Ukraine Always Get What You Want

Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky, who later commanded the Kharkiv offensive, said recently in an interview when asked about the 200th. “They run away very well.”

 

Here, we have No Man Left Behind.

In Soviet Russia:

“They just did new bookkeeping,” Toveri said, adding that doing so would be consistent with a Russian military culture seen as more calloused than its Western counterparts about casualties. “They had been at war for three months and don’t mention any killed in action,” Toveri said. “Let bygones be bygones.”

 

This is what happens when you don't tell kids they'll shoot their eye out.

 

Doesn't Ukraine need all the grenade launchers they already have?

Sounds like a classic case of FAAFO.

 

Gotta figure Crimea will be in play quite soon and it looks like an easier objective than Donbas.

Does Zelensky say fuck it and go straight for the main vein?

 

Russia might not be the only major European country with a paper tiger military.

Puma tanks unusable: Is Germany's military unfit for action? – DW – 12/19/2022

 

Prepare yourself ... this is one of the funniest things I've seen in quite a while.

 

Dr. StrangePutin, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
Good article explaining the actual effects of low-yield battlefield nukes. It's a reminder that most nukes are not city-killing doomsday machines that create irradiate wastelands for generations to come. The ones that Russia would probably use are more like super-sized MOABs with short-term radiation effects so they can move back into the area relatively quickly.

 

Mr. Zelensky goes to Washington

 

The jokes, they write themselves.

 

Not sure how smart this is for Zelensky's trip to be announced. I guess it has to be if he's going to address Congress, but I'd think an in-and-out-under-the-cover-of-night, Afghanistan-style mission might be better.

 

Why? You think Putin would dare do anything on US soil? The list of soon-to-be-dead oligarchs would be as long as your arm.