Anyone else remember when a few months ago some Ukrainians managed to de-lid a Leopard in training and knock the turret off? I don't even know why we're surprised this offensive is going how its going at this point.
Times like these is when I start wondering if I should just stop participating in this bullshit economy and live in the woods. If Europe wants to stop Russia, then they should pay for it, not us.
Once the poor kholhols realize the Bradleys and Leopards aren't returning back to their lines, I see refusals to fight.
Here's a list from another site.
1) Russia has lied about everything
2) They have threatened to blow dams before
3) They admit to planning to blow up more dams
4) Destroying energy plants (i.e. civilian infrastructure) is their main focus
5) Ukrainians said they mined the dam
6) Russians admit they mined the dam
7) They have already blown up part of the dam previously
Will not release camera evidence
9) Will not allow an outside investigation
10) Will not do an internal investigation
11) They argue blowing the dam has helped them
12) They brag about their history of blowing dams
13) Russia raised level to max before blowing dam
14) They are not allowing civilians to evacuate area
15) They are not helping save civilian lives
16) They are firing on civilians trying to help
17) They are claiming the situation is not that bad (for affected civilians)
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19) Ukraine would not do this before their upcoming counter-offence (there is no advantage to Ukraine)
I fell like that would require a level of tactical prowness they are not currently demonstrating.
I guess if premise one in your syllogism is "they're evil liars who did it" you've created a steel trap of logic from which nothing may escape.
goes to show none of these people actually care about ukraine or ukrainians. Who taught the ukies? Oh right ,NATO staff. But nooo its never NATO's fault, its those subhu...... backwa..... uhhhh USSR mindset ukrainians....
According to this old US Army Training video, the Soviet doctrine (as far as we understood it) focused on "speed, maneuverability, and continuous operations." (YouTube link)
One would come to the conclusion that all of those systems are nonfunctional.
that would leave a hole for china to fill sadly. we're so focused on china and russia we're not dealing with ISIS in the me and afrika.
they're holding them for kiev defense for whenever the ruskies march toward kiev.
Soviets? nope. I mean zerg rush moments were happening but it wasn't a thing with armor, just living force.
While it might be slightly off topic, in my limited discussions with people off this site about Ukraine, the people who champion Ukraine never prove anything, they just state and state and reaffirm themselves to try and drown out dissenting voices. There was a time where i would write one message and it would spawn 20+ replies forming my entire argument for me so they could shut it down. it was fucking wild.
Nah, they worked. Thats why they ended up on the black market.
