Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics" channel.

  1. Hard to do a naval war in the continent and a land war in the ocean.
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  2. ​ @GeneTickles  Nice cope. During the Wagner march to Moscow the troll farms were in standby as they had no narrative ready, and the internet became surprisingly pleasant for a day or two.
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  3. Yes, but the critical issue is that 300MJ had to be put into the laser generator to get that 2 MJ, which is why people are saying it's zero point something percent efficiency. However it's a lab setting, I heard the laser could be 40% efficient if set up for power generation rather than lab experiments.
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  4. The often repeated hypothesis is that China pressured them to do it after the Olympic games.
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  5. He wasn't even meant to stay in Russia, his passport was revoked and he got stuck there.
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  6. ​ @noah5291  Yeah you're all "skeptical". Funny how you never apply skepticism to Russia's claims.
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  7. ​ @sergeikhripun  If you steal a car do you find reasonable to ask for gas refills from the owner?
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  8. "Highly manueverable" while hypersonic means having a turn radius the size of a state.
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  9. ​ @MegaAshfire  Well, the Azeris were invaded in the 90s. This is more like Ukraine trying to retake Crimea a decade after losing it. It's not really an invasion when there's international recognition that you own the place.
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  10. ​ @Hogwild9erguy Incapable? No. Low chance of success? You betcha.
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  11. ​ @none3763  Uronically ships at port have been struck by Storm Shadow cruise missiles so air defense is to blame. Drone attacks in port are minimized with nets. You can watch the footage and these drones are striking ships at sea. You even have video showing the Russian sailors using machine guns and rifles for point-defense off the deck.
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  12. ​ @WAT906 so they killed 12 pilots in this stageplay?
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  13. ​ @markseslstorytellerchannel3418  That's typically how economic cycles work. You nosedive for a while, then your recovery is "growth".
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  14. It cost Russia 7 aircraft and the lives of 12 pilots.
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  15. All tanks have been used like that in Ukraine. Doesn't matter the age, indirect fire is important. However, tanks have less range than artillery and the barrels last less than an artillery barrel. So you don't pull T-55 tanks out of storage when you lack artillery. You do that when you're lacking tanks.
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  16. Several gunmen means it's likely to be ideological.
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  17. ​ @RamblingRodeo  I mean, it's not just retooling, a lower quality coal will produce more soot so it clogs stuff. They'd have to change the piping from furnace to exhaust so that it becomes less efficient but clogs less.
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  18. The issue is, how many anti-west fighters are willing to take 80% casualties in 6 months?
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  19. ​ @IndiaTides  China built cheap because the West invested there after the Sino-Soviet split as a way to approach them and isolate the USSR. Did you know that before Japan focused on quality, they were known to produce cheap crummy goods? Like China was seen in the 90s and 2000s?
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  20. LMAO so you follow anyway?
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  21. Didn't make sense to waste them on playgrounds and glass pedestrian bridges either.
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  22. Buddy you can see their brutal executions online, how the hell are you going to sit here and argue they treat people better?
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  23.  @wantanamera  What involvement? There's CCTV footage of uninvolved people taking stray rounds. And what kind of argument is that? Oh they're good people, but don't get involved.
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  24. ​ @NathansHVAC  Only when you ignore the curvature of the earth. Turkey found out the hard way the brochure range for the S-400 is only for very high altitude targets.
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  25. What NATO propaganda?
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  26.  @ankhenaten2  Has to step inside FPV range. Who'd want to be near that thing? Ever seen TOS exploding?
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  27. ​ @festekj The former Marine who said HIMARS wouldn't make a difference?
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  28. Well, Ukrainians are saying that Wagner convicts are spead into small squads so that the big artillery is wasted on small groups. They're saying they're bringing out the mortars and the 105mm to deal with the waves because they can't expend all their 155mm on such attacks.
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  29.  @HiwasseeRiver  Here's the terms: Russia abandons the Ukrainian territory according to 1991 borders and surrenders all suspects of war crimes to be prosecuted in either Ukraine or the Hague.
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  30. ​ @louKushh  Cope, Ivan.
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  31. The "F-35 can't dogfight" was clickbait journalism from a writer who didn't understand the leaked report and totally misread what it meant. Within visual range you're not expected to survive an encounter with the F-35 as it can pull high AoA and point its nose without making a turn.
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  32.  @JPJ432  Ukraine being a left wing thing is a dissident right talking point. A very vocal minority that monopolizes online discourse, but has limited influence in the real world.
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  33. It's a bad thing thanks to fertilizer and grain being affected. The oil is a consolation prize.
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  34. Island nations that shut their borders and had summer during our winter due to being on the southern hemisphere. They got the geography right, but their measures didn't work anywhere else.
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  35. Half of them were put on the trenches like 8 months ago.
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  36. TOS-1 is garbage, though. Regular artillery or Grads are more useful than a siege breaker.
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  37. ​ @SillyBillyOneHundreadMilly  the Black Sea Fleet has lost enough ships that Crimea no longer matters for Russian security.
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  38. ​ @BardChords  Same reason Russia kept landing supply helicopters at Chornobaivka despite being attacked 30 times. Ignore the need for supplies, you lose. It's like asking why the neck has the vulnerable arteries into the brain. Without them, brain don't work.
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  39. Ukraine wasn't mobilizing those under 27.
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  40. What other sources? The ones saying Russia is taking settlements, but omitting how small and how little the distances are?
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  41. ​ @no_more_free_nicks  Makes you wonder why they weren't on board with the Iraq war, I thought they liked bush.
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  42. ​ @zeanamush  He fled to Russia but that wasn't his intended destination. His passport was revoked so he couldn't leave.
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  43. Fun fact, Russia shipped Ukrainians to Siberia and replaced them with Russian nationals to dillute Ukrainian nationalism. I'm sure a handful have held a grudge.
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  44. ​ @timstapleman some people also believe everything Putin media tells them.
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  45. Guided missiles existed before transistors hit the nanometre scale.
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  46. Every dog has its day.
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  47.  @badwolftx2139  The US does that to win. Win fast, less suffering. Russia is doing that because they can't win. So they want to prolong the suffering. Russia also tried decapitating strikes in Feb 24 but their plan failed.
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  48. ​ @zibbitybibbitybop  Hell, the Russian air force was held back by Ukraine's Soviet era air defense.
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  49. ​ @gezalesko3813  Air superiority is irrelevant here. The breach is complicated by minefields. Aircraft in the air can't remove them.
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  50. Single anonymous source. Worthless.
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  51. The problem with saving the good tanks for last is that they won't be manned by good crews. What's the point of fighting NATO with the good tanks by mobilizing the homeless, prisoners, and hiring dudes from India and Nepal?
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  52. Serial passage through humanized mice.
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  53. The US wrote the book on defeating Soviet/Russian AD. Then tossed it at Saddam in 1991.
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  54. The strait is harder to cross with these electric drones, a combustion engine and fuel tank would be required. Ukrainians can pose as Russians and drive with cardboard in their trunk to get close enough to launch. Russians have difficulty posing as Ukrainians so they need long range Iranian drones.
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  55. They have volunteers still waiting to get processed and sent to bootcamp. That's why some countries are announcing that they're sending instructors to train Ukrainian men in NATO bases.
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  56. They weren't goaded into anything. We were willing to overlook so much of their BS it's not even funny.
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  57. ​ @perhapsyes2493  A few years ago an article was published about it but in Swedish, I think. It was about male idle thought, and when women ask us what we're thinking of we'll just say "uh, nothing" but the author realized we're actually absorbed in our thoughts. This went mostly unnoticed by the English speaking internet but another woman picked it back up and wrote "ask your husband/boyfriend how often he thinks about the Roman Empire" and all the women and girls followed the trend and realized it was a common thing.
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  58. Increase in demand will surge prices if there's no increase in supply.
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  59. ​ @Lora_Lynn the Chechens are a national guard unit that's used to intimidate those who oppose Kadyrov. They don't have a large tank force or heavy weapons. It would be like collecting all the small town SWAT officers in America and sending them to fight a real war without armor, artillery and aviation.
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  60. False. They shot at completely random ships. They were heading to unrelated countries, I remember one if the first to be attacked was headed to Italy. Then they shot at a US Navy helicopter, which returned fire with Hellfire missiles. The Houthis were performing indiscriminate attacks from the start and they engaged US military assets first.
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  61. Don't see how that's related to the CCP and the financial structures holding up their rise through the ranks.
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  62. Nope. Top Secret clearance takes 6 months to a year to get. It's extremely common.
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  63.  @nd15music73  By the admission of North Vietnamese generals, they were defeated in the Tet Offensive but lucked out in the public support for the war plummeting in the US. The Vietcong were nearly wiped out and had to dbe replaced by NVA regulars. That's how bad they got beat.
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  64. Everyone we dislike joining the losing team... sounds like a win.
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  65. ​ @MilanTukidid  you know that using the word "mercenary" flags you as a Russian propagandist, why use it at all?
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  66. Still works as deterrent, not as coercive means.
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  67. I don't think Prigozhin has that ambition. He wants to be the teacher's pet, not the dean.
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  68. ​ @HiwasseeRiver  Russia started the war because Yanukovych was pressured to join the EU by his own campaign promises. Cope harder.
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  69. And they all move West at the first chance they get. Weapons isn't a prestigious job in Russia so their MIC is lead by old guys almost in retirement age with no apprentices to get the knowledge passed down
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  70. Luka Leaks
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  71. ​ @cowboybeboop9420  many people who fled abroad are returning. People are living as normally as possible despite the air raids. Remember, London was also "blitzed" during WWII.
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  72. They've been manufactured decades ago.
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  73. ​ @geneoh5048  All the Russian economic figures are presented by Rosstat, the official Russian government statistics.
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  74. Do you watch the videos? The shovel joke falls flat when the advacing troops put the muzzle on their own head or shove a live grenade into their vest. Turns out people can get gibbed like in Quake multiplayer in real life.
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  75. ​ @kkpenney444  Iraq won in Desert Storm?
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  76. ​ @darthkek1953  Their logistics are still hindered by the mid 2022 massive ammo dump explosions. The Russian army's logistics will never catch up to their intended expenditure rate due to the threat to close dumps and losses in their transport forces.
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  77. ​ @bobcruz2826 True that. But the number of people who come here within 10 minutes of an upload to talk shit are something else.
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  78. By negotiating, you're accepting that nuclear blackmail works. After that, why not demand more? It works.
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  79. ​​ @jeroenstrompf5064 eah let me arrive sweaty at work (no showers where I am employed), and waste an hour of my life to do a 10 minute trip. t. Person who depended on public transport all his life and got a driver's license at 28 and is beyond fed up with busses and trams
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  80. "Ay Tone, I simply do not believe everyone in the Siberian Orchestra is trans."
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  81. Amazing how every time something happens, it's to cover up everything else. And these cover ups keep happening all the time. Makes total sense.
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  82. It's not 190k plus 300k. After the initial invasion Russia "shadow mobilized" a ton of men. There's maybe a hundred k and fifty k mercenaries hidden between initial invasion and mobilization.
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  83. It's difficult to look at China's rise and think they were "exploited". They were compensated fair and square, to the point we fed steroids to what would become our number one enemy. The fact that they fumbled the bag is solely on them, not us.
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  84. ​ @markrobinowitz8473  SARS-1 was traced back to the cave where the bats lived. This one wasn't.
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  85. ​ @SillyBillyOneHundreadMilly  Go read how Russia got the Caucasus region.
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  86.  @gavindy_Sv2  But cashing in how? You're expecting me to believe Zeihan looked at the youtube gig and thought he could get a lot of people who he enticed with free content to fork over 750... usually there's extra steps like selling merch, then going for the books, etc to make sure the fish are going for the hook. The data simply isn't there to make this look like a plan.
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  87. They wouldn't have the Permissible Access Link that allows the nuke to function.
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  88. Russian artillery covers entire fields in craters. More artillery doesn't mean more hits, it means more fires. Fires that don't hit don't produce casualties. Also, Russian shelling has reduced significantly.
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  89.  @WeknowhoUR  The Minsk accords broken by the attack on Debaltseve and the start of the Second Battle for Donetsk Airport?
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  90.  @estonianman  You're not answering the question. Yes, I am different from Zs. I'm not allowed at the Ukrainian front so that's a useless argument. Focus. Answer the question.
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  91. Why? They're Soviet era.
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  92. ​ @ningen7736 He can't. Ukraine found foreign volunteers to be worse than useless and asked them to go home. The only way to volunteer now is to have combat experience (they won't call you back if it's War on Terror experience) or a specialized skill that they can't easily train. Otherwise, they have locals who know the language and the land. Random foreigners only hinder them.
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  93. Yes. Both Sig Sauer and Heckler & Koch had legal troubles for selling weapons that were diverted from the supposed buyer to evade import/export restrictions and sell German made weapons in Central America. Some weapons with Israeli technology are also blocked by Israel. Breaking end user agreements can ruin a country's future attempts at arms import.
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  94. ​ @haroldfarquad6886  a lot of stuff can be repaired if you can get the parts - but we demand our products to be light, thin and fashionable so there's fragile connectors everywhere and pieces which need to be set in place by machine before oven soldering.
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  95. Japan had a massive economic crisis in the 90s. It wasn't sunshine and rainbows for them.
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  96. The pipe and steel guys got mobilized. Also, it was Westerners running the show prior to February.
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  97. Oh God they're gonna attempt the Odessa landing...
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  98. Rail can be repaired. When Ukraine targets Russian rail it's with the understanding that they're buying 24 hours of breathing room.
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  99. That could work. If that plan was put into motion 20 years ago.
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  100. ​ @s.flanders Because it's a neat way to regulate older cars out of existence.
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  101. ​ @60degreelobwedge82  the economies were shot in 2020, the Ukraine thing isn't that big of a deal
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  102. ​ @RogueReplicant  How is Ukraine at fault?
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  103. ​ @harrybuttery2447 but Wagner blew through road blocks on their way to Moscow. Barriers would gave acomplished nothing.
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  104.  @modigrey  I don't watch CNN or BBC.
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  105. Sicario 2 used the "terrorism" classification to ditch the necessity to bring law enforcement.
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  106.  @garyk8285  Gonzalo and The Duran live on the Z alternative reality. Forget the sources. They're not on the same plane of existence.
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  107. It was interrupted for more than a day. It still hasn't had heavy rail transport roll over it, just propaganda shoots of empty trains rolling at 5km/h over it.
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  108.  @pinkoslayer  >"pinkoslayer"
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  109. Who cares about what Jordan Peterson has to say about war?
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  110.  @klaasvakie  Yeah, he can't argue. That's why he spams the exact sane comment everywhere.
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  111. ​ @Jeremy-WC  It will have to be a fiat currency or else it's dead in the water. Hard currencies can't keep up with economic growth.
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  112. Russia has never achieved air superiority in this war.
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  113. How many of those 1M adults were 18 to 35? Because from the videos made by a certain American propagandist, they took a lot of old people to Russia.
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  114. But Tucker isn't legit. He is actually pretty fake and it's transparent that he puts on an act.
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  115.  @ronarnett4811  Russian reservists were used up in the early months of the war. The so-called BARS units were for example defending Kharkiv and got mauled pretty bad. Conscripts only serve a year since the 2000s, and they famously call it a wasted year because there's almost no training involved. Russian artillery ratios mean nothing when the calls of fire suffer delays of several hours, barrels are toast, and HIMARS strikes on supply depots caused a reduction in fires.
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  116. Less than a tenth of Russia's population attends church.
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  117. If it wasn't a crime they wouldn't be buying from criminal organizations. Kind of a chicken or the egg situation there.
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  118. Iran also enabled the fight from the opposite side. Which is funny because Iran never gets any flak for using Yemen as its proxy.
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  119. Yeah but increased skillsets and automation come at a cost. Should have escaped the middle income trap first.
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  120. Do they seem to be losing?
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  121. Canada joined a military pact with China in 2013.
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  122. ​ @SkylerKing Russia is struggling a lot.
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  123. Self-determination alone won't cut it. There's dozens of separatist movements in the developed world alone, we can't just carve out new borders whenever we feel like. Armenia was also the aggressor in the 90s.
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  124. ​ @harleyquinn8202  yeah.
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  125. About one death every two months on average since 2016.
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  126.  @ronarnett4811  Reserves are not trained because their training was next to non-existent when they originally served.
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  127.  @behroozkhaleghirad  yet mobilized have already surrendered less than a week into the mobilization
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  128. There were WMDs. Just not an active program to build them. Several US servicemen suffered lifelong injuries from contact with Iraqi nerve agents.
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  129. The railroad burned for a long time, the concrete and rebar were certainly affected.
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  130. They're cheap but mostly a nuissance. Their effectiveness isn't seen on the battlefield.
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  131. ​ @Gutenmorgenside  using an outdated OS is common in government/military/banking/healthcare. Porting over to newer systems has very high costs and risks.
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  132.  @ankhenaten2  Comment shadowbanned lol is the range greater than 10km?
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  133. ​ @guidoulm1559  the Soviet Union agreed to pull the missiles in exchange for pulling missiles out of Turkey. Things can be resolved with diplomacy.
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  134. 14th century Europe birthrates were much higher, and what sort of public hospitals and retirement plans do you think existed in the 14th century? Higher wages and affordable housing is great, but if you're 65 and there's nobody to stock the shelves at the grocery store or to see you at the doctor's office you're not going to have a very fun retirement.
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  135. They're more antagonistic than in the 80s. Unironically. Watch some Russian media. You may not think about them, but Russians think you want to wipe them out. It's North Korea tier over there.
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  136. Remember how you people were mocking the Kherson offensive?
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  137. ​ @Mountain_Valley_Sky  Russian costs are lower thanks in part to cheaper labor. And did you see the Russians filming their shells empty, with no explosive filler?
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  138. Ukraine specifically did not mobilize 27 and under. Ever heard of the Fukushima disaster? The older men volunteered to clean up because they knew that it would take decades for cancer to appeal, so they'd be less affected than the young. Obviously the Russian would never understand empathy.
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  139. ​ @1queijocas  But if all the sources are easily found factoids not only is the sourcing pointless, others could take in the same facts and come out with a different narrative.
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  140. I love how you people said the same about Kherson, got humiliated, and now you're back spewing the same exact argument. I can only predict the offensive will cause a collective aneurysm.
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  141. ​ @JinKee  Africa had coups and civil wars through the decades, and countries neighbouring Russia have been hotspots for a while too (the short lived Chechen independent republic in the 90s, Georgia 2008, Ukraine 2014-present). Rather than a pattern, you have exclusion. India and China have large forces and nukes, Europe decided that after WW2 they kind of don't want to get wrecked again, the Americas are shielded by the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Basically the former Soviet bloc, Africa and smaller Asian nations are what remains to have a proper good old fashioned war. Surely the Myanmar civil war doesn't have anything to do with Europe, and it doesn't fit your pattern.
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  142. They didn't. They simply lost less. Winter punished the Soviets in Finland. Also, the Soviets aren't Russians. The Soviets had Ukrainians.
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  143. How does that change the fact that no currency can do what the USD does and the CCP is manipulating the Yuan?
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  144. Chip manufacturing is extremely complex. Beyond a certain point you have billions of transistors all close to each other, a little mistake and electrons start leaking through the "wires" and the thing doesn't work. You don't just need the machines but also the brains of experienced designers. It's probably more of a dark art than a nuclear program.
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  145. They produce engineers, we hire them. One of the benefits of knowing how to read Cyrillic is that I can look at the t-shirts and polos of Russian "refugees" and I can tell which company they worked for in Russia before they fled mobilization.
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  146.  @blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311  So many engineers, yet their roads are mud and their weapons keep failing.
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  147. Drugs are not legal in Portugal, you're just not criminally charged. You still get your drugs confiscated by police and may be forced to go to court where the judge will recommend addiction treatment (which is not mandatory).
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  148. The fact that the first attack involved a VBIED shoud hint at the fact that Ukraine lacks the weapons to do so.
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  149. Because he's not a wartime correspondent, a geopolitical analyst has to cover the important stuff in the world outside the war.
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  150. ​ @annawagner4147 Oh no, Ukraine is losing a small town after 8 months of human waves.
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  151. Funny how all these Russian shills know generals and special forces who know more than the "mainstream media" lets us know.
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  152. ​ @AB-jw3mz  How much longer? I've waited and waited.
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  153. Yeah people aren't free to worship a person calling for the destruction of Ukraine.
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  154. But the Gripen doesn't have enough airframes to go around, while the F-16 has thousands manufactured and some retiring right now.
