Comments by "afcgeo" (@afcgeo882) on "Preston Stewart " channel.

  1. Let’s also not forget that Trump is quite friendly, to say the least, with Saudi Arabia, which has a big bone to pick with the Houthis and would love nothing more than to clean up the leftovers and ensure there’s no power vacuum left there.
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  2. Preston, I was born and grew up in Russia, but served in the US Air Force, including a deployment in AFG. It’s not really comparable, even to remote FOBs. Russian forward bases lack infrastructure (housing, food, clean water, showers, etc.) on permanent basis. Ours did not. If you were at a remote location, you were there for a week, two tops. Then you came back to a larger base for a while. Not the Russians. They don’t have the logistics for it. They get supply trains, but they’re not getting the big stuff or quantities. There are no C-17s, C-130s or even Chinooks full of stuff coming their way. All their stuff is brought by stake trucks or flatbeds. That’s why they went into towns for toilet paper, food, soda, booze, batteries. blankets, etc. They have no PXs. They don’t do MWR. There are no movies, no gyms… nothing. Without the ability to go into a town they have nothing, which feels like a prison.
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  3. The other passengers were VERY senior as well. One was the head of the Concord group that heads Wagner’s logistics and natural resources/energy operation and another was the head of corporate security. The flight was confirmed to had been flying from Moscow to St Petersburg, the home city of the company. They had been in Africa and came back to Moscow the day before and were briefing Kremlin officials before leaving Moscow for St Pete.
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  4. And all the uniforms look pristine and brand new. Go figure!
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  5. Ukraine is much more likely to follow the example of the Finno-Russian Winter War war in 1938-1940 where Finland lost 10% of its land, but beat back the Russian invasion, gained its independence and kept Russia at bay ever since. Of course this war is going on for much longer and there are far more losses, but the result was a weakened Russia that was open to foreign invasion, and the expulsion of the USSR from the League of Nations (predecessor of the UN). Interestingly, the Soviet Union’s explanation for the invasion of Finland in 1939 was identical to their explanation of the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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  6. Now lets discuss why the UN is doing nothing.
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  7. I personally know a number of guys who’ve gone and joined the fight in Ukraine, and every one of them (that I know) joined for the same reason: they enlisted in the US at a young age and found a home and family in the military. All of them had done one of more deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan or both and while they found them difficult, they also found a purpose in the fight. Since returning they’ve separated for various reasons, but all of them did poorly in the civilian world. Many have PTSD. Many can’t keep a job. Most are now single. They went because they felt their lives had no purpose in the civilian world. These guys are not well, psychologically.
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  8. Shall we ask Al Houthi about the aid they’ve sent to Palestine or contributed to the UN efforts there? They haven’t offered as much as a bottle of water to Gaza residents. That’s the type of friends they are.
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  9.  @lettheflamestakeover7374 NO. Marine Raiders are incredibly skilled, equipped, and looked after. They are not sacrificed. They are far too few and too valuable to sacrifice them.
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  10. Preston, please consider how those re-sellers acquired all the equipment that these soldiers needed. That’s not because Russians have free access to military gear the way Americans do. This is the equipment that “fell off” the logistics trucks. This is the reason they don’t have it in the first place.
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  11. I’m a native Russian speaker. It sounds like a couple of these guys may be Chechen. Also, while a couple of them are trained a disciplined, most of the video the leader (with the camera) spends yelling at everyone to move forward… again, and again, and again, and again. There’s not a lot of discipline there in actuality. This looks like a squad against 1-2 Ukrainian guys. The rest were either dead before this skirmish or were killed by the vehicle.
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  12. Having been raised in Russia and still having family there, this article is the best depiction of average Russia and average Russians I’ve ever seen.
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  13.  @JaKingScomez That’s an absolute lie. There absolutely were assaults like that this year and even Russian reporters were saying it and approving of it.
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  14.  @jaxonl7810  No news here… it’s a video on Youtube.
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  15.  @johnwalsh4857  Sorry mate, but none of that is true. There are about 500 Wagner troops in Ukraine. They’re in the Donetsk region. They’re all Russian. Nepalese guys are contracted into the regular Russian military. They get paid decent money, but not $4k a month. Closer to half that. They certainly don’t get R&R in the rear. There is still a lot of fear of desertion and the foreign fighters aren’t even Russian citizens.
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  16. The average tariff on US cars brought to the EU is 10%. European cars brought to the US get a 2.5% tariff. US food sold in the EU gets a 3.5% higher tariff than the other way around. EU tariffs on chemicals imports is 1% higher than the reverse. I don’t think 25% is right, but tariff parity is.
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  17. Apparently the guy straight up said he’s a communist. Nothing more needs to be said.
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  18. I wouldn’t write off Ukrainians just yet, but… time favors Russia here. Operational failures are giving them many opportunities to learn from mistakes, tactical and strategic, and time gives then an ability to implement fixes. Ukraine, being a much smaller country with fewer resources, simply has less ability to implement their fixes. They have to focus on immediate defense needs. This is why the West has been saying that time is of the essence in this offensive.
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  19.  @bigtuna45 All of that terrorism was already happening, every day, even before October 7th.
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  20.  @sebresludolf9611 Guilty of LITERALLY self-defense, by legal definition.
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  21.  @Bidmartinlo If it wasn’t their job to fight they wouldn’t be military personnel or called “forces”.
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  22.  @JaKingScomez  I have no echo chamber. Instead I have an IQ much higher than yours, and this thing called integrity. You have NO CLUE of what you’re talking about. Just running your mouth, trying to pretend you’re smarter than you are. No one is buying it, ANYWHERE.
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  23.  @tvgerbil1984 UN Peace keepers are LITERALLY enforcers. Look at their charter and mission statement: “UN Peacekeeping helps countries navigate the difficult path from conflict to peace. We have unique strengths, including legitimacy, burden sharing, and an ability to deploy troops and police from around the world, integrating them with civilian peacekeepers to address a range of mandates set by the UN Security Council and General Assembly.”
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  24.  @Fusi_lier But Azov is a regular battalion of the Ukrainian armed forces. Of course it’s funded by Ukraine!
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  25. These are protected supply trains, with higher priced equipment on it like missiles. They’re not for attack or infrastructure protection. They’re just a substitute for an armed convoy.
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  26.  @bigtuna45 And yet the West Bank was prospering and didn’t attack Israel, Hamas did. The same Gaza Hamas that had access to the Egyptian border, but the only thing it brought in was weapons.
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  27. Southern Lebanon terrain and type of fighting is actually very similar to what the US saw in Afghanistan. A lot of tactics the US found successful were taught to the Israelis. The big difference seems to be in IED use and suicide bombings, which aren’t nearly as common with Hezbollah.
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  28.  @angmori172 People often vote against their own benefit. Look at the last US election for a clear example.
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  29. Isn’t it curious how all of Hamas’ senior leadership lives abroad, while their people suffer? That shit was SURGICAL and Qatar should be taking notes.
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  30.  @SkywalkerPaul We just found a Russian sophist!
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  31. Nine times out of ten speeches like that are aimed at those who determine the budgets. It’s a political move that aims to put politicians into a tight corner. Give them the money they likely don’t need or don’t give them money and be accused of playing with danger.
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  32. I don’t particularly like baseless demagoguery. Lets speak plainly: there is no evidence of any significant troop and equipment build-up in Western Russia or Belarus to launch any major offensive. Period. Russia is an East-to-West stretched nation (geographically). For them to compile sufficient forces they would need to bring them from all around the nation, and house them, temporarily, near the Ukrainian border in order to mobilize them into a cohesive fighting force. Those formations would be easily noticed by satellites, human and signals intel of NATO and Ukraine. In other words, if Russia was planning something large, we’d know.
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  33.  @c1v1c2v2  I watched that too.
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  34. Yes, but also no… For someone who loves loyalty he’s never shown it to anyone or anything himself. He doesn’t commit himself to anything. TikTok is a great example.
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  35.  @Robert6889 People in the USSR were VERY aware of the Afghanistan war. It was in papers and in the news daily. Even as a child, I knew very well what was going on.
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  36.  @zackzittel7683 You are the only one acting in bad faith on this thread. Intentionally trying to cast doubt on things that are obvious is, by definition, bad faith. As per you flat Earth analogy… you are not saying the Earth is flat. You’re saying, “But we don’t REALLY know it’s not flat, do we” after being shown all of the evidence to it being round. Your only intention is to spread conspiracy theories.
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  37. The problem with that observation is thar war time economies also often don’t collapse. We have no idea if it will or wont.
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  38.  @daxtertalon4  To be fair, they at least used to send military units in an attempt. Not anymore.
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  39. Houthis looking to unalive themselves…
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  40. All military personnel are combatants during war time. Remember, Russia is still trying to pose as if it’s not actually a war.
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  41. The gap in our air defense system doesn’t refer to a spacial gap. It refers to the fact that our radars were specifically tuned to search for and track airplanes and missiles, all of which move at fairly high speeds. Since balloons were never a threat, the tech simply wasn’t calibrated to include slow-moving objects. The Chinese balloon in question was easy to spot because of its size, and the decision was finally made to recalibrate the system to include slow moving objects as well. That likely caused us to find the other, smaller balloons.
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  42.  @trool_slayer5075 Resistance of what? An AK is a Soviet gun.
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  43. Exactly. Russia only has enough forces to concentrate on one point at a time. Open up two attack points and Russians fold.
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  44. Unlike Russia, which sorely wanted to take Bakhmut, Ukraine has no need for that. They’re in it for the long game. They can encircle it and move on. The Russians will quickly surrender at that point.
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  45. That assumes they take prisoners, which they don’t.
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  46. I disagree. Ukraine will never give up Kharkiv. As the second largest city in Ukraine, it is crucial to keep it. Russia knows this. It would cost Russia over 500k soldiers to do it, which it doesn’t have to spare. So what is this about? This is a chess move, and a good one. It requires Ukraine to shift reserve forces from the Kramatorsk direction, which is what Russia is actually after. They want full control of Donbas and Luhansk. That’s their self-mandate so to speak. If they achieve that, they’ll feel justified to end the war through negotiations and keeping those territories.
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  47. Punishing? Youtube is a corporation.
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  48. You think they care about people?
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  49.  @Robert6889 That’s absolutely false. What war are you referencing?
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  50.  @neilcockbain6234 The UN was never present in Korea. The US and allies are there for the UN mandate, but not a single UN peace keeper is stationed there.
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  51.  @economicallyunviablekitten  No, you are objectively wrong. In 1942 Stalin created Strafbatallions based on the German units of the same name. Their job was to show soldiers that retreating wouldn’t save them, that they’d still be sent back to the front lines. Their first use was in Stalingrad. 929 officers who were found guilty of deserting were sent in as privates, with about 2/3 of them lost. People look at those numbers and assume that they were used as cannon fodder, but they fail to look up the loss rates of regular units in Stalingrad. 70% losses were across the board!
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  52.  @Oddball_E8  You’re not arguing! You’re trolling! You haven’t presented ANY evidence for your claims at all! I’ve been in the US Air Force for 22 years now. Trained and fought all over the world, including in Svandinavia. Most countries operate from dedicated military facilities, but have back-up plans to operate their fighters from alternate air fields, including unimproved, and from highway stretches specifically designated for that purpose. Even the US has a few of these, although it has little to no need, due to incredible numbers of small, paved airports everywhere. In Europe, the Cold War doctrine created this use in every single country, in the West and in the Warsaw Pact as well. It’s LITERALLY normal, and if you bother to do some research, you’d find it to be true. Sorry that your ego bubble was burst by reality, but Swedes aren’t at all unique in this. You were saying that Sweden uses highways as its regular operational sites fir its air force, which is 100% a lie. It doesn’t. It occasionally trains its air force on how to use highways as air fields, in a WAR EMERGENCY. This is because Sweden doesn’t have many developed airports throughout its country. Most of Sweden is sparsely populated and heavily forested. It has no major cities in its interior, so no airports either. Almost all of its airstrips are on the East Coast. Most are general aviation, about 400m - 2,000m long. Sweden didn’t make its highways into runways. Quite the opposite. It designed small airbases called Flygbassystem 90 and then converted their runways into highways and roads, along with hard stands for heavy aircraft. That’s what’s unique about Sweden. Any country can operate from highways, but only Sweden built these small bases and converted them to highways. By the way, most of the Bas90 system has been shut down and eliminated since the 1990s. That brings the main point - Ukraine didn’t! They don’t have these layouts, hard stands or maintenance hangars on their roads. They don’t have the heavy forests to hide them. They don’t need STOL aircraft. They are a MUCH larger nation, with a lot of vast, open areas. They have lots of existing airfields and plenty of ways to operate the F-16, just as they operate the MiG-29 and SU-25.
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  53.  @ArthurB26  What figures could they release? How could they count? Not claiming numbers is the only honest thing to do because no one actually knows.
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  54.  @huntergatherer7796  It’s Slovenia, not Slovakia, and they supplied T-55S, modified by an Israeli company in the late 1990s. They have a 105mm British rifled, stabilized gun that can shoot modern sabot rounds, a fire control computer, so it can fire on the move, a laser warning and defense system for ATGMs, ERA, modern tracks, an upgraded suspension, and a new (at the time) 600hp engine.
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  55. Palestinians DO have a country of their own though… JORDAN!
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  56.  @cratlifff  They were fighting the Houthis, not Yemen, and they were doing it without the US, which is literally my point.
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  57.  @imjustaquestion9922  It does, and along with Mi-7s and Mi-17s, they are used, but mostly to re-supply troops and for cargo transport far beyond the combat area. Ukraine has shot down 21 Mi-8s in the last two years, according to Oryx, so they are used, but as you can see, they’re easy pickings for even the most basic anti-aircraft systems, and Russia never developed air assault type units the way the US did. Russians don’t trust helicopters after their war with Afghanistan.
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  58. It’s not reasonable to tell an invader who is actively still invading to go home and pay for what they’ve done, including their leader to give himself up to a trial. It’s a bit like William Wallace in “Braveheart” riding out to egg on the generals on the field by saying their commander should ride out and kiss his arse.
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  59. “I don’t think Putin had or has imperial ambitions” Is he insane? Putin LITERALLY created the Union State (look it up). Putin has CONSISTENTLY stated, over the years, that Ukraine belongs to that union. he has also stated that he wants Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan to join it later as well.
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  60. Learned? This was learned in Russia when they were beating down the Golden Horde.
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  61. The Maxim’s gun was originally developed in the UK in 1886 as the world’s first heavy machine gun by Hiram Maxim, an American-British born in Maine. It was heavy and water cooled, but at 600rpms and very accurate. The Russians adopted it with few changes and made light and heavy modifications until 1945, but later designs based on it followed. One of the changes was a large radiator cap that could be twisted off by hand, so that snow could be stuffed in for extra cooling. The Maxims are legendary in Russia and are incredibly reliable and deadly. But I guess technically… more American weapons in Ukraine? 😝 The much scarier part is the IZh 27151 catruck it’s mounted on.
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  62. Absolutely. Even in Vietnam, the US had moved to neutralize the NVA rather quickly until its hands were tied by politicians.
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  63.  @collinsjean2422  Did you miss all of the history of the Vietnam war? Educate yourself before making a fool of yourself in public forums! The US military was barred from bombing or entering North Vietnam by politicians because of the threat of Chinese and/or Soviet direct engagement.
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  64.  @Woessner1101  That is crazy. It shows your absolute lack of knowledge of military doctrine. Despite the US having fought asymmetric conflicts the last 20 years, it has not lost the knowledge, tactics or strategies of the Cold War. In fact, it has practiced them the entire time. Our weapons systems have been designed for it, whether it be China or Russia, or more accurately, BOTH. Yes, our DoD has required our military to be able to fight both of those enemies at the same time, conventionally. That’s what we’re equipped and trained for. That’s why our military is so large and expensive.
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  65.  @JL-XrtaMayoNoCheese Not from the Germans…
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  66.  @marcusaurelius3487 Yes, but corpses from when? A minute ago? An hour ago? A day ago?
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  67.  @It1nt  You don’t know that. Go get out of your mom’s basement. See some sunlight for a change!
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  68.  @zeevwaismann8243  They’re not. They’re simply not doing anything at all.
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  69. AIM-120 has entered the Russian chat.
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  70. To someone who has no idea of what’s going on, yes, it could seem that way.
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  71.  @jm-np4mu  The losses against Poland and Finland are debatable. The war against Poland was initiated by Poland’s invasion, but was mostly a bunch of civil wars of communists against monarchists. In the war of Finland against the USSR, Finland kept its independence, but lost 10% of its territory and then got beaten back in the Continuation war, after siding with the Nazis. The result was Finland becoming a smaller, neutral nation and Poland being taken over by the USSR for many decades. Are those wins?
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  72.  @elijahtiemens5532  So you have a problem with fighting terrorists.
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  73. My guess is you never have before and you won’t be able to boycott it, but good luck to you! While I’m squarely against Trump and always have been, your stupidity isn’t much different than his.
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  74.  @ashapuhin72 He didn’t mean for Russians. The enemy can do research too.
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  75. Without a major, division-sized offensive somewhere along the front, there will be no movement in either direction. The challenge is accumulating such large formations without the enemy knowing. Both sides have excellent intel and satellite access on each other.
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  76.  @stevehill4615  Putin was not a part of that meeting personally, but I’m sure it was a calculated move.
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  77. For both sides. Russia has a large size advantage in terms of personnel. If they can make Ukraine keep throwing most of their army to be ground up then eventually Russia will win. Yes, Russia will take giant losses too, but it will win, and that’s all that Putin, Progizhin, etc. really care about.
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  78. What Adm Richards is looking for is simply a larger budget and he’s not above fear mongering to get it.
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  79.  @attilamarics3374  He’s a first person account and has to prove nothing. You can choose not to believe him, but unless you have a legitimate reason not to, it only says something about you, not him. Of course in your specific case we know your account was created as a Russian shill account a year ago.
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  80.  @tech477  Well… not sure that’s required. Finns haven’t come to terms with loss of territory either. The important thing is freedom and independence. Donbas, honestly, isn’t that important. Hopefully you can at least get Crimea back.
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  81.  @edl5731  No one in the USSR was “disposable” anymore than anyone is in an invaded country. In the first days of June 1941, most of Soviet Union’s Army was overrun. A lot of this was because they took very heavy losses fighting in Finland and Karelia the year prior. The USSR had a mass conscription and that meant that they had tons of recruits, but no logistics of supplies. They were short on uniforms, weapons, ammo, horses., trucks… everything. They sent people into the fight with little training or equipment and so they were called “disposable”, but they had no alternative. In the end, those “disposable” troops won Stalingrad and turned the war by denying the Germans access to Azeri oil. Having been born and raised in the USSR with 3 of my 4 grandparents having served in WW2 I can 100% tell you no one considered them “disposable” anymore than anyone more than a soldier is considered that in any other war in any other country.
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  82. Well he’s not fighting for Wagner, that’s for sure.
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  83.  @johanmetreus1268  You’re the first person in this thread that gets it and knows it. Thank you for your comment. Yes, that’s what I mean by a wartime emergency. That the system isn’t a system of regular air force operation in Sweden, but is rather a system of reserve infrastructure designed to be used during war.
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  84. I’m also wondering if the video is doctored. The explosion and the mushroom cloud have a great degree of clarity and focus on them, much more than residential buildings that are closer. That’s not normal behavior for CCTV.
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  85.  @Robert6889 You don’t comprehend what a loss is. Withdrawing, without achieving your goals, is 100% a loss. The US lost in Afghanistan as well.
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  86.  @Red_Comet_Char_Aznable  Go look up how the Golden Horde finished.
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  87.  @MinusEighty  Ukraine has FAR more than 400 tanks right now. They have over 1000 tanks, including all of the tanks given by Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Morocco and others and tanks they were able to capture from Russia. Remember, very few tanks were used in Bakhmut as it’s a very urban battle where tanks are vulnerable and not all that useful.
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  88. Whom are you quoting?
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  89.  @jakeroper1096 I think it’s impossible for Trump to comprehend it.
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  90. Of course CIWS rounds are cheaper, but sorry, that’s a dumb comment. No one on that ship knows or cares how much what costs, especially when a missile is coming at them. The CIWS is a last line of defense weapon and they must have fired their missiles and missed or didn’t catch the missile on radar until the last second. No one gambles away their lives for the price of something they don’t pay for.
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  91. Girkin’s a real piece of work that Moscow might just arrest and offer to the Hague as a negotiations concession in the future. He recently went back to Donbas to join the fight, again, as he was only admitted as a Private, despite his former Lt Colonel rank in the FSB internal forces (now RosGuard). He actually took command of a battalion from Donbas separatists for a little bit, but was never allowed to get into any fight because he lacked any military ID. Apparently none of it was official. So he was told to go home, which he did, with a really pouty face. You can’t make this shit up.
