I know it’s the bloody Warthog Channel which is concentrated levels of Holhol autism… but are those actual fucking Studebakers? I’m actually seeing that, right? 1942 era Lend Lease gear towing artillery?
Its been pointed out that May Day & Soviet Jerking Off Stalin's Corpse Day are about a month away, so this is probably just all the parade hardware being transported. But who knows, its Clown War.
Actually you can own one with a live gun, assuming you can get the appropriate Firearms Certificate. In fact there's a place in the UK currently selling a Scorpion with a live 76mm gun. Similarly they can be licensed for road use, but in typical government fashion they make it as much of a ballache as humanly possible, however there's some out there already registered meaning it's perfectly legal to drive down to the local Tesco, assuming you have a category H license.
In the US, iirc, you don't even need a cert for the cannon but you have to have a certificate for each and every round (and $200 tax stamp per).
United States never signed any treaty regarding the expansion of NATO with the USSR. Every member of NATO joined cause they wanted to a part of it. As no nation was forced into NATO against their will.
Not really I think most people in this thread are self aware of the corruption in Ukraine, the people here are also aware that type of corruption is prevalent in most places on the globe. Nobody cares about the corruption. For me personally I support a country defending itself from an invader and wish for the Russians to stop shelling children.
It'd be different if this was something like say Canada invading Venezuela. The Canadian government is low corruption and generally functional, Venezeulans would probably be better off under Canadian governance.
But Russia is a corrupt shithole. Ukraine is also a corrupt shithole, so there is no reason they should be forced to trade their parasites in Kiev for ones in Moscow, other than the parasites in Moscow don't believe they have enough serfs to bleed.
I mean China and PLA is still a huge unknown threat and it should be taken seriously due unlike Russia they do have realistic goals(Asian theater superpower by 2030) and they are properly restructuring their military problem is that a lot of the costs are being spent on new systems and not maintaining old ones unlike US that keeps a good balance on those things. Plus they haven't been deployed anywhere aside the Indian border where they occasionally clash with Indian armed forces in Meele combat but that's it. A bit of speculation they might try their luck with deploying oversees operacion in Africa since they started to offload a lot of business operations there and local warlords are giving them shit and hell they will get a green light from the UN there to bring some law there
China currently has zero force projection. They lack transport capacity and their logistics are Russia-levels of bad. So much like Russia if you share a border, its not good.
China is supposedly using Belt and Road to not just put their boots on niggernecks but to start scaling up their external logistic capacity. I am excited to see Chink Rhodesia become a reality.
Russia needs all the shells it can get. Their current problem is shell rationing.
Russia cannot feed their tubes as much as they'd like. And the issue there for Ukraine is tha Russia can increase reserves by doing defensive, reducing expenditure, and stockpiling rounds (as long as they aren't in himars range, kek)
tl;dr I saw some wonking about the latest Bahkmut push being the result of something like a month of stockpiling shells by reducing usage in other theaters (the guy had some photo & number proof to show the firing the area before the push had slacked, but I glazed over it so might have been bogus). This is why the commanders were bitching about thier ammo getting diverted while Wagner cried on tiktok for more rounds.
Again, if Russia had functioning military command - not good, not average, just not completely pants shitting retarded - Ukraine would be pretty well boned.