Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Anders Puck Nielsen" channel.

  1. Payload is limited on these drones.
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  2. ​ @asdf3568 NATO is in Kosovo, but not as an invader.
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  3. ​ @frankrenda2519  I distinctly remember Wagner getting cut off from prison recruitment even before the battle for Bakhmut was decided. When you can't regenerate losses by the tens of thousands you're exactly where Ukraine wants you.
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  4.  @asdf3568  Russia was the one who invaded.
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  5. ​ @alangriffith9453 apples and oranges. It's not that we won't deal with criminals, it's that a country willing to fight will have the punitve aspect of the war as a weight on the scales against a peace deal.
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  6. By paying attention to the conflict we also saw propaganda meant for internal consumption. The riddiculousness allows easy detection when similar but less outlandish narratives are published online.
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  7. ​ @Anor999  Makes perfect sense. Why do you think prices are always 1.99, 2.99, 3.99 at stores? People look at the whole numbers first, and don't think about the decimals.
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  8. Although there is a difference. Deep offensives were a way to exploit battlefield successes by following up breakthroughs. This is a slow trickle that accepts continuous failure.
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  9. Ukraine reminds me more of Muhammad Ali versus George Foreman. Russia is punching itself tired.
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  10. Russia depleted Kharkiv out of troops to reinforce Kherson to keep it at all costs. The proverbial more mouths to feed arrived right before Ukraine kicked the dinner table down. No such thing is happening here.
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  11. ​ @stevealba56  Gold doesn't have the liquidity to handle global trade. Human activity creates wealth faster than gold can be mined.
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  12. Armies lose roughly 50% of their combat capacity after 20% casualty rate. That means that for Ukraine to hold, their army would have to be at least 1.5 million large, and recruit those 300k every month. In 22 months of fighting, that's 6.6 million. Your numbers are just impossible.
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  13.  @mrsupremegascon  "Russia do the same" okay but Ukrainians already live in Ukraine. Russians NEED good leadership, good supplies, etc. If a Ukrainian general dies that pretty bad, but Ukraine still stands. A Russian general dies, now lesser officers have to get promoted, privates become sergeants and they're all strangers in a strange land who should go back home.
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  14. ​ @Chiberia  Sending a F-22 to pop a balloon that's flying higher than any other fighter can reach is perfectly reasonable.
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  15. ​ @hendrikvanleeuwen9110  But Wagner was the meatshield for the Russian military. Ukraine needed to wear down their shield before they could produce significant casualties on the real army.
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  16. ​ @johntowers1213  If an FSB agent was willing to come forward and say what he thinks, we'd welcome that. In the West we'd call it disagreeing. The FSB agent would be called a traitor.
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  17. ​ @happydays4302  You added a quote about Hamas and Hamas only to pad the length of list. Eliminating a political foe is not genocide.
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  18. The real cope is that you people posted this comment one and a half years ago.
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  19. "They have improved a lot" they threw resources and men away. We were surprised they could mount an offensive. We were even more surprised that offensive ended up like previous ones.
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  20. Whether Putin likes it or not, a significant amount of Russian men have been "Westernized". Just the other day I was reading screenshots of a tumblr blog from a young man in Donetsk (not Russia but the point stands) trying to evade mobilization. An artist. Not exactly a macho man.
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  21. ​ @ulrikschackmeyer848  They get paid to post. The more the Russian state pays them to post, the less money is available for something else. Their algorithms? Probably hand written by a jaded officer and photocopied in the morning.
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  22. ​ @alexeyandreev1208  The economic growth is on paper - it's all Rosstat's own work. No independent researcher can validate that growth. What is a spine worth when you have no arms and legs?
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  23. The theory is based on the assumption that all equipment could be unlocked at once. But the fact is that there's resource and time constraints on how much training you can provide, how much we can physically fit in the cargo aircraft and transport trucks, etc. There's an argument to be made that even if fighter jets were approved day one, the training would be ahead of schedule but the deliveries would still be delayed by more critical taking up time, money and space away from the jets because they provide more immediate results.
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  24. ​ @ethank5059  Look at it the other way. For example Turkey is using this conflict as a power play, and they back Azerbaijan. This is against Iran's interests. So Iran gets drawn into Russia's geopolitics mess even if they didn't intend to.
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  25. 15 Rubles a day keeps the mobilization officer away.
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  26. The issue is, such a quick operation will need 2-3 months of obvious buildup.
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  27. Russia filled Kherson with manpower prior to the bridges being struck. That means that right before Ukraine depleted their resource supply rate, Russia dramatically increased their need for resources in Kherson. It was a one-two punch combo that rocked them. Ukraine is not over filling their bridgehead with troops in a desperate attempt to hold, nor are they hinging on two easily struck crossings. There's no right cross to the jaw. There isn't even a jab that lifts the head and exposes the chin. The double whammy Russia got in Kherson is not here.
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  28. Nice cope.
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  29. These drones are small, made of lightweight materials like foam and fiberglass (less radar returns), and fly slow enough that they may be filtered by Doppler radar.
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  30. Satellite pictures of Ukrainian airfields seemed to show half the missiles targeting runways missed. A dozen Kinzhal? Not that many have been used.
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  31.  @Simon-ow6td  The US went back and forth on the ICC based on the president being a Democrat or Republican. Stop acting like it's a constant policy.
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  32. >mfw Japan has F-15s and the F-2 which is based on the F-16
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  33. I don't expect riots. The US will be able to sustain Ukraine during the winter. Poland won't budge either.
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  34.  @b_traven  What is claimed without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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  35. Close air support can be done with standoff weapons.
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  36. Seems like the pressure is real - the operations into Bakmut indicate someone is getting impatient.
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  37. ​ @limedickandrew6016  Russia can't supply itself, they purchased Iranian equipment. Chinese "non-weapon" equipment too like uniforms and plate carrier vests.
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  38. ​ @overworlder How is it a copy? Blackwater was a security company. Wagner has jets, artillery, tanks, etc. To work in Blackwater you needed a security clearance. To work in Wagner convicts are fine.
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  39. ​ @gorillaguerillaDK  Academi no longer exists. It was purchased by Triple Canopy, and merged with Constellis.
