Posted on 04/02/2023 11:20:10 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
The Russian military is famous for drunkenness and looting their equipment for something to drink such as aircraft windshield anti-freeze.
They have even traded equipment such as tanks for booze.
IOW, the usual.
Extremely high’ number of the ‘200,000’ Russian troop deaths in Ukraine war are linked to alcohol abuse
04/02/2023 7:49:50 AM PDT · by dennisw · 28 replies
MAILONLINE ^ | 2 April 2023 | By FFION HAF
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4142669/posts
Russian troops are dying in Ukraine due to heavy alcohol consumption, poor weapons handling, and hypothermia, UK intel says
04/02/2023 7:47:07 AM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 25 replies
Business Insider ^ | Apr 2, 2023 | Alia Shoaib
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4142668/posts
Alcohol, tobacco and firearms - Russian style.
Don’t forget rape and banditry. The Soviet offensive into Berlin at the end of WWII resembled a mongol horde more than a modern army.
CC
Sober crews don't drive over land mines after seen the vehicle in front of them blown up by mines.
The estimates run into the millions with 100s of thousands of female deaths.
Ages 8 to 80 the “greatest phenomenon of mass rape in history”.
“Naimark also noted the effect that tendency to binge-drink alcohol (of which much was available in Germany) had on the propensity of Soviet soldiers to commit rape, especially rape-murder.”
... 0_ 0 >-< 0_0 ???
If you know enough to know that no matter how bad the western press is,
TASS is never trustworthy, you are wise beyond your years, young one. ;)
Bakhmut is a matter of face saving for Russia, and a means to kill the core of Wagner forces for Ukraine.
Instead of trying to take Bakhmut, Russia should have sat the winter out like Ukraine and trained, rearmed, and corrected weaknesses. They did not.
Whatever form the expected Spring/Summer offensive happen, Russia's refusal to corrects its deficiencies is going to hurt it just the same as last year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2vlpEiidiY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze9PndaalAU
Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for April 3, 2023:
-Russian forces continue encirclement of Bakhmut and Avdeevka;
- Western media continues to measure Russia's strategy of attrition by territorial gains; - Over the past month there has been an uptick in Russian precision airstrikes along the line of contact;
- Reports indicate that one of the munitions used is the GLONASS-guided UPAB-1500B glide bomb with a range of 40-50km;
- The UPAB-1500B is released out of range of most of Ukraine's mobile force protection air defense systems, most of Ukraine's S-300s are either destroyed or deployed far behind the line of contact opening an opportunity for the glide bomb's use;
- Further degradation of Ukraine's air defenses will lead to Russian military aviation becoming a more decisive factor;
ayden
@squatsons
VIDEO “April 2, 2023, 11:00 p.m. We hoisted the Russian flag with the inscription ‘Good memory to Vladlen Tatarsky’ and the flag of PMC Wagner at the city administration of Bakhmut,” -Prigozhin
https://twitter.com/squatsons/status/1642645029473882114
See 31.
How long did it take for the Russians/Soviets to take Stalingrad?
Cope much?
Good idea. Redirect ALL the seized fentanyl the ChiComs are sending to the US to southern Russia.
Use balloons for distro.
It’s Putin’s war. He’s not doing a good job.
Yeah, it’s a regular juggernaut. Any unbiased person can see that, right?
Russia was trying to hold Stalingrad, not take it.✓ It was Germany was trying to take Stalingrad, not hold it.✓
The Battle of Stalingrad lasted six and a half months ✓ The Battle of Bakhmut has lasted ten with no clear resolution. ✓
Stalingrad/Volgograd was and still is one of the 20 largest Russian cities.✓ Bakhmut actually is the 56th largest city in Ukraine. ✓
Stalingrad had real strategic value and victory matterer.✓ Bakmut's value is political and matters only to Moscow✓
The Russian army at Stalingrad was dealing with its problems and trying to fix them (with a lot of US lend lease aid) ✓
80 years later Wagner and the Russian army at Bakhmut are ignoring problems they have. ✓.
The Russian army at Stalingrad fought out of desperation because they had to, ✓
Prigozhin is fighting out of desperation because he wants to ✓.
Nope. Not coping.
Giving a sarcastic rebuttal that fails and affirms the point of the intended rebuttal?
Definitely coping.✓
Guns and alcohol....always a great combination. 👌
= = =
I remember reading the Safe Gun Rules in BSA Boy’s Life advertisements.
#10 was “Gunpowder and Alcohol Don’t Mix”
And I thought - Well of course, you don’t want to dissolve them. And just who would do that, anyway?
Now I know, they didn’t mean that.
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When I visited Russia I was surprised to find that whiskey is more popular there than vodka.
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