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  92. 1-4 are realistic. The rest will be laughed at by Russia. Then again, neither side actually wants to cede anything at this point. Ukraine is in a much stronger bargaining position than it was, but Russia still wields all power as the aggressor. This is all what I call, “political peacocking.” This is a wishlist. Negotiations/peace offers contain sacrifices you’re willing to make in kind.
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  93. They’re sociopaths.
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  94.  @alvinbonny1562 You never spent a day in the Marine Corps. You just watch too many movies.
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  95.  @doctorjivago5081 Which LITERALLY means HE aviation bomb.
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  96.  @kemarisite  The Korean War was fought under the United Nations Command (NCO) that was formed on July 7, 1950. It was in the UN Security Council resolutions 83 and 84. It was a UN-led coalition of 22 nations.
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  97.  @emilpopovic9742  Even most Russian ethnic Ukrainians who wanted more equal status for the Russian language consider themselves Ukrainian, not Russian. Ukraine had a much better standard of life than Russia did before this war. This is why Luhansk and Donbass aren’t actually declaring wanting to be a part of Russia, but independent regions. They wanted more autonomy within Ukraine.
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  98. Just about everything. VERY organized in fact.
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  99.  @gmvs62 Because we’re not Cuba or North Korea.
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  100.  @tedcurrently6092  You obviously haven’t actually studied any history.
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  101. You must not know any history.
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  102.  @MrRugbylane  That used to be the case, but in the age of instant media and individual ability to record and transmit that, there’s little we don’t know, at least when it comes to large events. Plus it’s very much in NATO and Ukraine’s interest to make it known, across the world, immediately.
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  103.  @Herewegoagainc41 Yes and no. In a democracy we do bear the burden of putting people in power, and their decisions, but to a degree. If they do something contrary to what they ran with then the people were duped. If, like Hamas, they do exactly as promised, then yes, the people are responsible.
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  104.  @attilamarics3374  Sure I do! Looking at your profile is clear proof that it’s a troll account. There you go! PROOF!
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  105. For context, the NRF is the closest thing Afghanistan’s ever had to “the good guys”. They want democracy and a multi-ethnic country and government.
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  106. Confirmed that it was.
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  107.  @dangersnail5839 That’s misinformation. Ukraine doesn’t “need” to use convicts either. They choose to. They still haven’t drafted a single person younger than 25. There is also ZERO evidence on the equipment and training the convicts are given. You’ve made that up. I doubt anyone will trust them to serve alongside them, with a weapon. My guess is that they’re being used primarily in support functions, but I also don’t know for sure. Neither do you.
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  108.  @kaleeysmith8801 What do Merkava tanks have to do with American movies? Are you mentally ill?
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  109.  @alistairjclark2433 Because driving trucks through a front and a combat zone is impossible and bringing in trucks from Egypt requires very extensive searches of trucks, so that weapons aren’t smuggled in.
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  110. None of that is an issue when you realistically add in the air and naval joint combat arms component. The Army and Marines don’t even go into the fight until and unless air dominance is established. That eliminates the heavy reliance on artillery in the first place.
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  111.  @It1nt  No insults here. Just the truth. You don’t know it because you are not privy to it. You aren’t there to know and it isn’t widely reported as fact. It is all rumors at this point. You just like spreading rumors.
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  112.  @It1nt  I meant that you need to get out of your mom’s basement and stop trolling the internet. Go experience life for a change! Ukraine isn’t reporting it through any official reports and South Korean media is LITERALLY citing Ukrainian bloggers. BLOGGERS!
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  113.  @Bidmartinlo  Read that “defense of the mandate” part again, and again, and again, until you grasp it.
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  114. The hint was very much intended, and was sent to Tehran as well as Damascus and Hezbollah. The US is a strong supporter of Lebanon’s legitimate, secular government and of Israel. The Israeli-Papestinian conflict is basically a domestic Israeli issue, but an attack from other countries is a whole different level. It’s why the USS Carney actively shoots down Houthi missiles as well and why the US is going to hit Houthi command & control centers and military depots. And yes, US special operations forces are in both locations.
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  115.  @somedude6795  Some, but you’re right, when it comes down to ideology, very few. There are many people who aren’t fighters and to some people that makes them “innocent”, but in the real world no, it doesn’t. In the real world they are propping up the fighters financially, logistically, politically, morally and emotionally.
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  116.  @valuerc2664  Your insane leader Milosevic. Also, it’s Serbia who attacked Bosnia and Kosova, not the other way.
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  117. That shaft is likely w ventilation shaft. Tunnels that big and that deep need lots of air circulation. Why are such large and deep tunnels needed? To house large weapon stashes and large quantities of supplies. They’re not all that useful for fighting out of, but for long-term storage… think food, clothing, ammunition, water, fuel, etc.
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  118.  @Robert6889 Rituals from hundreds of years ago, the dark ages.
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  119.  @MinusEighty  The CIA has NEVER moved any troops or equipment anywhere. They’re an intelligence organization, not a logistical one. Also, no, tanks don’t go missing. The US Army guards its tanks very well.
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  120. @ You don’t win a fight by defeating the fighters. You win by defeating their will or ability to fight.
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  121. Yup… Ukraine and TikTok basically being treated the same way.
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  122.  @Crown-Cola No, it wouldn’t, as no specifics of anything were given.
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  123. Using one and using one effectively are different things.
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  124.  @yakinthebox  You mean not Bosnia, Korea, Côte d’Ivoire, Chad, Burundi, Somalia, Angola, Mozambique, the Congo, Haiti, or Indonesia.
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  125.  @SeamusCameron  And yet that’s exactly what happened. We lost it, 100% politically. From day one, commanders in Vietnam had complained that the Pentagon, and in reality, the White House, would not allow them to engage the VC and NVA. This is why Operation Linebacker was such a huge turn in events in 1972. Nixon wanted a 3-day B-52 bombing campaign on Hanoi. Kissinger talked him into not doing it because the SALT I treaty was about to be finalized. Nixon authorized it in the end, but this was already during “Vietnamization”, a gradual withdrawal from Vietnam. That ended in the US negotiating in Vietnam instead of committing to winning. There was no desire to actually destroy the Ho Chi Minh government. The peace agreement again put Hanoi and Haiphong on the “off-limits” list.
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  126.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  No aircraft carrier was ever attacked. The USNS Card, a non-combatant aviation transport ship was, while in port, attacked by Vietnamese saboteurs (not a battle at all), and even then, it was repaired and brought back into service. You also prove you don’t read by attributing someone else’s comment on the US winning every engagement in Vietnam. They lost many engagements, though they actually won every military objective.
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  127. It’s honestly the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard come out of Johnson’s mouth, and that’s exactly a big claim.
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  128.  @tomsmith2209  I agree, generally corporations know better, especially on a commercial route that’s served by flights every hour. You don’t put all of your execs on one flight. These guys were always incredibly arrogant.
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  129.  @weareallthesame7924  I know more about him than you do, fella. I’m a St Pete native.
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  130.  @danielstruwig3078  And in Finland.
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  131.  @nikolay-e8l That’s like having a squad of invalids back you up in a soccer game.
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  132. Good!
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  133.  @TbeReaISIimShady He gave you an answer. GO READ IT, if you know how to read.
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  134.  @JohnSmith-fo5cx No. You’re “pro-Russia” because you’re a bot account set up 3 years ago.
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  135.  @yusufraage8554  No shipping has been stopped at all. Some ships just go around Africa. There’s no such thing as “Zionist shipping” anyway.
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  136.  @markdeckard7651  That’s false. No transponder in the world makes you immune to any missile. Also, Russian and Ukrainian aircraft use different IFF signatures, despite having been manufactured in the USSR.
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  137. No one is going to negotiate with Hamas, and I mean that seriously. The proposed plan is known by all parties to be, in plain terms, bullshit. Politically it’s a well-known and obvious non-starter. Jerusalem will not be allowed to be in sole Palestinian control. Israel has as much (or maybe more) claim to Jerusalem as Palestine. Hamas knows this well. This is a game.
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  138.  @attilamarics3374  Yes, your point being that you didn’t finish your primary education.
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  139. Here’s an SAT English comprehension question: Russian missile is to a residential building is as a Hamas rocket is to a ____ Answer: Hospital
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  140. Israel is talking about third party involvement not out of hope or theory, but out of actual offers front those nations.
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  141. Preston, the withdrawals are from Gaza city, not the Gaza Strip. Rafah is in the Gaza strip too.
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  142. Wagner’s been using that hotel as HQ for many months now, in the open. They just didn’t think UA could hit that far. Oopsie!
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  143.  @maxkrause5393  They’re real humans. Just not a separate ethnicity. Residents of Alabama are real, but they’re also not an ethnicity.
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  144.  @kylevines  For a photo op.
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  145.  @nicolomodica2704  So you’ll wish SS soldiers “good luck?”
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  146.  @wharris7594  Not quite true. They did use their air and long-range missiles first. They just weren’t willing to or able to commit sufficient resources to establish air supremacy, for political, not military reasons. That is Russia’s main weakness. Its military strategy is controlled by Putin, not his military officers. Their job is just to find a way to make it happen. The fact that his air force lacks significant precision air strike capabilities is why Putin didn’t want to involve it in the operation at the start. He wanted a quick, clean, precision op that didn’t have the optics of a full-scale war.
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  147.  @It1nt We don’t know that.
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  148. War is when weapons are flying, not a “long, long time before”.
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  149.  @jimm2600 ”The Palestinians” have no legitimate authority to sign ANY treaty. They’re not nations. The ICC judge in 2012 ruled on this very clearly. That’s not even mentioning the fact that it was the PLA (Palestinian Authority), not Hamas, that signed the treaty, which even under ICC “logic” would mean it only applies to the West Bank. The vote on “observer state” membership in the UN in 2015 was limited to the Palestinian Authority which was not the governing government in Gaza.
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  150. Reasonable to Russia though? Obviously not.
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  151. The assumption here, I think, is that the US has a doctrine on war fighting that resembles what we’re seeing in Ukraine. It does not, and here’s how that impacts our use of field artillery: The US war fighting doctrine relies on air dominance and heavy use of air bombardment/precision strikes. From cruise missiles to Wild Weasels to heavy strategic bombers, that’s the bulk of the US heavy munitions delivery. Land forces don’t even move in until air supremacy is achieved and the necessary special operations forces that are needed to make air strikes are in place. This then allows for the addition of medium to short range artillery in the form of rocketry, short-range cruise missiles and ling range gun fires. Then you start adding the armor and infantry components to advance and clean up. The heavy air war burden lightens the artillery burden by a tremendous amount and the US stockpile of air munitions and aircraft (fixed wing and rotary, of all branches) is very formidable.
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  152.  @AR-yp8nh More importantly, they both twist the Quran into a lesson of hate.
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  153. @ It is simplified, which is why the average is listed, but it is FACTUAL, not “wrong”. You not liking something doesn’t make it “wrong”. I never brought up quantities of cars. That’s irrelevant. The topic is tariff rates.
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  154. @ You’re talking about commercial vehicles. It’s called the “chicken tax”. It also applies on commercial vehicles from the whole world, not just the EU. I’m not against the EU imposing an equal 25% tariff on US commercial vehicles. I just see that things aren’t equal. As per Reuters, published on February 19, 2025, “The EU has a 10% tariff on passenger cars, four times the rate of the U.S. passenger car tariff of 2.5% and U.S. officials have complained about European value added taxes of at least 17.5%.”
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  155. @ That’s true, but only partially. It’s more complex than that. High tariffs on imported cars, for example, have resulted in many manufacturers producing in the US, Canada and Mexico (while a 0% tariff was levied on imports from Canada and Mexico.) Over the years they mostly moved to Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor. Speaking of… what tariffs does the EU impose on cars from China? Well… on EVs that’s 45.3%. Why? It’s not because China is so good or bad at making them. It’s basic protectionism that the EU has been practicing since its inception. It’s why Brexit became a thing.
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  156.  @deepinthewoods8078  There are no negotiations when most of your demands are simple non-starters. Negotiators come to the table with two lists: what they want and what they’re willing to offer in return. Then you compare the lists and negotiate them. You DO NOT go in saying, “I want everything, period.” I have over a decade of union contract negotiations experience in New York.
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  157. Don’t hold your breath. Nuclear war is not a goal.
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  158. What’s in the best interests of the US is a politically weakened Russia. A militarily weakened Russia leads to it being politically weakened. What we want is a Russia that is defeated in spirit. What the US doesn’t want and can’t have is a failed state Russia, because a failed state nuclear nation is not at all a good idea.
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  159. It’s not just that he has said as much. Everyone says things they don’t mean. It’s that him, and his entire party have been using it as a main point in elections, state expenditures and rally cries in Russia for over a decade. It began with Chechnya. The guy DEEPLY believes in the supremacy of Russia and in rebuilding its empire. I mean DEEPLY.
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  160. I doubt that you think.
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  161.  @martinblank1484  That’s FACTUALLY false. There was no “civil war” before 2014. There was no war at all before 2014.
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  162. Well they do manufacture things…
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  163.  @jameslee8428  Except that’s proven to be false. If you knew the region’s history then you would have known that. In 1948 the UN offered Palestinians a state of their own. They took that offer. Well… most of them did. A few radical tribes refused to be a part of the rest and chose to kill Jews instead. That Palestinian state is called Jordan today. Since then, the Arabs in the West Bank Gaza turned down statehood SIX TIMES! Instead claiming that they want Palestine to be ALL of the region, INCLUDING what is Israel. The main group that demands it is Hamas. They don’t just want independence. They want it AND Israel gone.
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  164. The Grippen isn’t awesome. It’s incredibly behind the times and if employed against an actual peer air force it’ll lose almost every time. It’s a good value in terms of cost, but in terms of ability… it’s VERY basic. Finland and Norway chose the F-35 for good reasons. It’s not even a contest.
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  165.  @thenestcpd  They fought the Houthis for over a decade without any US assistance.
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  166.  @johnandrewmayne You sound jealous that you didn’t get a good education or bother to become a CEO…
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  167.  @Pathfinder1932-t5d There are already massive sanctions in place.
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  168.  @dosa2990 1. They ARE under the N. Korean flag and in N. Korean uniforms. 2. They are N. Korean Army conscripts, not members of the Russian military.
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  169.  @zetster1144  Who is this “we” and what precedent?
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  170. They feel that way toward any nation that doesn’t accept their form of life and religion.
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  171. You’re incorrect on point 3. From the US Dept of State on the US Security Cooperation with Poland, “Together, the United States and Poland maintain a forward posture to defend the Alliance and counter Russia, which continues to undermine the rules-based international order. The United States leads the enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) Battle Group in Poland and deploys a rotational Armored Brigade Combat Team under Operation Atlantic Resolve, funded through the European Deterrence Initiative. Currently, approximately 10,000 U.S. personnel are on rotation in Poland. Poland is a regular contributor to NATO missions, including the eFP in Latvia, the tailored Forward Presence (tFP) in Romania, and NATO air policing missions in the Baltic, Iceland, and most recently, Slovakia. In 2019, the United States and Poland signed two joint declarations that listed planned locations for enhanced U.S. military presence in Poland and in 2020 our two countries concluded an Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA). The EDCA supplements the NATO Status of Force Agreement, further streamlines the functioning of U.S. forces in Poland, and establishes a mechanism for cooperation on infrastructure and logistical support for enhanced rotational presence. Additionally, the United States is building an Aegis Ashore facility in Poland as a contribution to NATO Ballistic Missile Defense. President Biden made a historic announcement at the June NATO Summit in Madrid that the U.S. Army V Corps Headquarters Forward Command Post, an Army garrison headquarters, and a field support battalion will be permanently stationed in Poland. These forces represent the first permanently stationed U.S. forces on NATO’s eastern flank and will improve our command-and-control capabilities, interoperability with U.S. and NATO forces, and management of prepositioned equipment.”
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  172.  @EddieBlueHalen  There are enough divisions there to fight right now. The US can move at least 3 full divisions in addition to that, within 72 hours. All of that would be unnecessary though, as NATO would have full air superiority in Western Russia within 72 hours, which would render Russia unable to fight at all.
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  173. One day? No, not in one day. It took him losing a friendly regime in Kyiv to think it.
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  174. Any evidence to prop up this conspiracy theory or is this just *feels*?
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  175.  @lifewithliz4131  Freedom of speech.
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  176.  @8aNda1d  Yes, and those who destroyed property can be prosecuted, but the vast majority of people weren’t destroying anything, so how does one keep a very few from destroying something? It’s not possible. We can hold them accountable, but preventing it isn’t realistic.
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  177.  @JohnSmith-fo5cx  Yeah… I’m definitely not one to like my own comments (unlike you).
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  178. You got to go home at the end if the day, take off the bags, wash and dry your feet. These guys don’t. If you keep your feet in plastic bags for a prolonged period of time (days), they will be just as bad as in the mud.
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  179. @ Factually, there is. There is a software “kill switch” in the F-35. It exists to protect the US in case a nation they sold it to one day turns into an enemy and decides to use it against them. To be fair, the F-35 is not the inly weapons system with such a feature and the US is not the only nation that builds the feature into weapons. And yes, nations do buy these weapons.
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  180. @ Exactly: fiction.
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  181.  @shelonnikgrumantov5061  That’s not at all what the guy in the video said, so it seems you’re commenting on something you don’t know about.
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  182. Israel has NEVER had issues penetrating Iran’s almost non-existent anti-aircraft artillery. They’ve always, successfully, conducted precision strikes on Iran. In this case they had ZERO trouble. If they wanted to strike Iran, it would have happened. You don’t probe with missiles. That gives the enemy a chance to reinforce and plug up holes in air defense. What did you do in aviation?
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  183. Which is?
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  184.  @daveward1935  You’re entitled to your “feels”. As someone with combat time on my 214, I am comfortable about saying that as it’s true. So many of us veterans need psychological and psychiatric help and don’t receive it. You not grasping or denying that is the real problem.
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  185.  @4Fixerdave  Ukrainians are learning, but they’re not learning the same things and they’re highly constrained by their numbers and sadly, their leadership. This is why this offensive went nowhere. They chose to ignore all NATO suggestions and made next no progress. My guess is that they think having F-16s will be a miracle cure. It won’t be. It’ll be an improvement, but their battle strategies are awful. They’re good at hitting logistics, but suck at actual combat. They’re unwilling to sacrifice soldiers to make big moves. And no, NATO can’t stop anything like you think they can. Ukraine has no idea of how to use those weapons.
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  186.  @ОлекЛис  The UR-77 is a vehicle, not a munition, and it’s called Метеорит.
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  187.  @TheDreadPirateRoberts-jr2fk Benjamin Netanyahu’s given name IS Benjamin Netanyahu.
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  188. And you know how?
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  189. The Tornado is not the vehicle. It is a family of MLRS vehicles. It is the rocket launching pad. Smerch is the rocket system. There are Tornado-G MLRS pods replacing the GRAD and Tornado-S MLRS that are guided systems. The 9A53-S Tornado-S is used on the BM-30 Smerch platform which is made out of the MZKT-79306 truck. The whole thing is called 9K515 MLRS and it has 12 300mm missiles, GLONASS guided. This is the Russian equivalent to the American M270 MLRS. The 9A62-4 is a light Tornado-S launcher based on the KamAZ-63501 8x8 truck. This one has 6 300mm tubes and is equivalent to the American HIMARS. It can also fire 122 and 200mm rockets with modification.
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  190. What pre-2022 lines? There were no lines between 2014 and 2022. There was ongoing fighting, just like there is now, but less of it. The lines shifted, daily. Also, the fighting was between Ukraine and separatists of Donetsk and Luhansk, backed by Wagner/Russia, but the Russian border lines in 2021 were the same as in 2013 or in 1995.,
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  191.  @emilzhiltsov5446  And again, they don’t have to officially declare war as an act of territorial defense doesn’t need it. It’s obvious war when you’re invaded.
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  192. Netenyahu is only in power as long as there’s a war going on, but you have to keep in mind that Israelis are already dead set to replace him with someone more moderate, and these plans will change with them.
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  193. Everyone has this.
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  194.  @Oddball_E8  Sweden isn’t “famous” for it. LITERALLY every country has this, including Russia!
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  195.  @johanmetreus1268  You must suffer from the very problem you pointed out about other Swedes. First off, I was never frustrated. Please don’t project. Second, “Reserve” has nothing to do with reservists. “Reserve” is a backup plan to what is used normally, during peace time. Sweden DOES NOT normally base its fighters at these locations nor normally operate them from there. The locations are for back-up use - reserve.
