Russia on brink of ... NOPE! Russia INVADES Ukraine!

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Lost_in_the_HTTP said:
Weaning off the stuff ....


G-7 Nations Pledge to Phase Out Russian Energy Imports

www.barrons.com.ico
Barron's|25 minutes ago
The G-7 nations pledged to phase out their dependence on Russian energy, on a timetable that allow the world to find alternative energy sources.


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It would help if our own private equity businesses would cooperate.

A US Government Loophole Is Helping Putin’s Cronies Hide Their Cash – Mother Jones

But it turns out that yachts and Knightsbridge shopping sprees aren’t where the real money is buried. Oligarchs have stashed huge sums throughout the global financial system, and you cannot sanction money you cannot find. Thanks to gaping regulatory loopholes, many Wall Street titans—specifically private equity firms and hedge funds—have little obligation to investigate where the enormous piles of cash they are investing actually came from. The billions they collect from clients and then use to buy real estate, factories, and farmland are largely exempt from the anti-money-laundering rules other US-based financial institutions have to follow.
 
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Meanwhile in France, Macron is now safely past the election and has Putin's back covered. He's spent many hours talking to Putin achieving nothing (nothing public at least, although almost certainly he has given Putin many assurances and trying hard to retain post-war preferred business status).

Sure, spare Putin from humiliation over his levelling of Mariupol, killing of tens of thousands of civilians, mass rape and civilian executions carried out under orders from his officers, and mass kidnapping and deportation to Russia of over 100,000 Ukrainian children (figure according to Russia!) Shortly Macron will undoubtedly be back selling high tech military equipment to Russia again, just like he was immediately after Crimea invasion, deliberately evading sanctions.
https://twitter.com/x/status/1523747474434895873
 
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Dave_5k said:
Meanwhile in France, Macron is now safely past the election and has Putin's back covered. He's spent many hours talking to Putin achieving nothing (nothing public at least, although almost certainly he has given Putin many assurances and trying hard to retain post-war preferred business status).

Sure, spare Putin from humiliation over his levelling of Mariupol, killing of tens of thousands of civilians, mass rape and civilian executions carried out under orders from his officers, and mass kidnapping and deportation to Russia of over 100,000 Ukrainian children (figure according to Russia!) Shortly Macron will undoubtedly be back selling high tech military equipment to Russia again, just like he was immediately after Crimea invasion, deliberately evading sanctions.
https://twitter.com/x/status/1523747474434895873
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The quote

"We all know perfectly well that the process to allow [Ukraine] to join would take several years indeed, probably several decades,"
"That is the truth, unless we decide to lower the standards for accession. And rethink the unity of our Europe."

Mr Macron said a "parallel European community" should be considered instead, rather than suspending the EU's strict membership criteria to fast-track Ukraine's application. It normally takes years for countries to negotiate EU membership, with candidates having to prove that they meet multiple criteria - from respecting democracy and the rule of law to having a robust enough economy.
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“Ukraine by its fight and its courage is already a heartfelt member of our Europe, of our family, of our union,”
“even if we grant it candidate status tomorrow, we all know perfectly well that the process to allow it to join would take several years indeed, probably several decades”.

"We will have a peace to build tomorrow, let us never forget that,"
"I mentioned this earlier. We will have to do this with Ukraine and Russia around the table. The end of the discussion and the negotiation will be set by Ukraine and Russia. But it will not be done in denial, nor in exclusion of each other, nor even in humiliation."
 
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The quote

"We all know perfectly well that the process to allow [Ukraine] to join would take several years indeed, probably several decades,"
"That is the truth, unless we decide to lower the standards for accession. And rethink the unity of our Europe."



“Ukraine by its fight and its courage is already a heartfelt member of our Europe, of our family, of our union,”
“even if we grant it candidate status tomorrow, we all know perfectly well that the process to allow it to join would take several years indeed, probably several decades”.

"We will have a peace to build tomorrow, let us never forget that,"
"I mentioned this earlier. We will have to do this with Ukraine and Russia around the table. The end of the discussion and the negotiation will be set by Ukraine and Russia. But it will not be done in denial, nor in exclusion of each other, nor even in humiliation."
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Fair, the headline is (unsurprisingly) extreme to catch attention, and I didn't read it closely enough, some good discussion there.
 
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Russia is still doing dumb shit... no protection for the tanks...

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K2 soldiers punished the occupiers for impudence. The enemy thought that his column would march and capture the city in Donetsk without resistance, but "something went wrong." Of the 12 pieces of equipment, 7 were destroyed, as were most of the racist infantry. And those who managed to survive fled
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1523923069106016257
 
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1523791050313433088

good long article on artillery and the software that Ukraine developed that allows targeting-> fire within 30 seconds

~ GIS Art for Artillery, or "GIS Art" for short, isn't the 1950's "Star" style Mainframe-terminal (TACFIRE) or Mainframe-Minicomputer-terminal (AFTADS) ported over to laptops. It is a true distributed software environment that reduced request for fire to trigger pull from 20 minutes to 30 seconds. By comparison, the US Army did that call to trigger pull in 5 minutes in WW2, 15 minutes in Vietnam and one hour currently.
 
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Roger Wilco said:
An amphibious assault on Alaska with starving frost bitten conscripts seems pretty on brand atm.
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My best guess is they think their only winning strategy now is convincing the West/Ukraine that Russia will endlessly escalate to try and force a settlement on better terms for them.

Russia started with 'we are here to liberate you and have no intention of occupying Ukraine, just getting rid of the Nazi leadership'.
Then they started targeting civilians.
Then as things got worse they went to 'we are never leaving our occupied areas'
Next it was 'maybe we'll invade Poland and the Baltics too'
Most recently that I've seen is 'maybe we all just die in nuclear hellfire'

None of this outside of the attacks on civilians seems to represent any actual escalation on their part though, it's all just bluster to cover a losing effort.
 
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We might have a new turret launch record - timestamp 2:51:
( 54th Mechanized Brigade vs Russian heavy armor )


edit: this the same column as RnR_au's video above, but it is a longer version with 3x more run time and more footage
 
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