Land war in Europe game thread! (with poll)

[Aslowhiteguy]

On 5/17/2022 at 12:53 PM, SharkTanked said:

Me too. Lots of smoke lately, but it might be all wishful thinking.

Putin may be evil personified, but he is smart and very experienced.  I can't rule out that this made the news on purpose.   But I am hoping someone else let it in and Putin is furious over it.

If this guy is still around in a month, I may start to think it made the news with Putin's knowledge and consent. 

[utenation]

On 5/17/2022 at 1:45 PM, SharkTanked said:

I think it is the latter and a very encouraging sign. Also could be a sign that Putin's grip is starting to give way. Harbinger to a coup?

I think this retired colonel guy is going to have an accident very soon. 
 
Either a faulty gas tank on his fishing boat or he ate some bad scrambled eggs that led to a heart attack. 
 

Either way no autopsy will be needed or even possible. 

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Gotta say, Ukraine has completely changed warfare. From social media streaming the warzone, to the coverage of Zelenski and now to this...

 

[Billings]

On 5/17/2022 at 9:51 AM, Aslowhiteguy said:

That was a very good article.  It is puzzling how that got through.  So many possibilities. 

 

 

 

Gotta prepare the Russian population for a lot of missing soldiers soon

[818SUDSFan]

On 5/17/2022 at 12:28 PM, Old_SD_Dude said:

You guys gotta watch this. Amazing honesty from a retired Russki Colonel on what looks like state TV. Hard to believe they allowed this unless they’re trying to gradually let reality sink in. 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61484222

That colonel sure seems to want Vlad to go away.

But let's not confuse the Vlads:

 

[Aslowhiteguy]

On 5/17/2022 at 1:51 PM, Billings said:

Gotta prepare the Russian population for a lot of missing soldiers soon

Yeah, they can't really ignore that. 

 

[son of a gun]

On 5/17/2022 at 3:43 PM, Aslowhiteguy said:

Yeah, they can't really ignore that. 

 

To an extent, they can. But at the rate they are being cut down, with 20,000+ dead and something like triple that otherwise as casualties, yeah.

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On 5/17/2022 at 4:17 PM, son of a gun said:

To an extent, they can. But at the rate they are being cut down, with 20,000+ dead and something like triple that otherwise as casualties, yeah.

They will spin it like they always do as far as missing bodies or dead soldiers not taken back home. They'll tell the family that their son died a hero as he went into a burning house and saved 4 helpless Ukrainian teenagers that had been making secret pleas to Mother Russia to be saved from their NAZI parents. Just before he got the children out, he was gunned down and taken away by more Nazis. No body found.

When really, he and his BMP crew were lit up by a Javelin crew for taking out innocent civilians riding bikes on a street corner.  Once the smoke cleared, the Russian crematorium truck loaded up him and his buddies and set the burner on high as they dashed back to their front lines.

 

[TheSanDiegan]

Here is the firsthand account of a Canadian soldier who left for Ukraine on 28 Feb. Fought in Irpin during the Battle of Kyiv and more recently in the Donbas. 

 

[DestinFlPackfan]

On 5/17/2022 at 7:51 PM, TheSanDiegan said:

Here is the firsthand account of a Canadian soldier who left for Ukraine on 28 Feb. Fought in Irpin during the Battle of Kyiv and more recently in the Donbas. 

 

That was great. Thanks for sharing.

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Ukrainian MLRS performance with video. 
 

https://www.ukrinform.net/amp/rubric-ato/3480265-ukrainian-artillerymen-post-video-of-uragan-mlrs-performance.html

[utenation]

On 5/17/2022 at 6:51 PM, TheSanDiegan said:

Here is the firsthand account of a Canadian soldier who left for Ukraine on 28 Feb. Fought in Irpin during the Battle of Kyiv and more recently in the Donbas. 

 

Very cool. He’s a young man.  He’s fresh from the battlefield. Very open now. It will be interesting to see if he gets any PTSD setting in. 
 
Those stories might be harder form him to tell down the road. Hope he has help if needed. 

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This one sucks…bad.

500K+ taken to Russia. This death toll is going to be much bigger than we might think.  Putin doesn’t have a red carpet to roll out. Just torture and death.
 

https://www.ukrinform.net/amp/rubric-ato/3485755-tens-of-thousands-of-ukrainians-held-in-russian-camps-zelensky.html

[TheSanDiegan]

From the Dept. of Lulz:

Which resulted in someone posting this meme:

[SharkTanked]

For those who may not know the historical perspective (probably less than 1% here, but still some interesting perspective)... Hopefully something to learn in it.

 

[halfmanhalfbronco]

On 5/18/2022 at 12:59 AM, TheSanDiegan said:

From the Dept. of Lulz:

Which resulted in someone posting this meme:

That meme is fire, but just in "modern" history with guns and stuff, Napoleon lost 300,000 of his 500,000 man army when he invaded....you know it...Russia.   

[son of a gun]

On 5/18/2022 at 1:44 PM, halfmanhalfbronco said:

That meme is fire, but just in "modern" history with guns and stuff, Napoleon lost 300,000 of his 500,000 man army when he invaded....you know it...Russia.   

Russian winter, bad logistics (for the sheer size of Russia), scorched earth policy by the Russians, and rarely actually engaging but luring Napoleon deeper... Yeah.

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[TheSanDiegan]

On 5/18/2022 at 12:44 PM, halfmanhalfbronco said:

That meme is fire, but just in "modern" history with guns and stuff, Napoleon lost 300,000 of his 500,000 man army when he invaded....you know it...Russia.   

I think Borrell was just #MWCBoarding. I mean, who isn't trolling Russia at this point? 

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