StormyMcMan
| Favorite team: | Michigan  |
| Location: | USA |
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| Number of Posts: | 3664 |
| Registered on: | 10/27/2016 |
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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by StormyMcMan on 5/4/24 at 9:01 pm
ISW Update
[quote]Key Takeaways:
Russian forces made a notable tactical advance northwest of Avdiivka near Arkhanhelske on the night of May 3 to 4, likely following a Ukrainian decision to withdraw from the area on May 3.
The Kremlin continues efforts to portray its unprovoked war of aggres...
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re: The goal of many Gen Z and millennial women is now to be a DINK—dual income and no kids
Posted by StormyMcMan on 5/4/24 at 6:37 am
[quote]Meanwhile our county has sunk to a reproduction level that cannot sustain itself.[/quote]
To be fair we really haven't been at the replacement rate since 1971...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by StormyMcMan on 5/4/24 at 6:11 am
May 3 ISW Update
[quote]Key Takeaways:
Ukrainian officials continue to highlight that Russia’s main goal for 2024 remains the seizure of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts as Russian forces plan for their summer 2024 offensive operation.
The first deliveries of resumed US military assistance repor...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by StormyMcMan on 5/3/24 at 6:20 am
Random tweets
[quote]The Latvian army has started digging defense ditches near the border with Russia
The first defensive line will be created at a distance of about a kilometer from the border with Russia, near the Terehovo border checkpoint in the Ludza region.
Latvia plans to spend €300 ...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by StormyMcMan on 5/2/24 at 10:32 pm
ISW Update
[quote]Key Takeaways:
Ukrainian intelligence officials identified three Russian efforts to destabilize Ukraine and achieve victory, and both Ukrainian and US intelligence officials issued assessments about the battlefield situation that are consistent with prior ISW forecasts that R...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by StormyMcMan on 5/1/24 at 8:33 pm
ISW Update
[quote]Key Takeaways:
The Russian military is reportedly redeploying elements of the 76th and 7th airborne (VDV) divisions from Zaporizhia Oblast in the direction of eastern Ukraine, likely to reinforce and intensify ongoing offensive operations.
The Russian military may seek to ...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by StormyMcMan on 5/1/24 at 8:27 pm
[quote]that’s why I made a point of sharing posts from them.[/quote]
Did you just out ColtRange as your alter?...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by StormyMcMan on 5/1/24 at 8:01 pm
Russia wish casting a Ukrainian version of what happened to them :lol:...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by StormyMcMan on 5/1/24 at 6:02 am
Random tweets
[embed]https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1785599268629238093?t=iIBy2ODtW1JHOmfWbUR_4w&s=19[/embed]
[quote]A brawl broke out between MPs in the Georgian parliament before the consideration of the scandalous pro-Kremlin law "on foreign agents"[/quote]
[link=(https://twitter...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by StormyMcMan on 4/30/24 at 9:03 pm
ISW Update
[quote]Key Takeaways:
Russian forces did not make any confirmed advances in the Avdiivka area on April 30 for the first time in several days, while Ukrainian sources reported that Russian forces conducted several more attacks in the Bakhmut-Chasiv Yar direction than near Avdiivka.
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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by StormyMcMan on 4/30/24 at 7:32 am
Answered above...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by StormyMcMan on 4/30/24 at 6:29 am
Random tweets
[quote]The US Treasury Department allowed transactions with russian banks for calculations in the energy sector.
According to the license issued by the US department, the ban on operations is lifted until November 1, 2024.
In the decree, the ministry explained that transaction...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by StormyMcMan on 4/30/24 at 5:42 am
[embed]https://twitter.com/COUPSURE/status/1785237903594897740?t=TPO1KIcrIkVyW6xp60JZyw&s=19[/embed]...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by StormyMcMan on 4/30/24 at 5:36 am
[quote]If Russia was attacking civilians in these strikes I would obviously feel differently, they're not though, they're attacking infrastructure.[/quote]
[embed]https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1785256155222028480?t=HJPhtNskJ8hBWktoO40a3g&s=19[/embed]...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by StormyMcMan on 4/29/24 at 7:39 pm
ISW Update
[quote]Key Takeaways:
Russian forces secured additional marginal tactical gains northwest and southwest of Avdiivka as of April 29, but have not made significant advances in the Avdiivka direction over the last 24 hours.
Russian forces have the opportunity to choose among multipl...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by StormyMcMan on 4/29/24 at 7:12 pm
[embed]https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1785081065775718836?t=XeKoib5xSi5gafrW83RTCA&s=19[/embed]...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by StormyMcMan on 4/29/24 at 1:04 pm
[quote]Overall, 50% of Ukrainians believe draft dodging is okay, but that figure climbs to 70% in the South.[/quote]
Do you have a link for that? And what about Russian mobilization. I have several Russian friends who are opposed to this war and fled when the mobilization happened. They don't r...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by StormyMcMan on 4/29/24 at 12:36 pm
[quote]But he definitely wants US and NATO influence out of Ukraine.[/quote]
Wonder if there is any calculus going on with Georgia and the massive protests going on against the Russian style "foreign agent" law. The protestors are waving EU flags as well as Georgian flags...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by StormyMcMan on 4/29/24 at 12:34 pm
Fwiw Kazakhstan has denied this report...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by StormyMcMan on 4/29/24 at 6:34 am
Random tweets
[quote]Canada will transfer 50 armored personnel carriers to Ukraine, - Defense Minister Bill Blair
According to him, the first 10 LAV II ACSV Super Bison combat vehicles will be sent this summer to Germany, where the Ukrainian military will undergo the appropriate training progr...
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