This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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Perhaps I’m totally naïve on this, but I don’t see anything to indicate Putin can make any demands of this nature at the negotiating table. His ass and his country’s future are in the proverbial sling.
The good news is, once this is wrapped up, it’s a low barrier to entry business. And setting that aside, the Russian tradition of samizdat will more than take care of information dissemination in the interim.
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That "debriefing" read exactly like a Hawkeye Report thread on a recruit that spurned Iowa.
"We didn't want him anyway. We have better options. Everything is going to plan!"
Except for the nuclear part, this is, of course, why the Russian/Iranian backed Houthis just launched a massive missile assault on Saudi Arabia's - you guessed it - Liquified natural gas facilities. The exact same ones needed to help Europe replace Russian gas. Hardly a coincidence.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have unleashed a barrage of drone and missile attacks on Saudi Arabia, targeting a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant
Middle East has been at war for 19 years straight now.
Wow, didn't they already leak earlier this week that 10,000 Russian soldier and 5,000 "others" have been killed?
I could be wrong of course, but the base in the Crimea is very important to Russia. Sevastapol is their warm water port and has been jealously guarded for centuries. I didn't realize this but Ukraine is leasing the base to Russia now. (After one of the previous Soviet leaders gave it away for some reason.) For Putin to survive he has to make his military happy and I think giving up the port will just upset the military even more on top of this war.
Things like this "seal the deal" on any future companies investing infrastructure in Russia.
No different than a large bankruptcy default.
I mean, if you just count 1 russian next to or in every piece of equipment destroyed other than the drones, you would have 4K+ troops dead.
Maybe by disarm the Ruskies just mean "we'd like you to give us our stuff back".
Has anyone else seen the movie The Beast? It is a 1988 film about a russian tank unit in Afghanistan. It is a good look at current day Russian tank technology.
Interesting, that this "warm water port" was a point I brought up in the first few pages of this thread, and had some idiot telling me they had "plenty" of other ports.
But, nope. Sevastapol is a major warm-water port "asset" for them, and Ukraine should cancel that lease as part of any ceasefire.
That's a major strategic chunk of land for Russia, and they should lose it.
Yes. Great movie! And the current tanks are almost as terrible as that tank
Dog has two big things working against him in life. 1. He isn't terribly clever. 2. He's wrapped in grievances and a full time professional victim.
UKR commercial drone drops three RKG-1600 bombs (upgraded old RKG-3 HEAT grenades) on unidentified vehicle. Two hits
Jesus, every single bullet point is a lie.
Yeah this was strange. I was following the practice session for the F1 race in Jeddah this weekend and the explosion happened while they were running. One of the drivers was even concerned because he was smelling burning oil and thought it was coming from his car.
As predicted by many. MBS isn't horribly smart, and he has a bit too much autocrat in him to understand that cozying up with the Russians isn't going to be a good alliance for him.
Switzerland is moving along with the team, and expanding sanctions.
I suppose if they really want to get in with both feet they'd start seizing the tens of billions of dollars they are holding for Russians.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/a...-swiss-adopt-more-eu-sanctions-against-russia
I suppose if they really want to get in with both feet they'd start seizing the tens of billions of dollars they are holding for Russians.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/a...-swiss-adopt-more-eu-sanctions-against-russia
I read yesterday that his legs were "broken" after the incident, but I suppose "crushed" would be a better verb, and difficult to survive. It would have been a shame if he could have been saved, but the Red Cross or other medics/physicians were not able to save him due to unsafe conditions generated by the Russians.
I question anyone who volunteers to fight in a war for another country. I'd guess that he misses the adrenalin boost he gets in these environments. That kind enhanced state is addictive and makes one feel alive. especially in comparison to the mundane everyday lives so many of us have.I admire his bravery but does he really not know that a tank is?
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And he's really, really, really. I mean REALLY, dumb.
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Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You?
Reminds of the Dennis Miller bit when the Berlin Wall came down. It was something along the lines of: "I guess I view it like if Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis had a reconciliation. I haven't really enjoyed any of their previous work together, and I'm not sure I need to see the new shit right now."
Russia is moving the goalposts. They are still putting pressure on Kiev, but will be happy if Ukraine formally gives them Crimea and the eastern area as a land bridge to Crimea. It will be a tough decision for Ukraine to keep fighting for those areas.
I think you are right. A good book written by a UK writer/mercenary is My War Gone By-I Miss It So.
Born to a distinguished family steeped in military tradition, raised on stories of wartime and ancestral heroes, Anthony Loyd longed to experience war from the front lines--so he left England at the age of twenty-six to document the conflict in Bosnia. ... Google Books
Originally published: 1999
Author: Anthony Loyd
I believe he is doing it to get Russia to force Iran to cut off supplying the Houthis with weapons...of course, Houthis destroying Saudi gas facilities is good for Russia in stopping Europe from diversifying. International relations can be complicated.