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  40. Ukraine concentrating those soldiers in Zaporizhzhia would not increase combat effectiveness as they'd still need to be broken into small units to compensate for drone spotting guiding artillery fires into troop concentrations. Basically Russia needs mass to hold the line, while Ukraine needs to force battles to happen on their terms rather than massing troops and risking artillery taking them all out.
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  41.  @mrsupremegascon  You're ignoring what I said. But whatever. According to Murz, volunteer for the LPR, the separatist forces ground themselves into Ukrainian defenses, which were willing to abandon equipment and flee. They lost their combat hardened troops while Ukraine seemed to preserve theirs.
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  42. Look at the Avdiivka footage. Does that look like chess?
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  43. Trucks are still less efficient, and the M14 highway can still be cut.
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  44.  @pietrotettamanti7239  They're taking 20 year olds too.
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  45. They couldn't hold the bridgehead because they depleted the Kharkiv front to fill Kherson with manpower. They increased their resource consumption rate, and Ukraine struck their resource supply rate. If Ukraine has a force properly sized to match the supply, they cannot be driven out the same way.
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  46. A magnesium block of hexagonal cross section, it does look like a very tall screw nut.
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  47. Quote mining. Speaking of the Austrian painter, he also started a war to protect German speakers.
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  48. Takes manpower to build and man those defenses.
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  49. The IMF cannot audit the Russian economy. They have to use figures provided by Rosstat which is a Russian government agency.
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  50.  @HiLasse  But the US doesn't disregard the ICC. It was George W. Bush and Trump who backtracked prior policy to join the ICC.
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  51. Putin: sends troops to cut off Kiyv from the border by taking the highway and assassins to get Zelensky
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  52. ​ @brownmold  And then were invaded in 2014. They only sought NATO membership when Russia built up on their borders.
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  53. There's open source tracking of UA losses too. Russians will post footage whenever they can. Drone footage shows vehicle wrecks, by using dating and geolocation you can find wrecks that were not on that place in previous videos.
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  54. The artillery advantage is counterbalanced by shell supplies (Wagner always needed more), barrel life, lower quality spotting due to Russian EW affecting Russian Mavic drones too.
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  55. ​ @teosal3224  Bakhmut was a 9 month battle. Spanned more than one season.
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  56. One side deliverately picked a strategy of placing as many civilians in the crossfire as possible. We're reaching the point people would argue we shouldn't have fought Nazi Germany because there were civilians in the way.
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  57. They won't need to retake Bakhmut.
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  58.  @tomk3732  Size is irrelevant. Also, don't use mercator projection to measure Russia.
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  59.  @skip123davis  The F-4 was designed for carrier ops and it did fine in USAF service. It's always easier to use a carrier fighter on land than a ground based fighter at sea.
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  60. ​ @Princip666  You don't have an argument, you just say things and expect others to believe. How is Turkey related?
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  61. Spare us the crocodile tears Alexey, if China annexes your homeland are you gonna flee or fight? And if you say fight, will you fight alone when everyone flees?
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  62. ​ @kkarx  Do we score soccer games by who has more kicks? The ball has to hit the net. Misses don't count.
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  63. MacGregor (not McGregger) has done interviews for RT in the past. He is a Russian asset.
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  64. Except that didn't happen. That's cope. The photographic evidence makes it clear Ukrainian attackers force Rusdians to retreat through a killzone and bombard their escape route. Highways of death scenes out of Izium and Lyman.
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  65. Russia is in a bad position. Hence the turtle tanks, golf carts and motorbikes.
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  66.  @Pierluigi_Di_Lorenzo  Most troops are not "equipped" (they have uniform, boots, and shoot once a year) and they're fed in mess halls. Cooking food at the mess hall delivered by contracted suppliers isn't the same as shipping out stockpiles of fresh food for field kitchens or cases full of rations to eat in the field.
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  67. ​ @thc6664  "NATO is paper target" "NOOO NATO IS ON MY BORDER HELP!"
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  68. ​ @andzzz2  How is Russia conserving its forces? They burned through DPR and LPR men like crazy. They had elite units in the VDV and naval infantry rebuilt multiple times. The prisoner battalions got it the worst.
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  69. The mud is tough to fight and live in, not just move. You want a mud season vehicle? It's called an aircraft. Fight from above while the enemy is stuck in the muck.
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  70. ​ @Princip666  it's relevant. The Soviet Union was stronger than Russia, and even they hit the pain threshold.
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  71. They didn't leave at night, they drew troops back for weeks among civilians. That's how they successfully crossed. The last men to cross had to do it under shelling, video of that surfaced.
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  72. Exactly. This terrible waste is why we need to end the Russian state.
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  73. The 300k are the new Third Army Corps. Kadyrovites are on Russian TV saying that Russia must mobilize again.
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  74.  @Pnumi  I don't understand. A Kadyrovite went on TV to say they need to mobilize again for Ukraine. Why are you writing nonsensical fanfiction?
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  75. Zelensky can only work with what he has. Putin is the one who has the power to start and stop the war. Ukraine cannot go on the offensive and invade Russia. Making a video with the opposite perspective would be pointless.
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  76. 300.000 trucks drivers don't make up for lack of trucks.
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  77. Already heard that one March 2022. Get something new.
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  78. Typically geolocated footage.
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  79. Not only did they do photo ops with released convicts, some of them went straight back to crime and got arrested again.
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  80. The DPR and LPR are staffed with Russian nationals mobilized for the war. Murz, LPR volunteer since the original Donbas war, said last year they were already scrapping the bottom of the barrel by conscripting wounded and mentally ill men.
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  81. Ukraine didn't get through integration with Europe like Poland did, and was stuck with the costs of Chernobyl.
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  82. The false flag theory was immediately brought up in Russia, then suppressed ("Ryazan sugar").
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  83. ​ @blousesarebest No. Blackwater was reformed as Xe, Academi, then purchased by Triple Canopy. The last time the name Blackwater had relevance was when some investors purchased the trademark to make a line of ammunition after it.
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  84. An invasion force which is depleting in terms of equipment and playing away from home field is viewed negatively. I'm sorry, if the US Army in Iraq had been forced back into Saudi Arabia would that be seen positively?
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  85. ​ @kimwelch4652  When you say civilian bombing didn't work in the US-Iraq war that is an implied accusation that civilian bombing was a tactic used.
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  86. ​ @BojanPeric-kq9et  The people "armed with cameras" had RPG-7s. You only watched the Wikileaks footage, not the pictures taken on the ground of the weapons recovered in the area. The person with a camera was filming an attack on US soldiers, that's what the Apache was responding to.
