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

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adam cool dude said:
I really think Putin is a bluffer and would never nuke. I would have thought sinking the flagship of the Black Sea fleet would have brought the wrath of Putin.
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Russia's "no first use" doctrine was confirmed even after the start of the war. I still don't see him nuking Ukraine, yet alone anywhere else, and I rather suspect that China has been raising objections to such action through diplomatic channels. But then, I was also pretty sure Putin wouldn't attack Ukraine in the first place, so what do I know?

This war is going to go on for years by the looks of things.
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I hope you're wrong, but I fear you're right. A long war will be a disaster for Russia, of course, but Ukraine will pay a higher price. It may, too, increase the chances that Ukraine accepts a bad peace deal granting Russia meaningful gains.
 
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The US is (or was) mothballing 42 A-10's, 48 F-15's and 47 F16's of which the latter two will become too risky to fly by next year but maybe good enough for Ukraine if they can train pilots fast enough.

Doubt the US would risk it though.
 
Mrwong said:
when I saw that I had to post it, I think that farmer is the most famous farmer in the world, and those pictures would possibly be in history books.
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There really have been some iconic moments which will go down in the history books. The farmer towing a tank. The grandmother telling the Russian soldiers to put sunflowers seeds in their pockets. The sailors on Snake Island.
 
StriderX said:
The US is (or was) mothballing 42 A-10's, 48 F-15's and 47 F16's of which the latter two will become too risky to fly by next year but maybe good enough for Ukraine if they can train pilots fast enough.
Doubt the US would risk it though.
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When/if Russia turns enough cities into dust?
 
bingham67 said:
Have nukes gone down with the ship?
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Tabloids are running with it having 2 nuclear warheads onboard but those on social media who follow that kind of stuff don't think so - according to them it isn't routinely nuclear armed and hasn't been through a resupply consistent with bringing nuclear weapons onboard since Putin changed the strategic readiness.

adam cool dude said:
I really think Putin is a bluffer and would never nuke. I would have thought sinking the flagship of the Black Sea fleet would have brought the wrath of Putin.

This war is going to go on for years by the looks of things.
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I don't think Putin wouldn't use nukes but I don't think he is crazy enough to want use them either if he can accomplish what he wants by other means.

Certainly looking like this is just the opening chapters of something which will drag on.
 
The Running Man said:
Correct it is clear that Russia has not as of yet launched absolute or sustained rocket attacks on central kyiv or the government administrative buildings there.

I thought it was just a fire and bad sea that sunk it though?
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Tbh there is no way to spin the news that your flagship has sunk. Saying the Ukrainian's sunk it fly's in the face of all the propaganda coming out of Moscow for the 6 weeks and but saying it was caused by fire/accident just makes your navy look incompetent and stupidly
 
bingham67 said:

Another Ka-52 go bye bye
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From what I've been reading Ukraine is now hammering away at Russia convoys coming down from the north into Donbas similar to how the Russians were getting hit around Kyiv. Also in the south Ukraine has managed to reclaim several small areas near Kherson. It looks like the army's objectives currently is rather then dig in and wait for the oncoming attack they want to do as much damage to the existing force's already in Ukraine before the main offensive.

No expert but it looks like an arms race between Russia restaging and reinforcing it's army in the east and UK, US and Australia getting those armoured vehicles and heavy weapons into eastern Ukraine. Whoever deploys first will have a big advantage.
 
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