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  155. The word on the street is that this was a photo reconnaissance drone before being fitted with explosives.
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  156. That's like two bullets impacting each other mid air. It would most likely re-entry and burn up.
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  157. We've had glide bombs for decades. Damn right we have diversity, we've got multiple kinds of glide bombs.
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  158. There's not enough gold in the world.
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  159. ​ @duke9260  It is exactly how negotiations work.
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  160. That's like asking why Patriot missile batteries aren't stopping school shootings.
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  161. RFK is a nutjob.
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  162. ​ @johnmurdoch8534  And what's their plan?
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  163. 8 countries have applied with 17 showing interest.
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  164. Mearsheimer should be sat down Clockwork Orange style and forced to watch the Russian way of war. The brutality and carnage would psychologically break him. There's at least 7 suicides published publically caught by Ukrainian drones. That's how bad the war us going for Russia. They either pull the trigger on themselves or hold a live grenade next to their head. That's how they learned to adapt. Realizing that nobody is coming, and Russian healthcare will not prevent them from remaining heavily disabled.
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  165. Situation assessment, more like copium administration. Just one more dose!
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  166. Nice word salad. You think America is the only country where politicians ever claimed to put their country first?
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  167.  @jameslynn7271  There's been two drone attacks by air on Sevastopol HQ and one by sea. The point on Hanzo's comment isn't the bases but striking during transit.
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  168. They have runways, but ferries would be more efficient.
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  169. ​ @TokyoTaisu  They'd have to get paid wages which defeats the purpose of automation.
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  170. They're losing? The only place they were getting beat was Bakhmut and they just countered there.
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  171. The former head of Roscosmos, Rogozin, got into twitter fights with Elon instead of doing his job and later had to admit he couldn't launch satellites due to western sanctions.
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  172. They're more adaptive, but you have to create the situations for them to adapt to and make them run that situation thousands of times until they get it right. If a real machine in the real world comes across an unforseen situation it must stop itself, rather than attempt to crash in real life a thousand times.
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  173. ​ @KenHicksJr  Address the argument rather than deal in platitudes.
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  174. Not for long.
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  175. The situation in Crimea cost the Russian federation billions. Maxim Katz, Russian opposition, made the argument that the seizure of Crimea was a net drain on Russia's economy.
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  176. The Canadians used the 20mm cannons in their CF-18s to put a thousand rounds into a weather balloon. It had to be shot down by Russia. That's how slow they leak.
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  177. ​ @seemo144 Using blades as filler is quite literally hiding the problem. Burning them as fuel doesn't recoup energy from manufacturing, just energy from material we have no use for otherwise.
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  178. For once? They suffered greatly in Finland in the 40s and also in Ukraine this February.
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  179. Good ear. He does look like he's in a place that should be noisy.
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  180. Russian shills have exactly one joke.
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  181. Because it needs to be dropped from an airplane. They can't fly bombers over Ukraine. Also, MOAB is American.
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  182. Remember Kharkiv? Funny thing tends to happen after months of depleting men in frontal assaults. The counterpunch hurts so much more.
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  183. The Panama canal is a lake 80 ft above sea level. Since there's no nearby glaciar melting to feed it with fresh water, it needs rain.
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  184. ​@@jackjones4824 They expected a quick capitulation and Ukrainians/Belarusians to boost their numbers in a new "Greater Russia".
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  185. ​ @Roblovesbushcraft  Damn Ukraine is incompetent and still kicking Russia's teeth in?
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  186. Pretty sure tons of companies are pulling out of China.
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  187.  @cletushatfield8817  The fudge does that mean? Being hosted in shows with different audiences is a way to gain notoriety, not an exercise in spoonfeeding.
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  188. How was it a double cross? Ukraine mined the north, and has water reservoirs to wet the soil to create mud. The videos of Russian convoys burning with corpses all around them would make a comeback.
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  189. ​ @mobilecivilian6124  Has MacGregor apologized for making a fool of himself? He predicted Ukraine's total defeat multiple times and he's constantly wrong. A debate with MacGregor should be exclusively a presentation featuing his bombastic quotes and letting the audience laugh at him.
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  190. Russian missile strikes are killing civilians. Tragic, but ultimately fruitless like the Blitz against the UK.
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  191. Who paid for the Russian and British lend lease? The Brits paid it back in 2006, 60 years after the war.
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  192. We have repair time estimate from the last repair. Several months.
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  193. I don't think China would like Russians from the Caucasus going to Xinjiang and remembering the Uyghurs of their cultural roots after all the money spent in reeducation camps.
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  194. One step at a time.
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  195. Russia is in control of the dam, only they could have blown it. They also blew NS1 which was costing them money, and proposed replacing it with NS2 as long as Germany approved it.
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  196. As long as everyone else can. Everyone is printing money. It's all fiat.
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  197.  @bighands69  dallastaylor at least presented arguments. I'm more comvinced by arguments than incredulity.
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  198.  @LRRPFco52  I was replying to a comment saying the French don't shave in certain places so I made a double-entendre with "I thought they liked bush". It wasn't a political comment.
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  199. Funny how discussing Iranian militias was not out of the question when talking about Iraqi politics but now in 2024 it's a no-no in online circles.
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  200. Yep, them Russian oligarchs are losing.
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  201.  @ImAliveAndYouAreDead  The "separatists" were also not going to fight until Girkin et al started breaking into government buildings.
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  202. Mass shootings by definition involve 4 fatalities. How can you have 627 events with only 754 fatalities? That means most shootings only had 1 fatality, which is not "massive".
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  203. ​ @David.C01552  If you claim to dominate and then lose dominance, you lost bub. The other guy doesn't have to win. If you claim you're undefeatable in the cage, then get your face pummeled in a MMA fight, your excuse is "the guy who beat me didn't win the UFC belt". Okay? You still got your face smashed in.
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  204. ​ @HiwasseeRiver  Also the US urged Ukrainian opposition to let Yanukovych stay in power.
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  205. Softly? They mercilessly bombarded Ukraine. Look at Mariupol.
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  206. Mandarin is one of the hardest languages to learn as an adult and there would have to be jobs waiting for them in the ghost cities. Nobody moves because of cheap land if they can't earn a living. There's small towns in the US giving away free land to combat rural exodus, you either have to commit to start a business there or have the ability to work remotely. So the takers are few and far between.
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  207. A nuclear artillery shell has a blast radius of about 500 yards. That would maybe take out 30-40 soldiers in the frontline.
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  208. The independent contractors are doing training and maintenance. The dangers of them being caught in the front is not worth the trouble.
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  209. ​​ @Rob_F8F here's been several air defense assets that if not destroyed, were rendered inoperable. There's Russian telegram posts showing for example Pantsirs that had their missile magazines riddled with fragments and stories of hits that although had not destroyed the launcher vehicle caused traumatic brain injury in all of the occupants via shock wave. Russia is at a point where just enough damage is almost as good as destruction as it gives them a bunch of stuff to be sent back for repair.
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  210. Most stuff used by military forces has to be manned by 18 year old conscripts ir people who chose the military as a career after running out of better options.
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  211.  @bingcrosby1378  The point is that you can't destroy the factory where they're made. They're not currently being made. So unless they're storing all of them in a warehouse and Russia finds it, you can't take out that capability. They'll keep launching until they run out of the old drones.
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  212.  @modigrey  Here's the facts - the first wave of mobilization is a mess. A second wave would expose even more rot.
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  213. ​ @secondlook  Tatarsky was in the field and handling weapons. War has become greyer in the sense that you can become a warrior-celebrity, go to a country you invaded, get some action shots in the frontline, totally embedded in the military, and then go home for a speaking tour to be welcomed like a veteran. The US actually delayed the award of a Medal of Honor for decades because a soldier who sacrificed himself by manning a machine gun nest to cover a retreat was actually a medic - and a medic touching a weapon revoked the protections they had. Medics carrying weapons only became common during the GWOT as insurgents were unlawful combatants by virtue of wearing civilian clothing and were not expected to hold their fire against medics. Russia has had a few notorious "blogger warriors" since 2014. I don't see how they get to walk away scot-free.
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  214. That means dependence on 1) who has the uranium mines and 2) who built your nuclear facilities. Even if you have an entirely domestic weapons program, you could not have started from scratch with your reactor designs nor extract your own uranium as a smaller non-aligned country.
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  215. ​ @goenzoy712  More people but lower purchasing power. Always factor that into the equation.
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  216. No. People will just use more contraceptives.
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  217. Ukraine phased their mobilization into waves because they couldn't train them all in one go. Russia couldn't train them all in one go either, but still put the men in busses and dropped them off on abandoned bases.
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  218. If you don't want nuclear war you have to call out nuclear bullying.
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  219. Cope.
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  220. More accurate payloads? Come on now...
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  221. That's why the targets were a tunnel and a bridge. You don't target the rail. You target the stuff that holds the rail in place.
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  222.  @kingezhsepo  Guards are gonna shoot the tunnel until the heat damage is gone? Buddy, the attack already went down. The train exploded inside the tunnel. It was loaded with fuel.
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  223. Go to Vuhledar again lol
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  224. Their world class system failed to protect Moscow several times and just the other day Ukraine destroyed a Tu-22 strategic bomber because air defense failed.
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  225.  @QuizmasterLaw  But you're not "knowing" anything, you're just posting. You're either paid, which is sad, or doing it for free, which is even sadder. He's not your enemy. You're nobody. You have no enemies because nobody knows who you are.
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  226. ​ @BrightWendigo  Guerrilla warfare is the exception rather than the norm. It's easier to mobilize a population for line warfare.
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  227. They'll stop that as soon as their gold reserves start dwindling.
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  228. ​ @lescommercantesdindochine1954  I see a lot of them enjoying life here in Western Europe.
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  229. Russia thought Odessa was easy to blockade. The Moskva got that Neptune double-tap.
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  230. Russia already failed to commit to CSTO obligations towards Armenia last year. Armenia has been getting closer to the US because they realized the Russians burned them.
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  231. Russians were dug in on the Western side of Kherson Oblast. They gave it up.
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  232. Absolutely baffling metrics. We all saw how their bid for being the biggest producer of green energy ended - with even more coal plants being built.
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  233. ​ @GowthamNatarajanAI  lmao the exact same thing was said about the previous 300k
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  234. ​ @Withnail1969  American F-16s flew from Ukrainian airfields in training events before the war.
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  235. Finland is almost as close.
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  236. ​ @TomTomicMic  bigger ships will incur greater costs
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  237. ​ @Augustus_Imperator Russia only lasted this long because of Soviet era stockpiles. They couldn't even build a force for the 2022 war, what makes you think they can rebuild a stronger force?
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  238. The vote happened at gunpoint. About as valid as the Kherson referendum.
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  239. They don't. It's just pilots misidentifying objects. We tend to focus on unsolved on unidentified flying objects or "unidentified aerial phenomena" as we call them these days - but ignore the solved UAP reports. When pilots report flying objects and an investigation is able to reach a conclusion they're usually either unlicensed drones flying in violation of FAA rules or balloons. Stinger missile training is achieved by tethering a burning flare to a balloon, which the missile seeks. This training is often done facing the sea to avoid shooting missiles into land outside training areas. When the balloon becomes untethered as a result of missile training, it flies out to sea where it will be seen by pilots. One of Cmdr. Fravor's videos shows the exhaust from a jet fighter from a distance, which blooms the thermal image, and the "rotation" is caused by the internal mirrors in the targeting pod stabilizing the footage.
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  240. ​ @Hovercraftltd  Their expected life span makes that not a concern. Supposedly some US soldiers/marines carrying backpack jammers (to stop cellphone IEDs) eventually got bald spots from the hair follicles getting "cooked" while the rest of the skin wouldn't burn.
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  241. The US has stockpiles of materiel while Europe is buying back armor it sold for scrap prices at hundreds of thousands of Euro per unit. A lot of European equipment requires American parts anyway.
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  242. Russia has gone after civilian targets since day one. They just can't afford to expend more missiles.
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  243. Maddow isn't enough of a war machine enthusiast to be into this.
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  244. Green Ukrainians got training from multiple Western allies while Russians got trained in Belarus.
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  245. They've already brought down a couple. And Wagner shot down a couple more, hilariously.
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  246.  @HiwasseeRiver  Only fixed buildings are easy targets. If you have to launch stuff an hour in advance to cover the distance you don't actually know if the target will still be there.
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  247. No because Russian logistic problems are systemic. They depend on rail and large ammunition dumps to feed their artillery. HIMARS forced a dispersion of ammo dumps and larger distances involved. Ukraine prioritized the targeting of supply trucks early in the war so Russia is struggling. Winter will be severe to the poorly trained and equipped Russians, while Ukraine gets winter gear from allied nations.
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  248. ​ @SuperBacDoc History Legends is a copelord.
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  249. You really want to grab a shovel and dig across a miles wide debris field?
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  250. Give Hypohystericalhistory a watch.
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  251. WTC 7 was hit by burning debris. Three diesel generators inside. Buckling of steel girders, house of cards.
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  252. Those aren't missiles, they're glide vehicles. The actual missile rocket motor is massive, requires a launcher vehicle the size of a truck to carry one.
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  253. The S-400 has kind of been fraudchecked in this war.
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  254. ​ @barbeonline351 Same thing happened in Syria, they fell out of favor for a while and the Russian military reduced support.
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  255. Ukrainian SF has the experience of fighting Russia, including insertions into Crimea. One time they were discovered and had to shoot their way out of the peninsula, killing a Russian soldier and a spetsnaz commando in their escape.
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  256. Price gouging is the natural market signal to handle shortage. Price gouging isn't a cause but an effect. An increase in price promotes moderation (keeping prices static during a shortage would cause hoarders to clean the shelves for cheap), keeps businesses afloat during periods of supply drought and signals to the market that if anyone has the stuff somewhere else, they can profit from taking the goods where they're abundant and shipping them to where they're expensive.
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  257. They literally have bragged about it.
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  258. He has offended a lot of people. I get Musk. But people don't stop being offended just because I kind of get his point. Hell, you could say he offended me when he came out with the Ukraine peace deal proposal.
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  259.  @rap3208  Hypersonic is a meme. The US had manned hypersonic planes in the 1960s. They just stopped developing hypersonic because ICBMs already existed. Did you see the Khinzal get shot down like 7 times by a Patriot in Ukraine? Turns out it doesn't matter how fast you go if you're just going to collide head on with the interceptor.
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  260.  @lo1lawl  Afghanistan still has no bearing on the timing.
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  261. They seem pretty demotivated on social media.
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  262. I don't remember specifics, but I remember how those articles were rushed. The fact is that you can create a virus in a lab by just forcing a natural virus to change. Thus leaving you with a virus that looks natural, as no human hand tinkered with the genetic code directly.
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  263. There's a ton of generals who'd like to retire in peace and avoid tribunals. What will they do, give the keys to the Chechens and Ingush and spend the rest of their lives on the run, or just wave the white flag and hand them over to us?
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  264. A lot of weapons are short range so they need to be placed in an intercept point. That means you either place them where the incoming missiles come most often and let the minority through and do damage, or you get advance warning to drive a short range launcher into position. Cruise missiles have been shot down by shoulder fired missiles. The short range system could be a guy in the back of a pickup truck.
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  265. The first attack most likely used a truck driver unaware of the cargo he was hauling.
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  266. He's probably refering to Bellingcat.
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  267. The issue is that Ukraine knows a settlement is Russia's ways of recuperating and regenerating a new invasion force to come back a year or two later.
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  268.  @eccoecco8648  Neither Japan or Germany could take on America. It's very important to remember - the US could do both Europe and the Pacific at the same time, but Germany and Japan would be outstretching their logistics well past the limit trying to invade. Zee Germans were content with keeping the British across the channel. Invading the US would be a big ask.
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  269. Typically you want to export to wealthier countries and get their stronger currency.
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  270. This is cope similar to the cope after the Kiev, Snake Island and Kharkiv debacles.
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  271. Stop. Ukraine existed before Russia. Russia started in Moscow, and they're a remnant of the former Mongol empire. They took the name of the Rus, who founded Kiev. Ukraine had a pro-independence movement since the Russian empire, and when 1917 happened the Ukrainian reds fought the Russian bolsheviks to a standstill. This granted them the Ukraine SSR, a on paper independent country. Obviously Moscow ruled the Soviet Union, but Russians couldn't subjugate Ukrainians so they had to play underhanded games like shipping Ukrainians to Siberia and sending Russians to live in their place. They asked to leave the Union right before it collapsed, meaning that they were independent the whole time, even if only on paper.
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  272. ​ @elibennett6168 the balloons were detected, the problem was that the first one was flying too high for an air to air missile.
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  273.  @jamesthompson3099  "air defense has increased massively" - Most Russian air defense is re-badged Soviet tech "note the shoot down rate of drones in Ukraine" - Most drone shootdowns are quadcopters being targeted by EW or small arms. Not actual air defense.
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  274. It can spread pretty easily? Remember SARS? An apartment building in Hong Kong had an infection spread by stool particles escaping the sewage system and lofting into the neighboring apartments.
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  275. But how is Russia cornered? They have tons of land. All they have to do is go home. Their lives won't change one bit. There's no corner, nobody's coming for them. Nobody wants their country or their people. They can have it.
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  276. Russia has attacked multiple Ukrainian bridges. Either way, there's plenty of videos of this bridge being used to transport huge amounts of heavy military equipment, such as armored fighting vehicles and rocket artillery launchers.
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  277. ​ @davidbarry6900 HIMARS has a 200lb payload, JDAMs exist in the 500, 1000 and 2000lb variety if I'm not mistaken.
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  278. Several are being shot down. Also they were used to attack ammo dumps and a command office building (empty) in Odessa. They're more of a cheap cruise missile than a tactical anti-artillery weapon.
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  279. Language and racism makes that a complicated proposition.
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  280.  @Humanaut.  The point is that you can provide 2MJ of energy into fusion and get back 3MJ. That's the main takeway, the reaction is net positive in energy. How that 2MJ was provided wasn't efficient at all. The thing is, we don't have to use that specific inefficient apparatus for power generation.
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  281.  @patkelley4071  With 40% efficiency, you'd need 5MJ to power a 2MJ laser.
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  282. And those "some" either need to learn to read or take their meds. No money was sent, the military said "we sent X billion worth of equipment" and the government response was "no, you sent X minus 6 billion because those vehicles are old and worth less than new". No six billion were sent. The government just said the value of EQUIPMENT was labeled incorrectly. No money changed hands. So you go tell those "some" who are "saying" and tell them they need to go back to school. Also, this "performance" shot down aircraft and killed Russian pilots. Heavy blow to Russian aviation, which was needed at the frontline.
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  283. Nice demoralization, botski
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  284. So everyone involved takes a huge financial loss. Ain't that a kick in the taint?
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  285. It wasn't defended as Russians are now targeting depots with rocket fuel for nuclear missiles Ukraine hasn't had since 1994.
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  286. Was he truthful? He said a whole bunch of nonsense.
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  287.  @ronarnett4811  You served in a military that wasn't the Russian one. The former paratrooper who defected from Russia after writing "Z O V", a document exposing his experience in the Russian army, stated that he barely had training the first time he signed a contract and he had hoped the military reforms had improved things when he decided to sign for a second contract. Tough chance - training is acomplished by taking staged photos and signing documents. Then everyone goes free for the rest of the day.
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  288.  @behroozkhaleghirad  TASS reported that on the 28th Sept the first Mobiks arrived in theater.
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  289. They've done that to the Sevastopol military HQ twice.
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  290. ​ @jhwheuer not only does the DEA and Coast Guard perform joint ops with the local governments, the cartels also exist stateside.
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  291. The Kharkiv offensive sealed Luhansk's fate. Their defenses in the north cannot be supplied by rail anymore, the rail lines from the East do not connect all the way to the North and the northern rail lines out of Belgorod are under Ukrainian artillery range.
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  292. Ukraine has existed since the 12th century. It's older than Moscow.
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  293.  @haraldhardrade7539  No, they were founded by the Rus who were essentially vikings. The Russians are the offspring of the Muscovia people after the Golden Horde collapsed and they took the name of the Rus for themselves. Kiev couldn't have been founded by Russians because Russians did not exist. The name "Ukraine" is older than the name "Russia".
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  294. They ordered their own soldiers to dig trenches in Chernobyl. It's cute that you think they care about their soldiers.
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  295. If they contain hazardous materials, explosives or rocket fuel it can only be done in certain places with the proprer regulations.
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  296. And they'd gave gotten way with it if it wasn't for the meddling 500m minefields.
