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I chukkled.Quote:
Originally Posted by ötzi
Rusky nation create new economics keep war machine lubed. Get rich quick, dead big prize! "deathonomics" destroy you nazi scum
¨it is remarkable how Russia continues to absorb such staggering losses (it needs to recruit 30,000-40,000 new soldiers each month to fill the lines). To put them into context, Russia’s losses to date are on a par with the entirety of Britain’s losses in the second world war. They are approaching America’s losses in the same conflict, when its population was a similar size to Russia’s today.
Having lost most of the mainly professional army that set out to defeat Ukraine over three years ago, the Kremlin has come up with an almost entirely novel way of replenishing manpower at the front without risking social destabilisation. It combines the ideological militarisation of society, by convincing most Russians that they are engaged in a war against an imperialistic NATO and that there is glory in death, with increasingly lavish contracts for those willing to sign up. “Putin believes that the Afghan War is one of the main reasons that the Soviet Union collapsed,” says Aleksandr Golts of the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies. “He has come up with a revolution in Russian military thinking. I call it ‘market mobilisation’, others have called it deathonomics.
The sums being paid to soldiers, the majority of whom come from poorer provincial towns and are in their thirties and forties, are genuinely life-changing for many families. By the end of last year, according to Elena Racheva, a Russian former journalist who is now a researcher at Oxford University, the signing on bonus had reached 1.19m roubles ($15,000), while the average annual pay for a contract soldier was between 3.5m and 5.2m roubles, or up to five times the average salary. If a contract soldier is killed, his family will receive between 11m and 19m roubles.
The impact can be seen in small towns across Russia where recruitment has been most brisk. New houses are being built, smarter cars are turning up on the streets, and nail bars and gyms are opening.
For now, believes Ms Racheva, Russian society accepts that the system is an alternative to full mobilisation. There is 88% approval of contract soldiers receiving money and benefits for going to war “instead of us”. For the families of the dead and injured, huge payouts “alleviate…their grief, such as feelings of injustice … and allow society to avoid moral responsibility for the casualties and injuries they endure,” Ms Racheva wrote. In other words, the contract is not just between the soldier and the state. The question which nobody can answer is how long that contract will hold.
https://www.economist.com/internatio...ies-in-ukraine
Ten things Rod doesn't want people to read from a Russian via Telegram—a Russian realist on the results of Putin's war:
1 - Russia destroyed, not liberated, Donbass
2 - Russian troops are still stuck in Ukrainian villages that have been wiped off the face of the earth
3 - Black Sea Fleet is destroyed
4 - Parts of Russian Kursk region remain occupied
5 - Russian economy is at the level of Zimbabwe
6 - Russian troops thrown out of Karabakh and Syria
7 - International image of Russia is trampled into the mud
8 - Russian & mercenary army has hundreds of thousands of KIAs and almost a million casualties
9 - Russia is filled with migrants from central Asia (who no longer migrate in order to avoid conscription)
10 - The country in general is complete bullshit
No wonder the country and its supporters are all alcoholics
bullshit baffles brains, bro. russians got their zones zflooded long ago, and quietly acquiesced their agency to the first father figure willing to exploit the frailties and fears of the poorly-educated.
Put it that way HA and ima start alcoholism.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink alcohol with you just because you rationalize that as long as you’re not imbibing alone you don’t have a serious drinking problem
Let's hope that horse isn't in Russia or America. Lonely bastard.
Ukraine is suffering from repeat cruise missile strikes on infrastructure by Russian heavy bombers that are defensively covered by AWACS. Russia has few of these bombers and basically no ability to replace them. Russia also needs a chunk of them for other purposes.
For almost no resources expended, Ukraine just took out a huge chunk of irreplaceable Russian bombers and AWACS, the chunk that Russia effectively had available to task to the Ukraine effort instead of their other needs. Russia knows that if it continues to use bombers for cruise missile strikes, they are now not protected by AWACS, and if not shot down in the air, will be the target of further drone strikes. Russia knows if they stop using their bombers to attack Ukraine, then Ukraine will focus their efforts on things other than the remaining Russian bomber fleet.
And today Ukraine attacked the Kerch Strait bridge with what looked like a sea drone, although it is reportedly open again.
