To be fair to India, Europe is still buying their energy from Russia its a bit hypocritical to say India shouldn't, India is in a tough position as they need Russian weapons to protect themselves against China, most of their weapon systems are from Russia so they need the spare parts. They have got themselves in a stupid position as Russia would drop India in a heartbeat if something did start between India and China.
Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar
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Not sure we can keep the moral high ground when we're groveling for Saudi oil and most of Europe is relatively happy still buying Russian gas...
Realpolitik from all sides, whether it be calculated or blatant it's the same thing.
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I really want to see them blow this bridge up
If Russia was mostly using their best then size of invasion force vs their standing army would far more heavily slant losses to their best equipment than the numbers in the video if not close to 100%.
Some of their best is represented but a lot of the frontline direct combat forces are around 60+% bulked out of new draft man power and older stock put back into service hence the ratio of losses for BMPs, etc.
I’m pretty sure that’s most country’s preferred option. I don’t think it’s anything to do with authoritarian govt.
There’s a reason we like to fight wars abroad.
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In the video he has given evidence, I haven’t seen much from anyone else when arguing otherwise
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Part of me is suprised it happened if it was Ukraine, so much for their air defence capability
The other part of me is not suprised at all given how Russia has performed this war
It's a dangerous move though given Russia's threats on nuclear weapon use if their existance of state is threatened, does attacks on Russia soil count in that or does it mean full on invasion, hard to tell given how they are supreme trolls
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Whenever this bridge gets mentioned my mind keeps going back to the sequence in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly where Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach rig a bridge with dynamite and then blow it up. There must be a couple of crazy enough ukraines to do the same
People seem to have quickly forgotten all the information posted by OSINT sources in the build up to the invasion which gave a good cross-section of what forces comprised the invasion.
Also another dangerous misconception - this doesn't well represent what a Russian force would look like if the country was on a full war footing.
India really leaning hard into that 'Notice me, senpai!' trope.
There's not many places we can fight wars at home. That's why football was invented.
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I understand compulsory conscription is shortly to begin in Russia.
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Russia doesn’t really have the money or now the import of parts to put the country on a full war footing
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The biggest threat to the "peace" talks is that Russia keep going back on everything they agree to anyway, so it's a pretty idle threat. I would much rather place extra strain on Russia's supply chain than take any sabre rattling seriously as this point.
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They do this every 6 months so it's not abnormal
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Well that all sounds good for us, and bad for Russia
I think Custor you need to look at the language used by the Kremlin in this instance.
Putin has dangled the carrot of a ceasefire only to start or continue action. So it's not a stranger to the behaviour. It should also be no surprise to the Kremlin that a ceasefire is something that needs action on both sides and a ceasefire isn't in place until the troops stop shooting. I would expect that Russia will need to demonstrate this rather than talk about it - even if that means a phased ceasefire - when one area stops, then that is matched by the Ukrainians, then the next area etc.
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