Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Jake Broe" channel.

  1.  @actually5004  I hope you're getting paid because if you post this nonsense for free I pity you.
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  2.  @gratius1394  Yeah, there's no "peacetime" army, this is the army. Adding conscripts to the mix would do wonders for the numbers, but would they have to run across fields? They'd need tanks and armored vehicles to advance.
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  3.  @187Rajah  Do you just copypaste that propaganda? Are you paid or you do it for free?
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  4.  @Borat_Kazakh  We've only seen a 1 second video of a Su-24 that was absolutely torched. It was probably in a line side by side with other aircraft that probably got damaged or destroyed. There's what seemed like a fuel depot with 5 fuel trucks burned to the ground. But more interestingly, a video of a car park 500m away from the base, where there's a car with a huge metal girder shoved through the window. It didn't fall on the car. It flew straight through the side. With that much force, debris thrown into the air had to come down with a vengeance on the aircraft.
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  5. They reached the breaking point - they lucked out because the war became unpopular in the US. By their own admission the Tet Offensive broke them.
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  6. The big difference is that the Afghan war was lost by the... Afghan government. The Soviet-aligned government lost control which sent Afghanistan into a civil war. A Ukrainian victory scenario means the Ukrainian state still exists, still functions, is still able to provide emergency services and establish rule of law, etc. which offer a smoother rebuilding.
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  7. The Hawk was mostly replaced by the Patriot. Some allies which have not purchased Patriots still have Hawks.
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  8. If Belarusian troops leave the country, Lukashenko is in danger of a coup.
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  9. These are the tails from rockets with cluster submunitions. From the uneven spacing of the tail fin hinges, they're most likely from the Uragan 9M27K series. When the cluster warhead releases the payload, the tail section piledrives into the ground. That's why in the early days we saw a lot of CCTV and dashcam footage of tail fins sticking themselves into the ground, sometimes reported as duds. And it's the small bomblets that explode, so if an area has been cleared of UXO the tail section is safe. However, some of the craters may have been dug with entrenching tools and the tail section planted. I don't know enough about types of soil. If they tried to fake a Ukrainian attack and pointed the tails at their own territory then we're really dealing with "special" people here. The craters in the city of Energodar of Ukraine were captured on video and those are real and point to Russian controlled territory.
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  10.  @AstroGremlinAmerican  there are many people still watching on computers without an account (at work/school libraries) or on TVs where hitting the like isn't as instinctive as on the browser ir app.
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  11.  @redkellbell6169  many people are straight up contrarians who want to see Biden fail here, or are tired of military expenditure after all the blunders (especially the Afghanistan collapse). Which are very bad reasons - even if it wasn't a moral duty to help Ukraine, we also assured them security with the Budapest memorandum.
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  12.  @eduwino151  It's a waste to fire HIMARS at grunts. It's the artillerymen who need to be on the receiving end.
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  13. It's a doubled-edged sword. They need to film and photograph everything they can that shows progress for their propaganda.
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  14. Is it interesting? It's as interesting as noticing the sky is blue.
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  15. Donetsk city has been under Russian occupation since around 2014.
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  16. ​ @Bryan-Hensley  Seems unlikely because Cuba got pissed at Russia for trying to recruit Cuban men.
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  17. ​ @richardsadventures4958  if he had done his job well, he'd at least try to salvage what was left of his dignity. He just stopped caring and puts on the clown makeup.
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  18. Yeap, looked like the images of a fire in a storage shed, seen plenty of those. Happens every summer in the countryside, metal roof collapses from the heat.
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  19.  @gratius1394  The capabilities of the Soviets were greatly aided by foreign aid. Lend-Lease gave the Red Army the trucks they needed, and helped their supply lines with train cars and locomotives. They also fought a Germany that had the US and allies doing trade deals to starve Germany out of strategic materials, and American/British bombers pummeled German industry. Let's re-run a simulation of the Eastern Front but this time the US aids Germany. Wouldn't be as pretty for the Soviets, would it?
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  20. Talking to Serb nationalists online, I get the sense they know Russian barbarism because they cheer it and even mimic it.
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  21. Plot twist: they need Viktor Bout to ask him where the nukes are.
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  22.  @johnhaller5851  "The Chinese were able to blind the F16 radar" - That's not how it works in real life.
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  23. ​ @DevineAbyss  You know, in most of the Western world aviation was connected to naval tradition. The men crossing seas on airplanes had to navigate like sailors as GPS didn't exist. So in aviation altitude is in feet, distance in nautical miles and speed is in knots. The former Soviet nations and China famously use metric. Because they're the exception. Everyone else uses feet. It's not confusing or dangerous. The only accident I can think of had nothing to do with pilots but ground crews confusing pounds and kilograms of fuel.
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  24. I saw a meme that was Russian girls with a camera: "I'm going to start an onlyfans" Russian boys with a camera: "This message is directed to the Minister of Defense. We are out of supplies and ammunition. Our commanders are sending us into unsupported assaults. We are not mutineering or refusing to fight..."
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  25. The modern version is Americans bringing the Burger King quiosk into their bases.
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  26.  @slaninica  He was allowed to chose deportation and he came back. That's why there's a large time gap.
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  27.  @oi2837  Crimea has been the place for summer resorts since the Soviet era. Since Russia has exercised control over the land since 2014 they probably think of Crimea as Russia proper and simply ignored that there was a war 200km away.
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  28. Runways can be repaired within a few days. There's a reason Cold War anti-runway weapons usually dispersed landmines and bomblets that exploded at random intervals - dissuading crews from repairing them. The most effective anti-runway bombs even had a rocket that made them pierce through the concrete pad and explode underneath, lifting it and making the repair harder as concrete takes more time to cure.
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  29. Lend-Lease hasn't even kicked in yet.
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  30. Well, in part because Solovyov's show is intended to seed the talking points for the segment of the population watching (mostly pensioners).
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  31. If the Kerch bridge gets hit again, Russians wil not be able to fight for it no matter how much they want to keep it. Meanwhile Donetsk is still connected to Russia.
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  32.  @byrnemeister2008  "The UN doesn’t have an army" - They do have a peacekeeping force that gathers troops from several countries and puts them under UN control. They also delegate military tasks to coalitions like NATO.
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  33.  @2Aftw  Anyone who's been around for a whole knows about the finance vids, he even mentioned it a few times, you're not delivering any expose here. Lira would never post anything that damaged his case, he only let you see what he wanted you to see.
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  34. Russia sells "Urals" I believe.
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  35.  @kaboonali5466  Torture is when your decades of chain smoking catches up with you.
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  36. ​ @marymarlow3646 General Arma-getting-outta-here has exactly what to prove his worth? It's the third General with a "badass" nickname they've had. The first attack was optimistic, but Ukraine did not have proper defenses set up. This time they'll walk straight into the X.
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  37. ​ @MaximumEfficiency  So, saying the truth?
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  38. Even during the height of the Cold War soviet officers in charge who were in condition to launch refused to do it. It's not what Putin is willing to do. It's what the Navy and strategic rocket forces are willing to do.
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  39. "I'M MAKING THE MOTHER OF ALL OMELETS HERE, PUTIN. CAN'T FRET OVER EVERY DESTROYED BRIDGE."
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  40. Far too much materiel left behind and too many POWs to spring a trap.
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  41. Su-24s. Saki is a naval air base and they operate Su-30SMs and S-24Ms with the 43rd.
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  42. Isn't India demanding a massive discount? Russia loses, India profits, we get oil anyway albeit at a higher price.
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  43.  @laszlozoltan5021  Missiles burn out the rocket engine in a matter of seconds. They leave smoke trails when launched. When flying through the air they are unpowered and either falling in a ballistic arc or gliding. A ballistic missile falling at Mach 3 will just plunge and detonate without anyone seeing what happened. No smoke. No trail. Almost invisible. Even at high speeds it takes several minutes for a missile to cover large distances, and the rocket motor would have to be Saturn V sized to burn that long.
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  44. ​ @paulgibbon5991  people missed the ironic twist on your comment
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  45. ​ @ujbx  Missing the forest for the trees. The critical point was the Solidarity movement in Poland picking up steam and instead of repeating the Czechoslovakia or Hungary gameplan they decided to sit that one out because Afghanistan had exposed their military. Russia was confident in sending troops to the Baltics but not Poland. That was when the penny dropped. The Vietnam projection theory doesn't make sense. Politics ended the war rather than the war ending politics. It was the Watergate scandal which put the nail in the coffin and took away the political stability to commit to South Vietnam.
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  46. He has repeated Russian propaganda. A lot of the "lies" are twisted narratives meant to make the US look bad. Kuwait wasn't part of NATO, yet most people support what the US did to defend them.
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  47. Hi Sugar, have you watched the recent video by Dr. Mike Hawk saying that Putin soiled himself after two pints of Shandy? Just wanted to know your thoughts...
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  48. They're actually pretty good, the movie is a comedy based on a book that was written by Col. Burton himself. It was a biased tale full of self-praise. The Battle of 73 Easting during Desert Storm had two Bradleys come across T-72s in defensive positions, and they managed to kill 5 tanks on their own before help arrived.
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  49. They go online and say Ukaine did it.
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  50. 9:25 finally... what air defense is doing.
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  51. The "easy" overruning stalled. Rushing armored units ran out of fuel or got tagged by AT weapons. Russia also has no sons to spare.
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  52. Also mind the maintenance crews.
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  53. We haven't sent a fraction of what we have.
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  54. You can't point to a single lie.
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  55. The thing is that the equivalent would be backpackers in California who have relatives who set the fires.
