Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Preston Stewart " channel.

  1. ​ @Fusi_lier  Blackwater drove around in trucks. Wagner had artillery, aircraft, tanks, etc which could only be obtained by being part of the military. Wagner training ranges are located inside Russian military bases.
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  2. A PMC lead by a convict who happened to use a catering business to grift off government rubles, who was Russia's lifeline to avoid official Army casualties, who had to cry and beg for ammunition the real army needed elsewhere, and needed VDV assistance anyway, managed to get wiped out and send the "chef" back to Africa to protect gold mines and warlords. The Ukrainians used TDF and National Guard and plenty of rotations while training 11 offensive brigades. The fall of Bakhmut was reported probably 10 times already. Including the "legally captured" claim by Prigozhin like two months ago or whatever. Ever heard of the boy who cried wolf? Bakhmut has been captured too many times for people to care.
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  3. ​ @Fusi_lier  Those 3000 people aren't the same as 10 years ago.
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  4. The Kherson offensive was hyped a lot more.
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  5. Because the US pledged to. Next question.
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  6. "Mobilized eight or nine times" that's a purposeful misunderstanding. They set batches to be sent for training because you can't just train everyone at the same time. Remember the pictures of when Russia tried to mobilize "once"? There were men making tents out of cellophane or living in delapidated buildings because there was no capacity to train eveyone at the same time.
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  7. Subbed to Hakim and Defense Politics Asia lmao fix your life broski
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  8. ​ @Sceptre1-1  How is it copium? We knew from day one that instead of defense in depth Russia was throwing reserves at the grey zone.
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  9. @SnorriTheLlama Yeah they switched it up. They started using S300s on surface to surface mode and Shaheds. They had something like 10,000 S300 tubes in storage so although accuracy is low and the warhead is made to hit aircraft with fragmentation it still depletes interceptors and does damage on the receiving end.
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  10. ​ @GeneralGiffel  the militias are gone, since 2023 they're staffed by Russian mobilized troops. By late 2022 Murz had reported the DPR and LPR were scraping the bottom of the barrel.
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  11. And when boxers see the opponent keep their hands up, they go for the stomach or liver. Yeah, Ukraine is only succeeding because they're using a successful strategy! Those scheming Ukrainians, using good tactics... don't they know that's unfair?
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  12. ​ @amorelus  there's the additional factor of Russia setting off the separatism in Donbas. If China supports independence movements breaking away from Ukraine, that would make them hypocritical on Xinjiang and Hong Kong.
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  13. ​ @littlegreenman2014  A disadvantageous point of entry becomes advantageous if the entrance is wide open. The border is not strategically significant, but the Kola peninsula is.
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  14. ​ @MultiTasker888  Russia has whined in a year more than the US does in a decade.
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  15. False dichotomy. What problems are solved by hoarding 30 year old military hardware in warehouses?
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  16. ​ @Sceptre1-1 So it's not a breakthrough because small unit tactics were used? Holy pedantry Batman!
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  17. The US snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. After battering the PAVN it forced them to sign for peace and they waited a couple years. Thanks to Muscovite propaganda and Watergate the US was not in position to aid South Vietnam when North Vietnam broke the Paris Accords. This was the worst possible example you could have picked because the Second Indochina War started from a precarious position for the US but the South Vietnamese forces increased their effectiveness while the PAVN started racking up losses. But the USSR had maintained the perception that the US was losing among the US populace.
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  18. How do you take 30 Abrams and a bunch of Bradleys and spend them on Healthcare or Education? Plus isn't Trump defunding education anyway?
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  19. ​ @Capt_Wupass  so if any country had intel on 9/11 they should ignore it?
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  20. ​ @mikyas392  Buddy you can get coordinates from maps. You can get coordinates from your phone. You meant satellite imagery?
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  21. ​ @danmorgan3685  BS. Only a few tens of thousand received foreign training, and it's not equivalent to full training. Look up cross training exercises within NATO, it's only a few weeks. Many people are not lifers in the military and end up leaving. Meaning that once returning to the military they need to refresh their skills, and may actually be put under the command of officers who never cross trained with NATO so they're forced to use Soviet tactics anyway.
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  22.  @Aureliiian  While Wagner was busy utterly destroying a city, the Russian army was shredded in Vuhledar. So yes, Wagner didn't lack ammunition. But the people Prigozhin took the ammo from did lack it.
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  23. Cope. ISIS was defeated in a joint effort by assisting Iraq, Kurdish fighters, etc. Russia stepped in to save Assad. Nothing more.
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  24. Before jammers the FPVs lost signal too. That's just the ground clutter causing signal loss. Signal is generally line of sight, with diffraction helping gain a little more range. But once you're close to the ground you lose signal. You can tell it's not jamming when they dive, lose signal, bring the drone up to take another look and then dive again. The wavelength for the controls is still able to reach while the video feed can't. A jammer would lock the controls.
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  25. And had Mentos in his battle rattle.
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  26.  @markgonczy8293  Yeah, the people advancing into machine gun fire and mortars suffered less losses than the entrenched defenders. Sure.
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  27. ​​ @mkb2420  But that's irrelevant. Air superiority is defined by the ability to conduct air operations with little concern for enemy air forces. If your only concern is surface-to-air, you have air superiority. The Coalition established air superiority over Iraq in 1991 even though it was one of the most defended air spaces in terms of missiles and AAA.
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  28. ​ @WarDaddyUSA  If the Patriot was destroyed why isn't Russia flying strategic bombers over Kiev and Lviv? What are they afraid of?
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  29. Military equipment gathering dust in storage isn't "billions" you get to spend on other projects.
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  30. By that logic why should cops stop crime? If they see someone getting attacked, they shouldn't pick sides.
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  31. The situation has changed over time and not all information has travelled at the same speed everywhere.
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  32. Napoleon didn't have cruise missiles
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  33. They'll have to backfill what was lost. Say you are under contract to make 50 sandwiches. You finish them and send them for delivery. You take your next contract for another 50 sandwhiches. Your delivery guy drives off a cliff. You now need to make 100 sandwiches and people are hungry.
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  34. How do you take care of people with 30 year old missiles about to expire? It costs more to demill equipment than sending it to Ukraine.
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  35. Transponders aren't a magic shield. Any malfunction or miscommunication can render IFF nearly useless. And they're clearly not immune considering how many of their own aircraft they shot down in prior incidents.
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  36. ​ @Jamicaman516  I think it was a reference to Wolf Warrior Diplomacy (named after the action movies). Their diplomats pissed off a lot of countries and the CCP had to tell them to cut it out.
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  37.  @trg78lji43r  "YoU dOn'T SoUnD NeUtRaL" buddy what's your obsession with neutrality? Anyone who doesn't parrot Ru MoD updates isn't neutral?
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  38. ​ @silaslong-js8ps  Do I bring the hacksaw?
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  39. Russia doesn't need the UN's seat either. It belonged to the USSR.
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  40. ​ @YorkshireFlea  The crisis is worse by not addressing the issue in Ukraine. We had ties to Russia and our cheap gas was paid for in blood. Russia specifically used grain as a weapon. Increasing food prices in developing countries by restricting Ukrainian exports would worsen our situation. You can run away from your problems all you want, but you'll have to face them sooner or later.
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  41. Okay. Do those advances mean they win or just that they keep losing more men and materiel?
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  42. ​ @uknwarrior7980  200 a day only happened for a couple of weeks in Severodonetsk.
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  43. Men in sandals have shown more fight than Russians. The well armed polar bear is bogged down within walking distance of the pre-2014 borders.
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  44. ​ @legendarydn3804  The button that launches a Hellfire doesn't care about the pilot/gunner orientation.
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  45. ​ @aarishgendor8786  Instead of talking populations we could talk high ground and road accesses, which is more important in a war than census data.
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  46. But it's not similar. Russian tanks were running out of fuel, getting blown up into the stratosphere. These losses are quite normal for an offensive. I think Azerbaijan lost like 50 tanks in 2020 and the Armenians started mocking them. Then they broke the line. Losing vehicles in combat is just reality. Having the tank crew ejected into space on a consistent basis? That's just a disgrace.
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  47. The fact that they're less scary is why they're in theory more likely to be used.
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  48. ​ @Khronogi  yeah but the point was the gangs. The 1%.
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  49. That's not how the world works.
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  50. ​​ @FoogleBoogle  Putin said he didn't care about NATO.
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  51. It's not a proxy war, though. It's Ukraine vs Russia. Not US vs North Korea using Ukraine and Russia as their proxies. A proxy war is like Vietnam. North Vietnam was a USSR proxy while South Vietnam was a US proxy.
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  52. The problem is we are not living in the past. You give a HIMARS a free pass to roam around captured territory, it has a huge firing platform from which to disrupt logistics. You didn't have pinpoint strike ability at 70-85km range back in WWII.
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  53. ​ @LucharPS  In the 2000s you had multiple terrorist groups claim responsibility for attacks. Terrorists want clout. If nobody knows who did it, how do they get leverage?
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  54. Okay but I had the coof three times and didn't die a single one. The emeegency authorization was also a sham as effectiveness dropped to 52% past like 6 months (source: CNN) and it should be 90% or better to get an EUA.
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  55. Boomer trying to play a badass role, meanwhile all they did was babysit diplomats and executives. And they did a good job, never lost a principal. But a crusade it was not.
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  56. ​ @thrwwccnt5845  This is the kind of comment I pay internet for.
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  57. No, it hasn't. The Lancet footage has ramped up. This means something changed. Could be new tactics. Could be the use against an offensive being more suitable.
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  58. I just find it hard to believe that when everyone can see the end, generals in charge will throw away their chance to negotiate a cushy retirement. Give the launch order and risk Nuremberg 2.0, or just keep the nukes secure and ring Washington to propose a trade?
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  59. Full weight of air power lmao 4 aircraft shot down today.
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  60. Yeah except the manufacturer got a shot FDA approved and then kept distributing the one with emergency use authorization. Didn't the courts side with the refuseniks in that debacle?
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  61. People used to dive into the ocean to cut up old warships sunk in combat to sell low background steel. For decades steel was contaminated with nuclear material from tests starting 1945.
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  62. You greet people and get your teeth flossed at the same time.
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  63. The US blocked Gripen exports to Colombia. It uses a GE F414 engine.
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  64. ​ @philipz7996  just guessing the name behind the keyboard, as a joke. Ivan is a common name so it's funny. But Sergei is a good guess too
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  65. Ukraine was a republic separate from the Russian republic in the Soviet Union. Ukraine split from the Soviet Union in 1991, before it collapsed. Russia is in no way in a union with Ukraine. The states composing the CSA did join a union and were part of the United States.
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  66. Kind of the worst example to use, when Milosevic yielded. What's the point of force preservation, if the preserved force won't actually enforce the will of the state? Unless the argument is that the Serb military actually hated Milosevic and wanted him to lose, the effectiveness was nill.
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  67. Cope.
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  68. Yes. The NASAMS uses it because it can double as an air defense missile.
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  69. Are you actually claiming that 8 years were spent in man hours? Either way, Ritter is a convicted predator and Bakhmut is a speedbump that became the primary defense by sheer happenstance. It was never meant to be the main defensive live.
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  70.  @Aureliiian  the doge meme is older than the cheems used by NAFO.
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  71. All the Ru shills who came to this channel are now complaining about "warhawks" when discussing the fact that Ukraine wants to punch back.
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  72. No, Putin asked when he would be invited to join. He was reminded that countries apply for an entry into NATO, and they have to restructure their forces to meet NATO standards.
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  73. ​ @187Rajah  Didn't remind me of a tiny warhead in an A2A missile either.
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  74. Also, the budget doesn't come from the same place so...
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  75. Then why were Motorola and Girkin involved? They are/were Russian nationals. Why was Wagner there?
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  76. I mean, the Proud Boys were created by Gavin McInnes - the godfather of hipsters and co-creator of Vice Magazine. That's as wild of a backstory as gangster turned caterer.
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  77. Why did you mention Iraq after Mosul? Mosul is already in Iraq.
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  78. Can you make it less obvious that English is not your first language?
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  79. That's not really accurate. There was no technological development against the TB2. The Russian armed forces were unaware of a particular threat and several factors hindered air defense. Once AD was in play, the TB2 was no longer an overmatch. Same as HIMARS. It has not been rendered obsolete by pulling back ammo depots, and air defense has not been rendered obsolete by HIMARS and HARMs. If a boxer becomes known for his uppercut and opponents start to preemptively avoid/counter it, doesn't mean the uppercut is obsolete in boxing.
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  80. But can an old Bradley or ATACMS missile help? A lot of "billions" isn't money buy vehicles and munitions gathering dust.
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  81. Blitzkrieg doesn't exist. It's a term made up by English-speaking journalists during WW2.
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  82. The problem with working for Russia is that you can't ever trust they'll uphold their end of the deal.
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  83. Russia is massive but mostly empty.
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  84. One aspect not mentioned is how many people in the so-called Russian areas don't care about Rusky Mir. Look back on the Russian Roulette series. Once Ukrainians recaptured a town, patriotic Russians hastily pointed fingers at each other calling each other traitors. They thought Russia would win easily and made a choice to ensure survival. When Russia didn't win, they dropped the pretense.
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  85. Striking chemical weapons endangers people downwind, it happened during Desert Storm.
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  86. Bruh is North Korean ammo and e-scooters not an indication?
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  87. ​ @dr.mortem6050  There was footage of a tank being hit and like 20 people start running. Looked like baby spiders running off their momma spider's back.
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  88.  @coolheaded5633  Says who? If I have drone footage of you standing in a street corner, I can pull up the coordinates on my phone and load them into a GPS guided shell. It's gonna land. In a battlefield, outside a battlefield, doesn't matter.
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  89. If you're going to count aid then Russia isn't alone as they have had aid from Belarus, Iran, North Korea and China to some extent.
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  90. If no troops are detached then who's going to stop further advances?
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  91. ​ @novembertango1298  Putin won by thrashing Russia's "modern" military and resorting to a parody of Enemy At The Gates?
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  92.  @ashtonkuypers4501  The reverse side of the medal was that they could retake Kherson quickly and with almost no bloodshed. Killing the Russian army regulars there would have been great... but it would have required losses.
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  93. They push forward because Russia is on the offensive, Ukraine is on the defensive. It's Ukraine letting Russians come into their sights. Russia wasted lives in Vuhledar. Just watch the videos. And according to Girkin, in Adiivka too.
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  94. ​ @Damian_CS2  The difference being that supply troops were being ambushed as there were no defined frontlines. Nobody judges supply troops for wanting to uparmor their Bukhanka, but this? This is a disgrace.
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  95. ​ @187Rajah  The explosions mean nothing, could be missiles knocked off course, could be a miss on the ground, could be crashing debris. The battery was active the next day, otherwise the Russian air force would have flown over Kiyv.
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  96. ​ @jerseyshoredroneservices225  No radar or command post has been hit, only launchers.
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  97.  @AndRei-yc3ti  The Ukrainian army was 250k. The Russian invasion force was 190k plus DPR/LPR, Chechens and Wagner. Not to mention that reserves and training cadres were sent to Ukraine in the first months of the war.
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  98. ISIS attacked Israel twice in 2016. They also called for terror attacks in Israel in 2023.
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  99. The US MIC doesn't make money from decades old M113s.
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  100. ​ @Silentheaven89  the Russians said it: they accidently released the news articles celebrating victory on the third day. Russian officers rented Airbnbs in Kyiv for late Feb 2022. Why do that if they expected to take years?
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  101. The East has supply lines to Russia and there's positions established there since 2014.
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  102. ​ @fahoodie1852  When you essentially argue to just give Hamas the win condition by default, you're tacitly supporting them. Until you step up to the plate and show us how it's done, empty platitudes have to fall on deaf ears.
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  103. Not the same ship. It's not the same class although the construction is similar. Photos of them side by side show the differences.
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  104. ​ @lucagerulat307  There's also a Ukrainian unit called Khorne Group, there's been sightings of Russians wearing BEAR and Ukrainians USEC patches from Tarkov and the separatists have a unit called Sparta Battalion after Metro 2033.
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  105. Russia's requirements were for Ukraine to essentially disband their army. You can't negotiate with a robber who denands you to remove the locks from your doors.
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  106. Because a controlled crash like in 1991 is preferable to something more serious happening.
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  107. ​ @andreisokolenko7719  Russian army soldiers were captured. Your precious Tsar said they got lost and crossed the border by accident.
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  108. ​ @THERECOVERY90  old tanks have to be replaced anyway The old tanks are stripped of plastic and rubber and LITERALLY tossed into the sea to make coral reefs
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  109. More troops? They'll need uniforms, armor, helmets, rucksacks. Russia has already taken Soviet era steel pots, added carbon fiber brims, foam padding and nylon suspension under a modern camo cover because they did not have modern kevlar/uhmwpe helmets to issue to all the mobilized men last year.
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  110. Ask Putin.
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  111. Israel only invaded Lebanon because of PLO attacks. Israel was defending itself too.
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  112. If you're a "resistance" fighter without a uniform you're hiding behind civilians. Polish resistance members famously wore a white and red armband to identify them as resistance fighters. French civilians often hated French resistance members for triggering reprisals from the Germans and the Allied forces asked French resistance to stop and only fight when coordinated with them because of the mess they were creating.
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  113. The classical "human wave" vs today's "meat wave".
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  114. ​ @badluck5647  I don't know, Bush, Obama, Trump? Blaming the last guy to be involved rather than the people before who let everything go to hell is such a bad stance. There's a lot to criticize Biden on.
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  115. ​ @Chris-fm1rk  they were never an army. They were a security company.
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  116. The war would have ended in 2022 if more aid had been given.
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  117. "Brutally honest" meanwhile Lavrov claimed they didn't start the war and got laughed at in India
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  118. Your local city, county and state budgets are not federal defense budgets.
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  119. Do T-55s need testing?
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  120. Lula will never let their brand new Gripens fly for Ukraine.
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  121. They absolutely are.
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  122. ​ @sumduma55 Explosives with low sensitivity require detonation to achieve detonation, hence the usage of primary explosives and even secondary/booster explosives to set them off. If a strike with explosives provides the detonation, stored munitions will be set off. Even if not armed, because the attack itself provides the energy source.
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  123. ​ @zac2761  Blame the Ottoman empire, then.
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  124. ​ @МихаилМ-ц9д  There's no discriminatory laws or language bans. Also, those laws were passed in response to Russia taking out broadcast towers and forcing Eastern Ukrainians to rely on Russian TV channels for news.
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  125. ​ @novembertango1298  They have LESS access to the Black Sea since Ukraine created a "no go" zone where they can sink ships. And Sevastopol is not safe anymore.
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  126. ​ @MooN-ml2os  if you hit a wall you're a bad driver even if the car is able to limp back to your garage
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  127. ​ @SanityMustPrevail  the tanks being dropped are literally on video...
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  128. You people still purposefully misunderstanding an article almost two years since it was published?
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  129. ​ @nateTrh  Don't bring Serbia into this, Serbian forces essentially surrounded peacekeeping forces and threatened to shell them so they'd leave and let the commit atrocities against civilians.
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  130. ​ @bascelik91  they shut the valve on NS1. But failing to deliver means fines. Sabotage clears them from having to pay. It's like setting a fire to collect insurance money.
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  131. You people are a riot. Whenever someone reports on bad news for Ukraine you people cheer them. When those people then start reporting on improvements, you claim they are "biased".
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  132. ​ @damianm-nordhorn116  Waiting line for Rafales is huge. Saab can't make Gripens for themselves, Canada and refurbish old C models to sell to Ukraine at the sane time. Unless Canada pays to build a factory like Brazil did.
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  133. Efficiency is a function of how much you gain divided by your input. You mean effective. You can be effective but inefficient (require disproportionate resources). Wagner's assault tactics epitomize inefficiency, because with a surplus of manpower you can afford the losses.
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  134. NATO never moved to East Germany. If you remember your history classes, Poland was in a military alliance called "Warsaw Pact" which meant that NATO could not invite Poland to join. So when Germany was unified, the new NATO/Warsaw Pact border would be on the German-Polish border. And it was agreed that NATO troops would not be stationed at that border. To this day, there are no NATO bases in the former East Germany, and NATO remained in the former West Germany. If you also remember your history classes, Chinese and Soviet support was what saved North Korea and North Vietnam. Not only were then state-of-the-art SA-2/S-75 Dvina surface to air missiles donated to North Vietnam to shoot down American pilots, but Soviet instructors operated those systems sometimes and Soviet pilots flew MiGs against American sorties. Chinese forces fought the UN forces directly and their fighter aircraft fought in the "MiG alley". Obviously, you remember all of this because you invested in your education. You only posted that comment because you're barely awake, maybe you partied hard last night, certainly not because you're a stereotypical "Murrican" who only learned about the Revolutionary War, Civil War and WW2.
