Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

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Diddums said:
South Africa can't even keep the lights on, I can honestly say that they're not capable of sending anything beyond a bow & arrow at this point, and even then you'll need to provide your own fixings as they'll have been sold for scrap.
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So you know better than the US intelligence services?
 
Roar87 said:
Ukraine wasn't at peace during the invasion, there had been an ongoing conflict between the government and separatist forces since 2014, the government in Kyiv backed by the EU and NATO was fighting Russian backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine. Clearly relations broke down at some point.
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They broke down around the time Russia invaded Crimea.
 
platinum87 said:
Bigger nukes use a fission reaction to generate a fusion reaction and will not be using much more fissile material than small bomb. In castle bravo it was 400kg of lithium 6 yielding around 15megatons.
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That is incorrect for Castle Bravo. This type of bomb is known as a "fission-fusion-fission" device. It had a 15 MT yield, which was actually a mistake. They were expecting it to only be 5 MT:

They considered only the lithium-6 isotope in the lithium-deuteride secondary to be reactive; the lithium-7 isotope, accounting for 60% of the lithium content, was assumed to be inert. ... However, when lithium-7 is bombarded with energetic neutrons with an energy greater than 2.47 MeV, rather than simply absorbing a neutron, it undergoes nuclear fission into an alpha particle, a tritium nucleus, and another neutron. As a result, much more tritium was produced than expected, the extra tritium fusing with deuterium and producing an extra neutron. The extra neutron produced by fusion and the extra neutron released directly by lithium-7 decay produced a much larger neutron flux. The result was greatly increased fissioning of the uranium tamper and increased yield. Source
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The much larger neutron flux of fast-neutrons (high-energy neutrons) fissioned the large unenriched (mostly U-238) uranium tamper which surrounded the bomb. The fission of all that natural uranium produced about 40% of its yield. It also made it a much dirtier bomb, releasing a large amount of fission product fallout. The earlier thermonuclear "Ivy Mike" test device had a yield of 10.4 MT, but 77% of that came from fast-neutron fission of its natural uranium tamper.
 
Roar87 said:
Ukraine wasn't at peace during the invasion, there had been an ongoing conflict between the government and separatist forces since 2014, the government in Kyiv backed by the EU and NATO was fighting Russian backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine. Clearly relations broke down at some point.
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They were not genuine separatists. They were Russian provocateurs.
 
Nelly said:
Where are they manufactured, is it Stevenage? I guess that will be a viable target now for Russia to launch a Kinzhal hypersonic missile attack, to remove production of the Storm Shadows out of the equation.
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I think you'll find the MoD has long concluded that the loss of Stevenage can only result in a net benefit to the nation.
 
bris said:
There is great footage going about with the late senator John McCaine saying how Putin saw the west weakness when they did nothing about Putin taking Crimea and building the bridge

The west did nothing in 2014, wouldn't help Ukraine despite them begging for help.

Putin saw it as weakness and after that McCaine said he would go after the east next, and sure enough he was right, all because the West refused to do anything about his obvious quest to reclaim Ukraine

This time however he got it wrong, we are helping and now he will be wishing he left it alone.

he has bitten off more than he can chew, sent all the other countries bordering Russia right into NATO's hands and destroyed the superpower status they once had with his complete failure to get the job done
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The Republican Party could really do with a few John McCains right now. I didn't share his politics but he was an honourable man who saw right though Putin.
 
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Roar87 said:
I think it's disingenuous to say that there were no Ukrainian separatists like, you can literally go on Youtube and see fighting from 2015 and know they're not Russian soldiers
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The only so-called 'Ukrainian separatists' were ethnic Russians. There was no genuine separatist movement, the whole thing was orchestrated by Russia. Moreover, since the Ukrainian constitution does not allow any part of the nation to secede from the rest, it would have been illegal and invalid—just like the rigged 'referendums'—even if it was a genuine separatist movement.
 
So apparently the storm shadow missiles have been handed over.

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Roar87 said:
I think it's disingenuous to say that there were no Ukrainian separatists like, you can literally go on Youtube and see fighting from 2015 and know they're not Russian soldiers
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True but they could have been suppressed if it weren't for Russia also sending in troops. None of the Ukranian regions has a majority in favour of Russia.

Sankari said:
The only so-called 'Ukrainian separatists' were ethnic Russians.
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There are plenty of Russian-speaking Ukrainians who are pro-Ukraine, saying Russian speakers are "ethnic Russians" is pretty silly as that includes the current President of Ukraine.

Some in the East are separatists but they were never a majority even in those regions.
 
It's starting sound like the same noises we heard just before they withdrew from the north and Kherson. Let's hope.

Fantastic Zelensky only saying this morning an operation was a long way off, catching those ruskies at their own game
 

A bit of the actual history as to the WHY Russia invaded the Donbas , via its `special agents` in 2014

Those special agents were Wagnar:

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State Duma passes law giving Wagner mercenaries ‘combat veteran’ status — Meduza

The State Duma passed a bill that will allow Wagner Group mercenaries who have taken part in the Russia-Ukraine war to receive veteran and combat disabled status.
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Literally the same Wagnar that is engaged at Bahkmut originally went into the Donbas in 2014
 
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