Born Hunter
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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.
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Russian doctrine recognises the fact they can't match NATO/Western forces conventionally and so in a face off would use battlefield nukes to combat NATO forces. Genuinely, the risk of escalation to a full scale nuclear exchange is high if any NATO force gets involved properly. Whether they are under a NATO command or their own countries command. The real purpose of NATO, certainly before Bosnia, is not to police the world but to provide a defensive guarantee to deter aggression from non NATO states in the Northern Hemisphere. And so far it has worked. A conventionally weak Russi
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What would you like NATO to do?
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No idea, just saw it. Could be BS for all I know.
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That’s from a few days ago at the start of the invasion. There’s one from today where they spank one, you see the hit and the crash. All the other choppers immediately start firing flares. Looks legit but who knows…
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Yes. Ukraine are pleading for it and some, especially in the us believe we should be looking into it.
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I’m a bit concerned that after the clusterfuck shitzkrieg we’ve seen, the yanks will get brave next time and actually kick off something serious! I can’t believe some on that side are entertaining the idea of a no fly zone!
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No offence taken.
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I agree, I think it’s all just an excuse. The latest one is they thought nato was helping Ukraine build nukes…
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How does that work at this point? Like, what guarantees would Russia need to be sure that as soon as they’re out NATO doesn’t role in with, what we now know is, a far superior force. I’m not sure they’d accept any promises at this point. Trust is non existent. If Russia agreed to a ceasefire but not to leaving (as a guarantee) then that’s tantamount to a bloodless victory for them.
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Escalation is a managed factor in all wars. It’s rarely as no limits all out fight. In the falklands the same was seen. The Vulcans didn’t flatten the Argentine mainland, the harriers flying combat air patrol didn’t shoot down argentine reconnaissance planes over the Atlantic as the task force steamed south. There’s consequences to actions that are perceived as disproportionate or excessive.
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I’d suspect that the commanders expected Ukraine to just give up. I don’t think they expected that they might have to trash the place to win. Such an aggressive approach will only lead to a prolonged insurgency and more shit from the international community. They also have limited supplies of precision weapons and even now are largely using unguided stuff because it’s cheap and plentiful. Unguided munitions cause way more collateral. Anyway, it’s coming. They haven’t a choice.
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You’re right. There’s some commentary that the reason he hasn’t achieved air superiority yet is because they don’t really feel that Ukrainian air power is that much of a threat given russias more advanced mobile air defences, which will be part of that column. Still, a nato force would leather it.
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According to the all powerful google, Austria, Cyprus, Finland, Ireland, Malta, and Sweden.
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A big concern needs to be giving the man a face saving way out. The whole world, and even his allies have turned on him and the 'special operation' isn't going well. If he's pressed too hard in negotiations I wouldn't put it past him to use a battlefield nuke just out of spite knowing that it won't precipitate a nuclear response. He needs to be able to take his mob home with at least some sort of victory, because right now the entire world thinks him and his 'bear' are shit.
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No Different clubs entirely. E.g., Ireland is in the EU but not NATO.
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Far as I'm aware that's always been the case. And frankly, rightly so. Wouldn't rule it out if he tried to take another state though. Finland or Sweden isn't security, it's empire building.
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Thankyou
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I don't think it's CCTV, I assume it's a webcam? They're everywhere these days, amusement parks, beaches, on peers, in town centres etc etc. That was probably a kalibr cruise missile. If it utilised it's maximum capable terminal velocity, then it'd have been doing around mach 2.5. It may have been travelling much slower. Mach 2.5 is 850m/s, so to catch it every 50m or so the camera would need a frame rate of less than 20 frames/s. That's not high spec to my knowledge. That square is allegedly some culturally significant site and that building is a government building. I don't think i
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They really killed that pavement! Good job they weren't 50 yards back, they'd have hit a government headquarters
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At least these refugees are women and children. Quite stark contrast to other instances. Trains of women and children leaving the warzone, with trains of fighting age men going in to it.
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Oh okay Woodrow Wilson? Does it change the fact that the definition of the term is different?
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I'll expect at least two dozen laughy faces to compensate then.