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  135. Just go back to storing pagers in your ammo bunkers, Ivan.
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  136. Have you maybe considered your perspective is biased? When the US sent troops to Somalia because warlords were stealing UN aid, local Somalis jumped on the bodies of fallen US soldiers in Mogadishu. Someone convinced them the Americans were the enemy. Have you considered that maybe, just maybe, you're defending horrible people who are harming you and your country? You're either the starving child jumping on American bodies unaware your leader took your food, or you're the leader sowing hate while oppressing your own.
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  137. ​ @Silentheaven89  but that won't be on their terms.
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  138. ​ @Goon556  this is riddiculous - are you saving that IFV for a rainy day? Sending men with improper materiél will lead to more losses and resource consumption. The IFV will be worthless if you save it for last.
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  139. It was his choice. Since around 2015 the conflict was frozen.
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  140. Are you missing the point? Sharing intel isn't a burden. The UK has US built Rivet Joints, will they have to stop providing intel because Trump got his fee fees hurt? Is that it? If a single nut or bolt is Made in USA you'll cry and whine about the labor you're forced to perform for others?
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  141. ​ @vanillagerrilla  That's still abandonment.
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  142. ​ @enriquelaroche5370  You're in St. Petersburg so why do you care about gas in environmentally conscious California?
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  143. And watched to see where they went.
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  144. Is Pepsi okay?
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  145. ​ @OzzyBloke  Russia shot down a civilian airliner full of civilians.
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  146. ​ @ube187  The US built Afghanistan an entire nation. Not the US's fault they let it fall apart in days. Russia isn't even in the process of starting a new Ukraine.
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  147. MH17? No, it was Russia with a Buk launcher that was supposed to be in Kursk but was deployed in Snizhne.
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  148. Please. Dick Cheney was actually willing to do something to help Georgia in 2008, but got shut down immediately.
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  149. Libya should not be on the list. The Arab League requested a no fly zone and the UN tasked NATO to enforce it because Europe has assets already in the Mediterranean. Yes I remember that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was very hawkish on Gaddafi but at one point people have to stop asking for intervention and then get mad when things don't go their way.
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  150. Russell Bentley.
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  151.  @rafomic4210  Patrick Lancaster.
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  152. Iraq: invaded Kuwait, oppressed Kurdish minority Somalia: warlords attacked the UN Serbia: not third world but took peacekeepers hostage to conduct cleansing operations against Bosnians Afghaistan: Taliban refused to extradite Bin Laden in 1998 and 2001, and only offered to surrender him to an Islamic court Did nothing wrong? You sure?
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  153. The HIMARS effectively nullified Russia's multiprong offensive army. How was it not effective? Russia was making incremental gains with relentless fire support, driving out Ukrainians out of the toughest fighting positions with sheer strength. HIMARS arrived and a dozen launchers broke the spinal column of the Russian Army, turning it into a conscript marauding gang with access to penal battalions.
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  154. Maybe release your own investigation into it and we'll watch. Until then, don't make excuses.
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  155. You know youtube has been doing that for about 2 years or something, use less aggressive words.
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  156. Name these villages?
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  157. But Ukraine doesn't use "waves" to overwhelm and exhaust the defenses. They use trench infiltration tactics. The human waves were meant to use meat to soak up bullets and drain the combat power of defenses in Bakhmut for "real" Wagner mercs with actual military training to then do the infiltration tactics. The meat was expected to dig positions and fall with vests loaded with ammo so that all the former Spetsnaz could then replenish their own during the fight.
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  158. Because Europe needed to rebuild from WWII and prepare for Soviet invasion. So the US being an ocean away was a disadvantage that had an upside which was putting a large reserve of equipment outside of the USSR's strike range and in case of invasion of Western Europe the US could ship in reinforcements. If the Soviet Union took over Europe, the US would become isolated. When the Cold War ended, Europe wasn't going to out of a sudden start their own massive arms stockpile. The US has thousands of Abrams it can't export for bureaucratic reasons. The EU has a few hundred Leopards it can't send because they're straight up unsalvageable.
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  159. ​ @Intrepidus_Bellator  "come and take it" brother if you want a fight there's a war already happening
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  160. Right but the Soviet Union was no more. Russia wants to pretend the hatchet is buried so we should be friends and stop arming Ukraine.
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  161. Replying to yourself lmao Remember to switch accounts next time
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  162. They attacked Chinese and Russian ships too.
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  163. However the game justified that by showing the Russians had recovered a crashed spy satellite that allowed them to gain access to US tech.
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  164. Purchased from the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, everyone knows this.
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  165. ​ @LordDucarius  Would boots on the ground be needed? It seems Iranian people could take on their own government if you softened it a little.
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  166. Americanski from Oklahoma Oblast.
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  167. What do you mean?
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  168. Just like the Kherson goalpost was moved, right? "Forever Russia"
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  169. It would work by preventing pinpointing weak spots. Those air gaps would only minimally reduce penetration.
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  170. You misunderstand that attrition isn't just manpower. What happens to the Russian army if they conscript 5 million men, but have no artillery? Ukraine is attriting supply vehicles and artillery tubes, ensuring that no matter how much population Russia has, they won't have an army.
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  171. GMLRS has INS. The sensors that detect acceleration and rotation in three dimensions allow a GPS munition to ignore jamming and guide itself by dead-reckoning.
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  172. Drones can't constantly monitor the space. Flying a drone into enemy territory requires sneaking them through observers, listening posts and radars.
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  173. 3 lines became 5 and now 8.
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  174. No, it wasn't similar. The EU did a report and while it disagreed with some measures overall it was seem as just a promotion of national language. In the EU many countries have regulations on language, even going as far as limiting foreign language music broadcasts in radio to promote domestic music and language.
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  175. A lot of videos feature the same actor with a balaclava which are obviously propaganda. Many of the videos are either police making arrests unrelated to conscriptions, or people being arrested for failing to report after receiving a summons. The same thing will happen in any civilized country if you fail to show up to court after being summoned.
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  176. Remember Kherson? You people said the same thing.
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  177. Yeah but the landmines will bust them.
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  178. ​ @JekaZMD  This advance is going to take the high ground next to Tokmak. Yet again the Ukrainians will squeeze the supply lines. Fortifications? Counter-offensive? How will the Russians do that once they lose the rail hub to artillery shelling?
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  179. Corporations benefit from well educated workers. These conspiracy theories don't even make sense.
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  180. They're not mercenaries. Just like people who fought in the Spanish cvil war are called "volunteers" and those who join the French Foreign Legion are called legionnaires. To be a mercenary you have to fight for profit. You earn more working at a fast food place in the US than in Ukraine.
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  181. Why would Germany bomb one of the NS2 lines if they just simply refused to certify them?
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  182. One of those teens in movies and TV shows played by 25 year olds.
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  183. The Patriot could shoot down Pershing II warheads in the late 90s. They came down at hypersonic speed.
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  184. The Soviet Union actually collapsed after their failure in Afghanistan lol.
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  185. But it doesn't reduce the risk. Just shelling concrete doesn't do anything. That's why assault detachments have to press forward.
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  186. How are defenders holed up in trenches and concrete taking more losses than the guys crossing no man's land?
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  187. ​ @FoogleBoogle  The homeless have every chance to get housed if they wish. Ukraine is getting attacked and they can't pull themselves by the bootstraps, they have to slay the dragon. I respect those who stand and fight more than those who give up on life and wallow on their own misery because it's easier than getting sober and finding a job.
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  188. ​ @firasajoury7813  Did you notice how the OP said he was trained by the Russians AND the West? When it happened it was reported that we had trained the guy. It's only now that became relevant because there are people who can slip into Russia and speak Russian to conduct these attacks. Before we were only concerned with the Western training putting IS on notice about our tactics.
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  189. Meat wave and human wave aren't the same. Human wave is Korean War era stuff. Meat wave are like "waves" in videogames, you clear stage 1 and then stage 2 comes later, and so on and on. You don't play the game to "win", the waves will keep coming, you just play to see how many waves you can last until you lose. If an enemy is feeding "recon teams" knowing that your defensive position will eventually run out of ammo or the soldiers will get fatigued from combat or even lack of sleep, that's a clear intent to wear down the defender.
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  190. We tried people who were "just following orders" after WW2.
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  191. Most people in US prisons actually deserve to be there. Contrary to popular belief most aren't there for smoking a plant but multiple charges. In fact, attempts to reduce prison population has lead to skyrocketing crime. Meanwhile the NKVD would arrest people because grudges lead to neighbors falsely reporting each other. The materiel sent to Ukraine is part of the defense budget so it wouldn't be spent on those issues anyway. Might as well ignore the war and run for office so you can help your community. Instead of complaining online.
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  192. Armored columns will move? Under fire?
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  193. It didn't in Chechnya or Afghanistan.
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  194. There's no "heat seeking" air to ground munitions. There are optically guided munitions that use IR, but not Sidewinder style A-G munitions. Although Sidewinders have been tested on ground targets.
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  195. Both turbojet and turbofan motors are colloquially called "jet engines".
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  196. Yeah and they had to overpay for Shaheds to make up for lack of missiles.
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  197. It's the third year of this clown show, and Russia's "good" supplies can't match NATO surplus plagued with delays and restrictions on usage.
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  198. ​ @BlitzOfTheReich  A lot of Chinese weapons are either Russian exports or domestic variants of Russian equipment. While Russia and China may not be the best of friends, they've shared military tech without the US pushing anything.
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  199. ​ @warriorson7979  Scott Ritter us a convicted nonce.
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  200. ​ @Talpiot_Program  Can you stop? There's a podcast episode by War on tue Rocks interviewing two gentlemen who were actually involved in the process of drawing up the aid packages. You misunderstood the reason why packages are slow. Please inform yourself with the openly available facts instead of cooking up conspiracies in your head.
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  201.  @AndRei-yc3ti  Oryx hasn't shut down. He claimed he would stop October 1st, and has already confirmed that two volunteers will continue his work.
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  202. We've reached the Bargaining stage.
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  203. Cope.
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  204. Armenia only moved away from Russia after they failed to protect them. Russia isn't showing anything but their apathy and incompetence. That's what lead Armenia to seek western help.
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  205. ​ @dannyroe1697  They are there because there's a deconfliction zone. Syria is a brutal free for all with Damascus not even holding control over all their territory. So the deconfliction zone has a US base and a refugee camp.
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  206. Trump approved Biden's actions.
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  207. "Tajik ghost" posting from Texas Oblast
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  208. They only banned Russian-linked parties, the politicians were actually allowed to just form new parties to keep their jobs.
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  209. They have a worse army, worse artillery and less aircraft/pilots than they did last year.
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  210. He literally offered to resign, ffs
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  211. The US didn't sustain tens of thousands of KIA in a single year so these "ummm but have you noticed US/NATO bad too?" posts. The US did fine at the war part. The peace and nation building was what failed.
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  212. Diplomacy. How would you feel if Bucha happened in your hometown?
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  213. It's just one day. Many successes are achieved daily.
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  214. The guy at the job site with the most injuries isn't the main impact in construction. In fact, he'd help more by not constantly getting hurt.
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  215. ​ @Gary-bz1rf  They did not shoot down seven. 10 storm shadows means 5x Su-24s because they carry one on each side per plane. Most likely two Su-24s fired 4.
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  216. Get new material.
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  217. Actually, it is. Russia can't hope for Daddy America to come rescue them with fuel, ammo and food.
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  218. Russia released Azov commanders in exchange for Putin's friend.
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  219. They're attacking, though...
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  220. Reminder: the failed Zaporizhzhia offensive captured more land than Russians have for the past 9 months, with a fraction of the losses.
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  221. ​ @christyvetter18  the millions of homeless get handed tons of aid.
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  222. Germany was also gaining ground in Barbarossa.
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  223. "Time will tell" is bot phrasing jesus christ there's dozens of accounts saying this
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  224. ​ @feedyourmind6713  Russia can't even defend Sevastopol.
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  225. But didn't the courts side with the people thrown out because the stuff was technically only in emergency use authorization? Like the US military experimenting on troops during the Cold War was bad enough, there's limits.
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  226. How would they be unstoppable? They constantly rely on the VDV to save them.
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  227. Russia is a dictatorship, not Ukraine.
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  228. Gazprom is laying off 40% of their St Petersburg office.
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  229. The losses in Afghanistan were the cause for no Warsaw Pact intervention in the Polish Solidarity movement. The cost of Chernobyl also had a major part but there's a direct link between Afghanistan and the "tankie" tactic not being used like in Czechoslovakia and Hungary.
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  230. The conversation was sidetracked and they started talking about the coolest units having boring names. Come on...
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  231. Meh they've been around for longer, after all they are trying to revive an empire, and the European hard right and especially in the former Eastern Bloc are just kind of like this.
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  232. Rusich (a rabid anti-Ukrainian group of murderers and war criminals) analyzed the defenses and said they were not well built. Oligarchs got the contracts to build them, with civilian companies. Not the military.
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  233. Ukraine attacked Kharkiv where the manpower was thin, and Kherson where the bridge damage limited supplies. The assumption that the attacker always takes more casualties assumes that the battlefield was not shaped.
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  234. ​ @thepostmodernvampire  If rules always apply in warfare, how come the US suffered almost as many accidental deaths as KIAs in combat in Iraq 1991? You said the rules always apply, yet how come they didn't?
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  235. The small groups are to avoid drawing out artillery. Large concentration of forces = shelling.
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  236. You don't die if you don't go to the beach.
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  237. ​ @mariobadia4553  The problem is that the Russians not moving is also exposing them. Now it's a game of who blinks first.
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  238.  @yellowtunes2756  Who had the momentum when Germany was getting closer to Moscow? Germany. What happened then?
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  239. Who's "we", Harib Al-Saq?
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  240. ​ @quintrankid8045  People are blaming Mossad. Just read
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  241. ​ @RayofHanz  the manpower in the second line is the manpower that retreated from the first line
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  242. ​​ kittycat3015 It won't. The Russian offensive happened during the winter.
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  243. You don't needto break all the front, the front will automatically adjust to prevent a break from coming around and encircling.
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  244. When Russia mobilized, people were found with recent military papers in their bodies just a week later. One week at home in Russia, next week rotting in the mud in Ukraine. Russia's mobilization was a crime against humanity. Takes time to grind that much meat.
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  245. They can always join the military.
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  246. They've had the ability to use them for over a year
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  247. The S-500 missiles are massive. Made to shoot down ICBMs. They'd leave debris.
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  248. 2022 "we will win in three days" 2024 "save us, Trump"
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  249. Bots cried for peace and for lives to be spared. Now they say that stopping the fight is "stupid". They never wanted peace.
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  250. Most casualties you see attributed to the US in Iraq were caused by infighting between the locals, not US strikes.
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  251. The chosen people isn't a matter of superiority.
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  252. The people going "muh taxes" probably wouldn't understand 4 of those words.
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  253. You asked Ukraine to give up the nukes in exchange for security guarantees? Not your war? Then give Zelensky US nukes to restore the arsenal they gave up.
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  254. ​ @QwertAsdfg-ih1ow  Amazing, you people can never show it.
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  255. Always make backups lol
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  256. ​ @CALIMA2000  Same way they defeated Russia in Kherson. Cut the supply when they have the water on their backs. They'll have to choose between leaving or getting squeezed.
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  257. Cope
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  258. TZD, my fellow moderate
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  259. ​ @edwardweber5655  The people of South Vietnam still saw the atrocities in the Tet Offensive. They weren't fighting for the government. They fought knowing that the North wanted them and their families dead.
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  260. Yet we still see the tungsten rain over Russian tube artillery and Grads.
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  261. ​ @MrSpirtuoso  Russia had MASSIVE issues. Remember the cling wrap teepees and men dumped into derelict bases with no beds or toilets? Remember the protests by Degastanis and Ingush? Remember the rusted out AKs?
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  262. As the Russian saying goes... "and then it got worse".
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  263. So the cruelty is the point. How are you different from the people sent to Gitmo or Abu Ghraib?
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  264. But it isn't.
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  265. ​ @goncaloferreira8543  Also you can see photos of the vehicles WITH and WITHOUT bullet holes/frag in the same body panel meaning the vehicles were ditched, Russians took photos, then remembered to stage a combat video and shot abandoned vehicles. It would have worked if they had not released photos that PROOVED the vehicles were captured with less damage than they later tried to claim.
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  266. The UN has not been able to enter many zones. Mariupol alone could have sustained 20k civilian casualties.
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  267. The damage is light enough that they can be repaired, though.
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  268. No jet engine.
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  269. ​ @RealZekeShoots  the state was governing from Moscow. Just so you know who to blame. Kinda weird you'd bring up the Holodomor and not want to go after the state that caused it.
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  270. Maybe if you can convince the Brazilians. Saab alone can't make them fast enough.
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  271. More money is spent on healthcare than the military.
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  272. Bradleys are loved by Ukrainian crews because they survive the hits, unlike BMP crews. The Patriot had the biggest redemption arc in weaponology by defending itself against an onslaught of hypersonic missiles, cruise missiles and drones.
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  273. They do. It's called the "kitchen truth" in Russia.
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  274. ​ @mw9297  So they've just been invaded and aren't even at war? Damn I didn't know they were chill like that.
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  275.  @uknwarrior7980  Severodonetsk was much worse than Bakhmut.
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  276. The national guard regiment? Or the defunct paramilitary which hasn't existed in years?
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  277. ​ @ashfield1425  Producing weapons = pulling T-55s out of storage?
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  278. They already have.
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  279. Worked really well in Kharkiv. Let's see this rubber band fly beyond the Urals and never come back.
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  280. Blackwater were babysitters for CEOs and infrastructure. They were never combat troops.
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  281.  @YouDreamItILiveIt  There's foreign volunteers in Russian forces too...
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  282. We literally have footage.
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  283. ​ @worldoftancraft  It's how it's spelled. Intelligentsia. ция is transliterated to ts-i-ya. To us the "ee-ya" sound is redundant so we spell "tsia".
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  284. Long term will be more war. Rusdia re-invaded Chechnya despite two treaties. Russia agreed to respect Ukrainian sovereingty in 1994. Russia agreed to a ceasefire in Minsk I and immediately invaded Debaltseve. Long term, Russia will invade again.
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  285. ATACMS were most likely withheld to negotiate with Russia not to import Iranian long range ballistic missiles after buying the Shaheds. Now that Russia is dealing with NK the US might be saying the deal is off by "finding" unaccounted for ATACMS.
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  286. Because Rusich members at some point where contracted by Wagner.
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  287. ​​ @sjonnieplayfull5859  9/11 happened because Bin Laden was offended at the Saudi government having US troops stationed there in Operation Desert Shield, and American support for Israel. When Iraq invaded Kuwait and threatened Saudi Arabia the presence of Americans (not invasion) convinced Bin Laden to do the 1993 WTC attack. 9/11 was pure megalomania.
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  288. Have you tried to run for local government? They're the ones handling the stuff happening in the streets.
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  289. Nope. All signs point to Zaporizhzhia being in the same situation as Kherson last year.
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  290. ​ @Kalendir  Russia "saves" people in a funny way. See Syria, Beslan siege, Moscow theater hostage crisis, etc
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  291. ​ @tdring10681  right but everyone knows the MIC from Eisenhower's speech. The MIC at the time was like 25% of the US economy and now it's around 2%. A tenfold decrease. So we essentially eliminated the MIC Eisenhower warned about.
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  292. Uhhhh actually it proves they are necessary. The most dense SAM environment in the world right now, nobody flies. Want to play in the air? Stealth is the price of admission. Everyone else lobs cruise missiles and glide bombs from afar then tucks tail and runs.
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  293. Why?
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  294. The labs were built by Soviets. As always, Moscow shat the bed and the US had to pay for the cleanup.
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  295. How does the fighting end without guarantees?
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  296. You have no counter arguments, just insults.
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  297. If Russia can use Sukhois against Ukraine, Ukraine can use F-16s. That's not escalation.
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  298. Because that was under Obama?
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  299.  @mikyas392  It's not geoguesser. If I know we're in combat in the same city, and I know where the drone is flying towards, I can pull coordinates from any source available. Satellite comms aren't necessary for quick and dirty jobs like mortaring. I see you. I plop down the firing tables. I don't have to wait for satellite anything.