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  56. Very few, and only people who were needed due to their military experience. Prigozhin is recruiting people with no experience as a way to amass manpower. It's a false equivalence.
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  57. It's Arizona lawmakers who keep it alive.
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  58. Accuracy and warhead type.
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  59. Half of it is on ebay, the other half was already spent on the invasion force and "shadow mobilization".
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  60. ​ @gregorymalchuk272  Direct wireless control would create a vector for hacking. So far, the US wants a human in the loop. It's one thing to get a drone hacked like that one in Iran, another is losing control over a ballistic missile.
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  61. Probably looking for minors in chat rooms.
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  62. Gordon Ramsay had an episode of the F-word about that. It's an invasive species.
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  63. Jean Pierre from Paris Oblast.
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  64. ​ @DavidRedshaw-i2h  the frozen lasagnas were better with horse meat. The European horse meat scandal forced brands to switch to cheaper beef and pork which were inferior in taste. The horse meat was fine.
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  65. ​ Justinoid  yeah and who voted for her should be embarassed
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  66. It's a weird feeling. Back then we all knew that Putin was in control and he had just switched seats to keep the facade of constitutional term limits. But we were also hopeful for the future.
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  67. Weapons exports are a very regulated market. Sellers do not want their technology to just be sent willy nilly across the world.
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  68.  @gratius1394  The Russian armed forces organization is irrelevant, they lost a ton of equipment with their "peacetime" army so their "wartime" army has to fight with stuff pulled out of storage.
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  69.  @gratius1394  You won't find volunteers in Silicon Valley, but you will in San Francisco or LA. Cities are not known for their rich population. There's plenty of people struggling in cities. Catch my drift? There's no struggling people in Moscow and St. Petersburg? Are they all Instagram models and influencers? Everyone's working on IT or finance? Who's working at Vkusno i Tochka? Who's sweeping the streets? There's no blue collar workers in the two major cities in Russia? Reservists can sign short term contracts. They can't be called into service, but they can be offered beaucoup rubles for signing up.
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  70.  @gratius1394  Contrary to your opinion, the facts on the ground are that the mechanized units suffered losses, so having your mechanized units composed of foot soldiers with no mechanization is a pretty big problem. Do you have any military experience other than ignoring Russian armored vehicle losses? They lose a couple of armored vehicles every day, and their reserve storage has a significant percentage of the vehicles in a state of disrepair. Think. Think. Your military experience taught you what "rust" and "no spare parts" means, right?
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  71. Sure, we need to get tougher on India and China by convincing them to demand even more discounts. Them bending Russia over a barrel, pun intended, is a major win.
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  72. ​ @davecollins6122  comparing Mathew Perry to what Japan did to China is a new low...
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  73. That's just Russian women. One of the top internet searches in Russia is "how to send husband to SVO?" [special military operation]
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  74. Ships carrying Russian oil will not get insurance if they are fulfilling contracts higher than the cap.
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  75. That's a meme. The pose was in front of a landmark in Kharkiv, someone photoshopped the soldiers into Belgorod to make them look like they were advancing into Russia.
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  76. ​ @LACHIVA1969  broski I hope you aren't implying the Black Sea fleet is the only fleet they have...
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  77. It's also the flag flown by the protesters when Lukashenko "won" fraudulently in 2020.
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  78. They can't, but they're doubling down. They are running in pure gambler logic now, if they keep playing they win and pay off all their debts.
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  79. I think most were converted to QF-4s to serve as targets for missiles.
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  80. ​ @hurtfixer_  Japan knew what atomic bombs were, they just did not have the means to build one. When the first one dropped in Hiroshima they estimated that the bombs were so hard to build, the US only had one. When Nagasaki was hit, that's what made them realize the US was much more advanced than they thought.
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  81. They're gonna know either way.
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  82. The F-15 is more expensive to maintain. The F-15C is an air superiority fighter, it has air to ground capability but it's focused on the air fight. The F-15E, the Strike Eagle, has better air to ground capabilities but requires a WSO in the back. The F-16 is single seat (except for B/D variants I think?) and single engine which means half the pilots required and it's cheaper to maintain since it only has one engine. Plus the F-15 was supposed to be replaced by the F-22 which was cancelled with only 178 built so the F-15 is still tasked with protecting US airspace.
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  83. If you have a pipe with running water inside a freezer, the water flows out only a few degrees colder. If you stop the water in that pipe, eventually it freezes. Mass flow is an important part of thermodynamics. As long as mass keeps flowing, you have an "infinite sink". When mass stops flowing, you have that mass exposed to freezing temps and no replenishment.
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  84. The UK also had to pay for lend-lease. It's not slavery, the reason it takes decades to pay back is precisely because the payments are kept low to not disturb the economy. There is a lot of interest in rebuildigng Ukraine so that they can pay. We don't want slaves, we want big economies.
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  85.  @horsebee1  In Iraq the Republican Guard shot down several A-10s. So it was decided the A-10 would be used against Iraqi Army units because they had less equipment and training. Armor in aircraft is meant to delay the inevitable and allow pilots to limp back. In an age where missiles can cut aircraft in half, the fact that the two halves have armor plates around the vital components means nothing
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  86. It's a meme. Those soldiers posing took the photograph in Shevchenkovo, Kharkiv. Someone used photoshop to cut the outside of the posing soldiers and put them in front of the Belgorod, Russia landmark.
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  87. It's not an empire. Poland belongs to Polish people. Estonia belongs to Estonians. Czechia belongs to the Czechs. Our former enemies on our side, shouldn't that be a good thing?
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  88. Land will be there when Russia leaves.
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  89. It's like driving a car and becoming a movie stunt driver. A few weeks you learn to drive, you'll need a stunt driving course to learn the "dangerous" stuff.
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  90.  @war1980  the USAF does not fail at close air support. They dedicate half their fleet to it. A-10s don't even perform most of CAS. F-16s and Strike Eagles are used more often.
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  91. ​ @dependent-wafer-177  They can. The problem is that you don't break agreements. You buy a Patriot and clone it, you'll also be cut off from the F-35, F-16 and attack helicopter parts. Turkey wasn't jus kicked out of the F-35 program, they were also punished in other aspects. Never bite the hand that feeds you.
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  92. Literally everyone shilling their own brand of propaganda and saying it's unbiased.
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  93. Combat medical supplies are priced fairly. A military-spec tourniquet for example is 35 bucks. Western soldiers often carry 3-4 if they can. A pack of combat gauze with quick-clotting agent is between 25-65 bucks depending on size and brand.
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  94. Free thinker, gets his news from RT and Tass lol
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  95. The depleted uranium armor is secret tech, the US does not export Abrams with that armor. Since the Abrams in storage are domestic, they need to have the uranium replaced by tungsten.
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  96. And Su-25s from both sides have been easily shot down. I don't Ukrainian pilots to risk their lives when we could give them something better.
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  97. ​ @stevenmoore3480  What good will it do to vote for either?
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  98. Well, you people keep going "Russia good" and overestimating them. Did you watch the drone videos? They're just popping themselves in the head with no hesitation. Incredible how they're conditioned to just game end themselves.
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  99. But they leave an unacceptable amount of UXO. Soldiers, farmers, etc could be maimed or killed after the areas are recaptured.
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  100. The National Guard also deploys overseas and does air defense of the country. Plenty of stuff is labeled Top Secret. Such as 90% of the leaked documents containing information that was available publically. These are not 007 level secrets, but are important for the NG to stay up to date with current events and emerging threats.
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  101. They are "extremely effective" against insurgents with no AA capability. They're even slower than the Su-25, which has suffered great losses on both sides. Simply put, dedicated support fixed-wing aircraft are obsolete with multiroles can do the same job while also dodging SAMs on the way out.
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  102. I'm sure they could. But city hall has other priorities.
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  103.  @napoleon7107  there's confirmed dead from the mobilization already
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  104.  @napoleon7107  It's not cartoonish. They need men. So they send them.
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  105. ​ @dtly50  The US did not import much oil from Iraq and Afghanistan is a terrible country to extract resources from as it's extremely difficult to move things to the closest port.
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  106. You can't breathe after tungsten carbide armor is hit or your vehicle is hit by a tungsten carbide penetrator either. The dust is a heavy metal and carcinogenic. Any modern sabot tank round or modern armor is bad for your health if you inhale the specks thrown into the air by the impact.
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  107. Some of the aircraft were parked in the revetments, which helps preventing the damage from spreading. However, debris falling down could have still damaged them. There was a video of a structural girder that was tossed into the air and fell on a parked car outside the base.
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  108. We also have Command & Conquer cutscenes courtesy of Prigozhin and Strelkov.
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  109. I could tell he kickboxed, that's a warmup routine in many kickboxing gyms.
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  110. ​ @dixonpinfold2582  No, "used to be paid by Putin until last year" far-right.
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  111. HIMARS is that accurate. I think Excalibur 155mm shells for tube artillery is that accurate too.
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  112.  @chameleonvr4  That's an awful thing to say.
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  113.  @Normalguy1690  No. Mobilization would give them more cannon fodder, but do they have enough weapons and uniforms? Can they feed those soldiers? Increasing the size of the army increases the resources it burns.
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  114. The APKWS precision rockets only have a 5-6 mile range which is not enough to escape SAM threats.
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  115. I assure you that if a significant force leaves Belarus, there will be a coup against Lukashenko while his army is out of the country. China backing Russia would tacitly support Taiwanese and Xinjiang independence. If the DPR and LPR can leave Ukraine, then certainly parts of China can leave too - right? They have to be careful. The government of Kazakhstan has said they don't recognize the republics, probably because of ethnic Russians living there.
