When the Leopards and Offensive Guards are over, there will be an opportunity for Russia to demonstrate its strike potential. The time for Putin to show his "strike potential" was before Ukraine got Leopards and Patriots and Himarses and all that other stuff. And he failed miserably. You are clearly unfair to Putin's strategic genius. There are numerous problems in implementing a special military operation in Ukraine, but the initial flexibility of this excellent strategy forgives them all! The current position of Russia looks extremely advantageous, although of course it could be much better. You can always do something better in an imperfect real world. There is no advantage for Russia in this position where Ukraine is getting modern NATO weapons and Putin's best tank is a "modernized" T72 and his fake hypersonic wunderwaffe provides target practice for Patriots. Obviously if he could have hit Ukraine with Armatas and SU-57s last summer he'd have his victory parade in Lviv by now, right? But Russia's tzars always leaned heavily on meat grinder "strategy" rather than technology and Putin has convinced his fascist fanbase that he's a strategic genius so they'll forgive everything. In terms of GDP percentage, NATO has a significant advantage over Russia, but fortunately this is not a competition in terms of the percentage of GDP. Himars are beautiful, I think this is a very good volley fire system, one of the best in the world, maybe the best. And what are these Himars doing now, why, for example, are they not massively shelling Russian positions in the Orekhovo or Lobkovo region, taking advantage of the firing range? Where are the systems for remote demining, why do armored columns of Ukraine move along the roads during the day, where they can be easily detected and covered with artillery or shot with ATGMs from front-line aviation? Why are there no anti-mine trawls on Leopards? The Armed Forces of Ukraine disappoint me with the mediocrity of their counteroffensive, falling into a mediocre frontal onslaught. Perhaps Zaluzhny was really seriously shell-shocked in May and he was removed from control, but I don’t see the handwriting of a talented general in the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. And NATO is not in a position to help Ukraine here, because NATO generals themselves do not have experience in conducting large-scale military operations, they studied from textbooks for local anti-terrorist operations. NATO instructors at European training grounds can prepare another million Ukrainians for the Offensive Guards Two (if they find so many willing ones) and they will all be defeated. And all the Leopards and Bradleys will also burn in the endless steppes of Ukraine. But let's see how events develop, I think Ukraine has now activated about a third of its strategic offensive reserve, a critical situation will arise when less than half of the reserves remain. If Ukraine does not break through the front line within a week, the situation may unfold for it in the most unfavorable dramatic way. It seems Zelensky is already very nervous. You're coping really well, keep it up. Remember the rule of two walls when your city starts getting liberated. |
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When the Leopards and Offensive Guards are over, there will be an opportunity for Russia to demonstrate its strike potential. The time for Putin to show his "strike potential" was before Ukraine got Leopards and Patriots and Himarses and all that other stuff. And he failed miserably. Best he can hope for now is some sort of stalemate but having only ~10% worth of NATO GDP he will eventually lose even if he somehow manages to ramp up production of 1970s soviet military equipment. |
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Meanwhile, the Ukrainian counter-offensive that has not yet begun seems to be going badly.
So when is the Russian victory parade happening in Kyiv? Why no parade in Bakhmut, such a great victory, no? |
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Hi Suchmoon, great to see you around after so long on this thread.
Thanks. Good to see you still holding the fort of sanity against the badeckers. [...]
Or Ukrainians could just stay away from the river and not attempt to cross it, and there hasn't been much indication of them planning to do that (the crossing) aside from some insane ramblings in Z-channels. Honestly at this point it almost seems that Occam's razor would point to the aged damaged Soviet-era dam simply failing but obviously both sides are eager to blame each other because that's just how it goes. But if it was an explosion then it's 99% Russians because physics. You can't himars a fucking dam LOL. |
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Oh, Ukraine has not captured any city in 3 days. the offensive has failed!!!
Ah, see, if russians vacate Shebekino, Belgorod, and Moscow voluntarily - this won't count as capturing. And if they wash Nova Kashovka into the Black Sea - this won't count either. Putin has outsmarted everyone again. |
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Who are you, why do you call yourself "satoshi", and why are you spamming your book across multiple boards?
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I've seen ChatGPT spit out some questionable English grammar. You can probably even ask it to make some poorly-Englished texts.
At the end of the day I think we'll lose this battle either way. AI bots will get better, humans will get tired. Ideally mods should have been deleting low value barely-on-topic generic waffle posts anyway. If that were the case then AI wouldn't represent much of an issue. If someone puts in enough effort into coaching the AI to write a good useful text (basically using it to do the google/wiki/etc legwork) that's fair game IMO. But if your regular shitposter just asks AI to write a generic post in this thread then it would stand out like any other sigshitpost and should be deleted.
Keep in mind that we don't need to catch every single shitposter/AI bot/etc. With the evil fee and whatnot it should be enough to just start banning the shittiest ones consistently and make it not worth it for them. I doubt that will happen though, so... then what? Red trust on suspicion of AI usage?
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The war won't have happened if the US and some western countries have kept to their promise of not expanding NATO towards Russian borders. And moreover, both Ukraine and Russia are brothers, just in arms. Russia is simply trying to survive hostile NATO policies.
