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Barely into it and I find this nugget "His expensive weaponry is being held back" the SU-34's being shot down would disagree, and the tens of million dollar MRL

• jakuboboza 5y ago
  Yes Ka-52, SU-30U, Pantsir-S1, S400 (which he has like just few units produced). All of this is best possible EQ russina army has. T-80UM2 is the most modern in operation Putler has. Don't even start the talk about T-14 armata that breaks even during parade, weights 60+ tones and is made in less than 20 units entirely.
• NationalPark 5y ago
  It also says Kyiv hasn't been bombed (it has, including civilian areas), that Russia hasn't used its expensive equipment (they've fired at least 600 cruise missiles at Ukraine as well as the SU-34s you mentioned, and the top-line air defense equipment we've also seen captured). Most damningly, it doesn't even mention Putin's own given revanchist explanation for the invasion, which is indeed consistent with his historic rhetoric about the region and with everything we publicly know about his thinking on Russia's position as a so-called "Great Power". Putin is also notoriously averse to technology, so it makes even less sense that he'd plan all this in order to introduce a fintech transformation that solidifies his power (which was already solid before the invasion, which has in fact lead to the largest domestic protests in Russia in decades). It's a novelty take, rather than a serious one IMO.
• somedude895 5y ago
  Also the part about how Russia's just burning through less valuable conscripts is absolutely untrue. Very much the opposite actually. Conscripts are being held back, apparently because while families hate when their sons, brothers, fathers get killed, families REALLY hate it when said person was forced into the military