Greetings and Salutations!
OK
Been now going on 24 hours plus or minus
NOTHING from Big Bad Vlad-The-Putler
Personally, I’m very disappointed
I wanted full on retaliation from HELL
Considering the channels I watch on Telegram, I figured it’d be a done deal. I’m watching what a lot of folks would call “Ivan Propaganda” or whatever… point is it’s a lot of war-porn, which is not cool to a certain extent, to the point I get a ‘feel’ for what’s going on from the guys who’re actually on the front line…
And let me tell you
The “Average Russian Infantryman on The Front Line?”
OMFG…
If it was up to them?
Kiev, Brussels, London, Berlin, Washington, Warsaw?
ALL would be BIG FUCKING GLOWING GOPHER HOLES
IF
The ‘grunts’ had their way……
They’d nuke the ever loving fuck out of the capitals of the major behind the scenes retard controllers …. They’re tired.
Can’t blame them…
They’ve been slogging along for almost three years now.
LOTS of casualties.
No where near the Krainin Korpse pile mind you… my contacts have told me that the Krainians have about 1.5 million KIA and about an additional 300k worth of walking wounded… the lightly wounded not even being counted… that’s from a doc who’s in charge of a post-op trauma clinic in Germany…
The Russians on the other hand have lost about 300k KIA +/- nd about 250k Wounded.
Point is IF we don’t see a response, well……..
Like I said last night, I worry that Putin will be KIA’d and replaced by an “Ivan The Even MOAR Terrible”.
All the assholes here in the states keep talking up Vlad like he’s Satan or someone equivalent… do the NOT know Russian History???
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OH!
Of course they don’t.
They went to Harvard for the most part
Which means their functionally historically illiterate and retarded. Fuck we are sooooooooooooooo fucked as long as these Ivy-League Fucktards are ‘promoted ahead of peers’ in everything.
I’d prefer the bum who lives behind the dumpster at 7-11 who ‘talks to aliens’ running the fucking show… At least HE has a clue amiright?????
Make of it what you will….
So then.. we’ve got the French Riots over the weekend:
What blows my mind is –why– do the keep doing the same ole same ole? Meaning the police? Fire tear gas, break some heads, wash rinse repeat…
Every few weeks it seems.
It’s a good thing I’m not in charge.
I mean the majority of the fuckers rioting/looting and pillaging are obviously not French. They all seem a mite dark wouldn’t you say? I’d have the fuzz pull back, and roll the Legion in hot with belt feds and just gun the fuckers down. Then roll the trash trucks out, dig a mass grave and roll the corpses in with a good helping of pig blood just to remind them Who’s Yer Daddy Haji?
I mean look at the Muslim Moro Uprising in the Philippines
“Black Jack” Pershing as I recall snapped the spine of the Moros metaphorically speaking by having his men grease their ammo and weapons with pig lard and burying the corpses of the enemy dead in freshly killed pig skins. The Haj shut right the fuck down soon after that.
Interesting side note:
The 1911 in .45 became a ‘thing’ because of that Uprising. The Moros wore bamboo armor that the Dot.Mil .38 specials couldn’t penetrate. Hence the adopting of the 1911.
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Sorry gang
Been binging the series “Andor” b/c Sapper said it’s great
Hence my distraction.
It’s been a great series TBH… far better than Disney has put out in the past. The Ghorman Massacre was off the charts as far as drama, good acting, phenomenal writing and resolution. Tomorrow night we watch the last 3 out of 12 episodes.
So otherwise… that what I got…
Not thinking much… sort of blasé about shytte right now
Let me know what you think
More Later
Big Country
Correct me if I’m mistaken, but I read that the drones that were used to attack that Russian airbases were released from trucks “near the bases”. Pictures of the drones, if they are accurate, are of relatively small quadcopter types and don’t look as though they have tremendous range, yet one of the bases hit was in Siberia. The Ukrainians managed to get 4(?) or more good sized trucks into Russia and to within relatively short distances from their targets. What does this imply about their internal security, never mind the defenses around said bases.
Or, if you feel like diving into the rabbit hole, could this be an internal false flag – what was damaged were very elderly and obsolescent bombers and one AWACS type plane. The Russians are steadily but slowly advancing towards their goals. A reason to get more aggressive? If so – “Pearl Harbor”?