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  87.  @championknife  lmao we've seen the craters in Donetsk point towards the East. The dummies manning the mortars and artillery are firing rounds that go short over Donetsk.
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  88. What's the range on those bombs? How many Sukhois did Russia lose when they tried that stunt in Avdiivka? Those glide bombs get 11 Sukhois swatted out of the skies in a couple of weeks. You want to fly them deeper into Ukrainian territory?
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  89. NATO plays by Russia's tune.
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  90. ​ @spxram4793  there was an incident where a Russian aircraft fired a missile at a British intelligence aircraft over the Black Sea. The air space over the sea can be used, which means it has to be patrolled.
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  91. HistoryLegends was pro-Russia for a while and he walked back when Ukraine started recapturing territory. Don't take him for an unbiased source.
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  92. Well, several times Russian milbloggers have complained about Ukraine preserving officers and NCOs so their casualties are mostly replaceable, while Russia loses officers and junior command along with their privates. They say Ukraine's army is degraded from fighting but retains quality, while their own army degrades from fighting but also loses quality over time.
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  93. I can say I have sources who saw Hersh getting paid by the Kremlin. A few years ago a Der Spiegel journalist who won a Pulitzer prize admitted to faking a story. Even the mighty have fallen.
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  94. The outcome is the same - it will just happen quicker.
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  95. They did. No NATO in Eastern Germany.
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  96. This is false. Private military contractors never did the heavy lifting, and they were paid much more than a regular soldier. The reason they saw fighting was because they protected infrastructure and people insurgents wanted to attack/kidnap. They were not hired to replace the armed forces, in fact they operated close to the coalition forces and even received air support for Army helicopters.
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  97. Yes, when a Democrat is president.
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  98. If it's nothing, why are they asking Belarus for training? Artillery? HIMARS has degraded the ammo stockpiles and counterbattery is silencing Russian guns. Aviation? Falling out of the sky.
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  99.  @irahoppe3632  Richard Thompson said anyone who supports freedom and democracy should be supporting Ukraine. You're changing the subject by trying to bring undemocratic countries to the table. By the way, you're ignoring an issue - the legitimately elected government were the ones who "coup'd" against Yanukovych. The parliament held a vote to strip the president of his powers because he fled the country, vacating the seat. The parliament had politicians. They're the democratically elected government, because people vote for them and their parties. How can you claim the legitimately elected government was coup'd when the legitimately elected politicians did what politicians do - vote on an issue? By the way, the president at the time was Yanukovych - he had his electoral victory in 2004 overturned by the Ukrainian supreme court due to irregularities. Yanukovych engaged in ballot stuffing and voter intimidation. He used the criminal justice system to charge his political rivals and detain them. So Yanukovych's rule can't be counted as a democracy even though he was elected. He was anti-democratic to the point of engaging in election fraud.
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  100. ​ @Princip666  Why is Russia using North Korean shells and cold war tanks if sanctions don't work?
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  101. Russia tried to encircle Bakhmut instead of fighting through, Ukraine reinforced the flanks and forced Russia to fight where they didn't originally want - in street to street fighting. Now that Russia has taken the town, Ukraine is advancing on the flanks. It's fundamentally an unequal play.
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  102. Russia's military production is bringing T-55s from deep storage.
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  103. The flaw in your logic is that you think that such ratios are static. If abandoning 2:1 areas causes 3:1 areas to instead become 1:3 because abandonments gave Russia new points of entry for maneuver, you actually lose the fight.
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  104. Uh, no. Before mobilization there was "shadow mobilization". Russia voluntold businesses to gather their men and voluntell them to serve. State factories had recruitment quotas last year. That's your kontraktniki - men useful for the workforce. Several regions in Russia have complained about the lacked of skilled laborers who could repair infrastructure and services.
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  105. ​ @macilowiecki9158  But Russian artillery is incredibly wasteful.
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  106. Are children defined as actual children or just under 18? One time I saw a statistic about children being victims of gun violence in America and they counted up to 21 years old.
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  107. WWI had tens of thousands of KIA per day during the fiercest battles. This is nothing like that.
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  108. Been hearing that for two years.
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  109. Air superiority when neither side can achieve it is meaningless. Air superiority wasn't necessary in the 1800s.
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  110. Lmao
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  111. I heard the rumor that the next step would not be attacking Russian soil but sinking Russian fleets.
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  112. ​ @RudeCorona  Mediazona is only counting obituaries and social media posts. How many have nobody back home, or asked loved ones to keep their death out of the public eye? How many have elderly parents who can't make a VK post? How many are still in the mud and considered missing?
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  113. They deployed 120 BTGs out if 170 (Shoigu, 2021).
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  114. Yes. They're destroying their own army.
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  115. Didn't happen north of Kiev, didn't happen in Kharkiv, didn't happen after Ukraine ignored the referenda and continued to capture territory.
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  116. They gained ground and then lost it last year. Germany almost reached Moscow in WW2.
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  117. Are the 11 brigades enough firepower?
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  118. There were no fortifications in Kiev and Russia still got beat there.
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  119. ​ @FreedomFox1  Arestovych is somewhat of a nutter.
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  120. Taking out Sukhois? Russians lost 11 in two weeks. Releasing the bomb requires high altitude which exposes the aircraft to SAMs.
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  121. Copium withdrawls are a mess.
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  122. When the enemy shoots at you, you fire back. What's the issue?
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  123. "Russia is still attacking on several fronts" - trying to do what? Reach the Ukrainian's kill limit so that they stop fighting?
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  124. ​​ @skip123davis  Finland, Switzerland, Canada and Australia use F-18s as land based fighters.
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  125. He's been constantly wrong since Feb 2022. He's a terrible analyst.
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  126. ​ @mossydog2385 You don't need to operate from austere runways if your air space is defended. The Gripen was built under the assumption that Sweden would be by default overrun in terms of air power, so they'd wage guerrilla in the air. The American philosophy of fighter design is to simply overwhelm the enemy air force by shooting it down.
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  127. Turboprop planes are cheaper to operate but often not fast enough. And most do not have radar systems. Aircraft radars must draw power from a gearbox connected to the jet engine shaft (much like a car's alternator) so powerful jet engines are required. Turboprop engines are somewhat on the smaller size except for large cargo planes.
