"All of Vlad's forces and all of Vlad's men, are out to put Humpty together again." (33 Viewers)
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Warspite63
Staff Sergeant
- 846
- Dec 8, 2022
'Yeah - you need to hand over the territories that we have been unable to capture in the last 3 years of the 3-Day Special Military Clusterf**k! Or else we'll .... threaten everyone with...... something......'
Warspite63
Staff Sergeant
- 846
- Dec 8, 2022
Ukrainians continue to demonstrate that they are smart folks......
Admiral Beez
Major
I thought Mikoyan was out of business? Ah, I see on Wiki that in February 2006, the Russian government merged Sukhoi with Mikoyan, Ilyushin, Irkut, Tupolev, and Yakovlev as a new company named United Aircraft Corporation. They should call the MiG 35 the UAC 35.
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Dazzle camouflage?
Russian Troops Attacked Enemy Lines In A Bright Turquoise Light Truck
It ended badly for the Russians.www.forbes.com
It's a fashion thing...does turquoise go with red?
MiTasol
Captain
As a kid growing up in 1980s Canada I always wanted a Lada Niva.
4WD Madness! 10 Classic Lada Niva Ads
Most Americans have a fairly myopic view of the off-road-vehicle world. Ask any of us what the most popular 4×4 on the planet is and you’ll get the answer “Jeep” nine times out of ten. Not that Jeep is a bad answer–the Wrangler remains one of the most capable rock pounders you can purchase–but...blog.consumerguide.com
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBqP95POvjw
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBxQhKE_lJU
This is what today's young adult men in North America want and can afford for their offroad adventures. A brand new Lada Niva in 1990 cost under CAD $10k, or about US$8.6k at the exchange rates of the day. That's CAD $20k in 2025, or about USD $14.8k today.
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Young men do not want $80-$100k, overpriced, overhyped, tech-ridden and delicate Broncos and Jeeps that would be too risky to use as intended and too expensive to fix or replace.
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Jeep used to run ads in Aus where the neighbours would look at the next doors long grass and say what happened to the Jones and the answer was They got a Jeep.
People started adding comments like and it broke down and cant get the spares or they cant afford the fuel home.
And yes the spares are %^&* expensive. A friend replaced his Land Rover with a 2012 Jeep a few years back and when the transmission died two years back the repair was going to cost more than the car was worth and the local wreckers would not buy it.
buffnut453
Captain
The drain on Russia's manpower continues…unfortunately, they still have a lot of people available for call-up:
www.bbc.com
Putin begins biggest Russian military call-up in years
Russia calls up 160,000 men aged 18-30 as it moves to expand the size of its military.
www.bbc.com
New Russian Offensive In Ukraine Looms
Ukraine Situation Report: Kyiv expecting major Russian battlefield push to gain leverage amid ongoing ceasefire negotiations.
www.twz.com
MiTasol
Captain
Well, I live in The Netherlands
And I live in the middle of nowhere and never get to hear the neighbours fighting or their kids fighting/screaming. Tis bliss.
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I'm kind of the same - house sits in middle of 5 acres
Admiral Beez
Major
"The spring call-up for a year's military service came several months after Putin said Russia should increase the overall size of its military to almost 2.39 million and its number of active servicemen to 1.5 million."The drain on Russia's manpower continues…unfortunately, they still have a lot of people available for call-up:
Putin begins biggest Russian military call-up in years
Russia calls up 160,000 men aged 18-30 as it moves to expand the size of its military.
There are only about 140 million Russians, of which about 65 million are adult males. That means that almost 2% of the entire population, and nearly 4% of all adult males are in the military. Based on the scorecard to date, and if this war continues, of the 1.5 million active servicemen we can expect about 25% to be wounded and killed in Ukraine. All told, that is economically and demographically unsustainable and will be the undoing of the Russian state by the 2040s. Campaigns and laws like the below will make no difference.
Bill Banning 'Childfree Propaganda' Gets Final Approval From Russian Lawmakers
Russia’s State Duma passed a bill on November 12 in its second and third readings that would ban “childfree propaganda,” marking the government’s latest move to regulate social discourse while pushing President Vladimir Putin's family values agenda.
www.rferl.org
Russia’s Oryol Region to Pay Schoolgirls for Giving Birth - The Moscow Times
Central Russia’s Oryol region has reportedly become the country’s first to offer financial incentives to schoolgirls who give birth after its governor signed a decree introducing the measure.
Of course Ukraine is also facing a demographic time bomb and must entice its recent diaspora to return to rebuild the nation.
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Ascent
Senior Airman
Tangentially related.
View: https://bsky.app/profile/reuters.com/post/3llsoxmjwo223
View: https://bsky.app/profile/reuters.com/post/3llsoxmjwo223
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