With knowledge aforethought but deliberate lack of action?
Ukraine has taken full credit for the attack.
The same thing it would say about ours.
How many truck do you see on you commute and how many do you notice?
It is impossible to ban trucks far enough away to be 100% certain to be out of range.
And how many containers laying about, nearly everywhere. Close to ports, rail yards, airports.
All it did was reveal the same vulnerabilities we’ve (and every other major power) has had for the last few decades… The democratization of technology has lowered high end tech to non state sponsorship. No doubt western Intel was involved… Just like our enemies helped jihadii’s with EFPs in OIF/OEF.
And I our bloated, unhealthy, gib-me-dat mentality country with our exposed sex organs of infrastructure… it’s going to fully suck… When that curtain drops and the brick wall is exposed at the back of the theater…
Coleacanth:
> A reason to get more aggressive? If so – “Pearl Harbor”?
With knowledge aforethought but deliberate lack of action?
Well history doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme.
The United States knew all about Pearl Harbor in advance. We didn’t do anything because we didn’t want to reveal that we had broken the Japanese codes.
The Ukes are saying they planned this over a year ago. Wouldn’t surprise me that Russia doesn’t want to reveal that they’ve compromised NATO codes.
~Supposedly~ this op took 18 months to do. The drone components and construction materials were infiltrated well before the attack and assembled in a clandestine workshop(s) that the Russians have released pictures of. The distance issue ~also supposedly~ was handled by piggy-backing off a Russian cell phone system, each drone was its own cell phone? There was some discussion about something like this in “our community” regarding the fact that we rely on big airlift to move troops and equipment when we want to. Foreigners buying up land around our AFBs and such….C-17s and C-5s parked on the line. Serious issue.
Hi BCE!!!!!,
Thx for the update!!!! I concur!!!! We Shall See??
Also 10-4 on the .45 ACP………
As proclaimed here…..
“There aren’t too many
human interaction problems
that can’t be fixed with a
.45 ACP 230 Grain Fat Boy!!,”
~Herschel Smith~
Audentes, Fortuna, Iuvat!!,
skybill
Be sure to watch Rogue One after you finish Andor. It picks up right where the last episode ends. It’s three days after the last episode of Andor ends.
Rogue One is MANDATORY. It kicked off the whole boogaloo. Top notch Star Wars, too.
Plus, that final scene with Darth Vader. He is a murder machine, and he is *pissed*!!
p.s.s.- on oytube there is a version of the Darth Vader scene, done to AC/DC’s “Hell’s Bells”.
Absolutely insane.
There was a great writeup about how this movie (rogue..).was just shit… It wasn’t horrible… Just 1000% how not to win a war or even a f’ing battle…
Just more childish… But I’m the emotional one and I want… But no slogging through and showing the work… Shame… But overall least offensive wokeness… But shame and lost some good characters.
First off, timing. Media war is driving the play, FFS look at all the vidya provided. Second, it takes time to program and plan what I believe the response will be. Fuck around on the strategic level, find out on a strategic level. Vlad must reply and I expect a decapitation strike on military and government of Ukraine with as much of Nato’s personnel for an exclamation point. I would not expect anything until the weekend, but trying to predict the response is a crap shoot.
Minor historical nit-pick:
The military had adopted the Colt New Army in .38 Long Colt just before the war. Power wise it is between .38 S&W and Special (which hadn’t been invented yet)
The ineffectiveness of the round and the fragility of the New Army lead the army to refurbish 1873 SSAs in .45 Colt, buy 1902 Omnipotents for the locals, and later buy Colt 1909 New Services in .45 (I have a USMC one – fantastic wheel gun)
Fun side note: Frankford Arsenal made special .45 Colt cartridges with slightly larger rims to help with extraction. The small rim as designed was perfectly adequate for head space and to work in a SSA but have an annoying tendency to pop under the extractor in a swing out cylinder.
G. Gordon Liddy related a story about the Moros.
The elders would fit a warrior with a piece of wet leather tied firmly around his balls.
As leather dries, it shrinks.
