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Innovation and intelligence. Hopefully taking many Russians and/or their supply depots.

I don't think anyone would defend that on here unless Mick Wallace signed up. I keep hearing this it's like some people are reading things that don't exist..

7kg mines dropping from the sky on Russians has a nice ring to it.

21st century molotovs.

That looks like a serious threat.

There are millions of mines in Ukraine, which can be turned against the Russians given they have the fuses and drones to carry them.

Nice work.

@Wolf359f I recently saw a Ukrainian drone with an ATGM launcher attached.

Why do they do this? I mean deliberately targeting civillian targets, hospitals, schools housing. It's counterproductive just ramping up the will to fight back, wastes ammunition that might be used against real military targets. Simply a poor use of resources and a source of anti Russian feeling around the world.

Three reasons from what I can see:

• Cruelty/Terror Campaign - Russia has fallen into the same trap that pretty much every major belligerent power in WW2 also fell into, namely the belief that you can destroy a population's will to resist by sheer terrorism. It didn't work for Nazi Germany, it didn't work for Japan, it didn't work for the Soviets, and it certainly didn't work for the British or US. Yet, it's an easy story to present to the home-front, a way to get back at "them." The fact that Russian society in general places little value on the lives of innocents doesn't help.
• Lack of good intel/targeting data - Ukraine has been pretty good at thwarting Russian intelligence operations on their territory. Ukraine is also pretty good at OPSEC, and pretty much dominate the info / online space, leaving Russia only with its own limited orbital and airborne reconnaissance assets. This has left Russia with a "targeting vacuum", as while they might be able to approximate the position of a SAM site by triangulation of intercepted radar signals, once that site goes dark, they'll be blind. And there's no guarantee that this intense radio source blasting away at regular intervals is really the location of a divisional HQ, or just a remotely located transmitter.
• Lack of Precision Guided Munitions (PGM) - Russia used a large portion of its modern guided missiles in the early stages of the war. While low level production of these modern weapon does seem to be continuing, it is nowhere near enough to replenish Russian stocks. This is why we're seeing S-300s used in their ground attack mode, or the difficult to intercept but by its very nature inaccurate Kinzhal hypersonic/ballistic weapons. At this point, Russia needs to preserve its remaining precision weapons for high-value targets, which means that for pretty much everything else, they're left with weapons that are considered accurate when they hit in roughly the same post code as the intended target.

I always knew that Tommy Tubberville was a total clown, but his thoughts (if you can call them that) on Ukraine and the way he expresses himself leave me almost speechless. He makes Moscow Mick look almost reasonable.

How can guys like this get elected, even in Alabama?

It's now a stalemate war of attriction west has to commit more or Russia will start to incorporate captured territory into a more impenetrable buffer.

30 km in 3 months is almost there.

They have done a lot and more than expected but an aggressor that fires missiles repeatedly at civilians and infrastructure MUST be stopped Russia needs to be dismantled.

NATO no fly zone and black sea patrol under UN excluding vetos from any country not condemning this unjust war boots on the ground is going to happen

Is a two party system the death of democracy?

A two party system encourages unquestioning support of one camp over the other.

People are elected not on their merits but because they are identified as one of us rather than one of them.

This destroys political discussion and tears society apart.

One party systems also destroy democracy.

That does not mean that two party systems do not also do this.

We are watching it in action as America cannot function as a whole .

And ,obviously on this island as well.

Often the issue is that third parties (Russians, the media etc) use propaganda to spread discontent. I am becoming increasingly suspicious of Sky News. All they seem to want to do is attack everything.

America has managed to get do far up its own ass, its no longer sure which is up, down, left right or sideways. like a crazy gyroscope.

I think it is also a desire to bully Ukraine into submission. If they invade Ukraine (they won't at this stage) they would face a huge insurgency problem that would go on indefinitely. They want to avoid this by spreading terror to make Ukrainians submissive, like Russians.

I think it is the way they fight wars (that at least partly accounts for it). They haven't gone all in on air power and precision weapons the way the US has, don't have the technology or capability.

When they go to war, they do alot of bludgeoning almost everything within range of their artillery and missiles and bombs (e.g. look at what has happened to parts of Ukraine where they can bring the full weight of their weapons to bear, some of the aerial video and photography is shocking; turned them into moonscapes that will take years to make habitible again).

I think it is what they did in Syria and what they did in Chechnya long before that, but this is of course on a far bigger and more serious scale, more destruction and likely far more deaths caused when that can finally be tallied.