17:34 – Johan No.1
The killer snails threaten to retreat from Bakhmut
https://twitter.com/noelreports/status/1652327901583360001?s=46&t=nagicaOajk3hbJFrFXmOLQ
18:01 – Johan No.1
I miss Labbibia, if you remember he used to run a recurring – I double all donations for my seventeenth place today if Dengamle takes the thread back.
Sitting and reading through yesterday and today and he was missed, you have to surprise him with a bang Dengamle when he writes something this week after he has figured out where his wife hid the laptop.
18:08 – Johan No.1
Oh no, wide open for attacks from Matsextrude 😨
Replacing “the wife” with better half before he gets to read it.
19:19 – MatsExtrude
👍👍👍
08:40 – Johan No.1
This is what I always nag about.
https://twitter.com/anno1540/status/1652531000340107264?s=46&t=AoeEguwoV_SM4Y3Zh_bgqw
13:02 – Johan No.1
Before we rush into the exciting topic of more dead Russians, I wanted to write something positive. Far too often, we have had to sit down and discuss bad vibes, that the thread is a toxic environment, and that people have disappeared after all the attacks.
For quite some time now, activity has perhaps been a bit lower and the undersigned is still figuring out how to mask at the new job, but the atmosphere has been very good. Interesting comments and exciting follow-up discussions, zero fights, and minimal political discussions.
Then, just when you thought it couldn’t get better, the living legend (not the hobby general, the one who said that got kicked banned immediately 🤬) Dengamle showed up again and took the thread by storm with his laughing emojis and tricky questions.
Now it’s probably just Ledsentant left who has taken a long leave, and then some new positive energy arrived – 64GB Machine.
Simply a very nice forum to swim around in with engaged thread participants and Erik14’s epic night shift 👍
Lion ✊
If you haven’t figured it out already, these are edited films where soldiers talk with their families mixed with some filming. It is an incredible historical archive where every soldier has had the opportunity to film their story.
https://twitter.com/ukrainiansquad/status/1651592699198287874?s=46&t=fSe4vxvi5XUXDaWfIktoLg
https://twitter.com/ukrainiansquad/status/1651963221358542848?s=46&t=fSe4vxvi5XUXDaWfIktoLg
Gregg informed us yesterday that the units in Kiev have received their marching orders and that “within two weeks we will see activity”.
The first is probably a fact and the Russians can also figure that out when entire brigades leave their barracks or training grounds.
We have probably also seen videos of that recently, you remember the winding snake with more soldiers than Sweden has, for example?
The second is actually very vague, within two weeks could be tomorrow or in two weeks.
Now I think most people expect the offensive to be a few weeks away, so no big bombshell directly.
Then Gregg confirmed today that the home guard has also received their marching orders. We discussed earlier that flanks and border protection will probably be handled by territorial forces so that the spearhead is not depleted, and that seems to be exactly what they are planning.
So marching orders have been given to the entire Ukrainian army here – maneuver brigades, NG, and territorial.
Preliminary combat and increased intensity we already have, and we’ll probably amuse ourselves by arguing about the start date going forward, UA said initiation April 10, we saw higher intensity April 19-20 or maybe it will be a simultaneous start of engines and 100 brigades rolling forward on D-day, who knows 😀
I consider it confirmed that Erdogan is sick with something because he has not been around at the election meetings he was supposed to attend and the election is soon. Try to get a politician not to be seen in the election sprint – impossible.
Turkey’s Erdogan falls ill on TV and cancels election rallies – BBC News
Then apparently Serbia’s master chief has health problems too?
https://twitter.com/pstyle0ne1/status/1651854030396588036?s=46&t=fSe4vxvi5XUXDaWfIktoLg
Maybe that’s why Orban is still Putin’s best friend, he has chosen life?
The living legend without beginning hair loss posted below in yesterday’s thread which is worth highlighting, a discussion between soldiers discussing cremation and that children are easier to cremate, corpse plundering, theft, crimes against prisoners of war and some other beautiful things spiced with psychopaths’ views on their craft.
Now Ukraine will throw Russians into pits completely on their own but when history is written, the EU should be ashamed for having done too little for too long.
https://twitter.com/thedeaddistrict/status/1651861580110352384?s=46&t=fSe4vxvi5XUXDaWfIktoLg
Reading the conversation, I think it is quite clear why the whole country of Ukraine is prepared to take any losses to get rid of this aggressive parasite. Difficult reading.
They die in battle or they die under Russian oppression – a clear choice.
Do you remember when FIRMS was the new black and we argued about the Izium forest and what was burning. When the tweeter posted the satellite images, they looked something like this. Proves nothing other than that I always prove myself right in everything in total lack of self-awareness.
https://twitter.com/noelreports/status/1651874664921063424?s=46&t=fSe4vxvi5XUXDaWfIktoLg
New liberation deeds in Russia – we like this.
https://twitter.com/pstyle0ne1/status/1652019300541054984?s=46&t=TKdwEgtl56eXZV-hkLYoNw
Azerbaijan puts its foot down in Nagorno Karabakh
https://twitter.com/pstyle0ne1/status/1652045037843230720?s=46&t=TKdwEgtl56eXZV-hkLYoNw
Do you remember the discussion about how the VDV took over more and more of Wagner’s positions and work?
We guessed they were finished and straight from the horse’s mouth – 4000 left, down from 60,000.
https://twitter.com/secretsqrl123/status/1652065292900605953?s=46&t=TKdwEgtl56eXZV-hkLYoNw
I am aware that mega-positive Johan No.1 is starting to be seen a bit like the village idiot here in the thread since nothing is happening but so incredibly much is happening all the time that confirms what we know is coming.
I am quite convinced that I underestimate Ukraine’s upcoming spring offensive, it is probably some kind of defense mechanism not to be perceived as too unlikely in the thread, I try to stay as close to the middle line as I can. But to not lose even more credibility, I won’t write this 😀
This energy that has built up in Ukraine ahead of the spring offensive is absolutely incredible and unstoppable, it is like when the Death Star fires a death ray at some planet – they are just still aiming the energy.
All these videos of shooting in the thousands – a Russian in a pit sitting up to his waist in water feels even worse when he gets those videos in his Telegram feed – they have negative energy instead, like when the Death Star explodes.
This energy thing came up yesterday and do not underestimate it, one side is nibbling omeprazole and the other side is bigger than lions and moves fast.
This has all the signs of being decisive because that’s how they have prepared.
Then we will argue about what the definition of decisive was but for me it is that a chess move is made.
Then that Russia will never admit defeat even when they have been dragged back to the 1991 borders is a whole other matter.
Northern Luhansk will probably go quickly and Crimea will be cut off.
The terrain east of the Siversk – Bakhmut line up to the Siversky Donets is probably Ukrainian in a galaxy near us soon.
Left is the darkest Donbass and the 1st army corps will surrender (am I the only one who believes that 😀).
Crimea will be emptied voluntarily.
Voila – victory!
To achieve that, the spring offensive needs to be extremely violent.
And for that, they have prepared a very large offensive resource, put an entire country on a war footing and received many thousands of heavy vehicles from the West.
When we saw the home guard start rolling around in T62 and BMP-1, then we understood it was serious.