Russo-Ukrainian War - 2022 Edition - Part3

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NarrowBandFtw

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So this will be the third time this video is posted. Russia annexed Crimea immediately after Ukraine discovered gas there.

you can post it a million times, it doesn't change the fact that Russia has more than enough gas and significantly more than Ukraine, and Ukraine does not have enough to compete

it also doesn't change the fact that Russia has been warning Ukraine and the west repeatedly for more than 8 years it will not tolerate a military threat on its border

the west & Ukraine called their bluff ... only ... it was never a bluff ... oops
 

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I dunno about that source.

The US has 84 facilities in Japan. Some of those are literally just storage dumps and several facilities will be on one base.

Actual bases are around 23 for Japan. One base may be sub dividedinto several facilitiesand sprawl over a large area.

So even if you take the upper figure of 84, it falls far short of the 120 claimed.

In Germany the number of US bases is 21. If you count the number of facilities they have, it is 40. A far cry lower than the 119 claimed.

South Korea the US has 15 bases.
 

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Nope, WW2 was an unnecessary war that ended up not having any of the initial participants win anything. The only real victors were murica, russia and Israel.


What makes it illegal? The UN says so? The UN has no right to make such declarations.


If poland had granted the corridor there would have been no war. If Ukraine had stopped it's ethnic cleansing campaign there would have been no war.... there are two sides to everything.
What corridor was Poland supposed to provide?
 

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Not so easy as you may think. Before the war, Ukraine's grid was connected to the Russian grid. Shortly after the Russian invasion, Ukrainian disconnected their grid from the Russian grid and connected their grid to the EU one. Obviously this was something that was planned for a long time, the switchover date just happened to occur shortly after the invasion.

What this means, is that when Ukraine loses a power station or transmission line, the slack is taken up by the European grid. This makes it very hard for Russia to instigate a national blackout. They tried though, through unsuccessful hacking attempts.



One can never have enough guns in a war. Even small arms. Besides, the main intention of this initive is really to reduce the guns on the streets of Miami. If the Ukrainians don't want them, then no matter.



What do you call this then? Is this humane? Is this Russian kindness?

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Good pictures of what Nico describes as undamaged infrastructure.
 

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I feel sorry for the poor soldiers on both sides , they cannot desert or refuse to fight because of the firing squads. A lesson to be learnt from this is for the UN to create a hullabaloo before a conflict begins, not afterwards.
 

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Only due to intense resistence, if Russia used murican tactics the war would have been long over by now.
Agreed, if Russia's military was even half as competent as the US, then the war would have been over by now with a lot less casualties and damage.

Nope, regular grid bombing would be enough. Also Russia has actually moved beyond nukes, they can use thermobaric I think it is bombs in a pinch which has no radiation and leaves the buildings basically intact. They havent even used these tactically yet nvm strategically.

All they have to do is signal their intent, give the civilians enough time to evacuate and sweep clean.

On the other hand, they have barely touched most of the infrastructure.... simply bombing this could have forced the country into deprevation which would have made the conquest considerably easier.
Russia can't carpet bomb Ukraine because their aircraft keep getting shot down thanks to the "destroyed" Ukrainian airforce that is apparently not quite as destroyed as Russian media made it out to be. Plus the proliferation of US Stingers, Soviet Iglas, British Starstreaks and other MANPADS. Russia is also running very low on long range missiles and are now having to use early Soviet era anti-shipping missiles on land based targets with horrendous inaccuracy results.

There has been numerous reports of Russia using thermobaric weapons in Ukraine. And no, they don't leave "buildings intact", lol. Here is just one example:

 

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"It's like Verdun but with the weapons of 2022": French people who went to war in Ukraine tell their daily life

 

rambo919

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Agreed, if Russia's military was even half as competent as the US, then the war would have been over by now with a lot less casualties and damage.
If they did it that way they would have to rebuild half the country..... either way this is not an extraordinarily destructive war by any standard.

Russia can't carpet bomb Ukraine because their aircraft keep getting shot down thanks to the "destroyed" Ukrainian airforce that is apparently not quite as destroyed as Russian media made it out to be. Plus the proliferation of US Stingers, Soviet Iglas, British Starstreaks and other MANPADS. Russia is also running very low on long range missiles and are now having to use early Soviet era anti-shipping missiles on land based targets with horrendous inaccuracy results.
Yeah I don't know how much of a paper dragon that is.

There has been numerous reports of Russia using thermobaric weapons in Ukraine. And no, they don't leave "buildings intact", lol. Here is just one example:

On one hand I said mostly I believe not totally.

On the other hand all you see is smoke in that vid if it even is a thermobaric warhead which it might be.
 

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you can post it a million times, it doesn't change the fact that Russia has more than enough gas and significantly more than Ukraine, and Ukraine does not have enough to compete

it also doesn't change the fact that Russia has been warning Ukraine and the west repeatedly for more than 8 years it will not tolerate a military threat on its border

the west & Ukraine called their bluff ... only ... it was never a bluff ... oops
So they didn't do it to eliminate a competitor and secure their only leverage over Europe?
 
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