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  128. Trump only has cultists by his side now, and Trump would make it seem like giving Ukraine aid was his idea to begin with.
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  129. The Russian population? Putin conscripted them. They're gone. The DPR and LPR forces are now staffed by Russian nationals mobilized from Russia to fight in Ukraine. Russians used them as meat shields.
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  130. ​ @toto-yf8tc  Kosovo was an autonomous region within Yugoslavia. Also, Serbs took UN peacekeepers hostage.
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  131. ​ @abrakadavra3193  disease that pushes people with 3 comorbidities off the edge doesn't really affect the same demographics
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  132. Ritter is a convicted pedophile and MacGregor has been on RussiaToday. He's a Russian asset.
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  133. You may not care about the costs. But you're paying them still. You can say you do not care for the loss of tanks and men. What happens when you need them and they're not there?
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  134. *losing Learn English, brother.
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  135. Russia was deploying HIV positive soldiers summer 2022. So basically Russia is a year ahead of Ukraine in terms of being in trouble.
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  136.  @joshuapaul2022  Sneed.
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  137.  @redraptor9688  the DPR assaulted Debaltseve the day after Minsk II was signed
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  138. Satellites cannot direct artillery. It would take too long to get updates.
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  139.  @nihluxler1890  We all know people had to walk uphill to school and back. Things were always harder in the old days. But that makes us soft today. It's no longer the old days.
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  140. They were supposed to be defensive missiles. Instead the US just put ships in place to launch the defensive missiles.
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  141. Ukraine hasn't done such thing. A man with delusions of grandeur created Mozart PMC to offer training and medical evacuation as a paid service. He is considered a scammer and an attention seeker, because last I heard the Ukrainians stopped paying him.
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  142. Lavrov looks more like him.
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  143.  @Princip666  Yes. They were fighting a much easier opponent and had access to a lot more military power.
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  144. Not really. Panic buying now means less sales in the future when everyone is stocked up. The Cold War surplus being sent was paid off ages ago.
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  145.  @Jeroen_Maes  There were several breaches in the frontlines.
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  146. Territory is a function of what both sides can take and hold. Russia's attacks show they want the territory, the glacier pace of the line advances show what's happening to Russians in said attacks. They're not coming back.
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  147. 1) NATO "expansion" was basically forced by Eastern Europe trying to get protection from Russia after Transnistria and Chechnya. 2) Putin wrote (or had ghostwritten) an essay about what to do with Ukraine. 3) Even if the West pushed for the summer offensive, they actually thought it would succeed. Like the Germans saying "just go around the minefields" suggested they actually knew very little.
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  148. The munitions are enhanced by the platform. Compare a Soviet RWR to the F-16 RWR situational awareness page. If you need to climb with a MiG-29 to release a bomb, your RWR will beep and give a very rough direction of the threat(s). Cockpit video from the Russian side simply shows multiple amber lights turning on when they climb, meaning the RWR is just saying "there's radar in all directions, good luck". Meanwhile the F-16 not only has a much finer direction of the threat it also gives you the kind of radar and assigns a threat ring to notify the pilot of which radars are more likely to start firing. If you need to drop a bomb, which platform would you take?
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  149.  @StillRooney  This. The "milbloggers" are the sports commentators of war for the couch warmonger. They started to say the team is losing, the coach is incompetent, the board of directors are all wearing golden parachutes and willing to destroy the whole thing. Suddenly people start asking questions.
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  150. Remarks are one thing. Actions are another. As they say, words are cheap. If we took words at face value, then Ukrainians are also guilty of genocide over things they have said about Russia.
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  151. The fact that you quoted the ruble value shoots down all your credibility.
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  152. Drones can't win battles yet. You still need the infantry to do their job, and infantry needs their metal boxes.
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  153.  @tellyboy17  But other systems aren't obsolete. Just like infantry wasn't rendered obsolete by the machine gun. No matter what the enemy has, you still need that metal box on wheels or tracks to get you within firing range of the enemy position. That makes them by definition not obsolete, as they still have a role and can't be replaced. Drones are targets too. Thousands are downed per month.
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  154.  @tellyboy17  But drones are targets. They get shot down or brought down with EW. Without the metal boxes, you catch a FPV drone directly to your meat and bones. I'd rather take it on the steel protecting me.
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  155. ​ @SuperPopopirat  The truth of a NATO stronghold in Ukraine? Was Hitler hiding in the dark side of the moon too? How many Boris Johnsons were captured?
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  156.  @vn3353  Artillery advantage doesn't mean anything. Empty fields in Ukraine are cratered like the Moon surface because Russian artillerymen used their "superiority" to blanket entire grid squares no matter their value.
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  157. It's an idea, but not an ideology.
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  158. 8-9 months would be a "short" war in the grand scheme of things.
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  159. If your enemy is attriting itself, it's a good idea. It doesn't matter how much you bench if we can all see you getting whooped in the ring.
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  160.  @Pierluigi_Di_Lorenzo  How so? I see Russians all the time, Ukrainians are constantly filming them with drones.
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  161. And that population is only women and elderly because Putin conscripted the men. That population is effectively gone. Russia used them as meat.
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  162. Sounds like fanfiction.
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  163. Sounds like fanfiction.
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  164. Russians 10 months ago: "How is Ukraine winning when they lose all this territory?" Russians now: "It's not about territory."
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  165. ​ angelabronckhurst6849 the air support was Russian, not Wagner. Wagner used surface to air missiles.
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  166. If the use of a nuclear weapon now is irrational, and he does it anyway, that means you're inherently dealing with someone who's going to nuke you eventually.
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  167. Ritter the pedo or MacGregor the Russia Today asset?
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  168. ​ @dattatrayalimaye2756  "if you hate nazis they'll tell you Ukrainians are nazis. If you hate jews they'll tell you Ukrainians are jews" - Timothy Snyder
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  169. ​ @stevenobrien557  do Saudis have to wear suits or do the white robes suffice?
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  170. Mercouris is a disgraced lawyer who got disbarred over blatant fraud. Why should his voice matter?
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  171. MacGregor has done interviews for RT, and last year he predicted a defeat of Ukraine in April 2022.
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  172.  @peteriscurious  I don't care who he is. He thinks Russia should be allied with the US against China. This is a delusional proposition some people hold onto. He can be as patriotic as he wants - he just keeps embarrassing himself in his attempts to glorify Russia.