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  196.  @stuarthamilton5112  You’re 100% mistaken and obviously ignorant on everything you’ve said. I grew up in Russia - born in St Petersburg. Many highways in the USSR were designed for use by the air force and there are actual road signs indicating them. Same in Finland and many other nations across the world. No, the US doesn’t do that. Not because the F-16 can’t operate from austere runways - it can. It’s just that the US has so many private and municipal airfields that there’s no meed for it. Also, the intake on the F-16 is low, but it’s not inches from the ground, and having served for 22 years in the US Air Force I can tell you that EVERY aircraft needs a FOD walk to operate anywhere, including the Vigen and Gripen.
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  197.  @seanniemeyer5437  The third paragraph was talking about Ukraine not being eligible to enter NATO because of Russia’s invasions. I was just saying that it’s a big part of why Russia invaded in the first place - to keep Ukraine from being able to join.
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  198. Thank you! I was waiting for someone to say it.
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  199.  @alistairjclark2433 Are you a moron? Aid agencies are saying NOT ENOUGH aid is coming, not that it isn’t coming at all. If you’re gonna troll, invent something believable!!
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  200. The issue is that Israel has to thoroughly inspect all trucks coming in and arrange for their security (you saw what happened last week). That takes a lot of manpower, planning and risk. They can only do so much a day since this is half combat zone, half terrorist camp.
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  201. These people don’t hate Wagner. They don’t really even know what Wagner is. They hate Europeans and Wagner, being Russian, is Europeans.
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  202. Drones provide exact GPS coordinates. Laser range finders only give you approximate distances. The info goes to the drone operator, who then has to provide it to the customer, whomever it may be, and whatever system it may use. The customer may be a battery commander, a battalion commander, a division commander or even intel folks.
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  203.  @OriGummie  I don’t see Russia making any statement on the topic. Do you?
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  204. No… it would only set off 1-2 of them.
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  205. Preston, funny enough, the M109A7 SPH and M992A3 CAT use the Bradley engine, tranny and tracks because of their commonalities. The M1299 is expected to continue that.
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  206. An impasse means a mistake on either side can turn the tide practically overnight.
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  207.  @dannyhughes4889  They’re not hired by the UN. Countries volunteer military units for deployments under UN command.
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  208. Al Jazeera exists for a sole purpose: to brainwash people.
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  209. One thing that Hamas won’t tell you is how many of the deaths and injuries among Palestinians were at least directly caused by Hamas. As we now know, it’s a substantial number just from the hospital incident.
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  210. @ No. Those Israelis that don’t like him (and there aren’t that many), know exactly why.
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  211. I’m sorry… why are we listening to an Australian general? Australians are good guys and I worked with them in Afghanistan. As individuals, they are capable warriors. However, as a military force, Australia is woefully undertrained, underfunded, inexperienced in any type of combat, and incapable. At best, they can defend their shores (which no one seems to care to invade). They simply lack the power to project, militarily, outside of the Oceania region and play small support roles for NATO operations. The general clearly lacks an understanding of how NATO and specifically the US militaries plan strategically and what their actual capabilities are. Lets just say this, if Russia had invaded Australia instead of Ukraine, there would already be a Russian flag over Canberra.
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  212.  @Mike_Hawk489  One has nothing to do with the other. Not worrying about what happens abroad only creates more problems domestically and it won’t make any more veterans have a home.
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  213.  @Khronogi  Consider? I devoted many years to studying the Arab-Israeli conflict. You? Have you studied even 5 minutes on the topic or are you just spitfiring from TikToks?
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  214.  @barbdwyer22 Russia couldn’t care less about Ukrainian territory. They want Ukrainian will.
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  215. There are no spacial gaps as the system is regularly tested with our own and NATO aircraft.
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  216. Not Uncle Sam as much as mist of the free world. The Royal Navy’s been looking for a chance to demonstrate their capabilities. So have the French and Italians.
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  217.  @MM22966  And none of them are fighting for freedom.
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  218.  @boydrobertson2362  Stalingrad wasn’t a victory for Russia until it formalized into putting the Germans on a constant retreat. At the time of the battle no one thought it would be any type of victory. Russia lost about 1.1 MILLION soldiers in that battle. And so Bakhmut can become Ukraine’s Stalingrad, for sure.
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  219.  @wilhelmpfusch3699  There are no massive troops on the Russian side. Russia has just one division in reserves that is in Russia.
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  220. Preston, I think you’re applying a little too much “Western” logic to the Hezbollah assessment. Look at it from a different perspective. With Hanas being practically dismantled at this point, Iran is looking at who are going to be their chosen ones for the next year. Will it be Hezbollah? The Houthis? Someone else? All of those organizations are now trying to impress their sponsor and take over the power vacuum of Jihadist groups left after Hamas, but also ones to take on the fight against Jews, Americans, Europeans, and even the Saudis. The ones who can prove to be the biggest gadfly to their enemies will get the support. That actually means more to them than losing a few hundred fighters.
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  221. Hamas is attacking the humanitarian aid crossings and people building the humanitarian aid shipping docks. That says EVERYTHING about this war.
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  222. It was likely Biden and Trump combined, and it’s so that they can later claim the moral high ground. So far Hamas has not followed any agreements about anything, so chances are good they’ll break this cease-fire, and if they don’t, Israel will just resume ops after Phase 1.
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  223. @ Are you a psychopath or just stupid? I’m saying that tariffs need to be equal in both directions. You aren’t saying anything at all, just being a nationalist.
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  224. @ Please point out where I said the EU won’t or isn’t ready to negotiate… or stop trolling. Your choice.
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  225.  @Peter-nu8st  Same with Japan.
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  226.  @foobarf8766 I don’t know about Stalin, but he does have imperial ambitions, strong ones. He more sees himself akin to a Russian Tzar than Stalin, however.
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  227. And?
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  228. Given the geography of Gaza and the conflict, the sea is the ONLY way that very large quantities of aid of all kinds can and will get into Gaza. Not only can food and supplies can be shipped in, but also trucks and fuel. If this works there is also a chance a private or military hospital ship or two can be sent to Gaza to temporarily provide medical services. However, destroying such facilities will be a goal for Hamas, and they will blame Israel for it. Security will be very difficult. Hamas does NOT want the US to come out in a good light here.
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  229. It’s not entirely self-inflicted, no. Geopolitics are far more complicated than that. It was driven by outside forces, including China’s growth internally and internationally, the failed states in Syria, Venezuela and Cuba, and partially by the West too… a lot of things contributed. That said, the decisions to invade Georgia and then Ukraine were entirely domestic.
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  230.  @pavelvasilevich2785  What are you yapping about? They absolutely have T-72s. They were in the USSR. They have T-64 and T-55 too. Ukraine didn’t have T-62s, until they captured them from Russia.
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  231. From the accent of the man speaking, he is Russian, not Ukrainian. For context, many Russian neo-Nazis fled to the Donbas region of Ukraine over the last 20 years to escape the Russian government and the Ukrainian government. They have used the war in Donbas as a shield to continue their operations because during the war, neither government could get to them. Now that Donbas is under Russia and not separatist, they’re finding themselves squeezed again and are fighting against Putin.
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  232. There is no sentencing. There haven’t even been any trials.
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  233. Time to put the tin foil had back on!
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  234. How would you know what the crimes were? Even the prosecutors themselves don’t actually know yet.
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  235.  @havinganap  That’s historically false. Germany in 1938 wasn’t at all powerful. What made it powerful is its conquest of Austria and Czechoslovakia. It leveraged their militaries, economies and production capabilities. We’re also not talking about invasion as it was in WW1 with Germany. We’re talking about covert, limited air strikes on isolated strategic targets.
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  236.  @joshuastoughton1693 It seems like you ask questions because you don’t know the answer to them, but doing so in an accusatory manner instead. You don’t know why we were there? LOOK IT UP!
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  237. It’s sort of true. They support without knowing what or whom they’re supporting. Young people today truly love virtue signaling. It makes them feel involved and important.
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  238.  @CedarHunt  Obviously. Nationalism is a powerful sentiment everywhere. The issue is that he’s not calling for an internal growth of Russia. He’s calling for annexation of other nations as an ego boost to that nationalism. That’s not to say that the majority of Russians agree with that. They really don’t, but they are tired of living in shit, and don’t know another way out of it.
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  239.  @bazduggan4042  Are you asking or theorizing? If you want to make a point, actually state what the US has done that was the same.
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  240. 9/11 and the previous attacks on the WTC, embassies in Africa and the USS Cole were a bad reason? What are you, 12?
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  241.  @annpyingshek4693  They are NOT identical. You obviously haven’t been to them. It’s not about the statistical salaries, which are heavily swayed by Moscow and oligarchs who earn through mostly oil and gas. The Russians outside of big cities most often don’t have running water, electricity or anything else. Ukraine was able to provide all that to even the smallest villages. The poverty disparity in the two countries is stark.
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  242.  @Scar6628Gameplayer  So it looks like, according to Oryx, Ukraine declined to accept the 5 M114s from Portugal in May 2022. Taking it back to none in use. I attributed them having zero to them having been destroyed, but they actually never had them. Turkey doesn’t seem to want to assist Ukraine post-election. That said, it seems Ukraine doesn’t want such old weapons. There are much less old 155mm howitzers around that are more accurate and if they wanted a self-propelled M114, there were M44s. I just don’t think there’s much ammunition for them around anymore.
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  243. Yes, but that was our own weather balloon that was drifting toward Russia. Also, we failed at bringing it down. It ended up entering Russian territory and splashing down in the Arctic Ocean near Russian shore.
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  244. This is really simple: the major players on the Russian political front are all looking for a political way out for themselves, seeing that Putin has none, and that any win is now unattainable. It’s all about being to save face and perhaps use an “I told you so” months down the line, when the Duma and populous are looking for a new head of state. There is no real chance to hold 400k or even 200k Ukrainians to current lines. All sides know this. Not with all the equipment, training and intel they’ve received over the last few months. So now these certain people are trying to look farther out, to a post-war Russia and who will be left standing.
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  245. The UN is actively causing problems to the free world at this point. Time to abolish it.
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  246. 60 miles above you is nothingness.
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  247. If you support Palestine then the Houthis are absolutely your team. Both groups gave similar views on women, homosexuality, superiority of Islam and war in general.
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  248.  @BlossomsInTheNight It’s also cute how the charges against Israel came out against the same time, almost as if it was done for political reasons: to appeal the masses, instead of justice.
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  249.  @shayanmafi5827 It’s exactly the same in Russia.
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  250.  @KGF-zf2qj  Not at all a proxy conflict as the Saudis fought there directly.
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  251. I think you (and a lot of others) confuse how international law works. It is not some code of what you can’t do, unlike domestic laws. Countries entering treaties are simply making promises to each other, nothing more. As such, the US has every legal right to do what it wants (national sovereignty), as do Russia and Ukraine.
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  252. Yes, but that’s something you start AFTER a defeat. You don’t ask a sitting leader to hand themselves over. That’s silly.
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  253.  @dianapennepacker6854  Weapons is not how you achieve that. Weapons procurement contracts are usually short-term and often have drawn out bidding processes that really come down to the lowest bidder. Back during the Cold War a lot of advancement came from military development, but today most of it comes from the private sector.
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  254.  @gsmontag  First off, none of the situations he mentioned have ever led to war. I think that’s the most important point. Second, we are a nuclear power and presumably a war against another major power would be against another nuclear power. Aside from that having no historical precedent, we have the last 80 years (the Cold War) to show us that it’s not actually feasible. We know from history that arms races among nuclear power nations cause tensions, but do not lead to war. A nuclear war will simply destroy the entire planet and two powers like this cannot have a conventional war without resorting to nuclear weapons. This is why proxy wars are necessary.
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  255. Also… we’re the ones paying the tariffs…
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  256. Well… most of the EU has no nuclear arsenal.
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  257.  @pjhgerlach  And that’s why Europe could escalate and the US could not.
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  258. Which drugs are you on?
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  259. He may have.
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  260.  @SgtDreamz  Possibly, but it’s not really that simple. Launching nukes doesn’t eliminate any threat. It only gets nukes launched at you as well. Possession of nuclear weapons is the deterrent, usage is not. If the enemy isn’t afraid, and has nukes too, it stops being a deterrent.
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  261.  @EddieBlueHalen  A strike on Mannheim won’t do much, not only because it’s heavily defended with actual AA systems through multiple nations, but also because it’s just one town with just one base. All of NATO is spread out with hundreds of bases. All NATO plans assume Mannheim would be targeted anyway, along with Aviano, Sigonella, Rota and others. NATO has countless air fields, storage depots and bases/camps theoughou Europe and unlike NATO, Russia simply has no attack capability, especially now.
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  262.  @EddieBlueHalen  I’m afraid I won’t make General, but I do have 22 years in the Air Force.
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  263.  @EddieBlueHalen  Lets hope not. It would not be pretty.
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  264. Puuting this information out effectively destroys Senezh as they simply can’t do what they do without anonymity. Those soldiers will now be transferred to other, less clandestine units, and new recruits will need to be trained. That is to say Senezh is gone for a year or two.
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  265. Prigozhin is many things. He’s a thief, a pimp, even a restauranteur, but what he is not is a military strategist. What Wagner is doing is following direct orders from the Russian MOD. They fight limited battles on behalf of the Russian Army, nothing more. That’s why no one on either side will be paying any attention to his “predictions”. That said, you can throw out prediction number one and number two. No one in Ukraine wants anything to do with Belgorod. It has no use other than to motivate Russian citizens to support the war. Prediction number two was said by Prigozhin in order fir Wagner to get more funding, ammo, etc. Ukraine will not try to encircle Wagner. It will keep Wagner preoccupied in Bakhmut until mid-Summer, when it will run out of all supples. Why? Because Ukraine will start with prediction number 4, which will draw major shifts of personnel, vehicles, supplies and attention from Bakhmut, South, leaving Wagner to fend for itself. That’s when Ukraine will start to push East, just South of Bakhmut, toward Donetsk. Wagner will withdraw from Bakhmut to reinforce Donetsk. The Ukrainians will split DPR and LPR and take Melitopol, cutting off Crimea from Donbas. Will Ukraine hold on all those fronts? That’s to be seen.
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  266. It won’t because contractors get no protections of the Geneva Conventions.
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  267.  @albertroberts5929 Quotes of irrelevant people aren’t government policy or actions.
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  268.  @albertroberts5929  Random government (Knesset) members’ comments are absolutely irrelevant as they’re just domestic political grandstanding and Netenyahu has made NO comments that can be equivocated to support or encourage any genocide. You simply don’t know what “genocide” actually means. And as for Israel’s actions, they’re the OPPOSITE of genocide. They’ve been purposefully pushing civilians into safe zones that they’ve created in the first place.
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  269.  @christinaleighty5653  Most people there weren’t destroying.
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  270. They constantly do.
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  271. Mostly right… except the pronunciation of the missile. It’s KINZHAL, not KINZAL. Also, the US Army is capped at 218 General officers, while the US Air Force at 170. The Marines at 62 and 21 for the Space Force. So… the USA alone has 471 Generals (not including Admirals). Also, the F-16 can be operated on highways. It’s not ideal, obviously, but it can be. It is a part of Taiwan’s and Singapore’s air force doctrines and they’ve conducted exercises for it. The US does not do this as US highways weren’t designed for it. We have many physical barriers on highways in the US that would damage aircraft.
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  272. The situation in Marinka is a bit misunderstood here. The ONLY thing that Russians have taken is the large factory at the Western edge of the city, and that was given up by Ukrainians because it has already been demolished to the ground over the last 10 years of fighting. Ukraine gave it up as a draw into a trap, as Ukraine firmly holds firing positions on three sides of that factory. Russian military bloggers have criticized the Russian army leadership fir falling into that trap as over 600 have already been killed in it because no armor can go into it, yet it does not offer good shelter.
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  273. Preston, I watch your channel because you simply put out facts. Please don’t turn it into a conspiracy theory channel the way you did this video.
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  274.  @Brocuzgodlocdunfamdogson  Those are too worn out. They’d need to find some low use F-18s, but… Is an F-18 better than an F-16 or a MiG-29? I’m not so sure it is. The C models do have FLIR and laser designators though. I’d think Finland would offer them as they get deliveries of the F-35, but they likely won’t be able to for at least 2 more years. By the way, the US Marines are still flying Ds.
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  275.  @jasonsmall5602  Those are not its jobs.
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  276.  @vasilijesamardzic4151 No one suffocates from these.
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  277.  @patclark2186 You should at least graduate from high school before asking stupid questions. Who the F do you think Israeli shores belong to?
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  278. A blast wave is a concussive shock wave, not a vacuum.
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  279. Anarchist groups are always trying to subvert democracy.
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  280.  @bigheif  Destroying buildings for the heck of it? No. Destroying them because the enemy is operating out of them is fine. If Russia ever provided proof of Ukrainians having military posts in residential buildings I think people would see it differently. Also, when did Russia warn the residents ahead of an attack, giving them time to evacuate?
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  281.  @islandwills2778  No, Donbas WAS that. It isn’t anymore. Most of it is in complete ruins or has been working for Russia since 2024. Crimea isn’t a bizarre obsession. It’s a strategic requirement. This whole war was over Crimea, actually. It’s over Russia’s Black Sea fleet and Russia’s ability to contest the Mediterranean, which is almost entirely covered by NATO..
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  282. Interesting development this week: Belarus is now sending artillery munitions to the Russian army. That means either the Russians are running low in general or at least regionally.
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  283. Every Russian person, myself included, knows this basic truth of the Russian culture.
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  284. 100% that.
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  285.  @Typexviiib  What treaty is that?
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  286.  @alonskii That’s First Sergeant and Chief Sergeant.
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  287.  @maxkrause5393  No. Gaza looks the way it does because of Hamas.
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  288. NONE of this is about America First. It’s only about Trump first.
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  289. That’s like saying that Hitler was a good man for hating communism.
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  290.  @Sandhill1988  The UN? How would they enforce such a zone?
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  291.  @pdjinne65 We can agree on terrorists being to blame - So Hamas it is.
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  292.  @micumatrix  No, I don’t believe they did. They had tons of volunteers to protect Kyiv. They just started using prisoners.
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  293.  @clownchkn  Oh no, quite the opposite. It isn’t YOUR language. I have a college degree in English. The context of what you wrote is simple. You just don’t grasp that my example of Soviet convict unit losses versus regular line unit losses have nothing to do with German losses.
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  294.  @dronevidsandfreedom  No nation, except for the US, UK and France uses battle groups or AWACS at sea. and a volley of decent sub-sonic anti-ship missiles will be effective enough to remove a ship from the battle, if not sink it. All a Phalanx type system can do is neutralize 1-2 missiles if they’re coming in quick succession.
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  295.  @dronevidsandfreedom  Is that why Russia mounted a ground-based TOR SAM system on the Vasiliy Bykov corvette? Russia depends(ed?) on its anti-aircraft cruisers to provide area defenses, but without aircraft carriers or major amphibious assault ships, their vessels were designed and built mostly to operate on their own and be self-sufficient. Even the Kirov Class deploys with just an attack sub escorting it. The IADS systems Russia employs are strictly shore-based, dependent on the S-400, S-300V4 and the HQ-9 (Chinese SAM). These systems are somewhat assisted by land-based A-50U AEW&C aircraft, but only once air superiority has been established, which we see is an issue in itself for Russia. I won’t speak for China. I’m not versed in their current capabilities.
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  296.  @6XCcustom  What are you rambling on about? You’ve obviously never been to Ukraine. Ukraine’s aircraft are similar to America’s in that they require long, improved runways and taxiways to operate, albeit Russia mostly uses concrete paved runways and not asphalt. The Gripen NEVER outperformed the F-16 or the F-15 at Red Flag, EVER! The Gripen has been used in adversary training for the F-16 and F-15 where the US-made aircraft acted as adversaries (Russian) attackers and were forbidden to engage the Gripens at stand-off distances to provide the Gripen crews training in close-in dogfighting. In EVERY situation pike that, the defending aircraft ends up with a favorable kill ratio. They’re supposed to. That’s the training. They create situations SPECIFIC to what the Gripen excels at - close-in dogfighting. In the 21st century, NO ONE dogfights. Every engagement is done BVR. Stop spreading lies!
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  297.  @dzengrinder To be fair, Russians have been that way for well over a decade.
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  298.  @lonsalerno2441 The reality isn’t simple. It does change with demographics. Young people are immensely pro-Western and anti-war, as a whole. Well-educated people as well. Most of those are city dwellers. The older, poorer, less educated and more rural you ask, the more nationalistic they are. It’s not too dissimilar from everywhere else, including North America and Europe.