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  116. Jake has done a video on Russia's use of gold and said it's not that stable.
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  117. Wo-lo-lo!
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  118. Wrong. FSB agents like Igor Girkin and Russian nationals like Motorola occupied the Donbas.
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  119. The problem is spare parts, ammo, etc.
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  120. And after the event you see them on the ground and garbage bins. Edit: lol it showed up for a second.
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  121. At that point we will have to also discuss the relentless bombing of German industry. Soviet heavy industry was also built by Americans through shell companies. Their car factories were always meant to be reconfigured for war production, which is why the US did not help nearly as much with aviation or naval yards. They were ok with the USSR as a regional power, but had the foresight to now hand them global power on a silver platter.
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  122. Russia is advancing into Ukraine's punches.
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  123. Operation Bagration by the Soviets also involved attacking the wakest front by telegraphing an offensive elsewhere.
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  124. They have not been replaced... they're serving for longer than they should because the F-22 program was cancelled less than a third of the way in.
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  125. I think he was just saying that in a joking manner.
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  126.  @geretstarseeker453  the F-16 has HOTAS controls, you don't read where the chaff dispenser is, you memorize which button it is because you keep your eyes outside the cockpit. The dispensables/countermeasure controls is activated with the right thumb, I think.
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  127. Not much better than Su-25s, they need to circle above to spot and track their prey.
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  128. Okay, but all the money is "going to Ukraine". If we give Ukraine 1 billion worth of weapons for free and pay ourselves the billion to make up for it, that's 1 billion of weapons for Ukraine. If we give Ukraine 1 billion worth of intelligence and pay ourselves the billion to make up for it, we still gave Ukraine 1 billion worth of intelligence. We could do it the other way around and give Ukraine the money and then they'd pay us. But that's meaningless, no need to complicate.
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  129. Abrams can run on diesel, and the "jet fuel" is JP-8 - a NATO standard fuel that is used in ground vehicles, heaters, generators, etc to simplify logistics. Instead of bringing diesel and aviation fuel, you bring JP-8. And feel it do anything that runs on it.
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  130. Yes and maybe no. Some debt can be forgiven and wiped out, some debt can be given decades to pay back. The UK made the last lend lease payments from WW2 in the 1980s if I'm not mistaken. We'll give them 40 years to pay, easily.
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  131. Personal to one man also means everyone else has less and less reasons to go along as the nonsense escalates. Throwing prisoners at the meat grinder doesn't affect the generals but even morally reprehensible military officers want to enjoy retirement with their grandkids.
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  132. A strong ruble means they get paid less on exports. It would increase their means to import, but many markets are shut off.
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  133. Ukraine still has S-300s protecting their airspace and MiG-29s flying patrols in the West.
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  134. ​ @bodasactra  Igor Girkin and Motorola were Russian nationals in 2014, how was it a civil war when Russia invaded?
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  135. Not to mention there were Russians there - they were Rovsgardia and SOBR units.
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  136. It's very vulnerable, slower than the Su-25 which has been shot down frequently by both sides. Nothing about it is "easier" as the avionics are similar to the F-16, and the logistics would be strained as there's a lack of spare parts. The company that made the A-10 went out of business two decades ago.
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  137. Because the launcher is mostly a tube, the rocket thrust is directed backwards. Other than friction and other minimal factors, the force of the thrust isn't applied on the shooter's shoulder. Even in RPG launchers, though the boost charge shoots the rocket out similarly to a cannon, the venturi section at the back vents the propellant gasses which balances the forces.
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  138. It's a really sad story because when the pictures came out, it was the Russians who called her a crisis actor due to her IG page. The Russians directed very foul attacks at her.
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  139.  @b3lkan  A-10s have been lost even with air superiority. The ground is the problem.
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  140. There's just too many overlapping defenses to fly such a slow jet behind enemy lines. It would be a suicide mission.
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  141. It's most likely impossible to repair.
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  142. ​ @mbak7801  They were never 99.9% Swedish. They have German, British and American parts.
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  143. The journalist and crew was probably driven blindfolded.
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  144. Duran, Ian Miles Cheong, Lira (CoachRedPill) and Ritter? Whoa, it's like a who's who list of all the internet bad guys.
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  145. Now try and pop your head out to aim while there's AKs and machine guns suppressing you.
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  146. There was also the Ghost Division, which moved around and changed their unit patches to make German observers report the wrong locations and movements.
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  147. Reminds me of the movie The Sum of All Fears. A character had the car started by a bodyguard. After it was cleared, the bodyguard leaves and the man sits down and grabs a cigarette. The electric lighter was the trigger for the car bomb.
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  148. ​ @martstam2016 Saab didn't get enough sales to have a large source of airframes that can be spared.
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  149. The rail crossing was used the day after the attack. An unloaded train moving at a snail's pace. The fact is that they can't move heavy equipment, and can't operate at speed. It's easy to cross by rail moving people, but militarily speaking that rail is busted until they remove the heat affected steel and concrete.
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  150. And yet Russia couldn't prove that when they spoke at the UN.
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  151. Wasn't Gerasimov watching the Vostok 2022 exercises with Putin?
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  152. To be fair, the US was working behind the scenes to lock Germany out of the stategic materials market.
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  153. Those soldiers are needed to protect Russia's massive borders. Also, if they're all busy in Ukraine that makes a coup in Russia so much easier.
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  154. Blow up two dozen ammo dumps. Can't fight without ammo.
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  155. They were "only" 7 billion, and the equipment was downgraded versus the good stuff. Most of it was Blackhawks, Humvees and MRAPs. Just the basics, no high tech armor.
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  156. He's such a good journalist he reported on the leaks by looking at the photoshopped documents.
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  157. Why would NCOs sell weapons to the people who want to kill them? Why does Wagner need to buy weapons, has Russia run out of them?
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  158. To get a decent radioactive dose, you'd have been killed several times over from heavy metal toxicity. DU is not any more dangerous than tungsten carbide. And all armies use tungsten carbide.
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  159. The GMLRS rockets fired by HIMARS do that. Sometimes they're fired at an angle and change direction. But doing this reduces range.
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  160.  @BTinSF  the fuel is JP-8, used in pretty much all vehicle engines in service in the US Army, heaters, stoves and generators. Even though it's "jet fuel" it's NATO standard fuel, because using one fuel for everything simplifies logistics.
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  161. The Ruble can't be traded, and rocket volleys are reduced.
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  162. They switched the types of missiles used.
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  163. Very slow, it's missile bait in a defended airspace.
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  164.  @Bootsystem66  "said" c'mon bruh
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  165. Missiles only leave trails when fired. Rocket motors burn in seconds. When the motor burns out, they enter an unpowered ballistic trajectory and dive down on the target. Since the motor isn't burning, no trail is left. HIMARS strikes with GMLRS rockets also don't show trails.
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  166. The US was involved but secretly. The US helped the UK manipulate the global markets to deny Germany strategic materials.
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  167. Lmao you're malding.
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  168. I've read the discussions and it seems they're not Sfera helmets with titanium but "modern replicas" as that style of design has been used for riot police. The shape of the plates is different, the collectors say. It stops shrapnel but it will be terrible as a "bump" helmet.
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  169. It's always preferable to get a direct hit on aircraft, and air to air missiles usually have pre-fragmented warheads or continuous rod warheads to cause damage. Blast isn't good enough, so they use fragments to rip aircraft apart.
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  170.  @jacqdanieles  More likely it's a German military surplus parka. The flag comes sewn on and many don't remove it.
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  171. 60k KIA, 90k irrecoverable losses. This includes injuries that prevent future service.
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  172. That's false. The satellite imagery experts labeled the wind farm. They made a distinction between the wind farm and the silos. Then leftist accounts of twitter picked it up and accused the experts of not noticing the wind farm label. Even though it was them who saw the wind farm first and labeled it to avoid confusion.
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  173. Weren't those jets the ones disassembled and shipped as "parts"?
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  174. And yet, they need the VDV to help them. Their success is built off the backs of the Russian armed forces.
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  175. The USA isn't trying to revive that past. Russia lays claim over their former empire/union.
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  176. Speed is life.
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  177. I don't like to be crass but what's gonna happen to them or their male relatives will be worse. Through history people have risen up against leaders just as bad or worse. I can't criticize them for choosing self-preservation. I can say "too little, too late".
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  178.  @AstroGremlinAmerican  Ukraine already had a huge problem with UXO after 2014. They don't want to cause further issues for civilians.
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  179. No, it's not safe. There's a reason in ancient times they were dumped in pig pens, not farm soil.
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  180. The creator of bitcoin didn't run with his 1 million bitcoin.
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  181.  @MarkCrimson  Okay, and "others" have also ran off with plenty of dollars they earned through scams. Is the USD a scam? The people who dupe others are bad faith actors. They exist in money. They exist in sports. They exist in videogames. We don't blame the medium for the people who like to cheat and exploit. You called the creators hucksters, and now backed off to just admitting that yes there are scammers. But there's scammers everywhere. With money. With prepaid apple gift cards. Doesn't matter.
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  182.  @MarkCrimson  What are "better protections"? People lose their livelihoods all the time. Cult behavior is everywhere. Does Nirvana's music suck because people deify Kurt Cobain to a nauseating degree?
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  183.  @MarkCrimson  Having a conversation isn't harassment. You also insulted people on your opening comment, which is closer to harassment than a simple disagreement. You're engaging in dickish behavior and can't handle a normal conversation like an adult.
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  184. Underrated comment.
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  185. The US has not declared war on Russia, or vice versa.
