International Russia/Ukraine Megathread V10

[aries]

Ukr uses snipers WW2 style "rifle, ammo,food and water" likely due to trench warfare nature of conflict

In west snipers have their ordinary infantry stuff(which weights a lot) plus sniper stuff which also weights a lot hence why i havent seen female snipers in west.

Back when i served no one wanted to be sniper because it sucked to drag all that shit around lol

I don't know about other Western armies but primarily the reason we don't have any female snipers in the UK is because Infantry roles weren't even open (officially) to any women until 2018 and the Sniper course is really hard be it Army, RAF or Royal Marines.

But there are women in UK Special Forces roles so I'm sure it will happen but they will be rare creatures. In fact one female Sergeant Major has been in the SRR (Special Reconnaissance Regiment) for 15 years. But officially that wasn't allowed.

 

[Cole train]

I don't know about other Western armies but primarily the reason we don't have any female snipers in the UK is because Infantry roles weren't even open (officially) to any women until 2018 and the Sniper course is really hard be it Army, RAF or Royal Marines.

But there are women in UK Special Forces roles so I'm sure it will happen but they will be rare creatures. In fact one female Sergeant Major has been in the SRR for 15 years since it's inception. But officially that wasn't allowed.

everything is possible i just personally have never seen one even online

If i type female sniper marine/army on youtube i only get ukraine stuff or kurd

 

[Denter]

@Denter more on the USSR lend lease stuff since I was looking into it.

In total, the lend lease materials provided to the USSR is estimated to make up as low as 4% of the total assistance the USSR received from the Allies... and lend lease materials were valued as low as 10 cents on the dollar.. and the payments were not adjusted for inflation when agreement was finally made. (The Allies kept insanely detailed records on this stuff.. like we know we gave them over 257 million buttons.)

Russia was essentially donated an arms industry + logistics system + a significant portion of the raw materials to run it for basically free that was better than the arms industry and logistics system they had in place before Germany destroyed it.

That makes sense. We moved an entire industrial plant over there, I'm not sure if that was under Lend Lease or a different program, but they disassembled refineries and stuff, absolutely critical for the big offensives of 1944 that would not have happened without it.

 

[Denter]

You can thank the Soviet agents in the FDR administration for that, btw.

 

[syct23]

The most ironic end would be if he got deposed and replaced by one of his own doubles.

Remember when America did that with Dave..

Oh Dave…good times

 

[grimballer]

What shithole country are you posting from?

why you call a nato member shithole?

 

[grimballer]

No excuses necessary. Bakhmut should have fallen 5 months ago. Putin should have been shooting vodka in Kiev a year ago. This is a Russian failure of epic proportions. Your excuses can't change that.

nato is all in in this conflict and openly admits that russian success in ukraine is nato failure...

keep shilling and coming up with excuses

 

[grimballer]

Great way to start an interview <45>


This guy just keeps on opening windows for himself in some very high buildings:

australians are known for being unsophisticated and thick... whats new?

 

[GhostZ06]

We haven't had a big navy since WWII. We'd given back most of our remaining colonies within the next decade, so how could governments justify maintaining a large fleet?

We just about managed to field a big enough fleet to take back the Falklands back in the 80's. But other than that, (with the exception of our nuclear deterrent submarines) all our navy mostly does is do pirate patrols and pick up small boats crossing the channel (well until they walked away from that because it actually increased the small boat crossings!) and take part in NATO exercises.

Being part of NATO meant we could rely on America for help, if say someone were to try and invade the UK, which isn't going to happen. The two biggest threats right now, Russia and China don't really have that capability.

I'm surprised your not for a strong British navy.

 

[Rod1]

Even total genius like him can had bad trip sometimes.

Sure, specially when the US industrial base is basically bankrolling your entire war cost after Stalin's commie ass failure of an industrial base collapsed on the face of German aggression.

Still, Soviets kicked the Nazis arses and even saved their western allies from being completely wiped-out after Ardennes fail.

Big difference is that without the Soviets the Allies would had taken more time to defeat Germany but they would had done so eventually, without the Allies well the USSR would not exist today... oh wait it doesn't exists anyway.

 

[Rod1]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/13/ukraine-casualties-pessimism-ammunition-shortage/

https://www.militarytimes.com/flash...out-of-shells-equipment-in-fight-for-bakhmut/

To keep holding Bakhmut, the Ukrainian troops need to be resupplied, fast. Troops complain that they have so little ammunition that artillery units are forced to pick and choose which fellow troops under fire to help. The soldiers said Ukraine’s military leadership may be hoarding shells for the upcoming larger offensive, griping that shows plummeting morale.

That frustration is what drove troops to speak out, most only giving first names or asking to remain anonymous, for fear their commanders would censure them for their criticism.


Russians sent to the front are often poorly trained and often must buy their own equipment.

And the Ukrainians sent to replace their fallen and injured often have just two weeks’ basic training, a lack of preparation that partly helps to explain Ukraine’s heavy losses in Donbas.


Well that's horrific. Explains the hard core " recruitment " techniques being used.






Getting sent into the grinder with two weeks fucking training. For fucks sakes by what I was told in here countless times. " No it's not conscripts fighting and dying ". Bah.

Rip to those torn away from their families who have very little hope of surviving this whilst their lives are thrown away.

And yes. Fuck Putin and fuck Russia

Yeah, this seems pretty shitty but kind of logical, why waste your best troops in a deathtrap meant to keep Russians busy instead of preparing for the counteroffensive planned for spring/summer.

 

[PEB]

Xi: capitalistic pigs!!

Xi too: I need 50 bags of KFC delivered!!
lol

 

[SurferH2O]

Just drill oil and natural gas in the USA and this war ends quickly as Russia goes bankrupt. The goal is not to end the war however, the goal is MIC.

 

[curryjunkie]

I'm surprised your not for a strong British navy.

navys not been the same since they scrapped the field gun race..

putin should adopt it, see how fast a team can get a washing machine over a trench..

 

[Rational Poster]

Just drill oil and natural gas in the USA and this war ends quickly as Russia goes bankrupt. The goal is not to end the war however, the goal is MIC.

There isn't enough of either in all of north America to just support the United States long term consumption let alone our allies and let alone the rest of the world. We already produce more than any other country in the world including those that have exponentially more natural reserves. At current rate there will be no more natural reserves in 50 years and the US will be reliant entirely on foreign energy imports.

 

[SurferH2O]

There isn't enough of either in all of north America to just support the United States long term consumption let alone our allies and let alone the rest of the world. We already produce more than any other country in the world including those that have exponentially more natural reserves. At current rate there will be no more natural reserves in 50 years.

You don't know what you are talking about, as usual. We have over 250 years worth that we can get right now and likely well over 400 years worth with new additions.

We could ramp up our production and bankrupt Russia within a few short years as most of their economy is 80%+ fossil fuels.

 

[curryjunkie]

Just drill oil and natural gas in the USA and this war ends quickly as Russia goes bankrupt. The goal is not to end the war however, the goal is MIC.

you should mention this to the oil and gas companies, im sure they would welcome the idea...









plank.

 

[Rational Poster]

You don't know what you are talking about, as usual. We have over 250 years worth that we can get right now and likely well over 400 years worth with new additions.

We could ramp up our production and bankrupt Russia within a few short years at most as their economy is 80%+ fossil fuels.

Proven oil reserves are 45B barrels. We use 20 million+ a day.

This is from the EIA.

 

[SurferH2O]

you should mention this to the oil and gas companies, im sure they would welcome the idea...









plank.

The MIC companies have more pull.

 

[curryjunkie]