After what Hezbollah did to Syria alone, I don’t really give a single crap what Israel does to Hezbollah.
War
Unfriendly Fire for Effect
Russian artillery fires at a group of Russian infantrymen who were about to to surrender to the 33rd Brigade of Ukraine. Some of the surrendering Russians were able to reach Ukrainian positions, others were not.https://t.co/CH73IFxfyq pic.twitter.com/NSyl9fqD7C
— Special Kherson Cat ๐๐บ๐ฆ (@bayraktar_1love) September 28, 2024
This is why you’re morally a monster if you support Russia in the war. Note for the very, very dense: This is Russia’s own forces firing on Russian soldiers because they are attempting surrender.
Ian Welsh, get yo’ dumb ass over there and get you some of this.
Morality
Anyone who supports Russia in the war against Ukraine is a moral monster and really should go over and participate in one of Putin’s meat waves.
Those are also the same ignoramuses who believe sinking a civilian ship is fine, but it’s a war crime to attack enemy troops with legal weapons. Not only are they morally repugnant, they are really fucking dumb. Terrible combination.
War Vibes
And shooting retreating soldiers isn’t a war crime either. If they’re not surrendering, they are valid targets. What is a war crime is not based on vibes or feelings; it has an actual definition.
Also, yes, I would say that about Russians. Though I very much hope Ukraine prevails so we do not have to fight in Poland or the Baltics in 2032, the Russian army would be fucking foolish not to shoot retreating Ukrainian soldiers right in the back. As already noted, that is not and never has been a war crime. It is simply how war is conducted if one wants to win.
People get angry that words have meanings and that what’s true or not is not just based on vague notions of propriety picked up from TikTok. Too bad for them.
Disorg
Russian assaults are all so disorganized. I do wonder, though, in the era of drones and ubiquitous battlefield surveillance, would more organization even matter? Not without good EW I guess.
In the future, the army with the most drones that are the least jammable wins….
Minim
Russiaโs war dead tops 70,000 as volunteers face ‘meat grinder.’
It’s far more than that. 70K is just a bare minimum that the BBC was able to account for using public info. That misses the majority. I’d estimate the actual Russian war dead at 150-200K and 80-100K on the Ukrainian side. Others agree.
The BBC estimate is a baseline that omits too much to be all that useful.
FKPZ
Ukrainian Flakpanzer Gepard SPAAG shoots down a Russian Shahed kamikaze drone (September 2024).
That’s a good close AA system. Never seen one fire in actual combat before; they’ve been around forever, though.
Math Ain’t Mathin’
It is the 936th day of Russia’s three day Special Military Operation in Ukraine.
Kablooey
BREAKING:
Israel injures hundreds of Hezbollah operatives by hacking their pagers and making them explode. Most likely, they made the lithium batteries overheat.
There are many videos and pictures of the attack circulating online.
Via @TreyYingst pic.twitter.com/CnQoW0yp6b
— Visegrรกd 24 (@visegrad24) September 17, 2024
FYI China could (and likely will) be able to do this in war with many of our devices.
Those explosions if it’s not obvious are not trivial, either.
Video showing just how powerful the pager explosions were pic.twitter.com/N9L8Wjfr0V
— Visegrรกd 24 (@visegrad24) September 17, 2024
Tanked Up
An enormous UA 110th brigade drone drops enormous loads.
That’s a big drone.
And an anti-tank mine with a custom-made stabilizer fin? You see some crazy new stuff in that terrible war every damn day.
Walk
I’ve watched dozens of videos of Russian BMPs in active combat and most of them never even fire their main gun. Know why? Because they have no ammo. Sure, Russia might “win” on sheer numbers, but only after losing a million or more people.
So much for that three-day limited Special Military Operation that Ian Welsh and Putin (blood brothers) insisted would be a cakewalk. That anyone listens to that clown anymore is sad and inexplicable.
Which exact clown am I talking about in that last sentence? Does it matter?
Solutions to Problems
There’s quite a good chance that we’ll solve Global Warming with Nuclear Winter.
Striker
Airstrike on Russian positions in Vesoloe, Kursk region.
(51.2888146, 34.5462134)https://t.co/qBYsuBo4be pic.twitter.com/8zerENx2sS— Special Kherson Cat ๐๐บ๐ฆ (@bayraktar_1love) September 15, 2024
I don’t usually embed Twitter stuff as who knows when it will disappear (just take too-large screenshots), but that is hella precise. It says “airstrike” but with what? I know the Ukrainians probably won’t release that but the explosion was fairly contained and had no pyro at all. My guess is that it was a bunker-penetrating bomb with minimal explosive yield to bring the building down but not do a lot of collateral damage.
But nice strike. Wonder what platform that came off of.