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  186. They can chew gum and walk, but not at the same time.
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  187. Ukraine is an "invading" country too. It's part of the "finding out" phase of FAFO.
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  188. Because often such deals have to be made public to be approved by the legislature.
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  189. They don't have to accept anything they don't want. They shared the AI report and simply hid the things it said about Russia.
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  190. There's a lot of T-72 exported to other countries, so they were probably cannibalized for parts. Selling the parts to other countries would be a good source of income.
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  191. How are A-10s going to take off from short deck carriers? There's a reason Marines got Harriers and then F-35Bs. They need short take off and vertical landing.
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  192. US Marines still use "Ooh-rah!". US Army uses "Hoah!".
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  193. I don't think the Taiwanese are fleeing to China on rafts.
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  194. Polling shows most Ukrainians want the territory to be reclaimed. They might not like the war, but they want to fight for what's theirs.
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  195. ​ Dennis Wilson  McNamara's maths weren't correct either, as North Vietnamese leaders admitted they were close to the breaking point when the Paris accords were signed. Basically the war being unpopular at home handed them the W, if public opinion did not matter they'd have lost through being attrited.
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  196. They cost about the same, and there's less of them. Meanwhile F-16s are incredibly common.
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  197. They already had Su-25s for that. The Soviets (and thus Ukrainians and Russians) already had their tankbuster too. The Su-25 even looks a little like the YA-9 which competed with the YA-10 for the role in the US. The Su-25 could have been sent there. It wasn't. They knew it would be suicide.
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  198. One restaurant did that if I remember right. More people talked about how riddiculous it was than it was actually done. France was against the invasion for the same reason the US suppressed the information on the WMDs that were found. They pointed to the US, France and Germany as the suppliers during the Iran-Iraq war.
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  199. People were terrorized by Russia using Hamas tactics and firing Grads from inside cities. Most civilians were hurt by unexploded shells and abandoned landmines, not attacks.
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  200. The large craters are where the munitions used to be. The photos before the strike show the boxes in huge piles.
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  201. They also used Johnny Depp's face on a WWII memorial poster. I think someone is having fun at their graphic design job.
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  202. Not really. The Ukrainian SOF already has experience conducting operations in Crimea. They successfully "stole" the aircraft that belonged to Ukraine after Russia took over Crimea. Their sabotage unit also infiltrated Crimea once, but were discovered and had to fight their way out of the island, killing a Vympel operator.
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  203. Should be closer to 2:1 because so many wounded died in trenches or inside vehicles, and survival rates drop off when the wounded are stuck in these places that delay their evacuation to a place where they receive treatment.
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  204. ONE TANK I DON'T KNOW WHY IT DOESN'T EVEN MATTER HOW HARD YOU DRIVE I DESIGNED THIS RIDE TO EXPLODE IN DUE TIME
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  205. The issue is that Russian officials are now quoting the AI report (after hiding shat the report said about them). Thanks AI, you really helped a lot.
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  206.  @Dimetropteryx  Watchdog organizations also should not make matters worse. By essentially giving carte blanche to Russia, they opened the door for more civilian casualties. If your way of helping actually harms people, don't try to help.
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  207. Pearl Harbor happened because the Japanese Imperial Navy needed control of the Pacific and knocking out the US fleet was the quick win they needed. There's no analogous situation here.
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  208. It's selectively enforced. He's there to give the "badass" movie speech so he can call it what it is.
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  209. Value is subjective, nothing has it.
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  210. Not what happened.
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  211. I think those have the 105mm gun instead of the 120mm one.
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  212. Thousands of tanks? May we see them?
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  213. He likes to taunt. He posted a picture that was geolocated and the building was immediately struck. He then posted a picture posing in front of a partially caved in wall.
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  214.  @TheSoundsage  The power of that explosion really didn't leave anything unscathed. Every single one needs an overhaul just to make sure they don't snap in mid-air when the pilot puts Gs.
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  215. The problem is that you'd need to come up with a system that tracks the missile before it shows up on the CIWS engagement radar. At terminal velocity mossiles striking at over Mach 2 really only show up on the radar for a moment, giving a tiny window to react. Then the issue is, even if the bullet impacts disable the warhead, the supersonic debris falling on a city can still cause damage.
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  216.  @nicholasconder4703  American pilots on other aircraft don't have the same issue.
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  217. If the M1 plant had shut down, the government would have spent billions reopening it, getting a hold of the former employees to re-hire them, etc. to reopen it when foreign contracts rolled in just a few years later. That "scandal" was a massive cost-cutting measure but people miss the forest for the trees. Have you heard of the F-15EX? Only 88 will be built. People are pretty excited about it. But they're only being produced because Boeing's military sector did not have enough orders to keep the St. Louis plant open.
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  218. There's dirt poor countries that produce things which are always in demand. China and India making a fortune off the backs of Russians is only adding insult to injury. Two countries plundering Russia, and Putin is supposed to roll over like a dog.
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  219. This is observer bias. The A-10 can only wipe out enemy forces when they're unable to shoot back.
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  220. Trump told the Germans to stop buying Russian gas. Some friend...
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  221. They're meant to pull the pins when surrendering.
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  222. The issue is that even if the weapons were diverted, that may have been a case of military units stealing from each other rather than selling. Which is why the investigators did not find those weapons in the black market.
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  223.  @prw56  In that case, them showing up somewhere else is the true indicator. So far most "evidence" is fabricated by groups like Thief, running a fake deepweb weapon store with photos grabbed from twitter. If anything, goods flow from where they're abundant to where they're scarce. Ukraine needs weapons, there's not many who would pay more.
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  224. Refurbushment, training and logistics have to be figured out.
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  225.  @a5cent  People in the West are like that. Everyone says "I'm not paid enough to care". And they're right. The alarm boxes deter theft. If someone tries to pick them open, hopefully the security guard sees on camera. If the thief manages to do it without getting caught... dude was determined and experienced enough. Write it off as a loss, 99% of thieves are not that skilled or determined, they go for easier targets.
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  226.  @ashscott6068  Not sure why your comment is hidden but that's 100% true. There's diminishing returns from increased security, when just a little investment will deter most theft and "keep people honest". Trying to stop determined shoplifters just increases costs and makes shopping less convenient to customers as more people get stopped at the exit or cashiers struggle with security boxes and alarm tags.
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  227. But he shows Russian propaganda...
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  228. There's a difference between capturing oil fields (ISIS being a recent example) and maybe doing repairs, and actually surveying areas, getting drilling and extraction rights, moving in foreign experts, etc.
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  229. The US recognizes one China, but is strategically ambiguous by having diplomatic relations with both.
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  230. Use nitter. Allows you to read twitter without an account.
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  231. Many chemical weapons degrade on contact with the humidity in the air. They have very low permanence to allow areas to be shelled, and then friendly troops walk over the area without protection. Russian shills often point to the fact that in Syria doctors would touch gas attack victims without protection, so it didn't happen. By the time medical air arrived, the chemical weapons had been neutralized.
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  232. Because the A-10 has for the past two decades been set up for counter insurgency. The advantages it has over the Su-25 are the avionics - but using the targeting systems means having to pop up to get line of sight to the target. This is not feasible in an area full of air defense. The A-10 is agile, but not fast.
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  233. Why would the A-10 force anything when Ukraine already has Su-25s?
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  234. I don't want to break Russians. I just want to break their military and their country. They can live happily or in squalor for all I care, I just need them in their place and not threatening others.
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  235. The CSTO seems uninterested in the war. Khazakstan won't even recognize the separatist republics. Areas under control can still be shelled until it becomes unfeasible to control. Tactical nukes are not "polite" nukes. The use of one means toothpaste that will not go back into the tube. Even the countries willing to deal with Russia will be forced to ostracize them.
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  236.  @xxxchcxxx8905  The rest of the world would to come to terms with the fact that Russia has decided to become a rogue nation and can't be trusted with their arsenal of nukes. Obviously everyone would think about game theory and now it would be preferable to decapitate Russia first rather than let them recompose themselves and threaten others with nukes. Realistically, the rest of the world would be pressured to starve Russia out and hope they don't launch more nukes.
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  237.  @Gauntlet_Videos  Well, for what I want to happen to come true, a lot of people on the side that I don't want to win have to run out of their free trial of life. Dehumanization is a perfectly normal mental trick, but that's reserved for men in balaclavas and dressed in green. Coach Red Pill does not need to be dehumanized. He was a lolcow. He was known online for years before the war started. This is just the end of his character arc.
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  238. Nothing has intrinsic value.
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  239. No, it creates the pretext for the Russian people to finally think that Putin is not a strongman at all.
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  240. They were in the process of shutting down, which means they'd have to be certified to continue running. Probably get inspected, more spare parts made, etc. Expect them to have to shut down for a couple years anyway.
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  241. Calls it the Special Military Operation ahahahah imagine being this goober
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  242. ​ @marlenehod  commercial aircraft dump fuel when they're coming in to land with excess weight, this is a drop in the bucket
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  243. ​ @TT-wu5zq  Hitting soft targets and leaving is the war of the flea. Highly effective, even Russian Spetsnaz did that to Ukraine since 2014. It was what inspired Ukrainians to adopt quadcopter drones.
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  244. But they can't. Using nukes would make them a global pariah even if they survived. Which they wouldn't. That's the reason. They can't. Pure and simply. Everyone else in the world would witness it and attack. When someone becomes unhinged and a threat, game theory states you take out the threat or else you're next. At that point even China and North Korea would probably send their nukes.