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  300. S-500 is an anti-ballistic system. Not a S-400 upgrade. Would it cost you to read the brochure?
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  301. I remember how the Kherson offensive was defeated in the same day too.
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  302. Try to "just retreat" when the Ukrainian army is shelling your only road to freedom. I want to see you do it. Big talk from a big man, why don't you show us how simple and easy it is to "just" retreat?
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  303. "Lines are collapsing" does it get tiring to repeat this every day for three years?
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  304. Purchasing power parity means that the difference isn't tenfold.
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  305. What was Ritter convicted of, by the way?
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  306. ​ @ali-haider5788  12 HIMARS and 4-5 M270s literally broke the back of the Russian army by striking supply depots. Russia went from multipronged offensives to a slog of trench warfare due to their massive firepower getting the arteries cut. It changed the game. Therefore a game changer.
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  307. Armenia asked for it and Russia pulled their peacekeepers out. Why should Russia expect a CSTO response after they refused to help a member?
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  308. ​ @igorgrbaslijev8593  Then why did they insist in useless offensives like Vuhledar? They destroyed themselves, not the enemy.
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  309. A lot of that kit is Aliexpress buyer beware. Some of it lasts and some of it starts ripping at the seam as soon as it snags on something. It's where airsoft brands purchase their stuff.
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  310. You had Belgorod invaded and drones slip past your defenses.
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  311. They're gonna burn Moscow again?
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  312. Oh no, MRAPs and M113s. What minefields are they trying to cross?
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  313. Russia presented their evidence in the UN and embarassed themselves.
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  314. What an exaggeration. 200-300 artillery pieces with enough ammo and more counter-battery radar would already give Ukraine localized artillery supremacy.
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  315. Because the US pledged to support Ukrainian security in exchange for their nukes. Don't like it? Give Zelensky the nukes back. Or just respect the deal and keep drip feeding aid.
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  316. Last year they introduced fuel rationing. That's clearly a sign.
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  317. Not true
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  318. War fatigue in Russia was confirmed when they pulled out the T-55s. It's a nation on its last legs. Millions of soldiers without equipment will just be cut down.
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  319. The Russians are just being silly because they do not understand political wrangling and legitimate issues with planning aid packages. Maybe they should lay off the vodka.
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  320. ​ @l0necroc  They didn't say that. The Polish official only said that they had already supplied what they could and the weapons they purchased are for rearmament.
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  321. ​ @gregoryfilin8040  Russia expanded into Transnistria, Georgia, independent Chechnya and Ukraine.
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  322. They're not skirmishers. They're not diversion. They're assaulters that deploy in waves. Some waves have diggers who carry entrenching tools to build hasty fighting position. They're not expected to use them. It's for the next assault. Some waves are "mules" who carry ammunition and supplies to these fighting positions. So what you get is a creeping advance that covers terrain in the open at the cost of troops. So the lower skilled men go first.
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  323. ​ @brankomilicevic6904  it was the border region of EUROPE because beyond Ukraine you had Black Sea pirates and beyond you had the peoples from the Caucasus. Ukraine existed before Russia did. The principality of Muscovy was a region that picked the name of the Rus after the Mongols lost power over it. But "Ukraina" was written on European maps because it was OUR border and going beyond to the East was bad news.
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  324. This case it's red on red. Not even kidding, the Soviets and Chinese accepted their designation as red team and China has a "blue team" opfor which uses US tactics.
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  325. Russia is welcome to leave so negotiations can start.
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  326. True to the commanding officers. Extremely cruel to the crews.
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  327. Portugal started with a king fighting his own mother, a Spanish royal. Almost a thousand years later, Portugal still exists. Nobody remembers the mother.
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  328. Huuhhhh didn't the Patriot arrive already?
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  329. Zelensky was the "pro-Russia" candidate. Petro Poroshenko was the pro-military candidate and he lost.
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  330. Yet Russia removes air defense from near the NATO countries.
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  331. Where did they get a Kh-101 missile?
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  332. Azov becoming official essentially purged the top leadership and forced them to be dilluted with new recruits.
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  333. Men without guns does not an artillery battery make either. Russia loses dozens of artillery tubes per day. Methodical cutting of the tendons and ligaments. Attacking the supply lines by getting within of range of Tokmak - blood choke on the carotid artery. A limp body passing out can be as "fat" as you want. Manpower only strains supplies once cut.
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  334. ​ @richardlafave2556  The Soviet Union was in Afghanistan for less and collapsed as a result.
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  335. The best part of NATO training isn't equally distributed in Ukraine. Some of the most effective units work under Western-style organization while Ukraine still has Soviet-style officers who want to stick to their old ways.
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  336. But they can't. Ukraine has set the stage for reaching Tokmak with artillery. An army can't outlast anything when rail supply is cut.
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  337. ​ @c4me540  Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan still exist.
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  338.  @AndRei-yc3ti  Watch the daily updates by Igor Konashenkov. Russia hypes itself up all the time. Bradleys destroyed months before they arrived. They even posted pictures of a destroyed Abrams.
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  339. Even if that were true, why would two wrongs make a right?
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  340. The stories match the relatives of the fallen and missing. When everyone is saying the same thing, even when they're in Russia and nowhere near Ukrainian officials, they're not making it up.
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  341. Kiev predates Moscow lmao
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  342. The one where he was lying on a pillow instead of a chair?
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  343. It looks like it did in the video.
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  344. They have a busy schedule. They have tons of export customers in line.
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  345. Cope.
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  346. Lmao are you seriously clsiming 28 million left the country?
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  347. The US left Afghanistan. The ANA lost. Also, in 2001 the Taliban actually lost faster than the ANA.
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  348. "Reading information from both sides" so you're consuming media from an authoritarian state doing the Baghdad Bob routine. Yeah...
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  349. Oh no, they land a meter off target. It's okay the 100,000 tungsten balls still hit.
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  350. The help was mostly raising the issue in the UN security council. Where Russia has veto power. The US sending weapons is actually going beyond the promise because it couldn't even be fulfilled.
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  351. ​ @r9bet  You literally came here to argue about conscription, UNPROMPTED. You're the one picking fights.
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  352. Have you seen videos of that area? It's mud. It would take months to dry because there used to be a river on top of that dirt.
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  353. Europe is rearming, dawg.
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  354. Ukraine never claimed to be a military superpower. They take what they can get because they're fighting for the homeland. Russia is the invader. They picked the time and the place. If you try to sucker punch someone and get punched, you're a clown.
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  355. Last time the US withdrew from Iraq, their army almost got overrun by ISIS.
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  356. The US didn't sustain tens of thousands of KIA in a single year so these "ummm but have you noticed US/NATO bad too?" posts. The US did fine at the war part. The peace and nation building was what failed.
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  357. Russia loses like you go bankrupt. First slowly, then out of a sudden.
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  358.  @cornelkittell9926  We already saw the early batches of conscripts get sent within days of mobilization and KIA within the week.
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  359. Considering they had to use ATGMs as replacent for howitzers, and now Ukrainian tanks roll up to enemy trenches with RPG-7s as hand grenades as the Russian AT, I'd say they're in a state of depletion.
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  360. Europeans sent F-16s even though the US has way more spares.
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  361. Do you also laugh at the guys returning?
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  362. ​ @davidsmith-ef3rr  You need explaining because you Mr. "David Smith" are not an English as first language speaker. You'd know about the stones and glass houses. Ever seen Inglorious Basterds? This is you raising your fingers wrong.
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  363. ​ @mitchrodee  To force second-guessing. Hesitating on a real target may let it slip away in the future.
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  364. ​ @Acolis  The consulate annex (not embassy) was hosting Quds force leaders, who are valid targets for engaging in covert warfare with Israel.
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  365. You don't jam the GPS, you jam the comms so that either video feed or controls drop and the munition goes dumb. Trying to fool the GPS of a weapon that can see you on camera makes no sense.
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  366. ​ @mxnbro3110  How is it a joke?
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  367. Funny how a screen name mocking Epstein is being used by someone who's so forceful and coercive. Maybe it's not mockery but admiration...
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  368. The MiG-25 was presumed to be titanium and aluminum. We only realized the MiG-25 wasn't what we thought it would be when we got to confirm it was made of steel.
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  369. ​ @Gunner6391  What does Russia have to offer?
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  370. ​ @mitchyoung93  Exactly. Early in the war. So why is it a factor for POWs right now? The fliers containing instructions for the self-nading came out in mid 2023. Not early 2022.
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  371. ​ @enriquelaroche5370  Russia's red line: "anyone is free to join alliances" Medvedev "Crimea is Ukraine" (Putin)
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  372. The Russian MoD used to report on them daily, don't know if they keep it up. It's up to you to decide if they can be trusted.
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  373. ​ @mattkelly9000  He had a Russian girlfriend. You know Russians use women to entice Western men. When Scott Ritter went to the former Soviet Union to inspect their nuclear stockpile he also met a young Soviet woman who he ended up marrying. It's a pattern.
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  374. Russian Bears routinely fly near America and their ships are passing near Portuguese Islands. So what,
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  375. Not true lol the ATACMS is a fat ballistic missile with limited maneuvering on terminal phase. It goes up, it comes down.
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  376. ​ @TheChiefonator  can you name a convict unit in active service?
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  377. ​ @ubermensch0072 Most Stingers in Afghanistan had either drained batteries or the coolant gas tanks had leaked. The US purposefully makes those components wear out to prevent them from being used without access to maintenance.
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  378. When a game changes, the game has... changed. The war in February 2022 looked nothing like it does today.
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  379. ​ @MonkeyJedi99  it wasn't an ICBM, it was a medium range ballistic missile. Your hysteria is showing.
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  380. Russia can afford to play the long game with what? T-34s? Tsar Tank?
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  381. What obvious reasons? They are the ones with the most motives.
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  382. The Gripen lost the economic calculation in Finland and Switzerland. In Finnish trials it was more expensive to operate than the F-16. And that was the Gripen C, the Gripen E is even more expensive. The Swiss government found the Saab numbers were a lie.
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  383. Why? They've been a regular unit in the National Guard for years, and have nothing in common with paramilitaries.
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  384.  @ОлекЛис  But the first attempt failed and the second attempt involved impact.
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  385. Terrorist?
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  386. Russians rolled into Ukraine with tanks flying the Soviet flag. Guess both sides naturally fell into their roles.
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  387. But they did.
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  388. They're not helping, they're selling. And demanding gold because Rubles are difficult to trade.
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  389. ​ @3bSneaky_  You're mixing money and objects that have been paid for. Struggling families can't pay their mortgage with used Abrams.
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  390. ​ @3bSneaky_  I'm thinking. No, I don't think the bank accepts Abrams as payment.
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  391. ​ @3bSneaky_  The car is your car. The Abrams isn't yours.
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  392. North Korea, that famously wealthy nation.
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  393. Doesn't even make sense. MAGA people will turn on a dime and support war if Trump wants it.
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  394. ​ @atarkus8  they are difficult to repair because of lack of parts
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  395. ​ @PyromaN93  the Soviet ruggedness is a myth. The MiG-27 damaged itself by firing the 30mm cannon.
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  396. The anti-Putin journalists are limited to confirming obituaries or social media posts. If your relatives are too old to use social media, you cannot be counted.
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  397. ​ @zorandimcevich6128  NATO wasn't attacking anyone in Ukraine
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  398. ​ @zorandimcevich6128  Yanukovych was not kicked out, he fled the country
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  399. Purchasing power parity means they actually spend 2/3rds of the US. The US is paying for American and Western European labor when it acquires weapons. Russia is paying for Russian labor which is cheaper.
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  400. It's the high ground. It's not the population that matters. It's the fact that Ka-52s won't be able to hide, the fact that recon drones will have better transmit range, the fact that Ukrainian fires will have the advantage.
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  401. ​ @eldorados_lost_searcher  Yeah the problem with the "random pill" is that during the Cold War the soldiers were tested on without their consent. Experimental stuff is off limits. Especially if it doesn't prevent spread anyway.
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  402. They were on the defensive then. And in WWII they had US aid.
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  403. "Mr Z" was elected in 2019 as a pro-peace candidate, in fact criticized for being too pro-Russia back then. Russia spits in your face and kicks you in the groin if you try to be friends. About time you learned this is they way they have always acted through history.
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  404. Yeah the ones both the US and Iran pointed to.
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  405. But you pronounce English words in the French manner. Because of French loan words. Do you know why "Marine Corps" is pronounced "marine core" instead of "marine corpse"? Because "corps" is French. The word "segue" is pronounced "segway" because of Italian origin.
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  406. There was no NATO doctrine for those minefields. They're 5x wider than standard and in many areas twice as dense. All the military theory devised to go through standard minefields will not work.
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  407. The attack on Engels airbase forced strategic bombers to be relocated to a base further away, reducing the long range strikes.
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  408. Israel has struck tunnels in the past. The problem is that they have to drop bombs in busy city streets and sometimes sealing in the tunnel with a blast causes the soil to shift and nearby buildings collapse.
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  409. Having a Klebold and Harris moment at a music festival isn't resistance.
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  410. ​ @josephkush1032  Not true, even Russian telegrams kept warning about a large force concentration near Bakhmut that was never used in the fight. And when Ukraine sent one of their elite units to help in Bakhmut, they went in to the flanks rather than the city itself.
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  411. ​ @josephkush1032  but they did that like 2 months before the city fell. It wasn't to cover a retreat, it was to prevent encirclement. Russia needs encirclements, Ukraine forces them to advance through the city. Which is always harder.
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  412. They are significantly less professional than last year, and they still need North Korea and Iran to help out as their manufacturing can't outpace expenditure rates.
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  413. Every time Ukraine advanced people shouted counter attack. Never happened.
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  414. Russia mobilized all it's forces dude. In 2021 Shoigu said they had 130-something combat capable BTGs and they invaded with 120. They sent strategic rocket forces guys and sailors to the front. Only internal troops and border forces aren't on the chopping block.
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  415. Just read a report on Russian missiles. They are increasingly containing a mix of old Western and Soviet-era chips. The sanctions seem to have worked.
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  416. ​ @tombrazy12hunnit  Russia famously threw reserves in panic of losing a single inch of land. Russia has to convince the population they're winning, and the way to show it is land on maps. They lose land, they lose the war.
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  417.  @cornelkittell9926  Working well and working right are different things.
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  418.  @attilamarics3374  What they say and what they do is different. The guy who retreated from Kherson was removed from command.
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  419. ​ @dalecrocker3213  There is a point. Demoralization. They did this in Syria. Knowing that they couldn't flush out entrenched resistance they battered cities. Hitting both military but also civilian targets makes the cities unlivable, eventually enough people move out that it breaks the will on those inside the city.
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  420. Reminds me of that tragedy...
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  421. Ukraine invaded annexed territories the day after the referenda. Ukraine doesn't care. Russia didn't bring it up either.
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  422. What success? It has cost them tens of thousands of men to take a town nobody heard of in 6 months.
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  423. Not really how it works.
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  424. Did you type NATO with the cyrillic N (H) as a joke?
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  425. But it was Russia that started fighting...
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  426. ​ @thaneofwhiterun3562  the Red Army once advanced all the way to Moscow. The army that lost then won (bigly) by advancing towards Berlin
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  427. From the Brent0331 livestream? Very educational interview.
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  428. Walker The Texas Ranger from New Mexico Oblast here, I am also tired of sending American money billions. I ask deputies in Vashington AC/DC to stop chewing the snot and working with a point, after all not American public here? Very bad American money over there.
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  429. ​ @mxnbro3110  What hypocrisy? Many people were against the Iraq war, thus not hypocrisy? Which double standards?
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  430. Those metal fencing nets seem to help.
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  431. How fired up would you be knowing that even years after the war, someone with a grudge will wire your car ignition to a bomb? Not worth fighting for the sake of a blogger.
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  432.  @jaredschultz7358  And how are a bunch of people following the war on their couch seeing a blogger as one of their own? They're not soldiers. They're content consumers.
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  433. Budapest Memorandum. The US thought Ukraine's nukes were a security issue, so the US made it their war to begin with by guaranteeing security.
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  434. ​ @attilamarics3374  Reports by whom? Russia claims to have destroyed the Ukrainian air force three times over.
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  435. ​ @mmaximk  Which former officer? Name him.
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  436. ​ @Reasonablyneutral  ATACMS is guided by internal INS and GPS is only used to correct INS drift. The GPS constellation is open to everyone, even Russian pilots use Garmin GPS.
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  437. He didn't cancel elections. The Ukrainian constitution forbids him from forcing elections.
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  438. ​ @londonberry2180  Yeah because Russia proper invaded, and said their soldiers got lost in exercises...
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  439. McNamara didn't do that, Army Ordnance did.
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  440. Russia is fighting the only war it can. What if they conscript Muscovites? Are they going to shoot PPShs and drive T-34s?
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  441. ​ @koskok2965  Moving the goalposts. This was about casualty rates and now you want to talk money.
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  442. ​ @seanmorgan8128  But there's been months of Russia coming to Ukrainians. It's Russia crossing no man's land and stepping on landmines.
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  443. Boy who cried wolf. That's a fair criticism but many were not keen on listening after the Iraq debacle.
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  444. The term cyborg was overheard in Russian comms during the battle for Donetsk airport. As in, the assault was relentless, but the Ukrainians wouldn't budge, so it was like fighting cyborgs. It wasn't a term meant for offense, just incredulity. It was then the Ukrainians who adopted the term cyborg, and the motto "the men didn't give in, the concrete did".
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  445. Well he's been out of the front for a few months.
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  446. That peace agreement required Ukraine to disband its military.
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  447. What American private militia? Stop smoking crack.
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  448. Su-75 Femboy???
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  449. ​ @Silver_Prussian  they are injured by the Russian army using MLRS against cities.
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  450. Russian (or Soviet) forces suffered just as much during winter. They also did that before the age of 70-80km ranged strikes with high precision.
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  451. Budapest Memorandum.
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  452. The Mujahideen didn't all become Taliban and the Taliban is not Al Qaeda. Good lord. Bin Laden was Saudi and so were most of the hijackers.
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  453. Bro when I was a kid soccer hoolingans would wreck towns and cities. They turned the streets into a war zone. It was like George Floyd riots.
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  454.  @MultiTasker888  The gold currency thing is a schizo conspiracy theory. The Arab League asked for intervention to the UN. The UN gave NATO the mission to enforce a NFZ.
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  455. That was Reagan who said it, and he was quoting a proverb. Reagan would have decked Trump.
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  456. ​ @atnfn  Putin traded his friend Medvedchuck for several Azov guys. Seems like Putin doesn't mind setting them free. Or if they're that bad, Putin clearly only cares about his friends.
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  457. ​ @jagx234  Solving shit "here" doesn't come from the DoD budget.
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  458. [Insert Tucker Carlson interview that goes back to the year 863]
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  459. Why would his debt be an issue if he's not in Russia to pay it? His debtors eat the loss.
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  460. Meat wave, not human wave.
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  461. 1000 days of non-stop crying from you people whining that you can't eat the Bradleys.
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  462. ​@mementomori7825 removal from power either way. Doesn't matter if unaliving takes place.
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  463. But it doesn't? Bakhmut was a failed encirclement that had to devolve to trenendously costly city fighting. It depleted the prisoner force used by Wagner. Ukraine isn't using a prisoner force due to excessive losses yet.
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  464. Lmao 80s equipment and Soviet doctrine. Truly the lastest and greatest, really novel stuff.
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  465. Sorry, man. It's just preferable to secure peace permanently. Via force. Keep sending that infantry. You're now using donkeys. It's close. The light at the end of the tunnel.
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  466. If you want Ukraine to lose you are supporting them indirectly.
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  467. ​ @cq4fun  But they are. The artillery army is losing up to 30 tubes a day. What happens when the artillery army has to resort to rifles?
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  468.  @theepashmani6474  The Vatniks keep patting themselves in the back by not understanding an article about trench warfare.
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  469. Russians have been fighting Ukrainians for hundreds of years before Trump was born. Trump isn't God, he's not going to stop a dying empire nor a people fighting for liberation.
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  470. Armenia made a bad gamble by being the aggressor in the 90s and being allied to Russia.
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  471. Israel fights easier opponents.
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  472. Kinzhal is a rocket, this is a cruise missile.
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  473. Because it costs lives to keep said land. If you keep the land you give up men and resources. Stopping the fighting ends those costs, so you give up land. If you want to keep it, keep fighting. I guess they'll run out of donkeys too.
