So the gist is "It's really impressive if you don't know anything about long-range missile tech"
Yep.... Aka most Russian MiC claims or Russian weapon propaganda.
Eg. The Russians were bigging up a new bombsight system over Syria in 2015.... If you really read what they were saying it was impressive..... If you're a USAF attack jet pilot form the 1970s as they were describing a CCIP system that you'd see on an A-7D/E... And every other USAF/USN jet made since.
Putins nuclear threats are completely flat at this point. Nobody believes them, and more importantly everyone believes that if Putin does use nukes it will be an exchange Russia would not survive.
He's rattled the nuclear Sabre one too many times. It's at the point that even a demonstration use of a nuclear weapon on Ukraine could bring NATO down on him like a sack of bricks. And he knows it. China has also said all but publicly if Russia uses nukes they are on their own.
It's important to note that at no point in history has a US President rattled the nuclear Sabre. The threat of American nukes has always been an implied force of nature. Never a matter of formal policy or negotiations. France, China and the UK have been the same way. Putin is the only clown that dances around about how he's totally going to nuke the world this time.
He's done it for 20 years and the threat is no longer landing.
Yep. Putin also knows if he does use a nuke in Ukraine.... The Russian economy will stop working.
So I think that if China had good reason to believe Russia would actually launch a nuke, American use of sacred Chinese airspace is probably on the table to stop it. If Putin presses the button, once Russia has blown most of its load on Europe, there is no reason China wouldn't show Russia what a real meatwave looks like and take Siberia
Ehh they'd probably just push for more and more favorable energy deals.
A lot of these pointless discussions are the fruit of people fundamentally misunderstanding the situation. They eat up the bullshit that Russia had any legitimate security concerns regarding full scale invasion by foreign powers, no one had interest in that after USSR fell apart - it was time of reconciliation and cooperation, and pretty much all former adversaries of Russia were looking forward to a period of peace that hopefully wouldn't end.
We're finding ourselves here because Putin chose to revive old fears and wield them to fulfill his personal ambitions. It's all a goddamn farce that's on the verge of becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy due to his refusal to see reason.
Yep.
The other thread is FULL of Russian-boos and west hating Westerners (usually /pol types) who slurp down any Russian propoganda they get served.
All of it tbqh. They are starting to get down to the scrap metal tier tanks that have been rotting in fields. As for the Ammo stockpiles, well they North Korean ammo now. So yeah.
Ths real damage though is the demonstration of just how superior NATO kit is over Russian. Their MICs foreign sales are never going to recover from this, and that was one of Russias few major exports outside natural resources.
Lol the Russian MiC was beclowned from February 2022 till now.
The Su-57 is way too expensive for 80% of normal Russian arms customers and they have very VERY little spare production capacity even if they had orders. Ex, Russia has induced a total of 10-14 Su-34s this year with maybe 2 more on the way..... 12-16 jets a YEAR is French production numbers. Su-35 and Su-30 are similar so Russia is making and inducting ~30-40 combat aircraft a year.... And losing 10-20 a year.....
The Su-57 isn't even "finished" as it's engines are STILL interim until next year.
Everything else is modified stuff from the 1980s and the modifications don't fix the fundamental design issues or USSR equipment.
Another side effect of the war.
Since Russians embarassed themselves, Turkey gathered every last anti-Asad faction and now is about to assault Aleppo, knowing the ziggers' teeth are broken and Asad's only supporter is a drunk weakling. So if you want to see Alawites beheaded, women enslaved and auctioned, watch Damascus carefully for the next month's gore and rape videos.
Lol nah. The Alawites will protect their areas but Aleppo fell in ~36 HOURS and Assad's army cut and RAN leaving behind tons of equipment.... As usual.
If true, Russia is already abandoning their Kurdish and (more importantly) Syrian Government allies in Aleppo:
It's like 2023 Nagorno-Karabakh, when the Russian "peacekeepers" just upped sticks and left for good; Russia didn't even respond when Azerbaijan killed five of them.
Doubling its border with NATO AND letting the Turkish jannies sweep away Russian influence in northern Syria? SMO going swimmingly.
Lol, the 3 day SMO has gone to Day 1003 with no signs of stopping .
Assad is turbo fucked as his sugar daddy Russia is incapable of truly helping like they did in 2015-2019 and Iran and Hezzbollah have been smashed for the time being.
I'm surprised the BMP's didn't get damaged by those barricades given how well they've held up under stress in this war.
The barricade wasn't a light shaped charge so it was safe.... Kinda.
