K1052
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"Walk it off, you'll be fine."That will all buff right out. Might need some duct tape.
Schwing!
Rub some dirt on it!"Walk it off, you'll be fine."
Belarus and the Russians in Kaliningrad should be concerned... at this rate, Poland will soon have the best equipped army in EuropeSchwing!
Belarus and the Russians in Kaliningrad should be concerned... at this rate, Poland will soon have the best equipped army in Europe
And at some point, the Germans might start to get concerned about the Polish military build up... along with a nationalist-leaning Polish government
Plus 500 Stingers, nearly 8k APKWS, and more.
It will take years to realize full delivery but this is still a shitload of arms.
Pocket artillery and kinetic drone killer FTW! I do love me some cost effective bolt on smart parts. True "warheads on foreheads" kit there.
Poles have their own MANPADS line, 100% indigenous parts IIRC. Interesting that they'd buy Stingers. I wonder if it's ammo for Avengers and previously purchased launchers, or did they grab more launchers?
Belarus and the Russians in Kaliningrad should be concerned... at this rate, Poland will soon have the best equipped army in Europe
And at some point, the Germans might start to get concerned about the Polish military build up... along with a nationalist-leaning Polish government
Any armor march across Poland just got much, much tougher.
I think Poland is planning to invade Russia.Any armor march across Poland just got much, much tougher.
Definitely looks damaged to me
Sadly soon another window will be left open....A small light in the darkness of Russia;
Maybe there is a sliver of hope postwar.
Sadly soon another window will be left open....
Germany has nothing to worry about, but if it gets their rearmament program to actually move, that's fine by me.
Most of the Europeans gave up the ideas of Imperialism after WWI. Certainly it was dead after WW2.Dudes were literally in a constant state of war for the past 2000+ years, conquered the rest of the planet, then finally turned on each other when no one else offered up good sport and ended up killing like 50 million people.
Not to mention we have the European Union which was created with one of the goals to keep the peace in Europe.Most of the Europeans gave up the ideas of Imperialism after WWI. Certainly it was dead after WW2.
I'm struggling to imagine any of the Euro nations to start sabre rattling vs one of their neighbours. High education rates tends to restrict extremism to the far corners of the political spectrum and hence limits political power for any extremists.
He wrote Metro 2033. That’s the book that the Ukrainian developed video game with the same name is based on.A small light in the darkness of Russia;
Maybe there is a sliver of hope postwar.
A common refrain of mine when I hear people (usually family) complaining about Europe not paying their fair share for military hardware etc is that Europeans are just about the last people on earth we need rearming.
Dudes were literally in a constant state of war for the past 2000+ years, conquered the rest of the planet, then finally turned on each other when no one else offered up good sport and ended up killing like 50 million people.
Having the US provide for Europe's defense is a small price to pay and no small part of the reason the globe is in a Pax Americana.
Most of the Europeans gave up the ideas of Imperialism after WWI. Certainly it was dead after WW2.
I'm struggling to imagine any of the Euro nations to start sabre rattling vs one of their neighbours. High education rates tends to restrict extremism to the far corners of the political spectrum and hence limits political power for any extremists.
Yeah, makes me wonder what it'll be like after this conflict where there is a newfound power vacuum from Russia ending up a 4th rate military that only has nukes to sling around (maybe).
It's not so much the imperialism that worries me though.You could get a pretty nasty little conflict just between regional neighbors for pretty stupid reasons (say, baltics or any of the break away "republics"), or even something internal like Yugoslavia. Now, NATO ties temper that a bit, but stranger things have happened. You're gonna have all kinds of arms built up in a small-ish geographic region with no real boogeyman nation-state to worry about anymore. That aggression/anger/fear/whatever always has to be directed somewhere. It's our nature.
Not saying it'll happen, but definitely a new geopolitical reality to deal with.
