Youtube comments of Icosahedron (@CakeofWisdom).

  1. It's not like Democrats spent six months explaining this is exactly what would happen... No sympathy for these people. ๐Ÿ˜’๐Ÿ˜’
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  2. You kinda want to feel sorry for them until you remember that Democrats spent the better part of six whole months trying to explain exactly this.
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  3. From "we'll lower prices on day one" to "raise your own chickens." How long did that take?
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  4. There are still people who seriously think the Earth is flat.
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  5. I'd sooner vote for Mountain Dew Camacho.
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  6.  @occamraiser  Why not? They know the repercussions of actually using them. We mock North Korea for it all the time.
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  7. And any reasonable person wouldn't blame him.
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  8. Twenty years of cutting education.
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  9. Prigozhin spilled the beans on that when he briefly seized Rostov. It's the big gas pocket in the Black Sea that happens to be in Ukraine's economic exclusive zone.
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  10.  @carlakenyon6073  As I've seen it so astutely put: Zelensky was a man without a suit being accosted by two suits without men.
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  11. Trump's really just a collection of personality flaws.
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  12.  @laars0001  Assuming they get through Turkish inspections. Erdrogan did say Turkey was intending to continue enforcing the grain deal.
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  13. โ€‹ @chesslover8829 Life was always cheap to the Russians.
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  14.  @dr.bongsmoke  It's almost election season. Arguably one of the worst possible times for this kind of political theatre.
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  15. They likely did, but they probably ran out of people trained to actually coordinate them.
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  16. I mean, who honestly didn't expect this?
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  17.  @stargazer-elite  Trucks, locomotives, and heavy machinery had to come from somewhere.
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  18. Just like the old saying: "No honor among thieves."
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  19. I vaguely remember an old political cartoon of Trump being the GOP's Frankenstein monster.
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  20. And quite a few Maga Republicans routinely vote against legislation aimed at helping veterans and servicemembers.
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  21. What do you expect from people who had to sit through 20 years of Putin's gaslighting?
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  22. Yeah, the former Warsaw Pact quickly figured out the Russian Federation had little interest in respecting the post-Soviet borders.
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  23. In other words, he made participation trophies for himself.
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  24. Silver lining: almost half of them are already back behind bars on separate charges.
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  25. Especially since he's been ranting and whining about the same stuff for the better part of a decade now.
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  26.  @radnikradnikovic885  A drop in the bucket compared to how many BMPs Russia lost.
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  27. Word salad, rather.
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  28. I mean, if you enlist thinking you're gonna Call of Duty your way through everything, we don't need you.
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  29. โ€‹@Guadalajara1937 Not really. There were always clear legal distinctions between a citizen and a slave.
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  30.  @trumpforever6706  "Illegal control". Yeah that's cynical conspiracy nonsense when you don't have enough information for a valid answer, so you fill in the blanks with whatever nonsense best fits your preconceptions.
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  31. โ€‹ @ะฎัั‚ะฐัะะปะตะบััƒ-ะพ2ะฒ  They can use the piles of dead Wagner as firewood.
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  32.  @Mr.Funnyman273  I'm sure you think that's true just because the Moskals say so. But it's Russia, you do as you're told, not as the Party does.
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  33. The "notice me, senpai" energy from this Congress gives me the ick.
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  34. They'll figure it out eventually. Hopefully.
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  35. โ€‹ @evangiles4403 My money is on the old ammunition. Denatured propellants and worn-out barrels aren't sending rounds as far as they should.
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  36. Though, where national security is generally concerned, most buyers are looking for functionality.
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  37.  @zeddy_me  So why is everybody looking for security guarantees with the US instead of Russia? ๐Ÿ˜‚
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  38.  @billstretch9187  He retired over a year before they actually deployed.
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  39. I mean, when your opponent is incompetent and tries to compensate with numerical superiority, it's best to just keep chipping.
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  40. Let's be honest, Ukraine is content to keep letting Russia bang its head against a wall.
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  41. โ€‹@JohnCSmith-lp1qr So that means I can walk into your yard, and it magically becomes my yard? ๐Ÿค”
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  42.  @roadwarrior6039  In reality, they really were crimes. Thirty-four of them, as a matter of fact.
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  43. "Creatively acquired" is the technical term for it.
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  44. And do what? Call it quits after 90 seconds or plead the Fifth 400 times?
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  45. โ€‹ @kaloyanrosenov2123 You mean the Patriots that keep shooting down Russian missiles headed to Kyiv? ๐Ÿ˜‚
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  46. He really does play with a dangerous kind of ignorance.
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  47. โ€‹ @Peacewar2020 Chinese banks are refusing payments in rubles.
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  48.  @SABaruj  Rather, General Oligarkhov made a killing auctioning "surplus" rations online instead of sending them to troops on the front.
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  49. Hasn't the Trump campaign always struggled to attract minority and women voters?
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  50. โ€‹@djbloo8996 Vance must be a "DEI pick".
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  51. You know Trump can't keep quiet to save his life.
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  52. That's the power of words.
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  53.  @markogorc2526  They are far more survivable than a BMP.
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  54. On paper, there's far more in stock. But a lot of these vehicles have probably been in depot since my parents were children.
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  55. "Trump is a weak man's idea of a strong man." As its been said.
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  56. @ace9840 You'd have better luck than Trump's delusional tax scheme.
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  57. โ€‹@sharon_shaw It's a psychological phenomenon called "learned helplessness".
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  58. Why fish when he can just make shit up? His followers will believe it regardless.
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  59.  @kobekkop In Russia, life is cheap.
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  60. Breaking: Kremlin changes international kilometer from 1000m to 10m.
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  61.  @DexterCarter2.1  How original. ๐Ÿ˜’Let me guess: you read a snippet from WebMD?
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  62. โ€‹@johnalexander4940 I still question the use of "out". He's been out of office since 2021. Keep him out.
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  63. And the vote for acceptance has to be unanimous.
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  64. I don't know what it is with dictators and these unreasonable deadlines.
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  65. They did it with the Bradleys, too, last September.
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  66. And Wagner are mercenaries. The protections of the Geneva Conventions for mercenaries are a grey area, at best.
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  67. A unanimous vote.
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  68. Losing a dozen vehicles is some pretty sloppy reconnaissance.
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  69.  @uknwarrior7980  Nice to see the vatniks are still using that tired line. Even though it means absolutely nothing.
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  70. โ€‹ @mishabakunin4354 Hamas literally attacked them.
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  71. Kinda-sorta, but not really. Nuclear weapons aren't regular explosives. They won't detonate without the fission reaction being specifically triggered.
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  72. โ€‹ @tessalister1226  Dementia Don tried playing politics with disaster relief in 2018.
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  73.  @American-In-Mykolaiv  Five years is about the average lifespan for China's Belt and Road projects.
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  74. โ€‹ @BigGlokk  Nobody ever accused vatniks of being bright. Lol
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  75. @Timo Lynch  Mental gymnastics, however, are an easy gold.
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  76.  @fokinsnipahs9823  Russia repeatedly claimed the UAF doesn't exist anymore, and they lost territory since March 2022. Who is incompetent?
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  77. Ukraine's MoD actually did formally thank Russia's MoD for their incompetence last year.
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  78.  @rogerforsman5064  More money than sense.
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  79. Supposedly, at least 18 are already AWOL.
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  80. Reading comprehension clearly isn't the strongest among pro-Kremlin trolls.
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  81. I've noticed it with the "Kamala Chaos" line. I don't think any of them know what irony is.
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  82.  Ronawilly Mike Pence comes off as kinda spineless.
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  83. Technically, Parliament overturned his declaration.
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  84. They're certainly persistent, if nothing else.
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  85. Day 1,113 or whatever that the war has been "over", according to vatniks.
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  86. It's a scam, except they ain't callin' grandma.
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  87. The same way the BTG command communicates with the rest of the cannon fodder: they don't.
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  88. Russia lost billions invading a smaller neighbor. Your point?
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  89. Ask the people who've been cutting education for the last 20 years.
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  90. I keep telling Maga: If Trump is presidential material, then Beyond Meat is a steak.
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  91. Imagine the look on Trump's face when Biden draws a bigger crowd.
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  92. โ€‹ @esekasunday1628  It's bold to assume the US can't do the same but better.
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  93.  @vivigesso3756  You clowns said when in 2020, too. And entered a state of denial.
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  94. โ€‹ @malcolmgibson5088  At the rate the ruble is losing value? Not for long. Lol
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  95.  @mindsight9732  That's the joke. Plus, the algorithm might not be aware of that little detail.
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  96.  @dalooter2607  Not really. Just strategy. Russia should try it sometime.
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  97. Not really. Same thing was happening in Verdun. Replacements and returning convalescents are still part of the unit, and total casualties were compared with the unit's optimal strength on paper.
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  98. Russia is literally fleeing positions around Bakhmut, videos of Russian troops committing suicide over otherwise treatable injuries.
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  99. @Bob Dobb  25% of Ukraine's GDP is in Kyiv alone. The last time you checked wasn't particularly accurate either.
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  100. It's been the status quo for the lower-class Russians for centuries. Suffer for the Tsar, suffer for the State, suffer for Russia. Being gaslit by oligarchs for 20 years certainly hasn't helped the learned helplessness in Russian society.
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  101. Biden also has character, fortunately/unfortunately for all concerned.
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  102.  @ZERO-F2G-  Russia destroyed their own credibility when they flattened Mariupol.
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  103.  D James  Your own history isn't even that good. Russia invaded and annexed Crimea before sending the Wagner stooges to be provocateurs in the Donbas. Your numbers are also way off. Only 25 civilians were killed by the fighting in 2021.
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  104. His sycophants know he loves it.
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  105. They gotta cover it up somehow.
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  106. โ€‹ @NancyK-cu6xj  Trump would be some rather dim lights.
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  107. Not any of the other circus stunts he pulled?
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  108. โ€‹ @georgebettasso1395 And Ukrainian special forces have made several high-profile raids into Crimea.
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  109. So where's Gerasimov?
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  110. It's probably a more general audience, since it's a state-owned outlet. So pretty much every news station in Russia is saying more or less the same thing.
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  111. โ€‹ @mac11380  Russia laid out several objectives in February 2022. Which one(s) have they accomplished?
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  112. Five bucks says he's 500km from any of the fighting. ๐Ÿ˜‚
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  113. The rest of us aren't as trained as their target audience.
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  114. Technically, yes, but there's nothing of any real substance to charge it as bribery.
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  115. That's kind of the idea behind a trial, but the problem is: he doesn't have any actual counterpoints to influence the jury.
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  116.  @klutzspecter3470  To be fair, they're just paid to do that.
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  117. I mean, they based their entire game plan on one specific variable. They have nobody to blame but themselves.
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  118. โ€‹ @c10wiremantawwallace13  At least Biden doesn't need spray paint.
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  119.  @moiseshuerta3984  Do you even know what Pyrrhic means?
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  120.  @andregon4366  Parliament still did nothing about it despite other agricultural exports from Ireland.
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  121. I think, officially, that's against regulation. But it says a lot about the state of the Russian Army when they don't even have NCOs willing or able to enforce something so basic.
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  122. It was "shortly" weeks ago. And months before that. ๐Ÿ˜‚
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  123. Wagner, technically. The Kremlin doesn't consider Wagner "theirs".
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  124. "Speaking in tongues" and all that.
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  125. New York is a good place. Imagine the look on Trump's face when Biden draws a bigger crowd than he does.
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  126. That's not really the jury's thing. All they do is decide guilt. Sentencing is the judge's job.
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  127. โ€‹ @mikele9878  Russia's grand offensive literally went 200m and stalled. You could drive a golf ball further.
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  128. Bend over backwards to justify the actions of an adulterer, so sayeth Jesus.
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  129. Casualties are a secondary concern for Russia.
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  130. Also worth noting that those 10 Su-34s represent almost a year's worth of production for those airframes, and they were lost over a span of two weeks.
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  131. โ€‹ @misha791  Back in reality, NORAD is very much able to tell the difference. It's not 1960 anymore, junior.
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  132.  @angussoutter7824  In all likelihood, we won't in the near future. If we do something about it, it stops being political ammunition for whoever.
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  133. Which isn't what was implied, but whatever.
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  134. They're going around Bakhmut, if you're able to read a map.
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  135. @2WorldWar2  So, how's the assault on Kyiv going?
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  136. Observable reality isn't propaganda.
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  137. โ€‹ @Ramirez83786 Hamas clearly doesn't care about the civilian cost.
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  138.  @funtodiekk  T90's and BMPs also sink in the mud, genius.
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  139.  @amaetfacquodvis2450  If you remember from 2022, Russia thought Ukraine would fold in a couple days and wouldn't put up much resistance. They're still suffering from their lack of preparation.
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  140. His approval is higher, too.
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  141. I'm sure Russia is desperate to save face.
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  142. You know your logistics are buggered when even North Koreans are complaining about the lack of food.
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  143. They're still figuring out how to spin their failures into an overwhelming success.
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  144. Ironically, that's Trump's most profitable venture to date.
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  145. Trust me, the more informed Americans are too.
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  146. They must be using a power loom to spin this much and that hard.
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  147.  @muckle8  Kherson was "Russian forever". How exactly did that go again?
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  148. A l'Orange's testimony would've been a nuclear train wreck. .
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  149. What public office does Hunter Biden hold?
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  150. Assuming Colonel Kleptovsky doesn't put it on eBay first.
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  151. It's practically doublethink at this point.
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  152. Not necessarily. Against American and British forces many often surrendered after token resistance, but they fought bitterly against the Russians.
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  153.  @kenc7120  Trump was asked some softball questions and got pissy about it.
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  154. I mean, the mobiks aren't trained to pull off anything more complicated than sit in a trench.
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  155. It could be argued that they "regain momentum" every time the make a push.
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  156. That's the interesting part: the mine-clearing can dig up everything, but Ukraine can deploy dozens of new mines with artillery shells in a few minutes.
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  157.  @vandecasa3795  And Russia is incapable of supplying its material demands for a war they started, lost almost 90% of its oil and gas revenue, ruble massively devalued, economy is on the verge of collapsing, Putin miscalculated a hell of a lot.
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  158.  @aldosigmann419  "Good faith". Laughable.
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  159.  @stuartmcpherson1921  A tour around Seoul is often more than enough to dispel everything North Koreans were told about the South.
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  160. Also nearly started a war with Britain.
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  161. Given Russia's current rate of attrition, North Korea only sent about 10 days' worth of replacements.
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  162. ๐Ÿ˜‚ You don't watch the news in Russia at all, do you? ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ It's literally a manufactured reality on TASS.
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  163.  @StruggleGun  The Party commanded them to ignore the evidence of their eyes and ears.
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  164.  @susanwoosnam1697  I'm sure that human participation trophy would know what boots taste like.
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  165. I mean, the court was ready to slap him with perjury, so they knew he was full of shit.
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  166. Yeah, but the US isn't Ukraine. And the US Coast Guard can wipe the floor with that flotilla.
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  167. Not really. Trump's just a shitty client, and the counsel would do well to ignore his advice as much as they reasonably can.
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  168.  @kryzzan7039  So why is Russia taking so long to win?
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  169. Information bubble.
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  170. And most people don't even use them regularly.
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  171. Hungary literally depends on Russia for almost 90% of its petrochemical imports. ๐Ÿ˜‚
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  172. "Target hit, 200 Nazis were killed, and 8 Lepoard 2s were destroyed" --Shoigu, probably.
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  173. โ€‹ @RapidFire69  Probably MoD wanting to expend Wagner and take the glory for themselves.
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  174.  @norwegiangadgetman  I mean, most UGVs are basically a tracked mobility scooter, so...
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  175. As a defendant, literally all he has to do is sit down, be quiet, and let his lawyers do the talking until he's called to testify. But that's too hard, evidently.
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  176.  @Sin3xtreme  Because most of the people fled westward to avoid the war. Russia's sham referendum doesn't change reality: it's Ukraine's sovereign territory and the Russian Federation has no right to it.
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  177. Ukraine doesn't make hopeless mass attacks day after day.
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  178.  @SonsOfLorgar  That's kind of what the USSR was, if we're being honest.
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  179. That largely assumes Ukraine has the stocks to spare. Not that it isn't a reasonable idea, but they have more valuable things to shoot at.
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  180. Not directly, most likely. Odds are better on being a lot of bootleg, moonshine stuff circulating in the occupied areas.
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  181. Russia won't and Ukraine can't afford to.
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  182. โ€‹ @haraldhardrade7539  Stalin arrived at the airfield, bathed light.
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  183. Human rights, democracy, free markets, literacy?
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  184. โ€‹ @bumblebeetuna443  Source: Russian MoD.
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  185. While Fascist Russia has to cope with deteriorating conditions along the front, longer range munitions being provided to Ukraine, and the realization that their entire border is completely undefended.
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  186. Sharpshooters in WW1 used rifles for carrier pigeons.
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  187. โ€‹ @kylefrisby  You mean like Russia's winter offensive that fell flat on its face? The vatnik copium is strong shit.
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  188. Using a gun or a missile on camera would've been unambiguous hostile intent, which would be far more problematic for Russia.
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  189. โ€‹ @bruceyawen6160  That's about all tankies have.
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  190. Did Russia not learn from Wagner's mistake?
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  191. "All bling, no basics" still rings true.
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  192. The Americans don't use them in frontal assaults.
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  193. โ€‹@FayeinAlaska JD Vance bringing that 'Greetings, fellow humans' energy to every photo op.
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  194. I mean, I've always likened Trump's sycophants to a collection of bobbleheads.
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  195. Mouth moving faster than his brain.
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  196. We literally had a revolution over the issue.
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  197. Isn't he still on the hook as an indicted co-conspirator in Georgia and Washington DC?
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  198. If you're expecting Trump to have principles, you'd have better odds of seeing fish in a tree.
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  199. If only it burned calories... but I doubt he knows what those are.
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  200. If Russia can't even supply itself with its most modern equipment, what are they going to give North Korea?
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  201. No job opportunities in Russia mean those with higher education tend to leave. The military is not much of an opportunity in Russian society.
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  202. โ€‹ @DimbweMazala  Tell everyone you're completely ignorant of NATO weapons development without saying it.
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  203.  @prismpyre7653  Velocity is less relevant than most people think. If the trajectory is predictable, it can be intercepted.
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  204. Maybe if Russia tried something different for a change...
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  205. Potentially, they could throw Trump under the bus. Knowing the Melon Felon, he probably left out some very important details.
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  206. To be fair, none of his lawyers seem outwardly terrible. Trump is a terrible client asking them to defend the indefensible.
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  207.  johnc3525  I enjoy Schadenfreude as much as the next person, but they're still Americans.
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  208. โ€‹ @gonphercoughie897  A trump is already English slang for a fart.
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  209. Yeah, the lines have been pretty static for several months.
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  210.  @hunterkage2842  Finland was admitted into NATO last week.
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  211.  jebbush9614  While Russia has been observed using visibly older and older vehicles as the war drags on. The fact remains that not every vehicle that's been sitting a depot since your parents were children is going to be operational.
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  212. โ€‹ @teodorradovic1254  Back on Earth, Ukraine still has the same brigades it started with. Far from tapped, and Russia desperate to keep the line in place.
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  213. No, that was Wagner. MoD might be trying to disrupt what they think is the counter-offensive.
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  214. Where credit is due, he's one of the few in the Trump administration who seem to have an inkling of what his job entails.
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  215. They need to actually start beating Ukraine first.
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  216. Must be using a 20-chamber revolver then.
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  217. โ€‹@Vaughn That sounds like "no, they don't fully grasp what is happening."
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  218. Don't panic, guys. Moises Huerta (a.k.a. Empty Head) confirms that Russia is, in fact, losing several kilometers of territory in a few days after spending months taking it.
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  219. Russia already had a major offensive over the winter that went nowhere.
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  220. The front is far larger than Bakhmut. Pay attention.