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  297. Credit to the human wave argument because it's a fallacy but the Russian army is not the Soviet army - they are not ready for mobilization, they lack the equipment.
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  298. "Muh trillions" please look up what that actually entails.
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  299. Sounds even more delusional than the initial premise.
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  300. You can't pull people on a snap of a finger. First, how many if those 1.4 bil are estimations and don't actually exist? Second, how many are peasants in the countryside with no training in heavy industry. Humans may be a resource, but they're not numbers in a computer you can shift around.
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  301. ​ @DrSQUIRRELBOY12  And in that call Nuland is saying that the Ukrainian opposition should take the deal and accept the PM office while Yanukovych stays as president. The US wanted to keep the Putin stooge in Ukraine to stabilize the situation.
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  302. ​ @blackberrythorns  300 launches, 7 hits. How much damage on those hits?
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  303. ​ @gerardroth8838  There were no American military bases in Ukraine.
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  304. ​ @crombee8947  Bitcoin is too volatile.
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  305.  @wantanamera  Cartels.
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  306.  @mahadevovnl  A child is more likely to die in the US from lighting strike than mass shooting. Amazing how you cover up massive violence which has claimed the lives of thousands by using the good old whataboutism.
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  307. Ukraine is in the corner and Russia has the whole damn house. Russia can just leave and this is over. They have a billion corners to go into in their country. Stop repeating this nonsense.
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  308. There was no precision bombing in WW2 so you had to carpet entire cities in bombs to get the factories and rail hubs.
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  309.  @cozyojk571  It's extremely hard to land bombs on factories. It was WW2. Firebombing can definitely be used to destroy buildings. That was for example how the US crippled Japanese industry, it was easier to set fires and have those destroy the factories than trying to hit them directly.
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  310.  @cozyojk571  Right. But how else do you destroy factories, especially after large ones are dispersed across smaller plants?
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  311.  @pyrioncelendil  There's other systems like the IAI Harop.
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  312. Only the guns and ammo will be worth anything. Real life isn't a game where you'll find a trader where you click "sell" to trade gold. If nobody else needs gold, it's worthless.
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  313. They can get through mine fields, it's just harder when people shoot at you. Remove their source of ammo.
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  314. Clearing mines is easy when nobody is shooting at you.
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  315. Batteries don't have the power density to make killer robots.
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  316. It's extremely unlikely they use nukes. It's game theory, if you pull the no-no weapon first everyone sees you as the threat.
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  317. You can smuggle them from other countries.
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  318. Number is growing because we live longer, not because children are being born more often.
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  319.  @RK-yu7mp  Buddy you must be new to this. In the last few years tons of classified information was posted online because of gamers arguing about realism.
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  320. ​ @goonerboz6023  Why was Ritter in prison?
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  321. Russia would either have to go mad and launch the nukes, or throw every able bodied men at the front. Both cases would also kill Russia in the process.
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  322. ​ @ddeandrade611  Russia always wants war. From Vladivostok to Lisbon is their motto.
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  323. F-15s.
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  324. Riots are about retirement age in France increasing. They had one of the lowest retirement ages in Europe.
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  325.  @caveman-zd5yv  The economic problems predate the war. Lockdowns absolutely gutted our economies, the war gave everyone a safe scapegoat to pin the blame on. To say it's "due to the war" when prior there were almost 2 years of strained economic activity and massive governmental spending is pure dishonesty. If there was no war, European economies would still be dealing with ageing population. We can't sustain it. In my country the discussion on raising from 65 to 67 predates the war. France and a couple of other countries are the odd ones out - 62 was too young. Sorry, the previous generations enjoyed the fat of the land but now something has to give. Period.
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  326. This. American output would crash prices across the world so corn subsidies and ethanol production prevents oversupply.
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  327. ​ @steven4315  25k is a lot of gas
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  328. It's not an escalation. Ukraine already had jets before. Russia used jets from the start. Where is the escalation when everyone is on the same level?
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  329. ​ @James-zh6nf  It's not a simple request. If you understand what the point of citing other works is, you'll realize it's not useful for this type of content.
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  330.  @jimluebke3869  The Eastern provinces were drained out of Russia-friendly residents too. Either by offering passports and relocation, forced deportation or mobilization. The Donetsk and Luhansk regions were viciously depopulated through warfare - they used Russian-speaking Ukrainians as cannon fodder.
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  331. Nobody asked them to.
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  332. September 2022 a Khinzal crashed in Russian territory, it had the exact same wreckage.
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  333.  @joshuapaul2022  You're afraid of looking it up. Stavropol 2022 Khinzal crash. Google it. Look at the eyelets in the warhead. Same one.
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  334. Obviously the nuclear deterrent is more important, but as a thought experiment watch the Yes, Minister clip on nuclear deterrence.
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  335. Yeah just like after the first attack. Then Russia lost Kherson.
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  336. They did that and were allowed to present evidence at the UN. The Russian UN spokesperson embarassed himself because they had nothing.
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  337.  @idontwantanewfuckinghandle  Stop deflecting. The UN representative embarrassed himself.
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  338.  @gavindy_Sv2  I find it sort of funny that Zeihan would have a glaring boomer moment and not notice how most people won't fork over 5 bucks for a patreon let alone 750. I'm not saying it couldn't happen, but it would be a major oversight for Zeihan's masterplan to center around a total misjudgement about internet monetization.
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  339.  @gavindy_Sv2  The data he'd use to come to the conclusion that the market is there. There isn't one. This was his line of work before the channel grew or he went on JRE.
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  340.  @highvoltageswitcher6256  Did you went on a rant simply because of the joke term "boomer moment"?
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  341. Ukraine has spec ops with experience fighting Russia. American spec ops are actually less experienced in this type of conflict. Too much risk in letting Americans get captured for no benefit. Ukrainian spec ops are willing to do whatever it takes.
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  342. The US beat North Vietnam but the war was unpopular at home so when the North broke the peace terms the US just left.
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  343. Russian aviation did. 7 aircraft lost, 12 pilots dead.
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  344. How is that the best information? Russia is doing human wave assaults and driving armored vehicles into minefields. Defender's advantage - Russia has to cross no man's land, into Ukrainian sights.
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  345. Assuming a perfect boy-girl 50:50 split each couple raiaing one child will mean each generation will be half the size of the previous. A million quickly becones half a million, which quickly becomes 250k. 2.1 or bust.
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  346. Not really. Russia is pulling out the T-55s. Their numbers were cooked to scare other countries.
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  347. ​ @jakenasz3428  It's irrelevant because Russia offered to repair NS2 if Europe dropped sanctions. If Europe wanted to increase purchase of Russian gas, Nordstream 2 would be active. But it isn't, which means Europe is withdrawing.
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  348. They already recovered pieces from the sea. Bringing a balloon down slowly doesn't work. Canada tried it. After a thousand rounds of 20mm cannon fire from CF-18s, it crossed the Atlantic and got shot down by Russia. That's how bad your solution is. A BB? Try 20mm rounds. A thousand of them. Still didn't descend within reach.
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  349. 1 large boom causes more damage to a bridge than several smaller ones.
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  350. So the CIA and SAS are just able to walk into a Russian held area and truck several tons of explosives?
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  351. The Russian army either leaves or gets the forever sleepy time.
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  352. 60k ft isn't enough.
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  353. If my aunt had a pair of balls she'd be my uncle. "If they kept going" would mean having a supply of missiles. Coupd they afford to keep up? Israel would eventually have to say it's on and start to target launch sites and eventually Iranian industry so that they can ruin their economy before they ruin their own buying interceptor missiles.
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  354. The USSR famously starved Ukraine and Kazakhstan by exporting their grain.
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  355. They don't have much else. Designing stuff from scratch takes time. Tsirkon missiles are Iskander missiles converted to launch from the air instead of land.
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  356. They are fascists, though. Fit the definition to a t.
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  357. RFK deserves it.
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  358. I agree with the physics of the bridge collapse, but regarding the suicide attack it could be done. It's unethical, but in a warzone it's not difficult to find people who lost everything and no longer have the will to live.
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  359. Azerbeijan saw the opening and attacked Armenia, which was supposed to be protected by Russian peacekeepers.
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  360. What happens if the rail gets struck at the same time as the bridge?
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  361.  @blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311  But railways are terrible for low population density. Rail has to network a lot of people to be feasible. Last mile is almost always road-bound motor vehicles, people can't have trail stations in front of every grocery store to haul goods. They'd have won by now if their stuff didn't keep failing.
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  362. Well, instead of a military industrial complex they have a military industrial simple. If you look at the guts of these kits, they were hand assembled and soldered. Like arduino kits people makeat home.
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  363. Now the Taliban are complaining about their 9 to 5 jobs.
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  364. ​ @michaelpettersson4919  Because the Kuznetsov is technically a missile cruiser that carries aircraft rather than an aircraft carrier. Legalese mumbo jumbo.
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  365. It's really their fault.
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  366. An explosion above water will do that too. There were no scorch marks under the bridge, and the guard rails were bent outwards suggesting an explosion above the road.
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  367. Did you know how the Los Zetas started?
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  368. They have Russian jets. Which is kind of tough when a) they're not great and b) they're fighting Russia so they can't buy parts to keep them flying
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  369. Why? Who's gonna turn the keys and issue the codes?
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  370.  @nd15music73  Britain only had to BTFO the Argies out of the islands. The US had to BTFO the Soviet backed North in their own country with strategic bombing campaigns. A little tougher nut to crack.
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  371.  @nd15music73  Even if Argentina was competent, they were stretched beyond their limit. Even Harriers could fight Argentine jets simply because they could not fly at high speeds or they'd run out of fuel at sea.
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  372.  @klaasvakie  Okay. And these people on the frontlines, why do they keep being wrong? They've been telling you Russia is winning.
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  373. They breached several lines of defense. Also, work harder not smarter. Force your enemy to disperse and defeat the smaller agglomerations instead of the large force. Defeat in detail. Napoleon used it. "Oh you never beat my forces in well defended cities" boo hoo. Do you want to win or score points for style? I'd rather win. Why would I want a fair fight? I want the odds to be stacked in my favor.
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  374.  @chapagawa  To shut down airspace the PLAAF would have to conduct extensive SEAD/DEAD operations. There would be dozens, if not hundreds of airframes and pilots lost.
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  375. Bro anything that gets intercepted over the Kárman line is NOT cheap. The German V2 program was more expensive than the Manhattan project.
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  376. South Korea still exists, the US didn't intervene in the fall of South Vietnam due to domestic politics, and the US left Afghanistan to be ruled by the kids who grew up without fathers because the US troops culled their numbers.
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  377. Have you seen the human wave attacks? It's inhumane, Russians are being mowed down.
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  378. From a charitable point of view that's certainly a thing they could do, but a lot of those buildings are high rises which hinders mobility, and they'd need to hire caretakers to staff those cities. Which means changing the entire social welfare structure so they could afford a big retirement program for the nation.
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  379. They clearly stopped it.
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  380.  @j.langer5949  By those babies being too expensive for authoritarian regimes to employ. How are we going to stop the T-14 Armata and Su-57 Felon??? Turns out that parade floats for corrupt dictators don't do well in shooting wars.
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  381.  @tyharris9994  The one impact is the two bullets. You can't get the shotguns to fire without the impact happening first.
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  382.  @festekj  HIMARS are jammed and yet we see the 100,000 tungsten BBs ripping Russian supply trucks, anii-air and EW systems. You can't jam HIMARS. GPS weapons default to INS when jammed, which means they only lose a meter or two in accuracy. Barely any HIMARS are being announced? What's announced, aid packages or strikes? Strike footage is still coming out, and a recent aid package includes more HIMARS ammunition. They're not absent. Brian is lying to you. He's giving you an alternate reality which doesn't exist. He gets paid to shill for Russia. That's his job. That's why he's a washed up sex tourist.
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  383.  @psychohist  It's not "easy" to clear minefields under any circumstance. Close air support doesn't do the trick. Artillery can stand back enough to the point air superiority is meaningless. Even air superiority doesn't guarantee close air support but that's beside the point. The Ukrainians are unable to penetrate the minefields because they are too dense and there's enough drone and artillery density to prevent a complex breach. In regards to Ka-52 helicopters, they can use the Vikhr missile because it outranges MANPADS. We don't have a lot of mobile mid-range air defense in the West so the Ka-52 happens to exploit a gap in capabilities (though the Ukrainians are adapting and have shot a couple down so far). You're attributing far too much importance to air superiority. If air defenses are in play, your air superiority doesn't give you freedom of movement.
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  384.  @festekj  Bro. GPS won't work for moving targets either. I actually want to reach through the ethernet cable and get my hands around your neck Homer Simpson style because I can't believe you're wasting my time with such a nonsensical response. GPS for static targets. INS for static targets. Bam. Jamming isn't doing anything.
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  385.  @festekj  The pentagon leaks showed 3-1 in Ukraine's favor. You saw a badly photoshopped document posted by Dumbass Deslutska, an American woman from New Jersey who sells exotic fish and pretends to be Russian online.
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  386.  @festekj  If you call in a strike in a GPS position and keep jogging, you will be out of the target area by the time the munition arrives. Your GPS maps your whole trajectory. But the MUNITION is pre-loaded with a FIXED POINT in space and will travel to that location. It will not follow your jogging smartwatch or your phone. It goes towards a xx.xxxxx and yy.yyyyy coordinate. Jesus Christ you can't tell the difference between GPS strikes and your jogging map. There's no loitering drone or satellite uplink. Jamming doesn't prevent anything. Ukrainians find a target in a latitude and longitude and fire. The missile arrives within a couple of minutes. There's no drone. There's no satellite. It slams into whatever you called it in. That's why they strike ammo dumps (static) and parked vehicles (they're stopped and remain there at least for a while).
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  387. The DF-17 with DF-ZF is a lot similar to the Pershing II. Pershing II reentry vehicles were used to cap Storm II test targets for Patriots in the late 90s.
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  388. The span that was dropped was repaired in early 2023. The rail bridge was not worked on yet, or at least I haven't seen it yet.
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  389.  @JayMcKinsey  How is he wrong? He clearly mentioned the rail bridge, not the road bridge.
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  390.  @JayMcKinsey  I must have missed that part, only heard him talk about the rail.
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  391. ​ @toshoshi1551  How is he ignoring anything? Clinton's "balanced budget" was a disaster precisely because trying to limit debt for its own sake will lead to the private sector (you) suffering losses.
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  392. Same as the Kherson offensive being fake too, right?
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  393. ​@@qtsssim Insurrection? At least an insurrection would require manpower to put down. Useless boffins are a much greater drag.
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  394. But Ukraine is advancing on the flanks. Russia was forced to fight through urban terrain which is costly and is now biting them in the ass.
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  395. JDAMs can still be delivered by pop up method. Air defense ranges are also overstated. You can enter the range, release weapons, turn back and a missile will not get you. Or dive down and mask yourself with terrain.
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  396. There was no barge, that's just standing waves.
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  397. ​ @raggedcritical  So the military isn't woke, just weary of regressive policies but we now live in a world where we twist words to suit whatever meaning we want to detatch woke from the "stay woke my brothers" conspiratorial thinking.
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  398. They use Soviet stuff and Soviet tactics. Might as well use the placeholder. Call them RedFor, that's what the enemy is and the tactics were developed to counter.
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  399. The US can keep paying debt in perpetuity. Only a catastrophic event could topple the US that bad, and such an event would bring down the world with it.
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  400. We saw the drone footage of the assaults. Nothing was debunked. 16k KIA according to Murz.
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  401. The UAF takes the most casualties when forced to defend critical positions and Russia has artillery superiority. The major battle victories were done by playing smart rather than banging their heads against Russian defenses like Russians did against Ukraine.
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  402. Russia is now using the untrained military personnel. Literally any truthful account by former soldiers makes it clear even the trained personnel are trained "on paper" to save in costs.
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  403. Criminal organizations have maintenance contracts with Raytheon or get access to spare parts?
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  404. The Russian army adapting? They've had their air base in Syria struck in 2018 by cheap drones. Now they're being griefed by aliexpress drones in Ukraine. Iran's drone testing shows they miss and the targets are loaded with explosives for effect. They have the abilities to build something, but it's not "military grade" per se.
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  405. How do you improve a shitty place with old Humvees and Stryker armored vehicles?
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  406.  @overman2306  And then worse ones come into the picture. We've tried it before.
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  407.  @overman2306  Remove the drug dealer, another one shows up.
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  408.  @ericrogers5802  lmao an Eurasian hegemon based on fake concrete buildings that crumble and a vast rural area where people don't have indoor plumbing.
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  409. How?
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  410. ​ @festekj  The Duran are just anti-West schizos lol
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  411. Governments are at fault for not handling the fertilizer problem gradually but fertilizer run off was a problem that was known about since the 2000s. Science textbooks in middle school mentioned it. Stop namedropping the WEF.
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  412.  @rodneychristian9834  Who's getting rid of nitrogen?
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  413.  @rodneychristian9834  I know about the issue. The Netherlands has enjoyed a massive market of produce exports. I want you to look at the statistics, the Dutch are one of the world's leading exporters of agricultural goods. They're clearly overproducing in such a small country. They're only slightly larger than Belgium. Sri Lanka's ban was based on a silly organic farming theory by a loon. It has nothing to do with the topic.
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  414.  @rodneychristian9834  How does a country roughly the size of Belgium become the world's second agricultural exporter? Who is going to replace that shortage? Everyone else. Those who couldn't compete with the Netherlands. Now they have their opening. That food was mostly going to what, high income European countries? Nobody's taking food out of their mouths. Three thousand farmers? You can easily find three thousand farmers in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Greece, etc.
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  415. Nukes don't cauae tsunamis. We did sea tests.
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  416. But without the firepower.
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  417. Have they?
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  418.  @blaisemorris1301  They only had 2, and only had 3 for a few months. Why would 7 replace 3? The real answer? They need more coverage because they had to leave areas unprotected to shoot down aircraft.
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  419. The first major explosion reported was a bunch of Soviet rocket fuel for nukes. Ukraine no longer has the weapons which used that fuel, and in 2020 articles came out compliaining about the danger that was having all that fuel in storage. That location was extremely public, which means Russia kept that facility in the back pocket for whenever they suffered a major setback. Ukraine counterattacks at Bakhmut? Make a big bang to satisfy the domestic audience.
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  420. @kyleganse6538 I read they were nukes too because of the radiation readings. People write a lot of nonsense, reading it means nothing. Russia has been unable to attack Western supplies for over a year - what happened to change that?
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  421. Look up the Canadian incident with a weather balloon in 1998. What you're proposing was attempted. It failed in an embarassing fashion.
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  422. Doesn't work. Canada tried that in 1998.
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  423.  @jerrymillerstein  It doesn't work. Look up the 1998 balloon debacle in Canada. A thousand rounds and the balloon still crossed the Atlantic.
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  424.  @jerrymillerstein  Who knows? We know. We all like to pretend to be smarter than the powers that be but it's necessary to just stop and admit lack of knowledge. They're still looking for the debris that landed over Canada, while the sea stuff was found quickly. You can't control the slow descent. Could have ended up in a lake anyway. Could have ended up in Russia like the 1998 weather balloon.
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  425.  @jerrymillerstein  I misread the article and thought it was Russia. So by your own admission, it could have splashed in the Atlantic or North Sea because we'd have no control over the balloon, and the slow leak would have allowed it to fly halfway across the world. Thanks for helping the case - splashing it over continental tectonic plate at 50 foot depth is better than letting it sink into the rift in the middle of the ocean.
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  426.  @jerrymillerstein  Over land it would crash and require digging. Over 50 feet of water? Rookie divers could have recovered it. It wasn't in the deep sea. Again, so by your own admission, the cannon wouldn't have worked because it wouldn't land where you wanted it to. Right?
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  427. Bin Laden was a self-aggrandizing nutjob.
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  428. I heard of Javelin shortages, not of 777 shortages.
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  429. I remember the tales about how entire threads had to be purged from Something Awful in the 2000s due to the talk about classified projects.
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  430. ​ @ChIGuY-town22_  I'd rather pay with money than with blood.
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  431. No such thing happened. The majority of casualties in Iraq were caused by Iraqis
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  432.  @NetScalerTrainer  How is it a lie? The Iraq Body Count Project estimated 7,299 civilian deaths from US actions in the 2003 war. Up until 2020 they estimated 185,000 to 200,000 deaths. 33% were execution after abduction, suicide bombs 14%, vehicle bombs 9% and roadside bombs 5%. Obviously, the US wasn't doing this. Most casualties in Iraq were from Iraqis themselves leaving bombs in civilian areas or executing people.
