hawkeye2an
Staff Sergeant
gyros, McDonalds fries, mooses, meeses.......this thread gets less and less Vlad every day. I expect the media to take less interest in the war, after all they have advertising to sell..........
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gyros, McDonalds fries, mooses, meeses.......this thread gets less and less Vlad every day. I expect the media to take less interest in the war, after all they have advertising to sell..........
And we don't refer to "the Germany" or "the France."
We use the positive article for the Netherlands, US and UK because the full titles include the modifier "of": the Kingdom of the Netherlands (i.e. kingdom of low-lying lands); the United States of America; the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Thus we use the positive article to distinguish the American United States from any other united states that might be out there. Same-same for the kingdoms, explicitly distinguishing them from other kingdoms (e.g. the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
gyros, McDonalds fries, mooses, meeses.......this thread gets less and less Vlad every day. I expect the media to take less interest in the war, after all they have advertising to sell..........
no, no , no it's Russia not the Russia - want to know why?Oh no! 963 Americans permanently banned from visiting The Russia…
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what you mean "effective"? - driving tank or fighting with proper tactics? - answer on the first one is - plenty, on second one - probably very fewYeah, but how many effective crews can they train and deploy?
what you mean "effective"? - driving tank or fighting with proper tactics? - answer on the first one is - plenty, on second one - probably very few
no, no , no it's Russia not the Russia - want to know why?
Nordic Germanic tribes, the Rus aka the Vikings settled in today's Russia - calling it "Land of the Rus", happily marring Slavic chicks and founding numerous fiefs and Kingdoms e.g.
Suzdal, Novgorod, Ryazan etc. in German language Land of the Rus becomes Russland already beholding "the" and in English being called Russia.
Some of them traveled to Kiev and founded the Principality of Kievan Rus forming a federation of Rus fiefs throughout Western Russia and also happily married Slavic women
Later the "locals" of the Kievan Rus federation, called a specific region the Borderlands - due to obvious reasons.
1240: Kyiv is sacked by Mongols, who conquer the Rus principalities; Poland and Lithuania absorb the western principalities- no more Kievan Rus but a fief emerging as a new power
Moskva.
And Ukraine in Ukrainian language calls it - or rather loved the name and themselves named it in 1991 again Borderlands
Okay back to the Borderlands
News flash: I was not being serious. I was poking fun at The you. But thanks for the unnecessary history lesson…
Three guesses, two don't count!Was gonna say, I couldn't tell whether he was being serious or was playing along...
History lessons are never unnecessary.News flash: I was not being serious. I was poking fun at The you. But thanks for the unnecessary history lesson…
I personally love jejune discussions about English-language articles ... but I'm a weirdo.
Was gonna say, I couldn't tell whether he was being serious or was playing along...
It all depends on what the definition of "the" is.If he was playing along, then my sincere apologies. I was poking fun at the whole "To The, or Not to The. That is the Question" thing.
And most of those qualified to do the training are on holiday in Ukraine - and many have "arranged" to never return to Russia by being killed or injured to a point where they would not be able to train anyone.Having a few thousand tanks in reserve is nice, if you have a few thousand tank crews running around with nothing else to do. Otherwise you're still going to have to train the men to run them, and that takes both time and skill.
I assumed the reserve tanks are for replacing tanks where the crews survive but their tanks have broken down or been destroyed. Though given their exploding tendencies I wonder how many crew survive when their tank does not,Having a few thousand tanks in reserve is nice, if you have a few thousand tank crews running around with nothing else to do. Otherwise you're still going to have to train the men to run them, and that takes both time and skill.
I assumed the reserve tanks are for replacing tanks where the crews survive but their tanks have broken down or been destroyed. Though given their exploding tendencies I wonder how many crew survive when their tank does not,