TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@qoto.org
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 72 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
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Alexander Vindman - Plot against America
Jeff Tiedrich is angry because some poor Probation Officer didn't want Donald McFarty Trump in his tiny office for an hour.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jefftiedrich/p/why-the-fuck-is-convicted-felon-donald?r=70k1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
The United States allowed the transfer of American weapons for the Azov brigade, - The Washington Post
"After a thorough inspection, the Ukrainian 12th special purpose brigade "Azov" passed the Leahy Law inspection conducted by the US State Department," the State Department said in a statement.
Here, the US agency refers to the "Leahy Law", named after former senator Patrick J. Leahy and the author of the document, which prohibits the transfer of US military aid to foreign units found to have committed human rights abuses. Accordingly, "Azovians" do not belong to this category.
When exactly the corresponding restriction was removed, the publication does not specify.
Azov was banned from receiving American weapons about 10 years ago amid "concerns in Washington about the group's origins." Fakes about "Azov" were among the top topics of Russian propaganda for a long time, and rossMI actively tried to promote all kinds of invented "horror stories" about "Azov" people, in particular, to the countries of the West, that some of the founders of the brigade have racist, xenophobic and ultra-nationalist views
While the Russians abandon their soldiers on the battlefield, the Ukrainians save their comrades-in-arms from the most challenging situations.
The miraculous rescue of a Ukrainian serviceman by fighters from the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade. Dmytro was ambushed and received five bullet wounds, but thanks to the decisive actions of his comrades he survived.
During an aerial reconnaissance, he was discovered by a drone. Dmytro was not sure whether it was ours or an enemy drone, but he remained confident and, at his own risk, began signaling that he urgently needed help.
First he showed the tourniquet and the watch - time was running out, and then he pulled out his military ID. Soon enough, medics from the 47th SMB evacuated him in an American Bradley IFV.
📹: 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade
From "The analyst":
LARGE SCALE STRIKES SMASH RUSSIAN FORCES
The big news, clearly is the story of the massive and coordinated Ukraine missile raid on Russian bases and positions once permission to strike had been given on Russia itself.
This followed a Russian decision to do what they always do to try and push large amounts of infantry into the Kharkiv front, in an effort to restore their flagging fortunes.
As the war has progressed systems like the various GPS dependent missiles used by MLRS/HIMARS systems have become less effective at distance, as the Russians work out how to jam or spoof the signals, greatly reducing their accuracy. Then the Americans work out a fix, which eventually the Russians learn to block again and it becomes a perpetual game of cat and mouse. However to stop HIMARS/MLRS missiles you need the jamming equipment, radars and possibly the air defences - although they’re of limited use against a group of incoming.
To start the offensive against the Russian bases and troop concentrations the Ukrainians had to find and destroy the primary Russian air search radar in the region, a Castor 2E2, which was located by a Ukrainian developed loitering drone, the Ram-2, and destroyed by a pair of them, one taking out the radar emitter and the other the support vehicle.
Without the radars the Russians were unawares of the incoming multiple HIMARS launches that devastated their S-300/400 sites, leaving nothing but flaming melted scrap in their wake.
Without the threat of the air defence missile batteries the Ukrainians could risk sending in strike aircraft and helicopters to assist their ground forces.
The Ukrainian use of precision glide bombs, some of the Paveway family, was critical to preventing the Russians exploiting their hold in Vovchansk by destroying their positions in high rise buildings they had captured. This halted the Russian advance and allowed the Ukrainians to begin their counter attacks in the town, largely driving the Russians out of much of what they’d previously gained. These had to be precision strikes - a mistake could have been fatal to their own side in such close proximity.
Even the Russians commented on the scale of the missile raids raining down on their bases and military infrastructure- claiming that at least 12 MLRS systems were in use against them - oddly in a way that sounded like ‘that’s just not fair’. Ukraine then published a photo of dozens of the six missile canister systems piled up with no missiles in them, suggesting that as many as 308 missiles had been used so far.
The Russians of course made all of this worse for themselves. The system of central direction with its limited capacity - or willingness - go communicate vital information, an endemic problem in an authoritarian society where information is tightly controlled to frame the required ‘message’, resulted in a massacre at the front.