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  474. Is Iran and North Korea not prolonging the war? How come Russia can get weapons instead of stopping when they run out, but not Ukraine?
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  475. Battle hardening is lost when the troops get KIA. Troops have to survive to get experience, and Russians tend to pull the pin on a grenade when things get tough out there.
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  476. Palestine has been a grift since the start. Most of the Middle East doesn't actually care about Palestine.
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  477. Uhhh okay what about all the Israeli kids who saw Hamas jump the borders and attack their countrymen? They'll be 18 and serving in the IDF one day. Why do Palestinians have an in-built excuse to fight but Israelis have to take it on the chin and ask for seconds?
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  478. A guy with a drone can see the guy with binoculars.
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  479. Aluminum isn't a rare earth mineral.
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  480. Are they?
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  481. ​ @CoolClearWaterNM  Not thanks to Russia? Curious.
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  482. They're not "securing a border" they are fighting a war. The US southern border scenario is rough but it is not a war.
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  483.  @mxnbro3110  More than before. Before HIMARS was used against command posts and ammo dumps. Russia moved those away, now Ukraine slams artillery pieces and air defense.
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  484. ​ @JohnMountain  There's statistical formulas, you'd be surprised how few people you'd need for 95% confidence interval. The data pool is more important than the number.
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  485. The ANA was filled with actual Taliban, people just in it for the paycheck, and people with genuine mental disabilities. The money for ammo and rations was pocketed. While the Iraqi army was woefully unprepared they eventually got organized and fought against ISIS's brutal urban warfare tactics. Syrian rebels just couldn't do anything about Russia pummeling cities into dust with air force.
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  486.  @MrCastodian  But the people of Iran were attacking the Iranian government just a moment ago. The people fighting against outdated religious rules do not care for holy wars.
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  487.  @Nostalgiagate6392  Libya is irrelevant. Arab League asked for intervention. UN approved it.
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  488.  @shadowslayer9988  The Iranian government supports groups. The Iranian people? We can support them.
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  489.  @Nostalgiagate6392  And?
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  490. I think they stopped flying the Blackhawks after crashing like two or three of them.
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  491. I mean Iraq spent like a decade openly breaking the 1991 ceasefire conditions.
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  492. "We", mr Al-Saq?
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  493. They had tanks, artillery and a few Su-25s. The Russian army also accused Wagner of requesting so many shells the rest of the Russian army was suffering because of it.
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  494. Wrong. There was no deal. And Bucha cancelled the talks.
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  495. ​ @Tman1776  Right - but "airborne" can also do air assault, like the insertion via helicopter at the start of the war. Sure, a few were downed by MANPADS but their fate was sealed by lack of reinforcements and supply lines.
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  496.  @theprogressivecynic2407  The Harop is an actual seeker-equipped munition. The Shahed is just following GPS coordinates. That's why they used it to hit power switches and transformers. Static targets that can be found on google earth.
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  497. ​ @goncaloferreira8543  it's literal fake news. The Russian opposition was wearing MultiCam uniforms with yellow tape and the bodies posted by Russia were wearing MM14 camo, winter uniform, with no tape.
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  498. ​ @goncaloferreira8543  They stole Russian armored vehicles. Humvees are just Army jeeps. BTRs are useful. A few Humvees and a MaxxPro for a BTR is a worthy trade.
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  499.  @goncaloferreira8543  LMAO you pulled the dozens of KIA out of nowhere. They crossed the border and gave interviews to media while Russia was bragging about killing them. Even Russia messed up by showing photos of them "dead" inside Russia, then claiming that they killed them across the border (no way to recover the bodies for pictures). Considering that any losses they'd suffer are Russian anyway, it's all worth it.
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  500. ​ @qwertyqart  Wrong. Putin said this goes back to the year 882.
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  501. The Block 15s went through MLU. The Block 15 MLUs are roughly equivalent to Block 50/52. It's impressive how little you know-it-alls seem to know about aircraft.
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  502. Ukraine hit a Shahed manufacturing plant with an Aeroprakt light prop plane crammed with explosives. Basically a Cessna.
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  503. Why were those bombs dropped? Almost like you forgot every wrongdoing.
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  504. Yeah instability south of the border was never the Soviet Union's doing or anything.
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  505. Glide bombs into a moving target?
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  506. Does the crew plan to sleep with the fishes afterwards? Are all those men on board cognizant that they have no escape if they pull that trigger?
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  507. Are Indian forces an extension of the Russian military industrial complex?
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  508. ​ @championknife  The US didn't block RT, it was just cable/satellite companies which were going to drop RT from their service due to lack of views and when the war started they just stopped the feed ahead of concract cessation.
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  509. That's a made up scenario you created in your head. You were told certain things like the Yellowcake Uranium report were fake but you ignored it and let some nutter change the french fries to freedom fries in DC cafeterias.
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  510. The money paid for safety was returned tenfold in prosperity. Imagine that after WW2 the Americans didn't become the massive industry selling to the entire world to rebuild after the war.
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  511. Russian diplomacy is attacking when the ink in the treaty dries.
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  512. ​ @Swede1523  terrorist organizations never lie?
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  513. Yeah and I'm in one of those 53 countries. We maybe sent a few APCs, helmets, vests and whatnot because we're broke. The majority of European nations have signed up to support Ukraine but don't have an army equipped enough to spare gear. The majority of aid comes from major countries like the US, Germany, France, UK, and other determined allies like Poland and the Baltics/Scandinavia. Out of those 53 countries there's maybe 12 doing the heavy lifting and the rest are sending thoughts and prayers. What's hilarious is that the Soviet stockpile was supposed to last until Russia took Lisbon, but Russia burned through it getting within walking distance of Donetsk. That stuff was meant to take on the entire European forces and the American reinforcements arriving through the Atlantic.
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  514. The hilarious "it's just 3%" partial mobilization posts where influencers were taking just a few bottles out of their piles of cosmetics or just a few fries out of the package.
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  515. Russia is allied with Iran which is allied with Hezbollah. And Iran also backs the Houthi attacks on the Red Sea. The conflict isn't localized.
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  516. Yeah and they thought they were the guys parachuting in at the start.
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  517. It's not terror tactics. No different from a Hellfire. In fact, less civilian casualties than those. America will lob the Flying Ginsu at people it wants dead. Slapchop them into oblivion.
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  518. The missiles are guided by INS and only connect to GPS to correct drift error. Russian weapons also use the GPS system and they have Garmin GPS on their military aircraft.
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  519. The US doesn't fight to take that many casualties. The US first bribes the refs and the judges, clocks your coach in the chin, kicks your cutman in the nuts, ties your shoelaces together, pulls your shorts, oblique kicks your knee and then elbows your nose. Then the bell rings and the boxing match starts.
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  520. As opposed to the Ottoman empite taking over Byzantium?
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  521. ​ @subjectc7505  Who said anything about Moscow? Already hedging your bets?
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  522.  @subjectc7505  So basically if Russia takes the L and leaves Ukraine you still claim victory because Moscow wasn't taken?
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  523.  @subjectc7505  Moscow is worthless, it's full of Muscovites. Nobody wants it.
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  524. Abrams tank. No "h".
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  525. McCarthy was right.
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  526. They're using the combat capable fraction of the military. You think sending nurses, parade units, border guards, supply clerks, drivers, cooks, etc to the front line is going to fix anything?
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  527. ​ @davidparsons2391  the wife murdered her husband and made it look like an accident
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  528.  @davidparsons2391  Irrelevant. It wasn't an accident but a chance to get away with murder.
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  529.  @davidparsons2391  She was also a Democratic Party donor so it's essentially impossible she listened to Trump's advice. She also tried to claim she didn't know the dosage. Perfectly good medicine can kill if the dosage is wrong so it's 100% her fault.
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  530.  @davidparsons2391  "I don't care" says person invested in the narrative
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  531. The lines of defense are there to protect hubs like Tokmak and Melitopol. Building newer defenses in less time way behind where they should be does nothing. It's like hiding from an anaconda inside a cage that leaves your head on the outside. The neck is precisely what's gonns get choked out.
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  532.  @martinsmith9054  They don't have to. If the rail supplies get shelled, Russians run out of supplies.
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  533.  @martinsmith9054  Things you've probably said after the Kherson retreat.
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  534.  @martinsmith9054  It's not about men. A few "potholes" on Antonovsky bridge was enough for Russia to give the city of Kherson, and everything to the north. Put 300 million men in the front. With a rail supply cut, they starve. Dig trenches for 100 miles. Without supplies the trenches are just filled in and rolled over. Russians did not break when Kherson was attacked. They broke when supply lines were reduced to ferries.
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  535.  @martinsmith9054  Seems ATACMS are in order, at one point or the other the Kerch bridge will be dropped again.
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  536. ​ @MrMrmoore2013  What do you mean hopefully? Don't sign a contract, it's your choice.
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  537. There will be no end to the conflict without security guarantees. Russia will break the treaty before the ink dries. It happened in Minsk I. Russia invaded Debaltseve right after signging a ceasefire.
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  538. The same Victoria Nuland who wanted to keep Yanukovich in power as it was US State Dept strategy to keep Ukraine stable and appease Russia?
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  539. Because they'd have to send those assets back into Ukraine. Remember the pictures of burned out armored convoys in Ukrainian towns and cities? Starting an invasion from scratch is hard.
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  540. Fundraising has been happening since day one. Meanwhile Fighterbomber and other Russian telegram accounts had to crowdfund Garmin GPS and Baofeng radios for the Russian pilots.
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  541. ​ @antonychipman3088  So Gibraltar is apartheid? Britain and Spain claim it.
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  542. But several units sent by Russia to stop the incursion were already attrited or surrendered.
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  543. They bet on the defenses precisely because Russia can't do that. They already have they reinforcements reacting to contact across the entire front. This is the proverbial chickens coming home to roost.
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  544. The USSR should have surrendered to the Nazis, then. They used American trucks, American ammo, American gunpower to load their domestic production ammo, American aviation fuel to keep their aircraft running, American canned food to prevent starvation. Maybe Moscow will learn what its like to be on the other side of lend lease. It's decades overdue compared to Ukraine.
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  545.  @iplaygames8090  The Ukrainians have a huge campaign to tell Russian soldiers to set up their surrender. If you wait until the moment a drone is diving on you, yeah that's too late. Should have scheduled a surrender yesterday with the Ukrainians. You can't surrender to mortar rounds or artillery either. It's understood you should surrender before it falls on your position.
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  546. They attacked Israel twice in 2016.
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  547. It's the VDV that's doing what Wagner couldn't.
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  548.  @uknwarrior7980  Nothing to laugh about. During Severodonetsk the videos from Zelensky showed him visibly shaken and he was much more panicked in his requests for aid. In Bakhmut, he even visited the town.
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  549. ​ @Jack-4v  NOT. TRUE. There were talks between envoys but Putin and Zelensky never talked directly which meant no deal existed.
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  550. ​ @Jack-4v  the US funded the rebuilding of Europe... and US manufacturing was untouched during WW2. That meant MASSIVE profits. The American prosperity was built off the wreckage of Europe.
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  551. Hitler was fighting against American aid. Soviet airplanes drank American aviation fuel, Soviet soldiers were driven to the front in American trucks, the Soviet oil industry was built by Americans (where the Koch family got their money), Soviet ammo burned American gunpowder and even Soviet rifles fired American ammo shipped to the USSR. And Soviet logistics trains were pulled by American locomotives. And Soviets were saved from starvation thanks to American canned food. That's what Hitler was fighting against.
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  552. Cope.
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  553. Doubt it.
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  554. Russia has been trying to subjugate Ukraine for hundreds of years. This predates modern politics.
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  555. So you missed the part where Russian soil had already been attacked after the allies authrized it to fight off the Kharkiv offensive?
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  556. But you need to cede territory to fight defensively. Refusing to cede just means you give up defensive advantage by being baited into fighting offensively. Ukrainian tactics are now small offensives that quickly switch to defense.
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  557. Thanks for the input, usa3526.
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  558. They only have parade T-34s. They even had to purchase them from abroad, because domestic T-34s are inoperable.
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  559.  @tradingwizard562  Yes.
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  560. Everything is CIA? Meds. Take them. The "losses" are openly being mocked by pro-Russian telegram channels. The nothingburger proved how porous the 10 billion ruble defenses were. It proved how Russia is not secure with the majority of its forces committed to Ukraine. Russian outlets cannot publish things that damage the credibility of the state until a good narrative is spun. They also delayed the admission that the Moskva was damaged.
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  561. You're now aware that the US securing air supremacy is the exception rather than the rule. If both sides have their air assets denied, they can operate without superiority.
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  562. Anywhere - geographic location Any place - mountains, flat desert, urban It's somewhat redundant but it basically means we'll do the job in any country, and we'll deal with any situation
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  563. As Preston said, if it doesn't matter why change?
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  564. So more Ukrainians will have to go down fighting for Russia to lose the upper hand. You saw the guys in crutches, right?
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  565. "Russian prisoners that come back often claim the same tortures occur to them" - yeah like that released Russian POW who did an interview with Russian TV and said he was starved. Dude was fat. The Ukrainian POWs traded for his batch came back looking like skeletons. They had actually been starved. The dude gorged down on Ukrainian prison food and went on TV flapping his chubby cheeks saying he had been mistreated.
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  566. It's not one of their reasons. They'd keep attacking anyway.
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  567. Angela Merkel sold out the Ukrainians for cheap Russian gas. And Minsk treaties were broken by Russian in the Battle for Debaltsve and the Second Battle for Donetsk Airport.
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  568. Because they're enemies of everyone. They also attacked the UK, France, etc in the past.
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  569. They rewarded families with bags of Cheetos, now they will receive dirt?
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  570. ​ @redaerf2b414  It's not about the pool but ratios. Having a bigger population doesn't save you because that just means the demographics collapse is even worse.
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  571.  @redaerf2b414  That doesn't make any sense. Do you actually read comments or just read a script? Russia has demographic issues before the war already, the point is that you can't say "we have more people". Yes, but that also means more senior citizens that your young workers can't support. That's demographic collapse. China has 1.4 billion according to their data, but they're going to have a demographic problem too. It doesn't matter how many people you have.
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  572.  @redaerf2b414  We're talking about Russia and Ukraine. It's an issue because that's the conversation topic. Are you trying to change the topic? You want to talk about Europe? I don't think many European countries are at war right now.
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  573. He's embarassed himself with so many wrong predictions, he must have a humiliation fetish. Or the Kremlin checks keep clearing.
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  574. So you could care less? So you care at least a little?
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  575. There's video of guys using AKs and shotguns against drones and the AKs seem to hit more. Without specialty ammo, the shot has very low range.
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  576. Literally on screen.
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  577. It's not complicated at all. Either way, Russia does not want to give peace a chance. They don't want to save lives, they want to take more. If you want peace, you must give up something. If you want to fight for that thing, suit yourself.
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  578. The weapons were paid for 30 years ago and it costs more to dispose of them.
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  579. The Treaty of Versailles crap is pop history designed to make the rise of the NASDAP digestible. Versailles was actually extremely forgiving compared to what Germany wanted to impose had it won. Here's the give and take - we gave to Russia and they bit the hand that fed them. Literally, the US sent food aid to Russia in the 1990s. Now it's time to take, with interest.
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  580. That's just the UK and Germany. Also why use facebook anyway?
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  581. No, they tried to use the afterburner fuel injectors to flood the engine. On a second pass it looks like they crashed.
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  582. ​ @kenrik2105  In Iraq the US famously gave the trench line one last chance to surrender, they didn't, so the Americans brought armored bulldozers and buried the Iraqis alive. Either way if you actually read the manuals/doctrines most of it was written to fight the Soviet Union. Not the third world. Obviously that most troops wouldn't have done it for real but if you get training from the NATO manuals you are Blue Team and you can guess what Red Team stands for.
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  583. Forgive me for this but... ÙwÚ notices bulge
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  584.  @NickTQ101  But that's not how protecting the strategic depth works.
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  585. By the way if you ever heard of rumors of Chechens in Afghanistan that's because the FSB cynically took advantage of 9/11 to whitewash the Chechen wars. Even though Uzbek and Tajik volunteers were indeed found in Afghanistan the Russian state intelligence fed BS to the West to pin it on Chechens.
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  586. Rubber dinghy rapids, bro.
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  587. But it was Russia that lost their meatshield (Wagner). Last remnants of weapons? Not a single western fighter has been sent. Only a few dozen Leos have been sent and a few dozen Abrams will be sent.
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  588. ​ @ImperiumLibertas  You can expect to send stuff made to [REDACTED] the Soviet Army and it will [REDACTED] the Russian army. Does money work? Ehhhhhh. Does anti-Soviet stuff work on Russians? It very much does.
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  589. ​ @sidritqafzezi3958  Elon is with Putin.
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  590. That's a very specific pleading. The missile wreckage is in the hands of Ukrainian authorities. An independent investigation needs the independent investigators to trust Ukraine that the missile wreckage wasn't replaced by Russian ones. Right there you have satisfied your need to keep doubt, and thus exonerate Russia.
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  591. ​ @Vahagraphy  Pre-1930 history? So we give the African colonies back to European powers?
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  592. ​ @nf1  One of Ukraine's cards are the attacks on oil/gas. Look at Russia's economy chart, fossil fuel is their bread and butter. Russia can try to keep the land but it's in Ukraine's interest to keep driving stakes into Russia's economy. Life isn't fair but when life gives you lemons you make lemonade.
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  593. ​​ @CrowDawg11  Stingers have a 8km range while the Vikhr missile has a 10-12km range. Russia purposefully kept helicopters below Buk radar horizon but far away from Stingers. A F-16 can easily smoke Ka-52s from long range, without getting near the frontline.
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  594.  @CrowDawg11  It will stay with the troops, which means that when the defensive lines are fixed the troops will have to walk into the line of fire. The Stinger, like most MANPADS, is a "get off me" weapon. You get a revenge shot on the aircraft that's strafing your friendlies. It's not an offensive tool. Russians don't do a lot of gun runs, they pitch up the aircraft and launch rockets into the air, to let them fall like small scale MLRS. That keeps them safe from MANPADS. The Ka-52 doesn't get within Stinger range.
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  595. ​​ @yellowtunes2756  How is it evil to seize a strategic asset? Russians don't seem angry enough to do anything about it. Moaning on social media is not boots on the ground.
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  596. ​ @woodrowcall3158  it's a pro-Russian talking point
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  597. To drive the invader out of their land, and destroy enough of their forces so that they can't rearm and come back a decade later.
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  598. Ukraine had nukes and gave them up in exchange for security. It was the threat of invasion that made them say that.
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  599. ​ @Armed-Forever  That's not true. Ukraine gave up their nukes in the 90s in exchange for security assurances. When Russia amassed at the border Ukraine saw how the deal was useless and they needed the nukes after all.
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  600.  @qudhnter92  Doesn't matter. If you stop paying the fees in a storage room locker, the stuff inside becomes property of the business. Stop maxing excuses, Ukraine had them in their possession and made a good trade - give up nukes for security. Turns out, they didn't have security. So obviously they wanted the means to deter invasion.
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  601. ​ @megalamanooblol  Saddam had the Russian GBAD minus S-300s. Gulf War 1 was the wake up call for Russia and China, they realized the US could dismantle air defenses.
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  602. ​ @jsimmons9969  Seems to me you have the stones to take the shot. Why aren't Russian pilots like you?
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  603. The conflict is being "ignored" because NK is recognized as Azerbaijan. We can't do much about a country taking control of their own land. However, the US has been doing joint training with Armenia proper.
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  604. Bolton is absolutely based on Russia. Go back and watch the RT segment where Bolton goes live and goes off dropping truth nukes and the anchor has zero answer to Bolton. All timer bit.
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  605. ​ @LawIV  The North Vietnamese later admitted they were getting beat. They were saved by US public opinion.
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  606. Gonna have to ask you how you believe a missile fired from 0 ft altitude can reach 65,000 ft but a missile fired from 40-50,000 ft can't.
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  607.  @afcgeo882  I know they're different missiles. Don't use name-calling or else your comment gets shadowbanned. The point is that a missile fired from 40,000ft at high subsonic speeds will have a MASSIVE energy advantage over a telephone pole SAM that starts from 0 height and 0 speed. The Chinese balloon shot down in 2023 was flying at roughly 60-65,000ft and was shot down by an AIM-9X fired from 58,000ft. The AIM-9X is tiny compared to a SAM, and smaller than a R-77 or R-27 missile.
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  608. ​ @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  >North Korea >Rolling Thunder Something here isn't right...
