Possible; just how far would their territorial ambitions have extended?
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Possible; just how far would their territorial ambitions have extended?
Ukraine Sees Chance to Exploit Dwindling Russian Momentum - WSJ
archived 22 Jul 2022 12:37:50 UTC
TheRomanSlayer
Kayabangan, Dugo, at Dangal
What do you guys think of the YouTuber HistoryLegends? His Ukraine videos are actually quite interesting.
Never watched him, unfortunately. Maybe I should.
Arch Dornan
Oh, lovely. They've sent me a mo-ron.
I watch him.
I'd share his videos but I see that as a wasted effort. Might be Russian biased if you get my drift.
Obvious Russia cheerleader, if that's your thing, sure, but why...
If you want objectivity, waste of time.
TheRomanSlayer
Kayabangan, Dugo, at Dangal
HistoryLegends' other videos that weren't related to Ukraine are indeed interesting, but is there evidence that he's cheerleading for Russia?
History Learner
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There’s no evidence, it’s just anything that is positive in Marduk’s world for Russia must be dismissed, evidence be damned.
Yes, look at his choice of titles alone. Lots of hyping about real and even potential Russian successes, like the mythical encirclement of a huge chunk of Ukrainian army in the east that Russia shills were predicting since day 1... But none on Ukrainian ones.
Lots of debunking of Ukraine favoring information - from what i've looked, not very good at that.
None for the opposite.
Can you spot a pattern here?
Frankly, from what was seen of you discussing military matters here, there is no evidence that you are able to properly judge evidence about such matters.
The Economy Putin Didn’t Actually Ruin - The New York Times
archived 22 Jul 2022 17:18:33 UTC
History Learner
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Given how consistently you’ve shown a lack of basic knowledge on any topic you’ve spoke on, I consider this the highest praise.
TheRomanSlayer
Kayabangan, Dugo, at Dangal
Titles are often bait and switch. I did look at his older videos though, with titles that sounded like Russia's experiencing difficulties.
Check out the badass Music Concert Russia put on for their troops.
Attendance seems to be down since the last concert they threw in February which is odd considering its Summer.
Attendance seems to be down since the last concert they threw in February which is odd considering its Summer.
Enjoy your alternate reality life then.
And then he goes back to hyping them up, just as the situation becomes less and less dynamic. There are also just plainly dishonest points made specifically against Ukrainian claims like this, where by hard info the honest thing to say is "can't say anything for sure, both sides use improvised armor addons that can be standarized or one of a kind, and sometimes they even use captured vehicles", but he claims for sure that it can't be a Russian vehicle, because it doesn't use standardized 675-sb3KDZ kit cage armor, just some improvised variant.
History Learner you are compeltly horrible at understanding basic analysis.
You would fail the 35F AIT let alone any actual analysis classes that would be offered.
The stupidest guy in my AIT who failed out was better.
Gonna get hit domt care.
That aside, I do not beilive in game changing weapons. Just ones that prolong and allow for advantages to be given.
HIMARS for instance is the weapon that has caused destruction of ammo depots. Invaluable for quick rearm at the rront compared to that of far away ones that take hours to get armed from
You would fail the 35F AIT let alone any actual analysis classes that would be offered.
The stupidest guy in my AIT who failed out was better.
Gonna get hit domt care.
That aside, I do not beilive in game changing weapons. Just ones that prolong and allow for advantages to be given.
HIMARS for instance is the weapon that has caused destruction of ammo depots. Invaluable for quick rearm at the rront compared to that of far away ones that take hours to get armed from
It has outsize effect because for Ukraine HIMARS is not just a new weapon, it's practically a new capability. For US forces, it's just one precision weapon among many air and sea launched, nevermind old land based ATACMS. Better in some regards, worse in others.
For Ukraine it's a capability jump, they had nothing like it before. The closest thing they had was Tochka-U, which they were using in similar ways - it's a bit longer ranged and has a bigger warhead, however it's much less accurate (at least 10x bigger CEP), also less mobile, has much slower re-fire rate, and last but not least, Ukraine has started the war with ~500 of these missiles and no way to get more (compared to launcher number they could have fired them off within few days if they didn't care about conserving ammo), while HIMARS is in production and further ammo shipments will come, so it has also lifted the need to reserve some leftovers of leftovers of ammo for hypothetical extreme need or opportunity, allowing wider and more consistent use of tactical missile class weapons.
Putin's Rule 'Weakening,' Preparation for Power Struggle Underway: Snyder
Snyder said "the equilibrium that keeps Putin in power—mastery over rivals, soft support in the population, integrity of the army—is challenged" by the war.
www.newsweek.com
History Learner
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Russian nationalist and Russotriuphalist blogger predicted that Kiev will fall in 48 hours, that there will be 90% odds that the major fighting will be over in seven days or less (throughout all of Ukraine), and that there will be no large-scale Ukrainian insurgency because Ukrainians aren't breeding enough and in any case can simply move to Poland and/or the West instead of staying put and fighting Russia.
toomas ilves, ex-verif (@IlvesToomas)
We should just keep all Russians out of the EU. A total entry ban. Yes, "but not all Russians are like this", but a minor matter compared to what that nation is doing. Don't give me the "collective punishment is bad". Visa denial is not punishment, it's self preservation. Tough.
nitter.1d4.us
I oppose this. I think that Russian refugees and also Russians who dislike Putin's regime SHOULD, in fact, be able to move to the West. I support strip-mining Russia of as much of its human capital as possible, especially but not only its working-age human capital, and thus support generously depopulating Russia by having as much of their population as possible move over here to the West. Russian spies would be excluded from this, of course.