what part of Russia invaded Crimea and captured Ukraines navy did you miss
I don't know about recently, but knowing a few Russians over the years and having watched Russian TV for actual Russians a few times before this whole war idiocy, I was actually surprised that their news reports featured run down parts of the provinces regularly enough. Usually with some local woman complaining about the state of some facility or other and how it's falling apart, but then again usually(or from what I saw) another well upholstered barrel shaped woman from some official outlet or other nodding along and promising to fix things, with some blokes in the background working with tools. Mixed in with other reports of another local official cutting a ribbon on some bridge in the middle of Fxukknowswhereistan.
Before this nonsense kicked off anyway the general impression I got was official Russian telly was keen to say yep we know of these problems(because they can't be denied if you're Russian living in the sticks) but we're working on it kinda narrative. What I've seen of clips of Soviet TV it had similar after the main news of the day stuff.
Your posts consistently show a habit of finding things "hard to believe" about this conflict, on the flipside you apparently know very little about it. It's a telling combination.
Frostbite cases were reported by Russians during the initial invasion, and that started in late Feb last year. Poor cold weather gear, poor standards (e.g. not changing out of wet gear), low temps (frostbite can start to occur as of from below zero), Russian soldiers drinking heavily (drink with cold weather is deadly, lowers core temp). Temps in January this year weren't the worst, but many areas in Donbas experienced night temps of 0c to -10c throughout last month and this.
I've walked around in -10c. It's completely different to fighting in wet trenches night after night in the wrong gear in those temps.
Its Russian with a Chechen accent...in Ingushetia its the same, the Russian is accented, but they are three completely different languages. Like his father, he was always a bastard, just getting more like him as he grows older.
It's a gas in Russia-
Meanwhile in bakhmut the 11th Russian Su25 shot down over bakhmut earlier today,
11 in oven 6 weeks.
Any connection with this?
Just add a very slight breeze ( not even a wind ) and you will soon be in trouble if outside for any length of time. And if you do get frostbitten, its not funny, far from it.
Is that the Russian rip-off of Nationwide?
I think Mary Kennedy covered the exact same story down in Leitrim a couple of years ago
From day 1 of their lives, they are taught the the west is evil, and how lucky they are to live in Russia, as westerners live in much worse conditions. But in modern times and the age of the internet, it has been getting harder and harder to maintain the lie. One reason Putin did not want another modern progressive country on his border,,,,,the natives are becoming increasingly restless as it is.
They're called Portyanki. They actually work very well, if you wrap them correctly. I worked for a chap who wore them during conscription, he didn't have anything particularly negative to say about them other than the fact that they take a little longer to put on than socks, and that you have to put them on correctly. They have some advantages over socks in that if you wrap them differently in the morning, you get more service time out of each portyanki between washes than socks which can, at best, only be worn inside out. I believe they also dry faster, an important criterion when in the trenches in winter.
Holy ****! Infantile machismo. It's a fat old man calling out another guy to fight him behind the bike shed (in our school, it was in the wood beside the school).
While very skillfully avoiding any mention of baksheesh.... 😂 ( without which nothing works....and everyone understands)
Another fire.
That's impressive!
necessity is the mother of invention
Scholz's party, the SDP, lost elections in Berlin, a first for 20 years. I'd love to be able to say it was because of his weapons shenanigans, but it supposedly wasn't, though it wouldn't surprise me if it played a part and the analysts failed to pick up on that.
True. Almost all of the young of the Russian elite are sent to the "Evil West" to be educated or be employed.
https://www.tatler.com/article/wealthy-russians-in-london
Imagine the rise of Prussia again if the russians lost it
Putins tactics
Of course Ukraine are smart enough to retreat when needed, keep piling those orcs up one my one.
Shortage of Housing got them.
Wouldn't it be marvellous if we actually had proper City and local government in Ireland that we could vote for or against in respect of things like Housing and Public Transport.
Is Ukraine cut off from the Black Sea? Yes or no? Is it now a landlocked country? Yes or no?
Please stop deflecting.
Is your frontal lobe detached from your brain? Yes or No? Why are you trying to pound a hammer with a nail? You make me un poco loco.
Please stop defecating on our thread.
Latvian government is discussing a new law that would automatically confiscate cars from drunk drivers and donate them to the Ukrainian army.
You're taking a very blinkered approach
Life isn't like a Roadrunner cartoon - if, for instance, an escape route has been "cut off", no incision or geographic change has taken place
It's a figure of speech
Escape route --> "cut off" --> not really
Link to story:
This is bizarre. I'm curious to know what the Ukrainian army is supposed to do with confiscated civilian cars.
Drive around in them
The Ukraine military needs vehicles constantly. Units have to constantly move around the country, take leave, return from leave, drive to different positions, perform logistics. Many Ukrainian units, due to shortages, rely on crowd-sourced equipment, e.g. drones, body armor, supplies and vehicles.
Give to civilians as they've prob had a load bombed or driven over by Russian tanks.
Give to Army, support for logistics
Everything's bizarre and hard to believe for you, yet you somehow just happen to have opinions that align perfectly with every other cookie-cutter Russian apologist. It's like you just hatched out of a Fabergé egg.
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