F-22Raptor
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Ukrainian forces making gains in Kiev and Kharkiv
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The video here shows about ~eight VDV airborne infantry combat vehicles abandoned in a field with the missiles still in the launchers. A understrength VDV company abandoned their gear intact & went walk-about?!? What the h--l, over?
GENERAL MUDD? OR COMMANDER IN THIEF?
Kamil threads are awesome read. He mixes humor and has reasoning that makes sense. Very entertaining
I Fail to understad how this is relevant to this thread tho? @The Eagle @waz
Don't spam with off-topics this is stricly Ukraine-Russia thread... This is spam according to thread rules
Sanctions work sometimes and sometimes not. Has sanctions worked against North Korea? No. Worked against Serbia? Yes.
Problem with EU-US sanctions on such a massive scale is that its beyond the treshold of having a coercive effect.
Russia now is in a existential mode. What does it has to loose? Nothing. It has everything to win by keeping this war going. As Putin said, Russia will be sanctioned anyway so he dosent care anymore.
Btw, somebody here mentioned Ukraine as a potential Afghanistan replay for Russia. Well it could be.
OTOH this could also be in Russian favour. First of all Ukraine has totally different geography, few mountains and a terrain thats familiar to the Russian homeland. Its the birthplace of Kievan Rus after all.
To me this war is akin to American Civil War. Essentially a intra cuvilization war. While the southern states were mostly blocked from recieving foreign aid (vast oceans), Ukraine is a different story. Thats why this conflict is so complex and potentially unpredictable. Russi could use armed irregular volunteers or similar forces to actually increase its influence, first in Ukrsine, then in forexample Poland.
What happens if a fighting between irregular forces takes place along the NATO border and it slowly intensified and spread to Poland, Baltic, Romani etc.