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We are in the video at 8:32 😁

World's second-best army using technicals :ROFLMAO: Ukraine needs to redeploy some of its forces North of Kiev to the East and Donbass so that the Russians can't repeat what they did in Crimea by holding a referendum and annexing it. They might hold the referendum anyways, but it'd be weird to...

Nuclear Missile and Ballistic Missile defense mostly comprises dedicated systems like the Aegis. Japan lacks land-based Aegis to combat active missile threats (except on its ships) but that's defense, not deterrence...

He is trying to salvage the economy and the ruble by forcing foreign countries to "buy" the ruble to import Russian gas. It's another test for Western countries' resolve, especially EU with Viktor Orban, etc. We will see what happens of it, especially with new German-Qatar gas deal. On the other...

I feel bad for the journalist that wrote that in the newspaper, they certainly are going to have a few rough weeks. The KIA/wounded rate seems off as well, if there is so many wounded there certainly would need to be a lot more dead soldiers. Perhaps Ukrainian officials weren't throwing...

Agree. The siege of Grozny alone lasted 3 months, took incredible amounts of ammunition and completely destroyed the city, and then there was an insurgency for another 9 years after that. Mariupol has a population that is twice that of Grozny, and this time it's not within the Russian borders so...

Wali is not dead, since according to his brigade he wasn't even in Mariupol.

I live in Berlin, where the population is a lot younger and more left-wing than the rest of Germany so take this with a grain of salt, but this is what I hear. Usually there is a lot of anti-war movements, pacifists around the place that campaign for further reducing military spending...

How quickly do you think they will be able to switch to perhaps Chinese or Russian-made alternatives? Eg. Yandex or Youku by Alibaba For example, the Russians where developing SPFS (which was an alternative to Swift made by Russia) but that was said to take quite a long time before it can be...

I think the Aksungur probably doesn't have any export variants yet, and the time needed to produce it would be too much for the Ukrainians. They buy the Bayraktar because they are experienced in using the system and can buy it from existing stocks.

Then the West should seize 10 billion from the Russian Reserves.

Agree. Can't describe with numbers how many times I've seen people talk about how only Putin wants this war and how Russians don't want war. Putin's approval ratings (by independent sources) have never dropped below 65%, and currently stand at 71% positive, 21% disagree. Putin has no opposition...