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2022-05-15 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Briefly about the significance of the Zmeiny Island

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Posted by badanov 2022-05-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top

#1 How old is this propaganda piece? I recall seeing recent pictures of the destruction of Russian landing craft and equipment on it, and bomb/ missile impacts on the Russian occupation forces on that island.

Posted by Greater the Anonymous5721 2022-05-15 03:05|| 2022-05-15 03:05|| Front Page Top

#2 What I heard - call it rumor:

The battles are getting insane. The other day the Russians lost everything and every one on Snake Island 7 times and reoccupied and equipped each time. So 8 separate sets of troops and equipment in one day.
Snake Island also controls access to known unexploited oil and gas fields in the NW Black Sea.
No buildings remain on the island.

Posted by 3dc 2022-05-15 03:17|| 2022-05-15 03:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Those losses are nothing new for the Russian Army in modern times. They will send troops to a meat grinder until resistance ends.

Find stories about the fall of Melitipol in October, 1944.

Russians had a ten to one advantage in infantry, six to one in tanks. Still it took the two weeks and 30 attacks until they achieved their objectives.

You can knock out every tank they have and spike every cannon, but they will keep coming until they achieve their victory.

Posted by badanov 2022-05-15 04:08|| 2022-05-15 04:08|| Front Page Top

#4 ^^^... і вони продовжуватимуть розрізатися на шматки, оскільки вони продовжують НЕ досягати успіху, і на будь-якому фронті, товариш «Кріс»...

Posted by Багз МакГерк4586 2022-05-15 06:35|| 2022-05-15 06:35|| Front Page Top

#5 бля укол

Posted by badanov 2022-05-15 06:56|| 2022-05-15 06:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Оставайтесь на диване, товарищ

Posted by badanov 2022-05-15 06:58|| 2022-05-15 06:58|| Front Page Top

#7 ^Добавил пикантности дню.

Posted by Dale 2022-05-15 07:42|| 2022-05-15 07:42|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ Yes,#3. "
You can knock out every tank they have and spike every cannon, but they will keep coming until they achieve their victory". The Russian dread of the cold winter is ever present. It is expected. It is to be endured.

Posted by Dale 2022-05-15 07:49|| 2022-05-15 07:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Boy, howdy, those Ruskis sure can be proud of how they throw the lives of their soldiers in the trash!

Ever read the war memoirs of Oto Carius? Once he was transferred to the western front he did nothing but whine about how Americans can't fight. He thought they should line up in front of his guns and die in large numbers, like the Russians, until he was forced to withdraw. Instead the stupid Americans would bypass his position or bring down artillery or air strikes! How DARE we value our soldiers more than our ammunition!

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-05-15 09:57|| 2022-05-15 09:57|| Front Page Top

#10 Большинство из нас не говорят по-русски, пожалуйста, добавьте субтитры

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-05-15 11:25|| 2022-05-15 11:25|| Front Page Top

#11 La plupart d'entre nous ne parlent pas russe, veuillez ajouter des sous-titres

Annoying isn't it!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-05-15 11:27|| 2022-05-15 11:27|| Front Page Top

#12 Большинство из нас не говорят по-русски, пожалуйста, добавьте субтитры

First iteration was about the stink coming from Russian dead. He said my given name in quotes.

Second Iteration, I called the writer a fucking prick; not very gracious of me.

Then I said The writer should stay on the couch. If the writer was Ukrainian or Russian, it was an insult.

Then Dale added some nonsense.

That brings us up to date. HTH.

Posted by badanov 2022-05-15 11:42|| 2022-05-15 11:42|| Front Page Top

#13 Speak English or Die. You are the one we hate. You can't communicate...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-15 11:48|| 2022-05-15 11:48|| Front Page Top

#14 Thank you badanov.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-05-15 11:52|| 2022-05-15 11:52|| Front Page Top

#15 "I speak a foreign language."
"So?"
"We might have to deal with foreigners."
"Not if we are smart..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-15 11:54|| 2022-05-15 11:54|| Front Page Top

#16 ^10 google translate is a big help. I am all over the world and google translate is a basic requirement. Do you know Icelandic women are among the tallest women in the world. So when it comes to looks never be honest. The women attack in a united effort. Yes, from experience.

