If there are pro Russian posters who can explain the Russian strategy and tactics, I would appreciate that too. bt There are no Russian tactics to explain because they don’t have any. I mean, they flood the battlefield with an excess of troops in hopes that their advantage in numbers will prevail, ...
Jump to postWow, this is really breaking news. What kind of aircraft was it? Apparently an Embraer Legacy. Three crew and seven passengers. Russian civil aviation authority says that Prigozin was listed as a passenger. On a way from Moscow to St. Petersburg. Sorry, no link in English. https://www.iltalehti.fi/...
Jump to postPity that the US is not a signatory. If we were a signatory, then we might have to send Bush. Potentially even Biden, who voted to bomb and invade Iraq as a powerful senator. Which was also a war crime. Interesting thing is that ICC is not interesting of an attack war but only some children abducti...
Jump to postUnfortunately several posters have attacked me while I only tried to give an experts view and just a few words of my own. When there is an impass, just take your lumps and move on. Isn't that against what a forum like this is for? I'm not an expert so I don't know what happened. I just posted one e...
Jump to post"Exactly! The explosion clearly happens well after two vehicles have gone past, but before the next one arrives, the area. Quoting a quote, so bear with me. There was a discussion on twitter chat on the posibility of camera frame scanning rate causing the truck to appear a split second after t...
Jump to postI'm not an expert of explosives (a little learned when I was in the army) but I doubt anyone here is an expert of military grade explosives. Maybe we should listen those who are verifiable real experts. Yes, we should listen to experts but expert analysis builds a case that has a high likelihood of...
Jump to postI'm not an expert of explosives (a little learned when I was in the army) but I doubt anyone here is an expert of military grade explosives. Maybe we should listen those who are verifiable real experts. When the "verifiable expert" on explosives simply ignores the fact that there just was...
Jump to postOne Finnish "expert" may think so, but there are plenty of reasons to believe otherwise - back by careful observation and study of the video. I am betting it wasn't the truck; BBC did a good rundown: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63192757 There is no need to bet. Explain why the e...
Jump to postI have to say, I do not understand the persistence of the "truck bomb" theory when presented with the factual video evidence. What truck is anyone pointing to as having done this? It is just not possible based on the facts seen in videos that are readily available for review. Also, has an...
Jump to postCompelling argument from non-Russian expert pointing toward truck bomb. https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1579480666282287104?t=fN4uTiiE23bee7kkSt5gow&s=19 bt Wrote about Tyry's comments earlier and also lately. Of course he can be wrong but at least he explains what he think happened ans ...
Jump to postIt was a truck bomb. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-juPsPG6FE According to a former Finnish army explosive expert it was a truck and high class explosive with metals like aluminium, magnesium and thermite. There was a small difference with the explosion and the road in height. That is typical wh...
Jump to postThe videos seem to be pretty clear that it was not a truck bomb! Are those truck supposed to have been inspected before crossing the bridge? If it was a truck bomb,bit would have been a pretty big bribe or an insiders job. Indeed, that would make those checkpoints pretty much moot. From the video t...
Jump to postSure, but the video only lasted a few seconds so it is inconclusive to me. Chose to use his left arm or could not use his right arm? I honestly don't know, but it just looks strange batting away mosquitoes with one arm. We can only hope . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg3HgN11nG0 https://www....
Jump to postHere is an interesting article how sanctions don't work. USA buys more oil from Saudi-Arabia instead from Russia and Saudis buy that oil for their own use from Russia. Also about more Russian oil to Asia and Africa. Sorry, behind pay wall. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exclusive-saudi-arab...
Jump to postjohns624 wrote:THS214 wrote:No, I didn't. I was speaking of African countries standing beside Russia.I don't stand beside Russia! Most likely you didn't mean that.
How about an African who can't speak different languages and don't have any formal training? The example I gave matches your question. He did not have any formal training until he came to the US. All he had was his raw physical abilities and the intelligence to make the best of his opportunity. As ...
Jump to postWhy do you think that Africans want to move elsewhere? The answer is simple, as shown by the example I gave. Some travel abroad to obtain opportunity to succeed, make money and return home if they chose, and improve their home land. An ex neighbor was a doctor from middle east trained in the Soviet...