Poor Putin being bullied by evil NATO... except instead of standing up to the bully he's trying to beat up his "brother". Russian family values. To be fair, NATO was formed to secure peace in Europe, countering the threat posed at the time by the Soviet Union. Why would such pact continue not only to exist, but to evolve AND spread eastward to Russia's borders past the Soviet Union collapse?
Because Russia is still a threat as proven comprehensively by this invasion and all the other shit it's done since the collapse of the USSR. Can you comprehend why Russia doesn't like that?
Because it has a demented wannabe-dictator who wants to rebuild the Soviet empire and NATO is kinda in the way. |
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Missiles, yeah, it's not endless thing and considering that they don't make such massive attacks against Ukraine like they used before may be indicator that they can't produce it enough. But tanks, it won't end anytime soon. Recently they took out T-54/55 from storages (post WW2 tanks). Estimated numbers that they had 500-600 such tanks in reserve and storages. What's next? T-44 and T-34?
Tanks may not disappear entirely (they do make a hundred or so T90s a year), but there is already a significant shortage even with the T62s and T55s being unpickled. First Ukrainian sources started reporting a few months ago that Russians are creating entire infantry battalions equipped mostly with transports (often not even armored vehicles but crap like "buhanka") and throwing those at the front line. Basically "meat". Now even Russian "voyenkors" are whining about it so it's mostly likely true. Then you have tactical geniuses like the one who decided to attack Vuhledar and they lose half of their annual tank production in one battle. |
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Because Putin still didn't purge all oligarchs that were plundering it and transferring money to the West
You mean the great geo-strategist genius who doubled the length of Russia's border with NATO hasn't been able to fix Russia in 23 years? Shocking. Number of billionaires in Russia when Putin started his promising career of a genocidal dictator: 0 Number of billionaires in Russia today: 100+ (due to sanctions might be down to ~80 by some estimates) What a great purge of oligarchs. That'll teach them. If you plunder Russia it must be done thusly:  |
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I would not say exactly "karma". A known centre of propaganda and a gathering of people that, not being the army officially, but clearly part of the war effort in terms of spreading mis-information and pro-Z propaganda, and probably directly involved in cyberthreats... sounds to me like a perfectly valid war target.
I guess war is no longer than patriotic and marvellous when you know they can blow you ass in St Petersburg right under the podcaster chairs of the "keyboard patriots division". Alas, it will take many more people's lives in both sides to get to the peace that should have never been broken.
Given how many high-profile individuals Putin's regime killed in elaborate ways (falling out of windows, poison, explosives, beating, disappearing, or just old plain shooting on the street) I'd say chances of "vladlen" falling victim of some MOD/FSB/PMC conflict are higher than Ukrainian conspiracy. Despite being an utter pro-war nutjob he was quite critical of the MOD in particular. Which would be even better... I mean Ukrainians could do a few attacks like that, but Russian power structures fighting each other could inflict much more damage on themselves. Fingers crossed. |
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I'll never speak ill of fire hydrants and chimneys ever again.
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Great idea. Anything that makes it easier for sockpuppeting and account-farming little shits to spam the forum should be implemented as soon as possible, like tomorrow.
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who will replace the sacked engineers? Definitely AI will handle their task.
Definitely not. The article doesn't say that, none of the other news reports about these layoffs say that, and there isn't really a production-ready AI capable of replacing a software engineer, let alone any engineer that needs to handle a physical task like plugging in a network cable. |
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Do you think there were no missiles at all, and the CNN, citing Yuriy Ignat, a representative of the Ukrainian Air Force command, published a lie?  Sorry, I didn't realize this attack from 3 weeks ago is the one that supposedly hit the bunker. Ok, so poor generals didn't get as many yachts as usual, but where is the 400ft crater? Surely there must be satellite pictures from the glorious Russian Aerospace Forces? |
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Nowhere does the article say that these people have been replaced by AI. So cut the alarmist bullshit and perhaps try to make yourself useful in a way that you can't be replaced by a chatbot. Become a plumber. Or an AI engineer.
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I do not rule out that the Russian generals are so stupid that they fired six hypersonic missiles at the same time (more than a whole year from the start of the operation) simply because they can, and there was never any bunker there.
Or they didn't fire any missiles at all because no money was left over from buying yachts and paying rent for their kids in Dubai. You know, the things that have been documented quite well. Unlike the 400ft deep crater filled with corpses of NATO generals. |
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I've been embarrassed for this country (usa) ever since that clown got elected, and now he just won't go away.
The sooner this pos shyster fades into oblivion in the political theater, the better for this country.
I honestly don't understand why the republican party cannot just wash their hands of this failed player and back a real candidate that has maybe a little bit of integrity and knows how to spell.
Oh yeah... "the moronic uneducated cult of Trump base"
The republican party has been cultivating this base for decades and Trump is a perfect match for it. The system works as designed. Too bad the GOP "designers" were morons too but that's a whole other story. |
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Of course, we will never know the details of the incident, because no one recognizes the presence of these NATO officials in Ukraine at that moment.
What happened to all the NATO generals and biolabs in Azovstal bunkers? How come we stopped hearing about it as soon as Russians took Mariupol? I'm guessing this new 400ft-deep NATO bunker is made of the same type of bullshittium. |
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Looks like I missed the party unless this is one of those weeks-long orgies.
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