Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar
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Just nuke them then, sub from the baltic, flatten moscow in 5 minutes before they can even find putin to open his nuclear football
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Embassies are basically considered sovereign territory, it would be an interesting test of article 5 if Russia started "accidentally" bombing NATO country embassies
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beware of the "doomsday machine"
Perhaps, I mean there is a claim here that Ukrainians have run 8,600 facial recognition searches - I presume the implication there is that they have had access to 8,600 Russian corpses. Obviously, the Russians will have been dealing with their dead on their side too to some extent.
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They are at war.
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To be honest it'd wouldn't be a bad idea. This new threat I don't think is going away anytime soon.This forum will go very quiet when Great Britain has a recruitment drive or resumes National Service, and the experts scurry off to take up arms and put their military (and computer simulation) knowledge to practical use. Won't it.... ?
Saw something about Finland a few days ago yesterday, how well prepared they are. They even have karting tracks and swimming pools underground
. I'm not sure Russia would want to mess with them on their turf. The winter war was another disaster for Russia, given the size of their force vs Finland in 1939. Mandatory national service there for men. A Finnish colleague some years ago who had carried out national service said how they'd not put up with any nonsense on their homeland. Was rather proud of having his abilities to use if it came to it.Britain so badly prepared that even our bunkers have either fallen into disrepair and/or been sold off.
National service to include post-apocalyptic survival, naturally
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yea but they never declared it. Declaring it will allow them to start rounding up random citizens and shipping them off to the front line. It can also be a precursor to the use of nuclear weapons for "defence"
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As already demonstrated, an amateur military of young individuals are useless in these circumstances. There won't be any national service. The near peer/sub threshold war requires specialists, experienced individuals and professionalism to win. Russia themselves proved that throwing kids into the fire can be a disaster, despite them posturing as a military power house prior. Technological supremacy and a military of experts is always going to win. There is no conventional war here, like we've seen in world war movies, anymore.This forum will go very quiet when Great Britain has a recruitment drive or resumes National Service, and the experts scurry off to take up arms and put their military (and computer simulation) knowledge to practical use. Won't it.... ?
As an aside, as one of those sad but dedicated amateur radio buffs, I am annoyed by the number of fellow hams who berate Russian amateurs on the air if they dare make a call on the short waves. But one the other day made me chuckle when some German was constantly butting in to say stop the war, stop the killing, leave the Ukraine. He said in perfect, but heavily accented English, "Look pal, I am sat in a freezing cold shed with some crap home made beer, putting a call out to fellow amateur radio enthusiasts, not sat next to Putin in the Kremlin, advising him of military ******* strategy! I am just a regular guy as worried as anyone else about what's happening next"
I don't post much in here as I know sod all about military matters, and in Motors, where I could, with due modesty, post as an expert, it's too much like the day job. So i just wind up a few folks whose opinions wind me up, and occupationally try and help if I feel the subject is serious and I feel able to do so, like most average posters.
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Not legally, Putin has to declare war & have it pass through their kangaroo version of a parliament in order to be able to use conscripts and set a war economy, it's a technicality but it matters
I'm sure the British Army are going to be happy that this intel is getting leaked into the public
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The sudden change in story plays to the above tweet about a possible formal declaration of war
It was mock surprise. If you're going to jump into a 34k post thread you can bet anything remotely recent has already been posted.
I love watching Russian TV they are so nationalistic everything is America's fault never their own.
I was on one of the state news websites the other day, not RT one of the others maybe RIA and while I can't read Russian I could make out that over half of the articles and stories on the front page was related to the USA - these people have a complete obsession with America
Even US and UK ones don't always hit what they're targeted at, and that assumes that they are in working order, and turned on.
Given the state of a lot of the Russian equipment and the demonstrated competence (or complacency) of a lot of their troops/commanders, I wouldn't be at all surprised if it wasn't working properly or wasn't armed.
Having them "armed" tends to require more maintenance so they may not have turned them on in the assumption they were safe and that they didn't want to have to do the maintenance/have the parts to keep them running 24/7.
IIRC back in the 80's an American ship got hit by a missile (but not sunk) fired by
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