Born Hunter
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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?
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Pretty sure the US don't have nuclear missile silos anywhere in europe...
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You really don't like saying "I told you so" do you mate, I can tell. Very humble in victory.
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To whack Putin? Or escalate the competition between the West and East for global hegemony? The latter will happen eventually, I wasn't expecting it quite so soon.
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That gave me serious Battlestar Galactica vibes. But true enough.
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The rule that matter's has always been the same, no matter how much we might play nice and virtuous for a time, there's only room for one top dog and when he shows weakness or hesitance there will be a mob of hungry contenders looking to take his place. Yes, bottom line, the Bush BS over Saddam set the bar and is really no better than this. We could argue details but bottom line, both cooked up BS and invaded. Personally I think they'll wish they had been invaded by the US rather than Russia, the raping and torture will dwarf what happened in Iraq. But coming back to that first rule,
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There's a little bit more too it than that. Troubles as a result of an annexation which happened a century and more ago. The troubles aren't what Putin is doing now, that's what will come with the insurgency guaranteed as a result of occupation. The annexation of northern ireland is as wrong as that of invading Ukraine. But one is historical and one is current.
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I mean, he literally denied that Ukraine existed as a sovereign state and now claims the justification for invasion is to "de-nazify" the region...... Makes WMDs seem reasonable don't it!
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I said, depending on what pain Russia goes through, I wasn't suggesting the head of the FSB was going to poison him tonight. Literally 100 years ago! The mess that that created should stand as a lesson to the world over doing the same. Since then all major powers of the world came together and agreed better ways of coexisting and competing. Putin has torn that up in a way that makes the Bush administrations invasion of Iraq look saintly.
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Depending how the West responds and what pain Russia goes through as a result of this, I could see Putin getting whacked. It's not that long ago Russia very nearly overthrew their government with a military coup. He's crossed a line now, he's joined the ranks of a select bunch, and historically they often come to nasty ends. My worry is that if the West don't respond militarily, then it will embolden Russia and China to escalate their empire building and then it'll come to a head in a way that none of us could tolerate.
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Other way round mate, he was bluffing all along, just no one believed him.
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Welcome to the first day of the second cold war gentlemen.
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Yeah that was the one I was on about! Whats that, 220? Ive damaged tendons but never sheared one. f**k that, I’ll leave all that hero shit to the big fellas
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Bang on there
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That absolutely stinks of pretence and surely ignores the Budapest memorandum, signed by Russia recognising Ukraine as a successor state. Something which Ukraine will be regretting right now, given in return for the recognition they gave up the worlds third largest nuclear arsenal…
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I can't imagine those sort of limits are being pushed without hormonal assistance, in addition to a genetic lottery win. Not that I care one bit, crack on superman! Talking about the bodies being built for it and the entire anatomical chain, I saw a video of a similar sort of mental lift where the fellas tendon just went as soon as he started to lower it!
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I agree but compromise has to be found. Neither side can maintain their preferable position and expect it to be costless.
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Would it be unworkable for a country to be admitted to NATO, i.e., protected by article 5, but with the condition that no NATO assets will be deployed in that country? Ukraine would have the powerful NATO assurance of protection and Russia would not have NATO forces deployed on it's Ukrainian border.
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And you were right... Russian armour roles into the contested region of eastern Ukraine.
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Also, as for special forces, spetsnaz is a term more similar to 'commando' than what we recognise as tier 1 SFs. Of the Russian spetsnaz units the premier one is probably the Alpha Group. Who were responsibly for at least one monumental hostage rescue f**k up.
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Vietnam, Afghanistan, the Cartels are not examples of peer on peer or near peer warfare. They're mostly insurgencies, which is a very different a complicated scenario. The Soviets also failed in Afghanistan on this. The greatest example of peer on peer/near peer warfare we have seen in our lives and are likely to see was the Gulf/Iraq wars. Saddam had the fourth largest military force on the planet fielding pretty much all the capabilities of the time. Absolutely no match for an expeditionary US/allied force. What the Americans brings to any warfighting domain is just unrivalled really. B
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Difficult to tell if they’re going bushing or supplying a Korean wet market!
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15 year old tiktok stars father shoots dead her stalker....
Born Hunter replied to mackem's topic in General Talk
I wish it did…
