War with Russia

[briantrumpet]

https://bsky.app/profile/joncooper-us.bsky.social/post/3mn2uoc5xys2j

From the video, it doesn't look like the drones had too much trouble starting bonfires.

 

[briantrumpet]

Here's Youtube video.

 

[Pinno718]

My name is Pinno and I am addicted to watching Russian stuff get bombed and burn.
It all started with the odd piece of equipment - say, a troop transporter but then it escalated to pricey SBU radar systems and then finally, when I thought I was on top of the situation, I started watching very expensive military aircraft getting minced.
Sometimes I would venture off the path and look at reports of important Russian people falling out of windows or being arrested and charged with corruption but this was just to top up the videos of Russian military equipment getting destroyed. First it was one or two a day then five then six and now it's like... 50+ before I even realised. The real contamination in the fix - you know; the one that really pushed me over the edge, was watching vehicles going through the Donbas on the M14 corridor of hell getting absolutely trashed by Ukraine's ACME stores drone suppliers.
The ultimate hit was watching a Russian defence missile land straight into Grandma Olga Petrov's 28th floor flat, taking out 'Stalingrad' the 15 year old Budgie in the process. Poor aunty Olga.

I don't where this is going to end, I am at a loss. I get shaky and depressed when I don't see Russian stuff disintegrating before 9am. It's as bad as it's got and I feel like it could get worse.

...and I still have half a bottle of Merlot to go.

 

[briantrumpet]

My name is Pinno and I am addicted to watching Russian stuff get bombed and burn.
It all started with the odd piece of equipment - say, a troop transporter but then it escalated to pricey SBU radar systems and then finally, when I thought I was on top of the situation, I started watching very expensive military aircraft getting minced.
Sometimes I would venture off the path and look at reports of important Russian people falling out of windows or being arrested and charged with corruption but this was just to top up the videos of Russian military equipment getting destroyed. First it was one or two a day then five then six and now it's like... 50+ before I even realised. The real contamination in the fix - you know; the one that really pushed me over the edge, was watching vehicles going through the Donbas on the M14 corridor of hell getting absolutely trashed by Ukraine's ACME stores drone suppliers.
The ultimate hit was watching a Russian defence missile land straight into Grandma Olga Petrov's 28th floor flat, taking out 'Stalingrad' the 15 year old Budgie in the process. Poor aunty Olga.

I don't where this is going to end, I am at a loss. I get shaky and depressed when I don't see Russian stuff disintegrating before 9am. It's as bad as it's got and I feel like it could get worse.

...and I still have half a bottle of Merlot to go.

I had a feeling I was feeding the beast.

Cheers!

 

[briantrumpet]

Crack open another, Pinno.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2060362412939760131.html

 

[briantrumpet]

A piece that @Pinno718 will enjoy (apart from the bit that NATO is in a zombie state).

https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-update-187-trying-to-collapse?r=1tgexa

The trend is exactly what the Ukrainians are planning for. It will lead to a constant degradation of the Russian army and fighting power. Supplies will be decreasing, command will be chaotic, losses will be rising and replacements arriving in inadequate numbers. The remaining troops will be in worse shape and be asked to continue attacking. Along the line it will be the Russian military that will be increasingly closer to failure.

This, at least, is what the Ukrainians are saying. Take a Russian army that has to attack and collapse it from behind. The Ukrainians are not hiding their plans—hopefully the western press will not be so slow to understand it this time.

 

[Pinno718]

Crack open another, Pinno.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2060362412939760131.html

Clement is keeping up at least.
At what point does the Russian aggression dry up is the big question.
It' also hard to separate the reality from the propaganda coming out of Russia. We don't don't know how much resources they have left. We know the N Koreans are supplying drones. We know they are still recruiting staff (many of them under 18) through TV ads for their huge factory in Yelabuga - a huge sprawling complex.
16 year old making Shahed drones to kill civilians in Ukraine. Wonderful Russians.

 

[Pinno718]

A piece that @Pinno718 will enjoy (apart from the bit that NATO is in a zombie state).

https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-update-187-trying-to-collapse?r=1tgexa

Like.
Good article worth reading. Not much of it was unknown to me but he articulated the western analytical perspective and misunderstanding of how this conflict is being played out.
NATO has been a damp squib from the beginning. The coalition of the willing has far more influence and effect.

Putin has shot himself in the foot again and again. Strategically, he could have used ceasefires but because there was no honour in them, Ukraine just kept to their path and proved to the world that you cannot trust him at all.
The more Putin persists, the greater the collapse both militarily and financial it will be. Given the gold reserve sales, debt, falling oil and gas revenue, depleted personnel*, cost of replacing all the military equipment, crumbling infrastructure etc etc, Russia could be in a mess for decades and it will be Putin's fault.
It's a b*stard of a regime with a b*stard at the top and the b*astard is failing.

*Getting that date with a hot Russian lady is going to be even easier. The only practical solution is to lift the social deference on monogamy.

 

[Pinno718]

Nice new wall poster for me from that ^ article: