Yeah I figured much the same 👍️
I hope not, Tet was a complete failure for the NVA
Taken from Chrsto Grosaev twitter account:
"He says it's all because of corruption and incompetence in the army ("the mercenaries were scammed of their pay"). But is again very optimistic, says each government corporation and oligarch are told to set up their own PMC for "new stage in October".
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If this goes ahead, the stage will be set for civil war in Russia.....Oligarchs with their own private army's competing against each other, and out of Putins control..
Ukraine has suffered massive fatalities but they will be remembered for the most bravery any country has shown since WW2.
Can't say here but it'll be on Twitter 😏
It's a translation of the German "Kessel", which is usually translated in English history texts as "Cauldron". The Germans in WW2 used the term to mean the inside of an encirclement. "Cauldron" probably sounds better to anglophone ears because when people think of boilers it's usually central heating that comes to mind. Still, whether it's "cauldron", "kettle" or "boiler", the experience for those inside is probably pretty much the same...
Aww They should have used a chip pan.
Russian Su-34 20 red shot down in Kharkiv region
The German word for an encirclement battle is Kesselschlacht, Schlacht meaning battle and Kessel the area surrounded by something, and in a non-military usage this translates to cauldron, pot, kettle or indeed boiler ;)
And there's quite a few loanwords in Russian from German
One thing for sure when the russians are told surrender because your surrounded,they definitely won't be replying "Were Airborne we're supposed to be surrounded"
It seems Russian school teachers were left behind by the military when they legged it
"...Schlacht meaning battle..."
I remember on holiday several years ago seeing a German boy suddenly start splashing his sister in the swimming pool with a gleeful cry of "Wasserschlacht!". After years of only seeing the word in a military history context, it was funny to hear it used like that even though it was, of course, completely logical.
The North Vietnamese still won though.
Lol yes, that makes good sense. I'd heard of Kessel before but didn't join the dots.
And I immediately thought, I can do that in 12 parsecs.
That's funny alright, I would have actually guessed Wasserkampf as in water-fight rather than water-battle.
I had a kind of opposite experience when I heard there was a Schlachthaus in Vienna, which is not some sort of battle or fighting house like I thought, but rather an abattoir, as Schlacht can also mean slaughter.. it still sounds wrong to me
Isn't there a few stories of surrounded Russian/Soviet airborne troops calling down artillery on their position right when they are being overrun? Judging by how things are going now I'm guessing they were just bullshit/propaganda.
(There's a movie about one story from Afghanistan, and I think another from Chechnya)
See what you did there Wibbs 😀
Perhaps the motivation is different, one set of soldiers at one time fighting for a cause, another rabble now not really wanting to fight for thieving bastards.
In that old bucket Han?
Let's hope it doesn't come at a similar cost for the Ukrainians.
The 9th Company, that was a damn good movie. Highly recommend it.
Not sure if this was posted already but here it is.....
Same way the Taliban did tho. Not what Ukraine is looking for in this instance
The ongoing offensive is delivering the first proper psychological blow to the Russian public - the VC/NVA lost in Tet but won. Intelligence and accurate weapons versus shelling in this ridiculous war make an name for yourself putin conflict.
You can't move for Ukrainian Gopros. Im sure they are beaming them into the motherland. Can't be faked.
He's braver than we thought.
I'd rather they swap them for kidnapped children.
My heart says they will never be found. And that's really sad and something we all know about and will have to live with. That should be Page 1 on the war crimes list.
Off to bed now. I'll probably wake up to find the Kremlin surrounded by tanks or something.
Good read in NY Times
As Russians Retreat, Putin Is Criticized by Hawks Who Trumpeted His War
“You’re throwing a billion-ruble party,” one pro-Russian blogger wrote in a widely circulated post on Saturday, referring to the Putin-led celebrations in Moscow commemorating the 875th anniversary of the city’s founding. “What is wrong with you? Not at the time of such a horrible failure.”
"The stunned fury reflects how some analysts believe many in the Russian elite view the war: a campaign rife with incompetence, conducted on the cheap, that can only be won if Mr. Putin mobilizes the nation onto a war footing and declares a draft."
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