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Bobko   
26 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2020]

Namely?

Well, like the timing I pointed out. I didn't read about it myself, so trusted Neuf on that.

Now that I know, I understand why SOBR was not in a rush. By the time they were on the road, other people were already going into the mall, and the shooters were nowhere to be found.

In other words, there was no one left to shoot, and no one to protect.

What really drives people crazy is how those guys managed to slip hundreds of kilometers away before being stopped by an average traffic cop nearly by accident.

So the focus is not so much on special forces reaction time, but security guards, bolted doors, and incompetent communication between authorities that could not coordinate information from highway cameras and eyewitnesses.

safety permits have been given after bribes were paid.

Not necessarily related to bribes. Why pay a bribe to someone, in order to keep a door locked? Doors are normally locked because of frequent theft, vandalism, etc....

But there were more problems. The fire sprinklers did not work properly, many appear to be unconnected to any piping whatsoever (this is on the level of rumors still). The materials the roof insulation and other structural elements were made of was not up to whatever fireproofing standards (again, I'm no specialist, just telling you what I read on Russian telegram).

No lessons learnt from the Kemerovo fire then.

Yes precisely. Not as bad as in that case, but pretty criminal still.
Bobko   
26 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2020]

Are RuSSian media putting this question forward and analysing this issue all? Bobko? Velund?

Yes, and a lot of what people are writing here is factually inaccurate. Even I believed what CMS Neuf wrote about "90" minutes...

Then I went and read for myself the original chronology, and it said the guys went in at 10:58 and left by something like 11:11. So less than 15 minutes within which those people died.

Still, everyone is asking why didn't the private security company that was on-site do anything? Aras Agalarov, the owner of Crocus, is one of the richest men in Russia and family friend of Donald Trump. Among other things, he owns a private security company, that had many armed men on location - but they didn't do anything.

Also, a lot of fire escapes and emergency doors were bolted shut. Thankfully some 15 year old kid from Kyrgyzstan that worked there, took people out along some detour route.

This billionaire is being criminally charged now.

Also, people are unhappy at the response time of the nearby police department.
Bobko   
25 Mar 2024
Off-Topic / Feeling tired all the time [75]

your cops turning into powerless pussies like ours?

Russian cops have 1,000 less times power than your cops - which can simply kill a guy for reaching into his pocket.

Don't let these videos of guys eating their ears and having their balls electrocuted fool you. These are extraordinary measures for extraordinary times.

In Russia, a drunk person can conk a cop on the head, and calmly walk home.

This is what is meant by the old Soviet proverb, that "The strictness of Soviet laws, are only tempered by the unnecessary nature of their enforcement."
Bobko   
25 Mar 2024
Off-Topic / Feeling tired all the time [75]

Unfortunately, they defecate not only in the street, but also in the staircases and elevators.
Bobko   
25 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2020]

Maybe simply because you are not their target?

They are nothing without enabling organizations and resources. Unless, you are imagining some kind of Hollywood style mafia hit on poor Bobko.

I admit - this I'm not prepared for, haha!

While I appreciate the effort your examples take it is not the same.

Yes. It's infinitely harder to do what I described.

In my world.

1) No guidance/mentorship
2) No "warrior family"
3) No resources
4) No commander
5) No mission

I just invent everyday, what will be my purpose.

Do you know, how much I would love to be a special forces operator, who they tell:

1) Tomorrow you will go there
2) You will kill this man
3) We will pick you up for extraction at the following grid points

I am actually responsible for my decisions and their outcome.
Bobko   
25 Mar 2024
Off-Topic / Feeling tired all the time [75]

Bobko, how many homeless derelicts are in Moscow right now? Give me an approximate number.

A lot!

But nowhere close to Chicago or NYC.

Divide by 10.

One important factor is that winters are rough here. But then again, they're not easy in Chicago either.
Bobko   
25 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2020]

I certainly appreciate the skills it takes to be special forces.

Do you appreciate what it takes to build a company as a Russian emigrant in the American market, with no start up capital, no experience, and no connections?

Do you appreciate what it takes to build a pipeline through virgin forest and swamps across thousands of kilometers?

Maybe this will make you view special forces in a different light?

I work with a lot of former special forces guys. I don't think they scare anybody in our space :)
Bobko   
25 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2020]

You mean that Tier 1 Alpha Group?

This whole conversation is a joke!

Paulina and Bobko discussing Russian special forces composition and use.

Like Pope Francis and Ayatollah Khamenei discussing food crisis in Venezuela.
Bobko   
25 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2020]

look at it from the point of courage, dedication, discipline, loyalty etc

Hello, Politruk Lenka.

Btw guys, you do remember we both speak Russian, right?

We said nothing bad.
Bobko   
25 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2020]

"... не меньше, чем восьмивершковый..." ;

Ну... она не просто о них говорит как о образцовых самцах, а учит меня про компетентность различных формирований, и еще всякие суждения предлагает.

Не, это че-то другое. По-моему она реально помешана на спецназе - нашем.
Bobko   
25 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2020]

I do like army too, just not to that extent.

If I wasn't forced by various events to educate myself about the army, I would never care about it.

It's a miserable institution, meant to kill in people all initiative and ambition.

Spetsnaz may be a little bright spot in that regard, but barely.

For a woman to take interest in these things, seems to me idiotic.

I would much rather learn about sailing, rock climbing, technical scuba diving, etc... than how to infiltrate some position unnoticed and rig an explosive charge.

what branch deals with terror attacks in RuSSia?

Historically "Alpha". Alpha is under FSB now.
Bobko   
25 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2020]

Paulina generally is very interested in army, especially special forces.

