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I guess I was not clear. My point was that this lady is the perfect living and breathing personification the Dunning-Kruger effect. Either that or she's a sock-puppet for someone else. She has zero background in this stuff but posts tens of detailed twits every day for at least 6 months (can't...

Ain't Sachs. Clinton/Bush2 x3/Biden x2 (two un-named CURRENT US official) aides actually... The idiots are across the spectrum. Wrong ones. I think the correct ones are Halo effect All you need to know Not sure about M109A6 as the announcement just says 155mm howitzers. That can be towed...

Nitpicking, but I hope it's just an old photo, as the officer in the picture has a full colonel rank not a major-general (O-7 equivalent, brigadier general). And the shoulder tabs look to me like artillery not paratroopers, but that may be just the angle... Maybe he just got promoted to...

Lots of posts about T-34s in Ukraine before the summer. But I have higher hopes for putin and his gang. They should be able to find a ghost or two in some Siberian warehouse resembling a BT-5 or a T-26. Spanish civil war era меланхолия (melancholia)...

Hmm, no. I know that wikipedia is not the authoritative resource, but I think their definition for MBT is pretty good: a tank that had the firepower of a super-heavy tank, the armor protection of a heavy tank, and the mobility of a light tank, in a package with the weight of a medium tank. The...

T-72 lineage is coming from T-64, which was a brand new design, first to use auto-loader and quite a few major design paths from the T-34/T-44/T-55/T-62 lineage. But it is still an MBT, so a direct follower of the medium tanks (T-34) and not a heavy tank (as in IS-2). IS-2 lineage starts with...

Pre-NATO ascendance, in the 1992 Transnistrian original conflict, Romania did intervene both on the sly (equipment transfer, brand new painted Moldavian APCs showing up out of thin air :) ) and openly (military advisors and volunteers). But now in 2023, as a full fledged NATO member, Romania has...

Long but very good scholarly analysis re war, history, reasons and outcomes from a Romanian diplomat via Google translate...

Belarus has some river ports that are decent size (still a land locked country). But: Brest is isolated now from pretty much all the destinations as Bug River goes thru Ukraine and Mukhavets doesn't really gets you anywhere useful but thru canals to Dnipro. Oops, that's Ukraine going south...

Ahem, that depends on the definitions. In the loosest sense, Constantin Cantacuzino war the top Allied ace with 69 (possibly 77) victories, but that was fighting on both sides. One of the most colorful pilot characters in the whole war, the only guy that managed to fly a BF109 and a P51 in the...

You guys do realize that RealSubtitles @R82938886 it is a parody account, just like @DarthPutinKGB? Darn good parody at that, that's one of the top to date in my opinion :)

In the words of the grandfather of the blitzkrieg (before Guderian even was even born), "Keep up the skeer!"

100 years? Try more than 1100? Since the very beginning of the Rurik dynasty, the russia was an absolutist state. They never, ever, experienced democracy. They got a whiff of kleptocracy laden free-market in the 1990s followed by the full fledged Putin kleptocracy since 1999. That's it; no...

Exactly why should I assume that they'll be asinine enough to force EXCLUSIVE usage of the charger for a single customer at a time (bolding mine)? While having the other spot ICE'd... Just curious, you don't own a red M3 too in addition to the MSM? Anyways I vote with my wallet and it's not like...

From personal experience, this is as bad an idea as it gets. Last month I stayed at a hotel that listed a Tesla destination charger. Given the location and the charger availability I decided it should be a nice choice to enjoy couple of days stay. Nowhere listed was the fact that you could...

21 of course. And for bonus points the next one is the answer to ultimate question, of life, the universe, and everything :cool:

I'm not sure what this shipping glut at the Danube delta is about. Bystre estuary canal is really shallow, less than 15ft draft and limited to speeds less than 15knots. From there you'll only get to the Romanian Danube ports from where you do what? Same applies to the Sulina branch traffic...

