Russia - threadbanned users in OP

There has been a lot of trouble in the south including the incendiary attack in Odesa. I think Crimea would become like the north was during the troubles. I can't see Russians being happy there, especially the ones that moved in recently. As for N. Ireland, there is still a lot of bitterness and resentment there. It is very easy for nationalists to stir up trouble. And there are plenty of people here who don't want the Brits. in Ireland. When there is resentment among the people it is easy to stir things up until it becomes conflict. This is the kind of social unease that often precedes conflict. The war in Bosnia came suddenly and as a shock to many, but there you have it...it is now getting tense again with this licence plate business in Kosovo - licence plates? starting a war? Possible.

Blackout in Kherson after explosion at Beryslav-Kakhovka power line

Kherson is on the front line of this war

There are numerous riots and mutinies happening among the Orcs protesting conditions, poor equipment but mostly is that they are not receiving their supposed sign up bonus nor high rate of pay, and that is not going down well.

Mobiks are being sent to Belarus to make preparations of bases and they are suffering wholly unsanitary conditions, leading to wholesale incapacitation due to serious illnesses and they are having to hurriedly find and send medical workers from Russia to try and deal with the situation.

In one video I might upload, an entire camp surrounds a general's tent all yelling protests about conditions and lack of pay. When said general emerges, he's clearly drunk and unsure of what to do, then clears off. The others coming out of his tent seem drunk also.

This mobilisation is a disaster, before even getting to the rate of attrition they are suffering when they get to actually being consumed by the Ukrainian meat grinder.

At the rate they are losing tanks and vehicles, they might be needing the remaining Ladas for the front line soon

It can take only a single incident to set off a conflict, as in WW1. But that is only on the face of it. In real terms tensions can be building for years or decades and one incident can translate these tensions into physical conflict. There's no telling how the modern world will go because it is full of tensions of all kinds. They stormed the Capitol building last year. Who could have imagined this would happen? The world has become as unpredictable as the weather because there is too much energy in it.

You're asking what would be the difference between a UI and the current protestant statelet?

You're either clueless or being deliberately obtuse.

These Russian conscript lads are also becoming victims of Putin in this conflict. The bast*rd knows what he’s doing…throw poorly trained cannon fodder at the Ukrainians to use up their bullets and mentally wear them down.

No doubt there will be troops in the AFU who’ll go through PTSD for the rest of their lives for having to mow down wave after wave of these poor sods. Putin & Co. couldn’t care less so long as the end result serves them.

Fair few sources and Reddit posts reporting the same thing. Hundreds of Mobiks wiped out.

Ukraine seems to be claiming that Russia had 490 casualties in total for the day so the numbers are well out.

Around 4000 Russians dying every week...I suppose most are mobilized cannon fodder.

Kharkiv, Kharkivska Oblast(22:34). Red Alert: aerial threat. Sirens sounding. Take cover now!

Regardless of what the rest of the world does, the people of Ukraine will never forgive or forget what Russia has done to them, even generations from now. Even if the current Ukrainian advances are reversed, (unlikely in the extreme) and Russian not only regains their losses, but manage to take over Ukraine, the resultant resistance will make what happened to the Russians in Afghanistan seem like a child's picnic compared to what the Ukrainian resistance will do to them in Ukraine. Bearing in mind that the Ukrainian resistance will be better armed and more experienced than the Afghans ever were. Until they are returned, the kidnapped children will be a permanent flame keeping their anger and resolve alive. In terms of Russian deaths and injuries in Afghanistan,15'000 dead and 35'000 injured. This figure has been surpassed multiple times already. What will the occupation of Ukraine cost financially? the Afghan occupation bankrupted Russia. All this talk about the US discussing peace terms etc.... all just talk, putting the US on the morally correct side of the argument, as in " we pushed hard for peace" but at the same time still supplying Ukraine with what it needs to defeat the Russian's. Actions speak louder than words. Bear in mind that a destroyed and weakened Russia (at or at least under its present management) is the desired result for the west and the US. (China and India too)

Not really. If they were lambasted with artillery a few on the fringes might escape with the rest annihilated.