FIRMS is going even more nuts than your image. Is there even a base left?
Yeah, an audible Jesus at that first video. The other sites in the distance just make it all the more…
I wonder if this specific missile was damaged beforehand. Javelins are pretty good kit.
Russia doing this shit doesn’t surprise me any more. Which, just makes this all the more sad.
Hopefully Biden green-lights long range strikes soon. Unfortunately, I think he is waiting till after the election.
19% central bank rates are anything but normal.
In the US, a 6% 30-year mortgage on a $200k home costs $1,199/mo (excluding taxes, insurance, etc). That exact same mortgage at Russia’s 19% is $3,178/mo.
No, at 19% it’s basically impossible to finance anything. Good luck buying a home, buying a car, expanding your business. We are talking literal credit card rates for the safest of things. And I’m being generous here, nobody gets the central bank rate, that is the floor, the cheapest rates that only banks get.
Yeah, those pontoon bridges are natural choke points. Real nice hits here.
Seems odd they stuck around the bridge at all. Seems one would want to gtfo that obvious spot asap.
I wonder if this has to do with Russia’s push to retake Kursk, Russia. Particularly if they are doing it with less experienced personel, leaving the good ones in Donetsk, Ukraine.
Fuck yeah, make it happen!
That’s a nice cookoff :)
I think he means Russia would never release a statement apologizing about unintentionally hitting civilians.
I would like to wait to see what else they hit. I somehow doubt a random highrise was the intended target. A few posts below it looks like an airport was hit, among other things.
I would like to see NATO countries, particularly Poland, start shooting any hostile vehicle entering range of their air defenses. Not just things heading to their country specifically, anything in range. This isn’t the first time Russia sent shit into other countries this war, and it certainly won’t be the last.
The third person interviewed, the guy with glasses and a backpack, looked extremely nervous and seemed to overall be very careful in considering what he says. I have a strong feeling the statements he made were not how he actually feels, but what he feels are safe to say to a camera.
He is also one of the younger people interviewed, which makes me wonder if such statements from others interviewed just have a more well practiced veneer on them, or if the others have built up significantly more apathy over the years.
The teacher at the end was probably the most forward. Which was a very welcome difference from the rest.
The modern tactical nuke is as strong as what the US dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. People have this idea that a tactical nuke is ‘small’, but what is really the case is they are full sized nukes, and strategic nukes are simply larger. From a MAD perspective, there is no reason why dropping a nuke the strength of what was dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki would somehow be notably different than a larger nuke.
Write the president, tell them to allow Ukraine to use US missiles deep in Russian territory. Russia sure has no qualms about doing so to Ukraine with their foreign weapons.
I like the meme pictures :)
I understand why they don’t include the info, but would be real nice to know how many Bradleys they included here. They have done pretty well over there.
Ah, a retrowave styled combat video. Haven’t seen one of those recently.
For everyone’s viewing pleasure; a video in the same style: N A T O W A V E
Yeah, it certainly isn’t untenable in Russia right now. The main issue is that they are running out of levers to pull, so conditions that exasperate the issue don’t have solid counter-balancing options.
Two solid levers are to defend the currency (requires spending forex reserves to buy up rubles) and raising central bank interest rates. We see the reserves are drawing down in OP’s post and the central bank rates are already at 18% (compared to ~5.5% in the US). The high interest rates increasingly handycap your economy as you push them up. At 18%, it is already nearing credit card levels of interest simply to finance safe loans.
Things aren’t dire for Russia today, but they are getting closer and closer to a situation they may not be able to pull out of in the future.
Now why would Iran’s ambassador have a Hezbollah pager? 🤔
(we all know why)