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Thanks. Was figuring it was coming from indie reporting.
Is this your Tigerland scene in which a soldier snaps but the main difference is that 1) the weapon is an assault rifle and 2) is not jammed?
Yeah all that is fair comment. I just think British politicians have been so aligned with the US in relation to nuclear weapons this country would always defer to the US's wishes and advice on their use.
Tbf. I was more concerned about the IRA and their bombing back then.
Konrad is one of the better analysts out there regarding the war.
A bit late, don't you think China?
Mobilization to death about 2 weeks in some cases... I don't think that in WW1 or WW2 the belligerents were sending conscripts to the front that quickly and therefore unprepared.
They sent it by Internet Explorer.
People talk about World War III. Obviously, NATO would have a few countries joining in if that happens but who is going to join Russia side other than Belarus anyway? I really doubt any other superpower countries would join them.
So this would have been over pretty quickly in a conventional war ? Even in a nuclear war, I really doubt the likes of China, India would nuke anyone. Obviously, it would be devastation for all of us. But I really don't see why those countries will join one side or another in any scenario in this age.
It would always only be Russia vs some NATO countries in most likely Ukrainian territories only?
So this would have been over pretty quickly in a conventional war ? Even in a nuclear war, I really doubt the likes of China, India would nuke anyone. Obviously, it would be devastation for all of us. But I really don't see why those countries will join one side or another in any scenario in this age.
It would always only be Russia vs some NATO countries in most likely Ukrainian territories only?
Russia's Revenue from O&G
More like Netscape.
Russia's Revenue from O&G
But they turned off the gas in July (before they blew it up) so it's going to take a drop.
Howard Nurse works for the CCP
Moscow, this is going to be one motivated soldier:
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Makes sense in the short term since prices elevated so much.
It would be interesting to know how this will look in the next 6 months considering prices have begun to decline and Russia is no longer giving oil to Europe. Putin said recently they may turn the oil back on to Europe which suggests to me that there may be economic issues they need to fix.
It would also be interesting to see how other industries in Russia have fared in the same timeframe as I imagine other than oil and gas almost every other industry has been hit badly
I wonder whether Western officials will eventually corroborate or somewhat confirm Ukraine's own reported numbers on Russians killed in action. They've been staking quite some PR on these daily updated numbers and if it turns out their numbers are widely off the mark that would reflect badly. Anyway, 65,000 is a staggering number.
Hu Jintao then
The beeping is fecking obnoxious. I'm assuming it's censoring swearing, which is an absurd decision, like swearing is somehow the worst thing that's going on here.
Run Forrest run....
I think everyone expects Ukraine to exaggerate the numbers and understand why, so I don't think it would reflect that badly...
However if you look at their claims of vehicle and equipment losses vs what Onyx has been able to visually confirm, they all seem very plausible, so I'd expect the same for the death tally. There has been very little "propaganda" published by Ukrainian gov that can be debunked.
There was a supposed leaked Russian document that said 48,000 were dead, and the Uranian count was at 51,000, which suggests it's pretty accurate.
"You can't run away, your own will shoot you".
There was a report about this but it's still pretty remarkable to hear it confirmed.
Some of the "independent" Russian media reported a few days ago of over 90k "irrecoverable losses".
I'm not sure what they define as irrecoverable losses. Through many conflicts (WW1, WW2), Russia has almost always had losses that would break another country, but they keep on fighting and bringing on fresh recruits.
I'm well aware of Russian's demographic implosion, but 90k losses is not absolutely irrecoverable for a country of 146 million in a fight to the bitter end. Yes, replacing them, training them is going to be extremely hard, but Russia has pulled it off before. Just saying.