1. TheRomanSlayer

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

    The IDF would easily win this Tank competition if they actually competed.
  2. TheRomanSlayer

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

    You could hire YouTube’s Urinatingtree to commentate on the Tank competition in Russia, and it would be funny as hell. Who’s the Lolcow of that tank tournament?
  3. TheRomanSlayer

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

    That’s okay. I was going to get the screenshot of the map itself.
  4. TheRomanSlayer

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

    I was going to post a screenshot of the livemapua section where Orikhiv is located and surrounded.
  5. TheRomanSlayer

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

    I actually rely on a site called Livemapua, which gives a good info on the front lines. From what I saw, Orikhiv is awfully close to being surrounded. And we can’t post pictures straight from the screenshots on our phones, right?
  6. TheRomanSlayer

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

    Blame the Canadian government too, because idiot Trudeau won’t build a pipeline from Alberta to somewhere else where we can ship out our natural gas as well.
  7. TheRomanSlayer

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

    That was with Tito at the helm. If someone like say, Peko Dapcevic or Aleksandar Rankovic was in power, they'd be extremely brutal as their Soviet counterparts. Rankovic though, would have simply continued to expel the Albanians from Kosovo and had opposed giving autonomy to Kosovo and probably...
  8. TheRomanSlayer

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

    Yikes, the potential Polish and Romanian gains are just as overkill as Russian gains. Romanian annexation of Vinnytsia? Dude must be playing too much EUIV, and ditto with a Polish expansion up to Zhytomyr.
  9. TheRomanSlayer

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

    Honestly, Russia staying Orthodox did provide the kind of continuity to the whole Byzantine tradition that was needed, and had Russia become Catholic by Sigismund III, the other Orthodox Christians living elsewhere would have started to accept more of Ottoman rule than be freed by Catholics. As...
  10. TheRomanSlayer

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

    Possible, although that would have resulted in a much more costly expansion. Another thing that comes to mind is that a Catholic Russia would have required a massive change of mindset in how they run their government. Orthodox Russia still has that Byzantine influence in how they run things...
  11. TheRomanSlayer

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

    There was the proposal made by Lew Sapieha about a potential union between the PLC and Muscovy, but that went nowhere. Coupled with Muscovite (later Russian) antipathy towards Roman Catholicism in general, the union between the PLC and Muscovy was never going to work. I mean, there was also the...
  12. TheRomanSlayer

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

    The nightmare scenario would be that NATO actually runs out of ammo to give to Ukraine, and equipment as well. How many HiMARS does the US need for itself and other members of NATO? If they’re going to keep giving most of their equipment, then they would soon run out of ammo and equipment to...
  13. TheRomanSlayer

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

    So it will take years for NATO to rebuild that lost capability to even be a reliable supplier for Ukraine? I’m not sure if this was true, but Russia kept all of their ammunition in stock, including some that was supposed to be destroyed after the Cold War ended.
  14. TheRomanSlayer

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

    So it would be safe to say that the Greenies in Europe are technically de facto (or de jure) Kremlin assets then? I'm more worried about the American supplies running out than the European ones. How much ammunition was disposed of by NATO after the Cold War ended? If it was a bit, even that...
  15. TheRomanSlayer

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

    Hold on, is there also a danger to NATO member states running out of weapons and equipment to give to Ukraine? I'm not sure if NATO has retooled some of their industries to make the very same weapons Ukraine needs.
  16. TheRomanSlayer

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

    Another problem is, their kind of experience with Western style democracy was shaped by the Yeltsin years, which is notoriously known for a crap ton of corruption and gangsterism, along with the two Chechen Wars. Basically, the 90s was to the Russians what the Weimar Republic was to Germans, so...
  17. TheRomanSlayer

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

    Titles are often bait and switch. I did look at his older videos though, with titles that sounded like Russia's experiencing difficulties.
  18. TheRomanSlayer

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

    HistoryLegends' other videos that weren't related to Ukraine are indeed interesting, but is there evidence that he's cheerleading for Russia?
  19. TheRomanSlayer

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

    What do you guys think of the YouTuber HistoryLegends? His Ukraine videos are actually quite interesting.
  20. TheRomanSlayer

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

    Or have the Union State actually work with Lukashenko as post-Soviet Russia’s dictator. He was on track to succeed Yeltsin, but was blindsided by Yeltsin’s appointment of Putin. Nazarbayev on the other hand, is another story, but I honestly think that Rutskoy or Burbulis would have been better...
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