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  173. Chinese artillery shows up on counterbattery radar just like Russian artillery. Return to sender works independently of nationality.
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  174.  @ezekielbrockmann114  Doesn't matter how many shells China produces when artillerymen can't regrow limbs.
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  175. ​ @paulbaumer8210  NATO production of 155mm can cover needs because naval and air power debilitates the enemy before boots on the ground, requiring less artillery. If you want to mess with NATO, you're going to first be hit with Tomahawks, B-2s, F-35s, etc. and not 155mm.
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  176. Say what you want about Hideo Kojima, but the man is a visionary. He predicted the modern internet in MGS2 and now the self-sustaining war economy.
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  177. Great comment. Gen. Schwarzkopf also rejected plans to rush Baghdad and depose Saddam due to concerns with angering the Arab allies for destabilizing the region.
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  178. The problem is that the cauldron is exhausting Russia. It's a bet to see who can keep his hand in the stove, but Russia is covered in gasoline.
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  179. What we're doing? The fudge does that even mean?
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  180. Most of the Russian population lives in Moscow and St. Petersburg. There's labor shortages because delivering food through apps in the cold is preferable to factory work for the urbanites. They won't even work to manufacture shells, they'll somehow want to fight?
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  181. The defenses are just a way to delay and line up the enemy for ATGMs and artillery. Russian telegrams actually criticized how poorly built the defenses were. They're hard to cross because they are under fire. But the construction was awarded to civilian contractors rather than military engineers.
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  182.  @andrewpease3688  What's the point of solid defenses when they're built on the wrong side of a slope? The Telegram post by Rusich (who are rabid haters of Ukrainians) has detailed explanations of defenses that make no sense. What's the point of a fortified shooting position if you're looking at dirt? The enemy will use the slope as terrain masking and get close enough to shoot at you inside your defenses. You know how in the Normandy landing scenes in videogames and movies the Germans have bunkers with slits facing the beaches so they can shoot? You build those on elevation and facing the beach. Not on low ground and facing a rock wall. It's an extreme example but just trying to make a point. A thick steel door. Okay. That's good anti-theft stuff. Not really what's gonna save people from artillery, FPV drones, etc.
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  183.  @jimmyc974  That didn't happen. Only 21 deaths occurred in 2021, and less than 100 deaths for most of the 2010s. Only 2014 and 2015 had over a thousand deaths, and most were combatants. Most civilian deaths were from landmines or unexploded ordnance.
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  184. ​ @DCresident123  Azov changed their logos. Ever heard of that? Bot.
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  185. Russia could leave today if they wanted.
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  186. Any sales made now are sales that won't be made in a few years. Countries are panic buying, once they get their fill they will just stick with that equipment for decades to come.
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  187.  @RobertFromEarth  Okay. Ammunition stocked today will be stored for years. Explosives and propellant can last a long time, and then sent back to be refurbished instead of new stuff being purchased. Growing their military capacity? Buying new tanks to replace old tanks. Buying new jets to replace old jets. If the war didn't happen, maybe they'd wait another 5 years. Now they place the orders now, and won't have to buy in the future. If you go grocery shopping for the whole week today, you won't go this Sunday. So your local grocery store gets your money today, but won't get it next Sunday. Huge profits are made when you purchase today, and then Sunday. But Sunday you won't need groceries because they last a few days.
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  188. He did not fall. He jumped head first.
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  189. Bravo Putin! Destroyer of Russia, doom of the Federation! I wonder if Muscovites will hate him more than Gorbachev.
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  190. Russia's fight is proportional to what they can muster. Shell the incoming forces? The spotters are KIA/captured/retreat which means no accurate targeting on moving forces. Ammo supplies affected by HIMARS. Counter-battery is giving their artillerymen hell. If you actually look at the roads out of Izium and Lyman, the scenario you are describing is what Ukraine is doing to Russia. You should look it up. Not while you're eating, though.
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  191. ​ @geofflepper3207  Late 1800s? It was the Ottoman Empire then.
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  192.  @kimwelch4652  What does that have to do with "bombing civilians" as a tactic?
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  193. The Slovenian T-55s are upgraded with systems that bring it to 1990s standard.
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  194. Because to Russia Ukraine isn't a war, it's a conflict like Syria. It happens "over there". Milbloggers are a window to the frontlines that allow the interested to follow current events. Milbloggers are invested in how the army is doing, and they're realizing the Russian armed forces are plagued with issues. And started to talk about it because they saw how bad things were. They're telling the interested demographic that the Russian army can't fight a conventional war and thus the entire state apparatus of the Russian Federation is useless. These "true believers" boost the tacit consent for Putin's rule. If Putin can't even protect Russia from NATO, then why does the public allow him to rob the population blind in exchange for security from external threats?
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  195. Benefit of playing with home field advantage.
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  196. Russia failed in the winter.
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  197.  @ramonjr.deluna9584  Remember Afghanistan? Remember the first Chechen War? Remember the Battle of Tsushima? Russia has been beat. Remember Kiev? Russia lost in winter.
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  198. He also stated that Ukraine would collapse April 2022. He lied.
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  199. If you read what the Russian milbloggers are posting, it's not a failure. They're already saying it's going to be another Kherson.
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  200.  @ggergger8584  Just like Kherson was Russia forever, then after months of fighting they left in about a week.
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  201. F-16s were used in Operation Opera.
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  202. Prigozhin only became a threat because he failed.
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  203. Gripens are just as expensive as F-35s.
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  204. That would help if they weren't grinding themselves. The footage is out there.
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  205.  @toto-yf8tc  Are you missing the point? In Zaporizhzhia the defensive line is enforced by artillery. Trying to go on the offensive with large concentrations of force makes them vulnerable. So now that Ukraine is spreading out the forces and doing smaller assaults, they don't need a large concentration of men. But Russia still needs manpower concentrated, or else a repeat of Kharkiv happens.
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  206. The issue is tying those actions to a deliberate and systematic campaign. Meanwhile the removal of children to be raised as Russian is 100% a smoking gun evidence of intent to erase Ukrainians.