Jump to postI wish that the grain problem can be resolved but both Russia and Ukraina uses it for their gain. Can you elaborate, please? How is Ukraine is using the grain problem for its gain? First of all we should see that both Russia and Ukraine is playing the same game. Neither of them cares of the famine....
Jump to postYou know that a lot of Africans have been studied in Russia? Sure, many have studied in Ukraine as well. But then compare that to the number of Africans immigrants who travel to the US and Europe to study and work . . . There is no comparison. I recall back in the 1990s my local NBA team made it to...
Jump to postIn that case, while it may seem awfully cold, their problem isn't my problem. That's not just awfully cold, it's pure racism. While it's not your problem means that you don't care that a lot of African people die. I wish that the grain problem can be resolved but both Russia and Ukraina uses it for...
Jump to postWhy should a typical African prefer to emigrate anywhere? For most of them where they live is the preferred place. That was not my question. The choice was not to stay where they were vs. leaving for a better opportunity. The question was whether they would prefer the US/Europe (the West) vs Russia...
Jump to postIn that case, while it may seem awfully cold, their problem isn't my problem. While it's not your problem means that you don't care that a lot of African people die. I wish that the grain problem can be resolved but both Russia and Ukraina uses it for their gain. I think that it is worth noting wha...
Jump to postAfricans don't think like Westerners as well as they don't have the same media. Also Africans believe the Russian approach instead of Ukrainian or West. Two questions: 1) Given a choice would a typical African prefer to emigrate to "the West" or to Russia? 2) The Russian approach is of a ...
Jump to postI was indeed expecting this. The reasoning is this : would it be stupid ? Yes ? Then Russia will do it. It's as if Russia doesn't like that some African countries aren't blaming it for starving, they want to remove any doubt. You have the wrong approach. You should not see it as a Westerner but as ...
Jump to postIf I understand the mentality being assigned to the Russians on this thread, this was expected, they agreed to allow shipments then sent some missiles into the city to let the Ukrainians know that they should be grateful to mother Russia for this gift. After all, since they used a couple of their p...
Jump to posthttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62231936 So now Lavrov is using the threat posed by Western weapons to push deeper into Ukrainian territory in order to create a buffer zone. Russian army is not able to do that. They move slowly but nothing more.The way I see it is that its a reason to stop ga...
Jump to postLooks like EU is thinking that gas from Russia will be seized fully. We shall see what will happen. For example: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/20/europe- ... n-gas.html
Jump to postIs a Harpoons range longer than their shipboard SAM's? Maybe hire some ex-NATO guys to fly the P-3's. Well, if momentum is for Ukraine to get F-16s as is currently being worked in Congress, then you can launch the Harpoons from that platform. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/plan-to-train-ukra...
Jump to postWell, if you want to take a holistic view of the situation, Russia could easily fly in some of their comrades from Cuba who have been living under sanctions for decades and still manage to not only have the necessities of life but actually thrive in some areas. The expertise if used could be valuab...
Jump to post3+ months after sanctions were imposed on Russia, how effective are they proving to be? Has civil aviation taken a big hit with Airbus and Boeing support withdrawn? What about oil and gas production without western expertise and spares for equipment used? Clearly a lot of foreign consumer retailers...
Jump to postGreat. The president now tells what the military has to do. What could possibly go wrong? That is one of the job description of a president. Set strategic goals and then the Generals figure how to do it. One of the strategic goals have been telegraphed for a couple of weeks now. Its getting Ukraine...
Jump to postThe Ukrainians are openly talking about moving to liberate Ukraine's coastline: https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1546225685655592960 Reznikov: Zelensky had ordered Ukraine’s army to liberate Ukraine's coast. Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said in an interview that President Volodymyr Z...
Jump to postIt seems like very few US companies offer true pensions now - it’s all 401k accounts in my part of the business world. Which in the long run is better for employees in either case because either company goes bust or they find a way to reneg on their pension obligations. IMHO pensions in the private...
Jump to postVicenza wrote:NYPECO wrote:Knowing nothing about how this legal process works, why is it filled in the United States when the company is based in Sweden?
Because Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US is not actually bankruptcy as it would be in Europe.
