Roman Alymov Posted January 30 Posted January 30 FiberFPVs vs. British FV105 Sultan abandoned on the road and M113 (?, looks like it fell off road for some reason and was left covered by cammo net), Svatovo region https://t.me/boris_rozhin/152999
Roman Alymov Posted January 30 Posted January 30 Melted wreck of Bradley IFV somewhere near Donetsk, note Balkenkreuz painted on rear door - nice combination. https://t.me/boris_rozhin/152969
Roman Alymov Posted January 30 Posted January 30 Compilation of fiberFPV videos https://t.me/infomil_live/14520
glenn239 Posted January 30 Posted January 30 20 hours ago, Roman Alymov said: Let me correct you here: i have repeatedly told here Russian rulling class (aka "collective Putin") would " jump at the chance to surrender" So the Russians are calling Zelensky illegitimate as a negotiator in order to facilitate Russia's surrender? You know that makes no sense, right?
glenn239 Posted January 30 Posted January 30 8 hours ago, ink said: A small point perhaps, but the EU and NATO do not overlap. There are countries that are in one, but not the other. On paper they do not overlap. In real life I doubt the EU can function as a credible political organization unless it defends its territory.
Roman Alymov Posted January 30 Posted January 30 8 minutes ago, glenn239 said: So the Russians are calling Zelensky illegitimate as a negotiator in order to facilitate Russia's surrender? You know that makes no sense, right? No. Russian elite is calling Zelensky illegitimate (as he in fact is) to avoid situation of another "Minsk agreements" - that will be not followed by West (on pretext, in this case, Zelensky was not liegitimate to sign them). That is not because they care about agreements, but because "collective Putin" political capital is now too low to allow another tour of "sorry, we have put our nose in the hands of our parthners and they have fulled us". As i have said many times, Russian rulling class is seeking opportunity for surrender - but surrender of condition of their personal survival.
glenn239 Posted January 30 Posted January 30 Just now, Roman Alymov said: As i have said many times, Russian rulling class is seeking opportunity for surrender - but surrender of condition of their personal survival. Putin is demanding that Zelensky pretty much has to step down before negotiations can begin. Zelensky is not going to do that. That is not Putin attempting to surrrender, it's Putin putting barriers up against negotiation. When you try to square the circle between what you are claiming and what is actually happening, it gets convoluted and looks wrong. My advice to you would be to stop claiming that Putin wants to surrender, 'cause I don't think anyone here believes a word of it.
Roman Alymov Posted January 30 Posted January 30 (edited) 14 minutes ago, glenn239 said: Putin is demanding that Zelensky pretty much has to step down before negotiations can begin. Zelensky is not going to do that. That is not Putin attempting to surrrender, it's Putin putting barriers up against negotiation. When you try to square the circle between what you are claiming and what is actually happening, it gets convoluted and looks wrong. My advice to you would be to stop claiming that Putin wants to surrender, 'cause I don't think anyone here believes a word of it. Again, see above - Putin (or, better say, "collective Putin") can't afford politically another tour of being fulled by the West (or pretending to be fulled, as any pro-Russian was aware "Minsk agreements" are hoax created by agreement of West and Russian elite to suffocate "Russian spring" and push Donbass back into Ukraine while allowing "colelctive Putin" to save face). Declaring Zelensky illegitimate is just anpother posibility of trick for West (the same way as in case of Minsk-2 it was "Rada would not pass it", do you remember national guard killed by hand grenade during "protests" in Kiev against this agreement?). "It is difficult to find a more pro-Western politician than Putin, even among European leaders.At one time, he deployed an American logistics base in Ulyanovsk, he supported the US actions in Afghanistan, he offered to accept Russia into NATO, he always tried to appease American presidents by sincerely calling them partners, he gave Libya and Muammar Gaddafi to be torn apart., He placed $ 400 billion belonging to Russia in Western banks despite the sanctions, he built gas pipelines at his own risk, providing the whole of Europe with cheap gas, he stopped the offensive against Ukraine in 2014, when the Ukrainian army fled and was not ready to resist, he agreed to the performances of Russian athletes without a flag and the anthem at the Olympics and World Championships, he warned Turkish President Erdogan about a coup in the country, he started SVO without having a real plan of attack, hoping that he would be able to come to an agreement within a month... As a sign of gratitude, Western political strategists have issued an international arrest warrant for Putin. And now he has no other choice but to go to the bitter end, because he was really f*d, deceived and humiliated, both as a person and as a politician.He was left with no other choice." https://proza.ru/2023/12/20/1064?ysclid=m6je491w8n557425123 Edited January 30 by Roman Alymov
Roman Alymov Posted January 30 Posted January 30 FiberFPV vs. CV9040 IFV at full speed, manuvering into driver's hatch. Kursk region https://t.me/infomil_live/14529
glenn239 Posted January 30 Posted January 30 1 hour ago, Roman Alymov said: Again, see above... Again, Putin isn't attempting to surrender. AFAIK, no one on this site believes you on this matter.