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  221. And what do you think you know? ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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  222. Granted, a big part of that is training. You need to train your guys to do this, your guys need to trust each other, and work *together*. These conscripts barely know how to use their rifles. Panic sets in, yeah, they're just gonna bolt. They don't have a Sergeant to hold everything together.
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  223. And Russia's economy is knackered with roughly 3 million empty jobs.
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  224. There's always a few who do, myself included. There's just no hope for the pro-Kremlin trolls--I often see vatnik used--to see sense, assuming they're not a legitimate bot.
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  225. Look at Russia's casualties. Any reasonable person would conclude that this is, in fact, a meat grinder.
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  226.  @vandecasa3795  The Lancets that need mirrors to give the illusion of being produced in quantity? The mines that the Russians themselves keep running over because they don't remember where they are? The artillery getting old ammunition that North Korea bought from Gorbachev, or the new ammunition without filler? The Vikhrs fired from a steadily decreasing number of available attack helicopters?
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  227. โ€‹ @wapiti3750  To be fair, it doesn't look like they had much choice. In either circumstances or cover.
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  228.  @docmalthus  And hopefully they'll reevaluate their target audience.
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  229. Russia is going to veto any potential response. Like they did at the beginning of the war.
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  230. A loitering F16 has far more range than a helicopter.
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  231. The draft will stay at 26, anyone younger can volunteer.
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  232. A lot of guys who didn't really know what they were doing.
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  233. Not bombed. Short on parts to make newer tanks.
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  234. The sad part is: this isn't the first time Trump did this. Last time, he unilaterally released some 5,000 Taliban militants from prison.
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  235. Knowing Trump? Legal fees.
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  236. Imagine if Alina Habba was there.
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  237.  @waynerobinson7057  Well, no. The 90-ish charges are spread across three or four separate jurisdictions.
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  238. Don Snorleone loves to hear himself talk.
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  239. It's cheaper for companies to keep factories overseas, where labor is cheaper, and just make us pay more.
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  240. I'm old enough to remember these clowns putting Obama on blast for wearing a tan suit.
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  241. They tried, and Russia invaded in 2014.
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  242. It's been over 400 days, and lost a humiliating 175,000 men.
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  243. With a new member too.
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  244. It's been months, and Russia has still failed to do so.
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  245. โ€‹ @augustomundombe829  Coincidentally, the leaks also revealed just how poorly Russia is doing on the ground.
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  246. Gotta love the Russian MoD. They shot down more Storm Shadows than the UK even sent. ๐Ÿ˜‚
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  247.  @netxixis8069  NATO has deployed literally zero forces.
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  248.  @belikovdimitri2251  Be hilarious if it launched around Victory Day. ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ
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  249. Imagine how bad it would've been if Maga existed in 1940...
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  250. Manhattan is the State of New York. SCOTUS doesn't have jurisdiction.
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  251.  @ak74brass41  Clearly the incoming chief executive is pretty stupid.
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  252. It has a lot of catching up to do.
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  253. What else would he focus on?
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  254. โ€‹ @ericlipps9459  Trump has more victim cards than sense.
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  255.  @ak74brass41  Among who exactly? Trump's cult aren't even the majority of his own party.
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  256. Not since Stalin died.
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  257. โ€‹ @daveJDB  Or you're underestimating someone's ability to learn when their freedom and cultural identity are literally on the line.
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  258. Not really. There's been a steady stream of volunteers from the get-go, and Ukraine's doctrine tends to prioritize conservation of force. Personnel shortages are filled in with conscripts as needed.
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  259.  @saintsone7877 These pinheads just see lines on a map. No mind for strategy, if they have one at all.
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  260. And which goals are those? Since they seem to flip-flop on a weekly basis.
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  261. โ€‹ @baelishinaction1339 Where? Did they move another two meters? ๐Ÿ˜‚
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  262.  @ZERO-F2G-  Trump is already the least popular in US history.
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  263. โ€‹@apg5216 In furtherance of other crimes makes them felonies under New York law.
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  264. Russia isn't going to waste missiles on something of military value. ๐Ÿ˜‚ They're more likely to target their own troops now.
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  265. Isn't this her first term?
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  266. They probably would be, if they weren't already paying his legal fees.
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  267.  @kuunoooo7293  Watch the news in Russia. People complain about them all the time.
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  268.  @marekknieshtschav6391  Russia hasn't even pushed Ukraine out of the Oblasts they occupied in 2022. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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  269. โ€‹ @MartinMaarva There's a reason the US Navy has the third largest air force on Earth.
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  270. It's like saying Operation: Overlord was a complete failure since the Allies only had a few strips of beach in the first 24 hours.
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  271. That's the general idea. But, recently, Russia has been hiding their sheep in dugouts while they try to accumulate mass for an assault, and Ukraine has been using drones to attrit them while their own artillery is focusing on counter-battery operations.
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  272. โ€‹ @kornpop1557 It's like blocking Lend-Lease to Britain and Geobbels getting on the radio to praise US politicians.
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  273.  @vidasgruzauskas1733  It took Russia over a year to take a suburb and still doesn't have complete control of the entire Oblast. Oh, well. I guess you fools think it makes up for the thousands of square kilometers Russia surrendered in 2022. But don't let the facts get in your way.
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  274. They had a few opportunities to do that last year. Now, there's just no reasonable way to save face in this fiasco.
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  275. The irony is that Russia placed them to slow the Ukrainians.
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  276. Probably a bit of both.
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  277. It's blue and yellow. So RIP Russian Aerospace Forces until they change their seal. lol
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  278. Custer was a bit of a different case, to be fair.
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  279. Russia literally hasn't made any substantial gains in months. Look at a map and zoom out. Where are these "gains"?
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  280. โ€‹@Nebojsa Sekulic I'm sure they doubled the figures so they look better.
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  281. More like your reading comprehension is in question.
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  282. Generally speaking. But the political jockeying between Wagner and the MoD is far from being unique. Russian units rarely cooperate with one another.
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  283. Like many things coming from Russia about the war: there's a lot of saying and not doing .
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  284. It's not really a "fight", per se. It was a border clash and an ongoing diplomatic row over water rights.
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  285. Not much. The biggest factor in the counter-offensive was the huge numbers of mines. Very dense, very big, non-standard minefields.
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  286. โ€‹@@Truth_By_DesignFor 600 days๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ Face it: Russia failed
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  287. They've been trying to roll back their failure to take Kyiv since April.
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  288. Are you ready to admit you have no idea what you're talking about?
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  289. โ€‹ @fabb5  By having to equip conscripts with older and older equipment?
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  290. Don't panic, guys. Moises Huerta (A.k.a Empty Head) has returned to offer yet more valueless commentary as Russian Army forces pull from Bakhmut to redeploy elsewhere along the line of contact.
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  291. Meanwhile, Russia literally just announced the intention of mobilizing another 400,000 men.
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  292. โ€‹ @sepxviii731  You mean the ones remaining after 90% of the residents fled?
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  293. That's old news. From last year. Since HIMARS arrived, the tempo is definitely down.
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  294. It changes all the time, but there's quite a few principles that remain the same.
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  295.  @westbenchmancave  Putin says, "Send more meat."
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  296. โ€‹@Blunt Everyone else is laughing at Russia dusting off T55s. ๐Ÿ˜‚
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  297.  @cimmerian_savage9736  Ukraine is being drip-fed and Russia is still struggling.
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  298. Are they gonna mine it in the middle of a war?
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  299. The average age of Russian troops is 52. Just FYI
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  300. So why hasn't Russia won yet?
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  301. He's an... "expert" in judging crowd sizes. Lol
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  302. Literally nothing about the appointment of a Special Counsel is unconstitutional.
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  303. Is that why Russian C&C and logistics are once again having trouble with people smoking where they shouldn't?
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  304. โ€‹ @calistusfrancis1340  The talking heads on Russian state TV were literally saying it in February 2022. Try keeping up.
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  305. Russia can barely push through Bakhmut. They already failed to take Kyiv last year.
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  306. Wagner is mercenaries. Foreign volunteers are not.
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  307. Then a guy named Alexander came along.
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  308. โ€‹ @canema7334 Russia can't even decisively beat Ukraine. What makes any objective observer think Russia has a chance against NATO? ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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  309. Doubt it. The US has nothing but time. Russia, however, is in a crunch after a year of war as it tries to keep up appearances.
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  310. โ€‹ @12zxgglol Which was an expectation of pretty much everybody.
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  311. So that's basically the hype train Russia built around their doomsday weapons.
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  312. It kinda raises a few questions about Putin's neo-Lebensraum policy, doesn't it?
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  313.  @shiby1860  Even though you literally aren't unless you're a draft-dodger. Russia literally rounds up people by the score.
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  314. China and Russia aren't really "friends", per se. It's more of a partnership of convenience.
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  315. It helps to remember: Russia is desperate for men and materiel. They're not the one dictating terms here.
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  316. The same way water eventually wears away stone.
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  317.  @ASDeckard  A grand total of *zero*. It's not a secret that the US deploys special ops guys in Syria.
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  318.  @markusmeldre  Russia seems really bad a coordinating stuff like this.
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  319. Without a doubt.
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  320.  @SS-zg6of  It's more of an urban legend than anything else. The Wehrmacht pretty quickly issued regulations on troops using Pervitin after the campaigns in Poland and France.
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  321.  @lukaszplonka3857  I don't know if you know how referendums work--evidently you don't--so I'll enlighten you: You don't invade a country, hold electors at gunpoint, and expect people to recognize the vote as legitimate Russia doesn't even completely control the four territories they "annexed".
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  322. To paraphrase, you haven't lost if you don't feel defeated. But, yeah, Russia has achieved practically nothing if not outright failed most of their objectives outlined in February 2022.
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  323. He's still on the hook for $469,000,000 thereabouts.
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  324. โ€‹ @TaxOwlbear Now he's staring at three counts for Contempt.
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  325. He still won by the narrowest margin since Bush v Gore, surprising enough.
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  326.  @xcfjdyrkdtulkgfilhu  No, she'd have to be POTUS for at least half the term.
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  327. Even 200 is pushing it for most churches. If the congregation is even that big in the first place.
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  328. โ€‹ @pontiacw7 They're hoping for US athletes to lose in the Olympics out of spite. What is anyone really expecting?
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  329. โ€‹ @HansZarkovPhD  The old man is sinking.
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  330. You'd be surprised at how far people can push themselves when they think they don't have a choice.
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  331. That would be like deliberately steering the Titanic into the iceberg.
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  332. โ€‹ @Mr_Denuto Unless it's nearly pure alcohol, it won't burn for particularly long.
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  333. You kinda need allies for a World War.
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  334. Symbols that pre-date the NSDAP by centuries.
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  335. About four months, 30.000 personnel, and 400 vehicle losses.
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  336. So where's Gerasimov after 37 days?
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  337.  @RealHomeboy  Nah. In Russia, it's customary to add one or two zeros to the Battle Damage Assessment before presenting it to battalion headquarters.
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  338. And Russia is losing far more men and materiel.
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  339. Where would they go?
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  340. โ€‹ @joelrios3704 A mere 50,000 tons. For reference, Ukraine still exported 30,000,000 tons in 2022.
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  341.  @deonengelbrecht5951  Russian propaganda treats every one-horse town as if Kyiv itself has fallen.
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  342. โ€‹ @johnwhite2576 Even if Ukraine doesn't re-take Bakhmut, the forces Russia is evidently willing to throw at it can't be allocated elsewhere.
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  343. Because you're (still) utterly clueless of the material demands of a war.
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  344. A few tens of meters per day isn't impressive.
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  345. โ€‹ @blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311 Russia lost more men and equipment in two weeks than Ukraine did in four months.
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  346. Don't panic, guys. Moises Huerta (a.k.a Empty Head) has personally inspected everyone's feet, with no medical training, and confirms the expendable Wagner convicts do not require winter socks.
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  347. โ€‹ @Kyle-sr6jm  The delicious irony of Russia's predicament is that they would've achieved more if they didn't invade in the first place.
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  348. At this point, "elite" Russian troops are probably just the regular kontrakniki that didn't die or surrender in the first six months.
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  349. Which was not even discussed here, but go on.
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  350.  @vidasgruzauskas1733  " 'Pyrrhic victory'? You mean Tuesday?" --Old Russian Army saying, probably.
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  351.  @kyosokutai Supposedly, there's quite a bit of equipment that's rated for airsoft guns, among other surplus from the 1960s.
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  352. Isn't Tesla already one of the most recalled vehicles in the US market?
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  353. โ€‹ @moiseshuerta3984  The US wasn't hurting for equipment like the Russians.
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  354. Oh, no. It'll damage a smoke discharger.๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ Lancets are too small to do anything to an MBT from anywhere but the engine deck.
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  355. @me38443  To slow the Ukrainians. But, in a characteristically Russian move, they put them on a road they're still using and didn't tell anybody where they were placed.
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  356. They self-destruct after 24 hours, genius.
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  357. They are. Say it as it is: Russia failed
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  358. The weather doesn't pick sides, so it's hard to plan accordingly.
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  359. Were they shooting at stoplights or D-list actors?
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  360. Ukrainian troops aren't the ones rushing prepared positions.
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  361. โ€‹@The Eagle Russian troops. Not really a "mutiny" per se. They're just refusing to advance on Vulhedar again due to casualties.
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  362. Wagner can make more progress with "de-Nazification" by leaving. Lol
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  363. Would you want to drive your equipment over a mine?
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  364. And the Soviet Union dissolved, with it went the integrity and security guarantees of the Warsaw Pact.
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  365. If I'm even near an engine, my shirt gets dirty.
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  366. โ€‹ @ะกะตั€ั…ะธะพะ‘ัƒัะบะตั‚ั-ั„7ั  Casualties aren't exclusive to KIA, pinhead.
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  367.  @bcluett1697  I mean, he did occupy the Southern Military District HQ in Rostov-on-the-Don, and he did publicly spill the proverbial beans on a few things.
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  368. At this point, I doubt even Russia is aware of their own casualties.
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  369. This is the first time Putin even set foot in Ukraine since his land-grab began.
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  370. @Bob Dobb  If you're counting economic potential, then you may have a point. But the Russians flattened most of it, and their proxies conscripted everyone capable of actually being economically productive.
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  371. Describing you, rather.
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  372. So badly that they control half of what they did in April last year. ๐Ÿคฃ
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  373. Reading comprehension isn't your strong suit, is it?
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  374.  @paulstewart4195  Then Russia lost Kharkhiv.
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  375. It's really separate units trying the same thing because they don't talk to each other.
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  376. โ€‹ @SYOTOSVLOG  Russia literally tried (and failed) to do that to Ukraine.
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  377. โ€‹@kostaanestopoulos5189 Love how you clowns mindlessly bash "western propaganda" while completely ignoring the mental gymnastics Russia has been putting out to justify their failure to achieve any of the objectives Putin laid out in February 2022.
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  378. You'd be surprised at how insensitive modern grenades really are. They're almost impossible to set off on accident.
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  379. Old-timer probably fixed them in the Red Army, too.
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  380. This is what happens when you have no plans for sustainment.
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  381. Because command and control sucks. The officers apparently need to be there to ensure stuff gets done.
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  382. I still have no idea where these numbers even come from... ๐Ÿ˜•
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  383. If it's a troop transport, surely they'd have more space if they just took the turret off?
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  384. โ€‹ @klauskant8086  They greeted Ukrainian troops the same way in Kharkhiv Oblast, and it was supposedly one of the most pro-Russia regions in the country.
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  385.  @LittleStar678  Ah, so 1940s B.C.
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  386. โ€‹ @tereterevanakere2132  Asset denial is a novel concept to vatniks, evidently.
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  387. Russia literally rejected peace talks last year.
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  388. We're laughing too hard, to answer your question.
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  389. Russia has more staff for internal security than they do for the war.
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  390. โ€‹@LEK4A When Russia has to put sailors and Strategic Rocket troops in tanks, obviously something is amiss.
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  391. Imagine the poetic justice if they pull these stunts at Hunter's trial, and it causes a mistrial.
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  392.  @SandraBarbour-e7c  You can't twist mashed potatoes.
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  393. There's a specific process for that, but you have to prove the judge in question has a conflict of interest or otherwise biased.
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  394. That's not instability, it's insecurity.
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  395. He's just tying his own knot at this point.
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  396.  @emergentform1188  Take your own advice.
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  397. Not really. The gag order covers the witnesses, jurors, court employees and their families.
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  398. โ€‹@storm2000808 They'll spend the rest of their miserable lives in denial, if they have to, and you know it.
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  399. Five bucks says it's a poorly-rewritten porn chat bot.
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  400. Funnily enough, their polling is a separate office from the rest of the talking heads.
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  401. It reminds me of an old ad from earlier this year: JD Vance has no conviction, and Donald Trump has 34 convictions.
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  402. Didn't RFK Jr. claim to eat a dog?
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  403.  @bobmorane2082  To what? The missiles they keep shooting down? ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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  404. Kyiv held the Russians at bay for 16 months with a trickle of last-generation NATO surplus. If anybody failed here, it's Moscow.
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  405. โ€‹@Damian Visser Russia said that the first time they crossed the border. This is the third . Let that sink in.
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  406. Russia's invasion opened this particular can of worms.
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  407. Artillery has this peculiar quirk where it has to actually hit its target to be effective.
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  408. โ€‹ @marioceva7163  According to nobody important.
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  409. In reality, they're in Ukraine. Russia bending their own rules to consider Ukraine as Russia doesn't change the facts.
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  410. โ€‹ @Rider-kg1hw  Is this the same source that claims the UAF was "totally destroyed"?
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  411. The Kremlin pretty much acknowledged that escalating the conflict to prompt a NATO intervention would go incredibly poorly for Russia.
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  412. โ€‹@Nu Disco Russian strategic planning basically amounted to: "Drive in and hope our delusions are real."
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  413.  @kossynwankwo5911  One accident compared to dozens of explosions and fires in industrial and military areas? Do you know what an apple looks like, relative to an orange?
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  414. โ€‹ @jonburton9411  Z will cut off their own nose to spite their face.
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  415.  @Mr.Funnyman273  You clowns have been saying that since October. Just FYI.
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  416.  @ottopartz1  Either that or they're so malnourished they're developing scurvy.
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  417. โ€‹ @Cotac_Rastic  Not really. Russia overtook it after the Maidan.
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  418. Officially, they get a full pardon.
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  419.  @Phlyinhigh  Zoy boys don't seem to grasp anything beyond "RuSsIa StRoNg".
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  420.  @davidgiles9651  Fifteen months is over a year.
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  421. They understood that the President's poor approval rating isn't a good reason.
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  422. Russia knew they'd be buggered on two completely different fronts.
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  423.  @Red_Snapper  The funny part about it, is that the deal was already ready and just needed a signature in December. Biden and Zelensky agreed to put if off so Trump could finalize it and take credit. I guess they failed to predict just how greedy the Melon Felon could get.
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  424. โ€‹ @Leith_Crowther  I think most lawyers can look over a case and see how much of a good idea it is. It probably doesn't help that Trump is the kind of person who has to have the last word.
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  425. โ€‹@slizz376 At this point, Elon seems more and more like the guy who tries to represent themselves in court.
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  426.  @dreadtrain2846  Maga Math: Lose by 8 million is a "whisker", win by 2 million is a "landslide".
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  427. โ€‹ @PrairieDog21  Don't the Baltic states have extradition agreements?
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  428.  @americanpatriot3874  An actual source or do a Trump-style source?
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  429. I mean, if you hinge your entire plan on one specific thing happening, it's a stupid plan and it deserves to fail. lol
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  430. It probably would've been tossed for being frivolous then, too.
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  431. Because inefficiency doesn't mean without results.
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  432. A T-90M, no less.
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  433. Russia's only real answer to the long-range artillery was to move depots out of range, and maintaining railways is probably the only aspect of Russian logistics that works well.
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  434.  @michelangelo4701  You mean like Russia's ambitions from day one?
