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2022-03-24 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russian officer says war a ‘madhouse’ in call allegedly intercepted by Ukraine

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Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-24 01:50|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 Welcome to the front, Boris.

Posted by Cesare 2022-03-24 09:16|| 2022-03-24 09:16|| Front Page Top

#2 This is an intercepted cellphone call, not an intercepted radio call in channels.

I did not detect any stress in the caller's voice until he mentioned the fighter attacking.

Posted by badanov 2022-03-24 09:39|| 2022-03-24 09:39|| Front Page Top

#3 I still think no one can top William Tecumseh Shman: "War is hell"

Posted by Tom 2022-03-24 11:48|| 2022-03-24 11:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Should be "William Tecumseh Sherman." New keyboard doesn't work well with my clumsy fingers.

Posted by Tom 2022-03-24 11:49|| 2022-03-24 11:49|| Front Page Top

#5 People down here spell his name a lot worse than that.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-24 12:16|| 2022-03-24 12:16|| Front Page Top

#6 I think TW was poking our newly resident russians, Bad.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-03-24 12:31|| 2022-03-24 12:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Oh my goodness, Skidmark! Would I do such a thing?

Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-24 13:07|| 2022-03-24 13:07|| Front Page Top

#8 Ask your Jewish oligarch pals to translate for you
Roman Abramovich, Moshe Kantor, Mikhail Fridman, and Petr Aven

Posted by Vespasian Omereque5237 2022-03-24 13:15|| 2022-03-24 13:15|| Front Page Top

#9 I’m afraid I don’t move in those circles, Vespasian Omereque5237, and our little website here is not the kind to interest big donors of any stripe. Were my father not dead over a decade, and profoundly deaf before that, I could have asked him about the translation. But accents, I fear, were not his forte; even half a century after emigrating, he still sounded like a greenhorn Slav in all his languages.

A pity you will not be helpful in this matter — one likes to have more than one opinion, however familiar badanov is with both Russian and Ukrainian after reporting on the first few years of the excitements in the Donbas for us. Still, the fact that no one popped up to indignantly insist that of course the recording is a fake, he sounds exactly like a Ukrainian pretending to be Russian — the way South Americans mock Mexican speech patterns and the Dutch mock the Flems’ more musical version of their shared language as hillbilly — is suggestive.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-24 14:14|| 2022-03-24 14:14|| Front Page Top

#10 that no one popped up is suggestive
You're imagining things. You should take a break, get some air and clear your head

Posted by Vespasian Omereque5237 2022-03-24 14:19|| 2022-03-24 14:19|| Front Page Top

#11 ...how quickly they forget.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-24 16:00|| 2022-03-24 16:00|| Front Page Top

#12 oops wrong posting :/

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-24 16:17|| 2022-03-24 16:17|| Front Page Top

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