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by baybal2 5y ago
I was advocating for arming Belarus rebels from Poland, and Lithuania. If we had free Belarus by today, this war wouldn't have happened. Without constant pressure on the capital, Ukrainian military would have easy time doing a general
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by baybal2 5y ago
It is big, but military budgets alone don't mean everything. Ukraine inflicted as much casualties on Russia in 3.5 days as total Russian losses in Second Chechnya war (excluding later insurgency) And remember, Russia did not lose much
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by baybal2 5y ago
The safety bypass on PG 7 only requires a piece of wire to connect detonator around the safety, or removal of pyrotechnical spacer with basic tools.
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by baybal2 5y ago
Same was for me in Russia. Basic military education was included in high school programme. It's just keep constantly being renamed by deceptive, and cryptic names to disguise what it is "UVP," "OBZh," "Sociolog
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by baybal2 5y ago
They just repeated the Grozni fiasco yesterday. Tanks, and apcs went near highrises in Kiyv, and all predictably got ambushed, and destroyed by roof shots from regular RPGs, not even nLAWs. The video of MTLB with strelas escaping in panic i
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by baybal2 5y ago
RPG 7 grenade can be modified to remove the failsafe, and attached on a long, 5 meters+ stick. RPG 7 piezodetonator normally needs 30G-40G acceleration to arm. https://www.armedconflicts.com/attachments/11561/14_-_
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by baybal2 5y ago
Cynism, and cowardise is a diet of tyrants. Even 1% of Russian male population is a number bigger than Russia's combat troops number, and 10% will overwhelm the full force of the military. If Moscow will suffer a nuclear strike by NATO
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by baybal2 5y ago
> Wouldn't subversion be opportunistic, though? Maybe during Cold War, their tactics had more success on the left, but more recently they've had more success on the right. If your goal is to subvert the whole, it's six of
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by baybal2 5y ago
> How about when compared to US intelligence agencies? Read my another comment below, by having a whoping 23 intelligence agencies, USA condemned its leadership to a shower of opinions out of which no correct one can be synthesized. Only
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by baybal2 5y ago
Putin was in power for around 23 years, during which he completely dulled Western sense of danger by constantly blowing hot, and cold. What Russians call "blowing fuflo" was certainly in use by the time the second flare up of seco
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by baybal2 5y ago
iWatches might just got sanctioned because of their glass comes from Russian company with state links. They chose to save on Corning's glass, with dire consequences for themselves.
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by baybal2 5y ago
> Because the risk of escalation and nukes are unacceptable. He can lob a nuke right now, but he knows he will lose against the US. He will retreat to avoid an even bigger defeat. Thugs I fought in my teenage years, even when they brough
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by baybal2 5y ago
These ISP blackboxes central command should be a prime target now.
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by baybal2 5y ago
It did, they destroyed an airport in Russia with a ballistic missile strike. But Russia seem to have destroyed most of Ukraine's ballistic missiles without them firing a shot. Poor readyness, and lack of serious attitude did cost Ukrai
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by baybal2 5y ago
Russia already uses multiple alternative settlement systems with China, Iran, and few other buddies like Norko, and Belarus. > You then get fragmentation and SWIFT losing some of its "soft power". This already lost any power it
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by baybal2 5y ago
Excuse me, I only meant argon
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by baybal2 5y ago
Counterpoints to the article: "SWIFT ban will push Russia into China's hands" — Russia is already fully submitting to any Chinese economic terms. The swathe of Russian land the size of France was already leased to China eff
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Unification of Moldova and Romania(en.wikipedia.org)
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by baybal2 5y ago
Somebody just hacked a TV station in Vladivostok, and put a documentary about Putin's golden toilet on loop
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by baybal2 5y ago
> Are you sure you are being neutral here? I'm pretty sure the Turkish army was the oppressor, at least in this case... and what Greek junta? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_junta It collapsed just 3 months
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by baybal2 5y ago
> This was always the case. Turkey needed to help in Korea (1950) to get into NATO (1952). With annexation of half the Cyprus, and the tensions with Greece and buying NATO-incompatible S400 defense missiles from Russia, it kept being a p
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by baybal2 5y ago
No point talking about that. You, Westerners, have too many MBA types in positions of powers, where they shouldn't be. Listening to an investor relations specialist for a military analysis is not what you should do. You need to stop tr
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by baybal2 5y ago
If you have not noticed, Russia been courting Pakistan for the last few years. Why? Modi is leaving Russian military hardware for US one, or so he threatens. Second, Pakistan is broke, and is on the road to becoming Argentina 2.0. Even with
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by baybal2 5y ago
The cold war high side estimate was 50M if the West lets USSR to expend the whole of its arsenal on USA standing, doing nothing. Recent figures I read were 20M-40M for worst case scenarios. Realistically, a coordinated all in launch is ~100
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by baybal2 5y ago
Pakistan is 5 minutes away from a regime change, and abandoning the Western camp. Saudi has just called back a huge multi-billion dollar loan to Pakistan.
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by baybal2 5y ago
> How is neon extracted and why does one country have a 90% monopoly (in this specific grade)? " Specific grade " - you need very, very, very high purity gasses for lasers. Noble gasses are very, very, very hard to purify becau
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by baybal2 5y ago
People don't understand why semiconductor argon, and neon can't be substituted by argon, and neon used in welding. It's very hard to purify noble gasses, as they are almost completely chemically inert, and chemistry needed to
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by baybal2 5y ago
Worse, you have to add Kazakhstan, which is now under a Russian thumb too, and Uzbekistan.
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by baybal2 5y ago
I am not telling you to shut up, and I am telling you to take a deep breath, and think this over after reading up on topic a bit. "We will betray our allies, and they will leave us alone" is a form of defeatism, and entertaining o
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by baybal2 5y ago
I think you have no idea what entails what you are talking about. The world of semi has moved enormously since eighties, when the only country outside of USA with serious chip industry was Japan. Aside from "end of the pipe" fabs,

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