Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

How well is the war this going for Russia?

  • ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Blyatskrieg

    Votes: 249 10.6%

  • ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I ain't afraid of no Ghost of Kiev

    Votes: 278 11.8%

  • ⭐⭐⭐ Competent attack with some upsets

    Votes: 796 33.7%

  • ⭐⭐ Stalemate

    Votes: 659 27.9%

  • ⭐ Ukraine takes back Crimea 2022

    Votes: 378 16.0%
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Kane Lives said:
Not applicable for this, to be honest. Whatever logistical problems the Allied had in the Battle of the Bulge, they paled compared to the logistical difficulties the Germans had. Literally having to mark enemy supply dumps as first priority targets in order to allow for a smooth advance.

The Chinese advance in the second half of the Korean War might be more applicable. The average chink soldier was only supplied with like three days of marching rations, was considered extremely poorly equipped compared to the average Allied soldier, and they did not even have the luxury of having mechanized transport at the time.
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What I meant was US soldiers got actual frostbite in the Ardennes (and in Korea too). Still fought and they fought well. @Aidan posted the current weather around Kiev; the low to mid 50s dropping to 30F at night is basically SF weather. If the hobos in Frisco don't get frostbite why would Russians accustomed to below 0F winter weather not know how to keep warm?
 
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I was told the Russians were out of ammo. Still flying drones over Kiev and using laser guided munitions.
 
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Richardface said:
Hey Vince McMahon after you've slowly negrated your way through the thread and reached this post, have you sat down and thought how you'll be treated in your hoped-for victorious Ukraine as a male of fighting age who ran away?
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How do we know this Vince McMahon guy isn't ACTUALLY our lord and savior Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy 🇺🇦

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Ted Gazynski said:
People who suck the western foreign policy establishment’s cock are weird as fuck. It has been a force for evil and destruction for a very long time, and no amount of faggy revisionism is gonna change that. If we want to play a numbers game, America has been responsible for orders of magnitude more deaths than Russia despite being in an infinitely more secure geopolitical position.
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Yes and?
At some point, the physicality of resources means that foreign policy becomes a zero sum game. For all the fanfare people spout about human rights etc etc, in the end no serious statesman cares about that. The few serious idealists are generally ineffective (e.g. Dag Hammerskjold). It is all about maximizing the gains and minimizing the losses for your side. American/western foreign policy has been pretty effective for the west. The west is incredibly prosperous, I'd rather be a hobo in the US than middle class in India or Pakistan.

This prosperity comes at a cost, like all things do. And the leadership of the west has decided to push that cost off on other nations. A very classical approach, establishing tributaries like practically every empire ever has done. International finance is a modern tributary system, enforced by the US Navy on the seas and countless glowies on the land.

You seem to think that "evil and destruction" is somehow an uniquely western foreign policy, while it is just the cost of western prosperity. If Russia was holding all the cards, or China, or India, do you think those regimes would be any less "cruel" in ensuring national prosperity? Of course not. This is just the nature of things. All in all, the west allows a fair amount of leeway in how nations operate internally, while still being beholden to the western world order. The mongols would have exterminated entire countries for some of the slights done towards the GAE in recent years.
 
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Jump said:
California had all sorts of mines.
Good luck reopening one there, ever.

Go to the California EPA and tell them you want to start strip mining and processing palladium there. See how that goes :story:
Stuff like that is like steel mills. Once they are closed they are closed for ever. Modern US environmental laws make them impossible to rebuild.
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I was referring to its southern neighbor, the state of Baja California, Mexico.
 
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