Aurora can be also used. I just warning.
Why, so she can be accidentally shot at again? Let her rest in peace, for Christ's sake.
The new cope upload will be that the incompetent Hohols can never break through glorious Russian defense lines. Russia always excels on the defense. Defense is what the Russian Armies tanks are meant for.
I don't know why everyone is assuming these T-55's will be used defensively when we all know Russia is dumb enough to use them in a front-line attack role simply because they lack any other armor in the area. If they're ordered to attack and all of their more modern tanks are getting repaired or are scrap... they attack, because that's probably less fatal than disobeying orders from Moscow. Considering what Javelin and NLAW did in the early stages its not like they'd somehow perform
worse against those than the T-72 and T-90 did, after all.
That’s factually inaccurate. In his video on how the Moskva was sunk, he actually asks that viewers not cheer due to the human cost and he cites a Russian Sailor who is still listed as missing so that the government won’t have to pay death benefits to the family. He reiterates this position in his round table video.
Christ, I've moaned several times in this thread at how a bunch of poor dumb Russian bastards who don't deserve it are getting sent to almost certain death by their uncaring, corrupt leaders.
And it's not like Russia wasn't trying to keep Ukraine under its control with its own gay ops, I don't buy the idea that they have exclusive rights to it just because it happens to be geographically close. That's after centuries of russification in attempt to make it their own.
Every time people bring up the Nuland phone call, my first thoughts are always, "So, if we assume the FSB wasn't also fucking around in Ukraine, how did the Russians get their hands on transcripts of a privileged diplomatic phone call?" Did they have an agent in D.C. hand it to them? Were they wiretapping our embassy in violation of diplomatic norms? Because I'm pretty sure we didn't hand it over to them of our own free will.
They weren't interested until they thought the colonists could win. Revenge against Britain cool, another "Britain embarrasses France AGAIN just like the last fifteen times they tangled" was not. Franklin and Lee spent over a year in Paris begging them before they signed the treaty of alliance
Even before the actual treaty of alliance they were providing us aid. About 90% of the weapons in American hands at Saratoga (you know, the battle that convinced the French we might actually be able to pull it off) were provided to us by one
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Royal Watchmaker to the French Crown, populist, spy, and a man who really, really liked the idea of the the English Parliament getting their teeth kicked in by a bunch of uppity backwoods colonists, and managed to convinced the French and Spanish kings to each give him a million francs in pursuit of that. It was a million francs the French arguably didn't have at that point since it was 1775 after all, but what the hell, small price to pay for some dead English, am I right?
Of course, the French finance minister pointed out that it indeed was money France couldn't afford and the nation would likely go bankrupt due to its support of the American rebels. Naturally it was an unpopular stance, and his very effective prior reforms had already made him no end of enemies at court, and so he was forced to tender his resignation in 1776, and he would eventually die in 1781, unable to see both the victory he expected with or without French aid and the French nation going bankrupt not long after that, the massive expenditures necessary to help our victory contributing a great deal to its ever-worsening financial straits.
Putin sounded just like a Western blue haired looney when he was talking about denazification of Ukraine. The Russians are just as Boomer tier as the West about the Nazis and WW2. If not worse.
The amount of GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR hype about WW2 they have to this very day is as mind-boggling as it is horrifying. "We never did anything, and if we did, it was just and they had it coming." If you were to tell a Russian on the street about the shameless mass rapes the Red Army did during their "liberation" of Eastern Europe, they'd call you a liar before claiming anyone who did get raped, and nobody ever did get raped because that's all Western lies, was a whore who had it coming for spreading her legs for the fascists.
And Latin America, and Africa, and the Middle East, and Asia. But other than that, they kept to themselves.
I am certain that the brigade of T-55's the Cubans sent to Angola was transported and resupplied entirely by the vast Cuban merchant marine and logistical apparatus that island is known for possessing. And indeed that the Cubans could also ship in new entirely Cuban personnel to replace any losses. Why no comrade, vodka and borscht is a beloved meal of the Cuban peoples in solidarity with their Russian comrades, second only to their fondness of the Russian language, culture, and striped undershirts.
