JRP3
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I'm surprised the Russians were organized enough to have that information to leak.
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Russia/Ukraine conflict
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Most of M777 have been sent from the USA (doesn't say how many are in service) with over 300 trained soldiers.
petit_bateau
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these days half of us say European
TheTalkingMule
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Apologize if this has been posted before but this article explains Russia's resource policy:
www.understandingwar.org
Institute for the Study of War
The Russian military is a hybrid format combining a traditional cadre-and-reserve conscript system and a contract-professional system. While the Russian Army has made efforts to professionalize its ranks, particularly in the last 15 years, it remains
Each to their own. I used to be told I was a soldier first tradesman second when I was in the army. My answer was what did I do primarily. Consequently I tend to think I primarily live in
not Europe, always have
, never done the nationalistic English, Scottish thing because I’m a half breed
TheTalkingMule
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Looks like the next big date is May 25th. Unless extension to their exemption is given, Russia will likely default on their debt obligations by the end of the month.
I guess we could always see an extension pushed thru, but the optics would be unpleasant.
www.cnbc.com
I guess we could always see an extension pushed thru, but the optics would be unpleasant.
Russia still faces a high chance of default, despite payment
Russia has averted a historic debt default since sanctions were imposed on its foreign currency reserves, but analysts believe it is delaying the inevitable.
www.cnbc.com
You mean with stuff like this?
Florida rejects 54 math books, claiming critical race theory appeared in some
SwedishAdvocate
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This seems legit. It links to a petition on change.org. It's an attempt to save the Ukrainians who are still in the city. Almost 1,2 million have signed as of now.
Link to the petition:
Link to the petition:
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RobStark
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US intelligence believes Putin is preparing for the long fight.
Thinks he can out last Western support for Ukraine. Outlast Hawks in Western capitals to be replaced by Doves.
Doesn't believe any nuclear weapons will be used unless Putin feels Russia existentially threatened. And Russia would signal to when that point is reached.
www.france24.com
Thinks he can out last Western support for Ukraine. Outlast Hawks in Western capitals to be replaced by Doves.
Doesn't believe any nuclear weapons will be used unless Putin feels Russia existentially threatened. And Russia would signal to when that point is reached.
Putin ready for long war beyond Donbas: US intelligence chief
President Vladimir Putin will not end the Ukraine war with the Donbas campaign and is determined to build a land bridge to Russian-controlled territory in Moldova, US Director of National Intelligence…
www.france24.com
RobStark
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The point wasn't about self-identification.
It was about the Aryan looking soldiers marching in Russia's Victory Day parade.
The point was that Caucasian muslims would look right at home in Russia's Victory day parade alongside ethnic Russians. While Buryats and other Asian minorities would look out of place and very different from ethnic Russians.
Finlands prime minister is training before joining NATO
Is there a physical competition for national leaders as part of the entry requirements for NATO?
jabloomf1230
Minister of Silly Walks
I apologize if insulted any of your relatives, but almost 1.8 million US combatants served in the Korean theater at one time or another. Here are the peak strength numbers:
South Korea 602,902
USA 326,863
UK 14,198
Source:
The English are the dominant population on the islands. Brexit was driven by similar forces seen in the US. The dominant population is seeing its traditional power base diminish and get replaced by people who don't look like them. In the case of the UK, it's mostly non-white people moving in from the former colonies. Some English manifest guilt over the empire while others reflect back on the former glories of the British Empire and are more fiercely English than they ever were.
The history podcast I listen to is primarily two British historians and they have guests on. One of the guests was talking about what it is to be British and the English. In 1966 at the World Cup, the England team was cheered on by people waving the Union Jack. The mascot for the games had a Union Jack. But in the 80s the St George's cross started showing up at games and now it's ubiquitous.
It's a phenomenon happening all around the world. Ethnic groups are becoming more partisan to their ethnic group and wanting more autonomy, more local authority. While on the other hand some people are becoming less connected to their root culture and are being more pan-cultural, though they are the minority.
Even though I've always lived in the US, I've never felt any strong tie to the identity of this country (which is an odd animal to begin with compared to the rest of the world). As the internet has given me access to other cultures my Americaness is weaker than ever. I understand wanting to defend your home, whether that be physical dwelling or home territory from an invader, but the otherwise rah rah my "team" doesn't really grok. I regularly watch TV programs from other English speaking countries, probably more than American TV. I realized I had really internalized the slang from other countries when I saw part of a stand up routine by an Australian comedian, thought it was hilarious, and showed it to my partner. I had to explain every joke. She got it when explained, but it wasn't funny by that point.
