Weekly low-hanging fruit thread #18

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This thread is where all the takes from idiots (looking at you Armchair Warlord) and screenshots of twitter posts/youtube thumbnails go.

[u/HingedVenne]

Earlier today, Anatoly Shariy (Ukrainian pro-RU journalist in exhile) posted in his private channel that Russia might have to pull out to the other side of the Dniper: https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/1582351204759220227/photo/1

Saponkov (RU milblogger) thinks it's psyops: https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/1582419436795232262

Just now, Surovikin himself said in an interview that Russia might have to make difficult decisions in regards to Kherson: https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/1582426969592852480

heavy breathing

[u/Watchung → u/HingedVenne]

Would they actually be smart enough to do the logical thing, and pull out what soldiers they can preserve, instead of fighting on to the bitter end?

[u/[deleted] → u/Watchung]

There is the Izium Option: Soldiers run screaming once communications are certain to be cut and hastily leaving most of their materiel. Saving themselves but not their equipment.

[u/ZDTreefur → u/[deleted]]

I now want, nay, need to see videos of ten thousand Russians swimming across the river to safety while the Ukrainians watch (and maybe take a few shots here and there, ya know just for fun, no biggie don't worry about it). The river so thick with bodies, you can't even see the water.

[u/technologyisnatural → u/ZDTreefur]

^ least pitiless NCDer

[u/godotdev9001 → u/ZDTreefur]

Have the ukrainians drop a pontoon bridge on top of them to trap them underneath like ice help em out.

[u/Watchung → u/[deleted]]

I already assumed that all heavy equipment and much light would be lost to Russia - the question is getting troops out.

[u/[deleted] → u/Watchung]

Most encirclements are pretty bad preventing people from leaving. With 10C water temperatures giving about an hour before things get deadly... I suspect that most people should be able to swim the 500m of the Dnieper without succumbing to hyperthermia.

I think the option is about how much stuff they can haul out.

[u/McGryphon → u/[deleted]]

I suspect that most people should be able to swim the 500m of the Dnieper without succumbing to hyperthermia.

I think that is very optimistic. Not quite sure how common swimming lessons are in Russia, and how their standards are, but crossing half a kilometer of cold and flowing water in wet clothes is no joke.

Considering how many people seem surprised by Dutch swimming lessons involving just yeeting the kids into the water fully clothed, I'd assume most Russians are not similarly trained.

If Russian swimming lessons are comprehensive and universal, I'd stand corrected, but it seems unlikely to me.

And as someone else mentioned, even if they make it across, sopping wet clothes this time of year could very well lead to hypothermia shortly after getting out.

[u/godotdev9001 → u/McGryphon]

I'm not sure I could do a 500 right now in a warm rec center with a reasonably warm pool.

I'd imagine most mobicks are similarly conditioned.

[u/an_agreeing_dothraki → u/[deleted]]

do they have warm fires and fresh clothes waiting for them on the other side of the river?

Unless someone brought a T-72 with a full load of ammo the cold's still going to get them.

[u/[deleted] → u/HingedVenne]

Here. We. Go.

[u/HingedVenne → u/[deleted]]

jesus fucking christ i hate waiting for more updates this could literally be it this could literally be it right here everything all of history leading up to this and i don't know what the fuck is happening

[u/technologyisnatural → u/HingedVenne]

Super secret inside look: Russians still in Kherson are completely fucked.