1. Aldarion

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    ??? I didn't understand his post that way. If this is the post you are talking about: Then he is technically correct. Communists were by nature backstabbers and were always going to try and invade Europe. And Hitler and Nazis always understood this - they knew their socialists, after all! - and...
  2. Aldarion

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    I don't think anybody suggested that Nazi Germany didn't want war with the USSR? Rather, both Nazi Germany AND USSR wanted war. It is just that it was in Germany's interest for war to happen as quickly as possible, whereas USSR was hoping to set Germany against the West, watch as they bleed...
  3. Aldarion

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    What Husky_Khan said: USSR was definitely not ready to attack anytime soon by the time of Barbarossa (from what I understand)... but both Germany and USSR saw world conquest as their goal and an armed conflict as inevitable outcome of said goal. Fact that Stalin decided to sort out things in...
  4. Aldarion

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    I was specifically talking about this: Fact that goals and targets of ire are different is actually what makes right-wing anarchists better, because "just" removing government is far easier and far less disruptive to society than trying to remodel society as a whole. Even though both are not...
  5. Aldarion

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    There is a massive difference between wanting no government and wanting no society.
  6. Aldarion

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    Or people who don't really understand the terminology. I have met many people who had rather strongly insisted that anarchism is an inherently left-wing position, and considering that I am a right-wing anarchist in many respects... yeah.
  7. Aldarion

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    It does not make you bad, but it does make you stupid. Western globalists did more damage to Croatia in last 30 years than anybody else did in the last 300 years since the Ottomans did. Frankly, I'm liable to conclude that even the Ottomans weren't that bad.
  8. Aldarion

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    Notice that I said "pulverization". I was also talking about dust created by burning. As far as I am aware, tungsten penetrator fragments and also does not burn. From what I remember, burning actually makes it worse because it creates essentially a radioactive ceramic dust. And that thing is...
  9. Aldarion

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    Your inability to comprehend a post is utterly inconceivable. Absolutely nothing in my post suggests that tungsten penetrator remains in one piece. The "it is just a big lump of metal" comment was about the fact that tungsten doesn't ignite. I.E. it is not pyrophoric, it does not have any...
  10. Aldarion

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    Considering everything else in McDonalds' foodstuffs, providing that food to people in war should be considered a war crime.
  11. Aldarion

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    Generally speaking, hazard is supposed to come from the enemy.
  12. Aldarion

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    Issue is, soldiers often have to come close to said tanks: https://declassifieduk.org/depleted-uranium-courts-accept-cancer-risk-denied-by-army/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7197787/ Although, now I found out that T-80 also uses DU ammunition, so yeah. If Russians are already...
  13. Aldarion

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    Read again what I wrote. Issue is not that it is heavy metal penetrator. Issue is that it is penetrator made with heavy metal which essentially pulverizes itself when doing its work, and therefore presents a major environmental hazard. When tungsten penetrator strikes a tank, it mostly remains...
  14. Aldarion

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    Issue with depleted uranium is a) heavy metal toxicity and b) it is pyrophoric. Combine these two, and long-term environmental and health hazards can be significant. But then I don't think any Western tanks need DU to handle Russian tanks. Leopard 2 with tungsten penetrators would be more than...
  15. Aldarion

    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    No, war can never be won solely by military, because you win a war by achieving political objectives through usage of military power. To use Ukraine as example - had Russian political leadership decided to merely occupy Crimea and perhaps parts of Donbass, they will have basically won the war...
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