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  245.  @JosefK2275  No, they're not. There's still countries willing to trade with them. They're mostly impoverished and undeveloped countries, but still. The image of a strong country will crumble if they have to throw a temper tantrum and nuke other countries because they lost a war. This isn't an existencial threat. They'll just lose and continue to be Russia, albeit more of a hermit kingdom than before. The purpose of nukes is deterrence. The US only used nukes in Japan because nobody else had them, and as a way to flex on the Soviet Union. After the Soviet Union got theirs through spying, the use of nukes is the big no-no.
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  246.  @JosefK2275  You concern troll about "thousands of lives" and ignore that fundamentally you want Ukraine to forgive and shake hands with the people responsible for those thousands of deaths. Infrastructure can be rebuilt. It's evil to forgive evil. It's evil to let murderers off the hook. Putin cannot be taken seriously. 2008 he says Crimea is Ukrainian. 2014 he seizes it. Provoked? How? The US didn't care about the 2013 Canada agreement to have joint training with China's PLA. Obama didn't invade Canada. Trump didn't invade Canada. And Biden didn't invade Canada although by 2019/2020 that treaty was under the microscope as public opinion turned against China. Missile shields are great, everyone should have them.
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  247. They're perfectly legal, neither the US or Russia signed any treaty.
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  248. 11:04 nooooo his name is Denis Pushilin, the "Dushilin" is a pun by swapping the letters xD
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  249. Drones absolutely can cover the distance. A prop motor and a high fuel fraction allows you to get insane ranges. Mind that a lot of aircraft ranges basically assume the furthest point you can go and still return to the origin point with enough fuel to cover a failed landed attempt and retry. Kamikaze drones aren't planning on ever coming back.
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  250. At one point all the Katyushas (Stalin's Organ) were American trucks - Studebakers.
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  251. "Russophobia"? Why would I be afraid of a Moskal? sigma male grindset song plays
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  252. These rocket tails are missing the tip - they're tail sections from a cluster warhead that separated in flight.
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  253.  @metaleuman  There's footage of the tails sticking in the ground - /watch?v=CtgTM5kmPsY example footage of tail sections piledriving into the ground
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  254. How is it a strong supply line if they need to reduce it?
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  255.  @ranjunk  But they don't. That's why the Russian military is unable to advance in Kherson. In fact it's retreating. And I repeaty question - if the supply lines are strained and people being removed, how is it strong?
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  256. The thing is that while a pilot has to fly alone, maintenance crews can have "supervisors"...
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  257. World Wars involve the whole world (WW2 was fought in Africa and Asia as well). This is just everyone dunking on Russia.
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  258. Anyone who could be galvanized was already at that point.
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  259. But it isn't. This would be like if the Confederacy had won, and the Union went into exile in Hawaii. The Confederacy holds no legitimacy over territory they never took from the Union.
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  260. Because instead of getting together and defeating the system, they fled. How many are inside Russia but don't have the money to flee? Now they don't have as many people who agree with them. They can't fight now. They're also a security risk.
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  261. ​ @itsallminor6133  There's no benefits with an alliance with Russia, and if Ukrainians laid down their arms they'd be killed anyway. We saw what happened in Bucha.
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  262. Current service members seem to support US foreign policy while jaded retired vets want isolationism.
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  263.  @harmless6813  Yeah, and we've seen that what's published "on paper" is purposefully nerfed to not demonstrate the true abilities. In the Antonovsky bridge the Ukrainians used GMLRS volleys where a rocket punched a hole in the top surface of the road, the second rocket flew into the hole and exploded inside the box girder to blast the bottom surface too. If hits can be stacked on top of each other like that, you know they had like a 80-90% chance of landing within a meter sized hole. Same as the rockets having 70km range, like a week after the HIMARS strikes began, they launched a strike with an estimated 85km range. The published range "on paper" is the original contract requirement, the real range has been improved over years of testing and development.
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  264. Russia cannot handle huge losses anymore. It's not the 1940s. It's 2022 and Russia is staring at a demographic problem.
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  265. This is true. However, the sentiment expressed by Jake is correct. If you inhale enough DU to suffer radiation effects, you're already going to suffer heavy metal poisoning. So in the end DU armor is not any more dangerous than tungsten carbide armor, which is also poisonous and carcinogenic.
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  266. Trump told Germany to stop buying Russian oil. They laughed. Germany was Russia's girl all along.
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  267. Domestic Abrams have to get the DU armor removed and fitted with the export armor.
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  268. Not any better than Su-25s, which have suffered losses on both sides.
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  269.  @heybabycometobutthead  Su-25s use everything from the 30mm cannon to guided missiles.
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  270.  @lnomolas3427  A-10s are not any more survivable. Desert Storm showed how many pointless losses using the A-10 entails.
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  271. That's a full blown lie. The US secured the German defeat by secretly manipulating the international markets to deny Germany strategic materials.
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  272. They've set fires and explosives in munitions plants. It's more effective.
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  273. Plenty of people weren't. It was just a regiment in the national guard at that point. Marines were also captured along with Azov, and Russia calls them Azov too.
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  274. I don't want to dogpile as others have already said enough... but c'mon man. I don't like Kraut but he exposed CoachRedPill pretty well, he's a scammer and his whole CPR persona about making videos for when his children grow up so he can teach them to be men when he's not around... Never made sense. He's a clout chaser. Also, notice how so many of these people are essentially sex tourists. Patrick Lancaster, the guy from New Atlas, etc go to less fortunate countries to find wives. How convenient for them.
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  275.  @G.N.F462  He made "red pill" content, he said it was for young men and he was making videos for his children if he was no longer alive to raise them as they became men. But that was clearly BS because he talked about topics and internet drama that would become irrelevant years later.
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  276.  @187Rajah  Ukraine is on the Xth wave of conscription, the separatists are kidnapping men off the streets.
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  277. There's a physical limit on the rocket production so unless there's a ramp up, priority targets need to be hit first. Take out command and ammo, guns will eventually fall silent. Conventional artillery like M777s can win artillery duels. They need more of those, and counter battery radars. Return to sender.
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  278. No. There could be people afraid to die who are still Z. There could be FSB agents. And it's perfect for Putin. He gets rid of refuseniks and keeps loyal troops. Want to deliver a blow to Putin? Force them to fight. They'll frag officers and surrender to the AFU.
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  279. You didn't say anything about this. You made out of proportion, generalist comments. By virtue of being such a tool for foreign interests, you are an unwitting Putin supporter.
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  280. There's natural sunlight coming from behind the camera, it's most likely a normal warehouse or factory building being used. If anything, either the depot had not been found yet or Ukraine purposely left it alone because they knew the defenses were weak and they could capture it.
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  281. Drones don't have the performance or payload capacity.
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  282. The leaked ministry of finance document about payments to families amounted to around 50k KIA as of June. Those do not include the proxies or Wagner. With a 1:2 KIA/WIA rate thanks to their shoddy combat medicine and medevac that's about 150k casualties, which makes sense. Shadow mobilization, conscription of Donbas civilians, volunteer battalions, the gutting of other units inside Russia, etc made up for the losses but still left gaps, such as Kharkiv.
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  283. Those fly close to the sea and pop up for final attack. People would have seen them at the beach.
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  284. They needed a second attempt at the Chechen war. The dark web pictures were pulled off google. Just pike dark web hitmen, it's a scam. Buy all those weapons, see how it goes.
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  285. They already have a tank buster, the Su-25. Such types of aircraft are extremely vulnerable and are forced to shoot unguided rockets. The A-10 wouldn't be able to circle around to use the gun or targeting pods.
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  286. China already asked for the negotiations instead of escalation. Even China is fed up with this bull.
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  287. ​ @owen-trombone  1. North Korea was nearly defeated until China intervened. The South Korean territory was still a net positive, the Chinese losses prevented Mao from invading Taiwan, and Mao's son perishing in the conflict prevented a Mao dynasty. 2. North Vietnam accepted the peace conditions and then waited for a couple of years to invade again. At that point the political turmoil caused by Watergate made intervention a political faux pas.
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  288. ​ @owen-trombone  3. Iraq was defeated twice under Saddam and under new leadership Iraq was an allied nation in the fight against ISIS. How is that a loss? 4. The Taliban like North Vietnam signed a treaty and broke it once the US left. The Taliban defeated the ANA, not the US.
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  289. HARMs will not lock onto defenses that use IR or electro optical seekers. You can sweep an area with HARMs, send in the A-10s and they get shot down anyway.
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  290.  @jenniferclark9842  imagine the twitch chat
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  291. Not really. They called quits in Afghanistan and Chechnya before 100k.
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  292.  @desdicadodog8452  In Chechnya they lost the first time. Political pressures? They have those now too.
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  293. And they are joining the EU.
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  294.  @MrHafidm  Then why did they approve the application?
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  295.  @martinhnetynka8252  They were originally meant to be retired in the early 90s. They got a second wind at counter insurgency but they're not meant for war anymore. The upgrades are just situational awareness/avionics/weapons. The upgrades do nothing about the fact that it is a vulnerable aircraft. The originals were designed for Vietnam where manually aimed 14.5mm AA was the most common threat. If a F-15 can provide CAP, it can drop the bombs too. Leave the A-10 home.
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  296.  @matthewphillips3926  Supposedly he ratted out other collaborators in exchange for being allowed to stay under house arrest.
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  297. Russia inches forward to capture positions. Ukraine wants to drive around positions and use movement to get around the Russian forces, either getting them to surrender or engulfing them to starve them out of ammo.
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  298. The NSA does not have the computing power to OCR scan every image on Discord or the Chans.
