Can you control it? No. Then don’t worry.
Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar
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They're a remote control bomb with wings, a tail and a propeller. Rocket assisted launch then gets flown into the target. Relatively slowly but what you gonna do about a small flying bomb sneaking up on you.
Entire thing is disposable/suicidal so you're able to hit targets with a sizable warhead and risk nothing you weren't planning on losing in the first place. Compare to the risk of sending a real plane+pilot armed with bombs and missiles.
If Russia goes all in on drones then it will cost vastly more to try and shoot down these suicide drones than the drone ever cost.
Ukraine would probably need to be given serious hardware like the systems used to protect western bases in afghanistan.
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Bottom line, if there is a nuclear war, it's over. Completely. There is no point fretting about it. Let those in power handle that aspect of MAD, and stay focused. Don't be driven by fear.
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Now Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are going at it too.
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That was reported here a few days ago I think.
At least quote the whole phrase lol
"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak"
I suspect the latter applies more than the former
No, there is nothing you can do. So take a sleeping tablet and die peacefully.
You can defend against it, but that will be years away. everything is possible and nothing is impossible.
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On the up side, we might have twenty minutes to do absolutely whatever we want.
The cold war was never over, it just changed. All these wars in the middle east have been started by the Chinese and the Russians, there is no evidence at the moment but it eventually will come out. This is why the faster we move away from oil the less problems we will have. The last 3o years has been about energy division and tactical resources.
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Factbox: What are Afghanistan's untapped minerals and resources?
Returning to power in Afghanistan after a 20-year absence, the Taliban have regained control of natural resources that a former mines minister of the country once said could be worth up to $3 trillion.
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The last time a Russian dictator (who Putin admires) attacked Ukraine had a similar result:
Holodomor - Wikipedia
~5 million Ukrainians killed that time. Stalin didn't have nukes at that time.
The last time a Russian dictator (who Putin admires) attacked Ukraine had a similar result:
Holodomor - Wikipedia
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~5 million Ukrainians killed that time. Stalin didn't have nukes at that time.
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Thanks to the BBC for posting a historical timeline of the historic events in Ukraine from the 9th Century up to 2020. Even with my Polish roots, I had no idea of the turbid history that Ukraine has been through. A Chronology of Key Events: 9th century - Founding of Kievan Rus, the first major...
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Very good analysis thanks & subscribed (I like the guys narration was just listening to the full audio while on kitchen duties today)
Particularly enjoyed the analysis relating to the so called RU "tactical withdrawal" I mean who in their right mind leaves this much equipment behind ......
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If we threw enough money at it we could do it now - the technology is pretty much there.
This is true. Russia has form for hiding their weaknesses (for instance doing multiple laps with the same aircraft in different formations at parades to try and make it look like they had 3x as many of them), not so much for hiding their strength. While Russia does engage in subterfuge it is rarely used to distort their strength and when it is it is almost always to try and make themselves look strong.
They genuinely seem to think they could replay 2014 again, and it has come to light more recently they had people in Ukraine in their pocket who were wildly overstating their power and influence to keep the Russian money coming - which seems to have significantly shaped what Russia thought it could achieve.
I don't believe personally it is a reflection of how weak or strong the Russian army is - there are a lot more factors involved (logistics especially seems to really bite them in the rear).
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The technology is there, it just costs too much. High energy lasers and rail guns would be able to intercept incoming ballistic warheads
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An SM-3 Standard fired from an Arleigh Burke class destroyer successfully intercepted an ICBM mock target over the Pacific in 2020, which is the first time any anti-ballistic missile has demonstrated an ability to hit an ICBM.
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