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  609.  @187Rajah  Fighting forces lose combat effectiveness after losing 20% of their force. With 500.000 KIA, for the Ukrainian army to stay in the fight they'd need to have 25 million soldiers.
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  610. ​ @stefanpavlov6370  so what's the point of having Putin in charge if there's internal issues? I thought the point was not having the usual problems with democracy.
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  611. The more money spent on security the less money spent on American goods and services. Is Russia gonna replace Europe as trade partner?
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  612. Most of Russia has no military importance. Is Putin gonna let Ukraine take all the empty land and let his cities and military bases get cut off from each other?
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  613. Russia used the full army already.
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  614.  @jackowen2789  They have legally annexed Ukraine. That means that mobilized men are still inside Russia, from the Russian law standpoint.
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  615. The point isn't paying. It's discouraging consumption. If India can't profit off laundering Russian resources they'll stop trading.
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  616. It's the 20th time they threatened nukes/changed doctrine/put nuclear forces on high alert...
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  617. ​ @don2deliver  he also went around filming already autopsied corpses propped up to stage fake battle zones in Ukraine back in 2022. Dude "creates" the news, he's not a journalist.
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  618. So everything passes with 100% of the votes, right?
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  619. The detonation of ammo usually confirms for sure they're real.
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  620. The Second Battle of Fallujah took 6 weeks and roughly 700 casualties. The city also has three times the population of pre-war Bakhmut. Bakhmut was not fortified for 8 years, it was a speedbump to delay the Russians and fortify Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.
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  621. The fallacy is that the neighboring city forced that town to be located there. The US forced this situation by ensuring Russia kept their nukes while Ukraine had to give up theirs. Ukrainians cannot physically remove their landmass and take it somewhere not close to Russia, so they have an existencial threat next door and the US promised them to back them. The US forced that town to stand in the flood plain. The US knew the flood came after Georgia, Moldova, etc before.
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  622. But they don't. Iran gave them intelligence too. They are making up excuses.
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  623. Russia has one of the lowest church attendance rates and male sexual assault is incredibly common in the Russian military (Dedvoschina). They also have one of the highest HIV rates and abortion rates in Europe.
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  624. Weird how you people are all about "muh losses" in an advance into lightly defended territory but Russia bangs the head against the wall for months and I don't hear a peep.
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  625. In Chechnya they literally paid the Kadyrov clan to switch sides. Ramzan Kadyrov probably still has VHS or Hi8 tapes of him doing awful things to Russuan conscripts back in the day. Russia couldn't win so they paid off rebels to betray the other guys.
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  626. ISIS was mostly in Syria and Iraq. Not Libya.
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  627. Pretty sure blinding lasers are covered in a convention. You can use lasers to designate but not as anti-personnel.
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  628. Iraq had WMDs and Assad did use chemical weapons.
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  629.  @wedgeantilles8575  Proving. Not "proofing". Looking at what facts? Claim victory, enemy has massive losses, then they miraculously win.
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  630. They never cared about that. That's just justification for the people - make them fear external threat to consolidate power.
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  631. Attention divided with the fall of Libya, Syrian civil war and the rise of ISIS.
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  632. The orders were not legitimate.
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  633. The Houthis are being spared because the Democrats need a demographic to vote.
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  634. Projection.
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  635. The satellite pictures of Russian artillery are available for everyone to see, they fire more but the majority hits empty fields.
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  636. They have a lot of sponsorship from Iran, North Korea, China, etc.
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  637. ​ @Finesser-94  The Russian military is an exercise in graft and corruption, which is why Shoigu and Gerasimov stayed on top for so long. Speaking for the military would have them cheer for the 500th HIMARS loss.
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  638. He outright said he was in an interview.
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  639. Air supremacy only means the enemy air force has checked out of the war. If you fly over 20k ft you have God's Eye view over everything on the ground. You can drop laser guided munitions with impunity. What's the point of having MANPADS if the aircraft over 20k ft in the air can just bring a country back to the stone age by delivering bombs to factories and power plants?
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  640. Ground blocks radio signals. You'd need an aerial drone to retransmit controls and video feed.
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  641. ​ @EEDIR-DK  "Hybrid" is difficult to pin down, but assymetric isn't a huge part. For example, using civilians in Crimea as human shields to prevent a shootout with the Ukrainian military may by assymetric, but the real hybrid part is how the troops carried no identification insignia and Moscow insisted they were locals. Then government buildings were seized and Crimean representatives asked for Russia to intervine after the job was already done. Hybrid is using PMCs, and when asked about it saying "what do you mean? PMCs are illegal in our country". Hybrid is attacking, waiting for the counter, and because nobody is paying attention claim you were attacked first. It's starting offensives in the same week ISIL took Mosul. It's coming out with 6 different conspiracy theories that blame MH17 on Ukraine or the West. Espionage, deception, etc always happened. But we later got to see what happened when we fell for it. Hybrid warfare is having us still disagreeing about events that took place 8 years ago.
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  642. There's a reason the lines are where they are. The lines further back will give Ukraine the ability to strike the rear. The lines were built to protect the strategic depth. Once you give the enemy ability to strike your strategic depth it doesn't matter.
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  643. ​ @andreahighsides7756  the West?
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  644. Why?
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  645. Not really. They only enough to backfill losses.
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  646.  B1 BATTLEDROID  That's great. Losing metal in exchange for gaining their territory back is good. Russia is losing meat. Very tragic.
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  647.  B1 BATTLEDROID  Yeah, I do. Russia loses hundreds of tanks battering their skull against a concrete wall. Ukraine loses a few tanks recovering huge amounts of land.
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  648. ​ @Пень1Бук1  Patrick took part in a false flag where an autopsied corpse was placed in a burned vehicle. Lancaster is a war criminal at this point for disecrating a corpse, most likely of a civilian.
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  649. ​ @digitalronin7787  which atrocities?
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  650. There were WMDs but the information was suppressed because they weren't domestic WMDs, but the Iran-Iraq war chemical weapons that would be traced back to the US/France/Germany.
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  651. They had everything to gain. Their gas business was toast, Europe wanted to ditch them. They essentially jeopardized nothing.
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  652. The problem is that "Buratino" could cause confusion.
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  653. The hell does that even mean?
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  654. It makes perfect sense. The defensive stance burned trough Russian offensive potential. Now, do you fight through the densest concentration of enemy forces? Or do you attack the weak spots? When the opponent raises his guard to protect the head, you strike the body.
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  655. Advance? With what? The photos and videos of Russian advances show massacres.
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  656. ​ @aov6563  There's a Russian film reviewer who posted his Red Dawn 1984 review and he sarcastically called the American rebels "elves". Orcs vs elves is based on fantasy settings.
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  657. Evaluating 40 year old hardware? Come on...
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  658. I mean after 3 years of war Russia is in no shape to fight the US. Iraq probably had a better chance.
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  659. Ukraine fought in the desert?
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  660. The military industrial complex was roughly 25% of the American GDP at the time of Eisenhower's farewell address. It is now roughly 2%. His warning was received. You can stop concern trolling now.
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  661.  @youtubebane7036  A coup is not a war or war declaration. There was also no coup. The government showed up to work and had a vote. The Odessa deaths were linked to a full blown street fight where Russians fired an AK at a crowd and threw molotov cocktails into a crowd from the top of the building that caught fire. The people of Donbas were killed by Russia. The forced conscription nearly depleted the region of men.
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  662.  @youtubebane7036  Doesn't matter. A vote isn't a coup. Many European countries have voted to dissolve governments over the decades. Yanukovych betrayed the security services and was going to get a peace deal while letting the crooked cops and his Berkut boys take the fall for murder and aggravated assault. Yanukovych's life was not in danger, the police (pro-Russians) simply saw that they would go to prison and decided to let everyone know they wouldn't protect Yanukovych. Yanukovych wanted to live the mafioso life but forgot a basic rule of mafia life - you never cross the people you depend on for protection. No, Odessa was started by Russians shooting firearms at Ukrainians (under the protection of pro-Russia police chiefs) and culminated with pro-Russian rioters throwing molotov cocktails from the roof of the trade union house into the pro-Ukraine rioters in the street. The fire resulted from the clashes and the deaths from the police refusing to stop the fighting and ignoring the emergency calls. The Minsk II accords were broken by the DPR the day after they were signed. Russia never intended to honor Minsk. NATO didn't expand East. Eastern countries afraid of Russian invasion to "protect Russian speakers" such as in Moldova in the 90s asked to join a security alliance that protects them from Russian aggression. Mexico and Canada aren't afraid of the US. In fact Mexico has a relatively weak military because they are protected by the US.
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  663. Combat first aid needs to be more widespread but Russia lost artillery superiority in the areas where Ukraine is fighting. Major Gen. Popov was relieved of command for complaining about the loss of artillery advantage.
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  664. It's an American cause because America didn't want Ukraine's nukes to become a problem.
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  665. Did they ever intend to respect it? They had their enrichment facility damaged by the Stuxnet computer virus, so they had a few years where they couldn't progress.
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  666.  @chandelier6811  It's easy to be humble when you're winning. It's easy to comply with treaties when your enemies busted your enrichment facilities. Just saying.
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  667. If you value peace over war goals, you do that. Turns out Putin is the warmonger.
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  668. What he's saying is that Russians are normal people who Ukraine would have no quarrel with. But because Russian leadership wants an empire that spans its entire sphere of influence, Ukrainians and Russians are forced to fight for hundreds of years.
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  669. Go through Russian mandates. QR code to ride the bus.
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  670. It absolutely is your problem, you told them to give up their nukes!
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  671. Russia started by inserting themselves into a 360 degree ambush, right in the heart of a country that hates them. Then they readjusted by throwing men at defensive positions. If Ukraine had more casualties, Russia would have won handily.
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  672. It's not a democratic vote until refugees return and Russian soldiers leave. A vote cannot happen with a missing population and Russian soldiers in the streets.
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  673.  @marshalljulie3676  The generals get intel from US satellites. Valery and friends aren't being contacted by the CIA. They see Russians on the drone footage, they start laying fires. The war is being fought with a huge front and tons of small DJI drones. The US can't be directing orders at every soldier.
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  674.  @cobsterdalobster3022  Nobody said that, you're arguing against a strawman.
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  675.  @KasperYakolev-j1h  Yes. But the utility of phones is just too important. Many units use signal and whatsapp to coordinate.
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  676. That was an old video. The train car in the T-55 video had the manufacturing date of 2022. So it was new.
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  677. LMAO slow and methodical as they clearly rush for objectives. Russia fights like an addict gambles, we remember the mad rush for Kiyv where riot cops arrived before the troops did and met Ukrainian National Guard. They had batons and riot shields, and the Ukrainians had actual weapons of war. We remember Bakhmut, Vuhledar and Avdiivka where the name of the game was pushing forward at any cost.
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  678. ​ @OleDiaBole  Russia bulldozed a Wagner cemetery. That's how far they're willing to go. You think that if you fall in Ukrainian soil, they'll be in a hurry to bring you to Russia proper? The longer you remain "AWOL" the longer they can delay benefits to your family.
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  679. ​ @looinrims  No market stability until Russia becomes docile. They will never be trusted as a gas supplier so Europe will still need to use alternate sources.
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  680. ​ @mbp1652  "sheet dipped" it's sheep dipped, tell your supervisor to not redeem the English classes.
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  681. No, they aren't.
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  682. The main issue is temperature and weight. A bunker buster has an extremely heavy casing which hinders rocket performance. High speed missiles use thermal conductivity and ablation to deal with heat, not hardness.
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  683. Schizoid paranoia. Russia has troops on Alaska's doorstep too.
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  684.  @gabbisss  They didn't retreat immediately. They tried to hold onto every town to stabilize the line. We have both the visual confirmation of reinforcements, the videos taken from the Russian side of battles for towns, and the videos of cheering Russians speeding in the back of trucks after surviving a battle. There was a ton of fighting.
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  685. Now imagine you told your friend to bet his life savings on a meme coin and you promised to back him if he lost. Ukraine was told they'd be secure if they gave up their nukes. You took your friend's rent money by pressuring him.
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  686. They don't. They got a few weeks of training, if that, and got clipped before even meeting an Ukrainian. They never got to know anyone on the opposite side.
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  687. It's not very important because ATACMS will be replaced by PrSM.
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  688. ​ @elestromusicgamesfun1101  Russia already gave up areas around its borders. Nevertheless, a negotiation isn't a must. Ukrainians can keep destroying the Russian army inside their own borders, if they don't want to leave they can stay there and get shelled/starved.
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  689. This is 300 year old beef Russia has against Ukraine. The US didn't even exist.
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  690. He didn't say the disinfectant thing.
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  691. ​ @jackbradley3388  But 90% of the comments are literally "I am John Smithovski from Texas Oblast, homeless, the veterans, border, Ukraine should negotiate, should have respected Minsk agreements, stop the war". It's literally a script. Do us a favor, pretend to support Ukraine and start replying to people who want to end the aid. See how many respond. And those who do reply, see how many actually form coherent thoughts instead of just repeating the same thing.
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  692. They're also supplying Russia.
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  693. Ukrainians seem to have filmed their own air defense with FPV drones and photoshopped a Lancet UI to troll Russian telegram pages. Shaheds are GPS guided, they cannot receive input from spotter drones.
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  694. South Vietnam lost against North Vietnam. Congratulations to North which fought their own brothers to defeat them in the name of communism, now they have a stock market and McDonald's. The US was out of the war when North Vietnam broke the Paris Accords.
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  695. That peace treaty required the Ukrainian army to be disbanded. The robber agrees to leave if you remove the locks on your door.
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  696. Wrong. Armenia cried for Russia to help but was ignored. They're cozy with the west because Russia failed them.
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  697. PMCs are not allowed to use heavy artillery or air support.
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  698. 200 HIMARS isn't necessary, that's a lot of launchers that would have no rocket packs to fire.
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  699. Reports of fearless Ukrainian soldiers are probably due to ceramic armor plates. There's a video of Russian troops with a captured Ukrainian plate, shooting it with steel core rifle ammo and being surprised that it worked.
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  700. What position of strength?
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  701. ​ @woodrowcall3158  That's on Russia. We can't exactly make it a better place to live.
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  702. ​ @ashfield1425  Refugees would still exist because people would flee occupied areas and Ukraine would be impoverished.
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  703.  @woodrowcall3158  There would be refugees. People fled the zones ruled by Russians.
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  704. The trans pride flag AHAHAHAH who do you think you're fooling Ivan?
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  705. LaRouche schizo theories about coups. Yawn.
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  706.  @igorgrbaslijev8593  The 70000 casualties are a claim which the source of which was a Shoigu statement to TASS. Use a better source, please.
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  707.  @igorgrbaslijev8593  Did they?
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  708. Hitler was fighting against the Ukrainians too. The Soviet Union was bigger than just Russia.
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  709. ​ @Silver_Prussian  Out in front would stall the jet. He came from behind, dumped the fuel, overtook the drone from above.
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  710. Hello Mike, weird name for a Russian. But many neo-nazi hooligans in Ukraine were former Russian citizens who fled the hard right purge in the early 2010s when Putin co-opted the ultranationalists and arrested the leaders. Even that was Russia's fault.
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  711. During the 2000s there were releases of a free game called Kuma War which featured straight from the headlines recreations of battles going down in Iraq. Just saying it's not an original thing.
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  712. The problem is that between the words of Pompeo and extremist Islamists I don't know who to trust the least. They also claim to not be helping Russia as Ukrainians capture the wreckages of Shaheed drones.
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  713. Cope lmao
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  714. Yeah, the circunstances have changed. Russians are now using donkeys. They're on the ropes.
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  715. Because Russian followers would have noticed the Ukrainians were behind it.
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  716. ​ @yaser62412  Saudi Arabia is a major supporter of Wahhabism.
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  717. No, they didn't. They signed a peace treaty and invaded South Vietnam 3 years after the US left.
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  718. How is it common sense to hand everything on a silver platter? Hope we don't share a foxhole when eventually we all get forced to fight WWIII over this crap. You'll honestly prefer to run towards the Chinese lines.
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  719. 2 year old bot account
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  720. Doesn't help against HEAT, it just hides weak spots. That's why they use metal plate rather than chain link fencing.
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  721.  @МихаилВарламов-ж5ъ  The fragmentation is minimal, in fact improvised frag sleeves were made for PG-7V warheads. HEAT forms a jet. That jet impacts metal. The metal cracks open and forms even more fragments on the other side.
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  722. I remember how the molotov cocktails were thrown from the roof of that building. And people escaping were aided by Ukrainians who took the street barriers and laid them on the side of the building to use as ladders.
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  723. Ukrainians are home while Russia is an expeditionary force. It's much harder to keep soldiers fighting abroad as you have to push beyond your borders.
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  724. Not really. A handful of HIMARS delivered a huge sucker punch to quantity.
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  725.  @kuunoooo7293  Misspoke.
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  726. Wrong. The peace talks as usual are Russia's stalling tactics. Russia has broken every peace treaty so far.
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  727. That's not how it works, though. Russia holding onto terrain requires them to pressure Ukraine with advances to retain initiative. Russia's land grab has a MASSIVE cost. To stop paying that cost they need to give back something.
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  728. Armenia moved towards the West because Russia was humiliated and the CSTO fell apart.
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  729. ​ @currawong60911368  The CSTO is a joke.
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  730. Are the Vietnamese insane? The Taliban insane?
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  731. The Soviet Union couldn't end the insurgency in Afghanistan and China had to put a million people in re-education camps to stamp out independence thoughts in Xinjiang.
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  732. AR-style rifles are built in Russia and China.
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  733. Common Serb L.
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  734. ​ @Gearparadummies  No, it's an ABM system meant to augment the A-135. It's an updated S-300VM and fires the 77N6 missiles which seem a development of the 9M82M and 9M83 missiles. Absolute telephone poles, meant to intercept incoming ICBMs.
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  735. ​ @airon89toyota  If a S-500 were used we'd see the debris all over - the 77N6 missiles used by the S-500 are MASSIVE.
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  736. What's there to be skeptical of? The Patriot was tested to shoot down incoming Pershing II warheads on the 90s.
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  737. Is France beholden to the US or UK after they got liberated by the Allies?
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  738. The situation in Donbass was entirely manufactured. Ukrainian oligarchs used the Ukrainian vs Russian language as a wedge issue for political theater, then Russia used the fake culture war to insert FSB agents. The inorganic "Russian spring" failed in Odessa, Kharkiv, etc and happened to work in Luhansk and Donetsk. But like Igor Girkin said, nobody wanted to fight until he got there and started forming militias.
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  739.  @profileone5655  No. The conflict in Donbas began when FSB agent Igor Girkin arrived on scene and attempted to astroturf a rebellion. He said it himself - nobody actually wanted to fight. Ukraine was not building an ethno-state. A bunch of protesters had been murdered, Yanukovich signed a deal with the opposition, cops feared they'd be prosecuted for the murders while Yanukovich kept the presidency, so they stepped aside. Yanukovich now feared that without protection, any angry mob or vindictive person could try to take him out. So he fled and the Verkhovna Rada voted to remove him from the presidency. That's when Russia sent in the operatives to stage a fake rebellion. There was no ethnostate, there was nothing. Just a vacant presidency and a date set for new elections. Russia didn't left them. Russia sent both the real army and PMCs like Wagner to fight in Ukraine. This was confirmed by both VKontakte pictures posted by Russian troops and captured Russians who were detained in Ukraine. They didn't "stand their ground". They were about to get slaughtered. Strelkov isn't "cheap". He was involved in so many Russian covert actions his bio reads like a Bond villain henchman. He didn't have locals. He had Russians. Motorola was Russian too.
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  740. How is it in Germany's interest to get chained to a hostile and unreliable provider?
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  741. ​ @e1nkor155  Ru-shills gleefully praised Preston's channel grow when he was reporting Russian advances but now that they realized he's just reporting and not shilling they're angry.
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  742.  @a15thcenturysuitofgothicarmor  The cartels are flying to Afghanistan now?
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  743. For a warhead the diameter of a RPG it would take more than 1 meter of spacing.
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  744.  @momopirou3107  But slat armor does not serve the same purpose. Slat armor is made to cause a short circuit in the warhead cone and shred the main charge containing the copper cone. Slat armor is not made to pre-detonate a PG-7V. It's made to destroy the fuzing system and preferably damage the explosive section enough so that if the self-destruct timer goes off the explosive is detonated but there's no jet formation. Slat armor is called statistical armor, if the fuzing impacts the slat it will detonate properly and the HEAT round will function. But there's a 90% or so chance the warhead will slip the fuze between the slats and the cage then destroys the warhead behind it before the fuze can touch the skin of the vehicle. Cage armor is designed to offer minimal chance for the fuze to hit it, as it has to impact the slats dead on.
