Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022): Thread 1 - Ukrainian Liars vs Russian Liars with Air and Artillery Superiority

How well is the combat this going for Russia?

  • ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Blyatskrieg

    Votes: 46 6.6%

  • ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A well planned strike with few faults

    Votes: 45 6.5%

  • ⭐⭐⭐ Competent attack with some upsets

    Votes: 292 42.1%

  • ⭐⭐ Worse than expected

    Votes: 269 38.8%

  • ⭐ Ukraine takes back Crimea 2022

    Votes: 42 6.1%
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The golden neckbeard said:
So long as thr chip factories move i agree.

Taiwan is pretty irrelevant without that one thing which could easily be moved
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do you have any idea how fucking expensive and involved state of the art microchip foundries are? "easily moved" my ass, if china wants them they'll take em, and they're not easy to replicate either, otherwise TSMC wouldn't still be sitting on a near monopoly in the sector in the first place.
 
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DumbDude42 said:
do you have any idea how fucking expensive and involved state of the art microchip foundries are? "easily moved" my ass, if china wants them they'll take em, and they're not easy to replicate either, otherwise TSMC wouldn't still be sitting on a near monopoly in the sector in the first place.
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Maybe instead of designing the chips, the big brains should get designing the factories
 
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I wish I was in Donbass, hooray! Hooray!
 
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likeacrackado said:
Think you're huffing a little to much copium. Even the mutt'd out US military would flatten Russia in a straight up war. Much more so if it got to the point of commitment and a draft.
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This is before you realize that most of the woke recruits get sat at a desk or in a warehouse somewhere. Whereas the useful people get put in useful places
 
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Psychotron said:
Maybe instead of designing the chips, the big brains should get designing the factories
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they are, but when it's time to decide where to actually build it, they'll choose a place like taiwan over a place like america because it's just better. cheap but still very highly skilled labor force combined with cheap and reliable electricity makes this a very straightforward decision.
 
Intel is already building foundries in the US but those are not online yet. The US government gave them money to entice them to stop fucking around in East Asia once it became clear that rona was going to drag on for a while. And that's not taking into account the foundries being built in Mexico.

Still going to take a while for them to become operational but Taiwan's relative importance as a source of silicon is rapidly declining.
 
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The town was probably within the Oblast of the breakaway fictional Republic, so for Russia, it's okay. I wonder will the Russians bother with extending their territory, as it would involve having to expel Ukrainians.

Anyhow I suppose Putin saw that a West led by such nincompoops as (non compos mentis) Biden or Trudeau (he's wagging finger on TV at Putin who must be trembling) or the French midget (the contrast between his visible respect for Bolsonaro and what looked like a mixture of contempt and annoyance towards Macron, was notable) or the German nobody (presumably the choice of CDU barons) is not an opportunity going to come around ever again. Putin will have banked some useful gains by the time a competent US President appears. Go (fairly) big or go home.
 
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