Born Hunter
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"Be in Berlin within a week!" Tbf, not that I believe it really should alleviate any humiliation, but they have kept back some of their more modern and heavy kit. Possibly because if we saw that was shit too their bluffing game would be completely up, lol. Also I do suspect that there is a massive western intelligence operation supporting the Ukrainian forces. Obviously these things aren't commented on so I'm speculating but the activity of ISR assets has been pretty intense. I imagine the intelligence that NATO forces can provide is as valuable as any weapons aid.
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If through recklessness or intent, those power stations get wrecked causing a nuclear disaster then I think the threshold may well have been crossed. Let's hope it doesn't happen. USAF 'nuke sniffers' have been deployed to UK/Europe for probably about a month now for this exact scenario.
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Far-right has become synonymous with fascism and Nazism it seems. But yeah, given the left is good and the right is bad, obviously, then on the silly f***ing one dimensional view of politics that is pushed Putin would likely sit on the right. Truth is if that Azov battalion was pro Russian then he'd have been right behind them. It's just noise.
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I'm genuinely surprised he didn't come out with WMDs off the bat as a bit of a wind up/f**k you to the West.
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What's wrong with that? Mate, I've got a list of members of this site to shoot if Putin ever turns up! He's not only bombing Azov targets. The Azovs hardly factor into this war now.
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The claim that Russia have invaded to de-nazify Ukraine is bollocks. You don't invade an entire country because one regiment have Nazism in their units esprit de corps. They could have just flattened the Azovs in Donbas if that was actually a real concern. All conspiracies have some vague foundation in truth. It doesn't make the conspiracy itself true.
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From what I've read the Azov Battalion has a history and is still to a lesser extent aligned with far right nationalist views, yes. But it's the only credibility that the 'de-nazify' claim has. It's just bollocks mate.
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Where are you, 1999!?
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Quick send an aid package! Ffs
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Please don't think I was saying that Europe/Europeans aren't as bad as the rest of the world. Just that the impact of such things in Europe have greater consequences than if they occurred elsewhere. There's definitely a double standard, shit in Europe matters more than shit elsewhere. The consequences of an invasion elsewhere is a bit of news, the consequences of an invasion in Europe is a world at war and tens of millions dead. I don't know if it's because Europe is the heart of modern civilisation or if it's that world power is still concentrated here or what. But instability on this contine
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It matters more in Europe because when shit goes sideways here it affects the whole world. We expect African nations to do shit like this, we expect brutality in Latin America, we expect the Middle East to constantly be on fire. When it happens in europe it shakes the entire world. It doesn’t make it right, it’s just the way it is.
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Estonian merchant ship is believed to have hit a mine in the Black sea, now sunk. Cargo ship sinks off coast of Ukrainian port Odessa ‘after explosion’ WWW.INDEPENDENT.CO.UK Two crew members in life raft at sea while four others are unaccounted for
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The most fantastic description of the KGB I've ever read! A bureau of traffic wardens! Not sure if he's a nationalist or just a patriot tbh. Would he f**k the common Russian to increase the power and greatness of the Russian state? Or is he acting to improve the security and wealth of the common Russian? Either way, yes, putting your country or people first and not apologising for it is admirable. Someone said it before, but the man is one of the great leaders of our time. History will remember him as a villain but greatness isn't really about being good or bad.
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There's a clear disparity between the losses being reported by each side. I think a lot of the hardware is being destroyed after it is effectively abandoned, rather than in combat. There's an independent reporter in Kyiv now, reporting through his social media. Today he showed blood stains from a wrecked car in the city. But yeah, very few dead being photographed or filmed.
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Yes, there are ballistic missile defence (BMD) systems. It's a difficult job with a less than perfect probability of success/kill. I don't think any countries BMDs are comprehensive enough to cope with hundreds of missiles attacking. Nuclear escalation is straight out of Russian de-escalation doctrine, oddly enough. Up the ante to scare the other side into de-escalation. Unfortunately that includes using battlefield nukes against a conventional NATO force on a neutral battlefield (eastern Europe) to scare us into negotiation. The obvious fear being, further escalation would be to
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Thank you. I've no smart argument against your answer, lol. Just curious. Personally, I wouldn't want us to sit by and see Finland or Sweden invaded or attacked. But I think in the event of that, shit would be well and truly sideways and there really wouldn't be much in it. Tbh the new buzz phrase is 'grey zone war' aka 'below the threshold attack', and I think we're going to see a lot of this over the coming years. There are clear red lines that we need to be sure of and enforce, but there is a lot of scope for competition and attack below those. It's in this grey zone that the rule
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I think you’re miles off mate tbh. I think he could very well attack and annex Baltic territory. He doesn’t need carrier strike groups (he does have one shit one), it’s on his doorstep and a huge amount of armour is what he would need and has. The Russian military has been underwhelming but it isn’t incapable of further conquest. It was a simple enough question I thought. If he does do any more would you back leathering him or not? No is an acceptable answer, lol. So is, not sure tbh.
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That’s one of my points really. The easy answer is ‘a NATO member’, but do people really give anymore of a f**k about Estonia than they do Ukraine? Even though they’re a NATO member, in that event, are people really willing to stand up?
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Why is it obvious? Based on the responses to this thread do you think everyone obviously supports NATO and article 5? Even the ones that do, is it obvious that they wouldn’t draw the line at a non-NATO state? Im genuinely interested in the views of what the threshold for action is. And I don’t think there’s consensus.
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I won't hold you to it! Just curious...
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I hear the arguments in favour of Putin's actions. I feel we just fundamentally disagree so no point in thrashing it out. What I would say then, is at what point for you all is the line drawn? There's an assumption that it ends with Ukraine, and hopefully it does. But having taken the Crimean peninsula and now in the process of the rest of Ukraine, if he continues then where do those of you with him stand on action? Hypothetically if he invades the baltics (NATO members)? Or the non-NATO Nordics? What about placing offensive strike weapons in occupied Ukraine? The examples are infini
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That's what I mean. We ban companies from dealing with Russian companies which then creates supply chain problems. Costs go up, economic activity drops, tax returns drop etc etc. Economic wars hurt both parties. Incidentally, about a month ago, the company I work for, a very small company offering a niche service, was asked to tender for a huge contract in Ukraine. There's only two other service providers that offer what we do, one is Malaysian and one Russian. The Russian's were banned from operating in Ukraine (sanctions) which positioned us very strongly for being awarded the contract.
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How much is bread now? Sorry, I'm not a labour politician, who're all in touch with the struggles of the common man. This shit will certainly cause economic hardship though. Sanctions work both ways.