Right after russia gives back the land they took from Finland, Sweden, Poland, Germany, Japan, Georgia, Romania, Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine... And the list is larger than that but I'm going into a meeting now :) Or simpler, how about the Mongols getting back the part of russia that belonged to...

While I agree with your technical analysis, the rest is not the way I see it. It is not the right vs left as much as it is authoritarian vs libertarian and populist vs technocrat. You have people towards the center on both sides supporting Ukraine and you have the ones embracing...

On behalf of all people that grew on the other side of the Iron curtain, I can tell you that the red army soldier WAS NEVER EVER perceived as an liberator; but as a savage barbarian burning and raping his way across Europe. There should be a reason to think it thru for even for the dumbest...

@petit_bateau was referring to the 12.3 year half time for tritium. You lose half of the original quantity just by decay in 12 years. Every year you basically lose something ~5.5% of the quantity and you need to replenish it in order for the nuclear weapons' neutron initiator to still work...

Let me fix that for you: In case that the beginning is even true, what 99.99% happened was that the russians shot the Ukrainian soldiers while pretending to accept their surrender. This is extremely typical of soviet/russian war crimes now and in the past. Except if you provide INDEPENDENT...

Because they got in (alongside with a sub) in early February, before the invasion. https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2022/02/6-russian-warships-and-submarine-now-entering-black-sea-towards-ukraine/ Anti-ship missiles aside, where the hell are they gonna get the marines for the invasion...

Check the flash drive; that was a problem I had months ago. I couldn't engage the FSD for more than 1 min max, usually less. Proved to be a dying flash drive and replacing the drive fixed it. A friend had similar problems and for him a low level format of the flash drive took care of the "red...

Lol, close enough, IT IS/WAS a museum peace T-54. But the idiots didn't realize that so they shot it... Bet they were proud of making a tank kill before the enemy even getting a move 🤡 In front of one of the Azovstal buildings. See the tower in the background and the tank number...🤡 My Lai...

At least the American soldiers have not raped, pillaged and burned (not always in that order) their way across the world at least 50 times in the last 100 years. US punishes extremely harshly the servicemen accused of war crimes. The Russians decorate them, both now and previous times (WWI and WWII)

The Russian grunt is an uneducated and uncultured boor. Too complicated for them to actually parse the stuff they are fed. So they fight for white race by killing... white people? Just chalk it to the dismal state of the education in the Soviet/Russian space. And that's how the Czars wanted the...

If you are that unhappy, no one should force you to drive it; luckily the used car market is good enough that you should make a nice profit and order one of the: "Porsche Taycan, Ford Mach E, every other EV on the planet". Way better than complaining for years on a forum about the car you have...

May I suggest some reading on project management? That's one of the capital sins, gold plating. I understand your frustration, but that's just silly to expect; you have the right to be disappointed with not meeting the promised and agreed upon goals, but over-deliver ain't good business practice...

Volkssturm v.2022

Nit-picking, but the top Allied ace (by definition) was Constantin Cantacuzino with 69 victories. Of course most of the were before Romania switched sides (both Russians as well as US/UK planes) in 1944, but he had 11 victories (German planes) after that as well. The guy was a legend from before...

Not quite clear on that, there are conflicting information if the Russians are able to annex Kherson just now. They may have bit more than they can chew at this time. See what the local Benedict Arnold had to say: Google translate, but can't figure out how to get a direct link for translate...

Absolutely as long as St Petersburg returns as a capital to the new slimmer Novgorod Republic. And FYI Königsberg (or Kaliningrad post WWII) is now in Russia. So add Poland and Lithuania to the list that needs to leave NATO (alongside with Estonia, Latvia, and Norway as listed above). Russia...

Pretty sure I can get 6,000 RUB from vacation leftovers. Care to swap for $90? If so, I can find even more toilet paper from others that may have visited Russia in the last decade. The only way that exchange exists is TOWARDS RUB. Not the other way around. Russian Central Bank only SELLS...