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  207. How doesn't it make sense? After taking Bakhmut the Russian army would have options. Right now, they don't. They either assault Bakhmut, or suffer debacles like in Vuhledar. Ukraine could pull out of Bakhmut. But then Russia could recover. Remember how after Severodonetsk they needed an operational pause? Well, now they're in need of a pause. But they have to keep fighting. From Ukraine's perspective, Russia is falling on its own sword at Bakhmut so it's worth to hold it instead of fighting elsewhere.
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  208. Almost no wars had air supremacy. Only situations like intervention in the Balkans allowed for it.
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  209. ​ @charlygriffin2828  Air superiority is the ability to conduct air operations with minimal regard for the enemy air force. Russia fires missiles from inside its own borders, drops glide bombs 70km away from the front and does rocket volleys with Mi-8s and Su-25 before running back towards safety. Air superiority is more like the US in Iraq, where American aircraft flew over Iraq despite them having fighters and air defenses. Air superiority is the enemy basically lacking an air force.
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  210. Fit for military service during peacetime is not the same as fit for duty in wartime. I think that during the Iraq war the US opened up recruitment to 39 years of age as the upper limit for some MOS. In many countries during peacetime after 25 they'll tell you to GTFO of the recruitment office unless you have a college degree.
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  211. So if they attack without saying, get slaughtered and immediately turn back, there's no offensive? Because they didn't say it? Why would they say anything? To let Ukraine be ready?
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  212. On a private plane sure, but in airliners you can crawl into the fuel tank.
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  213. ​ @Wargasm54  The eastern "expansion" was in 1989 when GERMANY reunified. NATO agreed not to build up on Poland's border and create a new face-off at the iron curtain. NATO could NOT expand into the Warsaw Pact. The promise made in 1989 in regards to Germany was kept to today. The Bundeswehr inherited the East German army bases but NATO is stationed in the former West Germany.
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  214. Untrained men who will get even more substandard equipment.
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  215.  @david126691  You said it was a low cost measure and that they did the heavy lifting. Do you understand how that is contradicted? PMCs were expensive to employ, and did almost nothing to contribute to the military aspect of the conflict.
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  216. Eastern Europe being an extension of Yugoslavia is a wild concept.
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  217. Does that mean Russia will be winning soon?
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  218. The DPR violated Minsk II by assaulting Debaltseve. It's Russia pumping volunteers through Wagner and Redut.
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  219. Russia released Azov in exchange for one of Putin's friends. Those who died to "destroy" Azov under Putin's orders had their lives thrown away by the Bunker Tsar himself.
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  220.  @irahoppe3632  the well known democracies of Iraq and Afghanistan....
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  221.  @irahoppe3632  That's not what I said. Read the thread from the top.
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  222. You also fail to mention that the defense of Bakhmut was what got Progozhin and Wagner out of the way, and also spared cities that would have been fought over if Bakhmut had been abandoned. Russia got absolutely nothing out of Bakhmut after it was portrayed as the key to unlock further advances. The supply hub, remember?
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  223. Considering how much drone footage of Russian deaths I've watched, they're probably undercounted.
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  224. I think that when you drive past 90km/h you're just burning fuel to get to the destination faster.
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  225. Pretty much all new PMs say that. Theresa May was also asked that question.
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  226. ​ bimmebeau  The A-10 is a flawed aircraft meant for Vietnam that had to be brute forced into a different role. Armor is losing relevancy as missiles simply slice aircraft in half instead of worrying about how well armored each half is, it's not cheap to buy as the original A-10 is severely outdated so a modern A-10C should be 50-60 million a piece, and it's tough to maintain as evidenced by the billion dollar Boeing contracts to make parts for it. Most of the anti-armor kills came from Maverick missile, which other aircraft also carry. It refuses to die because Arizona representatives make money off it. It would be near useless in Ukraine.
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  227. The Hill just platforms all the concern-trolls and anti-establishment voices who decided to be against Ukraine on a whim.
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  228. Coping is bringing up a pyrrhic victory to try an argue that an attacker forced into street to street fighting took less casualties than the defenders.
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  229. ​ @grahamstrouse1165 small drones have a very short lifespan in Ukraine. If the next conflict has better anti-drone capabilities they'll be toast.
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  230.  @NzTings  You really asking about Avdiivka after the Russians got massacred and it was all caught in 4k?
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  231.  @NzTings  Putting your fingers in your ear and going la-la-la. Russia got slaughtered, maybe worse than in Vuhledar. Why are you cheering for the death of your brothers?
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  232.  @NzTings  Encircled by corpses.
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  233.  @sleezerbarbarossa6080  Why will Russia prevail? With all those dead men, the federation will crumble.
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  234. ​ @minimax9452 Western bloggers and companies can't force more Russians to the front to keep the war going. Warlords can. There's a difference between a journalist reporting on fires, and setting fires to collect insurance money.
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  235. The coalition stopped when they faced resistance and split forces to continue deep advances unopposed. Iraqi forces set themselves in defensive rings but the coalition refused to take the bait and simply pressed forward towards the political centers of gravity. Had the US/UK/AUS/Poland engaged in heavy city fighting to capture each city, they'd have taken massive losses. But the coalition fought smart. Russia is incapable of doing so.
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  236. There's some reports Iran completely overstated the performance capabilities of their drones.
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  237. Unthinkable. By that logic we could declare a referendum in Moscow and we already know the results, we'll nuke Russia if they don't give up. Nobody can allow such a precedent because it threatens the entire world.
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  238. Because the point of surrounding territory with cannons is taking it. If you can't do anything, that either says you're incompetent, or the cannons are not firing.
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  239. Weapons contractors can't force Russia to keep fighting. Only Russians with influence could force the fight to keep going for profit. Weapons contractors can only ride the wave and do nothing when it ends.
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  240. ​ @b12n23  The successful tactical retreat was an outcome that handed Ukraine victory on a silver platter. Kharkiv was undermanned to avoid giving up Kherson. Then Kharkiv was attacked. And looking at a losing fighting, Russians gave up Kherson. They gave up Kharkiv to not give up Kherson. They gave up Kherson. Let this sink in.
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  241.  @b12n23  They didn't burn through. Most of the captured materiel ended up being in unrepairable condition. Some of the captured tanks were on repair depots without parts. Some were missing engines. The photos show open engine bays with nothing in them.
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  242. It all depends on what you think will yield the best results. Rip the bandaid off and make sure those coffins arrive in Moscow and St Petersburg at once, or let them trickle in and allow the population to get accustomed to losses.
