Is something going on in Ukraine?

[Cardboard55]

Kirby isn't showing much outrage, maybe we drifted into their airspace?

US drone, Russian fighter jet collide over Black Sea

The US military was forced to take down one of its own drones Tuesday after it collided with a Russian fighter jet over the Black Sea.

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We'll see what data gets released, could go either way

 

[Darayavaus]

According to our media, Russian jets have been blasted from the skies and dont dare show themselves. yet here are Russian fighters doing a routine sweep.

 

[GreenGO Juan]

That's literally retarded. Congrats.

thanks I try.

 

[theLBC]

 

[Cardboard55]

Well it bumped bank crashes from the lead story.

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The US summoned the Russian ambassador after an American drone was forced down by a Russian jet in the Black Sea. Plus, Ukraine's President Zelenskyy said the future of the conflict depends on the Bakhmut battle.

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Wonder how old the drone was. Says here we've got 300 of em.

General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper - Wikipedia

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[Darayavaus]

UAF forces massing near Bakhmut, preparing for a large scale counterattack.

 

[Cardboard55]

Meanwhile, at Creech drone pilot command...

 

[Sako man]

Humm, blown up underwater pipeline vs. bent drone prop with panties in twist defcon 1?

 

[GreenGO Juan]

UAF forces massing near Bakhmut, preparing for a large scale counterattack.

Heard they have around 40,000 mobilized.

 

[Cardboard55]

Heard they have around 40,000 mobilized.

If true, that would explain dinging the nearest ISR asset. Wonder if they can get a replacement on station quickly enough for the counterattack to proceed, or if they delay? Seriously doubt they'd go without that valuable real-time info. Hypothetically, of course.

 

[Sako man]

If true, that would explain dinging the nearest ISR asset. Wonder if they can get a replacement on station quickly enough for the counterattack to proceed, or if they delay? Seriously doubt they'd go without that valuable real-time info. Hypothetically, of course.

Think about it... holy shit! The amount of house to house, and building to building, is gonna be staggering. It's going to be bloody for both sides as H to H is an equalizer. This is probably Ukraines Stalingrad. Considering Russia has been using Wagner a lot, this is where they will bring in regulars as well too buffer for the offensive. Brace for the super bowl of events if this is accurate.

 

[Longshot231]

Think about it... holy shit! The amount of house to house, and building to building, is gonna be staggering. It's going to be bloody for both sides as H to H is an equalizer. This is probably Ukraines Stalingrad. Considering Russia has been using Wagner a lot, this is where they will bring in regulars as well too buffer for the offensive. Brace for the super bowl of events if this is accurate.

And the timing with the banks collapsing is more than coincidence.

 

[DarnYankeeUSMC]

Think about it... holy shit! The amount of house to house, and building to building, is gonna be staggering. It's going to be bloody for both sides as H to H is an equalizer. This is probably Ukraines Stalingrad. Considering Russia has been using Wagner a lot, this is where they will bring in regulars as well too buffer for the offensive. Brace for the super bowl of events if this is accurate.

The Russians have been using a proven strategy. Why would they change now? Sitting back and using artillery to do the job has worked. Nevermind the uke's getting 40K troops into the city without air support.
It may look like the road out of Kuwait

 

[GreenGO Juan]

Space X brought a Russia Astronaut home... Just think about that one.

 

[Cardboard55]

There are numerous tweets about a FORTE10, 11 & 12. They've become quite popular over the past weeks, being the most tracked aircraft on various flight tracking programs:



Prior video discussion of proximity of FORTE flights to Russian territory:



Gathering intel or bait? Maybe a little of both?

 

[theLBC]

The comments are the best

the russian pilot is a transexual, making the drone operators bigots and homophobes.

 

[Cardboard55]

Russian ambassador accuses U.S. of 'act of provocation'

The Russian ambassador has accused the US of an 'act of provocation' and claims its fighter did not hit a US drone that crashed into the Black Sea on Tuesday.

www.dailymail.co.uk

US media seems to be spiking the story, so...

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Also, most every .mil aircraft in or near Europe has gone dark. It's night there, so low traffic. Will see if things stay dark tomorrow.

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[Darayavaus]

Steve?

Stevey?

STEEVOOOO!

 

[Sako man]

Some crazy combat footage.

 

[Forgetful Coyote]

Some crazy combat footage.

Damn!
That dudes legit. You can tell from the decked out AK that he lifted off a dead Russian this aint his first time in the shit...

 

[GreenGO Juan]

Some crazy combat footage.

Is that a Halosun 510?