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  435. โ€‹@mauricehodgson3143 Russia seems to be trying to fight Ukraine like it's WW2, to be more accurate.
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  436. Sounds like a you problem.
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  437.  @jetaber  Well, yes but actually no. Germany's biggest issue was logistics. The Panzers couldn't really do their job if they didn't have any gas, and the breach couldn't be exploited on foot if troops couldn't be fed.
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  438. Back in reality, Bakhmut is Russia's only real success after 12 months of fighting, thanks to Wagner. There is no negotiating with Putin. If he wins, he's just going to start another war elsewhere. Poland knows it, the Baltic states know it, even Kazakhstan knows it.
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  439. Russia still hasn't made any significant operational gains in months. Ukraine giving up the equivalent of a few soccer pitches isn't going to cost them the war.
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  440. โ€‹ @sebastianforbes1 Defenses that are pretty trivial when the defenders don't have ammunition and haven't eaten in three days.
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  441. Between 800 and 1000, usually. Though 18 months into the largest conflict in Europe since the 40s, most of these units are far from optimal strength.
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  442. I don't think Lanchester's Laws accounted for an opponent being hopelessly incompetent.
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  443. And they only have themselves to blame.
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  444.  @Zeknif1  I mean, you don't really have long. He was probably last in the formation and decided to eject instead of chancing countermeasures.
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  445. โ€‹ @georgebettasso1395 If McCarthy just puts it up for a vote, aid for Ukraine is practically guaranteed to pass.
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  446. You know as well as everyone else, it wouldn't stop them from pulling stuff out of their arse.
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  447. There's really only two major hotspots on the front at the moment. In the south, near Robotyne; and in the west around Bakhmut.
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  448. Which was only one random economist, not the State Department. And Russia only has one major buyer left: China. And Xi is forcing Putin to accept yuan to buy oil at a steep discount.
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  449. Signal tends to get lost when they dive out of sight, so it probably cut out too early to make corrections.
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  450. If Trump was your client, you'd probably look like that, too.
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  451. As a matter of fact, yes. Manufacturing a tank is a mess of logistics in and of itself. Imagine the time and money that goes into designing and building a completely different tank.
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  452. That would be kinda funny if the counter-offensive launched around Russia's Victory Day parade.
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  453. You really think you'd be paid? ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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  454. โ€‹ @joshuapaul2022 Talking heads on Russian state TV say a lot of stupid things, but the effect is much the same. It's just as laughable as Gerasimov firing Popov for wanting to tell Putin the "second best army" lacks reconnaissance and counter-battery capabilities.
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  455. I don't think Ukraine's going to push Bakhmut again. It makes more sense to keep Wagner and the Red Army stuck in place.
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  456. It looks a lot less concerning if you subtract a zero. The Russian military is good at putting zeroes where needed.
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  457. Wagner PMC captured this random shrubbery, Russia's victory is inevitable.
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  458. โ€‹@Dallas Reinhart I thought Wagner just leaves their KIA piled in warehouses?
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  459. โ€‹ @haroldmartelly  A consolation prize for losing 250,000 men failing to take over a country that, on paper, was hopelessly outmatched.
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  460. Is that what the pro-Kremlin propaganda is churning out now? Have they run out of ideas and conscripted the writers?
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  461. Basing your whole strategy around the assumption that your would-be opponent(s) won't fight back is a phenomenally bad idea, as the Russians discovered to their detriment.
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  462. It looks like they dug a ditch and put them there with a wrecker. lol
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  463. In 2014, Russia also claimed that could have been purchased from anywhere.
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  464. Don't panic, guys. Moises Huerta (a.k.a Empty Head) provides his "expert" opinion that refutes absolutely nothing.
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  465. It makes sense, assuming it's true. Low-level insurgency on the border to force Russia to reallocate and disperse combat power away from the front. COIN is as much a problem for untrained troops as mounted operations.
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  466. Ukraine hit a major Russian command post in Luhansk a few days ago, allegedly with the Storm Shadow.
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  467. Didn't you pinheads say the same with Lysychansk, six months ago?
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  468. I doubt they'll listen.
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  469. โ€‹ @FrancoITA505  658 Days later ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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  470. Ukraine never had 552 aircraft, genius.
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  471. โ€‹ @janmaker227  Makes no mention of how much equipment Russia lost. ๐Ÿ˜‚
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  472. When Russia wastes thousands of personnel in a given area, it's not particularly difficult to figure out what they want.
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  473. Even some training makes cannon fodder marginally more useful.
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  474.  @fidodid5721  You must not be paying attention.
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  475. โ€‹ @nimmha6708  From an army the vatniks claim no longer exists, no less.๐Ÿ˜‚
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  476. โ€‹ @moiseshuerta3984  When you take more casualties than a town has people, it's an embarrassment.
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  477. Don't panic, guys. Moises Huerta, a.k.a. Empty Head, offers more vacuous "insights" to things he knows nothing about and continues to proudly announce his weird foot fetish.
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  478. It's a shitty line to walk, but it has to be done, and not everyone can do it.
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  479. And Russia can't take Bakhmut after 8 months of trying. ๐Ÿคฃ
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  480. Tow truck, basically.
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  481. Not likely. They're still active across the front, but the larger logistics depots from 2022 are pretty much gone or out of range.
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  482. Don't panic, guys. Moises Huerta (a.k.a. Empty Head) continues to ignore the issues at hand and extoll his weird fetish for socks.
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  483. Presently one of the most effective battlefield assets on either side--nevermind. "Don't interrupt your enemy when they're making a mistake" and all that.
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  484. "One of the floodgates"... "enough to stymie Russian crossings but not flood nearby villages." Funny how the quote doesn't vindicate your propaganda.
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  485. That's requisite on Ukraine using the same tactics as the Russians, which they don't.
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  486. โ€‹ @josteincarlsen2905  The M777 isn't 30 years old.
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  487. โ€‹ @quazyshandu9649  You clearly don't know how draining prolonged combat operations are.
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  488. โ€‹ @haraldhardrade7539  Russian meat is cheaper.
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  489. Russia literally achieved none of their own strategic objectives.
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  490. โ€‹โ€‹ @firstdawn8638  Remember Russia's "big breakthrough" at Pisky last year? It, ultimately, went nowhere.
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  491. I'll take "Things That Never Happened" for 200, Alex.
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  492. Russian battalions shooting at one another wouldn't even be new.
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  493. โ€‹@d3xtr0 I don't think the Russians are particularly choosy at this point. September's "partial mobilisation" threw standards out the window. You have a pulse? Glad to have you aboard.
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  494. It's not really the facts, I think. It's footage from the war being used--which kinda defeats the facts when they're delivered without context.
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  495. R&D cost, probably
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  496. At this point, it's little more than a feel-good thing for internal politics. Ukraine is more than happy to let Russia burn men and materiel on an overall worthless objective.
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  497. โ€‹ @cinoeye  Both of you are clueless, then.
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  498. It's a bit of a bummer when the recruiter says you're going to be driving a truck but get stuck in a trench instead.
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  499. Nobody recognizes those puppets as independent.
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  500. Russia doesn't even count their own KIA.
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  501.  @StompingRabbits  Bruh. Did you forget what happened in Kharkhiv? All Ukraine has to do is make a big enough hole and the line of mobiks is going to fold.
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  502.  @Tundra71  The ruble has already plummeted to 100 to the US dollar. China and India are making Russia conduct trade benchmarked in their own currencies. Nobody wants to trade in rubles, and the Russian Central Bank is practically burning money to delay the inevitable.
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  503. The talking heads on Russian state TV literally blamed the US because we didn't tell them about Prigozhin's mutiny, as if we're under some obligation to tell them.
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  504. You mean the one Russia violated when they sent Wagner to arm rebels in the Donbas?
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  505. Z is under even worse delusions.
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  506. Tell everyone you don't know what an intelligence leak is without saying it, "Bob".
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  507. โ€‹ @sylviamaresca8852  Sort of. They have a habit of tweaking things to their operational requirements anyway.
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  508. โ€‹@Mole Catcher So the invincible Red Army has been constantly set back and delayed by a weaker country? What does that say about strength, without mental gymnastics?
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  509.  @IamShanee  The ones glued to the TV, yeah. A lot of Russians with a smartphone have a VPN.
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  510.  @Trikipum  With a success rate of 1 in 8, it's pretty clear that Russia has incredible difficulty actually shooting them down.
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  511. The Internet in a nutshell.
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  512.  @choatus  "Christopher" obviously doesn't watch the news in Russia. There's a lot of concern over mysterious fires breaking out since last year.
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  513.  @lifetrees1 Trenches and earthworks were used long before then.
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  514.  @istinagy5835  I'm sure you were utterly shocked when you discovered literally every vehicle in the Army is able to sink in the mud.
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  515. "Using armored vehicles for cover is a successful battlefield tactic that only reaffirms Russian ingenuity."
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  516. โ€‹@Champagne Supernova You can cross-reference them with obituaries in Russia.
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  517. From my understanding, the tally includes basically everyone fighting for Russia.
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  518.  @aleserban9322  Reality says otherwise, but whatever. Russia lost more territory in one week than they gained in the last 12 months.
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  519. When you only expect them to live 24 hours, why would he need to?
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  520. @crickettragicfromdownunder8878  All North Korea did was send Russia about 10 days' worth of replacements at this rate.
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  521.  @quicksandsavior  They're not.
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  522.  @EphraimIbharalu  Only as long as Russia has money.
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  523. โ€‹ @mountanarivera4450  Cross-reference with obituaries in Russia for men 18-30. What are men doing in this particular age bracket for so many deaths in "Russia"?
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  524. It's Trump. Terrible ideas are their specialty.
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  525. Kursk Oblast, technically.
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  526.  @maxruedy951  Their job is more or less the same.
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  527. Hard to do when you're poor and starving.
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  528. Have either of Solovyov's sons returned from London to fight for Russia?
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  529.  @raner2367  Is that why the ruble devalued 17% against the US dollar?
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  530. It's possible, on paper. But unless they're paid by Trump or his campaign, it's going to be hard to prove that they're acting at his direction.
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  531. They wouldn't be in a cult if they were good at thinking.
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  532. His financial issues make him a national security risk.
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  533. Would he take the bait this time? Not even his propaganda network thinks he did a good job.
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  534. If you've noticed the trend, it's because they're listening to Trump instead of the other way around.
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  535.  @tunguskalumberjack9987  Bush Jr. at least had a sense of leadership, and he wasn't bought and sold by America's geopolitical rivals.
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  536. โ€‹ @raepettymathre  Realistically, he's probably going to be there for less than five years. If his health doesn't fail and they release him early.
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  537. Trump's presence is the worst thing for his own case.
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  538.  @templeosigwe3545  Russia threatens to escalate and walks it back. Those with eyes can see this pattern.
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  539. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ You seriously believe Russian claims, as often as they've been proven to be incompetent liars?
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  540. โ€‹@Christian jun hoffman It's a base. A collection of buildings you can see from orbit, genius. You're not being clever.
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  541.  @polla2256  Like the smoothbrains accepting Russia's answer despite them being caught in several very obvious lies throughout the war.
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  542. China walked that back months ago.
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  543. Ukraine was never going to attack across the Dnipro.
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  544. โ€‹ @hammerhetyeskahgaming2970  Those with more than one brain cell are aware the move doesn't really benefit anyone, but makes a lot of civilians miserable. That's par for the course for Russia.
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  545. โ€‹ @MRJHAYL  You mean like the Armata that never made it close to the battlefield?
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  546. โ€‹ @syedys.  How many red lines is this now?
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  547. Not really. Remember the Allies heavily telegraphed landings at Calais before invading at Normandy.
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  548. I would be disappointed in either. Was kinda hoping for the pro-Russia internet trolls to fill the ranks.
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  549.  @thememe986  And not from Russia indiscriminately shelling the city?
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  550.  @saucyinnit8799  Remember when that same battalion humiliated Russia by denying them Mariupol in 2014? They were militia back then.
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  551. Is that why Russia hasn't made any meaningful advances in months?
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  552. Not really. Tech for disrupting GPS targeting has been around for decades, and workarounds have been a thing for just as long.
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  553. โ€‹ @user1qaz2wsx3edc  Germany wasn't even able to cross the Channel, much less the Atlantic. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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  554. No, it's still a saber. It's just that die-cast metal instead of steel.
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  555. โ€‹@patrick oconnell It's literally not "unaccounted for". It never left the US.
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  556. Missiles would've taken weeks to make the dam catastrophically fail, and the Kremlin would have videos of it all over the place.
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  557. The same number as 2022: zero.
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  558. At this point, it's probably just peace of mind for the crews.
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  559. Because the US is aware that war is expensive, and Russia is already struggling with Ukraine after a year. Desperation leads to recklessness. If Russia wants to start another war they can't win, it's their funeral. But the US still recognizes Russia as a useful geopolitical counterweight to Chinese influence in Asia.
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  560. โ€‹ @sqnhunter  Don't mention that Russian pilots have half the flight hours of their NATO counterparts.
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  561. โ€‹ @MrCophtr  Turkmenistan
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  562.  @NemesisoftheGrandPoohbahputin  The Sprint wasn't really a ballistic missile as much as it was a missile interceptor.
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  563. Nah. We voted that one out.
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  564. What has Russia actually achieved to be considered "winning"?
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  565.  @DharmaRotary The US literally spent the last several years fighting ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
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  566. Probably didn't have a full picture then, and had no real reason to follow-up since nothing else happened.
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  567. โ€‹ @piotrd.4850 Poland is not Germany
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  568.  @HavanaSyndrome69 North Korea has arguably been a wartime economy since the ceasefire.
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  569. North Korean tradition allows officers to inherit their father's and grandfather's medals, if I remember correctly. No actual merit required.
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  570. โ€‹ @Cotac_Rastic  Not ethnic Russians, no. Ethnic minorities in the Russian Federation do most of the grunt work, whether they want to or not.
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  571. In a perfect world, yeah. But you never get to go to war with the army you want, so you make do with what you have.
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  572. It's a convenient boogeyman.
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  573. Also worth noting that Russia claims their existing ballistic missile inventory isn't seriously threatened by existing US missile defenses.
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  574. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ You know all these African countries are impoverished and corrupt, right?
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  575. Well, Russian tanks are decent. They're just not fighting the war they were designed for.
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  576. A couple of them are in some of the safest Republican seats in the country.
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  577. Which isn't what the analysis even said.
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  578. โ€‹@andrewmcalister3462 Ironically, Russia's economy literally needs the war to stay afloat since oil and gas revenue have been halved since 2022.
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  579.  @7screamingdizzbusters  You'd be surprised. Regimes like Russia have a tight hold on outside information. They're living in an information bubble.
    2
  580. Politicking is probably the easiest explanation.
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  581. I've always said "cat turd" sums up the quality of his opinions.
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  582. I believe this is called "letting them dig their own grave."
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  583.  @boudica3356  Per the line of succession, it goes to Vance if the Fanta Fascist croaks before the term ends.
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  584. Her target audience will love it anyway, purely out of spite.
    2
  585. How many Roman emperors were killed by the Praetorians?
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  586. Funnily enough, he can't. The deadline was two weeks ago, I think? That ticket is set in stone now.
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  587. Police should be on high alert, then.
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  588. Which polls?
    2
  589. Lifting the little granny weights like Andrew Tate does.
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  590. He only got two brain cells, and they're fighting for third place.
    2
  591. Caligula was fine until he went mad following a bad fever.
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  592. โ€‹ @Magnetron33 The alternative facts.
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  593. โ€‹ @hayleylorenzo6709 Then you didn't even bother following the case.
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  594. By being the idiot who ignores the flashing lights above the tracks.
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  595. That's an even bigger nightmare to clean up, needing even more specialised equipment and training. You can train a platoon of guys for basic de-mining in a few hours, proper EOD in a few weeks. But chemicals are a completely different animal.
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  596. I'm sure your engineers are still using Windows 2000, too.
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  597. โ€‹ @Rtg5637 Not really. They just have to keep chipping away. When the line fails, it'll fail catastrophically.
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  598. โ€‹ @aussie870 I know they gave a bunch to the proxy militias in the Donbas.
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  599. โ€‹ @bekeneel Ironically, chess was a pretty big deal in the USSR.
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  600. โ€‹ @F.R.E.D.D2986 They already mobilize in waves of about 125,000 twice per year.
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  601. They're "missing in action", and the families will never get an answer. ๐Ÿ˜•
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  602. Russian artillery would be almost a non-issue.
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  603. Russia gloriously failed to defend their border from a unit a fraction of the force Russia used to invade Ukraine. Think about that for ten seconds.
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  604. Because the land was never the objective, genius.
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  605. Not really. Either Putin has to reallocate forces to expel the Free Russia Legion and defend the border, or risk compromising defenses in the occupied Oblasts before the counter-offensive.
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  606. โ€‹ @porouscrump No, his legal team did. Trump fell asleep, remember? Lol
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  607. Most often they're from a few days ago because of OpSec.
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  608.  @commenter_7  The US lost 800 troops and occupied Iraq in 45 days.
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  609. Trump humiliates himself enough.
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  610.  @chantelleglover-e3y  Russia literally emptied entire villages of fighting age men in Siberia.
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  611. โ€‹ @ronwhitehouse23 If you still think Russia is the good guy here, you're a really sad person. Igor Girkin - the last man in Russia go have any freedom of speech (who Putin just had arrested, by the way) - admitted to starting the war in Crimea and the Donbas years ago.
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  612. If you're only looking at lines on a map, maybe. You can take ground and still lose.
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  613.  @wishusknight3009  Russia's own manpower issues and spotty logistics mean it might be around 30,000 at most.
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  614. โ€‹ @swimminginthoughts  You've never listened to Trump's stupid ramblings, have you?
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  615. Better than expected actually. The only other system to withstand attacks like this is Iron Dome.
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  616. โ€‹@111076tom Clearly you're not old enough to remember that the US military is required by law to maintain a certain stockpile. Of everything . We're still providing Ukraine with munitions we otherwise would've literally just taken out to a bomb range and destroyed by the ton.
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  617. โ€‹ @ะดะตะฝะธัะฑะฐะถะตะฝะพะฒ-ั‰1ะฑ Air superiority. Russia literally just fired a General for threatening to tell Putin they lack drone reconnaissance and counter-battery capabilities.
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  618. โ€‹ @111076tom Vatniks don't do math.
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  619. โ€‹@Ole Olesen Against an army that "doesn't exist". ๐Ÿ˜‚
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  620. There were 200 exhibits in court.
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  621. That's what he's been trying to do for the last couple weeks, I think.
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  622. It's just short-selling. I'd expect it to stabilize for a couple days as other shareholders try to recoup some of the losses.
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  623. Maybe if Russia tried something different for once, all the footage wouldn't look so same-y.
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  624. Was it? Or were they just exposed as a side-effect?
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  625. To paraphrase Sun Tzu: "If you try to defend everything, you defend nothing."
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  626. Would it be the seventh or eighth "unacceptable escalation?" ๐Ÿ˜‚
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  627. โ€‹ @DutchK75  While the talking heads in Russia struggle to explain why their own casualties are 3x higher than Ukraine's. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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  628. Because Carthage had money, Russia does not.
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  629. Reb Bull tastes as bad as Rip-It.
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  630. Sifting through hundreds of intercepts every day isn't particularly easy.
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  631. Five bucks says the Pentagon knew it was completely possible, but the vatniks seem to remain in complete denial.
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  632. While Russia's economy is on life support, an army that can't advance, and using equipment as old as some of these guys' parents?
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  633. It's more like everyone chasing their own rabbit and getting in each other's way to get their own first.
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  634. Source: trust me, bro.
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  635. Fun fact: Ukraine isn't Nazi Germany. Sorry to burst the Kremlin's propaganda bubble
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  636. โ€‹ @zzagriff  Russia did the same thing to their Parliament building.
