The Ukraine war thread
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Kremlin tells West told to stop “provoking Ukraine to continue this senseless war”:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceqq2zn3zw6o
You can be assured that Berlin would have said similar if not the same, had Czechoslovakia fought back against the Nazi invasion and annexation in 1938. That it didn’t fight back, paved the way to the rape of Poland the following year.
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@George-K said in The Ukraine war thread:
50 years from now, Russia will be on its way to disappearing. They were already having population problems, and now this war, and the fact that any male who is able to leave has left, means that a whole generation + is wiped out. And it is the most important generation for the economy.
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@taiwan_girl said in The Ukraine war thread:
Link to videoThey were already having population problems, and now this war, and the fact that any male who is able to leave has left, means that a whole generation + is wiped out.
The number of military-aged men is quite small.
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Wow! Seeing that movie shows that. I guess if you are guy who is looking to date, you are in a good position, but other than that........... not so good.
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Mirage to Ukraine...
https://defence-blog.com/ukraine-to-get-fighter-jets-from-france/
That's not as promising as it sounds. Ukraine is getting over 100 F-16 fighters, but only has 22 pilots trained to fly them and is begging for training slots at any nation that will take them. I suppose the same problem will exist with the Mirage fighters...
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Training us supposed to take 6 to 7 months, starting this summer...
Go figure
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"My pronouns are FA/FO." - Mik, 2024
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@Mik said in The Ukraine war thread:
Should have supplied them in 22.
You are right.
I'm not big on foreign wars, but if Ukraine needed the tools to stop Mr. Putin, they need the tools. Not in dribs and drabs, but in sufficient quantity to achieve the mission.
The Biden Administration has been very careful to never give the Ukranians quite enough at the right time, to make a distinctive difference.
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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The ambiguity and emptiness of Putin’s red lines in Ukraine:
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Biden, Zelensky to sign 10-year U.S.-Ukraine security deal at G-7 summit
Supposedly the agreement "will commit Washington to supply Kyiv with a wide range of military assistance." But unlike NATO, it does not require the U.S. to respond if Ukraine is attacked.
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An interesting piece on the possibility of going nuclear.
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Russia hosts approx. 5900 nuclear arms. Assuming that a lot of them are out of use, Putin still has enough to make his threats believable.
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Putin offers compelling and generous terms:
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday demanded Ukraine effectively surrender to Moscow if it wants to open peace talks, drawing anger and rebukes from Kyiv and the West.
In a combative speech in Moscow on the eve of a major Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland, Putin said Russia would halt its offensive only if Ukraine fully withdraws its troops from the east and south and drops its bid for NATO membership.
I am confident that Putin is just emulating Trump and spitballing riffs that happen to pop into his mind.