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  299.  @kaleeysmith8801 You absolutely are mentally ill to think someone won the war in Ukraine.
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  300. These aren’t random connections. The US and other nations’ intelligence have evidence that Iran, Russia, Brazil, and China have been using social media to organize and support these protests.
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  301. Hamas and Iran are celebrating to make it SEEM like this was their idea and their win all along. They do this to maintain power and take away the same claim from Netanyahu. It in no way suggests that it favors them, although any operational pause would, of course, give them a chance to live longer, regroup and rearm. That said… Israel has already stated that they plan to restart combat operations at the end of Phase 1 and that Hamas being able to conduct negotiations at all means that they’re not eradicated yet. This operational paise will take internal and external political pressure off of Netanyahu by allowing aid to flow and bring back some hostages. It will allow the IDF to rest, regroup and rearm as well, while intel keeps a very close eye on who in Hamas is now calling the shots. It’s a 6-week timeout and I suspect the IDF will hit them even harder at that point. without having Hizbollah to worry about.
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  302.  @jack7972 They’re all Sunni.
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  303.  @alistairjclark2433  It IS impossible to do in large quantities during combat operations. That’s why other countries are complaining. I don’t know where you get your misinformation from, but the official statement as of March 6 is that they’re up to 150 trucks a day, which is the most they’ve been able to do during the conflict. They have never seen anything even remotely close to 500.
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  304.  @zedeyejoe  Not going to happen. They’re not all that fed up with him and they certainly aren’t going to admit defeat or wrongdoing. Ego comes first in Russia.
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  305. But they would be mostly useless and all those pilots would be dead. The A-10 can only operate once you have air superiority. Modern SAMs will make mincemeat out of them. Ukraine also doesn’t have pilots to fly them and making an A-10 pilot takes a couple of years.
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  306. Article 42.7 only requires aid and assistance, not military defense.
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  307. Yes!
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  308. Those are some very precise conditions that will never happen… shells are only loaded right before firing…
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  309.  @Khronogi  They don’t have a choice IN WHAT?
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  310. Doubt of what?
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  311. There is always such a thing as too much. Resources are never infinite, so you’re taking away from other weapons systems.
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  312. Does it matter how major of a command this was? What if it was a weapons storage area? What if it was used to imprison and interrogate captives? What if it was a tactical communications center?
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  313.  @criticalevent It depends what you mean by the term “bunker”. Israelis call ALL underground structures “bunkers.”
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  314.  @kwanchan6745  Nothing is being moved! What exactly is “extensive”? A “bunker” is any underground structure that can protect from impact. It denotes no size, structure, use or material. Tell me, did you go to a school in Gaza or were you radicalized in Syria? Perhaps Afghanistan or Chechnya?
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  315.  @Fingerbang5667 They let them live… sort of. They have very few legal rights and are treated like shit.
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  316. A large rapid escalation would almost certainly lead to an all-out war with NATO, if not a nuclear response, but incremental increases don’t frighten as much.
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  317.  @petercohen5563 ”I’ve only seen…” There’s your problem. You’re ignorant, but arrogantly claim you know all the facts. Most videos out there actually show attacks on intact buildings and from intact buildings.
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  318.  @erockoutdoors633  Don’t be a drama queen. An attack on a set of rails is a very minor setback. Rails get replaced in a few hours and trains are back online. Ukraine is doing that every day. In reality, trains are an incredibly reliable, safe and capable form of freight transport, be it civilian or military. One train can bring dozens of MBTs or ballistic/SAM missiles to the front. You’d need many truck convoys to do the same. That’s not to mention that trucks are actually easier targets. You also can’t use an NLAW against a helicopter. 🤦‍♂️
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  319.  @ChrisAlbertH47  1. They didn’t leave it. 2. They DID show it.
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  320.  @JayzsMr  That’s false, little bot.
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  321.  @Bidmartinlo  Kudos to you. I did a tour as a blue myself.
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  322.  @SueHu-y7o  Everyone knows in general.
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  323.  @a5cent Except sending our troops to Ukraine doesn’t mean any direct military action against Russia. They can do training, equipment repairs, logistics, defense, etc. In that instance if Russia did attack them or the US directly, it would be an attack on a member state.
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  324.  @migueldecarvalho8012  More like by eliminating competition.
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  325. Military targets inside Russia are absolutely fair game, legally speaking. However, bring the war to Russia and A LOT more Russians will be willing to fight it, so it needs to be done carefully.
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  326.  @187Rajah  Putin did ask to join NATO, but that’s a ridiculous notion and was made in jest. The point of NATO is to balance power between small European states and those of the North Atlantic, against the HUGE Soviet Union/Russia. If Russia had joined NATO, it would: 1. have no reason to exist - would end and 2. would make Russia the dominating state in the alliance. That would create a de facto Russian empire and destroy all balance. All sides realized this and Putin used that logic to pursue dominance in Europe by other means. Ot is why Russia was allowed a partnership with NATO - friendliness, but not membership.
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  327. Preston, I think you are giving WAY too much credit to Rusi here. This is a British think tank that’s using the British current military system and the British current way of thinking. The UK military is absolutely unprepared to fight almost anything other than an invasion of the UK at this point in time. They’ve been suffering decades of attrition, underfunding and misappropriation. This model doesn’t understand the force that NATO is able to field rapidly, using solely its active duty personnel. It doesn’t comprehend the strength that the reserve systems of its members bring to the fight, and it doesn’t comprehend that all of its member states do have systems of call-ups/drafts in place, if needed. It doesn’t understand that NATO fights on land, in the air, at sea, in space and in cyberspace, ALL AT THE SAME TIME. It doesn’t comprehend how nuclear weapons play into a war. In very short, it simply doesn’t comprehend. The US alone has over two million military service members. This doesn’t even include the US Coast Guard (but should) or inactive reserve. So this isn’t just about the high technologies. It’s also simply a large number of personnel.
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  328. Emphasis on you talking, but not knowing.
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  329. Population of Tuva: 336,000 Population of Moscow: 13 million.
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  330.  @mrx2062  Joint arms isn’t a single tool.
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  331. Preston, I can see why it would be difficult for a US Army officer to understand what constitutes success in an existential war, a war where you are invaded. The US has never been invaded and doesn’t consider an invasion as a real threat. In an invasion like Ukraine there is only one strategic goal: recapture (liberation) of ALL occupied territories. Period. As such, objectives for offensive operations all rest on one goal: taking territory back and giving up none. Any day when you are capturing back any land at all, even an inch, is a success, as long as you’re doing it in a sustainable way. Slow and steady wins the race. I also see that you’re not understanding why the US is vague about its plans. Its plans depend on Ukraine’s needs and our partners abilities to deliver. We don’t just give what we want, when we want it. NATO has to do its joint assessments, intelligence agencies have to assess the political and military ramifications and logistics have to be worked out. It’s a dynamic war and with 50 partners, we are constantly hoping someone else will volunteer to take up a task to save us money (so is everyone else.) We have no strategic goal. We are flying by the seat of our pants, as is everyone else in war. The goal is to end the war with Ukraine being satisfied.
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  332.  @agnelomascarenhas8990  Except they aren’t going beyond the international laws of warfare…
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  333.  @omgnowairly  Except they’re both very deliberate, not indiscriminate.
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  334.  @Mike_Hawk489  Problems are not a net gain thing. It’s not that there’s no focus on domestic problems because we’re giving our time to international ones. That’s not how any of it works. ALL problems need solutions. In 1938 we were practicing isolationism - focusing only on our own issues. Two years later we were attacked at Pearl Harbor while Europe was decimated by the Nazis. If you ignore problems abroad they will come back to you, but MUCH bigger.
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  335.  @Khronogi  To a degree, absolutely. Let me ask you in return… are you a child or an adult?
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  336. Russia would declare war FAR before Ukraine ever gets to the original borders as Russia already considers Crimea as Russian territory. It would take a few hours to accept Luhansk and Donetsk into Russia, if they wanted to. If Russia starts getting properly pushed back, that will happen. However, Russia feels the pressure on all of its borders, from the Caucuses to China to NATO. It cannot afford to leave its vast Far Eastern, Southern or Northwestern regions unguarded. That limits its options in Ukraine.
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  337.  @dosa2990  What do nuclear weapons have to do with any of that?
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  338. Ukraine can ABSOLUTELY do all three with the F-16, and the biggest thing here is that the F-16 is capable of doing Wild Weasel missions, while the Gripen is not (and if you don’t know what those are, you don’t belong commenting on the topic).
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  339. They also have a unique (to modern tanks) feature of an escape hatch.
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  340.  @LenaRoss-i9e Their fucking job is to fight Hezballah!!! Literally! The UN sent them there to keep Hezballah out of Southern Lebanon!
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  341.  @LenaRoss-i9e The IDF told them to turn their lights off because Hezballah was attacking any post with lights on! They were attacked by Hezballah!
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  342.  @zackzittel7683  It’s EXACTLY what you did! It’s EXACTLY the excuse flat Earthers use too! Just because you haven’t seen it? The rest of the world HAS!
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  343.  @adminadminson3147  The Golden Horde was stopped in present day Ukraine, but Russia did get rid of them, unless you believe that Russia is still Mongolia.
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  344.  @marshalljulie3676  That’s technically true, but only because they pulled out of WW1. They were losing it.
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  345.  @ahmadfaris6013  No. Leaders live and fight with their people. Arafat didn’t live in Dubai or Paris.
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  346. If you cover every option then you’ll always be right when you choose one?
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  347. 1. Russia and China are NOT allied militarily. 2. While China and Russia have good trade relations (as generally do the US and China), and cooperate militarily in the North Pacific, they are NOT close friends. 3. Russia and China have a treaty of “Good Neighborliness and Strategic Cooperation”, the relationship is somewhat strained by the fact that both sides now see Russia as a much lesser party to the agreement. 4. Russia and China have historically been at odds with each other, with battles and skirmishes along their very long border. What actually unites these two nations is their fear/dislike of the US and in 2019, the Chief Foreign-Affairs for the Wall Street Journal stated that, “Though there is no overt ideological alignment between Russia and China today, the two governments share a hostility to dissent, deep suspicion of Western interference and a strong desire to impose tighter controls over their own societies. Mr. Xi has presided over a push to stamp out corruption and bolster the Communist party's role in the economy and the society at large—a campaign akin to Mr. Putin's earlier effort to tame Russian oligarchs and crush political opposition. China was inspired by Russia's legislation cracking down on nongovernmental organizations, while Russian officials have expressed admiration for China's comprehensive internet censorship and ‘social credit’ plan to rank citizens based on their loyalty and behavior.”
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  348.  @toshivibe  You’re oversimplifying things. China and Russia have had strained relations even post Soviet collapse and Poland and Ukraine aren’t doing all that well either.
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  349.  @khairulhelmihashim2510 Change is change. Sometimes it’s for the good and sometimes for the bad. Today’s youth are seriously radicalized. That is because of a lack of education, nothing else.
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  350.  @mitchyoung93 Yes, but you failed to learn history prior to that and you fail to grasp the difference between religions and ethnicities. Arab Muslims were Christian. Arab Christians were Jewish. LOOK IT UP!
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  351.  @Peacemaker728 Do you grasp that there was history before the 6th century? Do you grasp that there was history before Islam? There were no Muslims in Palestine when Jesus was born! No Christians either! They were JEWS!
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  352.  @tayseerkassas  They’re the attacker, not the victim, so…
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  353.  @aymenyahyaoui1771 It will mean Houthis losing their military.
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  354. EU countries can also engage in the peace process, but the issue is that Russia wants what it wants. Putin has no interest in making any concessions.
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  355. Everything about this war is high stakes to Ukraine.
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  356. No. It’s the intent to exterminate an ethnic group.
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  357.  @reubs91  Some bureaucrat named the CINC.
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  358.  @TheSvRoma Hezbollah aren’t really Lebanese. The vast majority of them are Palestinian Shia refugees from the 1950s that no other Arab country would take. They settled in refugee camps in rural Southern Lebanon and started this cult.
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  359.  @MinusEighty  That’s true, but if Ukraine breaks through to the Russian border, they can be attacked from the East, North and South. That attacking force will stand a high chance of being cut off behind them, and encircled. A breakthrough like that is only sustainable if you very quickly (and successfully push North and South, while maintaining guards at the border with Russia. They’d need a larger force to do that.
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  360.  @seanniemeyer5437  Yeah… and you should actually spend a little time reading about it. It wasn’t the CIA that did any of that. Go educate yourself BEFORE yapping on the internet.
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  361.  @HandleFatman  It’s exactly what was said of Al Qaeda. These organizations aren’t thinking of being peer or near-peer enemies with the US. They understand the US isn’t in the mood to once again enter into a full conflict in the region.
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  362. Wow… someone never studied US history.
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  363. @ Again. THAT DOESN’T matter! Those goods that aren’t sold, aren’t sold! I thought Europeans were intelligent? This is about tariff rates! It isn’t about who likes what or how many are sold. If Europeans don’t want them then the companies would just pull them. Why the high tariff rates?
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  364. @ My point was very clear: Tariffs should be equal in both directions. As per tariffs on cars from Asia, it is the same exact rate as from the EU: 2.5% on passenger vehicles, 2% on buses, and 25% on trucks.
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  365. @ I know that very well. VW builds all over the world. Mercedes builds SUVs in Alabama, but… WHY? Why do BMW and Mercedes build SUVs in the US and not say… sedans? It has to do with tariffs.
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  366. @ No, if you had bothered to read my comments then you’d see that I didn’t forget it. It just doesn’t apply to cars. It’s for commercial vehicles - trucks. Plus I even said itb would be fair for the EU to charge 25% on truck imports as well. As for your assumptions on food, they’re completely wrong. They’re just factually false, on literally everything. There is A LOT of US food imported into Europe and almost all US foods would pass EU standards. The EU food regulatory bodies work EXACTLY the same way as the FDA in the US by simply listing banned ingredients, prescribing guidelines on food handling and occasionally testing ingredients to make sure they’re safe. EXACTLY the same way. The only thing that varies are certain banned ingredients on each side. Contrary to many popular, ignorant beliefs, there are ingredients present in the EU that are banned in the US as well.
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  367. @ Most of the world does, very clearly.
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  368. @ VATs vary from country to country and are usually inly applied on re-imports in the EU.
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  369. @ Your example is ridiculous. The US absolutely exports cars to the EU. Why are numbers small? The same reason as to why Japanese and Korean numbers are relatively small: HIGH TARIFFS.
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  370. @ There are definitely Japanese cars in Europe, but compared to the rest of the world, a very low percentage. The vast majority of cars in Europe are European and there is a reason for that, despite the fact that Korean and Japanese cars are generally far cheaper. It’s also the reason why car prices in Europe are so much higher than anywhere else in the world. The reason is European trade protectionism. It has been a matter of fact since WW2, but Europeans take major offense to others doing it too. As per American cars… there are plenty of small ones too. We have compact cars. GM, Ford and Chrysler have always made compact cars and even offered them for sale in Europe, but the prices were too high to compete because of… TARIFFS.
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  371. @ I don’t know it he knows it or not, but the reason that German manufacturers make so many cars all around the world and re-import many is money savings, primarily labor costs. What you think of as German products of Ford and GM were often actually American or joint in design. There were even American cars sold under European brands like Renault back in the 1980s. All through the 80s, 90s and 2000s, there were American small cars sold in Europe. The EU killed it with tariffs and since they’re small priced and have small margins, the exports to the EU stopped. You saw joint models like Ford’s Mondeo/Fusion, Kuga/Escape, Focus and Fiesta. Chrysler sold Neons, Voyagers, Jeeps, etc. GM sold a high of 500,000 cars in Europe in 2005. Since then, US automakers have stopped marketing and designing cars that could work in Europe, but ironically, European cars have grown in size to match much of the American market. The finances simply don’t work. If Americans only drive small cars then European cars wouldn’t sell in North America, would they?
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  372. @ It CAN! A tariff isn’t a wall. European trucks are too expensive even without the 25% tariff! That’s why Volvo, who makes trucks in the US, designed a different truck for N. America instead of selling its European versions! Scania owns International! They could just make their Euro Scania trucks here under that brand without tariffs, but they won’t make any profit because American trucks are mostly owned by large logistics corporations who want the cheapest trucks. Mercedes owns Freightliner. Same story! This isn’t an opinion. It’s a fact you’re simply ignorant to. Also, what cheap pick-ups? Europe makes NONE! Transit Connects are garbage. Fiat vans are garbage. They were sold here and they were horrific, mechanically. The chicken tax was placed in the 60s against cargo vans and small trucks when US manufacturers designed their own. Today, Ford makes Transit, which is the same as in Europe aside from engines and transmissions, and Mercedes sells the Sprinters. Only GM is still selling a US type van. As for pick-ups… Europe makes NONE. The VW Amarok is a Ford Ranger.
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  373. That has LITERALLY never happened in history. This isn’t a bazaar.
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  374. And?
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  375. Gazans are facing real repercussions. West Bankers aren’t.
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  376. I even see a change on RTVI and TV1. People are starting to question.
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  377. The Rafah crossings are NOT where those weapons are coming into Gaza. According to Israeli officials themselves, the weapons are being smuggled via tunnels directly into various part of Gaza. So while controlling ALL of Gaza is crucial, Rafah itself ks no lore important than any other section.
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  378.  @WhoAreYouForYou  The crossings are in Rafah, but again, most of the weapons aren’t coming in via the crossings. They are almost entirely coming in through tunnels and these tunnels’ exits are all over Gaza. People like you don’t grasp that these tunnels are not some little things that span a couple of hundred meters. These are large tunnels, some with rails and some big enough for vehicles to drive in, and many are kilometers in length. So again, taking Rafah away from Hamas is important, but no more important than Gaza City or Khan Yunis. In fact, it’s less important, which is why they saved it for last.
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  379.  @WhoAreYouForYou  I agree with you on the concept, but I seriously doubt things will play out this way. All long-term solutions are pointing to a two-state existence and that means Palestine having its own borders with Jordan and Egypt.
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  380.  @WhoAreYouForYou  The two-state solution will absolutely include Palestine’s own borders. Look, even today the West Bank borders Jordan with little Israeli oversight. The issue is the internal Palestinian leadership, not the borders. As per Puerto Rico, it isn’t a separate country at all. It’s a part of the United States. There are no “guarantees” with them just as there are no guarantees with any state or city in the US. In the US, its territories are simply a part of the United States, be it Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam or the Northern Marianas. Their people are full US citizens. So that is a poor comparison.
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  381. “It’s a hatch for a water reservoir… that went dry in 1947.” Seriously though… Hamas is why Palestine has no freedom.
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  382.  @silversteel3873  Russian bot account.
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  383. I assume any contact equates to attack, even if the IDF are the ones actually attacking and finding the Hamas fighters.
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  384.  @greenpanda84  Yes, but my guess relies on basic military knowledge. The IDF is attacking fortified, urban position, not the other way around. Hamas is trying to defend and repel attacks. They’re not going around, hunting down IDF units. Shooting an RPG from around a corner isn’t an “attack” in anyone’s mind except Hamas’.
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  385. What good? Exactly the same good as anywhere else. China isn’t a balloon in the sky.
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  386. They’re not really pretending. It basically is free to them.
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  387.  @danielsteger8456  Challenger IIs are being upgraded to Challenger IIIs in the UK, but the British government has openly stated that only 148 are projected to be upgraded to that standard, which will constitute the entire armour force for the UK. That means the rest are to be stored as inactive or scrapped. The Leopard II versions being given are even older and more outdated. You don’t have to do a lot of research to find out these are all surplus, outdated items that the nations donating them are already in process of replacing. The AT4, Javelin, HIMARS… all in process of being replaced by more modern weapons.
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  388. No it wouldn’t. It moves slow and can easily see if track is damaged, with enough time to stop.
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  389.  @wyattsdad8561  Did you miss the armament on it? If you attacked it, it would stop, not speed up. It’s designed to be an armored fortress and has a deployable security group on it that would dismount under covering fire. I think you can see it in some shots on the video. These guys have been using trains like this for over a century. I think they’ve thought of that.
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  390.  @wyattsdad8561  From what, thin air?
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  391.  @SkywalkerPaul I don’t see any Ukrainians asking for any cease-fires…
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  392.  @owenb8636  I don’t think Putin cares about any conventions Russia or the USSR ever signed. He certainly ignores many of them, including the Budapest Convention. He just knows that the entire planet will be destroyed.
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  393. Unless Iran attacks first directly it’s a political issue, without very clear, direct links.
