Caporegime
Everytime Russia bent over they'd look like the Japanese flag.
Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar
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Everytime Russia bent over they'd look like the Japanese flag.
I had heard of it but was away last month and Internet was poor will have a look now back, my point was should they not be trying to manage there better trained men, rather than waste them, you would have thought the wagner group of prisoners would be better used in such a situation
Soldato
Most would demand war but the like of Tucker Carlson and MTG would want to give Putin a medal.
I’d imagine large scale attacks on all assets in Ukraine. Probably hit whatever base launched the attack, Belarus or Russia itself. Back channels would be under lining not attacking Russia itself aside those bases to try to keep a lid on it.
Would be dicey though and nothing good for either side would come of it.
Caporegime
Would be interesting to see what China would have to say about it as well
Soldato
Personally, I'm not convinced China would willingly destroy any hope of good relations with the West to side with Russia. China has seen Russia isn't quite the partner you'd want in fight and may well sit on its hands.
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It looks fake tbh, who would be filming just his legs.
Caporegime
China and Russia aren't allies, they just share a common enemy and some goals. China isn't putting anything on the line just to help Russia.
Associate
China will stand by them because they don't have many allies to rely on.
They need each other, I don't think for one minute China haven't been sending aid to Russia on the quiet.
There are smuggling routes we will never know about. The China Russian border is about 4k miles so plently scope to supply on the quiet
Associate
You do realise Russia took Transnistria from Moldova by force, the same way they took Crimea?
I said a few pages back that this war would put Transnistria back on the agenda with Moldova seeing the chance to take it back with Ukraine's help, Ukraine will not want Russians on that side of their borders.
Getting rid or Russia from that side would be on the cards, no point in leaving 1500 Russians on their border when they are in no position to stop being sent packing.
Associate
Hmm maybe if a missile takes out Biden the USA will see it as a deliberate assassination, that would certainly spice things up.
Associate
I think the real elite units have been taken out a long time ago.
Putting conscripts into the same regiments the Elites came from doesn't make them elite units.
Caporegime
This isn't really true. Transnistria had a significant movement at ensuring they remained with Russia prior to the Soviet breakup and was never really established as part of Moldova. Unlike Crimea where the people clearly expressed their desire to be part of Ukraine in a free or fair referendum, it's really unclear what the people of Transnistria actually want.
That doesn't excuse Russian actions, but the situation is not a simple parallel to the Russian occupation of Crimea.
1st guards tank army being a case in point, they were the cream of the cream, the ones to stop NATO dead in its tracks.
Now they don't exist
Soldato
I dunno, a Russian elite unit seems to at least have had decent training
Has functioning equipment, were maybe actually getting paid etc
Right troops for the right mission, with the right support etc is critical
Reminds me of Al Murray sketch when he was going on about the gulf war, who did the Brits send, the Desert Rats, who did the Americans send, the Marines. All jest of course but in some aspects what you have seen in Ukraine is Russia using Elite troops in the wrong roles.
Has functioning equipment, were maybe actually getting paid etc
Right troops for the right mission, with the right support etc is critical
Reminds me of Al Murray sketch when he was going on about the gulf war, who did the Brits send, the Desert Rats, who did the Americans send, the Marines. All jest of course but in some aspects what you have seen in Ukraine is Russia using Elite troops in the wrong roles.
Caporegime
There's an excellent thread here by Neil Abrams explaining why the tankie 'Minsk accords' argument is hopelessly flawed.
I've seen a lot of non-tankies using it too.
I've seen a lot of non-tankies using it too.
Soldato
Another Chris Wilson hole - this thread is about the Ukraine war, not the EU , leftists or immigration
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