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  299.  @LeanderMr  "the Soviet Union had a very large heavy industry before and during the war and the ressources to sustain it" - The Holodomor literally happened because the Soviet Union had to increase grain exports to be able to pay for all the imported machines. They did not have heavy industry. They purchased it from abroad with the blood of their own citizens. A common tankie talking point was that Stalin took a stagnant and a backwater of a Russian empire and industrialized it. Even though they twist the story into a positive thing and pretend the West didn't help, at least even evil Marxist-Leninists will say that the Soviet Union had to build the industry, not that they simply inherited it.
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  300.  @LeanderMr  "the Soviets made huge effort to develop a large heavy industry during the late 1920s and 1930s" - BY PURCHASING IT FROM AMERICANS AND HIRING AMERICANS TO DESIGN THEIR FACTORY FLOORS. LIKE I SAID EARLIER. "also the holodomor happened in 1932-33, it really does not sound like you are aware of that in your comment?" - I am. It's you who's not aware of what I said. I clearly said that it was the US that built the Soviet industry through shell companies - that means PRE-WAR. Why would shell companies be necessary during lend lease?
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  301. They are given tanks and automatic grenade launchers. If you think documents are dangerous, you should have seen the toys they can play with if they pick a combat MOS.
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  302. ​ @katharinapeters6710  Could be a hundred parties. In multiple party systems we also have Russia-friendly politicians in the left and right.
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  303. There's no sites. It's a truck. It can go anywhere.
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  304. They weren't destroyed. Russian military media as usual published a fake video of them missing 4 trucks in a parking lot, and then cutting to farmland with no buildings around. You'd have to be on crack to believe their video.
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  305. Since the source is BBC and Mediazona, I guess they're counting social media and obituaries.
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  306. Not the same type of weapons. Is Lebanon conducting massive tank and IFV assaults, covered by dense Soviet style artillery saturation?
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  307. Even without tritium the implosion plutonium cores still work, no need to go back to the gun barrel design.
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  308.  @gregmattson2238  I understand that and have made that argument myself. However, this is because of dial-a-yield. The primary plutonium core is purposefully made as a low yield weapon, then tritium boosts the fission. If Russia had ran out of tritium, they could reform the plutonium core to be a pure fission weapon and give it a larger payload. Maybe 10 kt. If Russia had no tritium refills in the last 5 years and got caught with the pants down we have a chance, if they foresaw the problem a decade ago and had some cores reformed to be pure plutonium implosion, they're back in the game.
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  309. How does that change anything? Missiles have a 15-20 minute travel time to anywhere in the world, they fly into the edge of space and then come down. Putting them on the border only makes them easy to destroy with conventional weapons.
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  310. Cut off from where?
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  311. Ballistic missiles dive on the target at something like Mach 3. Nobody will take a photo, it won't show up on security camera. The US gave Ukraine anti-radar missiles. The way to protect yourself from those missiles is shutting radars down.
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  312. The seige of Mariupol was a frontal assault. Ukraine will not take Kherson head on.
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  313. The impact sites had munitions stacked up in piles. Whatever set them off didn't need to create the crater.
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  314. "Da" means "Yes" in Russian. She was counting "Yes" votes.
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  315. Not the same types and quantities necessary. Delivering a few weapons to the Middle East jeopardizes a ton of aid to Ukraine. Same thing as investing, gotta spend money to make money.
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  316. ​ @wesc6755  What's weird is reading all the "where's Witch?" comments on every vlog. Relax, little guy. If you get it, posting comments won't make people come any faster.
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  317.  @wesc6755  If your comment gets shadowbanned but has an upvote, I'll be able to tell you have yourself a like. Just a heads up. I'm not the one spamming comments sections to ask about the woman.
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  318.  @wesc6755  For weeks I keep seeing these requests in the comments. It may have been the only time, but it's still weird to see people chanting for an update from Jake, who doesn't control when another person posts. If you want updates, you can just follow those people directly. You'll get it, directly on your phone the moment it gets uploaded. It's easier than asking a third party to reupload that message.
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  319. Yes but but sling loading is inherently more dangerous and complex. When doing back and forth trips to resupply the rigging system and the more careful flying would cause delays.
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  320. By that logic the Soviet losses in the Eastern Front were fake because they kept moving forward.
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  321. The US had drones to handle the problem of people disappearing like ghosts. You can't disappear when you glow white on thermal camera.
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  322. The A-10 has no radar to look for ships.
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  323. Why? Ukraine gas Su-25s. Why would they be forced to react to the A-10, but not the already existing tank buster?
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  324.  @kirgan1000  They're flying low, pitching up and releasing rockets. Essentially the same thing Russia is doing. Both sides cannot use those assets to their full extent as they fear flying near/over the enemy.
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  325. The S-300s were at some point meant to be replaced by S-350s, a more modern variant made to boost defenses without replacing everything with S-400s. If there's S-300 tubes close to expiring, it's preferable to fire those instead of sending them to get recycled.
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  326. He said 1948.
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  327. Not even. There's an embargo on certain kinds of goods but the blockade was a Cold War thing.
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  328. Did the US nuke Afghanistan? No.
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  329. What happens if you stop posting that demoralization campaign?
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  330. Killed are called "Cargo 200" and wounded "Cargo 300". That may be it.
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  331. The Ukrainians had Su-25s. If that mission had any chance of success, they'd have the Su-25. It would be suicide, so they used artillery and drones.
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  332. History Legends is biased, though.
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  333.  @daxtertalon4  What does "he studies tactics and history" mean? There's tons of people who study. A lot of them are bad at it. He doesn't follow mainstream media. So? And non-mainstream media is better? You just essentially explained that he is biased. He's doing what, reading fake alternative media because he's biased against mainstream media. That's a bias in itself.
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  334. Falcon BMS is more accurate in some aspects (I heard DCS has more accurate ground handling physics but the systems are more faithfully replicated in BMS).
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  335. Frontal assaults are suicide. Ukraine has an interest in degrading Russian fighting abilities while preserving the lives of their experienced troops. Stop dooming. The US is not going to freeze, they give the most support.
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  336.  @g1i2o3p4a5s  Time does not favor the Russians. The clock is ticking for them. Rumor has it that the Third Army Corps was already broken up to plug up the holes in the frontline. They can't even form new units to win the fight, they're on the back foot.
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  337. The Russian media had online articles on a timer to declare victory and posted them by accident.
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  338. Because the US asked guarantees for cases of intervention. Imagine if Serb sore losers had the ability to drag US servicemen through the courts.
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  339. ​ @marcusott2973  They don't use compressed nitrogen coolant? Whaaaat...
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  340. They won't do it for free, they'll take a cut. Even assuming that those countries aren't caught and won't get sanctioned themselves, it would still limit the supply and create costly expenses.
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  341. No. The Russians faked a video by splicing two different videos. And they even showed a miss.
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  342. Gripen doesn't have enough produced numbers.
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  343. They burned through equipment in the "shadow mobilization" phase. And nobody bothered to ramp up acquisitions.
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  344.  @richardgrimbleby7853  It is better in terms of modern upgrades but it's slower. Speed is life.
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  345. Cope harder.
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  346. There's not enough precious metals in the world to back an economy. Please stop believing propaganda made for schizos.
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  347. It's not a scam, though - it's a necessity. If loans had to be backed 1:1 to deposits either you'd need to wait for people to pay their debts to withdraw your money, or the economy would grind down to a halt.
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  348. lol you can see the old men in Russian ranks, and their Aliexpress special goggles.
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  349. 70% of the surface, but it's salt water. Hydrogen production requires dessalination, which in itself requires energy and produces brine which then has to be dilluted.
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  350. At least in Battlefield there's mechanics to repair the tank 😁
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  351. That Scud analysis has been questioned.
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  352.  @USER351  Again, the claim that no Scuds were shot down came from a very dubious source who changed his arguments multiple times and relied on false assumptions. You don't get to accept one kill. You get to work from the 90% intercept rate and then criticize how many of those intercepts were not good enough.
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  353.  @USER351  Yes, it was. The guy who was the source for that claim was a complete fraud who tried to use TV tapes to make claims about the Patriot, not understanding that the frame rate of tape recording would not capture the high closure speed of missiles. Then when he was contradicted, he started claiming that the Patriot fireball was 100 meters wide (the size of a nuke) to claim that the Patriot interceptors missed by hundreds of meters. That was a complete and total lie. He massively overstated the size of the explosion to make it seem like the missiles couldn't get anywhere near the object.
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  354.  @USER351  But there's photographic evidence of Scuds shot down. Even the Israelis, the biggest source of critique for the Scuds, said there were Scuds shot down by Patriot.
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  355.  @USER351  lol absolute cope.
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  356.  @USER351  Scuds were shot down by Israelis, they were only disappointed with the fact that falling debris still caused damages. But broken windows is better than dead people.
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  357. Real world "cash" is also a number in a computer, as there's not enough physical cash to represent all existing money.
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  358.  @RobertA-hq3vz  They're not working hard enough. My point was that your argument was just a platitude, and you're aware the USD isn't unlike crypto - it's just government backed. That's it. Maybe one day the government-backed currency will be crypto. What will be your argument then? People also gamble with real currency trading. Does that mean that currency is bad? The people gambling with crypto are bad actors who ruined a good thing. Why is the medium of exchange at fault and not the people seeking quick profits?
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  359. It was a private venture by a former pilot, with no government backing.
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  360. They still have a massive chip on their shoulder regarding the UK due to the Crimean war. They still see the UK as the empire that stole their thunder even though modern Britain is nothing like it was in the 1800s.
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  361. The American trucks were more important than those 13,000 tanks.
