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- Sat Apr 13, 2024 9:27 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: OJ gone....
- Replies: 107
- Views: 2815
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:45 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
Re: War in Ukraine...
The Germans are going to transfer another Patriot system to Ukraine.
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:23 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
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Hang on, does this mean that hitting gas and fuel refineries actually damages the Russian war effort, meaning that those facilities are legitimate targets? They've always been legitimate targets. The US constantly bombed German refineries and ball bearing factories during WWII. The current bleating...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 5:23 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
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ECONOMYGERMANY Three quarters - for Ukraine: German arms exports are growing Vitaly Kropman | Anastasia Shepelev 04/10/2024 In the first quarter of 2024, the German government approved exports of military goods worth at least 4.89 billion euros. Almost three quarters of German arms exports are dest...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 4:59 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Farewell chums
- Replies: 15
- Views: 566
Re: Farewell chums
The airspace over Ukraine is closed. I highly doubt that is the actual route.
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 2:17 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
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https://twitter.com/delfoo/status/1778093800046448818?t=SptkDwKENt79_WQh-5JRiA&s=19 Russian diesel and petrol production has dropped by over 200,000 tons per week since the Ukrainian drone campaign began, and the shortfall can’t be offset by imports from Belarus and Kazakhstan. Hang on, does this m...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:07 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
Re: War in Ukraine...
https://twitter.com/delfoo/status/17780 ... 5JRiA&s=19
Russian diesel and petrol production has dropped by over 200,000 tons per week since the Ukrainian drone campaign began, and the shortfall can’t be offset by imports from Belarus and Kazakhstan.
Russian diesel and petrol production has dropped by over 200,000 tons per week since the Ukrainian drone campaign began, and the shortfall can’t be offset by imports from Belarus and Kazakhstan.
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 5:08 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: OJ gone....
- Replies: 107
- Views: 2815
Re: OJ gone....
God, I wish Norm MacDonald was still alive.
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 12:56 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
Re: War in Ukraine...
The US has approved $138m in emergency Hawk missile funding for Ukraine.
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 12:08 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
Re: War in Ukraine...
Due to flooding in Orsk , the Voronezh M radar has stopped operating, there is a threat of flooding - media The resource of the Cheka-OGPU reported this with reference to its sources. The Voronezh M radar station in Orsk is located 20 km from the flooded Old Town , near the village of Kumak. Put in...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:21 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:18 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
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Can't find the exact link due to feed moving on but it was either Euromaidan Press or Kyiv Independent.openclashXX wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 6:59 pmSource? Great news if true.Hellraiser wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 5:30 pm Unsurprisingly Syrskyi has announced that rotation of long-serving troops out of the line has started.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:16 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
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TBF, they're furiously researching, refining, and manufacturing budget drones and guidance systems that are capable of flying 800km into Russia and hitting distillation columns or hitting surface vessels 300km away in the Black Sea. Some highly skilled work involved there. Crippling that to send th...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 7:53 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Whats the wokest thing you ever read?
- Replies: 82
- Views: 3387
Re: Whats the wokest thing you ever read?
I remember reading an article about how the real victims of the war in Ukraine were the women who had to leave their homeland and faced sexual harassment. Not the men going to the front line of course… I read something similar about Trans/LGBTQA?!?/£$@% in Ukraine around March 2022 and I honestly...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 5:30 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
Re: War in Ukraine...
Unsurprisingly Syrskyi has announced that rotation of long-serving troops out of the line has started.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 3:36 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
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The German government comissioned Rheinmetall to deliver 20 additional Marder infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) to the Ukraine. The order was placed in March 2024 and has a value in the mid double-digit million Euro range. The delivery of this new lot is scheduled within 2024. So far, Rheinmetall h...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:50 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
Re: War in Ukraine...
The Russian missile ship Serpukhov caught fire in Kaliningrad yesterday. It's reported that it's communication and automation systems were completely destroyed, so a very significant repair period will be required.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:08 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
Re: War in Ukraine...
To be clear, you general narrative, as I see it, is that a negotiated settlement can be achieved and maintained with Russia. That is dangerous in the extreme. Absolutely not. My point is that Ukraine has a stated political objective - to reclaim its 1991 borders - that is massively disconnected fro...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:01 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
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The dam collapse at Orsk has shut down another Russian oil refinery.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 9:53 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
Re: War in Ukraine...
