It looks like Russia’s “inevitably successful” (according to Ian Welsh types) massive recent offensive totally failed and everyone died with zero territory gained.
Winning!
Fucking clowns all around.
War
Mega-kablooey
Tank crew of the @azov_media shoots at the Russian BTR-82 with direct fire from close range. https://t.co/Wt0bfZBz5k pic.twitter.com/vN599InKuI
— Special Kherson Cat
(@bayraktar_1love) April 4, 2025
Great goddamn. It’s not often that you see direct fire like that from such close range on an armored vehicle. At least it was an instant death for whoever was in that BTR-82.
That looks like a T-72 the Ukrainians have. Not sure of the variant. Can’t see enough.
Approaching
The French President announced an additional €2 billion military aid package at a joint press conference with Zelensky. pic.twitter.com/iHmQhu7e3l
— Special Kherson Cat
France seems to be one of the few European nations to realize that if Russia is not defeated in Ukraine, they’ll be across the border in Germany soon enough.
Landed
Ukraine Was Just Knifed In The Back.
Well, guess we’ll be fighting in Poland soon. Awesome (Narrator: It was in fact not awesome.)
No Sleep For the Wicked
The operator of a night FPV drone of the "Birds of Magyar" unit flew into a Russian base where at that very moment Russian infantrymen were sleeping in sleeping bags. pic.twitter.com/omi0FMV6Qt
— Special Kherson Cat
Damn. Modern war is so demonic.
If I were Ukrainian, I’d be doing the same thing. But again — damn.
Say It Again
I’ve been watching a lot of combat footage lately to discern how our next wars are going to play out. The state of drone warfare is changing and advancing all the time. All the footage, though, is grim. I’m not going to link to these as civilized people1 shouldn’t watch such things, but there are numerous videos of a Russian soldier surviving one drone attack only for another drone and then another to come finish him off.
Supposedly, the Ukrainians now have semi-autonomous AI-powered drone picket lines. From the evidence I’ve seen, I believe it; even the indirect evidence is that they would’ve been overwhelmed now by Russian advances without this tech.
Does anyone realize that the Terminator franchise was a warning, not something to go ahead and create? Guess we’re fatally attracted to the torment nexus. The US and every other country is at least 10 years behind where the Ukrainians are with drone tech. We have to do something about that as we’re likely to be fighting in Europe and the South China Sea soon enough.
Takings
I find this plausible. I’d expect a winter attack, though, not fall. Russia’s ambition is to take the three Baltic States and Poland. Also Germany if it seems feasible. They will do this while Trump is in office if they can.
Flat Wrong
About twice a day, I think about the Ian Welsh (et al.) pre-war contention that resistance in Ukraine was impossible because it is flat. And I have a good hearty laugh.
It’s such a great source of amusement. Why would you listen to anything that doof or those like like him claim after that, I have not a clue.
But at least it was entertainingly dipshitty.
Putin Up With It
Among other things, annexing Canada would be a huge step towards Hillary Clinton's dream of "a hemispheric common market with open trade and open borders."
— Connor O’Brien (@cojobrien) March 14, 2025
Exactly. One “easy” way to have open borders is to build a huge damn empire.
Which I guess is one of the reasons Ian Welsh and those types are such Putin fans? I can’t find any valid reasons so I am just spitballing here. Worshipping Putin is both gauche and embarrassing. It’s the lefty equivalent of being a right-wing edgelord. In a way, it’s just pitiful.
But I have no pity because unlike Mr. T, I do not pity the fool.
No Scoot No Shoot
deploying the scooter reserves to encircle even more ukrainian troops pic.twitter.com/Us0KuxYf5N
— imi (m) (@moklasen) March 14, 2025
Are they fucking serious with this shit? Did someone send them out there like that as some sort of cruel joke?
As I’ve said before, if this is what “winning” looks like I’d hate to see what form losing takes.
Da Boom
Takeoff of Ukrainian drone equipped with large bomb pic.twitter.com/1zaJgyFA8L
— Special Kherson Cat
That’s not a bomb type in any Western or former Eastern Bloc arsenal.
My guess is that it’s a 3-D printed casing with some Semtex plus trigger inside it. Maybe the guts of a TM-62. It’s lighter than it looks, in other words.
Same Logic
Trump is siding with Russia because he wants to do to Canada what Russia did to Ukraine https://t.co/V5wHGrBerp
— Armand Domalewski (@ArmandDoma) March 11, 2025
Yes. See my post below about dumbass Ian Welsh and his ilk. Those types love Putin so much they can’t see how their embarrassing worship of tinpot Stalin justifies other invasions — like the US pulling a Ukraine on Canada.
51st State
By the by, according to the Ian Welsh logic of why Russia “deserves” to dominate and commit genocide upon Ukraine, the US also “deserves” to do the same to Canada.
Not so fun to be a right clown when there’s the prospect of Hellfire missiles hitting your house, is it? Horseshoe theory is real; both the radical right and the radical left kneel before Putin. What amazing times we live in.
Oslo Chooses
The Norwegian Parliament has agreed to increase aid to Ukraine by 50 billion Norwegian kroner ($4.6 billion) to 85 billion Norwegian kroner ($7.8 billion) in 2025.. https://t.co/ZLQn557ci4 pic.twitter.com/ROwkgqenNG
— Special Kherson Cat
Good; Norway understands the risks and doesn’t want any part in Russia trying to take over much of the rest of Europe, which is their aim.
As I’ve said a million times, fight and defeat Russia in Ukraine now or battle it out in the rest of Europe later. That’s the choice, like it or not. And just because American dumbass puling pusillanimous “progressives” don’t like the choice doesn’t make it less real.
On Some Beaches
Germany, Poland, Japan and South Korea better start building nuclear weapons fuckin’ pronto. It’s going to be the only deterrent left soon that matters.