100% . The Ukrainian side generally know what the Russians are doing, which will be valuable once they are rearmed with Stingers and Javelins.
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100% . The Ukrainian side generally know what the Russians are doing, which will be valuable once they are rearmed with Stingers and Javelins.
Damn. That's a 93.33% kill ratio on the total number of shots, and that's the closest to perfection you will have for any AT weapon.
Just learnt something new - 'scuttling' is a naval term
No, it's every NATO member deciding together. Greece blocked North Macedonia's membership for years, they wouldn't be able to do that if it was "just US deciding".
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Yes, if a war spread to UK I would expect nationals from the agressor nation to be interred. It's happened before (WWII) and, no doubt, would happen in any future conflict.
I did not mention this war at all.
The US provides most of the muscle. If Germany does rearm, then maybe Europe can rebalance the relationship. Until then, the UK and France are not enough of a counterweight.
This is a bit reminiscent of the response to the Afghan invasion of the 1980s.
Equally there’s people trying to spin this to suit their own agendas against the west.
Things like this bring out the worst in people
That Chinihiv video is horrific, apparnetly 2 schools hit, woman in the backgound screaming "there are kids, there are kids".
Just saw this on my Twitter feed. Is this real? Could Putin get anymore isolated than when the US’s enemies are calling him out publicly?
i went to his profile and this was yesterday.
i went to his profile and this was yesterday.
High payouts and pensions for families of dead soldiers will encourage women to produce children to fuel the war, and through their death they can climb the social ladder in a stagnant economy.
https://t.me/stalin_gulag/2036
https://t.me/stalin_gulag/2036
Yes, should have held the elections last year or next year to dissipate the doubts.
Are you suggesting that Nato members are not sovereign states? The false equivalencies in this thread never cease to amaze me.
I fear for Ukraine. First signs of slowing media coverage are visible where I live, it's not as prominent on the front page anymore. The Ukrainians are losing the momentum. Any positive breakthrough for Ukraine will have to come from the sanctions hitting Russia hard. Because Russia doesn't look like they'll quit.
If you've followed his account for the past few years, he's become a bit of a wummish social media influencer who say stuff like this on a regular basis.
My thinking too. This is gonna get worse before it gets better, and is going to end with catastrophic consequences for Ukraine. As Obama said, Ukraine is more important for Russia than it is for us.
However, if they valiantly fight, there is hope that Ukraine will continue to exist and probably become again sovereign after a regime change in Moscow. If not, their name will be forgotten as has been for many parts of Russia.
He's not in power though. Iran govt hasn't yet said anything on those lines I think
Left out a couple of words somehow, so I could see how you'd think that. Hopefully it reads as it was intended to now.
Coverage in the US has also slowed down a bit in recent days (although its back with a vengeance today). One of the problems media outlets are going to run into is keeping their correspondents in very dangerous areas due to the indiscriminate nature of Russian bombings in civilian areas. I can't imagine news organizations justifying the risk of putting their correspondents in that much danger.
They happen to have over a quarter of the world's black soil.
A lot of words to try and argue that the nuclear threat has no meaningful line to draw on either side. But of course it has. Pure sophistry.
To try and argue that Putin would ignore the threat of NATO if they don't intervene in Ukraine is just naive. As is imagining that Putin would ignore NATO overtly joining the war in Ukraine. Yet Kasparov openly steps into both obvious blunders.
And no, while war is terrible this is not (yet) genocide. I guess Kasparov can't really sense proportions very well.
Agreed, I didn't find him convincing. I think Putin considered this a one time golden opportunity to 'catch' Ukraine as it still wasn't in the NATO. An extremely brazen move, and we'll have to wait out the sanctions, but I don't see him attacking the Baltics.
Fuuuuck me. How can anyone be so dumb to publicly say this? The Athletic’s journalist refused to report it at first as he was so disgusted with it.
She is just getting a preemptive defense in when everyone starts asking why the Saudis are allowed to run Newcastle but Russians are not.
Feels like it, yeah
The one thing I don’t get - why didn’t he invade 18 months ago when his mate was in the White House? If the US was on the sidelines, I doubt Europe would have felt emboldened to take such decisive action.
Also:
"Why should I suffer misfortune just because I amassed a fortune from allying with extremely evil people? I don't think that's particularly fair."
Not with over half his army currently in Ukraine. Any further escalations from Russia will either come in Ukraine itself, or hybrid operations.
That's the big sliding doors moment in all this. We're very lucky trump is not in the white house right now.
Poor Roman, innocently making his fortune in the notoriously civilised aluminium wars of the 90s. Although I’d still take him any day of the week over Staveley’s boss,
More needs to be done for Ukraine. This can not be allowed to go on
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Bearing in mind the Russians seem to be advancing using tents on wheels it's not really a suprise...