If the bitch wanted Bakhmut to be in one piece he should've declared it an open city. Instead he had the buildings mined while having his troops fight to the last, forcing Russia to have them all bombed to pieces in order to be able to capture them.
Yep, and before that there was the scamdemic where wearing a mask and sitting at home snitching on your neighbors made you a hero. It's really enlightening, because it tells you how every single totalitarian movement got started, just like the washed out WWI vets who joined the Nazis or uprooted peasants working at factories joined the Bolsheviks. People who are spiritually dead (what you described) can join any cause as long as it promises them power and guidance in their life and the mass media for the past century has made it very easy for those movements to spread.
A few pages back had a pro-Russian journo claiming 57,000 Ukrainians were permanently de-Nazified (85,000 not fully de-Nazified) alongside 6,500 foreign mercenaries. Even if it isn't that high, that's still a pretty good number, although unfortunately Zman will drag 57,000 more Ukrops off the street for the next meatgrinder.
Haven't seen any on UA sides, but Biden says Russia suffered "over 100,000 casualties in Bakhmut".
Does that mean injured?
They were problably mail-in.
It's true. To train the crew, set up the supply chains for spares and to train the pilots to operate and maintain the F-16s, takes months and months. Unless the Ukies are going to receive f-16s ready to be destroyed and pilots ready to kill themselves, they won't be able to launch them in the warzone this side of Halloween.
So, the same ICC whom the US shows more or less contempt, and now, probably will be blatantly ignored by Russia as well. What does this achieve again?
The effective range of an F-16 is about 400-500km (250-300 miles) for most missions in wartime conditions carrying a full armament of weapons. Google will tell you it's 800km (500 miles) but that's for a mission under ideal peacetime conditions where it takes off, flies in a straight line, drops one bomb and turns around to come straight back (nominal speed, afterburners never used, nobody shooting at you, zero evasive maneuvers, etc). They also require a runway of at least a mile to take off and land (two miles is preferable).
There are at least some clues that things may be a little different in China today. My memory of this is a little hazy, but I recall an incident in the last couple years, where the CCP made a bunch of demands on China's billionaires, which fundamentally boiled down to the notion that what they do must align with the interests of the Chinese people and state; the Bloomberg journo-kikes were losing their minds about that, and calling it "anti-business" etc. Xi does not seem afraid to make good on those threats. Just look at the unpersoning of Jack Ma, for example.
Same reason why the Nazi party managed to cling onto power despite very decisively losing the war in 1945. You can bet their internal security apparatus is hard at work silencing critics and dissidents.