Those dastardly Chinese suppling Ukraine with optics

 

[GreenGO Juan]

a fine target given they were using hospitals as cover to shoot at us


you guys make me sick, you're no worse than lefty pos persons that despise our country. some of you try to twist everything and point out nothing but negatives for our great country. fking losers if you ask me

See that? That is a sniper sitting on top of a Hospital in Panama City after a Hurricane. They were put up there as some Idiots were trying to steal a Generator out of the parking lot.

Now, just consider this, stick with me as it might require you exercise a part of you brain not used... Say the Generator theft guy starts shooting back at the Sniper on the hospital roof top? Does mean the Sniper trying to protect the Hospital from thieves made the hospital a legit target?

Now lets equate this to the war zone. Guys in country were trying to protect their Hospital when a foreign government was invading their country( like the generator thieves). So now in the eyes of the Generator thieves the hospital is a legit target.

It's all about perspective.

Edit for spelling error

 

[NoDopes]

As for the comical "environmentally unsound," comment, they are begging for ridicule; what a bunch of clowns.

did they at least use the proper pronouns?

 

[lariat]

ZeroHedge

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This is how you say you are losing in Ukranian.

 

[Darayavaus]

 

[Longshot231]

ZeroHedge

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This is how you say you are losing in Ukranian.

But, but, but I thought the people cheerleading said they were bleeding Russia dry, ready to take Moscow and march on to Vladivostok.

 

[lariat]

But, but, but I thought the people cheerleading said they were bleeding Russia dry, ready to take Moscow and march on to Vladivostok.

Someone is getting ready to march, that's for sure. Defending aint marching. The Alamo was defended too.

It either starts to end or it starts to really ramp up with more NATO intervention. It seems like those are the only two options left unless I am missing something.

 

[Fig]

They're both conscripting. They're both stretching their logistics. The fact of the matter is that Ukraine is David to Russia's Goliath. In most respects Ukraine has 1/3 the resources of Russia pretty much across the board where it isn't a greater imbalance.
Ukraine vs Russia, Demographic Imbalance
The fact that they've fought the Bear for a year is impressive in and of itself depending on whether that's Russian incompetence and fecklessness or the Ukrainians unwillingness to be comrades. I wonder how many of those cheering for Putin would feel the same way if Boris rolled into their neighborhoods...

It looks like even where they've conquored the Russians still don't have control of the cities.

Ukraine’s battle against Russia in maps and charts: latest updates

A visual guide to the war

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[Charger442]

They're both conscripting. They're both stretching their logistics. The fact of the matter is that Ukraine is David to Russia's Goliath. In most respects Ukraine has 1/3 the resources of Russia pretty much across the board where it isn't a greater imbalance.
Ukraine vs Russia, Demographic Imbalance
The fact that they've fought the Bear for a year is impressive in and of itself depending on whether that's Russian incompetence and fecklessness or the Ukrainians unwillingness to be comrades. I wonder how many of those cheering for Putin would feel the same way if Boris rolled into their neighborhoods...

It looks like even where they've conquored the Russians still don't have control of the cities.

Ukraine’s battle against Russia in maps and charts: latest updates

A visual guide to the war

www.ft.com

my opinion is that Russia could end this anytime they want to. they are bleeding everyone in NATO dry and seeing who is taking a stand with Ukraine and what help they are sending. All the while they are ridding themselves of prisoners and using them as soldiers, sacrificing some cold war era outdated ordinance and trying to "look weak" while drawing out this cat and mouse game.

again, just victory is not Putin's only goal. id imagine turning a lot of NATO and other EU allies against the USA would be a goal for him. and he seems to be doing it, all the while getting cozier with China and Iran. W

 

[GreenGO Juan]

They're both conscripting. They're both stretching their logistics. The fact of the matter is that Ukraine is David to Russia's Goliath. In most respects Ukraine has 1/3 the resources of Russia pretty much across the board where it isn't a greater imbalance.
Ukraine vs Russia, Demographic Imbalance
The fact that they've fought the Bear for a year is impressive in and of itself depending on whether that's Russian incompetence and fecklessness or the Ukrainians unwillingness to be comrades. I wonder how many of those cheering for Putin would feel the same way if Boris rolled into their neighborhoods...

It looks like even where they've conquored the Russians still don't have control of the cities.

Ukraine’s battle against Russia in maps and charts: latest updates

A visual guide to the war

www.ft.com

Ukraine is not doing this alone. The only reason this is dragging on is because our country is funding it, and nato is supporting it.

With out that support this would have been over last year.

Russia is basically alone, no one is sending 100 billion a year to prop up their government and fund their military.

