Capturing kiev is just a symbolic victory. Strategically Russia would have to take it up to near Romanian border to secure any semblance of total victory. That shit isn't happening. It's best to just take the east and the land surrounding Crimea to call it a strategic victory now that moral victory is not possible.
If Kiev had fallen that would have been the ballgame. There would have been no major geographical barriers from there to the Polish border, and nobody would have really rallied to the flag at that point as it would have been seen as a lost cause.
When we train females on heavier armaments (not even big ones, just light machine guns even) men often have to literally sit behind the females in order to stop them sliding further and further back from the recoil. I don't know who the fuck could believe that a 5 foot 2 inch 120 pound female is at all the person you want manning heavy guns. Smaller targets, sure, but they can't use their weapon effectively. The best gunners I've seen have always been football player bodied dudes or short but stocky Gimli looking guys, sometimes common sense makes... sense.
It’s apparently a full blown humanitarian crisis.
I usually don't believe in destiny, astrological woo, higher powers bothering to get involved in mortal affairs or whatever, but that number is indeed quite an interesting coincidence.
The Ukrainians losing 20K in Mariu/pol/' alone would indeed be a massive oof since it's more or less the total death toll of the war in Croatia. Until we know better, I'll assume that the casualty rates are very bad on both sides.
He should have gone for an administrative role instead of combat. Admin gets all the good medals.
Problem is, we have so much info out there that it's hard to get the straight info. Got spin doctors on seemingly every side going all-out. Believe the only ones who might have the straight info would be certain intelligence agencies, and that's only if internal politics allow the publication of the straight info.
Civvies are flooding into Europe, already it's way worse than the 2015 migrant wave and the EU isn't equipped to handle it.
Hey pushing those papers really works up a sweat. Those silly grunts just wouldn't understand. Sometimes on really bad days the heating or air conditioning goes out. That's worth a medal or three.
There were 2 major language laws in Ukraine that I know of that impacted "minority languages." The second one (wiki link) was no doubt done specifically to depress Russian in Ukraine though I'd argue both were.
""It's ok when the west does it because they have a higher standard of living."Tell me, where there are better standards of living:
Even if all color revolution are mysteriously supported by US NGOs, is it such a stretch to believe that people want to align themself with countries that promises better lives?
- In Belarus and Russia
- Or in former Iron Curtain countries like Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Poland
There is more going on here than CIA BAD
This is so stupid... Surely Ukrainian officials have better things to do than care about JayZ
They weren't supposed to shoot the ship. They didn't even shoot it, it was an accident actually!
Somebody once told me that Vasquez is gonna ghost me
Well, i hope his cooking skills will help him to toss salad in Black Dolphin prison for the rest of his life.
Last I checked they were saying 2.5 million in Poland alone.
If indeed most of the crew went down with the ship or was failed to be rescued (there was apparently a sizable storm so a good amount of the crew who managed to jump overboard being lost would make sense) this would be a pretty big failure. Any time a ship sank with over 50% loses, even in World War 2, it was considered pretty bad. Hell, look at the USS Indianapolis, twelve hundred men were aboard, nine hundred made it into the water before she sank, three hundred made it out, wasn't only infamous because of the sheer loss of life but because only around 1/4th of the crew lived.
