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    danfrodo reacted to sburke in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
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    danfrodo reacted to Haiduk in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Rare footage of tank vs. tank battle in this war. One UKR tank of 53rd mech.brigade as claimed hit three Russian tanks near Tonen'ke village (Avdiivka area). As for me that which marked on the video as "2" and "3" is the same tank. 
     
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    danfrodo reacted to Heirloom_Tomato in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    What happens when ISIS gets mad that no one wants to believe it was them and keeps blaming Russia/Ukraine? 
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    danfrodo reacted to Haiduk in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Bakhmut area. Despite huge losses Russians have slow advance toward Chasiv Yar. They claimed Ivanivske is under their control, but this is not true, UKR frorces stiil hold south-eastern part of settlement
     
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    danfrodo reacted to MOS:96B2P in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    These ISW guys are usually spot on.     
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    danfrodo reacted to Haiduk in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    "Birds of Magyar" hit enemy FPV crew in the house in Krynky with two "fat drones" with 1,5 kg of HE payload. First drone destroyed upper floor, the second ruined ground floor and burried Russians in the basement
     
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    danfrodo got a reaction from Lieutenant Ash in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    the greatest nation in the world -- held hostage by lunatics due to the unbelievable cowardice of GOP congressmen & women and a GOP voter base-cult that's so brainwashed it doesn't even know where reality even begins anymore.  Disgraceful and sickening.  
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    danfrodo got a reaction from quakerparrot67 in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    the greatest nation in the world -- held hostage by lunatics due to the unbelievable cowardice of GOP congressmen & women and a GOP voter base-cult that's so brainwashed it doesn't even know where reality even begins anymore.  Disgraceful and sickening.  
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    danfrodo got a reaction from Gnaeus in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    the greatest nation in the world -- held hostage by lunatics due to the unbelievable cowardice of GOP congressmen & women and a GOP voter base-cult that's so brainwashed it doesn't even know where reality even begins anymore.  Disgraceful and sickening.  
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    danfrodo reacted to sburke in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    If I were Zelensky I'd see this as an opportunity if true.  Tell Sullivan the UA has a huge campaign about to start against Russian refineries, but I'll call it off if you give me the 100 billion in funding and all the Patriot stocks you have (and then add anything else still on the wish list).
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    danfrodo reacted to Holien in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Lot's of folk here not very happy with this either....
    I am all for sending Ukraine everything we can from the Uk. No point in having it sat here in warehouses when we have a fire to put out in Europe.
    I will be writing to my MP, not that I expect it will do much but it's something I can do.
    Europe has realised that we shouldn't be dependent on foreign countries for energy and key commodities so we are on a trajectory to remove the strangle hold of OPEC and Russia.
    If Ukraine can produce it's own weapon systems with European help, American Aid will become less important.
    We need to keep you in the fight this year....
    Ukraine needs to work out how to recruit folk to keep the front lines manned...
     
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    danfrodo reacted to Hapless in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/shooting-blast-reported-concert-hall-near-moscow-agencies-2024-03-22/

    Quick tinfoil hat take:

