The Brink of War?

[StevieWonders]

There were several today, I just can't be fucked to look them up.

Moses has got you well and truly figured out Matt - you’re a complete idiot

[cdnmatt]

Moses has got you well and truly figured out Matt - you’re a complete idiot

Having a shitty day at work, go find someone else to bitch to. Not in the mood.

[Dodger]

......about generals: unlike NATO generals from offices, Russian generals really take participation at time of military operations in fields and even piloting aircrafts, so, yes, sometimes they may be killed... .

Russian Generals are participating in front-line activities much more than Generals normally do in combat situations, but it's because they have to, not because they want to. The primary reason for this is because of serious "breaks in communication" between Rear Command and Front Line troop maneuvers - forcing Generals to travel to front lines themselves to communicate directly with troops. This is almost unheard of. The last time the U.S. communicated this way was back in 1860 with the Pony Express.

Modern Militaries normally enter into combat supported by tactical signal support operations which are fully integrated in troop deployments for this very reason. The way the Russian Military is botching the planning and execution of these maneuvers is one for the record books.

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world...tary-conflict/

[cdnmatt]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ot-from-russia

[Moses]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ot-from-russia

“Now it’s up to companies to sign the contracts,” Habeck said in a Twitter video.

yeah... no terminals, no companies who want to buy LNG in 1.5 times higher price, but "Germany reaches" ... good luck to Germany.

[StevieWonders]

yeah... no terminals, no companies who want to buy LNG in 1.5 times higher price, but "Germany reaches" ... good luck to Germany.

I've been waiting for Matt to tell us that Qatar is a NATO country

[Moses]

Russian Generals are participating in front-line activities much more than Generals normally do in combat situations, but it's because they have to, not because they want to. The primary reason for this is because of serious "breaks in communication" between Rear Command and Front Line troop maneuvers - forcing Generals to travel to front lines themselves to communicate directly with troops. This is almost unheard of. The last time the U.S. communicated this way was back in 1860 with the Pony Express.

Modern Militaries normally enter into combat supported by tactical signal support operations which are fully integrated in troop deployments for this very reason. The way the Russian Military is botching the planning and execution of these maneuvers is one for the record books.

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world...tary-conflict/

yeah, retired US army general for sure know what is going in Russian army... he has experience to serve in Russian army and saw by own eyes what communication in army is laying on the shoulders of polar bears... when bears are too much tired like now, then generals themselves have to visit front line... sure-sure...

[cdnmatt]

I've been waiting for Matt to tell us that Qatar is a NATO country

Of course Qatar is not part of NATO. They're part of MI6, everyone knows that.

[Moses]

Yesterday Zelensky had zoom speech in Knesset. Wrong tone.

Reaction of members of parliament:

MK Simcha Rothman took issue with Zelensky’s reference to Ukrainians who saved Jews and tweeted: “I don’t understand Ukrainian, but if the translation I heard is accurate, Zelensky asked us to treat the Ukrainians like they treated us 80 years ago. I’m sorry, but I think we will have to reject that request. We are, after all, a moral nation.”

“I appreciate the President of Ukraine and support the Ukrainian people in heart and deed, but it is impossible to rewrite the terrible history of the Holocaust,” Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel tweeted.

Former cabinet minister Yuval Steinitz, now a Likud MK, went so far as to say, “If Zelensky’s speech was given... in normal [non-war] times, we would have said it bordered on Holocaust denial... Every comparison between a regular war, as difficult as it may be, and the extermination of millions of Jews in gas chambers in the framework of the Final Solution, is a total distortion of history. The same is true for the claim that Ukrainians helped Jews in the Holocaust... The historic truth is that the Ukrainian people cannot be proud of its behavior in the Holocaust of the Jews.”

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/po...article-701850

[Dodger]

yeah, retired US army general for sure know what is going in Russian army... he has experience to serve in Russian army and saw by own eyes what communication in army is laying on the shoulders of polar bears...

I don't think the U.S. General on CNN was implying that he "knew anything for sure". He was simply drawing logical assumptions based on his knowledge of warfare and the situations in Ukraine as they unfold.

It's a well-known fact that Guerrilla Warfare is a Generals worst nightmare, e.g., too many moving pieces - ambushes - sabotage - raids - hit-and-run tactics, and mobility, etc. Much of the success that Ukraine is having now against a much larger Russian military is credited to them using these flexible tactics versus conventional tactics.

Generals who are leading invasion's in these conditions have to be more flexible and mobile because there is no definitive Font-Line(s) anymore. Snipers are also much more active in Guerilla settings - and nailing a General gets them a night off, a bottle of Jack Daniels, and a feather in their cap. My assumption (right or wrong) is that we see more Russian Generals falling causality for this reason.