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DTurtle posted:It’s interesting to see all this stuff coming together right now. Just last week 18 German Leopard 2 tanks and 40 Marder IFVs were handed over (so a mechanized battalion). It really seems like any time now a Ukrainian offensive using massed Western equipment can be attempted. As a counterpoint these are probably newer recruits using battle systems that haven’t been used by Ukraine before and may not be available in great enough numbers to make a noticeable difference, so the ability of Russia to withstand an offensive is likely to be the real deciding factor.
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Mar 31, 2023 19:59
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HonorableTB posted:We got a lot closer to Clancychat than was admitted or reported at the time. Remember that British surveillance plane that had a missile fired near it? The nukes aren’t hard wired to go off anytime a NATO jet explodes.
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Apr 13, 2023 19:45
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Wonder what the Admiral’s drone defenses look like.
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Apr 19, 2023 18:36
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:
Is that the front or the back?
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Apr 20, 2023 01:23
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HonorableTB posted:I believe you will find that the Chicago River disagrees with you there. They civil engineered it into flowing backwards in 1900 And it was such a big deal that people are still talking about it 120 years later.
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Apr 25, 2023 00:56
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Not a great sign when your tweet eye rolls its own source!
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May 2, 2023 18:30
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OddObserver posted:The discussion was on defending sides in the war entering the attacker's territory. Certainly, the Allies did that to Germany and other European Axis members. That did not make France and UK non-defenders (USSR was a bit more complicated, but was still 199% morally justified in taking Berlin). Yea which is why Vietnam famously invaded the US to win the war, same with Afghanistan and their various wars. Turns out different wars have different details!
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May 11, 2023 22:19
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Moon Slayer posted:Must be a stop on his way to Japan, they announced he's going to attend the G-7 in person. He’s gotta go that way anyway, it’s not like he’s flying over Russia to get there.
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May 19, 2023 15:09
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There’s not a lot of great options for a diplomatic visit on that route either. Where else do you stop? Turkey? Iraq? India? Pakistan?
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May 19, 2023 22:09
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This incursion is a big flashy distraction that Russia has to respond to with troops / resources, and it also has the nice side effect of making the regime look weak internally. My guess is they wait for the tanks to show up and then duck back into Ukraine. Russia has correctly determined that Ukraine won’t invade them but it looks like Ukraine has found a way to still force Russia to babysit the border. Also no one’s gonna rise up and take cities over this but it may encourage further small scale sabotage and resistance.
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May 22, 2023 17:45
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If Russian backed “separatists” came across the US / Mexico border and captured a few American towns and crowed about starting the reconquista it would be embarrassing as gently caress for any US President so I’m not sure how the Russian equivalent could be spun positively domestically.
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May 24, 2023 19:50
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It’s not a big surprise that the other guys have guns too.
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Jun 12, 2023 17:03
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