To be fair that's part of the problem, to a lot of westerners that seem pro Russian they aren't real people just some annoying thing in the way of them getting cheap oil and gas
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Happy to see some of my significant taxation being put to good use!
Christ, even Bixby can write a more legible sentence than that.
At least if we're getting nuked, the French will get hit too. So, you know. Every cloud.....
To be fair that's part of the problem, to a lot of westerners that seem pro Russian they aren't real people just some annoying thing in the way of them getting cheap oil and gas
that's part of the problem.
to a lot of Westerners that appear to be pro Russian
they (the Ukrainians) aren't real people
just some annoying "thing" in the way of them getting cheap oil and gas
To be fair
that's part of the problem.
to a lot of Westerners that appear to be pro Russian
they (the Ukrainians) aren't real people
just some annoying "thing" in the way of them getting cheap oil and gas
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I don’t think it’s primarily the cheap oil a gas. Putin has tapped into the growing resentment many people in the west have over what they would perceive as a relentless attack on social and cultural conservative values.
They want to be bigots and Putin is pro bigot.
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Maybe they just need more to compensate for their terrible aim?
There were quite quite a few before 2022, it's just a bunch of rampaging orcs have levelled most of them.
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Depends a lot on the quality of the munition though I would suspect (although I've no idea on the relative proportions of smart vs dumb shells for the USA or Russia). Guided munitions seem vastly more effective than barrages of unguided munitions, especially now Ukraine seems to be highly effective at counterbattery fire and Russia is on the defensive. No point churning out vast amounts of shells if you either can't fire many due to counterbattery fire or can't hit anything due to worn out artillery.
Earlier in the war when Russia was levelling Bakhmut their doctrine of heavy artillery barrages seemed more effective than now. The constant videos or Russian artillery pieces being hit by HIMARS or Excalibur rounds paint a pretty bleak picture for Russian artillerymen.
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You've also got to look at who is on a war footing and who isn't.
The US plus all other NATO countries are most likely manufacturing a lot more ordinance than Russia wholesale but some is being held back for self interests too.
That and what was also mentioned above about accuracy trumping blunderbus type firing.
The US plus all other NATO countries are most likely manufacturing a lot more ordinance than Russia wholesale but some is being held back for self interests too.
That and what was also mentioned above about accuracy trumping blunderbus type firing.
You are probably right there too. Especially after it turned out we didn't all freeze to death eating our pets last winter.
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Just a slight correction here, that would be the Tunguska (SA-19) which is mostly for "air defence" just like the ZSU-23-4 was (air search/tracking radars for guidance etc) but both could also do a bit of little ground warfare in a pinch. On the other side, the BMPT (which also looks similar-ish to the SA-19) is the reverse, being a mostly ground warfare vehicle that could also do a little bit of "air defence" in a pinch (no radars for search/tracking but missiles can be optically guided).
I've watched him for about a year I think and he's been making an increasing number of "technical" mistakes as his subscriber count rises. I think the new larger audience has "forced" him to leave his specific area of expertise (artillery/intel etc) to talk about weapons/tactics with which he has less knowledge, and therefore mostly giving reactions based on videos and internet searches far more now which obviously lowers the accuracy of his own videos. Still better than a lot of traditional media though, despite the errors.
That's because I rendered the fat down to make candles. Tiny, tiny cat candles.
If he was in a German hospital they could check for poisons. I suppose we'll never know. If that report is true, that is.
Some people in this thread want me to have sympathy for that man, I have zero.
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