WTF, why?

Never expected Paulina to tell me how awesome Spetsnaz is.

95%+ are normal guys. More physically fit, higher rank (by one rank usually), better pensions, etc... but still pretty normal.

I think Paulina is imagining elite of the elite, which is different.

It's like comparing an average Green Beret, or a Ranger, to somebody who belongs to a team of a dozen operators that goes and finds Bin Laden.

For what it's worth, Wikipedia tells me America has 70,000 "special operators".

Each and every single one of these guys is a John Rambo?
Bobko   
25 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2020]

but you're going too far with this, imho :))

Since when are you such a huge admirer of Russian special forces?

What you in the West call Spetsnaz has a million meanings.

Spetsnaz is huge in Russia, with an enormous multitude of formations.

The Russian equivalent to Delta Force and SEAL Team 6 is called SSO. They are the elite, above all other forms of Spetsnaz.

But if you talk about army spetsnaz, that's thousands of guys with pretty normal training - only slightly above a normal grunt.

There is police spetsnaz.

FSB spetsnaz.

GRU spetsnaz.

And on, and on...
Bobko   
25 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2020]

Bobko, please... Enough of this bullsh1t

If you don't know how America's police has come to resemble the military, that's your problem.

There is a literal river of surplus military kit being donated to these law enforcement agencies.

They're all fetishizing SWAT tactics, and every sizable police department now has a bunch of "Terminators" ready to go serve a warrant on some miserable crackhead.

Plate carriers, night vision, flashbang grenades, custom made assault rifles, and thousands of hours of training... sounds like Special Forces to me. Except they terrorize Americans instead of Iraqis, lol.
Bobko   
25 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2020]

you don't get to pick and choose....

Fair enough...

TBH - there's no difference between Russian special forces and America's wildly militarized police. They are probably better equipped than our Spetznaz.

For gods sake, they drive mine resistant armored vehicles, with .50 cal machine guns mounted on top.

Actually, some Texas sheriff's department has probably better kit than SEAL Team 6 during most of their operations.

So what gives?
Bobko   
25 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2020]

You are telling me there are no armed security personnel in Moscow that could be spared to try and protect a theatre full of civilians ?

How do I find myself in a position of defending my government's completely inept treatment of this terror incident?

Why did the cops in Uvalde, wait until all the kids were dead before going into the building?

From the press:

"In total, 376 law enforcement officers - a force larger than the garrison that defended the Alamo - descended upon the school in a chaotic, uncoordinated scene that lasted for more than an hour. The group was devoid of clear leadership, basic communications and sufficient urgency to take down the gunman, the report says."

Hundreds of grown men with assault rifles, stood by, while an 18 year old shooter with no experience went room to room shooting kids.
Bobko   
25 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2020]

Why did your Special Forces take 90 minutes to respond on Friday ?

I know it's surprising, but most of our special forces are currently in Ukraine and Syria.

I think ISIS may have used this in their calculation of what to strike and when.

what do principles and ethics even mean in russia?

SHUT. UP. MAFKETIS.

Your country, and Britain - are the chief suppliers of weaponry to Saudi Arabia. A country that has murdered in excess of 350K Yemenis. I never saw a single peep out of you, in regards to this.

In Sudan:

"18mn people facing acute food insecurity. [There is] an ongoing conflict that involves "mass graves, gang rapes, shockingly indiscriminate attacks in densely populated areas" and more than 6.5mn displaced people. Reports from refugee camps in Darfur describe children dying of malnutrition every two hours."

Care for me to remind you whose work this is?

Rapidly moving on... The war between Ethiopia and the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front that began in November 2020 cost around 600,000 lives, according to Olusegun Obasanjo, the former Nigerian president, who helped to negotiate a peace treaty. More than half the victims were civilians, many of whom died of starvation.

You don't care about this either. Why? Because it does not involve Russia.

Stop lecturing me about ethics and morals.
Bobko   
25 Mar 2024
Off-Topic / Feeling tired all the time [75]

Unless Russian people become brave enough, like Poles,Czechs and Hungarians

Ahahaha.

"Freedom" fell into your lap. Just like it did for the Ukrainians.

Had the idiot Yeltsin not decided to explode Russia from the inside, all your bravery would still amount to nothing.
Bobko   
25 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2020]

They've never progressed from the early eighteenth century mentally.

Whereas you did, with a helpful thumping from others.

Never believe any Brit that argues they gave up their Empire voluntarily.

Read what the then Prince Charles wrote after the hand off of HK, in a private memo.

Read what the Queen thought about the subject.

Witness the titanic efforts applied by Churchill, Eden, and Macmillan to preserve it.

Buncha lying hypocrites and losers. Jealousy drives them.

many russians at the individual level are very, very smart

Stop masturbating to your wonderboy Galeev. Far from a good example of an intelligent Russian.
Bobko   
25 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2020]

Just as the 'Baltic Fleet' could be destroyed by NATO.

The Baltic Fleet is a joke of a fleet.

The Russian ranking of fleets is approximately like this:

1) Northern Fleet
2) Pacific Fleet
3) Black Sea Fleet
4) Baltic Fleet
5) Caspian Flotilla
Bobko   
25 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2020]

Northern fleet would be forced to operate in a NATO lake

Somebody does not know geography, or that there is a fleet in Russia called "The Baltic Fleet".

The Northern Fleet could destroy all of Europe without leaving port. It has 3/4 of all nuclear powered ships in Russia. It enters the world oceans by going past Norway and between Iceland and the UK. It has nothing to do with the Baltic.