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  745. I can't find any reference to nuclear ATACMS existing in service. Only unitary warheads and cluster.
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  746. Oh, but it has worked. You just need to see the pieces falling into place.
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  747. Visual confirmation shows Russia has more losses.
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  748. ​ @blugaledoh2669  Russia executed civilians in Ukraine simply because of their estimated level of nationalism. A man in Ukraine had the nickname "Bandera" because the locals teased him for being from West Ukraine. When Russians arrived, they presumed he was called "Bandera" due to nationalism and killed him. It was just an inside joke among friends.
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  749.  @blugaledoh2669  It's easily verifiable. Several Russian soldiers quit the army and gave interviews where they admitted to everything. They have the cellphones of the victims and everything.
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  750. How do you know how many were fired?
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  751. By that logic Russia sent AKs around the world to kill Westerners.
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  752. The Odessa fire was started by molotovs thrown from inside the building. You can see on video the moment someone throws a flaming object at a closed window by mistake and starts a fire inside.
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  753. They're breaching lines and taking the high ground to get the recon advantage and nullify the attack helicopters.
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  754. Ironically Azeris are in good terms with Israel and Armenia is in good terms with Iran. Religion is kind of an afterthought. Azerbaijan has Azeris living in northern Iran and have a desire to seize land from them. Iran has then a common enemy with Armenia.
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  755. It just involved banging a jet against it.
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  756. ​ @Marvin-dg8vj  It's not about friends, it's about mutual enemies.
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  757. Kherson was not a rapid advance.
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  758. A magician always distracts you so he can perform the trick. Are you off your rocker? Constantly teasing an offensive for months masked the start.
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  759. Which commander was that?
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  760. I did have a girlfriend at one point who wanted to get into the feds as investigator and had some interest in counter-terrorism. I actually managed to bore her with all my "acoustic" knowledge about domestic and international terror.
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  761. It's a small band of insane terrorists (because they thrive by imposing terror) while Azov was a politicized unit where the Ukrainian government just folded them into the national guard so that political leaders were forced to quit if they wanted to be part of elections. The far right party lost.
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  762. ​ @Remo_Jenkins  Russia violated Minsk with the Battle for Debaltseve and the Second Battle for Donetsk Airport. Russia broke Minsk before the ink was dry.
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  763. Cope. Ukraine is doing all sorts of attacks, like targeting refineries, Shahed factories, air bases etc. Out of all the things that help the war effort, why would this be it? Russia loses 10x more people every day in the frontline than in this singular attack.
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  764. Seems like the worst type of channel to try and influence, because historical facts are kind of difficult to twist into a modern narrative. But entice someone into posting rants filmed in their truck about how Joe Biden is ruining America by sending billions to Ukraine, and you can get a few thousand goobers to cheer and ask for more. Basically you're too sophisticated lol need to grow the beard and buy a Ford 150.
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  765. ​ @novembertango1298  Explain how is it pro American to reward the man heading a state that spent like 15 years threatening to nuke us?
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  766. Supplies have to be brought in. Who cares how safe your house is if I can shoot anyone trying to deliver you food?
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  767. Depends if the opponent is trying to hit you or trying to degrade your AA.
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  768. Absolutely feasible. Imagine ATACMS, F-16s and DPCIM artillery were available to interdict the 40 mile convoy. Ukraine was drip fed aid too little too late, even when everyone knows violence of action and Shock & Awe causes a cascade failure in a military structure.
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  769. They already have Su-25s. Bery dangerous to fly, they have to pitch up and lob rockets from afar.
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  770.  @casval-pj5tb  I'm not comparing war to a wall. You're incompetent for doing incompetent things. If your hardware survives, that doesn't detract from your incompetence. It just means your equipment is idiot-proof. Now, if your equipment is idiot-proof I wonder what that makes you if you have an accident with it and don't damage it.
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  771.  @AndRei-yc3ti  Technically speaking, Kherson had two breakthroughs. Not an actual battle for Kherson city, but the surrounding areas were battled for.
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  772.  @AndRei-yc3ti  Rusich has said the defenses are useless. Those guys are hateful anti-Ukrainian extremists. If they're saying the defenses are useless... I'd listen.
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  773.  @AndRei-yc3ti  The IMF is simply reporting Rosstat numbers. The IMF has no means to investigate what's going on inside the Russian economy.
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  774.  @AndRei-yc3ti  It was enough to force the retreat.
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  775. The fight is also happening in Israel/Lebanon and Yemen/Red Sea. And we're praying it doesn't reach Taiwan and South Korea.
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  776. Lmao the secondaries could be heard from nearby cities
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  777. Who's "we", Ivan?
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  778. Brigadier Gen. Christian Freuding from the German Army seems to be dialed in because he dissented from that useless advice and said that after 9 months of mining you can't go around.
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  779. The US outproduced the world because everyone else was getting bombed to pieces.
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  780. ​ @kyle-ld2gh  what does chain of custody have to do with Russia? Stop talking past each other.
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  781. It was different because that was supply troops who could be ambushed anywhere in the country as Afghanistan/Iraq had no frontlines. This was made for frontline assault. If Americans were doing this the public outcry would be savage and we'd have Congressional hearings about this.
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  782.  @Charles-k9g5y  You're severely misunderstanding what I said. I said that if what we're seeing of the Russian army happened to American soldiers, we'd be seeing rioting in the streets.
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  783. Russia.
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  784. ​ @VVV85650  25 wounded, though
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  785. ​ @cdeford  the video from the inside shows she sat back in the crowd, close to the stage
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  786.  @cdeford  They were holding the event at the café. She delivers the statue, walks back into the crowd, they tell her to sit at the front, she sits like 4 meters away from Vladlen. While Vladlen puts the bust back in a box and starts answering questions from the crowd the bomb goes off.
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  787.  @cdeford  Of course it doesn't acquit her. But she seemed unconcerned about what was happening, and was even laughing with the rest of the crowd. The woman on video had to be a great actress, top notch spycraft to not fumble in a high stress moment.
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  788. Why would the US target Russian troops?
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  789. Those are different budgets and departments. You can walk and chew gum at the same time, right?
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  790. ​ @OzzyBloke  a sortie includes just taking off and landing. Useless metric. Combat sorties matter way more.
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  791. Russia has not dropped the nukes despite a massive defeat in Kharkiv, having their territory taken or Moscow struck by drones. Why would that be the final solution?
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  792. ​ @mitchyoung93  Gas is expensive because of long term consequences of lockdowns and environmental policy. Not the war.
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  793. ​ @dragonstormdipro1013  Housing market crisis and subprime mortgage loans being packed as AAA rated investment assets.
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  794. Russia is literally on a timer which is why they're pushing forward at all costs. Their oil infrastructure is being hit, all the buyers are demanding discounts, they're drawing from their wealth fund to pay the war.
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  795. Air defense has been taking a pouding, though. Buks and Pantsirs are on the Ukrainian's sh1tlist for the past few weeks.
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  796.  @markgonczy8293  The simple PMC was Russia's ticket to avoiding "real" army casualties. Now the real army hates the PMC for taking all their ammo and requesting VDV assistance every time they got in trouble. Remember when the "simple PMC" was beating Ukraine so bad in Soledar they had to cry and beg for VDV to save them, then they declared Soledar to have been captured by Wagner and the Russian MoD immediately said they were lying? Yeah.
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  797. The US isn't bankrupting itself oh my god
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  798. BBC and Meduza are only counting official obituaries and social media posts. If your family has no social media, or your body is still in Ukraine, you won't be counted.
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  799. If Russia isn't suffering that many casualties, why are they unable to move forward? If there's no fierce resistance, you can move forward.
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  800. Three out of four of those countries have their sovereignty contested by civil war and Iraq has Iranian-backed politicians in power. They're really not that sovereign.
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  801. Why? Blackwater was disbanded ages ago.
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  802. ​ @Игорьсуздальский  What does CNN have anything to do with anything? US veterans from WWII formed biker gangs because they couldn't adjust to civilian life. You can't give a man the ultimate freedom of life or death, making him live according to the laws of the wild, and expect him to come back and sit in his cage to be shouted at by people who never risked their lives.
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  803. No, it isn't. Due to the interpretation of a coup d'grace being you don't shoot after you move past an enemy, you can do security shoots after people go down. After you clear the area and check on them you can't put them down. People inside enemy lines or no man's land fall in a grey area as they're not under your custody but you have eyeballs on them, something which wasn't easy to have when the Conventions were written.
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  804. Amazing how it took months of recovery from the Kherson retreat to whip out that joke again.
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  805. Just operating the battleship for years without any purpose would cost more than the airstrikes.
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  806. Nope, they're attacking to cut Tokmak. Much like Antonovsky bridge getting potholed caused the entire northern region of Kherson to be abandoned, cutting the rail supply will force the Russian army to either retreat or run out of ammo.
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  807. ATACMS are not nuclear and even Krushchev recognized that Castro could not be trusted with nukes.
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  808. Two more weeks?
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  809. "Hey USA there's no Article 5 invoked so we won't invade Iraq" "Bunch of terror-loving pansies!" "Hey USA you convinced these people to surrender their nukes in exchange for protection" "Nuh uh you hurt my feelings 20 years ago so basically I can walk back on any promise I made"
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  810. Belka moment.
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  811. Blackwater just drove CEOs and diplomats around.
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  812. Well, Russia has been threatning the west with nukes for 15 years, and they are comitting horrible crimes against a nation we said would help in case of invasion. Better?
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  813. ​ @essn6807  It's not pointless as others have said, but it also creates leverage. Imagine you managed to get your family to flee the country. But you can't join them because of the arrest warrants. You'll make a deal.
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  814. Projection.
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  815. Sunk cost fallacy
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  816. They aren't losing. Russia is using donkeys ffs.
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  817. Convicted secks offender Scott Ritter (who married a Soviet while he was doing weapons inspections there).
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  818. But quality has consistently slapped quantity in the peepee.
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  819. Afghanistan has trillions in untapped resources. Nobody wants them. It costs more to dig them out and process them than they're worth.
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  820. It is ineffective when you take into account the materiél losses. Though the men may be cheap, future meatwaves will have less tanks, less IFVs and less artillery support.
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  821. Take your meds.
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  822. The AK isn't much older than most rifles, it's not simpler and its ruggedness is exaggerated.
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  823. ​ @natureblank1401  Boxers hit your head when you keep your hands down? And they hit your liver when you keep your hands up? Hitting where the defense is weak is somehow an excuse now? If you had perfect real time intel and recon where the enemy is weak and where he is strong you'd win a war in days. Knowing where to advance is part of the art of war. Those who work smart can beat those who work harder.
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  824.  @BlitzOfTheReich  I don't care how un-genuine the relationship is. They are Red Team and use Red Team equipment. I don't care how much they seethe at the fact that they have to be together. But the fact is that Russia sold to China. Now China can produce their own stuff but they still have large quantities of Russian-origin hardware. This was bound to happen, war or no war. Russia would never get close to the anglosphere.
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  825. ​ @stevebriggs9399  Why did the US decide to profit off European prosperity after the WW2 rebuilding?
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  826. ​ @GusOfTheDorks  The large explosive clearing of mines has a problem - everyone sees the massive smoke puff from tens of miles away. Unless you feint multiple explosive breachings at the same timeto divide the attention of artillery, your position gets hosed with shells.
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  827. Don't send tax dollars then, send all the junk gathering dust in warehouses. Your government will toss it overboard in the ocean to make coral reefs anyway.
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  828. ​ @nudgeunit  Experience is the worst teacher. First you fail the test, then you get the lecture. Failing a test is fine in a classroom, but in a war...
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  829. ​ @MM22966  The thing is that the workers are basically slaves. They show up, chop trees (massive deforestation in Russia due to NK logging), and return. It's like they never left NK. War changes a man. You'll get cut off from your unit. Your CO will get clipped. You'll have to fend for yourself, gun in hand, in the wild. For a few days or weeks you won't be a slave. They can't return.
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  830. The US didn't nuke Soviet Russia over weapons in Vietnam.
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  831.  @AndRei-yc3ti  Changing the subject? And can you prove this?
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  832.  @AndRei-yc3ti  Okay, so you admit Russia lies. Thank you. Russia is lying. Ukraine didn't make up the Ghost of Kiev. It was Russia that claimed that all of Ukraine's air force was destroyed. Then when Ukrainians saw a MiG-29 in Ukrainian colors flying, the rumor started that a pilot managed to take off before the missile strikes and started fighting alone. Then a gamer (from India or whatever) made a DCS video in tribute to the pilot which fooled older people who aren't used to seeing realistic flight sims. The Ukrainian air force said the story wasn't real. And to this day, you people are still OBSESSED with a rumor that was started by Russia and then later a gamer outside Ukraine. You people either can't read or have bad memories, now you're all fighting a demon inside your heads. Punching air like lunatics in an asylum.
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  833. The Moskva did not convince you. Kharkiv did not convince you. Operation Spiderweb did not convince you. You'll always whine that you're not convinced. That's a humiliation ritual.
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  834. Europe has absorbed the refugees, built munitions plants, etc. And to quote Homer Simpson's brain money can be exchanged for goods and services.
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  835. Ukrainians are using RPGs zip tied to drones on 90% of these losses. Not NATO weapons.
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  836. My first thought too.
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  837. They'd have to pull troops from elsewhere making the Donbas easier for Ukraine, and risking them getting a large troop concentration trapped in Crimea if the Kerch bridge were to be attacked again.
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  838. If the explosion happens underground you won't see the full force in the surface...
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  839. Not true. NATO did not expand into East Germany. That was the deal. Poland? That was Warsaw Pact. Why would we promise Moscow that we wouldn't let Warsaw Pact countries (which they controlled) in? Either way the Poles got Yeltsin drunk and got him to say it was okay to join.
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  840. ​ @KennethJohnson-st1uv  Igor Girkin himself admitted he had the Crimean government at gunpoint and ordered them to request assistance from Moscow. The entire Crimea/Donbas affair was a spec ops and intelligence operation, they paid people to join protests, people like Girkin and Motorola were RUSSIAN CITIZENS leading so-called separatists. Russia created the problem by attacking Ukraine first. They created the problem by taking down TV towers and broadcasting Russian media full of lies about Ukraine.
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  841. Russia is growing? How? Their economy is in tatters and their military industry can't keep up. They're refurbishing T-62s and the thermal sights are garbage without Thales components that got cut off by sanctions.
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  842. ​ @evgeniya7853  One American soldier defected to Russia and fought for them, then gave interviews. Do you feel foolish?
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  843. Wrong, it's Russia who breaks treaties.
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  844. Any satellite from anyone can be used for recon.
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  845. ​ @smokedbeefandcheese4144  That doesn't come from the military budget.
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  846. ​ @dragonemperorsy2515  Nobody has to lower their living standard. Do you eat surplus Abrams?
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  847.  @dragonemperorsy2515  The munitions are peanuts. Sure, sanctions may have hurt us, but it's better to rip the bandaid out. Would you buy water, gas and electricity from a provider that kept threatening to come to your house and beat you? Spending a week in the dark is rough, but worth it to find another provider.
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  848. Biden talked with Trump before approving strikes in Russia and he agreed.
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  849. Big flex on merc'ing people while in negotiations. Reminds me of the Japanese saying the US can't build a second nuke and they get the memo that Nagasaki got glassed.
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  850. Russia is being terrible with deliveries. Both India and Turkey have complained that they're still waiting on deliveries of prior contracts.
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  851. Still patting yourself in the back for misreading an article about trench fighting in Bakhmut?
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  852. Countries picked sides when America called for Article 5. Countries picked sides when America fought for independence.
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  853. Ultras in Italy were caught trying to sell anti-ship missiles. That's how wild it can get. There's a photo of police displaying the missile after seizure, it was like 7 feet long.
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  854. But they just betrayed the last 3 years of "Biden/Zelensky is the warmonger, Putin wants peace" bs. Now wanting the war to continue is reasonable? I better not see any more Russian shills and bots.
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  855. ​ @asriellian  the eyebrow will raise and the eggs will be measured
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  856. ​ @theangrycheeto  Saab manufactured too few Gripens. There's no discussion because they essentially don't exist. They're either getting scrapped, just recently manufactured E variants that nobody will give up or countries depend on a very small number of them for defense. Brazil has a Gripen contract, and Lula just had to be "persuaded" to go back on his statement that both sides were at fault for the war. Dude obviously has some alleigance to Putin, he'd never give up Gripens even if they had a hundred of them.
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  857.  @presleymeck  White chairs, which had chair shapes. His chair was different and had the soft malleable nature of a pillow.
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  858. That's not how it works.
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  859. The Russians have ground themselves down to the point of using golf carts and motorbikes.
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  860. ​ @cold6488  Budapest Memorandum.
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  861. ​ @woodrowcall3158  How is the money laundered?
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  862. Not what Poland said. They said they had no old weapons to give and they're buying new weapons for rearmament. They didn't say they wanted to pull support, they just said that the "surplus" was gone.
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  863. Said the man who got help from France to fight the British
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  864. The defenses took months to build. Also the Soviet tactic was true defense in depth where Germany was forced to fight through "ablative" lines which gave way and retreated behind the next lines. By the time Germans pushed through several lines, they met the "true" defensive line with the best troops. Meanwhile Ukraine pushed the greyzone before even getting near the lines and Russia was throwing their reserves because losing territory = bad news and you can't have bad news in Russia. They did exactly the opposite of what they should have.
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  865. GPS munitions are actually INS guided munitions with GPS correction. Trying to jam the GPS just makes the munition fall back to INS mode. Some may be small enough that the loss in accuracy causes a miss, others are big enough that you can't escape the splash damage. Also the GLSDBs spend more time inside the jammer bubble because they glide, ATACMS spends maybe 1-2 seconds inside the jammer radius. That's not enough time for INS drift.
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  866. If you had sent a few HIMARS and ATACMS to shred that 60 mile convoy, you'd have cheaply stopped the war. The more you wait the more you pay.
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  867. South Vietnamese people were indigenous.
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  868. ​ @nebulaone908  A house and a country isn't comparable. Walls in your house give you privacy and prevent inhabitants from being exposed to the elements. Your house doesn't exactly provide a livelihood so there isn't a line of people trying to get in by any means necessary.
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  869. Right. But for example in Kharkiv when Russians holed up in towns to stabilize the frontline, the Ukrainians pressured them to leave and pre-sighted the escape routes. When they left the town Ukrainians let loose with the guns, resulting in the photos of roads littered with body parts seen in the aftermath. Instead of trying to flatten the town, they got the enemy in the relative open.
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  870. Are you for real? Funding drives are not new.
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  871. Haven't nearly all allies said it's okay to fight on Russian territory?
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  872. ​ @nothingnew8292  NATO does exercises all over Europe.
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  873.  @goncaloferreira8543  No intelligence source said anything about the shovels. It was a descriptor of close combat which you people (Russia shills) took up and ran with. And Russia did have problems with missile stockpiles, which is why they stopped volleys to rebuild their stocks and using S-300s and Shaheds to compensate.
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  874.  @dylanherzig2841  The result was taking the territory. Nothing else, nothing more. How do you grind a defender who is holed up in his positions? You're the one being ground in the advance. The defender will fight off the waves until the position is unsustainable and then fall back. The attacker has to expose himself.
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  875. Well, if the ATACMS aren't a massive blue balls, they'll be another curveball.
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  876. That didn't happen. Kosovo was an autonomous administration within Yugoslavia. Serbia couldn't behave. We had to force Milosevic's hand.
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  877. Russia is just consolidating the former Wagner to keep the Africa stuff.
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  878. The issue is that by using the T-55 you gave your enemy a huge freebie because now he can use much cheaper weapons to wreck your offensives.
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  879. China, Iran and North Norea are supplying Russia, by the way.
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  880. ​ @danielallan8061  predict everything, at some point you'll get things right. If you're wrong 10 times but eventually get one, you can't let the other 10 slide.
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  881. Iran corroborated the intel.
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  882. The Germans are taking village after village, making their way towards Moscow.
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  883. Schools are large buildings. Often each classroom can fit 30 students. With a cafeteria, gym and auditorium the space can fit thounsands of people.
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  884. There was no Mossad leak. That was published in a Turkish website with no proof.
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  885. They were used as human shields by Russian forces. Russia killed them.
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  886. The day the annexations were ratified Ukraine invaded "Russian" territory and retook it.
