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Hey Russia, how many airliners have your airlines refused to return to their Western owners after the leases were suspended? Or in other words "stolen"? Because I think it's well into the hundreds.
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Of the 15 - 22,000 wounded, thousands more will die from inadequate medical care. Just like the war in Crimea in the 1850s.
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You are right about fighting at night, but the other things are a different matter.
The Vikhr ATGM, that is used by the Ka-52, outranges any MANPADS by a very big margin, as it has the range of 12km. Avengers would not help against these helos unless a pilot was stupid enough to come too close. There’s zero evidence that the attacked Ukrainian mechanised group didn’t have any AA systems.
The mine-clearing vehicles were present there, as there are numerous photos on Twatter showing them having been destroyed.
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Well … there's some evidence that Putin actually doesn't know how the war is going. And it wouldn't be without precedent in Russia either. Take Brezhnev as an example. They had an entire fake issue of Pravda printed for him to keep him happy.
And pretty much the only interesting news to ever come out of Macron's and Scholz's ridiculous attempts to negotiate with the Kremlin is that Putin seems oblivious of the war's particulars. A few months back, weekly 'Der Spiegel' wrote that when Scholz had his last phone call with Putin, the latter kept insisting that Bakhmut had already been captured when in actual fact it hadn't even been surrounded at that time.
Scholz is said to have lost his cool and asked whether Putin really believed that he, Scholz, did not have means at his disposal to find out the truth about the situation on the ground. Putin reportedly got very angry and refused to continue the conversation in German (which he speaks fluently), instead drawing on the services of an interpreter.
It was also reported that Scholz later told his cabinet ministers that Putin had basically admitted to him that he never watches television news nor ever browses the internet.
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It's well known that browsing the internet can catch you "the gays" or worse "the theys".
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Why Putin Will Never De-escalate
This is an interesting perspective from Foreign Policy. They usually allow access to one article a day and it's a 10 minute read.
Basically, the premise of the article is that Putin wants to win in Ukraine but is willing to settle for a long, grinding war in order to reorient Russia eastward and away from the West while prompting many fence sitting nations to choose a China-Russia axis. If Ukraine is successful in it's offensive do not expect a sudden Russian capitulation or overthrow of Putin.
This piece asserts that if Putin fails to hold on to power in the near term, or when dies in bed, he will be replaced by a committee that will have less of an appetite for conflict, but that Russia is doomed to a continuing cycle of repression and misery because they are, after all, Russians.
This is an interesting perspective from Foreign Policy. They usually allow access to one article a day and it's a 10 minute read.
Basically, the premise of the article is that Putin wants to win in Ukraine but is willing to settle for a long, grinding war in order to reorient Russia eastward and away from the West while prompting many fence sitting nations to choose a China-Russia axis. If Ukraine is successful in it's offensive do not expect a sudden Russian capitulation or overthrow of Putin.
This piece asserts that if Putin fails to hold on to power in the near term, or when dies in bed, he will be replaced by a committee that will have less of an appetite for conflict, but that Russia is doomed to a continuing cycle of repression and misery because they are, after all, Russians.
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But ... russia was on Armenia's side in that conflict while Azerbaijan was supported by Turkey. And now Armenia is shooting at Azerbaijani troops supported by russia ...
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Now that’s the reason Western weapons is better than Soviet. You should read how Zeds are pissing fire over this photo. Some of them are shocked. “No way our BMP would withstand such hit” etc
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