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  362. It's complicated. Mind that there's both hard-right and hard-left sympathies for Russia (who are pretty much 5th columnists). Many don't want Germany to be responsible for another world war. Others are completely pacified as a result of decades of WW2 war guilt and divestment from the military after 1991. If I'm not mistaken according to polls Germany ranks low on the percentage of people who say yes if asked if they'd fight for their country.
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  363. Why? If MiGs can't survive the threat environment how would the A-10s handle the heat?
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  364. Can't fake the Russian wives associations.
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  365. The distinction is meaningless. Tanks can be used to defend and the "defensive" arms Ukraine received can be used for attack.
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  366. Ukraine has the same convention in traffic signs as the rest of Europe since the 1990s. Russia has a mix of universal STOP signs and square signs saying СТОП. The latter are older ones.
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  367. You heard? Where?
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  368. They do help. Better EW, better situational awareness, better radars, better weapons. HARM missiles force SAM operators to shut down radars as they home in on the radar emissions.
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  369.  @fascitern250  Stealth can't be everywhere at all times. F-16s replaced the F-4G as the SEAD aircraft and flew over defenses.
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  370. The biggest danger is gone in two weeks, especially if the blast is an airburst. Your worries will be finding/treating non-contaminated water and dealing with contaminated soil to allow food production to restart. Always remember, the more radiation an element emitts, the less time it lasts due to decay.
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  371. "Those are some good Javelin missiles" "I don't need you to tell me how good my missiles are" ------------------------------ "Did you see a sign up front that said "dead Russian storage"?"
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  372. Artillery barrages, line charges and mine clearing vehicles.
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  373. Brother. Gaddafi keep an all-female guard as a sex thing. He's not disparaging guards for being female, he's bringing attention to the fact that he was like a villain in a James Bond movie.
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  374. Su-25s have also been shot down frequently by both sides.
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  375. And yet you people have to come here. It wouldn't be necessary to convince anyone if it were true.
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  376. There's a limit on ammo - the production is costly. Hitting the ammo before it's distributed across the front pays for itself. Now depots will have to be placed further away. Supply gets streched. When Russian artillery has to ration their shots, you hit them with your conventional artillery.
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  377. Command centers have been hit.
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  378.  @ViciousOne  For them to fall of a window, the person pushing must have a reason to push. Does the assassin want to die in a nuclear war? Putin may be willing to bring down the world with him, but every single lackey can't be.
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  379. We're gonna need independent chip manufacturing.
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  380. The problem is that final assembly has to trust everyone's 3d printed to be calibrated. 3d printers aren't magic, they need the user to fine tune his settings. Rough surfaces cause parasitic drag and reduce the efficiency. I made 3d printed stands for my grandmother's TV as the original ones got lost during moving, despite my measurements being accurate the dimensions were slightly oversized (had to force the mounting stud into the socket) and the surface was very rough. Good enough for a TV stand, tossed into the reject pile if aviation grade is required. It's just faster to soak fiberglass in epoxy and lay it over a foam core.
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  381. No, bashing them for using them near civilians. The US loves cluster bombs, but they're dropped on military targets. Like air bases.
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  382. "On multiple occasions" probably means during the Sievrodonetsk battle, which was one of the bloodiest. That was a month ago.
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  383. But Taiwan is not a breakaway state. They were the recognized government of China which lost the civil war to Maoist forces. They fled to Taiwan. They didn't steal Taiwan from China. Transnistria, South Ossetia, Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk were taken by force. It would be like the Revolutionaries in America defeating the British colonial forces and after them leaving to Britain George Washington said "even though we didn't beat you in British soil the Isles belong to us because you left".
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  384. Russia has a seat in the security council.
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  385. Do tell.
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  386. They lied lol
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  387.  @g.g.hochstetler2286  They don't have evidence to confirm their claims. You seem to be confused. They made the claim, they need to prove it. They've done nothing except show blurry video of them missing four trucks in a parking lot, and then cutting to footage of a bush burning in the middle of a field. They didn't prove their claim, so I can dismiss their claim without proof. That's how it works. The burden is theirs. Ask them. Not me.
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  388.  @g.g.hochstetler2286  The evidence was provided by the videos (filmed by people behind the front lines, not the Ukrainian government). You introduced a different claim, which is a couple of them were destroyed. Look at your original comment. There's no other claim. It's there, 15 hours ago, it hasn't been edited. You have not mentioned anything other than the Russian claim. Back it up. Doesn't matter who I agree with. Back it up, Z-boy.
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  389. They're forced to sell at a discount, making up for the difference by selling a higher volume. Other countries are stealing the bread from the Russian people's mouth and Putin has no choice but to allow it. Most pipelines lead West.
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  390. Both sides gave shot down Su-25s. These types of aircraft are very vulnerable.
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  391. But there's a bunch of early production Typhoons that will be retired.
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  392. Su-25s have been shot down on both sides. Interdiction is just an expected life span shortener. Close air support is being provided by pitching up and lofting rockets in a ballistic arc to prevent overflying enemy units.
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  393. Trump said Germany needed to stop buying Russian gas. Some buddy...
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  394. They had no time. They fled pretty fast once they got the news that collapse was imminent.
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  395. There's only around 220 built so a country would need to give up their air force. F-16s were sold like hot cakes (4000 I think) and the UK was going to have to retire early production Typhoons anyway.
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  396. NATO will respond by doubling down on anti missile defense.
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  397. ​ @bodasactra "waaaaa if you put DEFENSIVE missiles in another country I'll nooooook waaaa"
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  398. Your money is stolen either way, that's a given. This is the first time I'm satisfied with how the money is being used.
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  399. I am not rich. I don't do anything illegal. I'm done listening to the "if you have nothing to hide..." excuse. The rich get richer and terrorists slip through the cracks, but I have to live under surveillance. What a joke.
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  400. That's a parka that comes with the flag pre-sewed on. The camo pattern is Flecktarn so it could be German military surplus.
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  401.  @jacqdanieles  Doesn't make a difference so they didn't bother. They wear armbands for identification.
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  402. With manuever warfare, it becomes an underground POW camp.
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  403. Novorossiya flag.
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  404. lol the Russian simps will suffer the biggest aneurysm when they see their failed God stumble
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  405. I think it's the other way around. Ukraine counts people they have to defeat to defend their country. Other countries only count the Russian army, because to them Wagner and DPR/LPR are not a threat.
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  406. I'm 90% sure there was a "corrected" census that put back the missing people, but they forgot to account for populational growth so the numbers did not match either and that census was suppressed.
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  407. They have M16s and M4s with M203 grenade launchers in the new Azov unit that was formed.
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  408.  @MattSchuster2565  The rifles? Photos on twitter. Obviously links get purged as spam. But look up "ukraine humvee" or "AT4", you'll even see Browning M2 .50 cals.
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  409. Military losses are lower than Russia's. Civilian casualties won't be fully tallied until some kind of investigation is done on recent grave sites inside the Russian area of control.
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  410. They did it in Kherson.
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  411. It would take a missile per plane to destroy them. The point of revetments is that if you hit one, you don't hit all. But the fuel and munitions scattered by the explosions made the revetments useless.
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  412. How do we know who is fleeing or who is a security risk?
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  413. The problem with Turkey and Greece is that they have all those tanks to deter each other.
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  414. I heard about the PzH 2000 but not the Excalibur. That's great news.
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  415. The A-10s are being flown until retirement so nobody wants to make replacement parts, there's still a Boeing contract ongoing for wings and it's really expensive. Also vulnerable to air defenses.
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  416. It's a two decade old drone, it's not going to help much.
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  417. By that logic hydroelectric dams shouldn't be built because if the three gorges dam fails it will be a disaster.
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  418.  @NeilBaylard  Not up close. A machine gun can lay effective fires up to 1000-1100 yards. AKs are accurate enough.
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  419. It's Russia vs Ukraine. When you fight in a ring, do you fight the boxer or the coach in the corner?
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  420.  @Civility9  Okay but you don't cry "waaa we didn't lose against Arsenal, we lost to all the waiters, accountants and Uber drivers in attendance". It's Russia vs Ukraine. Russia is also being trained by Belarus and armed by Iran.
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  421.  @Civility9  The initial invasion debacle happened before the aid arrived. Even if they had lost, Russia would have had to sacrifice its army to "win". Pyrrhic victory wouldn't be enough to describe it. And Russia would still have to contend with non-stop insurgency. Honestly, Ukrainians could probably just keep blowing up a few barracks or ammo dumps per month for the next few years, wait for Putin to die, and Russia would abandon Ukraine. Okay, so the USSR was participating in Vietnam? Let's nuke Russia for old time's sake then.
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  422. Alternative platforms that just parrot Russian propaganda?
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  423. There's the issue of cluster munitions leaving UXO on the ground, Ukraine wants the land back. It's not great if then Ukainian soldiers advance into land that's peppered with dangerous bomblets, or a farmer accidently triggers one.
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  424. No need to settle, Russia can just physically be removed.
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  425. Doesn't it make you ashamed to keep saying this for a year?
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  426. Why does every video about Ukraine has people talking about the equipment in Afghanistan? Rhetorical question, I know why.
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  427. Not really. The leaked documents last year pointed to 49k KIA based on government payouts. At the time Ukraine was estimating 50k enemy KIA so their figures were accurate last year.
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  428. What's even that supposed to mean? Expat is also used to colloquially refer to people who reside outside of their country of citizenship.
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  429.  @alexwest909  He's called an expat because that's what we call men who go abroad to marry women in poor countries and stay there. There's also the more negative term "sexpat" if you prefer. Dude was Coach Red Pill. He promoting doing the thing where you abandon Western women and marry people abroad. All those British and Australian dudes in Thailand, what are they called? Expats.
