Just eight words from Reuters via ESPN but they encapsulate the whole of United’s season.
Friday, March 03, 2023
Thursday, March 02, 2023
I'm bored so I'm going to post on this
Florida State and Clemson and maybe Miami, I don't know about that one, want to leave the ACC. As a Pitt alum and fan I would like to suggest that conference commissioner Jim Phillips borrow from Oliver Cromwell's speech to the Long Parliament:
"Go, in the name of God go! You have been here too long for any good you have done."
"ClemSU your decision is a simple one, you want to make it more complex but 'tain't happenin', to speak Southern. Your choices are: Pay the remaining ACC schools the est. $120 exit fee, abide by your agreement to sign over your entire grant of rights to all tiers to the conference and go play in the SEC for no TV money.--Or--Shut your pie holes cuz you don't look handsome when you open them too wide and play in the ACC for "only" $33M per year. See if you can scrape by on that. "*whiny voice* "We cain't compete for national championships on only $33M/year!" Half Ass U, you haven't SNIFFED A natty since 2013. In six full years since (I've rationalized your 3 wins in 9 games in 2020 to 4 over 13 games) you have averaged 6 wins a season playing Duke and Ga. Tech and Va Tech and B.C. You haven't won an ACC title since 2014. That's only eight complete seasons. I think you're ready to compete for a natty in the SEC for no TV revenue. You'll take 'em by storm! Go, or shut the fuck up. What you're not getting Half Ass U and IPTAY, "It's Probation Time Again Y'all", is a disproportionate share of revenue since you signed that ALL AWAY years ago for equal distribution.
This Pitt fan would be ecstatic to see these two whining bitches leave. They're not worth it financially or on the bottom line, weighing the pros of their presence with the negatives of their continued existence. Leave. And leave the money to us. See ya, don't want to be ya.
Some Rooski Have Normal Brain
Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin and several Russian
milbloggers continue to debate the appropriateness of criticism of
Russian war efforts as they react to a proposed amendment to Russia’s
Criminal Code which would increase punishments for “discrediting” the
war in Ukraine. Prigozhin on March 1 defended his statements
made earlier that day defending criticism of the war effort. Prigozhin
claimed that Russians should have the right to criticize Russian
commanders and strategists, including himself, but not to criticize or
“discredit” ordinary soldiers.[31] Russian milblogger Yuri Kotyenok
defended restrictions on “discreditation attempts,” arguing that
criticism of Russian soldiers of all levels — from soldier to supreme
commander — is like shooting them in the back. Kotyenok conceded that
some criticism is necessary but said that it must be made carefully and
in a limited way. ...Former Russian officer (and avid critic of
Russian President Vladimir Putin) Igor Girkin feigned repentance on
March 2 and mockingly instructed his users “not” to make statements
calling Russian leadership “illiterate, irresponsible mediocrities” and
telling them to refer to major failures as victories, offering as an
example the “alternative successes” in Vuhledar.[33] [Igor have normal brain: Rooski lose over 100 tanks in Vuhledar. Great success pause, pause, pause, NOT.]
Alex Murdaugh Found Guilty
The jury only deliberated not even three hours! The trial lasted almost six weeks. Whoa.
Oh, and I just saw this
Jennewein exhibited his sculptures three times in the Great German Art Exhibitions (Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung) in Munich, in 1937, 1938 and 1939. These exhibitions, held in the House of German Art (Haus der Kunst) were overt Nazi propaganda events. Obligatory for all participating artists was the membership of the Reich Chamber of Culture, which could only be attained by submitting an Aryan certificate.
REMOVE THEM!
GET THEM OUT!
These horrific statues, Spirit of Justice and Majesty of Justice, have no place in the American Department of Justice. They look like, c’mon, c’mon, c’mon, yes! the Aryan Ideal of Nazi Germany. Our Lady Justice is blind, she wears a blindfold. Fucking Brunhilda of the Weimar Cabaret isn’t wearing a blindfold or much else. Majestic Karl holds a bundle of arrows that look suspiciously like the Nazi swastika or the SS insignia.
In point of fact the statues were created in 1933, the year Uncle Ad took his first step toward becoming Führer, by Carl Paul Jennewein, who was born in Stuttgart! C. Paul immigrated to the States at 17. Still, it’s too close man, the timing is atrocious, and, the statues just do not symbolize the spirit of Anglo-American law. Get them out of there, please.
Thank you! Weee!
