Trump gave Europe three weeks to sign off on Ukraine "surrender": MEP
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Which one is the 1 here, cause 2 is america
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China sees themselves as top dog in the world. The name for China in mandarin Chinese translates to "the central kingdom". They want to exert economic control over the world rather than military. They want to be the country that all the other countries go to for help. Essentially they want the USA's old job.
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If I was a Russian agent, and had managed to become the US President, he's doing EXACTLY what I would to to gut and destroy the US. The Fanta Menace doesn't even seem to be trying to hide the fact he works for Putin.
So how has he not been charges with treason?
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Russia is using donkeys for frontline logistics and sending battalions of severely wounded/disabled people into battle to soak up bullets. They also don't rotate people off the frontline like, ever. They're not doing ok. Yes they're taking a small amount of ground, but they're bleeding themselves dry to do it.
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Yes but a well placed himars strike can turn 100 russians into 0. The problem is that Ukraine has to ration their ammunition. The reason Russia is taking ground at all is because they just have more meat than Ukraine has bullets.
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Those are, in fact, good points, I just didn't want to yap about them in the previous comment.
The battlefield has, indeed, got quite stale with rare opportunistic gains or those that were gained through massive bloodshed. Trench warfare is once again the reality of modern war. Still, even with all the aid Ukraine has received the tide isn't going in their favor.
So, to put it shortly - on the battlefield, technology can cancel out numerical advantages of 3.5 to 4 quite realistically.
I stand ground on my conviction that there is no 4x force multiplier, solely by the fact that whatever Ukraine deploys could be also deployed by Russia. Most definitely a somewhat shittier version, but which gets the job done, maybe giving the Ukraine's side at most 2X advantage, but most importantly, magnitudes cheaper.
Economically - Ukraine alone would not sustain production against Russia, but Ukraine happens to have EU in its back yard. The Russian economy is actually quite small compared to EU’s economy. So the economic unbalance can also be canceled out.
Considering the point above, I wouldn't be so sure about that given that we are... well, were for the past year in that position with the only difference of it being the US who's providing most of the (military) aid rather than EU... and the front line is moving westwards nonetheless
As for attrition on Russia - if you observe the footage and news, you will notice that they are low on cars, low on armor (and using a large percent of antiquated armor), and low on artillery barrels. Out of the USSR stockpile of ~13 000 tanks, estimated losses were recently standing at 9859 machines [1].
Cars are def not a problem, the streets in Russia are absolutely flooded by Chinese imports. Tanks, artillery, and warships, from what I gather from some military analysts, and this will most likely sound controversial and so we'll probably have to agree to disagree, is that those are basically entirely antiquated already by the advent of drone warfare. Armor shortages sounds surprising to me and I haven't heard about that... I don't see how it could problem for Russia, and yet it is... Corruption is the only possible answer I could see for that. But overall, even given that those are in fact necessary, as I've said, Russia still has a ton of economy not turned towards the war machine, and there's a lot of factories to tap into to ramp the military production if necessary.
And please don't take it as me praising Russia. Putin is definitely in wrong here and Zelensky has all the moral high ground there could possibly be. I just see that many news sources blow out any small Ukrainian achievements out of proportion into some kind of twisted Good vs Evil, David vs Goliath stories. And it makes my blood boil as it leaves an impression of "Why help Ukrainians even more when they're doing quite well already", while hundreds of innocent people are killed and displaced every day and it isn't stopping, and won't stop, unless a drastic measure is taken.
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Fanta Menace
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My brother in christ, get a hold of yourself. Winning is winning. If I beat you up in a boxing match and shit my pants in the process, it doesn't matter how shitty my pants were, you go down then you're losing.
For your info, ukraine still hasnt issued any draft of its people.
Are you NUTS?
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To go a bit deeper on the role of armor - on the background of drone warfare - I would explain like this: armor reduces casualties when moving people and supplies forward.
In these days, armor no longer controls the battlefield, it more likely delivers people and ammo.
If one moves soldiers and equipment forward with armor, it can move under machine gun fire, protect its occupants from one antitank mine, and somewhat protect them against one FPV hit.
If one moves them forward in a 4 wheel drive minivan or lorry, there will be ugly casualties when a mine is found, FPV arrives or a machine gunner opens fire. These vehicles also tend to get stuck easier. So, lack of armor tends to result in higher personnel losses and lower arrival rates of supplies.
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Yes but a well placed himars strike can turn 100 russians into 0
A well placed nuke can turn 3 mil Ukrainians into 0. What's the point?
The reason Russia is taking ground at all is because they just have more meat than Ukraine has bullets.
Well that's kind of the point. Even if you turn the question that way, as long as Russia has more troops than Ukrainians have bullets, it is still winning. It is set up to be a Pyrrhic victory from day 1, but a victory nonetheless.
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Because the republicans have spent years gutting oversight, and decades making the populace dumber. This is their final putsch to fully gut the government so they can have complete power. And they’ve mostly succeeded already. The people are beyond disengaged from four years of this four years ago, plus Covid, plus struggling to survive in late stage American capitalism. It’s the perfect storm for a fascist takeover. And they’re taking full advantage.
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So your proofs are,
- one "source" is pro ukrainian
- the economy is ok in russia. We are talking about the batlefield bro
- your opinion
Booo, get better material
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You understand that if Ukraine didn't have to ration their ammunition, they would be able to repel Russia without much problem. It's not an issue with manpower in the slightest. Also Xi has told Putin not to use nuclear weapons, and Putin has to do what Xi wants (unless Xi gives him a sock).
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Over 50% of the once that went voting voted for trump.
If you didnt vote, that was your vote. The vote to not give a fuck but still life with the aftermath -
EU with the last part already way ahead of you
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Yeah. Their nukes too
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Denmark should really stop exporting that to them
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Call his bluff.
American soft power around the globe relies on having those bases on foreign soil.
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How did the Russians do in Afghanistan?
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This sounds like a blessing in a very thin disguise.
