US Foreign Policy 3.0: We're The Mets of International Diplomacy

[Handyman]

Considering the state of their conventional equipment, it’s questionable if their nuclear stuff works (though let’s not find out).

Putin when he hits "The Button"

 

[Kepler]

Considering the state of their conventional equipment, it’s questionable if their nuclear stuff works (though let’s not find out).

I'm hoping the generals sold all the fissionable material years ago and the warheads are stuffed with Milo Minderbinder's Egyptian cotton.

 

[Jimjamesak]

I'm hoping the generals sold all the fissionable material years ago and the warheads are stuffed with Milo Minderbinder's Egyptian cotton.

That would be worse.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

That would be worse.

Yeah, then it's a concern over who got the goods. Terror groups, rogue regimes, black market arms dealers, nefarious lone wolf scientists, etc.

 

[Jimjamesak]

Yeah, then it's a concern over who got the goods. Terror groups, rogue regimes, black market arms dealers, nefarious lone wolf scientists, etc.

Yeah, at that point it’d be almost impossible to find out where it was.

 

[aparch]

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-09-15/ukraine-medic-describes-russian-torture

Known to Ukrainians by the nickname Taira, Paievska and her care of Mariupol’s wounded during the nearly seven-month Russian invasion of Ukraine received global attention after her bodycam footage was provided to the Associated Press.

“Do you know why we do this to you?” a Russian asked Paievska as he tortured her, she recounted to the commission. She told the panel her answer to him: “Because you can.”

 

[Kepler]

"Combat infantry and junior commanders."

Read: HIMARS fodder.

 

[Kepler]

If only there was something you could do.

 

[aparch]

Germany has seized control and nationalized Russia's Rosneft subsidiaries within the country in order to secure gasoline, diesel, and oil supplies.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/09/16/energy/rosneft-germany-oil-refineries/index.html

 

[MichVandal]

Germany has seized control and nationalized Russia's Rosneft subsidiaries within the country in order to secure gasoline, diesel, and oil supplies.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/09/16/energy/rosneft-germany-oil-refineries/index.html

Which is fine, given the billions that Russia has nationalized.

 

[Kepler]

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

All around the world, the same BS. The rich urbanites never send their sons to die in shitty wars, that's what the poor rurals are for.

 

[MichVandal]

All around the world, the same BS. The rich urbanites never send their sons to die in shitty wars, that's what the poor rurals are for.

Right, look at Viet Nam. For sure not something Americans should crow about.

 

[Jimjamesak]

All around the world, the same BS. The rich urbanites never send their sons to die in shitty wars, that's what the poor rurals are for.

Unless you're royalty, then it's expected that your kids go (see Elizabeth II, Prince Andrew, and Prince Harry).

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

And of course, as always, a prime opportunity for Russia to do a little ethnic cleansing via conscription of minority-majority oblasts.

 

[Handyman]

"Why don't presidents fight the wars why do they always send the poor?!"
-system of a down

 

[Kepler]

All around the world, the same BS. The rich urbanites never send their sons to die in shitty wars, that's what the poor rurals are for.

Although to be fair the poor rurals are usually the gun humping bigots, so...

 

[Kepler]

Day 208.

• Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be increasingly relying on irregular, poorly trained ad-hoc volunteer and proxy units rather than attempting to rebuild damaged or destroyed conventional Russian ground forces units.
• Ukrainian forces continue to consolidate positions on the east bank of the Oskil River in Kharkiv Oblast despite Russian efforts to contain them.
• Russian forces in western Kherson Oblast may be attempting to fall back to more defensible positions in a controlled withdrawal to avoid the chaotic retreat that characterized the collapse of Russian defenses in Kharkiv earlier in September.
• Russian forces suffered devastating losses of manpower and equipment in their fight for eastern Ukraine and especially during the Ukrainian Kharkiv counter-offensive. Multiple Russian armored and mechanized units have likely been effectively destroyed according to assessments released on September 18.

Also, shades of Hitler delusion:

A prominent Russian milblogger also claimed that the Russian command issued a “no retreat” order last week for all units serving in Donbas, requiring that Russian forces operating on the axis hold their positions regardless of the unfolding situation in front of them.[12]This order would be noteworthy in two ways if the report is accurate. First, Donetsk Oblast is the only area in Ukraine in which Russian forces are still attempting offensive operations. There have been sporadic reports of limited Ukrainian counterattacks, but no evidence that Ukraine is preparing a large-scale counteroffensive operation in this area.[13] The order suggests that the Russian military may fear a Ukrainian counteroffensive into the teeth of their last offensive efforts, however. Second, it shows deep mistrust of the combat capabilities of the units receiving the order in contrast with the apparently higher confidence Russian commanders have in the units in western Kherson Oblast, where sensible efforts to conduct a controlled withdrawal appear to prevail.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

The Ukraine War has made Freerepublic a fun follow again. Freepers are torn between a handful of Putinistas who post Kremlin propaganda and call everyone else fascists and sheep, and the majority of MAGAts who don't trust Putin but are tired of America playing the world's police.

 

[Kepler]

I am sure Freep also has the SVR infiltration of all social media.