Five Reasons Sports
@5ReasonsSports
Good.... morning? The Miami Heat are now closer to the 10th seed than the 5th seed
7:19 AM · Mar 2, 2023
@5ReasonsSports
Good.... morning? The Miami Heat are now closer to the 10th seed than the 5th seed
7:19 AM · Mar 2, 2023
BUTLER WALKED OFF THE COURT DURING THE GAME
March 1, 2023 in Miami (vs Phila.):
It was 102-77 with 10:08 left when Butler walked down the tunnel toward the Heat locker room and didn’t return.
March 23, 2022 in Miami (vs Golden State). Butler in major confrontation with Spoelstra during game. Dewayne Dedmon held Butler back.
January 20, 2023 in Miami (vs OKC). Dewayne Dedmon and Spoelstra have heated exchange during game. Dedmon tossed a massage gun onto court, is ejected, suspended by Miami, and traded for “cash considerations”.
January 27, 2017 in Chicago (vs Miami):
JIMMY BUTLER WALKS OFF COURT, SEEMINGLY ON HIS OWN ACCORD (VIDEO)
Wednesday, March 01, 2023
Ukraine official: Forces may pull out of key city of Bakhmut
…
“Our military is obviously going to weigh all of the options. So far, they’ve held the city, but if need be, they will strategically pull back,” Alexander Rodnyansky, an economic adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, told CNN. “We’re not going to sacrifice all of our people just for nothing.”The battle for Bakhmut has come to embody Ukraine’s determination…
Bakhmut lies in Donetsk province, one of four provinces Russia illegally annexed last fall. Moscow controls half of Donetsk province. To take the remaining half of that province, Russian forces must go through Bakhmut…
Analysts say the fall of Bakhmut would be a blow for Ukraine and offer tactical advantages to Russia, but would not prove decisive to the war’s outcome.
Jonathan Zaslow
@ZaslowShow
HEAT game sucks. Lets see what #AEW Dynamite has in store for us.
8:46 PM · Mar 1, 2023 from Pembroke Pines, FL
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@ZaslowShow
HEAT game sucks. Lets see what #AEW Dynamite has in store for us.
8:46 PM · Mar 1, 2023 from Pembroke Pines, FL
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NO JOEL?!
Lol we’re giving up 70+ in a half to an embiid less sixers.
@MiamiHEAT what a joke
8:37 PM · Mar 1, 2023
This post combines two articles from WaPo, one published in December, the other just today. I don't like these articles. First, because it makes the FBI look like pussies in this case and reading carefully I don't think that they were. The flip side is that it makes DOJ lawyers look like rabid prosecutors who missed the motive forest and got lost in the trees, and on the evidence in both articles combined I think the FBI was right and DOJ wrong. Hear me out.
When the MAL search broke Ross Douthat wrote a piece distinguishing two scenarios: One, Trump sold the docs or gave them to the Saudis, the example Douthat used. Bad, bad, bad. In that scenario, fucking prosecute Trump after you execute him. The second though was Trump being Trump, if there was no harm there's no foul.
I think I took exception to Douthat's dichotomy, I'm not positive but I think I did. I know eventually I took exception to the dichotomy. I read the fucking laws, including at least one case, I read George Conway's tweets and columns in WaPo and these statutes were, and were interpreted by the case, to be as close to strict liability as you can get in criminal statutes. In fact...I remember now, it was specifically, not by George, by someone else, analogized to having child porn on your 'puter. If you got it and it's your computer you're dead.
Now, these articles and "further developments" paint a substantially different picture. First, they dilate on intent. The articles mis-identify intent as motive, which prosecutors never have to prove, but INTENT, they do! In the MAL case the disagreement between FBI and DOJ was over Trump's intent. Did he harm national security by having the docs at MAL or did he have future intent to harm, or did he not? Precisely Douthat's dichotomy. As you read in these articles, and as previously reported, Trump did not harm national security and had no intent to harm national security: "As best as investigators were able to determine" it was just Trump being an asshole.
Now, "further developments": I was really 100% convinced by George and the child porn lawyer and the statutes that this was the criminal law's Pottery Barn Rule, I think I even used the phrase. But now, Biden when he was veep, Pence when he was veep and it looks like it's not the Pottery Barn rule and being an asshole really does matter (it shouldn't). If the intent was not to harm national security (and if no harm was in fact done) then it's sorta no harm no foul.
To me, reading these articles closely (I may still be wrong) the FBI lost the battle but won the war: The surprise search either should not have been conducted or has been conducted in prosecutorial vain because no intent to harm national security, as the FBI argued, was shown before the search or since.
