Russia - threadbanned users in OP

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This is some of the weirdest ,most up lifting and scary stuff on you tube ,

The guy is I think working for a charity on the front line , the girl is Ukraine military his translator / minder / fixer ,

And they're basically driving back and forth along the front line, delivering supplies and evacuating grannies ,day in day out ,

There's a piece where he talks about some village , and says everybody from there is dead.. so matter of fact ...just nuts..

From Tendar tweet:

It looks increasingly like that the Battle of Kherson inflicted far more Russian losses then known. The cities of Oleshky and Hola Prystan are defended by a skeleton army and now the Russian occupation announced "evacuation" orders for civilians in Nova Kakhovka. #Kherson

Another evacuation order, another goodwill retreat?

Well, I have one or two Swiss friends since many years ago, and it used to be that if you married a Swiss person, then after 10 years, you had the right to apply for citizenship, and at that time, your request was publicized in the Canton you were living in and if no objections, then you got your citizenship. But even after that, if you divorced, I think you forfeited it. May and probably has all being changed by now, I'm not sure. But this reminds me of the TV program, Billions, when Bobby Axelrod had come to the end of the line (for now anyway) and he is smuggled to Switzerland to avoid jail in the US. When the plane lands in Switzerland, Bobby is met on the tarmac by 3 officials, one of whom hands Bobby a passport. Then the 2nd official asks Bobby for his passport, and Bobby duly hands over the passport he has just received from official Nr 1, after a cursory glance and leaf through the document, official Nr 2 declares " All is in Order" and hands it to official Nr 3, who duly stamps Bobbys brand new passport with the word's " Welcome to Switzerland Mr Axelrod.

Maybe Putins passport and citizenship were handled the same way??

of course they will. Common, this is the same Switzerland that was once so happy to oblidge Nazis. This time will be no different.

A lot more going on relevant to that Ukrainian embassy letter bomb in Spain than it first appeared.

Not good will, early crissie pressie.

Are these conscripts Tartars mainly. Was Crimea well populated with Tartrs at one stage only to be outed , through various means , by the Russian Federation. I do’nt think that the Tartars had any problem in living amongst the Ukr. If all of the above is true, then no wonder they all walked ‘off the job’

In news that has actually happened, Ukraine may have cut the strategically important P66 highway in Luhansk.

The Russian positions in the north of Luhansk don't look very defensible to me.

I didn't say the artillery was 'breaking', that was a journalist for the NYT. In fact, it was the headline: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/25/us/ukraine-artillery-breakdown.html

I am someone who's been repairing their own cars since the late 70's, so I do understand what maintainance is. When I'm sitting on a stool, crouched over an engine block, carefully threading the con-rod of a piston down the newly honed bore, trying not to scratch it, and then carefully compressing the cast iron oil scraper ring, being careful as that material doesn't like bending and is prone to snapping, so I can get it and the piston down the bore, I am fully aware I won't be driving the car to work that day, or a few to follow.

Part of the point I am trying to make is that I believe we armchair generals have read so many stories about weapons and stuff being supplied to Ukraine that we have perhaps formed a mistaken overall picture that the Ukrainians are well equipped, when the actuality is that they aren't, compared to the size of the problem, so with a third of all those goodies offline at any one time for maintainance, it's even worse. I was trying to highlight something I thought might have been missed by some who don't know what brake fluid or glycol tastes like.

One of the Ukraine millitary Telegram channels I view has these occasional little pieces where they go ecstatic with thanks when someone donates a well used car to them, to enable a squad to better get about in. That's how short on gear they really are when a used car as a frontline troop transport is a big deal to make a suitably sized fuss over.

Argueing??? Nope. Just stating a well-known fact, that in any situation, change the circumstances and conditions, and you change the outcome. But that does not necessarily mean that the changes will be beneficial. But as you mention Vietnam, some facts for you (and a preview of what's coming to Russia, curtesy of the war in Ukraine) Up to 2008, between 8-9'000 ex-Vietnam soldiers committed suicide after coming home. 38% got divorced within 6 mths of returning. 75'000 were severely disabled. 23'000 were totally disabled. 271'000 suffered from PTSD. Drug use dropped to "Normal" peer group levels. It did not stop. The above figures may well be higher by now. And they all had knock-on effects, so like ripples ina pond, the negative effects spread far and wide.

Now all of the above upheaval and disorder happened in a modern "Civilized" society, which was capable of containing / controlling it. Even so, it caused major damage to society. Russia is quite the opposite of America, where you have some kind of democracy. Russia is a mafia state. And we have already seen the contempt Putin holds the Russian people in. He is beyond contempt.

Not a question of "Fuss" as such cnockbui. In ww2, Russian women fought alongside the men (if you have seen "Enemy at the Gate" you will know what I mean) but in Ukraine, I have not seen or heard of any Russian women fighting on the front lines, there's one or two vid showing them at the bases OK, but on the Ukrainian side, the women are on the front lines fighting, predominantly snipers.

Standings should be standins

Tks for that. You learn something everyday