Crimean Kerch Bridge destroyed?

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  1. USVet

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    It is going to hurt them badly.
     
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    Yep, that about sums it up.
     
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    I've never been to Ukraine or Russia, so I don't know the plan. Neither Biden nor Putin tell me their plans. Putin will figure things out, Biden never will.
     
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    Four days and not a single train or truck has gotten across the Kerch Bridge. The damage is far worse than the lying Putinists claimed. Tick Tock, the longer the Army goes without supplies the worse their position will get.
     
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    I'm wondering how Zelensky the Nazi has been sleeping since Monday. If the Russians know where he resides, that could be targeted with a Kinzal. He knows that.

    Will there be a Day 5 of such targeted attacks? I suspect that question looms large in the comedian's tortured mind.
     
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    Finland is recommending their citizens stock up some cash and Potassium Iodide (pills to treat radiation).

    Ministry: Households should stock iodine tablets for those 40 and under
    https://yle.fi/news/3-12655676
    The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health has recommended that households in Finland purchase a single dose of iodine tablets for everyone who is 3 to 40 years old, in case of a radiation hazard emergency.

    A Central Banker in Finland Just Told Finns to Stock Up on Cash, Just in Case of Disruption to Payments System
    https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/202...-told-cashless-finns-to-stash-up-on-cash.html
    Finland, like its Scandinavian peers, is among the world’s most cashless economies. But according to the central banker, now is not a good time to give up on cash.

    Households in Finland should make sure they have some cash on hand, just in case the country’s payments system were to go down, warns Päivi Heikkinen, the Head of the Payment Systems Department and Chief Cashier at the Bank of Finland. In an interview with the national broadcaster MTV3 on Tuesday, Heikkinen said (machine translated) her intention was not to ”fabricate catastrophic scenarios.” That was before saying that in the worst case scenario, the payments system could go down for a period of weeks.

    “I don’t want to paint devils on the wall,” she said, “but now we are talking about more serious disruption than what has been brought up in the past.”
     
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    I imagine he is sleeping quite well especially as the government locations will be well protected with AA systems. Time is running out for the Russian Army in Kherson though as all the trains and trucks have been stopped for four days. Four days without food, fuel, or ammo. Tick Tock, my Putinist friend, time is running out.
     
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    This was recommended by the gov of romania also, especially the iodine pills part.
    A sensible advice, considering putin s nuclear threat.

    that is what a responsible gov would do in this times.

    Putin will never do that even if he launches the strikes.
     
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    You're the one who implied all up to now had been a chess style rope a dope. Do explain your inference, you're amongst friends here.
    The difference being Biden is not running the show, Biden is not personally directing military operations. Why? Because he's senile and though CinC presidents just don't exercise that level of control over the tactics and strategy of the military.
    Putin is the opposite, he's effectively a dictator who must give his troops their marching orders to maintain control and prevent a coup
     
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    Yep, Putin is afraid of any one else getting to much power then overthrowing him. That is why he had three different commands in Ukraine (four if you count Wagner group) instead of one unified command as would be best militarily. You see dictatora all over the world withthat type of paranoia.
     
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    Putin is effectively C-in-C, yes. Prevent a coup is pure speculation, and likely a propaganda point that has evolved as the Ukrainians have shown their failures and incompetence.

    Yes, Putin is a thinking and thoughtful man. If you had listened to Oliver Stone's interviews with him some years back you would know what I mean.

    More than a thoughtful individual, he is a patriot. He cares about mother Russia more than he cares about himself. Sleepy Joe is the exact opposite. He is an imposter, traitor and grifter.
     
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    No, its an intentional part of the structure of the Russian military. For instance: They don't have sergeants. There is a reason for that: Sergeants present an alternative chain of command that can and will easily supplant an officer corps. They do this because they are worried about a coup because THEY'VE DONE IT THAT WAY BEFORE.
    This was a thing LOOOOOONNGGGG before this conflict in Ukraine.

    Lol sure sure. And I'm the ****ing King of Siam.

    LOL, the defense budget got grafted so he and his buddies could have nice yachts. There is a reason their vaunted military capabilities in the real world are so impotent and feckless.
    Sleepy joe is indeed a piece of ****, just like Putin.
     
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    Not persuasive sir. Have a good weekend!
     
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    From a person who finds putin to be thoughtful and to have anyone or anything but his own interest in mind? I'll take that as a compliment actually.
     
