nogojones
spelling is overrated
Rock up to any of those really big houses and I'm sure they'll have some they want to shift.
Ukraine and the Russian invasion, 2022-24
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spitfire
Walty McWaltface
WSJ article here on Ukraine SOF and how they are working.
www.wsj.com
Ukraine’s Special Forces Hold Off Russian Offensive on Kyiv’s Front Lines
Antitank weapons and antiaircraft missiles from the West have made make a big difference, as have the Russians’ Soviet-style tactics, Ukrainian officers say.
www.wsj.com
Raheem
Well-Known Member
I don't think there's much chance of Ukraine accepting that at this stage. But even they did, it would need a security council resolution to make it meaningful, which I don't think can happen.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Hold on, so they've banned Facebook and disconnected from Twitter?
I mean, on the face of it...
I mean, on the face of it...
nogojones
spelling is overrated
I think you'll find that video was originally titled "Brexit chaos for lorries at Dover"
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
I think the problem any peace deal is going to face is, who's is going to believe that Putin will be doing anything but rebuilding his force for the next attack?
The talk of compromise, of Putin gets this but doesn't get that, just ignores his behaviour towards Ukraine for the last 20 years - I think I count 4 separate treaties regarding Ukraine that Russia has broken - so why would anyone believe he'll stick to number 5?
The only reason you'd sign one would be breathing space...
The talk of compromise, of Putin gets this but doesn't get that, just ignores his behaviour towards Ukraine for the last 20 years - I think I count 4 separate treaties regarding Ukraine that Russia has broken - so why would anyone believe he'll stick to number 5?
The only reason you'd sign one would be breathing space...
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Should we get Boris to invade France?
Cid
Proper break this time
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
YouTube down in Russia too now. This will all go well.
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
the russian keeped up with this tech
low yeild tactical nukes
nato and europe did not so its kinda scary
how can you convice Russian that your icbs are low yield battlefield options
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Communications, perhaps, but this speaks to unit morale pretty strongly, in my view.
Long story short: behaviouralists like to do rats-in-mazes experiments, and although you can't apply this wholesale to people, there are definitely results that emerge which do translate across to human behaviour. One of those is that if you do your "operant conditioning" (training to do what you should do) on the basis of negative reinforcement, it works...but it doesn't "stick". You need to have the dude-in-charge cracking the whip on a regular basis to maintain motivation. If, OTOH, you do your conditioning on a positive reinforcement basis, ie. by all the stuff they now teach in officer school, where you're teaching firm, strong, direct, positive leadership and which the old hands do a kind of "harrumph, we didn't have this nonsense in my day" thing about, you find that you don't actually have to loom over them constantly, so long as they're motivated to do what they need to do, and there are regular bits of positive (and critical, where necessary) reinforcement going on in between times. And it's no surprise that, in commando or other special forces units, that's exactly what happens. You're not going to have some sergeant screaming at you that your stable belt isn't properly blancoed, because it is assumed that your self-motivation is good enough that you don't have to be yelled at about it. Etc.
It's reasonably obvious from the general narrative about how the Russian soldiers are operating, that there isn't any real sense of a positive desire to do what they're supposed to do, so much as a more slacking off culture where they're only running about and standing to attention when there's someone shouting at them.
Obviously, in those circumstances, some of those more prestige units realised that they were going to need their O/C on the ground doing the motivating, and...sniper.
Cid
Proper break this time
The situation would remain the same I think. There would be even more condemnation, but the fundamental stakes of the issue with wider engagement wouldn't change. And if anything it would show willingness to use other elements of his nuke arsenal.
But, to add the addendum that should be implied on all posts on this thread... who the fuck really knows?
emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
That is why Ukraine will and should sign up to any reasonable peace deal. They need that space.
And while Putin will rearm so can Ukraine and if US and the rest Europe don't drop the ball (which is pretty likely) they can pump up Ukraine faster than Putin can Russia.
Smangus
comatose at a desk
WSJ article here on Ukraine SOF and how they are working.
Ukraine’s Special Forces Hold Off Russian Offensive on Kyiv’s Front Lines
Antitank weapons and antiaircraft missiles from the West have made make a big difference, as have the Russians’ Soviet-style tactics, Ukrainian officers say.
Paywalled.
discokermit
Well-Known Member
things diamond loves,
1. cavalry officers
2. fighter pilots
3. drones
4. cossacks
bit weird.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
How weird, when I read it I got straight in.
I tried it in 12ft.io but it didn't work, cupid_stunt can you do your archive trick if you get a chance?
not-bono-ever
meh
He won’t use a nuke - £10 burned quids to the server fund if he does
Watching the streams of people moving out or hiding in cellars is giving me bad Yugoslav vibes . Different situation but genocidal if not actual genocide
Watching the streams of people moving out or hiding in cellars is giving me bad Yugoslav vibes . Different situation but genocidal if not actual genocide
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
Well that's not going to impress your only ally:
www.taiwannews.com.tw
Taiwan News － Breaking News, Politics, Environment, Immigrants, Travel, and Health
Taiwan News is the most widely visited English-language portal for news about Taiwan, offering the outside world a revealing look at all things Taiwan
Riklet
procrastinación
70,000 international students were in Ukraine before the invasion apparently. Mostly from developing countries, studying with cheaper fees. I wonder how many are stuck etc.. sounds really awful for the ones stuck on the Polish border. This isnt to detract from the shit Ukrainians are going through, but poor buggers, must be awful when you're only 18-21 and your country isnt going to do bugger all to help you.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Flipping crikey, some SKY journalists had a very, very close call here. Scary as fuck. I know journos get a hard time, sometimes justified, but some of them are really sticking their necks on the line to get information out.
CW: they were under accurate fire, no deaths/serious injuries.
news.sky.com
CW: they were under accurate fire, no deaths/serious injuries.
Sky News team's harrowing account of their violent ambush in Ukraine this week
On Monday, near Kyiv, chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay and his team were attacked. Camera operator Richie Mockler took two rounds to his body armour, Stuart was wounded. Their experience illustrates the scale of the mayhem and violence as Russia's invasion enters a new and deadlier phase.
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Supine
Newt Member
Why would he do that? He sees it as his own doorstep now. Turning the power off is much more likely I’d say.
Cid
Proper break this time
Well that's not going to impress your only ally:
Taiwan News － Breaking News, Politics, Environment, Immigrants, Travel, and Health
Taiwan News is the most widely visited English-language portal for news about Taiwan, offering the outside world a revealing look at all things Taiwan
Doesn't seem to be verified. Or er... various Chinese media is denying it. Which would not ordinarily mean a lot, but you would expect news like that to be picked up more widely if it were properly verified, and it doesn't seem to have been.
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