Disturbing, if true, thread on the German response. Archived Message Posted by larue33 on April 20, 2022, 8:45:59, in reply to "UKR thread week of 4/17/2022" Timeline of 🇩🇪's @OlafScholz's many lies: 1) At the end of February Germany's defense industry sends Scholz a long list of all available weapons. 2) Scholz doesn't share the list with Ukraine. 3) Scholz says that there are no more weapons left in Germany to give to Ukraine. 1/7 — Thomas C. Theiner (@noclador) April 19, 2022 . Message Thread: | This response ↓ UKR thread week of 4/17/2022 - illiniranger April 18, 2022, 9:41:48 SOS and SOD visit Ukraine - TarheelIllini April 25, 2022, 5:33:45 Interesting. Suits, but no ties. Obviously coordinated, but what’s the message being sent?* - bbonb April 25, 2022, 11:02:15 I want to be formal but I like to party* - opossum jenkins April 25, 2022, 12:13:48 Wow* - Tooldresser April 25, 2022, 7:13:29 It’s SECDEF* - timmer April 25, 2022, 5:54:51 It appears UKR has struck a Russian petroleum storage facility tens of kilometers over the border. - opossum jenkins April 24, 2022, 19:49:30 no fair! only we're allowed to destroy stuff in other countries! - Putin probably* - ECEIllinois April 24, 2022, 20:04:16 Some on the American right will not like this escalation * - opey8 April 24, 2022, 20:06:03 Shouldn't Russia have air defense for this sort of thing? - ijustkrushalot April 24, 2022, 19:53:57 Higher end Air defense missile systems can shoot down cruise missiles - illiniranger April 24, 2022, 20:19:04 This a fair bit of American hardware hardware. Hmmwvs, 90 howitzer, 5,500 javelin and more - Tooldresser April 23, 2022, 5:50:01 I'm guessing mothballed M198s.* - KingTalkyTiki April 25, 2022, 11:04:05 One of the major pre-war assumptions about the Russians was that they would use cruise missiles to i - illiniranger April 23, 2022, 6:08:34 With this hardware would NATO need to send advisors to show UKR how to use it?* - Tooldresser April 23, 2022, 8:02:14 Yes, for most of it. Will be done in Poland I’m sure. * - illiniranger April 23, 2022, 12:21:59 UKR has had some switchblades for a few weeks now, right? - Tooldresser April 23, 2022, 6:51:46 Yes. No reporting I’ve seen. * - illiniranger April 23, 2022, 7:53:16 Putin's got Parkinson's? (video in link) - ECEIllinois April 22, 2022, 12:29:08 Naah man, he just speaks jive* - ATL April 22, 2022, 14:16:45 Are there any recent videos of him walking? - Stu April 22, 2022, 12:46:10 He's probably worried the table will float away: - Chuck Woodaby April 22, 2022, 12:42:42 You can see the dyskinesia in his jaw movements or he does a lot of coke but - Drippy April 22, 2022, 14:31:26 been rumored for a while, but i don't think anybody really knows outside of the Putin inner circle - illiniranger April 22, 2022, 12:39:40 Nothing to see here - Stu April 22, 2022, 10:35:35 Interesting possible Russian tactical/goal update - snipes824 April 22, 2022, 10:23:47 Shouldn’t Ukraine give up on Donbas and retake Crimea?* - JeffFrank April 22, 2022, 10:33:29 Should the US give up Texas? - TarheelIllini April 23, 2022, 13:48:32 Top Russian Air Defense Lab caught fire and burned - Tooldresser April 22, 2022, 10:19:53 they've had several defense related sites catch on fire - illiniranger April 22, 2022, 12:38:20 I am thinking the war is putting a lot of pressure to succeed, and corners are being cut* - Tooldresser April 22, 2022, 14:12:19 Yeah. Probably no single explanation across the board but removing safety protocols…. - opossum jenkins April 23, 2022, 7:42:58 More US workers died or were injured in U.S. industry in 42-43 than in combat. By 20-1 ratio! - LeatherneckIllini April 23, 2022, 8:05:49 Wow* - Tooldresser April 23, 2022, 23:55:52 i don't think this moves the needle much, but demonstrates how UKR is able to reconstitute combat - illiniranger April 20, 2022, 11:35:06 Hmmm… let’s deliver some more “parts”* - Carl Spackler April 20, 2022, 17:48:17 Where would we get Mi-8s to send? Just curious.* - KingTalkyTiki April 20, 2022, 11:44:45 i believe they were bought for the Afghan military but not delivered after the govt fell * - illiniranger April 20, 2022, 11:54:42 Can confirm. Got approval for all that remained in that pipeline to be reoriented to them* - LeatherneckIllini April 23, 2022, 6:20:50 Gotcha. Makes sense.* - KingTalkyTiki April 20, 2022, 11:58:07 Disturbing, if true, thread on the German response. - larue33 April 20, 2022, 8:45:59 Thread on Russia's command and execution problems. - larue33 April 20, 2022, 8:41:04 I agree with that. - illiniranger April 20, 2022, 9:32:31 This repeats a lot of what Ranger said - Tooldresser April 20, 2022, 8:17:27 No large scale ground attacks in Donbas yet - illiniranger April 20, 2022, 7:23:43 Well, well, well—actual air combat tactics out of the Russian Air Force. - opossum jenkins April 19, 2022, 18:03:15 MANPADS down, MANACLOPS next* - assassin April 19, 2022, 18:06:47 i'm not sure who the audience is for these performances - illiniranger April 19, 2022, 12:37:30 I think this is an overly optimistic read on the current situation, but it’s close - illiniranger April 18, 2022, 19:12:34 If true, then the offensive is underway - illiniranger April 18, 2022, 15:40:17 Seems to be confirmed here - illiniranger April 18, 2022, 15:43:48 Another thing id add is we’ve seen the Russians only able to sustain about 2 days of heavy fighting - illiniranger April 18, 2022, 15:48:16 I think the Russian Air Force is just straight up afraid at this point. - opossum jenkins April 18, 2022, 15:54:23 Also - did you see the video over the weekend of Russia’s Tu-22 doing a low altitude flyover…. - opossum jenkins April 18, 2022, 16:00:10 It’s wild. * - illiniranger April 18, 2022, 16:06:48 Folks have asked about intel sharing with UKR. To that end, I recommend taking to heart the below…. - opossum jenkins April 18, 2022, 15:07:57 Hey, just wanted to say I really appreciate you sharing your perspective and answering questions. - Carl Spackler April 18, 2022, 12:00:25 while concurrently fighting forest fires and restocking TP in rest stop toilets! - bbonb April 20, 2022, 8:06:26 Some opinions on the sea side of the UKR war - Tooldresser April 18, 2022, 11:16:27 interesting tweet here - illiniranger April 18, 2022, 9:49:50   Searching