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[Deranged Rhino]

 

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17 minutes ago, Deranged Rhino said:

 

 

On the earlier AFP map, I put an X where Belgorod is...

 

 

 

This is why we don't trust news reports.

[Foxx]

Overnight.

 

 

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28 minutes ago, Foxx said:

Overnight.

 

 

 

Exercise doesn't end until Friday, though.

 

And the second tweet...that tank's dug in to a firing position, not "returning to base."

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"Will there be a war?  Yes...or no.  And it'll start with no warning, immediately...or at a later date."  

 

 

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US intelligence officials confirm the US intelligence community is still spying on opposition...

 

 

[Foxx]

6 minutes ago, Crap Throwing Monkey said:

"Will there be a war?  Yes...or no.  And it'll start with no warning, immediately...or at a later date."  

 

 

I think all the arm waving and hand flailing has achieved it's desired objective. Electronic equipment in the Ukraine has been destroyed.

[Deranged Rhino]

 

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IF the Russians do walk this back, is it possible that Putin's goal was to simply scare the ever living #### out of the west to see them gain some "flexibility" in their positions?

[Deranged Rhino]

 

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Biden to speak any moment: 

 

[Deranged Rhino]

That was a disaster of a speech. The cocktail they gave him didn't work, he mumbled and slept walk his way through it. 

[Ann]

2 hours ago, Taro T said:

IF the Russians do walk this back, is it possible that Putin's goal was to simply scare the ever living #### out of the west to see them gain some "flexibility" in their positions?

The destruction of US servers and documents at the US Embassy was the goal of this "exercise." Mission accomplished.

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45 minutes ago, Deranged Rhino said:

 

 

 

I like Rogoway, but he has a very limited understanding of Russian doctrine.  That entire article is based on a false historical appraisal ("a blunt hammer") and incorrectly projecting American doctrine (sequentially, hit C3I, then establish air superiority, then invade) on to the Russian armed forces.

 

That's not how the Russian military works.  Not in Chechnya, not in Georgia, not in Ukraine in 2014.  Russian doctrine is to attack the entire depth simultaneously, not incrementally, and to push rapidly moving forces, supported by massive firepower, in echelon through specified narrow breakthrough points.  

 

And it works very well, when they can apply it.  It's when they get stuck in asymmetric warfare that the doctrine breaks down.  But then, most nations' do.

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Here's your excuse...

 

 

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This, BTW, is vaguely reminiscent of the time before WWI.  Not in specifics, but in the general sense that everyone is acting in ways that primes the region for a war, whether the parties want the war or not.  

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This is a bad sign.  Don't start bridging obstacles until you're ready to go.

 

Also at the southern border of the Chernobyl radiological reserve - they had to move bridging engineers and equipment through the radiation zone to do this.

[Deranged Rhino]

 

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This is all so stupid...

 

https://twitter.com/i/events/1483255084750282753
 

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Ukraine: Russian video shows tanks leaving annexed Crimea, but NATO and the US are disputing the claim

On Wednesday, Russia's defense ministry published a video showing tanks and military vehicles leaving annexed Crimea after a drill

 

 

No, Russia's defense ministry published a video showing tanks and military vehicles driving from one place to another, and claimed they were leaving the Crimea.  There's no real way to know if the claim is true.  

[Deranged Rhino]