You are part of that "some in the West" you bolded.
Concealed it? That screams "I don't actually pay attention beyond what's scraped and put into my feed" while looking for every available excuse to give up.
"The bloody Central Bank, which has alarmed the whole country and isn't even explaining why the hell the ruble exchange rate has jumped so high that they're laughing at us abroad, at our ruble being one of the three weakest currenciesTone rings familiar... where have I seen a similar tone?
The wood on the tanks is there to throw under the threads in mud or on soft ground to keep the tank from getting mired.
Slava Ukraini!
Also, the Russians have been recently reinforcing their tanks with wood slabs and logs :roll1 Originally Posted by HDGristle
Joe, we're not talking about unditching logs. These are absolutely attempts to uparmor.
It's a mix of wood and scrap metal over key weak points, similar to the on-the-fly wood armor they put over the grills of their trucks last year after the functional trucks they had were getting disabled Originally Posted by HDGristle
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 Heroyam SlavaPeace is when people on both sides stop dying.
The only "peaceful settlement" here involves Putin leaving Ukraine, returning every inch of land he's illegally annexed, and getting what's coming to him for committing untold numbers of war crimes. That's it. The only way. As HDG said, "peace on Putin's terms isn't peace". Originally Posted by tommy156