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  394.  @JimLadBossMan  Then that’s not prisoners.
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  395.  @CJ-jl6hf Actually that’s false. The Revenue Cutter Service was created to protect US and foreign merchant vessels going into and out of US ports. That service became the US Coast Guard. The US Navy’s mission has ALWAYS been to protect US shores from foreign invasion and to project power abroad.
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  396.  @CJ-jl6hf  Are you stupid or mentally ill? Perhaps both? YOU GO LOOK IT UP! The Revenue Cutter Service was established as Revenue Marine by Alexander Hamilton in 1790 to protect merchant ships from pirates. Their job was to ensure merchant ships from and to Europe had safe passage and paid the customs fees on their imports. In fact, between 1790 and 1798 it was the ONLY military maritime service in the US as the US Navy had been disbanded in 1785 because it was only created to beat back the British Navy. Once the Revolutionary war had ended, the US Navy had no purpose.
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  397.  @mike7671  I wouldn’t say that at all. That’s a significant gain on top of Crimea.
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  398.  @thephoenix756  First off, that’s a lie. It has cost them much more than 60k and fighting to take a massive city like Kharkiv will cost them around 500 to 600 thousand in losses. It’s very well protected and very densely built up. This is a city the size of Barcelona, Munich, Philadelphia, Kyoto or Córdoba.
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  399.  @mike7671  You’re a man of a simple mind. That’s not how geopolitics works. Russia absolutely wins if they keep 15% of Ukraine because they originally claimed to only try to get those two regions. That means they achieve their original goals and they take a large portion of the country. They would also require Ukraine’s neutrality in any deal and that would be a win for Russia too. Piece by piece they’re taking Ukraine.
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  400.  @thephoenix756  Absolutely it’s a lie and the Pentagon wasn’t the source for that number. Try again! Go actually look it up! Read it carefully this time!
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  401.  @thephoenix756  It’s important to note that no official counts have been cited by the Pentagon in that article and that an article a month earlier cited that most Western intelligence agencies estimate over 100k killed. In April, the British intelligence officially confirmed that over 50k Russians have been killed that they can account for, but that lots more are likely dead that they cannot confirm. France estimates that 150k Russians have been killed so far. I tend to take the most logical view and agree that only 50-60k can be confirmed by the West, but that many more cannot be. I think 150k is too high. My guess is that actual deaths are just over 100k. Regardless, taking a city like Kharkiv would be far bloodier than anything Russia has done. Bakhmut’s population was just shy of 75,000 before the war. Kharkiv’s was 1.5 million. Think about that size difference as to the area, buildings, etc.
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  402.  @annpyingshek4693  History tells me that. Kharkiv is the heart of Eastern Ukraine.
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  403.  @annpyingshek4693  Everything sounds dumb in yours.
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  404. They’ve literally been wrong on every prediction and have changed each one every time the events have changed.
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  405. It’s needed, so that you can tell the gun’s crew to stand back a bit while you destroy the pin, right?
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  406. South Africa is actively erasing itself as a developed nation.
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  407.  @PyromaN93  Umm the T-55 has a 100mm rifled gun and the MT-12 has a 100mm smoothbore gun. They are NOT compatible. The T-55 is also unable to withstand a hit from most modern guns when it comes to counter-battery fire. You’re exactly why Russia is losing. Uneducated idiots.
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  408.  @Deno2100 They’ve literally never done it.
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  409. Preston, while an Air Force medevac plane will have a flight surgeon on board, a medevac helo almost never does. It has medics on board.
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  410. Who is this “we”?
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  411. @ Not longer. Each Israeli engagement has been just a few weeks long, once every decade or so. The US fought in Afghanistan, continuously, for 20 years.
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  412. @ Yes, but for just weeks at a time and tactics change.
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  413. Take over what?
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  414.  @TheBooban How in the world can Hamas, the democratically chosen leadership of Palestinians be separated from Palestinians? People need to use more than 1% of their brains sometimes! Do all Palestinians align themselves with Hamas? No. Do most? ABSOLUTELY.
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  415.  @TheBooban  You’d be surprised at how many in the West Bank voted for Hamas. In 2006 Hamas won the West Bank legislative elections. Afterward, Abbas outlawed Hamas so they wouldn’t challenge Fatah. And no, you can’t separate the people from their government.
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  416.  @danielponcianodiaz176  It is not. Their parents get to carry the burden of this as they support Hamas. They carry all the responsibility for their well-being and safety. You don’t get to cut babies’ throats and hide behind your own. You want your kids to grow up and be safe? Don’t start wars. You idiots keep thinking that Palestine subscribes to some Western code of ethics (out of your own ignorance.) They do not. These “innocent” people don’t only support Hamas. They LOVE it. They see no greater honor than in sacrifice for Allah and they are convinced that the Prophet Mohammed wants all jews exiled and dead, as he himself did in Medina.
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  417. The US doesn’t have any military presence in Israel. It never had military presence in Afghanistan before 9/11 either. It’s really not what you think it is. It is a clash of religion and culture.
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  418.  @wesdowner5636  1. Korea proves that’s not the case. 2. It was never brought up to the Security Council for Russia or China to veto it.
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  419. Only in theory. It has never been attempted.
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  420.  @ZootyZoFo That won’t help much. Media is attacked first.
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  421.  @ZootyZoFo  You obviously don’t know how radio signals work. They don’t go through buildings well. Also, attacks aren’t just bombs. They’re primarily jamming.
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  422.  @ZootyZoFo  You DON’T. You’re assuming and you’re lying. This is very basic shit. I won’t go into what I do or how long I’ve been doing it, sufficing to say that my Air Force Reserve career has me doing the jamming. But hey, you can think whatever you want.
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  423.  @ZootyZoFo  There are no drills in Singapore that mobilize the entire reserve force.
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  424.  @ZootyZoFo  Yup. The cub scouts. The same ones who do the job you can’t even spell.
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  425.  @ZootyZoFo  So now you’re reinforcing my claim that Singapore only knows how to mobilize their entire force, but only in theory as they’ve never done it before. Tell us all, how does it feel to have a double-digit IQ?
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  426.  @ZootyZoFo  Yet another lie from an imbecile. Keep going!
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  427. UN resolutions are generally nonsense. If the UN truly wanted peace they’d move their peacekeeping troops into Gaza.
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  428. NORAD doesn’t shoot things down.
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  429. No, each one received Presidential-level approval.
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  430. In think you, and most other people are a bit too… limited in knowledge to understand. You think that Ukraine can either be a part of Russia proper, be a vassal state (partner/ally) or be completely independent. In reality, Russia didn’t want any of that. What Russia was looking to do was to resurrect a USSR-type of arrangement, where Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, and others become a union, under the general leadership of Moscow and under the military protection of Moscow. The inly way to get there was for Belarus and Ukraine to voluntarily request such a state. It was already started between Putin and Lukashenko - The Union State. For this, Putin needed a leader in Ukraine who would play ball. That plan went to shit in February 2014 with the Maidan Revolution, so Putin put his Plan B into play - dissent of Donbas. That plan was a longer-term, strategic one. He hoped the dissent against Zelensky would spread, but instead, the country prospered financially, and people actually turned away from Russia. So what you see now is really Plan C. If this succeeds, Kazakhstan and others will fall in line, quietly. If it fails, Putin and his party are done for, likely to be replaced by even more hardline nationalists.
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  431. That’s false. The majority of rare elements come from Africa, albeit they are often mined and sold by China. Almost no munitions require any rare elements, even the more complex guided munitions.
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  432. When? 😂 When they successfully invaded half of Asia?
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  433. You’ll need to develop your own equipment because the UK isn’t Canada either.
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  434. @ That’s solely because he is the King of both. The Canadians can change that any moment.
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  435.  @Mesopotamia-v6d That Lebanese oil? Olive oil?
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  436.  @danielallan8061  WTF are you talking about? 🤣 Dagestan isn’t Russian. It’s ethnically and culturally 100% the same as Chechnya. Whatever Chechnya’s religion may be has NOTHING to do with that conflict. Also, go learn Ukrainian history, SERIOUSLY. And.. NATO of the 1960s and 1970s is far from NATO of today. There are no US vassal states in Europe for many decades. The EU is just as strong politically as the US, if not more so. You also need to read what you write. You contradict yourself, big time.
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  437.  @martinblank1484  You literally said, “there was a civil war there prior to Russian invasion (2014-2022).”
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  438.  @martinblank1484  I don’t know… maybe English isn’t your first language or something, but that’s not what you wrote. Maybe it was what you intended to write, but as it reads, in English, that’s not what you wrote. Keep in mind that Russia invaded in 2014, not 2022.
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  439.  @martinblank1484  You’re an IDIOT. They also FACTUALLY invaded Donbas in 2014. That’s how this whole thing started! A military annexation IS an invasion!
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  440.  @annpyingshek4693  Born and raised in Russia, with half of my family being Ukrainian. You? Stop being a Kremlin simp. It’s funny how Russian bots are mow displaying Ukrainian solidarity ribbons in their profiles, but don’t understand that their English sucks enough to easily tell them apart from native speakers. “Canalization” isn’t an English word, dumbass.
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  441. Where would Ukraine get M114 howitzers? They’re from WW2. The largest users are Taiwan and Turkey. Turkey is the only NATO nation that still uses them.
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  442.  @Scar6628Gameplayer  Portugal GAVE, not offer, one battery of M114s that have all been destroyed since. They have no more. Greece retired all M114s 11 years ago. Even if they were in storage, which is unlikely, most would be in unusable condition. Furthermore, they cannot be combined with a Russian vehicle.
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  443. Depends on who you think runs Syria. Is your bet on ISIS?
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  444. Some, yes. Not all. Robots get stuck on everything.
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  445. First off, it’s LAID, not LAYED. This is 5th grade English. Second, a PROPOSAL is NOT an AGREEMENT. You used both of those words. How do you not grasp that they’re not the same thing? Israel within the last few days made a proposal and provided it to Biden to review. It has not been submitted otherwise. You’re confusing it negotiations that broke down weeks ago where an Egyptian intelligence officer added clauses into an offer made by Hamas that Israel did not agree on.
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  446. The Global Hawk loiters at 65,000 feet. I don’t think anyone brought it down. You can shoot it down with a SAM, but not by another aircraft.
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  447.  @nyw100  Except there was no interception…
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  448.  @nyw100  Your comments and the facts. Did you even bother watching the video? All you do is spread misinformation as you’re a Russian shill.
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  449.  @martincampbell2470  Speak for yourself.
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  450.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  And bombing it! The two largest cities were literally on a list to not touch. Look it up!
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  451.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  You don’t read, which is why you’re arguing a moot point that’s already been addressed. It’s also why you don’t actually know history. You don’t even read the things you copy and paste (from Wiki no less.) Linebacker II was a short mission at the very end of the war, when the US was already pulling out, and played absolutely no role in the war. I even addressed the operation Linebacker, which came a couple of months before Linebacker II. Operation Rolling Thunder was done under “gradualism”, which kept the US from bombing major North Vietnamese targets. Airstrikes were banned within 30 nm of Hanoi and 10 nm of Haiphong. North Vietnamese airfields were also off the targeting lists. Every sortie was micromanaged from the White House and many were chosen at random as Johnson and McNamara had no idea of how to conduct a war. Johnson specifically refused to allow the mining of the Haiphong harbor. Go do some actual research! Educate yourself before yapping!
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  452.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  Yes, and that person isn’t me! It wasn’t false!!! In the 10 year war, we only bombed the two biggest and most important cities in the last 4 months, as we were already withdrawing! It’s the reason why we lost!!! How stupid are you not to read and then double down, like an idiotic teenager?! Keep commenting though. Tell the people your real name too, so they know just who you are along how stupid you are.
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  453.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  You were LITERALLY replying to me, you sad little troll.
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  454.  @jonathanbowen3640  Absolutely, but the thread is about the US, not the UK.
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  455.  @jonathanbowen3640  Did you read the original comment for the thread? What you’re saying has nothing to do with the conversation. Even if you’re knowledgeable on the Falklands war, even if it has similarities to Ukraine… it still has NOTHING to do with how the US has fared in its conflicts.
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  456. I’m sorry… What exactly will Trump tax so much that it will hurt Russia? The only thing he is willing to tax is the US middle class. Russia practically has no exports going to the US already!
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  457.  @BradfordRMcKnight  Acting it and thinking it are different things. What you think about on your long flight there is a lot more real than what they tell you.
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  458. Absolutely. The countryside supports the Ukrainians with food, shelter and clothing, if needed. The Russians get nothing. Putin will be the Napoleon and Hitler of Winter.
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  459.  @konstantin.v I mean… He does respect X spammers.
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  460.  @soakupthesunman  You think? I doubt it.
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  461.  @chickenfishhybrid44  Why are you asking that question? Do you have an example?
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  462. @ The Palestinian Authority isn’t recognized as a state. Neither is Gaza. Only one is an internationally recognized, independent nation - Jordan.
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  463.  @janetyeoman1544  You heard wrong. The balloon was only engaged by Canadian VF-18s, never USAF or the RAF and while it did briefly enter British airspace, it then drifted north into Icelandic airspace. It never got anywhere near Finland. it actually drifted into Russian airspace and went down over the Arctic Ocean, north of Russia’s northern coast. It was a Canadian weather balloon, so no other nation needed to engage it.
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  464.  @michaelmenkes7233 As a government, maybe, but not their views.
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  465.  @RedEyedITguy You’re more than welcome to cite polls from other sources.
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  466.  @ryane6886 You can’t find the link (nor the name of the source) because they never existed.
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  467. ⁠​⁠ @thomasgawronski1425 The context of the slogan is simple: The river Jordan ends the current Palestine on its Eastern side. The Mediterranean Sea ends the state of Israel on its Western side. Look at the map! It’s not that complicated! It calls for a SINGLE state between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River (and not Israel). It was created in 1964 by Yasser Arafat and it called specifically for that - a Palestinian state free of Jews.
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  468.  @raptorhunter5549  There is no water on the moon.
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  469.  @aymenyahyaoui1771 You very clearly can’t comprehend even the most basic concepts, in ANY language. Tell me, did you have 3 years of education or 4?
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  470.  @finkover988  As you “saw it”? Were you there?
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  471.  @jameslee8428  YOU are the one making false narratives! These are historical FACTS! 1937 - The Peel Commission 1939 - The British White Papers 1947 - UN offer Between 1947 and 1967 the West Bank was under Jordanian control and Arafat said independence was no longer an issue. Only when Israel took it over in war in 1967 (after Israel was attacked by Jordan) did it become an issue again. 1979 - Israel-Egypt Peace negotiations 1990s - Oslo Agreements 2000 - Ehud Barak offered independence for Gaza and 97% of West Bank. In exchange he would give up land in the Negev desert to Gaza. 2008 - Ehud Olmert offered independence for all of Palestine and a partitioned Jerusalem. To Palestinians the entire region is “Dar al-Salam” (Muslim land.) There were 6 times that Israel itself offered independence and all six times the Palestinians chose to fight for everything instead. They don’t accept a two-state existence!
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  472.  @Merecir  It’s a decade newer than the old blocks of the F-16, but definitely not more advanced, and it certainly isn’t more advanced than the Block 70 F-16s.
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  473.  @Merecir  You’re as brainwashed as the Russians. 😂 The F-18 wasn’t even an upgrade. They’re entirely new aircraft. Still… to compare the Gripen to an F-22 is 100% hilarious.
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  474.  @gerri577 What drugs are you on?
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  475. It’s not Democrats calling it that, it’s SOME Democrats. It’s a tiny minority of extremist Democrats that are doing that.
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  476.  @DeWellstein Sorry… let me correct you. You belong to a cult, not a tribe.
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  477. It’s hard to draw that parallel. Did the Israeli government attack Gaza residents? No. Did Hamas attack Israeli residents? Yes.
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  478.  @logicalparadox2897  Both sides WHERE???? Stop repeating simpleton bullshit and start looking at ACTUAL facts. How did Israel provoke an attack? By releasing money to them? By giving them autonomy? HOW?!
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  479. Ignored because the vast majority of Russians don’t understand any English.
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  480.  JeanLucCaptain2  What drugs are you on? I used those examples as they are clear examples of Communist nations where all military production is by the government. No democratic nation does that.
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  481.  @friedrichrubinstein Yes, and Anwar was one of those were traded for Shalit, creating the situation we have today. Israel needs to learn to stop trading.
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  482.  @0bserver416  That’s not at all the case though. The Soviets didn’t have large bases in Afghanistan either.
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  483.  @bigbigmurphy  You don’t aim to maintain the same logistics during war as you did during peace. That’s a ludicrous goal. You aim to have logistics good enough to achieve your goal and better than your enemy. Having far better logistics to start with is a good way to achieve that. As per the Soviets in Afghanistan… they had very similar conditions… roamed the cities. No huge bases. Their issue was traversing the mountains and valleys where they were attacked from all sides, so their logistics sucked, because once again… only trucks.
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  484.  @Gearparadummies  It was, but it was NOTHING like what it became under US control. There are many photos of it. It was just a bare airfield with a few HAS’ and a few old buildings. Most of the important Russian army buildings were in Kabul, including the 40th Army HQ itself. The two largest garrisons were in Kabul and Shindand.
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  485.  @vickclash7955  Every war is different.
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  486.  @mykolamelnychuk1523  And most people seem to think that like with statutory laws in a country, where citizens don’t sign agreements to laws, they still apply.
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  487. Hegseth is a complete moron.
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  488. Whose suffering?
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  489.  @willlaflam  No one who knows history actually feels for them. This is a people who continually bring hate and suffering to all of the Middle East, despite being offered freedom and peace. Their entire reason for existence is hate. This has been going on for centuries. They don’t want anything else at this point. Do you know that Jordan is a country that was specifically set up for Palestinians? The ones in Gaza and West Bank today rejected it. They have been in conflict with Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Israel - literally everyone surrounding them.
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  490. 20 trucks is better than zero trucks, but it is mostly political.
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  491. It seems that flooding cleared tunnels was a great way to make sure they aren’t being re-used once cleared.
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  492. @Ž Š They were never impartial. You’re simply a sociopath.
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  493.  @gsmontag  First off, none of the situations he mentioned have ever led to war. I think that’s the most important point. Second, we are a nuclear power and presumably a war against another major power would be against another nuclear power. Aside from that having no historical precedent, we have the last 80 years (the Cold War) to show us that it’s not actually feasible. We know from history that arms races among nuclear power nations cause tensions, but do not lead to war. A nuclear war will simply destroy the entire planet and two powers like this cannot have a conventional war without resorting to nuclear weapons. This is why proxy wars are necessary.
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  494.  @dianapennepacker6854  None if the things you’re saying makes any sense, but I suspect it’s because you don’t know anything about defense.
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  495.  @dianapennepacker6854  I’m having trouble understanding everything you’re saying. 1. Cheaper weapons are precisely getting burned through because they are cheap and ineffective. 2. Ukraine is having success precisely because they are able to put down superior firepower onto Russia despite their lower numbers. Western complex weaponry is far more accurate and has longer range. Ukraine is now more mobile, better protected, better informed and better equipped because of modern, Western supplies. 3. Huge programs have created weapons systems that are still unmatched everywhere in the world. While China is working to catch up to the F-22, the US already considers them outdated and is replacing them with next generation fighters. The US is also far more superior in its strategic logistics, both air and sea. 4. Quicker development time doesn’t produce superior weapons. This isn’t the 1900s. 5. Politics can’t and shouldn’t stay out of the military. War IS politics. You have NO clue of what you’re yapping about. Sit down and shut up. Either go educate yourself on the subject or start listening to those who know what they’re talking about (not you.)
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  496.  @danielallan8061  I don’t know what you’re talking about.
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  497.  @frankgeorgeo8582  You might be ignorant to reality, but there’s always war somewhere on this planet. ALWAYS.
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  498. What a narrow-minded view.
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  499. They’re being trained Russia, not Ukraine, and the chances of them being deployed to Ukraine are slim. South Korea has already told Russia that if that happens, South Korea will donate large quantities of military equipment to Ukraine and S. Korea has A LOT they can donate.
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  500.  @TimRitTim  Next is that equipment being used against Russia. One of the things that S. Korea has A LOT of is artillery. Don’t worry about management. They’ve managed to stop the invasion and invaded Russia in return.
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  501.  @TimRitTim  Ты не беспокойся. Они ещё не призывали молодых.
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  502.  @tomhenry897  They’re attacking US troops.
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  503. I think the bigger news now is that according to major Ukrainian news outlets, the Ukrainian military was impressed with it too because they are now contracting their inmates to fight the war. According to reports only murderers and rapists are excluded and that once the contract is concluded, their sentences will be commuted and they will go home, if they still have a home.
