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by agapon 4y ago
Ukraine has only very short range missiles (100km or so). Also, it seems that so far Ukraine tried to avoid Russian civilian casualties.
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by agapon 4y ago
This is just a bunch of Russian propaganda bullshit. Starting with completely skewing order of historical events. For starters, Poroshenko was elected a president well after the Russian incursion into Donbas had begun (google for Girkin &#x
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by agapon 4y ago
AFAIK, the Iraq invasion had nothing to do with NATO. It was done by the US with some NATO (and non-NATO) countries joining it. For example, France was strongly opposed.
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by agapon 4y ago
Not sure why used the quotes. Yes, the territory was annexed from Germany.
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by agapon 4y ago
Very few countries in the world have "proper" air force.
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by agapon 4y ago
What's the Ukraine conflict? Do you mean the war that Russia wages against Ukraine?
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by agapon 4y ago
What's also strange is that drone flew over a couple of other NATO countries before entering Croatian air space and somehow it wasn't shot down, intercepted, etc. The circumstances around that drone are rather vague and seem to be
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by agapon 4y ago
At the same time, Hungary did not allow transfer of military aid to Ukraine thorough or over its territory. Not speaking of providing any military aid of its own.
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by agapon 4y ago
Read about Montreux Convention. Ships are allowed to return to their home ports.
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by agapon 4y ago
I'd add that there is continuum of options to provide support to a party of a war: from zero support to joining the war in full force as an ally. At which point the support amounts to a proxy war is up to a debate. Also, I think that i
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by agapon 4y ago
Simple: there will a lot of focus on persuading that single country to change its position. And once persuaded (or "persuaded") it will be too late (and ridiculous) for the "secret supporters" to voice their opposition.
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by agapon 4y ago
Russian troll detected.
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by agapon 4y ago
No GPIO either. I am quite surprised that there are so few x86 boards that expose _native_ GPIO capabilities. Somehow it's more popular to add a companion Arduino-like microcontroller for that (but that type of boards is quite rare to
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by agapon 4y ago
How about having N drones and taking turns? Seems to be much cheaper and doable right now. For instance, people cannot operate 100% of time. I know that there's been some research in eliminating the need for sleep, etc, but having watc
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by agapon 5y ago
> where it was touched they mostly hit military targets Eh? Destroying upwards of 50% of residential buildings (apartment blocks) apparently counts as hitting military targets? But I agree on the role of Space X.
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by agapon 5y ago
So, what do you mean? I am in Ukraine and I do not feel like I am in a destroyed country.
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by agapon 5y ago
If they were towing it towards Crimea then it should be in the same kind of waters. Perhaps they towed it towards greater depths for some reason, but I very much doubt that they could move it very far.
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by agapon 5y ago
Did that happen with Venezuela? E.g., after https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-46522358 Did that happen with Cuba? (I know about the Bay of Pigs invasion, when it happened and what kind of force was used for
109.
by agapon 5y ago
> The entire warhead of Javelin weight just 8.4 kg. That's the entire warhead - not just the explosive. "just"
110.
by agapon 5y ago
Except that most of that started only after Russia's invasion plans became apparent. Ukraine been asking for support ever since 2014, received only a little of it. Also, "cannon fodder"? Ukrainian army defends its people and
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by agapon 5y ago
I just want to point out that the bloodbath in Chechnia and the 2008 "military operation" in Georgia happened much earlier than 2012. What changed is that they became much more open about their real goals. Previously, they did the
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by agapon 5y ago
I don't know. Tell us? Besides, how is your "thought experiment" relevant to Ukraine?
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by agapon 5y ago
The north western part of the Black Sea is pretty shallow, actually. Moskva is 50m deep at most.
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by agapon 5y ago
It's a heavily modified derivative. It does not have an air-launch capability.
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by agapon 5y ago
I see a lot of people parroting Russian propaganda about democratically elected Yanukovitch. Yes, he was democratically elected, but so what? Hitler was also democratically elected. Ukrainians elected Yanukovitch and Ukrainians overthrew hi
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by agapon 5y ago
Well, Gazprom changed ownership of Gazprom Germania without any approval from German government. So, apparently, it's not impossible that they would be able to do other things as well.
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by agapon 5y ago
And a lot of hate, and a lot of paranoia, and a lot chauvinism / imperialism, and lot of history of invading countries just because they can.
118.
by agapon 5y ago
why go back in time, just be a russian general...
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by agapon 5y ago
People in Mariupol, Kharkiv and Okhtyrka haven't frozen to death. They have it much harder than Germans would have.
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by agapon 5y ago
Natural gas is not renewable though. Unless you live on a billion year timescale.

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