On the day he became attorney general, Merrick Garland inherited a massive investigation into the pro-Trump riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, which threatened the peaceful transition of power to Joe Biden. Prosecutors were working from the bottom up to see if a criminal case could be made against high-profile people such as Trump over the insurrection or the attempt to sabotage the certification of election results.
The Mar-a-Lago case was very different. There was no ladder for investigators to climb, because the potential target was plainly Trump...
...the Justice Department’s decisions about the Mar-a-Lago case put the agency more directly on a collision course with Trump.
...
Agents questioned why it mattered who had which pieces of paper, since presumably any White House documents existed in multiple copies, and probably on computers. Archives officials stressed that while backup copies were helpful, the original documents, including handwritten notes, were essential to following the law on preserving presidential records.
It took several days of phone calls, but gradually the FBI officials came to see one particular set of documents, the Kim letters, as persuasive evidence of a problem; there are obvious national security implications if direct communications from foreign leaders are lost or wrongly circulated.
Agents were also convinced that it mattered if there were sensitive government documents in the boxes, including what one person described as information classified under the Atomic Energy Act, which covers secrets related to nuclear weapons. Some of the paperwork in the boxes was designated as formerly restricted data — a clunky bureaucratic term that also describes secrets related to nuclear matters. Even though the label contains the word “formerly,” such information is still classified.
...
That was a key distinction. Trump has claimed he could declassify things at will — “even by thinking about it. ... There doesn’t have to be a process, as I understand it.” Many national security lawyers have publicly disputed that claim. But while a president does have the power to carry out a declassification process for certain documents, the situation is different for material covered by the AEA. Declassifying such documents requires formal approval from other parts of the government.
...
In mid-May, FBI agents finally reviewed the boxes sent to the Archives and confirmed the agency’s findings: They contained 184 classified documents — more than 700 total pages worth of secrets.
So the FBI dove in, if only to control a leak or “spillage” of classified material and get the sensitive papers back under government lock and key....
Agents discreetly interviewed Trump employees, and those conversations only raised more alarms that the former president was, incredibly, still trying to hold onto classified documents and mislead the government.
...
...there were signs that Trump’s team might be concealing something. When [DOJ lead prosecutor Jay] Bratt’s team visited the basement storage room where many of Trump’s White House boxes were kept, they were not allowed to open the containers and look inside, according to court papers.
... Separately, the Justice Department and FBI were discovering incriminating evidence that Trump or those around him might be actively trying to hide and hold onto additional classified documents.
...
Agents had interviewed Walt Nauta, a former White House valet who followed Trump to Florida to continue working for him. Nauta told the agents when first approached that he knew nothing about classified documents...But the more people the FBI spoke to, the more they doubted that claim.When agents interviewed Nauta a second time, he told [them] that he’d moved boxes from the storage room to Trump’s residence, after the subpoena was served, and that he’d done so at Trump’s request, according to people familiar with the matter.
With Nauta’s account, the investigation that had sputtered to life months earlier started barreling forward, gathering evidence and momentum, according to people familiar with the case.
...
Over many weeks of discussions, senior FBI officials made clear that they would do a search only if it was authorized by the attorney general himself. ...
...here were...tensions at that time between the Justice Department’s national security prosecution team, which was led by Matthew Olsen, and some agents at the FBI’s Washington Field Office, which was led at the time by Steven D’Antuono. The lawyers, these people said, felt they had amassed more than enough probable cause to ask a judge to approve a search of Mar-a-Lago. Some agents at the field office weren’t certain. Eventually, the Justice Department lawyers prevailed.
...
A review of the seized classified documents did not reveal an apparent financial motive for taking them. As best as investigators were able to determine in the months following the search, Trump’s motive in refusing to return the material seemed to be primarily ego, and petulance...
Showdown before the raid: FBI agents and prosecutors argued over Trump
... tense showdown near the end of July last year...
Prosecutors argued that new evidence suggested Trump was knowingly concealing secret documents at his Palm Beach, Fla., home and urged the FBI to conduct a surprise raid at the property. But two senior FBI officials who would be in charge of leading the search resisted the plan as too combative and proposed instead to seek Trump’s permission to search his property...
...
Starting in May, FBI agents in the Washington field office had sought to slow the probe, urging caution given its extraordinary sensitivity, the people said.
Some of those field agents wanted to shutter the criminal investigation altogether in early June, after Trump’s legal team asserted a diligent search had been conducted and all classified records had been turned over, according to some people with knowledge of the discussions.