Hitlerjugend. I am honestly starting to think that Putin tries sincerely to follow into Hitler's steps. History doesn't repeat itself but sure at hell, it rhymes. Let speed it it up to the part where he kills himself in the bunker under Kremlin. "Those who cannot remember the past are...

Excellent analysis, but few bones to pick though No argument, they deserve it, but while at it can we send the rabid pro-communist extreme left ones to Venezuela, North Korea or Cuba for a life changing experience too? All that horseshoe stuff about extremes... I'm afraid that grey salient is...

Slightly off topic. Two days ago, on 4/28, the Russians cosmonauts on the ISS unfurled the Soviet "Victory banner" in space during a space walk, the one that the victorious Soviet armies raised over Reichstag on 5/1/1945. I am curious if they are even familiar with the real history of it and how...

Nope, it's going actually the opposite way. Not only had been geolocated as 2/2 Armored Cav moving from the Babadag Training Range towards Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base, but Romanian MoD put out a press release about it. Google translation: Știre falsă despre un convoi de vehicule militare...

I have an intersection close to home that has BOTH a blinking red light and an all-way stop sign. FSD navigates it w/o problems, just like a regular all-way stop. It does show the blinking red light in the visualization. To clarify, it is not a regular traffic light (3 LED bulbs) that blinks red...

I did change (involuntarily, supply chain stuff last winter) from MXM4 to PS4. The average for my 2019 M3 LRAWD went from 239W/mile to 265W/mile. So basically a 10% hit on range. They certainly handle better, but I can't say that there is a lot of noise difference. Let's see how long they last...

To no ones surprise. The left and right extremes always shake hands behind democracy's back. Look at the failure of the Weimar republic. Sabotaged by communists and national-socialists; Antifa (the OGs) and Freikorps fought in the streets but the democratic government was their ultimate enemy...

On an unrelated news, Ukraine decided to start addressing the PMR (Transnistria) problem. Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs' spokesman said earlier "Ukraine strongly supports Moldova's territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders. We condemn attempts to involve...

It lasted the best part of a day. Okay maybe 8 hours. Until the Swiss poo-pooed the idea. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/swiss-veto-german-request-re-export-tank-ammunition-ukraine-2022-04-26/ They can have the tanks, but not the ammo. Maybe Ukraine can use them as...

Russia bullying the former satellites to stop armor and artillery transfers to Ukraine I guess https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61237519 Noticeable absent is Hungary. Wonder why 🤔 ? Of course Germany and Italy aren't there either. There must be some logic to Gazprom's decision... Inquiring...

Thanks, but digging further from your link, it seems that the PMR inherited most of the 14th Guards Army equipment, which can be made available to either them or to the Russians, as well as the ammo to go with it. Transnistria - Wikipedia. Of course the list is old, and likely they've sold...

The Russian government is becoming a three-ring circus. Can't make this stuff up https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-spies-hilariously-screw-putin-221946536.html Sheer incompetence...🤡. Inspector Clouseau is working for FSB these days

Not following what you meant, can you clarify? My take on the news is that Russians want to make it look like Ukrainian SOF are trying to destabilize PMR so Russians can recruit more cannon fodder there. The info that I can find is not clear on the number of troops in Transnistria but allegedly...

Talking bout false flag operations: That's the State Security office in Tiraspol, the "capital" of the Transnistria "statelet". Third picture shows a spent RPG-27 ATG. The only operators of it are the Russians and Jordan though 🤡 They seem incapable to even do a false flag op right. But it...

Not sure on Russian internal sabotage. The old "cui bono?" principle. Short of anarchists (of which we haven't heard in Russia at this time), which Russian faction would have an interest into taking out serious infrastructure of their own in the middle of a shooting war that they are losing...

One more just in; that makes 4 disasters in 2 days? Something is certainly rotten in the state of Denmark. Okay, okay in Russia, Hamlet needs to adapt to current circumstances I guess