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  504. I can’t imagine a 100mm gun from 70 years ago will do much to an attacking tank coming wt it head on. More like slinging HE rounds at infantry and IFVs.
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  505. I don’t know what Sci-Fi movie world you live in, but live monitoring a desert isn’t something anyone could or would do. Satellite data takes time to sift through and if you don’t know what and where to look for then you can’t find it. After an attack, you can trace the attack back through stored images one-by-one and then explore the source(s).
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  506.  @madmattdigs9518  And I answered that question.
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  507.  @danielallan8061 No. Poland land was given back to Poland in 1945, along with a little extra of Gdansk.
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  508. Same with electricity in Russia. What’s your point?
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  509.  @Lancetdrone You’re right, not everyone can see the future, but you’re demonstrating that you can’t see the past or the present either.
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  510. It’s so naive of you, Preston, to continue to bang the drum of “We let it escalate.” We didn’t have any choice or options. It was designed to be a regional war by Iran and its proxies: Hamas, Houthis, Hizballah and others. They were never going in any other direction, regardless of how Israel, the UK or the US responded. It is an Islamic jihad on the West.
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  511.  @jamesgornall5731  See my comment ☝️
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  512.  @fofal He’s not wrong. There has been a lot of talk about Ukrainian units wearing “Nazi” symbols, but that’s been de-bunked by basic research. Those symbols were traditional symbols in European militaries long before Nazism even existed and yes, Nazis used them, but so did many, many others. We just associate them with Nazis because of popularized history (movies) about WW2.
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  513.  @teru797 Azov also wasn’t Nazi. It had some members who were right wing, but it accepted people from all ethnicities, even Jews. Overall, Azov was just pro-Ukrainian.
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  514.  @ifv2089 It was ONE PERSON, who was found to have collaborated with the Nazis in WORLD WAR TWO!
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  515.  @gunterthekaiser6190 Actually they are currently training.
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  516. There are ZERO Nazis fighting on either side today. Nazis were in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. These people are FASCISTS (ultra-Nationalists) and NEO-NAZIS (Nazi ideology sympathizers). While that may just be semantics to you and many others, the failure to grasp the meaning of these terms is why you don’t understand the reality of the topic.
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  517.  @davey64  Resembles one? Are you 12 or just didn’t go to school? What exactly resembles one? The skull and crossbones? See? You’re making assumptions on popular folklore instead of military history and symbolism. You’re an ignorant person using “common sense” and then trying to insinuate that it’s fact. Go do some fucking research instead!
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  518.  @Ekdrink  There always were, but since the early 2000’s it has become more open. This is because most WW2 survivors have been dying out and the school systems in that area aren’t great. Young people today don’t really have a connection to WW2 anymore, so that symbology and thinking doesn’t bother them much. It’s happening all over the world, to be fair.
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  519.  @Ekdrink  No. It’s just that, a cultural change. Millennials in Russia and Ukraine grew up without WW2 vets in their adult lives and now they’re adults, making major decisions in their cultures. There isn’t much on TV and the movies about WW2 anymore, so it’s not in their minds. When I was growing up in the USSR in the 80s, no one would dare wear a swastika. I’m a Gen X.
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  520.  @Armoredcompany  Monarchism is definitely not, by default, fascism, but it can be. Fascism opposed feudalism and monarchy that existed in Europe, but those aren’t the only models of fascism or monarchy. There is a huge case that can be made that Japan was a major fascist state under Shōwa Statism.
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  521.  @Armoredcompany  You’re WRONG and you’re basing that on European fascism of WW2 because that’s all you know of. Go look it up! Also, the word “moderate” was not used.
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  522.  @Notrusbot  10% and Russia was after 100%.
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  523.  @katholloman1922 By alleging fighting age adults are children you’re undermining EVERYTHING because all that you’re doing is lying.
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  524.  @tonic8945 More importantly, there is only ONE definition of the word that is correct and that’s not subjective. The courts go by the legal definition, which is the ONLY correct one.
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  525.  @ingni123456 It matters because the men in killed in the holocaust were not combatants, ever, and a large percentage of men in Gaza are, IN FACT, armed and fighting with or alongside Hamas. That makes it a HUGE distinction.
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  526.  @ingni123456 Having military training doesn’t make one a combatant…
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  527.  @ingni123456 I hope one day you realize that you are literally promoting war and terrorism in the world.
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  528.  @ingni123456 So GENUINELY, you ARE spreading misinformation. NO ONE has said that they consider UN workers as combatants. However, SOME UN workers were FACTUALLY acting as combatants. I would like to sincerely bring my condolences to your parents , for despite all their work they still ended up with a psychopathic liar as a child.
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  529.  diananovak8029 That’s a fallacy so basic that a 10 year old will laugh at it.
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  530.  @mther9187  Are you on meth or heroin?
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  531.  @ingni123456  Prove what? You spreading misinformation? I think you’re proving it well. I know you’re uneducated, so I’ll share something most of us learned in high school and college: if you make a claim, it is upon you to prove it, not others to disprove it. So, if you want to make a claim that Israel officially considers specific groups of people as “combatants”, it is ON YOU to provide a citation to your source. At this time you are flat out lying because you want to appear righteous when all that you are is uneducated and ignorant.
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  532.  @ingni123456  Literally NONE of that constitutes any official nomination of ANYONE as a combatant, you psychopathic liar!
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  533.  @ingni123456  As for UNWRA workers acting as combatants, it was proven AT THE UN! 7 of them were SHOWN ON VIDEO attacking in Israel on October 7th!
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  534.  @ingni123456  First off, Tick Tocks are Tick Tocks, not evidence of anything. Videos are edited and many are even using AI to create them. Second, when it comes to possible war crimes, each one needs to be investigated. That said, every war has some isolated war crimes. That doesn’t mean a country has designated all civilians as combatants. That designation isn’t even up to a country. It’s written in the Geneva Conventions.
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  535.  @Zz_Mike-Hawk_zZ  How are you saying these can’t be Russian rifles, and immediately after admitting that in other instances they were, but replaced afterwards? Do you even read what you write? You bots are hilarious!
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  536.  @certifiedgiggledog  WTF are you talking about?! Literally NONE of that is ever publicized!
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  537. It factually isn’t a problem. All nations capable of spying on others, do so. “Spying” is a misunderstood word. This is actually intelligence gathering. A nation is required to gather as much information on what goes on as they can, for the benefit of their country and citizens. This goes for info on all nations, not just adversaries. Governments keep info from each other, even when in an alliance. Leaders don’t always tell the full truth to each other (shocker, I know). Finding out intent of foreign leaders on foreign and economic policies allows you to prepare your own country in advance. All that said, the UK, France, Israel, Canada, etc. all spy on the US as well. All of this hyperbolic guessing does no one any good except it makes money for Youtube and the poster.
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  538.  @jack16742  Iraq and Afghanistan were never signatories to the Geneva Conventions, so it didn’t matter, plus we were protecting them with our troops as we were openly present. That’s not at all the case in Ukraine. If Western contractors are working on US systems in Ukraine, it is a direct link to Western countries actually fighting in the war. No one wants that. Ukrainians will get their training. They pick things up pretty well. The guys who will be trained will be coming off of S-300s, not some random reservists. They’ll get it pretty quick. No one said the Patriot will be combat ready any time soon.
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  539.  @niweshlekhak9646  So what does that mean? 300 thousand untrained, unequipped. poorly led targets? That’s horrible. It only bogs their logistics down. The soldiers currently on the front already don’t have anything. Bringing more of that makes it so much worse.
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  540.  @niweshlekhak9646  You don’t English speak and education don’t have.
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  541.  @niweshlekhak9646  I’m Russian. It’s YOU here who has no clue. Also, that’ ms not what a typo is.
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  542.  @cacwgm  We don’t know exactly who is on the front lines right now, who is training or what the future holds. You’re basing all of that purely on assumptions. In fact, in the inly place with heavy fighting right now, most of it is done by artillery and Wagner.
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  543.  @cacwgm  “Appear to be” still requires a knowledge of what they appear to be. Even the actual front line fighters don’t know. You and I certainly don’t. A person here and there, filmed for obvious propaganda purposes are not a reliable source. There might be 20 mobilized fighter or 200 or 2000 or even 20000. We don’t know. We also don’t know if levels of training and equipment are similar among all of them.
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  544.  @albertroberts5929  No. Neither do you. There was a Biblical battle of Raphidim of Israelites against the Amalekites though. No “Amelak” though.
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  545.  @albertroberts5929  That’s not actually how it works in Israel. The Knesset doesn’t control the military or military policy. Troll harder!
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  546.  @albertroberts5929  The ICJ already knows this and you’ll see it in its ruling.
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  547. Israel has been doing this to Iran for decades and successfully.
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  548.  @bkh8528  Politicians have nothing to do with that. We have the First Amendment that allows protests in public areas.
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  549.  @Lawh  Some of it was and some wasn’t. You can’t rant like 3 year-old in here, bud. People will always point out your stupidity.
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  550.  @Torro-ew7ey  Or ironically,in Gaza.
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  551.  @looinrims  Hate speech is protected. Assaults are not. What’s your point?
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  552.  @looinrims  It 100% is. Hate actions are not, but hate speech is.
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  553.  @Standing.W.Israel  That’s a blatant lie. A LOT of people in Gaza are starving. The issue is that it is Hamas that’s starving them.
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  554. No one needs to invade Iran to send them back a century in time.
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  555.  @MarkBarrack  The intake is lower, but the thrust on both is enough for that to be pretty irrelevant. They’ll suck in whatever’s on the road. Both operators still need to do regular FOD walks. Besides, Ukrainians operate the MiG-29 just fine. Its intakes are just as low as the Vipers’.
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  556.  @MarkBarrack  Nothing special on the 29s. They do have heavier duty landing gear than the F-16s. That’s the one aspect that does worry me in using the Viper in Ukraine. Ukraine’s bases use concrete slabs as pavements, instead of asphalt on concrete. Ukrainian pilots are also used to landing harder because of it. That’s something they can re-learn, but it’s a consideration. We (USAF) have tested F-35s and F-16 on austere airfields before, but not for continuous operations. The biggest issue is that Russia’s S-300 and S-400 SAM systems outmatch all Gen 4 fighters.
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  557.  @MarkBarrack  We don’t have autonomous vehicles that can fly that fast yet. I doubt the Russians would launch an S-300 or S-400 at a bunch of drones either.
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  558.  @goncaloferreira8543  The bodies are in the factory area. Why would Ukrainian drones film bodies? That’s a quick way to be shot down! How much is Russia paying you?
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  559.  @rajaydon1893 The MiG-31 has ZERO impact on the battle as the only ground offensive weapons it carries are 4 anti-radiation missiles or one single Kinzhal cruise missile. It has no ability to carry bombs or other types of ATGMs.
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  560.  @SuperVistaprint Roots and current reality aren’t the same thing. What we grasp (and you’re too stupid to) is that their ultra-right leaders tried making a play for political posts in 2015 and were humiliated and shot down, and that immediately after, the Ukrainian government took over Azov and made it a military unit, not because they love them, but because they needed to be cleaned up. Azov today has members of all ethnicities, including Jews. How’s that for “Nazis”?
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  561. When it comes to NORAD? Yes. Otherwise… Hawaii is crucial to the country because that’s where Dole Whip comes from.
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  562. I think most people aren’t thinking big enough here. Russia has to consider that if it really engages the vast majority if its personnel and equipment in Ukraine, regardless of that conflict’s outcome, Russia won’t be able to defend itself against anyone else. That has Putin and others in power worried. They believe they will win this, yes, but then what? Will China, Poland of Finland just march in and take over large swaths of Russia the way that Russia did in Ukraine? That’s absolutely how they’re thinking. Russia can only commit so much to the fight at any given time without making its own territory completely vulnerable. That’s why they’re holding back most of their best tanks, aircraft and missiles. They literally think NATO will attack after Ukraine is done.
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  563.  @baronvonlimbourgh1716  Absolutely they could commit those forces, but they won’t. And that’s what both side supporters need to keep in mind. Sure Russia has thousands more tanks, hundreds more planes, hundreds of thousands more soldiers, but it won’t send them into battle in Ukraine. They may as well not exist for this purpose. Russian supporters always say there are so many more T-80s and T-90… that they will be sent in later. No, they won’t be. They will remain in Russia in case China or NATO attack at some point (no, China isn’t Russia’s friend). And when it comes to soldiers, the soldiers serving inside Russia need constant replacements too. Their contracts end at sole point.
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  564.  @JohnSmith-fo5cx  100% a bot.
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  565.  @tyguy6296  Western forces have insane amounts of long-range weapons that would absolutely devastate anything within 1000 km of the front line, thinning out the enemy’s ability to attack large formations. Then those formations attack, following massive air strikes delivered by bombers and attack fighters, all while controlled by airborne command centers. It’s a VERY different type of warfare which Russia cannot fight, and it’s why it has nuclear weapons.
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  566. Iran, not Yemen.
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  567. I think this is uncontroversial proof that Trump is an absolute loser at negotiations and cannot get done what he promised.
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  568. Britain’s reliance on US equipment is tiny. It’s actually quite the opposite. The US has a huge reliance on BAE systems for all types of military equipment.
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  569. @ Who cares where they’re assembled? It’s the tech that’s at question, and the licensing.
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  570. It literally can’t be removed. Impossible to do it.
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  571.  @AgentX2006 There actually is.
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  572. The sex breakdown, according to the CIA, is 1.02 males for 1 female, so roughly 50/50.
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  573.  @Gidi66 The risk of collateral damage exists everywhere, but that’s LITERALLY war. This was a scalpel operation. Russia sends cruise missiles into residential blocks. You’re either incredibly ignorant or a Russian shill.
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  574.  @biohaze6990  Whom are you talking about? No one is referring to any peacetime.
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  575. I read a lot of these comments and NONE are coming from knowledgeable Air Force maintainers or logisticians. The reality is that no, the F-16 doesn’t require all those man hours to generate sorties. That’s just what the US uses because we have the personnel and it increases safety and long-term reliability. We have different airmen specifically trained to arm/disarm aircraft, fuel/de-fuel, crew chiefs, avionics, structures, hydraulics, etc. and they all do major maintenance as well as mission generation. The tale of a Gripen needing just one crew chief and a few untrained airmen is absolutely misleading. They still need to do proper maintenance every few flights and untrained people have NO idea of what they’re doing. That’s all just a sales pitch to developing nations - the primary users of the Gripen. Also, not a single Gripen has ever been used in any combat. They’re completely unproven. I’ll be honest, a C Gripen may be better than a Block 15 Viper, but a Block 52 will annihilate it all day, every day, in both, air-to-air and air-to-ground missions. I don’t even want to go into the Wild Weasel capabilities, which the Gripen simply doesn’t have and Ukraine desperately needs.
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  576.  @Brocuzgodlocdunfamdogson  I don’t think Ukraine needs hundreds of aircraft. My guess is 20 for time being. The Corps are upgrading their D models right now, so they’re not going anywhere and the Finns apparently said they can’t, as their F-35s will take years to backfill.
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  577.    BAS90 hasn’t existed for many years.
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  578. @ They LITERALLY aren’t. They’re there as observers and to facilitate demilitarization of the DMZ. All they’re allowed to do is observe and report up the chain to the UN.
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  579. Every comment you make is pro-Russian misinformation. You fail at being a bot.
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  580.  @artrocious  I first suggest you find “buds”.
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  581. No flight plans were released.
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  582.  @thesenate9919 Chemical weapons, once fired, are at the mercy of the wind and often attacked unintended targets, which was the reason why they were banned. Thermobaric weapons are targeted and as precise as any other. As you’ve heard, the kill radius is just 10 meters versus 7 meters and they’re completely controllable.
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  583.  @lZGamerzI  😂 What did you think Putin’s strategy was in the beginning?
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  584.  @lZGamerzI  When did this happen? “Obvious”? To whom? What evidence do you have for that? Russia NEVER tried to gain air superiority over Ukraine as that’s simply not how the Russian military doctrine operates. Their air forces are simply used to gain superiority tactically, over one zone where there is fighting, but Ukraine isn’t Syrian tribes or Chechens or even Georgia. Ukraine has an air force of its own and has legitimate air defense forces, so Russia couldn’t do anything. Air superiority would be incredibly useful to either side. It just isn’t possible right now.
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  585. They do, but it depends on the tunnel.
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  586.  @lukabrdar6732 Yeah… that horizontal elevator shaft. 🤣
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  587.  @themink2 The answers would be very… vague. First, we don’t have a solid reporting and investigating system for violations of international law in Palestine. Second, it’s difficult to very concretely nail down who is a combatant on the Palestinian side. These are multiple, loosely affiliated “organizations” who don’t wear uniforms and aren’t officially military personnel and they’re involved in, technically, an internal conflict.
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  588.  @fredbyoutubing  Thousands come back alive.
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  589. This wasn’t an issue when you were in middle school.
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  590. Preston is an Army Reserve Major branched in Field Artillery.
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  591. Not just billionaires, but living safely and happily in Qatar instead of leading their people.
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  592. You’re right Preston. This is Putin’s way to put out the message that it’s time fir Zelensky to give up on what’s lost, to admit to NATO’s shortcomings and accept a neutral stance in a peace. Putin is also using this as a pre-election PR opportunity to show himself as a righteous, merciful leader to the Russians… and a way to say, “You see? It’s not me who wants war, it’s NATO.” This is all stemming from his strong position currently on the front lines, the political situation in the US, the issues in Poland, Hungary blocking EU aid and the Middle East.
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  593.  @shelonnikgrumantov5061  Watch the video. Then you’ll know.
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  594.  @shelonnikgrumantov5061  The guy never said they were the inly foreigners. Also, he said his African friend joined them AFTER that raid.
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  595.  @shelonnikgrumantov5061  So go watch it again, and pay extra attention.
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  596. The security will have to fall on Israel as this is a combat zone.
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  597.  @patclark2186  Yes. Mine has combat awards on it. I also have two college degrees the GI Bill helped pay for. You?
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  598.  @marktrain9498  You can’t deport US citizens.
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  599. People are incredibly binary in their thinking. Most can only grasp that in politics, all countries either belong to one faction, the opposing other faction or no faction (neutral) and that’s just not the case. The reality is FAR more nuanced. Every country pursues interests in whatever benefits its government at that given time. China is NOT Russia’s friend. It’s also not the EU’s friend or the US’ friend. It’s China’s friend. It will do what it needs to do to maintain its status, power and way of life. Russia has skirmished with China many times before, and land grabs have a long history there. Large swaths of Northeast China used to be Russian, after Russia took them from China. The Chinese don’t need to be drawn into this. They’re having a hard enough time right now. The US, S. Korea, Australia and Japan building up because they’re worried China will invade Taiwan the same way Russia invaded Ukraine is in no way in China’s interest.
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  600. This brings up only one question for me: what is their concept of “favorable”?
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  601.  @boggisthecat  You don’t grind a military head on, expecting a win. That NEVER works. If you want to eliminate large units you must find ways to trick them, outflank them or force them into an encirclement. Otherwise, given that the defending nation has advantages of personnel, home base logistics and terrain familiarity, local residents’ support and a desperation to fight against all odds, the attacking force simply can’t grind without losing much more.
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  602.  @AZ-zz4kn  Ukraine can’t back down ANYWHERE. Their goal is to free ALL of Russia and backing down will have a negative impact on morale. What Ukraine will do is simple: attack in a different place, causing Russia to shift their forces from Bakhmut.
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  603.  @attilamarics3374  That’s not at all what that means. Ukraine has a means to provide rest, refit and medical/mental relief to units. Russia does not. Ukraine rotates their units out to rest them because simply it can. Russia has less ability to do that given that they’re not home. But of course that’s irrelevant to you since you’re a 2 month-old Russian bot account.
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  604.  @boggisthecat  False on both accounts. First off, this isn’t WW1 or WW2. How trench warfare is conducted has changed. Lessons have been learned. How trenches are built has changed and weapons have changed. Second, there just isn’t enough distance between the two lines for artillery to be accurate, especially Russian artillery, as their is just less accurate than most Western systems. Remember, no side is bum rushing trenches full of machine guns. Third, there are no flanks on the Bakhmut front. It’s still very much a straight line. You need to listen more than talk.
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  605.  @boggisthecat  FAR more than you, troll.