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  637. I'm guessing that you have no idea how large Bakhmut really is.
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  638. Source: Russian state TV.
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  639. How far has Russia advanced in 12 months?
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  640. Or just expendable, most likely.
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  641.  @moiseshuerta3984  Moises thinks socks are Wunderwaffe for the Red Army.
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  642. A stall is probably the most realistic. Unless Ukraine can force their way through the lines, they're not likely to outright break.
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  643. @Fragilus_1er  Except the fact that Saddam Hussein openly claimed to have them, and we knew he was bluffing. The withdrawal from Afghanistan wasn't "incompetence", Hamad Karzai made a sudden departure that caused the Afghan National Army to fall apart and forced a dramatic change of plans.
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  644. Odds are that they're in a minefield, and they're just that far away to buy time for Russia to put forces into place.
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  645. Ironically, Lenin knew that, and guess who undid his reforms.
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  646. And people still wonder why Ukrainians don't like Russia...
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  647. So far, when has being unrealistic stopped Russia?
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  648. How many times did Al Qaeda or the Taliban use Kalibrs?
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  649. "Still pushing forward". More likely they cut their losses and turned around to regroup.
    2
  650. And Biden gets to say that he got funding for the border when Trump couldn't. Do you honestly think Republicans want Biden to have that bit of political ammunition in an election year?
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  651. A hundred meters here and there are still technically a gain.
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  652. Russia still looking at 175,000 KIA.
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  653. If you want to ignore the 400+ vehicles Russia lost.
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  654. โ€‹ @attilamarics3374  Rewind 12 months and let us know how consistent Russia is. ๐Ÿ˜‚ Not very, even now.
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  655. โ€‹ @Smytjf11  That would be... inconceivably unfortunate.
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  656. @TAZ  The only people who believe everything is going swimmingly is Russia's Ministry of Defense. Even the pro-Russia milbloggers agree things are going poorly.
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  657. Not exactly. It's worth noting that being considered a casualty is not exclusive to being killed in action.
    2
  658. The talking heads just can't cope with the reality: the Russian Federation is not the USSR. The resources, the industry, the logistics just aren't there anymore.
    2
  659. What training?
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  660.  @garryh74  Arguably, they would be decent for lobbing grenades. But there's quite a few caveats to that...
    2
  661. A liter of cheap vodka usually does the trick.
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  662. That's not entirely new. The USSR did the same thing when negotiations weren't going their way.
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  663. It's about $2.90 to $4.50 for a half-liter. Depends on the brand, of course.
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  664. โ€‹ @attilamarics3374  Russian troops complain about it all the time.
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  665.  @danieltucker3506  Because the UAF grew tenfold in a matter of months when that kind of expansion would take years. But thanks for making it obvious that logistics aren't your strong suit.
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  666. Who can honestly say they're surprised at this point? It's Russia. When Plan A doesn't work, Plan B is always war crimes.
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  667. Ukrainian mothers don't want to be Putin's puppets either.
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  668. They still made more progress in two weeks than Russia made in months. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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  669. Let me guess, Putin gave you those numbers? ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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  670. It really is just a matter of when. When that actually is is anyone's guess.
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  671. Nobody wants to help Russia.
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  672. And you fools have literally nothing objective as a counterpoint ๐Ÿ˜‚
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  673. โ€‹@Reallyrujokin I'd think twice about putting that swill in my lawnmower. Much less call it "vodka".
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  674. And you think Ukraine isn't doing the same?
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  675. I'm guessing that you already forgot about how long it took Russia to even get this far in Bakhmut.
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  676. Nobody really said it's 100% accurate.
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  677. Wrong, the first Bradleys were destroyed in October while they were still in Germany ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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  678. Ukraine voted overwhelmingly for independence 30 years ago. Putin screwed the geopolitical pooch with his invasion.
    2
  679. โ€‹@Joel Fisk Meters aren't exactly gains normal people would consider worth the massive expenditures Russia is making.
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  680. โ€‹@Harald Hardrade Even though Russia has around 200,000 obituaries mentioning deaths in Putin's "special military operation".
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  681. โ€‹ @josteincarlsen2905  Let me guess, you still believe Russia only lost 5,000 ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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  682. According to Russia, they've destroyed Ukraine's military twice over.
    2
  683. They're rotated out every couple weeks.
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  684.  @amazighkarell7999  You clowns have been saying that for months.
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  685. Bakhmut is smaller than Lysychansk, and Russia's largest gain since last August was a mining town of barely 10.000 residents.
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  686.  @sardo.numspa  Nah. Too much work.
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  687. You're lying to yourself.
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  688. โ€‹ @shsh-he5qg  And how many months did that take? ๐Ÿ˜‚ The city still isn't fully controlled by Wagner. Modern military standards call that abysmal performance.
    2
  689. โ€‹ @giovanni-ed7zq  It's not just Prigozhin. The talking heads on Russian state TV are setting up the expectation of a Russian defeat.
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  690. Even though they've been pretty spot-on for much of the war.
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  691. The US Reserve Officer Training Corps is still completely optional. You can opt out if you feel like it's a bad fit.
    2
  692. โ€‹ @chris-hg3iv  You can't spell "Nazi" without Z.
    2
  693. Ukraine humiliated Russia in 2014, they did it again in 2022.
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  694. โ€‹ @sandusky_skaii3485  NATO gaining two members, oil revenue plummeted, record deficit spending, protests, mysterious fires... Sure, everything is going swell for Putin. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
    2
  695. You can get a surprising amount of information just from trash.
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  696.  @AlexTorres-qv3hv  Very telling how Russia is making next-to-no progress anywhere else along the line of contact.
    2
  697. A battle does not win a war.
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  698. They might not actually actually need Mariupol. A major rail line is a few kilometers south, at Volnovakha. Pressure Volnovakha and Russia has a harder time moving equipment into Crimea.
    2
  699. Crossing a river and establishing a stable beachhead are two different things.
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  700. For the most part, but there are some numbers that a keen observer will definitely figure out eventually.
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  701. Then you clearly don't understand how the system in Russia works. Nor have you been paying attention to the decaying morale among the mobiks.
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  702. Literally nobody said that.
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  703. Patreon decided they didn't like observations about the war.
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  704. It's not France's fault they can't get their shit together.
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  705.  @ChR1St0p4eR  Remember when Putin sent his Wagner goons to do exactly that? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
    2
  706. Maybe not. Putin did demand Bakhmut seized in time for Victory Day, even threatening Shoigu over it. Given the squabbling between Wagner and the MoD, this may be Prigozhin threatening to throw them under the bus.
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  707. โ€‹@Jay Martin Rational people call that "projecting." While Russia plays fast and loose with what's happening on the ground.
    2
  708. โ€‹@John Lastich In reality, you can only push so far on foot in these conditions before having to stop. I don't know if you've noticed, but people can't run forever like they do in Call of Duty.
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  709. It wouldn't be the first time expectations have been defied.
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  710. โ€‹@user-lf2jh2ru9f Where? Literally nobody had any real interest in Russia before the war.
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  711. You mean the gear we sold to the Afghan National Army over a period of 20 years?
    2
  712. Every time Russia claims that, it was faulty DPR artillery landing short.
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  713. โ€‹ @moiseshuerta3984  If you bothered reading, Waterloo was actually decisive.
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  714. It's far from the first time Ukraine has defied expectations.
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  715. And what are your ideas? I doubt you have anything worth listening to.
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  716.  @harleyquinn8202  With what? Russia's utter failure to conquer and vassalize a country a fraction of the size? ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ
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  717. If they haven't yet, that's what's going around the rumor mill.
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  718. Is this like the "Kyiv was a feint" spiel from June?
    2
  719. They're not Korean. There's a lot of Asiatic people in Siberia, and Russia tends to conscript from its ethnic minorities.
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  720. It would be less guesswork if Russia actually had a strategy.
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  721. That's not unusual. Bot activity usually peaks when someone has hopes for Ukraine.
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  722. Aleppo? ๐Ÿ˜‚
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  723. The pro-Russia commentators are clueless as ever.
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  724. Then they'd have to blame their problems on their own mismanagement instead of Israel.
    2
  725. โ€‹ @superpieman5773  A grand total of about 0.1% of the Donbas.
    2
  726. โ€‹@mantasaponas705 It's designed around old doctrine, to be more accurate. World Wars aren't won with the best of the best, they're won with vast amounts of good enough
    2
  727.  @mtnregnar198  Even though it's pretty much verified that Russian logistics fall apart once they leave the railhead.
    2
  728. If Ukraine was able to retake Kharkhiv Oblast in two weeks, liberating Kherson or Zaporizhia Oblast is a pretty reasonable expectation. While Russia has been failing to make meaningful progress on Bakhmut for the last 8 months.
    2
  729. NATO isn't even directly involved.
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  730. โ€‹@matsi1944 Russia from Russia's perspective "is and always will be an empire".
    2
  731.  @migrationsforschermitbreit6744  So I can walk into your house with a bunch of my friends and say it's ours because we voted "for a better life"?
    2
  732. Because there's a bit of a line between a conspiracy theory and an actual conspiracy.
    2
  733. Calling Russia a "large modern army" is a misnomer. The "modern" part isn't large, and the large part isn't modern. On top of regurgitating your own propaganda, care to try being less correct?
    2
  734. Pah. Everyone knows he's going to rig the vote anyway.
    2
  735. Russia loves to claim they've done something before they've actually succeeded. This makes them look stupid when they have to make the claim several times over.
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  736. You'd be surprised. Modern grenades are almost impossible to set off on accident.
    2
  737. Thankfully, they're a pretty small group of people and get out-voted every time.
    2
  738. At least Zapp Brannigan could pull off a win.
    2
  739. SEP v3 is the most recent, with a proposed A3 model appearing as a design concept.
    2
  740.  @struvrim7637  Russians have been using their own armored vehicles as fire ships.
    2
  741. That would've been perfect for the Maga spin doctors.
    2
  742.  @aldosigmann419  And truce, to be in good faith, is to the benefit of both sides. If you've been paying attention--at all--you'd have already realized that Russia had little intention of actually honoring one.
    2
  743. The difference is the 600 was in one attack, 100.000 is over the course of the entire war.
    2
  744. As if he really needed to try...
    2
  745. There's a reason 9 out of 10 of his former staff refused to work with him again.
    2
  746. Chamberlain didn't win a Nobel Prize either, it should be mentioned. He also made the sensible decision of resigning in 1940.
    2
  747. You have to be pretty sharp to be a good comedian.
    2
  748. You can safely bet Reagan would've been all-in on sticking it to Russia.
    2
  749. Funnily enough, 47 is higher than his approval rating. ๐Ÿ˜‚
    2
  750. Which Ukrainian areas have Russia conquered recently? Can you list them?
    2
  751. โ€‹@Frank9009 Imagine having forgotten what actually liberating people looks like.
    2
  752. Obviously you've never been in combat before. Airsoft doesn't count.
    2
  753. The point is largely asset denial.
    2
  754. Is "asset denial" such a foreign concept for vatniks? It's pretty sensible in the military
    2
  755. Not without a fight, in any case.
    2
  756.  @Chuck44442  Obviously, you're not as informed as you think you are.
    2
  757.  @ianmusy8603  That's what the Kremlin is saying, but their deployment to Kursk is an open secret.
    2
  758. It varies from country to country.
    2
  759.  @Josh93B93  Across 1500km of front?
    2
  760.  @Josh93B93  Russia relying on poor Cubans, Somalian, and Chinese mercenaries probably kicked those numbers down after 1.5 million people fled Russia.
    2
  761. Meanwhile, on Earth, they are responding to Russia. The onus is on Putin to make the first move.
    2
  762. UAF should start printing medals for tank kills.
    2
  763. Bear in mind: A US Army grunt will have about 100 days of training. These guys are lucky to get more than a week.
    2
  764. โ€‹@Jeffrey Epstein didn't Gary Webb himself And you still think Russia only lost 5,000? ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
    2
  765. โ€‹ @alainlefebvre9860  Not even just losses. Compare what's going on in the world relative to Russia's stated goals.
    2
  766. Remember how Kherson was "Russian forever "? ๐Ÿ˜‚
    2
  767. Wagner still doesn't have complete control of the town.
    2
  768. A town even smaller than Bakhmut, no less.
    2
  769.  @CoffeeAndPaul  When have they ever made any of the deadlines Putin gave them?
    2
  770. They're looking for instructions.
    2
  771. Kursk declared independence.
    2
  772.  @katyelder.5  Not really.
    2
  773. Russia's economy is effectively buggered for the foreseeable future.
    2
  774. โ€‹ @SuperOdyss  Trump administration in a nutshell.
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  775. โ€‹ @JaneSoole  More accurately, they'll never deploy them. Politically, they're too valuable to be cannon fodder.
    2
  776. Don't think about it.
    2
  777. After elections are over, I don't doubt his speakership would be in serious jeopardy.
    2
  778. I'm willing to argue that he was a bit rusty, and Trump is the opposite of WD40.
    2
  779. Biden actually has character, unfortunately.
    2
  780. โ€‹ @ryanolson8879  Kinda the same thing, isn't it?
    2
  781. Shitting bricks, more like.
    2
  782. I think it's closer to delusion than amnesia.
    2
  783. Only if you completely ignore the evidence.
    2
  784. You know nobody in the Trump administration proof reads.
    2
  785.  @D-Solo-Man  You might as well try to explain the concept of color to the blind.
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  786. โ€‹@Lord Voldemort(BD๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฉ) Which is odd, since they usually either make up a number or put an additional 0 or two on an existing number.
    2
  787. โ€‹@D-Solo-Man The first tanks pretty much were built around farm tractors.
    2
  788. If I have 10 Leopards and you destroy a tractor, I still have 10 Leopards.
    2
  789. Then, either his zombie is the guy on television, or Russia lied (Again).
    2
  790. Bear in mind that Putin's been gaslighting Russia for 20 years or so.
    2
  791. It's just an Iskander launched from the air.
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  792. Sort of. They've been probing Russian lines and destroying targets of opportunity for the last few weeks.
    2
  793. Sort of. If it's anything like the US Army's MPF, infantry call it up if they come across a hardpoint and blast it. Problem is: Russia can't build them to spec due to sanctions. At least not enough to be useful.
    2
  794. So advanced that the T90s relied on imported gun sights from France. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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  795. A light tank, on paper. It's mostly to remind crews that it is not , in fact, a tank.
    2
  796. โ€‹@eks1212 So how's that Russian victory coming along? 500 days into Putin's "special military operation" and lost half of what was seized in March 2022.
    2
  797. Would you want people helping the guy trying to rob you?
    2
  798. A guy in Russia is literally facing 7 years in prison for a picture his 10-year-old daughter drew. Piss off.
    2
  799. โ€‹ @raymandjunior8728  Tell everyone you didn't even read the documents without saying it.
    2
  800.  @hammerhetyeskahgaming2970  Russian mouthpieces are literally saying everything is fine, when you can look out the window and see the city being flooded.
    2
  801. Sounds a bit far-fetched, but I doubt Russia would be in any shape to stop it.
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  802. Article 5 isn't retroactive.
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  803. Russian talking heads still pretend everything is "according to plan".๐Ÿ˜‚
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  804. That's across the whole front, not just Bakhmut.
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  805. It's not 1990, UAV jamming systems can be handheld now.
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  806. โ€‹@Aqua Fyre You don't have the slightest idea how large the front even is, di you?
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  807. Russia failed to do that in February last year. They're not going to fly sorties out of their own SAM coverage.
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  808. These are the kinds of headlines you get from journalists who haven't even held a rifle before.
    2
  809. โ€‹@LENKO COC How much land can missiles take and hold? All India has to do is bottleneck the PLA in the mountains, and the overhyped missiles are all China has.
    2
  810. โ€‹ @sri5876  Who else could've provided a reason for NATO to rearm itself?
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  811. Russia has a hard time shipping anything anyway when their overseas freight can't get insurance.
    2
  812. You are aware that the unit is merely a designation, and is fully able to be reformed, right?
    2
  813. Do you have the slightest idea how old this report even is? This is from June last year
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  814. It's funny how Ukrainian troops are still in Bakhmut despite Russia claiming it's been "taken" several times.
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  815. With a missile that does the same thing as the Pershing II, 40 years ago. ๐Ÿ˜‚
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  816. โ€‹@Luรญs C. In reality, ballistic missiles like the Kinzhal are exactly what the Patriot is designed to counter. Iskander-K and Kalibr missiles were also involved in the attack, but I can see why Russian propaganda leaves that out. Not even a battery was damaged, nothing short of a nuclear weapon has the blast radius to damage that many launchers. The only other ABM to perform well under this kind of stress is Iron Dome.
    2
  817. It's Russia. Political loyalty gets medals faster than meritorious service ever could.
    2
  818. โ€‹ @bololollek9245  Except for the fact that Ukraine is not Russia.
    2
  819. โ€‹ @cyber_habanero  In reality, purchases are made depending upon what capabilities an army needs. Not that facts ever stopped you.
    2
  820. โ€‹ @TyrantNxT  That's why Russia's "unstoppable" Kinzhal was shot down by a 30-year-old Patriot missile, right?
    2
  821. They're intercepted at a rate of roughly 1-in-6.
    2
  822.  @sachiinrauut7790  Belarusians don't really like Lukashenko anyway. The US has nothing to do with it.
    2
  823. Ironically, Russia depends on Western tech for resource extraction.
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  824. Nonsense. Douglas Haig did this in 1916.
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  825. You kinda need the truth first, and this ain't it. ๐Ÿ˜‚
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  826. โ€‹@Volker R. ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Have you seen the latest Baghdad Bob moment? Says everything is fine and he drove there, while the viewer can look out the window to see the city flooded right behind him.
    2
  827.  @Dzeividz  US went from Saudi Arabia and across the Iraqi border to Baghdad in 2 weeks, Russia is at day 413 and is barely 20 kilometers from the 2021 borders. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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  828. โ€‹โ€‹@saucy innit The fact that the "invincible Red Army" is on day 407(?) of a three-day "special military operation", and barely holding on to 20%, says it all.
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  829. 175,000 Russian KIA in 400 days of a three-day "special military operation". ๐Ÿ˜‚
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  830. โ€‹โ€‹@Musa2013 If Moskva's radar and air defense worked as advertised, she wouldn't have sunk. Just FYI: the US has 300 of those drones. How many Slava-class cruisers does Russia have?
    2
  831. Did you forget that *Russia is the invader*?
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  832. Ground radar still needs to find them.
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  833.  @Sameoldsongdance  It really depends on where you are in the US, but it's far from the generalization "Chris" wants it to be.
    1
  834. They were a Russian puppet state in the USSR.
    1
  835. โ€‹ @Wingzerodd  There's probably a few token competitors that Putin chose to be there.
    1
  836.  @NightRider2023-f1j  Nah. Putin would attack apartment buildings and schools, not infrastructure.
    1
  837. If you're good enough, you totally can win those elections legitimately. It's just such a pain in the ass, it's usually not worth it.
    1
  838. The difference is: Ukraine changed tactics after the first couple weeks. Russia didn't.
    1
  839.  @MrCobalt  Russia only became a superpower by asset-stripping its puppet states in the Warsaw Pact.
    1
  840. How's that plummeting gas revenue working out for Russia?
    1
  841. Early in the war, I routinely compared this strategy to King Cotton.
    1
  842. Russia has been imprisoning scientists involved with their hypersonic Wunderwaffe for several months since a dozen Kinzhals were shot down. The only people on drugs are the one insisting "rUsSiA sTrOnG" even though they're having obvious difficulty conquering a smaller, weaker neighbor.
    1
  843. Third time's the charm, so they say.
    1
  844. Russia just declared a six month ban on gasoline exports last week. Clearly, they're trying to cut that problem off early.
    1
  845.  @trulycare3574  You seriously don't remember Russia reporting the UAF "completely destroyed" at least three times, do you?