...
The FBI agents’ caution also was rooted in the fact that mistakes in prior probes of Hillary Clinton and Trump...
...
Some inside the probe argued the infighting delayed the search by months, ultimately reducing the time prosecutors had to reach a
decision on possible charges. Others contend the discussions were
necessary to ensure the investigation proceeded on the surest footing,
enabling officials to gather more evidence...
In November, before prosecutors had finished their work and decided whether to charge Trump or anyone else, he announced
his campaign to retake the White House in 2024, leading Garland to
appoint a special counsel...
[Trump's super-soon announcement did delay the investigation.]
A collision course
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Archives officials reported that, after they had pleaded with Trump’s representatives for months, the former president had in January returned 15 boxes of government records he had stored at Mar-a-Lago since his presidency ended. Sifting through the boxes’ contents, archivists were shocked by what they found: 184 classified documents consisting of 700 pages. Archives officials said they had reason to believe Trump still had more sensitive or classified documents he took from the White House.
Prosecutors in the Justice Department’s national security division needed to answer two immediate questions: Was national security damaged by classified records being kept at Trump’s Florida club, and were any more sensitive records still in Trump’s possession?
Prosecutors and FBI agents were set on a collision course in April, when Trump through his lawyers tried to block the FBI from reviewing the classified records the Archives found. That set off alarm bells for prosecutors because it signaled he might be seeking to hide something...
The prosecutors and FBI agents began clashing...in early May... Jay Bratt, the prosecutor leading the department’s counterespionage work, advocated seeking a judge’s warrant for an unannounced search at the property to quickly recover any sensitive documents still there.
...
...FBI agents viewed a Mar-a-Lago search in May as premature and combative, especially given that it involved raiding the home of a former president. That spring, top officials at FBI headquarters met with prosecutors to review the strength of evidence that could be used to justify a surprise search...
Encountering resistance, ...Bratt and a small number of FBI agents visited Mar-a-Lago to meet with Trump’s lawyer and collect any classified records the Trump team had found to comply with the subpoena. ...
Some FBI field agents then argued to prosecutors that they were inclined to believe Trump and his team had delivered everything the government sought to protect and said the bureau should close down its criminal investigation...
But...national security prosecutors pushed back and instead urged FBI agents to gather more evidence by conducting follow-up interviews with witnesses and obtaining Mar-a-Lago surveillance video from the Trump Organization.
...surveillance video footage...showed someone moving boxes from the area where records had been stored, not long after Trump was put on notice to return all such records, according to people familiar with the probe. That evidence suggested it was likely more classified records remained at Mar-a-Lago...
By mid-July, the prosecutors were eager for the FBI to scour the premises of Mar-a-Lago. They argued that the probable cause for a search warrant was more than solid, and the likelihood of finding classified records and evidence of obstruction was high...
But the prosecutors learned FBI agents were still loath to conduct a surprise search. ...
A rift within the FBI
...Bratt and other senior national security prosecutors, including Assistant Attorney General Matt Olsen and George Toscas, a top counterintelligence official, met about a week before the Aug. 8 raid with FBI agents on their turf, inside an FBI conference room.
The prosecutors brought with them a draft search warrant and argued that the FBI had no other choice but to search Mar-a-Lago as soon as practically possible, according to people with knowledge of the meeting. Prosecutors said the search was the only safe way to recover an untold number of sensitive government records...
...Steven M. D’Antuono, then the head of the FBI Washington field office, which was running the investigation, was adamant the FBI should not do a surprise search...
D’Antuono said he would agree to lead such a raid only if he were ordered to...D’Antuono...repeatedly urged that the FBI instead seek to persuade [Trump lawyer Evan] Corcoran to agree to a consensual search of the property...
Tempers ran high in the meeting. Bratt raised his voice at times and stressed to the FBI agents that the time for trusting Trump and his lawyer was over, some of the people said. He reminded them of the new footage suggesting Trump or his aides could be concealing classified records at the Florida club.
D’Antuono and some fellow FBI officials complained how bad it would look...The FBI’s top counterintelligence official, Alan E. Kohler Jr., then asked the senior FBI agents to consider how bad it would look if the FBI chose not to act and government secrets were hidden at Mar-a-Lago...
[THAT IS NOT THE ISSUE! TRUMP'S INTENT IS THE ISSUE.]
D’Antuono also questioned why the search would target presidential records as well as classified records, particularly because the May subpoena had only sought the latter.
“We are not the presidential records police,” D’Antuono said, according to people familiar with the exchange.