Lysychansk has been abandoned. The new front lines are seen here: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1lscRK6ehG0l2V-XvJ16nsyblMsQ&ll=48.83180739823443%2C38.503708169924344&z=11 For the first time in four months the above site provided no update yesterday, and this update was poste...
Jump to postNo need to invade Crimea. Long range rockets and Harpoons can make Sevastopol useless. Then they can abandon Crimea just like they abandon Snake Island. You are assuming Russia took over Crimea for the ports. They did not. They took it for the economic exclusion zone. Or more to the point: the blac...
Jump to postRead the article. Nothing military significant was going on in that factory It was poor intelligence, amplified by old hardware and likely bad tactical decisions (I mean if the RuAF is so awesome why should they use a 60s vintage guided missile at the edge of their range when they could have shot f...
Jump to postThey did not. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2022/06/29/russias-kremenchuk-claims-versus-the-evidence/ https://www.bellingcat.com/app/uploads/2022/06/Screenshot-2022-06-28-at-16.48.51.png Only one missile hit the mall, the other hit some half a kilometer North of the mall. The factory Russian MoD ...
Jump to postEasy: they missed, malfunctioned or relied on bad intelligence. Russia have tight controls on foreign news coming for the common Russian citizen. Everything about foreign news they show up in their news is carefully filtered and curated. An offhand joke barely registers. Missed couple hundred kilom...
Jump to postUnfortunately that Nato, Finland, Sweden and Türkiye is not moved forward as many think. There is a memorandum, nothing more. We shall still wait what will happen. https://www.presidentti.fi/en/press-release/statement-by-president-the-republic-of-finland-sauli-niinisto-on-28-june-2022/ Finland and S...
Jump to postThat works for your Putin hurt ego assumption too. Ockham's razor here says someone, somewhere massively f'ed up and now Russia is running media damage control (they were hitting a weapons depot nearby and the fire spread). Your Ockham's razor doesn't work here as you base it the way people in the ...
Jump to postOckham's razor requires that you know how Russians think. After months of conflict in the Ukraine, as well as conflicts in amongst others Syria and Chechnya, the Russian thought process has become quite clear. They always go for civilian targets, the more casualties the merrier. The shopping mall a...
Jump to postEasy: they missed, malfunctioned or relied on bad intelligence. Russia have tight controls on foreign news coming for the common Russian citizen. Everything about foreign news they show up in their news is carefully filtered and curated. An offhand joke barely registers. Missed couple hundred kilom...
Jump to postSo you think Putin established a last-minute strike on a civilian structure because he took offense of a comment instead of, say, the multiple ammunition stockpiles or Russian soldiers in Snake Island getting blown up by Western-supplied weapons systems? That's a bold statement, to say the least. I...
Jump to postjohns624 wrote:THS214 wrote:No, it was directed at the gentleman from the Netherlands.johns624 wrote:So you know that those rockets were launched at the shopping mall because Trudeau and Johnson made fun of Putin?
If that question in to me then of course I don't know for sure.
Missile strike against shopping center is a different missile attack. Valid point. But then why did the Russian give the excuse that they were targeting something near by? Too much of a logical exercise for me to wrap my head around bt That is Russian modus operandi. Their excuses are well know of ...
Jump to postSo you know that those rockets were launched at the shopping mall because Trudeau and Johnson made fun of Putin? And my point is, what it it is true? Should it discourage more jokes on Putin? It would be the same as stopping HIMARs shipment because Putin hit the shopping mall because the HIMARs kil...
Jump to postIf that's the case, then Putin just made himself look even weaker in the eyes of the (western) world. The people who got killed/injured and their families may have another opinion. And do you really think Putin does care about what the world is thinking? Looking at the population of all countries, ...
Jump to postYeah, sure, it’s because Boris and Justin made fun of Vlad that a shopping mall was bombed. This strike would have happened regardless. Was probably planned days ago. So, don’t thank Boris and Justin, thank that little piece of excrement in Moscow. You clearly don't understand the Russian way of th...
Jump to postYou clearly don't understand the Russian way of thinking. But I think we do. This way of thinking is how most bullies act. They can't beat up on the strong when they get frustrated, so they beat up on the weak. Of course they would beat up on the weak at a drop of a hat, so walking on egg shell aro...
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