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Hasn't Lula already declared Putin is free to enter Brazil regardless of international law and potential sanctions?

So? The Great Powers had decided on a policy of appeasement against Nazi Germany. What exactly would you have proposed the USSR do? They signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact prior to the war for a reason.

Without the Eastern Front, Europe was lost. Hitler only launched Operation Barbarossa because he thought the Western Front was all but won. Continental Europe was under German control and the UBoats were locking down most of the Atlantic, meanwhile imports of Russian materials was sustaining the German war economy (similarly, imports of American materials was sustaining Japan's war in China and the Pacific)... Of course, it turns out that dividing your forces and taking on Russia in the winter aren't the best ideas, but at the time Germany wanted energy independence and the Caucasus was seen as an easier target than the Middle East (which at the time out produced Romania but wasn't yet the oil superpower it is today).

How many haven't been told by their respective government office to keep morale high in their reporting?

The leaders did not lay out who would be paying for the project. A working group will lay out fuller plans over the next 60 days, including a timeline for building the infrastructure.

About to end up like California HSR. Tens of billions of dollars overbudget, behind schedule, and otherwise useless because the first section is between two rural towns.

Edit: I know people are going to correct me and say that Merced (86333p), Fresno (544510p), and Bakersfield (403455p) are cities... And fine, but is that really worth 35 billion USD in taxpayer money? The problem is that there are so many stakeholders in a project like this and everyone wants different things.

He noted that years into Solih’s rule, only Yameen has been held to account over corruption.

Odd.

Self-determination for thee but not for me

You mean Lula doesn't want to piss off his ally? Who woulda thunk.

Actually tho

Oh no! Not international law!

Ah, but that doesn't mean you should start prosecuting your opposition.

Dogfights are an outdated paradigm.

If an Su-57 picks up your radar signature and gets a lock, you better pray to your countermeasures suite because you're not even going to get a glimpse of it. That's literally the entire modern US fighter paradigm.

Poor people are overrepresented in the army? No way!

Gotta do what you gotta do

Al Jazeera has been almost completely fair for commentary outside of the Middle East...

Except... It sort of is? GPS was first launched in 1978 (oh look, the year the F-16 was introduced). The F-16 is an ancient platform and Ukraine has already shown that CAS is rather challenging given how advanced modern munitions are. At the start of the war they were literally plucking planes out of the sky.

Plus, NATO doctrine relies on complete battlefield superiority and complex logistics... Things that Ukraine lacks. How exactly is Ukraine supposed to turn the tides with F-16s when the Russians have stealth planes and hundreds of Su-35/34/30s?

I'd recommend that you read a more insightful commentary on Red Army practices during WW2 rather than following Nazi propaganda from that period. David Glantz' work is particularly insightful.

Either way, those are 19 million civilians. That isn't military dead, that's civilians.

Fast and cheap? Is that what you call losing 60 thousand lives to eke out a salient on low ground?

That was one of the big reasons made in the post about Hexbear defed.

The other ones were nebulous concerns about Hexbear comments in other instances... Which, by definition, is the responsibility of those other instances.

How is Ukraine ever going to get air superiority? The West is basically trickle-feeding then equipment.

Russia's manufacturing PMI is at, what, 55.9 this month? In fact, the Russian Bank is literally worried about higher than expected inflation because their economic output has been too high.

And of course, by slowly crumbling you mean that one salient near Robotyne? The one that's known to be in a region of low ground surrounded by defences on high ground? That line?

Fact is, so long as India can keep buying Russian oil at whatever price OPEC dictates, Russia can keep financing the war. A lot of Russian industries can function entirely domestically (and thus don't really stress foreign exchange reserves) - the main limiting factor I'd expect is high-tech electronics coming from India and China. Russia's war economy has been remarkably resilient given the circumstances.