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Patch 1.04 was pushed out on Steam, but there aren't any patch notes either through the steam news, or in the installation folder, or on Matrix's forum, or this forum, or the battlefront.com website.  (CMCW ReadMe.txt and whatsnew.pdf).

You see, here is where I disagree with your whole post. NATO is not United Nations . NATO serves a post modern colonialism in disguise. It's a defensive pact only in paper. But it actually serves the interests of the big players. Energy, strategic, weapons sales etc.
We think world has changed but the time frame is miniscule, it's only a generation since the colonial era. We are driven by capitalism and not values. Otherwise we wouldn't allow Turkey in, we wouldn't equip Saudi Arabia and all those countries that violate basic human rights. 
NATO is like the NRA that claims we will stop shootings by arming the lawful citizens. 
 
 

I don't consider myself the most pro russian guy but I can see why Russia feels threatened. Its not irrational, lets be honest.
On paper NATO is a defensive organization but its members have conducted and have been involved in the most wars and invasions since the end of WW2. Mainly US. NATO offcially has also intervened violently, bombing in the Balkans, Libya and waged war on Afghanistan for 20 years. So not a strictly defensive pact per se. The other most important member of NATO, (once Great) Britain, has been a colonial force for centuries, occupying and looting countries at will, and only recently has withdrawn from most of its distant colonized lands. Not a great record to be honest. France is not lagging that far behind on that matter and Germany has the most dark recent past of all of them and a special wound with Russia. So, yes not that aggressive anymore, but not a great criminal record if you want them for neighbours.   
US, the flagship and mastermind of NATO,  has bypassed UN council to invade sovereign states like Iraq with false pretext of WMD and has 750 military bases around the globe, thousands of miles beyond its borders. Its military spending is 10x times more than the second on the list. An alien observer coming from space would argue that these guys with the stars and stripes are everywhere, how can they complain of expansionism of others?   Russia is not nervous of NATO but of US army presence so close to its vital routes. Imagine a US base in Sevastopol (again distance from home:  
https://www.google.com/search?q=sevastopol+distance+from+US&oq=sevastopol+distance+from+US&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160l2.9435j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 )
completly blocking Russia way out to Bosporus and Mediterranean Sea. 
In this story Russians might seem the bad guys and we would probably not want to see them reaching the polish borders but from their POV and as an entity , they have probably sound reasons to not want NATO(US) presence that close to their home. This regardless of what we feel is moral or not.    
 

Problem solved! The hotkey file was stored in the User Data folder in the Slitherine/Matrix version.  As suggested by John at BF, I made a copy of the file and placed it in the Data folder.  And now all is now good!  Play my first scenario tonight.

no, wanting to be free of U.S. sanctions does not mean it was done for further aggression. There are many reasons why Russia, China, etc. would not want to be subject to U.S. sanctions which do not involve war.

While there are lingering questions to what if anything was promised to Gorbachev regarding NATO expansion east after the collapse of the USSR, the west should not be surprised at what’s going on. NATO expansion east was bound to cause reaction by Russia and Ukraine’s geographical location and terrain makes it critical in the eyes of Russia.

The timing of all this is no coincidence. Putin knows his main adversary the US is politically divided. He has elements as well as key political figures who are sympathetic to his cause. Now is a good a time as any to move before this advantage slips away.

Putin may have a trump card to play to counter the economic sanctions. For the past few years Russia has been buying and stockpiling physical gold. With inflation running wild in the west due to out of control monetary policy stretching back to 2009 the price of gold has been holding steady and recently catching a bid.

Like drugs, controlling sales of physical gold is hard to control, regardless of economic sanctions and controls in place. There will always be a buyer and in a day and age where fiat currencies are coming under question due to mis-management, metals become more desirable to possess.

Then there is the question of US Federal Reserve policy. Inflation is running hot and to try and control it the Fed will have to raise rates. Problem is with the US deficit so high each basis point increase in rates will cause hundreds of billion in addition cost to the interest on debt already accrued. There are other potential perils in rate policy, but the bottom line is raising the US defense budget to meet growing threats may become problematical.

Then there is China. In the past the West in particular the US has been adept at playing China and Russia against one another. That day has passed. The action of the US over the past few years has made it difficult if not impossible to play China and Russia off against one another. Now China and Russia view the US as the main adversary and are working together to bring a slow and prolonged end to US dominance.

I have no idea hot the situation in the Ukraine will get, but I can see bad times all around.

You waste your time. Haiduk just does not believe in equality. He believes in his birthright to cleanse land of populace that not sufficiently loyal to his ideas.

Sounds like Mein Kampf, does it not?

In the meantime Flanagenski and Allanov perform a medley of their WW2 classics for the troops. Their set included "We're gonna hang out the washing on the Seelow Heights", and "Unter den Linden, I dream my dreams away".
 
 
 
 

Those sneaky Russians want to divert our attention from innocent Ukraine SS divisions and righteousness ethnic cleansing plans! Isn't it a despicable whataboutism?

Then you may be interested in this article:
"The OUN, the UPA, and the Nazi Genocide in Ukraine"
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3429340
"The analyses of biographic publications, historical studies, and archival documents show that the majority of the OUN-B and UPA leaders and a very large proportion of members collaborated with Nazi Germany, mainly in the beginning of World War II. A significant percentage of the leaders and members of these organizations served in various police formations. They assisted the Nazi occupational authorities in implementing genocidal policies towards the Jews, Ukrainians, Russians, and Poles by helping to carry out mass executions and create conditions intended for the psychical annihilation of the entire Jewish population and significant numbers of Ukrainians, Russians, and Poles"

Attack them from the side or from the rear if possible. 

You're playing a fictional game and you want realism. The mind boggles.

And nobody is complaining about spotting when moving.

I haven't seen people complain about the spotting in CMCW with a situation like this - which is a very condensed tank formation likely firing multiple rounds in rapid succession. The amount of smoke in this situation is a lot.
If you never spot your enemy, there isn't going to be any smoke in front of your gun barrel. And if you aren't moving the amount of diesel given off at idle would be much less.

Russians about to go kaboom... 

Easy to have a LOF when you're on top of a hill. Plenty of enemy units also have a LOF on you. 
 

How biased of a post can you make?

Photo of one of the first Soviet thermals in 80s.

Yeah, it's better to repeat for thousand times more how evil Putin is invading peaceful kingdom of Ukraine in your imagination, that won't contradict mass media BS that they feed you daily. 

Yeah, it's better to repeat for thousand times more how evil Putin is invading peaceful kingdom of Ukraine in your imagination, that won't contradict mass media BS that they feed you daily. 

I'm not going to attempt to read this wall text mess, but I see that you like Twitter.