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Putin's shaking his nukes again, sigh.
Russia will step up nuclear warnings after prospect of British jets to Ukraine, expert warns
The Russian Embassy in London has warned Britain's decision could have "military and political consequences for the European continent and the entire world”inews.co.uk
If I was Putin and clearly not GAF about Russia's or my personal future I'd have used a tactical nuke by now, maybe three: Lviv, for one. What's NATO going to do, invade Russia? Putin knows he's a dead man anyway, like Hitler in the bunker.Well, shit or get off'n the pot already. Talk's cheap.
I can't even hit them when I'm sober, even when they are already stuck to the fly paper.Third beer, I tend to miss fly-balls, it's all good.
If I was Putin and clearly not GAF about Russia's or my personal future I'd have used a tactical nuke by now, maybe three: Lviv, for one. What's NATO going to do, invade Russia? Putin knows he's a dead man anyway, like Hitler in the bunker.
I can't even hit them when I'm sober, even when they are already stuck to the fly paper.
You COULD do both. Just sayin'.......One of us played baseball, one of us practiced insectophilia. I'll leave that question to the readership.
You COULD do both. Just sayin'.......
The Russians are in a much better manpower position, enjoying a >4:1 advantage over Ukraine pre-war population of ~40million. And since the war began Ukraine has lost somewhere between 7-10 million to outwards migration. If this is a war of attrition, which by all appearances it is, then Ukraine is in a very disadvantageous position.No, not necessarily. That is of course their ultimate objective - but how realistic it is in the face of Realpolitik remains to be seen. Perhaps sadly those regions are lost permanently. But for any nation invaded by another, preserving their capital, their government, their culture, their freedom and their borders at the time of that invasion is surely the first priority. Given they were expected by Putin - and not a small percentage of the same isolationist voices constantly predicting their imminent doom each week - to have folded like a pack of cards MORE THAN A YEAR AGO, where are we now? The Ukrainians have taken back a significant amount of territory despite all the apparent (but clearly inflated and inaccurate) odds.
Whatever issues of supply, munitions and equipment faced by the Ukrainians, and whatever the ebb and flow of the front line, the Russians clearly face exactly the same problems, and face them magnified by a greater factor. So the net result is neutral at worst.
And that's without accounting for the significant disparity between a motivated army of people fighting for all of the things listed above, and one of poorly trained, poorly equipped and increasingly conscripted men fighting for a cause which must look increasingly pointless and hopeless. That the Russians best troops are a blend of mercenaries and indentured convicts should send a huge message..
You say the supply and equipment issues are neutral at worst but I see no way for that to be true. Russia has a large domestic arms industry that is producing its munitions, repairing its tanks, ect. Ukraine has a much smaller arms industry that relies on imports of shells, bullets and all matter of war material.
And yet, excluding the parts the Russian's stole in 2014 (Crimea and Donetsk), it's taken them more than eleven months to take and hold a small piece of southern Ukraine, after being thrown out of Kyiv, Kharkiv and the north bank of Kherson. If I was Russian I'd be equally ashamed of my country's military performance and of their aggression towards their neighbours. It's as if Russia can't help but make poor foreign policy decisions and then execute them poorly - is there some flaw in their national psyche?You say the supply and equipment issues are neutral at worst but I see no way for that to be true. Russia has a large domestic arms industry that is producing its munitions, repairing its tanks, ect.