Posted by Dale 2022-05-15 12:05|| 2022-05-15 12:05|| Front Page Top

#17 I. Don't. Care.

My background is Slovak and German. I speak neither. Those languages have nothing to do with who I am.

When Posobiec idiot screeches about how Americans have to care about Poland because of Thaddeus Kosciuszko, that's a load of bullshit. That was then. It isn't now.

You do not to be Noam Chomsky to get that.

If you are listening.

In English.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-15 12:13|| 2022-05-15 12:13|| Front Page Top

#18 The idea I must care about everybody means I must care about pedos (I don't). White flesh peddlers (I don't). Pervs (I don't). People fighting their neighbors (I don't).

I'm fine with all those people hating me.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-15 12:20|| 2022-05-15 12:20|| Front Page Top

#19 To the fluent Russians and the copy and paste translators:

If you cared so gah dam much that I was getting your message, you'd say it in English.

That you don't says a mouthful.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-15 12:25|| 2022-05-15 12:25|| Front Page Top

#20 Copying and pasting foreign language on an English-speaking web site is lame ass bullshit.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-15 12:37|| 2022-05-15 12:37|| Front Page Top

#21 Fun! Nobody expects Americans to understand those funny words foreigners speak, so there’s innocent amusement to be found in speaking one of the uncommon ones like Ukrainian.

Part of the reason trailing daughter #2 studied Japanese was for the advantage it would give her in business meetings later, and so it has. We discovered this in reverse long ago, when it was brought to our attention that in Cincinnati there are enough German speakers that one will inevitably be nearby when one of the tds made a childish observation about the people around us at the grocery store in that language.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-05-15 12:50|| 2022-05-15 12:50|| Front Page Top

#22 Separately, with regard to badanov’s

Those losses are nothing new for the Russian Army in modern times. They will send troops to a meat grinder until resistance ends.

That was all very well when Russia/the Soviet Union had a huge army with a large number of youths growing up to replace the fallen, and ditto for supplies. When supplies and soldiers are limited, replacing the fallen and the destroyed becomes the limiting factor.

Granted that the Ukraine has a similar manpower replacement issue, so should I understand this as a question of who last runs out of meat for the grinder?

Posted by trailing wife 2022-05-15 14:57|| 2022-05-15 14:57|| Front Page Top

#23 Granted that the Ukraine has a similar manpower replacement issue, so should I understand this as a question of who last runs out of meat for the grinder?

"War doesn't determine who is right, but who is left (remaining)"

Posted by badanov 2022-05-15 15:30|| 2022-05-15 15:30|| Front Page Top

#24 No.20について

サルも木から落ちる

Posted by バグMcGurk4586 2022-05-15 18:34|| 2022-05-15 18:34|| Front Page Top

#25 in Cincinnati there are enough German speakers

One of my uncles immigrated from Germany. He would not teach his kids German because "we are Americans". Then one went to Germany for work, had kids, and that uncle has grandkids who speak German.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-05-15 22:12|| 2022-05-15 22:12|| Front Page Top

#26 My father pulled the same thing about German, Rob — it was one of the two languages my parents had in common, the other being English. And though he saw to it that we all were taught Hebrew — first private tutors, then afternoon Hebrew school — he never used that to converse with us, though he did with the Israelis on the Hebrew school staff. Daddy was a typical math/science type: languages are for efficient communication, not for enjoying or improving. He was pleased that we and the trailing daughters became fluent German speakers over there, though he thought moving to Germany a bad idea. Unforgiving type, my father, but then he was among other things Israeli, not German.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-05-15 23:15|| 2022-05-15 23:15|| Front Page Top

#27 I had a friend in college who taught himself enough Russian in two weeks to converse with a visiting Russian mathematician. He used to berate me for seeing language as anything more than a tool.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-15 23:25|| 2022-05-15 23:25|| Front Page Top

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