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Desertor reacted to The_Capt in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
Kind of puts the whole “no sex with flora” point in perspective.
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Desertor reacted to dan/california in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
Il like this post, i could have JUST liked this post, if only I had any likes left.....🤔
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Desertor reacted to Centurian52 in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
I am spending one of my limited likes on this suggestion
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Desertor reacted to TheVulture in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
Nothing wrong with "cohered" - it's a perfectly good word and used correctly. But used rarely enough that a fair number of native English speakers don't know it. So Cederic is complementing you for being a Ukrainian who knows more English words than he does.
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Desertor reacted to danfrodo in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
Site I go to published this today in summary of latest in the war:
"And really, this offensive is truly possible to all those Territorial Defense Force units stuck in trenches up and down the front for the past six months, getting slammed daily, oftentimes feeling abandoned. Their impossible heroism allowed Ukraines regular army units and 300,000 reserves to prepare in the country’s west, while Western allies equipped and trained them in proper war fighting techniques."
While we're feeling good about progress it's good to remember who's months of suffering and deaths made this possible.
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Desertor reacted to The_Capt in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
Well this is very encouraging. We probably need to wait another few days to really get a better idea but the long awaited, and forecasted collapse looks like it may be happening. How complete a collapse is still in the air, as is whether or not the RA can re-establish defensive lines.
That said if this keeps going at its current pace we had better move the conversation to Ukraine’s reconstruction - and dealing with a possible violent fracture in Russia.
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Desertor reacted to sburke in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
ahh wasn't it mentioned here recently that the real sneaky Russian plan was to overwhelm UA resources with PoWs?
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Desertor reacted to sburke in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
let me guess. he tried to swim the Dnipro with all his medals on.
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Desertor reacted to Bufo in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
Deputies in St. Petersburg suggest State Duma charge Putin with high treason
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Desertor reacted to Taranis in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
The problem is that there are fewer washing machines when you go around a city 🤔
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Desertor reacted to Haiduk in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
This are words of Buk M1 battery commander Yarosalv Melnyk which was submited to the title Hero of Ukraine. This story as if happened in Kharkiv oblast in first weeks of the war. I doubt this is true, like and a story that oldman shot down Russian jet in Chernihiv with hunting rifle, where it flew over the roof of his house. Though, on the war can be anything and society during the war needs in such type of stories.
Also claimed his battery shot down 11 planes, 2 helicopters, 2 cruise missiles and 2 UAVs. As for me number of shot down planes obviously overestimated. I suppose, most of 236 jets, claimed as shot down, indeed were decoys or just were "for good statistic". But this usual thing in any war. Each side in Korea, Vietnam, Israel-Arab wars claimed huge number of shot down aircraft and recognized minimal number of own losses. Since phone cameras, social networks and OSINT developmnet we can see more accurate picture
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Desertor reacted to Harmon Rabb in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
Someone got jumpy and hit the silk a little early.
With the amount of aircraft and pilots Russia lost over the last half a year I doubt morale is very high among RU pilots.
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Desertor reacted to The_Capt in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
Ok...STOP.
I am not a moderator on this forum but I have @BFCElvis on speed dial. This thread is about the war Ukraine and, yes we have discussed surrounding issues and possible 2nd and 3rd order effects this war could have on the region. This thread is not about:
- Bafflingly narrow or simply out of date concepts such as solving human cultural overlaps with policy.
- Vilifying the entirely of all Russian peoples as somehow less than human. No human society, culture or whatever has or ever will be entirely homogeneous, good or bad. So sweeping ideas of how to solve a "Russian Problem" by a bunch of old guys with too much time on their hands, which they should spend learning more, are not 1) viable or 2) useful here.
- I get we are sore on Russia right now, they earned that one; however, at what point on this incredibly myopic line of thinking do we become worse than that we assign to them? All in the name of "safety" - a whole lot of atrocity and historic marks of shame lay on the feet of "safety". I have been to one genocide and trust me none of you know what you are talking about, so stop hijacking the thread.
- FFS, we did not even take the approaches some are proposing here during the Cold War, we went with "contain and attract/entice", and we won that one. In fact we look back on the occasion of the McCarthy era - which is where this is going- as a dark chapter
You wanna talk about mass deportations, forced migration, race/ethnic cleansing/purity or any other whack-job nonsense there is literally an entire internet out there, let's try and keep this one small "sane space".
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Desertor reacted to Kinophile in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
Now they just need to place a working John Deere at the head of the column...