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  606.  @hughgrection3052 That’s not at all how thermobarics work. Thermobarcs provide a larger cloud of atomized explosives (ammonium nitrate 2, ethylene oxide, etc) versus compacted explosives. All this simply to allow the explosives to act like a gas in filling space. Once the explosion happens it obviously eats up oxygen, but thermobaric explosions burn more completely and thus eat up more oxygen (just as gasoline engines do), providing more bang for equal mass of explosives and affects a greater volume of space. However, the amount percussive shock is the same. It’s just spread out over a larger volume of air.
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  607.  @hughgrection3052  You did say, and needed a correction.
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  608.  @hughgrection3052  You keep babbling on, but don’t seem to grasp the difference between a percussive wave and a vacuum…
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  609.  @hughgrection3052  MOAB isn’t a volumetric weapon.
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  610.  @hughgrection3052  The central core in a TBX is a high explosive and the external secondary charge is the outside, which is a fuel-rich formulation. There is first an anaerobic explosion of the inner core, then a delayed outer charge aerobic detonation of the dispersed fuel mixture. The resulting explosive effect is considerably weaker than a conventional explosive like RDX, but it diffuses and delivers an extreme high heat blast. So, the percussive wave blast is a lot smaller, but the fireball superheats the surrounding area, and if you are in a confined space, even a large one, the intense fire eats up all of the oxygen in the space within a second and you die not from the blast, but from the abrupt atmospheric pressure (superheating gasses), followed by abrupt gas expansion due to rapid oxidation and loss of atmospheric pressure. If you are very far from the explosion and in a sealed space you could theoretically die from suffocation as well.
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  611. I think they meant battle ships, not battleships.
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  612.  @PappaTom-ub3ht  It is NOT false. Finland had gained its independence in 1917, but the Soviet Union believed that it had fallen under the influence of the Nazis and that Leningrad was under a direct threat. Exactly the rationale Putin was using for Ukraine. That was the premise of the invasion of Finland. Russia DID lose that war. Its invasion failed and it was later invaded by Finland in the Continuation War, which in turn Finland lost.
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  613.  @aleksandrs1422  It being what Russia asked for is a lie. However, it will most likely be the outcome, and it’d called NEUTRALITY, not “Finlandisation”.
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  614.  @orionnew-uu2eh  It’s the same thing as RSFSR (Russia) was the leading republic and Russians dictated everything.
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  615.  @looinrims  That has NOT been an offer yet.
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  616.  @aleksandrs1422  I missed nothing. Russia asked for it yo keep all territories it had gained to that day, including Crimea, most of Donbas, Zaporizhie and out to Kherson. Ukraine will not agree to that and Putin knew that when he offered it. That is obviously not a negotiated outcome. I believe Ukraine can negotiate the return of Zaporizhie and Crimea to Ukraine, in exchange for Kursk oblast and all of Luhansk and Donetsk. This especially since the Russian Black Sea fleet has abandoned Crimea anyway. You’re Russian and extremely misinformed. I get it. I was you at one point too.
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  617.  @aleksandrs1422  Russia has no “official” anything because it had no standing to demand anything of NATO. Ukraine was not and is not in NATO. Russia accused Ukraine of an illegitimate government following a “coup”. Russia, in direct violation of the Budapest Agreements invaded Ukraine, a sovereign nation because Ukraine REFUSED to join Putin and Lukashenko in their quest to create a Triad Nation. This was after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014. You can blow smoke up ignorant people’s asses, but not mine. I actually know the history, speak Russian fluently, have been watching Russian TV for decades, and kept up with the politics, external and internal. Your bot “arguments” are absolute Kremlin lies.
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  618.  @looinrims  What drugs are you on? The soviets didn’t worry about the Nazis in 1939? You’re an idiot!
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  619.  @looinrims  Most things haven’t been offered yet.
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  620.  @looinrims  Stop proving to everyone online that you’re an ignorant troll. The 2022 negotiations were never approved by Russia, despite the fact that Russia offered NO concessions at all. Russian government sources had later confirmed that Putin never intended on any peace treaty and was just stalling for time. That’s because the Istanbul Communique started the day after the invasion and Moscow had requested a full capitulation of Ukraine. It was never started in good faith and was never a real negotiation.
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  621.  @aleksandrs1422  They view it that way because despite the promises Russia made in Budapest, it was invaded by Russia.
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  622.  @aleksandrs1422  NATO can’t sign anything like that because it goes against the NATO charter which requires all nations to be accepted of free will, as long as they meet the standards. Only Ukraine can promise not to apply for NATO membership. It’s also why “NATO expansion” in general will never be agreed to. As long as countries want to be in NATO and meet requirements, they will be admitted.
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  623.  @aleksandrs1422  If is a policy that’s written into the NATO charter. They can’t agree to something that goes against it. They’d have to change that charter first and that would require a unanimous vote that I don’t think any member wants. Freedom and democracy are the primary tenets of NATO. As I’ve said before, ANY nation is allowed to apply for membership. That is a part of the charter. Not every applicant will be admitted. Russia is a good example. Putin had requested NATO membership and was denied, which is what started him on his psychopath crusade. Since NATO cannot ban anyone from applying, they cannot sign onto it.
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  624.  @aleksandrs1422  I meant NATO. NATO WILL NOT change that policy. Not for ANYONE. ESPECIALLY not for Putin. It is a policy of freedom. No member of NATO can speak for NATO. Why are you so dead set on destabilization of the world? At first ai thought you were just misinformed. Now I can see you’re simply a regime shill, trying to promote a dictator. You’re DONE.
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  625.  @timurlane4004  Nothing shocking, but worth noting that their burn rate isn’t sustainable for too long. Belarus can’t give them all that much. It also means that Russia’s production/logistics aren’t keeping up.
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  626.  @specialingu  All wars are messy. I don’t want to discount that they believe they’re fighting for democracy or/and the underdog. They most certainly do.
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  627.  @grimskid  “No” as in you support terrorism and massive killing of civilians? We already know you do. No actual need to reply. Your profile demonstrates your mental illness quite succinctly.
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  628.  @jonathanpfeffer3716  If Russia is able to defend their gained territories against Ukraine, it wins, short and long term.
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  629.  @playedout148  You want to argue the counties’ sizes? Okay, big boy… area or population? You’re about to feel stupid again.
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  630.  @TheDreadPirateRoberts-jr2fk  FACTUALLY NO. He was given that name because his father had that name. It was his FATHER who changed his own name to Netanyahu, but I don’t expect a moron like you to understand the difference. You’re a troll account created a couple of months ago.
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  631.  @lordvader3425 What do you mean by “allow”? The UN never asked for permission or offered assistance to either side.
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  632.  @lordvader3425  No. they never had any a never offered to have any. You need to learn to read instead of making assumptions.
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  633. It won one small battle, but that’s what a war is, a collection of many, many battles. The kore you win, the closer you are to your goal. A small raid like that tells your enemies that they are not invincible or safe in the rear. It makes them keep more soldiers and equipment in the rear rather than sending it into the fight. This raid also took out an S-400 system.
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  634. @ Are you mental? The Taliban took over years before 9/11. Do you just not know history or do you choose to ignore it? Also, you’re arguing that a pro-democracy group is worse than the Taliban because it’s having a tough time and the Taliban is winning? Are you on meth?
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  635.  @gsst6389  Can you speak grown-up?
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  636.  @mappingshaman5280  So in your brain democracy is bad because the Taliban exists? Do you grasp that the Taliban existed BEFORE the US invaded?
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  637. Oh yeah, Al Sadony is completely impartial. How about we have evidence from Amnesty International?
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  638.  @dark_winter8238 Are you mentally ill to think the US stores weapons under hospitals? You’re insane! No one in the free world would even consider that!
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  639.  @jethrox827 Satellites, RQ-4s, spies, etc.
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  640.  @spencerathearn3586 WMDs were FACTUALLY proven and found in Iraq.
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  641.  @mac_mcleod  None of them were officers, right along generals.
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  642. That’s not what intent means.
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  643. I don’t think Miramar is a serious conflict. It’s actually a very peaceful town on the Pacific Ocean.
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  644. What does “respect” mean? The US isn’t a party to it and it doesn’t recognize the ICC. There also won’t be any arrests.
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  645.  @DarkPortall It’s LITERALLY not an ethnic group as ethnic groups are defined by biology, not political views.
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  646.  @quintrankid8045 You are correct. Intent ≠ premeditation. That said, the case lacks both.
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  647.  @pyrho1  Not anymore.
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  648. Democracy is a crossroads by its very nature.
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  649.  @dannyroe1697 Are you on crack? They were in JORDAN, with the Jordanian government not only allowing them to be there, but ASKING for them. We work with Jordan all the time!
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  650. ROEs are ALWAYS restrictive. ALWAYS.
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  651.  @joek600  It’s not permission. People call it that, but it isn’t. It’s gifts given with specific conditions. This is why Ukraine has been striking Russia with its own weapons, without anyone’s permission. Of course you know that already. You’re just a Russian shill.
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  652.  @sagapoetic8990 Yes, forensics are sometimes possible, but I can guarantee most investigator ever touched this case.
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  653.  @economicallyunviablekitten  “Used in a great nature of disposal in the process of such a brutal task”? Okay, English is obviously not your language. Just type it in your language and let us use translators so we can understand. And again, because you lack basic English comprehension, their losses were about 2/3. Is 2/3 higher than 70% or lower? All troops were blocked from retreat past Stalingrad because for the year prior they lost every battle and half of a giant nation! Did you drop out of school or something?
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  654.  @clownchkn  I never said a thing about comparative losses between the USSR and Germany. You’re making stuff up.
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  655.  @williamneal8162  More importantly, the use of poorly trained and equipped forces in defense of a homeland is a commonplace strategy all around the world, but using it for offense is a novelty, even for Russia.
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  656.  @looinrims  What caste system?
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  657.  @alerossi8564  Sources?
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  658. Considering that Rzesow airport is filled with US, British and other NATO troops, a hit on that will ABSOLUTELY draw most of NATO into an all-out war.
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  659.  @SectorSos Ты на сто процентов прав. Я родился и вырос в Питере, но иммигрировал в штаты уже 35 лет назад. Служил в ВВС США 8 лет, включая и 9 месяцев в Афгане. Всем на Западе до России было похуй до 14го года. После 14го мы помогали Украине встать на ноги. Грузии тоже. Смотрели на Путина настороженно. Знали что он ебанутый в голову и может что угодно начать, но не знали что и когда. Воюет Россия ТОЛКО за своё эго и ТОЛЬКО с Украинцами, во всяком случае в в реальности. Использует-ли это НАТО для своих успехов? Конечно! И не толко НАТО. Почти все государства в мире стоят с Украиной в этом вопросе. Россияне всегда были и будут, как нация, похуисты.
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  660.  @emilzhiltsov5446 They ABSOLUTELY call it a war, and an invasion. Everywhere. All the time.
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  661.  @jspringer86 Do you actually ever read? The US didn’t provide those weapons.
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  662.  @jspringer86  Do you have anything to contradict that? The article didn’t say the US provided those weapons to any of the listed groups. Did you actually read it before posting?
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  663. Are Russians trying to say that the Russian Army engineers lack the capability to traverse rivers? They didn’t used to. Russia is FULL of rivers and defending it would always require such capabilities. So if they don’t lack it, why not drop those bridges??? If they do lack such a capability, why even bother invading Ukraine, which has endless rivers throughout and they all go North to South, so you’d have to cross them all?
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  664. Aid packages or the lack thereof are NOT the reason that Ukraine is losing. The reason is that despite their placating, their resolve is FAR weaker than we all thought. Ukraine STILL refuses to draft men between the age of 18 and 25. You can have have all the equipment in the world, but when you have too few soldiers and they’re 50 years old, you will lose.
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  665. Bots are not just digital code (although they are that too), but any systemic cyber system, even human-operated, that spreads targeted information on the internet. Russia, China and other countries literally employ individuals to act as bots on social media - post and engage posts on social media in order to spread misinformation, dilute information or simply overwhelm posters in order to reduce their online presence.
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  666.  @dyr_glpsn4209  Who’s a bot?
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  667.  @FrankyXG  I know, and I think they’re going to lose this war because of that decision, except not all ages, but 18 and over.
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  668.  @carlward You mean Trump and the base of the GOP who hardline insisted on minding our own business instead of policing the world?
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  669. While the invasion of Crimea was the major factor in NATO’s standing in the 21st century, I would argue that the change came when Russia invaded Georgia.
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  670. In other words, Russia is running out of usable BMPs and BMDs, while the Kurganets-25 still isn’t ready. They’re saying they can produce 500 BMP-3s, but apparently that’s a lie (shocking, I know) and BMD-4s are lacking as well, as they’re both made at the same plant. We’re going to see up-fitted BTRs pretty soon. Russia’s running out of essential equipment just as they’re getting to the pivotal moment in the war.
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  671. None of the other Arab nations want to be involved in this. They’re finally in a decent place with Israel and Hamas’ nasty actions aren’t making any friends. They’re all for a freedom fight, but this definitely isn’t one. They also aren’t keen on Iran.
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  672.  @Rob_F8F Iran is in the Persian Gulf, not the Mediterranean.
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  673.  @Rob_F8F  So you think the carrier is there to attack Israel? Stop eating crayons.
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  674. @cessnight5672 It was British colonialism, not Israel’s. Israel didn’t colonize anything.
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  675. Until the next war. Every war is a major change.
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  676.  @18Krieger  That suggests that infantry and artillery aren’t being countered, which is ridiculous. You have to be able to push through or around the defenses to make progress.
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  677.  @Woessner1101  You’re an uneducated idiot. No one lost to any “cave people” and even if we had, that would only reinforce that we don’t know how to fight asymmetric warfare because we’re completely geared toward large scale p2p warfare. I have 22 years in. Don’t try your bs here. You have NO clue of what a win is. You also obviously have no idea of what “hanging in” is. Russia’s objectively losing a large scale conflict with an enemy less than 1/3 its size, an enemy armed almost entirely with Russia’s old (obsolete) weapons.
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  678.  @Geotpf  F-16s aren’t air superiority fighters, but you’re right. Between all the air power and cruise missiles the US has, if Russia was to fight a conventional (non-nuclear) war, it’d be over already. I think most US generals were surprised by how poorly equipped and how impotent the Russian military turned out.
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  679.  @fishyfish6050  Not according to the Swedish defense minister.
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  680.  @fishyfish6050  I didn’t mention timelines because frankly, they’re irrelevant to the conversation. Also, non-NATO countries do this too, including Russia and Ukraine themselves.
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  681.  @fishyfish6050  This does: Jodenius, Per (2017-05-08). "Försvarsmakten intresserad av flygfält i länet". Smålandsposten (in Swedish). Retrieved 2017-12-10. As well as this: Andersson, Janne (2017-09-14). "Se när JAS Gripen landar – mitt på vägen: "Det är old school" While some airfields still do exist, and can be used in training, the BAS90 system was shut down in the 2000s. Don’t confuse locations with the system.
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  682.  @fishyfish6050  EVERY SINGLE ARTICLE AND MENTIONING OF BAS 90 SAYS IT WAS SHUT DOWN IN THE 2000. EITHER STOP TROLLING OR PROVIDE EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY.
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  683.  @user-pretzel  Exactly.
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  684.  @user-pretzel  The cope is hard with you.
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  685.  @Smithsj82  Stop it with your historical facts and logic. Swedes can’t handle it.
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  686.  @matso3856  I hope you don’t mean Red Flag Alaska, which isn’t Red Flag and where the F-16s were PURPOSEFULLY sacrificed to the Gripen in order for the Swedes to get training against something similar to Russia…
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  687.  @matso3856  I was there, you pestilent child! A fanboy? I have 22 years in the air force. I’m an expert, not a fanboy. I simply know what the two aircraft can do, what they’re good at and what they’re not.
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  688.  @AndersJackson  Are you mentally ill? Not reserve? What war time were they active during? Sweden hasn’t been in any war since 1814!!!
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  689. He is the leader of a country…
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  690.  @Youtube-handles-are-stupid  It’s literally a country. No amount of trolling from you will change that.
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  691.  @seanniemeyer5437 Look at the end of your third paragraph to see why those things were actually done.
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  692.  @dzengrinder  That is over a decade, as I’ve said.
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  693. Why does Islam allow for weaponizing children and flag out murder?
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  694. B-52s aren’t based in Turkey.
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  695. Preston, Russia actually passed a law, before Prigozhin’s revolt, that all PMCs would be “nationalized” by being centrally controlled by the MOD. It was the primary reason for the revolt as he had no trust in the MOD and saw that he would lose operational control over Wagner.
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  696. Trump and Hegseth working hard to prove their loyalty to the Reich and the KKK.
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  697.  @reboundrides8132  What do you mean by “these days”?
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  698. You must have failed the IQ test. That wasn’t bad OPSEC. That information was purposefully put out into the world press by the Pentagon and the White House. You’re just too stupid to understand strategy.
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  699. How do you know that Trump is lying? He’s alive.
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  700.  @alistairjclark2433  You are 100% trolling and spreading misinformation. Simple to verify.
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  701. Exactly. Plus, Wagner were better equipped and trained than the average Russian Army soldiers.
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  702. I think you lack a simple perspective. This isn’t some war far away for Russia. They see it as a war of their own existence. Putin and the rest of the government surely see it that way. What price is too high for their own existence?
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  703.  @henzoalon No. They protect other “freedom fighters” too. In general, the UN exists to promote terrorism by forcing chaos onto the developed world.
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  704.  @benoitlevesque9609 The opposite.
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  705.  @Robert6889  Winning wars is often not about seizing territories. No, it wasn’t just special ops that fought there.
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  706. The numbers are completely and utterly fake. While the death and injury tolls are high, the numbers are fictional.
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  707.  @agnelomascarenhas8990  They have no idea as these aren’t uniformed personnel with military IDs. These are terrorists in their homes. The only ones they know of are high ranked Hamas leaders that intelligence actually knows by name and face.
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  708.  @theoendre6484  NATO literally plans NOTHING for Ukraine, which frustrates NATO leadership on daily basis.
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  709. I think it’s very naive and childish for us to think that the October 7th attacks were simply Hamas attacks on Israel. Given the prior coordination with Iran, Hezbollah, and others, and the growing issues in Iran domestically, we HAVE to think deeper and see that this was all a setup for an Iranian assertion of power over the Middle East, following the fall of Iraq and Syria as its main players. Iran is going to wage an Islamic war on “the West”. We all knew it was going to happen at some point.
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  710. Preston, the ONLY difference between Hamas and Hezbollah is their size. I don’t know where you got the idea that they were or are ideologically different in any way.
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  711.  @PrestonStewart A buddy of mine just PCSd out of a NATO task force in Milan and oh boy… The work is cut out for the O-5s and O-6s there.
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  712. The Soviet and Russian military doctrine had always been very different than the modern US system or even the older US system that included the draft. The bulk of the armed forces’ enlisted personnel are draftees. The conscripts are drafted for a one-year term in order to provide them basic and specialty (equivalent to US AIT) training. They are then released and listed as reservists. Russia has no active reserve or guard system. It relies on the active duty and inactive reserve only. As such, conscription serves to give basic military skills to all men, leaving them in reserves if needed, and to make up the bulk of the active forces at any time. During the Soviet times, there were very few professional, contracted personnel. Conscripts in all services except the Navy did 2 year conscriptions. The Navy did 3 years. That allowed them to train and then retain members to actually do their work after training. In 2007 that all ended with a professional force being instituted, though it is still less than 1/3 of the total force. Officers have always been commissioned from military schools (colleges) and served careers much like their Western counterparts. Military Academies, in Russia, are considered to be graduate level schools, similar to War Colleges in the US. Generally, you’d attend an Academy when you are a Captain/Captain-Lieutenant. So why did I just write all that? The training, given the goals, is quite limited for conscripts since they’re unlikely to ever be mobilized once they are reservists and the training for reservists is limited because they’ve already had one year of service. The entire system is predicated on having very large amounts of very basically trained men to defend the country if attacked. A competent force to invade simply doesn’t exist in large enough numbers to deal with a peer nation. Yes, they could fight a developing nation, but not a large force.
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  713.  @alonskii He’s just being an idiot.
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  714. When it comes to demilitarization, an invading country can’t take 1:1 losses, not even if they’re much larger. Think about it… if Russia beats Ukraine, but then has little to defend itself against anyone else, how is that a win? That invites every other country in the region to pull out of Russia’s zone of influence and leaves Russia unable to do anything like keeping breakaway republics from leaving. Chechnya, for example, would be able to easily leave this time. It would invite Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan to join the Turkic nations union and leave the CSTO. It will also worsen Belarus’ relationship with Russia because it will be unprotected. No, Russia can’t lose much without losing.
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  715. 100%
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  716. Oh boy… Not sure Marcus should have joined you here. He came across completely unaware and ignorant on the current events.
