Ukraine

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"The bullshit piled up so fast in Vietnam you needed wings to stay above it." Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now

[billy.pilgrim]

"The bullshit piled up so fast in Vietnam you needed wings to stay above it." Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now

I remember, "we're left fighting the Chinese because we killed all the Vietnamese long ago" (most famously posed in Budapest by Joanne Z. during my church group's tour of Europe in 1967).

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I remember, "we're left fighting the Chinese because we killed all the Vietnamese long ago" (most famously posed in Budapest by Joanne Z. during my church group's tour of Europe in 1967).

Who is Joanne Z?
You were in a church group?
It visited Hungary?
Commie Hungary?


Russian tank is blown to pieces while manoeuvring away on the battlefield

Ukrainian forces blow up Russian tank with two deadly drone strikes

[billy.pilgrim]

I remember, "we're left fighting the Chinese because we killed all the Vietnamese long ago" (most famously posed in Budapest by Joanne Z. during my church group's tour of Europe in 1967).

Who is Joanne Z?
You were in a church group?
It visited Hungary?
Commie Hungary?


Russian tank is blown to pieces while manoeuvring away on the battlefield

Ukrainian forces blow up Russian tank with two deadly drone strikes

Yep, 45 people, 5 VW vans, 13 countries in 21 days, including Hungary, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and 2 more communist countries that I not sure about without a little more thought.

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Ammunition Truck Get Targeted On The Move By M982 Excalibur Round; Amazing!

Russian T-90M Tank Runs Over Mine, Captured From Inside And Birds Eye view

Russian T-80BV With Cope Cage Gets Target By Drone Dropping Grenade

It's almost like Russian crews abandon their tanks and leave the hatches open on purpose.

Ukrainian drone delivers water to woman stranded from Kakhovka Dam flooding

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Huge explosion erupts as Ukrainian troops blow up Russian self-propelled Howitzer

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Down 2,000 Tanks, Russia Is Using Creative New Tactics to Keep Them Alive
Interesting and generally positive.

Before-and-after satellite images show profound toll of Ukraine dam collapse

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‘Luckiest man alive’ – Abandoned Russian soldier watches comrades that ditched him go up in flames

He falls off in the first couple of seconds of the video:

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Wait for it, 1:10 -
Huge explosion erupts as Ukrainian forces blow up Russian howitzers in Soledar

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Still want to support Ukraine? Don’t buy from companies that refuse to leave Russia | Opinion

... Unfortunately, as wars drag on folks lose interest and are distracted from the news of the day no matter how justified the war. That sure seems to be the case today, now that the war is just another daily news report.

A survey in March showed that 59% of Americans still support the U.S. providing weapons and financial support to Ukraine, but only 42% of Republicans support it. That could be a reaction to how Trump responded to the survey, claiming Ukraine was not a “vital interest” to the U.S. In all, 79% of Democrats and 60% of independents support the U.S. position on Ukraine.

For those of us who do support the Ukrainians in their fight for freedom from Putin’s grip, it’s a question of how we can help. Aside from a few American volunteers who joined Ukrainian soldiers in defense of the country or those who contributed to Ukrainian relief organizations, most of us simply watch the news for clues to who has the upper hand and is winning the war....

To deal with the corporate laggards who failed to leave Russia, there is a movement underway that gives American consumers the information they need to play a supporting role in the defense of the Ukrainian people.

The Moral Ratings Agency was created after Russia invaded Ukraine to assist pro-democracy forces in Russia depose Putin and send him to criminal trials at the Hague. It tracks companies to determine if they are still doing business in Russia, so consumers will know not to buy their products.

For example, the Moral Ratings Agency identifies Nestle, Microsoft, Johnson and Johnson, PepsiCo, Proctor and Gamble and Unilever as companies that refused to leave. A consumer may not know all the products of a multinational corporation like Unilever that violate the U.S. sanctions, but the Moral Ratings Agency website lists Ben and Jerry’s, Breyer’s, Dove, Hellmann’s and Lipton as Unilever products to be avoided.

The Yale School of Management also tracks companies that have withdrawn from Russia and those that have not. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, who serves as the president of the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute, dubbed the list of offenders that refused to leave Russia the “Hall of Shame.”

... The next step is ours: refusing to buy products of the companies who give aid and comfort to a Russian economy financing the invasion of Ukraine.

On the world stage, this war’s outcome may well determine whether authoritarianism takes root and spreads beyond Ukraine or democracy prevails and influences other countries on the verge of authoritarian rule to swing in the opposite direction....

Since we discuss it here often:

Tesla

Our Moral Verdict
Tesla has disappointed us. Stopping sales of Tesla in Russia and confirming it would no longer import aluminum would have been a start. But the real lost opportunity is that it could 'unplug' the existing cars in the country through its Supercharger system. This would be a bold action since it would upend the company's policy of proactive customer service through a proactive customer 'disservice'. You can see why such a brand would not want its customers to see how dependent their expensive cars are or how easily they could be played with. However, the rules change when we need to undermine Putin, and Tesla's CEO is famously unafraid of taking stands on a huge range of topics when he's inspired. This would have triggered a Ripple Effect, not just inside Russia but across the world, that a Western entrepreneur could simply 'switch off' cars in Russia from his desk and this is just the sort of shock Russia needs. What a lost opportunity, over and above any economic effects of these expensive cars becoming useless in the Russian economy. The company should cease its hypocrisy of doing business with a country that is harming another that it is then trying to help. It's an Immoral Vicious Cycle that indirectly needs more reparations for more business, the profits of one being used to pay for the other. Leaving aside whether Tesla is making more money from Russia than it is spending to help Ukraine, it's a sick self-feeding cycle to be involved in.