Beijing backs Russia. Chinese citizens cheer Ukraine. That’s a crack in the system:
Chinese Social media applauds Ukraine's strikes on Russian airbases, ridiculing Russia as "clueless and crumbling" – a "mindless and weak" "dying empire".
https://kyivinsider.com/chinese-soci...ocking-moscow/
Underwater drones with >1ton of tnt.Quote:
Originally Posted by summit
Keep in mind that when we crack the concrete and expose the structural steel of the bridge foundation piles to salt water, we haveve effectively cut the steel holding up the entire bridge.
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Not only do Trump/Vance have no cards, they have no underwear.
Depends how you define underwear
Wall Street Journal publishes an editorial entitled, "Ukraine Will Win This War" heres an image of it to read if you like: https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/com...nion/#lightbox
The new drone videos of the Soviet Air Force bomber elimination posted today is wild. Methodical AI or patient pilot?
Link?
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The drones were AI trained to attack the area where the fuel is stored. NY times has an in depth explanation of the operation.
The longer of the videos is in this story:Quote:
Originally Posted by neufox47
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraines...egic-aircraft/
What were the Russians expecting that made them scatter all those sliced olives on their planes? Is that to make molotov cocktails bounce off or what? Looks like it smoked while burning.
They look like automobile or truck tires, hence would burn. Not sure why they were on the wings.Quote:
Originally Posted by Meconium
If I were President I'd end this Musk / Trump war in a day
I'm guessing ballast.Quote:
Originally Posted by Johnny H
Those two are like kids fighting in a park.Quote:
Originally Posted by MultiVerse
Gotta let em fight for a while before you pull them apart on day one…
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Tires are placed to confuse image-matching seekers and AI targeting systems on cruise missiles and drones.</p>
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<a href="https://www.twz.com/air/russia-covering-its-aircraft-in-tires-is-about-befuddling-image-matching-seekers-u-s-military-confirms">https://www.twz.com/air/russia-covering-its-aircraft-in-tires-is-about-befuddling-image-matching-seekers-u-s-military-confirms</a></p>
Man wtf is the p stuff
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Thanks! It's obviously working super well, as should probably be expected when you park them in normal airplane parking spots by a big, obvious, runway that everyone can find on Google Maps.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jumper Bones
Seems like the main result of that is telegraphing to Russia's enemies that they have systems that get confused by tires and they think everyone else does, too.
Do you think the "rust" on the A-50's is supposed to work that way, too? The whole thing gives the impression that maybe not all of these planes are in frequent use.
I believe the A50's where pick & pull for replacement parts
Exactly. Russia doesn’t have a central aircraft boneyard like the US military does, so they do it at each airfield, lots of derelict airframes to source parts from. Just a different approach. And yeah, those A-50s appear to be stored aircraft.
TACO, fortnight: 14 days since the last threat to get tough on Putin after two weeks...
He’s busy distracting everyone from the elon epstein files tweets
Kadafi's stick up the ass should be Putin's drone
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A Russian Air Force Su-25 pilot accidentally shot down his wingman with unguided rockets over Donetsk Oblast earlier this week:
https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1933549544446243080
And, last week, a 1980s era Ukrainian F16 that shot down one of Russia's modern Su-35s
Russian Top Gun never gets old:
https://x.com/Bricktop_NAFO/status/1932918262482022461
The sheer fact that Israel is owning the skies over Tehran demonstrates how easy it should be for Europe to institute a no fly zone for Ukraine considering that most of Russia's AD has been shitcanned.
Iranian and Russian drone production being hit plus Iran now bogarting missile and drone deliveries means this Israel v Iran this is super good news for Ukraine!
All tied to Austria a bit. Vienna the getway to the east.
Exciting watch imo. A bit of 007 in real.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y8i-5907ky4
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Fred Grandy, a 61-year-old volunteer from Oregon, died in Kyiv during Russia’s massive drone and missile strike this week.
He came to Ukraine in May to help clear rubble after Russian attacks. He felt the U.S. had turned its back on Ukraine and wanted to do something.
Mr. Grandy told his sister just days ago that he was exactly where he needed to be — helping people who refused to give up. He planned to stay for months.
Instead, a Russian missile hit the building where he volunteered. He became one of 28 victims of the attack.
Source:NYT
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Fred looked pretty fit at 61. RIP to all the American and foreign volunteers who've died in Putin's war