NATO is a combined effort. The logistics and command chains are integrated and coherent. It would be Finnish reserves, RAF typhoons & Storm Shadows, German Leo2s, US airlift, logistics, & reconnaissance, Swedish Grippens, French Rafaeles. Troops from everywhere. No one country would need to do ever...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 9:52 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
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Also, France is one of the few countries who can sustain an expeditionary force far from home. Sure, not at the scale of Uncle Sam, but no-one can do that. France has carriers, heavy lift capacity, modern gen 4 fat jets, a radiant will equipped and sustained standing military (not territorial defen...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:28 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
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Greece is looking to off-load 108 of it's older aircraft and it appears that 32 F-16C/D Block 30s have been earmarked for Ukraine. That would bring the total of F-16s to be transferred to 97.
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 8:32 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
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If Ukraine is forced to accept a loss of territory the question then is to what extent, if any, is Russia welcomed/accepted back into the international fold. I'd go with not at all, although I also wouldn't be currently pretending Russia O&G isn't being exported on a vast scale. We perhaps can't, o...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 10:08 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
Re: War in Ukraine...
If Ukraine is forced to accept a loss of territory the question then is to what extent, if any, is Russia welcomed/accepted back into the international fold. I'd go with not at all, although I also wouldn't be currently pretending Russia O&G isn't being exported on a vast scale. We perhaps can't, o...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 10:05 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
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If Russia is allowed keep any Ukrainian territory WWIII will start within a decade. Any sort of Russian success will see them try again in 5 to 10 years. This is the point people keep ignoring, and what the Poles, Balts, and Czechs have been pointing out for years. At least the French have finally s...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 9:52 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 9:11 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: World Rugby to curtail Bok's Bomb Squad
- Replies: 139
- Views: 2578
Re: World Rugby to curtail Bok's Bomb Squad
It's a fairly straightforward thing to fix. Just mandate that a bench must consist of 5 forwards and 3 backs.
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 11:06 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
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https://t.me/ButusovPlus/9336 In the battles for Popasnaya and Bakhmut from March 2022 to May 2023, the Russian PMC Wagner lost 25 thousand servicemen killed. That's exactly how many mercenary badges are engraved on the monument in the Wagner Group chapel. Obviously, this figure does not include mis...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 11:21 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
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Russians have advanced to the eastern outskirts of the city of Chasiv Yar, roughly 10km west of Bakhmut, and established a small foothold. Huge amounts of armoured vehicles and manpower being thrown at it. The city is considered strategically important because of the higher ground it's on. https://...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 10:52 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
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https://youtu.be/r7kh1tPAa20?si=AT1lW6A5HQ2R4tBe Canadian Chosen Company volunteer doing a walkthrough of a trench assault he was involved in. Edit: this features the very famous bit of footage of a Russian soldier running into a Ukrainian foxhole then attempting to run back where he came from befo...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 7:54 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
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The Ukrainian drone attack on Morozovsk airbase last night destroyed 6 planes and seriously damaged another 8. A mix of Su-27s and Su-34s, no breakdown on numbers of each yet but regardless that's the single worst days fixed-wing aviation loss of the war so far. About 20 KIA/WIA personnel too, but n...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 3:39 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
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Interesting comments from House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Mike McCaul: He says that Blinken has been a proponent of additional military aid for Ukraine (supported Poland giving them MiGs early in the war). He blames the Biden Admin's weakness on Jake Sullivan. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 10:36 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
Re: War in Ukraine...
Turkey has withdrawn from the CFE.
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 10:05 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 9:22 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
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Germany's Bundeswehr to receive unified operational command German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius aims to strengthen the armed forces' defence capabilities with a unified operational command and prepare for the possible reintroduction of compulsory military service, he said in Berlin on Thursday....
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:50 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
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https://t.me/yigal_levin/64714 Richard Vereker continues to record the fact that among the Russian losses of T-72 tanks, the number of older ones is rapidly growing. Apparently, Russian industry is unable to cover losses with tanks with modernizations, and T-72Bs removed from mothballing are sent i...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 12:56 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
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https://t.me/yigal_levin/64714 Richard Vereker continues to record the fact that among the Russian losses of T-72 tanks, the number of older ones is rapidly growing. Apparently, Russian industry is unable to cover losses with tanks with modernizations, and T-72Bs removed from mothballing are sent in...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 9:02 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:43 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53400
- Views: 2338708
Re: War in Ukraine...
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/s/Z9jMIBhoEN 'We have no army, we have a horde of slaves cowed by discipline, ordered about by thieves and slave traders. This horde is not an army because it possesses neither any real loyalty to faith, Tsar and fatherland - words that have been so muc...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 5:25 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Golden Age of Westerns
- Replies: 105
- Views: 2213