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  243.  @pietrotettamanti7239  20 year olds who served but did nothing worthwhile. Conscripts did even less. Read the "Z O V" document by a former Russian paratrooper who defected. He says even contract soldiers get no training, he had to bother his superiors to let his unit to go the range.
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  244. Keep huffing that copium, bot.
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  245.  @macilowiecki9158  Any satellite picture of Ukrainian fields show vast empty landscapes pockmarked with craters. Russians were shooting at nothing. There's also the constant begging for ammo.
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  246. There's hundreds of interviews and testimonies like that from Russian soldiers. Everyone is bound to have a bad day in bad events like wars. You think the Russian soldiers lined up in formation visited by the tungsten rain were happy? Nah, they were lined up and shot with a guided missile as the gunman.
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  247. Because Democrat presidents show willingness to recognize the court while Republican presidents backtrack. Welcome to democracy.
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  248.  @td6460  If the deal you're giving me is "showers" vs "Russian defeat" I will slam the Russian defeat button 10/10 times. You really think you can threaten me with a shower?
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  249.  @dughallhalliday1713  the US has SEAD/DEAD doctrine to handle SAMs. The batteries are saturated with cruise missiles, drone decoys, jamming, glide bombs and HARMs. Same as in Iraq 1991.
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  250. Not under noses - everyone was talking about a retreat two weeks ago, it was the Russian shills who helped with the fog in the public sphere. A Russian can't drop a cigarette in Kherson without all the NATO ISR knowing it.
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  251. If Russia has the advantage in firepower, that results in the frontline moving. Because they can't, either shelling is reduced due to strained supplies, or the firepower is wasted by misses.
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  252. ​ @szolanek  Bookmark this page and put it on your calendar. I want to see what you have to say then.
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  253. ​ @asdf3568 The Russians used Minsk II to attack Debaltseve the day after it was signed. The only thing Putin's signature is worth for is getting a chance to blow hos brains out.
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  254.  @asdf3568  If Serbia didn't want the bombs they should have left it alone. And Putin himself used it to buy time - the thirty seconds it took to distract everyone from an incoming attack.
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  255.  @tellyboy17  There's video of a BMP-1 running over a cone, it actually jumps into the air.
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  256. Yes. They won't recruit from them because it's the deal with the devil - protect the regime and you stay safe from war. The moment the regime sends them to die they're gonna step aside and let it fall.
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  257. They're already on both banks of the river up north, in Zaporizhzhia.
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  258. The last Russian will be gone first.
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  259. Wagner isn't officially the army.
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  260. ​ @alexchr380  If you directed the Earth to rotate around Jupiter instead, I would say it's impossible to understand what you are trying to do.
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  261. They've been pretty accurate.
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  262. They are in a rush because they are. Nothing seems to indicate calm, the battlefield videos show Russia is desperate for a win.
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  263. What is a full swing of an institution based on grifting? Meanwhile in the real world, Russian servicemen are discussing on telegram how bad North Korean ammo is.
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  264. If North Korea and Iran stop sending Russia munitions, this is over too.
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  265. Soldiers serve the state, mercenaries serve the company.
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  266.  @valentinursu1747  It's supposed to mean that technically Wagner employees can finalize their contract. It's one of the reasons why one would even want a PMC contract - you fight for X amount of time and then leave. If you get mobilized, you get sent to the front until you expire. Wagner is high risk, high reward. The Russian military is medium risk, no reward. You're trapped in the war until it ends.
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  267. I can find you examples of Ukrainian troops saying much worse. People can say vile stuff as a way to hype themselves and others for a fight, but still conduct themselves properly in warfare.
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  268. Patriots are to be used against missiles, not drones.
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  269. Scott Ritter, you mean the man who served time in prison for prowling for minors online? Get out of here with your Duginist nonsense.
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  270.  @macilowiecki9158  An intelligence officer. Which means he can't actually use his skills because nobody gives him any intelligence as he's retired. Then worked for the UN. Which is irrelevant here. He's been constantly wrong since the start. He's not a good source.
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  271.  @macilowiecki9158  Those contacts need to be immediately arrested for leaking classified information, then. Especially to a convicted felon. He doesn't explain anything. He makes up stuff, and then gets proven wrong. I'm not clouded by emotions, I'm "clouded" by his predictions being wrong.
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  272. Shut up, bot
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  273. ​ @kodax2  Russia? Tons of pics of elderly folks mobilized from the separatist republics.
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  274. It's a combination of overhead cover and quick response. If helicopters hover around outside MANPADS range but low enough to be masked against longer range surface to air missiles, they're hard to take out. However a fighter can fly within a few miles of the frontline and use look-down radar to destroy the helicopters. If you need to drop artillery on defensive positions you need drones to scout the frontline and call in those fire missions. A pilot with a targeting pod on his jet can perhaps see ATGM teams on infrared camera and drop a bomb on their position within minutes, without having to communicate someone else to fire and wait for them to line up the artillery pieces.
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  275. ​ @davidpax Oh they could be given computers loaded with Falcon BMS, it would have erased the Russian plane from their brains months ago.
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  276. ​ @marrs1013 No need for a shotgun, a smooth pipe is a barrel. No need for "ammo", just pre loaded cartridges. No recoil, just do like the shoulder fired weapons and use countermass. Targeting device? A Raspberry Pi with a dangle the size of a portable phone charger can do AI vision at 60 fps. Go up in the air, chase enemy drone, shoot, land back down for reload.
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  277. But the concentrations weren't that large and the bit and hold tactics worked. Russians suffered more confirmed losses in the Surovikin line than Ukrainians.
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  278.  @concernedaussie1330  How are they a better force? They had to use expendables to advance. If your force has to wear itself out BY DESIGN you're not a better force, you're just taking more casualties as a doctrine.
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  279. Spam bot
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  280.  @teosal3224  Took them 9 months. Battle of Bakhmut lasted longer than Verdun by a few weeks.
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  281. Why would he repeat the Russian side? You can get that information elsewhere. We don't need it parroted.
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  282.  @Princip666  Nobody said anything about propaganda. The point is that the complaints about "one-sided-ness" are completely unfounded. Parroting information you already got elsewhere is not a productive endeavor.
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  283. Here's the deal: we do that to recruit from Western countries, but in that case people from the same countries who posted any message in support of Russia or Putin have to be tried for treason. We also create penal battalions to go in before the Ukraine flag brigade.