This has not been Ukraine vs Russia. Its Been Nato( through proxy) vs Russia.

 

[Darayavaus]

They're both conscripting. They're both stretching their logistics. The fact of the matter is that Ukraine is David to Russia's Goliath. In most respects Ukraine has 1/3 the resources of Russia pretty much across the board where it isn't a greater imbalance.
Ukraine vs Russia, Demographic Imbalance
The fact that they've fought the Bear for a year is impressive in and of itself depending on whether that's Russian incompetence and fecklessness or the Ukrainians unwillingness to be comrades. I wonder how many of those cheering for Putin would feel the same way if Boris rolled into their neighborhoods...

It looks like even where they've conquored the Russians still don't have control of the cities.

Ukraine’s battle against Russia in maps and charts: latest updates

A visual guide to the war

www.ft.com

lol. "Ukraine is impressive". what a bunch of bullshit. we gave Ukraine more military hardware and cash in the last year alone than Russia has spent in the last 3. Then you have the real time fire control via our satellites and spy aircraft. Russia has nowhere near the capabilities that the US is providing to our proxy. This is the independent Russian David against the globalist NATO Goliath.

I wonder how you will feel when battle hardened UAF contractors start going door to door in small town USA a couple years from now. They'll shoot your ass, rape your daughters and steal your stuff so the police can just watch and not get their hands dirty.

 

[lariat]

They're both conscripting. They're both stretching their logistics. The fact of the matter is that Ukraine is David to Russia's Goliath. In most respects Ukraine has 1/3 the resources of Russia pretty much across the board where it isn't a greater imbalance.
Ukraine vs Russia, Demographic Imbalance
The fact that they've fought the Bear for a year is impressive in and of itself depending on whether that's Russian incompetence and fecklessness or the Ukrainians unwillingness to be comrades. I wonder how many of those cheering for Putin would feel the same way if Boris rolled into their neighborhoods...

It looks like even where they've conquored the Russians still don't have control of the cities.

Ukraine’s battle against Russia in maps and charts: latest updates

A visual guide to the war

www.ft.com

You may be correct on the cities. You wanna NOT bet that after this is over with Kiev they go back and begin mop-up? Anyone with half a brain would get that done ASAP. I mean, hell, the troops and equipment are already there, might as well finish the job and establish a holding force that is armed with up to date munitions, cUAS, etc. Russia will use that land as a buffer zone and will control it accordingly, including the nuke plants.

 

[theLBC]

 

[Darayavaus]

yep, I can't link it from here, but I'm reading that the Russians got it and are very happy with their find.

 

[theLBC]

why are we sending billions when tomatoes work,

 

[GreenGO Juan]

why are we sending billions when tomatoes work,

Umm that is not an mq-9

Its an MQ-1 which was retired a few years ago.

 

[GreenGO Juan]

if you missed it.

 

[Sako man]

if you missed it.

That diversity hire and the other communist just spewed every lie in their Ukraine play book, and yet totally avoided the truth, in that we are just about in a direct war with Russia levied by us.

 

[Cardboard55]

Umm that is not an mq-9

Its an MQ-1 which was retired a few years ago.

 

[UKDslayer]

 

[GreenGO Juan]

If you's guy wana make meme's at least use the right airframe.

 

[GreenGO Juan]

That diversity hire and the other communist just spewed every lie in their Ukraine play book, and yet totally avoided the truth, in that we are just about in a direct war with Russia levied by us.

Poor innocent Ukraine... they were just about to go to College and cure cancer, until those evil Ruskies came along. They are YES men that are too afraid to lose their careers... can't you see their worry... they have a lot invested into this ride.

 

[Darayavaus]

"tonemanlives" needs to go invent some kind of device and then fuck himself in the ass with it.

 

[GreenGO Juan]

"tonemanlives" needs to go invent some kind of device and then fuck himself in the ass with it.

 

[Cardboard55]

Is that from the F35 cockpit?

 

[kortik]

Interesting, as usual, from D. MacGregor:

 

[Forgetful Coyote]

Hey steve

Go Russia

 

[Forgetful Coyote]

LOL dont forget this hilarity

 

[GreenGO Juan]

Is that from the F35 cockpit?

Movie, Burn after reading.

If that was the seat in the F-35 I don't think the air force would have a pilot shortage.

 

[Cardboard55]

LOL dont forget this hilarity

Holy **** I hope that trainwreck is archived in it's entirety for all eternity in so many places it can never be deleted. The off the charts cringe that is NATO should serve as a signpost for all time that leaders are not connected to reality in any remote way.