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I am surprised that putin doesn't use a small nuclear device on the aszovptal steel plant. Could spin it there way to say they cleared out the supposedly nazis they keep saying there against. Could sell it to their population easier. Free up there forces from there. I hope to god they don't but I'm surprised they don't use one there on them.

Russia media has already claimed that oppression of Russians is going on there, so it will need to be "liberated"

They'll have loads, but how good they are is another matter.

Armies tend to have more a lot more generals than people imagine. Even just the French I Corps at Waterloo had 1 x corps and 5 x divisional generals plus 10 brigade generals for a total of 16. II Corps would have had around 13, VI Corps around 10, III and IV Cavalry Corps maybe another 14 and the Imperial Guard I'd say over 20, because some of the infantry formations in the Guard had double the allocation of generals. So that's 64+ generals for the French* with the Anglo-Allied and Prussian armies probably fielding a similar number.

That's not counting Generals without combat commands e.g. filling staff roles, or acting as Aides de Camp. In the case of the French, that's also not counting the generals of 2 x infantry and 2 x cavalry corps that were part of the Armee du Nord for that campaign but not on the field of Waterloo, instead fighting the Prussians at Wavre a few miles away.

Nowadays where armies have a much longer support "tail" than they had 200 years ago you get plenty of generals there too.

*Total strength on the field was about 72,000

I think if he used it there he would get away with it. 100% agree more pressure would happen on Russia but I wouldn't see America getting involved there still. Be different if major city one was used against I just think if it was used on the steelworks plant they would get away with using 1 there.

So you would use a nuclear weapon just for the sake of it to take a piece of land you have surrounded and can bypass easily. In doing so you must remove your own troops to a safe distance or nuke them too. Thereby opening an escape window for those trapped inside. You also open yourself to unknown consequences not only of the nuclear variety. Doesn't sound like a great plan.

Talk of nuclear weapons ignores that they are extremely dangerous and release a lot of radioactivity. It's not just a 'large explosive device' but something much worse. They are virtually impossible to use in a conventional war setting.

Maybe the Germans remember the pictures of Russian and American troops hugging each other at the Elbe while Germans were being murdered raped and ethnically cleansed in the background.

The 77th anniversary of it is in two days time...and then there was the Morgenthau plan for Germany which was only abandoned after the huggers fell out over the spoils.

Can't blame the Germans for trusting nobody now, and putting their own people first.

Intelligence has the Russians launching cruise missiles from submarines - they have added 4 more to the black sea, I presume from ports as the Bosphoross Straits are supposed to be closed - from a depth of 50m since the Moskva sank.

In the latest 800m aid package from Uncle Sam, was an item called unmanned amphibious vessels, or some such. This is a secret and currently classified program so there are no details on what these are, but I wonder are they drone submarine hunters?

I hope so, because the Russians losing submarines for launching missiles from would be great, not to mention the prestige hit.

Ah stop, would ya. The Germans had groups of soldiers who had very specific orders to use sex as a weapon. Ever heard of Joy division, they're not just a band.

Other groups of soldiers would go around and pack villagers into wooden trailers then set them on fire.

I dont really think they're in a position to start getting all morally superior all of a sudden. They have a very serious character flaw where Germany and the good of her people trumps all else and they're happy for others to suffer as long as they prosper. It's a trait they really need to address.