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    We still can't rule out that it was an accident caused by the Russians themselves.

     
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    Yes, that's what the Pentagon and State Department would say. Likely the WH spokesperson too. That's the official line.
     
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    The truck came from Russia on a military supply route. We know Russia has huge problems with the in proper storage of weapons and supplies so, yes, unstable shells could easily have gone boom.

    Add in that the Putin regime always lies and tries to blame others for their own screw ups. Just like when they shot down that Malaysian airlines civilian passenger jet or when a Russian shell fell short in Donetsk. That truck got past the explosives screening systems and was waved through by guards. So either there was a massive co spinach and infiltration of Russian security or it was waved through because it was transporting Russian explosives but an accident happened when the truck hit a bump.
     
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    Why, they must be "lying" and stuff! The Russians never screw up and blame others for their own mistakes!

    *COUGH*The Kursk*COUGH*
     
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    Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 18

    Russian authorities are struggling to cope with their reduced logistics capacity through Crimea following the Ukrainian attack on the Kerch Strait Bridge on October 8. Russian Deputy Prime Minister for Construction and Regional Development Marat Khusnullin stated on October 18 that authorities will complete dismantling the damaged spans of the Crimean bridge by the end of December 2022, indicating that Russian forces will likely have reduced logistics capabilities through Crimea for months.[32] Ukrainian sources shared footage of a large traffic jam in front of the Kerch Strait Bridge and claimed that one car passes through the inspection point every 40 minutes.[33]
     
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    So many echos of the past:

    Adolf Hitler and the Nazis wanted to redraw the map of post-World War I Europe. Hitler and the Nazis considered the postwar international borders unfair and illegitimate. They claimed that Germans had been denied the right of self-determination. Redrawing Europe’s borders would allow the Nazis to achieve two main goals:
    The annexation of Austria would help the Nazis achieve the first goal.

    Adolf Hitler expressed his desire for an Austro-German union in his earliest writings and speeches. The first point of the Nazi Party Platform (1920) read:

    “We demand the union of all Germans in a Greater Germany (Großdeutschland) on the basis of the right of national self-determination.”

    Hitler opened his autobiography and political treatise Mein Kampf with his vision for the future relationship between Austria and Germany. He wrote,

    “...the reunification [of Germany and Austria] is a life task to be carried out by all means! German-Austria must be restored to the great German Motherland…People of the same blood should be in the same REICH.”​

    ... https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-territorial-aggression-the-anschluss
     
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    And the latest:

    Moscow has identified the retired British MI6 intelligence officer Christofer Nigel Donnelly, who is now an adviser to Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis, as the "mastermind" of the attack on the Crimean bridge. "Everything points to the involvement of Western intelligence services acting on the orders of the British government." According to MP Lugovoi:

    "There is a clear British trace in the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge. A carefully thought-out plan for a terrorist operation, multiple movements and coordination – all pointing to the involvement of Western intelligence services acting on the orders of the British government."
    As if we didn't know? British Intelligence was also involved in the false flag chemical attacks in Syria against the Assad government and the people of Syria.
     
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    errm...along with
    1. The Syrian Civil Defence
    2. British Intelligence
    3. British Special Forces
    4. A British Security Company named Olive Group
    5. British foreign experts
    6. United States Intelligence
    7. United States Special Forces
    8. The French Government
    9. “Middle Eastern TV channels”
    10. “The regional branch of the American news channel”
    11. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and its previous iterations
    12. “Foreign specialists”
    13. “Foreign friends”
    14. Turkish foreign experts
    15. Chechen foreign experts
    16. Ahrar al-Sham
    17. The Islamic Party of Turkmenistan
    18. Jaish al Izza
    19. Unnamed “militants”
    quite a list isn't it....in fact it goes on but guess who makes up all this tosh.....yup you Russians....you really are a pain the phucking arse you Russians aren't you....the sooner your country collaspes the better.

    Oh yeah...do you remember the time the Russian MOD released "evidence" of US collusion in Syria which turned out to be game shots from the Byte Studio AC130 Simulator....ooops.....
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    I bet you can't guess which picture they nicked from Youtube....:D:D....d'ya want me to show you?


    so....
    please forgive me if I sound sceptical of MP Lugovoi (whoever the phuck he is) and his half baked ideas...toodles

    Would you like a limerick?
     
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