ink Posted January 30 Posted January 30 2 hours ago, glenn239 said: On paper they do not overlap. In real life I doubt the EU can function as a credible political organization unless it defends its territory. Well indeed. If you buy into the realist spiel about how inter-state relationships work (and I have quite a lot of time for it), the EU could only ever form and continue to exist/develop under the umbrella of US power. The Americans know it too. But, since these things are currently in flux, there's no telling what turn events will take next.
Roman Alymov Posted January 30 Posted January 30 41 minutes ago, glenn239 said: Again, Putin isn't attempting to surrender. AFAIK, no one on this site believes you on this matter. With all my respect, i am not dependent on other people (including This Great Site members) beliefs to express my opinion. People are free to have own opinion, i do not have problems with that.
Roman Alymov Posted January 30 Posted January 30 Set of documents recovered from the corpse of Columbian guy KIA by pro-Russians https://t.me/boris_rozhin/153077
Roman Alymov Posted January 30 Posted January 30 (edited) Pro-Russians and, allegedly, NKorean https://t.me/pionergrupa/5036 Longer version https://t.me/c/1688853451/281386 Edited January 31 by Roman Alymov
Roman Alymov Posted January 30 Posted January 30 From https://t.me/beard_tim/22581 "When I was making a movie about Spaniards and Colombians fighting on our side, an interesting topic came up in a conversation with a Spaniard: do they have any of their familiar mercenaries on the other side of the front? It turned out that 70% of their Spanish group, who fought together for the Kurds against the Turks, left for the Foreign Legion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. And initially they wanted to come to us. But then it was as difficult and tedious as possible with the process, even dispite both of my Spaniards joined the Inter-Brigade movement and we helped them. As it is, there has been no recruitment from the state in Western Europe or even Latin America, and it still is not being conducted. And this is not a very far-sighted position. Many people would not only help us on the battlefield, but it would also work well for Western society as a counter-propaganda. So, as soon as I found out that Andreas had friends on the other side, I immediately asked if they had talked about what they would do if they saw each other on the battlefield. Andreas said that they had already made a choice and he would shoot to kill for ideological reasons. Andreas is a Spanish socialist, a traditionalist and an ardent opponent of NATO. By the way, those who come from Spain to fight for us cannot be called mercenaries.: It is impossible to persuade someone in Spain to risk their life in Russia for 2,000 euros. On the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, they receive at least three times more. Therefore, we have only an ideological contingent."
glenn239 Posted January 31 Posted January 31 6 hours ago, ink said: Well indeed. If you buy into the realist spiel about how inter-state relationships work (and I have quite a lot of time for it), the EU could only ever form and continue to exist/develop under the umbrella of US power. The Americans know it too. If the Russians are dumb enough to believe that where the EU goes NATO will not soon follow, then that level of stupidity would be on them.
glenn239 Posted January 31 Posted January 31 6 hours ago, Roman Alymov said: With all my respect, i am not dependent on other people (including This Great Site members) beliefs to express my opinion. People are free to have own opinion, i do not have problems with that. Just advising you that your opinions about Putin and surrender bear no relation to anything that is happening in the war and that your convoluted conspiracies trying to square the circle seem to be falling on deaf ears. Putin's goal is to smash Ukraine, deal NATO a tremendous blow in terms of unity, prestige and purpose, and consolidate his victory in a new era based on Chinese global power.
ink Posted January 31 Posted January 31 5 hours ago, glenn239 said: If the Russians are dumb enough to believe that where the EU goes NATO will not soon follow, then that level of stupidity would be on them. The EU cannot admit Ukraine to the club in anything approaching the short term - not without doing serious harm to itself. There's no guarantee even that the EU will survive long enough (in its current form) to admit Ukraine. In recent years (decades), it's NATO that's galloped ahead and admitted countries that the EU still can't or won't accept as members.
