Posted on 03/18/2022 3:30:34 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
Brigadier is highest rank below a General’s rank.
Next, major General.
Then, Lieutenant General.
Finally, General.
Field Marshal General is higher but is supposedly honorary.
Shot down by the Ghost of Kiev?
So I guess Russian generals are actively involved to the extent that their risk of getting killed along with the troops is fairly high. Compare that to US generals who rarely get near the actual battlefield.
Just think of who is for Ukraine:
(1) Soros
(2) every democrat including Brandon
(3) every republican neocon having orgasms at prospects of war with Russia
(4) almost all MSM including 90% of Fox news.
Just based on that list, my knee jerk reaction is to not pick sides. We certainly do not need another foreign war with $30T in debt and climbing.
Looking at actual video’s on news, I see building after building in Ukraine turned to rubble, while all buildings in Russia not even had glass windows shattered. If this war continues for another 10 days, Ukraine will look like Germany during WWII.
This is precisely Hitlers argument to Churchill, and such people as Lord Halifax, when he offered peace in 1940.
You want them to surrender to violent sobs like the Russkies? How about no.
Don’t aim for the heart. The medals on the chest may stop the round.
by proxy? Yeah that’s reminding me of Carlos Hathcock in veetnam getting the NVA colonel first thing in the morning: Oh, yeah colonel , it’s all clear. Go ahead and take your morning stretch——boom
Somebody posted it on Twitter so it must be true. /sarc
Glue a MAGA hat on his head and release him in Chicago at 2:00 am near a Subway.
Full Colonels in Russia look like they may be equivalent to our Brigadier Generals.
Hi.
When you go into combat you write your will and testament.
When you go into combat you take all the shiney medals off black out your hat and lapels.
When you go into comat you ditch your cell phone and any coins in your pocket.
When in a combat zone, remember Murphy’s laws of combat.
This has been a PSA.
5.56mm
I’d love to see news stories about the evil ones being eliminated.
Given the high number of general officers going down, the question has to be asked: Fragging?
Comat?
5.56mm
Good question as to whether it was a good idea to explain how the Ukes traced a phone call. But the upside is that if Ivan’s comms are down they wouldn’t know anyway. And they’ve probly been told not to believe anything they hear from a Uke anyway. So it’s all good. Like the old joke: hey Ivan is that you?
“Russians traditionally have a very top-down “don’t think just follow orders” military culture. (Remember, in the opening minutes of Barbarossa in 1941, Sov units near the border were radioing to HQ, “We are being fired upon. What should we do?”)”
Very true.
[Ukraine is getting flattened by every standard. No calls for negotiations, just war, war war…by Zelensky and the west. The Ukrainian people are suffering for the fraud of a leader, Zelensky.
Wake up people.]
Remember when Hitler said, after annexing Czechoslovakia, “This is my last territorial demand in Europe”? That’s about what agreements with Russia are worth.
Russia lost 5,700 men in Chechnya in the first campaign, which lasted just under 21 months. It came back for a second round, in which it lost 7,000 men over 9 months, but prevailed. If Ukraine can inflict 100,000 KIA on Russia over the next 2 years, I suspect the Russian appetite for future invasions will be sated for at least the next few decades.
Pilsudski’s Miracle on the Vistula, which secured Poland’s independence after centuries of Russian rule, killed 60,000 Russians. As a target, 100,000 dead Russians is probably on the conservative side, but the costs of war on native soil are so large that it probably pays to buy a little insurance.
Fourty thousand Syrans are on the way. This is going to be a bloodbath for all ranks and the civilians for which Syrians kill for elimination as routine order of battle. Asaid is a real fanatic about eliminating everyone where there WAS resistance in Syria.
“Is it possible these high ranking officers are being eliminated by Putin. Indirectly of course. For doing such a poor job?”
Yes, it is possible. Maybe Pootie is channeling his inner Stalin.
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