Any sensible higher military authority would have predicted that if the west gave permission to fire on Russian soil, it would be obvious what the targets would be. You’d order their rapid redeployment and relocation in the time you had available, or at least put some defensive measures in place.
But this is Russia. Admitting reality is way too hard to do, especially if it’s bad news, so they did absolutely nothing. Partly out of disbelief that the west would never do such a thing because it was too scared. The arrogance of assumption cost them dearly.
If I could have a motto tattooed on every officers hand it would always be ‘assume nothing’. The biggest military sin - and it should apply in life generally! Never ever assume everything will go as planned. Always have a Plan-B, always take precautions to have a way out, a way round or an alternative if things don’t go as you expect. It’s true that nobody can plan for every eventuality, but it’s never that difficult to identify a sensible alternative that’s easy to implement and make viable. But that takes initiative and in Russia, initiative is rarely rewarded or even considered a positive trait.
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦!
🐍 In Indonesia, a giant snake has swallowed a woman. The body of the 45-year-old mother of four was found in the stomach of the five-meter-long reticulated python, village chief Suardi Rosi announced on Saturday.
45-year-old Farida did not return home on Thursday evening and has been missing since then. Her husband and other residents of the village of Kalempang in the province of South Sulawesi started a search and discovered the missing woman's personal belongings on Friday.
Shortly afterwards, "they discovered a python with a big belly," reported the village chief. "They agreed to cut open the python's stomach." The missing woman's head was immediately visible. The snake swallowed the woman fully clothed.
Reticulated pythons mainly eat smaller animals and birds, only very rarely they kill people. However, there have been a few deaths in Indonesia in recent years:
▪️Last year, villagers in Southeast Sulawesi killed an eight-meter-long python that had swallowed a farmer.
▪️In 2018, a 54-year-old woman was found dead in the stomach of a seven-meter-long python in Southeast Sulawesi.
▪️In 2017, a man was devoured by a four-meter-long python on a palm oil plantation in West Sulawesi.
@ukrainejournal
Another banzai attack by invaders on a motorcycle at the position of the 79th Air Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces . The attack was stopped by barbed wire and drones waiting at the appropriate location. If you tighten everything with a thorn, then this will simply nullify any banzai attacks not only on motorcycles, but also on buggies.
Another result by 79th!!
@ukrainejournal
❗️The Russian AWACS A-50 was shot down by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in January 2024 with the help of the Patriot air defense system
This was stated by the Assistant Chief of Staff of the 10th US Army, Colonel Rosanna Clemente.
According to her, some complexes are used to protect static objects, others are moved and do “truly historical things.” One of them is “SAMbush” - “aerial ambush”, when air defense systems are moved to the very front line (!). This is how the first A-50 AWACS was hit in January. This is the first official confirmation. The russians then said that it was friendly fire. A SU-27 was similarly shot down near the russian border during one of the first “SAMbush” operations.
For this purpose, Ukrainian air defense troops were first trained. "German instructors woke up the battery in the middle of the night, gave the order to move to a firing position, conduct an air battle, and then move away again," Clemente explained.
Another interesting thing is that the officer who shot down the first russian Kinzhal was 23 years old.
@ukrainejournal
🫡 We serve the Ukrainian people!
▫️ President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed the Decree on awarding "For Courage" orders to soldiers of the special unit of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine "Artan".
▫️ The awards were presented to the scouts by the head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov.
▫️ Fighters awarded with orders took part in daring and effective missions in the Black Sea and in the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimea!
⚔️ Thanks to operations that at first might have seemed impossible, Ukraine managed to change the balance of forces in the Black Sea and unblock the grain corridor, which now has virtually the same capacity as before the full-scale invasion.
👤 The commander of the special unit of the GUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine "Artan" with the call sign "Titan" became a full knight of the Order "For Courage"!
▫️ According to intelligence officers, this honorary award became an additional motivation to continue working until the complete liberation of Ukraine from the invaders.
🤝 Let's create victory together!
🇺🇦 Glory to Ukraine!
- GUR
@ukrainejournal
I remember when Biden did it and Republicans tried their best to stop it.
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/donald-trumps-blood-sugar-problem/56529/
Good morning Resisters everywhere. It's another sunny day here in the Ozarks. No rain until Friday. The sun just popped up and I was not in the shade. Musical chair where I take my chair with me.
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 72 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
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