The EU has taken in the better part of 6m refugees from Ukraine. And given them full access to work opportunities and pretty much every right of a EU citizen short of voting.
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I think it was the Institute for War lady on CNN the other day who said Putin was talking about WW2 a lot lately. Not just because of Victory Day, but because he wanted to remind people how they lost many battles and millions of soldiers in the first couple years before finally turning things around and winning. Great victories come with great costs, etc.
This guy thinks the opposite. I don't agree with much he says (one million Russian soldiers in Ukraine by yearend??), but unlike the clown "analysts" our ruble megafan used to post, this guy actually thinks instead of just repeating obvious propaganda.
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I think it was the Institute for War lady on CNN the other day who said Putin was talking about WW2 a lot lately. Not just because of Victory Day, but because he wanted to remind people how they lost many battles and millions of soldiers in the first couple years before finally turning things around and winning. Great victories come with great costs, etc.
The Uk has a population not to far off the French population but with virtually a third of the landmass. Where exactly would you propose we house them, when there’s couple’s living in 3 bedroom council housing stock? We can’t even house our own homeless, shocking yes?
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It could be. Though it could also be trying to rally the country behind the cause. The UK government invoked the WW II Blitz quite often during the COVID lock downs. It could also be both.
He does need to spin the eventual truth that Russia has lost a lot of soldiers in Ukraine.
I can't find the video anymore, but here is a Reddit thread about it
This is how the Russians outfitted at least one new unit. At least one of these people is clearly an old man.
The Russians would have to declare war on Ukraine to be able to draft any more people than they are now in their annual spring and fall drafts. Putin is careful to follow the law here because he doesn't want draft riots. The draft is very unpopular and increasing it could trigger revolt.
To increase the size of the army it requires new training facilities, people to train the new conscripts, uniforms and boots for the new conscripts, and weapons for them to both train with as well as fight with. Russia has none of these and would have to make them. They would have to vastly expand factory production in their facilities that make them now, or build new facilities. All of this when the national economy is shrinking 20% this year and the most competent people in the workforce has left the country.
Their tank production has halted, so has their truck production. They are critically short of operational vehicles of all types right now. To get vehicle production going again they need engineers to redesign the vehicles to get around the parts shortages that have shut down production. But most of those engineers emigrated. Their school system has gotten so bad that they are not training the technical people at the same rate they did 20 years ago.
They have a lot of vehicles that are technically in reserve, but they did nothing to preserve the vehicles. The lighter vehicles have rusted away and the tanks are mostly unusable too
Their reserve vehicles are more like a hoarder's stash than an actual reserve.
By contrast the US has an entire command to maintain reserve equipment as well as dispose of obsolete equipment
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Anything preserved by the US military can be reactivated in a few weeks for simpler equipment to a year for more complex things like ships.
6 months is about the right time frame, if you have the resources to expand the military as well as the manpower to do it. Russia has none of those things. I noted there were a lot of rumors the Russians were going to declare was May 9 and there were some rumblings within the Kremlin that might happen. But then just before the May 9 celebration Russian talking heads were talking about how declaring war and full mobilization was not going to happen.
I think somebody finally got to Putin and convinced him the Russian economy is not capable of full mobilization in anything short of a 10 year time frame. Trent Telenko has talked about the intelligence people in the US who are still convinced Russia is a potent threat because they are starting with the wrong assumptions. They assume Russia does many things the same way the US does, especially mundane things like logistics. Those who actually understand logistics can tell Russia's approach to logistics is radically different from the US.
In the US reserve equipment means the equipment was lovingly preserved with sensitive components packed in something to protect them from the elements and the thing has been stored in a secure facility with honest people guarding everything. Bringing something back into service means a bit of maintenance and unpack the sensitive parts from their cocoons and you're ready to go. On top of that everything is documented completely.
Russia's approach to reserve equipment is treated the opposite in almost every way.
And that's just one area.
That's the role of the Chechen TikTok troops. When they aren't shooting TikTok videos doing brave combat with abandoned buildings, they are shooting deserters.
Housing homeless is usually more of a political decision than a space consideration. The US has more unoccupied space than the UK, but also has a bad homeless problem in a lot of cities.
The US is taking in very few Ukrainian refugees too, but few Ukrainians want to go that far from Ukraine. Almost all the Ukrainian refugees coming to the US already have family here. Most of the refugees want to go home after the war and a lot of them from around Kyiv already have returned.
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So basically, if NATO doesn't actually invade Russia, by their own statements, they will not use nuclear weapons. This is in line with the doctrines promulgated by virtually every other state that possess nuclear weapons, including the United States.
As recently as March, all 5 official nuclear weapons states affirmed that they will only use nuclear weapons for defensive purposes, including Russia. This was only shortly before the invasion of Ukraine began but for some reason the media of every nation somehow immediately forgot about it.
Russia, China, Britain, U.S. and France say no one can win nuclear war
China, Russia, Britain, the United States and France have agreed that a further spread of nuclear arms and a nuclear war should be avoided, according to a joint statement by the five nuclear powers published by the Kremlin on Monday.
If we do not attack Russia, invade Russia, or nuke Russia, then by their own military doctrine Russians will not be using nuclear weapons during the Ukraine conflict. Which is why NATO has been taking such great pains to avoid anyone from NATO firing a single shot at a Russian while providing arms and logistical support to Ukraine.
So basically, if NATO doesn't actually invade Russia, by their own statements, they will not use nuclear weapons. This is in line with the doctrines promulgated by virtually every other state that possess nuclear weapons, including the United States.
As recently as March, all 5 official nuclear weapons states affirmed that they will only use nuclear weapons for defensive purposes, including Russia. This was only shortly before the invasion of Ukraine began but for some reason the media of every nation somehow immediately forgot about it.
Russia, China, Britain, U.S. and France say no one can win nuclear war
China, Russia, Britain, the United States and France have agreed that a further spread of nuclear arms and a nuclear war should be avoided, according to a joint statement by the five nuclear powers published by the Kremlin on Monday.
If we do not attack Russia, invade Russia, or nuke Russia, then by their own military doctrine Russians will not be using nuclear weapons during the Ukraine conflict. Which is why NATO has been taking such great pains to avoid anyone from NATO firing a single shot at a Russian while providing arms and logistical support to Ukraine.
And the problem is also that Russia unilaterally incorporates bits of other people's territory inside its borders. Next up is to declare Kherson is in Russia. So retaking Donbass, Kherson, Crimea becomes an attack on Russia and that in turn becomes (the false) rationale for nuclear use.
So you expect the government to steal peoples houses / property, because it’s a second home. Yup I can see that going down well even Corbyn wouldn’t have tried that & he was all for the return to the 1070’s.
