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they already have that...they're called trump supporters...
one dark moody psychopath is much like the others...
i don't think russia needs any materials to make dirty bombs, they seem to have plenty on hand
This one has IQ and vocabulary.
true, why all that way to go get some, when they can steal it.....
I remember our local National Guard asking for folks back home to send them flak jackets their first tour in Iraq. They were all raiding scrapyards to up-armor their vehicles.Desperate Russian Rear-Area Troops Are Armoring Their Vehicles With Wood Logs
Ukrainian roads have quickly become a killing ground for Russian convoys moving through hostile territory amid a reportedly worsening logistics situation. While losses of heavily armored tanks and armored personnel carriers to anti-tank weapons are piling up, far less fortified vehicles are vulnerable even to small arms fire. Losses of light and unarmored vehicles trying to ferry men and materiel to advancing Russian forces are also increasing. As a result, Russian drivers have gotten creative in fortifying their trucks for the deadly roads leading ever deeper into Ukraine.
Images of Russian KAMAZ trucks appeared Saturday showing logs stacked on the front bumper as additional improvised armor. Crews even managed to retain their distinctive “V” markings seen on Russian vehicles in the sector. Other vehicles use wood boards and junk metal to protect their most vulnerable frontal areas.
The three vehicles look to be carrying PMP pontoon bridge elements, a valuable logistics asset and one of the Ukrainian forces’ preferred targets alongside fuel trucks. A PMP bridge was likely set up over the Pripyat River in the Belarusian side of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in the final days leading up to the war.
The logs themselves appear cut from trees right behind the vehicles and are likely intended to protect the trucks’ radiators from small arms fire. The last thing any Russian vehicle crew wants is to survive an ambush only for the truck to overheat and break down nearby.
This is far from the first instance of Russian troops trying to improve their vehicles’ armor for their invasion of Ukraine. At least one captured T-72 tank had sandbags on its turret in a vain attempt to augment its explosive reactive armor blocks. Russian units have also carried logs onboard as a means to help vehicles escape the suffocating mud long feared by observers as a threat to the Russian military's off-road operations. This is in addition to the cage-like improvised armor that began appearing on Russian tanks before the invasion in an attempt to counter-drone and anti-tank guided-missile attacks.
Desperate Russian Rear-Area Troops Are Armoring Their Vehicles With Wood Logs
Absent better security, Russian drivers are doing whatever they can to survive Ukrainian ambushes.www.thedrive.com
We call them warming centers. When there are really bad winter storms, cities have to open up places for the homeless to stay.
Soon they will be getting the truth on their old analog military radios, NATO has been prepared for this for a long time and the Ukrainians are pretty good a psychological warfare. These radios are in all their equipment and have many channels and their equipment is filled with bored young conscripts who are news starved, besides they will be playing popular music and they took their phones before the invasion. If they aren't now they will soon be all over the Russian military network in Ukraine, it will be first class entertainment too and will walk all over their communications. They still have regular radio and TV in much of Ukraine FFS!
Well Hitler and Himmler were into that mystical shit too.
I think all NATO countries should give any soldier leave if he wants to go fight. Would love to see whole units join together.
A lot of these people have military experience on equipment the Ukrainians are getting from NATO like AA systems. They can train Ukrainian women soldiers for these jobs, freeing up men for close combat. They are probably classifying them by experience and training, ex soldiers will be given preference and specialists will be picked out. NATO is doing a lot of advising and helping here with organization too, as is the CIA. I have no doubt there might be a retired NATO general or two on contract with the Ukrainians
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Ukraine could probably have it's pick of retired NATO officers right up to general. Most have assessed the situation there and like what they see, I don't see any problem with them getting lot's of military experience. Besides they trained for this shit all their lives and many believe in the cause.
Anger is caused when desires are thwarted and Vlad's have been thwarted, he has been humiliated, but not yet humbled, that will take some time. I think internal pressure might soon become unbearable, that's why he is doing this shit, to avoid eventual internal pressure, as Ukraine becomes a prosperous western democracy and Russians live like shit because of his failures. Well now he will be remembered for his failures, blunders and fucking mother Russia for a generation, by a generation of his victims. This will happen, even if he packed up his army and went home tomorrow, the die has been cast and it came up snake eyes for Vlad.‘Yes, He Would’: Fiona Hill on Putin and Nukes
Putin is trying to take down the entire world order, the veteran Russia watcher said in an interview. But there are ways even ordinary Americans can fight back.