Roman Alymov Posted January 31 Posted January 31 22 minutes ago, ink said: The EU cannot admit Ukraine to the club in anything approaching the short term - not without doing serious harm to itself. There's no guarantee even that the EU will survive long enough (in its current form) to admit Ukraine. Harm like cutting and even blowing NG pipelines before that, or allowing millions of ME migrants in?
seahawk Posted January 31 Posted January 31 (edited) It is just the EU version of the mass migration in the US. The men and women that pull the strings want a population that is largely depending on government aid and that becomes controllable through this aid. They also need a violent group that will fight any opposition to this aid. It is just like communism, just with even less intention to share the benefits. Call it cooperate slavery. Edited January 31 by seahawk
RETAC21 Posted January 31 Posted January 31 13 hours ago, Roman Alymov said: From https://t.me/beard_tim/22581 "When I was making a movie about Spaniards and Colombians fighting on our side, an interesting topic came up in a conversation with a Spaniard: do they have any of their familiar mercenaries on the other side of the front? It turned out that 70% of their Spanish group, who fought together for the Kurds against the Turks, left for the Foreign Legion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. And initially they wanted to come to us. But then it was as difficult and tedious as possible with the process, even dispite both of my Spaniards joined the Inter-Brigade movement and we helped them. As it is, there has been no recruitment from the state in Western Europe or even Latin America, and it still is not being conducted. And this is not a very far-sighted position. Many people would not only help us on the battlefield, but it would also work well for Western society as a counter-propaganda. So, as soon as I found out that Andreas had friends on the other side, I immediately asked if they had talked about what they would do if they saw each other on the battlefield. Andreas said that they had already made a choice and he would shoot to kill for ideological reasons. Andreas is a Spanish socialist, a traditionalist and an ardent opponent of NATO. By the way, those who come from Spain to fight for us cannot be called mercenaries.: It is impossible to persuade someone in Spain to risk their life in Russia for 2,000 euros. On the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, they receive at least three times more. Therefore, we have only an ideological contingent." While I appreciate raising the standard of the average Spaniard so much, the truth is that finding 2 guys willing to fight for Russia for 2000 EUR is not particularly hard, nor driven by ideology. Plenty of war tourists everywhere.
Roman Alymov Posted January 31 Posted January 31 (edited) " IGOR STRELKOV (fragment of a letter) Thank you for the informative summary: the conclusions from it are, of course, threatening, but I can't argue with them. Unfortunately, I agree with your conclusions (given in the summary). The only question now is what conclusions the country's leadership will draw from the assessment of the situation. And what measures will he take in this regard. I personally believe that Trump's "ultimatum," which requires ONLY Russia to implement the "Kellogg plan," cannot be accepted "without a long shake—up," even theoretically. And Trump won't give us time for this very swing. — This is "not in his style", and it doesn't make sense. For us (for the Russian Federation and the country's leadership), fulfilling the provisions of the plan is triggering a catastrophe (and I hope the Kremlin at least understands this), and an irreversible catastrophe: stopping military operations on our part WITHOUT the SLIGHTEST guarantees of similar enemy actions will already cause irreparable damage to the remaining chances of victory. And the further implementation of this "peacemaking" leads to the consistent surrender of absolutely all territorial acquisitions since the spring of 2014 (moreover, even the ownership of Crimea — as soon as it is considered "indisputable" — will become a subject of bargaining, which will CERTAINLY be lost. The enemy is trying to use his favorite "domino principle" — the main thing is for the "bent" partner to "bend" in something, to yield without making any concessions, and then he will be consistently and continuously "squeezed" further - point by point, portion by portion. Moreover, the "final point" can be placed very far beyond the originally designated limits. And it is possible to "repel" such an enemy line (and the United States is our enemy without illusions) only through the absolute rigidity and steadfastness of diplomats, whose position should be supported by decisive military successes. Unfortunately, we will not have either in the foreseeable future: the "Minsk" (1st and 2nd) "Istanbul" and all sorts of other humiliating deceptions demonstrate that our diplomacy is designed precisely to "bend in front of partners", and not to defend Russia's national