SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Forgot about her. Selective amnesia?
"All of Vlad's forces and all of Vlad's men, are out to put Humpty together again." (3 Viewers)
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Snautzer01
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Where did the z symbol go?
Thumpalumpacus
Major
Hopefully!
Admiral Beez
Major
You betcha!
fubar57
General
Whatcha think.... True meaning behind Russian "Z" symbol finally revealed
Just thought I would try get this back on track.....sorta
'If Putin is defeated, Lukashenko will be defeated': Volunteers from Belarus fight for Ukraine
Belarusian volunteers believe that weakening Russian President Vladimir Putin will also harm Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's leadership and they are training to join the International Legion for the Territorial Defence of Ukraine.www.abc.net.au
Nice to see the Opel/Vauxhall Vectra being used for something other than as a characterless uninspiring motor vehicle...
'Fish rot from the head': Russia's failure in Ukraine starts with Putin. Can he end his war?
Three months into his war, Vladimir Putin has learnt the best way to protect power is to hang onto to it — at any price. www.abc.net.au
On the subject of President Dmitry Medvedev, Putin and Medvedev go into a restaurant and the waiter asks Putin what he wants to eat. Putin says, "I'll have the steak." The waiter then asks, "and the vegetable?" Putin says, "he'll have the steak, too"...
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
They may have revised their markings for this "second phase".
I recall seeing images of Russian military equipment in the early days of thw war, with different letters and I was real curious, because they were non-cyrillic, so I looked it.
It turns out, that the letters denoted a certain area that the vehicle/equipment were assigned.
"A" - Alpha Special Forces
"O" - forces staged in Belarus
"V" - Naval Infantry
"X" - Chechen Forces
"Z" - Eastern Military District
"Z in a square" - Crimean garrison
Jagdflieger
Senior Airman
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- Mar 23, 2022
.....therefore actually not available to be deployed otherwise..... and assuming.....
Taking Russia's size and neighboring countries into account, common sense will dictate that at no time Putin would able able to move more then 60% of his forces towards the Borderlands.
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
Jagdflieger
Senior Airman
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- Mar 23, 2022
No, but I am free to call or refer to a country, in whatever way I choose - e.g. the US, USA, the USA, the States, without a normal citizen of that country making a fuss about nothing.
Just as I can say Australia, Down-under, the Land Down-under, the Antipodes, etc. with out a local person falling into a national identity crisis.
Jagdflieger
Senior Airman
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- Mar 23, 2022
Somehow you don't to seem to understand the meaning of assuming.So now we've gone from "all CCP brigades" to "no more than 60%"
Okie dokie...
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buffnut453
Captain
Funny how none of your examples have suffered domination by an autocratic external dictatorship within the human lifespan. Nor have they, in the process of shaking off that yoke, had to re-establish their own national identity despite concerted efforts in the information domain by the remnants of that autocratic dictatorship to put the emergent nation back in its box. Nor have they been invaded by said autocratic external dictatorship. Nor are any of them fighting for their very existence right now.
So, for me, I'll listen to what the Ukrainians call their country and if they ask me to do likewise, I'll gladly and proudly abide by their request. Why? Because I respect the hell out of what they're doing standing up to one of the biggest bullies on the world stage. Because I mourn for the suffering they've had to endure and that they continue to suffer. And because I try not to be a dick who puts his ego above common humanity.
Thumpalumpacus
Major
It costs me nothing to be courteous. I forgo the extraneous "the" in front of "Ukraine" for this reason. I grew up hearing it as "the" Ukraine. But if Ukrainians don't like it, I'm fine. There's bigger concerns here, and putting this one away is so easy that it's dumb to argue over it, in my view.
Yep - some people just don't know, or don't care about respect and courtesy.
Thumpalumpacus
Major
I'm not gonna slag someone for writing/speaking they way they learnt. I've been on the wrong end of that in very embarrassing ways. It's just easier for me to go along to get along than to fight over a hill such as deploying the article "the".
Jagdflieger
Senior Airman
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Rest assured it has nothing to do with "the", until there is a defined Ukraine as such. But you will certainly understand that I will not get myself into a discussion on this matter on this forum.
fubar57
General
Ummmm................
Thumpalumpacus
Major
Rest assured it has nothing to do with "the", until there is a defined Ukraine as such. But you will certainly understand that I will not get myself into a discussion on this matter on this forum.
I think Ukraine is pretty well-defined. I also think that while folks are fighting and dying, arguing over "the" Ukraine or simply "Ukraine" is kinda missing the story entirely.
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
Ukraine is a well defined, internationally recognized and sovereign nation.Rest assured it has nothing to do with "the", until there is a defined Ukraine as such. But you will certainly understand that I will not get myself into a discussion on this matter on this forum.
Not sure if you've heard or not, but this happened in the early 90's
