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    Pete Wenman got a reaction from dan/california in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Don't think this has been posted earlier but the Army trying some new tech here.
    Airborne soldiers do some smart shooting with new sight that helps smash drones. 
    https://www.forces.net/services/army/airborne-soldiers-do-some-smart-shooting-new-sight-helps-smash-drones?fbclid=IwAR0TWthFemVVlX_5RRp79SZg4GiWN8JOPy84i4znNrwF7E1cRtwvIsFwyi4
     
     
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    Pete Wenman got a reaction from cesmonkey in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Don't think this has been posted earlier but the Army trying some new tech here.
    Airborne soldiers do some smart shooting with new sight that helps smash drones. 
    https://www.forces.net/services/army/airborne-soldiers-do-some-smart-shooting-new-sight-helps-smash-drones?fbclid=IwAR0TWthFemVVlX_5RRp79SZg4GiWN8JOPy84i4znNrwF7E1cRtwvIsFwyi4
     
     
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    Pete Wenman got a reaction from LuckyDog in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Don't think this has been posted earlier but the Army trying some new tech here.
    Airborne soldiers do some smart shooting with new sight that helps smash drones. 
    https://www.forces.net/services/army/airborne-soldiers-do-some-smart-shooting-new-sight-helps-smash-drones?fbclid=IwAR0TWthFemVVlX_5RRp79SZg4GiWN8JOPy84i4znNrwF7E1cRtwvIsFwyi4
     
     
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    Pete Wenman got a reaction from Petrus58 in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Don't think this has been posted earlier but the Army trying some new tech here.
    Airborne soldiers do some smart shooting with new sight that helps smash drones. 
    https://www.forces.net/services/army/airborne-soldiers-do-some-smart-shooting-new-sight-helps-smash-drones?fbclid=IwAR0TWthFemVVlX_5RRp79SZg4GiWN8JOPy84i4znNrwF7E1cRtwvIsFwyi4
     
     
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    Pete Wenman got a reaction from A Canadian Cat - was IanL in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Cause someone needs to keep changing the batteries in all the hi-tech kit. 
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    Pete Wenman got a reaction from sburke in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Cause someone needs to keep changing the batteries in all the hi-tech kit. 
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    Pete Wenman got a reaction from Fernando in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Cause someone needs to keep changing the batteries in all the hi-tech kit. 
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    Pete Wenman got a reaction from Kinophile in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Cause someone needs to keep changing the batteries in all the hi-tech kit. 
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    Pete Wenman reacted to Tenses in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Ok, I really have read enough of this. You are having serious problems with proper assessment of what polish society is and what is not.
    First of all I don’t like farmers, just as Beleg85 said, they are not likable in overall polish society. I guess that it might be something with millions of donations from EU, retirement system where they effectively have it granted for free and a couple of other things. When farmers across EU started their protests by blocking centers of big cities with farming equipment worth in excess of 1 million euros each, it also was not very understandable by people in traffic jams worrying that they will be late to their, oh so well, paid job. But overall this is actually nothing compared to how „likable” are agro-oligarchs in Ukraine. You are now standing in their defense and I would love to see how much of the money they earn is supporting the war. They basically try to abuse unfair competition on EU markets in order to make money, but looking at the financial statements, I don’t see anything like „war tax” in defense of their country, soil that have given them free money, could you please explain me this? How does that compare to billions in direct financial and material support from western countries?
    After 2014, when immigration to Poland from Ukraine has increased tenfold, the overall sentiment for Ukrainian people was not perfect in Poland during the start of the war in 2022. Especially among low paid workers, additional competition on job market with low wage expectations were seen as danger. Situation was similar to our US friends, who can elaborate more on overall sentiment toward Mexicans and South American people. Invasion started on 24th of February, my wife spent entire weekend starting 26th on the border, serving hot meals and distributing blankets to the wave of people in need. Week later we went for the local train station, looked around and took home a mother with a child, who have not even spoken a word in Polish/English. She stayed with us for half a year, when she found suitable job and shelter. My then-boss took a family of 8 and even took care of one girl, who was in the middle of chemotherapy, so she could finish it in Poland without problems. This is just a small part of what happened at that time, no one asked questions, no one was whining, because these were people in dire need. Do you think I liked to have a stranger mother with spoiled child in my home? I didn’t, but this is not the point in helping other people to like that. It is to do that effectively and provide whatever is needed despite your feelings or likening. If you will ever work with people like that, you will learn that this is no simple, nor nice task.
    Now you are telling me that polish people have showed that they don’t give a **** about Ukraine because they don’t want to give billions of Euro to your corrupted oligarchs, who are most likely closely connected with Russia. Not to mention some of their perfidious actions, which are gaining better coverage in Poland, which directly hit polish stock holders(so effectively all polish people due to retirement system). You must understand that Ukraine has a long way to go before it will be normal country and I am not even saying about the war. Believe me, Poland was on the same track 35 years ago, but it serves as an example that even if things are not perfect, it is doable. At the moment Ukraine is corrupted as were all post Soviet countries, but it is not that important as long as the war goes. This WILL be important, when the war finally ends to continue normal cooperation with the western countries and their business. Hopefully Ukraine will join EU, but it has so much work to do.
    And just as a reminder, borders were open to Ukrainian grain, which is not up to EU standards due to blocked export channel through the Black Sea. Now, thanks to marvelous work of Ukrainian drone fleet, this is not an issue anymore, so what exactly are we talking about? No military/humanitarian or other aid was ever blocked, save for some mistakes, nor will be. This is all about bunch of bastards, who want to profit from the blood of your countryman.
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    Pete Wenman got a reaction from Aragorn2002 in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    and his translated suicide note
     
