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ChaseSP
Mar 25, 2013



mutata posted:

Russian fascist dictator, go gently caress yourself.

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ChaseSP
Mar 25, 2013



You also haveto consider all the people who clearly do not want to live under Russia/Russian proxies fleeing those areas meaning you either have a horribly biased vote, or convince these people to move back to have an actual fair vote. It's a bullshit idea that's done purely as a way to try and make Russia's actions look legitimate or idiots who doesn't realize how absurdly biased it is of an idea.

ChaseSP
Mar 25, 2013



The MIC will always have a very vested interest in keeping aid going to Ukraine for obvious reasons. Both because eventually you'll get your money back, the sending of stockpiled supplies means more will have to be manufacture AND blowing up Russian military hardware is great advertising for US military hardware.

ChaseSP
Mar 25, 2013



It's an accidental attack so nothing that could call people in over on. I guess if Poland is pissed enough they enter on their own though but that isn't going to happen.

ChaseSP
Mar 25, 2013



Deserts make it extremely easy to store stuff in the open due to hot dry climate doing a good job of preserving things that don't melt inside of a car. Cold wet climates are the exact opposite and anything left outside in that will rust/corrode from the inside out quickly.

ChaseSP
Mar 25, 2013



Mearshiemier makes perfect sense if you fully believe the notion that might makes right is all that matters in geopolitics and that everyone would just bow to any strong power and not seek to look for outside help or assistance. It's a view that fundamentally okays land grabs by major powers because you wouldn't want to upset them and make a bad situation worse would you.

ChaseSP
Mar 25, 2013



Ukraine getting tanks was an inevitability, not something up in the air. It was simply a question of how long it would take, what would cause people to start giving them tanks and who would take the first step imo.

ChaseSP
Mar 25, 2013



With enough time dipshit fascists can get in power and actually do the crazy poo poo they stay but that assumes Putin is dead and that's a subject for Clancy chat.

ChaseSP
Mar 25, 2013



Both sides will grind each other down until one is ground down more than the other to allow for a sudden push, not having air power or superiority makes this a long drawn out process especially with heavy fortification on one side.

ChaseSP
Mar 25, 2013



adebisi lives posted:

What's really going on here? Small elite units using urban infiltration tactics or human wave attacks of convicts because Russia ran out of tanks? Maybe the answer is both.

Both. They do both.

ChaseSP
Mar 25, 2013



Taiwan's support for unification is also very much straified by age and generation, younger people want nothing to do with joining up with China proper because there is 0 memory at all of the PRC being anything but an antagonist power seeking to invade whenever it would seem geopolitically feasible which combined with the blatant lie of one country, two systems in Hong Kong. Similar thing in South Korea with regards to unification.

ChaseSP
Mar 25, 2013



0 enthusiasm or will at all especially given that Ukraine has constantly been reinforcing that border it would be stupid to actually attack due to the likely outcome of Belarus being greatly weakened and ukraine then being able to move troops stuck there to other areas where they'd be far more useful in the case of an actual invasion.

ChaseSP
Mar 25, 2013



Russia can't outright run out but they can be forced to either stop shelling to save up for major offensives or keep up a low rumble but be unable to ramp it up for offensives.

ChaseSP
Mar 25, 2013



You see Russia has a million+ potential which means losing a bunch of men doesn't matter because material loss is a myth and made up. Ignore how all of the recent attacks have coincided with losses of tanks and other badly needed mechanical vehicles that will be very difficult to replace and will effectively remove any ability to take advantage of a hypothetical breakthrough in Ukrainian lines in the future.

ChaseSP
Mar 25, 2013



The training required to even operate at these depths safely really makes me doubt this could be done as anything but someone actually supplied/trained well.

ChaseSP
Mar 25, 2013



The noticeable thing about Bakhmut is it's the only place that Russia/Wagner has made actual progress in taking, while still by all metrics taking considerable losses, while compared to the outright failures on the rest of the front.

ChaseSP
Mar 25, 2013



Being forced to resupply purely truck/train over a bridge that has shown the ability to be damaged would be an awful position to be in.

ChaseSP
Mar 25, 2013



The hopeful optimism is as we supply artillery that can fully work with smart munitions the amount needed for counter battery file would go down considerably at the least I'm guessing.

ChaseSP
Mar 25, 2013



It's a threat because countries under the NATO umbrella can't just outright be forced with military action to do what he wants compared to Central Asia countries that effectively at his mercy and have had to appeal to him.

ChaseSP
Mar 25, 2013



The bigger risk is/would've been western europe/us deciding for whatever reason to stop buying oil or natural gas from Russia and focusing on other sources which uh, good job encouraging exactly that Putin.

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ChaseSP
Mar 25, 2013



Sweden and neighbors have already been talking about supporting one another in the event of Russia doing anything haven't they? Finland being in NATO just means that they can afford to make more units/supplies stocked and ready for Russia deciding for whatever reason it can take Gotland or whatever instead of having to worry about having to fight Russia on it's own if it tries to invade Finland.

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