Later, D’Antuono asked if Trump was officially the subject of the criminal investigation.
“What does that matter?” Bratt replied, according to the people. Bratt said the most important fact was that highly sensitive government records probably remained at Mar-a-Lago and could be destroyed or spirited away if the FBI did not recover them soon.
[There is no "probable cause" in "could be." "Could be" is not "did", or probably would be in future. WHAT WAS THE PROBABLE CAUSE FOR INTENT TO HARM NATIONAL SECURITY? THEY HAD NONE!]
FBI agents on the case worried the prosecutors were being overly aggressive. They found it worrisome, too, that Bratt did not seem to think it mattered whether Trump was the official subject of the probe. They feared any of these features might not stand up to scrutiny if an inspector general or congressional committee chose to retrace the investigators’ steps, according to the people.
Jason Jones, the FBI’s general counsel who is considered a confidant of FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, agreed the team had sufficient probable cause to justify a search warrant. D’Antuono agreed, too, but said they should still try to persuade Corcoran to let them search without a warrant, the people said.
[Now, on this point, I side with DOJ: If a fucking judge signs a WARRANT that's the end of "should we or shouldn't we"; and they got a warrant. Time for debate is over. Time to just do it.]
The disagreement over seeking Corcoran’s consent centered partly on how each side viewed Trump’s lawyer. The prosecutors — as well as some officials at FBI headquarters — were highly suspicious of him and feared that appealing to Corcoran risked that word would spread through Trump’s circle, giving the former president or his associates time to hide or destroy evidence, according to people familiar with the internal debate.
[By GLARING implication, NOT time to give them to North Korea or sell them to the Saudis.]
...
Jones, the FBI’s general counsel, said he planned to recommend to Deputy FBI Director Paul Abbate that the FBI seek a warrant for the search, the people said. D’Antuono replied that he would recommend that they not.
...prosecutors appeared unwilling to wait...
...
...prosecutors, fatigued by months of fighting with agents in the FBI’s
field office, wanted no delay, no matter the reason...The search would proceed as scheduled.
Prosecutors remained somewhat on guard until the day of the raid, as they continued to hear rumblings of dissent from the Washington field office, according to three people familiar with the case. Some of the people said prosecutors heard some FBI agents wanted to call Corcoran once they arrived at Mar-a-Lago and wait for him to fly down to join them in the search; prosecutors said that would not work.
...
On Aug. 8, FBI agents scoured Trump’s residence, office and storage areas, and left with more than 100 classified records, 18 of them top-secret. Prosecutors claimed vindication in the trove of bright color-coded folders that agents recovered.
[It wasn't there vindication. They hadn't proved Trump's intent to harm national security. Months later that intent has been disproved.]
Biden administration lawyer may have saved student loan forgiveness plan at Supreme Court, experts say
Well, that is quite a change from earlier reporting on this!
- •Experts have predicted the Supreme Court would rule against President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness plan, but some changed their minds after oral arguments, praising the lawyer who presented the administration's case.
- •Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar's "preparation, poise and power were impressive," said higher education expert Mark Kantrowitz.
The government's top Supreme Courtlawyer may have saved President Joe Biden's $400 billion student loan forgiveness plan from what experts considered all but certain defeat.
Experts lobbed praise on Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the lawyer who represented the Biden administration in front of the nine justices Tuesday.
"The Biden administration now seems more likely than not to win the cases," said higher education expert Mark Kantrowitz.
:o
…
In contrast, the attorneys for plaintiffs opposed to the program were less than stellar, Kantrowitz said. "It was like the difference between a star quarterback and two tiddlywinks players," he said.
University of Illinois Chicago law professor Steven Schwinn agreed: "Prelogar knocked it out of the park."
"I do think she could have influenced or even changed the thinking of two justices, maybe more," he added.
On Wednesday, Fordham law professor Jed Shugerman tweeted that he remains "struck by SG Elizabeth Prelogar's brilliant performance."
HOLY COW
"She may have snatched victory from the jaws of defeat," Shugerman wrote.
Intel agencies: No sign adversaries behind ‘Havana syndrome’
...
Most of the cases investigated appear to have different causes, from environmental factors to undiagnosed illnesses, said the officials, who say they have not found a single explanation for most or all of the reports.
Instead, officials say, there is evidence that foreign countries were not involved. In some cases, the U.S. detected among adversarial governments confusion [I remember that. The Cuban authorities were credibly incredulous] about the allegations and suspicions that Havana syndrome was an American plot. And investigators found “no credible evidence” that any adversary had obtained a weapon that could cause the reported symptoms or a listening device that might inadvertently injure people.
