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by ukraineally 5y ago
>Satellites with high powered lasers are a fantasy that don't exist right now. You need approximately a 5KW laser to do the job. Virtually all satellites have this much power available. So this 'fantasy' is that you don&#x
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>There are more options available to US than just "fire all the missiles". I mean any launch by Russia will be declaration of war on everyone. I don't know the effectiveness of stopping these nukes with missile defense. I
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by ukraineally 5y ago
>Time to ask HN: how do you want to spend the last days of your life? Plan is to paint my hallway and staircase today. Family is coming over.
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by ukraineally 5y ago
>Playing armchair general here, but I wonder what's the playbook if Russia decides to conduct a nuclear weapon "experiment". Any launch regardless of trajectory will be considered act of war against the world. There will b
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by ukraineally 5y ago
The days of mutually assured destruction is actually over. In the time needed for the ICBMs to reach targets on another continent is enough time to intercept those missiles. Obviously neighbours like Finland and Ukraine on the otherhand are
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by ukraineally 5y ago
To be clear, this denazification stuff is russian propaganda. >Also perhaps noteworthy is that the Proud Boys in Australia To be extra clear, the 'everyone is nazis' stuff really falls apart when the supposed nazis are not poss
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by ukraineally 5y ago
>LOL. What has "long history" got to do with what the CCP is doing now? What have they done exactly? Specifics please? The obvious reality that Russian spies have infiltrated Canadian media makes me question this 'China is
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by ukraineally 5y ago
Chess is obviously huge in Russia. Day 1 of the invasion virtually every russian chess player said no to war. FIDE has also withdrawn everything chess from Russia. Russian Chess is on the correct side of history. 2 exceptions: Sergey Karjak
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by ukraineally 5y ago
China seems to have been blindsided on this war. They most likely were made aware of the republics but certainly didn't expect full invasion. On day 2, china demanded diplomatic talks, hosted in china. Russia refused. Said they could h
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by ukraineally 5y ago
>There's been some groups raising independent fighting forces in Syria and Chechnya, but I don't think they've gotten to Ukraine yet. Ukraine has been actively recruiting Westerners who have been willing to fight since 201
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by ukraineally 5y ago
>It sounds like any steel smelting operation can start capturing the fumes and pull out the neon. If it was lucrative others would start doing it Now that you say that... if my memory is good(its not) midwest usa started doing this. I re
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by ukraineally 5y ago
>I'd bet money (1) Zelenskyy is being actively supported/coached by the CIA or MI6 (his PR/propaganda game has been absolutely on point), Oh man is it ever. Dont know who exactly, but ya no doubt getting coached. >2) th
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by ukraineally 5y ago
>Maybe, however, it’s more likely that Russia’s military is less competently run than previously thought. I wouldn’t be surprised if intel was being shared with Ukraine and weapons definitely are being shared. There is info that the troo
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by ukraineally 5y ago
>I’ve been following this closely and I haven’t seen any mention of non-Ukrainian forces in the country. Seems like pure speculation? Absolutely pure speculation. We never know what the navy seals or the green berets or the french dragoo
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by ukraineally 5y ago
>What is the actual goal here? Can someone please explain to me why this is all happening? Well in Putin's own words, it seems obvious and clear. Ukraine's government are Nazis who are committing genocide over Russians in the n
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by ukraineally 5y ago
>As a non-military minded observer, my first thoughts were, "How much resolve does the Russian soldier have in this war?" There must be many personal connections between Ukranian and Russian soldiers and citzens of the other co
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by ukraineally 5y ago
It seems to me(not anything) that Russia's failures all around are quite unexpected. Their military is significantly less prepared than they ought to be. General mobilization vs russian military will become very rough for Russia when t
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by ukraineally 5y ago
My last job, everything was a secret. Documentation was in people's minds. I was practically the only person who ever wrote public documentation for the team. Most people kept personal passworded one notes where they kept their own doc
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by ukraineally 5y ago
>likely but it's an open secret at this point that nato is non-reciprocally sharing intel with ukraine, this is completely unprecendted. look at intelligence aircraft signalling their presence on ads-b, including forte11/12 dro
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by ukraineally 5y ago
Macron isn't running yet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_French_presidential_elect... >and as Germany hems and haws over its own ties to Russia, No invasion in Europe for how many decades? Long past many pe
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by ukraineally 5y ago
Russia is not self-sufficient. They require Germany, Finland, and China to keep sending them resources. It is a matter of time before they are simply incapable of continuing the war. Simply from a resource depletion point of view. Unfortuna
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by ukraineally 5y ago
>Now stop buying Russian oil. This is precisely what will happen. How do you buy russian oil if you cannot transfer money to Russia? That's what SWIFT removal does. Effectively means Russia cannot import or export anything. China ha
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by ukraineally 5y ago
https://twitter.com/zelenskyyua/status/1497340787280920581?s... Macron had the wonderful pleasure of being the one to tell hero president zelensky.
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>Please take the time to read my entire premise (initial reply) and make an attempt to understand the full logic before commenting on it. I did, I understood and had a question. You didn't answer my question. The person involved in
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by ukraineally 5y ago
>Far too many points in one post to reply properly. Sorry, complicated issue, I could have gone much more deep as well. >This is what I want to see: everyone that the vaccine is authorized for use in, should be required, under penalty
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by ukraineally 5y ago
This will be a fix coming to virtually every major country very soon. "Disinformation" and "Misinformation" and "hate" stuff is going to hit every country and it's not surprising how quick everyone has mov
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by ukraineally 5y ago
>You need to do a certain amount of learning grammar, DuoLingo will teach you very little. Do read the tips for every exercise on the DuoLingo website (they are not in the app). Those are great! Honestly, probably not fluent in any langu
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by ukraineally 5y ago
>In a sense, not certifying NS2 limits Russias options. Not that I am convinced someone in the Gean government, old or new, ever thought this through so. The way I see it and one of my political opinions. 1. Big business runs governments
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by ukraineally 5y ago
There has also been huge amounts of bans on twitter. Say the wrong thing and you get ejected. Yet the clear russian propaganda is allowed to stay. I wonder what the threshold is to accuse twitter of russian collaboration. It's certainl
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by ukraineally 5y ago
My understanding Germany made a huge mistake in connecting with Russia. Swift and or petroleum product sanctions would just crush germany. This is going to be a key reason. Given the context, no real major war had ever happened in a long ti

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