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  284. MacGregor predicted Ukraine's loss in April 2022. He's just been pushing the date forward for over a year. Like a doomsday cult leader.
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  285. Cope. The US left Ukraine and said "good luck but you'll lose in three days". The US didn't want to help at all.
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  286. You can't turn a bunch of alcoholics and babushkas into warfighters.
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  287.  @limedickandrew6016  Well, considering that the alcoholics were mobilized in Russia last year, things can't be going too well.
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  288. ​ @alexanderbarkman7832  Almost all of the Hamas tunnels run along busy streets. It's nearly impossible to nail a tunnel without shaking the foundations of buildings nearby. Gaza is one big human shield. You can't drop a bomb in Gaza without hitting a human shield much like you can't go to LA and throw a rock without hitting an influencer or struggling actor.
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  289. Kek we literally have the video of the failed Russian offensives.
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  290.  @Princip666  How is it nonsense? We have the videos of armored columns busted in minefields.
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  291.  @blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311  How is it a cope? If the Kherson bridgehead is so easy to clear, why hasn't Russia done it?
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  292.  @jjmbeausoleil  What do you mean nope?
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  293.  @stevemcgowen  Trucks full of ammo or fuel?
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  294.  @stap1er  Depends entirely in warhead, fuzing and the target itself.
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  295. What a nonsense statement. Mariupol was surrounded. The choice was filtration camps or take the supposed humanitarian corridors that could be shelled (like Russia did in Syria. Bakhmut was mostly evacuated. Cities are where roads and rail lead to, and structures offer shelter. Concentrating military forces away from supply lines in the middle of open fields is illogical.
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  296.  @martstam2016  That's an insane comment. So instead of buildings, lives should have been annihilated. You're accusing others of seeing this as a football game, but you want men to take their deadly weapons and fight away from cities where they'll suffer massive casualties as soon as they're within range of artillery. Open terrain does not offer cover. The outskirts of Bakhmut have tons of trench lines. The RF take casualties there because they cross the open terrain and get clipped there. Human life is worth more than concrete. So we should use concrete jungles for protection. Urban warfare was MASSIVE in WW2. Is this an absolute joke?
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  297. Two more weeks, Zisters!
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  298. ​ @NDJ1978  You don't have an opinion. You have pre-approved lines. When you have opinions at least they make sense because you had to think about the facts and reconcile them with your beliefs. Pro-Russian stooges often are betraying their own beliefs. That's why it's not an opinion, there's no logical train of thought.
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  299. ​ @NDJ1978  WMDs were found in Iraq, this was reported a decade ago (2014) because journalists investigated the cases of US troops who came back with neurological damage from Sarin exposure. If you had any clue about the topic you wouldn't expose your ignorance with gotcha questions.
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  300. Ukrainian constitutional regulations prevent elections during martial law. How do you hold elections in a war zone?
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  301. ​ @stvrob6320  An airborne radar will track a helicopter from further away than a ground radar. Remember that the Earth is curved. The horizon physically blocks radar energy.
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  302. ​ @lethalfang  Nope. You can be inside your own SAM umbrella and get speared by an AMRAAM flung from outside SAM range. Your SAM umberella is centered around the launch vehicle, not the helicopter.
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  303. ​ @toto-yf8tc  Jan 6th had no tanks. Meanwhile Wagner shot down Russian aircraft.
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  304. ​ @austenhead5303  The Wagner convoy was bombed. They used force
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  305. ​ @harryflashman4542  NATO isn't coming. And aircraft wouldn't do anything.
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  306. ​ @harryflashman4542  Russia conscripted the people of Donbas and used them in suicide assaults. Shows how much they care.
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  307. They're long range drones. If deployed near Moscow, one would replace the fuel with more explosive payload.
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  308.  @milosmilictrob2046  Russia lost in the winter offensive.
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  309. ​ @kkarx  They're using T-62s as MBTs.
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  310. ​ @tellyboy17 F-35s already flew near S-400s, when flown by Israeli hands.
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  311.  @tellyboy17  If the S-400s can detect the F-35s, why won't they feed the intel to Syrians? Russians may not fire, but Syrians would. And Russians did say they linked the S-400 to Syrian defenses.
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  312. If Russians believe Putin's schizo ramblings, it's their funeral.
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  313. He has no source, so he made one up. There's a reason it's on substack and not any major news outlet. Jesus, just reading it reminds me of bad fanfic. Air force wants to use a bomb, CIA wants to be covert. Like characters explaining their personality traits through dialog.
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  314. Lies. Russia broke Minsk. NATO promised not to expand to the POLISH BORDER because of German reunification in 1989. The Soviet Union only fell in 1991.
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  315. Yes. Acting as glorified mall security for infrastructure, or as bodyguards for CEOs. They were never tasked with war objectives.
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  316. In theory the system is simple but making it reliable isn't.
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  317. Russia soaked a lot of those billions with their prison population.
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  318. Take your meds.
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  319. Weapons manufacturers can lobby for war, but not actually cause it. Warlords can just send men and fight no matter what.
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  320. The 72k number is based on the Shoigu statement to TASS, a Russian news agency. Why does MacGregor believe the numbers from the Russian Minister of Defense?
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  321. ​ @katerinacervenkova5797  Russia did one round of mobilization and many had to wait for months to get training. Ukraine does one round, training, another round, training, another round, training, etc. Ukraine knows that you can only mobilize a number you can train. Russia just mobilized everyone, then let them wait for their turn.
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  322. ​ @dr.jonas.skeppstedt  Who's going to rejoice? Families are separated due to Russia.
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  323. The EU is starting new facilities. Seems like they didn't foresee that.
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  324. ​ @stepup898  Countries like Venezuela and Zimbabwe had economic collapses and the countries didn't stop. Do you know how riddiculous it would be if an entire country came to a halt? That's farcical.
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  325.  @attilamarics4808  That was Lysychansk. Sivierodonetsk was a brutal urban battle. You constantly prove you have no idea what you're talking about.
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  326. And what do they gain by mobilizing? More untrained crews for whatever bottom of the barrel equipment they can scrape?
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  327. Some turn the muzzle on themselves. It's been filmed by spotter drone, there's like 10 videos so far of them "pressing X to follow the coward's way out" like in CoD 4.
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