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

    I'm a Democrat. I'm enjoying a debate on The Sietch because @Agent23 and @Chiron are being beaten so badly in the debate. Like, step up your Nazi game people, you don't want people to actually start thinking you're a reasonable debate forum or something, do you? If these are paid Russian shills...
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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    Well this thread got amazing while I was gone.
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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    The tank factories are literally shutting down due to the sanctions regime. https://www.newsweek.com/russia-halts-tank-production-due-supply-problems-ukraine-claims-1690388 Also the mothballed old stuff is clearly worse than the stuff they lost already, or else they'd be using it instead...
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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    It seems it's not far off, it's here. Or else something close enough there's no need to quibble about it because the actual events are bad enough. The thing is, Putin doesn't have enough bombs left to destroy Ukraine. His army was either fucked from the start or was already fucked before the...
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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    My 40% number is not meant as "they are now at 40% casualties." I meant "after the currently deployed forces are used up and the army is rearmed and sent back in with what they salvaged from the current mess" which is my impression of what it means for Russia to "not take the loss due to...
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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    My point is that carpet bombing doesn't actually work even when you're trying it hard. See, Vietnam, Nazi Germany, both rounds of Afghanistan. It's horrible return on investment. I doubt if they'd been able to go all in on bombing campaigns they'd be in a much different position. Artillery is...
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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    Um, you do realize carpet bombing is a crap return on investment, right? It was phased out by advanced military forces as soon as precision munitions became available, and it's never been shown to be that effective outside of maybe being part of the effort that fucked up Japan in World War II...
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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    Man. I always supported Ukraine but expected it to be occupied in short order when this started. Now, based on the information bubble of mainstream corporate/liberal media, Reddit, and SpaceBattles I'm pretty convinced the Ukrainians are actually going to win. BTW, what the actual fuck? This...
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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    Quick swing by, I'll note that the pro-Russian arguments in this thread are some of the best I've seen, considerably better than the propaganda I've seen out of actual Russian proxies. I am less bullish on US support for Ukraine than I was after looking through this thread, though my biases are...
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