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Horrors Of Trench Warfare Captured In Viral Ukrainian Special Ops Footage

Disturbing:
https://twitter.com/clashreport/status/ ... 4573351936

Don't think RT will be showing this clip on the evening news in Moscow, but they should.

Truly awful to watch. I know most of these Russians don't want to be there and also that the Ukrainians are fighting for their homeland. These deaths fall squarely at the feet of Putin and his cronies who harbor some ridiculous dream of rebuilding the Soviet Empire.

Orcs make great fertilizer for the sunflowers

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Drone struck shells and ammunition stored by Russians on roadside – Strong blast

Ukrainian soldiers blow up Russian tank and take prisoners in Donetsk

[GoCubsGo]

Things are not going well in the propaganda department.

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Taking all this with a grain... it is Twitter after all.










More:

https://twitter.com/search?q=kremlin&sr ... head_click

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Something is happening though.

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Things are not going well in the propaganda department.
https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/stat ... 5381779458
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/stat ... 7513008128

Opps. Is a coup in the works?

Taking all this with a grain... it is Twitter after all.
https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/ ... 0303109120
https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status ... 3964783620
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/sta ... 6641451008
https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1 ... 7910375424
https://twitter.com/TheLazyEU/status/16 ... 2764748804

More:

https://twitter.com/search?q=kremlin&sr ... head_click

Hmm, Twitter cancelled that thread. Both Russian and Wagner troops will be less enthusiastic vs Ukraine with this going on, and Ukrainian troops may be energized. I had wild hopes that the eastern counter-offensive was a ruse to disguise the seizure of Crimea. Not happening, but who knows what will result if there's a Russian coup/civil war?

Uruguay?

Huge explosion erupts as Ukrainian artillery wipe out Russian ammunition
Love the random rockets.

Ukrainian drone captures strike on Russian tanks

Moment British-supplied Storm Shadow missile strikes bridge linking Crimea and Kherson
Cool, you even see the incoming missile.

Russia says Ukraine hit bridge to Crimea, severing vital military route (CBS report)

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Lotsa destruction today.

Moment Russian T-72B3M tank, 2S4 "Tulpan" mortar were shot along with crew members in Zapirizhzhia

Ukraine troops exploit Putin weakness and destroy three Russian tanks in one day

FPV Drone Fly Down Into Hatch Of Russian T-80 Tank

Drone Drop Grenade Into Hatch Of BMP-2

155 BONUS Artillery Round Hit 2S4 Tyulpan 240mm Self-Propelled Mortar Twice With One Round!

Ukrainian artillery destroys Russian military trucks convoy in Zaporizhia region.

Ukrainian FPV Drone Target Engine Of T-80 Tank

BMP-3 Storing Ammunition Gets Targeted By Tiny FPV Drone

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GMLRS Rocket Air Burst Over Strela-10 SAM Sending Anti AiR Missiles Flying
Cool!

Three FPV Drones Hit Russian T-80 Tank

Hand Grenade Takes Out Massive Pile Of TM-62 Anti Tank Mines Hidden Between Trees
Wow.

Russian BMP-2 Runs Over Their Own Anti Tank Mine
OPPS!

Rockets Misfire After Artillery Hit Remote Mine Laying Vehicle ISDM Zemledeliye
Some strikes are almost beautiful.

Thermobaric Hand Grenade (RGT-27S2) Dropped Into Hatch Of Russian BMP-2

Three BM-21 Grad System With Rockets Gets Hit By Two M982 Excalibur Rounds

The M982 Excalibur is a 155 mm extended-range guided artillery shell ...

Excalibur's extended range is achieved through the use of folding glide fins, which allow the projectile to glide from the top of a ballistic arc toward the target....

One Excalibur projectile can accurately hit an intended target that would require the use of between 10 and 50 unguided artillery rounds.

Drone Drops Thermobaric Grenade At BMP-1 With Cope Cage
Cage is useless if a hatch is left open.

Tiny FPV Drone Shown From Two Views Destroy Russian Tank

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Russian T-62M Tank Runs Over Very Clear Anti Tank Mine Line


Ukrainian forces blow up multiple Russian vehicles in HUGE explosions
Multiple

Ukrainian army strikes with Himars Russians’ MSTSA-S self-propelled artillery unit

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Ukraine Situation Report: Counteroffensive Criticism “Pisses Me Off” Says Top General
In a scathing Washington Post interview, Ukrainian Gen. Valery Zaluzhny blasted those who complain his counteroffensive is moving too slowly.

Wide-ranging article with many very impactful tweets. For example:

GRAPHIC CONTENT

Hard shots of the unsuccessful exit of the Ukrainian infantryman from the BMP M2 Bradley: the Ukrainian military jumps out of the troop compartment directly onto a mine, as a result of which he lost a leg up to the knee.

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Magical disappearance of a Russian tank
(maybe this is a Russian kamikaze T-62 )

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(that's a magic wand emoji)
Russia has been loading old tanks with explosives and setting them up to drive towards Ukrainian lines. This tank was disabled by a mine then destroyed by a drone.

Whilst the enemy are suffering supply problems and eating out of date rations the Ukrainians are having pizza delivered to their trenches

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