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  887. But they aren't.
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  888. Monty Python's Black Knight also never admitted defeat.
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  889. ​ @userchannel6237  Why? They have no buffer around Kaliningrad and around Finland.
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  890.  @Revi0908  You can literally just watch footage of Ukrainian soldiers speaking Russian. Nobody cares about the language thing. It was Russia who took down TV towers and forced Donbas to watch Russian propaganda TV. Russia took the territories, killed the people through conscription, and now repopulates with Tuvans, Buryats, people from the Caucasus, etc. Donbas suffered discrimination by Russian authorities - used as meat shields.
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  891.  @kenrik2105  Because Russia pulled prisoners to rush defenses to both fatigue Ukrainians and force them to expose their defensive positions.
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  892.  @kenrik2105  Wagner was not "content" with anything. The artillery strikes were courtesy of the Russian MoD. Wagner's job in Bakhmut was to die. It was them who were thrown into the grinder. The city was not fortified for 8 years, as most fortifications were just buildings. It was indeed a formidable obstacle. Ukraine used it to deplete Wagner knowing that before attacking the Russian army they had to eliminate the meat shield protecting them.
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  893. ​ @NicholasWolfwood-md7vm  muh nato on borders
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  894. ​ @lettheflamestakeover7374  You saw people's age through video?
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  895.  @attilakiss5400  Yet they're in war economy mode. They've stripped military defenses from Kaliningrad and the Finnish border.
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  896. Then we should end the war. Open the floodgates and send Ukraine all the aid they need.
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  897. The load bearing Bradleys were really holding everything together.
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  898. Elastic defense? Do you read any correspondence put out by Russians themselves? They bleed for every inch of territory, nothing elastic about their defense. Ukraine moves, Russia throws the VDV at them. Since people only have the war maps to keep tabs on the conflict, the Russuan government depends on the map not changing to convince their people they are winning.
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  899. But others are throwing their money.
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  900. ​ @islandwills2778  The WMDs were found. Also, that was 12 years after Desert Storm.
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  901. 100,000 drones just flew over my house!
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  902. ​ @galacticverse7694  Those videos aren't even a one hundreth of the massacres Russian forces are subjected to.
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  903. We saw it. It was Bucha. That's what losing looks like. Massacres in every city and town.
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  904. ​ @danielc9967  What narrative? If he was wearing a Hulk Hogan shirt would that be a narrative too? The Hulkamaniac did it, BROTHER!
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  905. ​​ @cornelkittell9926  What a specific special pleading. Russia has advanced, but also forced to cross no man's land. That means driving into mines and rushing towards machine guns. Ukraine mobilizes men as training resources become available. Russia recruited a ton of men at once, and had to leave many in empty fields or abandoned bases. Ukraine trains few several times, Russia called up a bunch at once, then had to delay training.
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  906. The bottom line is that Russia failed to protect them so they moved West. It was Russia's fault.
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  907.  @mladenmatosevic4591  Nope. Armenia was drawing huge Zs on mountain sides and flying Iranian flags in the streets because they thought they were being backed. Then when Azeris attacked and Russia backed the F off, Armenia moved west.
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  908. That's just reverse protectionism. Local lower quality goods are worse for the economy than just importing better stuff.
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  909. Nuclear power submarines. Not nukes.
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  910. Switchblade 300s have a firecracker warhead which is meant for low collateral, Switchblade 600s have a Javelin warhead. One is too small, the other too big.
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  911. ​ @Ynot72-x6o  the little tyrant will not press the button. He didn't do it to save his ass during the Wagner heresy.
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  912. None? The point of a dirty bomb is to cause an area to be closed off until cleanup crews can secure the area. Enrichment does not contribute to the effect.
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  913.  @springbloom5940  Almost everything they've done proves they are, and they are going somewhere. Not willingly, but by force.
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  914. take your meds
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  915. Russia collided a 30 million USD jet. The US fired a 400,000 USD missile.
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  916. "Waaa we weren't warned enough" the US specified concert halls and large gatherings. Iran also gave a warning. Did they withhold information? Is Iran suspect?
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  917. Heard the same about Bakhmut.
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  918. The ability to leverage EW aircraft and SEAD/DEAD campaigns against defenses would allow flight over MANPADS range. Even in situations where the US failed to dismantle air defense they still created enough breathing room to continue bombing missions.
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  919. ​ @roydriskill8342  Small town cops vs OMON lol And did the Uvalde shooter try to run to Canada?
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  920.  @SwordFighterPKN  No. The last guy will have an eye remaining. Nevertheless, your answer is just roll over and take it?
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  921.  @SwordFighterPKN  So you're letting your kids get murdered and your wife get a train run on her when the Ruskies get to your town?
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  922. They're standing because it's easy to prop up a state. However, they wouldn't be pulling T-55s if they had an economy to pump out T-90Ms.
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  923. Amazing how they came up with "counter-NATO tactics" in 2022... after being in a cold war against NATO since the mid 20th century.
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  924. Funny, the investigation claimed it was carrying a OFAB-100-120 bomb. I've seen references to it being a Russian bomb, but no dates so I don't know if Ukraine could have inherited it after the Soviet Union dissolved.
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  925. Air supremacy would mean the destruction of the entire Russian aerospace forces. Kind of a tall order.
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  926. ​ @abhisekhkumar4948  NATO was already on Russia's doorstep. Additionally Finland and Sweden joined, turning the Baltic Sea into NATO Lake.
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  927. One of the accounts that posted the video was Rusich. Alexei Milchakov, the founder, was fighting in Ukraine since 2014 on Russia's side. He thinks there's a benefit to posting them. You can try to use all your logic and deduction, but that dude has been fighting for Russia and you haven't. What you think is less important than what the people who posted it think.
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  928.  @浅野旅団  He posted the video. I didn't say he was the man in the video. Little liar.
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  929.  @cornelkittell9926  No. He is Russian. Not a rebel, he is a Russian-born who was VDV. Russia sent Russians to pretend to be rebels in 2014-2015. And many times used Wagner as cover.
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  930.  @cornelkittell9926  The technicalities don't matter. I was just explaining that a person reposted the video (might have been a still according to the other comment, I saw a screenshot rather than go on telegram). That person wants Russia to win, so the notion that Russia only loses by posting the video is irrelevant. Russians will continue to get caught doing and celebrating acts of hatred that damage Russia's image. They don't care.
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  931.  @cornelkittell9926  Russia is "willing to negotiate" by keeping the lands they claim and Ukraine being denied the chance to rebuild the military for a future invasion. Just like 2014. Freeze the lines, prepare for new invasion years later.
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  932.  @cornelkittell9926  Seems like one former Wagnerite who requested asylum in Sweden said he's able to identify the perpetrator. Oh well...
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  933. I used to train kickboxing with a former FFL dude. He was never treated as expendable. The FFL is no longer the place for criminals to get a fresh identity.
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  934. They've been told. And clearly they believe.
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  935. Russia is getting exploited by India and China, Ukraine will get aid to rebuild. Germany and Japan were destroyed to a much greater degree than Ukraine has been.
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  936. ​ @G-Lew  the whataboutism doesn't work on you, but it works on the people you are defending.
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  937. I've been donating whenever I can.
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  938. Tell the Ossetians they were rotated lol
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  939.  @OzzyBloke  The picture where their numbers were much lower than previous pictures?
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  940. It was significant because it created a dilemma. The options are reinforce the Belgorod region and lose Donbas, or stay in Donbas and leave an open road for Ukraine to just take Russian territory at will.
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  941.  @attilakiss6679  You do realize that Ukraine can't press on the 4x time compression like in videogames to see the result of their strategies, right?
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  942. Actual bot behavior
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  943.  @fiazmultani  Ritter is a convicted PDF file. Ritter can claim whatever he wants - Russia used the deal as a distraction to allow the attack on Debaltseve. Prepare the attack? Recapture? Russia broke the deal the DAY AFTER MINSK II WAS SIGNED. Fortifying Bakhmut? In less than a day? An attack in 6 months involves more labor than peacetime build up.
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  944. You're welcome to join the winning team if this is what winning looks like.
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  945. ​ @nooneking3959  Ukraine already shredded through a professional and a private army. Ukraine already won militarily but Putin keeps sending lemmings forward.
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  946. Russia invaded Ukraine, Georgia, Lithuania and Moldova since 1991. If we count Soviet Russia, we'd have a list as long as the US.
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  947.  @ОлегРябинин-ч3в  Persian Gulf War was the defense of Kuwait, Somalia was a UN-sanctioned resolution to protect the air delivery after Pakistani peacekeepers were killed, Bosnia was aggressed upon by Serbia, Afghanistan was self-defense and it triggered NATO Article 5, the intervention in Libya was requested by the Arab League and approved by the UN.
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  948. An IR launch sensor won't do much against a radar guided Buk missile.
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  949. ​ @THERECOVERY90  Putin himself said on the Tucker interview it wasn't about NATO.
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  950. ​ @fredymader1750  their hopes and dreams are to make money in Ukraine Fortunately, most never see the money.
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  951. Who cares? Dig all the trenches, none of them will matter when Tokmak is under artillery range. Would you spend a winter in the trench when the only rail line supplying you is under attack?
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  952. The same FSB that got the Sims 3 games instead of three cellphone SIM cards? The FSB that shot an airsofter to death because he was playing with a STALKER larp kit?
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  953. ​ @Acolis  Ukraine also hunts former Wagner in foreign soil. So just because they got redeployed to Africa that means they can't be struck?
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  954. Russia embarassed itself. Get the timeline right.
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  955. Russia and China mock how "woke" the US is and you claim they're white supremacists?
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  956. By the time they do, there may be nobody manning it.
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  957. He wasn't a civilian. The definition of terror is leveraging violence for the purpose of achieving political goals. There was no terrorism involved, because there was one target and he can't feel terror anymore.
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  958. ​ @QANews  There was no coup and the US was happy to keep Yanukovych in charge.
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  959.  @QANews  Hey Q-boomer. Examine the context of Oliver Stone being friends with Hugo Chavez and Putin. And having a son who worked for Russia Today. It's literally a cope to respond to Winter on Fire, a documentary released a year prior. The deep divisions did not exist, it was political posturing. Preserving lives is done by removing the killers from the face of the Earth.
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  960. Their reasoning isn't logical. It's sheer schizo-fascism.
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  961. And the debris fall on target
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  962.  @enriquelaroche5370  Your fault for going to San Francisco. Probably voting democrat too.
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  963. @@patagonianpaint Sorry, imagine living in hellholes and complaining online when it's entirely your fault they are that way.
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  964. Well, most couldn't, which is exactly why NATO exists.
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  965. Because the Humvees were towed into the craters to stage the combat scene, Russian telegram is already alleging the burnt corpses are possibly staged too. Remember how Patrick Lancaster filmed burned corpses in a roadside IED attack by "Ukrainians", but the skull had marks of an autopsy?
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  966. ​ @scoth2930  No, it isn't. I'm sorry but Dems handed Trump the win on a silver platter. Biden/Kamala didn't have the balls to grant Ukraine total victory, so all they promised us was more of the same 2021-2024 and that wasn't good enough.
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  967. They're not "misinformed". Things aren't as simple as just having bad information. They looked at the state of things and see Russia defeating the US as a way to further their goals. You can give them all the information, the US is their boogeyman so they need a competing superpower.
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  968. Because there were two drone attacks. They were climbing to check the damage from 20-30 minutes prior.
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  969. Now suddenly it's about rationality. Before people cried about peace, and the lives being lost. Now it doesn't matter, Russia must keep winning. What a 180° you people have done.
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  970. ​ @cq4fun  How would Russia do that?
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  971. He was absolutely willing, but there's no guarantees. Last time a ceasefire was signed, Russia kept shooting.
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  972. BRO why does everyone have short memory? The Kherson offensive was portrayed as a massive disaster. Russians cheered at the start but Ukrainians got a few breakthroughs, even reversed an upset where their river crossing was threatened. Same thing happened to Azerbaijan. Armenians online clowned on the Azerbaijan offensive "failing" but they broke through. And if you go back to WWII D-Day only secured a pocket. It took a month to break the German lines.
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  973.  @Kirkaloozenstein  What dam floods? The south bank in Kherson is at a lower elevation than the city. If the problem was floods, they'd fight to remain in the city.
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  974.  @Kirkaloozenstein  They withdrew to positions that are now in greater danger of flooding. Please look at a flood map, I beg you.
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  975. Your hate is just a childish feeling with no actual way to enforce it. Ukrainians got killed and maimed by your people, you fought dirty, and they harnessed their hate into something useful. You're complaining online, while Ukraine made its goal to turn Russia into a failed state.
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  976. Joined 2 years ago. Bot account.
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  977. Notice how the thread was successfully derailed by the Russia shills. Since the unit was ambushed they had to know they got found out.
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  978. Soviet Russia and Maoist China trained and armed revolutionaries in Africa to fight European nations. Just saying.
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  979.  @gezalesko3813  They won't need a black sea port when the black sea fleet is losing ships at this rate :)
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  980. They win wars by smashing against defenses for years?
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  981. The footage shows Russians lol why wpuld DEFENDERS push forward when it's the Russians advancing?
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  982. Tomahawk missiles into factories and rail hubs to make sure that whatever happens, the enemy will run out of supplies and have no ability to restore them.
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  983. ​ @Winstonrodney6989  if it was the 1920s and you were on a jury to convict Hitler for a crime he didn't commit, would you have done it knowing you'd save millions? People believe the Orange Man is one of the most evil politicians alive, could they not chose what they believe is moral without conspiracy or corruption being involved?
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  984. Zelensky tried that. Putin wanted it all.
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  985. This is scripted lol
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  986. ​ user-yg5hl7gr7j  I never heard any other version.
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  987. Buddy the defense contractors pay taxes and they employ people. Your pocket is gonna have to cover the shortage, indirectly.
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  988. There's way more. Patriot, Redut, E.N.O.T., etc.
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  989. God seems to punish Russia, though. They wanted to freeze Europe and we had one of the warmest winters ever. God's clearly not on Russia's side.
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  990. Russia sent in over 200k, they had the separatists, they sent in reservists (BARS units), SOBR police units, they mobilized Donetsk and Lugansk, they took sailors and strategic rocket forces troops and converted them into infantry. Wagner also recruited from prisons, and prior to that Wagner and Redut removed the requirement to have military background in their hiring ads. You're missing hundreds of thousands of men Russia pulled into Ukraine prior to mobilization. In addition, Russia conscripted men at once, which lead to insufficient training capacity. Many videos of men dumped into empty fields or abandoned buildings with no bedsor toilets. Ukraine mobilized in batches because they respected the limit of troops that can be trained at once. Instead of doing it like Russia and mobilizing in one go, they staggered their boot camps.
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  991. ​ @JinKee  the F-35B, the STOVL variant, sacrifices weapons payload and maneuverability for the lift fan and swivel nozzle. CATOBAR aircraft just perform better.
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  992. The video in those basements shows otherwise.
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  993. ​ @fearofowl5973  I don't think peope gave much of a damn then, or even knew it was being used.
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  994. But Ukraine was never in NATO. Your logic is that the US invaded Mexico with them never joining the WP.
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  995. ​ @jessehachey2732  Did you not see the Ukrainian flag hoisted in the air by party balloons? The cardboard drones? Or how Ukraine printed large canvas of their destroyed hangars so they could build new ones and satellite pics from above kept showing the crater?
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  996.  @jessehachey2732  The point is that weird tactics have been used.
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  997. That was already a thing. Did you sleep through the 90s and 2000s?
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  998. If you keep your hands down you get punched in the face. If you keep your hands up you get punched in the liver. You can cry all you want "WAAA WAA FIGHT ME LIKE A MAN!" but those who fight smart live to fight another day. Those who fight brave... we'll give them medals and a flag.
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  999. Projection. Russians see Putin as their God Emperor, so they pin everything Ukrainian as subjects of Zelensky.
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  1000.  @waynejohnson1786  But it's not. Debt isn't going to trigger a revolution. This is not. how. money. works.
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  1001. How come the Soviet Union traded land for time? I guess Germany won.
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  1002. The easiest way to protect Taiwan is to arm Ukraine, let them finish the fight, then turn slowly to China and say "we don't even need to put our boots on the ground to get the job done".
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  1003. Not all freedoms. You are subject to military authority but soldiers are not cattle, and can disobey unjust orders. Then it's an issue for the courts.
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  1004. ​ @Jimmy-ye3wg  Funny how every Russian attack hits NATO generals and Ukrainians in hiding and every Ukrainian attack is intercepted and the debris cause damage.
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  1005. ​ @waynejohnson1786  That 20% is worthless since Russia destroyed everything in its path and forced the men into conscription to use as human shields. Was it worth losing an army and an economy over? For a scorched earth with no industry, no workers and only pensioners?
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  1006. Attrition has worked so far.
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  1007. That would be the point. To stop the war. I thought this was all about saving the lives and how Zelensky was evil. Turns out he was right and Russia does not want peace. Will Trump blame Zelensky again? Or finally hand him the keys to victory?
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  1008. War thunder is a P2W grindfest and Tarkov is hilariously one of the most controversial games due to game philosophy changes and cheaters. To the point people are playing a singleplayer mod (which the developer hates).
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  1009.  @Spearhead45  They aren't. One is a soul-sucking experience and the other is an eternal early access title.
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  1010. ​ @krishthakar6661  drones are small and shooting down satellies will create a cloud of debris which could damage communications across the world.
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  1011. Rosstat is the only agency that can report it. We can't look at their economy and measure it.
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  1012.  @arnoldvezbon6131  According to the evidence. In fact, just the fact that Russia came up with several alternative theories just makes them look guilty. So far Russia has claimed: - MH17 was filled with dead bodies to stage a false flag war crime - The target was Putin's airplane - a secret air traffic controller witness claimed a Ukrainian jet shot down the plane - a Ukrainian Buk shot down the plane - they went back and claimed a Su-25 (a ground attack plane) shot down the airliner and used a photoshopped satellite picture to pretend they had a photo showing the missile trail - a bomb exploded inside the plane - the US shot down the plane - an Israeli missile shot down the plane - an air traffic controller was responsible for the plane crash - the MH17 was a false flag to spoil the World Cup in Russia Deployed and ready? Then it should be easy to point which one was used. Also, stop using the term "gaslight" wrong.
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  1013. I think her "art" is garbage but you didn't change your mind because of this. Stop lying.
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  1014.  @whiteybul  Ukraine defeated the mercenaries. Their bodies are stacked in Bakhmut and Priggy is going back to Africa with what remains of the PMC to earn his gold. And it wasn't even the best of Ukraine - they used TDF and National Guard units.
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  1015.  @fate2452  The Russian armed forces made the decision to "outsource" their losses to prisoners. Ukraine knew that this gave Russia a very powerful combat potential as now they had a large number of expendables who'd go forward no matter the cost. So they selected Bakhmut (an already heavily shelled town) to gain time while training offensive brigades, and protect cities like Kramatorsk from long range shelling. There's not much to be heartbroken over, that town had pretty much no untouched building before Russian forces entered it. On the other hand, Prigozhin's constant begging for shells starved the real Russian army out of real offensive potential. We saw what we saw at Vuhledar.
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  1016. Because after the big ticket items like air defense, tanks and IFVs, men still need cars and sleeping bags and whatnot. You think Biden flew in a bunch of old F-150s to act as utility vehicles?
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  1017. They can't nuke the country they want to annex. Think about it for a second.
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  1018. Wrong. It is your war because you asked Ukraine to give up their nukes in 1994. And that 40 mile convoy would have been torn to shreds with ATACMS back in 2022.
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  1019. Whataboutism. One side of the political aisle doesn't want to have a border and thinks we shouldn't prosecute crime, the homeless get billions, price hikes are due to the world getting wrecked in 2020.
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  1020. Russia would do the thing all the simps and bots said they would. Turns out that Russia is indeed the warmonger. Will the Russian simps get out of the way and accept the aid to Ukraine to flow freely? How much egg do they have on their faces?
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  1021. You're not that old. Ukraine SSR existed since 1921 and prior to that the Ukrainians resisted Bolshevik attacks. You weren't alive during Tsarist Russia.
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  1022. ​ @ОлекЛис  jet engines do not consume all oxygen. That's why afterburners work, there's still oxygen in the exhaust.
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  1023. Because Western PMCs are security companies, not private armies.
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  1024. Breh. If Russia collapses you WILL want boots on the ground. Thousands of warheads to secure.
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  1025. A few glide bombs don't change a war.
