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Yep.
That flew right over your head.
A high estimate of about 60 leopard tanks destroyed some burned I would think couldn't give that many chips?
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Good. Ramping up defence capability.
More and more western media now picking up on this big corruption scandal that broke on Sunday. A number of former and current government ministers are currently being questioned and a number of businessmen fled the country hours before their properties and offices were raided.
Seems to of been going on for a while with 1000 hours of calls and conversations taped with a few released already.
Zelensky has welcomed the investigation by NABU and says convictions will follow. Quite a few people going on about that Flamingo missile and the company behind it along with energy companies pocketing cash meant for protecting energy facilities that were never made.
https://archive.is/VhD3j
I could never agree with a country who prevents innocent children from fleeing when their country is being invaded by a genocidal regime.
I also like that I live in a country who doesn't deport or repatriate citizens back to a country at war.
The recent lifting on the ban on 18-22 year olds traveling abroad was not designed to let them leave, moreso give them a reason to stay and not flee right before their 18th. They can finish their studies, keep familes together etc... and not be left with a generation missing.
Anyone know if this is true?
Yeah engage the enemy. Or even have 250k more drone operators in your service. They can be a few km from the front lines.
How else do you get experience ? That's the reality of war.
Move young men to the front after 6 months?! 90% of soldiers are not used at the front at any given moment. Why would you sacrifice young inexperienced soldiers like this?
Disagree with that completely. I'd imagine most members of Western armies would love to get stuck into the Russians in Ukraine. If the West wants to do something, that's it. Not forcing people who for a variety of reasons have fled war and conflict. It would be moral cowardice of the highest order and the most shameful thing the West has done yet.
Nothing makes me more queasy than armchair generals in the safest country in Europe pontificating behind a laptop about how other people they've never met should be forced to fight a war that they seem so invested in, will never have to fight in, but stand to gain from.
Exactly. It's capitalism without the regulation, rules, order or democracy. Another horrible regime.
I honestly think they should of fully mobilised from 18 year olds. Gave them 6 months training and then moved to the front. I think this should of been done the 1st day Russia crossed into Ukraine. I don't know why they let them go from Ukraine. I honestly think was a big mistake. I can understand them wanting to leave but they should of all been in training and then sent in against Russian forces. I think if this had of been done from start Russia might have lost by now or had considerable less Ukrainian territory.
No thanks. I think you're conflating leadership with being load, lying and oafish. It's not just about who spreads their legs widest when they sit down and shouts loudest. Leadership, in a liberal democracy, should require a minimum competency on the moral compass test, which the two buffoons you reference would fail spectacularly at.
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Soviet stockpiles are exhausted but unfortunately they have 2 important allies. China and North Korea. 70% of Russian artillery ammunition is north Korean. They are receiving massive amounts. I'm sure South Korea is relieved.
Russia is giving them a lot of resources and neighbouring countries are helping Russia to purchase western products from the West.
Russia's army has dramatically changed since 2022. They now use more fibre optic drones than Ukraine. A concept they pioneered. Their missile production hasn't slowed either and their air force adopting glide bomb warfare in huge numbers has proven very successful.
Makes it extremely frustrating seeing the West hold back in the quality of fighter jets and the quality of missiles they're sending. Still no Taurus.
Because he's trying to give himself a platform from which it may look, where he's given free reign, as though his disinformation posts are accepted as fact. It's just a shame that the forum is allowed to be misused like that.
I also disagreed with allowing Ukrainians to leave with children of 14/15 who are now military fighting age. The war was going on from 2014 you don't let your youth disappear into the generous social system of the EU which are created in a way to keep people in Europe. Even if the war ended today a huge chunk would never return.
To add balance a lot of military aged men also fled Russia so it wasn't all one way.
When Ukrainians in Europe are of mobilisation age and Ukraine wants them back they should be deported. The only person we're helping with that is Putin.
I suspect neither. I think they’re selling what they can to turn a tidy profit for as little effort as possible. Based on first-hand experience with the place, trust me with the following:
The People’s Republic of China is the most capitalist place I have ever been. They have no scruples at all against fleecing their beloved neighbor for every last kopek they have.
So why did they recently let so many young men leave? If they reach a point where they conduct a full mobilisation you don't want young men rushed to the front. Start training 22 year olds now and you might get a few years under their belt before they're needed.
I think you're kind of proving Rawr's point though. Yes, Ukraine is struggling in Pokrovsk and other parts of the front due to manpower shortages, but at most that means Russia gets closer to controlling the Donbass. Ukraine as a country itself will not lose here because of these issues. As mentioned above this might mean that Ukraine can also consolidate their defenses over a smaller front.
Ukraine is holding on
Starting to look like only by their fingernails though. If this talk of them running out of soldiers is borne out on the battlefield the Russian advance could pick up very rapidly…
Do you think the Chinese are giving the Russians some of their good stuff to test it before possibly needing it for Taiwan?
Or are giving them just enough of their shite stuff to keep things going?
This is one of those things that won't likely appear as some kind of dramatic avalanche of failure on the Russian side. It's a very gradual decay which had been happening before the war and has only accellerated due to the war and everything that goes with it. There will be a tipping point where the Russians will simily be unable to hide their dire state, but we are not there yet. There is still enough lipstick available to pretty up this hog.
Russia really needed this war to have finshed back in 2022. Back then was probably the best shape they were in for this. But time has gone on, and time has not been kind to them. Ukrainian nationhood has been galavised. NATO has expanded. And Soviet stockpiles that gave the Russian's their edge are being exhaused and replaced (at best) with Chinese crap.
The Donbass creep gives the impression of Russia winning, which is why our neutral friends are so invested in it, but this does not represent how things are overall. Ukraine is holding on, and Russia is eating itself in an attempt to scrape a win out of a historically bad tactical mistake.
4 years later and still no Taurus missiles.
Just look at the people running the world today; Gobbles, Eichmann, Goring, Mussolini, Bormann, Himmler, Corbyn…(I may have got some of the names mixed up a bit but you know what I mean…)
The hardship being suffered by Ukraine is due completely to the actions of putin's terrorist state and not any incompetence in the countries that have provided it with aid. Most people in the EU I believe would like to see putin defeated more quickly but accelerating that defeat comes with risks political leaders in many countries are unwilling to take.
I don't think you can call someone who bends over to Putin 'tough'.
Well there's been the hope that if Ukraine holds its ground for long enough that will precipitate a Russian economic and/or military collapse. Starting to look a bit forlorn now though…
