Mamoulian War

When you are so toxic, that even North Korea denies info on doing business with you…

A youtuber has called Peskov’s son, and pretended to be recruitment officer. You can guess, how it did go 🤣 https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/09/21/7368505/ video included, for the people knowing the language .

Little bit theorycrafting behind mobilisation from a military historian

But the sanctions are working. It is not something, which starts to work over night. Their banking sector has started to collapse. And their own blackmail by gas shortages has backfired tremendously. This will be colder winter, than usual for EU, but they have lost 70% of their exports, and all the revenue connected to it.

Oh, they do need every single bullet and more... The lower the weapon deliveries, the bigger the number of slaughtered civilians by Russian army...

Unless he became a Demilich and kicked the UA army all by himself, I do not see that even Zhukov would be able to make something out of the ****, that the Russian army has become...

Lets’s do math, Russia invaded Ukraine with approx 250k soldiers, with the best equipment they had, and with the best elite forces, which they had. 55k of them are dead, that means another 100-150k injured/deserted/surrendered/MIA. Their best equipment is either destroyed or captured by Ukrainians. Another approx 50k arrived to frontlines as “trained volunteers” and they still lost more land than they had captured since the fall of Lysychansk, and they are losing more every day. In whose brilliant mind sparkled an idea, that 300k lousy trained and badly equipped “reservists” can still turn the current tide of the war? Putin just sent another 50k-100k of their own people to die, because Ukraine will not stop. And even before the mobilisation, he already angered almost all of his allies, who feels how weak Russia is. If these 300k will not make any more difference on the battlefield, the probability of Russia ending up torn to pieces, just skyrocketed. And I bet, China is currently starting to do calculations, how to get back all the land, they’ve lost after Boxer Rebellion.

Anyway, in some territories of Russia, protests against mass mobilisation have started.

And I am happy, that my taxpayers money were this way used, and help with the ass kicking of mass murderer’s army. and here is another reason (one of many), why their army has been asskicked so easily. Western weapons is their smallest problem…

@Malcador more on the topic of ethnicity of dead soldiers.

@Sarex few examples, how Russia treats human rights of ethic minorities of Russia...

That is true for ethnic Russians. for the minorities, the only reason they go to war, are money, not love for Putin... And that is the reason, why they are amongst the heaviest casualties. The last article is about ethic minorities wanting to get out from under Russian colonial boot, also due to the fact, that they are treated the worst at home and at battlefield...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/2/racist-federation-russias-minorities-complain-of-racism https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/05/20/russia-ukraine-war-casualties-deaths-putin-ethnic-minorities-racism/ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220517-young-poor-and-from-minorities-the-russian-troops-killed-in-ukraine https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/05/22/for-russias-exiled-ethnic-activists-ukraine-war-a-window-of-opportunity-a77714

And I bet, with winter at the doors only indigenous people from Siberia and beyond will be partially mobilized, and ethnic Russians will be cheering their genocide from their comfy sofas at home... EDIT: Sorry for triple post but as soon as I press Enter, the forum software removes everything, which I typed after the Enter... EDIT2: Russian patriotism live 😄https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/09/21/7368414/ (all direct flights to Istanbul and Yerevan booked as soon as Putin speech ended 😄 )

I am curious how the soldiers with "improved" morale from prolonged contracts will fight in Donbas now, when the most elite and trained soldiers, which are now dead or crippled, were able to secure since the fall of Lysychansk only area in approximate size of Andorra... less than 500km2...

The wait time on alleged Russian speech has a very interesting side effect 😅 https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/09/20/7368367/ Top google searches today in Russia were “how to leave Russia”, and “How to defer military service”. 😅

Just a week or so befor Kharkiv counter-offensive Putin has said in Vladivostok forums, that Russia has lost nothing during this special military operation

We'll see what happens. Crimea is "part of Russia" according to Kremlin, and their whole navy, including submarines was kicked out of Sevastopol by systematic attack on Crimea, and all the Kremlin did as an answer to this, was losing 90% of Kharkiv Oblast General mobilization will not end well for Russia, if it would, Putin would already done that... And USA has already threatened few days ago, that using nuclear or chemical weapons in UA will lead to direct NATO involvement.

Few of these smoking incidents already happened all around occupied regions in last few weeks. And there's no indication, that the occupiers will stop smoking anytime soon...

Well, Russian Duma passed a law today, that for refusing participation in the combat, desertion and surrendering as POW! you can be charged up to 10 years in prison 🤷‍♂️

Although in the wake of current war efforts, in the case of Russians, especially behind the Ural, starting Mandarin classes would be considered as a highly rational act 😏

It was jab at som people, who still do not believe, that Russia is capable of shelling Nuclear PPs, including ZNPP, despite dozens of satellite and on-site images, from where you can easily find out, where from the projectiles arrived 🤷‍♂️

After finishing the original Atelier Arland Trilogy, I have started the PS4 sequel Atelier Lulua... So far, a little bit mixed feeling about it. It is completely different game from the Trilogy. Some areas were improved, some were not. What I liked the most (smaller areas) have been changed to "open-world-like" design. A lot of these small areas look gorgeous in PS4, and their design is kept intact, with few cosmetic improvements added, but it takes much, much more to explore these areas now, including the harvesting. Because of this, I am spending much more time running around the world aimlessly, compared to previous games, which is the biggest downturn for me. The other downturn was, that the game kind of started to long, to move little bit forward with the story, but that might be the side effect of the "open-world-like" design, and my disdain to it. The synthesis system is also different to original trilogy, but it is on par with Atelier Meruru system. The humour is still the same as in previous games. What I like about the game the most, is the Riddle System for acquiring most of your new recipes. Game gives you few clues, and you have to find correct locations, materials, monsters or synthesis to move forward. Again, the downside is, that it might take to long to get some of the answers, due to area design So far 6/10. Hopefully it gets better further in the game