Where Do Things End With Vlad? (h/t romad1)

[romad1]

  On 9/5/2022 at 9:21 PM, chasfh said:

Oops ...

 

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Have to accept that this is the reason.  However,  Biden should put someone in they hate.  The Russians will be awful and jerkish no matter who we put in there.  Might as well put in John Bolton.

[chasfh]

  On 9/5/2022 at 11:42 PM, romad1 said:

Have to accept that this is the reason.  However,  Biden should put someone in they hate.  The Russians will be awful and jerkish no matter who we put in there.  Might as well put in John Bolton.

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Definitely might as well put in someone they won’t like. I don’t see how it will hurt us.

[romad1]

Our kids with their shooter drills have it pretty bad (and totally unacceptable) but this is worse. 

Imagine those Cold War era "duck and cover" drills but with a realistic chance of happening on a daily basis.

[VegasTiger]

Damn, you get up early. I'm going to bed now.

 

[romad1]

  On 9/6/2022 at 9:15 AM, VegasTiger said:

Damn, you get up early. I'm going to bed now.

 

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happens every long weekend.  I get the sleep schedule all messed up by getting too much rest.

[romad1]

ahh...gee

[chasfh]

Birds of a feather …

it’s eventually going to happen, anyway. I just hope I don’t live to see it.

[gehringer_2]

Reports from US intelligence that the Russians are buying artillery shells from N. Korea. The good part is that the clear implication is that China has declined to offer similar support.

Russia turns to N. Korea

[romad1]

  On 9/7/2022 at 12:16 AM, gehringer_2 said:

Reports from US intelligence that the Russians are buying artillery shells from N. Korea. The good part is that the clear implication is that China has declined to offer similar support.

Russia turns to N. Korea

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SO, this will be kinda nerdy humor but colleagues and i were riffing on the idea that Xi had to keep everything cool until after the CCP congress in October.  We decided it would be an excellent idea for a teen exploitation movie. 

"An entire nation is mired in rigid orthodoxy until one kid showed them how to really party.  This Christmas, Timothy Chalomet stars in Planet Footloose: How I stopped worrying and learned how to dance"

I'd accept Doctor Footloose if you weren't worried about hitting that too on the nose.

Edited September 7, 2022 by romad1

[romad1]

More humor

 

[romad1]

Hearing a lot of this today

Ukraine is having a good day 

[1984Echoes]

And Ukraine is also back to capturing Russian colonels and generals...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukrainian-troops-capture-russian-army-175100801.html

[romad1]

I hope this is true

 

[gehringer_2]

  On 9/7/2022 at 8:25 PM, romad1 said:

I hope this is true

 

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Obviously you can't trust the picture you get from tweets and wire services in near real time, but even given that, there seems to be scant evidence of any Russian C&C capability to respond.

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[romad1]

  On 9/7/2022 at 9:12 PM, gehringer_2 said:

Obviously you can't trust the picture you get from tweets and wire services in near real time, but even given that, there seems to be scant evidence of any Russian C&C capability to respond.

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I’m optimistic based on a lot of different threads of data

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[romad1]

This is very cool if true

If they seize this rail junction, the Russians are really screwed.

[1984Echoes]

This also points out that, not only are they retaking territory, but the Russians are abandoning equipment to flee (where they can); but where they cannot retreat, the Ukrainians are taking a significant number of POW's... especially on the western side of the Dnieper River, near Kherson or Dnipro region, since they took out all the bridges as a means of retreating:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukrainian-troops-capture-russian-army-175100801.html

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 8, 2022 by 1984Echoes

[gehringer_2]

  On 9/8/2022 at 3:45 PM, 1984Echoes said:

This also points out that, not only are they retaking territory, but the Russians are abandoning equipment to flee (where they can); but where they cannot retreat, the Ukrainians are taking a significant number of POW's... especially on the western side of the Dnieper River, near Kherson or Dnipro region, since they took out all the bridges as a means of retreating:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukrainian-troops-capture-russian-army-175100801.html

 

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And Putin is out there with his "If you don't start being nice to us we will just extend great Russian victory even further."🤷‍♀️

[1984Echoes]

"We've lost nothing."

"Not one single thing."

 

As he cuts off all oil and gas to Europe because right now he is... desperate.

[romad1]

  On 9/8/2022 at 6:57 PM, 1984Echoes said:

"We've lost nothing."

"Not one single thing."

 

As he cuts off all oil and gas to Europe because right now he is... desperate.

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They are running with their tails between their legs as a goodwill gesture.

[1984Echoes]

  On 9/8/2022 at 8:16 PM, romad1 said:

They are running with their tails between their legs as a goodwill gesture.

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They want to save civilian casualties and stuff...

[romad1]

too good to check

 

[romad1]

Belarus likely has more volunteer troops fighting on behalf of Ukraine than Russia

 

[romad1]

 

[romad1]

just the most Russian thing ever