris is in the spotlight the worse for Dems
  • MikeDamoneMikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    I thought this was going to be about a new Harlem Globetrotters opponent.
  • WestlinnDuckWestlinnDuck Member Posts: 15,731 Standard Supporter
    46XiJCAB said:

    Swaye said:

    No person in history uses more words to say less than her.
    Armstrong & Getty were playing clips of a woman on Tik Tok that does an impersonation of Harris that's so spot on you'd think it was her.
    https://www.tiktok.com/@therachelmaria/video/7058450598785748270?lang=en
  • Pitchfork51Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,086

    I thought this was going to be about a new Harlem Globetrotters opponent.

    Nice lol

    Nice work damone
  • Pitchfork51Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,086

    Kaepsknee said:

    No one outside the Ukraine really knows who is winning and who is losing in Ukraine.

    Exactly
    Still think we need to sponsor Ukrainian women in the ages of 18-26

    I have an extra bedroom
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