     
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    Pete Wenman got a reaction from hcrof in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    and his translated suicide note
     
     
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    Pete Wenman reacted to Kraft in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Nonsense meme🙂

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    Pete Wenman reacted to Haiduk in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Last breath of LLS "Tsezar Kunnikov" (pr.775, Ropuha-class)

    Likely GUR later will post a video of attack. Russian sources say all crew was rescued
     Russian naval TG confirms - "I just got confirmation from BSF. But will be no official release"

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    Pete Wenman reacted to Haiduk in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Current war is some more than for "hystorical lands". This is the same as ISIS or N.Korea communists invade to your country. I would be see how you solve this problem without armed resistance. 
    "We want to live, they want to kill us. There is no much space for compromises" (C) Golda Meir
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    Pete Wenman reacted to akd in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Brothers don’t invade brothers bro.
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    Pete Wenman got a reaction from chrisl in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th
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    Pete Wenman got a reaction from chris talpas in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th
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    Pete Wenman got a reaction from Kinophile in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th
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    Pete Wenman got a reaction from poesel in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th
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    Pete Wenman got a reaction from sburke in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th
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    Pete Wenman got a reaction from LongLeftFlank in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
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    Pete Wenman got a reaction from LuckyDog in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Just to jump in here in as a Cold War infantryman - we did extensive FIBUA training at various specialised training ranges over the years.
    We trained to go in through the roof, the doors, windows, mouseholes, not to go in at all but to bypass, to call in air support, to call in armour support, to blow the place up and if I've missed any options we also trained for them. 
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    Pete Wenman got a reaction from 'Sapper' in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Just to jump in here in as a Cold War infantryman - we did extensive FIBUA training at various specialised training ranges over the years.
    We trained to go in through the roof, the doors, windows, mouseholes, not to go in at all but to bypass, to call in air support, to call in armour support, to blow the place up and if I've missed any options we also trained for them. 
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    Pete Wenman got a reaction from dan/california in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Just to jump in here in as a Cold War infantryman - we did extensive FIBUA training at various specialised training ranges over the years.
    We trained to go in through the roof, the doors, windows, mouseholes, not to go in at all but to bypass, to call in air support, to call in armour support, to blow the place up and if I've missed any options we also trained for them. 
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