By the end of the week, the warrior would be filled with… battle fervor!
(Yeah. It wasn’t because of the bamboo armor.)
“I was one of the feral orphans living in the radioactive ruins of Bonn…”
Well Tiny all we know about the Russians today is that they aren’t the same animals they were 75 years ago… and neither are we, for that matter.
My guess is that Blumpf and Putler are on the blowers as we speak. I think Lindsay Graham and the RINOS and neocons are in this like a dirty shirt. Not only does Putler need to do something – Trump does too.
Hopefully this thing draws to a close soon.
I figure Lindshe Graham was there to take dance lessons from that freak of nature, Zelenshe.
Zalinsky needs a down n dirty game of “ wackadoodle” fuckers insane. The people of that nation hate hate hate him. Is their any doubt in anybody here’s mind that Russia will respond, it will be on their time line and on their terms.
1911, carried a 1911 for the better part of 27 years. Wish I was still carrying one, just to big bulky for my retired needs. I would share that I get my “ Duty “ ammo from my old employer. This newer 9mm ammo has an outstanding one shot stopping history record.
It’s interesting that most of the newer ammo in 9mm is wicked and the bullet expansion reminds me of the early 45 acp 230 grain flying ashtray.
About a year ago, a friend was working with the DEA tracking a cartel shot caller. They had intel he was transporting Dope. Anyway they did a traffic stop, the cartel guy was a certified bad ass a cartel enforcer the knucklehead exited his rig, with a pistol and ran directly towards my friend and the agents vehicle, shooting.
Chris put him down, was a triple tap, but watching the vid, the first round was a show stopper. Nuff said.
Dirk
I bought a box of Liberty Ammunition Civil Defense 9mm +P 50gr. ammo to see what it does. With a claimed velocity of 2040fps, that’s rifle velocities. It doesn’t say on the box what the test barrel was they used. Anyway, I was curious. Haven’t been out to test it, yet to see if it performs as claimed.
Remember the old saying, “Ivan doesn’t take a dump without a plan.” I think that Zelensky has outrun his usefulness for Putin. Before, Putin needed someone to sign the surrender documents, and since he was so incompetent, Z was as good as anyone else. That’s really all that was keeping him alive.
I suspect that the Russians will make a series of moves designed to limit Z’s ability to move, and once they have him solidly infested in one bunker, they will take that bunker out with a hypersonic (and maybe make an attempt on about a dozen of his generals and hangers on at the same time.)
In the alternative, they might take him out in a European city while he’s on the road, but that one is riskier, because if the device is detected incoming, he might be able to get out of the splash radius.
Going after London and Berlin is tempting, but that’s the emotional response. Putin doesn’t do emotional. There are two sides to the proxy war bullshit — the power and the proxy. You could try to discourage the power, sure, but you can also make it so that the obvious price of being a proxy is so high no one else will take the power’s deals.
One of the things I’ve noticed is the disparity between what the talking heads are saying and what the backchannel groups are saying about the damage. I heard the most ridiculous one this morning on the radio, where they claimed Russia lost nearly 30% of it’s bomber fleet.
From the more serious and somber crowd, it looks like less than a dozen planes which would explain Russia’s muted response. Same thing with the Kerch bridge. Whole lotta hoopla for what appears to be cosmetic damage.
You really need to wait a few days for the actual truth to dribble out. I’m guessing the warmonger crowd is kidding themselves.
I’m sure once they get a full analysis on what Kiev did, and who helped them, we’ll see a measured, effective response from Russia. Also, it takes time to find where these NATO types are staying. We may see something spectacular. But we also may see a bunch of ‘training accidents’ and ‘heart attacks’ when they hit those actually responsible. From what I’ve seen in this conflict, Russians don’t flail.
Zelensky and the NATO crowd simply don’t want peace. The (((Neocons))) sure don’t.
This all reminds me of a great line in the movie “The Drop”: “Marv, you aren’t planning to do something desperate, are you? Something that, maybe, can’t be undone?”
