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Russia communicates without digital mode, making them audible by everyone

36 points by qnsi 5y ago

Ambolia 5y ago
That's weird, the encirclement maneuver [1] on the eastern Ukraine seems to be going great for the Russians [2]. Can you do a massive sophisticated maneuver like that in a couple of days with bad and exclusively short-range communication? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encirclement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encirclement [2] https://dragon-first-1.livejournal.com/47526.html https://dragon-first-1.livejournal.com/47526.html
- jacquesm 5y ago
  > Can you do a massive sophisticated maneuver like that in a couple of days with bad and exclusively short-range communication? If your vehicles don't break down and you aren't attacked, yes, but plenty of that gear was already in place due to 'little green men'. That's also how MH17 was shot down from within Ukrainian territory with a rocket that Russia claimed was never there. For many years already the Eastern part of Ukraine was effectively already under Russian control from the Russian border to about 1/3rd into Donetsk and Luhansk and the Crimea, all of which are used as staging areas. Finally, Livejournal is mostly frequented by Russians and I would not necessarily trust anything on there without a lot of independent verification, tons of propaganda out there.
  - pyinstallwoes 5y ago
    Sorry, what is 'little green men' in this reference?
    - dijonman2 5y ago
      Russian soldiers occupying eastern Ukraine in DPR and LPR. Little green men reference to childrens toys.
      - pyinstallwoes 5y ago
        Thank you. For reference, my automatic biased programming renders 'little green men' as martians or extraterrestrials. :)
        jacquesm 5y ago
        Sorry, I probably should have said 'advisors'. But these are all euphemisms.
- qnsi 5y ago
  they wanted to take Kiev in 72 hours. I don't think I would call it "going great for Russians" Some troops / people in the troops have good equipment, but seems that a lot of communication is going through short-range communication
  - Ambolia 5y ago
    I don't think the Russians have declared they wanted to take Kiev in 72 hours. That's foreign analysis that may or may not be accurate.
    - ddalex 5y ago
      there were Russian press articles auto-published celebrating the quick victory over Ukraine
    - NicoJuicy 5y ago
      They thought it would be over by the 26th. Multiple state agencies had their auto publish still on. The content of those articles are really delusional fyi. In the meantime, Russia asked all of their allies for help.
- mzs 5y ago
  Yes, when your enemy is rationally picking-off 25m targets instead.
quattrofan 5y ago
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36 points by qnsi 5y ago

That's weird, the encirclement maneuver [1] on the eastern Ukraine seems to be going great for the Russians [2]. Can you do a massive sophisticated maneuver like that in a couple of days with bad and exclusively short-range communication? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encirclement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encirclement [2] https://dragon-first-1.livejournal.com/47526.html https://dragon-first-1.livejournal.com/47526.html

jacquesm 5y ago
> Can you do a massive sophisticated maneuver like that in a couple of days with bad and exclusively short-range communication? If your vehicles don't break down and you aren't attacked, yes, but plenty of that gear was already in place due to 'little green men'. That's also how MH17 was shot down from within Ukrainian territory with a rocket that Russia claimed was never there. For many years already the Eastern part of Ukraine was effectively already under Russian control from the Russian border to about 1/3rd into Donetsk and Luhansk and the Crimea, all of which are used as staging areas. Finally, Livejournal is mostly frequented by Russians and I would not necessarily trust anything on there without a lot of independent verification, tons of propaganda out there.
- pyinstallwoes 5y ago
  Sorry, what is 'little green men' in this reference?
  - dijonman2 5y ago
    Russian soldiers occupying eastern Ukraine in DPR and LPR. Little green men reference to childrens toys.
    - pyinstallwoes 5y ago
      Thank you. For reference, my automatic biased programming renders 'little green men' as martians or extraterrestrials. :)
      - jacquesm 5y ago
        Sorry, I probably should have said 'advisors'. But these are all euphemisms.
qnsi 5y ago
they wanted to take Kiev in 72 hours. I don't think I would call it "going great for Russians" Some troops / people in the troops have good equipment, but seems that a lot of communication is going through short-range communication
- Ambolia 5y ago
  I don't think the Russians have declared they wanted to take Kiev in 72 hours. That's foreign analysis that may or may not be accurate.
  - ddalex 5y ago
    there were Russian press articles auto-published celebrating the quick victory over Ukraine
  - NicoJuicy 5y ago
    They thought it would be over by the 26th. Multiple state agencies had their auto publish still on. The content of those articles are really delusional fyi. In the meantime, Russia asked all of their allies for help.
mzs 5y ago
Yes, when your enemy is rationally picking-off 25m targets instead.

quattrofan 5y ago

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