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  433.  @NetScalerTrainer  Not because of America - because of an insurgency created by the Ba'ath party loyalists and Iranian militias. And the actions weren't imperial - the US literally built and funded their government and armed forces and left. Then they partially folded against ISIS and required assistance to fight back.
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  434. 800 dollar phone vs 15 dollar headset.
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  435. Not related at all. Maui doesn't get weapons shipped to them if Ukraine doesn't.
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  436. The lost a dozen aircraft doing this lol
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  437. You got on trains and busses to visit China. Someone working and living on city A has fewer reasons to visit city B.
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  438. Tell Putin to keep nukes off the table and we'll tell the Ukrainians to step aside. You think the 1991 Gulf War was a curb stomp? You have seen nothing yet.
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  439. They got arrested lol
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  440. It's the bridge supplying the resources to the Russian military. The East to South rail cannot be used by Russia because it's within range of Ukrainian artillery, so they have to supply their forces through Crimea.
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  441. "Dear passengers, if you look towards your left you'll see a cliff - that's China's demographics."
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  442. It's a story.
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  443.  @bluerock4456  It's not. The story makes no sense and it's not plausible for Norway to use an aircraft they could not have used at the time.
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  444. ​ @philipcoffman4372  This was confirmed by whom?
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  445. ​ @Tigadee00  AWACS is more of a "map" in the corner of your screen, nose radar in a fighter is the hand moving the mouse so you can put the crosshair on the enemy.
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  446. Bruh Russia's population is half of that and there's hints that their population stats are cooked up. Most Russians are in the city and content to live their city lifestyle and the ones living in the countryside don't care about who the current Tsar is.
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  447. That's not Russia's nuclear doctrine.
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  448. Zeihan has mentioned it a lot. The problem is the sheer cost of bringing the mining equipment there and then hauling ore into the nearest port. Afghanistan is too mountainous and isolated so despite having incredible mineral wealth, it's so expensive to dig it out and export that it makes sense to leave it alone.
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  449.  @c123bthunderpig  Look for "Where in the World: Split Rock, and Afghan Minerals", that's the title of the video where he mentions it. But he has said it on other podcasts, it's just difficult to look for.
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  450. Russia had no cause. Their actions are comic book villain tier and are just a continuation of an imperial project that started before the US existed.
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  451.  @michellelewis3063  Yes, and you refuse to see the Muscovite for the liar and crybully that he is. Russia's "causes" are summed up by "waaa why does everyone want to join a defensive alliance after I invaded them waaaa no fair".
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  452.  @michellelewis3063  My views are my own. I listen to no governments or narratives, I look at the facts. You don't know history. The promise not to go East was based on EASTERN GERMANY. The Warsaw Pact was not dissolved in 1989. That was German reunification. David Hasselhoff? Yeah. Learn your history. NATO didn't march. Several countries asked for protection from their drunken, belligerent neighbor. What missile systems? Could you name them? There was a major reason for Pearl Harbor - the US pacific fleet was a threat to Japanese imperial ambitions so they figured that knocking the US out of the war before they could even join would pay dividends.
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  453.  @michellelewis3063  The drums of war are Russian. We will silence them.
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  454. ​ @Victor-ns6pj  Russia is flying airliners with atrocious lack of regard for safety. Passenger rail doesn't place the demand of 60 ton main battle tanks on the tracks.
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  455. What?
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  456.  @dughallhalliday1713  Defense Politics Asia is not neutral.
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  457.  @yoooyoyooo  Almost nobody on the Ukrainian side is fighting for money, considering that you'd make more money just working at a McDonald's.
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  458.  @MilanTukidid  It's not true to the meaning. Foreign nationals in Ukraine receive Ukrainian papers and are put under the command of the Ukrainian military, making them legitimate combatants. They don't fight for money, because the pay is atrocious. You'd be better off just making minimum wage in a Central European country or the US. How else you'd call them? The name that has always been used - volunteers. In the Spanish civil war, what do you call the foreign nationals: volunteers or mercenaries? Answer truthfully.
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  459.  @yoooyoyooo  It's full of sense.
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  460.  @MilanTukidid  They're not mercenaries. They're under command of the Ukrainian military, and not getting paid wages higher than the soldiers of the same rank. Are French Foreign Legionnaires mercenaries? Wagner doesn't operate in the same way. They're a private company. The fact that the Russian state provides citizenship to foreign workers for a company doesn't change the fact that they are contracted for a higher pay than soldiers get in Russia. Pay is HIGHLY relevant because it is one of the ways to determine mercenary status. People who volunteer for a war (like the Spanish civil war) are not mercenaries.
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  461. ​ @geektechpow4537  What beginning? There were major ATACMS strikes just a month or so ago.
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  462. ​ @dtg474  It can't even deal with slow flying Cessna-style aircraft packed with explosives.
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  463.  @geektechpow4537  Three more Pantsirs destroyed since your post. Russian air defense can't catch a break.
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  464. Many European cities have problems with housing and many countries have problems with youth unemployment.
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  465. The fake bodies of the Russian pilots were a nice touch. The fake crying families are being set up at the moment.
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  466. But they aren't Hindu nationalists.
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  467. ​ @ColdPotato  Not true. The official claim is that 300k were mobilized. To be 10x the Ukrainians, mobilization would have to be 2.1 million.
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  468. The USA enjoyed the economic prosperity of Europe for decades. Europe on a war footing will affect economies worldwide.
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  469. Why would Iran fight? Why would North Korea fight? In fact NK would benefit tremendously from a weakened China.
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  470.  @festekj  So? If you depend on Russia and China, them being weakened means they'll be forced to deal with you in more favorable terms. They would align, how? Why is in NK's interest to fall trying to defend Russia or China? Why would Iran fall trying to defend them? They'd say "not my problem", and then deal with whatever remains.
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  471. lol they're getting 42 retired F-16s that will be replaced by F-35s. Everything?
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  472. The ruble value is manipulated. Also meaningless for this conversation.
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  473. They already had cruise missiles.
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  474.  @TimBitts649  The US had drones since WW2 and used them in the Pacific. The drone was a Tu-141 I think. Look it up. It has no pilot, it flew over the enemy, took photos and parachuted back inside friendly territory
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  475.  @TimBitts649  First you said drones didn't exist, now you want to talk about wal mart drones. Have you ever bombed a Russian air base from 400 miles away with the walmart drone? No. Ukrainians have converted recon drones into long range strike weapons. You 0 : Ukraine 1. Russians can't copy anything. Their industry is toast. They're grounding aircraft and sidelining train cars because they can't get bearings. They can't manufacture so many weapons they need to buy them from Iran. China was just recently barred from importing the high end American chip manufacturing tech. More important than making the product, is making the machines that make the product. Turns out the world depends on machines made in Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Netherlands and the US. These countries can destroy your industry if they all agree that it's necessary to do so.
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  476. The leaks from Mossad that the Iranians got and sent to a Turkish website? lol
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  477. ​ @evolvedape3341  That's why it's an algorithm. It doesn't have lines in the sand, it analyzes. And it can mess up.
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  478. A few years ago it made the news that a rural area in decline had a deal in which if you built a house to be your primary residence, the land was free.
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  479. "Xaxaxaxa Kherson Russia forever, where offensive?" - you, 2022
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  480.  @martinschulze5399  How am I emotionally triggered? You're the one posting that question every day online for 15 rubles a pop.
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  481. ​ @joshuapaul2022  Who's lining up to buy Russian? Turkey was pretty salty when in the Russian arms expo Altay claimed to be selling more S-400s to them.
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  482. Their aircraft carrier had to be escorted by tugboat, their Black Fleet flagship was in such a poor state it lacked defenses the moment it was struck.
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  483. Look for the Khinzal crash from 2022. Inside Russia, so it wasn't an Ukrainian set up. Exact same warhead Klitschko was holding. On the ground. Inside Russia. Embarassing.
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  484. How would Russians know? These things are launched from a long range and don't have eyes on the ground to direct the impacts.
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  485. Who cares about patents? Many businesses don't file them because they want to keep tech a secret.
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  486. Lmao nice cope. Getting the vinegar strokes from civilians being forced to use candles and ignoring the Russian army being slaughtered.
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  487. Their navies are not that powerful.
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  488.  @harrybuttery2447  I'm not talking about pirates. China claims a large area of sea as their own. Without a powerful navy to tell everyone to behave, countries will start claiming more water than they should, they're going to deny passage in straits, etc. International affairs are ironic anarchistic in nature, there's no higher body to enforce the rules. Unless someone puts the fist down and says the rules agreed upon shall be followed. For example right now Turkey will not allow warships to exit or leave the Black Sea. This could happen all over the world. And to civilian ships.
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  489. Thank you Simon from New Orleans Oblast. By reading this I am truly demoralized.
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  490. Nordstream was also Russia. NS1 was losing them money. NS2 was blocked by Germany. Then suddenly the "bad' pipeline is destroyed while the "good" pipeline has one pipe damaged and one untouched. And Russia immediately says they'll bring NS2 online in a week if sanctions are lifted. Why would Ukraine help Russia?
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  491. ​ @piccalillipit9211  His classmates are not clever. The Chinese can learn foreign languages and AI will provide translation. There's zero point in learning Mandarin right now because China no longer needs Mandarin-speaking foreigners.
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  492. ​ @festekj  Max Blumenthal switched sides on the Syrian civil war after being paid off by Moscow.
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  493. How? What's methodical about using a shadow arm of the GRU to hire prisoners and use them as suicide squads? And then capturing a single town/small city. If Bakhmut was a Californian city it would be the 100th most populous. Imagine if the US invaded Mexico and a year and a half later not only it struggled to capture Chihuahua, American rebels fighting for Mexicans were invading El Paso.
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  494. Not really. Russia's momentum is based on PFI - poor fugging infantry.
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  495. Lol real life is CNN
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  496. Russia is paying a heavy cost for that ground.
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  497. Russia invaded Crimea and ran a phoney referendum just like Kherson. Kherson was "officially" Russian. Ukraine invaded. They're the bad guy? Nobody cares. Most of the world recognizes Crimea occupied, not as part of Russia.
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  498. Think about it for a second. Look at a road. What do you see? Cars and trucks moving, never stopping. If there's no traffic jam you can have trucks lined up in a huge convoy. Now think of a boat doing a short hop. You need an hour to load. An hour to cross round trip. An hour to unload. And you don't have boats lined up bumper to bumper. You have maybe three, four boats. Roads are like email on the internet. Boats are like regular mail.
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  499. "Muh BRICS" yeah and China is totally friendly with India, right?
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  500. Been hearing that one for 9 months, Ivan. Russia didn't use nukes in Afghanistan or Chechnya. Fact.
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  501. Railway was weakened by the all night long oil fire that happened last year.
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  502. Middle income trap. You can't just lift people out of poverty when you are still bridging the gap between poor people jobs. Now China is trying to convince kids who want to become college students to go into trades.
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  503. Did you give them the weapons to do it?
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  504. So why do you go around saying it? Can't the CIA delete your comment? Why wouldn't youtube turn up the algorithm to give him even more fans? If what you said was true, you alredy lost.
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  505. ​ @Steril707  This war has been 300 years in the making. Russians didn't need the US to act like Russians, that's just what they do.
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  506. It's not exactly WWIII when most Russian allies have refused to help, and Russian pundits are threatning Kazakhstan.
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  507. It was Ukraine's dam, they don't care about destroying Ukraine.
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  508. Support for Russia would mean support for independence movements (Donetsk/Luhansk). That's bad for China.
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  509. Because of precedent? They've been blowing up Russian airbases since last year.
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  510. Iraq was not laid to ruins. It was a quick war. Russians in a single city kill more civilians than the US killed in the entirety of Iraq.
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  511.  @daminc  150,000 to 200,000 violent deaths - 33% of them from executions after abduction, 14% suicide bombs, 9% car bombs and 5% roadside bombs. The US wasn't doing that. Iraqis were.
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  512.  @99ron30  The "catastrophic damage" caused by the US was patched up by rebuilding the country. How foolish that venture was is another topic. Russia just keeps sending more missiles.
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  513. There are many former military and military age men conducting spotting behind enemy lines. Even assassination. Several appointed mayors and police chiefs collaborating with Russian occupation were car bombed or killed during home invasions.
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  514. Yes but as with everything else they can't copy it right the first time. Trump was goofy and even funny at times, and we quickly moved on. Meanwhile just a few years ago everyone was carrying water for China, now their every move gets scrutinized.
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  515. Do you also say "the France" or "the Germany"?
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  516. Not what he said.
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  517. The tanks are offensive. Men running across fields will take casualties even with artillery giving them cover. Men in IFVs following the big cats will make the ground shake.
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  518. Russia throws reserves at the line of contact like mad. Fortifications mean nothing without people inside, and those who were meant to man the fortifications are being sent into desperate counter attacks.
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  519. That would wreck the US economy as you know, world trade is secured by US commitments.
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  520. They're better financed? They're sending men in Chinese golf carts, T-55s, and if you look at the glide kits they are clearly hand assembled and soldered. This is Germany "last stand" tier smekalka.
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  521. Took them several months to repair the damage from the first strike.
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  522. The military was competent. The political side wasn't.
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  523.  @ian111  How is it competent? Oligarchs are rushing to align themselves with private military corporations, actual warlords are fighting for the scraps. The figures by Igor Korashenkov belong in the realm of Sasquatch sightings and UFOs. The Americans aren't into Ukraine. This is Russia's Afghanistan. And Russia already had an Afghanistan. Last time Moscow went into Afghanistan, the Union collapsed.
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  524. And Russian oligarchs have mansions and downtown high rise apartments in France, the UK, the US, Italy, Greece, etc...
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  525. ICBMs. The ICBM ensures MAD because each rocket has multiple independent warheads. Which is why the moment ICBM launches are detected, the opposing nation has to make the decision to launch theirs because you cannot ensure you survive the volley.
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  526.  @st4849  Because as I said, if an ICBM launch is detected, the opposing country will launch theirs immediately. They will not wait for the warheads to land to check if they're nuclear or not, they will retaliate with nukes. There's a reason why nations disclose when they are doing test launches. Either way, the ICBM system would cost billions per launch. Using a conventional warhead would be a waste, since you're shooting things into space (expensive) for them to come back down.
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  527. They can trust the Yuan at their own peril.
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  528. ​ @Lucas-hb1uq  the "victim" was fighting someone the knife guy doesn't actually care about. Like Zeihan said, Gazans are just pawns in a game. Iran likes Hamas doing their bidding, but doesn't actually like them. They're fall guys.
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  529.  @darenm617  It's not so much the fact that it's the FOAB, it's that you said it would be a war crime to use it. But the US used the MOAB, it's perfectly legitimate.
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  530.  @JB-lp9xr  No, those were cruise missiles. The FOAB is a HUGE weapon that can't be launched from a distance, it has to be flown with big bombers over the target. Russia would just get their bombers shot down.
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  531. But the leaks show Ukraine is killing 3 Russians per fallen Ukrainian. Russia is being attrited, not Ukraine.
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  532. Mutiny.
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  533. Yeah and Xi already told Putin he can't use nukes. If he does, we start going after military targets.
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  534. Yes. Reusing and recycling panels is great. Compared to buying new panels you paid "0" in carbon emissions. There's a video of guys in Ukraine (unrelated to the war, it was maybe 5-6 years ago) who bought broken photovoltaic cells, soldered them together, and epoxied them to a glass window. The recycled panels generated maybe 70% of a perfect condition, new one.
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  535. No argument, just schizobabble. Is this how you use your free time?
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  536. MiGs crash if you look at them wrong. Did you miss the big headlines in the 2000s? MiG-29s kept getting grounded in Russia due to constant crashes. Indian pilots probably have MiGs as the leading cause of death.
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  537. Pretty sure the debt always gets paid, otherwise more couldn't be issued.
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  538.  @AreWeThereYet-2025  The other way around. If you can't pay your debts, nobody will lend you a dollar. The fact that the US has a strong economy means that nobody minds holding US debt. If you have zero debt as a country, that's because you're so broke nobody trusts you to pay back. It never goes down because debt is a numerical representation of the money the US owes to itself. Corporate profits? Your 401k? That's the debt. If you want the government to run at a surplus, the money has to come from the private sector. Money is issued (budget) and money is destroyed (taxes). So debt is really the money you're being allowed to keep. If the US owed money to other central banks, it promised a fixed exchange rate for commodities such as gold, or it borrowed in foreign currencies, you'd be right in being concerned. But the US doesn't. It owes the money to itself.
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  539.  @AreWeThereYet-2025  Who's "they"? It's not my philosophy. It's just reality. Why are there poor people? Because wealth has to be created, and money removed from circulation by taxation. That means that you need to work for money, and things cost money. If you don't work, you become poor. If you work but cost of living makes up most of your earnings, you become poor. If you invest all your money in bitcoin and then it crashes, you become poor. You can be poor with a gold standard or poor with fiat currency. To print enough to make everyone a millionaire, the government then has to rebalance the equation by taking out money out of circulation (taxation).
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  540. Arms manufacturers do not get richer. They get contracts to replace old stuff. Instead of getting paid in 2025 or 2028 they get paid now - but the money they get is the same.
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  541. Not a game changer. The game didn't change. HIMARS changed the game as it took an army and broke its back. Russia had an army that actually seemed equivalent to western ones before HIMARS. Once it arrived, the Russians went from multi-pronged onslaughts to slow creeping advances built on poor little infantry going forward repeatedly until the defenders can't hold it anymore.
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  542.  @omnium2607  How is it wrong? What do you define as the game having changed?
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  543. ​ @Roblovesbushcraft What situation? Russia resorting to human wave attacks and driving armor into minefields?
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  544.  @SashaArsic  Yes. A criminal walking up to a gas station for a robbery is cause for us to discuss how to take him out. The criminal threatening to shoot the gas station employees would drive people into hysteria.
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  545. ​ @harleyquinn8202 didn't they build a mega church glorifying Stalin?
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  546.  @harleyquinn8202  It's the Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces and leaked photos showed mosaics of Stalin, Putin, Shoygu, etc.
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  547. The US never used a PMC as a military branch. Even Air America was flying planes for the CIA, not seizing villages and towns in Vietnam. And for that matter, Chinese PMCs also act as security and nothing more. If there's anything to point a finger at, it's how they have a fishing fleet composed of ships that can act as military vessels as a weird naval militia.
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  548.  @AnonIllumi  One can't make claims about what there is no evidence of. I also have no knowledge of planets made of cheese, until evidence is presented they don't exist.
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  549.  @AnonIllumi  That "one example" has 60 Venezuelans and two Americans. Spear Operations Group was founded by a Hungarian-Israeli and they were used for assassinations. In neither of the examples were they meant to do frontline military combat nor was the US government involved. Wagner has tanks and combat aircraft. Neither of those had them.
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  550. ​ @spring9603  Russian skies do not make missiles stop working. If a SAM with sufficient range nails you, you're going down.
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  551. ​ @spring9603  70km is "close" to the target if the SAM's range is greater than 70km.
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  552. They're not going to be used against drones and the Iranian drones are not that cheap. People have looked at the individual components and figured they cost a lot more.
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  553. No he isn't...
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  554.  @timwhiting6721  No. November 29, 2023. He's gone.
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  555. Politics. Racism is the real virus, remember that one?
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  556. If you run against a wall the wall will stop you even though the wall is stationary.
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  557. 400 HIMARS destroyed, 1 USS George Bush, 3 Zelenskys and 1 Boris Johnson.
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  558. They really can't. Air defense and the European theater are not under the same area of responsability. Same as the Pacific, Africa or the Middle East. The US has separate command and control for those regions.
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  559. Only 8 thousand. That's not enough
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  560. Afghanistan is a country most Afghans don't care much for, their tribal culture being more important than whoever holds office in Kabul. Kabul cannot control those tribal regions. Iraq had the Sunni/Shia split exploited by the Ba'ath Party loyalists and Iran backed militias. Tons of men without jobs fought for money, and most people on the top were fine with making Iraq unstable and cause hundreds of thousands of deaths.
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  561. Seymour Hersh has been lying for the past 30 years. Making up war crimes in Desert Storm and inventing abuse scenarios that never happened for Abu Ghraib.
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  562. Belarus can't activate the nuke.
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  563. @Mike Reyes they recovered something like 50% of the territory lost.
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  564. The chickens are on the verge of civil war.
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  565. ​ @robderich8533  It is. Photos from the road bridge show the rail bridge stands taller.
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  566. Cope.
