Unless celtic fans are from Mordor ? It's a lord of the rings reference.
Just to add there is a bit of a myth around reactive armour. My understanding is it's supposed to save the crew and stop the tank being completely knocked out. Thus being able to be recovered and repaired. Abrams have been lost but they don't have the same reactive stuff the Brits have. A challenger 2 was hit multiple times IIRC Driver lost a leg Tanks repaired. No challengers have been lost. Not saying the abrams is bad at all just different systems. Brits seem really good at the armour and gyro stabilisers USA target optics. Smooth or riffled barrel not much diff. USA again prob on the shells but no idea.
I never said anything about Russia not being irresponsible.
America and Russia are actually remarkably similar historically, in both attitudes and rhetoric when it comes to conflict.
It just so happens that Russia are the ones currently throwing their weight around more right now. But America's aggressive approach to conflict resolution, isn't a particularly clever or effective strategy. It rarely gets the results they seem to think it will.
PS. The only time I've heard the term "ORC" being used, was from some Celtic fans towards the blue half of the city. So I'm a bit puzzled, are you labelling me a Glasgow Rangers fan because you disagree with my opinion on a thread about Russia?
Either way I'm offended. That's considerably worse than any insult you could have thrown at me, regarding Russia or this war. lol
There would be a moderately loud noise, but I doubt much else.In fairness, I have never been in a tank hit by anything bigger than a rifle round, so I’m no expert, but considering how loud your own tank firing isn’t, I can’t imagine a smaller impact at the other end “knocking you around” a bit. Vibrations might affect the stabilization system. It would definitely cause you some pucker moment, though, just because you know someone out there has the capability to hit you, and he might have either a second round or a friend who does.
In fairness, I doubt that there is a soldier on either side who does not have some form of cutting edge, be it knife, multi tool or bayonet.
Strategic ambiguity isn't a non threatening stance though.
It is essentially letting your enemy think you might want to nuke them.
Ambiguity is the last thing you want floating around, when nuclear war is being talked about. Particularly if you think, as many around here do, that Putin might not be the full shilling. Confused ambiguous messages, mixed with the typical American aggressive tone of language, isn't a great combination.
Really these people should be trying to cool tensions around nuclear weapons, not throwing around veiled counter threats. Everybody loses if any of these threats become reality. So they serve very little purpose other than trying to make yourself look tough.
Yes indeed, nuclear weapons since WW2 were supposed to be a deterrent and to prevent a country from being attacked or invaded. They were never supposed to be used while attacking and attempting to colonise another country.....use of one in this context would be terrorist state behaviour, pure and simple.
You can't walk away from the Nuclear threats they need to be met with force and stipulation there will be retaliation. Either that or everyone with nukes can just invade somewhere and go now what we have nukes. The whole point of nukes was they are not a first resort weapon. There a guarantee this kind of stuff does not happen.
So two wrongs make a right, is that what you're saying?
Mad Vlad is waving his nukes around in an irresponsible manner, so we should just copy his behaviour?
Sounds like an odd stance to take. Is this the road to the moral high ground, or have we taken a slight detour somewhere along the way?
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Transcript from a Zelensky interview .
This wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. It's a regime and a military quite unlike any other.
Putin has been the biggest threat to world peace since the Cold War. The guy needs to be taken down a peg or 2.
FTFY
Seriously deluded...
Sick is a better word maybe
The Grey Zone really!
All we see recently is Russian people who don't want to be drafted to fight in the war. If they were against the war they would have come out on the 24th of Feb, instead they have been complicit for the last SEVEN MONTHS.
As far as I am concerned the Russian regime, their military and their complicit public are pure and utter evil scum. They can only redeem themselves if they stop those in power and withdraw their troops . However I don't see that happening and the Ukrainians will have to defeat them militarily at brutal cost to their country and people for this to happen.
Oh another greyzone article 😅
Placing it within HIMARS range seems absolutely crazy if the drones have the alleged 2000km range. Talk about idiots lol
And yet human beings in Ireland commit such atrocities too and probably in most countries in the world, even Ukraine.
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/07/30/zelensky-militants-convicted-child-rape-torture-military/
Your logic is pure racism. As can be seen lately there are lots of people in Russia opposed to the war.
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Ukrainan POWs being forced to vote in the referendums , where the fck is the likes of the red cross
what in the actual f**k 😲
Nasams have been on the cards for months, they were made specific to order hence why it took so long for them to be delivered,it was discussed previously on here,
This is possibly the best post I have seen on this thread.
Any preliminary estimates on how many men of fighting age have left Russia?
The Kazakhstan border is closing. The Georgians are charging the Russians mucho $$$$ to let them cross into Georgia.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Faytuks/status/1574132035249020928
Yep we don't have proper air defence, the thought process from our leaders "Sure the Brits will cover us". I'm sure the military plans in case of an invasion would be to hope Uncle Sam comes to our aid.
If we are serious about our neutrality we need to invest in our Defence Forces and in particular the Air Corp and Navy. We need proper radar and jet fighters and to invest in more proper naval vessels. We also need to ensure we invest in the people in our Defence forces and provide them with the renumeration,trading and career progression.
I wouldn't join NATO but would make sure we coordinate with any EU fronted force.
Exactly. His only goal is to better arm Ukraine. Russia gets Iranian drones, he calls for more help. Russia mentions nukes he calls for more help.
A week later he has NASAMS which the Americans use to defend Washington DC. This tactic works.
Yeah we're Just a bunch of cute hoors that love money and we're taking advantage of big brother across the pond to guarantee our security.
I'm not even joking it is what it is.
i hope it all works out for Ukraine and if it does zelensky will be a deity , he’s been brilliant
You're on the money, I think - I've since looked at the clip and I agree with you.
His line seems to be "Putin isn't bluffing, that's why we have to stop him as quickly as possible".
It's necessary for Zelensky to always overreach in order to get the maximum possible support behind Ukraine. That's why he was on TV at the start of the war asking for NATO to close the sky. He knew that probably wasn't going to happen, but it helped keep the pressure on to get international aid in other ways. Similarly, he may not truly know if Putin is bluffing or not, but he must remind the world of the gravity of introducing nuclear weapons into the conflict and bring the full weight of international condemnation down on Putin. Zelensky has been an excellent wartime leader for Ukraine as, for one, he's been relentless in trying to keep this conflict at the top of the international agenda in order to keep the help coming.
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