So you're telling me a Patriot Missile is actually a giant homing shotgun with a rocket motor? Fantastic.
So 80k DNR/LNR mobiks appears to be confirmed. Compared to Russia this is a much bigger fraction of the population.DeepL said:
Basically, if Boris Nemtsov became a president like Yeltsin wanted, instead of mongoloid Putler.
Ziggers pretending like Stalin didn't cry for aid, getting unprecedented amount of materiel during WW2 and then generations of Russians acting as if Lend-Lease didn't happen and they totally won all by themselves.
I feel for them. Russian Federation just gobbled up their territory along with the people, and as per Putin's decree, you either accept Russian passport and citizenship or get deported (alternatively, you're probably designated as a rebel/nazi and get treated accordingly - if you're a military age male, good luck getting out), so anyone who just wanted to stay and live a normal life is fucked.
There is this twitter thread about how those who have been wounded in combat , is not getting paid composition by the leadership of these fake countries. This also extend to the families of those who lost their family members in combat.
I guess that's holy shit in Ukrainian.
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Some missiles do have a secondary trigger that detonates any remaining propellant. Its especially common on Russian ones, IIRC, which is why its easy for them to look at a discarded chunk of metal and think NATO goofed with the intercept.
All anti-air missiles are. You're trying to hit a really small target traveling really fast, so your only real hope is to get close enough to skeet shoot it. Doesn't really matter if you only partially damage it since at high speed chances are good its going to tear itself apart from the wind resistance, and at minimum its going to start deviating from its course.
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I liken the Russian government being the guy in Vegas that hits a jackpot on the slots then ends the night gambling his winnings then hitting the ATM until he hits his withdrawal limit. All they had to do was wait a few years for the EU to be totally dependent on Russian gas, the Biden Administration to collapse on their own social justice and tranny idiocy as well as the fall of Afghanistan and still have a military deterrent that was unchecked and assumed to be a neer peer threat to the US. I wonder if that half Nigerian Obama would have pushed for intervention in Ukraine back in 2014 if we knew how incompetent the Russian government was.
At this point the Ukrainian counter-offensive is basically "Boy Who Cried Wolf" except in this story the boy is in on it with the wolf.Zelenskyy say that Ukraine is ready for the counter offensive.
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If I were his adviser I would've, well, advised against mentioning any offensive and making absolutely no promises not even implied, and I said a number of times in the thread that the focus on the counteroffensive is unproductive.
Apologies. I'll refrain in the future.
While I agree that he should have said nothing, I understand why he did. Zelensky knows that there's a contingent of morons in the west who basically don't understand the gravity of this situation and want the U.S. to stop footing the bill of this war, along with some European pussies who want to go back to buying Russian oil and gas like the little bitches they are. So he needs to keep public interest in the war and mollify his allies one or another. That, and he probably figures that Russia is already on high alert for a counteroffensive anyway, so whether he says anything or not doesn't really matter.