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  1026. Optics. Now the world knows Putin wants land, not peace.
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  1027. Aren't you tired of posting the same thing for 3 years?
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  1028. So the ruse would involve scaring American citizens? The US warned its own citizens to avoid large gatherings due to the terror threat. If Russia didn't believe the warning at first, they should have taken it seriously when the US wasn't feigning concern about the lives of Americans.
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  1029. You do know that fraud is illegal, right?
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  1030. You're comparing fighters to a bomb? Buddy you take out the launch aircraft, forget the bomb.
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  1031.  @therion961  The cartoon dogs broke your mind, twitter is not real they can't hurt you.
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  1032. That thing came down at Mach Phuck
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  1033. We'd still have to bribe the anti-diver dolphins.
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  1034. ​ @3bSneaky_  The car is your car. The Abrams isn't yours.
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  1035. ​ @gregoryfilin8040  your way of life is subsidized by US military spending. Prepare to live under Amish standards once the US Navy stops enforcing freedom of navigation across the world.
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  1036. Russia knows the conditions for negotiation.
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  1037. You can't trigger a volcano by releasing the pressure. If you punch a hole in the rock the gasses come out instead of building up.
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  1038. Lmao the winning team? Russia comitted hara kiri with this stunt.
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  1039. ​ @wallingnaga6563  the US gave Afghanistan MANPADS after the USSR gave SA-2 SAMs to Vietnam.
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  1040.  @jerryle379  That doesn't detract anything from my point. The USSR explicitly used aid to kill US servicemen, and covertly used SAM operators and fighter pilots. The US covertly gave Mujaheddin Stingers. You need to learn history. The Taliban did not exist. They came from the Pakistan border area AFTER the USSR left.
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  1041.  @yam2050  "but there's a reason why majority of the world buys Russian military hardwares.. because they are cheap and rugged." - Not really. Poorer countries and countries with bad relationship with the West buy Russian because of cheapness, and because nobody would sell them better technology. Most of that "rugged" hardware fails constantly or is left in disrepair because of the maintenance nightmares.
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  1042.  @PyromaN93  Russian fighters also typically have half the engine life of a Western fighter.
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  1043. Who's "we", Harib?
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  1044.  @EvgeniyYakushev-m2u  Erdogan and Orban were not in power when Turkey and Hungary joined NATO. Also, Portugal's entry was controversial but the Azores island is critical because it's an air base in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. NATO needs that base to move aircraft around.
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  1045. "Not a warmonger" literally the guy who promised fire and fury
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  1046. Ukraine actually participated in the NATO ISAF contingent in Afghanistan.
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  1047. Hamas fighters were not just present, they used hospitals as HQs and had tunnels underneath. Was the children's cancer ward in Ukraine a military HQ too?
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  1048. Because the untrained men exist to force Ukrainians to expose themselves and bring ammunition to foxholes. When Ukrainians killed them, the mercenaries came in already aware of any ambushes and traps and with ammo already waiting for them in the fighting positions.
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  1049. ​ @delanofernandes6471  it's Hamas that baits the bombardment.
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  1050. There's a big reason. The US pressured Ukraine to give up its nukes. By giving up on Ukraine the world learns that security comes from nuclear proliferation.
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  1051. They have a massive problem. People will ask where the previous 300k mobilized went. There's not enough uniforms, chest rigs, armor plates, etc to equip a large amount of troops in a short while. They'd need to drip feed these men into the fray.
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  1052. They were living in the Byzantine Empire which fell because of the Ottomans. Maybe blame the Turks?
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  1053. They are fighting to the end because it's illegal to surrender and barrier troops will put them in penal battalions if they try to flee.
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  1054. Agree, Russians should surrender.
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  1055. Israel voted due to US pressure.
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  1056.  @waynejohnson1786  He's a war criminal staging BS for Russia. He isn't a journalist. There's plenty of Russian journalists who speak English already so he's redundant. I honestly hope an American 155mm catches up to hit. But doesn't kill him. I want him to suffer the consequences and spend the next decades of is life regretting what he's done.
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  1057. How is it not feasible? Brother the Russians are using DONKEYS. They're on the ropes. Either let the ref break the fight or let the knockout happen. You don't award the loss to the guy standing tall.
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  1058. The "reserves" are getting struck during transit, surrendering and even volunteering the location of their Chechen barrier troopsto Ukraine.
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  1059. Oil prices increase due to war.
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  1060. The "Russian populations" are gone. At least the men - conscripted and used as cannon fodder.
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  1061.  @domino20  Not really. Ukraine has Ukrainians. Donbas is being repopulated with Russian nationals to replace the people of Donbas.
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  1062. A casualty doesn't mean dead. If you have to go to a hospital to dig a fragment out of your buttocks because of a drone-dropped VOG, you're a war casualty. If it happens again, you'll be counted as another WIA.
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  1063.  @charlespancamo9771  It's a shooting gallery where the targets have a curtain in front of them. To call artillery you need either spotters or drones. Or just fire blindly.
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  1064. Republicans felt cheated by the War on Terror, which lead to ideological synthesis. Libertarians injected a lot of anti war rhetoric into the party when the Democrats were seen to not do enough to end the wars and in some cases edge close to escalation. Russiagate also made many believe that Russia was an innocent scapegoat. Now they believe Russia propaganda because they think the government is lying.
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  1065. Dude just laid near a fire lit by the explosion and kind of rolled towards the flames until his uniform caught fire. It even looks accidental but the guy actually picked a spot to lay down and consciously approached the flames.
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  1066. ​ @domestosteron  Should have made a pill and hidden it in a crayon.
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  1067. ​ @gagamba9198  the US reaped the benefits for decades. The prosperity the US has is in part owed to its manufacturing being spared during WW2. An isolationist US and an Europe that had to spend money in defense would be less developed today.
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  1068. You're forgetting all the other terms.
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  1069. They seem to not interfere. When the USAF struck Assad's facilities as reprisal for gas attacks, Russian defenses either did not detect the incoming strikes or simply decided it wasn't their business.
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  1070. Actually a MLU program extends service hours by 4,000 hours. That's a 50% increase over the original 8,000. The price of a MLU program (which includes a ton of upgrades beyond the airframe refurbishing) is less than half of a new F-16 Block 70/72. So cordially, stop talking outta your @ss.
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  1071. ​ @stevenblackwell4903  His name was CoachRedPill. He was an internet clown, you address him by his clown name.
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  1072. No relevance for Europe? Bruh.
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  1073. It's not bizarre. It's the laws of warfare. By refusing to wear a uniform you endanger civilians. By not wearing a uniform you are forfeiting the laws of armed combat.
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  1074. There's also videos of them going high order.
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  1075. Sure. Russia retreats to its 1991 borders as sends all war criminal suspects to The Hague.
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  1076. ​ @grahamcarpenter5135  people with one track brains took a story about close range hand to hand fighting and are patting themselves in the back by repeating it ad nauseam
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  1077. ​ @jjustdancerr8119  How many Krasnopol per dumb artillery fired? Probably 1 in thousand?
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  1078. ​ @dr.embersfield1551  the US suffered less casualties than Iraqis by not getting bogged down. Russians are bogged down. Driving columns of vehicles into mine fields and then assaulting defended positions is bad for your health.
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  1079. ​ @dr.embersfield1551  Air Supremacy is the ability to fly over the battlespace without contest from enemy air forces. The Russian air force does not venture into Ukrainian space.
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  1080. If Russia wasn't getting North Korean and Iranian aid they'd have folded too.
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  1081. The local "Russian" population was partially genocided by Russia's conscription. They used "Russian" Ukrainians as meat shields for the Russian army. I think a lot of people won't care to see the Russian army leave.
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  1082. ​ @JC-af  So it follows that repaying all that debt would mean selling assets from the private sector to tax the income. Now you got no economy.
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  1083.  @JC-af  The government can certainly compel you to pay up. The fact of the matter is that the Clinton era budget surplus was a drag on the private sector balance. To pay national debt the private sector has to incur loss. This was also seen in Japan, which ran a budget surplus before their economic decline. Sure, the assets don't disappear. However, everyone's trying to offload assets to pay up the debt. This causes quite the conundrum. Whoever is buying the assets can't expect a return considering everyone is on the hook and facing financial ruin from the genius idea of erasing the debt.
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  1084. It was Ottoman and later British land.
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  1085. ​ @elijahtiemens5532  No, it isn't. Give money to a drug addict, he'll do drugs. Buy defense equipment, defense companies hire workers, workers then pay for their houses, etc.
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  1086. ​ @jakemckeown9459  Algebra classes don't cover how the DoD budget isn't used to cover the potholes in your road.
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  1087. ​ @mitchyoung93  "border fence" most illegal immigrants are overstaying visas anyway, and coyotes are paid to bring people across through obstacles. Cartels have tunnels under the border.
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  1088. Muh both sides
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  1089. ​ @jonathanleblanc9034  it was the mini sub Russia has, their ship with a submersible was in the area of the pipeline attacks
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  1090. ​ @AnthonyRizzuti  Ukraine really said "we'll stand here and kill you", they killed Wagner and now they're leaving, Wagner simps on the internet will chant about the great victory. Buddy. Wagner did exactly what Ukraine wanted. The convicts are gone, now Russia will gave to see its doctors, teachers, IT experts etc return in coffins.
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  1091. Survive.
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  1092. "Loosing"
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  1093.  @benanders4412  If they were destroyed within days, why did HIMARS bonk Russian targets for months?
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  1094. Putin has been bombing the Belgorod People's Republic for a whole year, he gave Zelensky no choice but to invade to stop the oppression.
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  1095.  @waynejohnson1786  99%? You need to check those numbers.
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  1096.  @r.a.llorente2694  There's no EMP weapon, only nukes.
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  1097.  @waynejohnson1786  "Ukraine can’t retake their own territory right now" - that's like watching Rumble in the Jungle and saying Muhammad Ali can't punch.
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  1098.  @waynejohnson1786  Last time I checked, Ukraine recovered more land in 2 weeks than Russia could take in 6 months. Ukraine is blocking the punches and letting Russia tire itself out. You're gonna see a well oiled machine run through a degraded Russian army. You will see fireworks. I'm one of those people who can notice bad arguments from a mile away. You're saying "Ukraine isn't attacking now so they can't attack in the future". But we already saw how Ukraine fought defensively for months, made Russia bleed for territory, then swiftly took it back. You're seeing the defensive phase and judging the offensive capabilities based off a strategy designed to shred Russians who willingly throw themselves into the meat grinder. Why not give them what they want?
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  1099. ​ @barryscott6222  Yes, they were. Care to disprove that?
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  1100. By the way, tell that to Moscow. They wouldn't survive the war with Germany without US support.
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  1101. The US fought a Soviet-armed North Vietnam and didn't nuke the USSR. The US also fought China in Korea and didn't nuke them despite some generals asking to.
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  1102. What?
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  1103. They'll just use the cheap drones.
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  1104. Poland's order is just insanity. And their order was made before such event could happen.
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  1105. Balancing the budget is financial disaster. Clinton did it and the consequences set the stage for the 2008 crisis when household savings took a dive.
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  1106. There's footage.
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  1107. ​ @MrKKUT1984  1. China and Canada joined a military alliance in 2013. Nobody cared. 2. Mexico isn't afraid of US invasion, if anything their military is the only force that can be trusted to fight cartels so they cooperate closely with the US. 3. Ukraine wasn't going to join NATO until it was surrounded by troops in late 2021.
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  1108. Because it's what the bots he paid to spam comments sections said. That he wanted peace. Turns out the West and Zelensky aren't the warmongers! It was Putin all along! Oh nooo three years of people glazing Putin and Russia, and the bunker Tsar just embarassed them all.
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  1109. The pipeline where the Russian ship with the mini sub were seen in the days prior to the attack?
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  1110.  @tombrazy12hunnit  Source: the fact that battles happen.
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  1111. That million is a made up number and if you look it up it's based on face to face surveys rather than body count. The results aren't repeatale.
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  1112. Never with the intent to freeze Iraqis into submission. The Iraqi government was steamrolled in 2003, there was no point in using civilians as hostages. Russia can't defeat thr Ukrainian government, so they act like terrorists executing one hostage for every hour.
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  1113. ​ @b.a.m.5078  It didn't get jammed. Those ballistic missiles come in screaming so they don't spend enough time inside the jam bubble. It broke apart over water.
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  1114. Do not redeem!
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  1115. ​ @edc1569  Do you want to sit in a field or under bombs?
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  1116. ​ @johanmetreus1268  British people are confined to islands and even that didn't stop them.
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  1117. Western tanks have better logistics. At least you can order parts replacements from the West. Meamwhile Ivan has to ask Yuri from across the country if the tank graveyard full of rust buckets has part XYZ or if they all got sold to Syria.
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  1118.  @vlad_47  Relatively meaningless. It's Russia that's crossing no man's land with tanks and stepping on every single mine on the way to Ukrainian positions. That's the real nightmare, because Ukraine needs the tanks to retake territory, Russia needs tanks just to keep pressing.
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  1119.  @vlad_47  Oh no, the mighty Russian airforce will save the day. They couldn't do the job when they had the surprise, they're somehow going to do it now that Ukraine has western AA?
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  1120.  @dragonstormdipro1013  So? It proves there's ways to go around the rules of thumb. Kharkiv was undermanned. Ukraine attacked it. Ukraine damaged the Antonovsky bridge and Nova Khakovka dam bridge, taking out critical supply routes during the attack on Kherson. Ukraine has taken steps to avoid fighting Russia on equal footing. Just like right now, since the initial rush into defenses failed Ukraine switched to bite and hold tactics which force the Russians to fight in the offensive even though nominally they are on the defensive.
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  1121.  @thepostmodernvampire  Special pleading. Point is that the art of war is fighting where your enemy is weak. Kharkiv's thin defense ensured Ukraine didn't have to obey the rule of thumb. In Kherson the Russian forces were fighting with reduced supplies.
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  1122. Have you ever gone through a Shoot/No-Shoot gallery?
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  1123. Considering that Russia had one of their assets come up with a conspiracy theory full of holes and mistakes to blame the US, it was probably Russia.
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  1124.  @1CE.  I don't trust the reporter who made up engagements that never happened in desert storm to make US troops look like murderers.
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  1125. Ka-52s were brought down mo problem, only difference is now they're defending so they can stay outside defensive missile range. But a third of the fleet has been destroyed or damaged.
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  1126. The homeless get billions in aid. You want them off the street? The current housing programs will have to implement no behavioral rules.
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  1127. Yeah I remember that article. It was like "he said make america great again 800 times". So basically 30 lies repeated amost a thousand times.
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  1128. Copium
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  1129. Yeah mighty ALBANIA is one country so basically they can help as much as the US. Brother and when Liechenstein gets involved, the Russians will be driven behind the Urals. The Vatican? The Russians will make their last stand at Vladivostok.
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  1130. ​ @stevegolden8720  How is it true? With 700,000 casualties the Ukrainian army would need to have 7 million troops to remain combat effective.
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  1131. ​ @johno1544  They were refusing to sell the gas. They wanted to freeze Europe, remember?
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  1132. ​ @darenzy  It's Russia that's begging for foreigners, though.
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  1133.  @SassoSkorzeny  Downplaying the importance of what? Russia is not succeeding because their gains will be rolled over. Ukraine can undo in a week several months of costly Russian gains.
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  1134. She started this when she was still in thr US Navy. That's a big no-no.
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  1135. ​ @tranvinhnhat1289  the minister of defense, Shoigu, owns a PMC. He started it in 2019.
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  1136. It's not just pinpoint accuracy. The Tomahawk has a lot of neat tricks like the terrain countour matching mode. Even if GPS is jammed the missile can survey the terrain ahead and compare to a topographic map and photos loaded onto its internal memory so that the missile can figure out where it is even if it has no connection to satellites.
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  1137.  @yellowtunes2756  Russia is taking ground because they're desperate for the US election. They're throwing men and materiel to get those gains. Men do not come back. The land will be there.
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  1138. So Palestinians will rise up against Hamas for being Zionist, right?
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  1139. LMAO it was Al Assad who let extremists out of prison to sow confusion during the Arab Spring, and Russia provided cover for the government forces. It was the rebels, Kurds and Americans who did the heavy lifting against ISIS.
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  1140. The greatest journalist who spent the last 30 years lying?
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  1141. ​ @cartwheel8319 Nobody talked about Red Square. But Russia lost their army. Not the media's fault Russia used prisoners and T-62. Turns out wars last longer when one side has WWIII supplies from decades ago.
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  1142. So instead of buying the aircraft that has hundreds of exports and thus plenty of parts, buy the Saab unicorn? Okay lol
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  1143. That only proves stealth works.
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  1144. Brother Ukraine used Aliexpress drones and general aviation light aircraft crammed with explosives to attack refineries and Shahed manufacturing plants. There's footage inside Pantsir of them launching interceptors at Storm Shadows through the electro-optic tracking mode and missing.
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  1145. Wondering how much you get paid to post comments.
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  1146. And Russians write with a "B" (which is the V equivalent in the Latin alphabet).
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  1147. Okay.
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  1148.  @cornelkittell9926  They weren't reservists. They were civilians. The reservists were in BARS units which were in Ukraine prior to mobilization. They were famously involved in the Kharkiv rout, forced to retreat under shelling.
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  1149.  @cornelkittell9926  You're using the "western" terminology. A reservist is someone who is considered to be in reserve, part of the reserve forces. They're military, but not active duty. Usually, after a few years, you are removed from reserve duty and become a civilian. That's when you're retired from the military. The Russians are calling everyone with a prior conscription service a "reservist". The problem is, every man in Russia bar a few exceptions is supposed to serve a conscription year. So EVERY. SINGLE. MALE. in Russia is in theory a reservist. Even those who evaded conscription with minor health issues are still given a military card that allows them to be mobilized in case of war. The reservists in Russia are BARS units. They were deployed early in 2022. The 300k mobilization are JUST MEN. JUST CIVILIANS GIVEN A UNIFORM AND A GUN. They are NOT reservists as they were not part of a reserve force that conducts training. They're just MEN.
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  1150.  @cornelkittell9926  What you heard and what is true isn't the same. Technically, every man in Russia has prior training. Problem is, many men evade conscription and many conscripts never got training. In Russia conscription is known to be a wasted year. I suggest reading a translation of "ZOV 56" by Pavel Filatyev - a memoir written about the poor state of the Russian armed forces by a man who was wounded in the first few months of the war, and served both as a conscript and a contract soldier. Of course you do not see the utility in calling untrained personnel. Most personnel in Russia is untrained. Tough luck. You're applying your logic to Russia. There's a reason Russia sent many mobilized men to be trained in Belarus. Why would already trained men be put through basic training again? Conscript training is a joke. Since conscripts would never be used in an expeditionary war, and Russia has nuclear deterrence against foreign invasion, it was never a high priority to actually train them.
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  1151. Why should a passport phase out of reality? Just wondering why it is strange that it was found.
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  1152. Funny, a year and a half of destruction and what has Hamas acomplished? How much did Gaza improve after their stunt?
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  1153. it's been a year and this cope is stale
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  1154. That's why they allowed it to happen?
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  1155. No, he was a civilian being conscripted into the Syrian forces but he wanted out. So he was accused of being ISIS because according to their logic, anyone against the Syrian army has to be ISIS.
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  1156. They already had Tochka-Us, just ran out of ammo.
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  1157. Not true. There was never any paper and Zelensky and Putin never talked directly. The Ukrainian and Russian delegates were meeting each other for negotiations in Turkey but Russia demanded the Ukrainian army to be disbanded. What do you think a robber wants when he demands you to uninstall the door lock?
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  1158. If I recall correctly AfD members were the "foreign observers" tasked with "certifying" the referendum in Crimea 8 years ago.
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  1159. ​ @daniels0376  He's not calling out both sides. He's just arriving, dropping his pants, dumping a fat steamer and walking away. He doesn't care. He just wants his crap to be spread all over the internet, and now we're stuck discussing the sh!t that's on comment sections. Please, tell me, where is his grand critique? Where? Nowhere. It's just a pile of sh!t.
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  1160.  @Zz_Mike-Hawk_zZ  Why didn't they?
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  1161.  @DevilDaRebel  I'm not oblivious. I directly pointed out many were against the Iraq war. So how are people hypocrites if they're against both wars?
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  1162.  @snowsnow4231  Don't ask me. Why don't you ask other countries?
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  1163.  @Zz_Mike-Hawk_zZ  I was.
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  1164.  @DevilDaRebel  Deflecting instead of answering. Childish response.
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