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  567. There is. Collapse in Luhansk will lead to collapse in Donetsk, which will tell the Russians in Kherson there's no hope for them.
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  568. "Waaaaa you have to parrot Russian propaganda to be balanced waaaaaaaa!"
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  569. "I'll keep my mother's last name!" "So your grandfather's?"
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  570. Russia offered to repair NS2 in exchange for sanctions relief.
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  571. North of Kiev is absolutely mined to high heaven. It would be the best thing Wagner could do for Ukraine, get a bunch of experienced troops bound to wheelchairs.
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  572. You pay youtube but youtube doesn't pay the creators. You heard of the Adpocalypse, right? Youtubers could make a living off youtube prior to 2017, when mainstream media ran a smear campaign against youtube and they lost sponsors/ads. Now youtube forces content creators to rely on sponsors and patreon donations as they keep most of the money to themselves.
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  573. Not the same coin. Blackwater was a security company. They babysat CEOs and infrastructure. Wagner has tanks and aviation and assaults cities. Blackwater never did that.
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  574. Attackers in America are often lone wolves, this is international terror.
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  575. But we're getting the videos of Russian soldiers offing themselves during battle. That's beyond miserable.
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  576. I think this war is teaching China a lesson: stick to the parades - you're not solving anything militarily.
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  577. ​ @dingus6317  You would have let Saddam take Saudi oil fields lol imagine the last 30 years at the gas pump if you were in charge
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  578. Elon isn't about free speech, Twitter censored people for questioning the past (and lies) of one of his friends. Elon's politics are "please stop fighting, I need to make money off authoritarian regimes.
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  579. Next time Israel has an incentive to go ham. If an opponent intends to show your defenses can be overwhelmed at that point game theory dictates that Israel should attack Iranian infrastructure to deny them power, factories, etc to bring their economy to a halt. The F-35 is no joke.
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  580. That's great but knocking down all the old houses would make getting an affordable home even harder.
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  581. He got the Dimitry from Dimitry Utkin, the actual guy who started the group before it became "corporate".
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  582. ​ @billberg1264  if the accountant is matching dollars to goods they are aware of inventory.
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  583. The even simpler solution is defeating the 300k amateurs after the 150k professional soldiers Russia had were burned through.
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  584. They got spent and the products delivered. The transactions happened, they just didn't get the paper records properly digitized.
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  585. The rail bridge was damaged. The fires burned so long large stretches of rail expanded and buckled. High temperatures affect rebar and also the concrete bonding strength to steel.
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  586.  @tobias..6688  He's not anti-war, he's just anti dems and neocons.
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  587. ​ @ChristopherFodor  The rail isn't the problem. A tunnel and bridge were targeted. To rebuild rail over a bridge, you have to repair the bridge. To rebuild rail in a tunnel that had a fire... buddy both rebar and concrete lose strength in fires, you couldn't pay me to go into that tunnel to repair it.
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  588. South Vietnam had a very unpopular regime which ensured many in the countryside joined or supported the Vietcong. The Ukrainian people so far trust their president and armed forces. Americans were shown on TV the war was a dismal failure when the North Vietnamese were on the ropes and had a great deal of their forces wiped out. Americans are being shown Ukrainian successes today.
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  589. Yeah and crossing a strait in 20 minutes vs 1h plus loading and unloading.
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  590. It's Ukrainians. Keep coping and seething.
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  591.  @divyavichar  From India and you hitched your wagon to the losing side because you're still mad at the West for backing Pakistan during the Cold War. We're not shivering from cold, it's a really mild Winter. You don't live here, we're not fighting each other or suffering from low temperatures. You've been fooled by Russian propaganda.
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  592. The tree grew out of a sapling when the water level was lower?
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  593.  @floki8892  Probably not, but the local park authority says that if tourists damage it the branches grow slower because of the water temperature.
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  594. Whataboutism, also the cold probably eliminates the homeless so Putin only has to shovel the bodies into the local dump.
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  595. ​ @seantrentham9979  Mark that on the calender and bookmark this page. Post a year from now and we'll see.
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  596. How would Ukrainians do it without access to the dam?
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  597. Well, aircraft were less of a focus on both the Soviet Union and Russia. So after squandering a lot of land forces supplies, they're now using the air assets because they're less dependable.
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  598. ​ @ChristopherFodor  >asks question >is given example as an answer >"well I don't care about that example"
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  599. I'd hate to live there.
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  600. Meh that clock is based on the fee fees of "scientists" with political biases.
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  601. And?
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  602. Because everyone knew who benefited. NS2 was blocked by Germany's suspension of approval, and Russia was blocking NS1 which was going to incur fines for refusing to deliver on a contract. Germany could suspend NS2 without breaching the contract while Russia could not. So they destroyed NS1 and damaged NS2, then said they'd offer to repair NS2 free of charge in return for sanctions relief. Who benefits? When a fire happens in a business that is losing money and the insurance payout is large, who is the first suspect?
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  603. Billions of USD worth of Rubles. Crimea was a net drain on Russia's economy due to how hard it was to maintain.
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  604. America doesn't have the ethnic issue. White Americans are British, German, Irish, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Danish, Norwegian, even Russian and Ukrainian, etc etc etc so there is no need to fight a war to preserve an ethnic group. The US is also a natural fortress with Alaska and Mexico being natural chokepoints, the flyover states being a safe haven even if an enemy force could occupy the East and West coast.
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  605. Copium overdose.
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  606. ​ @johnwallace5284  Then why did Azerbaijan attack Armenia despite the Russian peacekeepers, why did Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan start shooting each other across the border, and why did Kazakhstan move closer to China? Everyone tasted the blood on the water.
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  607. Russia did it. Why would the US blow up.a pipeline the Russians were shutting off?
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  608. What do bribes have to do with anything?
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  609. McCarthy was right and was unfairly smeared.
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  610.  @hagestad  Buddy the joke flew over your head.
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  611.  @hagestad  The joke was about pubic hair... not fighting...
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  612. Nothing is hidden. You can buy high res satellite pictures or even watch the drone footage. You simply can't hide events of this scale.
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  613. So nobody loses wars because command is always informed. Buddy inform the command all you want, them knowing something doesn't mean they have the means to address it.
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  614. Other way around. Patriots worked against missiles but had very specific modes of failure wich have been fixed. It was Iranian drones that slipped into Saudi defenses against more modern Patriots.
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  615. If you run at a wall, the wall is 0km/h but stops you.
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  616. It would be nearly impossible to hide the source of the shells. The first dud or captured position would leave the telltale manufacturer identifying marks intact.
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  617. The Russian military is bled dry. That's why they're sending the mobiks. We're afraid of nukes and thus use our weapons as escalation - when Russia hits hard we give Ukraine more tools. That sends the message that we're reacting to Russia rather than escalating the conflict.
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  618. The Maginot line worked in the sense that it forced the enemy to go around.
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  619. Lmao 29 and already an old man screaming at clouds. Keep voting for schizos, both sides in America support Ukraine.
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  620. What would be the point? The US is reactive to the rest of the world as others try to take their place. You have to take the belt from the champ.
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  621. "Muh nukes" after 9 months of this (and a decade of saber rattling) I am so sick of hearing about the Russian nukes. Either shit or get off the pot.
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  622. Well, it won't because the war utterly broke them. They're sending men in golf carts and motorcycles now.
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  623. Not true. The first hypersonic use was Khinzal, which is exclusively air launched. It needs speed and altitude to reach hypersonic, which the submarine does not have.
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  624.  @Tod_oMal  Yes, so? That's not proof it was used, nor proof it was used before Khinzal.
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  625. Because it requires a nuclear weapon?
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  626. Klitschko filmed a video with the wreckage. There's also a piece of missile that fell near a bus stop that looks exactly like a Khinzal fairing.
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  627. So you get twice the lies?
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  628. "Muh nooks, muh nooks" thanks, demoralization agent. Russia has spent decades threatning nukes. 4 oblasts? They lost the main city in one and don't control the capital in another.
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  629. ​ @jlpowell51  Momentum? Russia honestly looks like the 1986 Miami FBI shooting perp, a fatal bullet wound an inch from the heart but still able to come at the FBI officers and fire at them. You'd give the "momentum" score to the bank robber, even though he's carrying a time limit on his life, simply because he's moving forward.
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  630. Why would Germany and Russia be allies? The Netherlands and Australia are not exactly happy about MH17.
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  631. It's a Bukhanka, or "bread" van. Almost looks like a VW camper and it's iconic because in the beginning of the war you saw armored columns and rocket launcher vehicles rolling down the street and between them cute vans were riding along.
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  632. In the late 90s Patriots shot down Storm II targets. Storm IIs were missiles with discarded Pershing II reentry vehicles on top, to simulate a maneuverable hypersonic target. "Dated" 20 year old PAC-2 Patriots could shoot down these test targets in 1995-1997.
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  633. And the pilots are confident they can jump out before defenses stretching for hundreds of miles take him out?
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  634. Russia's economy depends on those exports. Watch Maxim Katz's video on the bad news for Russian exports and how China can't replace the EU.
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  635.  @ivonnikolova503  Labels don't cut it. Intermediaries have to purchase below price cap or risk an uninsured oil spill. They blend the oil with 50% from a different source and it becomes non-Russian. To us it doesn't matter - Russia is forced to sell at a pittance, or sell clandestinely and piss off the first country they spill into.
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  636. Hmmmm yes Russia has not been torn to shreds in Vuhledar and Adiivka. Silly MSM in reality Russia has not suffered catastrophic losses we can watch on the internet for entertainment. Definitely do not look for the videos of Russians gunned down lile dogs in their trenches.
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  637. Trump said that because he wanted the isolationist arc. He didn't say that as courtesy. He said that to get the ball rolling.
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  638. Just like Finland and Ukraine Feb-March.
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  639. People will do the pullout method combined with ancient remedies (spermicide/decreasing sperm mobility) and checking for ovulation.
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  640. "lolbertarian thinks you can just appease dictators, more at 11"
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  641.  @chocomalk  1. There was no coup. 2. There was no Western backing. The US wanted to keep Yanukovych in power. 3. The separatists were Russian citizens anyway, they couldn't vote in Ukrainian matters.
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  642.  @chocomalk  No argument. Thanks for admitting I'm right.
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  643. Finland joining NATO did not cause a strong response. If NATO was a big deal for Russia, they wouldn't be pulling S-300s from their Russo-Finnish border to use in Ukraine. 2014 is incorrectly described as a coup, but the government was in session and voted for early elections. The fact that the president fled to avoid the consequences of his crimes is immaterial, the government not fall and get replaced.
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  644.  @papasmurf9146  They Finnish crossed the red line. Ukraine wasn't joining NATO. Instead of "learning from the past" you could also do something called "realize people lie". Another important thing is "people obscuring their motives lie about them" and "authoritarian governments lie all the time".
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  645.  @papasmurf9146  So Ukraine didn't cross the red line. Now what? Russia has made noises about nuking everyone. Should we treat those as real threats? I only need to know what motivates people to defeat them. I understand the Russian narrative. It's a purely paranoid schizophrenic inversion of reality. It's literal evil but in a clumsy, almost funny fashion. They have a propagandist dressed as a Bond villain on TV rile up the population. We can consider Russia. They're the neighbor who is off his meds and the reason we keep a shotgun under the bed. Just in case.
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  646. Vanity megaprojects aren't really feasible nowadays. Technologically, we can do it. Are we going to spend resources doing it in the middle of nowhere? Ehhhh... It's like the Egyptian pyramids. We can build them today. Nobody does. The Bass Pro Shop one isn't made of stone blocks if you were thinking of mentioning that one.
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  647. A nuclear artillery shell has a blast radius of about 500 yards. That would maybe take out 30-40 soldiers in the frontline.
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  648. There is no such agreement. The leader was not installed, it was voted by the Ukrainian people. Separatists get shelled because they fired shells at Ukraine. They're Hamas tier criminals, most are dead at this point.
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  649.  @mikeronni1  Yeah, it wasn't a coup. The government was reunited in the parliament and voted for early elections. Happens frequently in Europe. By your logic the UK, Italy, Portugal, etc had several coups in the last few decades.
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  650.  @mikeronni1  Emojis, because you're not paid to think. Glad you respond, the more you get paid to post the less bullets your countrymen have in their rifles.
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  651.  @Lucky-Sevens7777  They're purely volunteers, though. There's nothing wrong with going to another country and pledging to fight for them. Some countries will revoke your citizenship if you do that or actually arrest you if you come back, but people are free to travel and go out of their own volition. In the US, people with green cards volunteer for the US military to get a shot at earning citizenship. "They're over there" okay, tons of people are everywhere. There's black people in Japan, whites in Africa, and Slavs in South America. So what?
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  652.  @Lucky-Sevens7777  For themselves. For delusions of grandeur. For mental health reasons. For a sense of duty. I know someone who clearly went to Ukraine to die, because he didn't want his terminal illness to get him first. I'm dull, naive and unintelligent because I stated the facts? I'm dull because I recognize the historical phenomenon of people volunteering to fight? Remember how Germans formed a volunteer force to fight in Franco's Spain? Remember how Americans did the same but to fight for the opposing side (mostly)? Remember how both France and Spain have foreign legions? Remember how many foreigners volunteered to fight against ISIS by joining the Kurds? Remember how many foreigners volunteered for ISIS? Are you going to claim those things never happened? I'm naive for stating that immigrants in America serve in the armed forces and fight in wars alongside American-born soldiers?
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  653.  @Lucky-Sevens7777  How? For stating facts?
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  654. The Petro might be, the Dollar not so much.
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  655. India has Hindu nationalists, the US doesn't.
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  656.  @jhpjhun  It was kind of astronomical. You had to see the writing on the wall when all the prices burst at the seams and the companies started saying "ah dude, the war..." as their excuse when the sanctions hadn't even really kicked off.
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  657. "SMO" lol you Muscovite, Putin isn't hearing you, you can say "war".
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  658. They boost at altitude and dive on target. They don't retain speed in a cruise, they dash.
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  659. Another demoralization bot... keep getting your rubles
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  660. MacGregor has been embarassingly wrong for a year now. Why start watching? I already knew he was wrong a year ago.
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  661. But the North of Ukraine was set up with defenses last year. As soon as the Russians retreated the Ukrainians mined that region to annihilate anything coming through.
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  662. The ethanol process creates cattle feed as a byproduct. It's not a waste.
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  663. Bro you asked to get dogpiled on. Since when is airborne the air force? The 101st and 82nd, are those air force units? They're army.
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  664. ​ dihvocfoscocudvyvdd8101 If I paid for something it's not free. Let's just be honest.
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  665. War crimes denial lul
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  666. Because it's a defensive initiative?
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  667. You cannot run an economy on gold.
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  668.  @putitback4789  When the economy was several times smaller.
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  669. The negotiations were over after Bucha.
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  670. ​ @jessefletcher2365  There was no mutual agreement. After what Russians did north of Kiev a line had been crossed.
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  671. The rail line was never repaired, just used as is. The road bridge was repaired.
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  672. He built an Asian palace.
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  673. The world's business is everyone's business. You would not be able to maintain your lifestyle if the US Navy was not ensuring the freedom of the seas.
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  674.  @hk-in8cg  Sure, we shouldn't have to engage in war. But it seems like there's a list of countries that think that they deserve more than their fill - the "this is not our business" line ignores how many want to make it our business.
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  675. Russia losing to a country getting issued non-operational stuff is worse.
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  676. He's making progress by using "disposable" troops and asking for ammo meant for other units.
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  677. Accuracy is delivered via a simple electronic kit. Yes it even looks soldered by hand. People can make guided drones at home. Getting an electronic chip to know where the bomb is by knowing where it isn't isn't a dark magic.
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  678. You'd rather them send Tigers or Panthers?
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  679. ​ @healthymealthy775  the leak states Ukraine suffered 17k KIA while Russia suffered 43k KIA and 180k wounded. If you saw anything else, it was photoshopped. You can see the font isn't consistent or aligned properly.
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  680.  @healthymealthy775  Literally go back to where you saw it and read again. You'll see the pixels and bad font usage.
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  681. Would you rather dive 50 feet and collect the pieces, or have to dig across Montana?
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  682.  @brookcodyprice  Forensic data recovery is pretty good. If you want to hide something from the authorities, you'd be better off writing the disc several times over than trying to destroy it physically.
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  683. It would be quickly found out. A dud left on the field or a cellphone picture would betray the origin the second it entered Ukraine.
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  684. Bro we already saw the mobilized men KIA a week after mobilization was announced. They're not hiding for a surprise. They've already been filmed getting beat by their own superiors, or stuck inside holes in the ground as punishment.
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  685. Irrigation water was blocked by Ukraine years ago, it was only unblocked by Russia last year.
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  686. If someone starts running at me and I lift my foot, it's like I kicked them in the face even though I didn't move an inch.
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  687. It really doesn't. You misunderstand the political and logistical issues for providing training and equipment. From the outside looking in, you arrive at the wrong conclusion.
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  688. There's so much footage it's insane.
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  689. Satellites can provide imagery outside drone range and movements, thermal and synthetic aperture radar.
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  690. It's been reported on many outlets. There's videos of the local police stations having the jails converted to detention centers and interrogation facilities. The local civilians complain of the torture or their relatives disappearing.
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  691. All nukes are locked by permissible action links. Only the Russian strategic forces high ranking generals would have the means to authorize their use, and they'd have a garrison defending the warheads. It would be in their interest to use them as a bargaining chip with the West. Even if the nukes were seized by force with newly formed armies, it would take a couple years to reassemble them with new safeties and codes.
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  692. ​ @bigboyman5743 look up "wagner wave" or "uno dos tres wagner"
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  693. Ironically the terrorists where probably Donbas troops and the movie implies the SBU intends to make the attack worse.
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  694. You're tired of conflict? Then why settle for a frozen conflict? Why allow Russia to rebuild and start more conflicts? The motives of the US Govt? The US was ready for Kiev to fall in three days. I expect my kid to also know that some people can't be reasoned with. I will most likely not have children, but if I had I'd teach him what I know - kickboxing and Brazilian jiu jitsu.
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  695. The obvious ones would be corruption, police coverage/response time/rule of law, strength of institutions, etc.
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  696.  @LakeVibe365  Putin has been walking himself into corners and claiming he's cornered. Ffs how can you scream about "muh NATO" when you invade all your neighbors?
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  697. Millions are old and unable to reproduce. Millions are not ethnic Russians but Kazakhs, Tuva, Ingush, Buryats, Tajiks, etc etc etc.
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  698. Has he apologized for constantly missing the deadline on when Ukraine would collapse?
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  699.  @klaasvakie  Yes, he does. He wants an audience, he has to be correct. If all he says are Russian propaganda delusions, he can stop having his minions beg for more viewers on other peoples' comment sections.
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  700. Right, so let's get shackled to the insane Wolf Warrior Diplomacy and obsession with Taiwan, the mismanagement of having a huge sector of the economy based around a housing market Ponzi scheme and welding people in their own homes. Please.
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  701. Yeah you see a lot of supplies are delivered by civilian cars and trucks. The multi-ton military trucks suffered like 1000 losses in the first year.
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  702. ​ @secretname4190 if you want a pragmatic answer, it's easier to get funding for a historical/conflict anime than live action or 3d/western cartoon. There's animes about the history of tanks and service rifles. There's animes about the modern Japanese army going into a fantasy setting. You can get a lot of niche topics covered in eastern 2D.
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  703. ​ @frankstallone3864  which process? I was under the impression Taiwan can make them with lower nm.
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  704. ​ @frankstallone3864  which process? I was under the impression Taiwan can make them with lower nm.
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  705.  @frankstallone3864  That's the thing - more crap chips for low demand applications aren't as important as the high end chips we critically need. Whenever there's shortage of computer parts and prices rise, typically it's Taiwan that's the bottleneck. Because only specific manufacturers make the components that go into the stuff all the computer brands, cellphone brands, etc make.
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  706. Because the youtube algorithm detected you're watching political content. Anti gun videos get concealed carry insurance and gun safe ads while pro gun videos get anti gun ads.
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  707. And they're beating each other senseless in their borders. Because they agreed to not bring guns to their border dispute. Otherwise they'd be massacring each other by the hundreds. India and China are geopolitical enemies, BRICS is a loose economic trading block. Just like we can buy Russian oil but give weapons to Ukraine to destroy Russia. Business is business. Killing is killing.
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  708. Population is growing because we live longer, not because we have more children.
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  709. How did Ukrainians smuggle explosives into a dam the Russians controlled?
