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https://twitter.com/trenttelenko/status … 02944?s=21

here’s a very nerdy mechanics deep-dive into the problems and incompetencies of the russian army’s logistics.

seems very poor vehicle maintenance plus mud season in ukraine is very bad news.

curious absence of comment about the forests.

I saw the maintenance thing hours ago. Note that I never said that trees were some overwhelming defining factor. To be clear, I'm pointing out, as observers far more expert than I have, that in some cases they can provide visual concealment for defensive positions such as inside buildings (without having to be a forest lol), and can/will be a factor in those situations as opposed to developed areas with sparser vegetation. Your "sharp" tongue is a really misdirected right now.

I think anti-depressants and anti-psychotics can be a net good if used correctly. I don't think people should go to jail for drug addiction/abuse. Non-judgmental treatment should be available. I am probably more or less on the right side of all that. You deflected onto three other users in your retort.

It's very funny seeing you talk about me being precious. You just came out swinging with "moron," "dipshit," "autist," whatever, and do this all the time. You have ten+ years of practice with dilbert, and all those years of spinning your tires in the mud to show for it. It sounds like you're having a bad day. You should eat some good food and cheer up.

If I took enough time to fill every possible gap or potentially misinterpreted text you'll inevitably pick apart for three+ pages of grief, I'd be here all day just making one post. I'm fairly resigned to getting "into it" with you every time you get weirdly fired up by some loose thread. I can't afford to send everything to you for editing before hitting submit.

"I'm digging in," lol. Good wording considering the topic.

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it's both surprising and unsurprising that so much of the russian stock is dilapidated.

on the one hand, they're notionally a battle-hardened and experienced military, with oodles of experience to test out strats and technologies in syria, central africa, quadrennial giant wargames in belarus, etc.

on the other, it's still the corrupted, wasteful and incompetent mess it was in the soviet era. rusting equipment, out-of-date rations, poorly maintained vehicles, etc.

this has really dispelled a lot of the paranoid cold war-era fantasies about the supposed threat of russians. in a (non-nuclear) toe-to-toe with NATO/US, the russkies would get absolutely pounded by conventional forces. there's no way the british army is in a parlous state of neglect and filched corruption like the russian's.

though it has to be said that the supposed 'threat' of russia has pretty much always been over-hyped to justify the (neo-)imperialist ambitions of the western powers, too. going all the way back to the supposed 'missile gap' in the kennedy era.

I wonder if China is watching and questioning the Russian military now. I'm curious if they thought it was some machine of great power they could rely on as an ally but it's really just 18 year olds in trucks that became obsolete in 1991. Or did they know that already?

you literally posted here yourself that you were given prescription antipsychotics for anxiety. benzos are prescribed as part of a broad range of medicines involved with or adjacent to this category. deleting your post doesn't undo what you said. let's move on.

'authoritative style', well he is a professor emeritus at the top-ranked war studies department in the world. it's probably just the style he has developed over his career; plus, blogging in quick response to things lends a certain brusqueness or pithiness of tone. he does say that almost everything he says is provisional ...?

it's kind of weird that you'd pick up on someone's questionable 'authoritative style' when you yourself, literally said, 'he won't fully invade, take it from me ' on the eve of the invasion. lmao. talk about spurious authoritative statements.

Last edited by uziq (2022-03-03 10:27:14)

almost everyone here on this forum responded to you with specific comments about benzos, telling you to be careful and watch out, wishing you a speedy recovery, etc. so now you didn't take benzos? fair enough; let's move on. really not that important. still doesn't change the fact that making 'druggy' comments towards me is pretty funny considering everyone else here BUT me seems to have an active prescription. i am, again, not fazed and do not take 'lol you take drugs' as an insult, in any case.

... ? i have never received 'inpatient and outpatient substance abuse treatment'? in my life?

i took antidepressants for a summer, SSRIs, after melting down during my sophomore year, in a way that was entirely publicised here. during that same year i saw the campus counsellor twice as i was, predictably, missing a whole lot of lectures (in particular pretty much every lecture on 9am mornings the night after the student union bar was open, lmao) and my teachers were starting to ask questions. i've never been in any 'programme' for drug use in my life. the counsellor chats weren't even explicitly about drug use. it was the usual then-fashionable CBT folderol, which didn't go anywhere.

it would be a mistake to think that i went into some sort of drug rehab programme. they are really not common here (or, rather, in the UK), and are very seldom referred to by the NHS or looked up by families. it's a pretty american thing. drug rehab centres here are for like hardcore heroin addicts or celebrities who want to leave public life.

i also agree there's nothing shameful about taking medication. which is why, again, i made the point that people exchanging 'druggy' barbs on this forum, as if it's meant to wound, is really odd behaviour.

Last edited by uziq (2022-03-03 11:03:58)

the whole situation was bizarre, funny, and kind of sad. i was living in a house where a housemate was actively stalking my posts on this forum and feeding back everything i was saying about my deteriorating relationship to the girlfriend we were living with. the situation in that house was a unique powder-keg of awful. the weird social dynamics and sort of fawning three-way that the other guys in the house had over my girlfriend is what led to the police being called on me. they told me later that they regretted taking that step, because it took a situation with a bunch of immature 19 year olds behaving badly (mostly me being disruptive and loud, it must be said) and escalated it way out of all proportion.

i self-dramatized the whole thing bigtime here on the forum at the time. it did feel pretty dramatic at the time, although in retrospect in a very sort of 'late adolescent' way. parents (who were lawyers) coming in and making threats, being protective over 'their' baby, etc, threatening legal action, yada yada. none of it went anywhere. i certainly never had any legal or medical repercussions from that episode -- contrary to whatever i may have narrated at the time in my grandiloquent drama. the same girl who was at the centre of that whole ruckus actually eloped with me several more times in my 20s. we had a really nice time and that sophomore episode was rapidly forgotten about. all in all, 8/10, no ragretz.

the legal drug that everyone was strung-out on permanently during that year got banned in pretty short order and everyone just stopped taking it. we didn't have access to things like cocaine then, we were 19 year olds living in a quiet leafy suburb and didn't have those sort of connections (or even inclinations). the worst 'run-in' i ever had because of 'drug abuse' was simply over-indulging in an experimental research chemical, along with everyone else in my circle and, it seems like, everyone else in fucking london at the time. lol. it was being delivered around by men on scooters 24/7. extremely 2010 zeitgeist. i've never got in trouble or become unstuck with drugs like that again since ... it's not even been possible to get drugs that easily, so plentifully, and so cheaply since then. that legal shit was cheaper than beer. plus, i had a job and responsibilities, etc. i wasn't interested in staying up partying for 3 days straight.

Last edited by uziq (2022-03-03 11:14:19)

you'll have to ask dilbert. he might need to revise our theory that 'whites are genetically evolved towards social cooperation'.

thread on russian VDV paratroopers.
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/ … 92423?s=24

dude ... he makes his own wine.

uziq wrote:

you do you, man. i have no ill will. i’m the last person on this forum trying to use ‘lol take drugs’ as an insult or ‘gotcha!’.

funny seeing newbie get precious over autism but i guess (supposed) drug-addiction is fine terrain for insults? make sense, sperger lord.

What you do really is attack people for issues which are no fault of their own, but get defensive and viciously lash out when people criticise your personal choices - your lifelong extreme pleasure-seeking in illegal recreational with a gruesome global footprint drugs for one.

But yeah, someone had a close friend kill themselves and was briefly prescribed sleeping pills - ooh thats a handy open wound to stick a knife into when they're not even involved in the discussion, don't miss that opportunity.