Bah! sounds like a buncha commie rebel propaganda, its all the same- “bush is a nazi! palpatine is an evil space wizard! the imperial navy blew up Alderan! the military did 9/11! that terrorist sympathizing senator is so stunning and brave!” same bs different galaxy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQcRXGiHgGk
This is a bullshit PR move by Ukraine (with the CIA’s and MI6’s help I’m sure) that accomplished NOTHING but pissed off the Russians as well as just scuttled the SALT treaties where both we AND the Russians keep our nuclear bombers out in the open so the other side’s satellites can keep an eye on them.
How much do you want to bet those planes are all in hangers now ?
This attack would be the equivalent of someone launching drones from trucks and taking out a dozen B52s and an AWACS plane. That would suck but wouldn’t “cripple” us nor did it the Russians.
Russians would LIKE to have a massive attack but as Putin just told Trump “you know I MUST retaliate and it’s coming soon”. I suspect the gloves are coming off regarding Ukraine and Zelensky and pals are going to get hit and hard. I also wouldn’t be surprised if some “secret” CIA and MI6 bases in the Ukraine are leveled. If so keep an eye out in the next few months of some airplane crashes where everyone on board died, very sad. That’s the usual way they cover up CIA operatives and military troops getting killed somewhere they officially never were.
Regards the recent attacks on long range aircraft in Russia. These aircraft are used to launch long range missiles into Ukraine making them valid military targets. They are based deep in Russia to keep them safe from counter attacks by the Ukrainians. I believe they were previously based at Engels Air Base in Saratov much closer to the border. Regarding the effectiveness of the strikes, you all seem to believe / assume all the aircraft are combat worthy based on the vast knowledge held by commentors of Soviet / Russian tactics, training, maintenance. and supply operations. I am by no means an ‘expert’ on the subject but regarding Russian air capabilities a 30 percent loss of assets would be a severe hit.
Regards the ground forces. I can say deploying ‘blocking forces’ behind your troops does not inspire confidence.
So! I’ve been bumping my gums here so what do I bring to the table? 15 years with the Army, none of it real close to the pointy end but close enough a few times to pucker up at Tay Ninh, Black Virgin Mountain. and other places. Got out when Clark Clifford, Sec Def at the time, said people coming in at that time (’78) were smarter than those who had come in ten years earlier. Your putative boss calls you a dumbass, it’s time to move on. Worked 33 more years for DoD and contractors on Soviet / Russian equipment around the world including Ukraine including Crimea, Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, Poland, Slovakia, hell – even Russia.
Soppy I ran on so long but I live in a liberal hive and have few to talk with about what is coming.
Speaking of history, Napoleon Bonaparte made his career by dispersing the rabble in the streets with “a whiff of grapeshot” from his artillery.
If memory serves me, during the French Revolution the people of Paris rioted and the govt could not stop them. So they asked a French Artillery officer named Napoleon if He could stope them. So he took his cannons into the city, loaded them with canister and fired into the crowds of rioters. It worked and he got famous.
The data indicates that Russia has lost 100K+, but many of those killed were PMC or territorial troops, with Russia only bringing in the A team when necessary to close the deal…As to the strike on the bombers, less than 5% were affected, and don’t you think that bombers are pretty much obsolete in this era of hypersonic missiles and sub-launched missiles?
But the war party in Russia is definitely champing at the bit, and it would seem that peace talks are kaput…So I give Ukraine 6 months…
Regarding Vlad’s response, I need to quote from the Wicked Witch of the West: “These things must be done DELICATELY!”
Seriously – after today’s additional drone strikes, I’m pretty sure that what comes will be EPIC.
Then again, it’s important to understand that he’s holding the US responsible. We might find ourselves post-EMP with no power grid coast-to-coast that could take 5 years to replace. It really seems that there are people in high places that desperately want to start WW-III because they stole the wealth of numerous western nations and don’t want to get blamed – they can blame the war.
Back in the early 80s, will on mission up north , it was common for The Bear to fly up right next to ourEP3, match our speed and their air crew would exchange warm cultural greeting with our crew.
This many years later my recollection is at least one Russian crew member would hold up a coke can to apparently memorialize the ultra modern Russian coke availability.
I was always impressed with the overall size of the Bear. The counter rotating props were massive, much much larger then our T56 turbo prop motors.
Don’t underestimate there capacity to devastate shit!
Dirk