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It probably doesn't help that they've lost a whole lot of people who actually have experience either.
Russia doesn't have an NCO level in their military hierarchy, thus the flow of orders is top down with no ability to change anything at the tactical level. That's a major reason why so many Russian generals have been killed as they needed to be close to the front lines to be able to effectuate any order changes in as close to real time as possible.
No NCO level-equivalent in their military forces means everything is always & only top down.
I’m unsure whether that was to do with insecure communication/signals, or because of the reason you’ve given. Possibly both. Either way, for the supposed second most powerful army on earth it’s an abysmal situation to find themselves in.
Definitely both.
A man is on a street corner in Moscow yelling “The president is an idiot “
Police surround him and handcuff him. They say, “It is illegal to insult President Putin.”
He says, “You don’t understand I mean the Ukrainian president, Zelensky, he is the one I was insulting. “
The police captain says, “You can’t fool us, everyone knows who the idiot is.”
Police surround him and handcuff him. They say, “It is illegal to insult President Putin.”
He says, “You don’t understand I mean the Ukrainian president, Zelensky, he is the one I was insulting. “
The police captain says, “You can’t fool us, everyone knows who the idiot is.”
I love Russian jokesVery good! Here is another:
A Russian wakes from a 13 month coma, and being Russian, immediately goes to get a shot of vodka at the local pub. While there he gets into a discussion with another Russian and asks him about the latest news. The other Russian tells him "We are at war with NATO. But we are winning on all fronts."
"How many casualties have we taken?" the first guy asks.
"110,000 by the latest count" The second guy answers.
"And NATO?"
"Oh, NATO hasn't arrived yet"
This is like stepping over half court & making a bomb of a three…
This is another reason why Russia should still be labelled as pariah for as long as war criminals are not put on a platter for the ICC at The Hague. Nothing will ever be satisfactory until Putin, Lavrov, Peskov, Gerasimov, Prizoghin, and many more get arrested and deported to the Netherlands.
For the record, then Serbia-and-Montenegro were given the same conditions about ditching Milosevic and a number of other war criminals prior to any return to some kind of normality after the Kosovo War.
At least it looked like the POW didn’t suffer. What an absolutely abhorrent video that is though.
Now imagine how many such scenes happen there daily without anyone holding a camera or releasing the footage. I can't wait for The Hague to start working on all the atrocities russians do and did in Ukraine. I don't believe they will ever get arrested, because nobody will actually invade russia. But the goal should be, that those people can never set a foot outside of russia again for fear of being arrested and extradited immediately. Let those fecks enjoy the rest of their lives as wanted war criminals, who can only travel to north korea and some corrupt african countries. The days in italian mansions on the beach are gone forever.
But they also did Ukraine a favor releasing this video. Now they have a new martyr they look up to and take strength from. Such videos show, why Russia already lost this war. Ukranians will rather die standing on their own feet, than live on their knees with Kreml as their master.
“Prefiero morir de pie, a vivir arrodillado” Great phrase, and entirely correctly applied here.
I’m pretty sure that the legal work of documenting the evidence for the (unlikely) future process is already happening.
In other words: "Drop your support for Taiwan or we'll help Putin."
China is in a difficult position. On the one hand, they need Russia as a counterweight to Nato. It's in their interest that Russia doesn't lose this war. On the other hand, they need trade relations with the west if they don't want to lose their wealth and become a third world country. And the west showed right now, that it can make difficult decisions. Putin also thought europe is far to dependend on his energy to support Ukraine seriously and oh boy, was he wrong.
In my opinion, China will test their limits in the near future and watch how the west reacts. We need to stand firm and make them clear, we don't fear losing relations to them. Every production they have can be outsourced to other countries. This will take time and cost a lot of money of course, but it's possible. China needs to understand, that they risk their entire economy and world status if they openly support Russia.
US Air Force General confirmes that extended range JDAMs are now operational in Ukraine.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/winged-jdam-smart-bombs-are-now-operational-in-ukraine
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/winged-jdam-smart-bombs-are-now-operational-in-ukraine
The feck?
A clever if not unexpected solution. Germany and the EU can pretend to believe it and deflect any call for action in response to the sabotage. Not the US fault, not the Ukraine government's fault, end of the affair.
If true, it is scary that a non-government group has the resources to do that kind of sabotage. I am skeptical though to this intel.
Pretty much this.
The CIA intentionally telling the NYT (which is what this is) that an independent group did it, actually makes me more suspicious that the US govt was involved. Not in Seymour Hersh's telling because that was an absurd little tale (half the Norwegian navy was in on it by the end), but some other way.
I feel like a lot of people overestimate the resources needed to pull this off.
Yes, you need professional industrial diving equipment and experience, but the Baltic Sea is basically an oversized lake, it's not an open ocean where you would need submarines etc to do this.
Yeah, A better lie would be that Russia did it but with this, you can only think that US did it (I don't think any european country would attack a german's interest infrastructure).
But maybe is what they are looking for. Let the world know that it had been them with an absurd lie, but officially not being able to accuse them as it had been an non governmental organization from a non top country at war with capabilities to destroy an infrastructure deep in the middle of the baltic sea
I'm curious though, doesn't this warrant a criminal investigation it civilians did this?
It has been treated as one from the first day (at least in Germany). The federal police (Bundeskriminalamt/BKA) is performing the investigation on order of the federal public prosecutor.
This is the most likely explanation to me.
I can’t see who gains from this other than Ukraine, so I do err on the side that it’s them.
I am amazed that a non gubernamental group didn't do it before. with north stream 1 either. They were both created to bypass Ukrainian pipes
My crackpot theory suspect always was Poland. Nordstream is a symbol for German-Russian friendship and some right wingers in Poland likened it to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.
Destroying Nordstream means making Germany dependent on East Europe again.
Doesn’t have the to be about who gains. Before the invasion, Biden tried deter Putin by threatening to put an end to NS2.
Biden and the US would look weak if they didn’t follow through on that threat.
Yeah that’s a good point- it could be punitive.
You're grossly underestimating Poland's incompetence.
Saying "pro-ukraine" group doesn't really narrow it down. That's most the free world.
If its not all that deep there, could some former naval SOF types been on their whatsapp group like "Yo lads, fancy a boat trip this weekend? I got a fun idea".
If its not all that deep there, could some former naval SOF types been on their whatsapp group like "Yo lads, fancy a boat trip this weekend? I got a fun idea".
The above linked Zeit article quotes the investigation result of a team of six people, a captain, two divers, two diver assistants and one medic who allegedly carried out the attack on a small chartered Polish boat.
So yes, your scenario is plausible in size.