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  717. The Washington post is about as believable as Breitbart. Extremists media is extremist media, no matter which extreme they represent.
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  718. Yes. The use is the issue.
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  719. Yeah, exactly as it was in the USSR. It’s why they shortened the term to 1 year.
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  720.  @meisterproper8304  That advantage helps a lot in a defensive war (if you’re ever invaded), but it’s completely useless in offensive capacity like Russia is trying to use it. You can’t use untrained soldiers to attack a trained army.
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  721.  @YorkerEli  That’s false. About 70% of Russia’s military are conscripts and the other 30% are contracted professional soldiers (not to be confused with any private military contractors). All males have to be conscripted between the ages of 18 and 27.
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  722.  @meisterproper8304  No, that’s simply misinformation, not a fact. At the beginning of the war, about 25% were conscripted and 45% contracted. About 23% were commissioned officers. However, the war has had massive effect on those percentages. The killed soldiers have been almost entirely contracted enlisted and junior officers. With the new, enlarged conscriptions and a mobilization of over 200k enlisted reserve conscripts, the ratio is now about 68/32 of conscripts/contracted.
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  723.  @meisterproper8304  They are mobilized, but the difference is that they actually undergo extensive training before being sent out, and most have also been conscripts at some point. There would not be a video or a conversation about this if Russia was actually training their mobilized reservists or conscripts.
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  724.  @meisterproper8304  That’s not even close to the truth. Ukraine has large bases and complexes where they train new conscripts in Western Ukraine, and Russians have targeted them in the past. The people Ukraine has accepted into the military have so far been mostly those who have served earlier. They are constantly rejecting men of military age because they cannot handle training more. Furthermore, those men are not being trained in the West, but rather by Westerners in Ukraine. You must be in Russia. You have no clue.
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  725.  @meisterproper8304  The troops being trained in Western countries are NOT conscripts. Do you even read? The conscripts are trained in Western Ukraine. The trainees sent to foreign countries are mostly officers, NCOs and operators of specific NATO weapons systems.
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  726.  @gerri577  Palestinians in the West Bank never had problems rebelling before and Hamas isn’t a rebellion. According to Hamas itself, it couldn’t care less about the Palestinians. It is simply an extremist, self-serving organization. Also, every person arguing with a “trust me” is an uneducated moron. I’ve been to the West Bank and Gaza. The West Bank looked like Beirut, with major shopping malls, architecture, actual street infrastructure, art, even luxuries, e. Gaza looked like Central Africa, with nothing. Not even regular electricity or running water, and this was because of their government (Hamas), not Israel.
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  727. Joint arms combat is a real thing. Mid-level officers go to war colleges of other branches.
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  728.  @wharris7594  I don’t know what language you’re trying to speak, but I can assure you that’s not Russian.
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  729.  @omegaz3393  No, not really. Russia never really used its proper air power in this conflict. Not a single heavy bomber was used, no modern fighters… they all sit on the ground. You’re confusing helicopters with real air power.
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  730.  @danielallan8061  In theory, yes. In reality, no. Ukraine has pretty decent air defense capabilities now.
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  731.  @criticalevent For Israel? How? It was in Gaza, not Israel.
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  732.  @kwanchan6745 You wouldn’t know the truth if it poked your eye out. You base everything on your racism.
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  733.  @Kleicomolo  It’s not its importance that’s the issue. They may never know its importance. It may have held some of the hostages along with Hamas. That’s why they had to take it. Using it for military purposes under a hospital makes it justified in military and humanitarian law. That’s all that matters.
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  734.  @criticalevent  I don’t know why you’re so happily spreading misinformation in hinderance of terrorism aside of your fascination of morbidity. You love people being murdered, and as violently as possible.
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  735.  @rizanz2108  Another lie promoting terrorism.
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  736.  @carloszaza99  I don’t think you know what that is.
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  737. Well… being from Russia, with 1/2 of my lineage being Ukrainian, and always having been interested in politics, I will pretend that I know more than him, because I factually do. The guy’s an obvious Conservative conspiracy theorist who’s trying to make a solid buck by becoming “internet famous.” None of his claims are actually based on any real research nor knowing any Russian politicians. All of it ignores past facts, obvious strategies (political and military) and the personalities of the players involved. His sole belief is that Putin’s approach as an autocrat is logical and understandable. The guy absolutely adores autocrats and is an avid supporter of Trump. Had he lived in the 1930’s he’d be excusing Hitler’s annexation of Czechoslovakia. The sole statement of Russia’s only wanting to go to Odessa is 5th grade silly. Has he never heard of Transnistria or its current state? Did he not see the speeches and military operations toward Kharkiv and Kyiv? The guy sadly proves thar not everyone who graduates from the USMA is bright.
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  738. @ I don’t think you grasp what “peacekeeper” means in reality. Their job is to monitor the area for Israeli and Hezbollah fighters and report it to the UN HQ, in hopes of the UN being able to use diplomacy to stop it. That’s all it ever was.
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  739. To you it’s any democratic nation.
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  740. Good points, though I must call attention to one: Russia can’t blow up bridges on the Dnipro river. They need them to advance more that Ukraine does. Ukraine has time in its side. Russia does not. They need to make progress or things get worse, internally.
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  741.  @hsatin20 What shock do you see? No one here is shocked by it. You literally just made thar up in order to seem intelligent to strangers on the internet. Seek therapy.
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  742.  @donjowansafadi8739 Those graves were by Al Shifa Hospital, which Hamas ABSOLUTELY defended, and nothing about those graves has been identified as evidence of anything. In fact, so far the only actual explanation was that the hospital buried people there because they ran out over morgue space and had no way to contact the families around them bury the bodies elsewhere. The bodies can all be Hamas for all we know.
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  743. Israel, much like Ukraine, and completely unlike the US, are fighting real wars of survival, versus the US and NATO fighting wars of public image.
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  744.  @erockoutdoors633  You digress.. Indeed. That’s all that you do, as yes, you ARE being a drama queen. Ukraine us repairing bombed tracks within hours, but apparently in your brain, they aren’t and can’t, or… only Russians aren’t and can’t. Also, an NLAW hasn’t destroyed even a single airborne helicopter to date, and even in direct attack mode, it would not. An NLAW is not a Javelin, which is a “fire and forget” weapon that tracks its target or a Stugna-P remotely controlled missile, all ATGM weapons. An NLAW may be effective against helicopters in terminal operations (taking off or landing), but it’s pretty useless against one in flight, even at low altitudes. More so because the helo will warn the pilot of a lock-on and because using an NLAW that way is an extremely expensive gamble. All of that shows that you know little to nothing about the realities of either train track repair or employment of ATGMs, but are very opinionated on both subjects.
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  745.  @erockoutdoors633  You should get that sociopathy checked out.
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  746.  @psibeast And you see those in some of the videos, but Hamas built tunnels out of this basement (bunker is a poor word for it) and you mostly see that.
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  747.  @ChrisAlbertH47  1. You have NO idea of how many IDF soldiers are there. 2. You aren’t watching many videos. The real question is… why are you a radicalized terrorist?
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  748. We had very primitive radars, but no system.
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  749. Actually, the adjustments were very quickly made, within hours, and NORAD doesn’t use a single radar system. That would be silly. The issue was never the radars tracking objects. They did that well. The issue was the flagging and identification of objects. The system was never made to identify and flag very slow moving objects. We know the exact flight path the balloons took because the system did record them. It just didn’t see them as threats. By “system” I don’t just mean radars or computers. I mean as a whole, including humans.
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  750. It’s not a civil war when Russia literally sent in its own soldiers to arm, train and fight in Donbass in 2014.
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  751.  @TheDreadPirateRoberts-jr2fk The kids will try to immigrate out of that shit hole as they’ve been trying to for decades. The kids don’t fight for themselves. They’re recruited and brainwashed to do it.
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  752. @ Both of those points are false. The ICC has pointed to the UN status as the reasoning for Palestinian ability to be a signatory to the ICC as only states can. As for Hamas, it came to power in Gaza in 2006. The ICC recognized Palestinian ratification of the treaty in 2015.
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  753. @ Again, the ICC turned away Palestinian assertions of ICC jurisdiction until 2015 and that motion was made SOLELY by the Palestinian Authority and not by Hamas. In 2015 those two territories were independent of each other, with separate governments. As such, that jurisdiction can ONLY be applied to the West Bank at best, although considering it isn’t a state, it can’t pass that legal test either. As per Palestine signing, from the ICC website itself: “On 2 January 2015, The State of Palestine acceded to the Rome Statute by depositing its instrument of accession with the UN Secretary-General.” And that brings us back to the UN because it was the UN vote in 2012 to include Palestine as a non-member observer that allowed that motion to proceed. And again, “the State of Palestine” in the UN is reserved to the Palestinian Authority, which was not, and is not the elected government of Gaza. In July of 2024 Fatah and Hamas signed an agreement (Beijing Declaration) to move toward a unified government for both regions and once that happens, and that government is recognized at the UN, can the ICC have legal jurisdiction over Gaza.
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  754.  @tvgerbil1984 Why do you keep spreading lies? It’s not a question of anyone wanting them there. Lebanon and Israel signed an AGREEMENT to have them there. It was a compromise!
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  755.  @Zwaolin  It’s true. They’re poorly led, equipped and tasked, but I think that’s what the OP is hinting at. They can only be true peace keepers if they’re able to match the country they’re charged to keep at bay.
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  756.  @YoavMoran  So how do peacekeepers keep peace then? By fighting a war? The idea of peacekeepers with tanks and missiles is ludicrous in the first place.
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  757.  @devalapar7878  What are some options that the UN is giving to the world? Look, the UN has some good programs. UNICEF, UNHCR, and the ICC come to mind, but the Security Council and the Peacekeeping Forces are a joke and have never been successful anywhere. They’re human speed bumps.
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  758.  @YoavMoran  There is no “pink life view”. My view is realistic. I did a tour with them. Yours is idealistic. The truth is that they don’t keep peace, very obviously. They TRY to keep peace. It only works when both sides respect the peace and the UN, like in the case of Cyprus. In reality, they’re a very impotent organization. The police also do keep the peace, and police forces are a big part of the UN peacekeepers. The UN is a third party and has no legal right to “act harshly”. The countries they deal with have their sovereignty. The idea was that they’d be staffed by militarily powerful nations like the USSR, the US, UK, etc., but that idea was very quickly dispatched and without it, it doesn’t work in most instances.
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  759.  @YoavMoran  They’re not tourists. They’re soldiers from another country, patrolling and documenting what they see.
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  760.  @YoavMoran  Documenting and reporting up the chain. How do you think they should keep the peace? By war? I did a deployment in the CAR for the UN. I also did 9 months in Afghanistan. You need to learn to watch what you say and who you say it to. Not everyone here is an ignorant child like you.
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  761.  @YoavMoran  Depends on your definition of peace. Our job there was to protect the civilians and bring in humanitarian aid, then to protect the aid and its distribution. Were there armed clashes going on in the country all the time? Every day. Was it our job to fight them or disarm them? No.
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  762. One point of clarification: that letter was NOT from Biden’s White House staff. It was from low level canvassers who work for his local campaign offices. These are primarily college students and recent graduates who want to be/feel important. They are never vetted and many of them are extremist in their views. In this case, given the specific language, they’re obviously members of the ultra-left extremist minority of the Democratic party. No one should be paying any attention to them and like other trolls, they’ll go away.
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  763. Literally doesn’t happen as it’s not semi-automatic.
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  764. More importantly, Putin has lost trust in PMCs.
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  765. There are no legal restraints.
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  766. @ An attack on one is an attack on all. If American troops are attacked by a random country the US is not engaging directly, it’s 100% legal grounds for Article 5. It’s EXACTLY what it was written for.
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  767. What deal? There’s no dean to reject.
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  768.  @schadowfighter4705  I guess that depends on the offer. Right now Zelenskiy is rejecting deals because Putin is offering nothing.
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  769. I wouldn’t put much stock into the Russian political talk show pundits. They’ve been calling for nuclear strikes on Ukraine for over a decade.
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  770.  @ИльяПавленко-ф8у  That’s true for only a part of the population in Russia. The majority don’t actually like Putin. They just won’t say anything outside their homes because either it will result in nothing or repercussions from the local authorities and/or supporters. It was EXACTLY the same under communism.
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  771.  @annpyingshek4693  Everything will never be ideal or good, but this war IS, FACTUALLY all about and because of Putin. You pathetically trying to deflect won’t change that.
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  772.  @freeloader247  What countries is Armenia in a union with? Also, the Union State is not at all like the EU. It’s far closer to the USSR in concept.
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  773. 18-24 year olds represented maybe 200 of those polled? Might be as few as 50.
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  774.  @TheWeirdguy6 That’s not at all what happened. loli
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  775. That money was given by Iran to spend on tunnels and weapons, not people, so they can’t just do that.
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  776.  @Fusi_lier  No, Rusich is a private organization paid by government money.
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  777.  @lupisvolk2420  Exactly.
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  778. Can one fail at something that one doesn’t try? The UN unit currently deployed is from the Irish Army. For those who don’t know, Ireland may be the most antisemitic and anti-Israeli country on Earth, maybe even more so than any neighbor of Israel. The IDF went in there and told those idiots to turn off their lights because they were being targeted by Hezballah. The IDF saved their lives. UNIFIL isn’t supporting Hezballah directly. They’re just turning a blind eye because they have no training, equipment or motivation to keep peace. That’s not the actual role of the UN today and hasn’t been for many decades.
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  779. What guarantee? He very succinctly said the US won’t be a part of it. Trump is going to destroy the world.
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  780. How anyone defends Palestinians is a total mystery to me. People must really be mentally ill
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  781. And NONE of those have anything to do with Yemen.
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  782. Why bring on idiots who clearly don’t know their shit? The ISA is a US Army unit, not a PMC.
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  783.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  Listen to it again, and the few sentences afterward. He even said it was renamed into a corporate name (it wasn’t).
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  784.  @mrx2062  You do. The US Air Force and Navy are designed for strong air defense opponents. The electronic warfare and Wild Weasel capabilities are ridiculous. That added to stealth capabilities of some aircraft… they really were designed to take on what we thought Russia and China were, and no we know they’re much weaker than that.
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  785.  @springbloom5940  That’s not true. They’re accustomed to fighting by first destroying the air and anti-air capabilities of enemies first. Germany, N. Korea, N. Vietnam, Iraq and Serbia all had substantial air forces and anti-aircraft capabilities. Only Afghanistan did not.
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  786.  @springbloom5940  Oh okay there, “scholar”. 😂
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  787.  @springbloom5940  Congrats? Let us know when you learn to read and write, little buddy.
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  788.  @carey-gregory  Perhaps YOU should research that topic better as NORAD is a giant part of NATO’s strategic defenses and NATO aircraft often do test it, on purpose. NORAD’s radars aren’t in Colorado. They’re not all in the US either. Most are in Europe, Canada and Greenland.
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  789. Sadly it’d FAR from everyone, and that’s the big issue. A HUGE percentage of the Russian populous loves that this war was started. Yes, they were misled and brainwashed from… birth, really, but that’s irrelevant because they do, in fact, want this war. It’s not just Putin like so many of us believe. It isn’t certainly all Russians either, but it is a majority of Russians that support the expansion of Russian power through force. Russians are simply a pragmatic bunch, much like Trump, who believe that brute force is what gets the power, and that the ends justify the means. To be honest, historically they aren’t wrong. It’s how humans have always lived. The physically strong dominated the weak. While much of the Western want to evolve past that, most of the planet is pragmatic about it and believes that’s just not human nature. It’s a dichotomy between the “First World” and others.
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  790.  @henryrollins9177  You mean you, a Russian bot, don’t agree with it.
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  791. Yeah, closer to 80%.
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  792.  @esmaeilbozorgi389 It’s not an action movie. It’s what US satellites and aircraft like RQ-4 do.
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  793. Except Belarus is NOT “socialistic” or “libertarian.” Belarus is a Communist dictatorship.
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  794.  @beardnick1748  Socialism os a spectrum. Every nation has some socialism. You have no point.
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  795.  @islandwills2778  Neither of them lost their independence to Russia.
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  796. @ I was born in Leningrad.
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  797.  @potatofilms2084 They’re not fighting for any Sunni country. They’re fighting for religious control.
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  798.  @royalroyal2210  Quite the opposite. You’re literally here because of that freedom and democracy. Youtube is American.
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  799. @Dave DeVille WTF are you trolling about?
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  800. I didn’t know the GOP had a Russian offshoot… Seriously though, this is a rather small group of rather low IQ fascists. Every country has them. Russia, sadly, has a lot of them.
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  801. The technology comes likely with this being fresh water, not sea water.
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  802.  @13christbane  Because it’s a desert and it’s in a war zone. All infrastructure was destroyed.
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  803.  @CyrusDavis-p8u  Which is why it wouldn’t be used. Also, you don’t stretch water hoses for miles.
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  804.  @mbpaintballa  It’s really bad for the environment. Pumping minerals and whatever else is in the sea into the desert isn’t a good idea. It’ll also corrode the metal supports of the tunnels, which will eventually cause cave-ins under structures.
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  805.  @mbpaintballa  What military buildings? The tunnels were built under residential buildings.
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  806.  @mbpaintballa  This isn’t about your feels. Whatever happens during the war, the land will need to be used after the war.
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  807.  @mbpaintballa  Those are EXACTLY your feels and you’re trolling.
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  808.  @mbpaintballa  You used NO facts.
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  809. He is intelligent, for sure, but you don’t get his game here.
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  810. That’s not at all why. This wasn’t a security council resolution. The problem is that the UN, in general, is a useless collection of self-promoting undeveloped nations that accomplishes nothing at all.
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  811. Houses at first, yes, but moved into tunnels after the fighting broke out.
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  812.  @myspaceplays284  Want to provide that evidence you’re claiming?
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  813.  @myspaceplays284  It’s not a debate because you’re spreading misinformation.
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  814.  @myspaceplays284  I don’t look for things that don’t exist. The burden is on YOU to substantiate your claim. The videos I’ve seen never claim the hostage was held only in houses.
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  815.  @myspaceplays284  I’ve read the account in detail and unlike you, I’m intelligent enough to understand that this is a hearsay (do you know what that means?) recount of an experience of a 9 year-old who had a poor understanding of what was happening. In addition to saying “she was moved from house to house” which doesn’t actually eliminate that she may have been in a tunnel that resembled a home room (some do), the little girl thought she was gone a whole year, and that she was the only one taken hostage, DESPITE having been in captivity with her own friend and the friend’s mother for less than 2 months.
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  816.  @myspaceplays284  I think it’s better you go off internet altogether. We’ve had enough misinformation already.
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  817.  @allent.g560  You do understand that NONE of what you’ve said makes ANY sense, right? Fo you want me to explain how stupid you are in English or Russian?
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  818. The problem is that there’s nothing in it for Moscow, so it’s not a negotiation. It’s a wishlist.
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  819. Well… not true. The primary objective was to “liberate” the Donbas (Donetsk and Luhansk), with the disarmament of Ukraine, “de-nazification” of Ukraine and securing borders against NATO being secondary goals. Russia isn’t really losing on all those.
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  820.  @Sunkist4Life-p7l There was never any actual alliance between them and Israel. Israel simply chose to ignore the massacre, to not intervene. When I say Israel, I mean the local military commander, not the entire government or its people. After the investigations, Israel removed their Prime Minister, citing that despite his non-involvement, he is ultimately responsible.
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  821.  @roy6419 But destroying others and blaming them for fighting back is what all Muslims do. Again, it’s a teaching of Muhammad, who exterminated two and exiled one of the three Jewish tribes of Medina after they became a bit too prominent in the Medina market.
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  822. Absolutely. The countryside supports the Ukrainians with food, shelter and clothing, if needed. The Russians get nothing. Putin will be the Napoleon and Hitler of Winter.
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  823. Qatar and Iran. Look it up. There’s a reason the UAE and Saudi Arabia blocked off Qatar for a while a few years ago.
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  824. I get that Ukraine was (and is desperate for young, trained and experienced) soldiers, but most of these guys are veterans and no longer serving in their countries for a reason. Most were separated because they were unruly, blood-thirsty and undisciplined. They are NOT, in my opinion, a long-term benefit to Ukraine, and should be sent home. They’re a liability.
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  825. Well… he’s also targeting Commandants.
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  826. My guess there is at least one special ops team on board that carrier group, but likely multiple. I also guess that if American hostages are located by intel, these teams will act quickly.
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  827. Based on what?
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  828. It’s important to say that none of these are actual charges against anyone. They are just suspicions at this time.
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  829. We’re supposed to believe a Russian bot?
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