2 posts were merged into an existing topic: The Musings of Keed and His Uncle John: War Crimes Edition
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Destroying Azov regiment and holding mariupol without any of its former residents is going to be putin’s “victory”. grozny-aleppo-mariupol. all finished by the same general too.
ukraine will never forgive russians for this, and they will be correct to do so. russia must be denazified. tribunal for putin and everyone above colonel, lustrations for every official of any power, ideally taking away its nukes, severely restricting police ranks and power. then mass population visits to see the destruction they caused first hand. just like germany had to be made to face.
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I’m kinda pessimistic about the war too. My prediction is the medium term result is similar to the 1st Donbas campaign: stalemate/low intensity war with Russia keeping it’s captured territory.
meanwhile in russia, besides general Beseda, the former head of FSB section responsible for a lot of counterintel, is arrested and awaiting charges.
but wait there’s more, Surkov, a close putin advisor and architect of hybrid warfare of the last decade, is placed under house arrest.
but wait, there’s more, reports are that 150 FSB officers were relieved of duty and/or arrested over major errors in provided analysis in support of the special operation.
oh to be a fly on the wall in lubyanka right now.
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I don’t even know what this guy is trying to convey? War is bad and violent?
Really lost count of how many tears I haven’t shed for KGB-shniki getting fucked.
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Many questions. Was waiting for the yelling to die back down.
They do, but not for the same purpose as the U2/Global Hawk. The E3 keeps an eye on the ground for any immediate and controllable threat to the airspace. Ground to air missile launches, for example. The Global Hawk (and U2) are there to get an overall picture of the entire theatre. Think real time vs. pictures/data that analysts can study later.
No way of knowing if it’s true, but that could definitely be a way NATO is helping Ukraine. This is something that an AWACS would do.
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Russia can keep throwing new waves of reservists and conscripts every 6 months. Ukraine will run out of manpower.
Conscripts are mostly useless though and they are not going to be able to replace all the equipment either. Pre-war Russia produced ~200 tanks/year.
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Yeah but they conscripts can perform a lot of the non-front-line roles. Including maybe putting them at borders and stuff.
about that… conscripts and reservists are soon going to flee or go into hiding before being called.
Patron looks like a possible ancestor of Porthos, who was the first Enterprise crew member on an alien planet and also loved (will love?) cheese.
https://twitter.com/GlojoCuscuhing/status/1097825167949090817?s=20&t=1vyiXZ3GIi3IOuuqQxCAZw
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It goes back a few years and I can’t recall the story but weren’t there worries about Trump revealing a specific, highly placed FSB source? Maybe one of these guys.
If the US is concerned about Europe continuing to buy Russian oil (which they should be), we should subsidize exports to Europe to distribute the pain more widely.
I don’t like the idea of making them bear the full brunt and then complaining if they do not. Higher oil prices will screw up their politics just like ours.
I see Ukraine as a culmination of the cold war and we need to be willing to sacrifice. You can’t engage in a war and not expect to accept some inconvenience.
I also think we should build more nuclear asap and drill in Alaska. Putin needs to be defeated.
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