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  710. The Black Sea fleet is a source of missile strikes and a blockading force. Prior to Moskva being sank, it was the primary air defense for the rest of the fleet. This is like asking how does it matter that you're losing your Queen, Rooks, Knights and Bishops if all it takes is a pawn to check the King. Well, try to play chess with only pawns on your board.
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  711. There wasn't a Western collapse. The US left as agreed in the peace deal and the Kabul government collapsed.
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  712. Not to countersignal but our drug problem did come back somewhat due to the lockdowns. It's not bad like the 90s, but we were set back.
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  713. But Russians are advancing and wearing themselves down. Ukraine is using their defenses.
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  714. 1. Bakhmut was a speedbump in the Kramatorsk-Sloviansk defensive line. If Russia takes Bakhmut, the next step will be an even worse uphill battle for Russia. 2. Bakhmut is uninhabitable at this point. Retreating would expose more civilians so it's preferable to fight there than evacuating a larger city. 3. Russia is bleeding itself in Bakhmut. If Russia is willing to get their army destroyed there, why try to fight anywhere else? 4. Finally, Bakhmut was strategically important when Russia held Izyum as it allowed them to do the pincer maneuvers to encircle Ukranian forces. But the Kharkiv offensive made that impossible.
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  715. This talking point again?
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  716. Nope. The mass graves were found.
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  717. Serbia was comitting genocide and trying to play coy by hiding their military assets to avoid destruction. With no way to stop Milosevic the alternate targets had to be hit.
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  718. There's a military outpost in that deep space comms station. The large antennas can't keep up with satellites but that military HQ does.
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  719.  @kingezhsepo  Doesn't have to destroy it. Things can be damaged without being destroyed.
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  720. A lot of modern equipment is just upgraded 50 year old designs. Things plateau.
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  721.  @thesearchforterrestrialint7795  Ground drones by virtue of a curved earth lose signal easily, drone swarms are easy pickings for airburst autocannons or DEW.
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  722.  @thesearchforterrestrialint7795  It really doesn't matter when 60 cent shotgun shells swat legged or flying combat drones. Those widgets off a production line can't beat a 100 year old production line - ammo. Nobody chose to employ trench warfare. Trenches were the static defenses in the Ukrainian flat lands while the conflict was frozen. At the start of the war Russia clearly chose maneuver warfare, but ambushes and the support elements carrying ammo and fuel being taken out forced the fighting to become static and positional. I have proof of the actual shape of the Earth because not only was my father a military aircraft crewman who had to understand navigation and did a lot of naval work due to maritime patrols, I also did horizon experiments by looking at ships from different altitudes at the coastline. Everything from artillery tables to shipborne gun calculators has to take into account the curvature and rotation of the Earth. In fact when the Falklands war kicked off, a British ship crew forgot to flip the mechanical gun calculator when crossing the Equator, so when they got close to Argentinian positions they were entirely missing their shots since the calculations were being done for the Northern hemisphere.
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  723. ​ @chrisjackson1215  You call this getting their S together?
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  724. Yeah, and the videos of those advances show they're sending men to cross no man's land without regards for casualties.
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  725. They are not attacking Poland, they shot down a Russian missile that crashed in Poland.
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  726. The rail line was damaged last year and only the road sections were repaired.
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  727. Gold can't back an economy, this is 19th century tier.
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  728. Weird ruse where they kill pilots and crewmen.
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  729. More loyalty to "king and country" than ethnicity.
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  730. Gee it's almost like Russians blew their load with the Iranian drones and the West started donating air defenses. Bombs on Kiev? Good luck. I hope they try. I want to see charred corpses of the VKS after they try to drop bombs inside S-300 range.
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  731. A single country being dunked on isn't a world war.
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  732. The better Russian military using T-55s, unarmored offroad utility vehicles imported from China, etc?
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  733. ​ @philipcoffman4372  Russians used anti-air missiles in INS/GPS mode to strike ground targets and Shaheds to make up for the missile shortage. When you have to throw rocks to make up for lack of bullets, you're running out.
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  734. Because EU countries can just block the service on their end. In the EU we can't access many American news websites (especially smaller/local news) because they can't be bothered to abide by the EU regulations as they have almost no readers here. Twitter loses more from ending their service in Europe because we have twice the population of the US when combined.
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  735.  @victoriassecretisluv  The EU isn't regulating free speech in the USA. Elon Musk is free to shut down twitter in the EU and only have US free speech. But this would cost him money, so he applies the same rules to both. Same as car brands obeying California emissions laws even though they may be lax in other states. I remember something about car manufacturers complaining about that in an open letter to Trump.
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  736. They essentially create no wealth without it. How would Bezos make a killing on Amazon without international shipping?
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  737. Those 150 million people include the elderly, children, cripples, people suffering from tuberculosis (weirdly common in Russia), etc.
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  738. In the early days Russia struck hangars in Ukrainian bases. Ukrainians took aerial photos of the craters and printed large covering tarps with the pictures so that they could rebuild the hangars but satellite photos would still see craters. If you kept up with the war, you'd have noticed by now that Ukrainians have outsmarted the Russians.
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  739. Soviet era rocket fuel. It was public knowledge those stores were there, with even news articles complaining about the danger of that fuel being stored without plans to decomission it. Russia knew about those depots and hit them to cause big bangs to satisfy the ultranationalists after 4 aircraft were shot down inside Russia.
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  740. ​ @zorgalop  Weren't contractors killed? Or am I thinking of a different attack?
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  741.  @QuizmasterLaw  Why are you using the Russian smiley?
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  742. More like to the last Russian. The Bakhmut advances show Russians advancing along the piles of bodies from previous failed offensives.
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  743. Been hearing that since March 2022.
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  744. I double dog dare them. Ours actually work.
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  745. Ukrainians can pose as Russians. Chinese have trouble posing as Mexicans. Unless they're really tanned.
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  746. The Allies were on the offensive and the Russians are retreating. If you want a reason for it not to be hypocrisy the Allies won, Russia is losing so they're punishing civilians as revenge. Small peen syndrome.
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  747. Drones mean everything from a small FPV with a 100g explosive, to Global Hawk size monsters. You can't tell damage from the word "drone".
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  748. Taliban means "student" and they were not "freedom fighters" but a group that intended to impose their religious beliefs.
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  749. I think Fukuyama deserves an apology, tbh.
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  750.  @gviehmann  Seeker is on for tracking. You perhaps meant the warhead.
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  751. ​ @truthmonster3290  Not true.
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  752.  @truthmonster3290  Your post was shadowbanned so I don't even know what it said. But I guess it wasn't true.
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  753.  @JohnMarinescu-q7h  Canada signed a pact with China in 2013. The US didn't invade.
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  754. The same S-400 systems that failed to protect Moscow and air bases in Russia? The same ones that had one of their radars visited hy HIMARS in Kherson?
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  755. He continued the wars, the border wasn't any more secure than today and massive scenarios without rule of law happened under his watch.
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  756. The government showing up to parliament and voting to have early elections isn't a coup.
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  757.  @LordRykard9376  They are but that's irrelevant. You can't call something a coup when the government stayed intact.
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  758. No, it's Russia's centuries old wish to subdue Ukraine.
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  759. It was because of Hellfire missile shots which targeted civilians, sometimes including a double tap meant to strike the people trying to rescue survivors or recover bodies.
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  760.  @criticalcommenter  Because they're not Reaper or Predator drones that fire Hellfire missiles. They're more like cruise missiles but with an electric propeller instead of a jet engine.
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  761. You're a paid Western shill like those exposed by LaoWhy86 and SerpentZA.
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  762. False. Bridge was repaired early this year.
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  763.  @jesseterrell2109  It was "functional", not repaired. The evidence of rail was literally posted the day after. An empty train rolling over the damaged section at snail's pace. The actual repairs were completed in 2023 because they were extra bridge spans from the initial construction left over and they were placed on the explosion site. The rail bridge segment was never actually filmed or photographed under repair to the best of my knowledge, they simply limited weight load and speed over the damaged section. YOLO. If he dies, he dies like Ivan Drago said. I wouldn't ride the train, but that's just me.
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  764. A Rússia mal consegue avançar para além das fronteiras.
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  765. In WWII the US used tech. Proximity fuzes and nukes.
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  766. "Lisbon to Vladivostok"
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  767. Russia has deployed their forces. What, you think desk officers, supply clerks, drivers, cooks, nurses, those female units that look pretty in parades but I don't even know what they do, etc are frontline material?
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  768. Because you need to fly a big and slow aircraft that can push it off the cargo ramp over the target.
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  769. They don't seem to be misusing it. Ironically, it's foreigners scamming private donations.
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  770. Lmao
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  771. Hypersonics maneuvering also can't maneuver too hard or else their outrageous velocity will cause hundreds of G's to be pulled and shred the entire structure.
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  772. Anything in the air returns radar. Even stealth objects get detected at close range. And Russian stealth is several decades behind.
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  773. Even Putin dismissed Tucker's NATO theory to his face.
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  774.  @fairhall001  so garbage incineration and sweeping the problem under the rug. Road wear is alreasy terrible, if there's fiberglass in the air while I'm driving down the highway I swear wind advocates deserve something I cannot post here due to terms of service.
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  775.  @fairhall001  The German model of dumping fibers inside a wear material?
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  776. Your understanding is wrong. The Patriot was tested against hypersonic glide reentry vehicles (a Pershing II warhead) in the late 90s.
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  777.  @rick6672  Because of initial bugs, use of anti-aircraft interceptors against missiles and bad performance from Saudi and Emirate operators. You didn't hear about all the successes.
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  778. Objectively? An anti America nutter who can't get an outlet to publish his fanfiction is trying to convince people hos claim to fame 50 years ago lends credibility to his prose.
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  779. OSINT. The pictures and videos that come out can be geolocated.
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  780. ​ @bansheep1  FAB drops cost a dozen Sukhois in Avdiivka. Glide bombs require altitude which exposes aircraft to SAMs. The momentum is slower than snail's pace. If a snail started to go West from Donetsk in Feb 2022 it would be reaching the Polish border by now.
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  781.  @bansheep1  Yet Russia spent 314 armored vehicles to capture a small town with 1,400 inhabitants before the war. Russia is getting torn to shreds by an army with no equipment, little ammo and not many experienced soldiers.
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  782. By 2024 (January 2025 would be the transition) Russia's armed forces will be more depleted and Trump won't be able to undo lend lease.
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  783.  @shaneblack8082  lmao
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  784. Rumor is that Poland sends 2A4s but Germany will send 2A6s.
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  785. So 40,000 Ukrainians are beating Russia into a pulp in Kherson and routing them in Kharkiv?
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  786. Europe doesn't have a massive stockpile, and their industry can't just start mass production. The US does have a stockpile so even if American companies can't turn on a dime either the US has stuff gathering dust precisely to defeat Russia in an European land war stuck in depots.
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  787. He's a convicted sex offender and there's no nuance. He claims Russian tanks can survive 5 Javelin hits when there's blatant footage of them getting obliterated by a single hit.
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  788. If 85% of the population is 50% people in retirement age, that's not great.
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  789. They reap billions while the people suffer from the economic drain of loss of productivity, criminality, etc. I'd rather have the billions than the "profit".
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  790. They've been dominating? Watch the footage. The Russian assault teams are walking over the previous assault team lying in the dirt. They're using off road mobility vehicles (look like golf cars). They're dominating if you play by HoI4 rules and painting a map is what wins. But they're taking measly area at the cost of men.
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  791. Russia isn't surrounded. If they want to be worried, the border with China should be a greater concern. Minsk II was broken by DPR forces, the Russian minions.
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  792.  @quartermaster1976  Russia defended themselves? How? By asking China not to join NATO? By asking the Arctic not to join NATO? The majority of Russia's borders does not touch western countries so by definition they cannot be surrounded by NATO. They have Belarus, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgystan, etc. So how did they defend themselves? By attacking Kazakhstan? Are they NATO minions? How have they been pushed together? Xi already told Putin to wrap it up and not use nukes. China recognizes Ukraine's 1991 borders per their agreement in the 90s. Taiwan isn't a stunt. They KMT fled China. What more do they want?
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  793.  @quartermaster1976  Learn to comprehend what people said. Russia is the aggressor.
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  794.  @quartermaster1976  Donetsk and Luhansk. All you Russian shills don't even know about the topic.
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  795.  @quartermaster1976  That has nothing to do with the fact that you want to be a know-it-all and yet you can't even name the Oblasts. Donbas is the Eastern Ukraine area, Donetsk is the oblast controlled by separatists. Donbas and Luhansk is like saying "the United States and California".
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  796.  @quartermaster1976  No argument. Thanks for proving me right.
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  797.  @Augustus_Imperator  It's not humiliation to force the guilty party to pay for damages. Oh, I'm sorry, when people sue each other for damages is that "humiliation" or justice? Their projected GDP is terrible and it includes all the military production. Actually producing goods and services has the same contribution to GDP as producing military equipment. However, the first will actually create more growth while the latter will just end up burning in Ukraine. China is sitting this one out, Iran is dealing with internal issues, and their nuclear arsenal would be used against the children of oligarchs and generals who live in London, NYC, Paris, etc.
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  798. ​ @mrthompsonjt  Did you predict a large scale offensive in a frozen conflict?
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  799. Was it? Can we see the pictures?
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  800. There's no actual red button. The generals have to issue the order and the men in the firing stations need to obey.
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  801. The Ukrainians built the defenses north of Kiev last year, after the Russian retreat. An attempt to retry Feb 2022 will end up with even greater losses. It's an ambush sector up there.
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  802. ​ @timstapleman  Of course you love war - you're pro-Russia.
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  803. Why?
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  804.  @mattsmith1137  But they won't. Not soon or later - Russia is spent and is now a madman swinging a knife with a bullet lodged in the heart. Still dangerous, but the wound is fatal. Let him swing at air.
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  805. They're already at both sides of the Dnipro. In a place called Zaporizhzhia.
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  806. ​ @fanta4897  Russians lost a dozen aircraft in two weeks doing this stunt. Outside of effective range means outside of glide range.
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  807. They're using Chinese golf carts, motorbikes and trucks covered in chain link fencing to do assaults. Seems to me the sanctions did cripple their military as Russia is looking more like Mad Max these days.
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  808. To the Israel haters, the 25k do not matter. They're just pawns. Have you not noticed? Putin sends meat, Hamas sends meat, these leaders do not care and will subject their own people to unimaginable horrors to get a "win". The knights, rooks, bishops, etc matter but not the pawns. They exist to get traded. Realize this. Iran also spent money in the attack.
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  809. ​ @user-po8wc5ql4m  It's not against western AT tech. It's against quadcopter drones.
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  810. A derailment can be fixed. This was a tunnel on fire. Do you know what kind of inferno a tunnel fire is?
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  811.  @blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311  Concrete is damaged by heat and rebar loses adhesion to concrete under high temperatures. You have to dig out the damaged structure and recast new concrete.
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  812.  @blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311  Dude., The heat came from the MASSIVE FIRE of the fuel cars in the train. Doesn't have to collapse. After it's damaged it has to be repaired. Unless you want to be on the hook for the fatalities once disaster happens.
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  813. Inside Russia. The Ukrainian SBU is known for inserting agents into Rusdian territory who go around posing as Russian citizens.
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  814.  @RogueReplicant  Radioactive pellets would betray the origin.
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  815. They're wasting missiles. Their cruise missiles are being shot down, and they're using S-300 anti air missiles for ground attack. This is desperation. Yes, Russia does misdirection. They've been trying to pretend they can win the war. That's the misdirection.
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  816. College doesn't teach you the secret sauce. You really think companies are sending their corporate secrets to universities?
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  817. Western countries are willing to work with Muslim nations, Hindu nationalists are a roadblock.
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  818. Javelins have one factory to cast the warhead which is a bottleneck. Javelins were made to stop a Rusdian tank rush. Do we need a stockpile of them? Not anymore. The US has 155mm, it just can't draw from a strategic stockpile.
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  819. Rail can be operational 99% of the time, but if the train cars transporting heavy equipment are hit, that's a major blow.
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  820. The US left while the Kabul regime was unfit to exist. The Taliban did not have the balls to fight the US, they honored the peace deal while US forces were in place to keep it.
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  821. So? They have no reason to fight together. China restrains NK, and India and China are always involved in border skirmishes.
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  822.  @jameslawrence3666  In the early 2000s college students writing a paper proved it was possible to order the components to manufacture a bioweapon virus. It's possible.
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  823. The Dambuster Raids in WWII resulted in similar damage (top part) and the mechanism used was... depth charges that skipped until hitting the dam wall and sinking to the bottom. Explosions at the very bottom caused the top to collapse.
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  824. Belarus could not dismantle a nuke and rig it with new control systems in the timeframe.
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  825. Ritter hasn't said anything worthwhile since the start. Rember the "it takes 5 Javelins to take out a Russian tank"? Yeah...
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  826. The US wanted to pull out of Ukraine and let them fall, it was the UK that lead the aid effort.
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  827.  @Lucifer0007  Self-defense isn't escalation. Shooting a 100,000 dollar missile at a million dollar tank is the opposite of escalation. It's slapping someone chasing you down with an axe. Like, are you a criminal? Do you invade people's homes and get mad at them defending themselves? You're the guy who escalates. When the day comes that you get caught in your night time activities by someone with a firearm... that's not gonna be escalation. You escalated. And for that you're gonna get a closed casket, criminal.
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  828. Saudi pilots had to be hand held by American advisors.
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  829. Their survival isn't threatened. They can just leave and the war ends.
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  830. Two Russian S-300s destroyed recently, video was released yesterday.
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  831. I'll apply the Pareto principle on that one. For every trucker making 200k there's 5 making 100k and 10 making 80k.
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  832. ​ @rubicon3416 MacGregor is so real he screamed about impending Ukrainian collapse in 2022... then nothing.
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  833. ​ @darwel007 Probably because of the same reason Zeihan charges 700 bucks to attend his speaking engagements while MacGregor goes on Andrew Napolitano's youtube show.
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  834.  @darwel007  I don't care if you buy it or not. Zeihan makes big bucks with his expertise, MacGregor is humiliating himself on camera for pennies for over a year.
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  835. It's not Russia's best general. Winter defeated the Soviets in Finland. Winter defeated the Russians in Ukraine this Feb 2022.
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  836. McGregor has been wrong at every step of the way. What credibility does he have?
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  837. You pay extra for the privilege.
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  838. Ruh-roh!
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  839. Billions spent on homelessness. The issue isn't solved by spending money. There's mental, cultural and "pharmacologic" reasons for homelessness you can't fight by waving dollar bills.
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  840. A megaproject like that would be visible from space. Ever seen prison/camp escape movies? One of the challenges with digging a hole out is hiding all the dirt. If a hole sized for a man to crawl through creates enough dirt for prison guards to notice, the rock and rubble piles would be seen on Google Earth.
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  841. It got destroyed? Can we see it?
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  842. "Russophobia" ah yes the term made up by Russian propagandists to refer to anyone who criticizes them.
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  843. Russia spent billions shipping fresh water and investing in desalination. Gaining control of the canal was a big deal because Russia eased some pressure off.
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  844. Russians aren't even an ethnic group, they have Chechens, Ingush, Georgians, Armenians, Tatars, Buryats, Tuvan, etc.
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  845. Maybe he just talks to people. Russian hacking is a widespread phenomenom, denying it is just pure fanboyism. Also, *coerced. It would help your case to not be the stereotypical pro Russian stooge with a lack of education.
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  846. No, they don't. They state the Russian armed forces sustained 220k casualties.
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  847. It's one of the few ways you can invest money in China, and due to the female-male imbalance the women are picky enough to require potential mates to be home owners. This created an inflated demand for housing. If women suddenly decided men had to know how to do a handstand to date them, you'd see every gym offer a handstand class. That's how the world works.
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  848. Taking a hit? Surely there's pictures of the wrecked system, right? And did they hit the radar or a launcher? The launchers can be 10km away from the command module.
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  849. Educated in what? Moscow University of Shilling?
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  850. It didn't happen.
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  851. Define true home buyers. The speculators biting the dust is still a massive economic loss. You can't just wash your hands out of it. You needed that money in the economy, and it will be gone.
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  852. ​ @sibiryak5747  Russia.
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  853.  @mxbadboy263  tracking may require added clearance around the panels. A fixed panel with added coverage with maybe a winter and summer setting in the mounts that only needs to be changed twice a year would give you almost the same benefits for less cost.
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  854.  @donbrutcher4501  With the area being the same. You can't have tracking panels close to each other without them bumping into each other, so each panel occupies a certain % more area than the actual area they occupy when still. Put the panels in a row without gaps, and you increase useful area.