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  430. Nice missing of the point.
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  431. The A-10 has proven useful against insurgents with no air defense.
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  432. How do nukes do any of that? If anything, it would mean Russian nukes falling into the hands of a Belarus coup.
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  433. Ukrainian air force already raided Russian home territory.
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  434. Terrorism is the use of terror tactics (as the name implies) as leverage for political gains. The bombing wasn't meant to terrorize anyone. It was meant for a person, who can't feel terror anymore.
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  435. Usually it's the opposite, for every 5-10 wounded there's a KIA.
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  436. I checked, still there.
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  437. Because they're not really private, they're a deniable asset of the Russian MoD. Prigozhin used to threaten defamation lawsuits to people who wrote about him being involved with Wagner. They really only went mask off in 2022.
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  438. They'll scratch out the Samsung label and sell them as ths Putinphone. Yes comrade totally invulnerable to NATO hacking.
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  439. Most of their trade partners are poorer nations. I like how "restructuring" an economy is just flipping a switch to you.
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  440.  @ew6546  China is one country. India is one country. They're not the majority. The majority of Russian trade partners, aka not India and China, are less developed nations. I mean Brazil is pretty big but I'd hesitate to call it a major economic player.
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  441.  @ew6546  Okay, then you just own up to the wrong terminology. You're not saying most countries, because there's like 160 of them not engaged in sanctions, you're saying most relevant trade partners. If you add them in, you don't get much. And by the way, how likely is that Brazil will switch tune if Bolsonaro loses to Lula?
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  442.  @ew6546  I'm not manufacturing anything. Most of the world does not matter. Yes, there is a point in dealing with hypotheticals. You brag about Brazil, which is a country full of issues, and want to ignore how it may fall onto the grip of a left wing president simply because Bolsonaro should have more tact and know when to not put his foot in his mouth. His chances of reelection would be better if he didn't keep giving his opposition reasons to smear him.
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  443. China isn't in position to benefit from anything as their economy is in shambles. Republicans have no institutional power to rig elections and they support Ukraine too. You think Republicans don't invest in arms makers or don't represent the constituents who work in such companies?
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  444. The Soviets backstabbed the Spanish Anarchists. Once they realized that Soviet citizens could be inspired to demand an anarchist implementation of socialism, they let the fascists have Spain.
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  445.  @righthandstep5  North Koreans are used as very cheap labor in countries like China and Russia. Some attempt to flee, but the vast majority doesn't - they fear for their families suffering reprisals.
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  446. It was orginally a chat for gaming. There used to be GameSpy, Xfire (pronounced "crossfire"), TeamSpeak and Ventrillo. Discord came out and now is the biggest text and voice chat for gaming, becoming a social media platform in itself.
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  447. Pure concern trolling. Stop wastig your time.
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  448.  @mattbowdenuh  Not true at all. The F/A-18 is a naval fighter. On a carrier F/A-18s don't have F-15 or F-16 backup because the USAF doesn't fly from the sea. And many countries only operate F-16s, no F-15s. The F-16 is a do it all fighter.
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  449. They fire from Russian airspace to avoid surface to air missiles.
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  450. Not all price increases are inflation.
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  451. Because if he does his job well, he joins the inner circle. Putin keeps his henchmen fighting each other for a seat at the table.
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  452. 144 GPS munitions hitting ammo depots silences the guns. When they run out of depots to hit maybe they'll drop one rocket on an artillery crew. Just to give them a taste.
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  453. No. The Su-25s have proven that kind of aircraft to just take losses without doing much.
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  454. The missile wreckage was not inside the building. The building was set on fire.
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  455. Seething, lol
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  456.  @robderich8533  Russia uses those when they want everyone to know they did it. This time they had to actually pretend it was something the SBU would do (they have used bomb assassinations against LDPR leaders).
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  457. When those things were reported, the Russian forces were a hundred miles deep into Ukraine, spearheading attacks with no flank security and too few trucks to bring them supplies from rail to the front. They pulled back and focused their efforts where they could supply themselves with food, ammo and fuel. The situation totally changed and you're complaining things aren't the same. No shit, Sherlock!
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  458. Boiling the frog.
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  459. The Russians are unironically solving the Ukrainian supply issue by leaving all their weapons and ammo behind.
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  460. They're not legit wound care. They cannot beat arterial blood pressure.
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  461. ​ @peterc.1419 To be fair, on a PC the case is just a box. On an aircraft, replace all the insides, the airframe is still being punished by G forces, friction heating, etc.
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  462.  @peterc.1419  Airframes are typically retired. There's a refurbishing program that can add 4,000 extra lifetime hours to a F-16 and I don't know how much is "replaced" but a similar process by Dassault used composite patching to extend airframe service life. Reinforce the old, fly it 'till the wheels come off, figuratively of course. Trying to take the guts out of an old airframe and sticking it in a new one is probably pretty rare. Some F-15s are so old, they still use magnetic data tapes. Bringing up technology in military aircraft is actually where the example shines, when military software doesn't need the bloat of civilian devices and it uses specific languages and standards, you can get away with using pitifully outdated computers.
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  463. The Abrams was designed to defend Europe. The MBT-70 program was even supposed to replace the Leopard 1 in West German service. Zee Germans went with the Leopard 2 and the US kept revising the design until it became the M1.
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  464.  @gratius1394  The thing is that the US looks for bodies in the countryside, the inner city, colleges, recent college graduates, etc. A guy working IT in Moscow could have lost his job due to the sanctions. Is he getting recruited? Or sheltered from the facts of war?
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  465.  @gratius1394  Reservists are not off limits. They're explicitly recruiting them because they can sign a contract and be sent into combat with a 7 day refresher course (there's rumors that they're given 2 days of training and then shipped to the front but you know how rumors are). Unfortunately image search is terrible these days and links get comments deleted, but people have photographed their recruitment posters. They're promising huge signing bonuses and pretty high wages compared to the Russian average.
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  466.  @gratius1394  You were talking about Soviets and what the Germans thought of them. That's unrelated to Ukraine.
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  467.  @gratius1394  Nobody said anything about a draft. Sweep the street for 100 bucks a month, or serve 6 months at 2000 bucks a month with a 3000 dollar signing bonus? I know a guy who knows a guy from Belarus. Was working IT, joined Wagner to make bank and is an artilleryman in Ukraine. I hope he gets maimed. Not killed, just disabled for life.
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  468. Human swarms don't work. Artillery does quick work on them.
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  469. It's too late to cut supplies. It's a terrible bet.
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  470. Problem is, all the generals and politicians have their kids living in our Western cities and studying in our private universities. Who's going to follow the order?
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  471. Food isn't the only consumer good. Raising wages raises business overhead, which increases prices. This isn't about corporate bonuses, but actually making businesses unfeasible.
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  472. They have threated nukes every year since around 2010. Medvedev threatened that armageddon would be unleashed if the Kerch bridge was struck. Then it was, he deleted the post. If they mean what they say, why have they backed down ever single time?
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  473.  @sOnIcBo0mBoY  The guys in control of the nukes, are they suicidal? Their kids are living in the West.
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  474.  @sOnIcBo0mBoY  Doesn't matter. I don't need to be smart or rational to know that by firing the nukes, I'm going to piss off all the oligarchs and generals. So Putin can scream all he wants on his phone, I won't turn the key. World wars require the world being involved. This is one country being dunked on.
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  475. 1. Unofficial channels means that someone's taking a cut, and Russia isn't that someone. 2. Do you think they're in a position to get anything other than money? Trade works excellently with money. Especially if your economy is going down the drain. 3. Most of the pipelines lead West. The infrastructure to sell to China isn't there. 4. Do you know who buys more goods from China? It's not Russia. The EU and US are much bigger trade partners. China's strategic interest would be more to turn Russia into a vassal state since they can exploit them, but not use them as some kind of lifeline. If the EU shot itself on both legs, then surely Putin and Lavrov will come begging for even more sanctions.
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  476. Because police picks people off the crowd and nobody does anything. In Iran protesters gang up on police and beat them down.
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  477. The places hit were munitions dumps and a fuel depot. When the explosions happened, the base became an inferno with fuel spraying everywhere and bombs undergoing sympathetic detonation. Both planted charges and cluster munitions would have had the same outcome, hell on earth. I think it was a unitary warhead, though.
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  478. The Ukrainian govt. created an app for the citizens to report sightings and locations of Russian military equipment. I haven't seen it but I heard that after a report you can play a minigame where you fly a drone.
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  479. They're buying at a discount. They're not charities. They're gladly exploiting Russia's woes for their own profit.
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  480.  @foxman1546  With friends like those, who needs enemies? India isn't giving support. They're scamming an impoverishing Russia. They'll gladly make them a vassal state because then Russia will rely on India and thus give them anything they want.
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  481. He's Denis Pushilin. People swap the letters to mock him.
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  482. He is a pilot. Why would Ukraine waste resources like that? If we stop being emotional for a second and just look at the "spreadsheet" - Ukraine's only need for Denys is if they need to strap pilots to aircraft.
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  483. I'd rather get my big break by starring as a dead body in CSI.
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  484. You may be thinking of M777 gun artillery.
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  485. Yeah it's a controlled release of talking points. A short guy with goatee and glasses, and an Armenian-looking man are regulars in these shows and they always drop pro-Ukraine data that gets everyone to start shouting at them.
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  486.  @TheSoundsage  Drones flying around would attract attention. Missiles fall from the sky at supersonic speeds.
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