Born Hunter
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So they are not the world fifth largest iron ore producer and they’re trade isnt heavy with Europe? If they cut off Europe they will want someone to take up that lost trade and China will be only too happy so they can cut off AUS.
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Look I don’t want to get bogged down in this but Russia is the worlds fifth largest iron ore producer, the largest in Europe. They’re a fossil fuel and agricultural super power. I haven’t even looked into other raw products like rare earth elements etc. That’s what I mean. China makes a lot of shit but they need raw resources to do that.
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I take it back
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Just realised I wrote ‘was’. I meant wasn’t, like you.
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Unconfirmed pictures of Russian PoWs. f**k me they don’t look old…
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Tbf I think stopend has conducted himself with respect. No doubt he and I greatly disagree but he’s being reasonable and I’d like that to continue.
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Maybe. My understanding is Russia is a massive producer of raw products (resources) and China can’t get enough for their massive building projects. Both are currently economically tied in with adversarial states. AUS provides a lot of resource to China and Russia provides a lot to Europe. To cut those dependencies it’s natural they throw in together. Mate, if I’m not mistaken our entire destroyer fleet is currently in maintenance at Portsmouth! They’ve just cancelled the much needed interim anti ship missile, delaying having one at all for ten f***ing years and integration of two game cha
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That’s a big topic. I personally don’t think open peer on peer warfare will necessarily lead to all out nuclear war, and frankly that should scare us just as much. But without going into that, you’ll notice I used the term adversary rather than enemy. That means we compete with them like chess rather than just fight. Just like in the Cold War. We up defence spending, we innovate to give us technological dominance, we flatten their proxies, we use whatever influence we have and can get to make them think “f**k that, let’s go home”. If we don’t, they’ll gain dominance and we’ll be their bit
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China needs resources, Russia needs customers. Both have separate areas of interest, initially at least. Both have common adversaries. This is a Cold War and we aren’t competing like we need to if we are going to win it.
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China have been steadily (rapidly) building their military to challenge the US in the East and eventually the pacific. They’d have been mental not to look for an ally for that next phase and a very convenient one is Russia, both will have their own regions of influence/interest and if they push on two fronts simultaneously it’ll split the Wests forces. Russia can focus on the Europe and the Middle East while China focuses on the pacific. China are the ones that are going to make the big move and Russia will want to be ready to capitalise on the opportunity. IMO Ukraine happened now becaus
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I’d be staggered if this wasn’t coordinated with China. Putin needs a buffer zone because he knows what’s coming next.
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Yeah but the US and UK are bad too…
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I wonder how many states he has to invade before folks realise this game doesn’t have an end. Its got f**k all to do with trade or nazis or anything but military strategy and the greatness of Russia. The swedes won’t be generation behind Russia with their hardware like Ukraine are. That one will hurt them.
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I expect that's exactly what'll happen. The Russian's will try hearts an minds at first, trying to convince the Ukrainian people at large that their lives will continue as normal if they just accept this 'temporary intervention'. There will be a significant number that don't and then the counter insurgency will turn nasty. They won't think twice about executing family of insurgents etc. Like, not just an incidence of such by the SF guys, it'll be absolutely standard. No rules, just flatten the insurgents by any means. One of the big differences with this bit of history is that Wester
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Apparently Russia are believed to have air supremacy now having taken out most/all Ukrainian air defences in these first strikes. I expect now ground and airborne forces will move on the major cities. Any serious resistance Ukrainian ground forces put up will be hammered by Russian air. Not surprising really, all the kit they have they bought off the Russians and they're a generation in front with everything.
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Reading reports that they've grassed 3 helos and 5 fighters. If it's true they're doing more than pissing them off
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Russian helicopter shot down
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Great footage of them hitting the coast and dispensing countermeasure flares. Be interesting to see how well the Ukrainians account for themselves. I wouldn't count them out yet.
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They're sneaky fuckers aren't they! Natalya Krasavina...
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She's actually Russian. Don't ask how I know.....
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They were certainly blown up…
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I think what we’re seeing is just first strikes. They’re suppressing and destroying ukraines command control and military assets, their ability to fight. The ground invasion is still in its infancy. Ive seen videos of migs being shot down and cruise missile strikes. It’s a proper as it gets, surely?
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I’ve got my eye on next door tbh, fancy annexing their semi so I can have a detached…
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You scare the piss out of me when you talk like that.
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I've sort of covered this. There's no US missile silos in Europe. US warheads for tactical bombs, yes. Ocassionally even sub launched weapons as a Ohio visits maybe, but no silos.