This is among the strangest things of recent years. I had no doubt that there was something going on, some one thing. The reporters were from all over the world, it began in Havana Cuba, and were all credible, responsible people in positions of responsibility, diplomatic staff, members of the military, with the U.S. government. Neither was it hypochondria, the reporters suffered real, lasting brain damage or sensory compromise. They were all Americans in unfriendly countries. To have it turn out that "foreign countries were not involved" is shocking to me. I AM NOT GOING CONSPIRATORIAL, I am just shocked.
In an Epic Battle of Tanks, Russia Was Routed, Repeating Earlier Mistakes
...
... Russia pulled reserves of tanks from Cold War-era storage, and Ukraine prodded Western governments to supply American Abrams and German Leopard II tanks.The sophisticated Western tanks are expected on the battlefield in the next several months. The...Russian armor turned...in its first wide-scale deployment was decimated. ...a stinging setback for the Russians.
...both sides sent tanks into the fray... the Russians thrusting forward in columns and the Ukrainians maneuvering defensively, firing from a distance or from hiding places as Russian columns came into their sights.
When it was over, not only had Russia failed to capture Vuhledar, but it also had made the same mistake that cost Moscow hundreds of tanks earlier in the war: advancing columns into ambushes.
Rooski anthropoid brain look like normal brain but no good. It have holes like the Switzerland cheese.
Blown up on mines, hit with artillery or obliterated by anti-tank missiles, the charred hulks of Russian armored vehicles now litter farm fields all about Vuhledar, according to Ukrainian military drone footage.
“We studied the roads they used, then hid and waited” to shoot in ambushes--Sgt. Artyom Knignitsky, Ukrainian tank mechanic in the battle.
Cheater, cheater, Ukraines eat punkins! We Rooski no can study with our Rooski brain. It Groundhogski Day every day for Rooski. Rooski sad.
In one indication that Russia is running short of experienced tank commanders, Ukrainian soldiers...captured a medic who had been reassigned to operate a tank.
...Russia had lost so many [tanks] to sustain armored assaults that they had changed tactics and resorted only to infantry attacks, Ukrainian commanders said.
In a detailed interview last week in an abandoned house near the front, Lt. Vladislav Bayak, the deputy commander of Ukraine’s 1st Mechanized Battalion of the 72nd brigade, described how Ukrainian soldiers were able to inflict such heavy losses in what commanders said was the biggest tank battle of the war so far.
Ambushes have been Ukraine’s signature tactic against Russian armored columns since the early days of the war. Working from a bunker in Vuhledar, Lieutenant Bayak spotted the first column of about 15 tanks and armored personnel carriers approaching on a video feed from a drone.
“We were ready,” he said. “We knew something like this would happen.”
Liar, Liar, Ukraines underpants in flames! THEY KNOW NOTHINK! Ukraines NEVER think Rooski be so stupit to do same ting all again over! HAHAHAHA Ukraines! Wiley Rooski brain smart you out!
They had prepared a kill zone farther along a dirt road that the tanks were rumbling down. The commander needed only to give an order over the radio — “To battle!” — Lieutenant Bayak said.
Anti-tank teams hiding in tree lines along the fields, and armed with American infrared-guided Javelins and Ukrainian laser-guided Stugna-P missiles, powered up their weapons. Farther away, artillery batteries were ready. The dirt road had been left free of mines, while the fields all about were seeded with them, so as to entice the Russians to advance while preventing tanks from turning around once the trap was sprung.
Hmmski *frowny face*
In ambushes, the crew hides the tank within range of a road that Russian tanks or armored personnel carriers might travel down. Then it waits quietly....
...
In the last major engagement, a week ago, the order came in during the gray pre-dawn to prepare an ambush for a column of 16 Russian tanks and armored vehicles advancing toward the Ukrainian lines....
“We hid the tank in a tree line and waited for them,” Private Hrebenok said. “It’s always scary but we need to destroy them.”
In this instance, they stopped about three miles short of the ambush site, just out of range of return fire, and shot in coordination with a drone pilot who called in coordinates on a radio for targets they could not see directly.
The Russian column stalled on mines and, Private Hrebenok said, The Wanderer opened fire. The Russian tank crews had little chance once they were in the kill zone, he said.
“We destroyed a lot of Russian equipment,” he said. “What they did wrong was come to Ukraine.”
UKRAINE SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC!
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