Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar
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Those first set of rounds when he nearly died were decidedly dodgy construction wise - I'm not sure why some very experienced firearms people are saying otherwise, despite some of the comments by Mark Serbu I'm not convinced the ammo wasn't doctored/sabotaged or incorrectly assembled.
No doubt. I'm not sure their moral is that robust though. Early days though.
I mean... I can only assume it will be mostly new troops and equipment, since they abandoned so bloody much of it LOL.
They use surplus ammo because its either rare or cheap. You'll often them seeming have problems, duds, or not feeding correctly.
The US military stopped using some of those slap rounds because it was damaging weapons.
You mean inexperienced troops and old equipment. They've been raiding all their retired equipment stock piles. They've burned through most of the new stuff they had.
While Putin was trying to rebuild the military in the decade before this war. Hes not had the resources to do so in any significant numbers. Come back to bite him now.
Meanwhile, old mate is huffing copium like a champ.
Sounds like she's high as a kite
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People living in self-reinforcing echo chambers shouldn't throw stones.
Meanwhile in Russia, more specifically Moscow and St Petersburg people are going about like nothings happened.
They don't care as it's a far away war fought by minorities and still love Putin.
The Russian population as a whole that are left just live in willful ignorance. Russians have always been good professional serfs.
They don't care as it's a far away war fought by minorities and still love Putin.
The Russian population as a whole that are left just live in willful ignorance. Russians have always been good professional serfs.
From the brief interviews on the streets by some journalists seems the death of the Queen has more prominence on the average person's mind in Moscow than the war in Ukraine - though might be because they have slightly more freedom to talk about that.
Curious turn of events - probably why there is talk of towns being emptied out on the Russian side of the border (rather than the prospect of nuclear weapons use).
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They don't have a whole lot of options. If they protest they goto prison. Yet many did still protest the war. If someone upsets Putin they tend to end up dead. All the same various Russian politicians have claimed Putin is a traitor, so things are spicing up.
Reading some interesting comments by Russian commentators who claim this has "been" Putin's plan all along - that Putin likes to have the image of "following the will of the people" and so has engineered a situation where everyday Russians are waking up to the idea that Russia is under threat from the West, with events of the last couple of days as a catalyst and will start to demand of Putin that he does what is necessary to produce a decisive victory for Russia.
There is a more serious aspect to that though that Russia has been for some time approaching a crossroads where their options might be either falling back, attempting negotiations where they make significant concessions to Ukraine or going all in.
There is a more serious aspect to that though that Russia has been for some time approaching a crossroads where their options might be either falling back, attempting negotiations where they make significant concessions to Ukraine or going all in.
I doubt it was his plan, he probably thought it would be a walkover, and if most of the world hadn't piled in on Ukraines side he would have been in a better place now.
He has hugely miscalculated imo, and the west has taken full advantage of that.
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Not seen anything but the early rumours it had fallen.
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