Ukraine (15 Viewers)

[SamAndreas]

I searched and cannot find anything other than that post. Seems like a link would be helpful, but likely it's to a suspect source.

About 6 months ago I followed David D for about a week, but then dropped him as source because he appears to quite often make it up, and when he's not making it up, he turns whatever it is into a personal opinion rant.

This latest is from somewhat of a thread, and I read the thread and he got pretty darned far off into the weeds with his assertions about machines, and the repair of which he clearly doesn't know a blasted thing about.

 

[DaveXA]

I searched and cannot find anything other than that post. Seems like a link would be helpful, but likely it's to a suspect source.

He has an agenda and a political one at that. I wouldn't put stock in anything that guy posts on X/Twitter.

 

[SamAndreas]

Operator Starsky is set up to do a very long daily report (live) starting at 12:00 today. It's setup to be a 97 minuet live window with questions answered from people who comment as it goes on.

He says today was a very busy, day with there being too much to report for one of his usual daily reports. Keep in mind that he is an information officer with the Ukrainian Guards. Somewhat of an official position as a spokes person.
Perhaps something big is afoot.

 

[baarbogast]

 

[DCSaints_Fan]

Operator Starsky is set up to do a very long daily report (live) starting at 12:00 today. It's setup to be a 97 minuet live window with questions answered from people who comment as it goes on.

He says today was a very busy, day with there being too much to report for one of his usual daily reports. Keep in mind that he is an information officer with the Ukrainian Guards. Somewhat of an official position as a spokes person.
Perhaps something big is afoot.

Denys Davydov among others, suspect that RuAF are going to fall back to more defensible positions in the Kherson region. Because the left bank of the river aorund the Kherson area is on low ground and the right back is higher ground. Making RuAF more easy pickings for artillery. But further to the south and east there is higher ground.

Might make sense from a tactical point of view but that is a substantial blow to morale if they do it.

 

[efil4stnias]

Might make sense from a tactical point of view but that is a substantial blow to morale if they do it.

Especially when they find out that it was a single battalion sized group that has captured/held this area. ( 2-300 total UAF soldiers )

could be more- but i think there is going to be a wider action at some point and the Krynky area was initially just a recon-in-force action that happened upon an area very lightly defended. Could be diversionary as there could be areas both west and east for more landings. But the fact that UAF has not only deployed Birds of Magyar in that area, but now looks to be heavily protected by EW equipment to allow night movement ( RuAF has started using night vision FPVs )






very interesting and puts RuAF in a guessing game situation.

 

[efil4stnias]

And they keep targeting deep in the rear of RuAF in the left bank ( support logistics for Krynky area )

 

[boutte]

The special Sunday night war movie is The Blue Max. A world war I movie from the German perspective. Air Craft with reasonable depictions of the ground crew maintenance that were necessary to maintain a fleet of them in that setting.



It probably will not embed here, YouTube has not been agreeable with that notion, lately. They will say it is age restricted when what it really is that they want to force you to watch their advertisements at the YouTube site.

Here's the link to the movie encase it doesn't embed here: The Blue Max

Here's the blurb: "The "Blue Max", a coveted medal for achievement in flying, is ruthlessly sought by Bruno Stabel (George Peppard), a poor-boy German soldier who climbs out of the trenches and into the aristocratic air force. He is met with prejudice by the other contestants; wealthy snobs who look down upon his low economic stature. When he claims the title, he earns the respect of the General, and the General's wife, who wants to repay him in ways that the General might not appreciate."

I didn't appreciate much the General's wife scenes mucking up the otherwise good war movie plot, and I would suggest bypassing them. All of the old movies have those inane romance scenes.

I prefer the kinds of movies where the hero kisses his horse before riding off into the sunset at the end.

Saw that at a Drive In. Good movie.

 

[BigFrosty]

 

[SamAndreas]

Denys Davydov among others, suspect that RuAF are going to fall back to more defensible positions in the Kherson region. Because the left bank of the river aorund the Kherson area is on low ground and the right back is higher ground. Making RuAF more easy pickings for artillery. But further to the south and east there is higher ground.

Might make sense from a tactical point of view but that is a substantial blow to morale if they do it.

"Making sense from a tactical view" is probably synonymous with "doing what you absolutely have to do,"

 

[SamAndreas]

There has been two days of the media and Twitter folks reading tea leave innuendo instead of following Whitehouse direct statements of commitment.

For two long days I've seen quite a bit of anguish on the part of several Ukrainian tweeters who are convinced that the US is going to force Ukraine to negotiate with Russia, when Russia is clearly not ready to negotiate.

The source for that nonsense is thin, while there are very recent robust Whilehouse expressions of real commitment.

There is still bipartisan support in Congress for Ukraine.

So my take on this panic attack is that it's a panic attack. Take a double dose of Maalox, and then take a three hour nap.

The USA is not backing down!!!

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[SamAndreas]

The Russian's have issued an arrest warrant for the Ukrainian singer, Jamala.

This is her super hit song that swamps YouTube. It's hard to find her other songs on YouTube because 50 versions of this song dominates their listings for her.



Which is unfortunate because she's the Ukrainian Woody Guthrie with his Machine that Kills Fascists, (his guitar). Here's long play list that has her other works.

Russia wants to arrest her because she's a danger to them. She's as vital to the Ukrainian war effort as a full armored division. morale is a very important factor in war, she generates morale.



This is the Woody Guthrie reference I mentioned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_machine_kills_fascists#:~:text="This machine kills fascists" is,mid 1940s, starting in 1943.

 

[baarbogast]

NATO members are preparing a special operation to clear Black Sea of mines

NATO members Turkey, Romania, and Bulgaria are close to agreeing to create a joint force to clear mines drifting into their parts of the Black Sea — part of the fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

www.yahoo.com

 

[baarbogast]

 

[baarbogast]