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_kbh_
4y ago
> putin's regime does not care, they have russian nukes (or maybe "super conventional bombs" like the US, but it does not "wipe clean" a front line like a tactical nuke). No one cares what weapons Putin threats a
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4y ago
> perhaps the poorly performing Russian army will resort to measures, like nuclear weapons, that we would sincerely prefer them not to use. I think that this is the poorest decision that Russia could make, and I actually think Russia kno
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4y ago
Well considering the mobilisation it sounds like he may have actually run out of soldiers.
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4y ago
> If their mobilization works better than expected, and their army starts to get their act together, or they unleash tactical nuclear weapons, or they wait till the dead of winter and level Ukrainian power, or who knows what? I doubt tha
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4y ago
> Hope a way out of this weird conflict is found soon. Only way out of this conflict is for Russia to leave all of Ukraine (including Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk). Unfortunately due to Russias attitude regarding the war this can only be
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4y ago
> Ok, then how this "humanity" will block putin's regime to use nukes? "magic" or "super heroes"? If Russia drops a single tactical nuke on Ukraine I suspect they would loss the war within a month. Any
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4y ago
Peace only happens when Russia fully leave Ukraine (including Crimea), returns all kidnapped Ukrainians and the responsible Russians faces punishment for the rape and genocide of Ukrainians. Ukraine also needs to receive security guarantees
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4y ago
> When a dictatorship with nukes attacks a country without a nuclear umbrella, if too much resistance is encountered, nukes will probably be used (maybe "small" tactical nukes at first). Ukraine army is now millions being weapo
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4y ago
I don't see that as being a distinction but more Russia just rattling the nuclear sabre. They have been doing it since the start of the war and do it about every single large shipment of weapons to Ukraine. I suspect its mostly for a i
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4y ago
> I think you might be confusing tactical and strategic nuclear weapons. As far as I know strategic weapons are only for protecting their sovereignty and the use of tactical weapons is potentially more flexible. I don't believe thei
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4y ago
> AFAIU, Russia doesn't have any munitions comparable to these guided artillery shells or even the guided HIMARS rockets. Arguably these deployments in Ukraine may inch Russia a little closer to resorting to tactical nukes. Their mi
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4y ago
Russia isn't even capable of equipping all their current real troops in Ukraine with tanks build after the 60's, what are the conscripts going to ride on ? T55's?.
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4y ago
> Same for all the "evil Russians rape and torture" - Zelensky ended up firing the official who was pushing this narrative. Why? Maybe cuz their latest ramblings became so incoherent, it might have caused suspicion and could ha
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4y ago
> NATO members ARE helping Ukraine. They are behaving a lot like they would if Ukraine was an OFFICIAL member of NATO. They are behaving like Ukraine is a country that is friendly towards NATO but not a member. > They only reason they
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4y ago
> I think it is a representative fraction of NATOs might. So we agree that a small fraction of NATOs power that represents likely less then most of each seperate country is capable of holding back and likely defeating Russia. > And so
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4y ago
> Says who? Cuz this awfully seems like western propaganda talking points, where it's always "we best, they worst" Its obvious, if you think the Ukrainian military really represents the might of NATO you are kidding yourse
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4y ago
> Russia already feels like it's handling NATO in Ukraine with all those NATO instructors and NATO weapons. Besides, I think by now it should be clear that "I dare you, watchagonnado" politics doesn't bring you to goo
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4y ago
> Finland in NATO is sad, but at least it's not immediately dangerous, as Fins are unlikely to be willing to pose as human shields for the US military infrastructure. How is Finland in NATO sad?, Finland has joined the largest defen
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4y ago
> Just what Russians are waiting. HIMARS flying over Ukrainian border into Russia and Balarus. Get some other allies involved, declare it a WW3 as pretext to invade Baltics. How does Russia plan to take the Baltics when they cannot even
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4y ago
Doesn't every army lose 10's of thousands of soldiers, thousands of vehicles, hundreds of tanks and tens of planes / helicopters to finally start _really trying_?.
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4y ago
> I think the idea was that dick-swinging and escalating this whole deal into a war was kinda an avoidable thing, and now all we see is the sunk cost falacy It was unavoidable because despite what Russia says they likely started this war
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4y ago
> How can a nuclear armed country with a 100 million population advantage possibly lose this war? Do these people assume Russia would never mobilise its population? Or would never use its nuclear weapons? Their military is terribly corru
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4y ago
My understanding is that the occupied areas of Ukraine generally have Russian telcos come and take over, so it would be as simple as blocking Russia the majority of the time.
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4y ago
I'm not a semiconductor engineer so I could be totally off here but. My guess is that for AMD and likely Intel the reason the IO die is so large is because of all the PHY's on it (DDR, USB, etc) which would give a minimum size of
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4y ago
Chiplets also drastically improve binning since you no longer need all 16 cores on a monolithic die to run at for example 5ghz, you just need to find 4, 4 core chiplets that run at 5ghz. It effectively allows you to mix and match parts (to
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4y ago
> Why has Ukraine rarely lost power, water or internet? Why isn't Russia destroying civilian infrastructure en masse? Because it's not a war in the same way the US went to war with Iraq, for example (one of the first things the
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4y ago
> What i don't like is fake outrage and hypocrisy from Zelesnky zealots who seem "ok" with thousands of civilians dying because one actor/Prime Minister can't understand when he is beaten. The Ukrainians are figh
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4y ago
He is likely talking about the genocide that Russian regularly commits against Ukraine. Russia has forcibly deported hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians to Russia and that includes a large number of children.
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> I know of that bold dude with lots of tattoos from Wagner that was most definitely a Nazi, but I think he has been dead for a few years now You mean the leader of Wagner group who literally has nazi ss symbols tattooed on him and name
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4y ago
Maybe it’s because Putin’s army is committing genocide in Ukraine and it’s not propaganda and just the truth?.
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