Ukraine and the Russian invasion, Feb 2022 - tangentially related crap

[platinumsage]

Is that poster a cunt? Should people post Twitter posts? Is the microphone pixels? What about Brexit?

Fill your boots on this thread instead of the other one.

 

[Rimbaud]

Ukraine says more than 11,000 Russian troops killed since invasion began

Ukraine makes the claim on the eleventh day of the Russian invasion

www.independent.co.uk

Obviously can take this with a massive pinch of salt, but according to Ukraine, Russia has lost 11,000 soldiers in the first 11 days.

I'm sure this is exaggerated, but if true, Russia is in 11 days quite close to approaching the number of casualties the USSR suffered in 10 years in Afghanistan (14,500). Gives you some sense of the scale, and as Russia is a much smaller population than the Soviet Union, the loss to Russian society is proportionately much higher too.

They have already lost more tanks, helicopters and aircraft than they lost in Afghanistan too, which does certainly seem plausible.

Edit - oops I meant to post this in the main thread

 

[bimble]

Are they retrieving their dead and getting them home for burial? I read someone saying that that isn’t happening, and suggesting that failing to do so will have big implications for morale amongst soldiers and at home too.

 

[Pickman's model]

Is that poster a cunt? Should people post Twitter posts? Is the microphone pixels? What about Brexit?

Fill your boots on this thread instead of the other one.

You should have called this the cutting room floor thread

 

[cupid_stunt]

Ukraine says more than 11,000 Russian troops killed since invasion began

Ukraine makes the claim on the eleventh day of the Russian invasion

www.independent.co.uk

Obviously can take this with a massive pinch of salt, but according to Ukraine, Russia has lost 11,000 soldiers in the first 11 days.

I'm sure this is exaggerated, but if true, Russia is in 11 days quite close to approaching the number of casualties the USSR suffered in 10 years in Afghanistan (14,500). Gives you some sense of the scale, and as Russia is a much smaller population than the Soviet Union, the loss to Russian society is proportionately much higher too.

They have already lost more tanks, helicopters and aircraft than they lost in Afghanistan too, which does certainly seem plausible.

I think that would be a valid post on the main thread, TBH.

 

[platinumsage]

Would anyone like to discuss a 1984 TV movie set in Sheffield?

 

[Supine]

Would anyone like to discuss a 1984 TV movie set in Sheffield?

That deserves its own thread

 

[not a trot]

So what's the story on these anti tank hedgehogs ? BBC reported at lunchtime, they were being deployed by the Ukrainians.

 

[A380]

That deserves its own thread

A Threads thread….

I guess that was the joke.

 

[platinumsage]

So what's the story on these anti tank hedgehogs ? BBC reported at lunchtime, they were being deployed by the Ukrainians.

Basic metal tripods that make it slightly more difficult for tanks to get past.

Not exactly new tech:

 

[not a trot]

Basic metal tripods that make it slightly more difficult for tanks to get past.

Not exactly new tech:

Looks nothing like a fucking hedgehog.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Looks nothing like a fucking hedgehog.

In other news, 'sleeping policemen' look nothing like...

 

[two sheds]

Looks nothing like a fucking hedgehog.

doing it with real hedgehogs would be cruel

 

[cupid_stunt]

And, somewhat pointless.

 

[JimW]

Surely hedgehogs are best known for coming off worst with any vehicular contact, let alone a tank.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Aye...

 

[LDC]

This has been posted already, but it's really worth a watch, especially the bit by Mr. Michael Kofman of the Center for Naval Analyses that starts at about 24.30 mins in and lasts for about 10 mins if you can't be arsed with it all. He's absolutely incredulous about how useless the Russian military has been so far.

 

[friedaweed]

Brazilian politician’s sexist remarks about Ukraine refugees spark outrage

Arthur do Val heard in leaked audio messages calling women fleeing war ‘easy because they’re poor’

www.theguardian.com

Utter cockwomble.

 

[_Russ_]

but it's really worth a watch

It wasnt

 

[emanymton]

It wasnt

A listen?

 

[LDC]

It wasnt

Go on then, why is the Ukrainian military analyst with a PHD wrong?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

(((( private schools )))) *








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[two sheds]

Fucking hell - besides distorting the London property market they're funding the public school system well that's changed my mind altogether.

 

[Dogsauce]

Actual pillock. Shows how deep the tentacles of the Kremlin reach into mainstream US politics.

 

[gosub]

 

[platinumsage]

So what's the story on these anti tank hedgehogs ? BBC reported at lunchtime, they were being deployed by the Ukrainians.

Daily Ukrainian hedgehog production, manufactured (yellow) and shipped (black):

 

[The39thStep]

Funny how things turnout sometimes

 

[Pickman's model]

Funny how things turnout sometimes

yeh let's run through that list of people who fought stalin again - 1) the white russians; 2) hitler

 

[Sir Belchalot]

Are they retrieving their dead and getting them home for burial? I read someone saying that that isn’t happening, and suggesting that failing to do so will have big implications for morale amongst soldiers and at home too.

They might be using vehicle-mounted incinerators but that might just be bullshit from the right wing press.

 

[bimble]

They might be using vehicle-mounted incinerators but that might just be bullshit from the right wing press.

Yeah I saw that, like you couldn’t decide what to make of it.