It was all going great until uziq decided to derail by gloating about covid deaths.
Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй!
"The Nazis almost won" was probably good for Allied propaganda. Perhaps justifiably amplifying the threat kept the (hard-fought to be certain) war looking more difficult than it was, and kept some people feeling more patriotic before and after as a result. Unintended result perhaps is this cult following of Nazi personalities, and of German tanks and superweapons beyond their practical and strategic usefulness at that stage in development, from people with very limited understanding of the war in detail who watch what amount to be "intro to WW2" doc after rehashed doc.SuperJail Warden wrote:
Huge problem in the circles that are interested in World War 2. There is actually a term for it: Wehraboo
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define. … m=Wehraboo
Hard pill to swallow: The Germans were losing the war by late 1942.
lol retard. ask the chinese citizens how they feel about your excellent strategy.Dilbert_X wrote:
It was all going great until uziq decided to derail by gloating about covid deaths.
australia's second cityDilbert_X wrote:
We didn't need lockdowns because we had effective borders - amazing
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https://www.understandingwar.org/backgr … p%E2%80%9DISW wrote:
Russian President Vladimir Putin likely intends to annex occupied southern and eastern Ukraine directly into the Russian Federation in the coming months. He will likely then state, directly or obliquely, that Russian doctrine permitting the use of nuclear weapons to defend Russian territory applies to those newly annexed territories. Such actions would threaten Ukraine and its partners with nuclear attack if Ukrainian counteroffensives to liberate Russian-occupied territory continue. Putin may believe that the threat or use of nuclear weapons would restore Russian deterrence after his disastrous invasion shattered Russia's conventional deterrent capabilities.
(...) The political and ethical consequences of a longstanding Russian occupation of southeastern Ukraine would be devastating to the long-term viability of the Ukrainian state.
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Is there really anyone who didn't know this was going to happen?Larssen wrote:
ISW wrote:
Russian President Vladimir Putin likely intends to annex occupied southern and eastern Ukraine directly into the Russian Federation in the coming months. He will likely then state, directly or obliquely, that Russian doctrine permitting the use of nuclear weapons to defend Russian territory applies to those newly annexed territories. Such actions would threaten Ukraine and its partners with nuclear attack if Ukrainian counteroffensives to liberate Russian-occupied territory continue. Putin may believe that the threat or use of nuclear weapons would restore Russian deterrence after his disastrous invasion shattered Russia's conventional deterrent capabilities.
People are starting to say Turkey could veto their entry to NATO. That'll be a fun shit-storm.uziq wrote:
finland (and sweden) joining NATO will probably lead putin to rely on a credible threat of nuclear strike sooner rather than later. they'll also assert pressure on the situation and reinforce his claims (at home) that any counter-offensive in ukraine is now an 'existential' threat to the russian people, thus justifying tactical nuclear strikes.
On May 11, the Russian command reportedly sent about 550 troops of the 74th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 41st Combined Arms Army to cross the Donets River at Bilohorivka, in the eastern Luhansk region, in a bid to encircle Ukrainian forces near Rubizhne.
Satellite images reveal that Ukrainian artillery destroyed several Russian pontoon bridges and laid waste to a tight concentration of Russian troops and equipment around the river.
The Institute for the Study of War, citing analyses based on the publicly available imagery, indicated that there could have been as many as 485 Russian soldiers killed or wounded and more than 80 pieces of equipment destroyed.
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