Hey man, we're not the ones who decided to use Ukraine as disposable munitions to destabilize Russia in preparation for a resource grab. We're just calling plays from the sidelines. If we had any say in this DC, the Kremlin, and the Rada would all be smoking pits in the ground.
I don't think this person is worth arguing with. That last comment of theirs was such a comprehensively silly thing to say. "Where are the huge tank battles?" serious? This isn't a movie. They're chewing up the UA army with artillery. Assuming they're not using tanks for indirect fire what would they use them for? It's not like they need to g find the Ukrainians, they're walking light infantry right in to prepared defenses.
It's also really funny that people think there's much of a difference between a tank from 1945 and a tank from 2015 if they both die to one hit from an ATGM or modern kinetic penetrator. They're both equally defended against machine guns, splinter, and maybe even auto cannons up to a certain point.
Didn't Russia frag all their logistics a few months ago? I thought they finally took the gloves off and started destroying infrastructure a long time ago?
They probably won't have an 18-35 year old men under their control, either. I'm kind of surprised they can still find people willing to die for this bullshit.
It is kind of unbelievable that they don't understand a smaller country can't just send able bodied young men in to a defensive line to get slaughtered indefinitely. Vibes based world view. You'd think there are enough gamers in the world that the average commentator would understand how "camping" works as a strategy.
I have here in my hand a list of 205 . . . a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being
members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department. .
The US has just approved the transfer of F-16s to Ukraine. So that might change soon.
I am so hyped to see how long an F-16 lasts against the S-500 network. Whether or not NATO SEAD systems can counter the S-500 system is going to be one of the deciding factors in the course of the 21st century. It'll also be neat to see if NATO actually commits real weaponry or holds back the good stuff for fear of it failing and revealing that the Emperor has no clothes.
Russia has defenses, but no ability to move forward.
You don't play RTS games, do you? The fun thing about a strong defensive line is that you can kill a whole lot of their guys for every one of your guys that they kill, and if you have enough guys they're going to run out long before you do.
What happens to those insecure areas?
The Nazis probably genocide the Russian speaking Ukrainians that live there, either by driving them out using terror, or just killing them all. Probably a combination of both.
Well, there war goals were to protect Donbass, kill a shitload of Nazis, and de-militarize Ukraine. Plans change but it still looks like they're doing what they set out to do.
I don't know why people keep thinking America is anything other than a paritcularly traitorous viper after the way we've treated literally every ally ever for centuries. Like at some point someone must have noticed a pattern.
People like Merkel didn't exactly think about long-term prosperity, given their climate policies.
I think that's mostly ideological. War is something that exists within the Liberal world view, but obstacles to unlimited growth of profits don't. They can reckon with geopolitical conflicts but global warming does the same thing to them that trying to unlock your dad's memories does if you're a bene gesserit.
From a far enough perspective this conflict goes back to like Napoleon. When was the first time a European power decided that they could definitely take control of Russia before winter?
I wish them all the best. Watching Europe absolutely eat shit and collapse trying to fight would be hilarious.
Notably - America will 100% hang them out to dry rather than committing significant forces.
Also, you know, the really painfully obvious thing - The only people who want Russia to attack Europe are the Baltics and some of the more unhinged right wing factions in Poland.
Christ let me go get the fucking qoute. Third time today.
“During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.
If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.”
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Hey man, we're not the ones who decided to use Ukraine as disposable munitions to destabilize Russia in preparation for a resource grab. We're just calling plays from the sidelines. If we had any say in this DC, the Kremlin, and the Rada would all be smoking pits in the ground.