    1
  846.  @elangelyt7738  Which reported on only one unit of reservists. But it doesn't seem like you moonyons got the memo.
    1
  847. Basing your whole strategy around "drive in and expect them to surrender" is what both historians and military planners call: a fucking stupid idea
    1
  848. โ€‹ @mrboxheadd748  When someone invades and forces a referendum at gunpoint, no reasonable person is going to see that as legitimate.
    1
  849. Nobody in the US is going to support Xi.
    1
  850. Social Credit turned into a meme.
    1
  851. US troops were competently led. They weren't put under incompetent Tsarist officers.
    1
  852. If it wasn't for looking good, the Communist Party would do nothing.
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  853.  @basedstreamingatcozy-dot-t7126  Because I doubt NATO would be throwing aid at Russia if China launched a special military operation to de-Nazify Inner Mongolia.
    1
  854.  @MetaView7  They've been begging Iran and North Korea for ammunition. Clearly they don't make enough to supply their own demand.
    1
  855. That's what litigation is for.
    1
  856.  @blackwatertv7018 They're getting part of what they want through Russia, so the West doesn't matter as much.
    1
  857.  @maksimfedoryak As if that's impossible on a normal gunnery range.
    1
  858. Russia doesn't have enough BTUs.
    1
  859. That's probably on all the unrecorded radio chatter.
    1
  860. Putin is having an increasingly difficult time isolating the general population from the bleak reality of his disastrous invasion.
    1
  861. I feel like "dumb blonde" is also in the list of requirements.
    1
  862. If you want to believe the numbers published by Russian milbloggers, punishments for insubordination have been steadily increasing as are the reported numbers of refuseniki
    1
  863.  @catpaladin1  Nah. The Whigs advocated for modernization, the rule of law, and vigilance against executive tyranny. Maga is clearly against all of that.
    1
  864. Dotard Don was dumb enough to leave a paper trail.
    1
  865. Winning what? ๐Ÿ˜‚ Nikki Haley is still pulling double digits in primaries where he's the only contender. You have to be delusional to not see that as a big problem.
    1
  866. Even the V2 was hypersonic.
    1
  867.  @alexis1451  His tiny hands really put surprising amount of "umph" behind that golden shovel when he digs his hole deeper.
    1
  868. Sort of. It's whether or not the counsel starts taking Trump's advice because you know he won't listen to theirs.
    1
  869. Fraud and adultery are apparently family values now.
    1
  870.  @edwardsallow8931  Where specifically is homosexuality enforced by any state?
    1
  871. Who did the US invade to start WW3?
    1
  872.  @LivingtheDream67  Human trafficking is very much a crime. Or is it "not a crime" when a Republican does it?
    1
  873. Yes, actually. It's a state crime. If it's shot down on appeal, then SCOTUS has no jurisdiction.
    1
  874.  @ham5483  When did Democrats try to usurp a constitutionally elected government and install a dictator because they lost an election?
    1
  875.  @thomas9961  A very vocal minority of Republicans openly siding with Russia. Whether they actually are planted by Russia is debatable (if not highly improbable) but their short-sighted opposition to Ukraine's cause is only enabling nothing short of a geopolitical disaster for the US if they succeed.
    1
  876. Ironically, NATO's expansion is because of Russia's aggression.
    1
  877. Easier said than done, granted. But there's a while to go before there's cause for concern.
    1
  878. The same Russia that claims a pizzeria is an Army barracks, no less.
    1
  879. Diesel is being sucked up by the Army, there's almost nothing left for the farmers.
    1
  880.  @Ikkeligeglad  We know, but that's just the Z narrative because "Russia stronk".
    1
  881.  @brianpeck4035  Did you forget about the leak of Trump's plan to stage a false flag attack to declare Martial Law? Literally what Putin did with Chechnya.
    1
  882. Which isn't exactly what was said.
    1
  883.  @JUSTaddAlcohol  It's crazy that a presidential candidate simps for fascists and dictators. Fixed it.
    1
  884. I'm willing to argue that it was mostly because Europe was still reeling from WW1 and pretty much nobody was prepared for it.
    1
  885.  @scottsmith9438  Russia invades and makes you join them.
    1
  886.  @jojocarter24  Russians are increasingly reliant on civilian vehicles, and now literal donkeys are making an appearance.
    1
  887. Look at the five billion dollar bills Zimbabwe used to print.
    1
  888. All they'd have to do now is offer Trump a bribe and the problem goes poof
    1
  889. โ€‹ @albertbraun2128  Did Hunter Biden assault police officers?
    1
  890. And Maga just agrees while he's still holding the blowtorch.
    1
  891.  @nobeoddy1664  Only in America is 2+2=5 electable.
    1
  892. Twenty years of cutting education and giving a platform to the political equivalent of Flat Earth.
    1
  893. When was the last time Republicans did anything for anybody who weren't their big-dollar donors?
    1
  894. It's ironically true. Ever since Biden dropped out and Kamala stepped up, the Trump campaign has been running in circles because they pinned their entire election strategy against Biden, and now they're clueless.
    1
  895. You can't even spell 'propaganda', fuckwit. ๐Ÿคฃ
    1
  896. Complacency, in a nutshell.
    1
  897. It's not really a mystery if they weren't even cast in the first place.
    1
  898. Be honest with yourselves: none of you morons really voted for Trump. His cult of personality ordained him years ago.
    1
  899. Republicans don't even pretend to be honest.
    1
  900. He's as much president as much as a soy-based meat substitute is a hamburger.
    1
  901. Do you retards seriously not see it? Or are you that collectively dense?
    1
  902.  @americanpatriot3874  You shitheads bitched and moaned for the last four years. Why didn't you move to Russia?
    1
  903. Then they wouldn't have anything to blame on liberals or immigrants
    1
  904. It drives him nuts. And I'm here for it.
    1
  905. How many years did you pinheads regurgitate copium for your landslide loss in 2020?
    1
  906. โ€‹@NotRose-hf7kr If you dildos didn't have double standards, you'd have no standards at all.๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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  907. โ€‹ @NotRose-hf7kr  Which it isn't, but keep being a useful idiot for Trump.
    1
  908. There's a huge amount of irony here. The most prominent being that the military acting against a sitting president is something the Founders were very concerned about.
    1
  909. Because your opinion and your vote aren't the same number.
    1
  910. โ€‹ @mitchellsouphasith3763 I mean, it's not that it's not a thing. It's just a major conspiracy theory floating around Maga.
    1
  911.  @ak74brass41  If spite is the only motive behind Maga policies, I can see why nobody likes them when you remove politics from it.
    1
  912.  @ak74brass41  Republicans are the ones complaining about something so basic.
    1
  913.  @ak74brass41  They're really not. They're insulted by Trump's cult of personality being masked as patriotism.
    1
  914. So she does have at least one functioning brain cell.
    1
  915. Same reason Maga does anything: Spite.
    1
  916. You're either not in fetal development or missing quite a few zeroes on your net worth to be considered "people" by the GOP.
    1
  917. โ€‹ @johnwyse  A bowl is at its most useful when it is empty.
    1
  918. No, he's quite dumb in his own right.
    1
  919. Most people just call them run-on sentences.
    1
  920. Losing by about 5 million isn't really a "whisker".
    1
  921. But Maga already had a divorce... from reality.
    1
  922. You know Trump is going to throw Vance under the bus after all this. And he'll tell the bus to back up.
    1
  923. โ€‹ @DragonSword35d  On their own, no. But they were in furtherance of a conspiracy to unlawfully influence the 2016 election, which made them felonies.
    1
  924.  @raven4k998  If he was actually smart, he'd do nothing and take credit for Biden's economy. Just like he did with Obama's.
    1
  925. It's a weird way to cut out the middle man, so to speak.
    1
  926. Trump's a low-energy geriatric.
    1
  927.  @americanpatriot3874  Ah, yes, the best post-Covid economy in the G20. And you shitheads voted for the guy whose policies could collapse GDP growth by up to 8%. You played yourself. ๐Ÿคก๐Ÿคก๐Ÿคก
    1
  928. So where are the photos? Surely, there'd be proof of these "crowds" outside listening to Trump's doom and gloom.
    1
  929.  @FunnyBunny-pd5xx  In reality, Russia has neither the money nor manpower to produce copies at scale.
    1
  930. And Russia still can't make any gains without sustaining disproportionate losses.
    1
  931. Let me guess: these are Russian claims unsupported in the visual loss data?
    1
  932.  @etienne8110  Lebensraum was the foreign policy of a certain Austrian painter. ๐Ÿ˜’
    1
  933. So the Trump cult doesn't dox the jurors.
    1
  934. Guy Fawkes' Night celebrates his failure. Just FYI.
    1
  935. You dimwits actually have to have evidence of a crime first.
    1
  936. If you really think about it, no defense would've been better than Trump's defense.
    1
  937. Possibly, but I doubt it. Russia still has a bi-annual mobilization cycle. Though it wouldn't surprise me if they were mobilizing several thousand every month to keep up with the attrition.
    1
  938. I'll give it a week, maybe two, before losses and logistics issues make the push fizzle out.
    1
  939. โ€‹@CristopherMattison-ro2pw You idiots had an inquiry open for almost three years and you've found nothing. ๐Ÿ˜‚
    1
  940. Let me guess: Polls independently conducted by Alina Habba? ๐Ÿ˜‚
    1
  941. A Trump rally is a televised mental institution.
    1
  942. That's TDS in a nutshell.
    1
  943. Around 52% per current polling. Coincidentally, Trump's aggregate disapproval is around the same place.
    1
  944.  @davidvettes4ever898  Russia tries to paint literally every Ukrainian setback, no matter how minor, as a major strategic disaster. ISW also made no claims of a Russian breakthrough, they reported Russia intensifying attacks in Kursk.
    1
  945. All Russia did was completely fail to meet expectations.
    1
  946. โ€‹ @marshcreek4355  Lower courts decide what does or doesn't qualify as official conduct.
    1
  947.  @kidgaminggaming5731  Literally nobody said that. Just copium from the Kremlin.
    1
  948.  @kidgaminggaming5731  Russia's favourite source is "Trust me, bro."
    1
  949. โ€‹ @blitzroehre1807 They can't wrap their heads around the fact that moderates and liberals have more options for media consumption than conservatives.
    1
  950.  @ffff7164  I'm sure Shoigu pulled something out of his ass, like he always does.
    1
  951. Be for the United States of America. These are mutually exclusive.
    1
  952. From a geopolitical perspective, Russia definitely got the short end of the stick.
    1
  953. It's really not as tenuous as the pro-Russia talking heads make it out to be. Russia can't make any serious headway on any front and the Kremlin's flunkies are in complete denial.
    1
  954. White collar crime is a conservative value now, evidently.
    1
  955. You'd vote for a delusional convict. If you seriously want to ignore the obvious hypocrisy, your argument is invalid.
    1
  956. Hunter Biden isn't a politician.
    1
  957.  @renemartin5729  Back in reality, a withdraw and a rout are two different circumstances. But I doubt your English is that good.
    1
  958. Jury selection tends to be pretty thorough. I doubt a Trumper can weed their way in, given how they tend to be.
    1
  959. He held a public office, he aspires to a public office... so what would you call that, if not a politician?
    1
  960.  @John.Philip.Tan876  That seems like what they're doing. Like they're taking ground just to take it.
    1
  961. When they feel like it, evidently.
    1
  962. โ€‹ @mitchyoung93 Not even the Russian-speaking Ukrainians want Russia there.
    1
  963. As often as vatniks puff their chests about how great Russia is, they would've won by--oh, wait.
    1
  964. Russia will likely be practically empty before that happens.
    1
  965. Nah. It's less costly to simply let Russia throw men and equipment at the Bakhmut meat grinder again.
    1
  966.  @JilynnFurlet  I'm willing to argue that emojis represent words without actually being words.
    1
  967. Not unless the House goes nuclear on a no-confidence vote, unfortunately.
    1
  968. That's what the smoothbrains "think" anyway.
    1
  969. โ€‹@FireAngelOfLondon Not entirely how a SAM works. At the end of the day, somebody approved the launch and pushed that button.
    1
  970.  @robertkennedy5374  Which it wasn't. Trump simply thrives off of a perennial victim complex when he doesn't get his way.
    1
  971. Upheld, rather.
    1
  972. The new StormZ battalions are pretty much all combat troops.
    1
  973.  @andersjjensen  It's worth noting that being a casualty isn't exclusive to being KIA.
    1
  974. โ€‹ @Zolotou2604 Russia depends heavily on copium to give the impression that they're winning when everything indicates otherwise for an objective observer.
    1
  975. In Maga or Merriam-Webster?
    1
  976. โ€‹ @aniaz1100  No, they tried a land grab and failed. "Nazis" is just thrown around to stymie domestic opposition.
    1
  977. When did a long rap sheet mean strength? ๐Ÿ˜‚
    1
  978. But I doubt they'd hesitate to swing the axe if his ouster has enough Republican support.
    1
  979. โ€‹ @johnbox271  Didn't she also run unopposed after the cult bullied her opponent out of the race?
    1
  980. Short-selling.
    1
  981. If anything, their optimism held out for quite a while.
    1
  982. โ€‹ @bjornstahle4652  Buy high and sell low.
    1
  983. Arguably, they could be made much faster than a T80BVM. Though they would be at a crippling disadvantage.
    1
  984.  @vladislavaskliukoitis8669  Russia doesn't have the money.
    1
  985. Source: Russian state media. Totally the most trustworthy news source...
    1
  986. So they're both correct.
    1
  987. I mean, if you no serious anti-tank capabilities and questionable air support... what else can you really do?
    1
  988.  @joshuapaul2022  Back on Earth, the political situation in 2023 is a hell of a lot different from 1941.
    1
  989. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ Have you even looked at a map? Better yet: have you bothered to zoom out?
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  990. โ€‹@ChRi&tOpHeR You don't unilaterally declassify shit. There is a very specific process.
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  991. Autocracy is not the same as a monarchy.
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  992. It's called "defense in depth" in English.
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  993. That'll piss on their Victory Day parade. ๐Ÿ˜‚
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  994. Allegedly, a number of conscripts were shoved into a cattle car.
    1
  995. If Russia wants to waste their reserves counter-attacking, then a breach is going to be catastrophic.
    1
  996. Sort of. Deep State has a roughly 48-hour delay on updates.
    1
  997. When you're looking at Russia's typical gains of around 100m, it's impressive.
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  998. โ€‹ @erikvynckier4819  That means literally nothing. New York speaks English, it's named after York in the UK, does that magically justify the UK to invade?
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  999. โ€‹@Stian Nunn While the talking heads on Russian state TV are literally hyping up Ukraine's capabilities to set the public expectation for a Russian defeat. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ You idiots don't even watch the news in Russia itself, do you?
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  1000.  @chadhaire1711  Pretty much everybody with two brain cells knows Russa held those elections at gunpoint. Even Igor Girkin admitted the referendum in Crimea was rigged.
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  1001. He's not gonna make the first move. It'll make him look weak.
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  1002. There's video of Russian police rounding up migrants and allegedly press-ganging them into service.
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  1003.  @trevorshea1930  Relative to the convicts with no training, a Ukrainian conscript with some training is going to be a vast improvement in quality.
    1
  1004. Note the wording: "Casualties" and "losses" are not the same word in this context. It's a pretty typical propaganda tool called: double standards.
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  1005. Surrounded from the front. ๐Ÿ˜‚ Fool.
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  1006. In the winter, the old steel helmets are like putting your head in a freezer.
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  1007.  @octagonPerfectionist  It wasn't really a shovel, it was more of a boiler plate.
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  1008. I mean, you can't really negotiate if you have nothing the other side really wants. Russia sent those men to war with the sole intention of doing little more than dying and attriting Ukraine, of course they don't want them back. Russian propaganda would have huge holes in it if POWs returned en masse
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  1009. โ€‹ @joeordinary209  It's the Russian way of liberating people. Mass killings and flattening everything in the way.
    1
  1010. Your own writing proves that you're hardly objective.
    1
  1011. I mean... it's not particularly hard, let's be honest. Lol
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  1012. โ€‹ @Justintdot Across two weeks with Russia's general incompetence? It's plausible.
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  1013. There's probably more incentive for them to be honest, since they're not likely to face any real repercussions for talking about the state of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukrainian custody.
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  1014. They're afraid of MANPADS, is the short answer.
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  1015. Not really. They're still a uniformed combatant, so protections still apply even if it's not a war according to Russia.
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  1016. It's what happens when you don't have a Plan B.
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  1017. Massive? Hardly. But light troops could easily launch raids on a semi-regular basis.
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  1018. While numbers have value, they're being led incompetently.
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  1019. Don't panic, guys. Moises Huerta (a.k.a. Empty Head) doesn't know what reserves are while still refuting nothing.
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  1020.  @theoriginalkeepercreek  And how many meters did Russia advance? Lol
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  1021. "Our real goal was Lysychansk, not Kyiv".
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  1022. Anything is passable with good engineers. Problem is that any crossing is going to be a magnet for artillery if they're seen.
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  1023. Victory has been "soon" for a year now.
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  1024.  @moiseshuerta3984  How many months did that take?
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  1025. @Moises Huerta  Russia has been grinding away at Bakhmut for months while losing huge streches of territory in Kharkhiv and Kherson. Keep taking your copium though
    1
  1026. Were you there when Strykers were designed?
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  1027. It sounds like two possibilities, at this point: Either it is a Russian false flag, or it's a Ukrainian bid to draw Russian combat power away from the front.
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  1028. Air superiority and air support have already been mainstays of NATO doctrine for decades.
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  1029. The Russian patriots are arguably a worse option. They're even bigger warhawks than Putin's regime.
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  1030. Someone wanted this to be seen, that much is obvious.
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  1031. Russia literally launches missiles at Kyiv every other day.
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  1032. What if the goal was just the fly-over? The elites are the very people Putin has been trying to insulate from the reality of the conflict. Now there's Ukrainian drones crashing in their neighborhood, completely contrary to what they've undoubtedly been told.
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  1033. โ€‹ @sullyvanbastien4526  Vatniks trying to cope.
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  1034. Not really. Russia, by extension Wagner, are relying on convicts and conscripts to preserve their more capable contract troops.
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  1035. โ€‹ @MrKakibuy  Worth noting that Ukraine is roughly 600.000 square kilometers.
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  1036. That's a moot point in an insurgency.
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  1037. Russia literally failed all of the objectives Putin outlined in February 2022.
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  1038. โ€‹ @alekdevalek5668 You really think Russia is going to admit failure? ๐Ÿ˜‚
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  1039. When all the visual evidence pretty much is Russia sacrificing its soldiers. Or did you forget about Avdiivka already?
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  1040. Kadyrov is Putin's patsy. Neither are particularly popular in Chechnya.
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  1041. US troops still get paid, and they're not deployed just to die.
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  1042. A unit is either prepared for inspection or combat. Never both.
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  1043. The Kremlin doesn't give them much choice, really. It's mobilization or go to jail and be mobilized anyway.
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  1044. So why is Russia mulling another wave of mobilization if they have reserves to spare, according to you? ๐Ÿค” Why are Russian troops being deployed for months on the front line without rotation if there's reserves available? ๐Ÿค” Look at what Russia does, not what they say for the mouthbreathers on the Internet.
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  1045. Usually takes a couple days. Most updates are just to clarify who is where until more information is available.
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  1046. Anyone who believes Russian propaganda has a room temperature IQ.
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  1047. Five bucks says Putin was planning this for a while.
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  1048. UAF does have a few units that take full advantage of night vision optics. There's still a notable shortage though.
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  1049.  @nimmha6708  I thought they were outsourced?
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  1050. โ€‹ @boink800 That's basically the old USSR's borders.
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  1051. Trying to get ahead of Russia's next town they really failed to capture?
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  1052. It still happens today.
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  1053. Is that why Russia has all these "MIAs"? Lol
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  1054. Antibiotics exist. Did you forget?
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  1055. It's a problem even in modern armies.