Americans and Candians also have an odd identity thing. There are a couple of books out there by a historian named Colin Woodard. His first is called American Nations and the others build on it. He discusses that a nation is an ethnic identity and most nation states are also predominantly the home for that ethnic group. So Japan is the political entity for the people who consider themselves Japanese.
The UK has internal divisions, because it comprises multiple nations (ethnicities), but those groups also have their own country within the UK, for the most part. The tensions come in when a lot of immigrants have moved in who are from other nations.
North America is made up of 12 identified nations by Woodard and they have no political entity that contains the entire group. Many US states have more than one nation and every nation is larger than the boundary of any one state. The English speakers in Canada can only identify themselves as "not American" because they all belong to nations that cross the border. When I went to western British Columbia I could tell the culture there was the same at its core as Seattle and Portland, even though the queen was on everything and officially everything reflected back to Ontario. British Columbia was a weird mix of very familiar and different.
A lot of northern Americans look north across their border and see kinship in the Canadians living there, but the Canadians look south and see the politics and culture of the nations not shared with Canada and see aliens. Specifically The Deep South and Appalachia are uniquely American cultures. At this point most of the rest of the cultures in the US would like to eject them too.
I live right on the border between two cultures. West of the Cascade mountains in Oregon and Washington is the Left Coast culture, which is tied to the Bay Area culture. Western British Columbia is the same culture. Then eastern Washington and Oregon are what Woodard calls the Far West culture, but I call it the Interior West culture. The Left Coast culture tends to be progressive believing in creating a utopian future. High tech companies thrive in all the cities of the region.
The Interior West is more traditional and more about the land and extracting resources from it. The TV show Yellowstone is all about that culture.
This town is a push-pull of the two cultures.
Apologize if this has been posted before but this article explains Russia's resource policy:
Institute for the Study of War
The Russian military is a hybrid format combining a traditional cadre-and-reserve conscript system and a contract-professional system. While the Russian Army has made efforts to professionalize its ranks, particularly in the last 15 years, it remains
That is about 2 months old. Kamil Galeev has talked about what really happens in the Russian army. Conscripts are not paid, but contract soldiers are. Conscripts are put under tremendous pressure to enlist (become contract soldiers). The enlisted ranks of the Russian army contains virtually nobody who walked into a recruiting office and volunteered. Almost all their contract soldiers started out as conscripts and for one reason or another enlisted.
The Russian army's only professionals are the officers. Everyone else is there involuntarily.
US intelligence believes Putin is preparing for the long fight.
Thinks he can out last Western support for Ukraine. Outlast Hawks in Western capitals to be replaced by Doves.
Doesn't believe any nuclear weapons will be used unless Putin feels Russia existentially threatened. And Russia would signal to when that point is reached.
Putin ready for long war beyond Donbas: US intelligence chief
President Vladimir Putin will not end the Ukraine war with the Donbas campaign and is determined to build a land bridge to Russian-controlled territory in Moldova, US Director of National Intelligence…
Hitler had dreams of repelling the Red Army all the way back to Moscow in 1945. He didn't have the forces to do it and the Russians don't have the forces to fulfill Putin's dreams now. Putin might as well dream of taking New York City. That's about as likely as Russians taking anything west of Kherson.
Their army is a dwindling resource with a coming pull by date.
True. The Russians can use them to give the look of good white Russian soldiers.
RobStark
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The difference is we are not marching into Moscow.
Putin has his lifetime to replenish his Army.
The Russian State has until the Russian State collapses to refurbish an Army.
With the population shrinking and a shrinking industrial base too, it's going to be difficult. I've read a couple of analysts who have made the point that in a few years an invasion of Ukraine would be impossible because they couldn't raise enough troops to even do a semblance of the job.
The Russian state could collapse in the aftermath of this war.
RobStark
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The Russian State could collapse. That is a hope not a strategy.
I have been reading about the imminent collapse of the House of Saud on this forum since before I officially joined.
Russia has ~5.5M men in their 20s. About 7.5M men in their 30s.
A determined tyrant that can sell lots of natural resources, not just oil, can keep a war going next door vs a neighbor less than 1/3 its population for a long time.
Or someone inside the FSB can put a bullet in the head of said tyrant. Which could result in a better or worse tyrant.
The chances are greater that a buffoon enters the White House and snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.
Absolutely a UN effort. Somebody didn't know their history. When the US army collapsed in the face of the initial attack by China it was the forces from the UK that held on and allowed an orderly retreat instead of it going to a rout. Without that it could have been a disaster.
