I remember reading stories about Iraqi tanks sitting with one hole in them and the insides were basically full of cooked chunks of meat. Nasty nasty business.
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The Saudi royal guard bought 55 M1’s just before the war. One one condition; that the Army call my dad out of retirement and assign him as a Special Advisor to them as they took possession and prepared. Guess what the first unit to roll into Kuwait City was? The Royal Guard in their M1’s with an American Special Advisor. My dad said it was a sickening turkey shoot on the way there. If the Iraqis got a rare shot off, it just bounced off the outside of the ceramic armor. And it only ever took one shot by an M1 to destroy even dig in Iraqi tanks. He said it was so bad they they slowed their progression down to like 40mph and delayed their shots for a few seconds so the Iraqi tank teams could pour out of their tanks before they were blown to smithereens. This is why the following forces found these teams of Iraqis wandering around the desert with their arms raised.
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Hopefully they can shove one up Putin’s arse.
How are they with bridges?
They couldn’t build fucking Jeff Bridges.
To be fair, fucking Jeff Bridges is probably not an activity one can multitask during.
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I think MM meant building a fucking Jeff Bridges, not the activity of fucking Jeff Bridges.
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I don’t know. Seems an odd choice. I mean, who on Earth besides Lloyd and Dorothy Bridges could build Jeff Bridges? On the other hand, there is arguably someone out there who could, I don’t know, conduct a game of chess at a remove while actually fucking him, as was reportedly true of Alistair Crowley.
But I do tend to think that, taken pound for pound, Russia is no Alistair Crowley… So…
What the fuck can you build while fucking Jeff Bridges? I don’t understand this bit at all…
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Exaclty.
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Roy Kent would tell the lot of you to fuck off
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A day after Zelenskyy said the offensive isn’t ready Russian telegram channels are exploding with panicked reports of Ukrainian build ups and movements all across the frontline.
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There’s fuckery afoot. It seems the Bakhmut campaign may have been a giant “Rope-a-Dope” operation by Ukraine. Ukraine has recaptured several kilometers on the flanks north and south of their remaining 10 % or so of the city itself. This isn’t “the big one”, but Wagner looks like it may be a spent force.
Trying to stretch Russia with feints and then break through. One Russian telegram channel was talking about Ukrainian amassing at the Russian border near Kharkiv. I don’t think they’ll invade Russia but Putin can’t ignore that possibility.
This is fun.
Russia fired a hypersonic missile at a Patriot missile battery, and Ukraine shot it down…with a Patriot missile. That’s a high-tech bitch slap.
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Now it looks like Russia fired 6 hypersonic missiles yesterday and Ukraine got all of them.
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This is a bit unnerving. The real-world proxy trials of military hardware/tech have a decidedly Spanish civil war vibe to it.
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The Pentagon is probably Scrooge Mcducking in all the new performance data coming in.
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Bakhmut has finally fallen to Russia in what may prove to be an historically pyrrhic victory. Even though the Wagner criminals have taken control of the last sections of western Bakhmut, “elite” VDF forces on the flanks have been giving ground.
Today, it is reported that one of the Russian brigades fighting for Ukraine and against the Putin regime has made an incursion into Russia near Belgorod. This will cause Russia to fix troops towards the northern section of the front if not redeploy troops from elsewhere to reinforce.
It may be wishful thinking on my part, but I think there’s ass-kicking heading Putin’s way. It may not be for weeks or months and it may not be all at once, but I think it’s coming.
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I’m following the Belgorod stuff and this seems to be bigger than expected. I didn’t think the Freedom of Russia Legion had this kind of force projection but here we are. Russian Telegram thinks they’re making a push to capture a nuclear weapons base.