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  1056. And the Kremlin recently announced the most Russian solution ever: mobilizing another 400,000.
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  1057. On paper, yeah. But Prigozhin put his reputation on the line with Bakhmut, and his little spat with MoD isn't helping.
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  1058. That's the copium-laced version of events, yeah.
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  1059. As often as Russia outright lied, you'd trust them? ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ
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  1060. I would probably laugh if they demobilized, stepped off the bus in Belgorod, and there's a Commissar standing there with a pile of draft papers.
    1
  1061. I wouldn't put it beyond the MoD to leave Wagner out to dry. Counterattack or not.
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  1062.  @Peacewar2020  I'm sure that's what Russia is saying to make them not look as incompetent as they are.
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  1063. Occasionally there's a hint of something new. but it doesn't seem like they have the resources to fully capitalize on it.
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  1064. Kinda-sorta, not really. The topic isn't new, but the cheap propaganda video is.
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  1065. โ€‹ @alekdevalek5668 Just In: Vatniks claim simple math is "propaganda".
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  1066. Russia controls less than half of what it did this time last year.
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  1067. Alcohol isn't called "liquid courage" for nothing.
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  1068. Russia is literally infamous for being dishonest.
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  1069. So why haven't they reached Kyiv in 400 days?
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  1070. Even though the original document cited Russian losses as being double that of Ukraine, it wouldn't be at all surprising that the Russians took Photoshop to it.
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  1071. Even Prigozhin admitted that they're just fighting Ukraine.
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  1072. I'm betting that Wagner made the order. Trying to skirt around the supply issue they've been arguing with the MoD for the last few weeks.
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  1073. Lend-Lease wasn't for the Nazis as they steamrolled Europe.
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  1074. Granted, that's pretty much any rifle if you don't clean it regularly.
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  1075. But how many of these conscripts know how to do that *correctly*, much less how to even clean their rifle.
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  1076. Sort of. It's in the works for the PLA's modernisation program.
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  1077. If it's just HE, you'd be surprised at how often that happens.
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  1078. โ€‹ @marvindebot3264  Depends on *where*, really. If it's just some propaganda film made in Belgorod or whatever, then no.
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  1079. It doesn't seem like Russia has any real plan at all.
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  1080. Newsflash: the war isn't only in and around Bakhmut.
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  1081. The vatniks and the Kremlin remain in complete denial.
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  1082. Two countries duking it out isn't a "proxy war".
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  1083. Would you consider these exposed areas to be worth contesting?
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  1084. There's just enough intelligence to get something done on occasion.
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  1085. Because vatniks are universally illiterate, it seems.
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  1086. I'd still rather have a few on hand, even if they're not going to be needed.
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  1087. Russians have to actually have decent reconnaissance for that. The lack thereof being one of the glaring issues Popov threatened to bring to Putin before being fired by Gerasimov.
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  1088. Have you seen videos of the ANA? Recruits couldn't so simple jumping jacks.
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  1089. For starters, NATO still has zero troops fighting in Ukraine. Secondly, Russia took more casualties than Bakhmut had residents in a 10 month slog, now Prigozhin wants out.
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  1090. Nah. Just zoom in a little bit.
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  1091. โ€‹ @DzIVDzAN  The ethnic Russians that Putin claims to be "liberating".
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  1092. โ€‹ @ukropcrimeariver  You mean like this post?
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  1093. โ€‹ @attilamarics3374  As baseless as yours?
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  1094. โ€‹ @ianmarshall9144  Vatniks don't do history.
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  1095. Ukraine has a hotline for Russian troops who want to surrender.
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  1096. Probably not. The only orders most mobiks get is "hold this position". I don't think they're told anything else.
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  1097. โ€‹@Jason Smyth That wasn't really a guidance failure. The glide kit failed to open properly.
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  1098. There probably were none, or that wasn't the objective.
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  1099. Embarrassing Russia.
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  1100.  @user-qh7rj9wj4p  Which it really isn't.
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  1101. Russia went from T90s to T72s to T64s to T55s. Looks like they're running out of modern equipment to any objective observer.
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  1102.  @RG-zt2og  Neither the Donbas or Crimea are officially Russian, according to literally everyone with brain cells.
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  1103.  @attilamarics3374  Which it isn't. Russia had repeatedly failed to completely encircle Bakhmut.
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  1104. Howitzers can't take and hold territory, Sun Tzu.
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  1105. The dipshits who parrot this remain oblivious to US objectives in those theaters. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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  1106. Kremlin has been pushing copium since April 2022.
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  1107. It's hardly cognitive dissonance when when Russia has an economy 8x bigger than Ukraine's. Not to mention the decades Russia spent cultivating the image of a "large modern army".
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  1108. That's a seriously flawed definition of "control".
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  1109. Assuming they can be recovered.
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  1110. I mean, you could still call it in, extract the crew, and leave in a pretty organized manner.
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  1111. If your goal is a province and it takes two weeks to capture a street... probably not results worth bragging about...
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  1112.  @Akehiko_Urabaya  Five bucks says a lot of that kit is older than the conscripts' parents.
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  1113. The Ardennes Offensive was pinned on the hopes of capturing enough Allied supplies to sustain it. This is just banging your head against a door until it falls off its hinges.
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  1114. They also need to not sink in a meter of mud.
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  1115. Russia's been advertising it for weeks. But it seems a lot of vatniks don't watch the news in Russia, despite mindlessly cheerleading for it.
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  1116. Is that what TASS is saying?
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  1117. A war of attrition isn't going to go well for Russia if they're losing more than the Ukrainians.
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  1118. The Russians just make something up.
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  1119.  @nobody_special012  Ryan McBeth made the case for Russian Aerospace Forces being terrified of friendly fire.
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  1120. Hitler believed troops should stand and fight to the last. It led to two disastrous encirclements and many unnecessary casualties.
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  1121. And "Kyiv was a feint", right?
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  1122. It's quite a reversal of fortune, to say the least.
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  1123.  @TheisKrarupHansen  Rather, you need reserves for it to be effective.
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  1124. NATO troops still haven't arrived yet. ๐Ÿคฃ
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  1125. Ukraine is a recognized sovereign country which is, by definition, not a proxy. The DPR and LPR are not recognized as independent, and (obviously) backed by Russia to endorse and advance pro-Russian objectives. Which means they're proxies.
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  1126. Not really. Gettysburg was the result of a few bad calls. Bakhmut is just insanity.
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  1127. Russia usually has a headline every week or so saying that it's started.
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  1128. Russia can't get around a brick wall, so they throw more men at it until they can climb over.
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  1129.  @Dodsodalo  Yes.
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  1130. Nah. Russia's government hates change.
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  1131. About 50,000 rubles. It's a fair chunk of change.
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  1132. You can't fail if you set the bar so comically low. One Ukrainian for every seven Russians is still a casualty inflicted.
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  1133. Is that why Russia is struggling to gain a kilometer per day?
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  1134. Don't panic, guys. Moises Huerta (a.k.a Empty Head) has never read a book. If social media was around in 1944, fives bucks says he'd side with the Nazis and say the Allied landings at Normandy were a total failure because they were stuck in the bocage two weeks later.
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  1135.  @jamesclouse9947  In Age of Empires, javelin-armed Skirmishers counter Archers.
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  1136.  @TheBitter73  Evidently, shelling Russian troops occupying the Donbas is "genocide" according to the pro-Kremlin talking heads.
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  1137. Mechanized forces, at least. Infantry shouldn't set them off.
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  1138. This isn't as much of a zinger as the vatniks think it is. Then again, I wouldn't count on them knowing what a "defense in depth" is.
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  1139. Disunity, poor command and control, a bunch of things.
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  1140. These are anti-vehicle mines, so they kinda skirt around it with the ordnance being deployed.
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  1141. Deploying mines from an artillery shell is much more practical.
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  1142.  @jeffreyexposito3803  If you want to throw Russia a proverbial bone, a handful of meters is still a gain.
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  1143. Maybe. Equipment isn't necessarily weapons, and there doesn't seem to be anything concrete about Beijing deliberately selling Russia anything via third-party.
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  1144.  @MaxHohenstaufen  Russia said it wasn't a land-grab. Two weeks later: fake referendum and "annexation". Clearly territory had something to do with it.
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  1145. Oh, they're pissed, alright... Piss drunk.
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  1146. They tried and failed last year.
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  1147. Caffeine is just legal meth.
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  1148. Do you idiots even know what the US wanted to do in Afghanistan? Or are you just going to regurgitate some idiotic preconception?
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  1149. And you'd be a bigger moron than you sound. Operation Overlord took weeks to break out of Normandy, and who won the war again?
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  1150. StormZ are getting shot by the blocking detachments more than the Ukrainians. ๐Ÿ˜‚
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  1151. If Putin seriously got the US involved in earnest, we'd give the Red Army the Saddam treatment.
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  1152. It's little more than a funnel to occupy Wagner. Prigozhin put a lot of his political clout on the line with the city. Even if/when Bakhmut is taken, all it's really going to do is set off another round of bickering with the MoD.
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  1153. None. NATO never sent forces to Ukraine in the first place.
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  1154. Sort of. For the most part, Bakhmut is just Wagner stooges.
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  1155. Russia doesn't have the mechanized resources to exploit a breakthrough.
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  1156. Except Bakhmut was never even close to being completely encircled. The only history repeating is the WW1 tactics Russia resorted to using because they failed in mobile combined arms.
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  1157. โ€‹ @Kayasvadji  Russia is making pretty glacial progress against an army that doesn't exist.
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  1158. โ€‹ @KinoTechUSA69  Russia will have the Donbas by the end of the decade.
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  1159. Russia is literally the invader.
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  1160. โ€‹ @fordssucklol  For Russia. Remember that they're the ones trying to take the city.
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  1161. Slavs are tenacious opponents when sufficiently motivated.
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  1162. It's pretty much accepted as an inevitability, even though it's a toss-up as to when it actually falls.
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  1163. Doubt it. The UAF isn't likely to support them in earnest, so they're better off just crossing the border and playing merry hell for a couple days before leaving.
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  1164. โ€‹ @drecepy6213  That doesn't mean much when half of your population qualifies for retirement benefits.
    1
  1165. So that means around 1200 Russians are bagged and tagged on the daily.
    1
  1166. โ€‹ @briseboy  The thing about phobias is that they're irrational. But Russia's invasion, after they said they weren't going to invade, is a pretty good reason for people to be on edge.
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  1167. "I remain a master strategist." ๐Ÿ˜‚
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  1168. โ€‹ @bcluett1697  Knowing how depleted a lot of formations are, it was probably the few hundred that remained in the original division.
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  1169. A block in exchange for a few square kilometers outside the city. Not to mention, you fools have been saying that for literally months.
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  1170. There's already been reports of it happening at least once per week for the last couple months.
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  1171. โ€‹ @suportbghelp4938  While Russia has to "take" a village several times before it's actually theirs.
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  1172.  @ะกะตั€ั…ะธะพะ‘ัƒัะบะตั‚ั-ั„7ั  I'm sure the talking heads on Russian state TV think so. They're just as clueless as you. ๐Ÿคก๐Ÿคก๐Ÿคก
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  1173.  @RobinHarris-nf4yv  Russia is very much wanting to take over Ukraine.
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  1174. As the invader, the onus is on Russia to achieve its objectives, which it keeps failing to do.
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  1175.  @des_smith7658  Putin literally cancelled his.
    1
  1176. I think Moscow just issues troops meth.
    1
  1177. The US flew halfway across the world and made it to Baghdad in two weeks. Russia is at day 657 and was closer to Kyiv on day 10 than they are now. For reference, Germany was on Moscow's outskirts in 160 days in 1941.
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  1178.  @robertatkins9419  You pinheads were saying this since Sivierodonetsk and Bakhmut.
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  1179. Ten meters per day is "crumbling heavily"? ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ At this rate, Russia will take the Donbas by 2025 and lose almost 500,000 men to do what they said would be done in three days.๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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  1180. โ€‹ @ะœะธั…ะฐะธะปะงะตั€ะฝะธะบะพะฒ-ะฟ2ั‚  And Russia killed 20,000 of them when they flattened the city in 2022.
    1
  1181. โ€‹ @KadiusBlack  Thought he meant Russia's big offensive. Lol
    1
  1182. You must have a nebulous definition of "real", then.
    1
  1183. The US and UK have far more resources than Paul on his own.
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  1184. Russia has been on the offensive all winter and achieved nothing noteworthy.
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  1185. How do you pinheads know what resources Ukraine has when you don't even know what the Russians have?
    1
  1186. Apparently, they've been conserving ammunition for something. Units across the line are complaining about the absence of artillery cover.
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  1187. I doubt Bakhmut is that important to Ukraine, other than tying up Russian combat power.
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  1188. Sounds like you don't know what "collapsed" means.
    1
  1189. Russia doesn't even need the milbloggers for that. Politicians and generals do this pretty often.
    1
  1190. Russia was supposed to win 12 months ago.
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  1191. โ€‹ @OMT988  Afghanistan was largely counter-insurgency.
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  1192. Most of them are safely in the West or Africa.
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  1193. That's quite a few sections of the front, really.
    1
  1194. Russia is still spending disproportionate amounts of resources to dislodge them.
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  1195. โ€‹@HoldMyBeer You do realize that was over 30 years ago, right? And the US figured out the problem.
    1
  1196.  @gcoffey223  The Nazis are coming from the East.
    1
  1197. You can still waltz into places your opponent doesn't consider worth contesting and delude yourself into calling it a victory.
    1
  1198. Scorched Earth implies Ukraine is destroying it, but it's Russia flattening everything with artillery.
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  1199. Most likely not.
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  1200.  @Arnachistarchitect  You're about a year too late to avoid sounding stupid.
    1
  1201. I don't think they're planning on winning in two weeks anyway. It makes more sense (to me, at least) to periodically punch a hole in Russian lines and Thunder Run as much as the logistics allow, while Russia scrambles to re-establish the line of contact.
    1
  1202. Some stooge in the Kremlin will make a mountain out of a molehill. Then Putin will have a big rally full of bored government employees and uninterested university students compelled to attend.
    1
  1203. So what are all these Russian conscripts dying from?
    1
  1204. Don't panic guys, Moises Huerta (a.k.a. Empty Head) once again brings his sock fetish to your attention while he opines about things he knows nothing about.
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  1205. This isn't new. The US isn't likely to declare war over a downed UAV.
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  1206. It's that it was downed by a "collision," which can be diplomatically dismissed as the pilot being reckless.
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  1207. Washington Post are far from being military analysts.
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  1208. It makes sense, politically. All Wagner has to do is not move back as much as the rest of the Russian Army.
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  1209. Then go find some pro-Russia copium, Mr. Know-it-all.
    1
  1210. You pinheads said that for the "Kherson" offensive, too. Not that I'd expect vatniks to remember.
    1
  1211. โ€‹โ€‹@gio vanni Either the money printer or Xi gets resources practically gratis as Russia tries to keep up with the interest rates from those Chinese loans. Neither looks particularly good.
    1
  1212. As often as you dorks cheer for Russia, even the Russian state TV is saying Ukraine is likely to succeed.
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  1213. He's not claiming the UAF was completely destroyed multiple times. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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  1214. โ€‹ @ivanbasson982  Cut off from international markets, it's pretty obvious that Russia is coming out of this in worse shape than Ukraine.
    1
  1215. As Darth Putin famously said: "I remain a master strategist."
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  1216. โ€‹@Riley Morrisroe Apparently, some POWs from a Russian reserve unit said they were moved to the front without being issued rifles.
    1
  1217. It would not be the first time Russian units deliberately shot at each other.
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  1218. I doubt that. It's more likely they're regular army units who are very much aware of how vulnerable they are if they get spotted.
    1
  1219. Crippling sanctions, massive casualties, and going bankrupt. Doesn't sound like Russia's winning to any reasonable person.
    1
  1220. โ€‹ @joshuapaul2022  Kremlin bots are still in complete denial of Russia's failure to take Kyiv.
    1
  1221. In Syria, not Afghanistan.
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  1222. It looks like the plan is to just hold on and let the Russians bicker over what meager gains they get. The infighting should keep them unfocused long enough to punch a hole elsewhere.
    1
  1223. Obviously, you're oblivious to Russia's mobilization efforts.
    1
  1224. Russia's own lack of progress is doing exactly that.
    1
  1225.  @johnjingleheimersmith9259  The pro-Kremlin stooges are saying it, you can safely bet they're deflecting from the fact that Russia is doing it.
    1
  1226. Before the influx of convicts, Wagner employed a lot of Russian Army veterans.
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  1227. It's pretty straightforward: make your opponent overexert himself in one place, move on another.
    1
  1228. โ€‹@Colonel Angus Yanukovich was well known for his involvement in organized crime, corruption, and rigging elections. Hardly a paragon of democratic values.
    1
  1229. The UN Security Council sanctioned an intervention. Russia is a permanent member of the UNSC, which means they can stonewall it.
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  1230. โ€‹ @sandusky_skaii3485  While Russian troops can only use TikTok to beg for supplies.
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  1231. โ€‹ @bilic8094  Which it isn't.
    1
  1232. On paper, at least. Information spreads kinda slowly when units are reluctant to speak with each other and don't have radios.
    1
  1233. They're safe in the West, where their mobilization papers have no legal sway, unfortunately for everyone else.
    1
  1234. โ€‹ @sandusky_skaii3485  Just like you.
    1
  1235. Russia literally lost half of the personnel they started with.
    1
  1236. โ€‹ @solidfoelife  Life is pretty cheap in Russia to waste tens of thousands on a small town.
    1
  1237. Source: Trust me, bro.
    1
  1238. That's what Russia's MoD wants you to think.
    1
  1239. Good for you, now Bakhmut risks being encircled by Ukraine. ๐Ÿ˜‚
    1
  1240. "Better to err on the side of caution" as the saying goes.
    1
  1241. It's actually funny how you simpletons are so clueless.
    1
  1242. Throw enough bodies at a problem, you don't need either, fool.
    1
  1243.  @ะกะตั€ั…ะธะพะ‘ัƒัะบะตั‚ั-ั„7ั  Russia has definitely started. But you fools can't accept that the Russian Federation is a ghost of the Soviet Union.
    1
  1244. In what span of time? A few weeks is pretty normal. Russia lost 130 tanks and IFVs in the same time frame around Vulhedar.
    1
  1245. You clowns act like the US is the only country that sees Russia as a security threat.
    1
  1246. Ten months to take a town with a pre-war population of 70,000 people. Barely 20 kilometers from where the invasion started.
    1
  1247. More like Wagner was being goaded forward by the MoD like livestock to fight Ukraine in Bakhmut.
    1
  1248.  @geroutathat  A lot of the old commie blocks in Eastern Europe are pretty much all concrete. They're practically bunkers already.
    1
  1249. โ€‹ @realCarlosMazda  Is a few meters per day what qualifies as "rekt" nowadays? I thought it was 2023, not 1916.
    1
  1250. That's assuming his successor isn't somehow worse
    1
  1251. I doubt that he'll be transferred to a rear unit...
    1
  1252. Do you honestly believe that word salad?
    1
  1253. So basically television in Russia?
    1
  1254. It's Wagner and MoD butting heads over who gets ammunition.
    1
  1255. Different units occupy different areas of the front, idiot. Not all of them coordinate with one another.
    1
  1256. If you were somewhat informed on military matters, you'd have already figured out what a "delaying action" is for.
    1
  1257. That's only if the Kremlin decides to pull the plug on Wagner.
    1
  1258. Elements mean nothing unless they secure a point where they can cross in force. This is basic military science, but keep on huffing paint.
    1
  1259. And you're dumb enough to believe the delusion of Russia's recovery from Putin's disastrous invasion of Ukraine.
    1
  1260. It's not particularly wide, but the banks are pretty exposed.
    1
  1261.  @MrRjizz  The average Chinese citizen has bigger problems.
