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by trasz 4y ago
So, can you give me some pointers to the explanation how they wouldn’t be worse trained? Especially given the previous attempt, the (already failed) “third army”? As for “new stuff” - the actually new stuff didn’t exist or was so scarce it
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by trasz 4y ago
Erm, what? In Europe police shooting random people on streets is unheard of. Same with China.
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by trasz 4y ago
Not true - you can easily buy unlocked Baofeng radios in EU and nobody cares. FCC cared because American manufacturers couldn’t really compete on market terms.
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by trasz 4y ago
Russia doesn't have air superiority. That's the suspected reason they hadn't been using their air force very much. And it will only get worse to them, because of NATO air defenses.
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by trasz 4y ago
No, same way India wasn't under Commonwealth occupation. "Soviet Union" was the colonial empire, but individual countries were occupied by Russia.
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by trasz 4y ago
Vendors being greedy doesn't explain why they would risk losing access to a very profitable markets for a worthless one. Sanctions are slow. Kazakhstan, for example, only blocked truck transit from EU to Russia a couple days ago.
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by trasz 4y ago
Except this point of view doesn't make any sense, because if NATO wanted to get their missiles close to Russia they could put them in, say, Poland, or Finland, instead of Ukraine. Russia's point of view is that Ukraine must be des
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by trasz 4y ago
DNR/LNR were set up by Russia, so that one was a proxy war between Russia and Ukraine. It turned into a direct conflict when Russia invaded Crimea in 2014.
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by trasz 4y ago
>But the idea of a powerless Russia, or even worse, a Russia that is a puppet of China, is terrifying. This is already the case. Everyone knows Russia's military prowess was a bluff - that's why we've seen another attempt
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by trasz 4y ago
You are right that the effect on workforce won't be as bad. But the political effects will likely be huge: for now Russians can pretend there's no war, because it's not them who's dying, it's "some ethnic mino
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by trasz 4y ago
>Well of course, this war looks like it looks cuz the reality of involved force does not match the reality of total force, ergo mobilization. Except it's not total force, it's fictional force. Those new people will be less tr
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by trasz 4y ago
Because at some point the manufacturers will need to choose whether to comply with sanctions, or get cut of the Western markets. Russian market is relatively worthless, so it's not a hard choice, and we're already seeing Chinese
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by trasz 4y ago
Inspecting the stockpiles doesn't verify if the warheads are in operable state, does it?
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by trasz 4y ago
They can't keep territory because of manpower shortage, but they surely have a million others, they just can't be bothered to get them involved? :-D What you are talking about are the fictional numbers found in Russian documents.
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by trasz 4y ago
Wikipedia definition differs in one crucial detail: it's a "conflict between two states or non-state actors, one or both of which act at the instigation or on behalf of other parties that are not directly involved in the hostiliti
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by trasz 4y ago
It's not just Huawei that left Russian market. The entire Belt and Road infrastructure project is being redirected south to Kazakhstan. And Putin had to publicly admit China has "expressed concerns". To China, Russia is jus
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by trasz 4y ago
>We cannot win against Russia and we cannot win against China. China declared quite explicitly they don’t want this conflict. They also quietly joined western sanctions. As for Russia - given how the rest of Russian army turned out to b
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by trasz 4y ago
Unlikely - so far all the predictions regarding Russian army checked out.
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by trasz 4y ago
>The West's strategy here is stupid As opposed to the strategy of appeasing Russia, which resulted in the war we have now? Look at the numbers: half of Russia’s army is gone. Western armies, apart from Ukraine, hadn’t even entered
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by trasz 4y ago
See https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1572270599535214598 for a pretty good description of where it goes from here.
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by trasz 4y ago
See https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1572270599535214598 for explanation of where it goes from here.
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by trasz 4y ago
Except they don't became any less wealthy because of this. Their products might become crappier, but again, in most cases this doesn't matter because the people making decisions about buying products are not the people using them
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by trasz 4y ago
So objective, easily verifiable gains - like the life expectancy, which is now longer than in USA - don't matter because of ghost towns? :-D
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by trasz 4y ago
It's not a proxy war because Ukraine is not a proxy - they aren't defending because US or EU told them to, they are defending to survive.
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by trasz 4y ago
How would you show they are untrue? Ask? :-D
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by trasz 4y ago
>Communist https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma “Not capitalist” does not mean “communist”. There are plenty other systems out there. And even for what many folks call communism you’ll find examples of mu
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by trasz 4y ago
It’s not a proxy war, because US and EU aren’t fighting at all - they are merely providing support. Compare with eg Syria, where US was actually taking part.
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by trasz 4y ago
It’s naive to assume Cloudflare CTO would not be lying if beneficial to him or Cloudflare.
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by trasz 4y ago
Six months ago you could assume this to be true, but thanks to Russia BRICS pretty much exploded, pushing its most important countries, like Kazakhstan or China, away from Russia, for both political and economic reasons.
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Musk admits he announced Hyperloop to get California’s high-speed rail canceled(twitter.com)
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