Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

The M270s and HIMARS rockets are going to be hell for Russia. Extremely accurate and nearly impossible to shoot down. We're talking entire grid square eliminators. Those are going to clear a lot of Russian artillery and supply lines.

Something that failed so miserably against a bunch of rag tag Taliban will not work against Russia.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

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[K_Bin_W]

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Those Thermobaric weapons are real bad a$$, I saw some video documentaries about how they work and in action... The best defense is to keep away..

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Those Thermobaric weapons are real bad a$$, I saw some video documentaries about how they work and in action... The best defense is to keep away..

Thermobaric works best against fortified areas because they deprive the defenders of oxygen and suffocate them to death.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1532915354829312001

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

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[DF41]

wonder Russia have any other song beside the Katyusha Song to insight nationalistic feeling of their youngsters in last 3 months at least I heard 30 version of it, i can now recite it from memory

In Russian?

and Chinese?

And English as well?

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

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[DF41]

Thermobaric works best against fortified areas because they deprive the defenders of oxygen and suffocate them to death.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1532915354829312001

Long before they are suffocated to death or burned to death, they already DEAD

From the overpressure that implode their lungs and inner organs and brains.

No worries of suffocations or burning at all

 

[DF41]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1534628824457129991

@Hack-Hook

 

[Viet]

Ukrainian counter battery fire has been documented at under 60 seconds. Once Russian artillery is located, M270 and HIMARS rocket flight time is 60-90seconds. And with 5m CEPs, its game over for Russian artillery.

Training on HIMARS began 1 week ago in Europe. Its 3 weeks of training, and then it will take time to get to the front. Initial batches of 4 HIMARs and 3 M270s, but with an additional $8-10B in drawdown authority there's almost certainly plenty more coming.

It’s an extremely difficult situation for Ukraine. Almost impossible to defend. Estimates say Russia has a 10:1 advantage.
The western weapons delivery is too slow or takes time to deliver. If this counter artillery radar “cobras” promised by Germany could come fast. Otherwise too late.

Das Cobra-System (Counter Battery Radar) ist das weltweit wohl fortschrittlichste Waffenortungssystem

 

[jhungary]

No. Indeed Viktor Yanukovych did obtain a majority of votes at Ukraine's 2010 runoff presidential election.

The two candidates' scores were as follows:

* Viktor Yanukovych : 48,95%
* Yulia Timoshenko : 45,47%



Because those 48,95% (not 48,6%) relate to overall expressed votes, that is including invalid and blank ballots as well as votes for a special third option offered by the Ukrainian electoral system, termed "Against all" (i.e. an expression of opposition to both candidates).

Indeed, here's what the latter two voting choices garnered:

* Against all : 4,36%
* Invalid (and blank) : 1,19%

Unlike the USA's system for instance, where at the second rounds of presidential elections ballots do not include an "Against all" option, and where the announced final result does not account for invalid and blank votes, in Ukraine it does.

Elsewhere the percentage of valid votes obtained by each candidate is usually considered, whereas in Ukraine they go with the percentage of expressed votes, and moreover the Ukrainian election features that extra voting option ("Against all") absent from equivalent elections in other countries.

If we leave out "Against all" votes as well as invalid / blank ones, in other terms if we only count votes given to either Yanukovych or Timoshenko, Yanukovich won the election with an absolute majority of over 51,84% (48,95 x 100 / (48,95+45,47)).



That's correct.

And guess who is agreeing with me on the democratically elected part? None other than international observers dispatched by the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) as well as the PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe) to monitor the election.

The OSCE said there were no indications of serious fraud and described the vote as an "impressive display" of democracy. Source:

Yanukovych set to become president as observers say Ukraine election was fair

• Yulia Tymoshenko under pressure to concede defeat• Monitors praise 'impressive display' of democracy

www.theguardian.com

Link to the PACE statement: https://pace.coe.int/en/news/2753

Only thing is, it is not how it work.

https://tass.ru/info/6275043?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=en.wikipedia.org&utm_referrer=en.wikipedia.org

To win the election, a candidate needs to receive more than 50% of the vote. If none of the candidates obtains the required number of votes, a second round shall be held within two weeks. The names of the two candidates who showed the best results in the first round shall be entered on the ballot paper. The winner is the one who receives the largest number of votes. One candidate for the highest state post can also take part in the second round (if the second candidate refuses to run less than 12 days before the election). In this case, more than half of the votes must be obtained to win.

you are excluding those invalid and non-preferred vote even if you said they counted in the election. They counted in Overall tally, but do not count toward any of the candidate. If you taken out those invalid and non-prefer vote and don't count them in the total tally, then yes, Yanukovich would have won by 51% but then again this is NOT how it work.

 

[Kaleem.61]

Osama disappeared from Afghanistan to be found 10 years later in Abottabad, Azad Kashmir.

Please share some video when Usama was in Pakistan. How you killed and at least one picture of his dead body!
I have watched enough cartoons. No more!

 

[ZeGerman]

Something that failed so miserably against a bunch of rag tag Taliban will not work against Russia.

The taliban were soundly defeated during the initial invasion. During the next 20 years the coalition also did not suffer defeat on battlefield.

How many decades should we handhold afghanistan allies? Eventually the afghans will have to decide their own fate.

ANA unfortunately turned out to be a corrupt bunch with no stomach to fight. So our choice of allies in ANA was indeed poor. But lets not pretend that insurgency is the same as the ukranian situation of conventional warfare (with russia performing poorly)

 

[kingQamaR]

The taliban were soundly defeated during the initial invasion. During the next 20 years the coalition also did not suffer defeat on battlefield.

How many decades should we handhold afghanistan allies? Eventually the afghans will have to decide their own fate.

ANA unfortunately turned out to be a corrupt bunch with no stomach to fight. So our choice of allies in ANA was indeed poor. But lets not pretend that insurgency is the same as the ukranian situation of conventional warfare (with russia performing poorly)

Dedication and an unwavering commitment to defend their ideology from outside interference. The 3 Stooges - UK, Russia, and the US - could not understand this simple concept. Like the British and the Russians, the Americans overestimated their abilities and underestimated the Taliban's resistance. Hubris, a deadly disease that humbles the 3 Stooges

 

[Apollon]

How come all run away from Russia if its soo good? Why do they run to EU?