    1
  1262.  @todd1770  Russian combat deaths are very real, and Putin is very hard-pressed to shelter idiots like you from this reality.
    1
  1263. When Trump stops getting indictments.
    1
  1264.  @todd1770  Russia couldn't even stop Wagner from driving on Moscow. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ Lukashenko had to talk them out of it. Fuckin' Lukashenko--that pushover--talked Prigozhin out of storming Moscow.
    1
  1265. Nominally, they do. But everyone just lies and covers each other's asses.
    1
  1266.  @3dprintmiami  Now would you want to drive your only tank over a mine?
    1
  1267.  @SlosII  The epidemiology laboratories that pretty much every major city has. ๐Ÿ˜‚
    1
  1268. Texas won their revolution against Mexico in the end.
    1
  1269. Russia tells us they seized some town with no visual confirmation. Then, tells us they seized the same town two weeks later. And again. Then celebrate the rubble as a huge achievement.
    1
  1270. That's a pipe dream, if I've ever seen one. Mรฉxico is never going to vote to be Russian. ๐Ÿคฃ
    1
  1271.  @Kyle-sr6jm  The fact that it still took months to take it says a lot on its own.
    1
  1272. The pro-Russia protests are on all the time, fool. What TASS won't show you is that the pro-Ukraine demonstrations are much bigger.
    1
  1273. Not sure about being poisoned, but it certainly looks like he gained weight.
    1
  1274. Given Russia's track record for dishonesty, their word can be discounted until something more credible appears.
    1
  1275. In reality, it's Ukraine fighting Russia. Even Prigozhin admitted this.
    1
  1276. The same disaster that was Grozny.
    1
  1277. I'm guessing you forgot how long Kherson was telegraphed before Ukraine actually made a move.
    1
  1278. Meters, more like.
    1
  1279. โ€‹ Vasil Stoychev  What bathtub swill are you drinking?
    1
  1280. โ€‹ @grahamstevenson1740  On paper, BMPs and BTRs are amphibious, and T72s can be fitted with a snorkel for wading.
    1
  1281. If you want to ignore the Russians begging for supplies still.
    1
  1282. Pretty much. It keeps your ass, more or less, dry.
    1
  1283. Nazis were never in charge, moron. It's old Soviet propaganda to pigeonhole independence movements in their puppet states.
    1
  1284.  @phild3936  They have decades of experience from the USSR.
    1
  1285.  @JelMain  I mean, landmines aren't the most mobile of weapons. Russia's probably expecting the mobiks to break and counting on the minefields to buy enough time for blocking detachments to reorganize them.
    1
  1286. Not completely true. Then-general Erwin Rommel punched a hole in the middle of the night.
    1
  1287. โ€‹ @josteincarlsen2905  You mean the one where Russia pretends it's still a superpower?
    1
  1288. BRICS isn't military. China and India are proof of that.
    1
  1289. While Russia deluded itself into a grinding war of attrition that has been nothing but an unmitigated strategic disaster for Putin.
    1
  1290. It's a question of how many are ready or even able to be launched.
    1
  1291.  @deanappel8010  And Putin's antics pushed Finland to join. Adding another 1000. ๐Ÿ˜‚
    1
  1292. Probably both. You can still move into places that your opponent doesn't consider worth contesting and call it an advance.
    1
  1293. Area denial is also a task artillery performs.
    1
  1294. Because the Russian Federation is a shadow of the former Soviet Union. Potential doesn't mean anything when they're physically incapable of getting even 300.000 to a combat-ready status.
    1
  1295. A few meters in a city that's barely a fraction of the entire front. Say what you will. These advances are glacial, at best.
    1
  1296. Until they make consistent gains larger than a few square meters.
    1
  1297. You idiots have been saying that for over a year, and it's not even true. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
    1
  1298. Even Prigozhin admitted that Russia is only fighting Ukraine. This whole NATO thing is just copium.
    1
  1299. A beer buzz isn't quite the same animal as guzzling 500ml of cheap vodka.
    1
  1300. If it was Israel, there'd be a crater.
    1
  1301. โ€‹@wilberwhateley7569 Do you really think you'll have the luxury of stopping to find out?
    1
  1302. Less than you think. A modern ballistic vest will generally stop almost anything you're going to load into a shotgun.
    1
  1303. โ€‹ @marcoszavala8435  Reserves are pretty useless if they can't be trained and equipped.
    1
  1304. I thought he was ousted first?
    1
  1305. โ€‹@Moises Huerta Obviously, you don't do much reading. ๐Ÿ˜‚
    1
  1306. Even though Russia routinely acts more like Nazis than the US and UK.
    1
  1307.  @ะ•ะฒะณะตะฝะธะนะŸะตั€ัˆะธะฝ-ะต1ัŒ  No, you're just an idiot. The difference is that Ukraine gained thousands of square kilometers for their losses. Russia wasted thousands of men for comparatively meager gains.
    1
  1308. โ€‹ @ua420  Kharkhiv and Kherson are far bigger gains than Lysychansk.
    1
  1309. Reading isn't your strongest suit, is it?
    1
  1310. You idiots have been saying that for the better part of 12 months now.
    1
  1311. โ€‹ @b12n23  Shelling doesn't need to be in huge salvos to be considered shelling.
    1
  1312. โ€‹@Mdumiseni Hlophe We're 380-something days into the "limited special military operation".
    1
  1313. Obviously, you've never bothered to consider how vague those goals really are. Ukraine is far more militarized than they were in 2021, and your Nazi boogeyman doesn't even have any real influence on Ukraine's domestic policy.
    1
  1314.  @paulmasterson386  They'll reach Kyiv in time for the WW2 centennial.
    1
  1315. Not as bad as yours, evidently.
    1
  1316. And the Russians haven't made any real progress since last August.
    1
  1317. Professionals are predictable, but the world is full of amateurs.
    1
  1318. That means Russia will flatten the city, hoist a big flag, and tell everyone they're under a new dictatorship.
    1
  1319. Seventeen square feet, as a matter of fact. lol
    1
  1320.  @Khan84  The Russians do the expected, more often than not, before dying.
    1
  1321. Sort of. Insofar as it nets him brownie points with the Z crowd, he's more than happy to throw MoD under the bus (and vice versa) for any notable setback.
    1
  1322. Don't panic, guys. Moises Huerta (a.k.a Empty Head) is here to reaffirm his weird fetish with socks.
    1
  1323. This also assumes that these units are at their optimal strength, even though quite a few of them are not.
    1
  1324. Because what you pinheads see as failing and what an army sees as failing are clearly different.
    1
  1325.  @Neo-py8fn  Very effective at wasting ammunition, if the Russians are seriously trying to target a moving vehicle.
    1
  1326. If you're face down in a pile of copium, maybe.
    1
  1327. Nobody is invading Russia.
    1
  1328. More bars than yours ever did.
    1
  1329. Well, try to at the very least. It's kinda hard to motivate people who legitimately don't see a point in being there.
    1
  1330. Pro-Russian media personifies the concept of a participation trophy.
    1
  1331.  @chebysh8047  Russia and the vatnik bots still can't figure out how to cope with Russia making literally no progress on any of their stated objectives.
    1
  1332. Saddam Hussein was hanged, remember?
    1
  1333. No, too hard. Probably a block of clay.
    1
  1334. โ€‹ @Njerimebanane Only a thousand times more. ๐Ÿ˜‚
    1
  1335. Embezzlement can happen at pretty much any level of the hierarchy.
    1
  1336. Russia literally just redefined poverty to keep the numbers down. And you've clearly never seen Russia outside of Moscow and St. Petersburg.
    1
  1337. โ€‹@angeurbain6129 Straight-up trying to change the narrative again, comrade. No. In reality, Russia failed miserably if you looked at the objectives Putin laid out in February 2022. The "second best" army in the world still doesn't control the entire Donbas after 530 days of war. In 1941, Germany went from Warsaw to the outskirts of Moscow in 117 days.
    1
  1338. โ€‹@AmericanPrimate There was actually several along the line of contact, but they all achieved pretty much the same.
    1
  1339. The US had hypersonic missiles since 1965. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
    1
  1340. Numbers don't mean much when you're incompetent.
    1
  1341. โ€‹ @okbutthenagain.9402 Sort of. Four were confirmed write-offs, but none of them were lost to another MBT.
    1
  1342. Kyiv looks pretty intact to me.
    1
  1343. Oh, did Russia manage to take another two houses?
    1
  1344. Well, yes. Do you grasp what OPSEC is?
    1
  1345. ZOV is literally changing Russian culture into Nazism.
    1
  1346.  @lesterquintrell4844  Russia is apparently comfortable enough with their tank inventory to use them as vehicle-borne IEDs.
    1
  1347. No, they just built new ones.
    1
  1348. Green tends to stand out when the grass is starting to go dormant for the winter.
    1
  1349. They're usually around 2-3km from the front. Enough to take advantage of the optics at range and can be up front in a few minutes should the need arise.
    1
  1350.  @abrakadavra3193 If that's seriously all you got from that, then there's reason to doubt your ability to read.
    1
  1351.  @westbenchmancave  It's $0.85 per day. Is that painful to your cheap ass?
    1
  1352. Russia has failed on every front.
    1
  1353.  @lesterquintrell4844  A fun little tidbit of reality (not that you're interested): Russia violated literally every agreement they made with Ukraine since 1994.
    1
  1354. Not particularly. You can pull and replace that entire engine in about 45 minutes, if need be.
    1
  1355. We have thousands of them in storage. Modernizing and sending replacements isn't particularly difficult.
    1
  1356. Still looking at a loss ratio of some 300:1 in favor of the Western MBTs.
    1
  1357.  @eshelly4205  It's also common sense that Russia would have to push through their own minefields to encircle the Ukrainians.
    1
  1358. There's several from the Iraq War you can finger blast yourself to.
    1
  1359.  @paulgibbon5991  How many times is that now? I've lost count. Not that I've ever particularly cared about what Medvedev has to say.
    1
  1360. โ€‹ @used369  You need to actually be unpopular for that. Zelensky's popularity in 2023 is far higher than it was in 2021.
    1
  1361. Not even close.
    1
  1362.  @trevoror8668  Bro, have you even seen the state of North Korean defectors? Unless they're from Pyongyang or a Party elite, they're always malnourished.
    1
  1363. That's probably why Con Air had to turn around the other day. The "hydraulic leak" was just a cover story, if you want to believe it.
    1
  1364. Dementia Don thinks everyone is as much of an unprincipled sellout like he is.
    1
  1365. Everyone is also forgetting that there were years of fighting in China, Spain, North Africa, Palestine, and Sudan prior to Germany's invasion of Poland.
    1
  1366.  @ebonspike  There's also Medvedev's comments on regime change and whatnot. But not even the Russians listen to Medvedev, evidently. Lol
    1
  1367. Democrats still need to come to terms that they aren't likely to come out on top by being sticklers for the rules. Trump and his bootlicks are too stupid to even learn the rules, much less abide by them.
    1
  1368. Democrats are the minority party in Congress. So doing so would be moot.
    1
  1369. I'd bet five bucks that I have literal tools smarter than Trump.
    1
  1370.  @MikeJones-mf2fw  For an idiot man-child to play schoolyard bully?
    1
  1371. โ€‹@yusufsiddiq8866 As any reasonable person should, paycheck or no.
    1
  1372.  @ILYWEAM  So why are its most ardent followers so violent?
    1
  1373.  @Bakes-z4c  You do realize that they're really only effective against stuff you can see , right?
    1
  1374. โ€‹ @ะšะพะผะธัะฐั€-ะพ8ัŠ  Ukraine isn't in the Caucasus.
    1
  1375. Jamming, usually. But high-powered lasers are being experimented with.
    1
  1376. I doubt it. There's thousands of near-identical trench lines across the front.
    1
  1377. There was a guy who said that in 1939, too.
    1
  1378. It's probably repairable, depending on how big the explosion was.
    1
  1379. No, too insensitive unless it's a remote detonation.
    1
  1380. โ€‹ @creedsc1399  Let us know what provinces the US annexed. We'll wait.
    1
  1381. Bakhmut has been completely empty for months now.
    1
  1382. Can you read? It already said Ukraine captured the tank, and the Ukrainians didn't use the T90A prior to liberating Kharkhiv.
    1
  1383. โ€‹ @tomhenry897  If only you could get some brain cells kicked back to you...
    1
  1384.  @merlinelhombre  The US and UK are party to security guarantees for Ukraine in exchange for denuclearization in the 90s. And Ukraine has applied for EU membership, just as the former Warsaw Pact applied to join NATO. Nobody in Europe trusts the Russian Federation, and Putin's disastrous invasion proves exactly why.
    1
  1385. โ€‹ @ะผะธั…ะฐะธะปะบะฐั€ะฐะผะฐะทะพะฒ-ั€1ั‚  Kherson was supposed to be "Russian forever". I guess "forever" in Russian means about 6 months.
    1
  1386. A potential competitor to Russian natural gas.
    1
  1387. They weren't. This isn't the first time the idea made rounds in the news cycle either.
    1
  1388. And it's a fraction of what would be spent if we actually deployed troops.
    1
  1389. โ€‹ @nightmarestitcher  Around $3 million USD for the newer T72s. The drones themselves range from a few hundred to a couple thousand dollars. Even several drones would be pretty cheap compared to a lost tank.
    1
  1390. They could use 100 of these drones and still be cheaper than the tank. ๐Ÿ˜‚
    1
  1391.  @aleserban9322  Russia doesn't have three generations to lose. ๐Ÿ˜‚ Also, why can't the Nazi Russia fanboys ever use lose correctly? English isn't that hard.
    1
  1392. Then you're not thinking like a Russian.
    1
  1393. DPRK troops deploy in Russia wearing Russian uniforms, idiot. The Kremlin likes to pretend they're Yakuts or Buryats.
    1
  1394. That was almost a year ago now.
    1
  1395.  @sawfishv6565  Russian propaganda conveniently ignores that Putin buggered Russia's economy.
    1
  1396. It's been expanded to a regiment-sized unit now.
    1
  1397. Odd seeing people still not understanding what illustrative means.
    1
  1398. Nazi Russians cheering for less than a dozen kilometers on a front that's over 2500 ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ Priceless.
    1
  1399. 3,000 Russian troops have called the surrender hotline in March. The ruble tumbled another 17% against the Euro in March. Russia is in a 2.3 trillion ruble deficit out of their nominal 2.9 trillion annual deficit limit. Even the propaganda talking heads on Russian state TV are finding it hard to spin the reality to fools like you.
    1
  1400. โ€‹@Mountana Rivera You're about 12 months too late to avoid sounding stupid.
    1
  1401.  @pretol1  That's the point. They assembled Wagner and pro-Assad militas to attack US forces. The Kremlin disavowed them, and we wiped the floor with them.
    1
  1402.  @brealistic3542  I mean, what's the point if they're only expected to live about 24 hours?
    1
  1403. Tank seats 4, horse seats 1.
    1
  1404.  @chrisedward7575  If Ukraine is so corrupt, why didn't Putin buy his way into Kyiv instead of invading?
    1
  1405. Ideally, trenches are deeper than you are tall.
    1
  1406.  @krunchie101  Kursk was part of Kievan Rus about a thousand years ago. Part of that "historical boundaries" spiel.
    1
  1407. No, when Russia retreats it's a "goodwill gesture".
    1
  1408. Prigozhin trying to one-up Shoigu and Gerasimov.
    1
  1409. That doesn't really mean much outside of Russian propaganda.
    1
  1410. Russia would undoubtedly be better off if they didn't invade Ukraine in the first place.
    1
  1411. Dementia Don is going to quickly figure out that many hands make light work.
    1
  1412. If you look at any of Russia's dealings over the last two years, Putin's clearly not in a position to dictate terms for anything.
    1
  1413. But how many of those are actually going to be deployed on the offensive rather than supporting it?
    1
  1414. On its own, it's not close to enough volume to supply the Russians in Southern Ukraine. UAF needs to sever (at the very least be in a position to seriously threaten) the land routes in the occupied Oblasts.
    1
  1415.  @userqyesji  Wouldn't the line be in Russian though?
    1
  1416.  @filipcavents5218  Who are these "Great Powers"? ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ More countries are partnering with the US than Russia and China combined.
    1
  1417. Apparently not.
    1
  1418. You just have trouble discerning fact from fiction.
    1
  1419.  @baekdumountaintiger5701  North Korea deployed 40 troops to Kursk and 18 of them were apprehended for desertion already. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
    1
  1420. You must be isolated in an information bubble. ๐Ÿ˜‚
    1
  1421. Because you numpties can't wrap your empty heads around a photo being merely illustrative.
    1
  1422. Probably not. Wagner actually invests in decent equipment if you're worth it.
    1
  1423. The Norks are making the jump from 1950 to 2025. The ROK is already there.
    1
  1424. You do know that Norse settlers were in the region and established Kievan Rus, right?
    1
  1425. Wagner is dying for a few blocks in Bakhmut, there's literally no advance anywhere else along the front.
    1
  1426.  @blesz04  Literally the only place Russia is gaining ground is Bakhmut.
    1
  1427. Clearly it's more effective than the shovels Russia is using. RIP fascist Russians.
    1
  1428. The only people Trump cares about are named "Trump". The only people Trump has any interest in helping have more money than your entire family will make in a hundred years.
    1
  1429. @FayeinAlaska  You mean the weird alternative reality the right likes to impose on the world?
    1
  1430. Over 35, and a natural citizen. Literally it. Nobody ever imagined voting for a snake oil salesman before.
    1
  1431. He's not part of the gag order.
    1
  1432. โ€‹ @catpaladin1 If it goes as well as his attempted electoral fraud, how many Trump toadies are going to get indicted this time?
    1
  1433. He's smart enough to know his base is dumb enough to believe it.
    1
  1434. With any luck, Democrats seize the House majority. Once they oust Maga Mike, they can change that.
    1
  1435. His career up to this point was fairly respectable, as far as law goes.
    1
  1436. @Chez8922-kf6cy  Trump would probably charge $100 per cubic meter, just because it's him.
    1
  1437. Did you count the 80 or so electoral fraud cases?
    1
  1438.  @otowngrl77  No reasonable person, at least.
    1
  1439.  @pvb9964  Biden was mediocre. Trump is a trainwreck of flaming dumpsters.
    1
  1440.  @jmfisher01  While Trump guts Medicare, Medicaid, USAID, Social Security, et al. They're props for the Melon Felon, and that's all they will be.
    1
  1441. Moral turpitude is for liberals and RINOs, apparently.
    1
  1442. โ€‹ @deborahburrell-sinkler8005  Does incompetence fall under ineffective?
    1
  1443. Half his schtick is being a vindictive twat.
    1
  1444. Per the polling, it's taken quite a slump, at least.
    1
  1445. Let's hope the 2024 election proves it was a fluke.
    1
  1446. If Habba is any evidence, listening to Trump is a sure-fire way to end up sanctioned by the bar association.
    1
  1447. That largely depends on Trump and co. If it doesn't descend into a pattern of behavior, or inspire some degree of criminal activity, it probably wouldn't meet the standard for actual malice in court.
    1
  1448.  @peterebel7899  It's easy to miss mediocrity when its successor is shameless incompetence.
    1
  1449.  @Bart-o7v  I'm still waiting on whatever crimes Joe supposedly did.
    1
  1450. โ€‹@teejay6063 The irony is that the far-right platform is based on the exclusion of others.
    1
  1451. Trump surrounds himself with yes-men, bootlicks, and brown nosers.
    1
  1452. Ordinarily, it could be marked off as stress. But this is a clear pattern of behavior.
    1
  1453. To a point. But some people have more patience than others.
    1
  1454. โ€‹ @Blivot  That's the Secret Service's job, I think.
    1
  1455. โ€‹@anonymoose116 If Trump was a lawyer, he could talk your traffic ticket into first-degree murder.
    1
  1456. โ€‹ @disneydanny2  kinda doubt it, honestly. She's in one of the safest red districts in the country.