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  855. Yeah because Iron Dome isn't meant to shoot down birds, just things travelling at Mach something.
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  856.  @TK-en2hq  the issue right now is that Russia uses their comvict units under Wagner to soak up Ukrainian ammo and force the defenders to expose their positions. So Russia is helping a lot by using men as disposable resources, the downside is that defenders report that they're giving the Russians hell but they do not stop coming.
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  857.  @manwiththeredface7821  Lira thinks Bradleys are jeeps.
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  858. No. Why would it even be? NATO doesn't have this kind of doctrine.
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  859. It's still struggling.
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  860. He does speeches and presentations at events.
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  861. Germans also made the Soviets asvance backwards towards Moscow. Reached the outskirts. How did it end for them?
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  862. There's different delivery timelines. Of what Ukraine was supposed to have now, they had 98% a few days ago.
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  863.  @juliandebreuil879  It's not public. A few months ago it was said it would take a year. There's been a photo "leaked" of an Ukrainian soldier posing next to what seems to be a lineup of Abrams which suggests they are being trained and it could take a few more months rather than next year.
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  864. Armored vehicles are sealed and the air filtered. The Cold War forced designers to have NBC/CBRN protection.
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  865.  @GodGuy8  Eyewitnesses are terrible. Most people never heard an explosion in their lives. The "thousands" of engineers are mostly people who don't use their degree and hold other jobs like real estate agent. Classic demolitions look very different. Sequenced explosions. Sounds like a cannon firing multiple bursts. There were WMDs in Iraq. Many US soldiers suffered neurological damage from being exposed to them.
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  866.  @GodGuy8  Yes. And to steal and repurpose a quote eyewitnesses are the worst type of evidence after we try everything else. Eyewitness accounts are known to be unreliable because a) people lie and b) people misremember events. That's why eyewitnesses can be cross examined. Unfortunately the video doesn't seem to be on youtube but there's an old TV show experiment where people were exposed to a car crash they weren't expecting, and by being asked the question "at which speed did the cars collide" and "crash", those who were asked "crash" said numbers 10-20 mph faster than those who were asked "collide". A simple word is enough to make people remember the event differently. Eyewitnesses are not worthless. But they are suspect. If an eyewitness claimed you committed a murder, certainly you'd defend your innocence. Does that mean you think eyewitnesses are worthless? Be honest. Most people have not heard a real explosion in real life. People who were there on 9/11 were panicking. You can't just say "they heard explosions, smoking gun proof!"
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  867.  @GodGuy8  Not really. You can see the building comes down in phases, it comes from the inside, and it's only when the outside face collapses that you see it fall. There isn't a strong case. Look at actual demolitions.
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  868.  @GodGuy8  Perfect demolitions are phased. You can see the sequence.
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  869. The rail is damaged by heat so they can't use cars loaded to full weight and they slow down when crossing the affected area.
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  870. That's the beauty of it. Nazi Germany said the US was dysfunctional, currupt, etc. Then the US obliterated Nazi Germany and rebuilt the country. Every enemy the US had pointed to its dysfunction. Then the US hammered it. Then they became allies.
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  871. Drones aren't the end all be all. It took months for Russian air defense to be degraded to the point Bayraktar TB-2s can be flown again. Most of the small quadcopters aren't fighting, just observing and correcting artillery.
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  872. Or he got information mixed up. You never got something confused with another when it suited your narrative? When Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (US version) came out I pointed out to some friends David Fincher had also used Trent Reznor's music in Lost Highway. Well, Lost Highway is a movie by David Lynch.
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  873. 777s changed the game as they allowed Ukraine to have accurate fires and get 155mm shells supplied. HIMARS killed supplies and commanding officers. Russia is winning? They're being folded like laundry.
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  874. Russia won't last that long. Forget the MIC. At this point the Ukrainians are running on sheer hatred alone. And if by some miracle Russia stays in the game until 2025 (taking office) Trump can negotiate whatever he wants, the Ukrainians would never stop. And the UK and Poland would make up for the Trump blackmail.
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  875. "Poke them with NATO" A consequence for Russia's wars. It was young students who got a new president. Not America. In fact the state dept wanted Yanukovych to stay and keep his promise to hand the prime minister position to the opposition. It was the crowd who said no to those terms, they were murdered by Yanukovych and did not trust him.
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  876. The wreckage photos were published. If I make a fist while stopped and you run face first into my hand, you'll get punched. Your velocity works in my favor.
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  877. It's not done. They filmed the opposing lane.
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  878. Wagner is not good at assaults. They just have more men to spend. Bakhmut isn't the main defensive line, Kramatorsk is an even bigger stronghold. Capturing Bakhmut would be a piece of cake compared to what would be next.
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  879. The US pays its debts every year. Otherwise nobody would get treasury bonds.
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  880.  @mam0lechinookclan607  It's sustainable because it keeps getting paid. And those who hold debt like getting paid. The US takes in more debt because it expands to cover the wealth. When you try to pay off that debt you have to take that money from the private sector, impoverishing the country.
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  881. A government showing up to parliament and voting to strip an AWOL president of his powers isn't a coup. They just had snap elections due to a fleeing president.
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  882. No, they paused because lines have stabilized since the last major offensive and Russia got to defensive lines. The Kherson retreat was not like Kharkiv, Ukrainians didn't have to fight for the city. If anything, it's Russia that is losing tons of men at Bakhmut and Ukraine is allowing them to spend manpower instead of advancing.
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  883. And how many of those expert mathematicians are just using their degrees to get jobs in the West?
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  884. You can buy commercial satellite pictures to look at parked aircraft. Intelligence is now open to the public.
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  885. They're feeling the squeeze of the coof policies for the past 3 years. The war is pretty tame in comparison.
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  886. But Ukraine has like 12 HIMARS vehicles. It's not the bulk of the aid.
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  887. There's video of it being destroyed? Where?
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  888.  @sburns2421  Mexico doesn't have any reason to do that. Also, Canada signed a military cooperation pact with China in 2013. The US was cool with it.
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  889.  @sburns2421  Hypotheticals have to be anchored in logic. Countries next to Russia are afraid of invasion. Mexico isn't afraid of the US invading. In fact they underspend on their military because they enjoy the protection of living next to the US. Before you present a hypothetical, it has to make sense. The US doesn't antagonize Mexico in a military sense, just political differences. So Mexico would be acting irrationally by seeking such a partnership. Additionally, I provided a REAL WORLD example that completely obliterates your hypothetical. So my bases are covered.
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  890.  @sburns2421  Not really. The US was willing to keep Yanukovych in power (Victoria Nuland's phonecall is about the opposition agreeing to end the protests in exchange for Yanukovych letting the opposition have the PM seat). Europe was willing to play ball, even bringing Russia into the economic fold with the pipelines. It's not a proxy war. Otherwise every war is a proxy war. You know what lacks credibility? Saying that having allies means you're a proxy. Two countries are going head to head and the actual proxies (the separatist republics) were pretty much wiped out. Now they're staffed with Russian men.
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  891. All American GPS guided weapons default to inertial navigation in case of jamming.
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  892.  @TheMasterhomaster  This is easily countered by just not buying friggin' eggs. Let the price gougers hold the bag and take the fat L. You'd have a point about inelastic goods if this was healthcare or something, but it's just eggs. If everyone stopped buying eggs for a week, the prices would go through the floor. I saw this happen with ammo 2020-2022. People would not stop buying. Empty shelves every day make sure prices stay high.
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  893. ​ @HiwasseeRiver  The war is dragging on because Russia is just digging further into the stockpiles of Soviet tech and throwing meat at the problem. It's riddiculous but they refuse to cut their losses and quit.
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  894. Russia, as part of the Soviet Union, did not get what they wanted in Afghanistan. The first time the Federation went into Chechnya, they didn't get what they wanted. Numbers do not win wars, because all we have to do is produce more ammunition. China has a lot to lose. The Russian debacle was a wakeup call.
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  895. ​ @FromMyBrain  The problem is that the battlefield is riddled with 600 dollar guided missiles. In the age of the drone, nobody sane wants to ride in a T-55. Any drone pilot wants another notch on his belt so you'll be a FPV magnet.
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  896. And they know their country will be ravaged if they use them. Even if there was no response to a nuclear attack, the prevailing winds carrying fallout back into Moscow and the explosions killing ethnic Russians would completely delegitimize the state.
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  897. People are shooting their mouth about weapons which don't exist. Ever seen a Tsirkon? I haven't. The Chinese DF-ZF? It's a glide reentry vehicle, not air breathing. Ironically, the US makes public their trials with scramjet hypersonics and admits failures.
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  898. With enough area, you can produce as much as you want. You're just paying a premium $$$ for area.
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  899. It's usually the other way around, we destroy our own industries so it can be moved overseas. We're very "not in my backyard" these days.
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  900. Funny how all the bots just cry "propaganda" and never say what is wrong.
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  901. Imagine using nukes because of cardboard lmao
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  902. The heavy damage happened to be clouds passing over. Pictures taken later showed the damage to be less than initially reported.
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  903. The "BRICS market" okay man, who is China's biggest market? The US. They move away from the Dollar in the 10% of stuff they can de-dollarize. China imports food from the US and Brazil. You think they can switch to Brazil alone? Say bye bye to the Amazon rainforest.
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  904. They're not fighting for civilization, they're fighting for old men in power.
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  905. ​ @kimlavender185kimlavender9  Europe will fall without global trade. Just went to Ikea. The box says "made in China", not "Sweden".
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  906. "Meaningless" he says, while typing on his device that requires global trade to function.
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  907. They are scraping the bottom of the barrel. The reason small arms are used is the close range to civilians. Shooting rockets and large autocannons inside cities will cause more damage than the drone. We've been through this with V1s.
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  908. Remember how the non-existent Kherson offensive was your punching bag last year? Then you lost it.
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  909. Yeah and Antonovsky bridge is fine too. We all saw the russkie propaganda.
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  910. But mercenaries can just get paid more by the other side, and Wagner is the Russian government. They're "privately" owned for deniability but they get FSB fake IDs, they fly in Russian air force airplanes, etc.
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  911.  @SAVikingSA  A Western based PMC will be defanged. No secret/"sensitive" electronics on their aircraft (limited air support, no air to air ability), no capacity to produce their own heavy artillery, tanks cost millions of dollars and are even harder to maintain than purchase. Wagner only gets away with all they do because they obey the government handing them out the toys to play with. Western PMCs are glorified mall security and bodyguards.
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  912. Look up the Canada attempts to shoot down a weather balloon in 1998. Please stop acting like a know it all when what you say is disconnected from reality. A weather balloon was "poked" a THOUSAND times with 20mm CANNON rounds. It crossed the Atlantic and got shot down by Russia.
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  913. ​​ @papasmurf9146 the "pro-Russia" president was actually open to dealing with the EU but Russia pressured Ukraine by embargoing their goods, and then causing delays at the border. This was extremely punitive to the Ukrainian economy. The pro-Putin guy was also a pro-West guy, he just got pressured to change his campaign promise at the last minute by Putin. And in fact, Putin's paranoia made him think Yanukovych had betrayed him. NATO was already on Russia's border. It just increased now with Finland joining. Please think for a second.
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  914. Except most weapons are decades old and tested to hell and back. ATACMS? The US is sending it because the PSrM will replace it. We have tested the ATACMS. It was used in Desert Storm. We don't need to test something that will be pulled out of service.
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  915. It was an error? Then don't post comments. The device you're using and the internet itself depends on global trade. Everyone wants the sausage but not see how it gets made.
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  916. ​ @shawnd5746  America does need the world. Why do you think the US Navy ensures the safety of global shipping? Because if everything goes to sh1t the US falls right after.
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  917. An "EU army" would be worthless, what we should have is every country maintaining a decent armed force. But everyone is unwilling to commit because having a nominal force and scraping materiel cuts costs. The EU Army is just a way of deflecting responsabilities towards Brussels instead of just biting the bullet and investing on the military as both a fighting force and an attractive career.
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  918. So you click on every upload and comment to increase his algorithm metrics?
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  919. The rail had a fuel train burning for hours. Concrete loses strength in high heat, rebar adhesion to concrete also weakens.
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  920.  @joeking5679  It would require demolishing the existing concrete and steel structure, and replacing it. That would be seen in satellite just like the road repairs could be visible.
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  921.  @klaasvakie  It wasn't up and running. Locals confirmed that travel was redirected through land, on phone map apps the detour was announced.
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  922. The Russo-Ukrainian conflict is several centuries older than NATO.
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  923. Nonsense. That's like saying we can take all the 35-50 year old working age people still in the rust belt and turn them into Silicon Valley employees. How will they "find their way" when they can't afford these new units? Even if the CCP gives away the houses for free, the money is still gone. That was a financial loss and the future of the country was gambled away. You put a command economy in charge of the sea and they'll find a way to run out of water (Aral sea).
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  924.  @alunjones2550  If Russia is having supply issues, they're willing to pay to get stuff from the outside. Closed systems are nearly impossible.
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  925. ​ @blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311  I bet those "brand new" tanks have been sitting there for years. Remember the new article claiming Russia had give 200 T-90s to the separatists? Where are those?
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  926. ​ @blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311 I don't dispute that Russia has thousands of tank hulls. I dispute that they're all usable.
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  927. I understand Rand Paul. Unfortunately, it seems the world does have cartoonishly villainous leaders that won't stop if we just leave them alone.
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  928. It wasn't lol if it were why isn't Russian sending more missiles right now?
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  929. No. Their plan was to knock out the Pacific presence at Pearl Harbor and secure themselves their imperial ambitions.
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  930. No, it hasn't.
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  931.  @harrybuttery2447  Yes, there was. There's plenty of evidence of it from the Russian side, gathering volunteers, people being "voluntold", the military cannibalizing their units to send reinforcements. It's all true. The Russians complained about it on social media. The captured soldiers admitted it.
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  932.  @harrybuttery2447  I'm going to explain slowly. Invasion? Losses. Send more? Losses. Reservists? Losses. Mercenaries? Losses. Without hiring or "reorganizing" anything, the Russian army sent more men than initially planned. You're trying to convince me that if the 82nd Airborne had been wiped out in Iraq and the US had to send more units overseas that's just "reorganization". No, it's WIAs, KIAs, and people quitting their contracts. Don't make excuses. If you're not going to listen to captives, listen to the wives and bosses in businesses who were complaining that they had to pull people out of work to send them to Ukraine. Russian men were "mobilized" to Ukraine before general mobilization was announced and at this point you're denying reality.
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  933. Antisemitism? You need denazification. Putin himself said in a speech Russia is multicultural, he is Russian, he is a jew, he is a tatar, he's everything his country is.
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  934. Numbers alone don't mean much. Men without uniforms, boots, armored vehicles will have a bad time.
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  935. ​ @mhjmulhof ICE is not a technological dead end.
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  936. ​ @jwatkins672012 The example is fine. Diamond is abundant, extraction is the problem. The same way we easily produce artificial diamonds, nature also produced them easily. Just not in sufficient concentration across the entire globe.
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  937. Yes, a bunch of cowboys did it, not the guys who look and sound like Russians. An American trying to speak Russian would get found out the moment he opened his mouth.
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  938. That's the warhead. Look for the picture of a crashed Khinzal after it fell off the aircraft during launch inside Russia. You'll see the EXACT SAME warhead inside the crushed nose cone fairing. Klitchko is holding what survived the crash, the aerodynamic nose probably disintegrated.
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  939. ​ @DoodleNugget9  The US spends over a trillion on Medicare and Medicaid.
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  940. So can artillery. Air power is a red herring.
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  941. The oligarchs are still fleecing his country. Putin himself is, his wealth is literally incalculable because so much of it is under others' names but under Putin's control. I mean, look at the missing 1.5 million winter uniforms. Anti-corruption in Russia is just a shortcut to get rid of people. The system is based on corruption, and everyone is corrupt. If anyone starts misbehaving they get charged with corruption. But that's the proverbial tip of the iceberg.
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  942. ​ @festekj  Backed by gold? AHAHAHAH They're lead by 19th century economists now? Maybe China and India should focus more of their border beatdowns.
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  943. Won't work.
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  944. Both sides used fighter jets since day one.
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  945. There's no reason why it would get worse. A more violent infection would be more visible and thus easier to quarantine. It's the mild stuff that escapes unnoticed.
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  946. ​ @HiwasseeRiver  They opened it the day after the attack. Like everything else, Russia constantly likes to remind their subjects that everything is fine. What's the point of reporting on the 30th reopening?
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  947. David Suzuki is just kind of left leaning. A lot of stuff doesn't exist in nature, and mankind made them anyway.
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  948. They fired shells like mad for half a year.
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  949.  @hivezphone  One of the reasons the bridge was built was how much money Russia was bleeding into Crimea. It was one of the areas in Russia that got the most subsidies. Yes, Crimea was supplied before the bridge. But it was an extremely inefficient task that cost Russia money, and usually you want to profit off the land you acquire.
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  950. Tucker probably doesn't believe any of it, but pretends to do for money and clout.
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  951. ​ @conchfritters01 They were fixed wing drones, though.
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  952.  @user-ww8nz5oo2l  Good thing Mathias was not flying a drone, he was flying a Cessna.
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  953. Really, "googleuser541"? Very bot-ish name.
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  954. The operating principles are the same. Both terrorists and cartels are intermixed with local populations so fights tend to create civilian casualties. Either way, even insurgent groups have multiple layers - normal foot soldiers, "immersion" fighters who only detonate their vests when surrounded, and dedicated suicide bombers (who are psychologically unwell people taken advantage of by religious leaders). Cartels also have normal foot soldiers and complete nutcases who seem to have a deathwish. There's a strong folk religion aspect as the cartels have their own saints.
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  955. Same reason why huge warehouses and server farms are built outside population centers. I think the closest coal powered plant in relation to my city centre is probably 15 miles away. It's a big, ugly building. Even if it had no emissions it's just expensive to purchase premium city land to plop down a concrete monster.
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  956. Didn't play for them in Finland or in February 2022. General Winter is a meme, he kills Russians just as well as their enemies.
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  957. They are a US ally considering that the Budapest memorandum had several Western nations pledge support for Ukraine in case of invasion. It's a US problem in the sense that the country both promised support in exchange for giving up nukes, and the US is sort of the "caretaker" of many former Soviet messes the Russian federation couldn't afford to clean up. Remember all the labs talk by Russia? Moscow set up those lab programs. The US had to pay to keep biologists and nuclear physicists employee to prevent them going to Iran or North Korea.
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  958.  @listener523  Doesn't matter. If you pledge help, then you help, it's a thing. The legislature seems to not be against support. So as always, cope and seethe.
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  959. It was a Khinzal, and a wall will stop you even though it's stationary. Don't believe me? Run full sprint at a wall, head first. Report back after you try it.
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  960.  @pasquinomarforio  Because that's a warhead. Warhead has to fit INSIDE the missile. You understand that, right? You can't fit something bigger inside something smaller. The wreckage is consistent with the Stavropol 2022 crash.
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  961.  @pasquinomarforio  Nobody mentioned any sabots. Learn to read. No spin. Google "kinzhal crash Stavropol". Do it. Bet you won't, because you're afraid.
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  962. That's not true. After the oil storage attacks in Sevastopol, Russia attacked a known chemical plant where Ukraine's old nuclear rockets were stored. Big bang, nothing actually important was hit. There were news articles from 2020 talking about that storage location so Russia knew that whenever they needed a big explosion to show to their subjects on nightly news they could just hit that place.
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  963. He had a top secret clearance and was the IT guy. The guys who admin over the computers are difficult to isolate because they're given a lot of access that meybe they shouldn't have to make their job easier.
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  964. The problem is that Realists like Mearsheimer are academics who poisoned the field. If you study IR, you will come across people who think Russia didn't do anything wrong, but because IR isn't a hard science you can't prove them wrong and get them thrown out of the curriculum. Russia has spent decades antagonizing its neighbors, making nuclear threats, etc but they cry victim and claim everything is a CIA conspiracy. Definitely not what authoritarian leaders do, right?
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  965. And Egypt is certainly happy Iran is messing with their Suez revenue going down.
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  966. The consensus seems to be that Lee was brilliant at defense but subpar on offense. I'm not American so I have no horse on this race.
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  967. ​ @babakd9892  unlike nordstream we know only Russia had the access to the structure.
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  968. ​ @jasonjean2901  The US didn't push for war with China. China built their military for war against the US. They created opfor units with American-looking uniforms. They made weapons specifically to target US naval power.