interests. There is no need to talk about "decisive military successes" — all our successes over the past and the beginning of this year have not gone beyond purely tactical ones, the enemy is not broken, has strong reserves and the opportunity to increase efforts, while we (the Russian Federation) have not yet transferred the economy and the army "on a war footing." But this "transfer" is not carried out in a short time — it takes both time and serious efforts, and both are in great short supply by the end of the third year of the war. Unfortunately, we can only observe the ongoing processes (especially for me) — the patriotic community does not have any levers for a positive impact on them (as well as any access to the levers of power, considering any honest and unsalable person as a "potential extremist"). Hence the next forecast, about which I can repeat the phrase: "I would like to make a mistake." I predict that our military-political position will continue to "fade" for some time (until about spring; or rather, until the AFU attempts to seize the initiative after the reserves are deployed). On the one hand, our leaders will actively demonstrate their "readiness for reconciliation," on the other, they will "bargain fiercely behind the scenes," trying to somehow reduce the initial demands of the United States in their favor, while preventing Trump from moving to an open confrontation on the side of Ukraine. At the front, meanwhile, efforts will continue to "improve negotiating positions," which in practice mean continuing to "push the Ukrainian Armed Forces out of Donbass" (in my personal opinion, this is an extremely "expensive" exercise in terms of human lives and equipment, the loss of which is in no way justified by real successes). In turn, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will continue their active defense during February– March–April, systematically retreating from "inconvenient ledges" and firmly holding those sectors of the front that their command and military-political leadership consider to be the most important. At the same time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will do everything possible to protect and increase their strategic reserves in order to try again in the spring to achieve major success in one of the areas in order to further "call on NATO allies" based on the newly achieved successes. Sincerely, (signed) I.V. Girkin 29.01.2025" ( from https://t.me/strelkovii/6966 ) Edited January 31 by Roman Alymov
ink Posted January 31 Posted January 31 3 hours ago, Roman Alymov said: Harm like cutting and even blowing NG pipelines before that, or allowing millions of ME migrants in? Well, harm comes in many forms and can be interpreted in various ways. I meant harm in the sense that, in order to admit Ukraine, the EU would have to either (a) burn thousands of processes and check placed on accession countries to ensure they adhere to European principles and values regarding everything from the rule of law and the separation of powers down to what ingredients you can put in chocolate bars, or (b) ignore them for the special case of Ukraine - which would amount to much the same thing as chucking the whole acquis into a furnace. What that all would mean for existing EU structures or for other prospective member states is anyone's guess. And what benefit would Ukraine reap from joining in name only and without having to reform anything? In short, I don't think it's possible - except in the event of a massive and hugely damaging political push that would have to destroy in its path numerous bureaucratic and legal pillars that make the EU what it is.
seahawk Posted January 31 Posted January 31 In the end that is the Russian fear. If the Ukraine would successfully reform to join the EU, it would look really bad for the government in Moscow, because it would show that you can overcome corruption. Not that I think it would be likely for the Ukraine to achieve this, but it seems the risk was seen as huge in Moscow.
Stuart Galbraith Posted January 31 Posted January 31 20 minutes ago, seahawk said: In the end that is the Russian fear. If the Ukraine would successfully reform to join the EU, it would look really bad for the government in Moscow, because it would show that you can overcome corruption. Not that I think it would be likely for the Ukraine to achieve this, but it seems the risk was seen as huge in Moscow. I think that is precisely how we ended up where we did. The Russian elites simply cannot allow Ukraine create an example for change. it was bad enough Georgia trying to do it, but Ukraine was a clear example to the Russian people that if it couldwork there, it could work in Russia too. So, Ukraine had to go. They have spent 20 years trying to rub out its efforts to change, and pretty much every effort they have made has made it even worse for their control of the recalcitrant colony. That they eventually invaded is not surprising, what is surprising is why it took Putin so long. Maybe just long enough to lose his final grip on reality?
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