    1
  1457. โ€‹ @tompastian3447  So voting for the felonious dictator wannabe is "logical"? ๐Ÿค”
    1
  1458. What else would the Maga circus do?
    1
  1459. "It's not illegal unless you're caught" was once just a joke. Maga Republicans turned it into bad career advice.
    1
  1460. Some deluded rambling about Hunter's laptop, I'm sure.
    1
  1461. โ€‹@ace9840 Data is consistent: since the Cold War ended, the US economy does much better under Democrat leadership.
    1
  1462. @user-hi2qc9df5c  So it's okay for Trump and Barr to it, but not Garland? The process is literally the same as it always has been. Cannon's decision is based on mental gymnastics from a Maga "think"-tank.
    1
  1463. The far-right's war on education is starting to pay dividends.
    1
  1464. If you remember Backadder III, he supported the monarchy for the sole purpose of financially exploiting it. Problem is: the peasants aren't that smart.
    1
  1465. Trump is a weak man trying to act tough; Vance is a spineless yes-man.
    1
  1466. The oblast still isn't under complete Russian control.
    1
  1467.  @biggstavros5876  Which never happened, since satellite imagery is impossible for vatniks to look at.
    1
  1468. And Russia still can't defend its own borders and Moscow's airspace.
    1
  1469. That's not a turret.
    1
  1470. I thought YouTube was banned in Russia?
    1
  1471. โ€‹ @moiseshuerta3984  Are you there, on the ground?
    1
  1472. Do vatniks know what "scale" is?
    1
  1473. In reality, this is all Russia has. Putin doesn't lead the USSR. That old infrastructure is gone.
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  1474. โ€‹ @retnerlimsiaco-rh6tg Because you idiots don't know how much of a difference a large warhead makes.
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  1475. Imagine how embarrassed the FSB was when the CIA knew about Prigozhin's mutiny a full week before they did.
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  1476. โ€‹@MarkNOTW Russia is imploding on its own and NATO hasn't deployed a single trooper to Ukraine.
    1
  1477. โ€‹ @MarkNOTW Even though Russia literally shelled its own citizens, towns, and is emptying entire villages of men to be sent to Ukraine.
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  1478. With what? ๐Ÿ˜‚ Putin effectively disarmed Wagner after the mutiny.
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  1479. Literally nobody said that.
    1
  1480. It's an Iskander launched from a MiG. You do the math.
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  1481. Russia can always show the missile debris. They don't just disintegrate.
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  1482. Ukraine was literally invaded, if you haven't been living under a rock for the last year.
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  1483.  @discoboy8169  Interviewer got sacked after Prigozhin had less-than-flattering things to say about the Ministry of Defense. Use context clues and try to keep up.
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  1484. Wasn't some guy in India killed by a homemade helicopter?
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  1485.  @sqnhunter  You call it "incompetence", but sonar has trouble even reaching 3,000m and you're looking for a vessel the size of a minibus. In a literal ocean. Without power who knows where it could've ended up.
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  1486. โ€‹ @wolfvale7863  Shebekino, actually. I think that's how it's spelled anyway. Same province though.
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  1487. On your own territory, regardless of your own civilians.
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  1488. Russia already played all their cards. Putin isn't stupid enough to escalate into a nuclear exchange or a full NATO intervention.
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  1489. The US doesn't have an insurgency from a war they started.
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  1490. As always, Russia is well over a decade behind, if not more.
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  1491. The Russian Federation is a shadow of the former USSR. The output is far inferior and dependent on foreign components.
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  1492. It's armored like a BMP. I'd rather use a Carl Gustav than a Javelin on it.
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  1493. That actually is a thing you have to drill into crews for IFVs: you are not a tank .
    1
  1494. The Turks are intent on enforcing the grain deal for the next two years, naturally firing on shipping is going to widen the conflict, and that won't end in Putin's favor.
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  1495. โ€‹ @hyhhy It literally hasn't. Russia's population plummeted by 1.5 million in 2022 alone.
    1
  1496. โ€‹ @RonaldTolar-pg8uh None of which is happening. Those who actually follow the war know it's sent by rail or flown in.
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  1497. It was until Russia invaded. Putin has nobody to blame but himself.
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  1498. Russia is literally trying to weaponize a famine.
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  1499. Russia literally threatens people with 7 to 10 years in prison if you don't call the war "special military operation". House arrest being a spy is generous.
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  1500. Ironically, this is the result of Russia's invasion.
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  1501. โ€‹ @19SaD82  It's called "Russki Mir", or something like that. Nevermind the vatniks failing to mention the Orthodox Church being largely a mouthpiece for the Kremlin.
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  1502. Why not? At the end of the day, they don't do anything different than a Tomahawk. They're just really, really fast.
    1
  1503. Surgery and flight tests are not the same thing.
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  1504.  @arthurmondrake4713  Even the Chonma-215s are newer than that.
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  1505. No, they're repatriated where possible. Wagner are just the expendable dregs.
    1
  1506. While India and China butt heads over their shared borders. ๐Ÿ˜‚
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  1507. Granted, that is possible, but it's also extremely wasteful.
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  1508. That's more confirmation bias than logic.
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  1509. The dam can be rebuilt. I'd be more concerned about Russia blowing up the ZNPP. That much radioactive material will contaminate the entire Mediterranean.
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  1510. From a direction the counter-offensive isn't even coming from, no less.
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  1511.  @poolman20001  From the other side of the reservoir in Zaporizhia. So they only really flooded their own defenses and cut off the water supply to their own occupied territory.
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  1512. The UAF isn't concentrated in Bakhmut.
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  1513. I lost brain cells reading that drivel.
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  1514. Russia is having trouble invading a country a fraction of the size. Even the pro-Kremlin talking heads admitted they'd lose in a direct confrontation with NATO.
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  1515.  @77esto  I'm guessing you don't either.
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  1516. Russia already threatens to nuke everybody on a near-daily basis. Medvedev blowing hot air is just par for the course.
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  1517. Meanwhile, Russia never had complete control over any of the Oblasts they "annexed".
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  1518. They wouldn't be responding to Russia if Putin wasn't being a jackass.
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  1519. If you launch 12 missiles at an un-powered bomb, statistically, one is bound to hit.
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  1520. โ€‹@Wolfvale Sort of. NATO is petty Eurocentric, both in practice and writing.
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  1521. You mean like Russia claiming the entire UAF has been destroyed? Again. What about the 20,000 "NATO commandos"? ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ
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  1522. 450 wounded are still Russians out of the fight.
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  1523. โ€‹ @mrjerzheel  And Russia claims to have destroyed more Ukrainian aircraft than the UAF had aircraft.
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  1524. โ€‹ @abbaup8543  You're absolutely clueless.
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  1525. โ€‹ @festekj  NATO does this thing called SEAD/DEAD. Your fancy missiles are practically useless without guidance from a ground radar.
    1
  1526. Which he didn't. But keep trying.
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  1527. In reality, Russia has been laying out red lines for months and has done nothing. As long as NATO supports Ukraine, China gets the message that Taiwan is out of their reach.
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  1528. Russia said several times , including Prigozhin, that the counter offensive has begun.
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  1529. Which is incorrect. PAC-3 is specifically an ABM. Humiliating Russia's overhyped Kinzhal missiles is their job. Smaller drones are targeted by a different system. This is what smarter people call a "Layered Air Defense".
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  1530. No, Patriot shoots down missiles, not drones. You're pretty dumb.
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  1531.  @alberthenriette8976  Which is objectively incorrect.
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  1532.  @joshuapaul2022  You're not from Earth, are you?
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  1533. @Ron Jones Ron Jones put more letters in a comment than he has brain cells.
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  1534. Russia mined baby carriages with deliberate intent to inflict civilian casualties. Which is against the law.
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  1535. Back on Earth, if armored vehicle losses mean a poor reputation, then what would that mean for Russia? With well over 2000 visually confirmed tank losses?
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  1536. โ€‹@bernhardkurth3585 US sources show Russia taking far more casualties than Ukraine. Prigozhin revealed the Russian Ministry of Defense is taking 4x as many casualties than is being reported.
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  1537. Worth noting that SAMs depend on ground radar for targeting information.
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  1538. โ€‹ @deanmason5900 In reality, Putin relies on Russia's ethnic minorities to fill the ranks. Why would Russia have recruiting ads in foreign countries if they didn't have a manpower shortage?
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  1539. โ€‹ dentimodel7535 Not even Russians want to fight for Russia. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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  1540. And the vatniks are finger-blasting themselves over it.
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  1541. โ€‹ @GeraldoluizAprendiz Is that why Russia is having to plunder military equipment from its puppet states?
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  1542. โ€‹ @arpadfabian4513 Russian arms sales literally cratered over the last year, but keep trying, lapdog.
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  1543. โ€‹@ringotran64 Absolutely nothing. Because you have to have the ability to replicate components. Russia can't build them, or import them, and it too busy cannibalizing its economy to do anything about it.
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  1544. โ€‹ @f-35lightningii6 Why would the US need to reverse-0:16 engineer anything Russia deploys? ๐Ÿ˜‚ Orcs were practically dredging the Black Sea for a drone using 20-year-old tech.
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  1545. โ€‹ @morepork559 Russian aggression makes you look like a bigger idiot. Considering that Russian aggression was literally the reason NATO became a think.
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  1546. โ€‹ @ahmedvawda1282 How's Russia's three-day special military operation on day 525?
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  1547. Because Russia isn't going to verify those claims.
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  1548. Russia literally rewards failure.
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  1549. โ€‹@David No, vatniks are too stupid.
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  1550. The US has been saying that for the last 20 years, Trump is hardly unique.
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  1551. โ€‹@Dark Cloud Ordinary people call it a "red herring".
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  1552. Putin lives in an information bubble.
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  1553.  @jean-pierrevandermerwe7604  Like the talking heads on Russian state TV can't tell the difference between a Leopard 2 and a crop-sprayer. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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  1554. A better army than Russia has.
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  1555. Russia said the Ukrainian Army was "completely destroyed".
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  1556. You're clearly still asleep. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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  1557.  @MrBlu3  You mean like Russia's much-hyped capabilities falling flat?
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  1558.  @michaelfaraday8391  Russia punched down and got stuck.
    1
  1559. Russia literally squandered every advantage they had.
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  1560. โ€‹ @MrJayjay0420  You illiterate dolts may believe that, but reality says otherwise.
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  1561. The document cites a measly 12,000 Russian KIA. Everyone with brain cells knows it's fake.
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  1562. That's the kind of retarded characterization expected from the Russians.
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  1563.  @saucyinnit8799  They don't need one. The symbolism predates and is clearly beyond you pea-brains.
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  1564.  Social Libertarian  Remember when Zelensky actually performed in the big New Year show in Moscow in 2013?
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  1565.  @ฮ ฮฑฮฝฮฟฯ‚ฮšฮฟฮบฮบฮฑฮปฮทฯ‚-ฮป3ฮต  You're spelling it wrong. It's "Not-Z". Which quite a few people are content with.
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  1566. Clearly you clowns don't have any idea how inexpensive these glide bombs are.
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  1567. โ€‹ @19SaD82  Vatniks can't do math.
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  1568. โ€‹@lostlogic69 Glide bombs are already pretty inexpensive. Russia needs to shoot down a lot of them to be cost-ineffective.
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  1569. And these smart bombs are still far cheaper than the jammers.
    1
  1570. โ€‹@user1qaz2wsx Not exactly. It was a development from WW1 with the proliferation of the wrist watch.
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  1571. โ€‹ @ZOV_VLAD_Combat.footage  Tell everyone you know nothing about the Patriot without saying it.
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  1572. โ€‹ @ZOV_VLAD_Combat.footage  It's always funny when the Z-tards pretend the Kinzhals were the only missiles in that attack. They weren't.
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  1573. โ€‹ @ZOV_VLAD_Combat.footage  The US had the same capability with the Pershing II in the early 80s.
    1
  1574. A handful of missiles isn't the threat you think it is.
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  1575. I don't know if you've noticed, but US systems are fully capable of shooting them down.
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  1576. That's what Patriot and THAAD are for.
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  1577. โ€‹@shubham mundra Do you know how big a battery is and how it's even deployed? Fun fact: Even in its most localized configuration, Patriot is spread over 1 square kilometer.
    1
  1578. โ€‹@World Of Mix You do realize that course corrections bleed a lot of energy, right? Manufacturing has to be literally flawless, or the energy will tear the vehicle apart.
    1
  1579. Russia can't even make their own hardware ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ They have no real ability to copy anything anymore.
    1
  1580. โ€‹ @princesekyere9679  The Russian duma's chief deputy literally admitted that Russia has achieved nothing in Ukraine
    1
  1581. Incorrect. But it's not like anybody expects vatniks to comprehend a layered air defense network.
    1
  1582. Not well-versed in reality, are you?
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  1583. โ€‹ @AdityaSingh-dw3zm  Enough to see through the obvious nonsense Russia puts out.
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  1584. A $4 million dollar missile versus Russia's $10 million dollar Wunderwaffe. Patriot won that exchange seven times in two days.
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  1585. A repair that took barely an hour. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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  1586. According to Putin's regime, they shot down more Storm Shadows than the UK even sent.
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  1587. Because it literally doesn't work like that if you know even basic shit about air defense.
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  1588. Those of us on Earth know that it's not.
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  1589. โ€‹ @hkfoo3333  Then you have zero idea what Patriot is even capable of.
    1
  1590. @Shahriar Imtiaz Russia's too busy shelling Belgorod.
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  1591. Russia just wants to destroy Ukraine in peace. ๐Ÿ˜‚
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  1592. Ukraine has HARMs. And Kinzhals aren't an air-to-air missile.
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  1593. Russia had trouble shooting down drones over Moscow. They had to be in Russian airspace for hours to get to Moscow from the Ukrainian border.
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  1594. @David State Department should remind them that all sales are final.
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  1595. I'm kinda surprised they have sailors to spare. Bet they're glad they weren't deployed as infantry.
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  1596. It's not really that hard to find. Most of it is open-source.
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  1597. โ€‹@Moon Dog Love how you use two different figures from two different sources . When the leaked document estimated around 25-30,000 Ukrainian KIA.
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  1598. Democracy is a faรงade in the Russian Federation. Just like the USSR.
    1
  1599. Vatniks think losing 500 men for a few meters is a victory. It's not. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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  1600. โ€‹ @luisc.3215  Oryx confirms 4 destroyed.
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  1601. Prigozhin just admitted that Ukraine still has plenty of Western equipment left.
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  1602. And Russia likes to pull numbers out of their ass.
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  1603. โ€‹ @Huia87  Russia tacitly admitted they would lose to NATO.
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  1604. They can't even get 50km in Ukraine without running out of gas. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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  1605. A penetrated hull is not a guaranteed kill anymore. Spall liners have been a thing since 1960, and design philosophy emphasizes crew survival.
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  1606. There's 4 Leopards confirmed destroyed and some 2000 Russian MBTs.
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  1607. Russia can't even produce 20 per month. That's why they take those rust bucket T80s from storage.
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  1608. And Russian state TV is still shitting themselves over the counter-offensive
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  1609. Oryx has confirmed 4.
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  1610. โ€‹@Oliver H Literally nobody said that, but brain-dead vatniks will believe almost anything.
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  1611. It actually is.
    1
  1612. Because the West is more objective in their reporting than the East ever was.
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  1613. โ€‹ @cyber_habanero  You don't pay attention to much, do you?
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  1614. โ€‹ @100bmw9  Five T90s were lost for every Leopard.
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  1615. The West didn't lose 200.000 men in a war they said would be over in a week.
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  1616. โ€‹ @CaratacusAD  Western vehicles are designed for crew survivability.
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  1617. You can bet vatniks will suck on this like an Everlasting Gobstopper.
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  1618. @Bahodir Islomov  Obviously that's untrue. Software updates and calibrations on this scale take months and would require large portions of the air defense network to be offline while they're applied.
    1
  1619.  @mabotyin  Ukraine routinely uses the entire pod against a target. Out of 6 GMLRS rockets, only 1 gets intercepted.
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  1620. More like tens. The intercept rate isn't very high.
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  1621. They're landlocked and almost completely dependent on Russia. There wouldn't be much point.
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  1622. โ€‹ @nyrongordon7331  Talking heads on Russian state media, mostly. Then it became a meme.
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  1623. What's hilarious is that the documents also highlight how compromised Russian intelligence is.
    1
  1624. In context, "spetsnaz" itself is a pretty broad category in the Russian armed forces.
    1
  1625. Known about, already assumed, old. The vatniks are already hard at work trying to spin it as some sort of bombshell.
    1
  1626.  @sigwinfelicia2164  When you have a system as fundamentally dishonest as Russia, literally nobody but the vatniks are going to take anything from the Kremlin or its agents at their word.
    1
  1627.  @Blinxcavalli  Finland joined NATO. Isn't that what Russia didn't want happening? Ukraine is still getting support from the West. Isn't demilitarization something Russia *wanted*? Europe didn't freeze and imports gas from elsewhere. Wasn't Europe "dependent" on Russian gas? Face it: Russia failed on all fronts of their strategic aims.
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  1628. โ€‹ @amr8457  Neither of you apparently learned to read.
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  1629. โ€‹@Ken Johnson Total casualties. Not sure where the only KIA figure came from.
    1
  1630. โ€‹ @YujiroHanmaaaa  It's the new spin on Putin sending tens of thousands of Russian men to their deaths.
    1
  1631. Russia is having trouble insulating itself from the reality of their failed "special military operation".
    1
  1632. โ€‹ @omnomnomu  Baghdad has 8 million, and the US succeeded.
    1
  1633. Tell me you don't know how taxes work without saying it.
    1
  1634. Not impossible. But it was a roughly 1 in 8 chance with the GMLRS rockets.
    1
  1635. โ€‹ @mariecleary  That's how you know it's fake. There's equipment the US hasn't even sent. ๐Ÿ˜‚
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  1636. You dolts said that last year. Before Russia lost half of the territory they seized in March.
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  1637. โ€‹ ะ’ะžะ’ะžะงะšะ  Literally does not exist.
    1
  1638. Russia routinely failed to intercept GMLRS missiles impacting Antonovsky Bridge.
    1
  1639.  @manmin517  What has NATO actually destroyed in Ukraine with literally no military presence? ๐Ÿค”
    1
  1640.  Michael Kopischke  Because you stooges are incapable of looking critically at geopolitics.
    1
  1641. You're 12 months too late to avoid sounding stupid.
    1
  1642. Only if Russia is rightly blamed for starting it.
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  1643. Doesn't really help when most tanks are getting disabled by mines first.
    1
  1644. With APS systems that ultimately don't work?
    1
  1645. โ€‹ @AahFukIt  German pillboxes had tracks? ๐Ÿ˜‚
    1
  1646. Then you pinheads account for factors that lead to vehicle losses. But you won't.
    1
  1647.  @trickpony409  Not so smart evidently. Lend-Lease was for the countries being invaded by the Nazis, not the Nazis themselves.
    1
  1648. If that's why your lack of brain cells leads you to believe, that's your problem.
    1
  1649. Thanks to Russia.
    1
  1650. It was.
    1
  1651.  @novemberalpha6023  Bin Laden told some stooges to crash a plane into some buildings. That's not an invasion.
    1
  1652. According to literally nobody but the vatniks.
    1
  1653. Because Washington (by extension, the Pentagon) is aware that Russia is getting desperate to maintain an image of strength--if only for a domestic audience. The way Russian state TV works means Russia can't lose, and the US is better off being risk-averse. Even if Russia is the obvious aggressor, they won't think twice about pulling the victim card.
    1
  1654. Russia already demonstrated why half of their country is still living in 1930. Do they really want to see why the US doesn't have universal healthcare?
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  1655. โ€‹ @hernandocortez6351  There's nowhere close to 200,000 ๐Ÿ˜‚ They're just government employees browbeat into attending to keep their jobs.
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