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  969. It was "our" fight. The UK, France and the US pledged to help Ukraine in exchange for the Soviet stockpile they had on hand.
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  970.  @mikeronni1  EDIT: Sorry, wrong comment. Ukraine had Soviet nukes. They gave them up in 1994.
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  971. The US curbstomped Iraq when it threatened Saudi Arabia. That would be an idiotic conclusion. Meanwhile, China hasn't fought in decades and they got beat by Vietnam last time they fought a war.
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  972. No. Ukrainians know how to speak Russian. Even with an Ukrainian accent they sound like Southern Russians. They are able to drive around Russia and cause fires or fly drone attacks. There was an Ukrainian saboteur who filmed himself inside a Belarus airbase placing explosives under Russian helicopters.
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  973. Brother the US was actually in a shooting war in Russia-backed Syria and despite the close calls there were no nukes.
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  974. It's not terrorism and it wasn't suicide. Explosion cane from underneath and lifted the bridge off the support bearings.
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  975. If I tell you not to touch the hot stove, that actually means it's cold.
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  976. No need for Javelins when the Russian armor force is burned through.
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  977.  @dughallhalliday1713  Ukraine used Bakhmut as a speedbump that stood for months longer than it should ever have. The overland communications will be struck, and Crimea abandoned like Kherson city. The Ukainians did it before, they'll do it again.
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  978. How would Trump unprint the 4 trillion? We're seeing the aftershocks of sudden expansion in money supply, which was still a Trump measure in his last year in office.
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  979. Well at least the MIC provides Americans with jobs, what does Russia provide?
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  980. ​ @danielstapler4315  And they buy Chinese-made.
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  981. ​ @annawagner4147 You think that because in your schizo brain anyone who thinks differently is paid by intelligence agencies.
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  982. Are you FSB sponsored?
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  983. Funny, Russian talk shows complained about spetsnaz worship, and how they were wasted in the frontline.
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  984. Comparing the efficiency of commercial shipping lanes to a strait crossing is like assuming the short hop flights in Cessnas to islands benefit from all the economies of scale airliners flying Airbus do.
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  985. One fell overboard and another jumped after him in an attempt to rescue him.
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  986. The US isn't making Ukraine the 51st state. We want Ukraine to be Ukraine.
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  987. Javelins exist to take out Russian tanks. Switchblades are a niche. Only a dozen HIMARS were sent. The claim that stocks are depleted is clickbait.
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  988. I also spray aerosolized pathogens. It's called a sneeze. More effective than high altitude deliveries of pathogens which will be destroyed by UV before they reach the ground.
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  989. There' simply no way to back a modern economy on gold. That kind of stuff is specifically targeted at those who haven't got the memo and think gold is going to save everything.
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  990. They can't even move towards Mykolaiv.
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  991. He didn't take Crimea, that was Igor Girkin (FSB) and Russian Spetsnaz inserted into Sevastopol naval base under the cover of exercises.
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  992. He's probably got a flagship phone that shoots video in high quality. This is probably recorded in a laptop with a 15 dollar headset.
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  993. The rail line is still damaged from last year's strike. The supplies and vehicles brought over the Kerch bridge rail were massive prior to the attack. They don't have the ability to push the same tonnage as before.
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  994. There are.
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  995. He doesn't control any of them.
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  996. ​ @Soildus  Whenever countries need to use something else, they do. That's why the Dollar isn't 100% of transactions. But for most cases? It's just simpler. As Zeihan mentioned in prior videos other countries don't want to take the hit of their currency fluctuating based on international trade. China likes their capital controls, otherwise capital flight happens.
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  997.  @Soildus  Gold backing doesn't work. 19th century thinking.
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  998. The US has troops in Moscow too. It's called the embassy security.
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  999. Support them with what? Rusty AKs?
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  1000. Nope. It was not operational, no point.
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  1001. Just like Kherson is forever Russian?
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  1002. Putin's popularity is a meaningless metric, as people who hate him refuse to respond or lie.
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  1003. "Russiansupporter1674"
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  1004. They already have.
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  1005. The ex-marine in Thailand. Why are all these shills like Gonzalo Lira going to less wealthy countries to marry?
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  1006. It avoids shocks in the global market, and leaves more on the table for future transgresssions. If we go full bore embargo and blockade, Russia just gets to also misbehave as much as possible knowing there's nothing left except boots on the ground.
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  1007. If you're playing catch up, you can't trip and fall. Others already won the race decades, even centuries ago. China still has to cross that finish line.
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  1008. Not true.
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  1009.  @joeking5679  Funny how the wikipedia page itself state that there's no source for the claims made about civilian infrastructure. Almost as if an anti-american vandal edited the page.
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  1010. Blackwater ended. They renamed to Xe and Academi but the reputation was too stained. The company assets were purchased and merged under another company.
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  1011.  @Rake3577  No, it's not the same people. Erik Prince isn't involved anymore. The thing is that you're trying to compare a private venture with an oligarch shadow company that served as a deniable asset. It's like if Sony had to close their Playstation division and all the assets were sold to Nintendo. If Nintendo is selling Switch consoles made in former Playstation factories, does that mean Playstation still exists? No, it closed down. It's over. Now if Sony declares that PlayStation is closing and announces the SlayPtation that is the exact same and has the same games... the legal entity ceased to exist but the company is still alive. Blackwater is so dead, the last time I heard of them the owners of the brand were trying to make money by selling the brand to an ammunition manufacturer.
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  1012.  @lgriestra  Those are not the "moped" drones. The Shahed-136 are "blind" drones that do not record the impact, just follow waypoints.
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  1013. ​ @Lumpy_Peter any employer has to account your time off as a risk.
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  1014.  @Lumpy_Peter  Right, that's Zeihan's point. To us it's not perceived, but to companies it's dollar signs. Or Euro signs.
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  1015. You bought the dip on Putincoin?
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  1016. The problem is that for a Russian soldier, peacekeeper is a good gig! Keeps him out of the frontline.
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  1017. Nuking over some cardboard? Small D energy.
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  1018. Why do you think it's called that? Wouldn't wearing the wrong flag be required?
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  1019. Trump doesn't want the border issue to be fixed or else Republicans have no big issue to run on.
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  1020. ​ @arminiuschatti2287 The fuzing system was optimized against aircraft and not missiles, and there was also a problem with the internal clock accumulating error if the system was not rebooted from time to time. There have been several improvements made over the years, and despite some controversial failures the Patriot systems in Saudi Arabia intercept most strikes nowadays.
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  1021. Nobody else had access to the dam.
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  1022. They had a lot of top of the line Soviet equipment and even Soviet operators/pilots working for them in secret.
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  1023.  @dano6845  I don't know how you can type that out and still come out thinking anything other than Ukrainians named themselves after their historical name, Russians named themselves after something they thought was cooler.
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  1024. Meds. Now.
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  1025. Same cope as last year.
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  1026. The video proof literally has the broken bridge visible in the background.
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  1027.  @frankiep1387  Slow moving trains without cargo. Same as the Antonovsky bridge stunts.
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  1028. Reportedly? Reported by whom?
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  1029. Still damaged from the 2022 attack. Usable, but I wouldn't call it ok.
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  1030. They recently broke the line...
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  1031. If you consider the Ba'ath Party Headquarters to be "civilian infrastructure", sure.
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  1032. But solar is mostly "solid state" electronics while wind has a spinny thingy-majig which means maintenance and breakdowns. Solar blocks sunlight from hitting what's beneath them (can be good or bad) but wind has downstream effects regarding temperature and humidity by "robbing" wind energy from the air. Also, build more panels, they all produce independently. Build more wind turbines, the energy taken away from the wind means that there's less wind energy for others to use.
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  1033. ​ @SrdjanBasaric-w2s  what do you mean "soon", Russia isn't gaining ground.
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  1034. A booming economy? Why? Significantly lowered internal consumption, increased wages discouraging exports. The worst of both worlds.
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  1035. Yeah rail has never been attacked.
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  1036. Degastan is already in uproar and may be exempt from mobilization if they keep up the pressure.
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  1037.  @peterflohr7827  Not when most of the repairs have succeded.
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  1038. The Italian press reported on covert aid.
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  1039. Meanwhile it's Russia going into battle in Chinese electric carts. Looking like Paul Blart the mall cop over there.
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  1040.  @nickkacures2304  Moore's Law is dead. We're hitting the limits of silicon so we're increasing the number of cores instead of pushing the GHz higher.
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  1041. MacGregor nuked his career, which is why he does online shows instead of being a general.
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  1042. Not really.
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  1043. ​ @careylymanjones  "maybe it won't last" so you already accepted Zeihan's premise after dragging him...
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  1044. Why would they need NATO forces? NATO isn't super serum, and Ukrainian troops are more battle hardened than the vast majority of NATO.
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  1045.  @b46ene  "something doesen't add up" - they lied.
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  1046. The Russians are bringing T-55 tanks to use as indirect fire guns due to the ammo and barrel wear issues they're facing. You don't do that if you have a so-called "advantage".
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  1047.  @michellelewis3063  Why isn't the Russian air force flying over Kiev right now?
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  1048.  @wbspensfan28  Yes, it is. The Russian air force never developed a complete SEAD doctrine meaning that Soviet air defense is enough to deny air space.
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  1049.  @Steelrat1994  Javelins are relatively slow anti-tank missiles. They can hit low flying helicopters but not much else. The Russian air force was held back by S-300s and Buks. Do you know what a S-300 is? It fires a telephone pole sized missile at Mach 5. A warhead weighing in at 100kg. Javelins can't do that.
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  1050. The Gripen was designed for "let's lose the war less quickly" warfare. Basically deter invasion by making sure that the invading force is bled dry. You don't have the money to have a large standing army that overpowers the enemy, so you let your enemy know that they'll win but it will cost them so much they shouldn't even try. Ukraine has to overpower Russia. A deterrence fighter meant for guerrilla won't work in the offensive.
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  1051.  @qrsx66  The question was "I thought invasion was bad?". The thing is, they're not technically invading. You're not wrong, but you want to debate the particular nuances in this case while I'm responding to a simplistic question.
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  1052. ​@@OhlordyWeArefalling They're as cheap as Block 70/72 F-16Vs. Maintenance cost is about 20-25% higher than F-16s.
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  1053. ​@@OhlordyWeArefalling Wrong. The 1.6 trillion figure is for the purchase and maintenance of 2000 F-35s from 2010s to 2070s.
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  1054. ​ @curiositycloset2359  the F-35 isn't obsolete. It's the most high tech fighter until NGAD enters service.
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  1055. ​ @thevoxdeus Exactly. And Ukrainian SOF has more experience fighting Russia than the highest Tier American/British SOF. This narrative of NATO special ops falls apart when we remind ourselves they've been doing counter-terrorism for the most part.
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  1056. Cope. Tent cities aren't a result of economic or infrastructure decline but liberal states having been blessed with such prosperity that they fooled themselves into thinking that people have the right to camp and do drugs.
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  1057. And Israel has shown F-35s can fly over Iran without defenses picking it up. An Iranian general was fired over than blunder when it happened.
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  1058. It would be charitable to call that a "report".
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  1059. It is. Look for the September 2022 Khinzal crash inside Russian territory. It has the exact sake warhead.
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  1060.  @RK-yu7mp  So it was a Khinzal. What over delivery system could do it?
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  1061.  @RK-yu7mp  Doesn't matter, we know that Russia chimped out and fired 6 more Khinzals. That's proof that one got shot down and they needed a win to compensate for that humiliation.
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  1062. ​ @crescent4996  Ukraine has no nukes. Try again.
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  1063.  @crescent4996  Ukraine wasn't in NATO and couldn't join due to Crimea/Donbabwe. Try again.
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  1064. ​ @ahuman7199  Pretty sure the Greeks had it before Russia. And the Russians got it from the Tatars.
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  1065. That doesn't make any sense.
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  1066. ​ @marcobonesi6794  The US defeated Iraq with less than 150 combat fatalities in 1991. Russia has suffered countless KIAs, to the point military cemetaries are expanding at alarming rates in Russia and Crimea. You really want to fight for a country like Russia?
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  1067. ​ @marcobonesi6794  Javelins blunted armor advances. HIMARS turned Russia from an artillery country to a meatwave country. These FABs helped (?) Russia take a town at the cost of 16k. I'd rathet have HIMARS.
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  1068. Ukraine has been bombarded almost every single say since 24 Feb 2022. This is the retaliation. Stop being regarded.
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  1069.  @zinjanthropus322  "it's presighted" okay but if you have no recon units telling when to fire and where you're SOL. You're welcome to fire on pre-sighted positions at random intervals. But your opponent will simply stay away from those locations.
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  1070. They didn't have the weapons. They specifically asked for ATACMS for the HIMARS and M270 launcher vehicles. The US refused to consider ATACMS for over a year.
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  1071. Also they had TRAITORS in their country, some Ukrainian mayors flipped to Russia's side. One Ukrainian combat engineer sacrificed his life to detonate a bridge they couldn't rig to blow in time. He blew the bridge with himself in it and with Russians already crossing it, pinning him down. "Doesn't add up" those guys gave their all for their country and you sit on a keyboard questioning it.
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  1072. They don't rise through the ranks. They are just sent out again. The only ones who can rise through the ranks are the former spec ops guys.
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  1073.  @bramharms72  This is the real world. Russia filmed some propaganda about the guys who lasted 6 months and were released. There's a handful of them on camera. Thousands are buried. There's satellite photos tracking the growth of Wagner cemeteries over time. New graves are constantly being dug. They're criminals. Why would they give them promotions? They're not trustworthy.
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  1074.  @bramharms72  That's a question for Russia to solve. Did you know that crime inside Russia near the border areas has increased tremendously? What skills and experience? They're used as recon by fire. Aka advance until they get shot at and force Ukrainians to expose themselves. Recognized for what? Not dying? Promoted to what? More valuable bullet sponge? I'm not American. So your argument fails right there.
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  1075. ​​ @firstandforemost87  Homes are cheap in poorer countries. People can't afford houses in developed countries because we have this nasty habit of having "zoning laws" and "codes" that prevent stuff from toppling. If we had more poverty and more bombs falling, we could just build more high rises (with tofu dreg quality) that block out the sun and we'd live like in the Kowloon walled city. But because we're not fortunate enough to be poorer and have buildings demolished routinely, we're stuck having to build more low density suburbs outside cities.
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  1076.  @firstandforemost87  Housing could keep up with population if we kept toppling buildings and constructing larger ones. We won't do that because zoning/planing/regulations will always make things remain static on a longer timeline. Which comes with the good and the bad.
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  1077. ​ @fwfeo  Russia also had tank advantage and still got shredded. Advantages are like dick size - knowing how to use it is what matters. Russia squanders its advantage by bombarding empty fields, even Russian soldiers complain about the ammo wasted.
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  1078. The first attack took months to repair.
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  1079. False. Explosives and rocket fuel are decommissioned because past a certain date they're considered degraded. Ordnance disposal is a thing.
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  1080. Why would anyone believe your Russian MoD numbers?
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  1081. Of course not, it's only for defense.
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  1082.  @AmericaAndAllies  You're either severely missing the point or pretending not to get it. You don't turn in any card. The US invaded Iraq for example, but NATO Article 5 was not invoked because the US had not been attacked.
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  1083. That doesn't make any sense. The NSA collects information from cell operators. The brand of the chip is irrelevant.
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  1084. Hello, Glavset.
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  1085.  @jnucleo  Cope.
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  1086. They have already been used against us. Remember Solemani? He was a general that lead the Iranian forces handling these sorts of proxy wars. We hit him with the flying slapchop.
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  1087. The author of the article claimed Jans Stoltenberg was working with the US since Vietnam. He was 16 years old when Saigon fell ended.
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  1088. He didn't make a mistake, he knew exactly what he was doing
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  1089. HIMARS broke Russia. Patriot slapped the hypersonics out of the sky. Bradleys shred, they're great. S-400s can't even protect Russian factories from prop trainer aircraft.
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  1090. Same exact script as Kherson.
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  1091. They're really good at practicing being the targets.
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  1092. There was no regime change. The president flew out if the country and the "regime" voted to have snap elections.
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  1093. So obvious seven Russian aircraft were shot down by Wagner.
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  1094. My dude India and China have drawn blood over mountains and rock. If the "west" becomes a threat (for what reason?) BRICS can't save you.
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  1095. Strykers were retired and the Bradleys being sent are A2 I think. No biggie.
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  1096.  @kylemitchell5301  The MGS variant was retired. The others aren't being sent to Ukraine.
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  1097.  @dughallhalliday1713  And what major war would that be? Russia is depleted and China would be a naval war, not a land war.
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  1098. Both export and internal consumption.
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  1099. The US Navy has helicopters eith thermal imaging and AWACS. You must understand, Russia can't match American power and also buy yachts and mansions.
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  1100. Purely self-serving. Russia intel fed us the fairy tale of Chechen fighters in Afghanistan because they wanted to whitewash their own counterinsurgency in the Caucasus.
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  1101. Didn't they lose against Japan?
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  1102. But a ton of Russian shells went up in flames when a few HIMARS showed up.
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  1103. ​ @nateoliver3285  "Global Currency: The Dollar ain't going nowhere" 3 months ago
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  1104. Fires burned long enough that it seems to have buckled. I'd hire a team of engineers and wait for their findings.
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  1105. What? It's Russian defenses that are getting embarassed by everything. Storm Shadows, ATACMS, prop planes...
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  1106.  @KRYPTOS_K5  How it is amazing? It's a rocket that flies. We had those in the 60s. How would they sink a carrier? Carriers are not fixed. They sail. And Khinzals were stopped. America always does that. Remember the missile gap? The bomber gap? The MiG-25?
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  1107.  @esealit2233  Pilots aren't simple men. They're kind of equivalent to knights in the modern day. Expensive and difficult to train.
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  1108. So Russia attacking Ukrainian bridges is terrorism? Or is it different?
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  1109. Russia insists on fighting to the bitter end.
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  1110. Ukraine had no access to the dam.
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  1111. That's not desperation. Ukraine is winning in the battlefield and it will win even more now that the bridge is damaged. Russia is losing, so they resort to this nonsense.
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  1112. ​ @danielgonzalez7541  Why? The encirclement was prevented so Russians had to do exactly what they wanted to avoid. An urban assault.
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  1113. Give us the quick rundown on what the CIA's position is and why.
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  1114. ​ @hedge68  lmao the denial is really something
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  1115. Less people making money and producing goods too. It's a death spiral. They don't need to be populous. They need to sustain their economic growth. The demographics do not allow it. Japan and Sweden are higher income countries. So they escaped the middle income trap. China hasn't.
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  1116.  @lubricustheslippery5028  As you sustain fewer people, you actually get less workers. If you start with 500k men and women and each have one child, you will have 500k adults and 250k children. Those children, assuming an even male-female split, grow into adults and have 125k children. In each generation, you will have twice the elderly to take care of compared to every working adult. You HAVE to grow the economy, or else you stagnate under the burden of your dwindling population. If you have a growing population you can counteract a stagnant economy because at least you'll have more labor. With a population collapse, each laborer has to be significantly wealthier than his parents or else the system crumbles under its own weight.
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  1117.  @lubricustheslippery5028  But Japan made it out of their middle income trap. China hasn't.
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  1118. That question is so nonsensical it hurts the brain. So Musk owning something in China somehow reverts all problems?
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  1119.  @blackberrythorns  How was the game changed? Over 90% interception rates, some stuff gets through. Exact same we've seen in Ukraine. The game is still the same.
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  1120.  @hamadkennedy6295  The damage is relevant. If I protect my radars, my launchers, my hangers, etc and a missile lands in an outhouse, I did my job successfully. I still got hit? Okay, but I prioritized what shouldn't get hit.
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  1121. ​ @blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311  Serbia was genociding Bosnia, Libya was an intervention requested by the Arab League and approved by the UN, Afghanistan was self-defense after the 9/11 attacks.
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  1122. That 50k rockets and shells statistic is a snapshot from one day. They've gone down to 20-10k per day since HIMARS arrived.
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  1123.  @ja37d-34  the point being that the US doesn't necessarily need Javelins except for fighting off large tank forces. One is getting defeated in Ukraine, the other is a defensive tank force protecting China's borders rather than a Pacific naval asset. Abrams can easily be used to destroy enemy tanks so the Javelins are a redundant capability as we also have TOWs.
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  1124. They're gonna sneak around the landmines too? Ukrainians made the region north of Kiev the Murder Park since the Russians left, with water reservoirs ready to wet the soil and create mud so that Russians get stuck in the kill zone.
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