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Off topic ,but how did you format that reply so that you were able to highlight a selection of the quote in the way you did?
(PM me if you don't want to clutter the thread but I would appreciate an instruction as to how to selectively quote a poster,since this site is a bit user unfriendly in that regard imo)
I pointed out that giggling and making fun of how your adversary is readied is a sure fire way to make yourself look, not only childish, but to also lose.
Please explain why you think random people making fun of Russian weaponry on an Irish message board is going to have such a devastating influence on the outcome of this war.
Russian GDP figures are as reliable as the Chinese ones, their currency exchange rate and interest rates tell another story.
Indeed, however these figures are a little optimistic (for morale reasons). With the OSINT visually confirmed figures, a leaked monthly loss report last year from Russia actually correlated to within around 10% of it.
Isn't it self-reported by russia?
No it's not, it's called moving the goalposts after being publicly humiliated continuously in a variety of increasingly desperate ways.
The humiliation is now "intentional".
Also the armed forces of Ukraine make their own estimates of putin's weapons and equipment that they believe to be knocked out which may be more accurate as they may not require the same level of confirmation that the piece of putin's equipment they blow up is visually confirmed to be blown up and their count is higher. Hope this helps.
Russian Growth of 1.5% this year? I presume that is growth in GDP. Two things:
So its a lots more guns, but likely lots less butter.
Hi comrade,
I hope you find the below helpful
The Ukrainians have no issue making fun of their enemy and the quality of Russian equipment. They're also, quite skillfully, wiping out vast quantities of it.
Not really sure I get your point..
In fairness it is different, the reds in Vietnam were fighting in their own country, much of it jungle, mountains and cut off plains against an invading force.
The Russian Red Army are the invading force, now they are on the defensive and holding, somewhat.
Holding on is victory at this stage.
Not once in this special operation have the Russians displayed the tenacity and ingenuity of the VietCong.
Textbook…
Ukraine
Everything from tanks to fixed wing aircraft, IFV's, artillery pieces, trucks, jeeps, mobile command centers, helicopters, jammers, mobile radars, AA guns, MLRS, etc, you catch the drift.
Just easier to write tanks, vehicles and pieces of equipment than to list it all out
Speaking of main battle tanks, the Ukrainians have taken out almost 2,300 of them (destroyed, captured, damaged, abandoned).
I've always liked the below quote from a Ukrainian serviceman
I'm sure though that you'll agree that whatever the standard of Russian equipment and standard of Russian soldiers, that the sooner they are eliminated the better for Ukraine and the rest of Europe and Asia for that matter.
They can always end this quickly: retreat back to Russia, pay reparations and hand over war criminals and those forcibly adopted. Perhaps you should focus your thoughts on these matters.
You seem to be labouring under the assumption anyone here has any effect or relationship with the front-lines in the war. Russia isn't my "adversary", it's a country whose leaders chose to invade Ukraine, and is now being punished for its hubris and utter lack of modern logistical or military flexibility.
I laugh because a provable, demonstrable aggressor is getting its comeuppance, and is reduced to scratching around for weapons because the world has made it a pariah state. Arrogance doesn't come into it; this is schadenfreude at worst.
So Musk has become a real life Tony Stark.
Except one that tells Putin what's going on.
He is a scary man IMO. I wonder what goes on behind closed doors, but he does seem to think he is bigger (and usually knows better) than the US govt. /US military now, and no one appears to disabuse him of that (in public anyway - why would they I suppose).
Read a different article (in New Yorker which I think was posted here before - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule). It claimed US govt. officials in various departments anonymously said they felt they were beholden to him + his companies (Tesla, SpaceX) and keeping him happy is part of the role. That's "late stage" regulatory capture by wealth, and the hollowing out of democracy in the US for you.
In the past twenty years, against a backdrop of crumbling infrastructure and declining trust in institutions, Musk has sought out business opportunities in crucial areas where, after decades of privatization, the state has receded. The government is now reliant on him, but struggles to respond to his risk-taking, brinkmanship, and caprice. Current and former officials from nasa, the Department of Defense, the Department of Transportation, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration told me that Musk’s influence had become inescapable in their work, and several of them said that they now treat him like a sort of unelected official. One Pentagon spokesman said that he was keeping Musk apprised of my inquiries about his role in Ukraine and would grant an interview with an official about the matter only with Musk’s permission. “We’ll talk to you if Elon wants us to,” he told me. In a podcast interview last year, Musk was asked whether he has more influence than the American government. He replied immediately, “In some ways.” Reid Hoffman told me that Musk’s attitude is “like Louis XIV: ‘L’état, c’est moi.’ ”
I think the poster meant 12,000 combined tanks, vehicles and pieces of equipment. An overall figure.
Even Putin's propagandists support Ukraine.🙂
Tanks, vehicles and pieces of equipment.
Russia had them, now they are destroyed, damaged, abandoned or captured. 12k in just over a year and a half.
Why not laugh and scoff? Nothing we say here has any effect on the frontline. Are you here to police what people should and shouldn't find humorous?
Bit rich considering your opening thrust was to bemoan other posters critisizing your posting style no?
Oh christ another one to ignore
Arguing with Kermit is like wrestling a pig, you both get dirty but the pig enjoys it.
Why is Ireland still in the EU then?
An interesting article on how Russia's 'God of War' is being taken out. Kremlin Propagandists: Ukraine Artillery is Winning, Russia Guns Getting Taken Out – a Lot (kyivpost.com)
Most of us don't get a script, so it's up to the poster what they want to post.
Russia is useless because despite having total numerical supremacy, their tactics and hubris has conspired to shred their armaments to the extent they're dusting off relics that will be destroyed in open warfare against NATO equipment. Even their modern equipment showed itself as insufficient for the task. The comparison with the Vietcong doesn't track because Russia are NOT the David in this mismatch.
While the morale of the army itself is, apparently, rock bottom (complete with surrendering groups) - so they're not even an energised, incentivised army, which is an important ingredient towards the kind of enthusiastic invention that might make best use of archaic equipment. Ukraine's doing that, attaching 7kg landmines to basic drones; or indeed their cardboard drones of late.
And we're snickering because it's funny; it's funny watching this invasion first stall, then slowly get it's àss handed to it while basically hastening the collapse of the mafia state from which they hail.
I'll laugh all day if they're dusting off ww2 tanks.
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