Actually it was probably the Mongol hordes or the Rus or the Indians or the Chinese. But another thread on the Asian dynasties.would be required to discuss.
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Actually it was probably the Mongol hordes or the Rus or the Indians or the Chinese. But another thread on the Asian dynasties.would be required to discuss.
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There seems to be quite a bit of that, Russia pressing completely unready and untrained troops to the front just to bodies out there and expecting the experienced men to do the training whilst on the job. There was a video a couple of weeks ago with some kid trying to use a mortar and very nearly killed his whole squad when he tried to put the shell the wrong way around into the tube.
Oof. Fins first comrade, fins first. Now beast yourself around the minefield for the boy’s amusement.
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Classic Russian tactics, use up enemy ammunition and overwhelm them with numbers, it’s not a terrible strategy if you don’t give a toss about your people and have little combat equipment, especially when you give up with the offensive and dig in. No wonder they’ve managed to mine and dig trenches so effectively.
Russia's really stepping up the propaganda, desperate to justify this invasion.
The cover looks like it's straight out of a Cold War era Soviet poster, which tells you just how far Russia has progressed in the past 40 years.
The cover looks like it's straight out of a Cold War era Soviet poster, which tells you just how far Russia has progressed in the past 40 years.
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Drones are now underwater too, I doubt they will see them in time.
We saw the Russians destroying surface ones on at least two occasions they got 1 successful hit that destroyed their top flagship and just recently left another very badly damaged with no chance of it being repaired. That's the best part of 2 billion dollars lost to drones
But if he's President he will just pardon himself, its never been done before but there is no precedent for it so it will be for the supreme court to decide.
Common sense and decency? Yea right that will definitely stop him from pardoning himself as hes a beacon of common sence and decency.
I think the only law is you need to be insane to be president.
Was talking about the nation electing a criminal as President while he was imprisoned.
Anyway this is a Ukraine thread. Much more important than what Donald Trump is doing this week.
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Because the west has dithered in sending what’s needed and continues to do so.
I don't know how long it will take until the reality sinks in - if Ukraine is to make serious ground then the West needs to get spinning up production and supply of stuff like the AS-90, modernised Gepard or equivalent, speed up getting tanks in there which can out-range the stuff Russia typically uses, etc. and the ammo to support them. Ukraine needs to be able to beat Russia using sophistication to overcome where Russia has an advantage in terms of attrition, etc.
Russia might have been hit hard in terms of military equipment, but they still have plenty of potential to grow into this war and it seems like as time goes on sanctions are becoming less effective as inevitably more companies find ways to pay lip service while going around them, etc. etc. there is still concerning ability for Russia to grind through Ukraine and become a concern for wider European peace and security and very little reason for them not to unless the people of Russia get fed up enough of the situation to push back against Putin and I really don't see that happening.
EDIT: And yes they lost a lot of their most experienced and best training personnel in the early months of the war - but they are also developing a new batch of battle tested soldiers out of those who survive the war so far and ultimately no amount of peacetime training beats the experiences learnt in actual war.
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Russias budget plan to prop up the finances by using excess oil profits won't work due to the weak ruble
Russia has been taking excess oil profits for the last decade, it usually uses the profits to buy foreign currency which it the holds for a rainy day, like this war. Their $600billion assets were of course frozen and for this financial year they were planning to use excess profits to plug holes in the government budget
But due to the weak Ruble they won't be seeing the money they need and will have to offset this by trying to raise more debt from their population or by selling their gold reserves (Russia has $70 billion of gold they can sell to raise money, this gold will be gone in 1 year to plug all the budget holes)
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Russia has been taking excess oil profits for the last decade, it usually uses the profits to buy foreign currency which it the holds for a rainy day, like this war. Their $600billion assets were of course frozen and for this financial year they were planning to use excess profits to plug holes in the government budget
But due to the weak Ruble they won't be seeing the money they need and will have to offset this by trying to raise more debt from their population or by selling their gold reserves (Russia has $70 billion of gold they can sell to raise money, this gold will be gone in 1 year to plug all the budget holes)
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I have a hunch those stolen gold reserves are mostly now chunks of wood wrapped in gold foil.
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