I would need a lot of convincing that these tanks are in any fit state to move never mind go into battle. I know how bad a lot of them were in the mid to late 90's - a friend ended up in hospital after a breakdown of one he was driving on his reservist training or refamiliarization or whatever it was called, and his wasn't the only spectacular breakdown that month.
Not sure what you mean. We are seeing standard Russian doctrine in action, e.g. encircle and shell cities into submission (Grozny), thermobaric weapons (Grozny, Syria) and possibly worse in Mariupol. Poor troop discipline + looting, torture, murders, rapes.
I think it’s a total waste of time. Even acknowledging this rats existence is a step too far for any civilized country. This is north Korea times a million now. As Reagan once put it an “evil empire” and despite a brief window of hope under Gorbachev are still the exact same shower of **** they always were
Watching the harrowing story on BBC now. It seems some Russian infantrys are far worse than others. One woman raped and murdered and left on the street.
Another following infantry found her and let the neighbours know what happened and had *some decency to bury the body.
No need to rinse your mouth - the "broken clock" clause may be used twice a day . . .
I don't think it is, so long as any conflict stays within Ukraine and Russian territory isn't attacked, I think things could be kept conventional.
I think Putin likes these meetings because he can spin it to his own people and the chinese that his trying to make peace but in reality he wants anything but
It's not quite as impossible as you make out:
So they could, but won't, as they have a serious Scholz problem, who seems to be possibly worse than the Merkel problem, because he can't plead ignorance of current events.
They seem to be goading the US/NATO. Why?
For the shíts and giggles. I don't think so.
If US troops are shooting at Russian troops, that's WW3. Both sides know this.
Seems like a strange move tbh.
Putin's not gonna change his mind for **** Austria of all places.
You deport it back to where it belongs. I’m sick and tired of “oh, we can’t do that because we hold high moral standards in the west…”- this is a new era, all bets are off as far as I’m concerned and it’s time to take a very hardline against these cretins infesting western civilisation like cancer. Most cancers you cut them out and eliminate the tumour. Exact same approach needed here.
Yeah, it looks like it's deliberate.
Which part?
You've several on here thinking NATO should attack Russian troops. Do you think it impossible the US military don't think the same thing, but go a few chess moves ahead and launch. US troops fighting Russian troops near the Russian border is magnitudes greater than the Cuban Missile crises. Why wait for Russia to lauch first?
AND they can see Putin is goading them on... it's not to fight a conventional war, that would definitely mean a Russian loss/ humiliation.
Indeed. Just one or two of these may be enough to trigger the remaining defenders to surrender. Russia is very keen to take Mariupol, and they know "minor" chemical weapon use inside a city that no reporters can get to is definitely doable.
Unless theres a strong response by Nato, the situation wil be nomalised and Putin will use them more frequently. And reacting with more sanctions to this type of thing wont do anything to stop it
Very foolish of the Austrian minister to go and meet with a barbaric warmonger. Not to mention risky as **** given the Russians form for poisoning.
Real Billy big balls stuff, and fairly negligent.
Do you genuinely believe this
My God, that's much worse than I feared. All of this will come out in the future war crimes trials.
Tells us also that the Russian ****s have gone in there and are deliberately waging war on Ukrainian civilians - this is far from 'collateral damage'. They've gone there to murder, loot and rape.
Was it the size of his undercarriage that confirmed it?
Looks increasingly possible that the Russians have used some sort of chemical agent in Mariupol, potentially dropped from a drone.
Fairly sure I know the fella sitting on the rocket.
https://twitter.com/OFarrell86/status/1508219330047229963?t=1ubF_3TndE014w9MdYkiJw&s=19
On the BBC news tonight, The Ukrainian prosecutor said they had 25,000 instances of rape on the books, with the suggestion of many more where the victims are keeping silent, and that's just from known areas.
I may have misheard, I caught the segment again and the figure wasn't repeated, apologies.
As has been pointed out already the state of the German armed forces is dire after nigh on 20 years of evisceration. They don't have decent equipment for themselves never mind anything to give to anyone else.
They have spent years chopping up "obsolete" cold war era armour which would be very useful today in Ukraine. They have not invested in new equipment, troops, maintenance or even replacement equipment for gear that was going out of date.
I am very sure that there are a few current and recently retired German politicians and senior federal staff that could easily be charged with treason.
Trump was right to call them out on it - now excuse me while I go rinse my mouth out.
That's the spirit HU! HA!
Catching up with the latest from Ukraine every morning is not pleasant at all. You're filled with apprehension and dread at what you are about to read. Have the atrocities got worse? How many more have died?
It's a horrible feeling of pity, helplessness and shame at out inaction to end it.
Go where? Good luck with that.
"Gets" is very much present tense when these figures are past tense (and not completely accurate anyway). Finland for example has basically stopped oil imports, though much like the rest of Europe they will struggle to get away from gas more.
I wouldn't normally be linking to this lady but the British seem to be taking reports of a chemical weapons attack very seriously
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