    Putin secures election 'legitimacy'
    Peskov says it's no longer a Special Military Operation, it's a War
    Terror attack in Moscow
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    Mobilisation
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    danfrodo got a reaction from zinz in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    the greatest nation in the world -- held hostage by lunatics due to the unbelievable cowardice of GOP congressmen & women and a GOP voter base-cult that's so brainwashed it doesn't even know where reality even begins anymore.  Disgraceful and sickening.  
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    danfrodo got a reaction from chris talpas in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    the greatest nation in the world -- held hostage by lunatics due to the unbelievable cowardice of GOP congressmen & women and a GOP voter base-cult that's so brainwashed it doesn't even know where reality even begins anymore.  Disgraceful and sickening.  
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    the greatest nation in the world -- held hostage by lunatics due to the unbelievable cowardice of GOP congressmen & women and a GOP voter base-cult that's so brainwashed it doesn't even know where reality even begins anymore.  Disgraceful and sickening.  
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    danfrodo got a reaction from CAZmaj in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    the greatest nation in the world -- held hostage by lunatics due to the unbelievable cowardice of GOP congressmen & women and a GOP voter base-cult that's so brainwashed it doesn't even know where reality even begins anymore.  Disgraceful and sickening.  
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    the greatest nation in the world -- held hostage by lunatics due to the unbelievable cowardice of GOP congressmen & women and a GOP voter base-cult that's so brainwashed it doesn't even know where reality even begins anymore.  Disgraceful and sickening.  
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    danfrodo got a reaction from Carolus in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    the greatest nation in the world -- held hostage by lunatics due to the unbelievable cowardice of GOP congressmen & women and a GOP voter base-cult that's so brainwashed it doesn't even know where reality even begins anymore.  Disgraceful and sickening.  
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    danfrodo got a reaction from dan/california in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    the greatest nation in the world -- held hostage by lunatics due to the unbelievable cowardice of GOP congressmen & women and a GOP voter base-cult that's so brainwashed it doesn't even know where reality even begins anymore.  Disgraceful and sickening.  
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    danfrodo reacted to The_Capt in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Come now...be honest...was it really "the cat" peeing all over the place?
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    danfrodo reacted to Phantom Captain in Combat photography: Photos from the front..   
    And now for something completely different...
    Italy.
    Firefight!


    The rarely seen Italian fascists!

     

    My favorite light tank of the war.

    German airborne amongst the rubble.


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    danfrodo reacted to Chibot Mk IX in Combat photography: Photos from the front..   
    Ура!

     

     
    Five minutes later, half of the cavalry squadron was cut down by cross-fire.

     
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    danfrodo reacted to Chibot Mk IX in Combat photography: Photos from the front..   
    River crossing in a Soviet fashion
     

     

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    danfrodo reacted to Haiduk in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    FPVs of 47th mech.brigade eliminate Russian assault group (about two squads)
     
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    danfrodo reacted to TheVulture in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    I read an interesting discussion with a Russian guy who had grown up in the USSR, with him being unable to understand how anyone would ever vote against whoever was in power. His thinking was that the president could order people to vote for him, and not doing so would be insubordination and get punished. And this worked all the way down the chain: officials at various levels, police, judiciary, election organisers, all follow their orders because not doing so would lead to punishment from above.
    People tried to explain that in an established democracy it doesn't work like that. The fundamental difference is that (almost) everyone believes in the the rule of law. There are laws around how to hold fair elections, and anyone violating the laws to try and fix the result is very likely to face punishment. His counter was always "but why wouldn't the authorities just order people not to punish the rule breaking and punish the people trying to do things 'fairly'".  He couldn't seem to wrap his head around the idea that once there is a critical mass of people who follow the rule of law, anyone trying to break the law to fix an election is very much taking a big risk and on their own Anyone who might shield them from consequences becomes liable to consequences from higher up, up to an including the supreme court (or equivalent) and police who aren't under the power of politicians and protected from the consequences of following the law rather than the whims of the head of state.
    So in an established democracy, enough people believe in the rule of law, following the law shields you from punishment, and anyone trying to subvert that is knowingly taking a risk that might well get them punished - even the people tyring to subvert the rule of law work on the assumption that the rule of law holds sway and that they are violating societal norms.
    In Russia, from what this guy is saying, enough people believe that following orders from above  is what shields you from punishment, and following what the law says rather than what you are told to do is going to get you punished. Trying to follow the law and disobey the wishes of the president is what is violating societal norms, and is the same kind of conspiratorial risk-taking in Russia that trying to steal an election would be in an established democracy.
    It was an interesting insight into his mindset that he just couldn't make the mental leap to understand how a society might function where everyone (or close enough to everyone to count) valued following the law more than following orders, and that was what protected people. He always fell back on "but what if someone punished them for that".
    So yeah, democracy does kind of require a society built on the foundation  that democracy works and the rule of law reigns, and it is a self-sustaining system that functions very differently to the culture that the USSR and Russia had (and probably had before the USSR as well form what I gather)
     
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