Born Hunter
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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.
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You'll all be banging the war drums when diesel hits £2/lt!
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Red Dawn on repeat on CBeebies!
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It’s not the amassing of troops that wrong mate, it’s pretending they’re not there to invade The NATO troop deployments to Eastern Europe so far haven’t annexed any Russian territory.
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Very unlikely we (our UK servicemen, no me) will engage in direct military action. The Ukrainian military will be seriously degraded and will turn into an insurgency. We have provided thousands of man portable anti tank and anti air weapons to them already and will provide more to support the insurgency. Beyond that, who knows. Probably provide intelligence and maybe even clandestine training. The Russian's might be all gentlemanly with their enemy at the moment, but once they have defeated the Ukrainian military proper and move to counter insurgency, there's only so many of their mates t
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It's really f***ing easy for me to say and I hate saying it but there needs to be a military response. The consequences of not are that with this new era of state-competition our adversaries will be emboldened and empowered by their strategic victories due to our lack of action. They'll take control of mines, oilfields, trade routes etc etc and use them to economically degrade us. Then when the masses finally feel threatened enough to want to do something it'll be too late. The skill in a cold war is keeping the military action below the threshold of actual war. Anywhere the Russians are
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You said 'missile silos' and then said it was the same as Cuba '62. The implication was nuclear missile silos, given it was nukes deployed to Cuba in '62 that was the factor, not ballistic missile defences. In fact, the only type of missile silo is nuclear.
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Strategic weapons are for wiping out cities, infrastructure, civilians. They're intended to utterly destroy your enemy and their civilisation. No civilisation, no enemy. Tactical weapons are lower yield and designed to strike mainly military targets, hence they are often referred to as battlefield weapons. When the Soviets got short and medium range ballistic missiles (strategic weapons) into Cuba, it meant that they could strike the US much more effectively than they could with their homeland strategic weapons. These weapons were intended to be part of an annihilation strike scenario whe
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You said nuclear missile silos, and then compared it to Cuba '62. It's got f**k all to do with nuclear missile silos and only vaguely comparable to '62. This is about Russia having freedom to carry on as they want in Europe, not really about nuclear weapons. A compliant Ukraine acts as a nice killing field between them and Europe in the event of a war and gives them a strong presence in the Med via the Black Sea. It also of course really pumps up nationalist morale at home, which a tyrant always needs.
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The forward deployed weapons are battlefield nuclear gravity bombs. They're designed for tactical use on the battlefield, not for strategic use. There's a massive difference. They don't really threaten the MAD principle. There are no ballistic missile silos in Europe, which would threaten MAD. That's why there aren't any! Deploying tactical nukes to Ukraine isn't a major factor and isn't comparable to the Cuban missile crisis where the soviets deployed strategic missiles to Cuba giving them a first and second strike capability.
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Ha, I know that too well. But mate, just disengage. Leave them to it.
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So no nuclear missile silos in europe... Do you know the difference between a tactical and strategic weapon?
