Lots of posts about this
Russia has shown no ability or wherewithal to just go around Bakhmut, so I don't place much stock in the idea that they will advance rapidly if and when they can fully take the town. In fact, Russia have shown little ability to take territory quickly since their opening offensive. Barring a Ukrainian military collapse, I must predict future performance based on past form.
do you know who the Baba Yaga is...?
And we have another resurrection from banned list....
It's not like it was the nuclear code or something.
For a long time the permissive action link code in US nuclear silos was 00000000
It's not a 'launch code' per se but a number that had to be keyed into a panel during a launch sequence, otherwise the warhead would not arm. It was supposed to be a bunch of random numbers but the Air Force left it at the default 00000000 to make launches easier.
It's the equivalent of user:admin pass:admin which even to this day will get you into a lot of systems
Perhaps. But you're looking at only one side of the balance scale. Sure, the Russians are very good at keeping secrets, they were so good that they refused to even tell their own soldiers they were going to war and not a training exercise. How well did that work out for them? The US may have more leaks, but also has less of a problem with people who need to know things not knowing things
Maybe it was so simple that only a fool would try it?
They say - it's not John Wick. John Wick was the one sent to kill Baba Yaga. But he did not succeed as Baba Yaga is still posting on Boards
Not really. I just finished reading Eric Schlossers Command & Control, which discusses the topic of nuclear weapons safety at length. Great read by the way, I highly recommend it to anyone who's interested in that kind stuff. Anyway, from the moment that nuclear weapons went into mass production, the USAF, particularly Strategic Air Command, fought tooth and nail against ANY type of safeguard in their nuclear weapons, or indeed any type of civilian oversight at all. Even the Permissive Action Link that a previous poster mentioned had to be forced on them. Using a code like 00000000 would fit in totally with that mindset, in fact, Schlosser mentions it in the epilogue of Command & Control.
Canadian Leopards nearly there.
Off topic I know but you might think that Canada would use Abrams or even Challenger tanks?
john wick is the Baba Yaga....hes the one they sent to kill the bogey man....and three men in a bar....with a pencil...🤐
Daily trivia: The US now has it's very own T-90, courtesy of Ukraine.
baba yaga mussorgsky - Google Search
Oh dear
Cost and customer spec specific tanks might be the reason,
I'm pretty sure the Canadians ran a competition to choose their tanks back in the late 80s which led to the leopard been chosen,
The plan was to replace the old lepoards tanks with Strykers vehicles fitted with 105mm main tank guns ,but the Strykers didn't fare well in Afghanistan due to lack of protection,the Canadians then went with 2nd hand leopards 2 from the Dutch,if I remember correctly
What the hell is this? (Remotely controlled explosion?)
Seems everyone is claiming responsibility for the explosion, mines from the Ukrainans, Wagner artillery and an a Russian glide bomb
It seems the detonation happened in the cellar judging by the vertical plume.
Looks that way, wonder if it was an ammo dump, going by the size of the explosion,
Will be interesting to see how these Russia/China talks go in 2 days time, a lot of eyes shifting to the Pacific.
FYI, the E4-B "Doomsday Plane" is taxiing out at Mildenhall at the moment. Worth looking up its characteristics.
Think I recall reading that their "Top Secret" is not really the highest level secrets, that they have all kinds of other levels above that for far more sensitive stuff (The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner is in my mind as source of this) and actually many people (or more than you would expect...) will be accessing such "Top Secret" material.
What I have read in media stories about the leak is all sensitive information US obtains on (or is perhaps given by) allies, or things it learns about enemies (e.g. Russia) etc. They (IMO) don't seem to be careful enough with that stuff.
The latter is especially bad, and could get people killed and then make it less likely anyone in such places will help them in future (if that is how they got the information).
I think there was details of secret/high level "discussions"/decision making in Russia (and Egypt). If some unfortunate in either of those countries gets fingered for giving the US material, he or she could be disappeared...
Mick Wallace with the latest Socialist position updated on twitter.
China really great, Taiwan is part of China, Democracy bad. Supporting Ukraine is really bad.
The Left need to clean house and decide if they are going to be on the side of democracy or going to remaining backers of every Communist authoritarian butcher regime and any one who is opposed to the West, including the Comrade in the Kremlin.
Him and his Chinese no war tattoo
Welcome to Russia
https://twitter.com/raging545/status/1647167918478868480?s=20
Feels like absolutely nothing happening the last week or so apart from Russia's slow creep in Bakhmut.
I don't know what's more surprising the fact they're still hanging on in mid April or the fact Russia's take over of the city has been so consistently slow. No major breakthroughs or collapses but rarely do they stall completely.
The railway station has now fallen so the pocket gets smaller. Looks like only a matter of time really. Hopefully the counter attack starts before it falls. The weather forecasts are starting to improve I'd imagine if May is dry we'll see something.
I do hope this is true...heh, heh...
Looks like they now control something like 80% of bakhmut and creeping forward, while it's primarily being used as a meat grinder,both sides Ukrainian and Russian are loosing valuable men and equipment,
At this point it might be worth saying right we've done our job we've weakened the Russians,let them have What's left of the city and we will return in a few months and liberate the city once and for all ,
Seems like Prigozhin is advising Russia to hold what it has and declare victory, stating they’ve grabbed a substantial part of Ukraine and killed or forced to flee many Ukrainian men (no mention of worse stats for Russians).
'The people are already looking for someone to blame for the fact that we are not the strongest army in the world, and in this situation they will look for 'the scapegoat'.'
Looks to me he wants an upgrade from chef to dictator.
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